Stewart and Cedar Anderson of Byron Bay, Australia have made history and are fast becoming legendary. The father and son team have invented the Flow™ Hive and launched a crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo to raise the money needed to begin mass production and distribution of their invention.
As this article was being written the campaign, whose original goal was to raise $70,000, had raised over six million dollars and contributions were still rolling in. With many days left in their 45-day fundraising campaign, Stewart and Cedar are disproving the long-held belief that one will never strike it rich through beekeeping. According to a Flow Hive media release, "the Flow Hive Indiegogo campaign is the most successful crowd funding venture ever launched outside the U.S., with contributions from 116 countries." In dollar value, the U.S. is by far the largest contributor followed by Australia, Canada, and the U.K. As a result, plans are afoot to establish a Flow Hive manufacturing facility in the U.S. in order to reduce shipping costs to the Northern hemisphere.
This invention is so new that with the exception of the inventors and a small number of beekeepers who over the course of the last three years were involved in product testing, nobody has used this harvesting method before (though by the time you read this the first production models will likely be in use). Thus what follows is what I have been able to learn about the Flow Hive and my initial thoughts on the subject without the benefit of direct experience.
The Flow Hive allows the beekeeper to harvest honey without opening up the hive and with minimal disturbance to the bees. The system utilizes a wooden honey super that is the same size and shape to a standard Langstroth deep super, except that it is modified with openings facing the backside of the hive opposite the hive entrance. This Flow Hive box holds one or more Flow™ frames that while wider, are similar in height and length to the standard Langstroth frame. Each Flow frame is composed of fully drawn plastic comb with deep cells that the bees fill with honey, and cap. A hose is attached to the base of the Flow Hive frame that is exposed by the opening in the side of the super and a bent metal rod is inserted into the top of the frame. When the rod is turned (like a tap), it forces the two sides of the Flow frame to move slightly in the middle, allowing the honey in the cells to run down through the channels that are created, and out along a trough at the bottom of the frame leading to the hose. Simply insert the other end of the hose into your container of choice. The force of gravity allows the honey to flow out of the end of the hose extremely clean, eliminating the need to strain or filter out the bits of beeswax, propolis, pollen, bee's legs, etc., that is typically required when producing liquid honey by uncapping and extracting. Any tiny amounts of pollen that do happen to find their way into the honey are individual grains of pollen that fall off the bodies of the bees as they go about their business in the hive.
Each Flow frame when completely filled and capped by the bees is reported to hold about seven pounds of honey.
Each Flow frame when completely filled and capped by the bees is reported to hold about seven pounds of honey. Depending on the ambient temperature and the moisture content of the honey being harvested, draining an entire Flow frame is reported to take as little as 20 minutes to more than two hours. The Flow frame only works when temperatures are warm enough for honey to flow.
Once the frame is drained the metal rod in the upper slot of the Flow frame is turned back to its original position, resetting the comb allowing the bees to uncap the empty cells and get to work refilling them with more honey. A viewing window is cut into the side of the Flow Hive super that allows the frames inside to be monitored without the need for opening up the hive. Both Flow frames and traditional beeswax frames of comb can be combined in the same honey super, with the maximum of six Flow frames fitting in an eight-frame honey super and seven Flow frames fitting into a 10-frame honey super. However, it is likely that the bees will be able to squeeze past standard wax combs and exit via the cut-out in rear of the Flow Hive super especially if the end bars are not full rectangles but are milled to allow bees room to pass between the end bars of adjacent frames. This "rear entrance" could make it difficult for a weak hive to keep robbers at bay and could lead to defensive behavior when the Flow frames are being harvested.
This invention is revolutionary in that it has the potential to eliminate about 95% of the labor typically involved with conventional honey harvesting; a process that requires the removal of honey supers, the removal of bees from the supers, transporting the supers to an extraction site, uncapping the comb, and extracting and filtering the honey, then returning the honey supers to the beeyard or storage area. Since there is little disturbance to the bees in the hive when harvesting honey in the Flow frames, the likelihood of being stung is greatly reduced. This is likely to be very popular in South and Central America, and Africa where highly defensive bees are commonly managed.
After three years of field trials, Flow Hive maintenance appears to be minimal with the recommendation to scrape out burr comb from supers the same as with standard Langstroth equipment, and to flush out the bottom channel with warm water and perhaps use a bottle brush to clean the channel at the end of the season. Should beebread be stored in some of the Flow frame cells, they do not seem to impede the harvesting of honey in any way.
As I pointed out in the article "Beekeeping and Technology" (Bee Culture, February 2015), there are often unintended consequences, sometimes good and sometimes not so much, that come with the implementation of new technologies. Two potential issues that the Flow Hive brings to mind are the increased reliance on plastic in our bee hives and the type of philosophy or attitude that this beekeeping invention may foster among its users.
It is well established that the substance royal jelly, that is critical to raising healthy larvae during their first three days or so of development, and the queen that is fed royal jelly throughout her life, exhibits weak estrogenic activities.3,4,5 Given the apparent importance of this estrogenic activity in honey bee development, not enough is known about how the estrogenic compounds emitted by plastic hive components impact the health of the hive.
As if the health concerns of compounds related to the use of plastic are not enough, the toxic pollutants produced during plastic production and the huge volume of plastic debris that is clogging up our landfills and accumulating in our seas, trapped and accumulated by ocean currents will not be helped. Unfortunately it is hard to see how the Flow frames could be manufactured any more economically by anything other than plastic. Of course this also means that when a hive must be burned due to American Foul Brood contamination, a lot of toxic fumes will be released into the air and a significant monetary investment will be lost. One has to assume that the current price of $51-$77 per frame will eventually come down as production is scaled up.
The other major criticism of this new system for harvesting honey is the potential mind-set that it may encourage in beekeepers that use the Flow Hive. The ease with which a beekeeper can monitor the buildup of the Flow frame comb through the window on the side of the Flow Hive super and extract the harvestable honey from the hive without having to lift the lid and open the hive may aggravate an issue that is already a concern in beekeeping circles: beekeepers who don't regularly inspect their colonies and keep tabs on the health and well-being of the hive.
While the Flow Hive window can give one a rough idea of how fast the Flow Hive honey super is filling up, it does not provide a window into the brood nest potentially preventing the timely diagnosis of queen issues or diseases. It is a simple fact that unless a beekeeper knows what is going on inside the hive, they are unlikely to be able to intervene on the bees behalf in a timely fashion when trouble rears its head.
For beekeepers in the northern regions of North America, overwintering is a major challenge. One of the primary requirements for successful wintering is an adequate store of honey. Unless beekeepers take care to ensure that each hive has filled enough honey supers before installing the Flow Hive super on the colony, the ease with which the honey can be harvested could easily result in overharvesting and colonies that either starve during winter, or require a lot of feeding in order to ensure their survival. If the bees are fed an artificial diet in place of their natural diet of honey and pollen, we now know that the overall health of the colony's immune system is likely to suffer making the colony more vulnerable to disease.
The inverse of this situation could also be just as disastrous. Conscientious beekeepers who modulate their impulse to harvest and leave full Flow frames on their colony in order to ensure the hive will have plenty of honey for Winter may find that the significantly deeper cells of the Flow frames so conducive to abundant nectar and honey storage, are not the depth of cell that is favorable for brood rearing. As a result, leaving supers of Flow frames full of honey on the hive in cold climates may result in weak hives in Spring and increased queen issues.
Some folks have pointed out that this invention seems to flow from the same extractive mindset that is part and parcel of our capitalistic approach to world governance. Given capitalism's current path of never ending growth based primarily on resource extraction to the detriment of planetary health, one can't help but be concerned that the ease with which we can now take honey from the bees may similarly lead not to their salvation, but in some cases may hasten their demise.
Beekeepers will be challenged to fight the temptation to overharvest and rededicate themselves to proper hive stewardship based upon sound beekeeping principles and an apicultural ethic that does not place their needs above the needs of the bees.
Judging from the comments on the Indiegogo campaign site, Flow™ technology is stimulating a new wave of people getting involved in beekeeping, and has rekindled the spirit in people that gave up beekeeping in the past. Make no mistake, from now on everyone who leads beekeeping workshops and teaches beekeeping classes must take the time to become at least familiar with the Flow Hive in order to knowledgeably answer the questions that will inevitably arise. Teachers should be prepared to offer advice such as: if you are concerned about bee stings you should probably still wear a veil, gloves, etc., you will still need to do brood inspections, deal with mites and diseases, hive beetles, wax moths, swarming, and all the rest. Unless your bees are located in a warm desert, semi-arid or tropical climate such as occurs throughout most of Australia and the bees have forage available through most of the year, the Flow frames should not be left on overwintering hives lest the cluster move up onto the frames of honey but are prevented from raising healthy brood in the extra deep cells of the comb (as mentioned above the plastic honey cells in the Flow frame are extra deep which is fine for honey storage, but not conducive to proper egg laying by the queen.
The Flow Hive appears to be the biggest technological breakthrough in hive design in well over 150 years. It is likely to take at least several more years of use in all manner of climates and geographic locations in order for beekeepers to learn how to fine tune the Flow Hive benefits and mitigate any of its negative attributes. With over 12,000 beekeepers from around the world placing pre-orders through Indiegogo, the Flow Hive has not just captured the imagination of beekeepers around the globe, it is poised to have a major impact on beekeeping generally. Whether it proves to be of long-term value to the health of the hive and the economics of the beekeeping industry, or simply results in a short-term bubble… time will tell.
Not a fan of this advertisement for what is, according to my opinion only, not good for the bee.
off. And this company wants to introduce bees to this toxic plastic?
"For orders which include timber components and frames, these will be despatched in two packages, with the Flow Frames to arrive as a separate package in January.
These critics claiming they copied are absurd. Yeah people might have patented a ton of better products, or maybe Flow Hive did copy them – who cares. Flow Hive put the money, resources into putting it on the market. They made it real.
Ideas are a dime a dozen – execution is much more important.
What I wanna know is how they train all of the bees to leave the honey super before they flip the switch and make the honey pour out. Because otherwise, the honey would drown the bees and they would end up in your "pure" honey that you didn't really do much to earn anyways. And yes, plastic is bad, for ALL lifeforms. That's just a plain fact.
I'm only going on 3 years as a beekeeper, but even I know that part of what is so awesome about being a beekeeper is interacting with this amazing life form, having reverence and respect for the miracles that they are and produce. The hard work, including all of the reading and research in fascination as to what they are and do is what makes beekeeping worth doing.
Considering bees are a working animal that is there to be extracted, you did a good job convincing me to upgrade to a flow hive to try it out.
As for foulbrood, bleach sterilization is sufficient.


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Bodies Removed In Archaelogical Metrolink Project
Work begins on the sensitive removal of bodies from the new 2CC route
Published on August 22nd 2014.
A LONG-TERM archaeological project got under way in the Cross Street area of Manchester city centre this week, as part of Metrolink's Second City Crossing (2CC).
As part of the process, a public notice was issued listing names of the dead and inviting any potential ancestors to come forward but, to date, none have.
Ground investigations carried out along the alignment of the tram route on Cross Street found the remains of over 100 people, interred 150 to 200 years ago and affiliated to the Unitarian Church.
Eighteenth-century Cross Street Chapel and a dead person on a cart, perhaps
As they are within the footprint of the tramway, they need to be moved, sensitively and respectfully, and reinterred in order for the new Metrolink line to be installed.
In doing so, the Greater Manchester Archaeological Advisory Service (GMAAS) at the University of Salford will be monitoring the fieldwork of CFA Archaeology Ltd, recording any discoveries of note from the site and producing a formal report. The report of their findings will be placed on record at Manchester Central Library at the end of the project.
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has been liaising closely with GMAAS, Manchester City Council, the church authorities and the Ministry of Justice in securing all the necessary approvals and permissions for this work.
The project is expected to take several months to complete.
Peter Cushing, TfGM's Metrolink Director, said: "We fully recognise the duty of care involved – that is why we are following all statutory procedures and are working closely with church and archaeological officials to ensure this work is completed sensitively and respectfully.
"We will, of course, ensure that any work sites involved are secure and enclosed, out of respect for both the nature of the work and any residents or businesses in the immediate vicinity. All appropriate precautions will be followed.
"We are working very closely with church officials to ensure re-interments are carried out respectfully, and we hope that the history being uncovered will be of interest to the archaeological society."
Senior Planning Archaeologist at GMAAS, Dr Andrew Myers, said: "Historically, the growth of industrial Manchester in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is a story of global significance.
"The archaeological investigation and recording of the Cross Street Chapel burials provides a rare opportunity.
"We can learn directly from the remains of individuals who were part of the non-conformist movement in Manchester, which played a key role promoting awareness of the conditions in which working populations were living and in campaigns for social reforms."
More information about the Second City Crossing (2CC) can be found at www.transformationinformation.co.uk, or by contacting the Future Metrolink team on 0161 244 1555 (during office hours) or emailing future.metrolink@tfgm.com.
AnonymousAugust 22nd 2014.
Bodies? Peter Cushing? Eh?
respect the dead and the living. fill in your holes, get out of the road, leave them and us be.

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It's hard to remember from year to year, especially if you have several children.
It's also a great idea to keep a journal to refer back to; checking for yearly patterns.
Once you've determined if your child has an allergy, there are ways to reduce exposure to triggers. Symptom reduction techniques depend on the allergen, for example, kids with food and cloth allergies need to be on strict avoidance. With seasonal allergies, techniques have to be used to reduce exposure, but it can't be eliminated. Anything that traps dust will also trap pollen, so minimize the stuffed animals, heavy drapes, rugs, and other dust collectors in bedrooms.
But what should parents do when their child is actually suffering from an allergy? The newest antihistamines, which include Zyrtec, Claritin, and Allegra, are largely non-sedating and now available over the counter. Nasal sprays and pills also combat stubborn symptoms, but be careful not to "double dose" or combine remedies with the same agents.
Short of living in a bubble, it's hard to protect our kids against allergens that are always in the environment. But keeping track of their symptoms, reducing exposure to triggers, and proper treatment will ensure they are safe this allergy season.


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Dolphins CB Noah Igbinoghene takes limited snaps, growing pains in stride – NFL Nation
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MIAMI — Dolphins cornerback Noah Igbinoghene, the No. 30 overall pick in the 2020 NFL draft, got his first real action in Week 2 of his rookie season, in place of injured teammate Byron Jones. It was a tough outing, as Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen completed 8 of 12 passes when targeting Igbinoghene for 154 yards and two touchdowns.
Two weeks later, the rookie received the same treatment from Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, who passed for 115 yards and a touchdown when challenging Igbinoghene in Miami's 31-23 loss. After playing 87.8% of the team's defensive snaps over the first four weeks of the season, Igbinoghene played just 54 total defensive snaps in the Dolphins' final 12 games.
His sideline stay extended into the 2021 season, during which he has been a healthy scratch behind Jones and Xavien Howard in four of Miami's first six games; it's been an experience that has forced him to adopt a new mentality and approach to the game.
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"You have to make a decision to just come in to work no matter what's going on," Igbinoghene said. "Some things you just can't control. … You can control your effort, you can control how hard you go and just going full-out every single day. Don't focus on the negative things and keep a positive mindset and positive mind at all times."
Igbinoghene got the opportunity to apply that on the field, as he earned his first start of the season in Week 6 — a 23-20 loss against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was the nearest defender on nine pass attempts, resulting in seven completions for 105 yards and a touchdown, and was also matched up with Jaguars receiver Laviska Shenault on his 9-yard reception to set up the winning field goal.
But Igbinoghene's performance was more inspiring than the numbers suggest.
"I thought Noah did some good things. I thought he tackled more efficiently," Dolphins coach Brian Flores said. "Obviously he had the two balls caught on him. I thought he was in good position on both of them. We just talked about going up and being more aggressive to try to get it out of him.
"I think [Marvin] Jones made a couple of good plays on him. But overall, I thought he did some good things and filled in competitively."
On Shenault's catch, for instance, Flores said his instruction to the team was to play the sideline — which Igbinoghene did before allowing the slant. And he was in good position on a 28-yard touchdown pass he allowed to Jones about a minute before halftime. The play had an 18.7% completion probability, and Igbinoghene allowed just 0.9 yards of separation at the time of completion, per NFL Next Gen Stats.
Dolphins cornerback Noah Igbinoghene, right, started in Week 6 against Jacksonville. Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports
Igbinoghene said he's getting a better feel for the game, specifically the speed of games compared to practices. But both Flores and defensive coordinator Josh Boyer say the next step forward for him is making more plays on the ball.
"The touchdown I would say at the line, I probably could have widened him out a little more and that probably would have allowed me to be in a better position at the end of the play," the 5-foot-11 Igbinoghene said of Jones, who is listed at 6-foot-2. "I kind of opened the gate at the beginning allowing him to run. No, he didn't run past me or anything like that but he's a tall guy, so if he gets in front of you, if he gets that position on you, it's easy for him to make that play … Just getting my head around and finding the ball as fast as possible and playing it of course. I'm going to work on that this week and I can't wait to improve on that part."
With Byron Jones and Howard both practicing this week, Igbinoghene might not see the same rep count he did Sunday, when he played all 66 of the Dolphins' defensive snaps. He also appeared as questionable on Friday's injury report due to a knee injury.
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Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu: International Migration Film Festival will give the world a chance to empathize with "each other"
We make a mistake by talking about the drama all the time.
Now, it's time to show the graces of migration.
Organized by Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Directorate of Migration Management to take place June 14-21, the press conference of International Migration Film Festival was held online with the participation of Minister of Interior, Süleyman Soylu. Regarding to the "world's first borderless thematic film festival" which is organized under the auspices of Presidency of Republic of Turkey with the contribution of Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu addressed as follows; "Today, we have migration. Although, the migration was always there. It's in the language, in the minds, in culture, in words, in love. In the last couple of years, unfortunately we found ourselves only talking about the dramas, tragedies, challenges and heartbreaks of migration. These many migrants were born, those many got arrested and those many were sent back… But, there's life there. And actually, we terrify ourselves. For thousands of years, we've been advising not to open our doors to migrating people, not to see them, not to hear them. I guess we've been making a mistake."
"Through art, we will show its contribution to our lives"
"Now it's time to show grace of migration, to talk about its contributions to our lives and to remember the spirit of migration." said the Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu and continued his words as; "It's also about time we show the world the feeling and art of migration and how it brings people together; how it enrichens the civilizations. Seeing that the migration exists for thousands of years, seeing that it contributes to our lives, then let's put the dramas and sorrows of migration aside and show the graces of migration, tell its contributions to culture and art, through art. As we organize the International Migration Film Festival, we had in our minds; since Carchemish, one of the destinations of Gilgamesh is located in Turkey, since Noah's Ark is said to be on our mountain, since the grotto of Rome's Seven Sleepers is in this land, since the story of migration departed from Asia, Africa and Middle East and came together in Turkey, then we shall take the first step. This festival will help the world to discover its own richness through migration."
"21st century civilization failed the test."
Underlining the fact that the migration is not an issue specific to Middle East and Asia, Minister Soylu continued his speech as; "Inside the boats we stop in the Aegean Sea, we find citizens from African countries that we don't even know they exist. Another migration tragedy is taking place in South America. Existing throughout the history, migration has labeled 21st century as a different characteristic. Migration is not a concept that can be dealt solely with passport and residency permits. It's not an issue that can be solved by arresting illegal migrants or by putting in a few mechanical regulations. At this specific juncture, 21st century civilization failed the test. Above everything else, human lives are in question here."
"I watched the movie Naim in tears"
Minister Soylu also stated in his speech, that ranging from engineers to artists, citizenship has been conferred to qualified migrants, who would provide added value to Turkey. In the end of his speech, Minister Soylu shared that he watched with his wife the movie that shows the life and migration story of Bulgarian migrant Naim Süleymanoğlu, in tears.
Honorary President F. Murray Abraham
Festival's Honorary President, Hollywood's greatly esteemed Academy and Golden Globes awarded actor F. Murray Abraham expressed his immense gratitude for becoming a part of such festival through a video recording message: "As the son of a man who migrated from Ottoman Syria to the US, I understand and identify with the issues of Migration. Turkey is the country that is hosting the largest number of refugees in the world. The Syrian refugee population alone is close to 3.6 million along with asylum seekers from other countries. And now as with the rest of the world, a new challenge is facing the refugees; stopping the spread of Covid -19. This Festival aims to promote films which tap into the Migration experience and also features films produced by, directed by, and starring immigrants and refugees. So, let's take a little time off to check out some provocative films, and listen to several interesting and surprise guests doing Master classes and interviews. Thank you very much. This means so much to me."
Tuba Büyüküstün:
"Migration will be better understood with this festival"
Being one of UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassadors, Tuba Büyüküstün expressed in her video message that UNICEF Short Film Award of the festival has a remarkable meaning in a time like this. Büyüküstün;
"Children are the ones who are effected the most from migration all around the world. Teared off from their homes, they find themselves in a country that they are alien to its culture, to its language and they got forced to adopt themselves to this place. This leave a damaging effect in their development. I believe that this festival will play a role in helping this issue to become more understood, talked more and discussed more.
Festival's online press conference was hosted by Tolgahan Sayışman.
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The Dream of Baseball
"And the phantom crowd's horrific boo
dispersed the gargoyles from Notre Dame."
"Dream of a Baseball Star," Gregory Corso, from The Happy Birthday of Death, 1960
Yesterday, July 23, was opening day of the pandemic delayed Major League Baseball season. That's about four months later than normal. The abnormal, short 60 game season is underway. Welcome to the virtual ballpark. I missed the first game, the Yankees vs Washington Nationals in New York, which already tested one of the new, shortened season rules: the Nationals lost in only 5 and half innings, timing out due to rain delay. One of the new short season rules eliminates any chance to play the game out to 9 innings.
But I caught the second game, the Dodger game, against the visiting Giants, played in a fanless Dodger Stadium on what appeared to be a typical sunny late July LA evening, but quiet, still, the air clear. What is the opposite of standing room only? Empty seats.
But not exactly empty. Cardboard cutouts of fans filled the seats behind home plate. There was Tommy Lasorda, former Dodger player and manager, leading the cheers to the Dodger late innings 8 to 1 win. Fans can buy a selfie cutout. Maybe Paul and Ringo will spring for a whole pavilion section devoted to cutouts from the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.
Baseball has never been a good example of an effectively televised sport (McLuhan explained why). But the season opener last night underscored the importance of a fan filled stadium, smelly beer and greasy hotdogs, peanuts, and Cracker Jack, also the importance of ceremonial hoopla to major league sports. The fans are part of the game, as William Carlos Williams suggested in his poem, "The crowd at the ball game":
"It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is
cheering, the crowd is laughing
permanently, seriously
without thought"
Aging, and working on mindfulness, one may find one's lackadaisical waking mindset similar to one's sleeping condition. Normally (not necessarily as a rule but on the whole and customarily), the logical links connecting thoughts create continuity and coherence and one feels in control, though who or where that one is, where one feels it, or to what extent any feeling of control is fantastical, gets instant replay once the lights go out – replay in slow-motion, surreal angles, calls reversed. That helps explain why poets have always had an affinity for baseball.
Photo: Portland Beavers, by Joe Linker
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The highly qualified Merrick Garland is not going to be a Supreme Court justice.
Judge Merrick Garland was possibly hoping that Americans would choose Hillary Clinton as their next president and thus push the Republican-controlled Senate to quickly confirm him to the Supreme Court.
Any such hope collapsed Tuesday night. The election of Donald Trump made it virtually impossible for President Barack Obama's nominee to be elevated to the nation's highest court.
And that means Democrats are once again denied a dream they've held for a generation: to see a liberal tilt in the Supreme Court's membership.
With Trump as president, Republicans, who spent millions to keep control of the Senate, can also secure their grip on the high court for years to come ― by naming justices who are more conservative and far younger than the 63-year-old Garland.
The goal will be to fill not just the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but also any additional vacancies that may open up. The Supreme Court is growing older ― Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 83, Justice Anthony Kennedy is 80, and Justice Stephen Breyer is 78 ― so another empty seat is certainly possible over the next four years.
Sen. Mitch McConnell has emerged a big winner in the Supreme Court fight.
An important question for the president-elect is whether he'll abide by his vow to pick from the really long list of Supreme Court candidates that he put forth. That list, assembled with the help of conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, aimed to show Republican voters that he was someone to be trusted with the future of the court.
Many religious and social conservatives pointed to the Supreme Court to justify their support for a candidate who otherwise didn't exactly line up with their moral convictions. Trump and his surrogates stoked fears that a liberal court would destroy religious liberty or take away Second Amendment rights.
"Even if you can't stand Donald Trump, even if you think I'm the worst, you're going to vote for me. You know why? Judges," he declared at an August rally in Virginia.
At one point, Trump even promised that he would appoint only anti-abortion justices who would "automatically" overturn Roe v. Wade ― which is simply not possible without a proper case or legislation implicating abortion rights.
Legal controversies move slowly through the courts, and the Supreme Court has ample discretion not to take cases. But one or two additional justices in the mold of Scalia could produce a high court ready to hear the kinds of disputes it has recently declined to consider, like those seeking to expand gun rights or limit the power of federal agencies.
On this last front, a Trump administration is likely to pull the plug on a range of litigation where the Obama administration has been on the defensive, including challenges to its policies on transgender rights in public schools, the Clean Power Plan and net neutrality rules. A White House with different priorities can find ways to short-circuit cases before they reach the Supreme Court.
There's an argument that Obama could give Garland a recess appointment to the Supreme Court after the lame-duck Congress meets for the last time and before the new Congress is sworn in. That appointment would be temporary, however. And Obama's remarks on Wednesday suggest that he's looking for a more harmonious transfer of power.
Trump's victory, meanwhile, makes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) look especially foresighted in refusing to hold hearings on Garland's nomination. McConnell announced, on the very day that Scalia died, that the Senate would not consider any replacements offered by Obama ― and to insist that the next president should be the one to name Scalia's successor. As Election Day drew closer and the polls predicted a Clinton victory, some GOP senators ramped up their unprecedented blockade, vowing not to confirm any Clinton nominees and essentially threatening a constitutional crisis.
Now we know the Supreme Court will survive, still the same conservative force it's been for nearly 50 years.
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Ozzy Osbourne Forced to Cancel Last Four No More Tours 2 Shows Due to Medical Issues
Ashley Turner October 11th, 2018 - 10:58 PM
Ozzy Osbourne has cancelled the remaining four shows on his North American "NO MORE TOURS 2" due to medical problems. Upon additional evaluation from his doctors, Osbourne will likely require another surgery in the coming days to treat multiple infections in his right hand.
The four cancelled shows were Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA (October 6), Mattress Firm Amphitheatre in Chula Vista (October 9), the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (October 11) and MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas (October 13). All four shows will be rescheduled for 2019. Osbourne had been scheduled to perform make-up dates at Mattress Firm Amphitheatre on Oct. 18 and at Shoreline Amphitheatre on Oct. 20.
"I'm so fu**ing bummed about cancelling these shows," Osbourne says. "The tour had been going great and we were really looking forward to these last few gigs. We're hoping everyone will be patient and we'll look forward to seeing them at the shows next year."
Tickets for the cancelled shows will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Refunds are also available at point of purchase. The updated itinerary is available below.
Update (10/29): In an Instagram video posted by Osbourne on his official social media page, the artist enthusiastically expressed that he is fully recovered and is looking forward to "rock out with you," come New Year's Eve at this year's Ozzfest that is occurring at the Forum in Inglewood, CA. Watch the video post down below. According to the prp, as well as the video below, Osbourne is happy to update fans that the staph infection that Osbourne suffered in his hand is now all better. It had caused the singer to postpone a series of US shows which is now set to happen July of 2019.
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Ozzy Osbourne 2018 Tour Dates:
04/27 – Jacksonville, FL @ Welcome to Rockville
04/29 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Fort Rock Festival
05/05 – Mexico @ Heaven & Hell Festival
05/08 – Santiago, CL @ Pista Atletica
05/11 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Geba
05/13 – São Paulo, BR @ Allianz Parque
05/16 – Curitiba, BR @ Pedreira Paulo Leminski
05/18 – Belo Horizonte, BR @ Esplanada Do Mineirao
05/20 – Rio de Janeiro, BR @ Apoteose
06/01 – Moscow, RU @ Olympiisky
06/03 – St. Petersburg, RU @ Ice Palace (Ledovi Dvorets)
06/06 – Finland @ Rockfest
06/08 – Solvesborg, SE @ Sweden Rock Festival
06/10 – Donington, UK @ Download Festival
06/13 – Prague, CZ @ Prague Rocks Festival
06/15 – Paris, FR @ Download Festival Paris
06/17 – Italy @ Firenze Rocks Festival
06/20 – Halden, NO @ Tons of Rock Festival
06/22 – Copenhagen, DK @ Copenhall Festival
06/24 – Dessel, BE @ Graspop Metal Meeting
06/26 – Krakow, PL @ Impact Festival
06/28 – Oberhausen, DE @ König-Pilsnet Arena
06/30 – Madrid, ES @ Download Festival Spain
07/02 – Lisbon, PT @ Meo Arena
07/05 – Barcelona, ES @ Rock Fest Barcelona
07/08 – Tel Aviv, IL @ Live Park
08/30 – Allentown, PA @ PPL Center
09/01 – Syracuse, NY @ Lakeview Amphitheater
09/04 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage
09/06 – Boston, MA @ Xfinity Center
09/08 – Wantagh, NY @ Jones Beach Amphitheatre
09/10 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
09/19 – Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Center
09/21 – Tinley Park, IL @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
09/23 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center
09/26 – Dallas, TX @ Starplex Pavilion
09/30 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater
10/06 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
10/09 – Chula Vista, CA @ Mattress Firm Amphitheatre
10/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
10/13 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena


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ISORA Commodore Peter Ryan has delivered a buoyant review of 2015 Irish Sea racing activities – including the season highlight – at Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta on Dublin Bay. We reproduce his speech from Saturday night's prizegiving and agm below. A PDF of the 2016 season fixtures list is attached below.
ISORA 2015 was an incredible season for ISORA. Probably the greatest advancement made in ISORA offshore racing occurred due the generous sponsorship of Liam Shanahan's "Avery Crest" and their donation of 20 Yellow Brick trackers to ISORA. More about that later.
The ISORA series in 2015 consisted of 14 races in total - 7 offshore races including the D2D and Lyver Races and 7 coastal races. 4 Coastal races took place from Dun Laoghaire while 3 Coastal races took place from Pwllheli. This season, entries were received from 51 boats with an average fleet size of 18 boats. The weather did not help the number of boats starting with bad weather preventing some boats making the delivery trips.
The number of boats starting was slightly up on 2014 but the most encouraging aspect is that some new boats have joined ISORA for the first time and I believe will take part again next season. Paddy Gregory's "Flashback" won the Coastal Race to Greystones after doing very well in the Offshore Series in the VDLR. For 2016 we know that a Sigma 400, "Thalia", will be joining the ranks. There are rumours of another 40.7 and even a whisper of a JPK 10.8?
Recently the J109'sand other J boats have dominated the fleet. I believe that the J Boats will soon be under huge pressure to retain that dominance.
The offshore races included the usual ports of Dun Laoghaire, Holyhead, Pwllheli, Douglas and Dingle. A new venue was added with the Coastal Day races from both Dun Laoghaire and Pwllheli finishing in Greystones in time to take part in their Greystones Regatta.
During the season ISORA worked with the: National Yacht Club, Royal Alfred Yacht Club, Royal Dee Yacht Club, Royal Ocean Racing Club, Liverpool Yacht Club, Pwllheli Sailing Club, Holyhead Sailing Club, Douglas Bay Yacht Club, Greystones Sailing Club. I would like to thank all these clubs for the facilities they freely provide to ISORA, without them, we would have no offshore racing or social life.
As regard the race management I would like to particularly acknowledge the assistance of the NYC Commodore, Larry Power and Commodore of the RAYC, Barry MacNeaney, who started all of the races from Dun Laoghaire and Kathryn Meghan, Anita Begley and Ian Meldon who finished the races in Dun Laoghaire. I would also like to thank all the other Starters and Finishers for their help and patience.
The Overall ISORA "Avery Crest" Offshore Champion for 2015 is Liam Shanahan and "Ruth". This is well deserved as Liam and his family has been hugely involved in offshore racing since re-joining ISORA. Liam also won the 270 mile D2D Race. Liam was the ISORA Champion for 2014. I'm not sure anyone has ever won it three times in a row??
Another incredible offshore achievement by two more of "our own" was the performance of Peter Dunlop and Vicky Cox and "Mojito" in the Fastnet Race and the recent great Two-Handed class win by Dermot and Paddy Cronin, "Encore" in the recent Middle Sea Race. As we write this report Conor Fogarty and "Bam" are on their way to join the ARC in Grand Canaria. We wish them a safe and fast passage. Conor has assured me that he will be back for ISORA next season.
The Silver Class was won by a David Simpson and "Albeiro". Liam Shanahan and "Ruth" also won the Coastal Series. Pwllheli Sailing Club won the Team Series with the team including Andrew Halls's "Jackknife", Peter Dunlop's Mojito and Stephen Tudor's "Sgrech".
Unfortunately this year we only got one chance to use the "virtual" marks" (GPS Coordinates) in the middle of the Irish Sea to give better courses. This was in the Lyver race. I hope next season that we can regularly use random virtual marks to ensure that not only is there is an upwind leg but that there is also a dead downwind leg. The use of the Avery Crest YB trackers will be a huge benefit as it will record the track a boat took during the race and particularly when rounding Virtual Marks.
The high point scoring system together with the race weighting is continuing to prove very effective and it is intended to keep using this system for the Series next season. The traditional low point system was used in the calculations for the four race Coastal Series. I have to thank Stephen Tudor for the huge work he puts into producing the very detailed overall and class results after each race.
Our long-standing and successful relationship with the Royal Alfred Yacht Club with whom we take part in the Coastal races from Dun Laoghaire, continues to be a very fruitful relationship. Also this season, as part of their 200th anniversary celebrations, we worked with the Royal Dee Yacht Club in running the very successful inaugural "Irish Sea Offshore Racing Championship". It took place in July and involved five races – the stormy Lyver Race from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire and the four offshore day races as part of the Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta. There are plans afoot to see if we can run this event every year, possibly alternating between Dun Laoghaire and Pwllheli. However, it will be part of the VDLR in 2017. I would like to see this event grow to become a unique International offshore event where we can crown the winner the "Great Britain & Ireland Offshore Racing Champion". It is early days yet.
trackers were within a maximum of 10 seconds of the official recorded times – this did not even take into account that the tracker is normally located at the stern of the boat. It is also hope that the trackers will allow for shortening a race by setting a finish line anywhere on the course and recording the finish times of boats at that remote line.
with a huge opportunity, also now requires ISORA to be able to fund the continued running and development of the trackers.
As the offer from Avery Crest arrived when the 2015 season had started, we had no opportunity to increase our minimal boat entry fees for 2015 to cover the tracker expenses.
In order to cover the significant tracker running costs for 2015, I put out a plea to the ISORA members for sponsorship. I have to state that I was overwhelmed by the response. Some members donated funds but asked that it would be anonymous. We also got great generous sponsorship from members whose companies sponsored races. They included Adrian Lee & Partners, Irish Hospital Supplies and LC Tyres.
Ben will continue this great work in 2016.
As you know the ISORA website contains a significant amount of memorabilia from past years. I am constantly looking for old photographs etc that can be scanned and added to our archive. Any such items should be scanned and sent to me and I will ensure that it is properly catalogued and posted in the archives.
th June. I hope that ISORA boats will swell the ranks of starters at what I consider one of the world's greatest offshore races.
The highlight of the year is the annual ISORA prize giving dinner in the NYC tonight. Our special guests tonight will be the Commodore of the National Yacht Club, Mr. Larry Power, the Commodore of the Royal Dee Yacht Club, Mr. Derek Matthews, who will present the ISORA Champion with the Royal Dee's "Wolf's Head Trophy, the Commodore of RORC, Mr. Michael Boyd, who will present the RORC medallions for the winning ISORA boats in the RORC Lyver Race and the Commodore of the Royal Alfred Yacht Club, Mr. Barry MacNeaney. These special guests represent the very best of offshore racing in Irish Waters and I am honoured that they are attending our annual dinner.
I would like to thank the National Yacht Club for their continued support and assistance for ISORA. Last but not least I would like to thank our Vice Chairman, Gerry Williams, Hon Treasurer – Vincent Farrell, IT - Vicky Cox and the general committee consisting of Liam Shanahan, Peter Dunlop, Peter Hall and Kuba Syzmanski for all their assistance, advice and dedication during the last year.
In finishing, I would particularly like to thank our Hon Secretary – Stephen Tudor. The amount of work that Stephen puts into making ISORA run efficiently is incredible. The assistance and advice that he gives to me is invaluable. ISORA would not run without him and I thank him for this dedication. I also want to congratulate Stephen on being recently awarded a Special Contribution Award by RYA for his work at Clwb Hwylio Pwllheli Sailing Club and the huge personal contribution he has made in the development of the new Welsh National Sailing Academy and Events centre at Pwllheli.


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Topshop and Topman widen reach with Shop Direct link-up
today Aug 25, 2019
Arcadia is working hard on its recovery plan for star brands Topshop and Topman and not long after it inked a deal to sell on Asos, it has also unveiled a link-up with Shop Direct.
Topshop is now available on Very.co.uk - Shop Direct/Topshop
The two brands are now available on Shop Direct's Very and Littlewoods platforms with the deal also meaning the e-tail giant has become the first UK retailer outside of the Arcadia Group itself to stock Topshop Beauty.
The brands launched on the sites at the weekend with Shop Direct saying it now has "one of the most compelling Topshop edits in the market." Is that typical press release hyperbole? Not at all. The company is offering around 500 product lines at the moment and this will expand to 2,000 during AW19. The range spans clothing, footwear, accessories, maternity, petite and tall.
Meanwhile the extensive Topshop Beauty collection takes in more than 200 product options, including lipsticks, eyeshadows, highlighters and nail polishes.
It's a big deal for both companies, but isn't the first collab between Arcadia and Shop Direct. The latter already stocks Arcadia-owned Wallis, Evans and Miss Selfridge. And it will also be launching the group's Burton and Dorothy Perkins ranges in September following the Topshop and Topman debuts.
Fashion is one of Shop Direct's biggest product categories, with clothing and footwear accounting for more than a third of its total retail sales mix in its most recent full-year results (the year to June 2018). The e-tailer had annual sales of £1.96 billion and is the UK's largest integrated pureplay digital retailer and financial services provider.
MD Sam Perkins said of the new deal: "Topshop and Topman are two of the biggest fashion brands out there. This new partnership builds on our long-term, successful relationship with the Arcadia Group. We believe it'll attract even more customers to Very and Littlewoods – giving them access to a range of different ways to pay – and open up the Topshop and Topman brands to a whole new group of customers."
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If it seems like Burberry's fall/winter collection was just on the runway, that's because it was. "See now, buy now" delivers, with the London label's first shipment already available in stores worldwide. While most of Christopher Bailey's careful deconstruction of the classics (of which, the sweatshirt-dress with an asymmetrical architecture sitting atop of a white shirt with macrame lace, was our favourite) were met with admiration, the quiet winner of the collection is his manifestation of the trench coat.
Untrained eyes will pick up on the extra body room, the robust sleeves, the softer, rounded shoulders. Construction concepts aside — he was clearly taken by artist Henry Moore's abstract sculptural inclinations — the fabric, aptly named tropical gabardine, requires further inspection.
In itself, gabardine is not new to Burberry. Revolutionary when it was first introduced by Thomas Burberry in 1879, the tightly woven cloth was (and still is) lauded for its capacity to repel water. Close cousin tropical gabardine came a little later. It is even lighter in weight and improved in terms of breathability. Gossamer threads, not cotton threads, is the answer to its wearability in warm climates.
Bailey did not limit his employment of the tropical gabardine to the trench coat. (Can we get an "amen" for that?). The full range of the tropical gabardine outerwear — even those with frontal drapery and A-line skirting — will be available from March 2017 onwards.
In the mean time, drop by the refurbished Ion Orchard store to shop the rest of his February drops (see below), fresh off the runway.


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Please be sure to provide a number where you can be reached at all times. This will enable the Transporter company to easily contact you in case of an emergency. If the Auto Transport company cannot contact you, your car may be left at a terminal where it will accrue fees.
Relax, and take a deep breath. We at Iron Auto Transport Transport hundreds of cars every month all over the globe. If you have taken the time to complete these simple steps before Transporter your vehicle will be one hundred percent ready for Auto Transport.


According to real estate experts, few places in the world are as exclusive as the Mallorcan town of Calvia and especially its coast. Visited by thousands of mega yachts (which moor at impressive ports such as Portals and Port Adriano) and where the largest fortunes in the world reside. The coast of Calviá is also the base for some of the most beautiful beach bars and special, exclusive clubs on the island of Mallorca.
Palmanova's "Playa Grande" is one of the first bars that came into being on the island of Mallorca. Il Chiringo is a place to feel at home, a beach bar resting on the sandy beach where you can eat paella with orange or drink really elaborate daiquiris. What's best? Night-time when the place is filled with torches.
Taking its name from the area that houses it, the beach bar Costa de la Calma is one of the most beautiful and special on the island. Located on the rocks and with a breath-taking sunset, this place is the meeting point for the locals just as it is for those who've chosen it as a retreat.
Newly created in the Bay of Santa Ponsa (one of the most beautiful on the coast of Calviá) and with a high-class gourmet menu, the Perseverantia Beach Club is one of those places to fall in love with the island, its sea breeze and its people. Perfect for a romantic dinner or to meet friends, the place is open until the early hours of dawn.
With its white slide, indoor pool and an amazing view of the beach cove of Costa d'En Blanes, the Mood Beach is one of the most exclusive beach clubs on the coast of Calviá. Sounds too good to be true? Take a chance on seeing the place with a snack and a glass of champagne.
Halfway between a beach club and a beach bar, the Campino is the perfect blend of all the best that the Costa de Calvia has to offer. Located on the beach of Es Carregador (known as "la playa pequena" or small beach of Palmanova"), the place is perfect to go with family, friends or as a couple. It has a full menu of exquisite dishes, delicious desserts and a very desirable cocktail menu.
Traveling as a couple, with friends or family; in the Calvia area there are hotels that cater perfectly for whatever we need and look for in our holidays. One of those chains that can boast of doing particularly well in the area is the Sol Hotels chain; a hotel chain that comprises the amazing Sol Katmandu Park Resort (designed for families) and Sol Beach House for those who prefer a vacation with friends.
We continue with the top destinations of 2016. Exploring the Spanish geography, looking for different innovation options to design tailor made holidays. We leave aside big capitals to focus ontypicaltouristicdestinations, in which one always feels like being on holiday. Let's go!
Let's go far away in this beginning of 2016 and let's organize an escape to The Canary Islands: it is not necessary to take more than 4 days free, but a traditional long weekend to discover Santa Cruz de Tenerife, one of the most charming cities of the fortunate islands. It is the Administrative capital in conjunction with Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and it combines the charm of a traditional Canary city with the energy and liveness of the modern metropolis, dynamic and full of activities for all ages. Thanks to this island special weather, travellinginwinter monthsislike travelling directly to summer time. Temperatures are nice, without extreme heat ups and you can even see the dawn in a cloudy day.
We suggestyouto avoidtravellingduring carnival to take advantage of lower prices, unless you want to experience the magical energy of these February days in the city. End of January or even March are more affordable options, but take care because Easter holidays come early this year. Before travelling, take a look attheeventsagendaof Tenerife Auditorium, one of the most culturally active places of the capital.
We suggest you to indulge and treat yourself to a different accommodation experience. We find in Santa Cruz one of the oldest hotels in Spain, the Grand Mencey, a 5-star hotel in Tenerife, unique not just for its facilities (spa, gourmet restaurant, terrace bar, cooking class, suites, event venues…) but for its history, hosting many international celebrities.
It' snow the best season to travel to Sierra Nevada. While it is not the best Winter for snow escapes, due to the nice temperatures all over Spain, organizing a friends' getaway to Granada is always a good option, because the city itself provides a wide range of cultural plans, as well as spectacular landscapes that worth to be explored and enjoyed calmly.
Granada offers those who visit it for the first time a great amount of interesting places, monuments and sightseeing to walk by and take the required picture. In addition, the university and relaxingatmospheremakesitone of the best cities in Andalucía to go out and have fun in the morning or at night.Atapastouris a must, and it should include a visit to the traditional taverns of Los Diamantes,CasaEnrique, Castañeda wineries, Elrinconcilloor Los Martinetes in Realejo's neighbourhood.
Staying in the centre of Granada is much more convenient, especially if we can just escape for a couple of days. We selected a different place for the snow vacation, a destination that has become a reference in Granada's accommodation network, hotel Rumaykiyya, a 5-star hotel at the food of the slopes, in the Monachil's neighbourhood Sol y Nieve, really close to Pradollano.
Sun, beach, natural environment, relax and high quality gastronomy… Beginning the new year in thiswayispriceless. It is so easy as taking 4 days to discover Costa de la Luz. Of course, Huelva is one of the top destinations of 2016, in particular Matalascañas in Almonte. It stands out for its spectacular and long Sandy beaches and it is one of the best places to travel with kids or in couple. It is full of firstleveltouristicservicesthat recently started a reconversion to a higher quality tourism with new leisure alternatives for all ages.
Faro's walk, Matalascañas and Caño Guerrero beaches and of course Doñana's National Park are some of the main attractions of the destination, unique for its traditional culture and delicious gastronomy and for its people always up to have fun and greet visitors. The weather is always nice even in windy days as the beaches become spectacular sceneries of huge waves to practice surf.
The holiday accommodations in this area of Costa de la Luz are different because of their services, prices and location. We decided to choose in this case a golf hotel in Matalascañas which provides a wide range of interesting services: free Wi-Fi, gastronomic buffet, typical Andalusian bar, solarium terraces near the pool, parking…It's called Fergus Cortijo Golf and room prices are really, specially booking in advance through the official Fergus Hotels website.
We begin this new year suffering a monumental hangover of the parties andconstraintbudgets. January's empty pockets in Spain are liketurronesat Christmas, the essential ingredient for the season. Tired of dinners, compromises and family (unfortunately we all have a brother-in-law or equivalent), we must stay at home, making huge efforts to save, an action completely forgotten at parties and binge drinking. This is not the end of the world, as more and more people survives Christmas easily, not really for most of us…We must admit.
For those of us who lived Christmas like there was no tomorrow, January sales arrived and tourism industry has an interesting opportunity we should grasp. Even if it sounds crazy, now is the best moment to book our 2016 holidays: it's the best time for Early Booking.
We talked many times about booking your holidays in advance in these pages as it is already a classic. Even if domestic tourism is increasingly taking advantage of these deals: British and Nordic people havegreater traditionof booking in advance, maybe because of their almost genetic punctuality and natural order. A typical Spaniard is always immersed in chaos like fish in the water, short-sighted and taking much more time to decide whether to make the best trip of the year or go to town and relax. This is not surprising because fortunately, those of us who live in Spain can enjoyparadisiacalholiday destinations at justfew hoursby car and spending very little money (many people has its own house in front of the sea or its grandparents' house in CostadeLevante, Mallorca or Andalucia).
However, these traditional aspects are being lost in the current society because of the increasing number of people without this opportunity. We can notice that on the amount of Spanish people running for hotel early booking offers that main hotel chains publishinthese times.
In 2016, promotions in Andalucia, Canarias and Mallorca hotels are the best. While hotels in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and other trendy cities hold steady their prices, beach resorts in Fuerteventura, charming hotels in the Catalonian coast or even, the hotels in Playa de Palma (a traditional holiday area in Mallorca) offer great seafront accommodation discounts up to 30% or 40% in the early months of the year. Some of them apart from this reducedrate add special services for the same price, which allow us to enjoy a much more complete and luxurious vacation spending significantly less money, compared to those accommodation prices in Spring.
Early Booking is not just about hotel lower prices, but we must also remark: at the beginning of the yeartheoffer and the variety is muchmore highashotelsoccupancy -although some of them maintain part of their occupancy from year to year- is very low. In this way, it is possible to book a superior room or even a suite for the same Price tan lately a double standard room will have. In fact, this is the advantage of being the first to book our holidays: the chance to choose freely.
Family hotels in Lanzarote , boutique hotels in Mallorca, luxury resorts in Tenerife, golf hotels in Chiclana, Cádiz… The accommodationoffer together with early booking promotions is really high and stands out specially onchildren holiday packages, as they can easily organize in advance their travel dates at the end of the school term. It is also very important to know how to search a hotel in advance because even if taking the advantage of knowing holiday dates in advance, they coincide with hotels high season in summer, when kids do not go to school.
In order to attract and compete with higher sales margin, family hotels in destinations like Fuerteventura, Tenerife, Mallorca, Almeria, Eastern coast, Costa Brava or some urban hotels include Early Booking and children free promotions, which bring parents more options for the same Price. Therefore, they can afford to visit first level destinations without jeopardizing their savings. Moreover, family holidays could result cheaper than a relaxing holiday for couples or a friends' getaway.
We recommend you to take enough time to search and compare destinations and hotels, so as to make the most of hotels early booking discounts. The best option is visiting official hotel chain websites, which we find more interesting because of their location, their guarantees or their services. For years, the most of them havepotentiateda change by offering lowest guaranteed prices on their websites. Even lower than travel agencies and deal websites. The key: hotel saves intermediary's commission and thus can offer the same room at a reduced price, earning the same or even more money.
However, in some cases thesedealwebsites reduce the prices significantly as they already bought the occupancy and want to place it totally on the market. That is why historical hotel chains like Iberostar Hotels & Resorts have a standard rule maintained all year round, which always guarantees the best price on their websites. If customers find a better Price on another website, they are committed to match them and also add 5% discount to meet their commitment of best rate on their website.


On July 23, 2018, Google will make the bold move to prominantly label all websites viewed in Chrome over HTTP as "Not Secure".
Unfortunately much of the web is not ready with over 30% of all websites not supporting HTTPS.
When a website is accessed over HTTPS, information is transmitted over a secure, encrypted connection from the visitor's browser to the server. This not only offers a security advantage, but can improve search engine rankings and speed up your website by enabling the next-generation HTTP/2 and QUIC protocols which are available only to HTTPS websites.
With web browsers now alerting visitors when websites are viewed over HTTP, our customers have been scrambling to switch to HTTPS to avoid scaring away visitors with a "Not Secure" warning.
As such, we have been bombarded with questions on how customers can convert their existing websites to use HTTPS. The answer is unfortunately complicated, and highly depends on how your website has been coded.
Some websites can simply be accessed over HTTPS instead of HTTP and will display the SSL lock icon without issue, however many websites will require changes to their code to be compatible with HTTPS.
To assist our customers with this transition, we are introducing a HTTP to HTTPS Conversion service for WordPress websites hosted on our servers.
Backup existing website before making any changes.
Ensure a free SSL certificate has been installed for your domain.
Reconfigure WordPress to use HTTPS across all pages.
Convert any hardcoded HTTP references in your database to HTTPS.
Convert any hardcoded HTTP references in your active WordPress theme to HTTPS.
Update .htaccess file for compatibility and to redirect all pages from HTTP to HTTPS.
Maximum 2 hours of our staff's time to complete the conversion.
We are offering this service to Varial Hosting customers for a $99.99 one time fee.
To order please contact our Sales department at sales@varialhosting.com to begin the process.
Today we celebrate a major milestone.
15 years ago I began selling web hosting and design services as a way to subsidize the cost of running a music discussion forum I had created that was exploding in popularity.
Our first customers were the bands that frequented the forums and other users of the Magento software (now known as Joomla) that I used to develop the site.
We started out as a reseller for the Florida-based hosting company I was using at the time, before expanding to a dedicated server that I had rented from a data center in Texas. After our first few years of business we stopped offering design services to focus solely on web hosting and building our own products.
Upon completing my University education, web hosting became my full-time career as we moved into a downtown Saskatoon office space and purchased our own server hardware which we colocated in Montreal, Quebec.
With business growing rapidly, we incorporated and changed our name from D.I.Y. Web Hosting to Varial Technologies Inc in 2008 and launched a number of successful blogs and iPhone applications, alongside our hosting operations.
In 2011 we relocated our offices to a new technology hub and co-working space in Saskatoon and began making plans to focus our services and ultimately reinvent our company.
With WordPress becoming so popular with our customers we launched our next-generation hosting platform and optimized WordPress hosting plans in 2016 to rave reviews and moved all of our server hardware from Montreal to our new Saskatoon data center. Today WordPress accounts for over 75% of all web applications installed on our servers and runs over 4000X faster compared to our legacy platform!
While we aren't throwing a big party for our 15th anniversary (like the one pictured above from our most recent website launch), we are planning to catch up on some much needed rest over the weekend and get ready to continue working on many planned backend changes like bringing all servers to feature-parity and improving our website and support materials.
What started as a side project to make a few bucks ultimately led to a 15 year career in technology that sparked unexpectedly. I sincerely want to thank all of our customers, family, and friends for all of their support in making that happen.
Fun fact: Varial is now half as old as the Internet itself!


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Q: How to create a trello card using a discord bot I am very new to coding java script. I am trying to make a bot to add a card into my trello and I spend countless hours on the  internet and I had no luck to find it.
   if(isCommand('gameban', message)){
       if(!message.member.roles.some(r=>["Admin"].includes(r.name)) )
   return message.reply("You can't use this command.");
    var username = args[1]
    if (username){
        message.channel.send(`Checking ROBLOX for ${username}`)
        roblox.getIdFromUsername(username)
            .then(function(id){
                var bandata = (`${username}:${id}`)
                //this is where the code needs to go for trello. The card name should be is "bandata"
            }).catch(function(err){
                message.channel.send(`Sorry, but ${username} doesn't exist on ROBLOX.`)
    });
    return;
   }}

Board: https://trello.com/b/KcRBCOQQ/secondary-board
I want the cards to go in the list labeled "bans"

A: you can try using trello-node-api
npm install trello-node-api --save
var trelloNode = require('trello-node-api')(apiKey, oauthToken);

var data = {
        name: 'CARD_NAME',
        desc: 'Card description',
        pos: 'top',
        idList: 'LIST_ID', //REQUIRED
        due: null,
        dueComplete: false,
        idMembers: ['MEMBER_ID', 'MEMBER_ID', 'MEMBER_ID'],
        idLabels: ['LABEL_ID', 'LABEL_ID', 'LABEL_ID'],
        urlSource: 'https://example.com',
        fileSource: 'file',
        idCardSource: 'CARD_ID',
        keepFromSource: 'attachments,checklists,comments,due,labels,members,stickers'
    };
    Trello.card.create(data).then(function (response) {
        console.log('response ', response);
    }).catch(function (error) {
        console.log('error', error);
    });

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Just bought a pair of LSi which have AL X-O. Just got my MC30s today and am loving the sound but based on the age of the speakers, I was thinking of rebuilding the X-O with new caps. I read the AL is not the best and people prefer the AA or AL-3. I read it isn't cost effective to convert an AL to an AA. Is it possible (cost effective) to update the AL to AL-3 during the rebuild or do I need to buy a new AL-3 X-O?
There are a couple of extensive discussions on exactly this top in the Tech Forum. I'll try to find them for you, the search feature isn't exactly user friendly.
The consensus is that it is NOT worthwhile to rebuild the Type AL crossover because there are only a couple of parts which are worth saving. It is easier and cheaper to build an XO from scratch for about $100, usually the Type AA which seems to be favored by most for its smooth sound, without sacrificing dynamics.
Or Dean Wescott aka deang on the forum. They both do crossovers as well. Bob follows Klipsch designs, while Dean does kinda the same with high end parts. They're both good to exceptional. I personally love Dean's.
The other route is to go active crossovers, with an amp for each speaker/driver. That would mean six amps for two 3 way cabinets. If you aren't going to get addicted to tweaking and quickly want to be done and chill with the tunes, the passives will get you there. Plenty of info on here for going either way.


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Business Communications & Etiquette»
Importance of Business Communication»
Five Criteria for a Mission Statement
by Elizabeth Smith
Include employees in the development of a mission statement.
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1 Have a Clear Statement of Corporate Goals & Objectives
2 Write a Diversity Statement for an Employer
3 Prepare a Mission Statement for a Concrete Business
4 How Do Companies Come Up With Vision Statements?
Whether you are starting a business or refocusing your plans, a mission statement can help guide the process. A mission statement tells employees, customers and vendors how you will achieve your company's vision. It provides a measuring tool for new ventures and a way to approach day-to-day business activities. As you develop a mission statement, make it one that will hold up over time and give just enough information to inspire and direct.
A mission statement should convey the overall goal of your organization, giving insight into the idea that guides each project and decision. It should communicate the essence of what the organization does without being overly specific. The informative aspect of a mission statement is particularly important for unique businesses with a purpose is not readily apparent. Your mission statement should strike a balance of clarifying your purpose in your field and providing inspiration.
When it comes to mission statements, too much detail can dilute the overall meaning. As you write, try to capture the essence of your company in as few words as possible; too much detail will make it vague. Use simple, clear and concise language. Distilling the goals, character and values of your company into one or two sentences is not an easy process and often takes a significant amount of time and discussion.
A mission statement can help guide the actions of employees and decision makers but not if it is impossible to remember. To help make your mission statement memorable, use descriptive words that can inspire action. A green engineering firm might keep it to one sentence with a mission statement that says, "To provide innovative, sustainable engineering solutions." Employees can use the statement as a guiding principle in developing creative, environmentally friendly engineering, while clients will understand the basic services and moral underpinnings of the company.
Although it can be tempting to write a grand mission statement, it is usually better to create one that is achievable. A strong mission statement gives staff something concrete to work on and a larger goal to work toward. It creates a balance between what you do and what you can do.
Employee Buy-In
In order for a mission statement to be embraced by the entire company, you need to get employee buy-in at all levels. To make sure that all of your staff members are behind the statement, ask for a companywide review, from management to the lowest level. Ask for feedback and take it seriously. In doing so, you can invite employees to add their insight and create a sense of ownership that will strengthen the final mission statement.
Iowa State University; Creating a Mission Statement, Setting Goals and Developing Strategies; Don Hofstrand; 2009
Inc.; 5 Tips for a Useful Mission Statement; 2010
Elizabeth Smith has been a scientific and engineering writer since 2004. Her work has appeared in numerous journals, newspapers and corporate publications. A frequent traveler, she also has penned articles as a travel writer. Smith has a Bachelor of Arts in communications and writing from Michigan State University.
Smith, Elizabeth. "Five Criteria for a Mission Statement." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/five-criteria-mission-statement-24785.html. Accessed 18 July 2019.
Smith, Elizabeth. (n.d.). Five Criteria for a Mission Statement. Small Business - Chron.com. Retrieved from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/five-criteria-mission-statement-24785.html
Smith, Elizabeth. "Five Criteria for a Mission Statement" accessed July 18, 2019. http://smallbusiness.chron.com/five-criteria-mission-statement-24785.html
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Home Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 32GB, 4GB Ram Black
Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 32GB, 4GB Ram Black
Vendor: Huawei
SKU: FAMRHWY7P4BCXX
Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 is an Android smartphone launched in 2018. It features a 5.84-inch display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels and IPS display. In addition to this, the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 is powered by 32GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 256GB via microSD card. The phone packs 4GB of RAM.
Huawei Y7 Prime smartphone is a 5-inch screen that supports an aspect ratio of 18:9, a resolution of 1,080 x 2,160 pixels, 403 ppi pixel density and has a screen protection layer to make it durable. The device comes with 6GB RAM / 64GB ROM storage option with expandable memory up to 256GB via microSD card. It features a dual rear camera setup - a 12MP + 5MP sensor with LED flash combo at the back. The front camera is 8MP with LED flash support.
Huawei's smartphone business is growing rapidly. And now the company is still producing two flagship smartphones every year. In 2018, Huawei will release a new phone called the Y7 Prime which has a similar design to past models.
The Huawei Y7 Prime is a smartphone with a 6.3" screen and 32 GB of storage space. The phone comes in black with gold detailing, as well as white and gold! With a 5 MP camera and Android 8 Oreo, the Y7 is ready to take on any task you throw at it. Other features include 4 GB RAM and dual SIM slots.
Model Y7 Prime 2018
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