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Flowers and flyers
28 Apr — 28 Jul 2021 at the Elisa Contemporary Art in Riverdale, United States
Cara Enteles, Where's You Go Karner Blue 3, oil on aluminum and recycled aluminum cans, 30 x 35, 2019. Courtesy of Elisa Contemporary Art
Our Spring 2021 exhibit focuses on four female botanical artists. They each celebrate the beauty and inspiration of Mother Nature in their unique ways.
As a lover of nature, Cara Enteles subtly addresses environmental issues that plague our natural world. These include declining numbers of pollinating animals, such as monarch butterflies, birds, bees and bats. She believes that nature has an amazing ability to right itself, given the chance. "I aim to make the work positive and want it to be an advocate for nature." We will be featuring, Where'd You Go Karner Blue, focused on on the Karner Blue Butterfly and created with recycled aluminum cans.
The exhibit includes new gallery artist Rebecca Swanson and her Prismatica series. Swanson "paints" with her camera, blending the abstract forms of nature with subtle colors to build intimate portraits of perfect, individual blooms. The Prismatica series which are focused on the flower's center. They have a kaleidoscope sense of motion and a wonderful sensual quality.
We are featuring for the first time Connecticut Artist, Deborah Weiss with work from the "Blooms" series. According to Weiss, "Blooms is a celebration of the contemporary botanical image. I have used my own dyed and painted papers for these hand-cut collages. Choosing to interpret the textures and organic shapes in blue and white is in reverence to the rich history of this color pairing. First in China and later in Europe, blue and white wares were treasured. Taking the bloom formations a step further, I am also pursuing multiple color palettes and the inclusion of vintage papers."
The exhibit will also include a new series of 2020 Mixed Media monoprints by Cynthia MacCollum.
About the Artists: Cara Enteles's work is inspired by environmental issues and attempts to raise awareness of the harmful impact humans can have on nature and wildlife. To create an intricate play of light and depth in her work, Enteles paints on aluminum panels, as well as acrylic sheets using both sides with a backing of gold mirror. The combination of reflective sheen, transparency and opacity, which changes according to the viewer's position, mimics the shifting quality of light in nature. The human impulse to conquer and control nature has been a consistent theme in Enteles's work.
Awards and honors include the Art in Embassies Program at the American Embassy in Mauritius; a fellowship to the Julia & David White Artist's Colony; a studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; and a grant from the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance Fellowship for the Visual Arts. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design and has studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her work is in private and public collections around the world.
Cynthia MacCollum, according to Connecticut painter and printmaker, Cynthia MacCollum, "I find inspiration in fragments of nature held close for reflection. I employ a personal vocabulary of fluid marks and organic imagery to express the sensual pleasure and ephemeral quality of the natural world. Within this realm, my work varies from representational to abstract, and I am continuously moving along the continuum between the two."
Her work has been exhibited throughout the world since 2010. She received her BA from Washington University in St. Louis and continued her art education at Fashion Institute of Technology (NY), Santa Reparata International School of Art (Florence, Italy) and Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Norwalk, CT). Her studio is in New Canaan, CT.
Rebecca Swanson's work is inspired from her childhood in Ohio, growing up with her mother, an avid gardener, and her grandmother, an accomplished china painter. Swanson studied drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art and moved to New York to work as a textile designer.
She has been exhibiting since 1995. Her photographs can be found in Private and corporate collections including Banana Republic, St. Regis, Marriott and Omni hotels and in hospitals throughout the country.
Deborah Weiss is a visual artist creating both works on panel and paper. According to Deborah, "The energy of the natural world is both highly charged and subtle simultaneously. My work is an exploration of the exchange between nature's elements, terrain, plant life and atmosphere. The work begins spontaneously one gesture at a time, editing takes place as the work unfolds. There is a layering and excavation process as I work. Each layer informs the next both concealing and revealing information. As in the natural world randomness and order coexist."
She has exhibited throughout the United States and has been included in several international exhibitions taking place in China, Sweden, Italy, England and Denmark. Weiss' works are also included in numerous private and corporate collections including Mattatuck Museum, Fidelity Investments, Ritz-Carlton Hotel and Shenzhen Hotel. She was born in New York and now maintains a studio and residence in Connecticut.
Elisa Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Gallery, New York Art Gallery, Represeting Artists from emerging through late career. Residential art consulting, corporate art consulting.
Riverdale, United States
Rebecca Swanson, Frazel Dazel I, limited edition photograph, 15x15, plexifacemount frame, 2018. Courtesy of Elisa Contemporary Art
Deborah Weiss, Big Blooms No. 7, hand cut collage, 23x19 framed to 25x21, 2021. Courtesy of Elisa Contemporary Art
Cynthia MacCollum, Largo, mixed media monoprint, 12x12 image on 21x21, paper framed to 22x22, 2021. Courtesy of Elisa Contemporary Art
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2 Feb — 20 Apr 2022
All About Blue II
29 Sep — 1 Dec 2021
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Jessica Drenk. Reclaimed topographies
28 Jan — 11 Mar 2023 at Heather Gaudio Fine Art in New Canaan
William Morris. Re: memory
20 Jan — 4 Mar 2023 at Bruno David Gallery in St Louis
Lily Hollinden. Funny because it's true
20 Jan — 3 Apr 2023 at Bruno David Gallery in St Louis


Cookie Dough: It was started by Harvey Milk as the Castro area was becoming a more visibly gay neighborhood. Today I feel it represents Unity among all people, The LGBT Community, and their supporters. People love to come out and enjoy a day of entertainment in what is still known as the Gay epicenter of the World.
Pete Avila: Castro Street Fair is simply a celebration of life: doesn't matter if you are straight, gay, black/white, liberal/conservative. People travel far and wide to represent and celebrate our diversity and self awareness [and] to be who we want to be without any fear of judgement!
David Harness: To me Castro Street Fair has always meant a neighborhood gathering where locals show off various passions in arts, crafts, information on various causes and health issues for the gay community. It also feels like a place where the Castro community comes together to have a party to show Pride in the Castro.
Amoeblog: What makes this year special for the Castro Street Fair in your opinion?
Cookie Dough: That it is turning 40 years old which is a great milestone for The City to have an ongoing annual street party, started from someone who was taken away by such a tragic incident.
The different stages and dance areas always bring together great local and out of town talent. Plus this year the Castro Street Fair is honoring Sylvester.
Pete Avila: Because this year commemorates Castro's 40 year anniversary - The Castro will be Red Ruby Anniversary, and the committee chair Juan Garcia is asking everyone to wear red as a sign of support and solidarity. I think it's going to be an amazing turnout and the Castro is gonna be a sea of red as far as the eye can see!
David Harness: This is my first time ever going to the Castro Street Fair. I have lived in the area for more than twenty years so I am excited. Castro Street Fair is celebrating 40 years which is amazing in itself. I am thankful to have the opportunity to play.
Amoeblog: What can folks expect from your set on Sunday?
Cookie Dough: With the theme being 'Red' for its 40th Anniversary, we went with the iconic Wizard Of Oz idea and Dorothy's Ruby Red Slippers. Using this idea for both sets, but still wanting to make sure each set is unique, we chose different songs but still carrying the message of being "Home". I've also made sure to assemble some of our best performers, while co-creator, DJ MC2, mixed in sound bites to thread the storyline together.
Pete Avila: I'm super excited to be playing at the Fair and really looking forward to getting behind the decks and channeling some positive vibrations: I intend to give the crowd what they want and take them on a journey they won't soon forget!
David Harness: Everyone's set is an hour so I am going to cram as much musical love I can in that set. For being called a legend is such an honor. I think I want to incorporate classic grooves from the days of Club Universe, T Dances from the End Up, as well as some grooves from the days of FAG Fridays, Lift, and when I was on Yo Mamas House (106 KMEL). That is a lot in an hour. Whew!!


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"""
Oracle database backend for Django.

Requires cx_Oracle: http://www.python.net/crew/atuining/cx_Oracle/
"""

from django.db.backends import util
try:
    import cx_Oracle as Database
except ImportError, e:
    from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
    raise ImproperlyConfigured, "Error loading cx_Oracle module: %s" % e

DatabaseError = Database.Error

try:
    # Only exists in Python 2.4+
    from threading import local
except ImportError:
    # Import copy of _thread_local.py from Python 2.4
    from django.utils._threading_local import local

class DatabaseWrapper(local):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        self.connection = None
        self.queries = []
        self.options = kwargs

    def _valid_connection(self):
        return self.connection is not None

    def cursor(self):
        from django.conf import settings
        if not self._valid_connection():
            if len(settings.DATABASE_HOST.strip()) == 0:
                settings.DATABASE_HOST = 'localhost'
            if len(settings.DATABASE_PORT.strip()) != 0:
                dsn = Database.makedsn(settings.DATABASE_HOST, int(settings.DATABASE_PORT), settings.DATABASE_NAME)
                self.connection = Database.connect(settings.DATABASE_USER, settings.DATABASE_PASSWORD, dsn, **self.options)
            else:
                conn_string = "%s/%s@%s" % (settings.DATABASE_USER, settings.DATABASE_PASSWORD, settings.DATABASE_NAME)
                self.connection = Database.connect(conn_string, **self.options)
        return FormatStylePlaceholderCursor(self.connection)

    def _commit(self):
        if self.connection is not None:
            self.connection.commit()

    def _rollback(self):
        if self.connection is not None:
            try:
                self.connection.rollback()
            except Database.NotSupportedError:
                pass

    def close(self):
        if self.connection is not None:
            self.connection.close()
            self.connection = None

supports_constraints = True

class FormatStylePlaceholderCursor(Database.Cursor):
    """
    Django uses "format" (e.g. '%s') style placeholders, but Oracle uses ":var" style.
    This fixes it -- but note that if you want to use a literal "%s" in a query,
    you'll need to use "%%s".
    """
    def execute(self, query, params=None):
        if params is None: params = []
        query = self.convert_arguments(query, len(params))
        return Database.Cursor.execute(self, query, params)

    def executemany(self, query, params=None):
        if params is None: params = []
        query = self.convert_arguments(query, len(params[0]))
        return Database.Cursor.executemany(self, query, params)

    def convert_arguments(self, query, num_params):
        # replace occurances of "%s" with ":arg" - Oracle requires colons for parameter placeholders.
        args = [':arg' for i in range(num_params)]
        return query % tuple(args)

def quote_name(name):
    return name

dictfetchone = util.dictfetchone
dictfetchmany = util.dictfetchmany
dictfetchall  = util.dictfetchall

def get_last_insert_id(cursor, table_name, pk_name):
    query = "SELECT %s_sq.currval from dual" % table_name
    cursor.execute(query)
    return cursor.fetchone()[0]

def get_date_extract_sql(lookup_type, table_name):
    # lookup_type is 'year', 'month', 'day'
    # http://www.psoug.org/reference/date_func.html
    return "EXTRACT(%s FROM %s)" % (lookup_type, table_name)

def get_date_trunc_sql(lookup_type, field_name):
    return "EXTRACT(%s FROM TRUNC(%s))" % (lookup_type, field_name)

def get_limit_offset_sql(limit, offset=None):
    # Limits and offset are too complicated to be handled here.
    # Instead, they are handled in django/db/query.py.
    pass

def get_random_function_sql():
    return "DBMS_RANDOM.RANDOM"

def get_deferrable_sql():
    return " DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED"

def get_fulltext_search_sql(field_name):
    raise NotImplementedError

def get_drop_foreignkey_sql():
    return "DROP FOREIGN KEY"

def get_pk_default_value():
    return "DEFAULT"

def get_sql_flush(style, tables, sequences):
    """Return a list of SQL statements required to remove all data from
    all tables in the database (without actually removing the tables
    themselves) and put the database in an empty 'initial' state
    """
    # Return a list of 'TRUNCATE x;', 'TRUNCATE y;', 'TRUNCATE z;'... style SQL statements
    # TODO - SQL not actually tested against Oracle yet!
    # TODO - autoincrement indices reset required? See other get_sql_flush() implementations
    sql = ['%s %s;' % \
            (style.SQL_KEYWORD('TRUNCATE'),
             style.SQL_FIELD(quote_name(table))
             )  for table in tables]

OPERATOR_MAPPING = {
    'exact': '= %s',
    'iexact': 'LIKE %s',
    'contains': 'LIKE %s',
    'icontains': 'LIKE %s',
    'gt': '> %s',
    'gte': '>= %s',
    'lt': '< %s',
    'lte': '<= %s',
    'startswith': 'LIKE %s',
    'endswith': 'LIKE %s',
    'istartswith': 'LIKE %s',
    'iendswith': 'LIKE %s',
}

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That's up from just 50 percent in January.
The Homeland Security Department is supplying real-time cyber threat mitigation to 88 percent of federal civilian agencies, an official tells Nextgov.
That's up from roughly 50 percent of agencies that were running the third-generation threat detection system known as Einstein 3 Accelerated, or E3A, in January, and 20 percent the year before.
It's still shy though of the 100-percent participation Congress mandated by mid-December as part of Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
Like its predecessors Einstein 1 and Einstein 2, E3A uses a mix of public and government threat indicators to detect malicious web traffic, such as an email with a malware-laden PDF attachment, targeting government networks.
Unlike the predecessor systems, however, E3A can halt malicious traffic before it reaches government networks.
This prevention portion of the system is housed inside federal agencies' internet service providers.
A January audit found significant problems implementing the prevention system, including delays negotiating agreements between agencies and ISPs, and difficulties within ISPs implementing the systems and retaining enough workers with security clearances to operate them.
The Government Accountability Office audit found only five of 23 agencies were effectively receiving intrusion prevention services. E3A's ability to mitigate threats was further limited because the system didn't monitor numerous threat indicators such as changes in basic network behavior, auditors found.
The prevention system is now up and running at three ISPs, the DHS official told Nextgov, though the official did not delve into any implementation challenges.
It's not clear which specific agencies aren't yet using E3A. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., criticized the Internal Revenue Service for failing to implement E3A in September. Johnson chairs the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.


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Last Update July 3
欧洲国家联赛:Lee Iacocca, 'father' of Ford Mustang who helped save Chrysler from bankruptcy, dead at 94: reports
By Vandana Rambaran | Fox News
Auto industry icon Lee Iacocca dead at 94
足球直播中超 www.5yt2.net Iacocca rose from humble beginnings to become the president of Ford Motor Company and is credited with bringing Chrysler back from the brink of bankruptcy.
Lee Iacocca, father of the Ford Mustang and former chairman of Chrysler, has died of natural causes at his home in Bel Air, Calif., his family said Tuesday. He was 94.
Born in Allentown, Pa., on Oct. 15, 1924 as the child of Italian immigrants, Iacocca started working at Ford Motor Company in 1946 and is heralded as the leader of the team that created the first Mustang in 1964. He ascended to CEO of the company in 1970 but was fired by Henry Ford Jr. in 1978.
The auto mogul later slammed Ford, saying in his autobiography, "If a guy is over 25% jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95%." Iacocca later reiterated the same sentiments to Time magazine in 2001, saying Ford was cruel, crude and paranoid.
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The famed businessman moved on to Chrysler Corp. in 1978 and became the CEO a year later, pulling the company out of bankruptcy after taking it over. He persuaded the federal government to provide the company a $1.2 billion loan in 1979 and made major cuts to the workforce, slashing wages, including his own which he shrunk to $1 a year and closing plants. He also introduced fuel-efficient cars and the minivan.
FILE - In this Aug. 7, 1980, file photo, Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca sits on the hood of K Car Number One, a Plymouth Reliant, in Detroit. Former Chrysler CEO Iacocca, who became a folk hero for rescuing the company in the '80s, has died, former colleagues said Tuesday, July 2, 2019. He was 94. (AP Photo/Dale Atkins, File)
His efforts were successful and Chrysler made a comeback, profiting $20 million.
In 1983, Iacocca announced that Chrysler had begun paying back the $1.2 billion in government-backed loans that helped save the company, a feat he was able to accomplish seven years early. (The company eventually became part of today's Fiat Chrysler in 2014.)
Iacocca became a household figure when he appeared in a number of Chrysler TV commercials with the catchy slogan daring American consumers: "If you can find a better car, buy it."
The turnaround and Iacocca's bravado made him a media star. His "Iacocca: An Autobiography," released in 1984, and his "Talking Straight," released in 1988, were best-sellers. He even appeared on "Miami Vice."
FILE - In this March 28, 1990, file photo, Chrysler Corporation Chairman Lee Iacocca sits in a 1990 Dodge Viper sports car as the Chrysler in the 90's six city tour makes a visit to New York. Former Chrysler CEO Iacocca, who became a folk hero for rescuing the company in the '80s, has died, former colleagues said Tuesday, July 2, 2019. He was 94. (Associated Press)
A January 1987 Gallup Poll of potential Democratic presidential candidates for 1988 showed Iacocca was preferred by 14 percent, second only to U.S. Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado. He continually said no to the "draft Iacocca" talk.
Also during that time, he headed the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, presiding over the renovation of the statue, completed in 1986, and the reopening of nearby Ellis Island as a museum of immigration in 1990.
Iacocca is survived by two daughters and eight grandchildren.
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Meet Laura Dern
Features, fp top carousel, Tango Diva Spotlight
Edward Zwick, JT LeRoy, Laura Albert, laura dern, san francisco international film festival
Like a Prayer: Film Review
STARMAN – Freddie Burretti the Man Who Sewed the World: film review
Armisted Maupin's Tales of the City
We caught up with actress Laura Dern who appeared on the red carpet at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) for a screening of Trial by Fire. The film tells the true story of death row inmate Cameron Todd Willingham, executed in Texas for killing his three children despite scientific evidence and expert testimony which exonerated him. The film begins with a horrific house fire after which Willingham became the lead suspect, and once behind bars, we watch the struggle to prove his innocence. Dern portrays a reporter who develops a relationship with Willingham and fights to save his life.
The director Edward Zwick, also in attendance at SFFILM, explained how he chooses projects compelling enough to spend the next two to ten years immersed in. Zwick is now an activist fighting against the death penalty. He believes his characters are relatable, and an act of kindness such as being of service to another has a trickle-down effect.
Back to Laura Dern. She grew up watching I Love Lucy every day and now only when her children let her. Dern believes she channels Lucy in all her roles. Growing up with actors Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd as parents, she spent her childhood on film sets. An acting career was inevitable.
Dern has an HBO project, The Dolls, in the works. The limited series centers around the 1983 Arkansas Cabbage Patch Dolls riot and explores class, race, privilege, and the definition of good mothering.
Having a preference for strong female characters, her appearance in Star Wars – The Last Jedi earned her the honorific Space Dern, for going boldly where no one has gone before, portraying feminine heroism, authority, and emotional intelligence.
Working with David Lynch in several of his films, including Blue Velvet and the TV series Twin Peaks, created a friendship leading to birthday breakfasts and weekly chicken dinners at Chateau Marmont.
A particularly proud moment for Dern was guest starring on Ellen DeGeneres' coming out episode.
The recently released film JT LeRoy is an intriguing and entertaining story, completely unbelievable except it's all true. Based on the memoir of Savannah Knoop, portrayed by Kristen Stewart. A directionless young woman newly arrived in San Francisco, she is introduced to author Laura Albert, portrayed by Laura Dern. She is quickly convinced to be the public face of JT LeRoy, the supposed author of Albert's three books. (Sarah, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Else, and Howard's End). Savannah, aka JT LeRoy, enjoyed the VIP treatments, literary readings, and worldwide film festival appearances until she started to have second thoughts, just before the media firestorm erupted, revealing her character to be fictitious. Dern portrays Laura Albert with uncanny accuracy, right down to the wardrobe. According to Dern, Laura Albert's writing is a gift, exploring the terror of being your true self. She believes her portrayal of Albert gets to the truth of someone both beautiful and broken.
Watch the official trailer of Savannah's film JT LeRoy here.
Finally, the director Edward Zwick calls Laura Dern is a ferocious talent, who is able to be in the moment on-screen, letting the audience and herself see things as they happen. Thank you, Laura Dern, for representing the strength of women and bringing so many diverse characters to life.
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Livable4All - No Grants For You!
Background & Update: In 2007, Livable Income For Everyone (LIFE) could no longer keep up with administrative and financial obligations of being a non-profit society. All our members/founders were low-income and we had no funding due to charity regulations (see below). Nor could we continue to organize workshops and meetings on the topic of guaranteed livable income (aka Basic Income or Guaranteed Annual Income). The website was created and has been maintained through the unpaid work of one person (using a very old version of Dreamweaver). The same person writes for, curates, and does outreach through twitter and tumblr. There are no ads; there is no funding. If you like this website and would like to donate find out more here.
In June 2006 LIFE received a letter from the Citizen's Bank of Canada ( a Vancity company). It said: "Congratulations, your organization has been nominated to apply for a grant from Citizen's Bank of Canada, through the Shared Interest Program. In 2005, $225,650 was distributed to 12 registered charities through this program... Only groups that are nominated [by Citizen's Bank members] will receive this invitation to apply."
We would like to very much thank whoever nominated us to recieve these funds (which could have been around $15,000). Unfortunately, we cannot qualify to apply for the funds because we are not a registered charity. We emailed Citizen's Bank to enquire if another group with a charity number could adminster the funds for us, but we were told that this would not be possible.
LIFE is a registered non-profit society but is not a federally registered charity and we likely will have difficulty in becoming a registered charity due to Revenue Canada "political activity" rules.
These rules allow you to alleviate poverty all you want but not to advocate for systemic change to end poverty. Ending poverty is not a charitable activity. Advocating policies that kill poor people apparently are, as all right wing think tanks are registered charities.
For example, The Fraser Institute, which asked the question "Should a single female parent with three children have a right to expect economic support from the state?" (Lexicon of Economic Thought, Walter E. Block, Michael A. Walker, The Fraser Institute, 1988) is a registered charity.
And in March 2004, Jason Clemens, who works for the Fraser Institute stated in an interview with Adrienne Mercer for a 2004 Monday Magazine (March 25) cover article on guaranteed income that "[A Guaranteed Annual Income] would wipe out savings and increase our tax burden... labour force participation would decrease, because people would have less incentive to work. 'In many cases, you would be hurting the very people you're trying to help."
And then there was Fraser Institute director Fred McMahon writing an article in the Vancouver Sun titled "Poverty is voluntary, so let's end it" in August 9, 2001 where he recommends "End welfare. Reinstitute poor houses and homes for unwed mothers... All the barriers people once faced--barriers that could pen people into poverty--have disappeared... The safety net makes the consequences of bad choices seem more tolerable. Anti-poverty programs all too often make poverty more acceptable and thereby perpetuate it... In today's society of great opportunity poverty is usually a voluntary choice." Interestingly, Christopher Sarlo's 2001 article on poverty on the Fraser Institute website states: "A more efficient alternative might be a guaranteed annual income issued as a universal demogrant--a transfer payment to all citizens (or residents) with no conditions on employment, earning, or income. "
We will continue to seek donations to help support the work which we are doing. We rely on 100% volunteer labour and have no office. The few funds that are donated, go towards our communications expenses, digital and paper, and to pay for costs associated with our presentations and workshops. We very much appreciate all memberships and donations. We would also like to acknowlege the donation from the Public Service Alliance of Canada as part of their efforts in the Make Poverty History campaign).


I have been away from my blogs for a little while. I must say sometimes a little shy about wearing my heart on my sleeve or sharing what I am really feeling for fear of that someone will take offense and right something nasty that will hurt and make a sensitive issue more painful than it needs to be. Oh Boy!!!!
I don't know if I ever mentioned that I love Sunday mornings! Two of my favorite shows also happen on Sunday; 60 Minutes and Sunday Morning on CBS. Of course I am up and watching Sunday morning and feeling very happy and contented. My puppy Louie is laying right beside me looking content, loved and loving. Pets are a blessing.
This morning however, I woke up and found the words to describe some very complex thoughts and feelings that I have been feeling forthe last 2 weeks. In the last 15 months, I lost my company that I built from my basement for the past 12 years and I lost my good friend and business partner in the process as well. It has been privately painful and more complex than words can imagine. But this morning I woke up with the words to describe these events but only from a business perspective. I often get asked what happened and I struggle to seperate the emotional from the professional. I was motivated to write it down after seeing an inspiring piece about another female CEO on Sunday Morning on CBS. It is so important to seperate the two and understand the complexity of things.
I created my first company in the basement of my home 12 years ago. After achieving tremendous success and about to reach for the next level growth my business/finance partner and his new business associates thought that if a social worker could do this then a white business man with a background in marketing could do 4 times better. In this society before Barak Obama who wouldn't believe that claim? It made good business sense because slick marketing execs have felt with their MBAs that they understand people better than the people who work intimately with individuals and their complexities. By the way many of those slick marketing outfits are now out of business because they sold so many companies a bill of goods that had no sustainabilty. People have to come first before inflated profits. But remember the audacity of a "Community Organizer" to think he could organize a nation to be the President of the United States. What audacity!!!! How could a social worker think she could build a business built on developing personal potential, self care and empowerment? What audacity!!!!!
Fifteen months after I was removed from the helm of my company and replaced with the traditional white male model of doing business they lost over 1 million dollars per month in sales and declared bankruptcy last week.
What do we learn from this experieince?
Have the audacity to believe in yourself and walk way from those who do not believe in you.
Can a woman more specifically a black woman have the audacity to believe that she knows how to market to women who look like her? Yes!
Can women run successful businesses? Yes!
Is it also true that the majority of women stood behind me and were supportive, respectful and understanding? Yes!
Do I praise God for the majority that believed and the minority who didn't and therefore taught me even more about human behaviour? Yes!
I am still learning and growing and processing? Yes!
I am now building my own new company and building on my experience? Yes!
I am now achieving my Soul Purpose!
What is your Soul Purpose????
Your Audacity is God's Authenticity!!!!!
It still amazes me how God can use the most uncomfortable, unfavorable situation and turn it around for His good. Nadine you are absolutely right; who would think? Who would have known? Who could have imagined? I think about Hannah in the book of Samuel how she was provoke to purpose (I Samuel: 1). Hannah endured great provocation and ridicule from Pininnah (the other wife) because of her barrenness- day in and day out Hannah was provoked, laughed at, ridiculed and was up against all odds. To makes matters worst, during Hannah most anguish time, she was accused of being drunk and was rebuked by some she trusted, Eli the priest. The bible tells us God granted Hannah petition to have a child- but also, Hannah's prayer is one of the greatest prayer in the Bible. What can we learn from Hannah's barrenness-and Nadine's story? We can learn that there will be times that we will be provoked into our Purpose (Soul Purpose); there will be times we have to have the audacity to dream big and reach for the stars; there will be times we will have to push pass our barrenness and create a fruitful attitude (expectation). My question to the Soul Purpose community today is -what is provoking you? Is it the economy, finances, unemployment, or just yourself? Whatever it may be, have the AUDACITY to move into your purpose and watch God's Authenticity move in your lives.
Be strong my sister and remember the one who is in control is the author of your soul purpose and man is the benefit.
There is so much left to do and God has chosen you. There are so many people praying and lifting you up, so on those days of reflection,your praises are being heard and put into production.
Plainly put Lady Nadine.... We Reap what we Sow. You have sown good seeds... and the rest is HisStory.
Nadine - may your blessings continue to multiply!!
My family does not understand me....as I have chosen to live fearlessly, not knowing what tomorrow will hold but believing it is undiscovered greatness. My audacity?? ....Everyday I resolve to "go where I am afraid to go, do what I'm afraid to do, and ask when I'm afraid to ask!" And I am still standing!
"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain" -William James.
God Bless Nadine and all the consultants that are part of Soul Purpose. Walk through the fear and grab your dreams.
It is amazing what Karma can do...it is obvious that your PURPOSE is to do what you are doing...God is Good!
I have been told that my hands are old and I am reviewing your hand care products and I am wondering if they will help my hands to look younger? I am 41 BTW.
Can you respond to me via my blog? or sassyscribemediaent@yahoo.com...thanks!
In regards to your (our) former company's demise, it is regrettable that there was a lack of recognition of God's presence and power, that you were blessed with a gift, an anointing to do what you do. Like myself, many didn't know what was going on, but we knew it was no longer the same when you left.
I am thankful that you still have your "gift" and more important, faith in the One who gave it to you. The best is yet to come.
I love this!!! Touched my soul!
With every blog, you continue to inspire me. "You are anointed to prosper!


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Proving Liability for Clean-Up Costs – Nexus; Circumstances and Experts – Lessons from Dimant and DVL
Posted in Environmental and Green Issues
On May 18, 2011, the New Jersey Appellate Division upheld a trial court's decision that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection had failed to establish sufficient "nexus" or connection between the operator of a dry cleaner and regional groundwater contamination. In New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection v. Dimant, et al., (Docket A-3180-09T2), the Appellate Division soundly rejected New Jersey's claim that "the Spill Act must be interpreted and applied very broadly to find that any discharge at any time, even a de minimis one, imposes liability on all operators handling that product, and that a direct causal connection between the discharge and the damages need not be established." This sort of argument which asks the court to overlook critical connections is all too common in environmental cases. Indeed, governmental plaintiffs often invoke policy reasons when asking for relaxed nexus requirements whereas private parties seeking contribution frequently call on the courts to shift the burden to the alleged dischargers.
Paper Companies That "Created, Mobilized and Profited From" PCBs Must Bear 100% of Cleanup Costs in Fox River CERCLA Case, But May Not Be Liable for PCBs in Waste Paper Sold to Recyclers
by John H. Klock
The other shoe dropped on February 28 in the closely watched CERCLA case involving PCB contamination of the Fox River in Wisconsin. District Judge William C. Griesbach, who had previously ruled that the paper companies that made and discharged PCBs to the river could not seek contribution from recycling mills that unknowingly bought PCB-laden waste paper, called "broke," and also discharged PCBs, held that those companies must reimburse those comparatively innocent companies for 100% of the costs they have incurred for most of the polluted river. But he held that it was too early to say whether the paper companies knew, and did, enough, to make them liable for "arranging for" disposal of the PCBs that ended up in the recycling mills' discharges to an upstream stretch of the river.
The Fox River Cleanup Snares Insurers, Passaic River PRPs Should Take Note
On June 8, 2010, in Westport Insurance Co. v. Appleton Papers, Inc., the Wisconsin Court of Appeals for the First District held that two insurers, namely Munich Re Ag and Westport Insurance Co., are liable each for $5 million dollars to compensate Appleton Papers, Inc. (Appleton) for cleaning up the sediment contamination in the Fox River. The Fox River is undergoing a cleanup pursuant to oversight by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
New York City Increases Penalties for Illegal Dumping
On March 3 the City Council of New York approved legislation designed to deter illegal dumping into the city's waterways. The measure increases the maximum penalty for illegally dumping such materials as dirt, sludge, acid, or any other "refuse matters" from $250 to $10,000 for a first violation and $20,000 for subsequent violations.


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Bridging the learning gap in Assam's villages
A mission to bring slow learners and lockdown-induced dropouts on a par with regular students is beginning to bear fruit
The two-room Salpara Lower Primary School has been the landmark of Rongsai village since 1994. But the centre of attention has been a shed the villagers built on the school's compound 23 months ago.
The shed is where Karishma Rabha helped Rajmahanta and Utpal — two of more than a dozen COVID lockdown-induced dropouts — relearn their basics and more to be promoted to Class 6 at the Bodahapur High School nearby.
The two government-run schools in western Assam's Goalpara district are about 140 km west of Guwahati.
In four districts
Karishma Rabha is an education facilitator, one of 45 engaged by the non-profit Centre for Microfinance and Livelihood (CML) across four districts since September 2019. The other districts are Bongaigaon, Baksa and Nalbari.
She is currently teaching numerical and fundamental literacy to 12 dropouts and slow learners of classes 1-5 at Salpara's makeshift classroom three days a week. She devotes the other three days to a similar set-up at the Bodahapur school for students from classes 6-8.
"The students are mostly from poor families, 90% of whom cannot afford smartphones for their children to pursue studies. Motivating the parents to send their children to the special classes has been relatively easier than teaching the basics to the children who have a lot of catching up to do with the regular students," Ms. Rabha said.
Struggle to relearn
It took weeks for her to make class 4 student Bitupan Jyoti write his name and other words in English, although he finds the lower cases a tad difficult. The rate of progress in the Assamese language has been similar for his friend Rikiraj.
"From his inability to read the alphabets a few months ago to managing words and sentences has been a marked improvement. The special class is providing the care most of parents cannot at home — either because of illiteracy or the pressure of earning a living in these difficult times," school management committee president and Rikiraj's father, Sukhdhan Rabha said.
At the Kongkera LP School a few kilometres away, education facilitator Kabita Sangma has had a tough time bringing Chuname back to school after a long gap since March 2020. She had to start from scratch with the girl who had dropped out of class 5.
Chuname's ability to calculate and frame sentences have been ranging from levels 1 to 3, but her talents in music, sports and creativity such as origami have come to the fore.
"Our three-year project covers 2,363 children of 90 schools across six education blocks of four districts catering to 122 villages. The objective is to reduce and prevent dropout at the elementary level," Kandarpa Kalita, CML's area manager told The Hindu.
"We found that one of the main reasons for children dropping out of school is their inability to catch up with the faster learners, who the schools tend to focus attention on," he said.
Hit by pandemic
Barely had the project taken off when COVID struck. "Our field workers visited the homes of the project children who had no access to online learning. Schools reopened in October 2021 but some children continued to skip classes," said Kuldeep Das, the CML's programme associate for Goalpara district.
The organisation identified 236 children who did not attend school from October 19 to November 11 and began Mission Sanjog for them. Only about 10% of these children are yet to return to school.
The mission also entails motivating the parents and relatives of such children to spare at least two hours for their studies at home. "Many parents are unable to, but some do try to convey to their children that they are interested in their books," Mr. Das said.
The outcome of the CML's initiative is expected to be evaluated by August 2022. But Education Department officials in the project districts said it has made some difference among the students. While a few teachers see such initiatives as "interference", most say they have made their work easier.
"We are two teachers managing 42 children of five grades in two classrooms. It is often difficult to focus on the slow learners who attend the special class one day and our regular classes the next day with more confidence," Salpara LP School's headteacher, Debika Rabha said.
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Thursday, 7 February 2019, 12:50PM
Firefighters battle after a blaze forced the evacuation of residents of 170 homes in the Tasman district. Photo / Getty Images
One home destroyed by the 1900-hectare fire near Nelson
182 properties evacuated, 400 people affected
PM Jacinda Ardern says 'difficult times ahead' for homeowners
The second Nelson blaze at Rabbit Island is being treated as suspicious, officials say.
A community meeting was told today that it was "possibly deliberately lit", according to Civil Defence recovery manager Adrian Humphries.
The "sad part" is that four ground crews and three aircraft had to be redirected from fighting the massive Pigeon Valley fire to deal with it.
The Rabbit Island fire blazed over ten hectares yesterday afternoon.
It's now been contained to under two hectares.
The island should reopen to the public today, Humphries said.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern earlier praised firefighters tackling the "mammoth" Nelson bush inferno as a $20,000 relief fund was unveiled.
Speaking in Nelson, Ardern said an incredible job was being done by emergency services, she said.
"It is dry as a bone."
The area had not had anything but shallow rain since early October, she said.
Arden said she felt sure everything that could be done was being done.
"While I'm immensely relieved there's been no loss of life and want to thank all of those involved in tackling this immense fire, it's clear there are going to be some difficult times ahead until we get the fire fully under control and people back to their homes.
"I can only imagine how difficult it is to pack up what you can and to evacuate so I want to acknowledge the families who have had to do that – and I want to let you know we are here to understand how we can help in the days and weeks ahead."
Ardern said the focus remained on the "mammoth job" of containing and managing the fire.
Farmer who started fire 'mortified'
Meanwhile the farmer whose machinery is suspected to have sparked the devastating 1900ha Tasman blaze is "mortified", fire chiefs say.
FENZ incident controller John Sutton said it was almost certain the fire was the result of agricultural machinery.
The owner was "mortified", said Sutton who added it was a highly accidental event.
"A totally unintended consequence really."
Sources told the Herald yesterday that the fire was sparked by a farmer tilling dry fields at around 2pm up Pigeon Valley near Wakefield, about 30km south of Nelson.
Sutton said the blaze was still "out of control" and one property was confirmed lost to the fire, describing it as "terrible" news.
Sutton, who has flown over the area, had seen the fire brushing past homes, with house paint blistered by the heat, but the houses were otherwise unscathed.
While yesterday had been a good day, making progress in containing the fire, the firefighters had a lot of work ahead of them, with a forecast for high temperatures and winds looking ominous.
They are still officially saying the fire is "out of control", Sutton told residents at an emotional community meeting outside the fire cordon this morning.
There was work to still make a containment line around the fire, Sutton said.
"Wind is the enemy," he said.
He reassured residents he hadn't come in to "take over" but rather to offer support to the good work already happening fighting the blaze.
Twenty-two helicopters were now available for fight the inferno, he said.
"We have a big day on today - fortunately, the weather is in our favour."
Civil defence, fire and police representatives in Nelson. Photo / Chelsea Boyle.
Some firefighters were experiencing fatigue and they were trying to fly in more firefighters, he said.
Acting Tasman district police commander Zane Hooper said police were "very sensitive" to people being forced out of their homes.
Fire, police, and Civil Defence all reassured residents that evacuation was not a decision taken lightly, and they would get people back into their homes as soon as it was safe.
He said police had not received reports of looting, saying they had brought in 40 extra staff to man cordons, and carry out patrols and keep people and property safe.
Civil Defence recovery manager Adrian Humphries acknowledged to residents it had been an "awful time".
The fire was unprecedented for the region, he said.
When he talked about the efforts of firefighters, police, helicopter pilots and other responders, the crowd gave a round of applause.
There are reconnaissance efforts today to see where cordons could be eased or removed, he said.
However, the 400-odd residents evacuated should be planning not to get back home until tomorrow at the earliest.
If anyone needs access to their property – for livestock or other personal reasons – then they are urged to ring Nelson District Council to try and arrange some supervised access.
Difficult times ahead: PM
A $20,000 Mayoral Relief Fund for authorities battling the Tasman fire has been set up by the Government to help the community get back on its feet.
Speaking from the emergency co-ordination centre where the council and Civil Defence are leading operations, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said there were difficult times ahead for people until the fire is under control.
Civil Defence Minister Kris Faafoi said the Government had confirmed an initial commitment of $20,000 to the Mayoral Relief Fund, which has been set up by Tasman District Council.
He said affected local authorities had significant discretion around how they chose to set up and administer a fund, and around the establishment of disbursement criteria.
The funds were in addition to other support that may be available from the Ministry of Social Development, Housing New Zealand and Ministry for Primary Industries, he said.
"[The] Mayoral Relief Funds provide an additional way to help communities get back on their feet after an emergency."
Faafoi said local communities and councils were best-placed to know exactly what they needed so this funding can be used.
For example, to meet the needs of affected families and individuals, community organisations or marae, Faafoi said.
Tasman Mayor Richard Kempthorne said the firefighters had done a tremendous job with the priority of people first.
People with pets and stock were getting stressed and wanted to get back, he said.
Kempthorne said he was reactivating his mayoral relief fund and was going to call the family today who had lost their home.
"It's a real challenge for them."
They were not able to take things from the house, he said


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There was a category battle within Sammy throughout the narrative as he struggles to interrupt free of his category and aspire to better and mount upwards. The determination to discontinue is shows his desire to accomplish growing in his position in society. This societal growing, similar to other bildungsroman like Great Expectations, farther reinforces the claim that " A & A ; P " is a Bildungsroman.
In " A & A ; P " , readers learn that Sammy 's occupation at the Supermarket puts him at the bottom-end of the society category ladder ; it is obvious that it is a category that Sammy did non bask or is happy to remain at. Simply put, he did non experience that he belong at that place. The significance of " Queenie " is non merely to convey out his immatureness and sexual tenseness that he has, she will be a symbol of the upper category where he will desire to be. Sammy wants to be among households where the " male parent and the other work forces were standing about in ice-cream coats and bow ties and the adult females were in sandals picking up herring bites on toothpicks off a large glass home base and they were all keeping drinks the colour of H2O with olives and branchlets of batch in them " ( Updike, 1961 ) and as he realizes that Queenie belongs to his desired background, Sammy mentioned that " she remembers her topographic point, a topographic point from which the crowd that runs the A & A ; P must look pretty crummy " ( Updike, 1961 ) when she is being lectured by Lengel. Thus, with mention to the points made earlier, Sammy quits his occupation non merely to be a " hero " , but is an effort to reject his ain category with regulations and frock codifications set by the Supermarket, and to turn in footings of societal category. Bing on the same side as Queenie, he symbolically elevates his category to that of hers. His " lust " towards Queenie is non merely physical but besides craving to be " of her sort " , a opportunity to turn in his personal desire in the higher category.
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Sammy, the chief character in the narrative with the three immature misss, represent the younger coevals, and Lengel, the director and merely character with authorization of the Supermarket represents the conformists and the older coevals. The fact that the three immature misss walked into the Supermarket clad merely in bathing suits already shows rebelling of traditional norms and significantly, the confrontation of the adult male of authorization, Lengel, and Sammy doing a determination shows the growing of the younger coevals. Using fable, the clients or locals are termed as " sheep " . Taking mention to an earlier quotation mark, Sammy mentioned that " I bet you could put off dynamite in the A & A ; P and the people would by and big maintain stretch and look intoing oatmeal off their lists… " ( Updike, 1961 ) Significantly, " the sheep forcing their carts down the aisle — the misss are walking against the usual traffic " ( Updike, 1961 ) Sheep conforms, it is this conformance that Sammy tries to defy and one time once more back uping my earlier statements, he wants to be in the conference of the misss and " walk against it " This breaking away from social norms is seen every bit growing as Sammy became witting of his topographic point and takes his base.
The universe as portrayed through Sammy is one of Grey and colorless, evident from his vivid description, " keeping a small grey jar in her manus " ( Updike, 1961 ) , " Stokesie with his usual fortune draws an old portion in baggy Grey bloomerss " ( Updike, 1961 ) and " Lengel suspirations and begins to look really patient and old and grey " , this grey and obtuseness compared to the " bright viridity " , chubby-berry faces " and " dirty-pink " ( Updike, 1961 ) of the three misss is a another apposition of the old society and the up and coming society, more significantly, conveying my point that " A & A ; P " can be seen as a coming-of-age narrative, is the dissension of Sammy that merely because the town is full of sheep and grey characters, the " colourful " misss have to be disapproved and ridiculed by Lengel, one time once more, stand foring the authorization of society norms. Therefore, Sammy one time once more rejects moral conformance and takes his base, and stand up for the misss. This rejection and realisation of his topographic point in society is turn outing of " A & A ; P " being a Bildungsroman.


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Roche to buy InterMune for $8.3 bn
Swiss drugmaker Roche is acquiring InterMune, developer of pulmonology and orphan fibrotic disease, for $8.3 billion, as pharmaceutical companies continue to boost their product lines, The Boston Globe reported.
The price, $74 a share, represents a 38-per cent premium to InterMune's closing price on Friday and a 63-per cent premium to the price on 12 August, before news of the company's likely acquisition broke out.
The acquisition comes amid a raft of pharmaceutical deals and attempted deals, with around $87 billion, excluding Abbvie's $54-billion acquisiton of Shire in July, in pharmaceutical acquisitions made in the first half of this year, eclipsing the entire total for all of 2013, according to research firm Evaluate. (See: Shire's board agrees to £32-bn takeover by AbbVie).
Brisbane, California-based InterMune, has one product on the market - a drug called pirfenidone to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a fatal scarring of the lungs.
The medication is sold as Esbriet in Europe and Canada, where it received regulatory approval in 2011 and 2012. The drug received approval in the US in 23 November.
The biotechnology company has 450 employees, Bloomberg reported.
According to analysts, the purchase would generate $1 billion in global sales for Roche by 2019. Roche, which is the biggest cancer drug maker, has been looking to expand outside of oncology, after it stoppedf the development of diabetes and heart disease drugs.
Roche's chief cxecutive officer Severin Schwan said in a conference call, the deal would allow Roche to grow and strengthen its pulmonary franchise globally. He added, it was a perfect fit from a portfolio point of view and added, the company planned a smooth transition ensuring readiness for an expected launch of pirfenidone in the US in 2014.
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How the National Redress Scheme is failing survivors
Leanne McDonald
National Practice Leader | Abuse, Dust Diseases and Federal Compensation
As Christmas approaches, families look forward to spending precious time together. This Christmas was supposed to be extra precious for Vernon Wilson and his family. Gravely ill, Vernon is facing the prospect that this may be his last. Vernon was hoping that the claim he put into the National Redress Scheme for abuse he received while in the Australian Defence Force would help provide him and his family a stress-free and special time. Yet, by the beginning of December and more than nine months since he had submitted his claim, Vernon was still waiting to receive his money.
Greatly concerned for Vernon, Shine Lawyers had him placed on a priority list within the Scheme some 7 months ago, which basically resulted in no change with his application. It simply wasn't good enough. Vernon is a very sick man and he shouldn't have to spend the end of his life frustrated and angry because the Redress Scheme is failing to keep up and deliver what it was set up to do. Vernon has been through enough having been sexually abused during his career in the Australian Defence Force. All he wanted was for his abuse to be acknowledged and to be paid the compensation he deserves, so his family can enjoy what is probably going to be their last Christmas together.
Despite the request from Shine Lawyers and attention on Vernon's case in the media, it seemed like nothing was being done. Eventually Page MP, Kevin Hogan, heard about Vernon's plight and was so upset he personally spoke to the Minister urging for Vernon's claim to be processed. This pressure eventually led to Vernon's claim being accelerated.
While, it's great that Vernon's claim was accelerated due to media attention and Page MP Kevin Hogan taking up Vernon's fight, what about the remaining tens of thousands of victims who still have no clarity on the status of their application? We are yet to hear from the Scheme on how this terrible backlog came about and what measures will be put in place to ensure these delays are rectified.
The lack of compassion shown for victims who are terminally ill is an issue with the Scheme that needs to be addressed. These victims deserve more than a scripted response which causes much frustration and anger for victims who are already suffering enough. Vernon and others like him shouldn't be spending their lives frustrated and angry because the National Redress Scheme is failing to keep up and deliver what it was set up to do. This National Redress Scheme failure is not what sexual abuse survivors expected and the delays have been extremely difficult for them to deal with.
There needs to be an explanation for the delays and specific timeframes introduced that stipulate how long a claim will take to be processed. The Scheme's own figures show that they have only processed a very small portion of applications which is infuriating for sexual abuse survivors who were told when it was introduced that the scheme would provide timely compensation payments without legal involvement.
The worrying problem with the Redress process is that a common law claim, which requires one or, sometimes, two medical reports along with other extensive information gathering is taking less time to resolve then a Redress application, which was originally designed to reduce the timeframe and therefore the clients' pain and suffering.
Hopefully Vernon's courage to speak publically about his very personal case will continue the conversation around Redress Scheme delays and lead to immediate change benefitting the thousands of sexual abuse victims who are stuck in the Redress backlog.
Written by Leanne McDonald. Last modified: December 24, 2019.
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Mice eat and can contaminate all types of food with their urine and droppings.
Property can be damaged by mice. Mouse gnawing is regularly responsible for electrical damage.
Droppings Mice produce over 30 droppings per day which are similar to rice in size and shape, but are black in colour. Looking for droppings is usually the easiest and fastest way to reveal mice activity. These droppings are often located in the kitchen press under the sink; behind the fridge near the compressor; and in the hot press on the floor.
Noise Mice walk up to 200 metres per day. In many instances the noise they make while walking above the ceiling or behind the bedroom plasterboard walls is the first sign of activity noticed by residents. This noise may sound very loud at night when everything is quiet. Moreover hollow ceiling space may amplify the noise and give the wrong impression of rat activity instead of mice.
Smell Distasteful as this may be, an infestation of rats or mice will be accompanied by quite a strong urine smell, especially if they've been there for some time.
Call Owl Pest Control if you suspect a mice infestation in your house or business and need help on how to get rid of mice, or to organise a mice treatment.
All food that is stored, processed or used should be made mouse-proof. Dried grain and meat products should be stored in glass jars, metal canisters or other sealable airtight containers.
If food is eaten in the living room or bedrooms, residents must make sure they clean up after eating and vacuum the room. Any kind of crumbs or food debris will be enough feed few mice.
Accumulations of waste materials and rubbish/debris attract mice. Food waste must be disposed of promptly and appropriately in a sealed bin.
In appropriate living conditions (food, water, and shelter), mice can multiply rapidly: they produce about 8 litters in a one year and each mouse litter has 4-7 pups. It is important to get rid of mice quickly before they are too numerous, damage pipe cables and insulation, and infest your facility.
For all these reasons it is preferable to consult a professional Pest Controller who will know exactly who to handle each situation in order to achieve complete mice control.
Call Owl Pest Control Dublin for advice on how to get rid of mice or to arrange a professional mice treatment.
The final part of mice control is to undertake proofing work to prevent future infestations. Unfortunately a house mouse can squeeze through 6mm openings, and it may be very difficult to locate such little holes.
Air vents: some of them have large apertures and a mouse can easily squeeze through.
Waste pipes and gas/water pipes entering walls: Check if any gap was left big enough for a mouse to get in.
Electrical / telephone / cable supply: Mice will also try these to infest your property.
Radio transmitter send an alert SMS/email when a mouse trap activates.
Contact Owl Pest Control Dublin for a professional solution to your mice problem.


Managing client's calendar/schedule, building or managing databases, booking appointments and calls, making travel arrangements, monitoring voicemail, file management, data entry, creating reports, generating reports, preparing slideshows, PDF conversions, PDF merging or splitting, drafting letters, emails, etc., preparing agendas, sending cards/gifts, setting up spreadsheets, drafting presentation slides.
Replying to common questions, flagging important messages needing a reply, following up on outgoing emails, deleting spam, unsubscribing from unwanted promotional lists, tagging and archiving emails, forwarding messages and inquires to other team members, using email plugins to optimize, drafting responses.
Processing orders, processing refunds, handling customer inquiries, operating live chat, following up on orders, inquiries, etc., updating member records, inviting/approving requests to join a membership community.
Payroll, bookkeeping, purchasing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, inventory control, billing.
Setting up webinars, providing tech support during webinars, overseeing sales funnels, setting up/managing paid traffic ads, creating newsletter and autoresponder sequences.
Contacting VIPs and potential partners on behalf of the client, reaching out to advertisers for ads or sponsored posts, setting up interviews, reminder services.
Background checks, leasing agreements, contracts, project management, receipt reconciliation, cost tracking, payment tracking, tenant invoicing.
Social media branding, research, event services, videography services.
Setting up new sites, adding new pages, customizing themes, setting up and integrating a shop page and/or payment gateway.


Restaurants – which historically have relied on immigrants for a large part of their labor force – have a new challenge to face when it comes to running their businesses. Since taking office, President Trump and his administration have significantly increased worksite enforcement actions conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including I-9 audits and the return of worksite raids.
In January 2018, ICE mounted a large-scale enforcement action against a national convenience store chain (hitting 98 separate convenience stores in 17 states and Washington D.C.) that resulted in the arrest of 21 individuals on immigration-related charges.
In April 2018, ICE agents – in a coordinated enforcement action involving federal and state agents – raided a meat processing plant in northeastern Tennessee and took into custody 97 employees on various immigration-related charges.
In June 2018, ICE agents arrested over 100 employees of a garden and landscape company in Ohio who were suspected of being in the U.S. without proper documentation.
Later in June 2018, ICE agents conducted a worksite raid on an Ohio meat supplier and arrested 146 workers for immigration-related violations.
On July 24, 2018, ICE announced the completion of a two-phase nationwide operation by Homeland Security Investigations during which I-9 audit notices (Notice of Inspection or "NOI") were served on more than 5,200 businesses since January 2018. In just the first nine months of the 2018 federal fiscal year, ICE more than tripled the number of worksite investigations over the entire 2017 federal fiscal year.
To be clear, workplace immigration enforcement by the Trump administration is taking a new tack. While still focused on employers and I-9 recordkeeping audits – as under the Obama administration – ICE is increasingly targeting undocumented workers as well as employers who knowingly violate the law. The Trump administration is setting a course more akin to the administration of George W. Bush, which used high-profile worksite raids to deter employers from hiring undocumented workers.
Restaurants, like other service industries with a significant immigrant workforce, have been regular targets of ICE for enforcement actions over the years. But now more so than ever, a commitment to I-9 compliance is required of restaurant employers to limit the potential for "paperwork violations" (ranging from $224 to $2,236 per document) and possible fines for knowingly hiring or continuing to employ unauthorized workers (starting at $559 per employee and running up to $22,363 for repeated offenses).
In light of the new enforcement climate under the Trump administration, restaurants (like all employers) should take several important steps to minimize the risks posed to their businesses and their employees.
Do Your Prep Work – Conduct a thorough review of, and provide training on, the company's I-9 policies and procedures (and other immigration-related issues) to ensure full compliance with existing law. If the company does not have a written I-9 policy, develop and implement a comprehensive policy and I-9 procedures. Perform an internal audit of the company's existing I-9s using appropriately trained personnel and/or a third-party auditor. Consider signing up for the federal E-Verify program to electronically verify work authorization of new hires.
Be Prepared for Visitors – Have a written response protocol in place before government agents come knocking. Designate, and provide training to, points of contact who will interact with ICE agents during a worksite enforcement action (whether a paperwork audit or a worksite raid). Consider what preparations may be appropriate to ensure the continuity of business operations in the event of a worksite raid, including cross-training on key functions, ability to quickly recruit, or having an established staffing relationship.
Recruit a Good Team – A worksite enforcement action certainly can expose the employer (and its employees) to legal liability and monetary penalties. But such events can also substantially damage the employer's brand or reputation, and possibly result in criminal charges (against either the employer or its employees) or even removal from the U.S. The stakes can be quite high. So employers should have a good team consisting of legal counsel, human resources professionals, public relations advisors, and other trusted professionals to address, in a coordinated fashion, the many issues that may arise from a worksite enforcement action.
The trends of increased worksite enforcement actions by ICE, including the arrest of undocumented workers, show no signs of abating. While some of the Trump administration's immigration initiatives and policy changes have been blunted by legal challenges, the same cannot be expected with regard to stepped-up worksite enforcement efforts.
If you have questions about I-9 compliance or other immigration-related developments please contact Geetha Adinata, gadinata@fordharrison.com, Charlie Roach, croach@fordharrison.com, or Loren Locke, llocke@fordharrison.com, in FordHarrison's Business Immigration practice group. You may also contact the FordHarrison attorney with whom you usually work.


"That captures who we are, and it captures who Chicago is, and it captures who Cleveland is," Barrett said. "We are cities that were built on the Great Lakes. And now as the economies have changed, as the water issues have changed, this is becoming a greater and greater economic and demographic strength for us."
Lake Michigan is synonymous with Chicago and Milwaukee for reasons that are especially apparent this time of year, as people play and lounge on its beaches, bike and jog along its shoreline, and swim and sail in its waters.
But these two cities and the other Great Lakes metropolitan areas — Detroit, Toronto, Cleveland and Buffalo — increasingly are viewing water as something else: fuel for their economic engines. Access to the Great Lakes, which contain more than 20 percent of the world's surface freshwater, may have its benefits, but the more significant push may lie in the development and export of technologies to address the world's water problems.
Milwaukee is betting big in this area, clustering well-established companies and startups, university researchers, nonprofits and governmental agencies in its seven-story Global Water Center, a converted warehouse that opened less than two years ago. Work there is coordinated by The Water Council, an economic development organization that recently dropped Milwaukee from its name to indicate its beyond-local aspirations.
"When people think of water technologies or water needs, they're going to think of Milwaukee," Barrett said during a conversation at the Global Water Center last month. "That's what the goal is, and it's becoming a reality."
Chicago's economy is more globally oriented than Milwaukee's, yet Chicago lacks Milwaukee's public presence in the water tech world. Still, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he too envisions his city as "the premier place" for water-related ideas and research — and he wants that business.
"If you come up with a project for household water conservation, I want it invented here, patented here and built here in the city of Chicago," Emanuel told a Great Lakes Economic Forum audience in late April. "I know one thing: There's going to be a lot of demand (for water innovations) going forward across the globe."
The Chicago area's water tech work is relatively diffuse, encompassing the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, universities — the University of Chicago in particular — west suburban Argonne National Laboratory and the city itself. What's yet to be determined is whether water ultimately will serve more as a battleground among Milwaukee, Chicago and other Great Lakes cities — or a rising tide that lifts all boats.
Seth Snyder, the Argonne scientist recently appointed to oversee and coordinate the laboratory's water research projects, is banking on the latter.
Snyder contends that if the region can offer new ways to treat and recycle its bountiful water sustainably, an influx of water-using companies will follow. And he's not ready to admit that Chicago lags behind Milwaukee as a water technology hub.
"We see ourselves as going after much bigger, broader transformational questions and much bigger solutions," Snyder said.
Studies show that the nation's groundwater supply is rapidly dwindling, particularly in the Colorado River basin, the southern Great Plains and California's Central Valley. More dire water issues lurk globally. The nonprofit Water.org reports that 750 million people lack access to clean water, and more than 840,000 people die annually from a water-related disease.
"Water is this massive challenge that just needs to be addressed," said Argonne nanoscientist Seth Darling. "It's just all coming to a head."
Water Council President and CEO Dean Amhaus said he was on a water-related panel in Texas a few months ago, and a member of the local water development board was showing slides illustrating the drought's severity in the state.
"The next slide she showed was how Texas is attracting 1,000 to 1,200 people every single day, and she says, 'And we're not going to stop. We want to grow, grow, grow, grow,' " Amhaus recalled. "And I said, 'How can you do this? Have you all talked as a state? You can't keep on attracting more and more people when you don't have the water.' And they said, 'Well, we're Texas. We'll just do this.' "
Households are far from this country's biggest water users.
The most recent United States Geological Survey water-use report, for 2010, shows 355 billion gallons used daily in the U.S., down 13 percent from 2005. More than 45 percent was used for electric power and more than 32 percent for irrigation, so that's about 78 percent for energy and agriculture alone — compared with almost 12 percent for the public water supply.
"Theoretically, turning off the lights saves more water than turning off the shower," said John Robinson, founder and chairman of Chicago's Blue Tech Alliance.
Many companies use a lot of water, and ordinary people desire an adequate supply as well, so pitches can be made to lure these businesses to the "Fresh Coast."
The Great Lakes region is also home to companies, universities, government agencies and a national laboratory deeply engaged in water technology, a concentration of knowledge that could help create solutions that might be exported nationally and internationally.
"There's a lot of money to be made and a lot of new businesses to be grown in that kind of work," said John Austin, director of the Michigan Economic Center. Austin noted that 20 of the world's top 100 research universities are in the Great Lakes region. "This is a global problem. We can be the innovators."
That was Amhaus' thinking several years ago when he met with business representatives covering the seven southeast Wisconsin counties and realized how much work was being done in the water sector.
For its part, Milwaukee is a city formerly driven by water-intensive industries, including breweries and tanneries. Even though many of those original businesses are gone — MillerCoors is the only remaining major Milwaukee brewery — other companies that supported these industries remain. They include AO Smith, which made glass-lined brewery tanks and now specializes in water heaters, and Badger Meter, which continues to make devices that measure water flow.
In March 2010 Amhaus became president and CEO of what was then the Milwaukee Water Council, and the following year the organization began to unite the region's water-related entities under one roof. The big payoff came in September 2013 with the opening of the Global Water Center, which looms over a water tech business park and has been spurring development in the burgeoning Walker's Point neighborhood.
The building houses the council's headquarters and other civic and governmental organizations; offshoots of AO Smith and Badger Meter; satellites for companies with anchors in the Chicago area, including Sloan Valve, Rexnord, Veolia; incubator space for startups; and labs and offices for the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences, the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater's Institute for Water Business and incoming tenant Marquette University.
"Marquette wants to be involved in making Milwaukee a world water hub," Marquette University President Mike Lovell said. "The organization and the level of collaboration exceed anything I've ever been a part of."
Water is made ultrapure in the basement before being distributed to offices throughout the building. On the roof a local company, Hanging Gardens, is demonstrating 14 different types of vegetation aimed at mitigating stormwater.
The first floor flow lab offers opportunities to test such projects as a portable water filtration system for water-scarce areas. Elsewhere in the building, university researchers explore how to detect invasive species in ballast water, and how to measure the water in trees in the Amazon.
Fledgling companies also work on a permeable paving surface that absorbs stormwater, a wireless groundwater monitoring system and a technique in which microscopic bubbles are added to wastewater so the contaminants can rise to the surface and be skimmed. The company responsible for that last project, MikroFlot Technologies, was launched in Chicago early last year before moving to the Global Water Center.
MikroFlot founder Jose Ramirez, who commutes to Milwaukee from Vernon Hills, said he got his company's seed money in Chicago but moved the operation up to the Global Water Center because it's one of the only places where so many components — universities, companies, startups, legal and accounting services and government agencies — are accessible under one roof.
About a mile away, more research is being conducted at the School of Freshwater Sciences waterfront facility that opened in September. The work there includes genetic-sequencing studies, the insertion of transmitters into wild sturgeon so they can be tracked via drones and the year-round breeding of perch that ultimately can be sold to area restaurants.
"We aren't a biology school that has some people doing water," said Eric Leaf, the school's development director. "We are a water school that has some people doing biology."
Amhaus said the university is "operating like a private enterprise" in this "industry-driven cluster." So The Water Council's focus isn't to attract water-using companies to Milwaukee but rather companies "that have solutions for water," Amhaus said. "That's what's going to grow."
This cluster's work has generated so much activity, including Water Council consultations with South Korean and Brazilian officials, that Amhaus said the Global Water Center soon will expand to a second building in the business park. But The Water Council has no intention to expand to Chicago, despite having considered opening an office in the city.
"We're not going to assign a person to Chicago because there's not enough of a market there," Amhaus said.
"Here in Chicago there's certainly a lot going on in terms of water issues, but we don't have anything like The Water Council," said Josh Ellis, water policy expert for Chicago's Metropolitan Planning Council.
Water-related research and activities are taking place in the Chicago area, but the dots are just beginning to be connected. The Emanuel-chaired World Business Chicago, whose mission is to "put Chicago at the forefront of the global economy," has no plan in place to try to lure water-using companies to the city or to build off of Milwaukee's successes.
"We're not all that knowledgeable about what Milwaukee is doing," World Business Chicago Chief Marketing Officer Wendi Taylor Nations said, noting that her organization is still "figuring out what we have."
No one from the city government was made available to discuss its water plans.
Robinson, whose nonprofit Blue Tech Alliance aims to foster investments in water technologies, acknowledged that Milwaukee's water collaborators have "told their story better than everybody," but "if you're looking at straight water engineering expertise, greater Chicago has significantly larger talent pool to pull from."
While much of Emanuel's water focus has been addressing the city's aging infrastructure and boosting public spaces such as the newly opened Riverwalk stretch, the University of Chicago has been collaborating with Israel's Ben-Gurion University to develop new water purification methods. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District, meanwhile, has been proactive in pursuing ways to treat wastewater so water-intensive industries might locate nearby and use this recycled water instead of tapping into the drinking water supply.
"The biggest obstacle to the reuse of treated wastewater in this region is that drinking water is so cheap," reclamation district Commissioner Debra Shore said. "What's driving the reuse of water in other places is scarcity."
Shore noted that the district's Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, in partnership with Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, has embarked upon a plan to pull phosphorous and nitrogen from wastewater to use as commercial fertilizer, a process already utilized in other cities. The district also is collaborating with Argonne to recover biogas, which might provide fuel to turn wastewater treatment into an energy-neutral process.
Argonne's Snyder said the federal Department of Energy, which funds much of the national lab's work, has declared the water-energy nexus to be a top priority. About $11 million in water research is taking place at Argonne. "Because of the national needs, we believe that will grow significantly," Snyder said.
Among Darling's projects is the development of nanoscale membranes that would filter out viruses and other tiny particles — while a photocatalytic material would protect the membrane from pollutants — thus taking chemicals and energy usage out of the wastewater treatment process.
"The idea is to build a hub, an intellectual hub, of research and development in this area here," Darling said. "And even though you can't move clean water from Chicago to Haiti or India or wherever else there's not enough of it, you can move the technology there and allow them to clean up."
Robinson says that, rather than focus on creating new water technologies, Chicago should make its mark as a venture capital source for that research. "The industry is seeking a hub for connecting intellectual capital with venture capital," Robinson said. "Chicago is a natural launch pad because the financial sector is strong."
In that regard, Robinson said, "our proximity to water is meaningless." But Darling and others see the city's connection to its lakefront as a key element to its once and future relationship with water.
"I think it's just natural for us to be inclined toward water because of the Great Lakes being here," Darling said. "It just makes sense that this is something that we would be going after."


German who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Glass bead Game was his last novel.
In the alternation between inhaling and exhaling, between heaven and earth, between Yin and Yang, holiness is forever being created.
From Das Glasperlemspeil (1943) translated as The Glass Bead Game (1969, 1990), 119.


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Manufacturer Nintendo
Type Video game console
Generation Sixth generation
First available September 14, 2001
CPU IBM PowerPC "Gekko", 486 MHz
GPU ATI "Flipper", 162 MHz
Media 4 cm optical disc
System storage Nintendo GameCube Memory Card
Controller input Nintendo Gamecube controller
Connectivity Nintendo GameCube Broadband Adapter and Modem Adapter
Backward compatibility Game Boy Advance
Predecessor Nintendo 64
Successor Wii
Article on Nintendo Wiki Nintendo GameCube
The Nintendo GameCube (ニンテンドーゲームキューブ, Nintendo GameCube), also known as GCN or simply GameCube, is the fourth internationally released home video game console released by Nintendo in 2001. Super Smash Bros. Melee is one of its games, and its top-seller.
The original model of its successor, the Wii, is backward compatible with the Nintendo GameCube, capable of playing all of its games and accepting its controllers and Memory Cards. Various Wii games have allowed use of a GameCube controller as a way to have a more traditional way to play, including Super Smash Bros. Brawl. The control scheme in Brawl works much like it did in Melee.
2 In the Super Smash Bros. series
2.1 Trophy
General information[edit]
The Nintendo GameCube is unique in that its discs are smaller than any other game disc, utilizing a proprietary variant of the 8 cm MiniDVD. The controller features a considerably different layout from the Nintendo 64 controller. The C-buttons are replaced with a C-Stick which is identical in function, its shoulder buttons are pressure-sensitive, and sports a new binary wing grip design as opposed to the Nintendo 64 controller's ternary wing grip design, along with many other differences. It is the first Nintendo console to introduce online play, although in an extremely limited, decentralized manner unlike its competitors, the Sony PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox console. The system sold 21.74 million units worldwide, selling significantly less than the PS2, and slightly less than the Xbox, only outselling former rival Sega's Dreamcast.
In the Super Smash Bros. series[edit]
Super Smash Bros. Melee was released for the system on November 21st, 2001 in Japan, December 3rd, 2001 in North America, May 24th, 2002 in Europe, and May 31st, 2002 in Australia.
The Nintendo GameCube appears within Super Smash Bros. Melee as a trophy, with its description breaking the fourth wall. It also appears as a platform in Luigi's Target Test in Melee in the center of the stage. In addition, the background of the Trophy Hoard room in Melee contains a GameCube (with controller) along with several other gaming implements, including a Game & Watch handheld, a Game Boy and a Nintendo 64 containing a copy of the original Super Smash Bros.
Various fighters in the Super Smash Bros. series originate from games originally released for the Nintendo GameCube:
Ike, Toon Link, and Olimar in Brawl.
Bowser Jr. in Super Smash Bros. 4.
Dark Samus in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Trophy[edit]
GCN's trophy in Melee
Nintendo's latest bundle of joy arrived in North America on November 18, 2001, and video-game fans rejoiced. This little beauty is sleek, compact and full of cutting-edge technology. Incorporating optical media for the first time, the Nintendo GameCube was truly born to play. Rumor has it that Super Smash Bros. Melee is a software title for this wondrous device.
Nintendo's latest bundle of joy arrived in Europe in May 2002, and video-game fans rejoiced. This little beauty is sleek, compact and full of cutting-edge technology. Incorporating optical media for the first time, the Nintendo GameCube was truly born to play. Rumor has it that Super Smash Bros. Melee is a software title for this wondrous device.
The GameCube platform (center) in Luigi's Target Test.
The GameCube is the only console to have a Super Smash Bros. game available during its launch year.
The GameCube is the only home console to directly appear as a trophy throughout the series; across Nintendo's entire line of products, only the Game & Watch has also had trophies, although they depict the mock-up Super Smash Bros. variants that serve as stages in the games.
Wikipedia has an article on Nintendo GameCube.
Home consoles
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Game & Watch · Game Boy · Game Boy Color · Game Boy Advance · Nintendo DS · Nintendo 3DS
Hybrid consoles
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Trophies (SSBM)


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