Stephan Würth has taken his ardent personal love of the sport and transformed it into Tennis Fan, a collection of black and white photographs that he took on Kodak film over the past ten years. Comprised of gelatin silver prints on beautiful Czech paper, the book captures Stephan's life as a tennis fan, traveling to tournaments, practicing on new courts, and being captivated by everything tennis.
Traveling from Brazil to Italy to Belize, among the likes of Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, Würth created a unique, spirited selection of images. A follow-up to his other celebrated titles with Damiani, Ghost Town(2011) and Ikinga (2016), Tennis Fanis a playful addition to his oeuvre, as captivating and personal as the game itself can get.
Ghost Town is the result of Stephan's lifelong fascination with the American West.
Since moving to the United States from his native Germany, he has been fascinated with the subliminal landscape of the American West and the isolation and freedom of infinite desert horizons. Würth captures this geographical romance with the series Ghost Town.
These photographs narrate a dream of three women as they journey through Nevada, where they soon find themselves stranded with a broken-down car on the side of a desolate road. What happens next is the story that unfolds in Ghost Town. Würth skillfully frames the essence of these women through his lens: capturing their boldly flirtatious and sensual nature along with their strength, intelligence and independence; this delicately balanced play between indulgence and restraint is what brings the pictures to life.
Shot over seven days on black-and-white Kodak Tri-X film, the images were scanned for the book from 16 x 20 inch gelatin silver prints and never retouched. The book also features an epilogue by fashion and culture critic Lesley M. M. Blume.
In late 2013, Stephan embarked on a whirlwind road trip, winding his way across Burundi, a small landlocked nation in the heart of East Africa. Snapping images on an iPhone during his journey, Würth portrays everyday life in the impoverished country, from the bustling open-air markets of its capital, Bujumbura, to the plantations of sweet banana and coffee deep in the country's foothills.
The photographs highlight the integral role the bicycle—or ikinga—plays in Burundi's culture. With a candid eye that recalls Walker Evans' surreptitious subway shots of New York in the 1930s, Würth's photographs reveal a lively, resourceful, and entrenched bicycle culture that is vital not only to Burundi's economy, but also to the daily survival of its countrymen.
At times playful and intimate, Ikinga is a bold meditation upon the power of creativity and improvisation during times of great difficulty.


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Google Packs Apps to the Desktop
By Susan Kuchinskas | January 07, 2006
Google not only is distributing videos now, it's handing out software.
The Google Pack, announced on Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show, offers a single control panel for installing ten software helper applications.
"It's a free collection of world-class, useful software put together in a convenient installation manner," said Sundar Pichai, a Google group product manager.
The Google Pack, available now, is heavy on products from Google itself. It includes the Google toolbar, Google desktop (which includes the Sidebar and the deskbar), the Picasa photo management and sharing service, Google Alert, Google Talk messaging, the Google Video Player, and a new Google Pack screensaver that lets users turn photos stored on the hard drive into a screensaver.
The software pack also includes the open-source Firefox browser, Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0, LavaSoft Adaware, Norton Antivirus, the Real Player, and Trillium, an instant messaging application.
"With a few clicks, you can get about ten applications installed on your computer, and we'll help you keep them up to date," Pichai said.
The service requires Google Updater, which Pichai described as a small downloadable application. He said it's a smart application that can scan the computer's hard drive and determine whether it contains the latest versions of applications, only downloading what's needed. There's one user license agreement and one console for all the applications.
Users can choose to override the default installation in order to choose what to install.
Pichai said the pack is free and Google isn't charging partners to have their products included.
"This is strategic to us," he said. "We have a lot of important products that we're interested in getting to as many users as we can." Google plans to continue to add more third-party application to the pack. Users will receive automatic alerts when an upgrade is available or new software is offered.
Getting branded applications onto users desktops has become a key strategy in the search engine wars. Google's most recent desktop search application, released in August 2005, included Sidebar, which offered several customizable applets and content feeds.

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Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals
2019 BLS Estimate
Average Employee Age
Estimated Job Growth
10-Year Projection
Average Male Salary
Average Female Salary
The top three occupations in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group are Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors, Chemical engineers, Other managers, Chemical processing machine setters, operators, & tenders, and Chemical technicians. On average, full-time employees in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group work 44.4 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $87,989. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.2 hours and earn an average annual salary of $47,456.
The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group are Ascension Parish PUMA, LA, Brazoria County (Southwest)Lake Jackson City PUMA, TX, and Bay & Midland Counties PUMA, MI. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals.
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A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group. Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors are the most common position, but the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Chemical engineers, compared to other industries.
The highest average salary in Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals goes to Chief executives & legislators.
Monthly Employment
Showing data for the Manufacturing industry sector.
Start Year 20082009201020112012201320142015201620172018
As of May 2021, there are 12.3M people employed in the Manufacturing industry. This represents a 6.34% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.
This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Manufacturing over time (non-seasonally adjusted).
Occupations by Share
Workforce (BLS Estimate)
ACS Estimate: 430k
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were 850k people employed in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group in 2019.
According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 4.48%, , from 411k people in 2018 to 430k people in 2019.
The following graphic shows the share of employment in Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors represent the largest share of positions held in Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals at 8.55%, followed by Chemical engineers with 6.3% and Other managers with 5.71%.
The most common occupations in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group, by number of employees, are Miscellaneous production workers, including semiconductor processors, Chemical engineers, Other managers, Chemical processing machine setters, operators, & tenders, and Chemical technicians.
Compared to other Industry Groups, Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals employs an unusually high number of Chemical engineers, Chemical processing machine setters, operators, & tenders, and Chemical technicians.
The highest paid occupations in Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Architectural & engineering managers.
AVERAGE WAGE
On average, employees in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group make $86,774 per year. This number makes Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals the 27 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.
Wage by Location
HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA
HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS
Somerset County (North & West) PUMA, NJ
Grapevine, Southlake & Colleyville Cities PUMA, TX
Houston (North), Humble Cities & Atascocita PUMA, TX
This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group.
WAGE GINI
Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals has a wage GINI of 0.37, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).
Spatial Concentration
Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA
Ascension Parish PUMA, LA
Brazoria County (Southwest)Lake Jackson City PUMA, TX
Bay & Midland Counties PUMA, MI
This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group.
These are locations that employ more people in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group.
Demographic information on the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $90,996 and $90,025. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.
Gender Composition
FEMALE WORKFORCE
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MALE WORKFORCE
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76.7% of workers in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group are Male, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group.
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On average, Male workers in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group make 1.01 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group.
Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs
RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY
On average, Asian employees in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group earn 1.13 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group.
Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries. Manufacturing has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group is Manufacturing.
In this flow diagram, all of the industries listed to the left are those places from which the highlighted industry has made purchases. They are the intermediate inputs to the highlighted industry. All those industries listed on the right side are those industries that have made purchases from the highlighted industry. They are the use of outputs of the highlighted industry. The visualizations below offer alternative ways to see and understand this data.
Industrial Flow
The closest comparable data for Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals is from Manufacturing.
Intermediate Inputs
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
The Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Manufacturing Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.
Use of Output by Other Industries
LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
Educational services, health care, and social assistance
The Manufacturing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Industrial & miscellaneous chemicals Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.
Growth projections of the Chemical manufacturing industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 7.66% in the next ten years. The Chemical manufacturing industry has a lower projected workforce growth at 3.19%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (19.7%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).
For growth projections, the closest comparible industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Chemical manufacturing.
National Growth
This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for Chemical manufacturing. This industry is expected to grow less than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.
Output Growth
Estimate Growth
This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in output of the Chemical manufacturing industry.
Medical equipment & supplies manufacturing
Communications, & audio & video equipment manufacturing
Electric & gas, and other combinations


The question may come from someone who is simply curious about the traditional practice. It may also come from someone who is seriously concerned about our confusing Christianity with nationalism. That is, in displaying the flag we may be saying that God is on our side and our side only when it comes to the nations of the world. Another way of stating this objection is to say that our Lord is bigger than any one nation; He is Lord of all nations. Or to put it still another way, we as individuals and congregations are called to go "into all the world" with the gospel, not just into the United States. Still others may object to the flag's display as a simple confusion of church and state.
More than one pastor has stumbled into conflict by simply removing the American flag from the sanctuary. One Sunday it is there, the next Sunday it is gone. The above arguments may have been his motivation, but conversation and teaching are always best before a unilateral act which may be perceived as unpatriotic or controlling or both.
2. The flag is a constant reminder that we are encouraged in the Scriptures to pray for our national leaders (1 Timothy 2:1-2), which many of our congregations do every weekend.
3. The American flag serves as reminder to everyone in worship that a crucial setting for our Christian vocation is our American citizenship. We are not just spouses, children, parents, students, and workers. We are citizens, not of every nation, but of our nation. The flag in our sanctuary keeps our calling as citizens before us.
4. The flag places before us, whenever we gather for worship, a reminder of those from our midst who are away on active military duty. Once again, it reflects our prayers for them and our hope for their safe return.
5. The flag helps us remember those who in past wars and conflicts have paid the ultimate price for our freedom. It is a memorial recalling their sacrifice.
These are my thoughts on why I still love to see the American flag displayed in our churches. I understand the objections some might have to this practice. I take them as helpful cautions but not as objections strong enough to remove a flag from a place of worship. I know not everyone agrees with me. So, as always, I welcome gracious, thoughtful conversation.


ONP-Vietnam, an American company, was founded in 2010. The company specializes in producing wood kitchen accessories for the High Quality Wooden Kitchen Industry. ONP-Vietnam uses solid woods such as hard maple, rubber wood, and SPF, along with both veneer core and composite core plywood, to produce high quality parts.
ONP-Vietnam is a two-shift operation with 160 production workers and staff. ONP-Vietnam uses a variety of machines, employing the latest technology, to ensure that our parts are made efficiently and with a minimum of variation.
ONP-Vietnam believes that its people are critical in ensuring that product is made to specification and with the least cost. It is ONP-Vietnam's philosophy that decisions should be made at the lowest level possible in the organization. In other words, our employees are empowered to make decisions that pertain to their jobs. This increases ownership of problems, brings focus to difficulties, and gets resolution quickly.
For our employees to take on such responsibility, they must have business literacy. ONP-Vietnam provides multiple training opportunities for its employees; from the monthly employee meeting, where details of the previous month's performance are shared, to individual and group training events. As employees grow in knowledge and experience, they often take on more challenging roles.
ONP-Vietnam is a high energy, fast passed organization. Things change continually at ONP-Vietnam. We are constantly trying to improve our performance, looking for new and better ways to do things. It is easy to get caught up in the excitement.
At ONP-Vietnam, the people control the company, not the other way around. We look for the best way to do things, then document those best practices using procedures, visual work instructions, and quality standards. This makes it easy for a new employees to learn their job and get up to speed. It also helps to control variation and unexpected consequences.
At ONP-Vietnam, we say what we will do, then do what we said we will do. It is our motto. As situations change, we revise and update our documentation to make sure we always are in control of the company. Whether it is revising CARB compliance to the new EPA standard, or reviewing a procedure to accommodate a better process we are on top of it.
The mission of ONP Vietnam is to make mass produced products, at a competitive price and quality, so that ONP US can offer a full variety of products to customers while maintaining profitability.
Within the next three years, we will become craftsmen who do small actions everyday with excellence, solving problems, and improving operational practices, resulting in a 30% reduction in cost and improvement of quality levels to match 6 sigma, giving us an advantage over our competitors in the "well designed wood cabinet accessories market", and increasing value to our customers.
We say what we will do, and then do what we said we would do. We follow-up and maintain the processes, deadlines, and problems we own. We plan, do, check, and act to verify if the things we have to do are being done correctly. We are accountable for the things we do, because we are the owners of processes, deadlines, and problems. We act by ourselves, and are driven by responsibility and team spirit.
Making problems visible and solving them through the use of Kaizen, value stream mapping, visual management, andon, jidoka, statistics, etc.
Learning how to do our jobs by deeply understanding how things work. To improve upon the things we already know, and to share that knowledge with others. Confirming the things we understand, and asking when things are not clear. Using the 5 why's method continuously to broaden our understanding. We are a learning organization, promoting personal growth of our employees, to develop future leaders.
Honesty and transparency in all we do. Giving clear commitment, and then following up on that commitment as promised. We act with morality, and we act with consistency of action.


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	.header-social .header-info { line-height: normal; }

	.header-v2 .header-social .alignleft{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;margin-bottom:10px;}
	.header-v2 .header-social .alignright{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;}

	.header-v3 .header-social .alignleft{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;margin-bottom:10px;}
	.header-v3 .header-social .alignright{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;}

	.header-v4 .header-social .alignleft{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;margin-bottom:10px;}
	.header-v4 .header-social .alignright{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center; clear:both;}
	.header-v4 #header{padding-left:20px!important; padding-right:20px!important;}
	.header-v4 #header .logo{width:100%; margin-bottom:10px !important;}
	.header-v4 #header .search{width:100%; float:none; margin-bottom:5px; margin-left: 0 !important;}
	#wrapper .header-v4 #header .search-table{width:100%;}
	.header-v4 #header #s { width: 100% !important; }
	.header-v4 #header .tagline{width:100%; float:none; text-align:center;}
	.header-v4 #small-nav{padding:6px 20px;}
	.header-v4 #small-nav #nav{width:100%;}
	.header-v4 .header-social .alignright .menu{margin-top:-10px; line-height:25px;}

	.header-v5 .header-social .alignleft{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center; margin-bottom:10px;}
	.header-v5 .header-social .alignright{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;}
	.header-v5 #small-nav{padding:6px 20px;}
	.header-v5 #small-nav #nav{width:100%;}

	#small-nav .mobile-nav-holder {margin-top:0 !important;}

	#wrapper .ei-slider{width:100% !important;}

	.tfs-slider .slides{width:auto !important;}
	#wrapper .ei-slider{height:200px !important;}

	.progress-bar{margin-bottom:10px !important;}

	.fusion-blog-large-alternate .post-content-container {
		margin-left: 100px;
	}

	.medium-alternate .post-content{float:none;width:100% !important;margin-top:20px;}

	.header-social{padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;}

	#wrapper .content-boxes-icon-boxed .content-wrapper-boxed{min-height:inherit !important;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:3%;padding-right:3%;}
	#wrapper .content-boxes-icon-on-top .content-box-column,#wrapper .content-boxes-icon-boxed .content-box-column{margin-bottom:55px;}

	.fusion-counters-box .fusion-counter-box{ margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0 15px;}
	.fusion-counters-box .fusion-counter-box:last-child{ margin-bottom: 0; }

	.popup{display:none !important;}

	.share-box .social-networks{text-align:left;}

	#header-banner{float:none;text-align:center;margin:0 auto;width:100%;margin-top:20px;}

	.products li{width:225px;}
	.products li,#wrapper .catalog-ordering > ul,#main .products li:nth-child(3n),#main .products li:nth-child(4n),#main .has-sidebar .products li,
	.avada-myaccount-data .addresses .col-1, .avada-myaccount-data .addresses .col-2, .avada-customer-details .addresses .col-1, .avada-customer-details .addresses .col-2
	{float:none!important;margin-left:auto !important;margin-right:auto !important;}
	.avada-myaccount-data .addresses .col-1, .avada-myaccount-data .addresses .col-2, .avada-customer-details .addresses .col-1, .avada-customer-details .addresses .col-2{margin:0!important;width:100%;}
	#wrapper .catalog-ordering{margin-bottom:50px;}
	#wrapper .catalog-ordering .order{width:33px;}
	#wrapper .catalog-ordering > ul,.catalog-ordering .order{margin-bottom:10px;}
	#wrapper .order-dropdown > li:hover > ul{display:block;position:relative;top:0;}
	#wrapper .orderby-order-container{overflow:hidden;margin:0 auto;width:215px;margin-bottom:10px;float:none;}
	#wrapper .orderby.order-dropdown{float:left; margin-right: 6px;}
	#wrapper .sort-count.order-dropdown{width:215px;}
	#wrapper .sort-count.order-dropdown ul a{width:215px;}
	#wrapper .catalog-ordering .order{float:left;margin:0;}

    .rtl #wrapper .orderby.order-dropdown { float: right; margin: 0; }
    .rtl #wrapper .catalog-ordering .order { float: right; margin-right: 6px; }

	.woocommerce #customer_login .login .form-row, .woocommerce #customer_login .login .lost_password{float:none;}
	.woocommerce #customer_login .login .inline, .woocommerce #customer_login .login .lost_password{display:block;margin-left:0;}

	.avada-myaccount-data .my_account_orders .order-number{padding-right:8px;}
	.avada-myaccount-data .my_account_orders .order-actions{padding-left:8px;}

	.shop_table .product-name{width:35%;}

	#wrapper .product .images,#wrapper .product .summary.entry-summary,#wrapper .woocommerce-tabs .tabs,#wrapper .woocommerce-tabs .panel,#wrapper .woocommerce-side-nav,#wrapper .woocommerce-content-box,#wrapper .shipping-coupon,#wrapper .cart_totals,
	#wrapper #customer_login .col-1, #wrapper #customer_login .col-2,
	#wrapper .woocommerce form.checkout #customer_details .col-1, #wrapper .woocommerce form.checkout #customer_details .col-2
	{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:100% !important;}
	#customer_login .col-1, .coupon{margin-bottom:20px;}
	.shop_table .product-thumbnail{float:none;}
	.product-info{margin-left:0;margin-top:10px;}
	.product .entry-summary div .price{float:none;}
	.product .entry-summary .woocommerce-product-rating{float:none;margin-left:0;}
	.woocommerce-tabs .tabs,.woocommerce-side-nav{margin-bottom:25px;}
	.woocommerce-tabs .panel{width:91% !important;padding:4% !important;}
	#reviews li .avatar{display:none;}
	#reviews li .comment-text{width:90% !important;margin-left:0 !important;padding:5% !important;}
	.woocommerce-container .social-share{overflow:hidden;}
	.woocommerce-container .social-share li{display:block;float:left;margin:0 auto;border-right:0!important;border-left:0!important;padding-left:0 !important;padding-right:0 !important;width:50%;}
	.has-sidebar .woocommerce-container .social-share li { width: 50%; }

	.myaccount_user_container span{width:100%;float:none;display:block;padding:10px 0px;border-right:0;}
	.rtl .myaccount_user_container span{border-left:0;}

	.shop_table .product-thumbnail img,.shop_table .product-thumbnail .product-info,.shop_table .product-thumbnail .product-info p{float:none; width:100%;margin:0 !important;padding:0;}
	.shop_table .product-thumbnail{padding:10px 0px;}

	.product .images{margin-bottom:30px;}

	#customer_login_box .button{float:left;margin-bottom:15px;}
	#customer_login_box .remember-box{clear:both;display:block;padding:0;width:125px;float:left;}
	#customer_login_box .lost_password{float:left;}

	body #small-nav{visibility:visible !important;}

	.gform_wrapper .ginput_complex .ginput_left,.gform_wrapper .ginput_complex .ginput_right,.wpcf7-form .wpcf7-text,.wpcf7-form .wpcf7-quiz,.wpcf7-form .wpcf7-number,.gform_wrapper .gfield input[type=text],.wpcf7-form textarea,.gform_wrapper .gfield textarea{float:none !important;width:100% !important;box-sizing:border-box;}
	.gform_wrapper .right_label input.medium, .gform_wrapper .right_label select.medium, .gform_wrapper .left_label input.medium, .gform_wrapper .left_label select.medium { width: 35% !important; }

	.product .images #slider .flex-direction-nav, .product .images #carousel .flex-direction-nav{display:none !important;}

	.myaccount_user_container span.msg,.myaccount_user_container span:last-child{padding-left:0 !important;padding-right:0 !important;}

	#nav-uber #megaMenu { width: 100%; }

	.fullwidth-box { background-attachment: scroll !important; }

	#toTop {bottom: 30px; border-radius: 4px; height: 40px; z-index: 10000;}
	#toTop:before { line-height:38px; }
	#toTop:hover {background-color: #333333;}

	.no-mobile-totop .to-top-container {display: none;}

    .no-mobile-slidingbar #slidingbar-area{display:none;}

	.header-v5 #header .logo { float: none; }

	.tfs-slider .slide-content-container h2 {
		font-size: 21px !important;
		line-height: 21px !important;
	}
	.tfs-slider .slide-content-container h3 {
		font-size: 11px !important;
		line-height: 11px !important;
	}

	.tfs-slider .slide-content-container .btn {
		min-height: 0 !important;
		padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px !important;
		height:26px !important;
		line-height:26px !important;
	}

	.header-wrapper .sticky-header-v1-scrolled #header {
		padding: 0px !important;
		padding-left: 15px !important;
		padding-right: 15px !important;
	}

	.header-wrapper .sticky-header-v1-scrolled #header .logo {
		float: left;
	}

	.header-wrapper .sticky-header-v1-scrolled .mobile-nav-holder {
		margin-top: 0 !important;
		padding-top: 17px;
	}

	.fusion-columns-5 .col-lg-2, .fusion-columns-5 .col-md-2, .fusion-columns-5 .col-sm-2 {
		width: 100%
	}

	.fusion-soundcloud iframe {
		width: 100%;
	}

	.header-social .fusion-social-network-icon, .fusion-social-links-footer .fusion-social-network-icon {
		margin-left: 10px !important;
		margin-right: 10px !important;
	}
}
@media screen and (max-width: 782px) {
	body.admin-bar #wrapper #slidingbar-area, .admin-bar p.demo_store, body.admin-bar #header-sticky.sticky-header {
		top: 46px;
	}
	body.body_blank.admin-bar {
		top: 45px;
	}
	html #wpadminbar {
	    z-index: 99999 !important;
	    position: fixed !important;
	}
}

@media screen and (max-width: 768px) {
    .fusion-tabs.vertical-tabs .tab-pane {
        max-width: none !important;
    }
}

@media only screen and (min-device-width: 320px) and (max-device-width: 640px){
	#wrapper{
		width:auto !important;
		overflow-x: hidden !important;
	}
	#main{
		padding-bottom:50px;
	}
	.header-social {
	    line-height: normal;
	}
	.columns .col{
		float:none;
		width:100% !important;
		margin:0 0 20px;
		-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
		-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
		box-sizing: border-box;
	}
	.avada-container .columns {
		float:none;
		width:100%;
		margin-bottom:20px;
	}
	.avada-container .columns .col {float:left;}
	.avada-container .col img{
		display:block;
		margin:0 auto;
	}
	.review {
		float:none;
		width:100%;
	}
	.footer-area .columns .col,#slidingbar-area .columns .col{
		float:left;
		width:98% !important;
	}
	.social-networks,
	.copyright{
		float:none;
		padding:0 0 15px;
		text-align:center;
	}
	.copyright:after,
	.social-networks:after{
		content:"";
		display:block;
		clear:both;
	}
	.social-networks li,
	.copyright li{
		float:none;
		display:inline-block;
	}
	.continue {display:none;}
	.mobile-button{
		display:block !important;
		float:none;
	}
	.page-title{
		width:auto;
		padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;
	}
	.page-title-wrapper{
		width:auto;
	}
	.page-title h1{
		float:none;
	}
	.page-title ul{
		float:none;
		text-align:left;
		padding-top:0 !important;
		line-height:11px !important;
	}
	.rtl .page-title ul{
		text-align:right;
	}

	#header{
		padding:20px;
	}
	#header .logo{
		float:none;
		text-align:center;
		margin:0 !important;
	}

	.mobile-nav-holder {
		margin-top:20px !important;
	}

	.sticky-header .mobile-nav-holder {
		margin-top:0px !important;
	}

	body #header.sticky-header .logo{float: left !important;}
	#header .nav-holder{
		float:none;
	}
	.nav-holder ul,.top-menu .menu{display:none;}
	.mobile-nav-holder, .mobile-topnav-holder { display:block !important; }
	.mobile-nav-holder.set-invisible { display:none !important; }
	.nav-holder .dd-container,.top-menu .dd-container{display:block !important;width:100%;}
	.one_half, .one_third, .two_third, .three_fourth, .one_fourth{
		width:100%;
		margin-bottom:20px;
	}

	.title{
		margin-top:0px !important;
		margin-bottom:20px !important;
	}

	#content{
		width:100% !important;
		float:none !important;
		margin-bottom:50px;
	}

	#content.full-width {
		margin-bottom: 0;
	}

	#sidebar{
		width:100% !important;
		float:none !important;
	}

	#sidebar .social_links .social li{
		width:auto;
		margin-right:5px;
	}

	#comment-input{
		margin-bottom:0;
	}
	#comment-input input{
		width:90%;
		float:none !important;
		margin-bottom:10px;
	}
	#comment-textarea textarea{
		width:90%;
	}

	.pagination{
		margin-top:40px;
	}

	.portfolio-one .portfolio-item .image{
		float:none;
		width:auto;
		height:auto;
		margin-bottom:20px;
	}

	h5.toggle span.toggle-title{
		width:80%;
	}

	#wrapper .sep-boxed-pricing .panel-wrapper	{
		padding: 0;
	}

	#wrapper .full-boxed-pricing .column,
	#wrapper .sep-boxed-pricing .column {
		float:none;
		margin-bottom:10px;
		margin-left: 0;
		width:100%;
	}

	.page-title h1{
		margin-top:0;
		margin-bottom:5px;
	}
	.page-title h1,.page-title ul{
		float:none;
		line-height:normal;
		width:100%;
	}

	.share-box{
		height:auto;
	}
	#wrapper .share-box h4{
		float:none;
		line-height:20px !important;
		padding-top:25px;
		padding-bottom:25px;
	}
	.share-box ul{
		float:none;
		overflow:hidden;
		padding:0 25px;
		padding-bottom:25px;
		margin-top:0px;
	}

	.project-content .project-description{
		margin-bottom:50px;
		float: none !important;
	}
	.project-content .project-description,.project-content .project-info{
		width:100% !important;
	}

	.portfolio-half .flexslider{
		width:100%;
	}
	.portfolio-half .project-content{
		width:100%;
	}

	#style_selector{
		display:none;
	}

	.portfolio-tabs,.faq-tabs{
		height:auto;
		border-bottom:0;
	}

	.portfolio-tabs li, .faq-tabs li{
		float:none;
		margin-right:0;
		border-bottom:1px solid #E7E6E6;
	}

	.post-content .rev_slider_wrapper{margin-left:-5px !important;}
	body .rev_slider_wrapper .tparrows, body .rev_slider_wrapper:hover .tparrows{display:none !important;}
	.ls-avada .ls-nav-prev,.ls-avada .ls-nav-next{display:none !important;}

	nav#nav,nav#sticky-nav{margin-right:0;}

	#footer .social-networks{width:100%;margin:0 auto;position:relative;left:-11px;}

	.recent-works-items a { max-width: 64px; }
	.footer-area .flickr_badge_image img, #slidingbar-area .flickr_badge_image img { max-width: 64px; padding:3px !important; }

	.rev_slider .button,.ls-container .button{
		min-height: 0 !important;
		padding-left:20px !important; padding-right:20px !important;
		height:30px !important;
		line-height:30px !important;
		font-size:10px !important;
	}

	.rev_slider .button * {
		font-size: 10px !important;
		line-height: 20px !important;
	}

	.tab-holder .tabs{
		height:auto !important;
		width:100% !important;
	}
	.shortcode-tabs .tab-hold .tabs li{
		width:100% !important;
	}

	body .shortcode-tabs .tab-hold .tabs li, body.dark #sidebar .tab-hold .tabs li{border-right:none!important;}

	#wrapper .page-title-container{max-height: none;padding-bottom:18px;}
	#wrapper .page-title-container h1, #wrapper .page-title-container .breadcrumbs{margin: 0;}
	#wrapper .page-title-container h1{font-size: 15px !important; line-height: 20px !important;}
	#wrapper .page-title-container h3{font-size: 11px; line-height: 20px;}
	#wrapper .page-title-container .breadcrumbs{margin-top: 2px;}
	.error_page .useful_links{width:100%;padding-left:0;}

	.fusion-google-map{width:100% !important;margin-bottom:20px !important;}

	.social_links_shortcode .social li{width:10% !important;}

	.header-social{padding-top:10px; padding-bottom: 10px;}
	.header-social .fusion-social-links-header{ max-width: none; margin-top: 0; }
	.header-social .alignright .fusion-social-links-header { text-align: inherit; }

	.header-social .header-info { line-height: normal; }

	.header-v2 .header-social .alignleft{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;margin-bottom:10px;}
	.header-v2 .header-social .alignright{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;}

	.header-v3 .header-social .alignleft{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;margin-bottom:10px;}
	.header-v3 .header-social .alignright{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;}

	.header-v4 .header-social .alignleft{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;margin-bottom:10px;}
	.header-v4 .header-social .alignright{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center; clear:both;}
	.header-v4 #header{padding-left:20px!important; padding-right:20px!important;}
	.header-v4 #header .logo{width:100%; margin-bottom:10px !important;}
	.header-v4 #header .search{width:100%; float:none; margin-bottom:5px; margin-left: 0 !important;}
	.header-v4 #header #s { width: 100% !important; }
	.header-v4 #header .tagline{width:100%; float:none; text-align:center;}
	.header-v4 #small-nav{padding:6px 20px;}
	.header-v4 #small-nav #nav{width:100%;}
	.header-v4 .header-social .alignright .menu{margin-top:-10px; line-height:25px;}

	.header-v5 .header-social .alignleft{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;margin-bottom:10px;}
	.header-v5 .header-social .alignright{width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;}
	.header-v5 #small-nav{padding:6px 20px;}
	.header-v5 #small-nav #nav{width:100%;}

	#small-nav .mobile-nav-holder {margin-top:0 !important;}

	#wrapper .ei-slider{width:100% !important;}

	.tfs-slider .slides{width:auto !important;}
	#wrapper .ei-slider{height:200px !important;}

	.progress-bar{margin-bottom:10px !important;}

	#wrapper .content-boxes-icon-boxed .content-wrapper-boxed{min-height:inherit !important;padding-bottom:20px; padding-left:3% !important;padding-right:3% !important;}
	#wrapper .content-boxes-icon-on-top .content-box-column,#wrapper .content-boxes-icon-boxed .content-box-column{margin-bottom:55px;}

	.share-box .social-networks{text-align:left;}

	body #small-nav{visibility:visible !important;}

	.no-mobile-sticky-header #header-sticky.sticky-header,
	.no-mobile-sticky-header #header-sticky.sticky-header.sticky{display:none!important;}
}
@media only screen and (max-width: 640px){
	.fusion-blog-medium .blog-medium-slideshow-container {
		float:none;
		margin:0 0 20px 0;
		height:auto;
		width:auto;
	}

	.fusion-blog-shortcode .entry-meta .entry-meta-details,
	.fusion-blog-shortcode .entry-meta .entry-read-more {
		float: none;
		width: 100%;
		text-align: initial;
	}
	.fusion-blog-shortcode .entry-meta .entry-read-more {
		margin-left: 0;
	}

	.large-alternate .date-and-formats,
	.fusion-blog-large-alternate .date-and-formats {
		margin: 0 15px 5px 0;
	}

	.rtl .large-alternate .date-and-formats,
	.rtl .fusion-blog-large-alternate .date-and-formats {
		margin: 0 0 15px 5px;
	}

	.large-alternate .post-content,
	.fusion-blog-large-alternate .post-content-container {
		margin-left: 0;
	}

	.rtl .large-alternate .post-content,
	.rtl .fusion-blog-large-alternate .post-content-container {
		margin-right: 0;
	}

	.fusion-blog-large-alternate .entry-read-more {
		text-align: right;
	}

	.medium-alternate.has-post-thumbnail .fusion-flexslider,
	.fusion-blog-medium-alternate .has-post-thumbnail .blog-medium-slideshow-container {
		display: inline-block;
		float: none;
		margin-right: 0;
		max-width: 197px;
		width: auto;
	}

	.medium-alternate .post-content,
	.medium-alternate .has-post-thumbnail .post-content,
	.fusion-blog-medium-alternate .post-content-container,
	.fusion-blog-medium-alternate .has-post-thumbnail .post-content-container {
		margin: 15px 0 0 0;
	}

	.medium-alternate .has-post-thumbnail .post-content,
	.fusion-blog-medium-alternate .has-post-thumbnail .post-content-container {
		clear: both;
	}

	.fusion-blog-timeline .blog-timeline-layout {
		background-image: none;
		padding-top: 0;
		width: auto !important;
	}

	.fusion-blog-timeline .blog-timeline-layout .post {
		float: none;
		width: 100%;
	}

	.fusion-blog-timeline .timeline-circle,
	.fusion-blog-timeline .timeline-arrow {
		display: none;
	}

	.header-social {
	    line-height: normal;
	}
	#wrapper #header .logo{
		float:none;
		margin:0 auto 20px auto !important;
	}

	body #header.sticky-header .logo{float: left !important;}

	.avada-container .columns .col,
	.footer-area .columns .col,
	#slidingbar-area .columns .col{
		float:none;
		width:100%;
	}
	.review blockquote cite strong,
	.copyright li{}
	.wooslider-direction-nav,.wooslider-pauseplay,.flex-direction-nav{display:none;}

	.post .meta-info{
		height:auto;
	}

	.rtl .post .meta-info > div,
	.post .meta-info > div{
		display:block;
		float:none;
		margin:0;
		width: 100% !important;
	}

	.grid-layout .post .meta-info .alignleft {
	    width: 50%!important;
	}
	.grid-layout .meta-info .alignright, .timeline-layout .meta-info .alignright{
		width: auto !important;
		margin-top: 5px !important;
		margin-bottom: 0 !important;
	}

	.share-box ul li{
		margin-bottom:10px;
		margin-right:15px;
	}

	.buttons a{
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Special Blessing's Child Care provides a loving and nurturing home environment setting. Children are given opportunities to explore and expand their knowledge in their interests. I am with "First Choice Support Services" food program to provide nutritious meals and snacks. I serve two ethnic meals or snack's each week. Positive guidance and redirection is implemented. I love the outdoors and believe in the natural play environments for children. In my natural play environment is areas for children to climb and explore in the outdoors. We have a butterfly garden, nature hut, musical instruments:such as chimes, drums. We also have bird feeders, a waterfall and a place for growing vegetation in a garden.
The Creative Curriculum pertains to 36 objectives for the developmental and learning of all children from birth to Five years of age. It includes two more objectives for dual language learners. The objectives relate to the child's social emotional, physical,oral language, cognitive development. The content leaning areas include literacy,math, science, social studies, and art. Objectives help to plan meaningful experiences for children every day. Children learn through play. All children have strengths and needs of various kinds, It is very important to individualize and build their developmental skills.
Responsive, individualized care is based on what we learn about each child.
Ensuring Children health and safety is a critical component.
Provider supports families and support each child's development and learning,forming partnerships that respect cultural, family and individual differences.
Dual language learners need supported with a second language.
Children with disabilities are included in all aspects of the program.
Parent-Teacher conferences are held twice a year.
"Special Blessing's Childcare has taken an important leadership role in a profoundly needed initiative to connect young children with nature, setting a wonderful example for education centers across the country," said Susie Wirth, Nature Explore outreach director for the Arbor Day Foundation. "Everyone at Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation appreciates the commitment they have made to the Nature Explore program and to providing nature education opportunities for young children." Special Blessing's Child Care is a part of a growing national network of organizations that have created effective outdoor learning environments for children. Nature Explore is a collaborative project of the Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation. "Get Outside, Learn Outside!"
So am I , that's why I'm providing, A variety of kinds of play.
You're asking what's the value, Of having your children play?
Your daughter's creating a tower,She may be a builder some day.
You're asking me the value, Of blocks and other such play?
He's learning to cuddle a doll. He may be a father someday.
Your children are making choices,They'll be on their own someday.
You're worried your children aren't learning.And later they will have to pay?
They're learning a pattern for learning,For they will be learners everyday.
Family Style Dining: All food is placed in serving bowls and child sized pitchers on the table & children are encouraged to serve themselves.I sit with the children encourage autonomy or assist when needed.
Physical skills: They learn to use small motor skills while, pouring from a pitcher , passing dishes and appropriate use of silver ware while eating.
Thank You and appropriate table conversations.
Social: Children learn taking turns, manners, cooperation with others and self help skills like helping to set the table.
Physical: Children learn to balance blocks and cause and effect, while developing their small motor coordination. Development of fine motor skills in block play helps control of the small muscles of the hands and fingers is needed for writing. Building the large muscles of the body is important for healthy physical development using arm muscles while picking up blocks.
Language Development: They begin to identify sizes and shapes, colors and different attributes, They begin to talk about what they are building.
Cognitive: Children may count, see patterns and design, learns to build and plan structures, and match blocks that look alike.
Social: They learn to share and cooperate. When building with blocks they can build replicas of objects they see in real life.
Physical: Children develop gross and fine motor skills as they practice eye-hand coordination and visual discrimination.
Language Development: They communicate and use language skills to say what they are doing. They learn to ask and answer questions with peers. They Increase an understanding in the world they live in.
Cognitive: Children learn to share ideas and solve problems together. When a child is involved in make believe play, they make use of the world around them, using abstract thinking. They recreate the past experiences picturing in their mind adults who have role modeled :setting the table, a cashier giving change, shopping for food. By adding in materials (a phone, magazines, road signs etc.) it helps build literacy skills.
Social: They develop skills of cooperation with peers and imitate real life experiences. Dramatic play increases their knowledge in the world around them.
Physical: Children learn to read from left to right and use fine motor skills to turn pages one by one while reading.
Language Development: Language begins at birth. Children first learn oral forms of language: listening and speaking and learn to make sense of written forms then learn reading and writing. Children gain and expand in vocabulary and communication.
Cognitive: They learn listening skills, print and word recognition. Children can communicate about their experiences and discoveries.
Social: Story time helps children explore ideas, concepts beyond their normal everyday life. They use creativity, imagination, expression of their thoughts and feeling and life experiences.
Physical: Children develop rich sensory experiences (seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling) which can help children become more observant and curious.
Language Development: Children make predictions by observing, exploring, listening and sharing. They learn the wonder of "why" and "how".
Cognitive:They learn how to classify and group things based on their characteristics.
Social: They gain curiosity and explore the environment around them. They learn to share ideas and gaining knowledge in their world.
Physical: Children develop fine motor skills and learn to tap into their imagination. Art stimulated the mind and the body. It is a creative form of expression.
Language Development: They learn to express themselves, a form of visual communication. Art goes beyond verbal language to communicate feelings that might not otherwise be expressed.
Cognitive: They learn the perceptions are universal and personal. Art is a part of cognitive development, the mode of expressing thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
Social: They build confidence and self esteem. Art gives a child a sense of accomplishment and pride in their creation.


Maple Leaf is a licensed, professional Surrey appliance repair company that delivers the highest standards of technical expertise, fast service, competitive pricing and friendly, courteous customer service. Our appliance repair services (parts and labour) are fully guaranteed.
We charge a simple flat rate appliance repair service fee. Our technicians will fully explain all costs involved with any appliance repair before any work has begun. We also provide free quotes on all repairs. There are no hidden costs or fees. We follow these simple pricing principals because we know it works and it makes our clients happy. Our company has grown primarily thought word of mouth as friends, family and businesses share their experiences using our Surrey appliance repair services. Our affordable rates, upfront honest pricing and guaranteed service are a strong reason for our success.
Thats right… We are Surrey's fastest appliance repair company! With service teams operating throughout Surrey and the Fraser Valley region on a daily basis we can usually offer same day appliance repairs for all home and business customers in the area. Our service vans are stocked with many of the most commonly used parts and our Coquitlam head office is located nearby with easy access to even more appliance parts if needed.
If you are looking for a washer repair company familiar with all front and top-loading models, no matter the brand or age, every make and model, for home or business, please feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience. We would be happy to discuss your washer repair questions over the phone, by email or through or online contact form. We will always offer free quotes and will never preform any work until you are completely informed of the work required and all costs involved with the repair.
All of the appliance parts we use are OEM parts (Original Equipment Manufacturer parts). This means you get the best quality part for your appliance. OEM parts have the longest warranties and the highest build quality. You can rest assured that your repair has been done with the best possible parts and will last for a longtime into the future. Most parts are covered by a one year warranty.
Over the years we have performed many thousands of appliance repairs. Our business has grown primarily from word of mouth referrals from pre-existing customers. We are very proud of this fact and will always work our hardest to ensure we deliver appliance repair services worthy of your referral too.
You can see what clients across Metro Vancouver and Surrey have to say about our appliance repair services on many platforms including Google Reviews, Homestars, Yellow Pages and the Better Business Bureau.
Our Surrey dryer appliance repair and installation services are without compare. We provide service to every make and model from all manufacturers. Gas or electric, front or top loading, for home or business customers. We only use brand new, OEM manufactured parts for all our Surrey dryer repairs giving you the best quality dryer repair possible.
Surrey dishwasher appliance repair service and installation guaranteed to make you smile! We preform our work with speed and precision because our experienced dishwasher repair technicians are simply the best in the business. We are happy to work on machines from ever dishwasher manufacturer regardless of age and model. All our Surrey dishwasher appliance repairs are done with OEM parts so you can rest assured that your appliance repair has been completed to highest possible standards of quality and craftsmanship and complete with the longest warranty in the business.
Surrey washer appliance repair and installation services for all brands, makes and model regardless of age. We service both gas and electric clothes washing machines for home and businesses throughout the Fraser Valley. All of our washer appliance repairs are finished with brand new original parts designed for your machine. This gives you the highest quality part, the longest warranty and it won't affect your appliance's warranty.
Surrey refrigerator appliance repair and installation services beyond compare. We preform every fridge appliance repair with speed and precision because our technicians are factory trained and highly experienced. We are work on refrigerators from every manufacturer, of any age and model. All our Surrey fridge repair services are completed with OEM parts so you can be guaranteed that your repair has been completed to highest possible standards of quality and craftsmanship with the best warranty.
Our Surrey appliance oven repair service and installation work is second to none. Whether your oven is gas or electric we can fix it. From electrical issues, to non-heating, no job is too big or too small. Maple Leaf Appliance Repair is accustomed to working with ovens from all major brands and models regardless of age. Your oven repair will always been done with OEM parts so that the repair will last and have the best possible warranty.
Surrey electric and gas stove appliance and flattop repairs done right the first time. From control panels to blown fuses and everything in between no stove repair job is too big or too small for Maple Leaf Appliance Repair. Over many years we have become accustomed to working with stoves and flattops from all the major brands regardless of their age. Your stove will always be repaired with factory specific OEM parts so that you can rest assured that the stove repair will last and have the longest warranty available.
Surrey gas and electric range appliance repair services for every make and model done with precision and friendly customer service. From gas lines, control panels, heating elements, igniters and fuses there is no project too big or too small. Our experienced technicians can work on every brand of range, regardless of model and age. Your range repair will always be completed with factory specific OEM parts that will ensure the highest possible quality and longest lasting repair with the best warranty.


He said: "To play this game without three important players, it is not simple. Today wasn't simple. I think we started very badly and it was very difficult. Also, we need to understand the situation and to continue to work to find the right solution despite the injuries.


At Fronteer, we strive to co-create towards positive impact for brands, society and the planet. To our great delight, we were invited to work for one of the coolest NGOs on the planet: the World Wildlife Fund.
Who doesn't love the Panda, Tiger, Elephant and Barrier Reef programmes? WWF is undisputed as one of the most aspirational global organisations, raising funds and running programmes to protect wildlife ecosystems around the world.
To further strengthen the 'household' relationship between nature preservation and young families, WWF Netherlands and Fronteer collaborated with school teachers, game makers, FMCG marketing experts as well as mums, dads and grandparents.
The result? A programme of concepts that will inspire, connect and activate families around wildlife, here in the Netherlands. Interestingly, one of the key insights was that families' lives are already filled with (time) pressure and 'things to do' – so whatever we came up with, needed to be both 'larger than life' (to fit with WWF's 'Big 5′ energy) and a helpful solution that fits in with existing habits and family moments – as opposed to an 'extra' or 'homework for parents'.


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Marta Fernández Infante (born 6 August 1994, in Burgos) is a Spanish Paralympic swimmer from Valladolid, Spain. She has cerebral palsy. At the 2020 World Para Swimming European Open Championships (her first international event), she won one gold medal (in the 50m butterfly S5) and three silvers (in the 50m breaststroke SB3, 100m freestyle S4, and 50m freestyle S4), as well as breaking a world record (in the 50m butterfly S4). At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal in the 50 metre butterfly S5 event, a gold medal in the 50 metre breaststroke SB3 event, and a bronze medal in the 50m freestyle S4. She broke her own world record in the 50 metre butterfly S4.

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X-Wing Miniatures "Behind the Scenes" Shines Spotlight on Scum & Villainy Faction
Stew Shearer | 23 Jan 2015 16:30
Image Source: Fantasy Flight Games
Fantasy Flight has released new mock squadron lists showcasing how players might use the new skills and pilots of the Scum and Villainy faction.
Back in August 2014, Fantasy Flight Games revealed plans to add a third faction to its popular X-Wing Miniatures Game. Made up of bounty hunters and criminals, the aim of the Scum and Villainy faction was to provide some thematic and tactical variety for fans who might have grown tired of the standard of the Rebels and the Empire. Hoping to shed further light on the faction, Fantasy Flight released a rundown today showcasing some of the ways players might use the new units to shake up the game.
According to said posting, playing as Scum and Villainy will give players access to a smorgasbord of "dirty tricks, highly illegal technology, unpredictable maneuvers, and some of the finest and wildest starships that money can buy." It's the company's hope that this will lead "to an increased diversity among the squads available to X-Wing players." The company provided two mock squadrons to demonstrate exactly what it means.
The first, a two-ship list based around the IG-2000, made up for its small numbers by leveraging the its networking powers and IG-88's range of abilities "to do things that other pilots can only dream about." The second squadron meanwhile, was designed to demonstrate how fighters already familiar to the game can be played differently with the Scum and Villainy faction. Using the Torkil Mux's abilities to keep pilot skill values low, it gives several of its units opportunities to "maneuver early and block enemy flight paths." It then employs a "liberal use of Dead Man's Switches" to force the enemy player "into some truly difficult decisions" that Scum players can turn to their advantage. The company stressed however, that a list like this would require "a bit of finesse" as the aforementioned Dead Man's Switch would limit the player's ability to fly in formation like a Rebel squadron might.
Just judging from Fantasy Flight's demonstration, it certainly looks like X-Wing fans will be in for a treat next month when the Scum and Villainy line finally lands at retailers. To get a look at the full text of today's rundown, head over to the official Fantasy Flight website.
Source: Fantasy Flight Games
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Q: Which characters appear in the most Star Trek episodes and movies? Worf and Miles O'Brien appeared in more Star Trek TV shows and movies than any other characters.
After them, which characters appeared in the most episodes and movies?

A: Very likely next would be Picard himself
He appears on:

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*176 episodes of TNG

*10 episodes of Picard

*1 episode of DS9

*4 Star Trek movies

That makes for 191 appearances.
After him we have Diana Troi with 185

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*176 appearances on TNG

*3 appearances on Voyager

*4 movies

*1 episode of Picard

*1 episode of Star Trek Enterprise

After her I think Commander Riker with 184:

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*176 appearances on TNG

*1 appearance on Voyager

*1 appearance on DS9

*4 movies

*1 episode of Picard

*1 episode of Star Trek Enterprise

Note Data and Dr Soong are different characters and that makes it difficult to judge Data appearances as a character but I'd say he's the next likely candidate although that's disputed.

A: The computer, voiced by Majel Barrett/Roddenberry.
Whilst I've not been able to track down a precise number, she's obviously way ahead of the closest competition.
Star Trek the original series season 1,episode 3 (Mudd's Women) onward.
The Next Generation (most episodes).
Deep Space 9, voice of computer in The Defiant.
A single episode of Enterprise.
Voyager, most episodes.
Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek Insurrection, Star Trek: Nemesis.
Her voiceover for J.J. Abrams reboot, Star trek was completed 8 days before her death.
Also various Star Trek Games, animations and associated media (too many to track-down).
Since before her death, Majel spent considerable time recording words phonetically, this has allowed Star Trek Discovery to incorporate her voice occasionally and will allow the Roddenberry legacy to still have this continuity for as long as it exists.

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3. Ex-Terrorist Dahlan Devises Counter-Terror Plan
Jan 28, 2008 @ 10:34 832 Views
Mohammed Dahlan, whose CV includes service as head of the Gaza Strip Palestinian preventive terrorist agency turned terrorist mastermind and initiator, is now bent on demonstrating to the Americans and Israelis that he has turned his latest new leaf for keeps. As internal security minister in Abu Mazen's government he wants to show them he is the ultimate terror exterminator.
In early May, when the Middle East Aqaba summit was first mooted, he submitted a 42-page master-plan to Washington detailing his plan for fighting terrorism. US Secretary of State Colin Powell was paying his first visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories in more than a year to get the presidential postwar peace initiative rolling in earnest. A few days later, the Americans sent the plan back with a low grade; US counter-terror experts determined it was unrealistic and unfeasible.
What rankled most was a glaring omission. Dahlan harped at length on the prospects of a ceasefire deal with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but not a word did he offer on how he intended to fight to the finish the groups under the direct command of Yasser Arafat – the Fatah, the Fatah-Tanzim and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the main engines of anti-Israel terror.
The Americans understood that a ceasefire deal with Hamas depended on a power-sharing agreement between the Damascus-based Hamas leaders and Abu Mazen.
(In the meantime, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's counter-terrorism sources report that Ramadan Salah will travel from Damascus to Cairo next week expressly to discuss such a deal with Abu Mazen.)
As for Islamic Jihad, the United States told Dahlan it had no information of this group maintaining an operational structure on the ground. When ordered from Damascus to carry out a suicide attack, Jihad's cashiers hire a squad from one of Arafat's groups, paying the fee up front to the commanders.
(In a separate article in this issue we evaluate the genuineness of Saudi efforts to combat terrorism)
Two Palestinian Forces and Uprooted Settlements
Dahlan took the American comments to heart, amended his plan of action and re-submitted it just before the Sharm el-Sheikh and Aqaba summits.
According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly, Dahlan proposes to establish two armed forces. The first hinges on detaching 20,000 to 25,000 armed men from Arafat's terrorist army and pressing them into service under the new anti-terror regime. They will be sent out of Palestinian West Bank towns and segregated from their power and support bases in the civilian population. After reorganizing them into military frameworks, Dahlan proposes converting these recruits into a new Palestinian border police, commanded by loyalists of the new Abu Mazen-Dahlan administration and trained by US military advisers. President Bush's offer at Aqaba of training and assistance will be taken up.
Dahlan intends to deploy this force along the Palestinian Authority's borders with Israel, the Golan Heights and Jordan
(Click here for a debkafile Special Map showing Dahlan's plan for Palestinian control of borders with Israel and Jordan and evacuated Israeli settlements.)
The second force will be made up of recruits with no links past or present with the Fatah, Tanzim or the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Its units will be programmed to police Palestinian cities, towns and villages as a counter-terror force. One of their tasks will be to act as buffer to prevent the former terrorists-turned border police from heading back to their old lairs in the city centers and casbahs, their traditional hangouts and hideouts for weapons and explosives.
Dahlan wants Israeli military units to continue to hold strategic points in the West Bank in order to block terrorist squads from access to Israel, as well as keeping the new Palestinian border policemen from reverting to their old habits and infiltrating Israel as terrorists on behalf of their former masters.
Under this blueprint, the creation of the Palestinian border police will drain Arafat of much of his terrorist manpower and trap the former terrorists in a tactical Israeli-Palestinian sandwich held together by American military advisers and monitors.
With the help of the program, Dahlan and Abu Mazen are leaning hard on President Bush, Secretary Powell and Security Adviser Rice to extract from Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon much more than the promised evacuation of unauthorized outposts on the West Bank. They want to reverse the order of the road map and have Israel uproot two blocks of veteran West Bank communities in the very first stage of its implementation – one in the north and one in the south. (See attached debkafile Special Map).
The two Palestinian leaders contend that those eight settlements stand in the way of the Palestinian territorial contiguity Sharon promised at Aqaba. They argue that the presence of autonomous Israeli enclaves will obstruct passage between their loyal troops and the new border police force and lure the new officers back into the terror business. "They will provide the perfect inducement for creating new terrorist bases," Dahlan told the Americans and Israelis.
Mofaz Disagrees
Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz is the strongest opponent of the Dahlan program as an instrument for fighting terror – disputing the value of both Palestinian forces he is proposing to establish. These are his arguments:
A. The organization of tens of thousands of armed Palestinians, well trained by US advisers and established in new bases built at US taxpayer expense along the West Bank's borders with Israel – would be a dream come true for Palestinian terrorist chiefs. Even Arafat is not hindering the Abu Mazen-Dahlan dialogue with the Americans and Israelis and simply waiting to cash in on the plan.
Once ensconced in its new bases, the fledgling Palestinian force will turn them into strongholds and shut them against the new Palestinian leaders' loyalists and the American monitors.
Israel will be in a much worse position than before, confronted now with a hostile Palestinian army capable not only of terrorist forays, but of embarking on professional military operations against Israel, its military and its communities.
B. A Palestinian border force stationed in the Jordan Valley along the Israeli-Jordanian border – even in limited areas – will directly threaten the Hashemite kingdom. Palestinian control of the Palestinian-Israeli-Jordanian frontier will preserve operational links and gunrunning routes between the two Palestinian communities of Jordan and the West Bank.
Similarly, once the new Palestinian border force takes command of the northern West Bank frontier near the Sea of Galilee and the Golan, there will be no bar to the operational give-and- take between the border police and the heads of Palestinian terror groups based in Syria and Lebanon. Interchanges with the Hizballah will be eased and smuggling routes for fighters and weapons into the central West Bank will be smoothed from both the east and the north.
C. The expensive state of the art security fence Israeli had not finished building along the Green Line to divide Israel from the West Bank will be nullified by Dahlan's border police – which is what most Palestinians want. While Israel pours resources into an electronic barrier to keep the terrorists out, the Palestinians will be spending American dollars to put up a human fence equipped with equally sophisticated resources – a military front line to confront Israel's defensive wall.
D. The completion of the Palestinian deployment a la Dahlan will leave the 250,000 Israelis living on the West Bank high and dry. They will only be able to reach Israel without going through Palestinian checkpoints by traveling first to Jerusalem. This will condemn Israeli West Bank settlements to a slow death. As matters stand now, Israel dare not roll up these communities and forego the security provided by this minimal strategic depth.
Sharon brushes off critics
When Mofaz brought his arguments against the Dahlan plan before Sharon, he received the same off-putting answer the Israeli prime minister gives everyone these days: It is too soon to talk about this.
The defense minister was not the only one given the brush-off. The Shin Beit director Avi Dichter went unheeded when he complained that releasing imprisoned Palestinian terrorists guilty of murdering Israelis – some were even included in the first batch of 100 freed as a goodwill gesture to mark the Aqaba summit – threatened to negate the effect of the IDF's counter-terror crackdown. Terrorists would expect to escape scot-free of punishment while Arafat would celebrate the triumph of terror to achieve his goals.
American officials at Aqaba chose to blunt Mofaz's objections to the Dahlan program by staging a reconciliation between the former Palestinian terrorist and Israel's chief terror hunter. Mofaz knows ever detail of Dahlan's record in the first eighteen months of the Palestinian uprising as well as his current shady business activities – and doesn't trust him an inch. Still, Powell spent three quarters of an hour getting the two men to talk, maintaining that without dialogue and a certain amount of good will, there was no hope for any change in the terror situation.
After the three finally conversed, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's behind the scenes sources in Aqaba quote the Israeli defense minister as saying: "I still hold that your strategy for fighting terrorism is no good and will not work. But in the final reckoning it is important for you to succeed. Just remember, if you fail, failure will be yours alone."
Dahlan responded: "I gave the United States president my word that within one month (i.e. early July), my men will be in full control and Palestinian terrorism at an end. I mean to stand by my promise."
Hours after the Aqaba summit broke up Wednesday June 4, two young Israelis were murdered in a wood behind the Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Karem in southern Jerusalem. The crime bore the brutal hallmarks of Palestinian terrorist slayings. DEBKA-Net-Weekly's counter-terror sources report that Dahlan assured the Americans earlier this week that under his anti-terror plan, southern Jerusalem and Bethlehem would be the first terror-free zones.
The Palestinian killers chose that very zone for their crime as a way of boasting that Abu Mazen, Dahlan, the Arab rulers at Sharm a-Sheikh, the Americans and the Israelis were all powerless to halt Palestinian terror.
No one was surprised. All this week's summiteers entertained no illusions about the new Palestinian government's ability to crush Arafat and his terror offensive.


In a recent parliamentary sitting, a BN politician named Noh Omar gave an analogy that caught everyone's attention and the ridicule of netizens. In fact, his statement caught our attention too, but it's not for the reasons you think.
It's easy to understand why people would immediately label this statement as 'not making sense'. A crime is wrong, and a person who committed a crime is a criminal. But here's the thing, some law students may disagree with these people and somewhat agree with Noh Omar.
Before we discuss this point, we'd like to point out that we'll be discussing only half of Noh Omar's statement first, "stealing is not wrong".
Sometimes in the final year of law school, a student may have to study a subject called jurisprudence. Some law students hate it and some law students love it, but in essence the subject discusses certain theories as to the nature of law itself.
So for someone who agrees that morality and law go hand in hand, may disagree with part of Noh Omar's statement that "stealing is not wrong" – because obviously, stealing is an immoral act.
Using that method he noticed one thing, once you cut the fat around everything surrounding the law, you'd learn that laws aren't directed at people to do or not do something, but it's directed at judges to punish someone if he does something, that does against the law.
In other words, Kelsen says that a law wouldn't say don't steal because it's wrong, and if you steal you'll punished, it would say if someone is caught stealing, the punishment would be so and so.
And guess what? If you see the law against theft in our penal code, it seems to indicate that!
Notice how it's worded without it not asking you to not do something, but it's saying what will happen to you if you did that? Yupp, that's exactly why Kelsen said what he said. But mind you this is just a theory, and there are tons of other legal theories out there – in fact as we've mentioned, we even had to cut Noh Omar's statement in half to make this point. So we understand why you may disagree with this point.
But now we shall continue to look at his statement as a whole for our next legal concept, and this is where law students or anyone else would have little disagreement.
Sometimes you may see reported cases where a criminal was caught red handed. In such cases, it's super obvious that he committed the crime. Now the question is, if it's so obvious he committed the crime, why must he go to court and not just throw him in prison to save money and time?
This is because in Malaysia and throughout most of the world, there's a legal concept that applies to criminal justice systems called the 'presumption of innocence'. This concept basically says that a suspect is innocent up until if the prosecution can prove he's guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Basically the prosecution has to prove his guilt, while the defence may only need to raise doubts when necessary. In the end it's the judge who decides which side he wants to lean towards. So if you look at this way, the judge is the one who is responsible for enforcing the law; this is when we go back to Kelsen who suggested that laws are directed at judges.
We know some of you may be thinking that the idea of a 100 potential criminals roaming around is scary. But it seems to highlight the whole point for the reasoning behind this presumption. But nevertheless, we still have to go back and ask….
Well it depends how you wanna view it. Because when it comes to legal theories and concepts there are tons of them out there. There are philosophers and scholars who seem to go against the principles of Kelsen, like Thomas Aquinas. Even those who agree with Kelsen may differ with how to interpret his work and theories.
We may break the law on a regular basis, whether it's double parking, driving without the seatbelt on, or even sneaking a cigarette at the mamak – but assuming you weren't caught, is it still wrong? Let us know in the comments.


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How do I stream and buy the new single from Taylor Swift!
Taylor Swift's 13-day countdown ended Friday and gave the Swifties exactly what they wanted. Your single ME! With Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco, finally released, will be available for streaming and buying Midnight ET on April 26 or 9pm. PT Thursday.
Swift fans, get your phones and laptops ready to listen to Swift's new song through one of these music streaming apps.
Watch Tay Tay's music video here when it's midnight ET & April 26th or 9pm PT Thursday on YouTube.
Fans can listen to their latest song on Spotify at the same time, Midnight (ET) on April 26th or 9:00 pm. PT Thursday.
Apple Music and iTunes
Swift's single will be available for streaming on Apple Music and iTunes. We will update this page as soon as we know the prices. If you have an Apple Music account, you can set up a notification in the app to let you know when your new music has appeared ̵
1; ME! is our first look at what we expect from their upcoming album (now called TS7).


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