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ABOUT	drost	2019-06-24T18:34:45-04:00
A SNAPSHOT OF STEELE'S
Founded in 1972, Steele's Mechanical is a full-service, design-build mechanical contractor, licensed and insured in both North and South Carolina.
We offer unparalleled commercial and industrial know-how to our clients, ranging from new design and fabrication to retrofit installations.
Our Beginnings are Humble, but Our Dreams are Big
Drawing on his experience in the Air Force, Odell Steele dreamt of building a mechanical contracting firm not only committed to excellence, integrity, innovation and the well-being of others, but recognized for its unparalleled work-ethic. Armed with ambition, an idea, and one employee, he did just that, establishing Steele's Mechanical in 1972. As the firm became recognized for those values, we flourished, initially operating from a building located in Odell's own backyard to twice relocating the office — the last being our current location at 1710 Charlotte Highway in Lancaster, SC.
Fast forward forty years, and we now consist of 55+ employees with 70 years of combined experience. Odell continues to contribute, but now enjoys his well-deserved retirement, comfortable knowing his legacy is safe in the hands of our new president, Dan Bailey. Under Dan's experienced guidance, we remain true to Odell's dream, honoring the success his business formula has produced, but also building upon it so we may continue to produce facilities throughout the Carolinas that operate in the most efficient manner imaginable – just as we have for the past 40 years and just as we intend to for the next four decades.
Tailor Made for the Task
"One organization has produced more business owners than any other single institution in the nation. It has a proven track record of teaching leadership, strategic planning, creative problem-solving, task execution, and resiliency—all traits essential to business ownership. It is not a fancy MBA or university program. The organization is the United States military."
— Mark L. Rockefeller,
Forbes Contributor and
CEO and Co-Founder of StreetShares
We're proud to count our two leaders as members of that elite group of veteran business owners. Our president, Dan Bailey and Founder, Odell Steele, served in the United States Army and Air Force, respectively. They skillfully apply the lessons they learned — risk management, strategic planning, creative-problem solving, and unwavering resiliency to name a few — to successfully lead our company. We are grateful to them and all our country's service men and women, past and present. THANK YOU.
Dan Bailey is truly a product of his environment. As a young boy, he was surrounded by men who put their country first, serving in the United States Army as far back as his great grandfather. So, when high school graduation approached, Dan chose to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors, serving as a Construction Engineer and Paratrooper for six years. Shortly after his discharge from the Army, Dan continued to grow within the construction industry, drawing once more upon his childhood influences; this time from one of his best friend's fathers — a man Dan credits with teaching him many of life's most important lessons — Ron Haston. Ron owned Charlotte-based Andrew Roby Construction and hired Dan as laborer during his high school summers. Dan took the lessons he learned during this time and added to them, acquiring even greater experience in mechanical system operations and safety management techniques. He continues to apply the lessons he learned while working with Ron and serving our country, establishing clear strategic missions for our team to execute seamlessly. He leads by example, keeping the team's goals in focus, but with a flexibility that allows for innovation.
Outside of work, Dan possesses an active civic and social life. He is a graduate of York County's Leadership Training Program, Class of 2018, and an involved participant at his church, Westminster Presbyterian in Rock Hill. He enjoys cheering on the North Carolina Tarheels and University of Alabama Crimson Tide with his Dad as well as spending time with his wife, Hailey, and their son, whom they welcomed to the world in July 2017.
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Odell Steele
Odell Steele is the definition of a self-made man. As a child working his family's farm, he learned the value of a hard day's work, cultivating the strong work ethic he still possesses today. He further reinforced that same can-do attitude during his years of service in the U.S. Air Force. There he refined his mechanical expertise and acquired the leadership skills he would utilize in the years come.
Following his discharge from the Air Force, Odell worked for a variety of businesses before opening Steele's Mechanical in 1972. For the past four decades, Odell led the employees of Steele's Mechanical by example, never asking any employee to do anything he wouldn't do himself. He credits the company's success to those same employees, claiming their loyalty is the backbone of the company.
A lifelong Methodist, Odell currently attends First United Methodist Church. When not travelling for missionary work with his son, he enjoys spending time with his wife, two children, and five grandchildren. Odell also loves a challenging game of golf, so much so that he never leaves home without his clubs. He serves on the Board of Senior Golfers of South Carolina and as Chairman of the Richburg Fire Protection Board.
A Proven Formula of Partnership, Safety and Client Commitment
After 40 years in business we can confidently say, we've seen a lot, if not all. While that certainly contributes to our expertise, it doesn't dictate our approach. Our team of system experts understand that every project is unique and requires an individualized approach. To craft your personalized plan, we listen with intent — our objective to acquire the insight necessary to produce solutions that seamlessly integrate with your facility's overall design and function. We then put that plan in to action, drawing upon our years of expertise to safely, efficiently and economically deliver the best possible outcome for you and your facility … ALWAYS.
Licensed in North and South Carolina
Willingness to Tackle Projects of Any Size or Scope
5,000 SF On-Site Sheet-Metal Fabrication Shop
Partnership: Two Heads Are Better Than One
As veterans, Dan Bailey and Odell Steele learned firsthand of the benefits of partnership and of relying on their team members. Odell later founded our company on this belief, and Dan continues to reinforce it today, encouraging our team to draw upon their wider pool of expertise, experience, and skills to produce the innovative outcomes our company is known for. Our team-oriented approach promotes high levels of communication and transparency, both imperative to the success of any project. It not only allows for an open exchange of ideas, but also provides the collaborative effort necessary to more effectively identify and evaluate the project's objectives, schedules and opportunities — a proven-formula for successful project delivery. Period.
Safety: It's Non-Negotiable
Ensuring that all those that work for and with us return home to their loved ones each night is monumental responsibility — One in which we do not take lightly. We are unwavering in our commitment to worker safety from our president, who is OSHA 500 and MESH certified, to our newest employee. In fact, for us, safety is non-negotiable. We demand strict adherence to our safety policies, infusing their importance into our very company culture. We actively provide our employees with safety resources, including a comprehensive safety manual — a blueprint of essential process steps and required actions that will help employees mitigate potential workplace hazards. We also provide them with multiple safety training opportunities; our future goal to have all employees possess up to OSHA 30 certification.
Boom Lift and Scissor Lift Training • Confined Space Entry • Daily Job Safety Hazard Analyses • Fall Protection • Ladder Safety
Lock Out / Tag Out • New Field Employee Safety Orientation • OSHA 10 • OSHA 30 • Respirators
Client Commitment: We Can't Help Ourselves
We love what we do, but more importantly, whom we do it for — our clients. Our team understands that superior customer service is more than a business model. It is a passion ingrained in everything we do, whether we're responding to a simple service call or designing the mechanical system for an industrial warehouse. It is an integral part of our company's value system and is no more evident than in our continued dedication to our employees, our owners, and our customers.
Steele's Mechanical
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"Bottled: A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery," by Dana Bowman of Lindsborg was recently named to the 2016 Kansas Notable Books List.
"Bottled: A Mom's Guide to Early Recovery," by Dana Bowman of Lindsborg was recently named to the 2016 Kansas Notable Books List. The list honors 15 books either written by Kansas authors or about a Kansas-related topic. A memoir about her path to sobriety as a mother of two young children, Bowman's book is a humorous look at a serious topic.
Born and raised in Overland Park, Bowman's father was a recovered alcoholic who warned Bowman she statistically had a 50 percent chance of succumbing to alcoholism.
Bowman thought her odds were good, as she gained a college degree in teaching and went through her 20s and early 30s without participating in the binge drinking and partying other young adults did.
"I was always kind of a go-getter, graduated top of my class," Bowman recalled.
"I really leaned on that glass of wine at the end of a long day of teaching," Bowman said.
Bowman marked her behavior up to not liking her job, being lonely, having a hard time adjusting to married life and homesickness.
Bowman and her husband then moved to Lindsborg and had two children, born 18 months apart. While she was pregnant and nursing, Bowman did not drink, but she battled postpartum depression after each birth. She would be consumed with anxiety and dread and rewarded herself for making it through another day with a glass of wine.
"Alcoholism is very patient. It was slowly increasing every day. A glass, two glasses, a little more every day," Bowman said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted in a study published in May 2013 that 73.1 percent of adults between the ages of 25 and 44 were current drinkers. Of those adults, 31.3 percent said they had drank excessively (more than five drinks in a single day) at least once in the past year.
Bowman said her increasing dependence on alcohol was easy to hide. She never drove while drunk and rarely suffered blackouts.
"That's the tricky part, because when you don't get arrested or pulled over, there's nothing to tell you to cut it out," Bowman remarked.
Bowman said alcoholism has affected her family for generations. In 2014, Bowman's older brother, Chris, died of liver failure as a result of alcoholism.
Bowman did not want to live in misery anymore. Although she knew would have to give up drinking, it took six months from the moment she realized her life had to change until she would be ready to get help. As Bowman drank what would be her last glass of wine, her legs gave out from under her and she phoned her husband, finally admitting she had a problem.
Bowman started going to a 12-step program and turned her passion for writing into an outlet to stay sober and to share her feelings, with humor lacing the stories of the real struggles she was enduring. At first, her posts on momsieblog.com focused on her postpartum depression, but Bowman realized she wanted to chronicle her journey of recovery and reach out to other mothers in the same situation to encourage them.
Bowman published the article "As a Mom in Recovery, How Do I Explain My Addiction to My Kids?" for a recovery website. The piece was picked up by The Huffington Post, who also produced a video interview with Bowman.
After that experience, Central Recovery Press called Bowman and asked her to write a book about her recovery. She asked if they were joking. When she was assured of their sincerity, Bowman poured her experiences into "Bottled." Bowman said the book was easy to write but that the consequences of going public with her story, especially while living in a small town, were daunting.
Bowman is planning a second book and is speaking of her recovery around the country.
"As moms of little kids, we are isolated," Bowman said. "Drinking is a really easy out for a lot of moms." Explaining her addiction to her children, Bowman uses examples that they can understand, such as wanting to watch TV all the time.
Bowman now writes, reads, runs and takes her children to swim lessons; activities that keep her from taking another drink.


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Street Artworks – Tim Chalk & Paul Grime
'The Foundry', Bonnybridge 1981
Hawkhill, Dundee 1983
'Leithers'. 1986
Peace and Justice Murals 1979 – 1994
Tim Chalk and Paul Grime founded 'Artist's Collective' with David Wilkinson in 1981, before working together as 'Street Artworks' (1984 – 1988) and then as 'Chalk & Grime' (1988 – 1994), making murals and other environmental artworks in Scotland and the UK.
Tim was born in 1955, the third child of four in a middle-class family that lived in a terraced house in Hillhead in Glasgow, where there was always drawing and where in the back lanes and bomb sites the children would play. His parents were from Devon, his father taught classics at Glasgow University and always kept a sketchbook with him, and his 'reasonable and reflective' activist mother, was driven by concern for social justice and children's issues.
He remarks on the difference between home and the back-lane Glaswegian world, "I come from the English ghetto in Glasgow, middle class but financially stressed." At home he and his two elder sisters were always drawing, there were art books, 'Studio' magazines and visits to galleries and he made models of imaginary buildings. School was less encouraging; there were set rules and he got the belt for 'starting his painting early.' "There was no room for exploration, you were taught to believe 'this is how it is.'" But by the time he was in the sixth form he was always in the art room painting and he discovered clay modelling and the techniques of photography.
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Tim was accepted for a five year fine art course at Edinburgh University split between the academic Humanities' study of Art History, and the Art College, training in drawing and painting. In Art History he was absorbed in investigating ideas, which had a critical stimulating effect on his future work, "intellectually rigorous, full of hard impartial research." But the art college "was disappointing, directionless and in limbo." During the Art History course the University offered travel bursaries and Tim was able to explore Renaissance art in Florence, Sienna, Assisi, Urbino and Venice. "I was stunned by the whole art scene," he said, "it was a notional ideal, a socially engaged art."
how do you escape from making trinkets for rich people?
In 1979, his course completed, Tim was selling shoes for two days and painting watercolours with enthusiasm the rest of the week. "But workwise, I was completely lost. I had discovered the existence of this thing called community art, and every Monday got the Guardian and looked at posts being advertised. It was then I clocked it and got excited." At first the excitement "was at a personal theoretical level, it was only later by getting involved and engaged in it that the corners got knocked off and you learned how real people live and how valuable your art is – or isn't – effective, valuable, creative and all the rest of it."
He was applying for community artist jobs without success. Then by chance he had a call from Bob Palmer, director of the 'Theatre Workshop Community Arts Centre' in Edinburgh, and spent three weeks painting scenery for their Christmas show. He continued working with the company on temporary contracts for a year, touring on community events and play schemes and making sets and constructions, after which he was taken on full-time. "There was the teaching, learning, real-life experience that the University and all the rest of it had never given me. Those were my education years."
Tim's first mural project was for the front wall of the Pilton Community Centre in Edinburgh. It came as part of a package of creative entertainments and activities 'Theatre Workshop' was providing for Pilton's Annual Gala. Tim worked with children. Started with everyone making drawings of all the activities in the Centre. From all these he made a composition, combining their drawings, and took it back to the children for approval. They made the changes they wanted and the design was squared up and chalked on the wall. Tim outlined their drawings in black paint and for the next week through the mayhem of excitement and action, mixed the colours and directed the children where to paint – and tidied up the images afterwards so that their ideas were shown to best effect. "It was the first chance I had to put into practice all this theory that'd been kicking around in my head. And I had seen what worked and got the feeling the enthusiasm of all this group of kids. It was great!"
first mural
In 1981 a new director took over Theatre Workshop who was much more theatre-based. "Although he was supportive of what I and my visual art co-worker, Paul Grime, were doing, we saw that murals and environmental art were going against the mainstream. So we decided to leave and go freelance and set up our own company, 'Artists' Collective'. If we'd had a mission statement at the time it would have been 'To produce high quality environmental art-work and to set up a model for artists working in the social context.'"
Paul was born in Stockport and grew up in a Newcastle-Under-Lyne where his father was a hard-working doctor. Early in his childhood the family moved to a home built for them on the edge of town, where he'd play on the building sites and cycle in the countryside. His mother was an artist and teacher so there was always art and constructing things going on with his elder brother and two younger sisters, in craftwork, clay and plaster. Paul recalls good times on Scottish holidays with his grandparents, who kept an old lifeboat at Oban. They moved to rural Banffshire when Paul was thirteen, and the brothers went from an uninspiring all-boys high school to a new mixed gender comprehensive school, better resourced and more exciting, where Paul enjoyed art, especially under a teacher who set exploratory assignments that "made you see things differently." He read a lot of science fiction, novels and poetry and enjoyed walking on the high cliffs.
working up a good portfolio for art school
Paul went straight to Edinburgh Art School aged seventeen in 1973. There was a general design year that he enjoyed. "The social life was as good as I'd expected." He made friends and enjoyed doing a range of creative activities, including exploring abstract images. His enthusiasm was rewarded when a tutor described him as a star student. Paul opted for drawing and painting for his main subject on the degree course. Besides the compulsory studies of the nude he began to do figurative work together with elements of landscape and pop imagery, and in his fourth year was painting images of the docks. After the degree show he stayed on for a post-graduate year. He was influenced by his friend Jim Mooney, a very good artist, very determined and a member of the communist party. "Edinburgh was a conservative place" says Paul. "It encouraged introspection. If you wanted to produce something not using paint it was frowned on."
artistic conservatism and being of the left
Paul left the School in 1977 knowing that he would not be taking the usual route of teaching. He had discovered the work of the Mexican mural artists and had been thinking about the possibility of becoming a muralist and with an 'Andrew Grant Scholarship' he toured London to visit community murals projects.
the visit to see murals
He was encouraged by his girl-friend's sister, Liz Kemp to work for 'The Craigmillar Festival Society' (CFS) where there were community initiatives and opportunities for artists. He began working with youth opportunities trainees making mosaics and painting bus shelters. His first significant mural was for the Jack Kane Centre, created with a young lad, Brian Haliday, a very questioning fellow and a karate black belt, with skills in drawing cartoons and vignettes. It was a very significant piece of work, being of large scale, rooted in the community, about a community taking control of its building.
For the next project the United States mosaicist Pedro Silva was invited to work with the CFS in Bingham – a housing scheme close to Craigmillar – to teach his skill and create mosaic with the community, assisted by Paul and other artists . The art-work they created was the giant Bingham Mermaid, its shape made from a vast steel armature encased in concrete on which the artists and trainees applied designs made in broken tiles. Now with experience of community collaboration and with skills in sculpture and mosaic as well as painting, Paul joined Theatre Workshop as a community artist. Here he continued for three years working on festivals and play-schemes and added the construction of vinyl inflatables to his abilities.
In 1981 he took time off to carry out a mural commission for Smith and Wellstood iron foundry in Bonnybridge near Falkirk, assisted by part-time Theatre Workshop worker David Wilkinson. "We showed the management what we were going to do, and they were very pleased. It was a large wall, newly rendered and the scaffolding was provided. Its surface was intersected by verticals and horizontals of structure which we absorbed in the painting. Our composition showed a clear look through into the activities within the foundry, concentrating on the demanding and dangerous jobs they were doing. We did drawings and took photographs of them working, and ended up making portraits of many of the workers. We painted it in ten weeks with emulsion paints, which seems crazy now because of the toxic environment coming out of the foundry – it didn't last that long. There wasn't a fanfare at the opening, but the owner of the local fish and chip shop, where we had eaten lunch everyday, turned up with bottles Asti Spumante.
the mural restored – a moving event
"I think of it being a community mural although there wasn't much community involvement born out of their hopes and aspirations, but there was a great deal of fondness for the mural and a sense of loss when the building was demolished unannounced – as these things usually are."
Later a researcher, Paul Cortapassi, became interested in the mural and its part in the community, tracked down all the best images of the mural and with local funding created a large-scale reproduction of the mural, coated against the elements, which was erected on the front of Bonnybridge Community Centre, together with a key identifying the workers by name. To its opening in May 2016 came workers and a great many wives of workers from the factory.
The Artist's Collective and Street Artworks.
The same year a new director took over Theatre Workshop and it was clear that murals and environmental art were going against the mainstream; so Paul, Tim and David Wilkinson set up 'The Artists' Collective'. On the back of their separate successes in Bonnybridge and Leith, the Scottish Development Agency were persuaded that "to preserve the unity of the community an art input negotiated with the people was essential" and subsequently commissioned public art projects in two areas for community artworks.
In Leith, one project was for the Citadel Youth Centre, working with young people designing and painting metal panels to go around the building. Another was working with local people to design frontages for derelict buildings. On their bricked up windows and boarded shop fronts the artists would create trompe l'oeil images of windows as if still occupied, and in two tower blocks that had become no-go areas for police and fire services, mosaic pictures were made for the foyers after door to door discussions and public meetings.
"The biggest problem was to get through the apathy rather than hostility. Pretty much everything we did was tied into aural history, picking up on generations of people's understanding of what being a 'Leither' meant, becoming acquainted with the place, its family traditions and trades of rope-making, shipbuilding and bottle making. We were trying to find a balance between healthy tradition and nostalgia, and to present an interpretation which was more considered than being a simple mouthpiece of the community's views."
finding the community and the design in Dundee
In Dundee the main project was a gable end mural in a run-down industrial area known as Hawkhill. "Our approach, having come from Craigmillar and Theatre Workshop was always to look for community potential for activity. There had been a lot of demolition. Our gable was on St. Peter's Road at the end of a block of tenement flats, and when we went visiting households you could see it was a fragmented community. But right next door was the primary school, so we made that the centre for our discussions with everyone about the design and development of our mural. We wanted it to be about a sense of place; of Dundee and its employment heritage; of jute, jam and journalism, of rope-making and local stories, and we based the design on a trade union membership certificate that illustrates trades and industries. This time, having seen how poorly emulsions lasted we tracked down a supplier of liquid plastic paint, horrendous to use, but it made an extremely durable mural." From design discussions to completion the mural took five months, it still exists clearly, even though care-worn, and is well liked by local people.
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In 1984 David Wilkinson left and Tim and Paul formed 'Street Artworks', and carried out their last large scale external painted mural together. It was on a prominent and central "gift of a gable with very interesting bays" on a semi-derelict site in Leith. "What we wanted to do was a forward looking celebration, an encapsulation of how 'Liethers' saw themselves in the past and which was projected into the future." The artists got together with a core of people attached to the Leith Local History Project to collect and look at background materials of anecdotes, memories and photographs, to advise and make proposals for the mural. They met regularly to discuss ideas, the drawings that they had prepared for the overall design and the details as they developed, and to agree to the design that evolved. "Our murial", as people described it, went on public display in Leith library for final endorsement.
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Tim and Paul decided they would use Keim silicate paint, which had a reputation for longevity, and which offered advantages in application. As their partnership developed they had achieved a unity of style and a clarity in representation, and the new paint freed their expression. The painting, due to begin in 1985 was delayed by faulty render, so was not completed until the next year. At the very top were pictures of a man, a docker and a woman bottle-worker. Beneath were dockers queueing for work and hunger marchers, men and women with union banners and shipyard workers of all trades and the marches of the 1970's to save the shipyards. Then came the world of the family, the docker being tended to for a injury, the 'Carters' Day Out', in their dressed carts taking children down to the beach, traditional street games, the Leith Hospital Gala festivities, children's orchestras in the back-courts of tenements, courtships and marriage, the bookies and the pawnshop. Then the demolition and regeneration of Leith, the new housing, shops and wine bars and a question – where now? – and a joining of hands for the unity of the community. The mural became a landmark, soon to be one among many. Walking tours of murals have become popular in in Leith.
Paul and Tim continued working together successfully, mostly on projects for museums making coloured figurative reliefs, sculpture and environments, until 1994 when each set up on their own.


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1. Most betters bring an amount of money that represents a small amount of their overall wealth. In terms of mental accounting, this money may represent the theory that money is non-fungible. Because they are not brining their whole wealth may be indicative of the portion of money associated with a specific label. For example, perhaps the money is thought of to carry utility in the form of entertainment. So instead of using this money to pay off debt, this money is strictly dedicated to entertainment, in this case betting.
2. The sum of money that is brought to the track is allocated the course of the betting day with the intent to be used during every opportune time to bet during that day. Continue to do so, unless the sum of money has completely depleted before the day has concluded. In terms of mental accounting, this may represent the affects of an individual applying a value function. Value function is measured in terms of gains and losses. So it may be the case that this individual has spent the time and effort to go to the track, which becomes a sunk cost, and feels that he/she must recoup the cost by partaking in the desired activities to the fullest extent. Therefore, the individual may feel obligated to spend all the money in order to feel the day was fulfilled and that the gains through utility with the gambling have offset the costs of getting there.
3. People who go with other people to form groups rarely bet among themselves even though they could essentially guarantee a zero sum game for the group by betting against each other (one looses another one gains). In terms of mental accounting, this may reflect a transaction utility. Transaction utility is the thought that the individual gets a certain amount of utility from the good but also an extra value of utility, positive or negative, through the transaction. The actions in this scenario indicate that the individual receives some unobservable amount of utility when betting as a group (transaction). This case, it may reflect group conformity and fitting in socially with peers thus compensating for the rational loss.
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The common sense explanation for the third fact is that people do not get as much utility from taking money from a friend as they do taking money from the track. Another reason friends may not bet against each other is that they might feel obligated to repay the loser (for example buy them a drink because they lost money) in some way or have an inclination to not take all of the money that was bet. Another problem especially when we talk about horse racing is that the bundle of bets an individual wants to make may not be available within the group or that there is a cost to organizing the bet within the preferences of the individuals in the group. Think about how complicated it would be to organize a trifecta bet between a group of four individuals.


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Government June 29, 2016 Obama, US Get High Marks Around World in Pew Survey2016-06-29T00:00:00+00:00
A new survey by the Pew Research Center shows President Barack Obama continues to get largely favorable reviews throughout much of the world in the final days of his presidency.
Fifteen of the 16 countries surveyed in Europe and Asia expressed confidence in Obama's ability to handle world affairs, although he has not received universal praise on the world stage during his two terms in office.
International ratings for Obama were higher than they were for his predecessor, George W. Bush, who was criticized for foreign policy issues and the spread of anti-American sentiment in many parts of the world.
The survey found Obama's election in November 2008 sparked a revival of America's global image, particularly in Western Europe.
At least half of the respondents in the nations surveyed had a favorable opinion of the U.S., except in Greece, where only 38 percent gave the U.S. a positive review. The U.S. received the most favorable ratings in Italy, Poland and Japan, where more than two-thirds expressed positive views. Ratings of the U.S. increased slightly in Germany and China, where public opinion of the U.S. has shifted in a positive direction since last year.
"There is greater appreciation for America's role in international affairs," Robert Hazan, chair of the political science department at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado, said in an interview with VOA.
Diplomacy first
Pam Chasek, professor of international relations at Manhattan College in New York City, told VOA that Obama's approach toward other countries is dramatically different from those of his predecessors. She characterized it as, "Let's try the use of diplomacy and soft power rather than shoot first and ask questions later."
In 2015, 49 percent of those polled in China rated the U.S. unfavorably, compared with 44 who gave positive ratings. The latest survey found improvement over last year, with 50 percent viewing the U.S. positively while 44 percent gave negative opinions.
"The U.S. is treating China as almost an equal" on climate change and other issues, said Chasek. "In that part of the world, that level of respect is rewarded."
In Europe and China in particular, Hazan said, "America's foreign policy is being viewed globally as a more reasonable foreign policy, as a model."
Previous surveys throughout the Obama era have shown largely positive opinions toward the U.S. But America's popularity ratings have not increased in recent years in some countries, particularly in the Middle East.
Effects of past ties
The jaded views of the U.S. in some countries may be the residual effects of America's past relationships.
"The U.S. has long been seen as an enabler of corrupt regimes," said Chasek. She said previous administrations believed playing the role of the enabler would bring stability and help "prevent the rise of Islamists" in those countries.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who once was Obama's secretary of state, got mostly favorable reviews in Europe, although they are consistently lower than Obama's.
Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, did not fare nearly as well. In nearly half the nations polled, the segment of the respondents who expressed confidence in Trump was only in the single digits.
"Hillary Clinton is a known quantity," said Chasek, explaining Clinton's positive ratings in Europe. She said many of the people she had spoken to in diplomatic circles consider Trump as "unqualified, with no knowledge of foreign policy," and "very belligerent."
A separate Pew Research Center survey released June 13 found large majorities of the respondents in Europe saw Islamic State as a significant threat. The new survey found at least half of those surveyed in all 15 countries overwhelmingly supported U.S.-led military operations against IS in Syria and Iraq.
Hazan said the current U.S. administration is dealing with conflicts in those countries differently than its predecessors did. "Diplomacy has been at the forefront and, as it were, the boots-on-the-ground strategy has been kind of a last-resort matter," he said.
"We are paying more attention to how we can perhaps manage conflicts rather than have a knee-jerk [military] reaction," Hazen added.
The survey found most countries were "fairly divided" over America's power as a world leader compared with 10 years ago. Japan was the only country in which most of those surveyed thought the U.S. was less important. India was the only nation with a majority saying America's power had increased over the past decade. Forty-six percent of Americans believe their country is playing a less important role in the world.
America's perception as a world economic power was more favorable compared with its standing as a global power. As the U.S. economy continues to grow after the Great Recession, and China's once fast-growing economy falters, majorities in seven of the 16 countries believed the U.S. was the world's leading economic power. Only the Australians said China's economy was the world's strongest.
Fifty-four percent of Americans thought the U.S. was the world's strongest economy, while 34 percent said China's was strongest. That was a significant shift in opinion from 2014, when 40 percent of Americans thought the U.S. had the world's most robust economy and 41 percent believed it was China's.
The Pew Research Center, Washington-based and nonpartisan, conducted the survey across Europe and Asia, as well as in the U.S. and Canada. More than 20,000 people were surveyed from April 4 through May 29.
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When we were about to have our first child, we were sufficiently warned to prepare for parenthood by setting the expectation that our lives of freedom and doing what we wanted when we wanted it were over. We were informed that if we thought this way, when the little one does come, we wouldn't be frustrated at the new restrictions we would surely experience. So that is the frame of mind that we took, and to be honest, it wasn't bad at all (probably partly because we set our expectations so low). As more amazing and energetic babies came into our family, I began to realize that you can still accomplish goals, get out, and do enjoyable things. This is only possible, though, if you are prepared. Later in this post, I'll share some of the tips, checklists, and baby on the go kit ideas that has helped my excursions with baby be not as stressful and still enjoyable.
What I never realized fully at the time I was trying to find ways to get out and do things, is that my little one could be feeling the same way. It is all too easy to put the baby in the carrier, straight into the car seat, and then straight into the stroller, and not realize that even though they have been out, they really have been cooped up all day. Just like I need to get out sometimes, my baby needs the same thing. Being able to get out, move around, and experience new things is what helps a baby thrive. At such a young age, enriching activities like playing and rolling on the floor with mom, or getting out and experiencing new sights and sounds can make a huge difference for them, and allow them to grow. My babies have always been very active. They crawl everywhere, and get into everything – I'm sure you can relate. All of them have been walking by one, which forced us to be more conscious of a constantly moving kid. I found that with all this movement, their diaper can sometimes irritate them. Recently I have been using Huggies Little Movers Diapers, and I have been impressed with the way they are designed specifically to allow my baby to comfortably move around and experience the world. From the shape design, to the high quality soft materials they use, it is very clear that comfort and movement were in mind when this diaper was designed. There are all sorts of different little design features that I would have never thought of, such as a second velcro to keep the diaper secure and more intimately fitting, or a softer material that goes against the skin and stays soft when it has absorbed moisture. The material feels more like fabric than crepe paper or plastic. One other thing that I never see anymore is that soggy bottom diaper that hangs down to their knees as they run throughout the house. I can literally tell my baby isn't bothered by their diaper anymore.
When you are taking your moving baby out, the most simple and basic thing to do is to plan ahead of time for your outings and errands. However, days don't always go as planned. Things come up. It's understandable that sometimes you have to run errands you didn't want to run or didn't even have time to run, but when you have one of those days when you just want to get out, it's a great idea to have a go-to list of enjoyable places that you can visit where you can have a stress-free time with your kids in tow. Some of those favorite places for us include the park, splash pad, kid-friendly restaurants, the mall, zoo, and of course – grandma's house! Even though these are great places to visit with active kids, if we didn't pack the essentials it can still be very difficult.
When we venture to these places and everyday pit stops, I always make sure I have all the active baby essentials to ensure they have a good time too. Because after all, when they're happy I'm happy! One of the key things that I have found is making sure my baby is as comfortable as possible. A big part of that is making sure my baby's diaper is quality, comfortable, and dry as long as possible. The best diaper I have found for this again is Huggies Little Movers Diapers. What I like about them on the road is they keep my baby dry longer because of the DryTouch Liner that absorbs the moisture on contact, as well as the Leak Lock System that prevents leaks for up to 12 hours. Twelve hours means fewer diaper changes, which means less supplies needed, and more free time to get things done while you are out! I have compiled a list of some of the other essentials that have come in handy while out and about with the kiddos.
I thought some cute, printable versions of this list would come in handy for you to download and print.
Although I try to keep most of these essentials in the diaper bag, I also like to put together on the go kits for the car and for grandma's house. That way you are always prepared in case the diaper bag is left at home or someone had forgotten to re-stock the bag. I cannot tell you how many times we've used this kit while we were out and about to come to the rescue.
Life is crazy, especially as a parent of an active little baby or toddler. Finding time to get out of the house, even if it's just for a quick errand, is not only good for the parent, but it is great stimulation and enrichment for the child to experience new things. So, get out, be prepared and have fun experiencing adventures with your baby!
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Oh, thanks!! So, glad you stopped by and could find some prints!!
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I'm including a link to this post in my newsletter as my "Baby Corner" feature for this month- thanks for the great printable for mommas!
Thanks so much for sharing and of course for stopping by!!


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The Redmond firm seek to enter the market for dressing device technology. His patents related to the kind of gadgets, including those that are mounted in the head, number 78.
Microsoft does not want to lose sight of the emerging market of devices to wear, which is being promoted by Google by Google Glass, although there is substantial evidence that users want to bet on the apparatus. An eventual invasion of privacy is one of the reasons.
Signs that the Redmond-based company holds interest in the gadgets in question are different. So, bracelets are able to detect the amount of exercise a person does, watches bracelets that incorporate functionalities of smartphones and even tattoos that connect human beings-equipped computing devices from the daily WSJ.
That market has not yet been tested. The truth is that the annual sales-device for dressing amount to 485 million units in 2018. At least, that's according to the projection of ABI Research, a market research firm.
Indeed, others consulted by the same means revealed that this signature is testing prototypes of glasses connected to the Internet, which are similar to Google lenses.
Therefore, their efforts to develop a gadget to rival against Google Glass show that Redmond does not want to settle just for making software, it also aims to produce devices running different programs.
According to the article published by the daily said, the company, said another person briefed, "asked cameras and other key parts for prototypes of glasses several component manufacturers in Asia", but warned "the device may never come to be mass produced.
By October 10 of this year, Microsoft reported 78 U.S. patents technologies related to dress, including head-mounted display. Figure behind Google, which has 59 such patents, and Apple, which has 27. The data were updated by Envision.
From a technology portal specializing in Alt1040 consider possible future compatibility Redmond glasses with Xbox would be pretty interesting. Such integration could be used to play certain types of securities. Also "could show game information in front of our eyes, without having to navigate through menus", he adds.
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I launched at Oak Harbour at 630a with a falling tide. Top water was on fire!! Trout up to 18" were launching out of the water blowing up my lure. They would come back 2 and 3 times on the misses, really fun fishing. Once the sun came up, top water shut down and I moved over to Gulp and started in on the reds. Caught 3 up to 26" including a bruiser that yanked my yak all over Mayport. I kept what my tiny cooler could hold and was back at the launch by 10am. Missed the rush and had fresh tacos for lunch. Happy happy.
that sounds like fun! Congrats!
Nice fish, I bet that was an awesome bite on the trout. Great pic with the Boy!
I think I know the secret lol, you took a left out of Oak Harbor. Was just there sunday.
Nice fish, got to like catching them on top water.


The Scattered Seed Stitch is my version of the traditional seed stitch (where sets of short parallel stitches travel across the fabric). (Being an undisciplined embroiderer, I just throw individual stitches all over the place.) The Scattered Seed Stitch is best for filling in large areas of fabric to create texture like the spikes on a cactus.
Or use it as a textural bridge to help liven up background fabric surrounding a patchwork of stitches like those found in the Tasty Bite of Apple project.
Here's how to make the Scattered Seed Stitch: Make a straight stitch about 1/4" – 1/2" long. Make more straight stitches near the previous stitch but at different angles. (Think of the stitch angles in terms of an hour hand on a clock.) Try to keep the stitch angles random so they don't form a pattern by repeating the same angle near each other.


Jesus said to them, "Stop murmuring among yourselves." This murmuring spoken of in today's Gospel is one of the most common negative human practices we can come up with! It is called by many other names such as muttering, grumbling, complaining, moaning. In the seminary we called it "bitching" or "griping." When someone told you to "quit bitching," you didn't have to ask him what he was talking about. In our Gospel chosen to be read on this Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus is speaking to the Jewish people and to all of us. There are instances in the Scriptures where the disciples themselves are caught murmuring, e.g., when Jesus told them that his flesh was the bread of life for the world, they murmured about this (John 6:61) and some of the disciples left him and followed him no more.
Generally speaking, I guess there are two ways at looking at or reacting to the various situations we encounter in life: positively or negatively. For the most part, we are encouraged to look at things positively, which produces more happiness and contentment than the negative approach or negative reaction to things. To always be a positive person is easier said than done – as we have seen in the antitheses of Matthew's Sermon on the Mount not too awfully long ago. If someone up and hits me for no good reason at all, I can react positively by turning the other cheek as it says in the Gospel, or negatively by slugging him back. Or if someone steals my jacket, I can react positively by giving him the tie that matches the jacket or negatively by grabbing it back from him and telling him what a no-good thief he is in the process. Jesus, in the various antitheses, seems to recommend the positive way of reacting.
We also speak of these positive and negative reactions to things as being either optimistic or pessimistic. The optimist is a positive person while the pessimist is a negative person. This mentioning of optimist and pessimist reminds me of an old story you have probably read many times, but it is relevant to what we are speaking about today. The story is about two twin brothers, one of whom was an incorrigible optimist and the other an incorrigible pessimist. For the little optimist everything in life was just simply wonderful – and for the pessimist everything in life was a horrendous mess. This, of course, drove Mom and Dad absolutely up a wall: everything was just great all the time for one of their sons while the other was always down and depressed at how terrible the world was. They finally went to their local friendly psychiatrist to see if there was anything at all they could do to straighten out this problem.
The psychiatrist thought he had a remedy for them and asked them when the boys' birthday was coming up. They told him that that event was going to happen in just a couple of weeks. The psychiatrist then told the parents that on their birthday they were to put the two boys in their own separate rooms and give them their birthday presents. To the little pessimist they were to go out and buy the nicest, most expensive, beautiful toys they could find and give them to him for his birthday. Surely this would lift up his spirits. For the little optimist they were to go out to their local friendly farmer and get the biggest box of horse manure they could carry. This was his birthday present and would surely bring him down a bit at receiving this stuff as a present on his birthday. The twins would be balanced off and everything would be fine.
So they tried it. After a while they looked in on the little pessimist with all the wonderful toys and there was something wrong with every one of them: wrong color, axels were bent, and on and on. All bad. Then they looked in on the little optimist with the box of horse manure and he was having a ball. He was throwing it up in the air and jumping with joy, happy as a lark! Then he said to his Mom and Dad, "You can't fool me! With all this horse manure around here there has to be a pony someplace!!
Let's take the time today to look honestly at ourselves concerning the murmuring that goes on from time to time in our own lives. Do we consider ourselves optimists or pessimists or a little of both? Do we do a lot of complaining about the persons, places and things of our lives? Has anyone reminded us to "stop bitching" lately? Do we like this attitude in our lives or would we rather have it gone? How would we prefer to be? This whole idea of murmuring is a big part of our lives and something to think about.
The Prefect didn't think this was too funny and condemned Lawrence to a martyr's death in the year 238. Constantine the Great later built a Basilica dedicated to St. Lawrence and it is yet today one of the seven pilgrimage churches of Rome. It has been named St. Lawrence outside the Walls and is situated beside Campo Verono, Rome's largest cemetery.
St. Lawrence, pray to us.
Today, August 11, the Church celebrates the Feast of one of the major exemplars of the Franciscan life in the world. St. Clare of Assisi was a close friend of St. Francis of Assisi and the two helped one another to promote the Franciscan Charism that is so much a part of the spirituality of the Catholic Church today. It is impossible to do justice to this great saint's life in this short amount of space.
St. Clare, when she was a young girl, heard Francis of Assisi preach and her heart burned with a great desire to imitate Francis and to live the poor and humble life of the Gospel. One evening she ran away from home and gave herself to God. Francis cut her hair and gave her a rough brown habit to wear. Clare went on to become the Foundress of an Order of nuns now referred to as the "Poor Clares." Her sister, St. Agnes, joined her as well as other young women from the surrounding area who wished to live the Gospel life. They lived without money, without property, wore no shoes, ate no meat, lived in a poor house, and observed silence most of the time. They were truly Brides of Jesus and very happy people. Their life continues yet today in almost the identical way it did in the thirteenth century. There are many Poor Clare monasteries throughout the world and indeed they are paradoxes to the life of the world today showing us all where to find true joy, happiness and peace.
St. Clare of Assisi, pray for us.
One of the facts of life is that human beings living together are going to hurt one another. That said, you are probably thinking to yourselves: so what else is new? That is the understatement of the year! In the Gospel read for today's Liturgy, Jesus recognizes this fact of life and gave the early Christians a process for reconciliation. The process itself as given in today's Gospel has gone its merry way. But the idea behind it has not. We still do hurt one another, even unintentionally, in one way or another, on a daily basis. And mostly, it seems, we hurt the ones we dearly love – to paraphrase the words of an old song. And when we unfortunately do hurt someone, we are not to ride off into the sunset and just forget all about it. When this hurt happens we are to make an amends to one another for the harm done. How we do this is pretty much up to us, but do it we must.
The 12 Steps of Spirituality consider making amends so important that there are 2 Steps set aside for this purpose. Step Eight tells us we are to make a list of those we have harmed so we don't miss anyone. Step Nine tells us to take the list and go and make direct amends, up front and in person, to those we have harmed. I was taught to make an amends in the following way: I truly regret it if I have hurt you in anyway. Will you please forgive me. I was taught to use the word regret rather than the word sorry and to make sure that the ball ended up in the other person's court as in the above words of amendis.
Let us reflect on this idea of making amends today in view of Jesus' words in today's Gospel. Do I owe an amends to someone I have hurt or harmed in some way? If the answer to this question is yes, let's get to doing it!
Yesterday we spoke of the obligation we have to initiate the reconciliation process with someone we have harmed or hurt in any way. We said that when this happens, we don't just ride off into the sunset and forget about it. We must reconcile with those we hurt.
Today's Gospel asks about reconciliation, but from a different point of view: How often should I forgive someone who hurts me time after time and reconciles each and every time? Is there some limit to what I am to forgive when it happens time and again? This is the question Peter asks Jesus, "How often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?" And Jesus answered Peter, "I say to you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times." In biblical language, seven is a perfect number signifying here an endless number of times. There is no limit! If someone does something to me, hurts me, 150 times and makes an amends 150 times, I am to forgive him/her 150 times. This might get to be a little tedious after a while, but so what! Mine not to reason why, mine only to forgive. For me to refuse to reconcile with someone who is making an amends to me for having hurt me is the height of self-righteousness. And if there is one thing I despise, it is that.
Let's get it through our heads once and for all that we are no better than anyone else in this world. I have probably done the same thing a thousand times the person is making amends for doing. Who am I not to forgive this same fault in others? Let us take the time to reflect on all of this today. When you come right down to it, reconciliation is what makes this world go round in the right direction.
Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Maximillian Kolbe, a Conventual Franciscan Friar like myself. This Memorial today kind of hits home. Maximillian died a martyr's death at the German prison camp of Auschwitz in 1941. I was 10 years old at that time. St. Maximillian Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894. Later on he became a Conventual Franciscan Friar and was ordained a priest in Rome in 1918. Max studied at our Collegio Serafico on Via San Teodoro in Rome, the same Collegio I was to study theology in for four years from 1954 to 1958. His room was on the second floor and had been turned into a chapel. It was in this chapel that we practiced saying Mass before our time of ordination to the priesthood.
St. Maximillian loved the Blessed Virgin Mary. I believe it is safe to say that she was in his every thought. He established a sodality called the Militia of Mary Immaculate and promoted its growth throughout the world. In 1941 he gave up his life in the prison camp by volunteering to die in place of another man with a family who had been chosen for execution. Greater love than this no one has!
St. Maximillian Kolbe, pray for us.
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Aug. 15, Luke 1: 39-56.
The Feast of the Assumption is not a Holy Day of Obligation in the U.S.A.
The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary celebrates the fact that Mary the Mother of Jesus was a very special woman in the economy of salvation history and consequently received the very special privilege of being assumed body and soul into heaven at the end of her earthly life. Whether Mary actually died a temporal death or not is still a matter of theological discussion, as death is one of the wages of sin and Mary was also privileged to be preserved from all stain of sin from the first moment of her conception. I believe most theologians are of the opinion that Mary did die a temporal death because her Divine Son, Jesus, did so.
Mary's life, after the Annunciation, was all about Jesus. She was truly a faithful disciple of Jesus. She belonged to Jesus all the way. Her "fiat" ("be it done to me") bound her forever in surrender to her Son Jesus. She was his Mother and quite literally gave him to the world, to you and to me.
This feast of the Assumption of Mary reminds us that we too, like Mary, can be faithful disciples of her Son. We too can belong entirely to him and because we do belong to him we too can give him and his abundant life to others just as Mary did. We have received this gift of life and we can give it to others by living the way Jesus wants us to live. Mary was privileged to be the Mother of Jesus. You and I are privileged to be his sons and daughters through adoption. Let us pray that we may be worthy of such a calling.


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Accident(s) Incident(s) Bottleneck Roadworks Closed traffic_weather
Incidents on the road
D93, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Gare d'Évry - Courcouronnes and Évry
D274, closed direction Vitry-sur-Seine, between Choisy-le-Roi and Vitry-sur-Seine
D274, roadworks direction Vitry-sur-Seine, between Choisy-le-Roi and Vitry-sur-Seine
D274, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Choisy-le-Roi and Vitry-sur-Seine
D274, closed direction Choisy-le-Roi, between Vitry-sur-Seine and Choisy-le-Roi
D152, closed direction Ivry-sur-Seine, between Gare de Vitry-sur-Seine and Ivry-sur-Seine
D152, closed direction Choisy-le-Roi, between Ivry-sur-Seine - Pont d'Ivry and Gare de Vitry-sur-Seine
Avenue René Coty, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Rue d'Alésia and Place Denfert-Rochereau
Rue Jean Zay, closed direction Avenue du Maine, between Rue Vercingétorix and Avenue du Maine
Rue Jean Zay, roadworks direction Avenue du Maine, between Rue Vercingétorix and Avenue du Maine
Quai d'Austerlitz, closed direction Quai Saint-Bernard, between Pont Charles de Gaulle - Avenue Pierre Mendès-France and Place Valhuber
Quai d'Austerlitz, roadworks direction Quai Saint-Bernard, between Pont Charles de Gaulle - Avenue Pierre Mendès-France and Place Valhuber
Quai d'Austerlitz, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Place Valhuber and Gare d'Austerlitz - Place Valhubert
Pont Mirabeau, roadworks direction Quai Louis Blériot, between Quai André Citroën - Rue de la Convention and Quai Louis Blériot
Quai André Citroën, roadworks direction Quai d'Issy-les-Moulineaux, between Pont de Grenelle and Pont Mirabeau
Boulevard des Invalides, roadworks direction Rue de Sèvres, between Rue de Grenelle - Rue de Constantine and Avenue de Tourville
Boulevard Saint-Germain, roadworks direction Pont de Sully, between Rue du Bac and junction with Rue des Saints-Péres
Avenue Corentin Cariou, roadworks direction Corentin Cariou, between Porte de la Villette and Rue de Cambrai - Quai de la Gironde
D992, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Le Petit-Colombes and Place de Belgique [N192]
D410, closed direction Saint-Ouen (D912), between A86 - N410 and Carrefour Pleyel
D28, closed direction Stains, between Saint-Denis and Stains
Quai de Valmy, closed direction Rue du Faubourg du Temple, between Rue Louis Blanc and Rue Dieu
Boulevard de l'Amiral Bruix, roadworks direction Porte Dauphine, between Place de la Porte Maillot and Rue du Général Anselin - Boulevard Thierry de Martel
N13, roadworks direction Cherbourg / N1013, between Paris - Porte Maillot and La Défense
Boulevard Pereire, closed direction Place de la Porte Maillot, between Avenue des Ternes and Place de la Porte Maillot
Boulevard de la Villette, roadworks direction Château Landon, between junction with Boulevard de Belleville and Place du Colonel Fabien
Boulevard Pershing, closed direction Boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, between Place du Général Kœnig and Boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
Boulevard Pershing, closed direction Porte Maillot, between Boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr and Place du Général Kœnig
A103, roadworks direction Rosny-sous-Bois (A3) / Rosny sous Bois, between Villemomble and A103 / A3
Boulevard Berthier, tunnel closed direction Porte de Clichy, between Boulevard Pershing and Place Paul Leautaud
Boulevard Berthier, roadworks direction Porte de Clichy, between Boulevard Pershing and Place Paul Leautaud
A103, roadworks direction Villemomble, between A103 / A3 and Villemomble
Avenue de Villiers, closed direction Place de la Porte de Champerret, between Boulevard Berthier and Place de la Porte de Champerret
D908, closed direction Paris - Porte de Champerret, between Périphérique Intérieur and Place de la Porte de Champerret
Avenue Stéphane Mallarmé - Avenue Paul Adam, tunnel closed direction Porte de Champerret, between Place Paul Leautaud and Porte de Champerret
Avenue Stéphane Mallarmé - Avenue Paul Adam, roadworks direction Porte de Champerret, between Place Paul Leautaud and Porte de Champerret
Rue de la Chapelle, roadworks direction Porte de la Chapelle - Boulevard Périphérique, between Marx-Dormoy and Porte de la Chapelle - Boulevard des Maréchaux
Rue de la Chapelle, roadworks direction Porte de la Chapelle - Boulevard Périphérique, between Porte de la Chapelle - Boulevard des Maréchaux and Porte de la Chapelle - Boulevard Périphérique
Avenue de la Porte de Clignancourt, roadworks direction Porte-de-Clignancourt - Boulevard Périphérique, between Porte de Clignancourt - Boulevard des Maréchaux and Porte de Clignancourt - Boulevard Périphérique
Avenue de la Porte de Clignancourt, roadworks direction Porte-de-Clignancourt - Boulevard des Maréchaux, between Porte de Clignancourt - Boulevard Périphérique and Porte de Clignancourt - Boulevard des Maréchaux
D14, roadworks direction Saint-Ouen, between D14 and Saint-Ouen
N3, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Le Raincy and junction with A3
N3, roadworks direction Paris / A3, between Le Raincy and junction with A3
D1, roadworks direction Saint-Ouen, between Saint-Denis and Saint-Ouen
D7, roadworks direction Paris - Quai d'Issy / Neuilly-sur-Seine (N13), between Villeneuve-la-Garenne centre and Pont de Saint-Ouen
D370, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Gonesse and D170 - D970
D970, new roadworks layout in both directions, between D170 - D370 and Gonesse Est
A86, incident(s) direction Champigny-sur-Marne (A4), between Fontenay Z.A. and Nogent - Champigny
Avenue Gambetta, traffic regulations have been changed in both directions, between Place Auguste Métivier and Place Gambetta
Rue des Pyrénées, roadworks direction Cours de Vincennes, between Rue de Belleville - Avenue Simón Bolívar and Rue de Ménilmontant
Boulevard Haussmann, roadworks direction Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, between Place Diaghilev and Havre-Caumartin
Avenue de la République, closed direction Place de la République, between junction with Avenue Parmentier and Boulevard Richard Lenoir
Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, closed direction Place des Ternes, between Avenue Matignon and Rue la Boétie
Pont Alexandre III, roadworks direction Avenue Winston Churchill - Cours la Reine, between Avenue du Maréchal Gallieni - Quai d'Orsay and Avenue Winston Churchill - Cours la Reine
Rue du Général Anselin, bridge closed direction Boulevard de l'Amiral Bruix - Boulevard Thierry de Martel, between Route de la Porte des Sablons à la Porte Maillot and Boulevard de l'Amiral Bruix - Boulevard Thierry de Martel
Avenue Foch, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Avenue Raymond Poincaré - Avenue de Malakoff and Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny - Porte Dauphine
Périphérique Extérieur, roadworks direction Paris - Porte d'Auteuil, between Porte Dauphine and Porte d'Auteuil
D23, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Gare de Joinville-le-Pont and Joinville-le-Pont
Rue de Saint-Germain, closed direction Avenue Louis Hayet, between Gare de Cormeilles-en-Parisis and Avenue Louis Hayet
D301, roadworks direction A1 / D9 / D104, between Sarcelles and Montmorency - Sarcelles
D306, roadworks direction D6, between junction with D38 and Valenton
D19, roadworks direction Paris / Bonneuil-sur-Marne (N406), between Villecresnes and Boissy-Saint-Léger
D986, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Antony and Gare de La Croix de Berny
D2, roadworks direction Forêt Domaniale de Verrières-le-Buisson (D2 / D75), between Place du Garde and Carrefour Eugène Beaujard
Rue de la Poterne des Peupliers, closed direction Avenue Gallieni (D127), between Poterne des Peupliers and Avenue Gallieni (D127)
Rue de Lagny, closed direction Boulevard Davout, between Avenue Léon Gaumont - Rue du Commandant l'Herminier and Boulevard Davout
D37, closed direction Paris, between Montreuil - Croix de Chavaux and Paris - Porte de Bagnolet
D36BIS, closed direction Montreuil, between Romainville and A3 - A186
D13, new roadworks layout in both directions, between A86 and Colombes
N2, roadworks direction Belgique - Mons / A1, between Drancy - La Courneuve and Dugny
N370, roadworks direction Aulnay-sous-Bois / Sevran, between Livry-Gargan and Aulnay-sous-Bois
Avenue Charles Floquet, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Place Salvador Allende and Rue de l'Abbé Niort - Avenue Aristide Briand
D401, roadworks direction Z.A.C. Paris Nord II, between Aulnay-sous-Bois and Z.A.C. Paris Nord II
D370, roadworks direction Domont / Villiers-le-Bel, between D170 - D970 and Gonesse
Boulevard Saint-Marcel, roadworks direction Gobelins, between Rue Jeanne d'Arc - Rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire and Gobelins
Périphérique Intérieur, roadworks direction Paris - Porte Maillot, between Porte de Saint-Cloud (E2) and Porte de Passy
Quai des Célestins, roadworks direction Pont Marie - Rue des Nonnains d'Hyères, between Square Henri Galli and Pont Marie - Rue des Nonnains d'Hyères
Quais Hauts Rive Droite, roadworks direction Porte de Bercy, between Quai des Tuileries and Place Mazas
D407, roadworks direction Taverny, between Beauchamp and Taverny
Avenue Rockefeller, roadworks direction Avenue de Sceaux, between Place d'Armes - Avenue de Paris and Avenue Nepveu Sud - Avenue de Sceaux
N12, broken down vehicle(s) direction Versailles (A86), between Buc - Versailles chantiers and Versailles
D36, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Vauhallan and Saclay
D36, roadworks direction Palaiseau, between Saclay and Vauhallan
D446, closed direction Viroflay, near Jouy-en-Josas
D446, closed direction Saclay, near Jouy-en-Josas
D986, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Châtenay-Malabry and Le Plessis-Robinson
D986, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Le Plessis-Robinson and Châtenay-Malabry
D986, new roadworks layout in both directions, between Le Plessis-Robinson and A86
D2, new roadworks layout in both directions, between junction with Avenue de la Libération and D2 / D75 / N186
D2, new roadworks layout in both directions, between D2 / D60 and Carrefour Eugène Beaujard
D2, closed direction Forêt Domaniale de Verrières-le-Buisson (D2 / D75), between Carrefour Eugène Beaujard and Échangeur D906-D2
Avenue du Château, closed direction Place du Maréchal Leclerc, between Avenue Marcellin Berthelot and Place du Maréchal Leclerc
Avenue du Château, closed direction Place Jules Janssen, between Place du Maréchal Leclerc and Avenue Marcellin Berthelot
D181, roadworks direction Chaville, between Issy-les-Moulineaux and Gare de Bellevue
D7, roadworks direction Villeneuve-la-Garenne (A86) / Neuilly-sur-Seine (N13), between Meudon and Pont de Sèvres
Pont Mirabeau, roadworks direction Quai André Citroën - Rue de la Convention, between Quai Louis Blériot and Quai André Citroën - Rue de la Convention
D9A, closed direction La Défense, between Échangeur de Cherbourg and La Défense
N13, new roadworks layout in both directions, near La Défense between junction with N314 and D21 - Rue Paul Lafargue
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Flexpoint Sensor Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: FLXT) today discussed a study on the rapidly growing market for vehicle sensors ahead of major meetings with Fortune 500 auto companies.
A study by Global Industry Analysts, INC projects growth in the global automotive sensors market to top $20.6 billion by 2017. The report singles out safety and comfort applications for particularly strong growth, two areas in which Bend Sensor® technology is currently in advanced-stage testing and product placement.
"Global market revenues for Safety & Security Automotive Sensors are expected to surge at a fastest CAGR of 9.2% over the analysis period," the report stated.
Flexpoint President Clark Mower expressed enthusiasm for the report's conclusions and noted the impact this growth has had on the company's progress with major U.S. and international car manufacturers.
"We've seen exciting developments in our work with our Fortune 500 auto partners, and this report only serves to confirm the turnaround that the industry has been undergoing," Mower said. "We see our progress dovetailing with the growth described in this article, and we're happy to see that our patience over the past several years is getting closer to a pay off as we approach the pivotal meetings planned for this month."
Flexpoint is poised to take advantage of this precipitous growth in global demand as critical meetings should produce major contracts in the industry. These will, in turn, pave the way for further expansion in the fast-growth industry.
"We're only scratching the surface of the potential applications for our Bend Sensor technology in the auto industry," Mower said. "We have customers who are currently working on projects spanning everything from family sedans to commercial trucks, and discovering new uses for our product along the way."


When a life is touched by love the result is transformation.
Camp is a place where a kid can leave behind the cares, distractions, and problems of everyday life and embrace a new beginning. The love of God becomes more real at Camp, lived out through the lives of caring staff.
This fundraising event is fun for everyone! Along with the auctions it includes activities for the kids, and food concessions. Help us raise funds so kids can come to camp who otherwise would not be able to attend.
Camp is a place where a kid can leave behind the cares, distractions, and problems of everyday life and embrace a new beginning. The love of God becomes more real at Camp, lived out through the lives of caring staff. The Kids 2 Camp scholarship fund strengthens youth ministry and helps needy kids come to Camp. In partnership with over 40 churches and agencies, Warm Beach Camp draws more than 1600 campers a year to Camp who would otherwise be left out. Generous donors make Camp experience possible – and life changes here. Giving kids the time of their lives can change their futures. Open your heart to a child and send them to Camp!
Partner with us by joining the $1 Dollar a Day Campaign and give $30 a month to make sure no one is left out of a chance to have their heart touched at Camp.
One time gifts of $50, $100, $500 or whatever you can give are also welcomed. Every year the opportunity continues to grow. Our goal is to raise $250,000 annually to strengthen youth ministry and help needy kids come to Camp.
A young man with a troubled background turns his life around and is now reaching his peers for Christ - and it all began at Camp.
A mother discovers hope - and it all began at Camp where her child attends through the generosity of others.


First Dates Ireland is celebrating its very first proposal to come out of the show.
It's not all that often you see a genuine relationship come out of the reality show but one that's stood the test of time is Ciara and Shannon who met on an episode last season.
Shannon got down on one knee this weekend at a party to celebrate Ciara's parents' 40th anniversary and she happily said yes.
Of course, the couple had to blast a bit of Maniac 2000 to celebrate the moment after bonding over their love of the song when they first met on First Dates.
Massive congratulations to Ciara and Shannon!


A heavy fall of snow had disrupted the city's transport system.
Our efforts in the garden were disrupted by an early frost.
We disrupt the program for the following messages.
Stop disrupting the topic please?
The meeting was disrupted by a group of protesters who shouted at the speaker.
Protesters disrupted the candidate's speech.


Tara Gatz has been an LMT since 2001 and an NASM certified personal trainer since 2009. Tara enjoys integrating her knowledge of the body into personalized sessions to ease chronic pain and overuse injuries. Her specialties include deep tissue, advanced Myofascial therapies, infant, child, pregnancy and Swedish massage. In addition she also has been trained in intraoral neuromuscular therapy to improve TMJ and chronic neck pain and headaches. She believes that every body is different and customizes her treatments to complement each individual. Her clients enjoy her confident touch and her fusion of therapies to meet their specific needs. Tara draws upon her personal training experience to educate her clients about proactive measures that they can impart into their everyday lives to help improve their sense of well being. Outside of the treatment room she enjoys spending time with family and friends, instructing at the gym, cycling, running, hiking and crafting.


Headed to Sin City for one of the country's biggest and best epicurean festivals this spring, Vegas Uncork'd? Well, you'll certainly be joining quite the party—among the highest-profile of the year, in fact, here in a city that definitely knows how to celebrate. We invite you to make Café Americano—situated inside one of the event's main headquarters, Caesars Palace—part of the experience.
It's the 13th annual edition of Vegas Uncork'd, presented by Bon Appétit May 9th through the 12th at several of the Las Vegas Strip's iconic casino-resorts as well as some other venues.
Top chefs, sommeliers, mixologists, and culinary personalities—many who work or run establishments in this city, one of the world's hottest restaurant hotspots—will once again be participating in the festival, among them Lisa Vanderpump, Gordon Ramsay, Susan Feniger, Guy Savoy, Juyoung Kang, Michael Voltaggio, and Lorena Garcia.
From themed meals and food, wine, beer, and spirits tastings to mixological masterclasses and gala parties, Vegas Uncork'd is a must for any and all foodies, not to mention those cosmopolitan bon-vivant types who like to see and be seen.
Highlights of the Vegas Uncork'd 2019 itinerary include several extra-special "Master Series" sessions here at Caesars Palace: an Evening of Steak & Scotch with Greg and Marc Sherry (Thursday, May 9th at 7 PM); Beyond the Blade with Chef Nobu Matsuhisa (Friday, May 10th at noon); Gordon Ramsay's Favorite Things with—well, Gordon Ramsay (Saturday, May 11th at 2:30 PM); and The World's Best, An Epicurean Affair with Guy Savoy (Saturday, May 11th at 6:30 PM).
Then there's the heart of the festival: the Grand Tasting, which goes down Friday evening from 7 to 10 PM at the Garden of the Gods Pool Oasis at Caesars Palace and features a whole slew of culinary enticements and an all-around good time.
You can check out the complete schedule of events at this year's Vegas Uncork'd right here.
Our 24-hour restaurant here at Café Americano awaits your appetite for food, drink, and that irresistible Las Vegas Strip appetite right in the main lobby of Caesars Palace. Whether it's breakfast, lunch, or dinner or simply a celebratory round or two, we're the perfect place for group dining during the Vegas Uncork'd festival: We'd be happy to accommodate your party, large or small, and can easily arrange for private dining as well. Just get in touch with us and let us know your needs, and we'll look forward to welcoming you to our table this May!


A series of looping floral animations inspired by medieval tapestries and the decorative textile designs of William Morris. These were part of a larger body of work of "digital wallpapers" which addressed contemporary moving imagery as a public, architectural, experiential concern — "expanded cinema" in the realm of daily life.
Shown here is documentation of panoramic videos installed at the Made In NY Media Center, Brooklyn NY, January 2018. The Media Center has a multiple-projector system which seamlessly wraps ultra-widescreen content around a curved wall that links the public, exhibition & office areas of the Center together.
These works were originally created as stage backdrop visuals in 2006, and have been upscaled, adapted and expanded several times over the years, according to the increasing demands of display technology and specificity of the exhibition.


One way we will help you set those goals is with our Grizzly points program.
Grizzly points will be awarded for a number of things; practice attendance, attending tournaments, for pins, wins and push-ups. These points will be tallied for the Awards at our year-end celebration.
There are a total of 30 points available by attending practices. We will be awarding 1- Grizzly point for every practices that you attend, plus 5 bonus point for perfect attendance. But you need to remember to sign in for every practice.
Any wrestling tournament you attend starting in January 1st to March 18th is worth 3 points. An addition point is given for each win, with a bonus point given for a pin. Wrestlers are limited to 11 tournaments for Grizzly points scoring.
From time to time we will be giving bonus points the move of the week, such as pushup contests, or for other activities.
Your ultimate goal should be to practice to be at your best for the Regionals in March.
Write your goals down and Post them where you will see them often.


The team from Ziptrak® traveled to Stuttgart, Germany to present Ziptrak® products to an international audience at the world's largest trade fair for blinds and awnings. Over 1,000 exhibitions presented to an audience of 65,000 people from 140 countries.
After 15 years on the market, Ziptrak® is internationally recognised as a leader in outdoor vertical track-guided blind systems. Ziptrak® is sold through a network of hundreds of retailers and Authorised Fabricators, and is currently exported from Australia into 12 countries.
Ziptrak® exhibited both our outdoor and interior track-guided blind systems. Our unique and patented spline for the outdoor system was a key point of difference amongst a market of zip-based systems. Ziptrak's® spline is purpose-made for the application and uniquely qualified to provide a strong and robust outdoor track-guided blind system, ready to withstand strong wind, and the high expectations of consumers. The Ziptrak® system is also perfectly designed for Clear PVC blinds which are a sought-after solution for commercial restaurant and café applications around the world.
The Ziptrak® Interior system was an exciting addition to our new 2018 display. The track-guided system allows a customer to easily control light, airflow and insects. The spring-balanced design allows it to be left at any height without the need for cords or chains. Ziptrak® Interior is popular in situations requiring total light block-out, such as bedrooms, home cinemas, hotel rooms or conference facilities. The product is also popular in kindergartens, schools or children's bedrooms since it does not require any cords or chains, therefore providing increased safety for young people.
With a recognised brand, innovative products and convenient marketing support, Ziptrak® is proud to bring our internationally competitive offering to new global markets.