Valentines Day is coming up, why not bake this absolutely beautiful and extremely scrumptious pink swiss roll?
A pink sponge, with a filling of strawberry buttercream, goji berries, almonds, topped with a coating of strawberry buttercream, dairy-free white chocolate and freeze-dried strawberry pieces.
All of these flavours together are a match made in heaven. Perfectly sweet, fruity and light.
Step 1- Preheat your oven to 180 degrees c/350F and line a large baking tray with greaseproof paper.
Step 2- In a small bowl, combine the dairy-free milk with the apple cider vinegar and whisk until fully combined.
Set aside for 10 minutes to curdle. This creates a vegan 'buttermilk'.
Step 4- Add the melted coconut oil to the 'buttermilk' and whisk to combine.
Step 5- Add the wet ingredients into the dry and mix until a smooth batter.
Step 6- Gently fold in the pink food gel until just combined. Don't over mix the batter.
Step 7- Pour into the lined tray and level with an offset spatula, making sure to spread it to the corners.
Tap the tray on the worktop to remove any air bubbles.
Step 8- Pop the tray into the preheated oven and bake for 18-20 minutes.
You will know when its done when you put a knife or skewer in and it comes out clean and it is springy to the touch.
Step 9- Lay a large piece of baking paper on your work surface, sprinkle over icing sugar and invert the sponge onto the paper. Peel away the original baking paper.
Step 10- Trim the edges of the sponge with a sharp knife.
Step 11- Roll up (from the longer edge) using the paper, rolling it up with the paper inside. Set aside to cool.
Rolling it up with the paper inside helps the cake not to stick to itself.
Step 1- Cream the butter in a bowl, on high speed until creamy. I use my stand mixer with the balloon whisk attachment.
Step 2- When your butter/margarine is creamy & light in colour, add in the icing sugar, strawberry flavouring/extract and pink food gel.
Whizz together until fluffy & fully combined.
Add a splash of milk if the buttercream is too thick.
Step 3- Once the sponge is cool, unroll and spread a thin layer of the filling.
Sprinkle over some goji berries and ground almonds (optional).Step 4- Re-roll the sponge tightly without the paper inside.
Pop into the fridge to set. This will take around 30 minutes.
Step 5- Transfer the swirl cake to a serving plate or tray and using an offset spatula or knife, spread buttercream all over the cake.
I used my spatula to create bark textures. It looks really realistic and effective.
I decorated my swirl cake with a drizzle of dairy-free white chocolate, freeze-dried strawberries and some of my 3 ingredient cookies, decorated for Valentines.
Get my 3 ingredient cookie recipe here.
Go all out and serve with some sparklers, perfect for Valentines, Mothers day or a special occasion!
Store in a sealed container in the fridge and best eaten within a few days.


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Liberal Party launches new campaign slogan: "We're not going to shoot you!"
Asha Leu
By Asha Leu
The Liberal Party has today unveiled its brand-new campaign slogan, to be used in the election that party insiders hint will be held either later this year or "whenever this silly rape thing finally blows over."
The catchy, six-word slogan, "Were not going to shoot you!" was devised by none other than the Prime Minister himself, who has been serving as acting head of PR ever since his predecessor suffered a stress-induced breakdown. "I think it really shows our emp – Sorry mate, how do you pronounce that again – our emp-ah-fie towards our constituents. People don't want to be shot, that's what Jenny tells me at least, and we understand that. That is why we are making this pledge not to shoot dead any women or protestors for the entirety of the upcoming parliamentary term."
Unfortunately, the campaign has already hit a snag after several frontbenchers suggested that the current forward estimates do not allow for a total end to wanton shootings, and that the plan will actually involve a gradual phasing out of shootings in certain marginal electorates over the next ten years.

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Q: Covering the primes by arithmetic progressions Define the length of a set of arithmetic progressions
of natural numbers
$A=\lbrace A_1, A_2, \ldots \rbrace$
to be $\min_i | A_i |$: the length of the shortest sequence
among all the progressions.
Say that $A$ exactly covers a set $S$
if $\bigcup_i A_i = S$.
Let $P'$ be the primes excluding 2.

What is the longest set of arithmetic progressions
  that exactly covers the primes $P'$?

In other words, I want to maximize the length of
a set of such arithmetic progressions.
Call this maximum $L_{\max}$.
$L_{\max} \ge 2$ because
$$
P' \;=\;
\lbrace 3,5 \rbrace
\cup
\lbrace 7,11 \rbrace
\cup
\cdots
\cup
\lbrace 521,523 \rbrace
\cup
\cdots
$$
Perhaps it is possible that
$$P' \;=\;
\lbrace 3, 11, 19 \rbrace
\cup
\lbrace 5, 17, 29,41,53 \rbrace
\cup
\lbrace 7,19,31,43 \rbrace
\cup
\cdots
\;,$$
but I cannot get far with sequences of length $\ge 3$.
(I know Green-Tao establishes that there are arbitrarily
long arithmetic progressions in $P$, but I don't know
if that helps with my question.)
I am number-theoretically naïve,
and apologize if this question is nonsensical or trivial.
In any case, I appreciate the tutoring!
Addendum. Although my question should be revised (as Idoneal suggests)
in light of George Lowther's proof that 3
cannot be in a progression of length 4, George has shown that it is likely that $L_{\max}=3$
but certification requires resolving an open problem.  So I've added the open-problem tag.
Thanks for everyone's interest!

A: Despite the comments to the question (including mine), this is a bit easier than it seems at first sight. We can show that $L_{\max}=2$ or $3$. Almost certainly we have $L_\max=3$. However, determining which of these is actually the case seems to be beyond current technology, according to this MO answer "Are all primes in a PAP-3?".
Showing that, $L_{\max} < 4$ is easy. That is, not every odd prime is contained in an arithmetic progression of primes of length 4. More specifically, 3 is not contained in an arithmetic progression of length 4. Suppose that $\lbrace x, x+d, x+2d, x+3d \rbrace$ was such a progression for $d > 0$. Then $x\not=2$, otherwise we would have $x=2,d=1$, but $x+2d=4$ is not prime. So, $x=3$. But, then, $x+3d=3(1+d)$ is not prime.
Edit: Looking at $\tilde L_\max \equiv \max_A\liminf_i \vert A_i\vert$ might be more interesting. I expect that this is infinite but, again, showing that $\tilde L_\max > 2$ appears to be beyond current means.

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Approval of Minutes – Bill will send the draft minutes to the board for review.
Members and Visitors – Ed Hickey reported on his hosting experience. Maria Silvia Miller suggested membership cards to allow members to listen to music without ordering food.
A/C Improvements – Terri reported that she has now received a third A/C estimate. The board will meet as soon as a written estimate is received.
Stage Lights – Amethyst requested the board's approval of the project.
MOTION: The board approves the project in order to allow FONDCA to consider funding the project.
Projector Screen – A 'pull-down' style projector screen has been proposed with funding to be split between "Meal & Reel" and FONDCA.
Banner for Back Window – Terri and Michael will work on a design for a sign with the NDC logo to face the inside of the cafe.
The meeting adjourned at 6:20 pm.
The minutes of May 9, 2011 were approved by the board on May 23, 2011.


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Euura destricta is a species of sawfly belonging to the family Tenthredinidae (common sawflies). The larvae feed on the leaves of willow (Salix species).

Description of the gall
These are simple galls with the leaf rolled, or folded downwards affecting one or both sides of the leaf. The female forms the gall before she lays her eggs, with the caterpillar feeding inside the fold. It will also feed on ungalled parts of the leaf, or other leaves. The gall is usually found on bay willow (S. pentandra), and can also be found on gray willow (S. glauca) and tea-leaved willow (S. phylicifolia).

Redfern et al. state that, in Great Britain, it is safe to identify the galls of this species and Euura oblita by the foodplants. E. oblita feeds on crack willow (S. fragilis) and white willow (S. alba). In Great Britain, other Euura species do not form galls on these host plants.

Distribution
The sawfly has been found in Finland, Great Britain (England and Scotland), Ireland and Sweden.

References

External links
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Tenthredinidae
Gall-inducing insects
Hymenoptera of Europe
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You're young and you're extremely fit. Almost always, that's a good thing. But in rare cases, a high fitness level hides--and may even help cause--a heart disorder known as ARVD. It's a genetic condition in which the muscle of the right ventricle turns into fatty or fibrous tissue.
In ARVD, as the right ventricular muscle changes, abnormal heart rhythms occur, leading to the symptoms. If you're worried, go to a doctor--a series of noninvasive tests can determine whether you have the disorder. The Web site arvd.com can give you more information.
ARVD affects about one in 5,000 people but may be the cause of up to 20 percent of sudden cardiac deaths in people under the age of 35.
Coronary artery disease and heart attacks account for about 80 percent of the sudden cardiac deaths in America each year. ARVD and other inherited conditions cause the rest, Dr. Calkins says. These disorders, which affect men more than women, include long QT syndrome and Brugada syndrome (problems with electrical impulses in the heart), and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (thickening of the heart muscle).
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Irma O. Rayborn (1916-2020)
RAYBORN, MADDEN, HOOK
IRMA O. RAYBORN
Irma O. Rayborn, 103, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died Sunday, May 10, 2020, at West Ridge Care Center after a long fight with Alzheimer's. She has now been reunited with her husband, William "Bud" Rayborn. A private family burial will take place at Linwood Cemetery in Cedar Rapids. Murdoch-Linwood Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Cedar Rapids is assisting the family with arrangements.
Irma was born on July 12, 1916, in Hawleyville, Iowa, and spent her early life in Taylor County, Iowa. She was the daughter of the late Martin Edward "Eddie" Madden of Hawleyville and the late Bertha Louise (Hook) Madden, also of Hawleyville. She graduated from high school in New Market, Iowa, in 1936.
Irma was united in marriage to William "Bud" Rayborn on June 1, 1941, in Maryville, Mo., and enjoyed 78 years of marriage until his death on Jan. 18, 2020.
She was a member of Sharon United Methodist Church in Cedar Rapids for 75 years.
Irma worked as a school teacher until her marriage. She focused on her children and grandchildren. After they were raised, she spent almost 30 years volunteering at St. Luke's Hospital.
Irma loved crafts, gardening and traveling with her husband. Together, she and Bud traveled to 49 states and, especially enjoyed trips to Hawaii, one that included their entire family. Her love for her husband and her family was immense. Irma leaves behind a lifetime of memories and love.
Survivors include her children, Roger, and his wife, Joanne (Secl) Rayborn, of Cedar Rapids and Karen Finn (Brad Gordon); three granddaughters, Julie (Finn) Weber, and her husband, Dan, of Fairfax, Stacy (Finn) Kostanyan, and her husband, Jack of Pasadena, Calif., and Trisha Finn of Cedar Rapids; seven great-grandchildren, Trae Finn of Phoenix, Ariz., Haley Rohret and her fiance, Robert Taylor, of Cedar Rapids, Jake Rohret of Pasadena, Madden Kostanyan of Pasadena, Maci Kostanyan of Pasadena, Taren Finn of Cedar Rapids and Willow Weber of Ames, Iowa; and one great-great-granddaughter, Amora Finn of Phoenix.
Irma was preceded in death by her husband, William L. "Bud" Rayborn; parents, Eddie and Bertha Madden; and her sister, Lois Madden Johnston of Hemet, Calif.
The family would like to extend a special thank-you to the entire staff at West Ridge Care Center for their compassionate care for Irma.
Memorials may be directed to Sharon United Methodist Church.
Mom and Dad walked together for 80 years and each day lived the words of this poem. When Dad died in January, we knew Mom would soon run to be with him.
I hope we walk the last mile together
Hand in hand we can see the promised land
We've been through bad times, but our love is forever
We made our house a home for our little ones
We've known happiness and some sadness too
I remember when you first said I love you
I didn't know a love could be so strong
And today I find you're still mine so let's go on forever
We will walk the last mile together.
Margaret Newsom Holley
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Taylor Obituaries maintained by Patricia Combs O'Dell


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SunPower Corporation to Supply Shimizu with 69 Megawatts of its High Efficiency Solar Panels for Eurus Energy Power Plant
published: 2013-09-30 11:31 | editor: christinechen | category: News Edit
SunPower Corporation, a solar technology and energy solutions provider, announced on September 29th it will supply 69-megawatts (MW) of its high efficiency E20/327 solar panels to Shimizu Corporation for installation at the Eurus Energy mega solar power plant project in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori, Japan. With this agreement, SunPower is providing clean energy to Japan's largest solar installation.
Shimizu, a leading architectural, engineering and general contracting firm in Japan, will act as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) provider for the project which is owned by Eurus Rokkasho Solar Park Corporation, a subsidiary of Eurus Energy Group. It is scheduled for commercial operation in the second half of 2015.
Integrated into the E20/327 solar panels by SunPower Corporation are its Maxeon® all-back contact solar cells. These cells are built on a solid copper foundation, making them extremely resistant to cracking, corrosion and stresses from temperature variation. With an efficiency of 20.1 percent, the E20/327 panels deliver more power in the same amount of space and maximize system output with fewer panels installed.
The company's solar panels are backed by the company's straightforward 25-year combined product and power warranty. It offers the industry's lowest power degradation with more warranted energy, resulting in an unprecedented 87 percent power level at the end of 25 years.
"We are pleased that Eurus chose SunPower Corporation for two mega solar power plant projects in Japan," said Howard Wenger, SunPower president, regions. "The Japanese market continues to respond well to our high efficiency solar products for all customer segments -- residential, commercial and utility-scale."
SunPower Corporation will also supply 27.4 MW of its E20/327 solar panels to Obayashi Corporation for installation at the mega solar power plant project in Toyokoro, Hokkaido, Japan, which is also owned by a subsidiary of Eurus Energy Group. Obayashi will act as EPC and the project is scheduled for commercial operation in 2015.
Solar products by SunPower Corporation are branded under the Maxeon Solar name in Japan. The capacity of mega solar power plants in this release is described in approximate megawatts on a direct current (dc) basis unless otherwise noted.
Tags: Efficiency, engineering, Japan, procurement and construction (EPC)
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(Iraq)
Management systems/ management plan
Fragile mud brick structures
Partial flooding and seepage due to a dam building project
Absence of a comprehensive conservation and management plan
Nearby construction of a dam entailing partial flooding and seepage;
Armed conflict.
Not yet identified
Not yet established
Total amount granted: USD 6,000 from the Italian Funds-in-Trust
2003 Emergency assistance to prepare an urgent nomination of ... (Approved) 50,000 USD
November 2002: UNESCO mission for the Makhool Dam project; June 2011: joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring mission
2011 Report on the Joint World Heritage Centre-ICOMOS Reactive Monitoring Mission to Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat), Iraq (C ...
2002 Report on the Assessment of the Impact of the Makhool Dam Project on the Site of Ashur and other Archaeological ...
On 12 April 2015, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report for the four World Heritage properties in Iraq as well as for ten of the eleven sites included in the country's Tentative List. The report is available at: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1130/documents/.
The State Party reports that armed groups occupied the house of the German archaeological mission as well as the new house of the Iraqi archaeological mission, located at the south-west area of the property, at the ziggurat and the ancient palace. The State Party also reports that this occupation of the site has led to the striking of the armed groups' positions by air forces on 27 and 29 August 2014. This striking caused damage to the house of the German archaeological mission as well as to the wall of Ashur and destroyed the glass cover that protects the Royal Cemetery.
The property being located in ISIL's control area, it is very difficult to gather accurate information on its state of conservation.
On 17 July 2014, an expert meeting held at UNESCO Headquarters led to the adoption of an Emergency Response Action Plan for the Safeguarding of Iraq's Cultural Heritage (also see Part I of Document WHC-15/39.COM/7).
The absence of information about the situation at the site raises a very high concern. It would be essential, as soon as the security conditions permit, that the responsible authorities carry out a rapid assessment of the state of conservation of the property and submit the results of this assessment to the World Heritage Centre, prior to any action on the ground.
Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat) (Iraq) (C 1130)
Recalling Decision 38 COM 7A.2 adopted at its 38th session (Doha, 2014),
Commends the State Party for its efforts to ensure the protection of the property in spite of the difficult prevailing situation;
Expresses its great concern about the absence of information on the state of conservation of the property and requests the State Party to keep the World Heritage Centre informed of the evolution of the situation on the ground;
Also requests the State Party, as soon as the security conditions allow the responsible authorities to visit the site, to carry out a rapid assessment of the state of conservation of the property and submit the results of this assessment to the World Heritage Centre prior to any action on the ground;
Decides to retain Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat) (Iraq) on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Commends the State Party for its efforts to ensure the protection of the property inspite of the difficult prevailing situation;


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Why Being 'Gypped' Hurts The Roma More Than It Hurts You
August 24, 2014 7:32 pm 0 comments Views: 758
I never thought about the etymology of the verb "gypped" until the end of college, when my friend, lamenting his stolen iPod, said the word and immediately retracted it. "Isn't that offensive?" he wondered. Until that moment, I had never thought about it either. What sparked our unease was the sudden realization that "gypped" was somehow tied to "gypsy."
"Gypsy" is commonly used to describe the Romani people. But the term carries many negative connotations, and its derivative carries even more: when somebody is "gypped," they are, according to Merriam-Webster, "defrauded, swindled, cheated."
The Three Stooges movie Gypped In the Penthouse is one of many pieces of media that uses the pejorative.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known recorded definition of the term "gypped" dates back to the 1899 Century Dictionary, which says that it is "probably an abbreviationof gypsy, gipsy, as applied to a sly unscrupulous fellow."
It also appears in 1914, in Louis Jackson & C. R. Hellyer'sVocabulary of Criminal Slang. The noun "gyp" was described at the time as "current in polite circles," and "derived from the popular experience with thieving Gypsies." As a verb, the term is defined as "to flim-flam" and to "cheat by means of guile and manual dexterity." Proper usage? "Gyp this boob with a deuce." I'm not exactly sure what gyp this boob with a deuce means, but it sounds like something stuck between ribald and ridiculous.
F. Scott Fitzgerald used the word in his iconic novel The Great Gatsby: "We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started, but we got gyped out of it all in two days." Simone de Beauvoir used the word in her 1965 bookForce of Circumstance: "Turning an incredulous gaze toward that young and credulous girl, I realize with stupor how much I was gypped."
Many people have limited knowledge of the term's origins, and so the word "gypped" isn't quickly going out of fashion. On April 30, 2013, a publisher released a book in a New York Times bestselling series by Carol Higgins Clark titled Gypped: A Regan Reilly Mystery. The book — the 15th installment of the long-running thriller series — had nothing to do with the Roma people, but instead is a murder mystery full of financial scams and intrigue set in sunny California.
After multiple allegations of racist intent with her choice of title, Clark issued a statement that read: "I am truly sorry for any offense caused by using the word 'Gypped' as the title of my book. It was a familiar word since childhood which no one I knew associated with its origin. Since this issue arose, I've asked many people who also had no idea of any negative connotation."
"I encounter a lot of people who tell me that they never knew the word 'gypped' had anything to do with gypsies, or that it's offensive — especially when the word is heard not read," says University of Texas at Austin professor Ian Hancock, who was born in Britain to Romani parents. "My response to them is, That's okay. You didn't know but now you do. So stop using it. It may mean nothing to you, but when we hear it, it still hurts."
Hancock tells me the word "gypsy" itself is an "exonym" — a term imposed upon an ethnic group by outsiders. When the Roma people moved westward from India towards the European continent, they were mistaken to be Egyptian because of their features and dark skin. We see the same phenomenon across several languages, not only English. Victor Hugo, in his epicHunchback of Notre Dame, noted that the Medieval French term for the Roma was egyptiens.In Spanish, the word for gypsy is "gitano," which comes from the word egipcio, meaning Egyptian — in Romanian: tigan, in Bulgarian: tsiganin, in Turkish: cingene — all of which are variations of slang words for "Egyptian" in those languages.
The Roma people originated thousands of years ago not in Egypt, but in Northern India. They were displaced during a series of 11th-century Muslim invasions during the Ghaznavid Empire. Many were taken as prisoners of war back to what is now modern-day Turkey, during the Ottoman plunder of the Byzantine Empire. A majority of already-displaced Romani people later migrated to Eastern and Southern Europe. The Roma language is derived from ancient Sanskrit and still phonetically, grammatically and linguistically resembles tongues with Sanskrit roots like Hindi or Rajasthani. Romani music is still strikingly similar to Indian folk music, and their spiritual practices — despite conversion to local religions over time — still resemble aspects of Hindu cosmology.
The effort to substitute the word "Roma" for the far better-known term "Gypsy" may strike some as futile, but few other groups carry the burden of such heavy stereotypes with so little reprieve.
Earlier this year, Romani faced several high-profile accusations of child kidnapping. In October,Code Switch colleague Gene Demby wrote:
"In one case, the police received a tip that a blond, blue-eyed girl was living with a Roma family in a Dublin suburb. The tipster believed that the 7-year-old didn't look like the Roma family with whom she lived. The police came and removed the child from the home, despite protests from the Roma family that the child was part of their family."
It is this kind of deep-set suspicion and generalized assumption of deception that drives many Roma to reject the term "gypped." It probably doesn't help that the term was originally meant to refer to Egyptians.


Events organized by the City of Rome on August 19, for the bimillennium of the death of Augustus.
Augustus died at Nola on August 19, A.D. 14. The two thousandth anniversary of his death, celebrated through a series of initiatives promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura, Creatività e Promozione Artistica – Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali with the organization of Zètema Progetto Cultura, is the occasion to explore the life and achievements of the first Roman emperor, who helped to transform Rome into a cosmopolitan city, an operation that can be best summarized by his famous phrase: "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble".
The Colours of the Ara Pacis is back with its light projections on both the western front of the altar, with panels of Aeneas and the Lupercal, and on the eastern front, with those of Tellus, the goddess Roma and the great vegetal frieze.
Special late night opening of the Ara Pacis Museum on August 19th, from 21.00 to 24.00 (last admission at 23.00), with the screenings of "The Colours of the Ara Pacis" and the exhibition "The Art of the Command. The Legacy of Augustus" (tickets: € 11,00).
- at 11.30 tour held by Dr. Simonetta Serra, an archaeologist of the Sovrintendenza Capitolina.
- The Art of the Command. The Legacy of Augustus – at the Ara Pacis Museum until 7 September 2014. Info here.
- Keys To Rome – at the Mercati di Traiano Museo dei Fori Imperiali from 24September, 2014 to 12 April, 2015. Info here.
Forum of Augustus. 2000 years later, a journey through history conceived and curated by Piero Angela and Paco Lanciano with the historic collaboration of Gaetano Capasso. Showings will be repeated every night from April 22 to September 28, 2014 (from Monday to Sunday at 21.00, 22.00 and 23.00, lasting 40 minutes).
TYRTARION at the Mercati di Traiano, a spectacular show to celebrate Augustus will be staged in the evocative setting of the Trajan's Markets on August 30th at 19.00 and repeated on August 31st: the poets of the Augustan age "sung" and set to music by the students of the Accademia Vivarium Novum. Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Catullus return to be recited and sung to celebrate the Emperor Augustus in the language of ancient Rome: Latin.


In the Spring of 1987 the owners Norman and Val Yeats were introduced to Esther Geldenhuys, the President of ROSA. She agreed to address a group of rose enthusiasts at Spurwing. After her persuasive address, the Midlands Rose Society was formed. The first office bearers were Norman Yeats Chairman, Val Yeats Secretary and Reiche Plunkett Treasurer. Until the Yeats moved to Pietermaritzburg in 1990 the Rose meetings were held at Spurwing with luncheons and teas organized by Val Yeats.
The first big function hosted by our Society was when the National Convention was held in 2000 in Durban. The MRS held a Gala Luncheon for the delegates at Spurwing.
The MRS was honoured to host their first National Convention in 2006 –A Rose Affair, under the Chairmanship of Debbie Battershill. It was held in conjunction with the Sunday Tribune Garden Show. The late Des Wright was installed as ROSA President following Sheenagh Harris. The guests of Honour were WFRS President, Dr Gerald Meylan and his wife, Christina, Pierre Richardier from the House of Meilland in France and the Barni family from Barni's Rose Growers in Italy.
In 2014 we hosted our next National Convention, The Magical Midlands Mystery Tour, in Hilton and the Midlands of Natal. This proved to be another successful National Convention.
Our immediate past Chairman served as President of ROSA for an extended term of 3 years following Stephanie Seydack.
After many years, we reintroduced our Rose Show in October 2015 with the help of AP Smith, an accredited ROSA judge. This has become an extremely popular annual event.
We opened our fabulous MRS Heritage Garden in October 2017. Visitors are most welcome to visit the garden. Please contact us for further information in this regard.
At present our Society stands at approximately 180 members and our Subscriptions are R120 per annum.
We host functions throughout the year which always includes our Annual General Meeting which takes place in early June. Functions vary from year to year like rose pruning demonstrations, summer pruning, floral displays, visits to Rose Farms, Christmas functions and special guest speakers.
We take part in the Witness Garden Show every year in September and we have won many Gold Awards over the years. We have also won Best on Show. We won a Gold Medal in 2018 as well as the 'Peoples Choice' Award.
We offer our members Atlantic Fertilisers, 3 times a year at discount process as well as chemicals once a year also at discount prices.
Members receive a Newsletter 4 times a year with advice on growing roses and other interesting news.
We are not an elitist Society, but are here to learn, to give and to share ideas to grow beautiful roses. We are members of our Society because we all love roses.
You will also find us on Facebook where we post photographs of gardens, roses and functions. We also advertise upcoming events.


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Opening Bell: 07.01.09
No Criminal Exposure For Ruth Madoff (NYP)
Ruth will not be prosecuted due to the Feds' lack of evidence she was "either aware or in on" the scam. They reserve the right to change their minds if new, incriminating dirt against the 68-year-old Upper East Side (though soon to be Rego Park) matron is discovered. One source tells the Post it's unclear why the authorities would continue to pursue Lady MacMadoff, since she's already lost so much, like friends and houses (though not $2.3 mill).
California misses budget deadline, readies "IOUs" (Reuters)
"The general obligation bonds will be paid," State Controller John Chiang told Reuters on Tuesday. "California has never defaulted on its debt obligation and we don't plan to do so."
The Goldman v Rolling Stone Cat Fight (NYP)
Apparently the Masters of the Universe thought the line about the firm being "a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity" was way off the mark though one official conceded that the piece was "vaguely entertaining."
FDIC Proposing New Rules on Private-Equity Investors Acquiring Failed Lenders (WSJ)
Tricky sitch for SheBair: "On the one hand, there's pressure that the government not be seen as giving extremely favorable deals to financial actors, especially since many of the problems it's cleaning up have their origins in poor decisions made by the financial sector...On the other hand, both the magnitude of the capital required and the need for hands-on management suggest that private equity can and should play a role in addressing these problems."
Freddie Picks Charles Haldeman for CEO Spot (WSJ)
Now, who wants the Citi/Bank of America/AIG gigs?
Ex-Citi chief set to lead Lloyds integration (FT)
Sir Win Bischoff tapped as next chairman of Lloyds Banking Group.
5:15 Capital Starts Hedge Fund With Nod to Who Song (Bloomberg)
5:15 Capital Management LLC, the track "5:15" on "Quadrophenia," will begin trading today with about $60 million, according to Morris Sachs, one of the founders, who said the fund will grow to $100 million. Joining him at the Greenwich, Connecticut-based fund are E.G. Fisher, 40, and Rob Wahl, 42. "We're all Who fans and love that tune," Sachs, the fund's chief risk officer, said in a telephone interview. "What are we going to do, try to find another name for the Greek god of money?"
Barclays CEO Vows To Improve Bank's Ethics (WSJ) Chief Executive Antony Jenkins said Tuesday he is "shredding" the legacy of the bank's self-serving culture by improving its ethics and moving beyond the misconduct issues that have cost it billions of pounds. Mr. Jenkins told a U.K. parliamentary group that his efforts so far include changing the way employee bonuses are calculated and abolishing commissions on financial-product sales. He said the changes would take time to produce results, but that ultimately he wants to eliminate a culture that at times has been "too short-term focused, too aggressive and on occasions, too self-serving." "Our resolve and intent behind this is absolute," Mr. Jenkins said. McGraw-Hill, S&P Sued by U.S. Over Mortgage-Bond Ratings (Bloomberg) The U.S. Justice Department filed a complaint Monday in federal court in Los Angeles, accusing McGraw-Hill and S&P of mail fraud, wire fraud and financial institutions fraud. Under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, the U.S. seeks civil penalties that can be as high as $1.1 million for each violation. Earlier today, the company's shares tumbled the most in 25 years when it said it expected the lawsuit, the first federal case against a ratings firm for grades related to the credit crisis. "It's a new use of this statute," Claire Hill, a law professor at the University of Minnesota who has written about the ratings firms, said in a phone interview today from Minneapolis. "This is not a line to my knowledge that has been taken before." Dell Nears $25 Billion Deal To Go Private (WSJ) Late Monday, Mr. Dell was in talks with Microsoft Corp and private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners to offer shareholders between $13.50 and $13.75 a share, said people familiar with the matter, about a 25% premium to Dell's stock price in January before the possibility of a deal became public. The buyout, if approved by shareholders, would be the largest such deal since the financial crisis. It also would be an admission by Mr. Dell that he wasn't able to pull off the changes needed to improve his company's revenue and profit under Wall Street's glare. The buyout would give Mr. Dell the largest stake in the company, ensuring that the 47-year-old is the one who gets to oversee any changes. Gross: Beware 'Credit Supernova' Looming Ahead (CNBC) The head of the Pacific Investment Management bond giant has issued an ominous forecast in which he worries that the global central bank-induced credit bubble "is running out of energy and time." As a result, investors will have to get used to an atmosphere of diminishing returns and portfolios that will hold more hard assets like commodities and fewer less-tangible financial assets like stocks. "Our credit-based financial markets and the economy it supports are levered, fragile and increasingly entropic," Gross said in his February newsletter. Obama to Meet With CEOs of Goldman, Yahoo, Other Firms (Reuters) President Barack Obama will meet with chief executives from 12 companies including Goldman Sachs Group's Lloyd Blankfein and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer on Tuesday to discuss immigration and deficit reduction, according to a White House official. "The president will continue his engagement with outside leaders on a number of issues, including immigration reform and how it fits into his broader economic agenda, and his efforts to achieve balanced deficit reduction," the official said Monday. Other chief executives include Arne Sorenson of Marriott International, Jeff Smisek of United Continental Holdings, and Klaus Kleinfeld of Alcoa. A Billion-Dollar Club And Not So Exclusive (NYT) an unprecedented number of high technology start-ups, easily 25 and possibly exceeding 40, are valued at $1 billion or more. Many employees are quietly getting rich, or at least building a big cushion against a crash, as they sell shares to outside investors. Airbnb, Pinterest, SurveyMonkey and Spotify are among the better-known privately held companies that have reached $1 billion. But many more with less familiar names, including Box, Violin Memory and Zscaler, are selling services to other companies. "A year from now that might be 100," said Jim Goetz, a partner at Sequoia Capital, a venture capital business. Sequoia counts a dozen such companies in its portfolio. It is part of what he calls "a permanent change" in the way people are building their companies and financers are pushing up values. The owners of these companies say the valuations make them giddy, but also create unease. Once $1 billion was a milestone, now it is also a millstone. Bigger expectations must be managed and greater uncertainty looms. Donald Trump to sue Bill Maher after bet feud (Politico) Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday in California against liberal comic Bill Maher, suing him for $5 million after Trump says Maher did not follow through on a $5 million public bet he made on "The Tonight Show." "I don't know whether this case will be won or lost, but I felt a major obligation to bring it on behalf of the charities," Trump said in a public statement first obtained by POLITICO. Last month, Maher said on NBC to Jay Leno that he would pay $5 million to Trump's charity of choice if he provided a birth certificate proving that he's not "spawn of his mother having sex with orangutan." It was similar to an offer Trump made to President Barack Obama during the presidential campaign season, in which Trump wanted Obama to release his college records. Trump's statement continued: "Bill Maher made an unconditional offer while offer while on The Jay Leno Show and I, without hesitation, accepted his offer and provided him with the appropriate documentation. Money-Market Funds Best By Excess Cash (WSJ) Money-market funds have a high-quality problem: investors are entrusting them with too much cash. The flood of money is prompting the funds, which buy short-term, top-rated debt, to seek higher returns in investments that until recently were seen as too risky, including French bank debt. Investors plowed $149 billion into U.S.-based money-market funds between the start of November and Jan. 30, bringing total assets under management to $2.695 trillion, close to the most since mid-2011, according to the Investment Company Institute. Knight Capital Group to Cut Workforce by 5 Percent (Reuters) Knight Capital, which recently agreed to be bought for $1.4 billion by Getco, will lay off 5 percent of its global workforce as part of efforts to restructure the automated trading firm, according to a regulatory filing released on Monday. FTC Corrects Language On Herbalife (NYP) The Federal Trade Commission yesterday corrected an earlier statement regarding a "law enforcement investigation" into Herbalife. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Post, the FTC said some complaints against the company were withheld because the information was "obtained through a law enforcement investigation." The agency said yesterday that the language in its letter accompanying the FOIA request was incorrect and it should have said that the exemption from disclosure was related to "foreign sources." FTC spokesman Frank Dorman defined "foreign sources" as government entities, including law enforcement agencies, and the exemption relates to information-sharing between the FTC and these foreign government agencies. The FTC said that it "may not disclose any material reflecting a consumer complaint obtained from a foreign source if that foreign source has requested confidential information." The agency said it could not confirm, or deny, an investigation into the nutritional supplements company. Hedge Fund Mogul, Swiss Villagers Clash Over Ski Slopes (Bloomberg) Since hotelier Tobias Zurbriggen can remember, the business of running Saas-Fee has been a local affair. Now, the Swiss ski resort neighboring the Matterhorn is feeling the heat from a New York-based financier. Edmond Offermann, a nuclear scientist turned millionaire working for hedge fund Renaissance Technologies LLC, invested 15 million Swiss francs ($16.4 million) in 2010 to revive Saas- Fee's struggling ski-lift company. "It's like a hobby, which completely got out of control," Offermann, 53, said in an interview from Long Island, New York. He wants to shake things up by managing hotels and the ski-lift operator in one company controlled by a single chief executive. JPMorgan Joins Rental Rush For Wealthy Clients (Bloomberg) The firm's unit that caters to individuals and families with more than $5 million, put client money in a partnership that bought more than 5,000 single family homes to rent in Florida, Arizona, Nevada and California, said David Lyon, a managing director and investment specialist at J.P. Morgan Private Bank. Investors can expect returns of as much as 8 percent annually from rental incomeas well as part of the profits when the homes are sold, he said. Man Allegedly Tries To Walk Out Of Costco With 24 Quarts Of Oil — Strapped To His Body (CBS) Jorge Sanchez, 35, was spotted about 4:30 p.m. trying to leave a Burbank Costco without paying for the oil. Store employees gave chase and officials said they lost Sanchez after he jumped a fence at the west side of the Costco parking lot. Burbank Police Sgt. Darin Ryburn told CBS2/KCAL9 reporter Andrea Fujii that nine of the 24 quarts were recovered during the foot chase. Authorities said Sanchez walked into the Costco and went straight to the oil aisle. He allegedly grabbed a couple of cases and emptied them. Said Ryburn, "He proceeded to hide the quarts of oil in his pants, socks, and in his shirt." Sanchez was later apprehended near Beachwood Drive and Monterey Avenue, about eight blocks from the store. Officials said he was arrested on suspicion of burglary charges. Margo Martin was a witness to the apprehension. "All of a sudden, I hear 'Get down on the ground' and there is this man laying in our driveway." Witnesses thought the man was running funny and weren't sure why. Witness Manuel Atlas said, "He looked kind of heavy and out of shape." Police said Sanchez was also running funny because he still had 15 quarts of oil strapped to him. Police said he used a bungee cord to strap the bottles down.
Opening/Holiday Bell: 10.10.11
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Just for fun and because i am curious, can we make an thread with the what your non-standard-product systainer looks like and what you use it for.
Just for fun to look into the toolboxes of the fellow systainer fan.
My dovetail cutting tools and chisel/plane blade sharpening equipment.
Thank you guys for posting!
Here's my drill/drive set up. A Sys2 combi with a sortainer. Works great, though it's a bit heavy if you don't throw it on the vac or sys roll.
@Vondawg tell us about the handle you added to the T-lock Sys.
My trim nailers. Just a simple box with dividers.
A few years ago, I rigged up a Sys 5 classic to use for transporting a mixture of hand tools etc. I borrowed ideas from previous FOG poster's. Although I don't make a habit of it, the last time it was full, it weighed 40 lbs.
Also rigged up a Midi with my drill/reciprocating saw stuff a few years ago. I added a metal plate and adhesive magnet strips to the lid (inside) for saw blades. The adhesive didn't hold up, so I abandoned that idea.
Slick idea with the ties through the lid board.
Plumbing, finish guns ,cabinet install equipment ect.
Makes packing tools a lot easier.
I'll try a few pics tomorrow.
Do Mini Systainers count ?
Here's a SYS-Toolbox with Granat hand pads on one side and the other side has several microfiber cloths, a plastic bag with tack rags inside, some rubber sanding forms for curves & profiles, a large soft paintbrush for dusting and several packets of very fine sandpaper.
Here are all of my small Bessey clamps in a systainer.
A Tormek sharpener and all the jigs. The jigs are in the box.
Here's an OF 1010 with 17" long stainless rods in a SYS-Combi 3.
Festool is NOT the only premium price tool but is one of the few that include a rigid box to protect them. I got and anthracite Sys1 on sale from Woodcraft last year to keep my True Position Cabinet Hardware install jig in. The jig comes in a cardboard box! You can buy a goofy blow molded case for it for something like $30. I like being able to stack, store, and transport everything in a standardized way.
Yes the saw blade storage is perfect!


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BioStrata was founded to bring a novel "tactic-agnostic" approach to life science marketing focussed on outcomes rather than outputs. This year, we were also the first agency to offer systematised inbound marketing services to the life science sector.
We became the first HubSpot partner agency exclusively focused on serving the life science market.
We expanded our team across the UK, US and Europe. This year we also adopted EOS, creating our new agency operating system to help facilitate growth.
We further expanded our presence in the US, added to our leadership team to include key team members outside of the founders and held our first "Evolution of Life Science Marketing" event in Cambridge (UK) with great success.
We were selected as the runner-up in the Cambridge Small Business of the Year awards. We also moved into our own dedicated office space, capable of holding 40+ staff and with brand new facilities (games area, lunch room etc.).
We won a Queen's Award for International Trade and were invited to Buckingham Palace to attend the awards ceremony. We also launched our dedicated life science new distribution service, "Life Science Newswire".
During the Covid-19 pandemic, we launched our "Scientists on Standby" initiative, which helped the UK government find enough lab scientists to support with diagnostic testing during the first months of the pandemic.
We continued to expand our US and UK teams and brought on a new COO to help spearhead our future growth. We were also a GHP Biotechnology Award Winner for being the "Leading Specialist in Life Science Marketing".
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BAHAMAS: SAN SALVADOR BY CHARLES HOUSTON
I had not planned on sleeping in the tub, but then again I figured Hurricane Lili would head north (Take that, Florida!) instead of due east. Right at us.
My buddy and I went to San Salvador last week for a long weekend of diving. Connections from DC via Miami were pretty easy and the resort is not expensive and three dives per day meant that we'd get more bottom time for our money. By the time we were in the air over south Florida it was obvious that Lili was slanting at least to the northeast. I had visions of a soggy, overcast vacation. We should have been so lucky.
San Salvador is flat with slivers of pretty beaches (including one at Riding Rock Inn where we stayed.) There is not much in the way of cultural or scenic attractions, but we really liked the islanders. They were warm and helpful and a real contrast to those in Nassau (or in New York or Washington.) Cockburn Town is the main settlement on the sparsely populated island and it offers two rudimentary stores and a bar or two.
RIDING ROCK INN
This beachfront in has (or had) about 40 rooms. They are not fancy but are clean and adequately furnished with two beds, cable TV, and a small fridge. A balcony overlooked the beautiful sea. The premium rooms are on the corners of the two story building and offer an extra window. It's a fine place for divers.
The main building at the resort houses a restaurant and a bar in which Jimmy Buffett would feel right at home. Cooking is down-home and good. Omelets to order, fresh fruit and grits at breakfast. Spaghetti, burgers, conch chowder at lunch. Dinners featured sauteed grouper, steak, pork chops, and similar fare. Portions were adequate.
THE DIVING
San Salvador is known for its walls, which start in about 30-40 feet of water. There is very healthy coral growth at the crest and down to 120-140 feet. We saw lots of small tropicals and a pack of big, semi- tame groupers. There are some swim-throughs, but the topography is not as dramatic as Cozumel. Water was 83 degrees and viz was only about 80 feet due to the cloud cover.
Some noteworthy critters included a spotted moray, coral banded shrimp and a ray. Others saw a big hammerhead at about 180 feet. Dennis and I were sharkless, unfortunately. Ironically, three were spotted in the shallows just below the hotel's verandah. But not by me.
THE DIVE OPERATION
Kevin Collins runs the dive operation which uses two 40 foot boats. About 15-18 divers were aboard. (The local Club Med has giant boats which carry up to 50 reef manglers.) The Riding Rock staff does everything for you and there's no need to tote or even touch your gear until it's time to make your giant stride. Briefings were minimal and you are free to dive your own profile and wander around the reef on your own. Recreational limits were sufficient for me, but not for everybody: We had some gorilla divers on the boat as well as a jerk or two.
CRAZY DIVERS
A max depth of 130 feet was merely a vague concept to a group from western Pennsylvania. Back home these guys dive in icy conditions, dive wrecks in the Great Lakes and even man the local Search & Rescue team. In the Bahamas they went ape. On one dive I was at 120 feet and one of the rescue divers was at least 40 feet below me and still heading down. Some of the others were below him, at 180 feet.
One of them was a young guy on his first week of open water diving. The second dive was to perhaps 80 or 100 feet. We then off-gassed for a couple of hours over lunch then headed out for the day's third dive. So what if they were flying at noon the next day...there was a wall to dive, by George! So it was back to 150 feet for them and that's where they saw a 12-15 foot hammerhead.
The shark spooked the rookie diver. I doubt that he was aware that his profiles were far more dangerous than the shark's jaws. That night I asked one of the group's leaders about diving like that the day before flying. He was frank. "We blew it. We should not have done it.," he said. I hope no one got bent. They were good company if poor role models.
Another group was not so congenial. A scruffy guy from Nashville got in my face when he saw me pulling on a pair of gloves before a dive. "You don't need them," he barked. I should have said the same thing about the cigarette in his mouth or the dive flag he had pained on his toenail. I was polite and merely said "We disagree."
HURRICANE LILI
At about eleven on Friday night an electrical storm moved into the area and put on an awesome light show. From CNN we knew that Lili was headed in our general direction but we hoped it would pass to the north. By 4:00 AM we knew that it wouldn't.
Winds were howling and everybody in the hotel woke up. CNN was gone as the satellite dishes were ripped out. Water was coming in from the ceiling, around the window frames and under the door. As the winds increased the big sliding glass doors started to vibrate, then throb. I had visions of shattering glass and severed arteries, so I grabbed a pillow and a blanket and moved to the tub.
After a couple of hours the winds were at 115 mph according to the radio, which was informing its listeners that Lili was 40 miles southwest of San Salvador and heading right for it at 23 mph. When the eye eased by at about 6:00 the hotel hustled us into its vans to be evacuated to a church.
As Dennis and I clambered into the back seat of the last van there was a jarring crash: A chunk of roof had been torn off and hurled into the rear of the van. Our arrival at the Church of God of Prophecy had its own dramatic punctuation. As we stumbled into the sanctuary a window blew out.
That was the last close call, though. We spent about three hours trying to sleep on the padded pews, then ate a breakfast of ham sandwiches and candy bars. When we got returned, the Riding Rock Inn was trashed but had not suffered any structural damage. Sections of roof were here and there, some rooms were full of water. Plants were shredded and pool furniture was strung helter-skelter.
No one was hurt. In fact, only one islander was injured and I don't think it was serious. Our prayers may have helped.
Saturday was spent gawking at the damaged resort. The hotel generator had failed as had island power. That meant that there was no water since the pumps wouldn't work. For the better part of two days we used trash cans full of swimming pool water to flush the toilets. All divers carry flashlights so we could see, and the hotel grilled us burgers and steaks.
Island entrepreneur and hotel owner Carter Williams was super through it all. When it became apparent that his generator wouldn't be repaired Saturday, he sent us all to the Club Med at his expense. Club Med is filled with Europeans who are all younger, sleeker, and better looking than us, but I shouldn't carp about a place with hot showers.
When we returned to Riding Rock on Sunday, Williams had a crew of about 40 people cleaning up, fixing things, putting on new roofs, and taking care of the guests. As I write this I am certain he is in full operation and that there will be few visible reminders of the storm. One, sadly, will be a shredded oak tree in Cockburn Town, right by a sign which urged residents to "Keep our island Beautiful."
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For the Cape-Verdean singer, see Cesária Évora.
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Évora and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.
César Évora (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsesaɾ ˈeβoɾa]; born César Évora y Díaz on November 4, 1959 in Habana, Cuba) is a Cuban actor.
Évora started out his career in his native Cuba appearing in more than ten movies before moving to Mexico in the early 1990s. He became known for playing minor roles in the seminal Corazón salvaje and the long-running Agujetas de color de rosa in 1993 and 1994, respectively. In 1995 Évora won his first leading role playing opposite Daniela Romo in Si Dios Me Quita La Vida.
Leading roles in Luz Clarita, Gente bien and especially El Privilegio de Amar soon established Évora as one of the most popular leading men in the industry. He has maintained a high profile after performances in successful productions such as La Madrastra, La esposa virgen, and Mundo de Fieras. He recently acted in telenovelas Al diablo con los guapos, En nombre del amor, Triunfo del Amor, Abismo de pasión and Amor Bravío. He will star as the villain in Salvador Mejía's new telenovela: La tempestad. In addition, he will have a special participation in Nathalie Lartilleux's telenovela: Corazón indomable.
Évora acquired Mexican citizenship in 1999.
Évora is divorced from his first wife. He is currently married to Vivian Domínguez and has three children. He is the cousin of famed Cuban author Daína Chaviano.
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^ "Conoce a los personajes de 'Llena de amor'" (in Spanish). EsMas. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
^ "Confirmado César Evora para 'Hasta el fin del mundo'" (in Spanish). Televisa. Retrieved September 10, 2015.
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November 22, 2018,
By patel
Who Is RHOC Tamra Judge Daughter? Know Her Husband, Divorce, Net worth, Age, And Height
Tamra Judge Daughter, Husband, and Divorce
Tamra Judge Net worth
Tamra Judge Wiki – Bio: Age, Height, Brother, Birthday
Yet another clash is brewing in Orange County!
If you don't miss The Real Housewives Of Orange County, then amongst all the cast members, Tamra Judge must be your favorite. Recently, the sexy female empowerment party that comprised Tamra Judge and Kelly Dodd completed season 13 of The Real Housewives Of Orange County.
Even though Tamra introduced Emily Simpson to Orange County as a friend, by the end of the show, they are no longer friends anymore. Tamra accused Simpson of being envious of her marriage and full of fake storylines.
However, people are curious to know Tamra Judge daughter and her husband. Also, find the figure of Tamra Judge net worth. Are you familiar with Tamra Judge age and height? Today, we'll be delving Tamra Judge wiki facts, age, height, brother, net worth, daughter, husband, and divorce.
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Who said marriage only happens once? Keep trying your luck until you find the one to grow old with. Similar is the case of Tamra Judge. Despite having two-failed marriage, she was bold enough to go for the third one.
Currently, Tamra is married to her third husband, Eddie Judge. The pair exchanged vows in St.Regis Monarch Beach, California on June 15, 2013, following a 15-month-long engagement. By profession, Tamra's husband, Eddie is a businessperson. None of them hesitates a bit to highlight their eternal love for each other on their respective social sites.
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Previously, Tamra has married to her now ex-husbands – Simon Barney and Darren Vieth. Due to personal differences, she divorced with Darren in 1990 with whom she had a son named Ryan Vieth in 1987. In 2011, Tamra divorced her second husband Simon with whom she welcomed three children – Sidney, Spencer, and Sophia Barney.
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As of now, Tamra is living the days of her lives with her husband, Eddie. We hope that her third marriage runs until she grows grey and old. The show Tamra's OC wedding will forever keep their wedding ceremony alive.
After Bravo's Housewives of Orange Country, Tamra stepped into the world of television and stardom. Beforehand, she worked as a licensed realtor in Coto de Casa and Ladera Ranch. Being one of the hottest housewives, she makes about $350000 per season for her appearance in the television reality show.
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Apart from television career, Tamra has launched her cosmetic line, working along with her plastic surgeon Dr. Ambe. She is also an entrepreneur and owns C.U.T fitness gym with her husband, Eddie Judge. But what's the figure of Tamra Judge net worth?
As of 2018, Tamra Judge net worth is estimated to be $2 million.
Tamra Sue Waddle was born in 1967 in California, USA. She grew up with her brother Kenny Barney in California. During her junior high school days, she used to play the clarinet. Besides this, she hasn't much shared about her parents, childhood life and educational background.
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She celebrates her birthday on 2 September, which makes her current age 51.
On August 27, 2017, she was diagnosed with melanoma. Her height measures 5 feet 3 inches.
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Dhal, a thick stew made with pulses is flavourful and aromatic. Don't be intimidated to make this at home with your choice of brown, red or green lentils, onions and tomato. The flavour comes from a combination of cumin seeds, ginger, tumeric, and chili. It might just become your new lentil recipe.
Soak and cook lentils in sufficient water to cover, until tender (about 20 minutes).
In a medium skillet over medium high heat add canola oil and heat. Add in the cumin seeds and watch not to burn the seeds. Add onions, ginger, turmeric, chili powder, cinnamon and sauté. Allow to cook slowly over medium heat.
Add in tomato. Stir to combine. Allow flavors to combine over med-low heat for another few minutes.
Add lentils to skillet and mix well. Heat through.


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Uber, Lyft, Taxis, Limos, and others in Atlanta, Georgia
Availability of Uber, Lyft, Didi, Ola, and other rideshares in Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Are Uber and Lyft available in Atlanta? Do Didi and Ola pickup at airports? How much do rideshare drivers earn in Atlanta?
This page lists all available rideshare services that RideGuru tracks for Atlanta, Georgia. Scroll down for nearby airports and transportation hubs where rideshares may be available.
Be sure to check out RideGuru's Atlanta City Spotlight feature!
Limos.com
When you order a Limos.com car, a luxury vehicle or limousine will pick you up. Limos.com has reservation options for 1-50 passengers.
How much do Uber and Lyft drivers make in Atlanta?
Uber and other rideshare drivers set their own hours and can work as much or as little as they want, as long as it is permitted by law. Hence, how much drivers make depends on how much they drive. Drivers keep the majority of the fare and the rest goes to the rideshare company that collects commissions and booking fees.
In Atlanta, GA, Uber drivers make about $15.52 per hour before expenses, compared to the national average of $16.02, according to a survey including 995 drivers (other cities/source). When considering expenses, as a rule-of-thumb, many drivers use $1.00 per mile as their net profit.
According to another study from 2015, Uber drivers in Atlanta make $39,929 USD per year. before expenses (source)
According to GlassDoor in May, 2018:
The typical Uber Driver salary is $20. Driver salaries at Uber can range from $6 - $25. This estimate is based upon 7 Uber Driver salary report(s) provided by employees or estimated based upon statistical methods. When factoring in bonuses and additional compensation, a Driver at Uber can expect to make an average total pay of $42,672 . See all Driver salaries to learn how this stacks up in the market. (source)
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Plantation Way, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144, United States to Ashley Club Circle Northwest, Norcross, Georgia 30092, United States
Graystone Crossing, Alpharetta, Georgia 30005, United States to Noble Street, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27105, United States
Indian Village Drive, Alpharetta, Georgia 30022, United States to Snellville, Georgia, United States
th and Home Apartments, 251 10th St NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30318, United States to IKEA, 441 16th St NW, Atlanta, Georgia, 30363, United States of America
th Street Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, United States to Pensacola, Florida, United States
Cymbal Court, Duluth, Georgia 30097, United States to Atlanta Airport Ground Transportation, N Terminal Pkwy, College Park, Georgia 30337, United States
Windbrooke Way, Alpharetta, Georgia 30005, United States to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), 6000 N Terminal Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, 30337, United States of America
Cumberland Road Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30306, United States to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), 6000 N Terminal Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia 30337, United States
Eagle's Crest Lane, McDonough, Georgia 30253, United States to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), 6000 N Terminal Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia 30337, United States
Jeb Stuart Drive, Newnan, Georgia 30265, United States to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), 6000 N Terminal Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, 30337, United States of America
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Marietta St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA to Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA
Westchester Ridge Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, United States to Clifton Road Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
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Wynford Colony Southwest, Marietta, Georgia 30064, United States to Davinci Court, Norcross, Georgia 30092, United States
Park Place Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, United States to Roswell Rd, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, United States
Franklin Drive, Marietta, Georgia 30067, United States to Roberts View Trail Northeast, Buford, Georgia 30519, United States
Creekview Court, Riverdale, Georgia 30296, United States to Cascade Park Drive Southwest, Atlanta, Georgia 30331, United States
Creekview Court, Riverdale, Georgia 30296, United States to Atlanta, Georgia 30336, United States
Graystone Terrace, Alpharetta, Georgia 30005, United States to Mccollum Parkway Northwest, Kennesaw, Georgia 30144, United States
Jefferson Parkway, Newnan, Georgia 30263, United States to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), 6000 N Terminal Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, 30337, United States of America
Ponce De Leon Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, United States to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), 6000 N Terminal Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia 30337, United States
Ponce De Leon Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, United States to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), 6000 N Terminal Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia, 30337, United States of America
Lanier Boulevard Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30306, United States to Peachtree Boulevard, Chamblee, Georgia 30341, United States
Carnegie Way Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, United States to N Terminal Pkwy, Atlanta, Georgia 30354, United States
Towne Lake Hills South Drive, Woodstock, Georgia 30189, United States to South Marietta Parkway Southeast, Marietta, Georgia 30060, United States
Towne Lake Hills South Drive, Woodstock, Georgia 30189, United States to Atlanta Highway, Alpharetta, Georgia 30004, United States
Indian Way Northwest, Lilburn, Georgia 30047, United States to Venture Parkway Northwest, Duluth, Georgia 30096, United States
Binford Place, Douglasville, Georgia 30134, United States to Concourse Parkway, Douglasville, Georgia 30134, United States
South Hicks Circle Northwest, Conyers, Georgia 30012, United States to Royal Drive Southwest, Conyers, Georgia 30094, United States
Southern Road, Morrow, Georgia 30260, United States to Tara Boulevard, Jonesboro, Georgia 30236, United States
Georgia Highway 92, Fayetteville, Georgia 30215, United States to Northlake Drive, Peachtree City, Georgia 30269, United States
Courtland Street Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, United States to Marietta Street Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia 30313, United States
Columbia Drive, Decatur, Georgia 30032, United States to Peachtree Street Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, United States
Keith Drive, Canton, Georgia 30114, United States to Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, Doraville, Georgia 30360, United States
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A poll for Democrat Haley Stevens' campaign, also released Wednesday, gave her a 10-point lead — a greater edge than Stevens had in the campaign's polling conducted in August and earlier in October.
In the Republican survey, conducted by Harper Polling, Stevens led Epstein 36 percent to 35 percent, with 27 percent undecided. Two third-party candidates took 1 percent each. Harper surveyed 400 likely voters from Oct. 10-13 on landlines and cellphones. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
In the Democratic poll, conducted by Anzalone Liszt Grove, Stevens led Epstein 44 percent to 34 percent with 16 percent undecided. The poll surveyed 513 likely voters from Oct. 10-14 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.3 percentage points. ALG's previous polling of the race showed Stevens leading 42 percent to 37 percent in early October and 44 percent to 36 percent in mid-August.
In Harper's August poll of the race, Stevens led 34 percent to 29 percent, with 32 percent undecided. A New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll at the beginning of October gave Stevens the edge, too — 45 percent to 38 percent with 17 percent undecided.
Stevens was the chief of staff to former President Barack Obama's Auto Task Force. Epstein co-chaired President Donald Trump's campaign in Michigan.
Trump carried the 11th District by 4 points in 2016, while Trott won re-election by 13 points. He announced last fall he wouldn't run for a third term.


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Access to Energy and Finance: An Integrated Approach
English PDF 493 KB, 38 pages
Advances in solar technology and innovative financing schemes are accelerating access to energy for many poor and rural households. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where a wave of entrepreneurs is enabling access to electricity through financed home solar systems that people pay for over time. Because providers can remotely disable use of the system and allow payments under a flexible pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) scheme, lower-income households effectively gain access to energy assets that they otherwise would not have been able to afford. This model is becoming the fastest-growing segment in private electricity provision in Africa.
Over time, providers of PAYGO energy services use payment history to finance additional assets (primarily durable goods) or to offer nonsecured loans. Some of the more mature companies that started as retailers of energy systems (e.g., M-KOPA in Kenya) have evolved into diversified consumer loans firms. Households traditionally outside the reach of microfinance institutions and banks are gaining access not only to electricity but also to a formal source of financing.
Despite the proven benefits and profitability of this model, the scale and diversification of these companies' services are constrained by the lack of access to commercial debt financing. Mechanisms used today are inefficient, scarce, and costly. Financial institutions in local markets would be the natural source of such debt financing, but the unsecured nature of loans in PAYGO portfolios makes them too risky to finance. Yet leveraging local financing could help established financial institutions achieve accelerated growth into segments below their traditional target, and at low cost.
This paper analyses the synergies in the distribution of energy and financial services. It describes how an integrated approach could enable financial institutions to profitably serve low-income populations, thus enabling a significant source of growth. It also explains how under proper licensing schemes, energy providers could grow into full deposit-taking financial institutions. It uses the experience of retailer-led banks in Latin America to illustrate the ways in which similar models could evolve in African markets. Because the mechanisms explained in this paper can be applied in a diverse set of contexts (ranging from clean stoves to access to sanitation, health, and other basic services), the implications for expansion of locally financed development are important.
By explaining these opportunities, we hope providers will experiment with these new models and accelerate the pace at which poor households gain access to a range of valued financial and nonfinancial services.
Tag: Advancing the SDGs
Dirk Muench
Daniel Waldron
Xavier Faz
Lead, Business Models
Publication 13 July 2021
PAYGo PERFORM: Financial, Operational, and Portfolio Quality KPIs for the PAYGo solar industry
With the help of 600 colleagues from the PAYGO offgrid solar sector, a new set of 36 standard metrics covering portfolio quality, unit and firm-level economics, and company operational indicators are available today.
Publication 23 June 2021
Getting Repaid in Asset Finance: A Guide to Managing Credit Risk
From Sub-Saharan Africa to the Indian Subcontinent, asset finance and leasing companies are doing invaluable, innovative work to finance critical assets for low-income and informal borrowers.
Publication 19 May 2020
Electric Bankers: Utility-Enabled Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Without appliances, people cannot make use of electricity. But how can low-income households afford costly electrical appliances? One answer is for utilities to offer consumer financing.


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Release Day Promo ~ Friends with Multiple Benefits (Friends with Benefits 6) by Luke Young
When newlyweds Jim and Victoria return from their Vegas wedding, Victoria dives full swing back into her sex therapy practice. With the addition of a new, let's call him, unique client, along with a couple of old surprise visitors, there is never a dull moment in the naughty professional's home office.
While Brian and Jillian are in full expectant parent mode and with twins no less, Jillian's movie opens to great success. Just when the famous author thinks she's gotten Amanda Joseph out of her, and more importantly her husband's hair, the A-list actress returns and in a big way.
With the continuation of Jillian's series of novels heading to the small screen, she's looking forward to the promise of a huge financial windfall, but will the price tag be too much to bear.
Will Jim and Victoria survive her new clients? Will Brian and Jillian have boys or girls or one of each? And will Jillian's movie's box office triumph be the end of her career or her marriage or both. Find out in Friends With Multiple Benefits.
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Friends with Benefits Series Description:
Best friends Jillian Grayson and Victoria Wilde could not be more different. Victoria, a young widow who has really gotten on with her life, is wild, carefree, and living life to the fullest while Jillian, recently divorced, is a bestselling romance novelist who is straight-laced, proper, and reserved. That is until Jillian meets Brian Nash, the young, hunky best friend of her college-aged son. These two women provide the vantage point on the hilarious and steamy world of the Friends With Benefits.
Filled with strong, sexy women and fun-loving, real men, the books are at once playful and very sexy; light but large-hearted. If you love sexy contemporary romance with a healthy dose of fun then this series is for you.
Find the series on Goodreads here: https://www.goodreads.com/series/91230-friends-with-benefits
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Luke Young's uniquely funny and sexy Friends With Benefits series is what happens when you take a happily married guy who enjoys watching Judd Apatow comedies and force him to watch every episode of Sex and the City (at least that's the story he's going with!).
Luke is the author of the Amazon bestselling five-book Friends with Benefits series, along with the prequel, Friends Wanting Benefits and several stand alone comedies including, his personal favorite, a parody of Gone Girl.
You can find Luke at www.lukeyoungbooks.com or write to him directly at lukebyoung@gmail.com.
Young also writes "spicier" books under the pen name Ian Dalton. If you like your sexy comedy heavy on the sexy, be sure to check out Dalton's Victoria Wilde series. For more information on how Ian Dalton's Victoria Wilde series relates to the Friends With Benefits series please see the "Who Is Ian Dalton" area of his website. http://lukeyoungbooks.com/who-is-ian-dalton/
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