Where is your DUI case?
Do I need a 30-Day Letter?
Is my Georgia Driver's License suspended now?
If you have been arrested for DUI in Smyrna, the first thing you need to do is speak with an experienced Georgia DUI lawyer about your case. Bill Hardman has represented DUI clients in Smyrna and throughout the State of Georgia.
You may need to send a 30-day letter to request a hearing on the administrative suspension of your driver's license. Please remember that you only have 30 days from the date of your arrest to send your letter requesting a hearing on your administrative license suspension. If you receive a yellow/white sheet of paper that is titled "Temporary Driving Permit" at the center and bottom, then you may need to send in a 30-day letter. If you wait until the 45-day temporary driving permit has expired, then it will likely be too late to save your driver's license. ** NOTE: If you were given a blood test and did not receive a 1205 Form, you may still need to send in a 30-day letter to request a hearing even though you have not yet received a notice of suspension of your driver's license. A sample 1205 form is attached below.
If you request a hearing (send in a 30-day letter), your case case will be heard in the Office of State Administrative Hearings Court (OSAH). The OSAH hearings in a Smyrna DUI case are usually held in the Marietta Municipal Courthouse. The Marietta Municipal Court is located at 240 Lemon Street NE, Marietta, GA 30060. Remember that this hearing is a completely separate case from your criminal DUI prosecution. This OSAH hearing only concerns your "privilege" to drive in the State of Georgia. This applies whether you have a Georgia Driver's License or an out of state license.
Have you been arrested for DUI in the Jonquil City? If you have a been charged with DUI in Smyrna, Georgia or Cobb County please give our office a call to discuss your case. You may also submit the free online inquiry form below with any questions about your case.
Bill Hardman has handled multiple DUI cases in Smyrna, Georgia including marijuana DUI cases, Alcohol DUI cases and accident DUI cases.
As with any DUI case, remember that it is important to speak with a licensed Georgia attorney as soon as possible about your case because you only have 30 days from the date of your arrest to file for an appeal hearing on the administrative suspension of your license OR, request an ignition interlock device limited driving permit.
There are several factors that your attorney should consider to determine whether or not you need to send in the 30-day letter.
DUI per se is DUI as defined by statute.
A person is guilty of DUI-per se if he drives a car while his blood alcohol concentration is 0.08 grams or more at any time within three hours after such driving. OCGA § 40-6-391(a)(5).
In a DUI [less safe] case ... the act consists of (1) driving, (2) after consuming alcohol to the extent that one is (3) a less safe driver. The State does not need to prove that the driver intended to drive while intoxicated or that his blood alcohol level was above 0.08. This means that if you blow a 0.05 on the Intoxilyzer 5000 or 9000, you may still receive a DUI charge. Because Georgia does not have statutory limits for any type of illegal or prescription drugs, both of these forms of DUI are DUI less safe charges.
One of the first issues that arises in DUI cases is whether or not the arresting officer has initiated a driver's license suspension by filing a Sworn Report under the Georgia Implied Consent Law. You may be subject to a driver's license suspension whether you took the State administered test of your blood, breath, urine or other bodily substance, OR refused any tests that the officer requested. The arresting officer will usually (not always) serve the person that is arrested with a Form 1205, which is a temporary driving permit which is a 45-Day Temporary Driving Permit. The most important thing to remember if you have received a Temporary Driving Permit is that you only have 30 days from the date of your arrest to file for an appeal of the administrative suspension of your license by requesting a hearing with the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings Court. If you wait for more than 30 days to request this hearing, then your Georgia driver's license will be administratively suspended for one-year. AS of July 1, 2017, there is also a new option to apply for an ignition interlock device limited driving permit if you refused a test that the officer requested.
The next step in your case will likely be your first court appearance which will be your arraignment hearing. The purpose of your arraignment is hearing is for you to have your charges formally read aloud to you in court and for you to determine which type of plea you would like to enter: guilty, not guilty, or nolo contendere. If you retain a lawyer, he/she may waive your arraignment and file discovery requests of which the responses should contain the formal charging documents that will show exactly what crimes or violations of the Georgia statutes that you have been charged with.
From this point in your case, it may proceed in many different ways. You may request motions hearings, enter a plea, or demand a jury trial or bench trial. Your lawyer will be able to help you determine which option he/she believes will result in the best outcome in your case based on the law and facts. It is always your decision as to whether or not you want to enter a plea in your case or proceed to have a bench or jury trial.
Additional items may also be required such as attending AA meetings, Mothers Against Drunk Driving Victim Impact Panels (MADD VIP), or additional community service hours.
Further, your Georgia Driver's License will be suspended as well. Typically if it is your first DUI conviction within the previous 5-year period, you may be eligible for a Affidavit For First Conviction within Five Years. If you have obtained this affidavit from the court and have completed your Risk Reduction Course, then you may be eligible to obtain a limited driving permit so that you can drive to work, school, church, and required probation and community service facilities. Obtaining this permit is also contingent on whether or not you are subject to an administrative suspension of your license based on the Georgia Implied Consent law. If so, you may not be eligible for a limited driving permit. After 120 days, you will be eligible to have your regular license reinstated by paying a $210 reinstatement fee.
Your Georgia Driver's License will be also be suspended. The period of suspension will be 18 months with a limited driving permit available after 4 months (with the court's permission) if an Interlock Device installed in your vehicle. Eligibility for this permit is again contingent on whether or not you are subject to other administrative suspensions under the Georgia Implied Consent law.
Commercial driver's licenses involve a completely separate set of rules and regulations that pertain to DUI related offense. Please give our office a call to discuss potential penalties if you have a commercial driver's license.
Smyrna Municipal Court frequently has a large criminal calendar with many defendants at the courthouse at any given time. The court is operated very efficiently but you need an attorney to make sure your case is handled as efficiently as possible.
The best way for us to answer your questions about your DUI case in Smyrna is for you to submit a case inquiry form and give us some of the background facts about the events on the date that you were charged with DUI. You may submit a DUI inquiry form by clicking the link below and someone from our office will call and/or email you back to discuss your case.
You may also give our office a call at 770-530-1164 at anytime to discuss your case.
William S. Hardman, Jr., P.C.
No information contained on this website is to be construed as legal advice in your case. Please consult with a licensed Georgia attorney before making any legal decisions in your case.


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Bernie Sanders: AOC will have key role in my White House if I'm elected in 2020
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., would be given a vital role in a Bernie Sanders administration and could even be tapped for a cabinet-level position, the 2020 presidential hopeful told ABC News on Sunday.
"Look, I have said this before, let me say it again -- and I don't want [Ocasio-Cortez] to hear this, because [her] head will explode," Sen. Sanders, I-VT., said during a joint interview alongside the freshman House member.
"I don't know of any person -- I've been in Congress for a few years, who in the course of less than one year -- she's been in office less than one year, who has had more of an impact on American politics as a freshman member of Congress than she has."
When asked about the possibility of Ocasio-Cortez joining his cabinet, Sander responded that she's deserving of an influential role if he wins in 2020.
"She is, again, at the end of one year she is a leader in the United States Congress and her ideas are resonating all over this country," he said. "If I am in the White House, she will play a very, very important role, no question."
Sanders also criticized former New York City mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg in the same interview for floating the idea of his own presidential run, and declining to campaign in the early primary states.
"That is the arrogance of billionaires," he said "I'm doing five events this weekend right here in Iowa.
"We're all over New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, California. But he's too important. You see, when you're worth $50 billion, I guess you don't have to have town meetings, you don't have to talk to ordinary people," Sanders said. "What you do is you take out, I guess a couple of billion dollars, and you buy the state of California."
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Last week we reviewed what PTSD looks like (you can read about those symptoms here). This week we are going to review why PTSD develops. The focus will be on the role our Fight – Flight – Freeze survival response system plays in the development and maintenance of PTSD.
Freeze = shut down physical or emotional pain to just survive when you know you can't escape or fight back.
A clear danger is the easiest way to illustrate how this survival system gets activated: Imagine you are hiking in the woods. If you are in Los Angeles you can imagine hiking in the Angeles National Forest. All of a sudden you hear a low growl and the hair on the back of your neck stands up. You look to the side and you see a huge mountain lion ready to pounce on you. What do you do in that moment? What happens in your body?
Fast, shallow breathing or hyperventilating: This allows your body to take in more oxygen quickly in order to fuel your muscles to fight, run, or endure.
Tense muscles: Allows you to throw a harder punch, take a harder punch, or run faster.
Dilated pupils: Lets you take in more light, be hyper aware, and able to see all the details of the danger in front of you.
Flushed skin, feeling hot and/or sweaty: Allows your body to cool itself down so it can keep running its engine at full speed.
Fear, anxiety, panic: Sends your body clear signals that you are in danger and you need to act now.
Thinking part of the brain shuts off. You can't think straight: When you are in danger taking the time to think things through, list all your options and go through all the pros and cons of what to do wastes precious time and can get you hurt. In a trauma situation survival is the only thing that matters and that depends on reacting quickly, not thinking slowly.
Tunnel vision: Allows you to block out all distractions and focus on just the danger you need to survive.
Digestion shutting down (dry mouth, upset stomach, gastro/bathroom problems, symptoms of irritable bowl syndrome): Digestion takes up a lot of your body's energy and resources. When your survival system is activated your brain tells your body to stop wasting energy digesting and to redirect all that energy into fight – flight – or freeze. After all, if you are dead you won't need to digest anything anyways.
Weakened immune system: People with PTSD often get sick more often and struggle with chronic illnesses (e.g., diabetes, heart disease). Just like digestion above, when you are in survival mode your immune system gets turned down. Your body is not going to waste energy fighting off a cold because it needs to redirect all that energy to fighting off the danger/threat. Fighting off a cold won't matter if you don't survive the danger so your body is not going to waste time or energy on it.
EVERYONE experiences the Fight – Flight – Freeze Survival Response when in danger. This is hard wired in our brains (thank you amygdala). This is a normal reaction to an abnormal event. It turns into PTSD only when these symptoms do not go away after a month or when these symptoms go into overdrive and stay on all the time.
This list is not all inclusive but reviews several reasons why some people get PTSD while others don't.
Research shows that social support is one of the biggest factors influencing the development and recovery of PTSD.
Blaming yourself or being blamed by others for what happened.
Victim blaming is very common because it allows the rest of us to go to bed at night without the fear that the trauma would happen to us: "Your Christmas tree burned down because you left the lights on/didn't use a timer/forgot to water it/should have gotten a fake one/used old lights. That would never happen to me because I wouldn't do that." This blames the victim for the fire and lets me sleep better at night, but it also creates a culture of blame that victims often internalize.
Blame is an emotion that keeps us stuck and does not allow us to move forward. (I wrote more on the stages of emotion after trauma here).
Frequency: how many times have you survived trauma and how many different types of trauma have you been through.
Duration: how long have your traumas lasted (e.g., a one time car accident or years in an abusive relationship).
Intensity: how intense was the trauma, unexpected, or how much did it turn your world upside down.
There are biological changes that happen in the brain. Researchers have demonstrated with fMRI studies that Veterans who have been on multiple deployments, compared to those who have only deployed once, have a much faster acting fight-flight-freeze response in the brain because those neurological pathways have been seared in the brain.
You cannot learn how to feel safe again if you never give yourself a chance to try.
Avoidance is the #1 reason that keeps PTSD going and getting worse in the long run.
Having PTSD is a lot like having a faulty smoke detector in your brain. Have you ever lived in a place with a small kitchen that had a smoke detector that went off all the time? It went off when the steam from the boiling water reached it, when smoke from your burnt toast reached it, or whenever you tried to sauté anything on your stove. It's a nuisance and no longer serves its function as the next time you hear it you don't think "fire!" you think "ugh what now?!" The smoke detector cannot tell the difference between real danger (fire) and false alarms (burnt toast). Because of the changes in the brain and the avoidance that happens with PTSD the brain has a hard time telling the difference between real danger and reminders of danger. Imagine how exhausting it would be if that smoke detector was going off in your brain all the time. Would you be able to focus? Would you feel irritable? Would it be hard to sleep?
As discussed above, our survival response system is all about reacting quickly to stay alive. Taking time to think can waste precious time so the thinking part of the brain gets turned off. When someone has PTSD they are always in "reaction" survival mode and not "lets think clearly" mode. This makes it hard to concentrate, make decisions, or chose the best way to respond to a situation. PSTD treatment is designed to help you turn OFF that alarm system when you don't need it and turn ON the thinking system when you do need it. Treatments such as cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive processing therapy, and prolonged exposure therapy are all designed to help your mind learn to tell the difference between false alarms and real danger and turn on the thinking system again.


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For the past month, Budgell's Equipment and Rentals are back in Nain working hard.
Bob Gilbert is the Office Manager.
He says they have two barges of equipment and materials scheduled to arrive.
One of which arrived yesterday.
Gilbert says the barges would have arrived sooner, but were delayed by ice conditions.
He says after the second barge arrives and progress is made, they will then start hiring locals.
Gilbert says they've received quite a few job applications locally and elsewhere.
Budgell's currently has about ten to twelve of their regular staff working in Nain.
He says they will certainly be working up to November, or just before the winter season comes.
Gilbert adds they'll return either in late spring or early summer to finish the road and basic pipelines for the community's new water supply at Trousers Lake.


Crowley Town hosts Charlton In England - EFL.
The hosts recorded several losses since the start of the championship, but in the last round, they managed to win as guests by 3-0. Crowley Town will go out for this match very motivated and will want to prove against a class team. These two teams met with each other last year for the same cup and Charlton lost as host with 0-2 from Crowley Town.
Charlton guests have a lot of trouble with injured players and will play with young footballers. They lost last week with 4-1 in another tournament and I think that today will be the same.
There are many surprises in this tournament and I expect the hosts not to lose this game.
Today my Soccer prediction - I really believe we are able to view here an Home Win or Draw.


The city gives you the opportunity to stay on a moored floating Prague boat hotel. Advantages include being able to say that you've stayed on a boat hotel. Great for a short stay but don't expect too much in the way of space, comfort and amenities.
In the room the beds will usually be a twin or a "marriage double" which is a single frame bed with two mattresses and separate quilts. The absolute must is to get a room on the "river facing" side. All these boats are moored alongside a quay so unless you want to be looking at a concrete wall then your experience will be much nicer on the other side. Below are 4 of my favourites on the river and all are in the 3 star class.
This is my favourite based on location and quality of the rooms. With 49 rooms this is the smallest of the long botels because the rooms are only on two floors as opposed to three in the most other floating Prague boat hotels. The top deck is entirely open and used as a sun terrace. The layout of the rooms is also a bit more generous here but again the double bed is simply two singles pushed together. The location is very good almost opposite the Rudolfinum which means you have a 7 minute walk to the Old Town Square or again 7 minutes to the Lesser Town via the Manes Bridge. All rooms on the starboard side (right side) have a view of the Prague Castle. This is not recommended for drivers due to parking restrictions.
The newest, smallest and highest specification of the floating Prague boat hotels and by far the most expensive at @100 euros per night. Great location right opposite the Dancing House and adjacent to the Slavonic Island. During the booking process it says the name is Klotylda. At present this is a second boat moored right behind the Botel Matylda so essentially its the same place for sleeping but Matylda also has the nice Italian restaurant and the better views. Only the river facing rooms are recommended here. You are a 6 minute walk to the National Theatre, 15 minutes walk to the Charles Bridge and 20 minutes to the Old Town Square. You are on the river road which is served by a regular tram service 24/7.
This is one of the original botels and used to be blue until it signed a deal with Budvar and they repainted. They have 86 rooms making the Albatross equal biggest of the Prague boat hotels. The rooms are entirely wood-panelled which can make it feel a bit dark but the idea is that you are not in the room that long. The breakfast room is on the top deck and has nice views over the river towards the castle. It's a low quay and the boat is set back from the quay so even on this side you'll have a lot of light. You are a 5 minute walk to Republic Square or 10 minutes to the Old Town Square.
The Prague boat hotel Admiral has some wood panelling but also white walls so it feels brighter. Still the bed option is limited to singles so that here a "double" is two single beds pushed together. This is moored 3 bridges down from the Charles Bridge on the Prague Castle side of the river so your local area is called Ujezd which borders Anděl. These areas have a lot of small bars and restaurants but you'll have a 20 minute walk to anything of tourist significance. The botel Admiral has a beautiful internal dining area and expands out onto a covered exterior which in pleasant weather gives great views over the river, the New Town opposite and down towards Vysehrad. This is also recommended for people driving here as you park right outside on the quay.


Consumer spending in the U.S. rose less than forecast in January as increasing food and fuel prices caused Americans to cut back on other goods and services.
Purchases increased 0.2 percent, the smallest gain since June and half the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. Incomes climbed more than projected, reflecting the tax-cut compromise reached by President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans in December, and inflation remained below the Federal Reserve's long-term forecast.
While tax savings and rising confidence in the recovery indicate households will keep shopping, purchases may be tempered by the highest gasoline costs in two years and 9 percent unemployment. After adjusting for changes in prices, the data signal the economy will get less of a boost from Americans' spending in the first quarter than the prior three months.
Stock-index futures held earlier gains after the report. The contract on the S&P 500 Index maturing in March rose 0.5 percent to 1,324.8 at 8:35 a.m. in New York.
The median estimate of 71 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News called for a 0.4 percent advance in spending. Projections ranged from increases of 0.2 percent to 0.5 percent. The Commerce Department revised the December spending figure down to 0.5 percent from a previously reported 0.7 percent gain.
Incomes advanced 1 percent, the most since May 2009, and more than double the median forecast of 0.4 percent, according to the Bloomberg survey.
Disposable incomes, or the money left after taxes, rose 0.7 percent in January, the most since April. Excluding the benefits of the tax changes, the increase in disposable incomes would have been 0.1 percent, the Commerce Department said.
Wages and salaries rose 0.3 percent for a second month.
The savings rate increased to 5.8 percent from 5.4 percent.
Today's report also showed inflation stabilized. The gauge tied to spending patterns increased 1.2 percent from January 2010, the same as in the prior 12 months.
The Fed's preferred price measure, which excludes food and fuel, rose 0.1 percent from the prior month and was up 0.8 percent from a year earlier, matching December's year-over-year gain. The median forecast in the Bloomberg survey showed increases of 0.1 percent from the prior month and 0.8 percent from January 2010.
Adjusted for inflation, which are the figures used to calculate gross domestic product, consumer spending fell 0.1 percent, the first decline in a year.
Weather may have also depressed spending last month as shoppers stayed away from stores. Winter storms spread from the Midwest and the South to New England, covering 71 percent of the country with snow on Jan. 12, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
Fed policy makers are awaiting further proof of a durable pickup in the labor market that will spur growth, one reason why they plan to complete a second round of monetary stimulus worth $600 billion by June.
The economy grew at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, slower than previously calculated, as state and local governments made deeper cuts in spending, Commerce Department figures showed on Feb. 25. Consumer purchases rose at a 4.1 percent pace, the most since the same three months in 2006, compared with a 4.4 percent rate originally estimated.
Rising food and fuel costs may strain household budgets, at the same time higher commodity costs risk prompting companies to raise prices to protect profits. Oil topped $100 a barrel last week amid unrest in the Middle East. Regular fuel, which in January was higher than the December average, jumped to $3.29 a gallon last week, the costliest since 2008, according to AAA, the nation's biggest motoring organization.
Households may find some relief due to a reduction in payroll taxes of 2 percentage points, the extension in December of President George W. Bush's tax cuts, and renewal of emergency jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed. Stock market gains have also helped repair consumer finances.
Americans' confidence increased in February to the highest level in almost three years, the Bloomberg Consumer Comfort Index showed last week, as households grew less pessimistic about their finances. The measure corroborated changes in gauges like the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan.
Target Corp., the second-largest U.S. discount retailer, projected sales at stores open at least a year may rise as much as 5 percent this year, after a 2.1 percent gain the prior period. In the fourth quarter ended Jan. 29, sales showed surprising strength at times, followed by unexpected weakness, executives said.


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Good e-Reader Week in Review – Aug 13th to Aug 17th 2012
August 18, 2012 By Michael Kozlowski 2 Comments
During the last week, the biggest news item was Sony finally releasing its latest e-reader, the PRS-T2. It features more social media integration via Evernote and Facebook. The Bas Group has also launched a new device, called the Bebook Pure. In this weekly roundup we check out the most important news stories over the course of the last week and give you the essential news you need to know.
Bebook Pure Launched in Europe – The Bas Group saved Bebook when the prior owners filed for bankruptcy in January. This new device marks the first new e-reader that the company has put fourth and is marketing it all over Europe. They company is focusing on price and giving customers a solid device for under $100.00. You won't find a touchscreen on this edition, but it appeals to readers because of the manual page-turns and overall design aesthetic. We will be reviewing this hopefully next week, so stay tuned for our hands-on impressions.
Sony PRS-T2 Released – Although it is not available in the retail sphere yet, Sony finally took the wraps off of its latest e-reader. It has a ton in common with the T1 model that was released last year. It tones down the gloss on the case and gives you Evernote and Facebook integration. The wireless access allows you to purchase content from the Sony Bookstore and Overdrive. The ability to borrow books directly on the device is a huge selling point. People who love PDF files will celebrate, because Sony continues to deliver world class Re-Flow support.
Wiley and Sons Sell Off Travel Assets to Google – Wiley & Sons announced that it would be selling off key pieces of the publishing family that no longer pertained to its long term vision, notably the travel assets and the Frommer's line of travel guides. The sale is reported between $23 and $25 million and will include the Frommer's website as well, although Google has apparently not officially committed to continuing the travel books' print line after the near future.
Amazon Releases Official 'Send to Kindle' for Chrome – Before Amazon released the official Chrome Plugin, people had to rely on 3rd party programs. Most of them did the job quite well, with millions of downloads. It seems Amazon decided to release its own version of the popular function to send blog posts, news, and other text content on the web directly to your Kindle e-reader.
Hachette Implores All Authors to Use DRM – TOR is the largest Science Fiction and Fantasy imprint in the world and is an imprint of Macmillan. Last month the company had decided to offer ebooks with no encryption to allow users to easily transfer them between devices. Hachette does not approve and has informed authors that future contracts will mandate that authors user DRM in all of its books and territories. This might prevent future authors from distributing their books to online bookstores that do not have DRM in their systems, limiting the potential growth. Famously, Pottermore did away with encryption completely on the Harry Potter books, moving towards a digital watermark that gives accountability to people who file share books they purchased.
Autography Sues the Tampa Bay Devil over Proprietary Technology – Autography has pioneered a system that allows authors to autograph ebooks by putting a blank page into an existing book. The company has been talking to the Tampa Bay Devil Ray's about using the technology to allow baseball players to autograph digital baseball cards. Despite the lengthy negotiations and the confidentiality agreement—specifically a non-disclosure agreement and a non-compete agreement—signed by the involved parties, that partnership didn't happen. According to Tom Waters in an exclusive interview with us, the Devil Ray's management formed a splinter company named Egraph, to offer the same service as Autography.
Two New Harry Potter Books Available on Pottermore – The Pottermore website marked the first time the entire Harry Potter saga hit the digital sphere. Sales have been quite brisk with millions of books sold since the service first launched earlier this year. Today, the expanded universe of books are now officially on sale with Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
eBooks to Be a Huge Priority at the Delhi Book Fair – India is currently the 3rd largest book and publishing market in the world. At the annual Book Fair conference, ebooks are set to gain a higher priority from the organizers. "We cannot pretend to be ignorant about technology when it is staring us in our face. The popularity of ebooks, especially among the young generation, has increased beyond our expectations. So the focus this year will be on ebooks. In fact, we will have a two-day training program in which we will teach how to convert books into e-books. This will be beneficial for authors as well as publishers," said Delhi Book Fair director Shakti Malik.
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By textilesofindia|2020-04-10T18:13:16+00:00March 10th, 2019|
The dots on this fabric are reminiscent of bor, a small, round fruit that grows well in Rajasthan's harsh, desert climate and is widely enjoyed there. The design is worn by married women of the Kumhar (potters) and Chaudhury (owners of small landholdings) communities. The dots are also said to represent the matkas, round vessels for storing drinking water, made by the Kumhars.
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Tangaliya is 700 years old traditional hand weaving technique, Legend tells us that centuries ago, in the stark landscape of Saurashtra, a Bharwad man married a woman from the weaver community amidst great opposition from both sides. Nevertheless, it was a marriage that would forever influence the rich tapestry of Indian craft. The children born to them were known as Dangasia, born of shepherds and weavers, and they created the art of Tangaliya weaving.
A Banarasi sari is a sari made in Varanasi, the holy city of India which is also called Benares or Banaras. The saris are among the finest saris in India and known for their gold and silver brocade or zari, fine silk and opulent embroidery. The saris are made of finely woven silk and decorated with intricate design, and, because of these engravings, are relatively heavy.
KANTHA OF BENGAL
By textilesofindia|2018-05-13T14:49:35+00:00May 13th, 2018|
Kantha(also spelled Kanta, and Qanta) is a type of embroidery typical of eastern South Asia, especially in the Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha, and in Bangladesh. In Odisha, old saris are stacked on each other and hand-stitched to make a thin piece of cushion.
ARNI SILK SAREE WEAVING
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"In Afghanistan, they have the fighting season. In Minnesota, this is the shooting season." Film Lucinda Winter is talking about cameras, not rifles, however.
As executive director of the Minnesota Film and TV Board, she currently is working with film production companies from the United Kingdom and Australia as well as U.S. firms to help them complete their Minnesota shooting on schedule and on budget.
Winter is struggling to keep her office open despite the state government shutdown, which has halted funding she receives through the Office of Tourism.
The nonprofit film board, which receives $325,000 from the state and raises an equal amount from private donations to cover operating expenses, sent an appeal Wednesday to potential donors asking for help to keep the doors open.
The board of directors considered shutting down the office during the state budget impasse but decided against it.
It also has administered separately funded production incentive programs including snowbates, a reimbursement of 15 to 20 percent of Minnesota production expenditures, and sales tax exemptions for certain in-state production expenses and lodging.
She said the office cannot reduce its staff of three to less than 35 hours per week or they will lose their health care coverage.
Winter has seen a similar plot line before, when then Gov. Tim Pawlenty proposed shutting the office down in his 2009 supplemental budget. The Legislature restored funding, but this time is different. "The problem is, we haven't signed a contract" with the state, she said.
While quick to acknowledge that shutdown's impact on the film board is not threatening lives or essential services, she nevertheless sees it as potentially damaging the state's reputation in the industry.
"People who think it doesn't affect business or the impression of the state are wrong," she said.
But it's not just the state's reputation that concerns Winter.
Minnesota's film industry contributed $225 million to the state's economy in 2009, according to the most recent statistics available from the Department of Revenue, and it has grown since then, Winter said. There were about 400 companies and 5,000 Minnesotans in the industry that year, she added.
Several production companies are currently shooting in the state. A BBC crew is working on a documentary on the life of rock star Prince. Another production company for National Geographic is filming a documentary about railroad enthusiasts.
A joint U.K. and Australia production crew has been filming a documentary about life along the Mississippi River, starting in New Orleans. Winter has been attempting to help them navigate their way through the Minnesota segment. They arrived last week with plans to shoot the Mississippi headwaters in Itasca State Park.
Just yesterday she fielded a call from Animal Planet, which has plans to shoot in another state park later this month and called to ask her what they should do because of the shutdown.


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Has China's Reputation Peaked?
Joel Rogers de WaalAcademic Director, YouGov
November 13, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC
(This article was first published by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change here)
With a recovering economy and Covid-19 controlled in his country, President Xi Jinping has been keen to emphasise how "the pandemic once again proves the superiority" of China in the world. According to in-depth polling, however, the country's international reputation may be in decline.
Now in its second year, the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project is an extended tracking survey of attitudes spanning 25 of the world's largest countries, produced by YouGov in collaboration with researchers from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, as well as the University of Cambridge and the Guardian.
Compared with 2019, this year's findings show a marked drop in the number of people who think China plays a positive role in the world, with a difference of at least 20 per cent in numerous countries, including Britain, Australia, Turkey, India, Nigeria and South Africa, and at least 10 per cent in others, such as France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico and Saudi Arabia.
Evidently, the pandemic may have played a significant role in the process. In nearly all countries surveyed, more than 80 per cent of respondents were convinced that Covid-19 originated in China. The one exception was China itself, where just over half (52 per cent) believed the virus originated there, while a third said it came from the US.
Large numbers around the world also share the view that China seriously mishandled its initial response to the virus, in ways that helped to turn the Chinese outbreak into a global one. Clear majorities in all other countries agreed that Chinese authorities initially tried to hide the truth about coronavirus, and that the international spread of the virus could have been prevented if the country had responded more quickly. Majorities in nearly all countries further believed it was definite or likely that the Chinese government punished the doctors who first reported the outbreak.
Some analysts might argue that the downtrend in sentiment towards China is largely related to negative information campaigns in Western countries, and alleged efforts to seek a scapegoat for their own failures to handle the virus. This is challenged by several aspects of the data.
Firstly, these trends are more than a Western phenomenon and duly span the globe, from the Americas and Europe to the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Moreover, they feature in a number of countries where the mood is more positive and majorities of the public think their own government has generally handled the virus well, such as Indonesia (62 per cent), Nigeria (51 per cent), Germany (67 per cent) and Canada (70 per cent). They also include places that are hardly redoubts of a traditionally pro-American or pro-Western perspective, such as Greece and Turkey. In other words, if China has an image problem related to the pandemic, it looks decidedly international and independent of Western-centric perspectives.
As results further suggest, the Chinese narrative on global leadership currently finds limited public endorsement. Recent years have seen growing efforts on the part of Beijing to portray itself as an alternative source of direction for the international community. This has coincided with a notably more unilateralist phase of US foreign policy under the tutelage of Donald Trump. Yet still in many countries, the larger portion would choose America over China as the country they prefer to be the most powerful force in world politics, often by a substantial margin.
In France, for example, 43 per cent choose the US, compared with 21 per cent for China. This trend repeats across much of the sample, such as Nigeria (72 per cent versus 12 per cent), South Africa (68 per cent versus 16 per cent), Britain (58 per cent versus 4 per cent), Australia (60 per cent versus 9 per cent), Brazil (55 per cent versus 15 per cent), India (72 per cent versus 8 per cent) and Indonesia (35 per cent versus 17 per cent). Only in Turkey (23 per cent for the US versus 25 per cent for China), Egypt (26 per cent for both), and Saudi Arabia (26 per cent versus 20 per cent), do we see less of a clear inclination for America, with more of a balance between the two.
Interestingly, furthermore, in contrast to the question on China's role in world affairs, most of these figures show limited change from last year, suggesting a certain stability in preference for global leadership. In which case, perhaps this points to a wider challenge for Beijing.
Few doubt the growing, hard power of modern China in economic or military terms. Yet the state of a country's reputation still rests considerably on the soft power of perceived, common values and inherent, socio-political appeal. As other research from the Globalism Project indicates, for all our differences, many of us still covet a fundamentally liberal world, from the empowerment of individuals to the basic norms and institutions of international society. In which case, China may continue to face a notable disconnect between its desire for public admiration on the world stage and the perceived requirements of maintaining stability at home.
More information about the research and results can be found here: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/yougov-cambridge/globalism-project
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Graphics by Eir Nolsoe, YouGov Data Journalist
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The YouGov-Cambridge Centre for Public Opinion Research is a joint research centre run by YouGov and the Cambridge University POLIS Department, which promotes in-depth collaboration between pollsters and academic experts. Alongside research and events, the Centre contributes to teaching at the University and provides several postgraduate scholarships each year.


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Yuba Bicycles has announced Jeff Wuerthele is appointed the company's Eastern US Sales Representative, effective immediately.
Wuerthele's responsibilities will include developing dealer relations and consumer demand throughout the region.
Bringing an extensive 20-year background in the cycling industry, Wuerthele brings huge amount of experience to the Yuba team. In his most recent roles, he represented Bicycle Times and Dirt Rag as advertising and event sales. He has also previously represented Kona, Fox Racing and Diamondback.
Founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Ben Sarrazin, Yuba Bicycles aims to "bring the European cycling lifestyle and utility to the States" through the manufacturing of award-winning and environmentally sustainable pedal and electric cargo bikes.
At the start of the year, the bicycle brand relocated its headquarters, up-sizing its operations at a new plot in Cotati, CA.


Batman: Arkham City Collector's Edition Details (You Guessed It) Leaked.
In the wake of Warner's Bros. Internet scorched earth policy taking down the leaked Dark Knight Rises teaser, it looks like some details about a collector's edition of Batman: Arkham City have slipped through the cracks and, of course, disappeared again.
While no details have been officially released, for $99.99 one will apparently receive a statue, a book, early access to add-ons and exclusive animated content. The collector's edition looks to be laden with incentives, which isn't a bad thing considering the price tag.
You can color Unwinnable only half excited for this. The game looks great, you can't argue that, but with standard editions of the game set to run at about $59.99, it's really for the add-ons and animated content that people are going to pony up the extra $40 – the statue and book are a nice thought but won't do more than collect dust somewhere (because you can be sure they won't make the fated trip back to GameStop). But hey, with all the hullaballoo over all things Batman these days, at least in videogameland we get something tangible.
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This close-knit community located on the south shore of Nassau County is known as a friendly place to live, with excellent schools schools and picturesque neighborhoods. Wantagh is also the official home of famous Jones Beach (hence its nickname: "The Gateway to Jones Beach") and Wantagh Park.
In addition to excellent schools and beaches, Wantagh has great shopping. Both the Cherrywood Shopping Center and Willow Wood Shoppes are located at the corner of Wantagh and Jerusalem Avenues; and further south, where Wantagh Avenue meets Sunrise Highway, a wide variety of retailers are open for business, including the famous Brands bicycle shop, where shoppers come from all over Long Island to choose from a huge selection of bikes. Other hot spots near this intersection that attract patrons from near and far are The Wantagh Inn, Hemingway's American Bar and Grill and Mulcahy's Pub.


The only thing worse than dealing with the stress of debt is trying to figure out which debt relief company to call. There are so many companies who advertise on TV and they all make such great promises. "Call us and we'll help you get out of debt quickly and easily." That's what they all say. Then you watch the news and hear another horror story from some poor person who was ripped off by one of these companies.
1. Should I pay for help or can I do it better myself?
Sometimes it's a good idea to ask for help and sometimes it's a good idea to do it yourself – depending on your circumstances. When dealing with debt, its often a good idea to get help. Why? Because most people don't have the discipline to set up their own debt repayment plan and to stick with it. Sure, you can do it yourself, and save a little money. But if you've got a lot of debt, or your interest rates are sky-high, then chances are that a professional debt relief program will often get you better results.
2. Am I really committed to getting out of debt?
This is the most important question of all. Some people will blame the debt relief companies – and some people will blame their job, or their boss, or their spouse. Notice the trend, that it is always someone else who is at fault? The only way to ensure that you will get out of debt is to make a serious commitment to doing whatever it takes to get out of debt!
3. Is this the right type of help for my situation?
There are big differences between the various options – debt management program; debt relief orders, IVAs, debt consolidation loan and credit counseling. All work, but not in all situations. Do a little research and find out which option is right for you.
The time to ask questions is before you sign on the dotted line. Learn everything you can about the company, how they do business, and how they say they'll help you. It's worth reading up on previous customer reviews to see how helpful the company really is.
No matter what you hear on the phone, make sure you see it on paper before you make your decision. Most companies are honest and ethical. But you can never be too careful.
Go online and do a search for the name of the company. Contact previous customers if the company provides you with a list. The more you can learn about the company, the better.
If you are honest with yourself, and you take the time to learn about your options, getting out of debt does not have to be painful. You won't get out of debt overnight, but you can change your life for the better and get started on the path to financial freedom!


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Thousands turnout for WatsUp TV & 30MinitzLive 2019 Sallah Carnival Concert
Leading entertainment outfits, WatsUp TV and 30MinitzLive have yet again hosted the biggest Sallah carnival in the country at New Fadama, a suburb of Accra. The carnival which was also used to celebrate the Chief Imam's 100th birthday brought life to the community seeing the participation from chiefs and youths from Fadama. The concert which […]
Shatta Wale lights up WatsUp TV Legon Hall Week Artiste Night Concert — WATCH
To climax the week-long activities of the 67th Legon Hall week, leading pan-African TV Show, WatsUp TV hosted an Artiste Night Concert which hosted students to the biggest celebration campus concert at the University of Ghana. With thousands of students and a fully charged crowd in anticipation of Shatta Wale's performance, he delivered with overwhelming […]
Ghanaian Disc Jockey, DJ Sly releases artwork for first compilation album "UPNESS
DJ Sly has released a cover for his first album titled "UPNESS." The Disc Jockey who is making habit of releasing singles monthly wants to make it three projects in three years, a personal high for himself. The new album is titled "UPNESS," will be available for pre-order on iTunes November 25, and release on November 28, 2017, […]
Unstoppable DJ Sly set to release new single featuring Ice Prince, Kayswitch
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BGFN MAGAZINE >> Celebrities >> Poli Genova
Poli Plamenova Genova (born February 10, 1987 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a singer that represented her nation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Germany. Genova performed her entry "Na inat" (Out of Spite) in the second semifinal.
She's been singing since she was four. Whilst studying English, she met her singing teacher who taught her to sing. Her teacher insisted Poli had skills to become a singer. Poli was the first member to be admitted to the Children Vocal Group "Bon-Bon" founded in 1995. Shortly after, she became the first host of TV show "Bon-Bon", which became a media phenomenon. Her emblematic voice and charming smile are trademarks of "Bon-Bon". After years Poli is still in close relationship with "Bon-Bon". Her first vocal coach and producer Rozi Karaslavova has been taking care of her for 14 years and making the final touches of every tiny detail that is important for her success.
Poli graduated from The National Music School "Ljubomir Pipkov", focusing on clarinet. Now she is in her third year of study to become a film director. Even so, she continues her singing career and is involved in several projects. Genova is part of the UNICEF Charity Project "The Magnificent Six", stands as a vocalist for "Azis' Show" and "Dani Milev Band" in the first edition of the reality show "Dancing with the Stars: Bulgaria".
In 2005 and 2006 she took part in the National Selection of Eurovision Song Contest as a member of the trio "Melody".
In 2011 she represented Bulgaria alone, with her song "Na inat", but didn't qualify to the finals. Her debut album is also being prepared at the moment.
She is a judge on the Bulgarian version of The X Factor.


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Critically Injured Blake Shelton Fan Reaches Out to the Country Star
By Jen Swirsky
It was a day like any other. Jonathan was out for a motorcycle ride with his friends, still excited about surprising his girlfriend, Lindsay, with Blake Shelton tickets for her birthday. He gave her the gift on September 14. On September 15, their lives changed forever.
According to a Facebook post, the young Shelton fan was cruising when a driver pulled out in front of him. Jonathan hit the car, was ejected from his bike, and was thrown into a telephone pole. Despite the odds, he survived the accident, leaving him with two collapsed lungs, one punctured lung, brain bleeding, a lacerated liver, kidney, and spleen. He also fractured three ribs, eight vertebrae in his neck and back, and both shoulder blades.
Through it all, his girlfriend stood by his side and today, a couple of months later, is still putting everything aside to be there for her love. The injured man took to Facebook to ask Shelton to give his girlfriend the birthday she deserves, as the two had to miss their trip to Brooklyn to see him in concert.
If nothing else, this story is a beautiful example of love and loyalty. We can only hope it falls into Blake Shelton's hands and these two can attend a make-up concert and have the special night out that was so tragically canceled.
We wish Jonathan ongoing health and improvements in his recovery and commend Lindsay for her unwavering love. Today, especially, it is important to honor this kind of love and realize that life can change in the blink of an eye.
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For those Elco's that had red waterlines, did they also have a black boot topping?
I checked through almost all my photos and only found boot toppings on the pre-war experimental PTs with the light gray hulls and on the construction photos of the first batch of Higgins with the original superstructure. Everything else I have shows just the red.
I think what you may see as resembling boot topping is just grime and algae along the waterline.
You guys may have a point; it might just be algae and sludge along the waterline.
Take a look at Stu's Elco model build. He got it right.


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Ebix Declares 7.5 Cent Quarterly Dividend, Payable December
By GlobeNewswire On Nov 25, 2022
JOHNS CREEK, Ga., Nov. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ebix, Inc., (NASDAQ: EBIX) a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial, healthcare and e-learning industries, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 7.5 cents per common share. The dividend is payable December 16, 2022 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 5, 2022.
About Ebix, Inc.
With approximately 200 offices across 6 continents, Ebix, Inc., (NASDAQ: EBIX) endeavors to provide on-demand software and e-commerce services to the insurance, financial services, travel, healthcare and e-learning industries. In the Insurance sector, Ebix's main focus is to develop and deploy a wide variety of insurance and reinsurance exchanges on an on-demand basis using Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") enterprise solutions in the area of customer relationship management (CRM), front-end and back-end systems, and outsourced administration and risk compliance services.
With a "Phygital" strategy that combines over 650,000 physical distribution outlets in many Association of Southeast Asian Nations ("ASEAN") countries, to an Omni-channel online digital platform, the Company's EbixCash Financial exchange portfolio of software and services encompasses domestic and international money remittance, foreign exchange (Forex), travel, pre-paid gift cards, utility payments, lending and wealth management in India and other countries primarily in Asia and the Middle East. EbixCash's Forex operations is a leader in India's airport Forex business, with operations in 16 international airports, including Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata, combined having conducted over $4.8 billion in gross transaction value per year (pre-COVID-19). EbixCash's inward remittance business in India processed approximately $5 billion in gross annual remittance volume (pre-COVID-19) and is the clear market leader. EbixCash, through its travel portfolio of Via and Mercury, is also one of Southeast Asia's leading travel exchanges with over 500,000 agents and approximately 18,000 registered corporate clients, combined having processed an estimated $2.5 billion in gross merchandise value per annum (pre-COVID-19). EbixCash's financial technologies business offers software solutions at the enterprise level for banks, asset and wealth management companies and trust companies within India, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The EbixCash's e-learning solutions are provided to schools across the breadth of India via high quality 2-D and 3-D animation and multimedia learning. EbixCash's business process outsourcing services provide information technology and call center services to a variety of industries.
Through its various SaaS-based software platforms, Ebix employs thousands of domain-specific technology professionals to provide products, support and consultancy to thousands of customers on six continents. For more information, visit the Company's website at www.ebix.com.
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Our actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such a difference, include, but are not limited to those discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and subsequent reports filed with the SEC, as well as: the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 global pandemic, the willingness of independent insurance agencies to outsource their computer and other processing needs to third parties; pricing and other competitive pressures and the Company's ability to gain or maintain share of sales as a result of actions by competitors and others; changes in estimates in critical accounting judgments; changes in or failure to comply with laws and regulations, including accounting standards, taxation requirements (including tax rate changes, new tax laws and revised tax interpretations) in domestic or foreign jurisdictions; exchange rate fluctuations and other risks associated with investments and operations in foreign countries (particularly in India, Australia and Asia, Latin America and Europe wherein we have significant and/or growing operations); fluctuations in the equity markets, including market disruptions and significant interest rate fluctuations, which may impede our access to, or increase the cost of, external financing; ability to secure additional financing to support capital requirements; credit facility provisions that could materially restrict our business; costs and effects of litigation, investigations or similar matters that could affect our business, operating results and financial condition; and international conflict, including terrorist acts and wars.
Except as expressly required by the federal securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to update any such factors, or to publicly announce the results of, or changes to any of the forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect future events, developments, changed circumstances, or for any other reason.
Readers should carefully review the disclosures and the risk factors described in the documents we file from time to time with the SEC, including future reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K, and any amendments thereto.
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The 2015 Lyell Gustin Recital Series opened on February 13 with a fine recital by a dynamic Canadian ensemble: pianist Angela Park, violinist Judy Kang, and cellist Rachel Mercer, who performed on a rare historic instrument from the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank. The program included the Sonata for Cello and Piano by Saskatoon-born composer William Rowson. A pre-concert chat was led by Rachel Mercer; her talk, as well as the performance following, was most warmly received. Held at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, the recital was co-presented with Prairie Debut.
Renowned pianist Janina Fialkowska thrilled an appreciative audience with her splendid recital of works by Chopin, Schumann, Grieg and Ravel. An internationally known artist who appears on prestigious stages around the globe, Ms. Fialkowska gave the Centenary concert honouring distinguished piano teacher Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915), whose influence reached our region through Lyell Gustin and all those influenced by the Gustin Studios. Christine Vanderkooy, herself a musical descendant of the Leschetizky-Gustin tradition, gave the pre-concert talk. Audience members came from centres across the province and as far away as Winnipeg for this most memorable evening of music.
Inuit art by community artists and music by Canadian composers were the highlights at a gathering at Gustin House on Sunday afternoon, June 14, 2015.
Purchased from artists of the Canadian north by Howdy and Mary McPhail, an array of carvings were selected for exhibit at Gustin House by Norman Zepp, internationally-known Inuit art curator and historian. In the context of the display, Mr. Zepp gave an engaging and enlightening talk about Arctic art traditions. Gustin House is grateful to Jaya Hoy and Hugh McPhail for the opportunity to exhibit their parents' fascinating and varied collection.
The musical program of solo and ensemble repertoire by Canadian composers included wonderfully evocative works by Alexina Louise, David L. McIntyre, and Saskatoon's Ewen Coxworth, who was present for the event. Performers were pianistsGregory Schulte, Karen Sterner, Eric Bews and Thomas Hu, and clarinetist Alyssa Thompson.
Allen Harrington, native of Saskatoon and one of Canada's leading classical saxophonists, along with collaborative pianist Laura Loewen, gave the closing recital of the 12th season of the Lyell Gustin Series on August 25, 2015. The versatile and virtuosic Duo performed a wide-ranging program from transcriptions of Bach and Schumann to a medley of famous Gershwin melodies. Included in the recital repertoire was a Canadian work by Diana McIntosh, who studied with prominent Gustin Studio graduate, Alma Brock-Smith. Dr. Loewen gave the pre-concert talk.
Violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves gave a special autumn concert at Gustin House. Duo Concertante performed Bach's Sonata for Violin and Keyboard in A Major, BWV 1015; a Schubert Rondo for Violin and Piano, and Jocelyn Morlock's "Petrichor," a work composed in 2013 for the Duo. Mr. Steeves is a Gustin musical descendant; he and Ms. Dahn are on the music faculty of Memorial University, St. John's NL, and concertize widely in Canada and abroad. The artists, who have performed previously at Gustin House and in the Lyell Gustin Recital Series, gave commentary on the evening's repertoire.
The festive evening was also the occasion for Gustin House to recognize Shirley and Peter Pridmore of Saskatoon for their gift of the historic Knabe piano that had belonged to Lyell Gustin for many years. Mrs. Pridmore, who had studied with Dr. Gustin, was the second of his students to own the piano from the very early 1980s onward. Unable to be present at the October 4 evening, she and her family were represented by Mr. Pridmore. Gustin House is deeply grateful for their magnanimous gift.
The date November 15, 2015 marked exactly one century since the passing of the renowned Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915), one of the long line of illustrious pianist-teachers that included Ludwig van Beethoven, and–a century later, on the Canadian prairies–Lyell Gustin. On November 29, an afternoon event held at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church brought the Leschetizky Centenary to a celebratory finale. Preceding the musical performance, Saskatoon pianist and organist Gregory Schulte discussed aspects of the Leschetizky legacy as experienced by so many through the Lyell Gustin Piano Studios.
Thomas Yu gave a solo piano recital honouring the Leschetizky tradition, perfroming Beethoven's Sonata Op. 111, Reflets dans l'eau by Debussy, Chopin's Scherzo No. 3, and a work by Regina composer David L. McIntyre. A versatile pianist widely recognized for his artistic and musical accomplishments, the artist had just returned from Germany, where he had given a recital at the Berliner Philharmonie, prestigious home concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.


A couple weeks ago, I gave away a necklace in the Grow Your Blog event.
the winner of my necklace was.... Janina Lynet Rolin.
I have tried contacting Janina several times and never heard from her.
if she does not contact me.
ooh my God! sorry for the delay, but I've had a few days of trouble at the office! ..... and I recently read your entire blog! I'm still on time? if emotion is so big! thanks for taking me into account.
I am visiting via Jackie's blog! Congratulations for winning her Giveaway! Your necklace and jewellery are BEAUTIFUL!
I see you have pinned some creations and my blog on your wonderful Pinterest Boards.
CONGRATS on winning Jackies gorgeous Giveaway!!!! Lucky You!
I'm so glad Janina can claim her beautiful prize!
Teresa your necklace is exquisite - what a clever jewellery artist you are - I've always thought I would love to make something little, but I gather you need quite a lot of tools for jewellery.
Did you do a class at the beginning?


DrOmnibus was invited as one of the 10 presenting startups during the first MedTech Radar event on 16th May 2018 in Cologne. For us, it was a great opportunity to present our ideas and the product ABA DrOmnibus to the German MedTech industry, investors and stakeholders.
The MedTech Radar Start-up Pitch Day on 16th May 2018 in Cologne was jointly organized by the statutory health insurance Barmer, the German Medical Technology Association (BVMed), the venture capital investors High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Earlybird Venture Capital and NRW.Bank as well as the medical technology magazine "medtech zwo" from publishing house BIOCOM AG.
The startups which were chosen to present their business ideas to the jury represented various fields of medicine or medical technologies. DrOmnibus was the only one focused on Autism Spectrum Disorder and the only one from Poland.


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The Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department offers a meeting hall for birthday parties, lectures, classroom activities, and more.
The historic home makes a lovely setting for weddings, private parties, and more.
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One of the forums that I visit recommended CC Cleaner. I paid the requested fee and downloaded it. My first experience resulted in loss of some rather important (at the very least to me) information. I vowed to never this program again. In addition, I have two programs that I have used for years and these two programs do not destroy any information. Be very careful and very cautious when and if you use CC Cleaner since it has some extremely dangerous routines included in its operation. Whether anyone agrees with me or not is totally immaterial to me since I know exactly what happened.
rkleaman wrote: One of the forums that I visit recommended CC Cleaner. I paid the requested fee and downloaded it. My first experience resulted in loss of some rather important (at the very least to me) information. I vowed to never this program again. In addition, I have two programs that I have used for years and these two programs do not destroy any information. Be very careful and very cautious when and if you use CC Cleaner since it has some extremely dangerous routines included in its operation. Whether anyone agrees with me or not is totally immaterial to me since I know exactly what happened.
Ouch. When you say you paid the requested fee, you bought CCleaner Professional ?
The reason I ask, is I've seen scam websites that advertise imitation programs, they ask for payment first and the program they deliver is not the same as the one they pretend to be.
rkleaman wrote: One of the forums that I visit recommended CC Cleaner. I paid the requested fee and downloaded it. My first experience resulted in loss of some rather important (at the very least to me) information. I vowed to never this program again.
Ouch. Some of us have been warning about that for some time, but when we politely point out the hazards of using those weapons of MS destruction the fans rush in and berate us in no uncertain terms.
But it is worrying that you paid for this thing.
By the way, the next time you do try those brute force tools, remember that you can backtrack by using System Restore in Windows. And, of course, before embarking on major housekeeping, always set aside a backup "image" of you system. There are plenty of tools out there. One of the most widely used is Acronis, but after five years or more of grappling with Acronis True Image I would not recommend it. EaseUs make tools that look less polished, but that actually do a better job.
rkleaman wrote: Whether anyone agrees with me or not is totally immaterial to me since I know exactly what happened.
Prima facie, I do agree that CCleaner can be quite destructive — the very fact that this thread exists is living proof of those capabilities.
rkleaman wrote: My first experience resulted in loss of some rather important (at the very least to me) information. I vowed to never this program again. Be very careful and very cautious when and if you use CC Cleaner since it has some extremely dangerous routines included in its operation.
What most folks don't seem to realize is that those very same destructive capabilities of CCleaner can be harnessed and refocused into positives.
While employing CCleaner, the first precaution one should take; is to ensure that a file called WinApp2.ini is present in the CCleaner installation directory — personally, I prefer to use the beta equivalent of WinApp2.ini which is always available here.
In addition to the TeamViewer service, the above ruleset deletes all TeamViewer shortcuts — including the one on the right-click context menu under Send to.
The above ruleset deletes the Java schedule for self-updates and also other related shortcuts.
Rules for TeamViewer & Java were just a couple of examples — similar rules can be crafted for dozens of unwanted services, scheduled tasks, automatic Windows startups and numerous other nuisances.
Just imagine a life where your CCleaner automates all these pesky little headaches for you, while you are left with more time for your loved ones — not to mention . . . . . . . . . . a clean, fast and efficient rig.
Whether CCleaner is "good" or "evil" depends solely on . . . . . . . where the User is positioned on the food-chain.
CCleaner 5.19.5633 is just out.
TrustFire wrote: While employing CCleaner, the first precaution one should take; is to ensure that a file called WinApp2.ini is present in the CCleaner installation directory — personally, I prefer to use the beta equivalent of WinApp2.ini which is always available here.
WinApp2.ini 5.19.160702 is just out — for those who like to play with fire.


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I have worked with Ted, Margaret and the Beanstalk staff for the last 18 months developing a sustainable business model for a start-up, nonprofit law firm. The support and expertise I have received at Beanstalk has been extraordinary. Their staff has been supportive in so many ways — from talking me through the day-to-day stresses of leading a start-up social enterprise to the more "big picture" issues of strategic planning, board management and donor development. They have also provided significant financial support to our agency. However, unlike many other funders, their support is not limited to writing a check. They genuinely care about the individuals in whom they invest and in fostering an environment of creative problem-solving to address difficult societal problems.


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Reasons not to panic after Bruins' third straight loss
By Matt Kalman WEEI 93.7
December 10, 2019 12/10/2019 4:11 am
Here we go again, our monthly mind-blowing revelation that the Bruins aren't going to win every game.
Oh but this time they've lost three in a row (0-2-1) after winning eight in a row, a winning streak that didn't impress many because a lot of times they came from behind in games. So that proves that this time, really, truly, they're not as strong a team as their point total – second in the NHL to Washington – says they are.
Just shoot me.
The Bruins lost 5-2 (really 3-1 when you consider Jake DeBrusk's garbage-time goal, plus two Ottawa empty-netters) to the Senators on Monday. It wasn't the bounce-back performance they were looking for after getting beat in a battle of NHL elites by Colorado on Saturday. It still wasn't anything to blow up the team about.
Each of Ottawa's goals was the result of a correctable mistake. And in the case of Anthony Duclair's goal, no one could do anything about the funny bounce off the end wall that set that one up. The Bruins pelted Ottawa goalie Anders Nilsson with 40 shots, and he stopped 38. They obviously needed better execution, particularly on their 1-for-5 power play, but they had as many solid stretches as they had poor ones, just the puck wound up in their net more than the Senators'.
For the second time this season they've lost consecutive games in regulation, and for the second time they've lost three straight in any fashion. This is not a product of miscalculated talent evaluation or off-base roster construction. This is about the NHL season, the schedule and, yes, the repercussions of playing until June 12 last summer.
Of course, it doesn't require a team to play that long the season before to hit some bumps in the road. Washington lost at home to Columbus while the Bruins were losing at Ottawa. The defending Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues got smoked at home by Toronto on Saturday. Vegas got clobbered at home to the New York Rangers.
You'd still be hard-pressed to get decent odds on those teams not playing into May.
Here are your reasons not to panic about the Bruins:
1. Bruce Cassidy summed it up with Jack Edwards and Andy Brickley after the loss in Ottawa. He called the Bruins' recent struggles falling behind in games an "emotional challenge." Thursday nights against Chicago, Saturday nights against Minnesota, Monday nights in Ottawa … they just don't match up with the emotion and magnitude of May and June games in Carolina and St. Louis. You knew this was coming.
Earlier in the season it was easier for the Bruins to pick up where they left off. But you can't keep the urgency that high over 82 games. The Bruins impressively managed to win their eight straight games before this slump despite having similar problems with their urgency and their execution. That's where their talent can swoop in and save them. So until their struggles snowball, cool your heels.
With Washington, Tampa Bay and Florida upcoming on the schedule, there will be no excuse for the Bruins being lackadaisical. We'll see how they respond.
2. Just to reiterate, the Bruins are 20-5-6. That's something like a 120-point pace. A rut might put them on a 110-point pace. Call out the national guard.
The Bruins were going to slump. It's how quickly they come out of it that will tell us more about this team, and history tells us this core doesn't let these problems grow.
3. This is the most important thing related to the Bruins' sudden struggles: they're integrating players at a time many teams would've been hesitant to change the lineup. Of course Patrice Bergeron, who scored in his comeback game Monday, was going to play as soon as he was ready. But Cassidy has decided to give Brett Ritchie and John Moore a little bit of a run. The Bruins needs to see what they have. Can Ritchie be a middle-six power forward? Can Moore and Matt Grzelcyk exist together as a two-lefty defense pair? Both those questions have garnered mixed answers thus far. But the Bruins need these answers now so general manager Don Sweeney knows how to deal before the February trade deadline and Cassidy knows what flexibility and limitations he has with his lineup down the road.
We saw Anders Bjork get his first run as a right wing of the season Monday. That could be huge if Bjork could be the second-line right wing the Bruins have been searching for. Expect to see more changing of line combinations and defense pairs while the Bruins look to get back on track.
But more than anything, don't panic.
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Olympic Biathlon Champion Bogaliy-Titovets Retires
Double Olympic champion Russian biathlete Anna Bogaliy-Titovets announced her retirement to R-Sport on Thursday. 23.08.2012, Sputnik International
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Double Olympic champion Russian biathlete Anna Bogaliy-Titovets announced her retirement to R-Sport on Thursday.
She won women's relay gold at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics and world and European relay titles in a career spanning 12 years.
"I've been thinking a lot considering the situation from different angles. Finally I've decided to retire as a professional biathlete," Bogaliy-Titovets told R-Sport.
The 33-year-old said she wanted to spend time with her family.
"I want to see my son grow up. My desire to be with my family is the main reason for my retirement. I want to pay as much attention and time to my son as possible."
The former Olympic champion said that she was going to start teaching at a university in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk and promote children's sport in Russia.
Bogaliy-Titovets' best personal result on the World Cup tour was fifth in the general classification in the 2003-04 season, when she won two events and made the podium on 14 occasions.


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Production begins at Shell and CNOOC's petrochemical unit in China
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By Sophie Chapman . May 02, 2018, 11:29AM
The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Shell Nanhai B.V. announced the launch of production of the second ethylene cracker at the Nanhai petrochemicals complex in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China.
The cracker increases the capacity of ethylene at the complex to 1.2mn tonnes per annum – more than doubling the previous capacity.
The site will soon feature China's largest styrene monomer and propylene oxide (SMPO) plant.
The joint venture also confirmed that production has begun on several derivative units, with the remaining units to launch in the coming weeks.
The units have all been built by CNOOC, and are jointly owned and operated by the CNOOC and Shell joint venture.
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"The start-up of the new ethylene cracker and derivatives units is a significant milestone for Shell," commented Graham van't Hoff, Executive Vice President for Shell's chemicals subsidiary.
"I would like to thank our partner CNOOC for its excellent project delivery. As the largest single-site ethylene complex in China, CSPC is key to Shell Chemicals' growth ambitions."
"The expansion project demonstrates great synergies between CNOOC's engineering, construction and management capabilities, and Shell's advanced technologies in chemicals," stated CNOOC Oil and Petrochemicals' Chairman and President, He Zhongwen.
"It has been recognised by the government as a role model for major industrial projects in China. This shows what we can achieve through effective international partnerships."
"We can now produce more and better chemical products for the growing domestic market."
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Shell joins Global Wind Energy Council, commits to offshore wind taskforce
Olivia Minnock .
Oct 23, 2018, 8:00AM
Oil giant Shell has announced its commitment to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), which it is joining as a board level member.
The business hopes it will be able to expand its influence in the green energy space and is taking part in GWEC's Offshore Taskforce, which brings together industry leaders to accelerate the
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Shell announces 30% rise in profit, plans $25bn buyback
Oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell has announced its quarterly profits for Q2 2018, exhibiting a 30% rise in net profit, year on year.
According to CNBC, the Netherlands-based company which has subsidiaries across the
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Shell supports UK government's decision to bring forward its 2040 petrol and diesel ban
Jul 09, 2018, 7:12AM
The Netherlands-based oil and gas giant, Royal Dutch Shell, has announced its support for calls to the UK government to bring forwards its ban on the sales of new petrol and diesel car sales.
The ban had previously been set for 2040, but committees led by Members of Parliament (MPs), mayors in London, Manchester,
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