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There might be several issues still but we have resolved quite a few of them, making co-op gameplay smoother and more stable.
We have tested this for 2 days without losing items - the issue might still be there though, but we have eliminated quite a few ways to lose an item.
People who have lost items in the past ~2 days should also get back their items when they log in. Praise the Emperor!
If you still encounter these problems or any others, feel free to use our new bug tracker.
Next major patch with significant updates is incoming soon.
Still loosing equipment. Would be nice to be able to access inventory during game play and to rotate camera with buttons like Q and E instead of having to hold down middle mouse button.
dissatisfaction with the lack of communication not lack of patch/update this would be fine if we where told and as you say "involved in" implies we are involved but when we had to hunt for information on other sites to find out what is going to make me doubt how "involved" we are.
I dislike pointing people out as being wrong but I would refute the statement that devs have been any less involved or disingenuous with us. Any mention of patches that didn't come into play, were because they were never officially announced in the first place and were mere speculation mainly circulated by us, the players - being overly hopeful. When we are due patches, they are announced here formally. Perhaps not all minor onces.
Any information you are finding on other sites that isn't here isn't official therefore and isn't a sign of the devs being less involved. All you have to do is read the discord chat to see we are constantly engaged in conversation with them. If anything i'd suggest you rely on discord for updates as we are conantly told of the games and devs progress.
Because that was not official. I mean, if there is something new and official - that information will be posted here! So you don't have to follow all of the channels for official information. But if you want to know how we are working on things or you would like to know additional information, then you should follow our other channels too.
That's why I wrote that, every single official news will be posted here. The bigger ones will be posted to reddit as well and to the other platforms. The little ones may not. But for that you just have to follow our Discord channel. Community Hub and Reddit are the same.
I think what OP is saying is that the information is not being replicated across all mediums. We should be able to go to the Reddit OR the official forums OR the Discord to gather information. We shouldn't have to go to all three to hunt down bits and pieces of information that get posted randomly. The only reason I had any idea there were plans for a Wednesday update is from an offhand comment by another user; that plan is not posted anywhere. And since it's now Thursday with no update, and no news on the lack of update, I can see why.
- Here (Community Hub), you can find all the information about the game.
- We have a Discord channel, where players can ask directly from the Devs (or just chat with them).
- We have a Reddit page where you can do the same thing as at the Community Hub.
- And we have a Bug tracker, which is very useful to the Support team.
But you just need to follow the Community Hub. You can still post bugs here if you want, but you can also share your feedback or read the latest news and patch notes.
I think this is a post of dissatisfaction about the lack of a patch today, as they said they hoped to do. I agree, I am sad there was not patch today, as I would like to see the next milestone reached, however, your tone implies you don't understand what you're currently involved in. I recommend you reread the content and goals of the limited Alpha founding launch.
It might be best for you to either get a refund and walk away, or simply stop following this game until launch and then redownload and enjoy the final product.
must say i'm getting annoyed by all this what to report a bug no no got to do that on another site once you've signed up for it now, what to check when next update is (was meant to be friday got delad till monday) no no got to check on a different site once you've signed up for it! its almost like they are trying to distance them selfs from the game like they have lost interest confidence and are going to drop it.
i'm sorry you have a site a hub where you were putting all the info but now nope going to hide it els where happy hunting.
Any further information when that exactly will be?
If I click on the chest on the upper left corner the game crashes :-/ So I can't play the game now, because I have to get the rewards fisrst before I can start new missions. Somebody got an idea when the next patch come out?
I'm losing every weapon & item I equip my character with. I started a brand new character and when I drop into battle only the start/default items are there. Back in the inventory, all the items I attempted to equip are gone.
Great! Is there a chance that we can try the next major patch this already this weekend?
Only NA and EU servers :C Still not an excuse for the rubberbanding I think - for the ping, yes though.
Is there a way to check what region a co-op session is hosting in ? NA server pings from here are normally around 200-300ms while not perfect are normally playable for most games. The biggest issue all four of us face is not been able to reload or interact with any objects , for example reloading a bolter will take upwards of 3 minutes , switching weapons the same. Looking at online gameplay of NA players on YouTube I do not see the same issues occurring at least not on the co-op videos I have seen online hence why I assume its simply due to a latency quirk. Thanks again for your response appreciated.
We should have servers all over the world, but I'll ask around for specifics and we'll see.
Thanks for looking into this appreciated.
Quick test of 3 games of co-op the good news is each one worked, the bad news at least for me latency is still a huge issue with warping/rubber banding now worse than it was before, item pick up registration , reloading weapons still takes upwards of 3 minutes to register I have recorded this in a video if devs wish to see please let me know and I will provide a link.
I just love you guys, great job.
Just started work but looking forward to jumping on tonight for a few hours of purging!
Thank you for the patch guys! Looking forward to trying out Co-Op for real soon!
Sorry fellas, but the issue with the grenade launcher changing into the weapon that it replaced is still alive and well.
Awesome work Kudos to the whole team.
One question though: Are we still only with Tier 1 Missions and Gear or is there some form of missions and loot progression coming sometime soon in the future?
I see a few people are able to get high Attack and Defense ratings but i find no matter what missions i run or loot drops i get i can barely get to 2 attack or defense. I was able to get to 5 and 4 respectively with gear i acquired from the few T3 and T4 missions i was able to run before patch 0.1.4 but alas the stats of these items were changed by you after patch 0.1.5 which brought them in line with T1 gear stats.
Here the same problem. Only T1 mission and gear soat the moment i can reach 44/60 attack rating and 57/60 defense rating.
praise the emperor indeed! i'll let you know if i encounter any more item loss! keep up the great work!


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module Oauned
  module Generators
    module Helpers

      private
      def model_exists?(model)
        File.exists?(File.join(destination_root, model_path(model)))
      end

      def model_path(model)
        File.join("app", "models", "#{model}.rb")
      end

      def migration_exists?(model_name)
        Dir.glob("#{File.join(destination_root, migration_path)}/[0-9]*_*.rb").grep(/\d+_add_oauned_to_#{model_name}.rb$/).first
      end
    end
  end
end

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Leap second: Is one second difference in time too much? – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Question: When is a minute not a minute?
Answer: At 2359 Greenwich Mean Time today (9:59am AEST Wednesday), when the world will experience a minute that will last 61 seconds.
The reason for the weird event is something called the leap second.
That's when timekeepers adjust high-precision clocks so that they are in sync with Earth's rotation, which is affected by the gravitational tug of the Sun and the Moon.
Few of the planet's 7.25 billion people are likely to be aware of the change and even fewer will have set plans for how they will spend the extra moment.
But for horologists, or timekeepers, the additional second is a big deal and there is a wrangle as to whether it is vital or should be scrapped.
Service of the Rotation of the Earth (SRE) director Daniel Gambis admits "there is a downside", the poetically named branch of the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), is in charge of saying when the second should be added.
The leap second is not something that needs to be added to that old clock on your mantlepiece, but instead its importance is for super-duper timepieces, especially those using the frequency of atoms as their tick-tock mechanism.
At the top of the atomic-clock range are "optical lattices" using strontium atoms, the latest example of which, unveiled in April, is accurate to 15 billion years – longer than the Universe has existed.
Outside the lab, caesium and rubidium clocks are the workhorses of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, which have to send synchronised signals so that sat-nav receivers can triangulate their position on Earth.
On Earth, big-data computers may be less manic than atomic clocks but still need highly precise internal timers.
The internet, for instance, sends data around the world in tiny packets that are then stitched together in micro-seconds.
Some algorithms in financial trading count on gaining a tiny slice of a second over rivals to make a profit.
There have been 25 occasions since 1971 when the leap second was added in an effort to simplify Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the official moniker for GMT.
But over the last 15 years, a debate has intensified about whether the change should be made, given the hassle.
Roland Lehoucq of France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) said critics argue it has become difficult to manage given the amount of equipment today that has internal clocks.
"The problem is synchronisation between computers. They do sort things out, but sometimes it can take several days," he said.
Qantas servers 'went down for several hours' previously
Mr Gambis said the previous modification, on June 30, 2012, was disruptive for many internet servers.
The online reservation system for Qantas "went down for several hours," Mr Gambis said.
SYRTE Laboratory atomic clocks specialist Sebastien Bize said it is time to get rid of the leap second.
"It causes complications and bugs," Mr Bize said.
Mr Gambis defended the change on the grounds of principle.
"Should man be the servant of technology? Or should technology be the servant of man?" Mr Gambis said.
After all, if the world got rid of the leap second, time as counted by mankind would no longer be coupled to the exact rotation of the planet it lives on.
"That would mean in 2000 years, there would be an hour's difference between UTC and the time it takes for the Earth to complete one complete turn," Mr Gambis said.
"It would mean that, on a scale of tens of thousands of years, people will be having their breakfast at two o'clock in the morning."
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Colin Kaepernick joined by Eric Reid in kneeling for national anthem protest
San Francisco 49ers quarterback booed by San Diego crowd during preseason game for his public stance against racial injustice
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels during the national anthem before the team's NFL preseason football game against the San Diego Chargers on Thursday. Photograph: Chris Carlson/AP
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Colin Kaepernick and San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid kneeled during the national anthem on Thursday night, continuing the quarterback's preseason protest against American racial injustice and minority oppression.
Kaepernick and Reid dropped to one knee while a naval officer sang The Star-Spangled Banner and dozens of military members unfurled an oversize flag at the Chargers' Qualcomm stadium.
Kaepernick received scattered boos when he dropped down, but the protest was otherwise unremarked by the San Diego crowd. The 49ers' visit coincided with the annual "Salute to the Military" preseason game for the Chargers, who have strong fan support in their city's extensive armed forces community.
Colin Kaepernick: my pig police socks 'shouldn't distract from the real issues'
Kaepernick got much heavier boos when he took the field to start the game for the 49ers and immediately led them on a 16-play, 85-yard touchdown drive. The veteran quarterback is attempting to regain the starting job he lost last season.
Kaepernick's protest has dominated the public discussion of the nation's most popular sport this week, and his stance has been met with equal condemnation and support. His refusal to stand for the anthem first came to public notice last week when he remained seated on the 49ers' bench before a preseason game against Green Bay.
When Kaepernick left the field following pregame warmups, he was greeted with profanity and obscene gestures from Leo Uzcategui, a 20-year Navy veteran in a military-green Chargers jersey with quarterback Philip Rivers' No 17 in camouflage numbering.
"I was in the Navy and I saw men and women bleed and die for this flag," Uzcategui said. "If he wants to do something, go to some outreach program where he can do some good. And I get it, his First Amendment right. But you don't sit during the presenting of the colors, and you don't sit during the national anthem. That is not the way to do it."
Domenique Banks, a 23-year-old fan from nearby Oceanside, California, got the quarterback to sign his Kaepernick jersey before the game.
Trump on Colin Kaepernick: 'He should find a country that works better for him'
"I told him I appreciate what he is standing up for," Banks said. "He said he appreciated it. Most of the people I talk to say the same thing. I don't like that he is sitting during the national anthem, but I appreciate what he is standing for."
Kaepernick said he had invited teammates to sit with him during the anthem, but didn't expect any to join him. His invitation apparently was accepted by Reid, the 49ers' starting safety and a fourth-year veteran from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Reid, who wasn't in uniform for the game, has been publicly supportive of Kaepernick's stance.
One sign in the crowd read: "You're an American. Act like one."
In Oakland, Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane also sat on the bench behind his standing teammates as the national anthem was performed before Seattle's game against the Raiders.
This is an @AP_NFL picture of #Seahawks CB Jeremy Lane sitting in protest during the national anthem tonight pic.twitter.com/AKOltqYJrt
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 2, 2016
Kaepernick kneeled next to Nate Boyer, a former Green Beret who went to training camp with the Seahawks last year as a long snapper. Boyer, who wrote a conciliatory open letter to Kaepernick earlier this week, had a long conversation with the quarterback about his stance this week, and he posted a photo of the two on Twitter with a caption reading, "Let's just keep moving forward. This is what America should be all about."
Kaepernick's visit to San Diego fell on the Chargers' 28th annual Salute to the Military, a night designed to pay tribute to the tens of thousands of active and retired military personnel who live in the area. The festivities included pregame music from the Marine Band San Diego, half-time recognition of Vietnam war veterans, and a crowd filled with numerous injured soldiers invited as special guests.
Kaepernick has said he doesn't intend his stance to be a criticism of the military, saying he has "great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country".
Kaepernick's social activism, which emerged publicly only in recent weeks, also included support for the Black Lives Matter movement through social media.
While negative reaction to the quarterback has been strong, Kaepernick also has been widely praised for his commitment to his stance. Veterans and military members tweeted their support for Kaepernick in recent days under the hashtag #VeteransForKaepernick.
Jim Brown voiced support for Kaepernick while disagreeing with his method of protest. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar called Kaepernick's decision "highly patriotic" while encouraging him to take further steps to build dialogue between law enforcement and blacks.
Amid the uproar of his emerging social activism, Kaepernick is still trying to win a job with the 49ers less than four years after leading them to the Super Bowl. The quarterback lost the starting job last season, and he hasn't separated himself from Blaine Gabbert this summer under new coach Chip Kelly.
Gabbert wasn't expected to play in the San Diego finale because he had already played much more in the preseason than Kaepernick, who didn't appear until San Francisco's third exhibition game.


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Adelaide is a city in Australia. It is the largest city and capital of the state of South Australia.
1 Hitchhiking out
1.1 North or West towards Alice Springs
1.2 Southeast towards Melbourne
2 Things To Do In Adelaide
North or West towards Alice Springs
In order to get rides North or West, you need to get to the A1.
There are 2 main options:
There's a big truckstop / petrol station a few km out of town, just after the caravan park, where lots of trucks stop. It would be a good place to ask the drivers and catch a ride. Asking for a ride to Port Augusta might be a good idea.
I waited in that station for about 15 minutes and got a ride to Port Augusta and from there a ride all the way to Perth.
I think http://www.highway1touristpark.com/ is the caravan park with station next to it
You can also stand on a random bus stop or other place along the A1 and try to hitch from there. You can get there with bus number 224 or 225 from King William st. in town. But try to avoid that if possible, it can get hot, there's no shelter and people are not keen on stopping.
Option 3 I didn't find the truck stop that these vague directions above gave me but I found a good space for hitching.
From the centre of town get a train ticket to Salisbury Interchange. The train is quite regular even on a sunday so you can relax about getting there. From the Salisbury Interchange get the bus. During the week the 900 will take you right to the intersection of Port Wakefield and Waterloo Roads (map). In the weekend the 401 will get you near there and if you have a nice bus driver like i did might take you up to the roundabout to save you some walking. The intersection has traffic lights on a quick cycle so the traffic is reasonably slow and there is a large area along the side to pull into.
Southeast towards Melbourne
Heading towards Melbourne, you could wait for a lift on Glen Osmond Road before it joins the South Eastern Freeway (which is also the Princes Highway), or further out of town along this highway at Crafers or Stirling. A number of bus lines including the 840, 841F, 861, 863, or 864 can drop you off at the intersection of Cross Road and Glen Osmond Road, or further at Crafers, Stirling. At the Cross/Glen Osmond intersection is still in city-area on a two-lane road, with a lot of local traffic and not very good visibility for cars to see the hitchhiker anywhere around this intersection until they are very close, further along you can stand at Crafers or Stirling small on-ramps to the highway which have less traffic but all are entering the highway and out of the city area.
In one hitcher's experience, after the Glen Osmond intersection there isn't really space to stand by the road, but the buses also go further along the freeway through Crafers, Arbury, Stirling and Mount Barker and you can try getting off any of these. The first stop out of town is stop 16 and is just a small road with not so much traffic but you can have luck walking a few metres past the petrol station to stand before the ramp back onto the freeway (one hitcher waited just 15 mins here). You could also take the bus further and find spots to stand at Crafers, Arbury, Stirling or Mount Barker where there will be more traffic.
In another hitcher's experience at the Glen Osmond intersection, mid-morning Saturday was the best time to find long rides. During the week much of the traffic is local and not good for an inter-city trip. You could also aim to get a lift toward's "Murray Bridge" (outside of Adelaide but in the direction of Melbourne) and get dropped off on a downhill section of the highway. Many trucks will pass you/pick you up heading to Melbourne. Another hitcher found it difficult to get a ride from the intersection on the edge of the city, but rather had more luck taking the bus to a place just a little further out along the highway.
Things To Do In Adelaide
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This year we are aiming to get over 1000 people to walk the 15,000 steps it takes to complete a 10K course in order to raise much needed funds and awareness to combat all head and neck cancers.
Preparations are well underway but we are still looking for companies or individuals who could sponsor our two remaining prizes for the Top Fundraisers. If you are able to help us and sponsor a £50.00 or £100.00 prize, please get in touch.
World No Tobacco Day was created by the member states of the World Health Organization in 1987 to encourage a 24-hour abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption. It also aims to draw everyone's attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to its negative health effects.
The one-hour technique known as Transoral Robotic Surgery allows a surgeon to remove the cancer without splitting the jaw or taking tissue from other parts of the body. It involves the use of the Da Vinci robot to access the tonsils through the mouth and unlike a traditional surgery carried out by two surgical teams, it has less complications.
We attended the event for the first time and were thrilled to see so many exhibitors presenting their latest products aimed at improving oral health and shaping the future of dentistry. The exhibition was a great success and we look forward to going again next year.
Our Public Relations Agency is Ten Years Old!
We have been working with the agency since our launch in June 2004. They not only look after Press and PR for us and assist us in the day-to-day running of the charity but they are also doing a great job organising our annual Mouth Cancer 10km Awareness Walk to help us raise awareness of mouth cancer and generate much needed funds.
When, in 2007, Keith Hern heard his diagnosis, he decided to set up a website and write a book, Bangers & Mash, to share his experience with anyone else going through the same. He also trekked across Iceland in 2009 and raised £7000 for the Royal Marsden Hospital.
To say 'thank you' to our Top Fundraisers for the walk, we would like to award them with prizes. If you are able to help us and sponsor a £50.00 or £100.00 prize, please get in touch.
And now, a study conducted by a team from Israel's Institute of Technology has found that this beverage can also help fight mouth cancer as it contains antioxidants that destroy a number of compounds in the mouth that can lead to this life-threatening disease. Green tea has many health benefits, so we should start drinking it every day from now on.
The Mouth Cancer 10km Awareness Walk is designed to increase awareness and through fundraising allow the charity to provide support for mouth cancer patients and carers.


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La Senza Corporation is a Canadian fashion retailer that sells women's lingerie and intimate apparel. The La Senza brand is currently owned by Regent which operates and owns La Senza stores in Canada and the United States and uses a franchise model for the operation of stores outside Canada and the United States.

At its peak, La Senza was the dominant lingerie retailer in Canada, with 322 corporate-owned stores across the country in January 2009. It also had 497 franchised international stores at that time, for a total of 819 locations. , La Senza owns and operates 74 stores in Canada and one in the United States, and has a franchise agreement with 202 international stores, for a total of 277 locations worldwide.

History
La Senza was founded in Canada by Laurence Lewin and Irving Teitelbaum, who opened the company's first store in 1990. In October 2006, La Senza was purchased by L Brands of Columbus, Ohio for $710 million CAD in cash, a company which already owned Victoria's Secret. By 2013, La Senza closed over two-thirds of its Canadian locations, including redundant and spin-off stores. Reasons for the brand's decline included discontinuing products that Canadians preferred, such as PJs, and to remove internal category duplication with Victoria's Secret. Stuart Burgdoerfer, vice-president and CFO of L Brands, said of La Senza: "There are signs of optimism there, but we are not at all accepting of the current result that we have." By January 2017, there were 329 La Senza stores worldwide, including 122 in Canada and four in the United States.

As of 2019, La Senza employed over 2,000 associates globally and currently operates 130 company-owned stores in the United States and Canada and an additional 187 stores via its international franchise partners spanning 36 countries across the Middle East, Northern Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and South East Asia.

In January 2019, L Brands sold the La Senza business to Regent, a Beverly Hills-based private equity firm controlled by investor Michael Reinstein.

Products
La Senza's products focus on lingerie and nightwear but also include loungewear, daywear, and accessories. The concept is similar to that of Victoria's Secret, which is owned by La Senza's previous parent company, L Brands corporation.

Operating structure
From 2000 to 2006, La Senza was sold by L Brands in January 2019 to Regent and now operates as an independent company.

United States
La Senza also briefly operated in the United States from 2000 to 2006. In 2016, several La Senza stores opened in the United States on an experimental basis. This included two locations in L Brands' hometown Columbus, Ohio, at Easton Town Center and Polaris Fashion Place, and two locations in other states, including Orland Park, Illinois and Merrillville, Indiana. As of 2022, none of these locations are still in operation.

Franchise

La Senza UK

Businessman Theo Paphitis bought the United Kingdom and Ireland franchise, called La Senza UK, and began expanding it, eventually with sub-franchises in other parts of the European Union. In July 2006, Paphitis sold the company to private equity company Lion Capital, for a reported £100m. Paphitis left the board and is no longer a shareholder, and in the Spring of 2011 set up the new lingerie firm Boux Avenue.

On 23 December 2011, La Senza UK filed for administration citing "trading conditions" as one of the conditions for closure. The company stated that it had 2,600 UK staff at 146 stores and 18 concessions, and announced plans to close 80 stores.

On 9 January 2012, Kuwait based international retail franchise operator Alshaya announced it had reached agreement to take control of much of the ongoing La Senza business in the UK. Under an agreement with KPMG, administrators to La Senza UK, Alshaya UK Limited acquired exclusive franchise rights for the La Senza brand in the UK for an undisclosed sum. Alshaya said it would retain 60 stores, securing around 1,100 jobs while ensuring the continuation of a strong and popular brand on the UK high street.  The deal and subsequent plans for the business, which included new product collections and store redesigns, represented a planned investment of around £100m in the UK retail sector over the next two years by Alshaya. Difficult trading conditions however continued and by June 2014 administrators were once again appointed to the struggling UK sector of the La Senza business. By this time the group was under the ownership of Marnixheath, which was operating 55 stores in the UK, employing 752 people.

L Brands later acquired all of the assets and intellectual property of the UK business.

Production
La Senza manufactures some of its products near Kancheepuram in South India. La Senza operates out of malls in India as well.

Lola and Coco by La Senza was a leisurewear collection launched in 2008, promoted by British dance group Booty Luv. Another line launched in 2008 was inspired by The Pussycat Dolls and designed by the group's creator, Robin Antin. The collection uses fabrics imported from Italy and Spain.

La Senza previously owned and operated other labels, including La Senza Girl clothing stores for teenagers as well as clothing for younger children, La Senza Express stores for bras and panties, and La Senza Spirit for activewear.

Models and celebrity endorsements
Similar to Victoria's Secret, La Senza uses high-profile fashion models to endorse their product. Models such as Ginta Lapina, Lauren Gold, Petra Němcová, Isabeli Fontana, Bianca Balti, Yamila Díaz, Doutzen Kroes, Daniela Pestova, Sophie Anderton, Rebecca Romijn, Caroline Winberg, Emma Heming, Jessica Stam, Maria Sokolovski, and Niclyn Rendall have been featured in an array of campaigns.

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Clothing brands of Canada
Clothing retailers of Canada
Canadian companies established in 1990
Clothing companies established in 1990
Retail companies established in 1990
1990 establishments in Quebec
Companies that have entered administration in the United Kingdom
Lingerie brands
2006 mergers and acquisitions
2019 mergers and acquisitions
Private equity portfolio companies

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Although they may spell comfort and convenience for those with afflicted bottoms, 'flushable' wipes equal an expensive headache for utility companies forced to deal with their pipe-clogging aftermath.
September 10, 2013, 5:01 p.m.
In this terrifying age of black market detergent, poop-laced almond cakes, and flammable sunscreen, here's yet another product that consumers should be weary of: flushable wipes.
According to the Washington Post, while pre-moistened personal wipe products — a popular TP alternative amongst potty-training tykes, older folks, and those suffering from various forms of gastrointestinal distress — do indeed magically disappear when flushed down the toilet as advertised, they go on to wreak considerable havoc on aging sewer systems where they clog pipes, jam pumps, and create blockages.
In the greater Washington D.C. area alone, pre-moisented wipes have cost utilities millions of dollars in repair work and resulted in utility workers being sent out on "wipes patrol" when instead they could be dedicating their time to less-preventable maintenance and repair tasks. Utility DC Water reports that over 500 man-hours have been spent on dealing with damage resulting from a scourge of wipes flooding sewer systems over the past 12 months while officials in Ann Arundel, Md. blame a 35 percent jump in clogged lines and broken pumps over the past few years on wipes.
While they don't always appear on "do not flush" lists along with items such as prescription drugs, diapers, dental floss, dryer sheets, dead animals, and last night's leftover meatloaf (unlike traditional baby wipes, this new breed of wipes are marketed as being sewer- and septic-safe), officials not just in D.C. but around the country have fingered "flushable" wipes as being a huge problem, a legitimate "menace" if you will. "Just because you can flush it doesn't mean you should," I.J. Hudson of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission tells the Post.
So what then, is the solution, considering that Americans, incontinent or not, seem to be positively hooked on flushable wipes that, in 2012, accounted for 14 percent of the $4 billion "pre-moistened wipes" market?
Bidets? Psyllium supplements? Post-poo showers? Perhaps this $15 gizmo that moistens regular toilet paper and allows users to declare "hey mom, 'no more underwear stains and streaks!" will liberate our comfort-craving nation from the destructive grip of flushable wipes (in all honestly, unless there are young children in the house, I can't imagine a more embarrassing bathroom accessory).
Utilities simply recommend sticking to the basics: TP.
Meanwhile across the pond, utility companies in London are rallying not against flushable wipes but against cooking grease which, once poured down the drain, goes on to form massive "fatbergs" in the city's antiquated sewer system.
Time to fess up (no judging here:) Do you regularly buy pre-moistened wipes that are labeled as being flushable?
Although they may spell comfort and convenience for some, 'flushable' wipes equal an expensive headache for utilities.


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The Myths of Christianity – 2 The Myth of Original Sin
4th March 2017 by Red Johnson Leave a Comment
Richard Holloway
One Sunday night when I was a young priest I came home from evensong, had my supper and was reading the newspaper when the phone rang. It was a ward sister at a local hospital, asking if I would go to the hospital immediately, because parishioners of mine were in need of pastoral ministration.I hastened over to the hospital and found a man I knew slightly who informed me that his wife had just given birth to premature triplets who were not expected to live out the night and would I please baptise them. This kind of ceremony is called emergency baptism and I agreed to do it immediately. I was taken to the room where the three tiny scraps of life were lying in incubators and I asked for a cup of water. Then I reached into the containers where they lay and marked each child's head with water and baptised all three of them 'In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit', according to the ancient formula. They all died a few hours later.
What I had done was an act of pastoral care for the parents of the tiny babies and it did, indeed, provide them with a certain bleak comfort. I had responded to the request of the parents out of care for them, but behind the practice of emergency baptism there lies one of the most unsympathetic of the Christian doctrines. It is the doctrine that the unbaptised go to hell after death, hence the need to administer baptism without preparation in situations of imminent death.
The doctrine was later slightly modified in the case of babies who, though they were born guilty of original sin like everyone else, had not had time to commit any actual sins, so they had their sentences commuted to eternity in the limbo puerorum, a suburb of hell, from the Latin limbus for edge or border.
Voltaire claims that limbo was invented by Peter Chrysologos in the fifth century as a sort of mitigated hell for babies who died before baptism, 'and where resided the patriarchs before the descent of Jesus Christ into hell; so that the view that Jesus Christ descended to limbo and not into hell has prevailed since then'.
Thinking about the fate of unbaptised babies in the Christian tradition is the cleanest way to tackle the doctrine of original sin, because it saves us from getting mixed up with the doctrine of punishment for sins committed rather than inherited, actual sin as contrasted with original sin.
There is a certain moral logic in the notion of punishment after death for sins actually committed in life and most of the great religions have versions of it. Buddhism and Hinduism see it more as a process of impersonal consequences rather than as the personally imposed punishment by God we find in the Christian tradition, but there is a certain logic in either approach: what you sow you reap, acts have consequences.
In the doctrine of punishment after death by God there may be more than a trace of the resentment that Nietzsche despised in the Christian tradition, the hatred of the weak for the strong and their longing to get even with them, even if they had to wait for the afterlife in which to do so. There may also be an instinctive sense of justice of the sort expressed in the parable of Dives and Lazarus.
In that parable, versions of which are found in various religious traditions, the rich man implores Abraham for a little comfort and is refused it, because he'd already used up his comfort account: "He called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.' But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.'"
Even if we do not believe in the morality of eternal punishment for temporal crimes, we can follow the reasoning that leads to the concept of the afterlife as a place where the inequalities of this life are evened out and balanced up. Many of our most ancient stories are based on this deep longing for justice and for wrongs to be righted and villains to be punished, and since it does not seem to happen in this life in any balanced or systematic way, it is easy to understand how the human imagination projected the final reckoning on to the afterlife. Whatever we make of this kind of thing ourselves, it is easy to understand its moral logic and even to admire its effectiveness as a deterrent to wickedness.
The Christian doctrine of original sin and its remedy lacks this kind of moral dimension, because it reduces the matter to the application of a ceremony that wipes out the balance sheet of sin, whether original, actual or both, simply by virtue of its enactment. This was one reason why baptism was abused in the early Church among those who wanted the best of both worlds, this one and the next.
Voltaire gives a mordant example of the abuse: 'This sacrament was abused in the first centuries of Christianity; nothing was so common as to await the final agony in order to receive baptism. The example of the emperor Constantine is pretty good proof of that. This is how he reasoned: baptism purifies everything; I can therefore kill my wife, my son and all my relations; after which I shall have myself baptised and I shall go to heaven; and in fact that is just what he did'.
The specifically Christian element in the ancient drama of human folly and frailty, therefore, seems to have two ethically dubious elements, one of which is the doctrine of original sin itself and the other the claim that, by the application of a particular ceremony, the debt inherited by the plaintiff can be converted to credit in the divine balance sheet. Both of these elements seem to reduce the resolution of the human drama to a mental act, the holding of a particular opinion, followed by a ceremony that is automatically, if mystically, efficacious.
This is not a phenomenon that is confined to Christianity, but there it has created a specific kind of mentalism called dogmatism, which is the belief that holding right ideas in our head can save us from damnation, just as holding wrong ones can condemn us to it. As Montaigne would have put it, this is rating our conjectures very highly indeed.
How did it all come about?
Well, we cannot blame the story of the tempting of Adam and Eve in the Hebrew scriptures, because the doctrine of original sin and consequent congenital guilt is not found there, as we will discover when we read chapter 3 of Genesis:
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?" The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, nor shall you touch it, or you shall die.' " But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" He said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate." Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will strike your head, and you will strike his heel."
To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
And to the man he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree about which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
And the Lord God made garments of skins for the man and for his wife, and clothed them.
Then the Lord God said, "See, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever" therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim, and a sword flaming and turning to guard the way to the tree of life.
Whatever we make of this ancient narrative, it says nothing about the transmission to humanity of Adam's guilt and it is interpreted by Jewish scholars as an allegory of the human condition, not a historic event. It is a myth, not a factual account of a real event.
Paul seems to have been the first person in the Christian tradition to treat it as a historic event from which conclusions could be drawn and consequences measured. His account comes in his Letter to the Romans, Chapter 5:
Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned.
If, because of the one man's trespass, death exercised dominion through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Therefore just as one man's trespass led to condemnation for all, so one man's act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all. [19] For just as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
The Myths of Christianity – 2
The Myth of Original Sin (Continued)
In this passage Paul emphasises that death was the punishment for Adam's sin, the implication being that if he had not sinned Adam would not have died.
It is possible, of course, to read the idea of original sin and inherited guilt into Paul's words, but it is not as clearly stated there as it was later by Augustine of Hippo, who is usually credited with the invention of the fully developed idea of original sin.
However, Peter Brown, the greatest contemporary interpreter of Augustine, has pointed out that…
The idea that some ancient sin lay behind the misery of the human condition was shared by pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity.
He tells us that Augustine had met the idea in his early life as a Catholic and he goes on to quote him and to add his own comment:
'The Ancient Sin: nothing is more obviously part of our preaching of Christianity; yet nothing is more impenetrable to the understanding'…while many Catholics in Africa and Italy already believed that the 'first sin' of Adam had somehow been inherited by his descendants, Augustine will tell them precisely where they should look in themselves for abiding traces of this first sin.
With the fatal ease of a man who believes that he can explain a complex phenomenon simply by reducing it to its historical origins, Augustine will remind his congregation of the exact circumstances of the Fall of Adam and Eve. When they had disobeyed God by eating the forbidden fruit, they had been 'ashamed': they had covered their genitals with fig leaves.
That was enough for Augustine: 'Ecce unde'. That's the place! That's the place from which the first sin is passed on'. This shame at the uncontrollable stirring of the genitals was the fitting punishment of the crime of disobedience.
Nothing if not circumstantial, Augustine will drive his point home by suddenly appealing to his congregation's sense of shame at night emissions… Thus at one stroke, Augustine will draw the boundary between the positive and negative elements in human nature along a line dividing the conscious, rational mind from the one 'great force' that escaped its control, sex.
If we refuse to treat these ancient myths as the record of historical events, we can use our imagination to guess at how they came to be.
The elements in the story of the Fall are clearly Death, Toil and Shame, and the myth clearly sets out to offer an explanatory narrative for these overpowering human experiences. Augustine's isolation of sexual shame as the main element in the Fall narrative is interestingly echoed in one of Freud's guesses, where he wonders whether shame and sexual embarrassment enter the human psyche when homo sapiens assumed the vertical posture and exposed its genitalia.
Another mythical guess about the mysteries of human sexuality is found in Plato's Symposium, in Aristophanes' famous myth, which is worth listening to in full.
The starting point is for you to understand human nature and what has happened to it. You see, our nature wasn't originally the same as it is now: it has changed.
Firstly, there used to be three human genders, not just two – male and female – as there are nowadays. There was also a third, which was a combination of both the other two. Its name has survived, but the gender itself has died out.
In those days there was a distinct type of androgynous person, not just the word, though like the word the gender combined male and female; nowadays, however, only the word remains, and that counts as an insult.
Aristophanes' myth is a long one, but it is clearly intended to explain the varieties of sexual longing. The key element in the myth is the decision by Zeus and the other gods to divide the human creatures into two halves, because of their dangerous challenge to divine power. Thereafter they will have to spend much of their energy trying to complete themselves by finding and joining up with their other half.
Here's how he sees it working out.
Any men who are off cuts from the combined gender – the androgynous one – are attracted to women, and therefore most adulterers come from this group; the equivalent women are attracted to men and tend to become adulteresses.
Any women who are off cuts from the female gender aren't particularly interested in men; they incline more towards women, and therefore female homosexuality comes from this group. And any men who are off cuts from the male gender go for males.
It is interesting to speculate about what might have become of the Christian attitude to sexuality if the Church had borrowed its myths from Greek rather than Hebrew tradition, as it did in the third and fourth centuries with many of its philosophical and theological ideas. Christian fundamentalists today would be pointing to the inerrant book of Aristophanes to explain its passionate support for gay and lesbian rights which were being threatened by revisionist liberals who refused to accept the historical validity of the speeches in the Symposium.
Apart from trying to offer an explanation for the great human themes of sexuality and death, the ancient myths of humanity try to account for human misery by narratives of catastrophe and fall from an original Eden.
This is still a powerful theme, even today, and there are always books being produced by nostalgic scholars describing how wonderful Britain or, more specifically, England was in the past before it was overrun by foreigners and contemporary values. As the blind poet Borges reminded us, all our paradises are lost paradises, places of contentment we destroyed by our own folly and greed.
And all of this is true enough, because we go on doing it to ourselves. Narratives of the fall (dystopias) are probably more frequent in human history that narratives of paradise (utopias) because we go on messing up our own home.
The latest fall narrative is global warming and consumer greed. Our own insatiable desires have the pyrrhic effect of destroying our own happiness. It is the oldest story in the book, because it is the most constant of the human experiences.
And it is even possible to find contemporary meaning in the notion of original sin, of passing on some kind of taint. That is certainly what Philip Larkin thought, though he was hardly a cheery optimist about humanity.
They fuck you up, your mum and dad;
They do not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had,
And add some extra just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old time hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy stern,
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man;
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as quickly as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.
The difference today in our myths of fall is that they come from science, which is the great narrative of our time. And the very language of fall has been replaced by the language of struggle and ascent. There never was an Eden, a perfect and innocent human state, with fully formed humans who knew no sin. Our mythic narrative today is just as epic and exciting, but it is a sort of reverse catastrophe, the emergence of consciousness from a violent and literally exploding universe.
It might go something like this. There is a famous French aphorism: 'To know all is to forgive all'. The idea behind the saying is that humans are largely determined by circumstances beyond their control and that if we could see all the factors that have led to a particular event in a person's life we would fully understand and fully forgive.
The philosophical term for this point of view is 'determinism'. It holds that we are not really the free creatures we think we are. We are made, determined, programmed by factors that are beyond our control.
<p">Most of us would agree with this point of view to some extent. We would acknowledge, for instance, that if you are a young man reared by a single mother living in poverty in a housing estate you are more likely to get a lousy education, more likely to get in trouble with the law, more likely to be unemployed, more likely to be have bad health, more likely to die young than if you were born to middle class professional parents who sent you to a private school.
We may not be full-blooded determinists, but experience teaches us that external circumstances have a lot to do with how our life works out. One of the oldest debates in politics is over just how important external circumstances are in making us what we are and what the role of private choice is. One of the most interminable discussions in political theory is whether systems make people or people make systems; whether, in order to change people, you have to change the system, or whether, in order to change the system, you have to change people.
What I want to register is the fact that human beings are made what they are by millions of facts they are not in control of; and if we want to understand ourselves we have to go deep and wide into our past. To understand ourselves today, we have to have some knowledge of where we have come from.
We humans have only been around in the universe for a comparatively short period of time. The universe was born in violence, in what physicists call the big bang. Wherever it came from, it is a story of power exploding and expanding through space.
Most of it seems to have been inert or lifeless till about three and a half billion years ago when the first self-replicating molecules came along and life began. On and on it goes, this amazing force of life. That's what makes these nature programmes on TV so fascinating, as we look in on the great food chain that nature is, as we watch all the breeding and hunting and searching for food and building nests and stalking prey that is played out endlessly on our planet.
Look out on any tranquil country scene on a summer's day and you might be deceived into illusions of peace and calm; in fact underneath it all life is killing and munching and swarming and breeding and dying. And it is that ability to look at what is happening, out there or in here, that is characteristic of our species, the human animal, or the moral animal, as the new science of evolutionary psychology defines us.
In us the life-force has become conscious and we have started watching ourselves doing the things that come naturally or instinctively in the animal kingdom. We are thinking about ourselves, and that process of self-study is one of the most characteristic things about us. When you know you are being watched, you get self-conscious and uncomfortable. Well, we are being watched all the time by ourselves, and it is the resulting self-consciousness that is one of our glories, as well as one of the sources of our pain and anguish.
Aspects of living that would pose little difficulty in a species that had not developed consciousness, create major issues for us, as all the fall myths amply indicate.
Sex is still the obvious example, but our explanatory myths are different today. One school of evolutionary psychologists claims that the problem for the human male is that his DNA has programmed him to be a self-replicating animal, a seed-scattering machine without conscience; but this urge is in conflict with his consciousness, his self-awareness, because he can recognise that simply operating like a gene-propulsion machine can be damaging to others as well as to himself.
Sex is not the only instinct that gets complicated by human development; violence and cruelty are also in there, programmed into us before the dawn of consciousness. So we are creatures who are in conflict with ourselves, moral animals, creatures in whom the life-force has started observing itself.
I have compressed millions of years of emergent consciousness into a few paragraphs there, but I hope the point I am making is understandable enough.
Human consciousness and the emergence of our moral sense move us away from the purely instinctive, the unconscious and unreflective natural response, to what we might call an intentional approach to life. The narrative of our day is not about having fallen from a perfect state, but about the endless search for a perfect state somewhere in the future.
Our myth is not about having fallen from a past perfection, but about the possibility of achieving a future perfection, and it characterises everything we do, from the search for the perfect kitchen to the quest for the perfect orgasm. That's why IKEA flourishes and it's why we produce sex manuals on spicing up our sex life. That is why we encourage boys to sublimate their anger and aggression and be aware of the needs of others – whereas our instinctive hard-wiring accorded great survival value to the very impulses that have become so problematic for us today.
Indeed, one major critical account of the undoubted male crisis of our time locates its cause right at this point, at what is called the feminisation of culture and the consequent discounting and disapproval of the purely masculine virtues of raw sexuality and aggression.
I saw a little piece in the papers the other day about the male craze for body-building. The point that was being made was that it is difficult for men nowadays to know what the distinctive male role is, but they do know that they have a distinctive musculature, so they develop that to the point of exaggeration. They call this 'the Adonis complex', and there's more than a touch of it in the Kevin Spacey role in the Oscar winning film, 'American Beauty' where, just as his life starts falling apart he starts to build up his body.
Culture critics have a field day with this sort of stuff, but the point behind it all is that, as conscious animals, we are a problem to ourselves, as our myths amply illustrate. We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.
In spite of what the Christian doctrine of original sin claims, we are not guilty simply by virtue of having been born as children to parents who fell from perfection. Nevertheless, the myth is still eloquent and instructive not because it describes an ancient catastrophe, but because it expresses permanent human realities.
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Market Dojo, an innovative and rapidly growing start-up in the business-to-business sector, has a 6 month contract on offer for an experienced, UK-based Ruby on Rails developer to work with its existing development team with the opportunity for permanent employment should both parties agree.
Market Dojo has created an online negotiation tool which helps companies streamline their procurement activities. Their web-based application centralises quotation activities which might otherwise have been carried out via email. It also has the capability to run both reverse and forward auctions, which achieve better negotiation results by encouraging competition in a fair and transparent way.
Despite only recently completing their first year in business, Market Dojo already has an international presence and has a number of global customers. However they plan to at least double in size in 2012.
The attributes of the suitable person would be someone entrepreneurial, a fast learner with a great ability to self-manage, as largely the work will be based remotely with daily communication via Skype. It would also suit someone innovative with an eye for elegant design and performance over core functionality.
If you are interested in this role, please provide a CV with examples, web-links and references from previous jobs you have done to recruitment@marketdojo.com, after which there will be a phone interview and/or face-to-face meeting. Market Dojo are looking for an immediate start so please ensure you can accommodate this.
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ELKINS — Debra L. Arbogast, personnel officer, is being recognized for 40 years of service with Davis Trust Company in Elkins.
The Board of Directors and management of Davis Trust Company are pleased to recognize the dedicated service of Arbogast, who reached the milestone of 40 years on Oct. 1.
Arbogast started with Davis Trust Company in October 1976 in the bookkeeping department as a file clerk. Over the years, she has worked in other capacities, including switchboard operator and as a teller. Presently she serves as the bank personnel officer.
Upon reflection of her 40-plus years of service with Davis Trust Company, Arbogast said she can sum things up with one word, "Opportunity."
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The Beatles once said all you need is love. But Lil' Wayne said he heard love was in the air and held his breath until his face turned purple. Regardless of your own feelings, it is Valentine's Day this Thursday, Feb. 14, and Rose Hill has a number of events to celebrate.
Campus Activities Board (CAB) will be hosting two free events this Wednesday, Feb. 13 in the McGinley Lobby: Cards and Candy and Dating Profile Picture Photo Shoot.
"Every year, CAB spends the week surrounding Valentine's Day celebrating relationships that make us better," said Kathryn Teaney, CAB president and FCRH '19.
The Dating Profile Picture Photo Shoot, hosted by the CAB Comedy committee, is catered toward students that are single: a photo shoot to snag the perfect first picture for a dating profile.
Emily Malacane, FCRH '21, is planning on going to the Dating Profile Photo Shoot event and said it is a great opportunity for all the single people at the university.
Cards and Candy, hosted by the CAB Speaker Series committee, is catered toward students in a relationship who are seeking gift assistance. At the card workshop, students can come by to make a last minute Valentine's card for their loved one.
According to Teaney, CAB is expecting a large turnout for both events.
"Who wouldn't want an easy chance to write a card and get a glamour shot?" she asked.
Kevin Koulopoulos, a member of The Ramblers and FCRH '19, said that in-person Ramblergrams are $10 each and always sell out quickly.
He said the group also offers a pre-recorded Ramblergrams for $5, where they record a message and a song to send out on Valentine's Day.
Koulopoulos said so far, this year's Ramblergram sale has been successful.
"I think we've sold around 35 so far this year, mostly to students but some to faculty members," he said.
Grace Wellman, GSB '21 and FMA's fundraising chair, said that the carnation sale is an annual fundraising event for the club.
The Bronx Zoo, just a block outside of the Rose Hill gates, offered the chance to name one of their 50,000 Madagascar cockroaches after a significant other (or ex-significant other) this Valentines day for a $15 donation.
With the purchase, buyers received a certificate with the name of the cockroach. The promotion also offered a $75 package that included the printed certificate, a beanie, a mug and a pin: all printed with images of cockroaches.
John F. Calvelli, Wildlife Conservation Society executive vice president of public affairs adressed the promotions in a press release.
The beloved Pugsley Pizza's slogan is "Love is it," so of course the joint is celebrating Valentine's day. For $10, Pugsley's is offering 'love pies,' a small pizza pie in the shape of a heart.
Sal Natale, owner and creator of the pizza shop, said this offer is a long running tradition and stems from his love for love.
And it is: the slogan is etched in the bricks on the floor, on signs all over the restaurant and even on the pizza oven peel.
Natale said whether you are single or in a relationship this Thursday, know you can always find love in Pugsley's Pizza.


Honeoye Falls Market Place opened in June of 1983 in a twenty-six thousand square facility.
We operated under the Banner of Bells at the time and changed our name to Honeoye Falls Marketplace in 1997 after a major expansion and remodel was completed of the facility. The new store name and expanded brand new thirty-seven thousand square foot store brought a new bakery, expanded deli and prepared foods, and a market style produce department to the growing Honeoye Falls Community. The additional space also allowed us to expand our lines of specialty and organic foods, meeting the needs of the consumer who wanted more than mayonnaise and milk.
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Opened in the Hamlet of Mendon in 2001. The Hamlet community had been without a grocery store for over four years and the lack of a purveyor of food began to be a drag on the vitality of the community at large.
The Mendon store is 16,000 square feet, but we pack an enormous variety into the small space including a full service butcher shop, service seafood department, Bakery, and Deli.
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The stores' slogan continues to be, "A market of uncompromised quality in a place close to home."


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Michigan Medicine partners with Sparrow Health to expand pediatric services
Michigan Medicine and Lansing-based Sparrow Health System have signed an affiliation agreement that will help Sparrow expand its pediatric care services. Katie McLean | The Ann Arbor News Katie McLean | MLive.com
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ANN ARBOR, MI - With a history of collaboration dating back 20 years, Michigan Medicine and Lansing-based Sparrow Health System have signed an affiliation agreement that will ensure collaboration continues well into the future.
The joint agreement was announced during the University of Michigan Board of Regents meeting Thursday, March 28. It will first be implemented with Michigan Medicine providing some of its pediatric services through Sparrow children's Center in Lansing. The joint venture is expected to launch in early May.
Under the agreement, Michigan Medicine acquires a 50-percent contractual interest in Sparrow's pediatric service line. That means both parties have a 50-50 stake in decisions involving things like where to invest and what incremental services are needed, while splitting any returns down the middle.
"It's a privilege to partner with Sparrow to provide care for children and families in the communities of mid-Michigan," C.S. Mott Children's Hospital Interim Executive Director Chris Dickinson said. "Our commitment is always to keep care close to home for families, and this relationship will help us do that."
Like other joint affiliation agreements Michigan Medicine has signed in the past, University of Michigan Health System President David Spahlinger said a needs assessment was conducted to determine what services were in demand at Sparrow and how soon they are needed.
Spahlinger stressed the agreement will allow Sparrow to expand its pediatric services, but will not have an impact on Sparrow's existing relationship with MSU's College of Human Medicine.
"The goal is to meet the needs of the greater Lansing area for pediatric services," Spahlinger said. "You can't have everybody travel to Ann Arbor. Even with the (C.S. Mott Children's Hospital) we put up in (2011), there's 90 percent occupancy already. There's no way we could hospitalize everybody there. We have to look at where's the right place for kids to be treated and provide those services in a more convenient way."
Michigan Medicine and Sparrow Health System engaged in affiliation discussions in 2017 to explore the formation of a master affiliation agreement between the two health systems. The two health systems also explored a joint venture regarding Sparrow's pediatric services.
A second phase of the affiliation agreement will involve Michigan Medicine acquiring 25 percent membership interest in a new holding company that includes Sparrow's health plan, Physicians Health Plan, and its related health insurance businesses.
Michigan Medicine will appoint one-third of the members of a holding company board for Physicians Health Plan. Certain major actions of the company, including changes to its strategic plan and acquisitions, must be approved unanimously by Michigan Medicine's appointees on the board.
Both organizations plan to appoint representatives to an oversight committee that will approve all proposed cooperative agreements and work together on future proposals.
"Our organizations are coming together to mutually serve our pediatric patients," Sparrow Health System Chief Medical and Quality Officer Karen Kent VanGorder said. "Sparrow physicians, and the children we care for, will have expanded access to the latest pediatric expertise and clinical care resources."
The investment is expected to be completed within the next three to six months, Spahlinger said, pending required state insurance commission approval.
Sparrow Health System owns and operates two Lansing-based hospital campuses and several community hospitals: Sparrow Clinto Memorial Hospital in St. Johns, Sparrow Ionia Hospital in Ionia and Carson City Hospital.
Michigan Medicine has signed affiliation agreements with other state health systems in recent years, including one with Metro Health in 2016, and Saint Joseph Mercy Health, when it established a joint venture for the 133-bed St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea hospital in 2018.