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Solid, high-polish-brass bell standing 12cm high with a diameter of 6cm.
Quality wooden handled brass bell with a polished finish.
High-polish-aluminum counter bell with a height of 11cm and a diameter of 13cm.
Beautiful 4 inch (101.6mm) diameter solid, antiqued-finish, brass ship's bell with braided white cord.
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Lincoln United FC
First Time Fans - Guide to Ashby Avenue
Useful information for first time visitors of Lincoln United Football Club.
Lincoln United Football Club was founded in 1938 as Lincoln Amateurs, playing in the Lincoln League. In 1951, the Club signed its first professional player (on 5 shillings a week, 25p in today's money) and Lincoln Amateurs was re-named Lincoln United aka 'The Whites'.
Located on Ashby Avenue, Lincoln United FC is easily accessed just off the A46 and 2.5 miles from Lincoln City centre.
Our purpose built Ashby Avenue home has a capacity of 2200, including two covered seating areas (TR Weston & Son Ltd and Fans for Diversity Stands) and two further covered areas for standing. (The John Wilkinson Stand and Allen Crombie End).
The Allen Crombie End is where you will find the canteen, Fred Green Hospitality Suite and Lincoln United Board Room.
Travel Arrangements:
Ashby Avenue
LN6 0DY
Ashby Avenue has a small car park on site which is free to use. Please consider local residents if parking on street, outside of the ground.
The easiest way to get to the ground is by using the A46 Lincoln bypass.
At the Skellingthorpe Roundabout take the exit in the direction of Birchwood and Hartsholme Country Park B1378. Travel down this road for about 1 mile. Ashby Avenue is approximately 100m past the entrance to Hartsholme Country Park, on the right hand side. Turn into Ashby Avenue and travel for another 400m. The entrance to the car park is on the right through some trees. It is signposted Hartsholme Cricket Club, Lincoln United Football Club.
The nearest railway station is Lincoln Central and is 2.5 miles from the ground. The station is adjacent to the bus station where you can take the number 19 bus to the ground.
Travel by bus
The bus journey will take approximately 25 minutes from Lincoln Central Bus Station. The stop required will be Hartsholme/Swanpool, Almond Avenue
where there is then just a short few minutes walk to the ground. Buses run every hour on a Saturday until 18:30. For up to date travel information, check here.
Tickets can either be purchased at at the turnstile on match day, with both card and payments accepted or purchase an E-ticket in advance here.
Gates open at 14:00 on a Saturday, 13:15 on a Sunday and 18:45 on a mid-week match evening.
2021/22 Season Ticket Prices:
Men's First Team
Adults £9
Concessions £6
Juniors (5 to 16) £3
Under 5's Free
Women's First Team
Under 16's Free
Ground Facilities
The Sports Association Social Club will be open on match days for spectators to visit. Please note this is situated outside of the stadium and alcoholic beverages can't be brought inside the stadium gates.
There is 2 sets of toilet blocks within the ground, located next to the TR Weston & Son stand and behind the changing room/boardroom building, where the disabled access toilet is also located.
Hot food and drinks can be purchased at the canteen just past the Allen Crombie End, the canteen is open for all Men's First Team home games and selected Women's First Team games, please check with the club before your visit. Cash & card payments accepted.
If you fancy something different for a match day, why not look into one of our hospitality packages to enjoy a sit down meal and drinks before enjoying the game? Details on hospitality and other commercial opportunities can be found here.
Match day programme can be downloaded for free to your phone using the QR code at the ground.
For any further information please contact Club Secretary Andy Mead, via email at andy.mead@lincolnunitedfc.com or 07920417915.
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Here comes the new version of Download Accelerator Plus 10, popularly called as DAP with excellent features to download and experience the optimized tools. DAP is one of the best download managers and accelerator we have designed to produce advanced performance and powerful efficiency with ease. The latest version's features will act as add-ons similar to Firefox add-ons and enable PC users to personalize downloads according to their requirements.
You can download DAP 10 freeware tool or buy the premium version for home users $39.95 per year which can be used 3 computers at most. The premium version will have complete features which are absent in DAP (Free), like Extreme Acceleration, File Shredder, Private Downloads, Ad Free, Advanced FTP, etc. It is recommended for home users to download the free edition who have less internet bandwidth connection.
The installation is a bit annoying with few pop-up messages and asks you to setup video accelerator along with the process. But, the video acceleration is not impressive and doesn't speedup much when streaming YouTube videos.
Coming to its Interface, the customization window has all the options like "Acceleration ON" (which is not active in free edition), Status, list of downloaded files, pausing, etc and tools for advanced personalization. The status window has tabbed i.e. multiple downloads in single window with estimated time and transfer rate. Rest of the things will be same as other download managers.
There are four main features that will make your download faster and efficient with add-ons. Let's discuss each of them in detail.
You can download videos directly from YouTube website by clicking "Video" button down the YouTube video or Click the "Download Video" button from customization window which resides in Windows system tray and paste your favorite YouTube video URL in the input dialog box to download the video.
You can even convert video to preferred format after downloading the video. It supports more streaming websites than any other video downloader.
Click the "MP3" button below YouTube video to download and convert as MP3 audio files or you can convert to any other format of your choice which is compatible with your MP3 Players or Mobile Phones.
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DAP 10 provides "Video Preview" feature which lets you play audio and video files without finishing the download i.e. you don't have to wait until the file completely downloads. There is a "Video Preview" link on the bottom right-side of the download status window where you can play your favorite video and audio files before they get downloaded.
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Kitsap County's legal community recently weighed in on the crowded card of judicial races set for the Aug. 7 primary. You can find the results of the Kitsap County Bar Association's preference poll below.
A quick caveat: 43 percent of the bar association's lawyers participated.
In the only contested race for Kitsap County Superior Court, lawyers gave Kitsap County public defender Bill Houser the most first choice votes (52) while deputy prosecutor turned private attorney Jennifer Forbes came in second with 41.
For the Tacoma-based court of appeals seat (one that serves Kitsap and its surrounding counties), the lawyers gave Bremerton attorney Tom Weaver the most first choice votes (44) and Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys' legal counsel and Port Orchard resident Pam Loginsky the second most (29) in the six candidate race.
In two of the races for the state's supreme court, the county's lawyers were partial to the incumbents: the lawyers gave 77 first choice votes to former Clallam County judge Susan Owens (the next closest was three votes) and 90 votes to former King County judge Steven Gonzalez to Port Orchard Attorney Bruce Danielson's two.
The closest voting came in the remaining supreme court race. Longtime King County Superior Court Judge Bruce Hilyer garnered 36 first place votes, compared with Bainbridge appellate attorney Sheryl Gordon McCloud's 28.
In each race, if the candidate gets 50 percent or above, the race is settled. Those races where that doesn't happen will see a runoff election between the top two in November. Stay tuned.


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Dredging threatens completion of Nigerian eco city
Published on: 23 Feb 2016
If legal action against Eko Atlantic in Nigeria goes ahead it could be the beginning of the end for Africa's most controversial eco city
Eko Atlantic, a city off the coast of Nigeria whose "whole purpose", its developers say, is to "arrest the ocean's encroachment," has had it's share of controversy since construction kicked off, but a new class action suit could be enough to bring the development to its knees.
Like many low-lying coastal African countries, Nigeria struggles with the impact of rising sea-levels. To defend against the coastal erosion and flooding, the city is being surrounded by the "Great Wall of Lagos" – a sea defence barrier made of 100,000 five-ton concrete blocks. Eko Atlantic will be a "sustainable city, clean and energy efficient with minimal carbon emissions," offer jobs, prosperity and new land for Nigerians, and fight against the impacts of climate change.
But the plaintiff in the suit, Mondinvest Limited, is seeking in excess of R150 million as general damages from the three contractors handling the project, for alleged destruction of its property due to the defendants' ocean dredging activities. Mondivest also wants to prevent the developers of Eko Atlantic from further dredging, sand-filling or reclaiming of the the Kuramo portion of the Atlantic Ocean pending the determination of the suit.
The Guardian has much to say of the development when construction kicked off in 2014. "In congested Lagos, Africa's largest city, there is little employment and millions work and scavenge in a vast, desperate informal economy. Sixty percent of Nigeria's population – almost 100 of 170 million people – live on less than a dollar a day. Preventable diseases are widespread and electricity and clean water hard to come by. A few kilometres down the Lagos shoreline, Nigerians eke out an existence in the aquatic slum of Makoko, built precariously on stilts over the ocean. Casting them as crime-ridden, the government regularly dismantles such slums, bulldozing homes and evicting thousands. These are hardly the people who will scoop up square footage in Eko Atlantic's pricy new high-rises.
Those behind the project – a pair of politically connected Lebanese brothers who run a financial empire called the Chagoury Group, and a slew of African and international banks – give a picture of who will be catered to. Gilbert Chaougry was a close advisor to the notorious Nigerian dictatorship of the mid 1990s, helping the ultra-corrupt general Sani Abacha as he looted billions from public coffers. Abacha killed hundreds of demonstrators and executed environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who rose to fame protesting the despoiling of the country by Shell and other multinational oil corporations. Thus it's fitting for whom the first 15-story office tower in Eko Atlantic is being built: a British oil and gas trading company. The city proposing to head off environmental devastation will be populated by those most responsible for it in the first place."
The ruling will take place toward the end of March and should be a case to pay attention to in the coming years.


The Very Simple * Libs pages have been updated, merging the information into less pages and adding a few relevant updates. The lib is now compatible with Assimp 3.0, and a bug which appeared with recent nvidia drivers when using multiple shaders with uniform blocks has been fixed.
The sample code has been updated to reflect these changes and a Visual Studio 2012 project is included.
OpenGL Shading Language (2nd edition) – old syntax, but still worth a visit.
This course is the next installment in the established series of SIGGRAPH courses on real-time rendering. It presents the best graphics practices and research from the game-development community and provides practical and production-proven algorithms. The focus of the course is on the intersection between the game-development community and state-of-the-art 3D graphics research, and the potential for cross-pollination of knowledge in future games and other interactive applications.
Slides are available in here.
Shaders are the core of the rendering process. OpenGL core profile requires us to provide our own shaders, no more fixed function.
Using shaders means more flexibility, but it also implies more work. This is where this lib steps in.
VSShaderLib was designed to make our life easier. It allows to create programs, load shaders from files, associate vertex attribute names with locations, and work with uniforms, including uniforms in named blocks. It also provides access to the info logs.


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How dash cams are changing auto insurance
By: Jessica Mach on September 11, 2019
Justin Leung was driving through Toronto's Corktown district on the Friday before Canada Day when he was hit by an electric bike.
Leung was driving a car, on his way to a cottage that he had rented for the long weekend with his fiancée and friends. The road was relatively empty for a Friday afternoon: Leung coasted down Adelaide Street for at least a block before passing by another car, which had curiously paused in the lane to his right even though the light was green. Suddenly, an e-bike driver, who had been riding in the bike lane to the right of the paused car, made a sharp left turn, driving directly into the side of Leung's vehicle.
One of the reasons I can describe the accident in detail is that Leung had previously described it to me. The other reason is that I saw the accident myself. I wasn't there, but Leung had a dash cam — a feature that came with his car when he first got it, and that he made a habit of turning on every time he drove.
The accident took place in the short span of six seconds, so the resulting footage — which can be watched over and over again — was helpful for clarifying what exactly happened. But the footage served another purpose too, one that ultimately saved Leung a lot of grief: it helped his insurance company determine that he was not at-fault for the accident.
The decision was a significant one. In Ontario, according to Malcolm Armstrong, personal lines manager at Nacora Insurance Brokers in Mississauga, Ont., e-bike drivers qualify as pedestrians. And "99% of the time," in an accident that involves a driver and a pedestrian, the driver is deemed at-fault.
Dash cams can save you from being labelled "at-fault"
In addition to deciding that Leung wasn't at-fault for the accident, however, the insurance adjuster on the case also ruled that Leung could continue receiving a discount on his auto insurance policy — one that was based on his claims-free history. The decision was based on both a police report and the dash cam footage that Leung provided. Which brings us to the question: could dash cams change the trend of vehicles being overwhelmingly deemed at-fault anytime they're in an accident with pedestrians?
Armstrong thinks the possibility is there. Insurance adjusters typically consider dash cam footage to be reliable evidence, so if a camera were able to capture proof that a pedestrian hit a vehicle — and not the other way around — an adjuster likely wouldn't rule in favour of the pedestrian.
"I'm quite sure insurance companies would welcome [dash cam footage] because it's going to help their case, make their case stronger," he says, adding that he "can't think of" any other type of evidence that bears a similar level of reliability. Witnesses could help, he explains. But they probably wouldn't be able to do enough to turn the trend around.
But dash cams can't save you from a lawsuit
Still, Armstrong says it's important to remember that just because your insurance company says you're not at-fault, it doesn't mean that you're immediately off the hook. Once the claim has been settled, the other party in the accident can still sue you. In a case where one party is a pedestrian and therefore unlikely to have insurance, the driver's insurance company is still required by law to pay the pedestrian accident benefits, which includes compensation for supplementary medical care, funeral expenses and an allowance if they can't work as a result of the accident.
If the pedestrian wants compensation beyond accident benefits, which can include but isn't limited to money for pain and suffering (a type of compensation that puts a price on the mental and physical toll of the accident), they can file a lawsuit against the driver. And while the driver's no-fault status with their insurance company could help their case, there's no guarantee that the result of the court case will work entirely in their favour.
In the end, Leung's insurance company has put out at least $10,000 to cover the cost of his car repairs, as well as the price of a temporary rental.
Leung, for his part, believes that Ontario needs to change its insurance laws — at least when it comes to some pedestrians. "He has a bike that doesn't go above a certain speed," he said of the e-bike driver who hit him, "but he can still cause damage. I think anything like that that's on the road [needs to] carry insurance."
If the e-bike driver eventually does end up suing Leung, though, the dash cam footage can only help his case. No insurance company is "giving you a discount" for installing a dash cam, Armstrong says. But it can help protect you from being penalized for an accident you didn't start.
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June Round Up: Kenny Young Band, Joe Fletcher & The Wrong Reasons, Jonah Tolchin.
Posted on June 7, 2012 by Paul Kerr
Kenny Young Band. Simple Things.
This album from New Jersey based Kenny Young popped through the door as recently as April and after a couple of listens we put pen to paper. It was only then we discovered the album was actually recorded in 2010. That said Kenny had added a nice hand-written letter to the package and he covers one of Blabber'n'Smoke's favourite songs so here goes.
A jobbing musician for most of his life this is Young's debut album so he's had plenty of time to hone his songwriting and it shows. While he's not a wordsmith per se he manages to come up with strong verses and choruses that fit well with the muscular delivery of the band be it the jaunty pop of We'll Find Love Again, the radio friendly ballad Going Home or the pell mell Southern rock'n'roll that is Krazy. While young's voice can be grits or honey depending on the song the highlight on most of these cuts is the guitar playing of Andy Schlee whose slide playing on Nothing To Hear is indeed a joy to hear. He really lets rip on Strong Man where his solo is reminiscent of vintage Thin Lizzy. While there are some ballads including Waiting which again features some fine playing from Schlee the overall feel is of a band that has its roots firmly in the mid seventies and especially that of the southern Rock bands of that time which takes us to that cover version, Duane Allman's Midnight Rider. While this doesn't have the stoner groove of the original it packs a punch and I daresay goes down a treat live.
Joe Fletcher & The Wrong Reasons. White Lighter.
Another album that was recorded in 2010 but only recently swam to these shores this is a great listen. Fletcher writes some fine songs and his voice has an attractive easy way with the words as he sings about losers and folk tossed aside by life's trials. Ably supported by The Wrong Reasons, a local conglomerate of musician friends there are loose limbed country ballads, rootsy blues workouts and rockabilly riots scattered throughout. Opening with the attractive fiddle laced folkiness of Say What You Will the album ramps up the pace on the following two songs, Ambulances and Flat Tire, the former a full tilt road song with driving harmonica and a great guitar solo from Damian Puerin, the latter a pile driving world weary lament that has a huge sound with clanging guitar and a gung ho chorus. The world weariness continues on the album highlight, Every Heartbroken Man. A fantastictically jangled guitar runs through this tale of a down on his luck guy for whom everything that can go wrong goes wrong who accepts that fate cannot comfort every heartbroken man. Fletcher's lyrics have a boho fatalism that he delivers with just the right mix of emotion and detachment. St. Vincent continues with this life is shit motif as the protagonist states that when he eventually get to sit on God's knee he'll complain that he's been treated as a criminal all of his life. Here the band sound like the best or worst ever bunch of punch drunk honky tonk players as the song drunkenly weaves its way with Puerin delivering a stinging yet gloriously woozy solo. There's a bunch of other songs that all stand up to scrutiny including the delightful broken country waltz of Front Porch and the George Jones inspired honky tonk hymn to booze which is Drunk and Single. You can capture the album free here for a limited time. Have a listen and then buy it, it's a great album.
Every Heartbroken Man
Jonah Tolchin. Criminal Man.
Finally we go back to New Jersey to find Jonah Tolchin, a youngster of 19 who sounds a lot older and delivers some spinechilling spare songs along with a few more muscular diatribes including a cover of a Blaze Foley song. The opening track here is a wonderfully glacial song with Tolchin on guitar and voice accompanied only by a cello and immediately the listener is captured by the beauty and simplicity here. Godforsaken World expands the sound adding fiddle and bass but is similar in delivery. This melancholic feel resurfaces on Fracking Nightmare where Tolchin addresses the environmental issues of this new and potentially destructive method of robbing the planet. A musical saw adds to the sense of foreboding on what is a fine protest song. Wrong Side of the Wire which follows is another environmental lament with a simple delivery. Tolchin's fine voice and guitar is supported by pedal steel from Ed Iarusso on a song that could stand proudly beside the best that Woody Guthrie could conjure up. Strangely enough one of the backing vocalists here is the selfsame Joe Fletcher mentioned above, small world indeed. Fletcher sings again on the Foley cover, Oval Room which gets a jauntier delivery and reminds one of the Reagan years. Tolchin leaves the politics behind to an extent on the final song, Rocks and Nails, a wonderful ballad that seems to describe a suicide on a railroad line, evocative and chilling it serves to deliver notice that Tolchin is one to watch.
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A Blatant Lie in the New Holocaust Handbook
In the new Holocaust Handbook, The Gas Vans, which can be downloaded from here, Santiago Alvarez tries to rip apart the 1960 testimony of August Becker, which Roberto has copied from Klee et al's 'The Good Old Days' to this post. Alvarez (p.190) claims that Becker could not have witnessed the extermination of deportees in Minsk that began in May 1942. However, he deliberately shortens Becker's sentence, "I could not take any more and three days later, it must have been September 1942, I traveled back by lorry via Warsaw to Berlin" to "I could not take it anymore", thereby omitting the date that Becker clearly states in that sentence.
Alvarez also reveals rank stupidity. He moans about an obvious error on Becker's Wikipedia entry, which claims he was given a ten-year sentence in the KTI trial and overlooks Klee et al's unambiguous note (p.289) that he was actually declared unfit to stand trial. He assumes that Hauptsturmführer Rühl must be Felix Rühl of Einsatzgruppe D even though Becker's description of him fits the service record of Adolf Rübe, who was under the KdS in Minsk and took part in the Slutzk shooting action of February 1943 that Nick discussed here. Moreover, page 12 of the book reveals that it was written with the "support of Thomas Kues", who supplied numerous documents, and utilized improvements suggested by Mattogno. Thus our old friends have inflicted another dishonest shambles on their readers.
Posted by Jonathan Harrison at Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Labels: gas vans, Mattogno, Thomas Kues
Roberto Lucena said...
"In the new Holocaust Handbook, The Gas Vans, which can be downloaded from here, Santiago Alvarez tries to rip apart the 1960 testimony of August Becker"
This "guy" has got "two articles" on Lanzmann's documentary "Shoah".
The book "The Gas Vans" was supposedly writeen in co-authoring with a French revisionist called Pierre Marais and his description on the Holocaust Denial site Incovenient History is "a scholar interested in the subject of World War Two history and the Holocaust"... wow.
I don't know, and I can be wrong about this, but sometimes I think these guys are an "alter ego" of other known revisionists (pen-names of some them). "Thomas Dalton"(Santomauro?), "Mike Smith" and "a scholar interested in Holocaust", these things are 'very funny'.
Scholar from where? With a Spanish name and no text in Spanish about the Holocaust, some things are very weird. But coming from Holocaust deniers, not surprising.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:35:00 am
In fact, this is an old "revisionist" practice:
Hello Mr. Rudolf
"Multiple personalities" into one. Nobody can deny that these people are very 'creative'. Many creative minds to lie.
The Gas Vans book has Thomas Kues' fingerprints on it in various ways: the anomaly hunting and the breaking everything down into minutiae. It may be that Alvarez is a real person but Kues did the real "work" to update Marais' original bullshit.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:08:00 am


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Indochina Map
The part of our planet referred to as Indochina is a geographical region of Southeast Asia. It occupies the easternmost region of the Indochinese Peninsula, on land located directly east of Thailand, and south of China.
It was originally comprised of the French colony of Cochin, China, and the French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin (later united with Cochin to form Vietnam); Cambodia (formerly Kampuchea), Laos and Vietnam.
Formed in 1887, its capital city was Hanoi, but this French Indochina federation of countries only lasted into the mid-1950s.
After the events of World War II, and the end of Japanese influence in southeast Asia, and later, after the defeat of the French in 1954 by the Vietnamese, this area of the world changed dramatically.
Then, after the agreements reached at the Geneva Convention between China, France, Russia, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, France relinquished any claims on the area, and all three countries in question went on to become independent nations, and remain that to this day.
Other helpful pages on WorldAtlas
Map of World Hemispheres
Official French Speaking Nations
Circles of Latitude & Longitude - The Equator, The Prime Meridian, The Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn
This page was last updated on July 12, 2016.


Why are we using an acronym coined following the Cold War? The acronym VUCA, used to describe the more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world, which resulted from the end of the Cold War, was first introduced by the U.S. Army War College and common usage of the term began in 1990's – more than 20 years ago!
VUCA, in the corporate environment, can be used as a throw away statement to explain why something is happening (or not happening). And it is often misleading as the words: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous; require different responses due to the four distinct types of challenges it proposes.
Well actually we can and do.
The work of Clare W. Graves, who during the 1950's and 1960's researched human value systems, and our 'always-open-to-change responses' to identify that as thresholds of complexity are reached, the mind's ability to make sense of the world becomes overburdened. To cope with this, our minds must create more complex models of reality to deal with the new problems of existence. Which means we are evolving to match the conditions we are presented with.
Maybe you have experienced this, where you become so overwhelmed with something you are trying to understand that it's almost as if your head hurts. And then the overwhelm feeling dissipates and it's difficult to remember why you found it hard initially!
I've written about our comfort zones before, and how as humans, we crave certainty, so we can find it difficult to move out of our comfort zones to experience change or difference. And yet that is how we continue to grow and evolve and move through change. If we weren't prepared to move out of our comfort zones we probably would never have moved out of trees!
So the VUCA environment is nothing new – we keep responding, and always have done, to handle the environment we are presented with.
Let's move from using VUCA to explain why we can't do something or why something is difficult, and consider the opposite: Creating a CALM Culture through Conversation.
A Calm Culture is one where team members are coming up with transformative ideas, are innovative and inspiring. It's an energising and exciting place to be. Everyone in the team feels valued, and there are high levels of trust between each member.
When we are part of a team or an organisation focused on creating a CALM Culture we are focused on building on each other's capacity and capability to learn together to co-create new ideas. Strengths and values are understood and people know where they stand. Everyone is invested in being the best they can be individually and collectively with a view of lifting the entire organisation. This goes beyond KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) and amazing things happen. There is a lot of productive output and also the will to build relationships, which is why trust is high.
The next time you hear someone talking about a VUCA world – think about what they are trying to gloss over or why they are focussed on this acronym. And maybe the better alternative is to consider how to keep it simple and develop a CALM culture.


Situated in the Vendée part of Marais Poitevin, the manmade dry marsh landscapes provide an infinite panoramic view over the natural wet meadows.
The clay soil, remains of the former mudflats of the Gulf of Pictons, is impermeable and therefore retains rainwater in the "baisses" (wet hollows). This, along with the "belles" (higher, dryer areas), forms a micro-relief which is extremely beneficial to biodiversity. In order to protect this unusual heritage, Michel Brosselin obtained classification in 1976 for the 207 hectares in the "communal" of Saint-Denis-du-Payré to become a National Nature Reserve.
The "communaux" of the Marais Poitevin are vast wet meadows, formerly made available to the inhabitants for grazing by the local monks and lords. During the Revolution, they became the villages' property. Since then, many village marshes have sadly disappeared and were used for farming after the 1960s. Those that still exist (a little over fifteen) represent territories of high biological value, as they haven't been touched by humans and have always been used for extensive grazing.
Various families of insects and other invertebrates have not yet been subject to these studies or inventories, and so this list is of course far from being exhaustive and will be extended in the years to come.
NB: in order to protect this abundance of species as best as possible, as well as the peace and quiet required for the fauna, access to the site is regulated and only possible during public opening hours.


scans_daily | Antonius Axia was investigating the troubles plaguing Rome.
He met her beneath where she'd fought, after her fight.
" Achillia, I am Antonius Axia and I wish to- "
She had nothing to say to him- she angrily denied that she knew nothing of " any curse " afflicting Rome.
The manager of the arena was no more willing to let Antonius question her.
They tracked down the troupe of gladiators Achillia came from.
" What ill has she done you, fellow? "
" She's made my life a misery, is what. My wife thinks she's my equal since Achillia started killing all those men. "
That night, in the catacombs, Achillia met Elissa.
The slave-turned-purveyor-of-charms-to-the-wronged received her brusquely.
The next day, Antonius was summoned by the emperor Nero, who demanded an update on his investigations.
Told that nothing new had been discovered, Nero threatened Antonius with being fed to the lions.
" I might even put that son of yours in the arena with you! "
Antonius returned home that night to find his son missing.
Bran, who'd just come back from trailing Achillia as Antonius'd told him to, said his son'd been seen leaving that evening as if in a trance.
" .. Go to Achillia.. "
He met her again in the arena, as she won the next-to-last victory for her freedom.
He came, sword drawn and down, asking for her help.
He blocked her sword and took her fist.
" The Praetorian Guard! " members of the audience cried.
" The Emperor's finest soldiers! "
" And so it ends.
" In my heart I knew they would never allow me my freedom. "
(This's 7 of 22 pages from last month's Britannia: We Who Are About To Die #2. #3 came out this week.
So weird to see my name pop up in a story. Rarely see the name Elissa show up anywhere.


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Fr Francis Ching, the priest who can't read
Holy vision: Companions of the Cross Father Francis Ching is a legally blind priest from Ottawa, Canada. Photos: Emilie Ng
MASS etiquette suggests Catholics turn off or silence their mobile device before entering the church, but that rule doesn't apply to Canadian priest Fr Francis Ching.
Every time the 45-year-old Chinese-born priest celebrates Mass, or when it's time to say his prayers of the Office, the iPad is on and right at his fingertips.
Without it, Fr Francis couldn't fulfil his priestly duties because as a legally blind priest, he can't read a Missal or his breviary.
So Fr Francis relies on his iPad and an ear bud to translate text – like the Eucharistic prayers or the Gospel reading – to speech.
Using the iBreviary app, Fr Francis is able to touch sections of text which is then "read" to him on his ear bud.
He has done this since 2009 and it has become his "new normal".
"Basically I use my tablet or my phone, as all the Mass texts are available online," Fr Francis said. "So I just listen to it and repeat it."
The technology is not perfect, so before every Mass, Fr Francis explains to his congregation that if he says anything wrong, it's the iPad's fault.
Technologically advanced: Fr Francis
Ching touches his iPad to listen and repeat the Consecration for the Mass of the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle at ACU Banyo.
Witnessing one of Fr Francis' Masses is nothing short of inspiring, and not just to see the Speech to Text technology in action.
As a priest in a religious congregation founded in Canada that embraces the Charismatic Renewal, Fr Francis is also a passionate musician who plays the guitar and sings.
When he offered Mass for the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle at the Australian Catholic University in Brisbane two weeks ago, he led the processional and recessional hymns with his guitar.
Born in Hong Kong in 1972, the self-confessed "stubborn" priest was most likely born with glaucoma.
His family first discovered his sight problems when he underwent a mandatory eye test in Grade One.
A specialist revealed Fr Francis' eyes needed to be operated on, but he was placed on a waiting list for three years because of his age.
Following the operation there were "all kinds of problems" with both eyes and he eventually lost the central vision in his right eye.
In 1986 he and his family moved to Canada, where his eyesight steadily failed over time.
"Eventually I became completely dependent on my left eye, and the cataracts were treated with eye drops," Fr Francis said.
For a while he could cope with just drugs and medicine; he could study and read, and could still play soccer.
When he entered the seminary in 1999 following a "conversion experience" after walking away from his faith at university, his eyesight deteriorated but he still had some sight, and got by with a cane and a cap with a long brim.
Losing nothing: "I lost my ability to read but I can do everything I did before." Photo: Emilie Ng.
But in 2009, four years into his priesthood, he completely lost the ability to read.
"I think one of the lessons I learned is there is nothing I can do about it," Fr Francis said.
"Very early on, even before I had my first surgery when I was in Grade Four, I just had a sense that it's going to be okay.
"I think there's a grace in God.
"When I realised I can't read anymore, there was a difficulty there, then someone came along, my spiritual director came around and said 'Well, this is your new normal; you can't go back, you can't wait for it to come back'.
"It came to me that, no, there's still a lot I can do."
For instance, Fr Francis' priestly ministry involves full-time evangelisation work, including formation and training for a Chinese media charity, giving retreats, parish missions and workshops.
He is also the spiritual director for a Chinese Catholic community in Eastern Canada.
His priestly ministry isn't just limited to Canada, either.
This past month Fr Francis has been visiting Chinese Catholics living in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
He has a deep love and affection for Mary, who was one of the reasons he returned to the Church.
He is proof that no disability can get in the way of building the Kingdom of God, but Fr Francis is also aware that he's no (Marvel superhero) Daredevil.
"The only thing that was troublesome was when I dropped something, I can't find it," he said.
"That takes a lot of dying to myself.
"I can't do what I can't do.
"It's amazing that actually, that's essential for our spirituality.
"A lot of people are stuck with sorrows, stuck with past hurts, stuck with the people around them not behaving, and they devote all their energy and time on that.
"You can't fix people, you can't change people, so give it up.
"There's a lot of work that we have to do and we're wasting our time and energy on things we can't do.
"I don't think that's what God wants us to do."
What is clear is that God wants Fr Francis' priestly ministry to thrive, both in Canada and around the world, and if that means breaking the rules of etiquette, so be it.
"I lost my ability to read but I can do everything I did before," Fr Francis said.
"Nothing is lost.
"Pray to God I don't lose my hearing."
Strong faith: Fr Francis Ching. Photo: Emilie Ng.
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The Runaways have remaining their homes (and evil parents) guiding and now have to find out to Are living by themselves. Since they scavenge for food items, search for shelter, and look after just one another, our children start to realize that, for better or even worse, they're stuck with Just about every other.
The climax of the main season shipped The instant Anyone was looking ahead to when the teens last but not least turned the Runaways on the comic textbooks, with them all largely donning the outfits with the source content at the tip.
upped the anticipation for its return by screening the first episode of Season 2 in the show's panel at The big apple Comic Con on Friday. In The brand new season, the kids are finding in further difficulty as their mothers and fathers up their endeavours to uncover them prior to their address is blown.
are established for 2018, and when we think Netflix proceeds only debuting three Marvel series a yr, that pushes a sophomore outing on the Punisher
Stephanie Maslansky returned since the costume designer for Jessica Jones from Daredevil,[sixty three] and was assisted on the initial episode by Jenn Rogien, who crafted Jessica Jones' costume of leather jacket, faded denims, and boots.[64] Maslansky's fashion choices for each character ended up influenced by their comedian incarnations, with her declaring, "You really have to check your history of the initial figures and find out how they gown, how they were being originally drawn, how they website developed in website the yrs in these comics. And what you may perhaps find out is the fact, as illustrated, they kind of do use a similar matter all the time." Maslansky also stated that "Absolutely everyone has a really unique glance, and you will vary within that glance, but it's not over the top.
The comics publications had pleasure, humor, enjoyment, and really focused on the Runaways them selves. It's a disgrace that this series does not seem to understand or care about any of that. It can be just using the Runaways name and character names to make a Gossip Girls with Tremendous powers.
Karolina is kidnapped by Jonah even though the rest of the Runaways cover. They allow it to be into the woods outdoors L.A. and Gert is pressured to let her dinosaur, now named Aged Lace, go. Discovering new disguises, Chase and Molly sneak in the Church of Gibborim to rescue Karolina whilst Alex waits outside the house and overhears his mom and dad saying their intent to uncover him by by themselves. Leslie and the Yorkes find that Jonah is digging for something that is "alive". Leslie reveals that she was indirectly accountable for Amy's Dying and that she is Not sure of Frank's loyalty.
Talking of people who might be returning, call us crazier than Jigsaw, but we think Jon Bernthal will most likely return for season two. What can we are saying? We've got a hunch.
In Oct 2011, ABC Studios offered a script based upon the Punisher to Fox, who gave the project more info a put pilot dedication. The series could well be an hour-long procedural adhering to NYPD detective Frank Castle, "whose change Moi is usually that of a vigilante trying to find justice for those failed because of the court docket program." Ed Bernero was attached as government producer,[26] but by May 2012, the project had not moved forward.
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Wisconsin sweeps weekend trip to Massachusetts
Wisconsin drops Merrimack College and sweeps its first road weekend of the 2017-18 season in the process
After dispatching Boston College on Friday night despite losing the shooting battle, the Wisconsin Badgers repeated the feat in a 4-1 victory over the Merrimack College Warriors on Saturday night.
Wisconsin used a crazy second period to wrestle control of this game in their favor. After seeing an initial lead disappear, UW used a power play goal and two more in a span of 39 seconds to put the Warriors away.
The win meant a weekend sweep of a trip to Massachusetts and a 4-1-0 start to the 2017-18 season for the No. 10-ranked Badgers.
UW's third-straight win came despite being out-shot once again, this time 42-34 by Merrimack.
Once again, it was senior goaltender Kyle Hayton coming up big between the pipes. He stopped a season-high 41 shots by the Warriors and made sure UW came away with the sweep. The Badgers are a perfect 4-0-0 with him in net.
While the Badgers offense wasn't exactly a slouch on the offensive end, it struggled with the pace of Merrimack at times in the defensive zone. Despite that, the Badgers found a way to victory once again.
Continuing a crazy trend of early goals, junior Jason Ford put the Badgers up 1-0 with a goal just 1:38 in to the first period. However, Merrimack answered back, with a controversial goal at the 7:12 mark of the second period.
It had Hayton so fired up he chased the ref down the ice over the call of the puck going over the line.
"I'm a competitive guy and I don't like giving up goals, especially ones that don't go in," Hayton said after the game.
"You can be upset about it for a little bit, but as soon as that puck drops you've gotta get back to the game. Still had half the game left at that point. Had to stay focused and keep pushing on."
That's exactly what Hayton did, and Merrimack never put one across the line on him again in this game.
Hayton's teammates picked him up in a big way as well, netting three goals in the course of just 39 seconds in the second period.
First it was junior Seamus Malone, who lit the lamp at the 12:01 mark of the second period to make it 2-1 on a power play goal at the back door. Malone streaked down the ice and took an easy pass from Will Johnson for the go-ahead goal.
UW gave itself plenty of insurance in just a few seconds, as Max Zimmer put home another goal just 14 seconds later. He redirected a Peter Tischke shot past Merrimack netminder Drew Vogler.
It was nearly deja vu for goal No. 4 for the Badgers, as this time it was senior Ryan Wagner tipping home a shot from Tischke just 39 seconds after Malone had initially lit the lamp.
That was all the offensive fire-power the Badgers would need, as the defense did well to withstand 16 shots in each of the last two periods of the game alone.
Wisconsin's defense came away with a 16-5 advantage in blocked shots and held the Warriors to an 0-for-4 night on the Power Play.
"They're a talented group of guys," Hayton said of the defense. "I think we've got four lines that can play every night, four lines that can score which not many teams have. Defense is looking great, they had a great weekend blocking shots, diving and making plays. I think everyone is looking good and there's only room for improvement."
The road work continues for the Badgers next weekend, but much closer to home. UW will travel to Green Bay for a weekend series hosted by Northern Michigan. The games are scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20-21. Friday's game begins at 7 p.m., while Saturday starts at 5 p.m.
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The Wisconsin Badgers men's hockey program has struggled to get back to consistently high-level hockey. But, if the NHL scouts are right, UW is about to get two game-changing players in the mix.
That's because two incoming freshmen were selected in the first round for just the third time in program history.
The first selection was Alex Turcotte by the Los Angeles Kings at No. 5 overall.
Many projected the Badgers to have two top 10 picks, but Cole Caufield had to wait a bit longer than expected and was picked No. 15 overall by the Montreal Canadiens.
The only other times that the Badgers had two or more picks in the first round of the NHL draft were in 2016 when Luke Kunin and Trent Frederic were picked and in 2007 when three players had their named called in the first round — Kyle Turris, Ryan McDonagh and Brendan Smith.
Turcotte's selection at No. 5 is also the third-highest pick for a Badger, trailing only Danny Heatley at No. 2 to the Atlanta Thrashers in 2000 and Turris' pick at No. 3 by the Phoenix Coyotes in 2007.
If you're going by production at the junior level, these two players may have a massive impact on UW hockey this season. Caufield ripped up the record book for the US National Development U-18 program, besting the single-season goal record (55 by Auston Matthews) with 72 goals. He also put up 126 goals in his overall career with the program, besting Phil Kessel's 104 markers.
Turcotte wasn't too shabby either, despite playing just 37 games due to injury this past season. He posted 27 goals and 62 points in those limited games.
The NHL draft will be completed on Saturday, so stay tuned for more Badgers names to be called.
Badgers hockey releases 2019-20 schedule
On Wednesday morning the Big Ten released its conference slate for hockey and with that the Wisconsin Badgers full schedule is now complete for the 2019-20 season.
The season begins on October 11 as UW travels out East for a split weekend series. Up first is a visit to Boston College, followed by a game at Merrimack on Oct. 12.
Wisconsin's first home weekend is a rough one, as they will welcome two-time defending national champion Minnesota-Duluth for a two-game series.
Non-conference play continues the following weekend with Clarkson, who lost to Notre Dame in a first round matchup in last season's NCAA tournament.
UW will only play two other non-conference series the rest of the way, with a trip to Omaha in early November and Arizona State visiting the Kohl Center in late February.
Big Ten play begins with a road series against Penn State in Nov. 1 and 2.
The first home Big Ten series will be against reigning Big Ten title holders Notre Dame (Nov. 15 & 16).
The Badgers won't host bitter rival Minnesota until Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, but will visit the Gophers on Nov. 22 and 23.
Wisconsin won't have an easy run to the end of the season either, with its final three Big Ten series coming up again Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State.
Both the Michigan and Ohio State series are on the road as well.
The season will end with the Big Ten tournament, which will take place over three straight weekends in March at the home of the higher seed throughout.
Badgers hockey downed 6-3 by No. 8 Denver
The second half of the Wisconsin Badgers hockey season got underway with old WCHA rival Denver coming to the Kohl Center. It was not a fun start, as four 3rd period goals lifted the visiting No. 8 ranked Pioneers to a 6-3 win.
Denver (11-4-2, 4-4-0 NCHC) scored three goals in less than 5:30 of the 3rd period to turn a tie game in to a 5-2 lead in its favor.
"I can't be too critical tonight," said head coach Tony Granato following the loss. "We haven't played for four weeks and we played a top-five team.
"Give them credit, they made plays. They have some great players out there and have a lot of confidence in how they are playing. That's a great team though. I can't be too critical. We've played well all year. We've played hard all year."
Wisconsin (8-8-3, 4-3-3-1 B1G) and Denver traded goals over the course of the first two periods, with Denver opening the scoring just 4:15 in to the game on a power play.
It would be the only scoring of the first period though.
Tyler Inamoto scored his first career goal at the 3:50 mark of the 2nd period to even things up at 1-1. It took over 10 more minutes for the next goal to come and it came to the Pioneers at the 15:31 mark of the same period for a 2-1 advantage.
Wisconsin would tie it back up at 2-2 thanks to a power play goal from Seamus Malone. It was just his third goal of the season for the Badgers and came with just over 40 seconds left in the 2nd period.
There was no momentum out of the intermission for Wisconsin though.
Denver lit the lamp for a 3-2 lead just 2:43 in to the 3rd period and little did the Badgers know the route was on from there.
The Pioneers next two goals came just 19 seconds apart within the 6th minute of the period for a 5-2 lead.
Will Johnson's 6th goal of the season made it 5-3, but came at the 17:20 mark fo the final period and a bit too late to make a massive difference.
Denver added an empty-netter from Jake Durflinger at 19:21 to seal the deal at 6-3.
"Tonight there were just parts of the the game that they were just better than us at," Granato said. "Let's not look too much into it. Let's see how we respond tomorrow. All year long Saturday nights have been a good response by us pretty much straight throughout the year and I expect that from us tomorrow."
The Badgers and Pioneers will meet again tomorrow night, with puck drop scheduled for 7pm CT on Fox Sports Wisconsin Plus.
UW hockey tied atop Big Ten standings heading in to winter break
After a hot start to open the season, the Wisconsin Badgers hockey team seemed like it was cooling way down as conference play got under way. But, things have turned around a bit over the last three series for the Badgers.
Following a weekend sweep of Big Ten bottom dwellers, Michigan State, the Badgers (8-7-3, 4-3-3-1 B1G) now sit tied with the Ohio State Buckeyes atop the Big Ten standings with 16 points each.
UW ended its first two series of Big Ten conference play with a 1-3-0-0 overall record — splitting a home series with rival Minnesota and being swept by Ohio State.
To say the team wasn't looking like a contender in the conference was not too far a stretch at all.
"We weren't happy with the outcomes of the North Dakota and Ohio State weekends," head coach Tony Granato said following the series sweep of MSU this weekend. "Not necessarily that we lost, but we just didn't play well. We didn't play the way we thought we were capable of playing. So we had this stretch coming up, going to Michigan and coming home to Penn State, two ranked teams, and then coming back to a scrappy team here today. We thought that if we're going to make a push this season and get anything out of it, we've got to get going right now."
The tides have turned since that loss on Nov. 17 to the Buckeyes, as Wisconsin hasn't lost a regulation game since. UW earned points in a strange way over the course of the next three games — earning ties with Michigan twice and Penn State in that series opener. UW only got extra points in a shootout win over Michigan and lost in a 3-on-3 OT period in that series opener as well as a shootout in the Penn State series opener.
Wisconsin put on a clinic this weekend against the Spartans, winning 8-5 and 5-3 to sweep a series for the first time since the season-opening matchup with Boston College.
It all adds up to a team who hasn't lost in six straight contests and is on a three-game win streak as they head in to the winter break.
"Playing six games in a row in our conference, playing the way we did and not losing in regulation says a lot about our goaltending, about the play of our defense and about the contributions of all four lines," said Granato. "That's been the most fun thing to see, is how each of the lines has found ways to contribute in lots of different ways."
Can that momentum carry over in to the second half of the season? UW will get former WCHA rival Denver on Jan. 4 to start the second half before a return to Big Ten play.
That means there will be little time to ease back in to things and overcoming challenges seem to be UW's specialty this year. But, considering how the last few seasons trended when things got tough, this team appears set to be different.
Can it add up to a contender for its first Big Ten regular season title? That will be answered by UW's ability to turn ties against top teams in to wins.


The ingredient targets the 'y-zone', according to Givaudan, which is the face and neck area, and acts to energise and reshape skin cells.
Alongside this, the ingredients player has also launched its Adaptogenes Botanicals Solution, a collection made of 10 botanical extracts including moringa, turmeric, aloe vera and acerola to chill the skin and the body.
Mélanie Duprat, Category Manager said, "The health and wellness market has grown from an industry to a culture. Adaptogenes are real treasures that abound in many plant extracts.
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Givaudan is a global leader in the creation of flavours and fragrances. Its active beauty division offers an extensive portfolio of active cosmetic ingredients.
Givaudan is marketing its Agefinity ingredient with a focus on how consumer lifestyles are being impacted by digital device usage.
Romain Reynaud, R&D Director, said: "This common lifestyle leads to a new beauty issue identified as 'Text Neck Wrinkles', the newest challenge brilliantly highlighted by our team of researchers.
Agefinity is a mannose-6-Phosphate complex using a vegetal source and green chemistry to replenish the energy of the cells.
With multiple anti-ageing benefits, Givaudan says aAgefinity can significantly reduce visible age spots (a reduction up to 2.1 times more efficient), neck (-32.5%) and crow's feet (-11.5%) wrinkles, remodel the Y-shape of the face and reorganize skin matrix similar to younger skin.
Further, 74% of the panel found the skin on their neck firmer (vs 45% for placebo) and 84% felt convinced by the effect of the product at the end of the trial (vs 60% for placebo).


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Researcher, analyst and scholar Peter E. Hendrickson discusses his liberating book Cracking the Code. For the 64 years of its existence, the U. S. Internal Revenue Code has been ridiculed, feared and despised by virtually everyone. As presented by the IRS, the code purposefully appears illogical, inconsistent and incomprehensible. The vast majority of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) is not the law itself, but is only evidence-- a representation-- of the actual statutes in force, and like in the game of post-office, the real language has been a bit garbled in transmission. Peter breaks apart the beast and makes it simple to understand but you will learn contradicts everything you've been told! We'll discuss the origin of the income tax, constitutional limitations, IRS misinformation and making educated filings to set the record straight with the IRS. He explains how definitions such as "income," "wages," "self-employment income," "employee," "employer" and "trade or business"-- in regard to, the tax law-- have narrow legal meanings exclusively involving, and applying to, certain privileged activities, such as holding or administering a government office, or working in one. This excludes the vast majority of people who are paying income taxes. We discuss elements of this corrupt scheme and who is profiting. Uninformed citizens are inadvertently participating in the transformation of their untaxable earnings into taxable income, surrendering their wealth to crooks never to be seen again. If you want to stand up in accordance with the truth and liberate yourself spiritually and financially and if you want to stop funding your own destruction, listen to this program.
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In this final class of models, we consider how changes in landscape pattern can be produced by a spatially explicit consideration of ecological processes such as disturbance. Landscape models offer the potential to understand the temporal and spatial implications of disturbance; identify sources of stressors on the landscape; and describe current impacts and suggest future outcomes of disturbance, including pathways for natural recovery or restoration. Disturbance modelers seek to explain how landscape pattern can be produced from disturbance at various scales. Here, we provide an overview of fire models as an example of the most widely used of natural disturbance models and then discuss the landscape influences and implications of progressive land-use change.


Manila Today Page is a program that will add a new tab to TouchFLO 3D (Manila), which will contain your Windows' Today screen. This is perfect if you have Today plugins that are now not displayed because of TouchFlo 3D interface on HTC smartphones.
Great plugins like SPB Diary, Pocket Quicken, and many others are now available again alongside the goodies that come with TouchFlo in the first place.


Grand Daddy Kush is, in a word... amazing! Our Kush boasts an impressive THC content level that's anywhere up to 23% it is definitely one of the strongest, hybrid strains in Medical Marijuana collectives today. Physically it's a short, compact plant, which produces tight, dense round buds that are bright green and completely embedded with sparkling crystals.
The look is definitely candy for the eyes; the taste is undeniably robust with a distinct hash-like after taste which, in tandem with strain potency produces a very smooth cerebral effect with plenty of up-lift. When it comes to that distinct Kush smell, it's unmistakable pine with a lemony/sweet aroma but it's the splash of skunk that's the most dominant feature.
The flavor matches its fragrance, like the perfume of fresh fruit, its rich and delicious. The distinct citrus bouquet, makes this award winning strain one of the most desirable, and hands-up favorite with all our patients.
Our Grand Daddy Kush's medicinal properties include: helping with sleeping disorders and pain-relieving attributes. It is also proven effective in treating inflammatory bowel disease, stress, insomnia, anxiety, and lack of appetite.


The InfraMat™ SmallPad-3JT-Mesh is a specially designed heat therapy pad ideal for targeting small areas of your body. The SmallPad-3JT-Mesh is made with high-quality jade and tourmaline stones to provide you with healing relief. Our New York-based American company HealthyLine™ acquires our stones from the world's most abundant mines in northern China, puts each one through a rigorous seven-stage quality control process, and then registers them through the proper channels with the FDA, FCC, CE, and several highly respected U.S. laboratories. We take pride in our work and treat our products as works of art, which is why we only use real jade and tourmaline stones, with no colored plastic, to create the InfraMat™ SmallPad-3JT-Mesh.
Jade stone has been renowned in China for centuries and is now convincing the Western health care industry of its profound healing and beautifying abilities. Jade cleanses the body of harmful materials, boosts the body's immune system, and helps heal kidney, heart, and stomach ailments. Because of its unique restorative properties, jade was once thought of as the only type of bedding fit for kings during the Tang Dynasty. The InfraMat™ SmallPad-3JT-Mesh is fitted with these powerful stones not only for their therapeutic qualities but also because jade is the most efficient heat absorber of all the natural semiprecious stones.
Tourmaline stones are a very rare, chemically complicated stone mostly mined in small Chinese villages. Tourmaline, like jade, has strong healing properties, as evidenced by the considerably healthier and longer lives led by those living in these small villages. These stones detoxify the body of waste, improve blood circulation, and provide relief from acute and chronic illness and mental health issues, such as depression and anxiety.
The InfraMat™ SmallPad-3JT-Mesh from HealthyLine™ relieves stress and tension, muscle pain and stiffness, headaches, depression, anxiety and insomnia, and helps lower high blood pressure. Fitted with the purest jade and tourmaline stones in the world and optimized for your health, the InfraMat Pro™ SmallPad-3JT-Mesh is simply the best of its kind. Our high-quality heating pads can be used for health reasons or for pure pleasure. Either way, the quality of our products speak for themselves. So do your body a favor and grab a mat (and maybe one extra for a friend) today!
Note: this is not a soft pad. It is stiff with a little flexibility. You can seat right on it, or put it behind your lower back while seating, or keep your feet on it, or lay down (putting it under any area of your body).
Since infrared heat and negative ions penetrating through for several inches – you don't need to wrap it around arm or shoulder. You can just put in user the concerned area.
Product is FDA registered in USA.
16 pcs of 2″ (50 mm) diameter natural jade stones + 9 pcs of 2″ (50 mm) diameter tourmaline ceramic stones under mesh.


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Despite having played in less than a third of his team's total games this season, Cleveleand Cavaliers former All-Star big man Kevin Love has still made quite a significant impact for the Cavs.
According to team general manager Koby Altman, Love has been great in terms of aiding in the development of the younger players in the team's roster.
The Cavs are indeed a pretty young side, with only five players on their 15-man roster above 26 years of age. Love, 30, is a tested veteran with championship-caliber experience, so surely, he was able to teach the younger guys on his squad a thing or two about what it takes to succeed in the league.
Altman went on to say, however, that although his impact off the court has been tremendous, Love's presence on the floor absolutely lifted the game of the entire team.
After an extended spell on the sidelines, Love returned to action in early February. Since his comeback, the Cavs were able to record seven wins out of a total of 18 games played with Love in the lineup. That certainly isn't much, but considering the fact that the team won only 19 games this season, those seven victories with Love already accounts for more than a third of the Cavs' total wins this year.
In his fifth season for Cleveland, Kevin Love was able to put up averages of 17.0 points (on 38.5 percent shooting), 2.4 three-pointers, 10.9 rebounds, and 2.2 assists in 27.2 minutes of action.