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Business Spotlight: One | 24
Butler opens new salon in downtown Hope
Bren YocomOctober 4, 2018
By Hannah Black for SWARK Today
When you walk into a hair salon, you're there for some sort of change: a new color, a different style, or maybe just a much-needed trim. You're there for an update to your look, a bit of refreshment of the energy people see when they look at you.
When you walk through the door of One | 24 in Hope, Arkansas, you are instantly greeted by the sleek, stylish, and sophisticated promise that you and your hair will get exactly what you need.
History, love, and passion make One | 24 stand out. Owner/stylist Terra Cox Butler chose to locate her business downtown because she believes that downtown is "the heart of the city." Butler said that at first it was difficult to sculpt a vision for the location because it needed so much work, but it all came to her when she saw the original brick wall underneath the old plaster. She wanted the exposed brick to be the focal point of her salon – and wanted everything she picked to go into the salon to complement the brick.
"I wanted a continuous flow of energy with the layout, not taking away from the history and the bones," she said of the decor. "I had a lot of fun mixing the old with the new. I really strived to create a downtown SoHo loft feel. I want all of my clients to walk in and feel really positively and relaxed." Everything that meets the eye in the salon was thoughtfully chosen, from the leather couch down to the books on the coffee table.
Butler always knew her end goal was owning her own salon. She says the journey to making this goal a reality consisted of a lot of "blood, sweat, and prayers." She studied at Pivot Point Academy Cosmetology School in Nash, Texas, before going on to work at Texarkana Headmasters Salon in Texarkana, Texas.
After five years, she decided to relocate to Hope and began working at The Loft. And even with more than 10 years of experience under her belt, she is very passionate about continuing and furthering education: she makes sure that both she and her stylists stay current with beauty trends and techniques by consistently attending advanced educational classes. They take online courses once a month and attend classes in person every few months in Dallas, Texas.
Butler wants her salon to be all about beauty and positivity. She feels a lot of women don't come to One | 24 to just get their hair done, but more importantly, to gain more confidence and feel more beautiful. "I want my clients to leave their baggage at the door and just come relax with us," she stated.
One | 24 is a licensed olaplex salon that offers services ranging from cuts and colors to manicures and airbrush tanning. Certified sprayer Allison Sitzes offers a solution that is derived from natural ingredients and is customized to every client. Butler is pleased to say that she herself will be traveling to Dallas later this month to attend a class at Hair by Charlie, the completion of which will certify her to do hand-tied hair extensions.
There are three stylists, including Butler, currently working at One | 24. Taylor Cochran (recently married, formerly Taylor Jones) has four years of experience as a stylist and manicurist. Cochran told us she loves when a client comes in and she can "give them a whole new look that they are happy with." Margaret Cox, Butler's mother, also works at One | 24 salon. Cox has over 40 years of experience with hair and beauty. She has worked in four different states: Florida, Ohio, Louisiana, and Arkansas. "I have always loved the business of doing hair," she said. "I love that it is flexible and always changing, because I never get bored."
Throughout the years, Cox has really tried to ensure that her clients look and feel good when they leave her chair. She has served as a major inspiration to her daughter; Butler told us that she has always hoped to one day work alongside her mom. A new stylist, Ramsi Putman, will be joining these three lovely ladies late this year or early next year. She will be graduating from Cosmetology Academy of Texarkana.
Butler says she's very excited for Putman's arrival and can't wait to watch her learn and grow at One | 24. "I am very selective of the stylists who join my team. I look for drive, goals, and a love of learning. I wanted a team of women who learn together, grow together, and be successful together."
When asked if Butler could offer advice to someone starting their own small business, she responded with, "Prayer was very important to me in the planning of my business. Have a well thought-out plan and a goal in mind. Really take your time and don't cut any corners. Never stop educating yourself. Never stop growing, and don't settle for stagnant."
Terra Cox Butler, owner of One | 24 salon.
Taylor Cochran, stylist.
Stylist for over 40 years, Margaret Cox, Butler's mother and biggest inspiration.
During her extensive renovation, Butler decided the exposed brick wall would be the focal point of the salon.
One | 24's station for manicures and pedicures.
Modern lounging area for clients.
Butler adding the finishing touches on a client.
One | 24 salon, located on the corner of 2nd and Walnut in downtown Hope.
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Data Analytics Showed Disability Pension Benefits Misused: CBDT Chairman
Fauji India| Updated:July 8, 2019, 2:56 pm IST
Staff Correspondent
The circular that revoke Income Tax exemption on Disability Pension on servicemen who retire after full service, was issued after data analytics found that the provision meant for the needy was being misused, the CBDT chairman PC Mody has said. Mody said the circular issued on June 24 was not a new directive but only in clarification to the stated policy.
"We have full respect for the soldiers working in the armed forces. If there is any disability, then this provision is there but what happened was that over a period of time, the data analytics showed that many were claiming it and that it was being misused. To stop this, a clarificatory circular was issued. If disability happens due to action, then this pension is untaxed as it has been," the CBDT chief said.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) circular no 13 of 2019 stated, "Such tax exemption will be available only to armed forces personnel who have been invalidated from service on account of bodily disability attributable to or aggravated by such service and not to personnel who have been retired on superannuation or otherwise." The move triggered outrage amongst military Veterans. The matter became murkier following Finance Minster Nirmala Sitharaman's office tweeting a letter from the Army headquarters which said how undeserving personnel have wrongfully claimed Disability Pension, indicating how the army was acting against its own interest.
The Indian Army soon followed by officially support the stand. It tweeted: "Indian Army is concerned for all personnel who are invalidated out of service in combat conditions or otherwise, and need additional support and discourages those who seek financial gains through their disabilities." This enraged Veterans further who took to social media criticizing the army for campaigning against it's own. The Army said that over the years, broad-banding and the compensation awarded for disability with income tax exemption had led to a rise in the number of personnel claiming disability even for lifestyle diseases.
A group of disabled war veterans of these forces had expressed their resentment at the move, saying, "Disability compensation is not only limited to war or operation disabilities, but is also available to all other medical conditions that arise while a person is serving in the military." Ex-Servicemen also pointed out how fraudulent Disability Pension claims should be dealt with disciplinary action against the errant officers and stricter regulation and vigilance, and not a disproportionately harsh act of taxing the pension of all superannuating personnel. "In fact, as per rules, all disabilities arising in service are presumed to be related to service conditions since a person joins the military after a series of tests for physical and mental fitness," the Veterans said in a letter.

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Achievements in 2017
The Peter Cowan Writers Centre would like to congratulate the following members for their achievements in 2017:
Glen Phillips – 24th March 2017
Life Member & ECU Liaison Glen Phillips launched two new books Crouching Tigers & Hidden Dragons (Glen's collection of 148 Chinese poems in two volumes), and Over the Hills & Far Away (the final work in Glen's Wheatbelt trilogy). Emeritus Professor Dennis Haskell, AM, officially launched the Chinese collection.
Glen was nominated to receive an award for his outstanding contribution to the Western community for providing 32 years of dedicated service to Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre. For his contribution and commitment as a long serving volunteer, Glen received a WA Volunteer Service Award commemorative service badge and certificate at the KSP open day on Sunday 7th May 2017.
Holden Sheppard won a national writing award in Sydney for his manuscript "Invisible Boys". This award is the 2017 Ray Koppe Residency Award and will give Holden a one-week residency at Varuna, the National Writers' House, in the Blue Mountains in NSW.
Hannah van Didden
Hannah van Didden is a finalist in the Iceland Writers' Retreat Alumni Award, which provides recipients with a fully funded or partially funded residency at the Iceland Writers' Retreat. Hannah was one of 30 finalists selected from over 600 applications from around the globe. The residencies are merit-based and the selection of the four alumni is highly competitive.
Christopher Konrad – 11th May 2017
The launch of Christopher Konrad's book, a collection of poems "Argot" was officially launched by Shane McCauley.
John Dooley on his publication of his new book "Mayhem, Missionaries and Middle Aged Beach Bums", as well as his recent successes with bush poetry in the Toodyay Bush Poets Bash.
Kim Scott – 26th July 2017
Curtin University, in association with Picador Australia, launched Taboo, an extraordinary new novel from Kim Scott, two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Kim Scott is a multi-award winning novelist and Professor of Writing in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University. His novel, Benang (1999) was the first by an Indigenous writer to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award and That Deadman Dance (2010) also won Australia's premier literary prize. Proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar, Kim is founder and chair of the Wirlomin Noongar Language and Story Project, which has published a number of bilingual picture books. He received an Australian Centenary Medal and was 2012 West Australian of the Year.
Martin Chambers on his book release, a collection of short stories being released on an iBook in late October 2017. Many of these stories have been inspired by the PCWC 600 Word competition, although there are some longer stories too. Pre orders at Apple, Kobo or Barnes and Noble are only 99c. For more information:
https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/six-hundred
https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/six-hundred/id1276194537?mt=11
Josephine Taylor for being appointed as the new Associate Editor at Westerly magazine, and will work alongside Editor Catherine Noske and the Westerly team to continue to develop the magazine as a platform for lively and intelligent fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and scholarly offerings. Josephine is also a member of the editorial board at Margaret River Press, and reviews regularly for Australian Book Review.
Morgane Johnson achieved a Highly Commended award in the Tim Winton Young Writer's Awards for her story, "New Beginnings".
Morgane is a home educated student under the tutelage of Brooke Dunnell, the facilitator of the weekly home school writing group held at the Peter Cowan Writers Centre.
Tammy Johnson, mother of Morgane, says the writing group has helped her daughter to develop form and structure in her writing. This has been of enormous benefit to her writing style. Recently Morgane was encouraged to enter the Tim Winton writing competition. As a result of her growth within the writing group, she was pleased to receive a Highly Commended award for her story.
Hannah van Didden was announced the Writer-in-Residence for FAWWA this year, and was the Writer-in-Residence at Mattie Furphy House from 30th October 2017 to 10th November 2017. Hannah's short fiction is published in: Southerly journal, Breach zine, the Grieve Anthology 2016, MoTHER zine, Paper Crown Magazine, The Ham (UK), Atticus Review (US), A Quiet Courage (US), Gravel Magazine (US), Southword Literary Journal (Ireland) and Quail Bell Magazine (US).
Hannah writes literary fiction, as well as crime and speculative fiction. She is currently writing Wilderlander, Book 2 of her dystopian YA/adult Orenda trilogy. She was a 2017 finalist for the Iceland Writer's Retreat Alumni Award, finalist for the Scarlet Stiletto Awards 2014 for short crime fiction, and finalist for Shore Lines Writing for Performance Competition 2014.
Catharina Kitty Niemann – 25th November 2017
This day saw Catharina launch her book "Serenity", a book launch of memoirs, ancestor stories, poetry, genealogy and family history.
Elizabeth Brennan on her new book, a short story "Autumn's Secret".
Susan Braghieri – November 2017
Susan's memoir piece 'Sword Dance' has been awarded a Highly Commended in the Scribes Writers 'Short Takes' Prose Competition in the Memoir category.
Susan has also had three of her 8-word stories published on Queensland Writers Centre's (QWC) website as part of QWC's 8-word story challenge centred around the themes of 'love', 'home', 'change' and 'play'. You can read Susan's 8 word stories at:
http://8wordstory.com/story/breathing-stops-the-grieving-starts-missing-you-forever/
http://8wordstory.com/story/abandoned-feet-in-the-gutter-a-lovers-despair/
Martin Chambers – Rockingham Writers Centre Anthology 'Ripples'
Martin had several short stories selected for the Rockingham Writers Centre anthology Ripples.
Liana Joy Christensen – 22 Pillars Performance Poetry event
On her participation in the recent performance poetry event, '22 Pillars' as part of the Fremantle High Tide Festival. The performances on both nights were sold out! Twenty-two poets recited their poetry, in the style of Greek Theatre, for a series of archetypes representing Fremantle past and present, under the direction of Jennifer Kornberger. The project took 18 months to bring to fruition with archetypes including The Hitchhiker of Gage Roads, The Harbourmaster's Daughter, The Curator, The Morning Swimmer, Mother of Three, John Boyle O'Reilly, The Refugee, The Green Lighthouse, and The Storyteller of Booyeembara to name a few. The performance also included a number of past alumni from PCWC's Advanced Poets workshop series and PCWC facilitators including: Kevin Gillam, Rashida Murphy, Jaya Penelope, and Sanna Peden. Congratulations to all.
Liana Joy Christensen and Gary De Piazzi – Poetry D'amour Anthology
For their inclusion in the 2017 Poetry d'amour anthology with their poems 'Remembering' (Gary) and 'Countless' (Liana). Gary has also been involved with the organisation of the anthology and launch event for a number of years. The anthology also includes poetry from a number of PCWC poetry workshop facilitators and past PCWC Advanced Poets Course and PCWC Mural Arts anthology alumni: Dick Alderson, Ross Jackson, Sanna Peden, Jaya Penelope, Shane McCauley, Annette Mullumby, and Julie Watts. The 2017 Poetry d'amour anthology can be purchased from the following link: https://wapoets.wordpress.com/shop/2017-poetry-damour-anthology/
Gary has another poetry achievement. One of his Haiku poems is features on the Australian Haiku Society's webpage:
the first leaf fall
web: australianhaikusociety.org
Winners of the Trudy Graham-Julie Lewis Award for Prose Competition 2017
Highly Commended was awarded to Craig Van Waardenburg for 'The Dump'
Commended was award to Antonina Bivona for 'Listening to the Silence: Walkabout in the Goldfields Desert'
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Georgia Rose / lyric by Alex Sullivan and Jimmy Flynn ; music by Harry Rosenthal.
First line of text: Mammy is feeling sad today. -- First line of chorus: Georgia Rose, Georgia Rose. -- For voice and piano. -- Caption title.


There's a time for everything under the sun!!!!
Im becoming convinced Andreas Oberg is one of the greatest guitarist ever.
My top 5 would change all the time.
One week Clapton is in, the next week he's replaced by Knopfler.
Another week Skolnick is in, the next he's replaced by Friedman.
I've just started listening to some Animals As Leaders, so Tosin Abasi will probably be in the list before too long.


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LuminUltra submits COVID-19 clinical diagnostic testing kit for regulatory authorization
By LuminUltra Team / POSTED IN Clinical Diagnostics, COVID-19, News & Awards
End-to-end solution and components offer flexibility to testing facilities, meeting high-volume demand and significantly boosting global testing capacity
FREDERICTON, NB, Sept. 14, 2020 – Canada-based biotechnology front-runner LuminUltra announced today that it has submitted its GeneCount® COVID-19 RT-qPCR Assay Kit (COVID-19 Assay) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and to Health Canada for an Interim Order (IO). With authorization to use this key testing component, LuminUltra, a leader in field-based molecular diagnostic testing for over 20 years, will provide a complete clinical COVID-19 testing solution that can be customized for testing facilities throughout North America.
LuminUltra's accurate GeneCount® COVID-19 RT-qPCR Testing Solution comprises multiple components that together make up an end-to-end solution, including: sample collection kits; isolation reagents; the COVID-19 Assay; and a range of quick-detection qPCR testing devices with software for simple interpretation of COVID-19 test results in under two hours.
With the authorization of the COVID-19 Assay, LuminUltra will be able to offer flexibility to appropriate facilities around the world by providing some or all of the necessary COVID-19 testing components from a single, reputable company. This reduces the need to source components from multiple suppliers, allowing facilities to onboard additional testing capacity quickly. Underscoring its reliable supply chain, LuminUltra responded promptly to the Government of Canada's testing needs earlier in the year, and has been a key supplier of the isolation reagents for the national testing program since April, providing 500,000 tests a week.
Facilities can select COVID-19 testing devices based on their respective requirements and size, from portable, qPCR testing devices that can assess up to 16 samples in under two hours period, to large format, high-capacity and automated qPCR and extraction devices.
"Human diagnostic testing for COVID-19 has scaled up very quickly and has become complicated for users. We hear frustration as facilities are forced to source inflexible components for testing from different companies and work through supply chain issues since these products are in high-demand – all while trying to provide safe testing solutions for patients," said LuminUltra Chairman and CEO Pat Whalen. "We have been working relentlessly to provide flexible solutions that we are confident in – all from one company with a proven track record of meeting demand."
LuminUltra has a history of biological testing innovation. Alongside the clinical diagnostic test, LuminUltra is also the creator of the GeneCount Environmental Monitoring Solutions – an on-site environment monitoring system that detects the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, on surfaces, in the air, or in wastewater. This monitoring system, launched in May 2020, allows corporations, building managers, hotels, cruise ship operators, service providers and others to verify disinfection protocols as well as pinpoint potential asymptomatic and presymptomatic carriers within two hours. The GeneCount qPCR devices – both the portable and high-capacity options – can also run the environmental test, providing a holistic approach to pandemic management. The work done on research and development for the environmental test has helped to ensure a reliable and market-ready clinical test.
Assets, including images of the GeneCount qPCR product and application photos, can be found here.
Founded in 1995, LuminUltra is a biological diagnostic testing company headquartered in Canada with operations in 6 countries. It is widely recognized globally as a leader in developing tests and reagents for environmental, industrial, and diagnostic monitoring and is a key supplier of COVID-19 clinical testing reagents to the Government of Canada. Customers in over 80 countries trust LuminUltra's technology, production reliability and history of customer service excellence to deliver their essential services in a safe-state. To learn more, visit luminultra.com/clinical
Jessica Stutt,
Director of Communications and Marketing
jessica.stutt@luminultra.com
Made-in-Canada COVID Testing Now Available: LuminUltra Receives Health Canada Authorization for Rapid, Portable COVID-19 qPCR Testing Solutions
[Radio Interview] Helping the Water Sector Solve Microbiological Problems in Water
By LuminUltra Team / POSTED IN Drinking Water, News & Awards
LuminUltra CEO Pat Whalen took part in an interview with Water Online Radio while attending the Annual Conference & Exposition of the American Water Works Association (AWWA's ACE17) in Philadelphia. The discussion touched on a number of interesting topics that we thought might be of interest to you. You'll find the interview excerpted below…. Read More
Putting Firefly Tails to Work in Water Treatment [via the Telegraph Journal]
By Eric Douglass / POSTED IN Drinking Water, News & Awards
Many innovations are inspired by nature – LuminUltra's technology is no different. Find out how we use the same chemical found in a small firefly to prevent big problems for water utilities. by Martin Wightman Fredericton's LuminUltra Technologies Ltd. saw a gap in wastewater treatment testing and filled it by co-opting the firefly's glow. Living… Read More
Get Schooled in Water Safety and Microbial Monitoring with LuminUltra Academy [News Release]
By LuminUltra Team / POSTED IN News & Awards
FREDERICTON, NB, CANADA – February 8, 2017 – It's not often you come across a company so committed to educating its customers and partners that it develops an entire suite of training courses, but that's exactly what led to the creation of LuminUltra Academy. Access to this new, web-based training and certification center is… Read More


Words are the building blocks of a language. If you want to build a solid house you need a good foundation. After the structure of the house is sturdy and secure, you can continue adding to it by investing time and hard work. The same is true of expanding your vocabulary.
So, what happens if you do a sloppy renovation job? Maybe something breaks and needs to be repaired. That means maintenance work. Either you can let it go and just live with it or you can reinforce which would definitely be the best long-term policy. Again, this rings true of learning new words in English.


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ANTI-FLAG LIVE ACOUSTIC ALBUM
ANTI-FLAG RELEASE LIVE ACOUSTIC ALBUM
LIVE ACOUSTIC AT 11TH STREET RECORDS OUT DIGITALLY TODAY, NOVEMBER 20
(NEW YORK, N.Y.): Punk rockers Anti-Flag have released a digital acoustic album, titled Live Acoustic at 11th Street Records, today, November 20.
The performance was recorded during the Punk Rock Bowling extravaganza this past spring. So if you weren't able to attend PRB in Las Vegas, you can vicariously enjoy the experience of the band performing at Sin City's 11th Street Records via this album.
"The songs on American Spring pushed us into territory uncharted," said A-F bassist Chris No. 2. "I felt immense struggle for personal self-worth and self identity writing these songs. Making the moment of its release something incredibly scary and nerve wracking. This show at 11th Street Records was not only us unveiling the record for the first time but of us playing these songs for people other than ourselves for the first time. The importance of independent record stores like 11th Street cannot be understated — a forum where ideas can be shared, where outsiders of the status quo can find solace. The dissemination of information outside of pop culture. To partner with this shop in Las Vegas and have attendees of Punk Rock Bowling from all over the globe made this one of the coolest and powerful moments in our bands life. This collection of songs is a document of that moment."
LIVE ACOUSTIC AT 11TH STREET RECORDS TRACK LISTING:
1. "Fabled World"
2. "This Is the End"
3. "Broken Bones"
4. "Brandenburg Gate"
5. "1915"
6. "One Trillion Dollars"
7. "Without End"
8. "Turncoat"
9. "Die for the Government"
The album is available via iTunes and Spotify.
Anti-Flag will tour this winter, as well. All dates are below.
ANTI-FLAG WINTER 2016 TOUR DATES
W/ LEFTOVER CRACK, WAR ON WOMEN, THE HOMELESS GOSPEL CHOIR, and BLACKBIRD RAUM
2/19/16 Houston, Texas | Walters *
2/20/16 Dallas, Texas | The Prophet Bar *
2/21/16 San Antonio, Texas | Korova *
2/23/16 Tucson, Ariz. | The Rock *
2/24/16 Mesa, Ariz. | Nile Theater *
2/25/16 San Diego, Calif. | Observatory North Park
2/26/16 Santa Ana, Calif. | Observatory
2/27/16 Los Angeles, Calif. | Troubadour
2/28/16 Las Vegas, Nev. | Vinyl
3/1/16 San Francisco, Calif. | DNA Lounge
3/2/16 Reno, Nev. | Knitting Factory
3/4/16 Seattle, Wash. | El Corazon
3/5/16 Portland, Ore. | Hawthorne Theatre
*No Leftover Crack or Blackbird Raum
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PSD votes to offset reduction in trustee pay
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The division said compensation would need to be adjusted by 11 per cent in order to offset the removal of the one-third tax exemption and keep the net compensation the same.
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Published on: May 12, 2019 | Last Updated: May 10, 2019 5:41 PM EDT
Chairperson Eric Cameron and the PSD board of trustees voted in favour of offsetting losses in trustee pay due to the elimination of a federal tax exemption.
The Parkland School Division is choosing to offset an upcoming reduction in trustee pay due to a federal tax change.
The PSD board of trustees voted on the matter during their May meeting on Tuesday. Until recently, one third of trustee pay has been considered tax exempt. As of Jan. 1. This was no longer the case, causing a reduction in the bottom line a trustee takes home.
Administration put forward a recommendation for the board to review whether or not to adjust compensation due to the elimination of the tax exemption.
"We attended an Association of School Business Officials of Alberta meeting where we learned four boards were voting in favour of increasing to offset the change, four boards were voting against it, and one was unknown," said associate superintendent Scott McFayden. "Since that time we've gathered more information, with 21 boards increasing, 16 not increasing and five undecided."
The division said compensation would need to be adjusted by 11 per cent in order to offset the removal of the one-third tax exemption and keep the net compensation the same. Under 2017-18 trustee remuneration, an 11 per cent increase will result in an additional $28,057 in additional trustee compensation expense. This is equal to 0.02 per cent of the $134-million 2018-19 budget.
Trustee Paul McCann spoke against the adjustment, cautioning the board to avoid the perception they are giving themselves a raise.
"There is just no way I could ever agree with an elected board giving themselves what the public will perceive as a raise. At a time when nobody is getting anything and we're talking about cutbacks in our budget. To me as a leader, I would never feel comfortable giving what will be a perceived raise," said McCann.
Others noted the increasing workload trustees have dealt with, and highlighted the impact losing some of their take home income could have. They added they have no intention of giving themselves a raise, the move is purely to return their compensation to the schedule it has always been on.
"For myself, sitting at this table literally takes dollars out of my income. As the only breadwinner in my family, the thousands of dollars in net difference is the difference between my children playing soccer and not playing soccer," said trustee Anne Montgomery.
Trustees voted in favour of offsetting the previous exemption, which will go into effect immediately. PSD spent an average of $41,944 per trustee and a total of $293,224 in total remuneration and benefits excluding expenses. Total annual expenses sat at $89,170 in 2017-18.
"I can make a whole list of what our municipal partners are doing but I think we should focus on what we do. I've been a trustee or nine years and one of the things I can say for sure is the work load has increased every year," said board chairperson Eric Cameron.
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Kadamjay District (; ) is a district in Batken Region, in south-western Kyrgyzstan.
The administrative seat lies at Kadamjay. The district area is , and its resident population was 201,457 in 2021. The largest town of the district, Kadamjay, is located between the cities of Aydarken (Khaidarkan) and Kyzyl-Kyya.

The district is thought to have the second largest mercury-antimony deposit in the world.
Kadamjay Antimony Factory is one of the biggest factories in Kyrgyzstan. Khaidarkan Mercury Plant, built in 1942, was reported, as of 2005, to produce 300 to 600 metric tons of mercury per year.

Ak-Suu (white river) is the river which passes through Kadamjay. Jiydelik lake is a favorite picnic spot.

Population

Rural communities and villages
In total, Kadamjay District include 2 cities and 115 villages in 13 rural communities (). Each rural community can consist of one or several villages. The rural communities and settlements in the Kadamjay District are:

 city Aydarken
 city Kadamjay (including 3 villages: Tash-Kyya, Pülgön, Chal-Tash)
 Absamat Masaliev (seat: Kara-Döbö; incl. Olagysh, Kakyr, Kojo, Kon, Alysh, Tash-Korgon and Leskhoz)
 Ak-Turpak (seat: Jangy-Jer; incl. Ak-Turpak, Jangy-Jer, Kalacha, Kara-Tumshuk, Kyzyl-Korgon, Ötükchü, Sary-Kamysh, Tokoy, Chogorok, Chong-Kara, Jash-Tilek, Örükzar, Ming-Chynar and Kelechek)
 Alga (seat: Alga; incl. Adyr, Böksö, Myrgyljek, Shak-Shak, Shybran, Chungkur-Kyshtak and Jangy-Chek)
 Birlik (seat: Ormosh; incl. Bel, Jal, Jangy-Korgon, Kichi-Aydarken, Molo, Sur, Syrt, Teskey, Chechme, Eshme, Jangy-Syrt and Yntymak)
 Chauvay aiyl okmotu (1: center - village: Chauvay)
 Khalmion (seat: Khalmion; incl. Baymaala, Güldürömö, Jangy-Ayyl, Joshuk, Irilesh, Kök-Tal, Kurulush, Noogardan, Tash-Döbö, Yntymak, Chekelik and Shady)
 Kötörmö (seat: Kyzyl-Bulak; incl. Ak-Kyya, Gayrat, Jalgyz-Bulak, Kara-Oot, Kara-Shoro, Kesken-Tash, Kötörmö, Tamasha and Langar)
 Kyrgyz-Kyshtak (seat: Kyrgyz-Kyshtak; incl. Kojo-Korum, Kaytpas, Bürgöndü OPKh and Bürgöndü PMK)
 Markaz (seat: Markaz; incl. Arpa-Say, Dostuk, Kök-Talaa, Mayak and Pyldyrak)
 Maydan (seat: Kara-Jygach; incl. Austan, Kara-Kyshtak, Karool, Kerege-Tash, Maydan, Pum, Kara-Döbö, Isfayram, Sary-Altyn, Bak, Akimbek and Jangy-Abad)
 Orozbekov (seat: Orozbekov; incl. Kuldu, Кosh-Döbö, Kuduk, Öndürüsh, Sary-Talaa and Uchkun)
 Sovet (1: center - village: Sovet)
 Üch-Korgon (seat: Üch-Korgon; incl. Valakish, Kakyr, Kalacha, Kaltak, Sulaymanabad, Raz'ezd, Sukhana, Chauvay, Boz, Kambar-Abad and Tajik-Kyshtak)

Note: Kyzyl-Kyya is a town of regional significance of Batken region, villages Karavan, Ak-Bulak and Jin-Jigen are parts of the town Kyzyl-Kyya.

External links
 A site about Kadamzhay

References

Districts of Batken Region

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Arsenal sign Jakub Kiwior from Spezia on 'long-term' deal
Arsenal have confirmed the signing of central defender Jakub Kiwior from Spezia.
Athletics reported that the north London club is working on a deal to sign the 22-year-old for a fee of more than €20 million (£17.5 million).
The transfer has now been completed and the Polish international has signed what the club described as a 'long-term' one-year contract.
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said: "It's great to have Jakub with us. He's a versatile young defender who has shown huge potential and quality at Spezia in Serie A, as well as internationally with Poland.
"Jakub is a player who will give us strength and quality in our defensive unit. We welcome Jakub and his family to Arsenal and look forward to working with him.
Sporting Director Edu said: "We are delighted to have completed the signing of Jakub Kiwior. He is a young talent that we have been following for a while. We all now look forward to working with Jakub and seeing his continued development with us. We welcome Jakub to Arsenal.
Kiwior will become the club's second signing in the January transfer window after Arsenal signed Leandro Trossard from Brighton and will cover Gabriel from Arsenal.
The left-footed centre-back, who has also played in defensive midfield, joined from Zilina in 2021 and has appeared in 17 of the club's 18 Serie A games this season.
He also earned nine caps for Poland and was part of their World Cup squad.
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Sorry you can probably blame me. I was manually building from GeekBox for Cubox-i, and I am sure I cloned it more than 10 times in the last three days. I now have it figured out so that it doesn't happen again.
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Just curious how long did this take to be resolved?


Yahya, Khulida Kirana and Isa, Site Nora and Johari, Johanim (2012) Employees' perception on engagement and its relationship to HRM practices. In: 3rd International Conference on Business and Economic Research (3rd ICBER 2012), 12-13 March 2012, Golden Flower Hotel, Bandung, Indonesia.
The paper aims to examine the relationships between human resource management (HRM) practices and employee engagement. HRM practices consist of training and development, financial recognition, non-financial recognition, fringe benefits and supervisory, while employee engagement is a single dimensional construct. A total of 340 questionnaires were distributed to operational level employees, comprising of production operators, trainers, assistant team leaders, and team leaders. A total of 306 questionnaires were returned and used for further analysis. The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and regression analysis to investigate the relationship between HR practices and employee engagement. The findings exhibited that there were significant and positive relationships between all HRM practices dimensions and employee engagement. The regression analysis result indicated that only fringe benefits and non-financial recognition had influenced employee engagement substantially. Furthermore, the regression results also showed that 30% of total variance of employee engagement was explained by human resource practices dimensions. This denotes that HRM practices play a vital role in promoting employee engagement. Finally, discussions, recommendations as well as conclusion of the study were also highlighted.


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Q: Prioritise unanswered questions in close queue? While I understand the logic behind reviewing answered questions in the close queue - that is, bad questions should still be closed or put on hold in order to discourage people from asking them, even if they have been answered already - there are three glaring problems with this idea:

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*Many of the questions that are appropriate to close, are from
new users with a reputation of 1. Completely new users probably
won't be discouraged by the fact that we are putting thousands of questions on hold, because they have never asked a question
before and so they simply aren't aware of this torrent of closes.

*Putting a question on hold has the best deterrent effect if it happens before any answers are provided.

*Putting a question on hold is more helpful to the user than nothing at all, if no answers have been provided. If, on the other hand, a useful answer has already been provided, putting the question on hold is not really directly helpful, although it does help to enforce community norms.

It's very frustrating that I have voted to close unanswered questions that are not even about programming and yet are still unclosed after 7 days, probably because their tags have too few followers - while at the same time I'm being asked to review questions for closing that have up to 9 answers, which seem kind of less urgent to close.
Putting unanswered questions on hold would actually help users to ask appropriate questions in appropriate venues and get appropriate answers. Why can't unanswered questions be prioritised in the close queue? Maybe not with a 100% weighting over answered questions, but at least with a heavier weighting than they have at the moment?
If this is not desired, can we at least have a filter to enable those of us who care about this to opt to review unanswered questions first in the close queue?

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Gulfstream's G500 and G600 aircraft have achieved record trans-pacific flights in their respective weight classes, Gulfstream Aerospace has announced.
On April 20, the G500 and G600 flew from Shanghai to Honolulu at an average speed of Mach 0.90. The G500 made the flight in 8 hours and 34 minutes, with the G600 arriving just one minute later at 8 hours and 35 minutes.
The next day, the two aircraft flew from Honolulu to Savannah, again at Mach 0.90. The G500 made the flight in 7 hours and 44 minutes, and the G600 clocked in at 7 hours and 49 minutes.
The G500 is on track for certification this summer, with the G600 following later this year.
"Gulfstream customers are accustomed to flying practically anywhere in the world at record speeds, and the G500 and G600 have been doing just that as they near certification," said Mark Burns, president, Gulfstream. "Our flagship G650ER has proven itself time and again as the highest-performing aircraft in the industry, and the G500 and G600 are performing equally well in their classes, even before customer deliveries."
"These records showcase the real-world capabilities of these impressive aircraft," Burns said.


Dear Patanjali, WTF Is This Ad?!
I've been off TV for a while, so this little bundle of joy (NOT) has arrived in my life a little late. It's the Patanjali Saundarya vs Aishwarya ad that's been airing for the past month and a half that I'm talking about. It's a straightforward ad if you want to sum it up in a sentence: 'Girls, use the Patanjali Saundarya Swarn Kanti cream if you want flawless, pimple-free skin'. But the messaging of the ad as a package is just so mind-bendingly awful that you can't really do justice to it (or to a lot of women) by doing that one-line summary. For this ad, you see, is also about the 'Good' Indian Girl vs the 'Not-Good' Indian Girl.


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Herhold: Arrillaga project in Palo Alto needs…
Herhold: Arrillaga project in Palo Alto needs massive revision
By Scott Herhold | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: November 16, 2012 at 6:51 a.m. | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 10:50 p.m.
Occasionally, an idea comes along that is so flawed that it demands a reset, a control-alt-delete of design. Such is the case with John Arrillaga's plans to build an office complex and a theater shell on the southwest side of the Caltrain station in Palo Alto.
The 27 University project is not without virtues: It marks an attempt to transform a valuable and underused slice of land — the largely Stanford-owned territory bounded by University Avenue, El Camino Real, the train station and El Camino park.
But the current design is so bad on so many levels that it's difficult to know where to begin a critique.
Start with how bulky it is. As the project is envisioned, the buildings would rise as high as 161 feet, more than three times the city's 50-foot height limit.
Architecturally, this creates a massive bully, one that towers over the Caltrain station and the four-story buildings nearby. To accommodate its fly space, the theater would offer a 100-foot-high blank wall toward the popular El Camino Park.
Then there's the traffic. Anyone who has ever tried to drive in Palo Alto at rush hour knows that it can take 15 minutes to move from Churchill Avenue to downtown. This plan will make the crawl infinitely worse.
Throw in the secretive and slippery way that the city has handled the project — which, in cityspeak, is not technically a project — and you have a near-perfect storm of insult.
Misleading sketches
With palm trees and sidewalk cafes, the architectural sketches in the city's report do not convey the bulk of a development city officials have stretched to call an "Arts and Innovation District."
The people who can afford the world-class rents will be established interests, not hungry innovators. And the beneficiary of the theater, the acclaimed TheatreWorks, will have to raise money to complete the shell.
Last, Arrillaga's project will require the moving of the 1918 Julia Morgan-designed MacArthur Park restaurant. And while this is the least of the problems, no place has yet been found for a building that matters historically.
Is there anything good about the project? Well, yes. First, it would enliven a piece of land that has been ignored for years.
Easier walking
The proposal also would make walking and biking easier between downtown and Stanford. The tired bus area would be redone in a more compact loop surrounding University Avenue. And naturally, the big selling point would be the 600-seat new theater.
Some folks like the idea of a big project here and say that the fears of traffic from four office buildings between six and 10 stories are overblown. "We're not talking about Manhattanization," one resident, Carla McLeod, told the architectural review board.
But if you ask me — and I know, you didn't — none of these things demands that Palo Alto break so dramatically with its 50-foot limit, which has been in place since the mid-'70s.
That limit came about for a reason. The "residentialists," as they were known then, were distressed at buildings like 525 University, a 1966 office tower that reaches 237 feet high. Only a minority of people wanted Palo Alto to ape New York.
A livable place
The 50-foot limit unquestionably benefited downtown. Palo Alto remains a livable and walkable place. After suffering through difficult times in the late 1970s, when I began covering it, University Avenue is thriving.
"Doing this project as it stands will completely change the livability of Palo Alto," one resident, Carol Kenyon, told the architectural review board. "It's going to create unbelievable traffic congestion."
Can it be fixed? Yes. Longtime Palo Alto resident Bob Moss suggests that the Arrillaga buildings be limited to 70 feet. I think he has a point: Even though that exceeds the city's longtime limit, it's still a rational height.
If that means a rejiggering of the theater, or even its elimination, most of us could live with the result. On a regional level, TheatreWorks thrives by putting on shows in the downtown Mountain View civic center complex.
The best part of all this is that the public gets to have a say. Palo Alto officials say they will put the Arrillaga proposal to a public vote, probably next spring. If the project doesn't get drastically better, the path to no is more than easy.
Contact Scott Herhold at 408-275-0917 or sherhold@mercurynews.com. Follow him at Twitter.com/scottherhold.
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Q: Do "hull" and "full" rhyme?— rules for "short U" sounds before L I grew up speaking a variety of American English that merges the "short U" sounds before L. The "short U" sounds are the vowels in the words STRUT and FOOT. For me, before an L sound, all words have the vowel from FOOT—that is, for me bull, full, and pull rhyme with dull, gull, and null.
According to Wikipedia, The Atlas of North American English mentions this as one of four mergers before /l/ that may be under way in some accents of North American English, and which require more study. So this merger is known to exist, but it is not well understood the range and extent of the merger.
Regardless, I'd like to have a full grasp of standard American English, so I have set to the task of memorizing which -UL- words have the STRUT vowel (which I always pronounced with the FOOT vowel). Are there a set of rules I can use to predict if a "short U followed by L" word will have the STRUT vowel?

A: Using the CMU pronouncing dictionary, I gathered all the words that have the STRUT vowel (ARPABET AH1 ) or the FOOT vowel (ARPABET UH1) before an L sound. Then I eliminated all the rare words, most proper names, and the etymologically related words, leaving only roots:
FOOT words
bull      Fulbright  pull
bulldoze  full       pulley
bullet    fulsome    wolf
bulletin  Fulton     wool
bully     Pulitzer

STRUT words
adult       gulf        pulp
bulb        gull        pulse
bulge       gullet      pulverize
bulk        gullible    result
compulsion  gully       revulsion
consult     gulp        scull
convulse    gulped      sculpt
cull        hulk        skulk
culminate   hull        skull
culpa       indulge     stultify
culprit     insult      sulfur
cult        lull        sulk
cultivate   lullaby     sullen
culture     medulla     sultan
culver      mulberry    sultry
culvert     mulch       tulsa
divulge     mull        tumultuous
dulcet      mullah      ulcer
dulcimer    mullen      ultimate
dull        mullet      ultra
emulsion    mulligan    vulcan
engulf      multi       vulgar
exculpate   null        vulnerable
expulsion   occult      vulture
exult       promulgate
gulch       propulsion

Words which, according to at least one dictionary, could be FOOT or STRUT
boulevard
ebullience
fulcrum
fulminate
pulpit

Then I set about to analyze the lists to see if I could find any patterns, and then devise a set of rules I could use to determine when to use the STRUT vowel and when I could use my native FOOT vowel.
We will call a "short U" followed by L a "UL"

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*Default: ordinarily, UL words have the STRUT vowel (e.g. cull, vulgar, gullet, ultra)

*F-rule:  UL words preceded by F have the FOOT vowel (e.g. full, fulsome)

*B/P-rule: UL words preceded by B or P have FOOT if that is the end of the word, or the next sound is a vowel (e.g. bull, bullet, pull, pulley, but not bulb, pulse, pulverize)

*exceptions: wolf, wool
Interestingly, only a labial consonant (/b/, /f/, /p/, /w/) followed by UL can have the FOOT vowel, and then, only in some cases.


Sabah Tourism Board (STB) is looking to members of the public and budding videographers to create a montage of the Sabah's tourism attractions. The submissions close on 31 August and the result will be known after a month later.
The contest is free for the public and it is sponsored by Amazing Borneo, Borneo Trails Tours & Travel and Nandos Malaysia. Attractive prizes including a GoPro action camera will be given away.
Chairman, Datuk Joniston Bangkuai at STB office said this is the second online contest organised by STB after the successful photography contest last year which attracted almost 2,000 submissions depicting beautiful Sabah.
"We are providing a platform for visitors and locals alike to capture the moments and share their experience through the video. This is a new approach for us to promote the State tourism and get feedback for the industry," said Joniston.
STB general manager, Gordon Yapp said: "The selected videos will be viral in the social media to become a promotional tool for STB. We believe many people have recorded a lot of beautiful places in Sabah. And now they can put their creativity to the test and send it to us.
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Just about the most important procedures in alcohol manufacturing is actually fermentation and proper alcohol fermentation can certainly produce alcohol with personality. Most drinkers which includes yourself would certainly rate any alcoholic beverage according to its flavor, color, and also potency yet most importantly you would try to look for personality that could eventually end up pleasing your own taste buds as well as your senses too.
Every alcoholic drink including wine, beer, vodka, rum, whiskey, etc requires passing through the fermentation method before it acquires alcohol strength that is mentioned as proof levels on the bottle or can. However before fermentation might take place there are actually other procedures that lead in the direction of fermentation. These comprise of steeping, malting, mashing, and also boiling before fermenting the mix. This particular classicgin.com mixture is made up of water as well as suitable starch resources such as grains, grapes, apples, potatoes, rice, barley, maize, corn, or several other ingredients depending on the alcoholic beverage that needs to be developed.
This particular alcohol fermentation process changes starch as well as sugars within this mixture into alcohol or ethanol as it is usually known. The actual brewing operation prior to fermentation produces a mixture or wort that is then infused using yeast in order to kick-off alcohol or ethanol fermentation. The particular yeast that is added also depends upon the alcoholic beverage that needs to be produced. For example brewers yeast cannot generate strong alcohols and it is therefore utilized to produce beer. Lager beer too gets its unique personality from yeast such as saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast. Similarly, wine yeast works well to create medium strength of alcohol and it is hence employed in wine formation. Nevertheless, vodka yeast can produce vodka with very high proof levels and it is thus employed to produce this heady drink.
Fermentation will take place solely at the best possible temperature ranges that vary between 15 and 27 degrees Celsius. Hence, any kind of wort that has been boiled to sterilize the mix as well as remove any kind of impurities needs to cool down just before any kind of yeast is added. In case you are making homebrew alcohol then you can also include suitable instant yeast or turbo yeast since they can work successfully in a broader temperature range. Once the fermentation of sugars is actually complete then the resultant alcohol will probably need to get polished and filtered before being packed and dispatched for drinking. Many producers have different procedures as well as time-frames for yeast growth and yeast fermentation during the fermentation process, and this course of action ensures alcoholic beverages having different character, taste, potency, and also acidity levels.
A few spirits such as whiskey and vodka also require an additional distillation procedure once the fermentation is finished. These types of powerful alcohols also require distillers yeast to create spirits with additional strength. This process along with fermentation once again produces whiskey or even vodka with the right level of strength and character which could persuade you to adhere to that particular type or even brand for a lifetime.
It is the entire alcoholic beverage production process which ultimately converts water as well as grains or even fruits or perhaps vegetables straight into delectable alcohol beverages. However, it is the fermentation process which converts sugars and also starch into ethanol and also alcohol which eventually provides the sought after taste and strength to that alcoholic beverage. In addition to other procedures, correct alcohol fermentation will create alcohol with character which ends up satisfying your own senses with each tasty sip.


LEM introduces the DVC 1000-P model for insulated nominal voltage measurements in traction and industrial applications. This device measures a nominal voltage of 1000 VRMS and incorporates isolating amplifier technology. Despite achieving very high levels of isolation with a safety insulation voltage of 4,2 kV, the DVC 1000-P transducer is really compact, measuring only 37 x 43 x 23,5 mm and can be mounted on printed board for a total volume of only 37,4 cm3.
Typical sensors for the same nominal measurement using galvanic insulation are bulky whereas DVC 1000-P offers significant savings in terms of space. It also offers high levels of accuracy and temperature stability.
LEM developed the DVC 1000-P to be fully compliant with the International Railway Industry Standards (IRIS). The features set of the DVC 1000-P voltage transducer also makes it an excellent fit for a broad range of small-to-medium voltage measurements in industrial markets. It also utilizes materials that comply with all relevant fire and smoke requirements that are mandatory in railway applications.


A 25-year-old man is dead after being stabbed inside Kennedy station Saturday night, Toronto police say. Kennedy station is closed for the police investigation and shuttle buses are transporting TTC passengers between Warden subway and Scarborough Centre.
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Ua Pou
Time period: June 26th – June 29th
Exploring our last Marquesan island of Ua Pou before we head further west.
After leaving Daniel's Bay on Nuku Hiva, we sailed 25 miles south to the island of Ua Pou and the village of Hakahau. This is the third largest island in the Marquesas (Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa are the first two) and is known for its tall basalt spires. We found out the island was actually named after the spires, since Ua Pou translates to "columns." The spires are indeed dramatic, rising up from the center of the island and appearing like a primordial fortress. Interestingly, the outer edges of the island (at least on the northern side where we were anchored) are very dry and desert-like, and it is not until you travel inland that the familiar lush green jungle vegetation appears.
Approaching the island of Ua Pou.
The beach at Hakahau. See the tall basalt spires in the back.
Only one other sailboat was anchored in the bay when we arrived, it was Anke-Sophie owned by a German couple we had met in Taiohae. We arrived late in the afternoon so decided to wait for morning for a shore excursion. We arrived at the grocery store about 8:00am the next morning to find to our dismay all the baguettes were sold out. We'd been spoiled in Hiva Oa and Nuku Hiva where you could get to the store as late as 10am and still find baguettes. Here you have to get in before 7am. Yikes! Luckily you can also reserve baguettes at the store for the next morning, so that is what we did. As we were making our way back down the beach to our dinghy, we made the acquaintance of a local Frenchman named Xavier. He comes down to the beach almost every day to go for a swim and meet the new cruisers. Besides French, he also speaks German and English which was quite nice. He told us where there was an outdoor shower, where there were potable and non-potable water spigots, and some places we should check out in town such as the church and the town hall for its lovely wood carvings. He also mentioned he'd be willing to take up to four people in his 4WD for an island tour for a very reasonable 8000 francs (about $92) total. This was much cheaper than other tours, with the bonus that he spoke both English and German. After chatting with Tomas and Annette from Anke-Sophie, we agreed on splitting the cost of a tour the following day.
We spent the rest of the day wandering around the village, viewing the beautiful wood carvings around town, and swimming in the bay. That is a nice perk about anchoring in Ua Pou; there is no river coming into the bay so it has a sandy bottom and the water is relatively clear and blue. Clear enough for us to go for a swim and scrub some of the algae off the waterline of our boat!
One of the carvings on the door of the church. We weren't sure about this place after seeing this particular carving, but later found out it depicted the story of the first minister of this church; he never made it as he died in a shipwreck on Rapa Nui (Easter island) on his way to Ua Pou.
The pulpit in the church is a work of art; it is carved from a single piece of wood and depicts the bow of a ship. Below the ship is a fishing net full of fish and below that (not in the net) are an odd assortment of sea creatures.
I just love the detail of the carving - lots of fish in the net!
There's even two fish kissing! I think they must be celebrating since they escaped the fishing net. :)
One of several carvings in front of the town hall.
A really cool painting of a paddler on the wall of the boathouse.
Touring the island the next day was a lot of fun. We drove into the mountains, checked out a restored marae (ceremonial site), and did a short hike up a ridge to a high point where we could see both the east and west sides of the island. Later we drove down to the coast and explored some remote beaches. One of these beaches was made up only of small round rocks, from pebble to basketball size. This was the beach where you could find flower stones – a rock completely unique to Ua Pou. Apparently the volcano that created Ua Pou was different from the rest and created a rock with crystals imbedded in it that look like little flowers. The locals carve the stone into figurines of turtles, tikis, and mortar and pestles. We got to find our own flower stone which was much more meaningful to us. We enjoyed a good 30 minutes or so of rock hunting on the beach before finally taking a break for lunch. Later, at our request, Xavier took us to the homes of locals he knew that grew vegetables and fruits so we could stock up for our upcoming passage to the Tuomotus. Xavier even did some bargaining for us and got great prices on the produce. We were lucky to have such a great tour guide; Xavier was happy to answer all the questions we had about the island and took us to some excellent spots we would never have known to even look for.
The mountains up close.
Great views of the coastline.
Hiking back down there were more great views.
Exploring a marae restored for a dance festival several years ago.
A cute stone carving and a breadfruit pit (on the right).
Checking out the rugged and beautiful coast.
The rock beach where flower stones can be found.
The flower stone we found. A pretty awesome souvenir!
Getting fresh produce from a local vegetable garden.
Checking out the tikis carved by one of the local woodcarvers.
Concluding our tour with a drink at Xavier's house. From left: Christian, Alena, Annette, Tomas, and Xavier.
The next leg of our journey is to sail to the Tuomotus, a group of atolls between the Marquesas and the Society islands. Our target is Raroia, which is about 425 nm from Ua Pou. Raroia's claim to fame is that Thor Heyerdahl's raft, Kon Tiki, washed up here after his epic voyage from Peru. If we can make it to this atoll (wind and weather dependent), it should be a great place to continue our explorations of French Polynesia!
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What wonderful blogs. We have enjoyed reading them.
It is awesome that you are able to do it. Happy sailing to the next islands. Photos are sooo great!!
0 #1 David & Michelle 2014-07-10 15:21
We still don't know what we are doing next year, but your posts make the Marquesas look great!


Nimray Solar, an Indian company that commercialises solar panels and integrates them in mini decentralised electricity networks using Block chain, allowing citizens to become self-sufficient in the production and reselling of energy between neighbours was presented with "Le Monde – Smart Cities Award for Energy" in the Le Monde Smart Cities Award 2018. In Singapore on Wednesday 11 July 2018, the International edition of Le Monde Smart Cities Awards ceremony was held, in partnership with INTA. The awards were presented in Singapore at a conference on cities of tomorrow organized by Le Monde at Marina Bay Sands, on the side-lines of the World Cities Summit.
The prizes were awarded to 7 projects out of 111 candidatures that create cities fit for the challenges of today and tomorrow. The projects focus on ecological transition, fluidity of movement and collective action to create sustainable, inclusive, efficient, resilient and respectful cities. The awards were judged by an international jury composed of researchers, urban planners, architects, business experts of the public and private sector, and journalists of Le Monde. The ceremony was also part of a conference on the cities of tomorrow organised by Le Monde at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on the margins of the World Cities Summit.
Le Monde is a daily newspaper published in Paris, one of the most important and widely respected newspapers in the world. Le Monde offers a clear, considered view of the conflicting interests and complexities of a modern global world.


Nintendo subsidiary threatens legal action to keep scientists from referring to cancer-causing gene by the nickname "Pokemon."
In a January issue of the science journal Nature, Pier Paolo Pandolfi of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York described the cancer-causing POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic gene, calling it Pokemon in the process.
Not pleased by the rush of headlines proclaiming "Pokemon causes cancer," Pokemon USA threatened legal action against the center to have the name of its popular game and trading card series disassociated from the gene, reports the latest issue of Nature. The center has complied with Pokemon USA's demands, and now refers to the gene by the much less-catchy name Zbtb7, Nature reports.
This is not the first time researchers have dipped into the world of gaming for a research nickname. The Sonic hedgehog gene was named after Sega's speedy mascot in 1993. Sega has never sued over the matter, even though mutations in the developmental gene can lead to a number of brain and facial defects, including cyclopia.


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Close down underground market in pit bulls: Editorial
Wed., Nov. 23, 2016timer2 min. read
In 2005 Ontario banned the breeding and importation of pit bulls and required that existing ones be leashed and muzzled in public. It was a smart step to protect people and their pets from a breed known for its aggressive and dangerous behavior.
So it's disturbing to learn that, in the wake of the ban, a thriving black market has emerged. In fact, as the Star's Jesse Winter reports, finding pit bull breeders is as easy as a quick Internet search. The classified site Hoobly.com brought up 77 postings for pit bulls for sale in the GTA alone.
Further, Winter found that some veterinarians may be supporting the underground market by going along with claims from breeders that their dogs aren't pit bulls.
The erosion of the law is cause for concern. While the ban met with a lot of controversy at the time of its passage from breed enthusiasts who argued there are no bad pit bulls, only bad owners, it has proven to be a boon to public safety.
A 2014 Star investigation found that from 2001 to 2004 pit bulls were more likely than any other breed to bite people and pets in Toronto. In 2004, for example, there were 984 licensed pit bulls in the city and 168 reported bites. But by 2013 there were only 501 pit bulls registered in Toronto and just 13 bites.
That's right – the law appears to have produced a 92-per-cent reduction in pit bull bites.
Police and Toronto Animal Services inspectors should move quickly to ensure that the ban is being enforced. We know all too well what the alternative looks like. Consider three horrifying incidents from the year before the law was passed.
First, in what one witness described as a "bloodbath," a 25-year-old man was attacked by two pit bulls in a downtown laneway. He was saved by police — but it took a full 16 bullets to bring the aggressive dogs down.
Only a few weeks later a woman was walking her 8-year-old Labrador-cocker spaniel mix when a pit bull mauled her dog, causing injuries that resulted in 60 stitches and amputation of the pet's tail.
And shortly after that, another pit bull knocked a pregnant woman over and locked its jaws onto the neck of her 3-year-old Labrador retriever. The pet required 20 stitches.
Ontario isn't alone in its justified concern about pit bulls. This fall Montreal moved to adopt a bylaw similar to the Ontario law, while Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard suggested his government might bring in similar measures province-wide. Other cities, including Winnipeg, have also adopted bylaws to control pit bulls.
Ontario moved to make its streets safe from aggressive pit bulls more than 10 years ago. It succeeded. Now it's time for police and inspectors to target illegal breeders and complicit veterinarians to ensure this sound law is not undermined.


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To Mom, With Love from The Peninsula Manila!
Take Mom to The Peninsula Manila for some extra nurturing in moms-only lounges, Sunday Brunch, or overnight stays this Mother's Day Weekend.
In normal, pre-pandemic times, mothers have always had to perform several jobs – Chief Parenting Officer, Lead Laundry Operator, Executive Chef, Head of Entertainment & Toys… to name a few. Over the past two years, however, those jobs have multiplied as working from home, home schooling, and reduction of after school activities put more family time/responsibility on her. But did she crack? NO. Did she buckle under pressure? NO. She persevered as the enforcer of the tightest family bonds.
But with the world gradually reopening, it's about time to treat mom to some much deserved "Me Time." In fact, a survey of mothers revealed that a majority of respondents wished for just that. So, say goodbye to the typical bouquet of flowers and celebrating at home and say hello to these offers from The Peninsula Manila that come with some extra nurturing in moms-only lounges, dining experiences, or overnights or longer stays this Mother's Day Weekend.
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May 8, Sunday
P 2,500 per person, exclusive of taxes
A moms-only hideaway separated from the hustle and bustle of The Lobby, the Pen Ultimate Mother's Day Dream Lounge at The Upper Lobby is the ideal place to celebrate the first woman in your life. Moms will appreciate the eclectic blend of furnishings and experiences they can enjoy along with complimentary refreshments and bites, free-flowing inventive mocktails and tapas-style plates that will be served throughout the day. Impress her even further with the delicious (and complimentary) Peninsula Afternoon Tea that will be served at The Upper Lobby from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm.
Take Mom to unwind at the Pen Ultimate Mother's Day Dream Lounge at The Upper Lobby and make it her new sweet spot that she'll probably never want to leave.
TO MOM WITH LOVE ROOM PACKAGE
May 7 and 8, Saturday and Sunday
Rates start at P 8,500 for a Deluxe Room (exclusive of taxes)
Inclusive of breakfast buffet for two adults and two children 5 years old and below at Escolta, complimentary use of The Fitness Center and Spa, outdoor pool, WiFi, and parking
Treat the extraordinary Mother in your life to a pampered stay at The Peninsula Manila where – aside from an overnight stay dedicated to relaxation – you can shower her with additional gifts like a lovely bouquet of Mother's Day blooms, exclusive pass to the Pen Ultimate Mother's Day Dream Lounge at The Upper Lobby, an in-room massage, a blow dry at Le Maquillage salon, and a little extra time for relaxation with a complimentary Peninsula Time late checkout.
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Spring bouquet floral arrangement (P 1,500)
Exclusive pass to the DO NOT DISTURB: Pen Ultimate Mother's Day Dream Lounge at The Upper Lobby (P 2,500, inclusive of taxes)
In-suite or in-room 60-minute massage (starting at P 3,500)
Blow dry at Le Maquillage salon (starting at P 650)
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Celebrate Mother's Day with an epicurean adventure at Escolta Restaurant's lavish Sunday Brunch Buffet with all of mom's favorites.
P3,500 (adults)
P1,750 (children under 12)
All prices are inclusive of 10% service charge and prevailing government taxes.
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Q76. Which layer of the OSI model controls the reliability of communications between network devices using flow control, sequencing and acknowledgments?
Q80. Refer to the exhibit.
Q81. A network administrator is trying to add a new router into an established OSPF network. The networks attached to the new router do not appear in the routing tables of the other OSPF routers. Given the information in the partial configuration shown below, what configuration error is causing this problem?
Q82. Refer to the exhibit.
Q83. What command sequence will configure a router to run OSPF and add network 10.1.1.0 /24 to area 0?
Q85. The ip helper-address command does what?
Q86. What does administrative distance refer to?
Q87. How can you ensure that only the MAC address of a server is allowed by switch port Fa0/1?
Q88. Refer to the exhibit.
Which default gateway address should be assigned to HostA?
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Merge tags [google-search-api], [google-custom-search], and [google-cse]
I propose that the tags for Google Custom Search service be merged.
Google has a service called Google "Custom Search Engine" (CSE):
https://www.google.com/cse/
https://www.google.ca/cse/docs/
There is an API for "custom search":
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/
CSE can also be used by via the Google 'control panel' and an HTML search widget.
There is a related Enterprise service called "Google Site Search":
https://www.google.com/enterprise/search/products/gss.html
In the developer docs, Google refers to CSE and SS as 'editions' of "Google Custom Search".
Google has a couple of other, unrelated, search services that are offered as app engine API's (though it wouldn't surprise if Google decided to generalize them into cloud platform API's):
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/apis
The distinction is that CSE is Google Search - it theoretically uses the same search technology and content as the Google Search. The GAE search API's, on the other hand, operate on user provided data. For clarity they could be referred to as 'Prospective Search' and 'Datastore Search'.
The tags in question are:
google-custom-search with 343 questions, 11 followers.
google-cse with 166 questions, and 9 followers.
google-search-api with 260 questions and 6 followers.
It appears to me that there is much confusion about which tags to use for questions about custom search. Many questions use multiple redundant tags, but even more just use the generic search tag (which has 16.6K questions).
The google-search-api tag has a significant number of questions about the GAE search API's, though its info tab explicitly says it is for CSE. So CSE has 3 tags, and the GAE Search API's don't really have their own tag. If they do get their own tags I would suggest google-prospective-search and google-datastore-search. (Prospective search is brand new (still labelled experimental) so it probably has very few questions.)
Though I quite dislike all of the long tag names for Google products, I think the best one in this case is google-custom-search. Note that the GAE search API's don't use the word 'custom' so that word is the key to distinguishing these products.
I haven't merged tags before and I doubt I have the points so I would need someone else to do it. Also, I wonder whether there is a normal procedure for handling a tag such as google-search-api which has a significant number of mis-tagged questions. I would suggest that the ones that also have google-app-engine, or google-api (28 and 24, respectively) get the new tag google-datastore-search and the rest get google-custom-search,
discussion tags retag-request
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Also, [google-custom-search] is sponsored, and it's not nice to make them lose out on questions in their sponsored tag. – Scimonster Oct 29 '14 at 12:40
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Double tags for Google Cloud Messaging? Let's merge these suckers!
Merge tags [flink] and [apache-flink]
Both [gmail] and [gmail-api] tags look to be about the Gmail RESTful API. What should be done to properly tag questions related to Gmail?
Merge [web-audio] and [web-audio-api]


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Latest BSNL Cinema Plus Service Launched With Access to OTT Platforms Including SonyLIV, Zee5 at Rs. 129 a Month
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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched a new service called BSNL Cinema Plus that allows its subscribers to access multiple over-the-top (OTT) platforms including SonyLIV and Voot Select with one subscription. The bundled service is available at Rs. 199 a month to BSNL subscribers, though it is currently available at an introductory price of Rs. 129 a month for the first three months. The state-owned operator claims that the BSNL Cinema Plus service brings a total of more than 300 TV channels and over 8,000 movies.
As first reported by OnlyTech, BSNL appears to have tied up with YuppTV to offer the BSNL Cinema Plus service to its subscribers. It brings access to SonyLIV Special, Voot Select, YuppTV Premium, and Zee5 Premium. The service is available through YuppTV Scope, which provides access to multiple OTT platforms under one subscription.
Users subscribing to the BSNL Cinema Plus service can watch Web content on their computers, mobile devices, and smart TVs. There are also features including personalised recommendations and content aggregation.
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In terms of genres, the BSNL Cinema Plus service offers shows, movies, sports, music, and kids content. There is also access to live TV channels and original shows from platforms including Zee5 and Voot.
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BSNL subscribers can get the BSNL Cinema Plus service through its website. It requires a sign up under which you'll be required to provide your BSNL phone number, telecom circle, email ID, and full name. Once signed up, the service is available through an app available for Android, iPhone, Android TV, and Fire TV devices. It can also be accessed through a Web browser on desktops and laptops.
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did some free doodle with my iPad pro. it's pretty different from doing with pc.
Play with my IPad pro. Did a Life drawing with my families. Grandparents and my dear aunt.
Anyone got opinions of procreat if I get an iPad mini I'm going all out and probably getting it. Is there any other good or better art apps? Procreat is the one I always hear about.
Throw back to my second year at uniniversty, this pieces of work was for the last show of my second year at university and the meaning behind this pieces of with is lost in thhe maps. The reason behind it is that i had a tracker on me and I felt like I was trapped and I couldn't get away and live my life how I would like, so i had to find away of realising. And getting away and that is what I did with the pattern.
The artist that inspired me for this work was Mishka Henner and he reforms maps and makes then unreadable.
Meet Octilla! My pirate octopus girl and her companion Cookie!
I would adopt all the Cubone's.
Fight like a girl. This series has been so much fun!
Ghost Viking chilling on a North Atlantic island cliff with some puffins.


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Evaluations of State Welfare-to-Work Programs
James A. Riccio, Dan Bloom, Gayle Hamilton, Virginia Knox
A central challenge in welfare policy arises from the dual imperatives to promote self-sufficiency among welfare recipients and to protect vulnerable families from economic deprivation. In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, the U.S. moved to expand the services it offered recipients to help them prepare for and find work, while also...
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Increasing Employment Stability and Earnings for Low-Wage Workers
Lessons from the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Project
Gayle Hamilton, Susan Scrivener
Many recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and other low-income individuals find or keep jobs for a while, but far fewer remain steadily employed and advance in the labor market. This report describes results and draws lessons from rigorous evaluations of 12 programs seeking to improve employment retention and advancement among low-wage workers.
Improving Employment and Earnings for TANF Recipients
Gayle Hamilton
This policy brief, developed by the Urban Institute for the federal Administration for Children and Families, describes how strategies have helped welfare recipients enter employment and increase their earnings. However, more remains to be learned about how best to substantially increase their self-sufficiency and financial well-being.
What Works Best for Whom
Impacts of 20 Welfare-to-Work Programs by Subgroup
Charles Michalopoulos, Christine Schwartz
Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
Virginia Knox, Andrew London, Ellen Scott
Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
Welfare Policies Matter for Children and Youth
Lessons for TANF Reauthorization
Pamela Morris, Virginia Knox, Lisa Gennetian
The Role of Education and Training in Welfare Reform
Judith M. Gueron, Gayle Hamilton
The Experiences of Welfare Recipients Who Find Jobs
Karin Martinson
Impacts for Portland's Career Builders Program
The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Gilda Azurdia, Zakia Barnes
A program in Portland, Oregon, to remove employment barriers and assist with job placement and employment retention and advancement for welfare applicants and recipients was never fully implemented and, not surprisingly, had no any effects on employment, earnings, or receipt of public assistance.
Results from the Valuing Individual Success and Increasing Opportunities Now (VISION) Program in Salem, Oregon
Frieda Molina, Wan-Lae Cheng, Richard Hendra
A program to promote better initial job placements, employment retention, and advancement among unemployed applicants to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program faced implementation challenges and had no employment-related impacts after one year of follow-up.


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Philip McKeon, 'Tommy' on '80s sitcom 'Alice,' dies at 55
Philip McKeon from Associated Press. (Source: 3774131Globe Photos/MediaPunch /IPX/MediaPunch)
December 10, 2019 at 7:47 PM EST - Updated December 12 at 8:35 AM
DALLAS (AP) — Philip McKeon, who as a child actor was featured as the son of Linda Lavin's Alice Hyatt in the 1980s CBS situation comedy "Alice," has died in Texas at age 55, a family spokesman said.
Spokesman Jeff Ballard said McKeon died Tuesday after a long illness. He said further details on where and how McKeon died were being withheld at his family's request.
McKeon acted in the role of Tommy Hyatt in "Alice" from 1976 to 1985. His most recent acting role was in the video "Ghoulies IV," which was released in 1994.
Ballard says McKeon had worked for 10 years in the news department of a Los Angeles radio station before moving to Texas about five years ago to be better able to care for his family. He settled in the Central Texas Hill Country town of Wimberley, about 30 miles southwest of Austin, where he hosted a local radio show.
Survivors include his mother and Nancy McKeon, his sister best known for playing Jo Polniaczek in the 1980s NBC situation comedy "The Facts of Life."
A crash-warning device wasn't required on the helicopter that crashed and killed Kobe Bryant and eight others, but experts say it's unclear whether the instrument would have saved their lives.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued an Amber Alert for a father and baby who've been missing since three women were found shot to death.
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Garry has been flying model aircraft and helicopters for over 20 years. In addition, he has extensive full size flying experience, holding UK, US and Russian pilot's licenses with many hundreds of hours on high performance aerobatic aircraft. For seven years he was a member of a full size formation aerobatic display team, and thus has extensive experience of aviation operations in high pressure, safety conscious and crowd dominated environments.
Grahame has flown model aircraft for over thirty years and designed many gliders including a national competition winner. He has been flying specially adapted aerial photography aircraft since the summer of 2005, achieving notoriety with articles in various newspapers including the Brighton Argus and the Worthing Herald. His work was chosen for display in a photographic exhibition at Worthing Museum and Art gallery for the summer of 2007.


Wisdom of Life.: Know your strength & mistakes from your clients.
Selling tips for my fellow colleagues.
Each time I closed a case, especially a new client, I would try to assess his strength and his weaknesses. I compliment his strength but also advise his weaknesses if there are. It is easy to offer goodness to another but not many darn to highlight another person weaknesses. Close friends will offer both assistance. If you are truly a sincere agent, you should not be afraid to compliment and advise at the same time. If it is done tactfully with professionalism, your client normally would appreciate your endeavour.
Finally before I leave, I would always ask my client whether he is happy with my services. In order for me to improve my services, I would be glad if he could be frank to outline my strength too. By telling my strength, I could capitalize further on them. However I wish also to know whether I had made any mistakes as well. Telling my mistakes or defects are one way I could correct myself. I assure my clients, I would never feel offended in any way, if they could provide these plus and minus in my selling. Their comments are always benefiting and rewarding to our relationship building.
Conclusion: clients and agent would learn much from each other. It reflects the maturity of your personality. You develop a greater confidence within your clients.
Confucious said, "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
I will remember to do this in future each time I close one deal.
I am glad you take my advice. Thank you for reading my blog. Please do come back again.
I am going to be trained to be an agent soon, and it is the toughest decision to make, none of the people around me have good comments for me. I have 3 more modules/papers to pass for general insurances, and is leaving a deskbound job for this unknown career future. Your blog is very inspiring and emaning for newcomers like us.
I am glad u are back. Welcome to our selling world. If you open your eyes and ears from now onwards, you will learn things you have not learned before. Don't be afraid to ask those you interact with. Remember mistakes are your teachers of life. Know your mistakes and learn from them at the sametime. I am happy my blog inspired you. Keep reading them. Thanks for your sincere comment too.


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