You can still get a high quality education and pay for it too. While it is correct that colleges are very expensive, student loans make it possible to get a good education. Read this article to learn all about them.
Make sure you stay on top of applicable repayment grace periods. This is typically a six to nine month period after your graduation before repayments start. You can get a head start in making timely payments by knowing what your grace period is.
Private financing could be a wise idea. Because public loans are so widely available, there's a lot of competition. Student loans from private sources are not as popular. They are available in smaller increments and are often unclaimed because people don't know about them. Look at these loans at a local college since they can cover one semester worth of books.
When paying off student loans, do it using a two-step process. Begin by figuring out how much money you can pay off on these student loans. The second step is applying any extra money you have to your highest-interest-rate loan and not the one with the biggest balance. That way, you will end up spending a lesser amount overall.
If you want to get any student loan paid ahead of time, it's a good idea to pay off the ones with more interest. Calculating the terms properly will prevent spending more money than is necessary by the end of the loan.
Pay attention to how long the grace period is after your graduation before you student loan has to be repaid. Many loans, like the Stafford Loan, give you half a year. It is about nine months for Perkins loans. Different loans will be different. Make sure that you are positive about when you will need to start paying and be on time.
When you pay off loans, pay them off from highest to lowest interest rates. Go after high interest rates before anything else. Apply any extra dollars you have to pay off student loan balances faster. You won't have any trouble if you do your repayment faster.
Pay off the loan with higher interest rates first so you can shrink the amount of principal you owe faster. It should always be a top priority to prevent the accrual of additional interest charges. Pay those big loans first. After you've paid your largest loan off in full, take the money that was previously needed for that payment and use it to pay off other loans that are next in line. Pay off the minimums on small loans and a large amount on the big ones.
Making monthly payments is often difficult for those whose budget is tight. However, loans that offer a rewards program can soften the blow. For examples of these rewards programs, look into SmarterBucks and LoanLink from Upromise. As you spend money, you can get rewards that you can put toward your loan.
The cost of school is high, so understanding loans is important. When you use these tips, you'll have no problem affording your education. Use the suggestions to your advantage when you are filling out financial aid forms.


There is nothing like a warm breakfast casserole to enjoy on leisurely weekends, and this one is down sized so you don't have to have a crowd to feed, you can make it just for you!
Tear croissants into large bite size pieces and place in a sprayed small baking dish. Add blueberries and sliced almonds and toss around in the dish to distribute them. Mix cream with eggs, extracts and salt. Pour over bread pieces. Submerge bread with back of spoon or fork. Refrigerate overnight.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes until custard is set in thee middle. Serve hot.
Melt butter in skillet with olive oil over medium heat. Add almonds, brown sugar and salt. Cook, stirring, until brown sugar melts and begins to caramelize and coats almonds. Do not burn. Remove almonds to a sheet of wax paper or parchment to cool. Break into clusters and small pieces.
Jenna, that looks so good and blueberries are so healthy! 😂😂😂Seriously that would be a treat right now. Happy Wednesday!
This looks delicious and I like two things about it especially — the advance prep and that you can make it individually. Also, I like that idea of a two-serving thing instead of something so big that when you are one or two you are eating it for days! This would be a great thing to have this summer for guests at the lake.
Yes, Jeanie, perfect for guests and easy for the hostess!
I'm so glad Cyndi! I really appreciate your feedback~ have a great weekend at your cabin!
Good Morning Jenna. I want this now with my coffee. You always post the easiest recipes, thanks.
YUMMY!!! I love how you scaled down the recipe, and I think the croissants sound perfect in it.
Almond milk is a great way to lighten it up a little, thanks Mary!
yes, those croissants were very stale, but baked in this custard they were transformed!
Your Blueberry Brunch Casserole looks amazing! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday and come back to see us real soon!


Kobika is a three-piece band formed in early 2016. Eli Gordy-Stith was hopping between buses to get from his college dorm to Merger House in Hockessin for practice, and frequently made pit-stops at the Zycam Task Force HQ (Mike Clark's mother's house) as a waypoint between the two. They began to work on music together along with Ryan Yoder and Alex Dunford, who were also living in the house at the time. Eli was slightly dissatisfied with the slow, selective writing process for Merger, with many ideas often getting tossed away after a disagreement, and wanted to play the guitar again, which he had all but abandoned after Paint The Sun's break-up. The idea of switching instruments between songs also became a focus of the band. Alex Dunford left the band in late 2017.
The band has performed rather sporadically since its inception, while their members are actively involved in the Delaware punk scene: Mike works at Impetus, both Eli and Ryan play in Merger, and all three are members of the Delaware Art Initiative, a booking collective in the Wilmington area.


Problems With Inground Vinyl Liner Pools | Considering A Vinyl Pool?
We hear this question all the time and it really isn't even a debate. What type of swimming pool is better? Vinyl, concrete or fiberglass pool. Customers want to know how different the cost and maintenance is, which one's are freeform, can be modified, etc. Each pool type has advantages and disadvantages. Pools require surface maintenance no matter what type of material comprises it. But let me save you the time, concrete pools have no rival.
Some additional questions we've heard from clients over the years. An FAQ of vinyl liner pools.
How Long Do Vinyl Liners Really Last?
Liners can last a long time, but when exposed to elements such as rain, debris, & snowstorms, they tear easily. Other things that lead to an early liner repair are pets, kids, and other things that can puncture the liner.
They say, an inground vinyl liner generally last 6-12 years. But it depends on the heat, weather changes, cleaning chemicals, and how well you take care of your pool and how many different situations you put it in. High UV exposure leads to a shorter life span. Last note, improper use of chemicals will drastically reduce the lifespan of your vinyl liner.
Concrete Pool Comparison: Pool plaster slowly degrades over time, and staining and etching are common. After 10-15 years, the surface degrades and when it does a new coat of plaster is needed. The cost to replaster an inground pool is generally twice the cost of a liner replacement, and not something that a homeowner can do, unlike a liner replacement (If your are DIY).
Fiberglass pool Comparison: Fiberglass pool surfaces hold up well, but will require repair somewhere in between the 10-20 year mark. Fiberglass pools fade & crack and repairs are not easily hidden. For major repairs, fiberglass pools are re-glassed with a new gelcoat. Cost can be twice the cost of a liner replacement.
So, yes, a concrete resurfacing may cost more for the one time occurrence, but the surface doesn't run the risk of being damaged in a back-to-back episode like a liner can and doesn't look suspect like a fiberglass repair can. A final note, repair is so hard to predict due to the elements, maintenance, faulty installers, and so many more variables. The one thing that remains constant is that pools require repair.
What if a Vinyl Liner Gets a Hole?
Small holes are pretty common and not every hole leaks. If getting a vinyl liner pool consider a 20-28 mil thickness. When holes happen, they are patched with an underwater vinyl patch kit. Luckily, not all holes require you to drain the pool to repair the liner.
Everything depends on the pool size, and in this case the liner thickness. Additionally, the cost is higher if it is professionally installed.
Do Vinyl Liners Fade or Bleach?
Yes. Fading at the waterline, for pools in the Midwest, is inevitable with vinyls. They lose their luster rather quickly; this is one reason gunite pools rule the Midwest. Pools in the northern states parts, it's not as much an issue. Direct sun is hard on liners, especially those with a printed border.
Bleaching of a liner is a type of chemical fading that usually is caused by repeatedly pouring shock directly into the pool (always pre-dissolve first), or throwing tablets into the pool. Chlorine tabs will stain any pool surface type, and are best used in a chlorinator.
How Does Wall Strength Compare?
Inground vinyl pool kits are installed with curved and straight wall panels. No comparison to concrete, but some say they aren't as durable as some fiberglass pools either. It really is situation specific and what elements are interacting with your pool.
Can a Vinyl Pool have Stone and Tile?
Yes – you can use stone, brick, or any natural material as the coping around a vinyl pool. You can even install real tile around the border perimeter. You can use this type of coping on above-ground pools as well, on the poolscape areas. Many will double over as semi-above ground pools. If considering a liner based in ground pool, consider a semi-above ground pool. Liner based pools don't have the customization capabilities that a gunite pool does, especially in regard to the interior of the pool. And if you're doing a vinyl pool, you're likely looking at a printed tile border on the vinyl.
Can Dogs Swim in a Vinyl Pool?
Sure, but be warned, it may cost you a liner. If you have a dog, show them how to swim to the step area. Or plan on replacing your liners, especially with larger dogs. if you have a concrete pool, don't sweat it, no liner to puncture. These are the Problems With Inground Vinyl Liner Pools that we can think of. There are disadvantages to every pool. We believe gunite pools however, have the most upside. Learn more about residential swimming pools here.


The fundamental difference between the relationship of human existence and nature in Western European civilization and the indigenous indio ancestors from which my mestizo culture has descended is very simply stated as this: In the Western European ontology man is believed to be able to control nature to produce goods for the betterment of humanity. This, to be sure, is the scientistic programmatic of the modernist world view and stands at the heart of subsequent theories of the social contract.
Alternatively, the indigenous indio ancestors of the mestizo sought to live in harmony with nature and to adapt to the rhythmic cycles of nature and the universe. In other words, it isn't that the indigenous indio didn't grasp or understand the difference between rationalism and empiricism as reconciled in the transcendental unity of apperception's of Immanuel Kant. Instead, the indigenous indio simply took a different epistemological path in explaining the ontogenesis of our existence and this, too, can be described in relation to language.
Stated differently, if we look at the manner in which language was developed within both world views we will note that in Western European consciousness language evolved in a very scientistic fashion. That is, it became very categorical and descriptive for the purpose of serving the needs of science in its quest to control nature. Alternatively, the indigenous indio developed their language as a means of poetic expression, a more metaphorical, emotive and expressive use of language. Such a poetic use of language and the poetic form of consciousness to which it gave rise still exists in the mestizo today.
The tlamatinime (wisemen) compared their metaphysically oriented knowledge with the ideal of true knowledge to the extent that man is able to grasp it, and their doubts about the possibility of finding truth grew •… The tlamatinime then presented their theory of metaphysical knowledge in terms of poetry … The Aztec epistemological conception was crystallized in a meeting of poets and wisemen. A particular poem was recited which embodies the concept of "flower and song" as the way to find truth. What this means to most mestizos or Hispanics is that life is meant to be enjoyed and lived as a poem.
What Vasquez refers to as metaphysically oriented knowledge is the Aztec cosmology and spiritual beliefs, whereas the ideal of true knowledge was believed to be based on observation. Aztec epistemology, then, can be expressed in Western terms as a form of dualism. Thus, it was after a comparison between observation (facts) and ideology (beliefs) that the Aztec came to express ideology in terms of poetry (flower and song is a metaphor for poetry). In this view, observation takes on a functional role while ideology is believed to be essential for understanding the human condition and finding the way to truth. Given the fundamental role of language in the resolution of epistemological issues, then, we see that Aztec beliefs coincide with the description of contemporary Hispanic American literary expression as it is understood by Fuentes and Paz et al.; that is, in approaching language poetically. Although it is not exactly clear what, or how, indigenous ideological influences have served to shape the contemporary consciousness of Hispanic Americans, similarities, such as the turn to poetry as an approach to language, can easily be detected.
In the upper echelons of high Culture since the middle of the twentieth century and most heavily pronounced in the twenty year period between 1960 and 1980 the intellectual elite of our country bore witness to an onslaught of texts inherently proclaiming the transcendence of the modernist programmatic with such subject matter and titles as post-structuralism, post-post-structuralism and even post-post-post-structuralism. In this cultural ambiance of wanting to expose the emperor without his clothes which was fashionable at the time, I was very strongly drawn to French literary criticism and Jacques Lacan's reworking of psychoanalysis as well as Jacques Derrida's notion of deconstructionism.
For an anti-modernist thinker such as myself, Lacan's reworking of psychoanalysis involved replacing the role of the father with a nondescript position of power. What this meant was that as we examined linguistic expressions we would expose the underlying relations of power that were being espoused and propagated in the societal context of the text. For a social activist of the same period this approach to entering a text or reading made it easy to reveal the oppressive relations under which Chicanos were held in this society. It was sheer joy and vindication for me to be able to show so convincingly how our less than exemplary Chicano scholarship of the 60's such as Occupied America or Yo Soy Joaquin, at the very least gave expression to the real conditions of my people.
Deconstructionism appealed to my more philosophical nature, particularly to my love of epistemology as a field of study. What appealed to me the most was the fact that all modernist thinking was necessarily expressed in closed systems that derived their meaning from first principles that stood outside of the system and yet served to inform the system of its meaning. Here comes the good part. The first principle to which the system refers in its absence within the system is precisely what had been brought into question by W.V.O. Quine in his Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Stated differently, the structuralist's were afforded meaning in their system precisely because it is taken for granted that the first principle that stands outside the system and yet informs the contents of the system share an absolute affinity. It is this absolute affinity that is undermined by the death of absolute certainty in science.
It's time now to bring the story back to the point of my thesis. One of the more obvious ramifications of the intellectual climate of my college years entailed the ability to expose the weakness of closed systems. This, naturally, had the effect of announcing the death of the traditional hero. In other words, the enplotment of a hero quest represents a series of closed systems and thereby loses its sense of wonder and appeal. Stated differently, humanity could never again be free of signification. What we were finally realizing is that we are badly in need of a modern hero. Such a hero would have to be free of a structured identity within the text. It was in this contexts, then, that the cultural elite of the world set out in search of a modern hero.
It did not take long before the intellectual eyes of the world shifted their gaze to Latin American and a little understood literary theory called "Magical Realism". As it was soon discovered, the Latin American literary movement known as Magical Realism was already decentered, deconstructed and without a first principle standing outside of the text informing the contents of the text. Ixca Cienfuegos, as a lead character in a novel by Carlos Fuentes entitled La Region Mas Transparente (Where the Air is Clear), was able to converse with all of the other characters in the novel and yet, as an individual he remained free of signification. He is, in the true sense a poetic hero, complete with the expression of poetic consciousness.
The point of all of this esoteric garb is that the ability of individuals in possession of a Western European Consciousness could only achieve true freedom if it is based in an ability to be free of the structures that the proponents of modernist ideology have created to define itself and it's people. A poetic hero, complete with a poetic consciousness, is paradoxically the epitome of human freedom and such a consciousness is found in the Mestizo's culture and world view rather than in the citizenry of Western European societies. Thus, those very same savages from whom their land and all of its natural wealth had been taken because they did not understand what is truly important in life as understood in Western European societies are now the characters Western European cultures most wish to be like.
If I had a Western European consciousness and I had just discovered that I had been wronged all these years by a culture that unjustly claimed superiority over me, and that I, in fact, have subsequently been shown to possess the very form of consciousness most desired by my oppressor, what would I be feeling? In the entire history of Western European civilization the answer to this question is clear, the end result of my actions must constitute some form of exaltation of my being at the very least.
What do you suppose my feelings are like as a bilingual, bicultural Chicano? In the eyes of a Western European citizen of the United States it may be widely believed that I would seek some form of vengeance or revenge for what has been done to my people. After all, we have certainly shown ourselves to be prone to violence and criminal activities. Unfortunately, this perspective fails to acknowledge its own role in creating such ugly behavior through the oppressive conditions in which our people have been maintained.
In the final analysis, I feel a fleeting glimpse of pity as I release my breath and cleanse my soul. That is, as I look out over the horizon of human existence I am repelled by what I see and I believe, I feel, and in my heart's eye I know, that I cannot condone or exist in this world. That is, the implications of my feelings run far deeper than a personal reaction to having been wronged. Instead, I stand on the brink of a great transformation that is about to occur in our universe. The futility of any desire to right previous wrongs makes my desire to help others find freedom from within nothing more than a shout in the wind. And yet, I say to you my reader, find the path that frees you in my words. Feel with your heart and rejoice in the impending ascension.


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Snap valued above $30B as shares pop more than 40% in public trading debut
Matthew Lynley
@mattlynley	/ 8:20 am PST • March 2, 2017
Snap shares began trading more than 40 percent higher than its original IPO price this morning — opening at $24 per share — as the company made its debut as a publicly traded company on the NYSE.
After months of hand-wringing, Snap's IPO has now set the stage for not just what people will be expecting for the future of its business, Snap's performance this morning is also setting the stage for what investors and Wall Street will be looking for at tech IPOs moving forward this year. For the company, it was important to ensure that its shares see a healthy pop to set the tone moving forward — and ensure everyone makes money.
Snap priced at $17 yesterday, giving it a valuation of nearly $24 billion. As expected, this price was above the original range it set earlier in February as the company and Wall Street split the difference on where Snap should be valued. Snap raised $3.4 billion in its IPO, giving it plenty of capital going forward to grow despite its rapidly growing costs.
After opening at $24, Snap shares briefly went as high as $25, but have since been trading somewhere in that range. That price values Snap at more than $30 billion. By comparison, Twitter is worth around $11 billion.
Achieving this pop and still ensuring that it was a successful IPO is not always so simple. Multiple reports indicated that demand for Snap's IPO heavily outstripped the shares it was offering. Snap could raise more money, but it also needs to make sure the stock jumps on Day One like it did today — both for being perceived as a successful IPO and to ensure that everyone is getting paid.
Opening at $24, however, means that Snap may have left a lot of money on the table. The distance between the IPO range and the debut range for the 200 million shares it offered is more than $1 billion. Still, it at least means that Snap's IPO will be perceived as very successful.
Snap's IPO today is still an unusual one. Investors buying shares in its IPO are buying non-voting shares for the company. That means that they are essentially buying into the hope that Snap will eventually grow into a huge company, and are playing the long game that CEO Evan Spiegel and his team know what they are doing. Spiegel and co-founder Bobby Murphy have pretty much complete control over voting shares of the company — so for the most part it really won't be beholden to Wall Street, though a good stock price is always helpful for recruiting and employee morale.
At its heart, IPOs are as much about raising money to build up a war chest as they are for liquidation and publicity events. Snap spends hundreds of millions of dollars running its business, including a $1 billion contract with Amazon and a $2 billion contract with Google that will both be paid out over the course of five years. Snap is also pretty aggressive on the acquisition front, which means it needs a lot of capital to continue buying up startups.
The remaining question, going forward, is whether Snap can deliver the same kind of performance that Facebook has — or if it ends up like Twitter, stalling out and watching its stock tank going forward. Snap's user growth is stalling, though its advertising business is growing at a very fast pace. It'll have to continue beating what Wall Street is expecting on a regular basis if it's going to demonstrate that it's going to be a legitimate competitor with Facebook.
Now that Snap is a publicly traded company, it's essentially wedging its way into being in more overt direct competition for advertising dollars. Snap, like many startups, has had to make the jump from a curiosity in advertisers' innovation budgets to more mainstays by offering something that Facebook didn't. And it looks like Wall Street is going to give the company a pass on all its concerns about user growth and tricky stock structure for now and jump in for the long haul.
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Prostate Surgery is usually done to remove a growth within the prostate gland.
It is important to see your local doctor or urologist/surgeon regarding your prostate for accurate diagnosis before seeing Annette.
What can the Physio do for me?
You will be assessed before and after surgery. This includes internal assessment.
You will learn to exercise your pelvic muscles correctly.
You will also learn to relax to pass urine.
Any other urine or bowel problems will be assessed.
You will learn exercises and procedures for your hospital stay and for your recovery at home.
What can I do before seeing the Physio?
Drink and eat well. Get adequate exercise and rest.
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Insider Franchises
That's a Starbucks?
When the coffee giant opened a 'stealth' outlet in its own hometown, it was the espresso shot heard around the world.
Jason Daley
October 13, 2009 10 min read
This story appears in the November 2009 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Last summer, when the butcher paper came off the windows at the former Starbucks in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, locals found a narrow little cafe called 15th Ave Coffee & Tea, serving espresso pulled from a manual La Marzocco machine by hipster baristas with a flair for latte art. Drip coffee is made cup by cup from small-batch-roasted beans brewed in an $11,000 ceramic-filtered Clover machine. The pastries come from the local Essential Baking Co. One wall is papered over with pages from Plato's dialogues, and the chairs were salvaged and refurbished from other cafes. The communal table is made from weathered ship timbers, and even has a notch where the mast used to poke through. Every morning, there's a "cupping," a tasting of some of its more exotic brews.
With so much to admire at 15th Ave, it's easy to miss the "Inspired by Starbucks" tagline stenciled on the front window--yep, the new cafe is still a Starbucks and it still serves coffee made from its ubiquitous beans (though there's more variety and some extra TLC at 15th Ave). In fact, the cafe is part of a three-store test in the Seattle area of a more "independent" Starbucks concept, and the 16,000-unit chain has hinted that it may be the vanguard of a larger rollout of "unbranded" cafes. A leaked corporate memo, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported, has outlined plans for the next location, also in Capitol Hill, to be called Roy Street Coffee and Tea.
So why would a company that has colonized most of the known world over the last two decades slough off its billion-dollar brand? It turns out that some chains and franchises have realized something many consumers have felt for years: Big isn't always beautiful. For a growing slice of the population, "Walmart," "Starbucks" and "chain" have become dirty words, while local, independent and unique have become core values. Now, many big chains are developing creative ways to capture a market that has rejected them, and franchises, which usually have local ownership, are starting to play up the neighborhood and community aspects of their stores.
Take for example the new Edition line of hotels by Marriott. When the first batch opens next year, each will have its own architecture and style, designed by Ian Schrager, whose hip, white-curtained lobbies defined the boutique hotel concept in the 1990s. Houston's, a casual restaurant group based in California, makes each outlet unique by varying the architecture and decor, and putting local foods on the menu. The Firkin group of pubs, found across the U.S. and Canada, gives each bar its own name and a different layout. "Some of our pubs are in basements, some are on rooftop patios," says Larry Isaacs, spokesman for the Ontario-based pubs. "If you went to our pub in Chicago, you wouldn't ever know there's one in Flint. We try to leverage the franchise model and keep the local feel."
Chains like these, along with 15th Ave Coffee, bring up bigger questions for small business and franchise owners--are chains completely anathema to the world of the local, indie and authentic? Can a business owner harness the advantages of economies of scale and still maintain a store that is an organic part of the community? Marko Gr�nhagen, a researcher at Eastern Illinois University who is studying entrepreneurial "pockets" within franchise systems, thinks a little independent spirit is a good thing for a chain.
"There's a common assumption that every aspect of a franchise is predetermined by a franchisor--the appearance and decor are typically standard," he says. "But in other areas, to a large extent franchisees have a lot of freedom in what they do. That freedom may be a source of competitive advantage, and a franchisor that allows you to do things on your own may make you more successful than other franchisees."
Starbucks is being coy about long-term plans for the 15th Ave concept and refused comment for this story. But it seems like the latest maneuver in the chain's battle to regain its soul from a legion of automatic espresso machines. Howard Schultz, who created the original and much-lauded Starbucks "coffee bar" concept in the 1980s, recently returned as the CEO. In short order, the company apologized for its poor customer "experience" and introduced the mild Pike's Place Roast to combat its "Charbucks" reputation. It launched a slate of neighborhood and eco-friendly designs for new stores. It even shut down more than 7,000 units in the U.S. one February evening in a grand gesture to retrain its baristas. It also reduced prices and slashed 18,000 jobs.
And now there's 15th Ave. This new, idealized Starbucks (maybe that explains the Plato on the wall?) has been the subject of intense speculation by industry watchers and critics. Peter Merholz, president of brand strategy and design firm Adaptive Path, says the company created a "stealth" brand to quietly steal the customer base from mom-and-pop cafes, which still control 57 percent of the market, instead of directly challenging low-cost corporate coffee rivals McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts. Others, like marketing guru John Moore, suspect the new cafes are "learning labs" to help the company reboot its customer experience. John Gerzema of the advertising agency Young & Rubicam wonders if Starbucks is sandboxing a new back-end service similar to what Amazon.com provides to small online retailers: Independent coffee-shop owners could plug into Starbucks distribution network but still retain local credibility and control, and the 'Bucks could expand its business without adding retail locations.
Starbucks has neither confirmed nor denied that it is pursuing any of those paths. Bruce Milletto, CEO of Bellissimo Coffee InfoGroup and a leading industry watcher, thinks the company's motivation is more basic: Starbucks is returning to its roots as a comfortable "third place," a living space that goes beyond the home and the office. "People want to have 'their' coffee bar, and they want to have 'their' coffee," says Milletto, who remembers when Starbucks was a hip chain of four or five shops. "Starbucks has realized that's a niche they're no longer filling."
There's at least one franchise chain that has built its entire brand around that kind of localism and independence. The Great Harvest Bread Co., launched in 1976, is a $100 million- per-year brand with 220 stores in 42 states. Walk into any Great Harvest, however, and you'd think you were in an independent bakery. The franchisor requires its owner/bakers to display the company name and grind flour fresh daily--and that's it. The menu, decor, sourcing and other details are up to the franchisees, though the company does provide recipes and a model bakery for inspiration.
"I think there's a general evolution of franchises," says Great Harvest's CEO Mike Ferretti. "Before they reach critical mass, every store is a freedom franchise, and owners can do their own thing to survive. When the franchise reaches critical mass, that 25- or 50- or 100-store mark, then they start enforcing the rules."
Think of it as the "Green Awning" moment, when consistency and image become as important as products. In Great Harvest's case, that crackdown never took place--but it wasn't because of negligence. "In the mid-1990s, when we opened our 25th or 50th store, we said, 'This is cool! Let's stay unique,' " Ferretti says. "And that's the point where we separated from the pack. It was a conscious decision at that point to say we kind of like the funky individual neighborhood bakery thing."
Jeff Weissman, who has run his Great Harvest location in Washington's Lake Forest Park neighborhood for over 20 years, doesn't feel as if he's part of a corporate operation. "We're essentially a non-franchise," says Weissman, who moved to Seattle to open his Great Harvest after working in his family's industrial hardware and steel business in Montana. "This system allows us to make our own choices and reflect the area we live in and our own personality."
But the training that Great Harvest provided to get his shop up and running, as well as the close-knit network of franchisees who share information and product sources, has made the venture much easier. The company's corporate offices aren't totally hands-off either. As the prices of wheat and honey have skyrocketed, they've decided to start a collective buying system, though, of course, opting in is optional.
There are disadvantages to turning away from the conformity of traditional franchises--Weissman, who refuses to use bleached white flour, has had to deal with confused customers looking for white breads they've found in other Great Harvest locations. "A large number of customers understand us and know each store has individual differences," he says. "But an equal number don't understand."
That's the kind of problem Starbucks is just beginning to tangle with. For the company, whose 11,000 U.S. locations are corporate-owned or licensed outlets in grocery stores and airports, there's no franchisee to help navigate a store into that local sweet spot. And so, 10,999 of them have waltzed down the same streamlined road. "Once you have thousands and thousands of stores, it's difficult to have consumers look at you in the same way," Milletto says. "I think in coffee, the small independent will always win out if it's doing a fantastic job."
The Little Franchise on the Corner
Starbucks may be toying with taking things local, but The Great Harvest Bread Co. and other chains have found ways to tailor themselves to a community. Here are four franchisors that have successfully bridged the local divide.
This St. Paul, Minn.-based franchise is the ninth-largest coffee chain in the U.S., but most of its 92 locations can be mistaken for indie coffeehouses--beans are roasted daily in the store, local music and art are the featured decor, and owner/operators are encouraged to make their stores hubs of neighborhood activity.
Roosters Men's Grooming Center
With plush leather barber chairs, dark wood interiors and hot facial shaves, Roosters is trying to bring back the era of the men's barbershop. Each of Roosters 25 locations across the country has a unique waiting/lounging area, and each owner is encouraged to keep tabs on neighborhood gossip and repeat the big fish stories barbershops used to be known for.
Rock Bottom Brewery
Head to any two of this Colorado brew pub's 29 locations and you'll never find the exact same beer. Each brew master is empowered to ferment recipes that cater to local tastes and often use local ingredients and water sources, leading to dozens of microbrews. In many cities that lack independent craft breweries, Rock Bottom has become the preferred beer-snob hangout, and the chain's hopheads routinely take home top awards from the most influential beer fests.
Hamburger Mary's
This chain of nine restaurants was developed to fill a specific niche--to offer a family restaurant in gay neighborhoods. Each location has its own sense of style, from bright purple facades to more understated architecture. Franchisees are allowed to go wild with customizing decor, and they have a free hand to book local cabaret acts, Pride parties and even bingo nights.
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The Battle Of Hastings was a bloody one and we all needed to escape, so where better to visit than the English Riviera. We spent 3 days on the golden coast of the South West of England, and we spent all of it inside some classic English Skateparks such as Mount Hawke and The Junkyard. Featuring Devon Smillie, Bruno Hoffmann, Lewis Mills & Jordan Godwin. Filmed & edited by Cal Earnshaw. Big thanks to SNAP Distribution for the support.


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The Legacy of Felix de Weldon
U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial by Felix de Weldon
Felix Weihs de Weldon, age 96, died broke in the year 2003 after successive bankruptcies and accumulating $4 million dollars worth of debt. Most of the debt was related to the high cost of love for a wife living with Alzheimer's. Health care costs to maintain his first wife, Margot, ran $500 per day. It was a sad ending to the life of one of America's most renowned sculptors. By 1955, Mr. Weldon was worth $8,000,000.00 and drove a Rolls Royce. The money he earned came from the more than 1200 public sculptures that he created and installed in seven different nations to include Malaysia, England, Canada, and Mexico. Thirty-two of his sculptures can be found in Washington, D.C. at government buildings and public parks.
His most famous work is the well known memorial to the U.S. Marines and their hard fought hand to hand combat at the Battle of Iwo Jima. The statue is based on the iconic photo taken by Joe Rosenthal on the morning of February 23, 1945 atop Mt. Suribachi. Three of the Marines in the photograph were killed in the continuing action within days of the snapshot.
Famous photo by Joseph John Rosenthal, Raising the Flag on Iwo, Jima
Felix de Weldon's statue, which took nine years to create, was installed in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington, Virginia close to the Arlington National Cemetery. Its dedication ceremony was held on November 10, 1954.
Felix de Weldon was born in Vienna in the year of 1907 to a wealthy textile industrialist. He took to art at the early age of six while attending Marchetti College, a private prepratory school where he studied art, history, anatomy, languages, and engineering. At the age of 17, Felix received his first recognition for his sculpture of beloved diplomat and liberal professor Ludwig Moritz Hartmann (1865–1924). He graduated from Marchetti at 18 with a B.A. degree. He then received M.A. and M.S. degrees at the University of Vienna's Academy of Creative Arts and School of Architecture in 1927 and a PhD in 1929 at the age of 22. De Weldon then traveled around Europe working in artist communes in Italy, Spain and France. He moved to London and received several serious commissions to include a portrait sculpture of George V. De Weldon then traveled to Canada to do work on a portrait sculpture commission of Prim Minister Mackenzie King. In 1937 he moved to the United States. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II obtaining the rank of Painter Second Class. In 1945, at war end, Felix de Weldon became a U.S. citizen.
Felix de Weldon was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by three American Presidents, Truman 1951, Eisenhower 1956, and JFK in 1961. He knighted in 1959 by Queen Elizabeth for his service to the British Crown.
De Weldon (left) presents his bust of U.S. Navy Admiral of the Fleet Chester W. Nimitz to the Naval War College on 5 June 1964. President of the Naval War College Vice Admiral Bernard L. Austin (center) and retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant General Keller E. Rockey look on.
In 1951, De Weldon purchased the Beacon Rock estate in Newport, Rhode Island where he built a studio. He lived there until 1996 at which time he became insolvent was forced to turn over the property.
Felix de Weldon died on June 3, 2003 at the age of 96, in Woodstock, Virginia and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
This essay will be updated at a future date with information related to the sale of his private collection that occurred in 2006.
Category: Artium et Poetica, Essays
The best source of well-being or wealth is Economy. It is the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the mother of Liberty.
— Dr. Johnson
Mr. Bert Gripton, a Great Terrierman
The First Greek Book by John Williams White
The American Museum in Britain – From Florida to Bath
Making Chocolate From Tree to Treat
Herman de Vries at Venice Biennale 2015 – Going Caveman With Anti-Matter Fragmentation Art – A Tribute
Rabbits and Badgers – Blue Terrier Trials 1923
The Character of a Happy Life
On the Origin of Species – Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
I Wanna Walk Like You, Talk Like You, You Know it's True
Money Saving Recipe for Gold Leaf Sizing
Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois and the Dulwich Picture Gallery
History of Britain: Rise and Fall of the Druids
Gout Remedies
Napoleon's Pharmacists
The Damp Dark Plight of Rainy Day Books
Books of Use to the International Art Collector
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Hoochie Coochie Hex
The New Testament – Limited Edition of 1611 KJV of the Holy Bible
Recipes From Down Under: Kangaroo Cuts
Magna Carta: Myth and Meaning – Discussion at the Royal Institution
Paramilitary Operations in the Congo: Witchcraft, Sorcery, Magic and Other Psychological Phenomena
He Put a Hook in Me by Lil' Lost Lou
Rendering Amber Clear for Use in Lens-Making for Magnifying Glass
Fortune, Independence, and Competence
A Cure for Distemper in Dogs
The Hatha Yoga Pradipika
A Summer Memory
English Cottage Gardens
A Historical Perspective on French Provencal Fabrics
U.S. Coast Guard Radio Information for Boaters
Unarmed Combat – Imperial War Museum Archives
Chinese 9 Course Dinner
The Fowling Piece – Part I
Old Time Recipes for Homemade Wines, Cordials, and Liqueurs
Naval Stores – Distilling Turpentine
Antibiotic Properties of Jungle Soil
Scotland: Rome's Final Frontier


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Ben Affleck Made Jennifer Lopez a Video Montage From the Early 2000s for Valentine's Day {WATCH}
Ben Affleck is used to directing feature films, but for Valentine's Day the star directed a short film for girlfriend Jennifer Lopez.
The four-minute-video features video footage of classic 'Bennifer' moments from the early 2000s, set to the music of her new song "On My Way."
Keep an eye out for clips from Jennifer's iconic 2003 "Jenny From the Block" music video, as well as footage from the premiere of their movie, Gigli.
J. Lo. shared the video with fans in her 'OnTheJLo' newsletter saying, "I am going to share something very special and personal with you that normally that I would only share with my inner circle. It's an early Valentine's Day present from Ben."
"Watching it made me think about the journey of true love, its unexpected twists and turns, and that when it's real, it actually can last forever," she wrote. "This seriously melted my heart."
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Knight classes: Any insights on hunting and offensive combat tactics?
Hello! I'm gonna start with an introduction but if you wanna skip it and answer the questions you could probably do so (may miss some key issues though)!
I've been on and off Achaea for nearly a decade now, and I believe this is mostly due to the fact that I didn't, or rather couldn't, really invest in it. With all the changes happening to trade skills, houses and classes I am very interested in coming back, this time around investing in an Iron Elite membership and no-brainer lesson packages to help me go along and enjoy the game more than I did in the past (never had a chance to trans two skills, rarely managed to trans one).
This time around, I would like to find RP and focus on a dream of mine, that of becoming a dragon that I could never really attain before due to very low lesson availability for improving my classes. Over the years I've tried many things but never knights, because I found the dual-rapier play style very unappealing RP-wise with respect to the Knight ideas, but now this has changed! Bard has always been a favorite if approached as a swashbuckling pirate, as a concept, but never attempt to do that.
Meanwhile, I've never tried combat seriously, other than requirements for guild/house at some low ranks, probably because I was intimidated by the concept. Evidently, I'm quite unaware of most approaches to offensive combat tactics (been working mostly on managing defenses), and especially how they would apply to different Knight skillsets and weapon specializations. I know this may be an issue with the changes taking place right now and that they will probably keep on going for some time.
How do different weapon specializations and skillsets fare in bashing to Dragon efficiently??
How can the above be combined with regards to offensive combat (e.g. available instakills)?
Any best race/stats for hunting, and how much would that affect combat or change for it?
Any balanced hunting+combat artie wish-list for Santa next year, since I'll behave in 2015?
I know I'm asking a lot and especially in these confusing times, but any answers will get my undying gratitude! Some extra love for you guys if you are willing to answer 3 and 4 for bard and compare it to knight bashing efficiency, too. Many thanks in advance!
1. We're not sure of the best spec in terms of DPS yet. Bashing damage has been being tweaked since the changes went live, though it's possible they've finally settled down for the time being. Sword and shield has slightly increased tanking over the other three due to the ability to use a shield, so that may be a consideration especially at lower levels. Two handed makes it much harder to hit and run against harder denizens due to the long balance. I'd say dual cutting, dual blunt and sword and shield are all going to be good options though, and I believe any Knight spec is currently higher DPS than a non-weapon using class.
2. This really depends on which of the three Knight classes you pick. For Paladin, sword and shield gives you the best options when working towards Damnation, followed by dual cutting. For Infernal, I'm not sure if dual cutting or dual blunt would currently be the best spec for vivisect; two-handed has the potential there if you can just get a ton of of stacks on arms and legs.
3. For hunting, I'd probably focus on constitution or striking a balance between strength and constitution (though favouring constitution slightly). For combat, especially if you chose Runewarden, maximising strength for disembowel damage would be more beneficial than constitution a lot of the time (to see exactly how strength affects disembowel damage, check the link in my signature below this post).
4. For hunting and combat, sip ring, bracelets (increased health and mana), belt (increased health and endurance through increased constitution), gauntlets (increased strength) are all great choices. For combat only, buckawn's amulet is great for taking web out of the equation as a means of hindering you both in solo and group fights. For bashing only, a critical hit pendant can really boost your kill speed. A level two or three artefact weapon is generally a solid purchase over the forged goods available. If you chose sword and shield spec, a Shield of Absorption for hunting and some combat (mostly groups).
Wow this has been very insightful indeed! I was also thinking something along these lines, a S&B paladin, a 2-Handed infernal or a dual-flail runie, so I'm glad to see they could be viable in combat, too. I also think I'll try to balance con/str to try and be viable for both, though I'm still not sure how much racial stats can help there. I'll probably stick to human for the crits and the sip bonus, unless any extra stat point and racials (e.g., dwarf) are better instead. I'm kinda confused with the +health/mana bracelets though, I thought picking health only would be better, is mana also important for Knights?
More mana is nice to have, you always need to clot/focus and you don't necessarily want to be sipping mana if you're trying to tank damage.
Mana has some benefits to it. If you pick dual cutting you'll need to use the mastery defence, which has an associated mana drain. Abilities such as focus and clot - as Addama said - will use up mana; these abilities are all static costs but regeneration (except a moon tattoo) is (mostly) a percentage of your maximum, so increasing your maximum mana means you're using a smaller percentage of your maximum and therefore makes it easier to recover what you have used. Two classes - Priest and Apostate - have instant kills that can be used if your mana drops below 50% (60% if the Priest sticks another affliction on you beforehand), so there are benefits against them.
That said, it's not an either or situation if you have the credits. You can wear a belt to increase constitution and bracelets to increase health/mana, though I'd suggest the bracelets first if you need to prioritise spending. The health increases aren't that far behind, but you're also getting a higher mana pool.
As far as I know, they just don't take up body slots. You may not be able to wear buckawn's boots (prevents web tattoo) and dexterity increasing boots, but there's an amulet version of the buckawn's artefact that you could get instead. There may also be an issue with trying to wear both Gloves of Harvesting and Gloves of Extraction, I'm not sure. Everything else shouldn't have issues as far as I've experienced.
Well, I'm not probably gonna invest in dexterity as a Knight, and i'd only get one of the gathering professions so it should be safe then! Thanks very much for all the input, I'll probably try Runie for starters cause it seems that they have some very nice defensive and offensive abilities for hunting. Not sure which spec is best suited for them at the moment, though, for both purposes (hunt/combat) so I guess i can try them all out in-game - just found out you can change the spec at the cost of some lessons!


The Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center will open a new exhibit, "Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine," on Dec. 19, on view until Jan. 30.
In 1997, British author J. K. Rowling introduced the world to Harry Potter and a literary phenomenon was born. Millions of readers have followed Harry to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where he discovers his heritage, encounters new plants and animals, and perfects his magical abilities. Although a fantasy story, the magic in the Harry Potter books is partially based on Renaissance traditions that played an important role in the development of Western science, including alchemy, astrology, and natural philosophy.
An apothecary with the tools, costume and apparatus of his trade, from an 18th century engraving by Martin Engelbrecht.
Incorporating the work of several 15th- and 16th-century thinkers, the exhibition examines important ethical topics such as the desire for knowledge, the effects of prejudice, and the responsibility that comes with power.
Sheldon Museum's own Cabinet of Curiosities and profiles of some of the explorers and scientists who shaped the Alaskan landscape.
The opening on Dec. 19 from 1-4 pm will include non-alcoholic butterbeer, potions demonstrations, crafts, and special guest Hans the Eurasian Eagle Owl courtesy of the American Bald Eagle Foundation.


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Vi at The Glen to undergo remodeling
Vi at The Glen continuing care retirement community in Glenview has started a $4.8 million remodeling of its North Shore Life Plan Community's socializing and dining areas.
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GLENVIEW -- Vi at The Glen continuing care retirement community has started a major renovation of its North Shore Life Plan Community.
Construction on the $4.8 million remodeling project began in August and is expected to be completed in 2020. As a part of the project, the community's three common areas for socializing -- the Living Room, Northwoods Lounge and the Drawing Room -- will all undergo major renovations. Once finished, The Drawing Room will feature a new full-service bar and signature beverage program. In addition, there will be a new 29-seat theatre with state-of-the-art equipment to provide weekly movies and educational lectures.
All three restaurants at Vi at The Glen will also be remodeled to provide residents and guests with distinctive dining options.
"Our beautiful community will be updated to enhance our existing amenities and offer new conveniences," says Executive Director Steven Fowler. "As a fixture in Glenview for over 17 years, we are excited about debuting a warm and contemporary aesthetic that takes inspiration both from the landscape of the Midwest as well as Chicago's iconic architectural history."


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Clayton Stoner: 'NHL player' charged with illegal killing of grizzly bear
Clayton Stoner: NHL player charged with illegal killing of grizzly bear
Clayton Stoner will face multiple charges in his native British Columbia for the killing and beheading of a grizzly bear, according to a Vancouver-based report.
Clayton Stoner allegedly shot and killed a grizzly bear in the Great Bear Rainforest, located on B.C.'s north coast, in May 2013. The region is protected by Coastal First Nations, which enacted a ban on grizzly bear hunting in the territories of the nine member nations in 2012.
The hockey player grew up in Port McNeill, located on northern Vancouver Island. He said at the time that he had used his resident status to apply and earn a hunting license as part of the annual B.C. lottery. However the First Nations community argue that Stoner was not a resident of B.C. at the time and he lied while attempting to obtain his license.
He is now facing two charges of knowingly making a false statement to obtain a license, one charge of hunting without a license, hunting wildlife out of season and the unlawful possession of dead wildlife.
A short film called Bears Forever, detailing the inhumane hunting activity near Bella Bella, B.C., shows images of the bear Stoner allegedly shot and killed. The Coastal First Nations say the animal, nicknamed "Cheeky" before its death, was skinned and dismembered and its carcass left to rot.
Clayton Stoner will appear in front of a judge on October 9, 2015 at Robson Square Provincial Court.
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NCLB Legislative Battles Begin
FairTest Examiner - April 2007
As House and Senate education committees begin work on reauthorizing the federal No Child Left Behind law (NCLB), scheduled to expire this year, a long list of organizations has submitted often starkly different proposals for NCLB's reauthorization. NCLB is the current version of the long-standing Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
FairTest has led the Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) to craft legislative language based on the Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind and its new paradigm of "Redefining Accountability" (all at http://www.fairtest.org/FEA_Home.html). With reauthorization efforts accelerating, FairTest is alerting activists to weigh in with their Congressional delegation and the committees, to oppose the most harmful aspects of the law, and to support a positive federal role as articulated by the Joint Statement and the FEA [http://www.fairtest.org/FEA_actionalert0407.html].
Members of Congress have also jumped into the fray to influence the House and Senate committees. Ten Democratic senators signed a letter to the education committee drawing attention to the law's flaws in language echoing that of FairTest and many other critics. http://feingold.senate.gov/pdf/ltr_021507_nclb.pdf. Meanwhile, some 50 Republicans voiced support for the Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act (A-PLUS), a proposal to send education money to the states with few accountability measures attached. A-PLUS is viewed as a nonstarter but indicates growing Republican resistance to the intrusiveness of NCLB.
The FEA legislative proposal [http://www.fairtest.org/FEA_Home.html] reduces mandated testing and bolsters local assessments. It removes the current "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) requirements and replaces them with a growth model based on multiple sources of evidence. It also shifts accountability from punishment for failure to make test score gains to support for systemic educational improvement, including professional development and support for family involvement. (See "A New Paradigm," this issue, for more detail.)
Recognizing that there will be a federal law and that it should support, not undermine, public education, many groups are submitting specific legislative language, releasing public statements and visiting their Congressional delegations to push for changes (see "Bumper Crop of Proposals," this issue). Among them are the National Education Association, National School Boards Association, National Council of Teachers of English and other groups seeking significant positive changes in the law.
The National Conference of State Legislatures remains strongly opposed to the current law, while the Council of Chief State School Officers, representing state superintendents of education, has grown increasingly critical. Meanwhile, groups such as the Aspen Commission on NCLB, Business Roundtable, Chamber of Commerce and Education Trust, along with President George W. Bush, have called for more extreme versions of the current NCLB, with expanded testing and harsher consequences. For example, the Commission on NCLB has proposed that teachers whose student test scores do not increase fast enough would be barred from teaching in Title I-funded schools. (See FairTest react to Commission on NCLB report http://www.fairtest.org/aspen_react.html) Some proposals even call for a new national test (see Examiner, January 2007).
Civil rights groups are somewhat split: Many signed the Joint Statement, but a few are strong proponents of current accountability requirements, at least in principle.
Also noteworthy are some high-profile conservatives who have turned from strong supporters to skeptics on NCLB, including the Fordham Institute's Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli. Petrilli wrote, "Speaking personally, I've gradually and reluctantly come to the conclusion that NCLB as enacted is fundamentally flawed and probably beyond repair." However, Fordham has reiterated its support for a regime of tests and sanctions - it mainly opposes the level of detailed prescriptions in the current law.
Congressional action starts
Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy, chair of the education committee, has called for the committee to complete its work on the new law by the end of May. In this rushed timetable, advocates for NCLB reform were asked to submit proposed legislative language by the end of March. The idea is for the Senate to vote on a bill in the summer. The House committee, chaired by Democrat George Miller, also seeks a bill this summer. If that happens, the two chambers could reconcile their differences by the end of the year.
Some critics believe Kennedy and Miller are pushing to pass legislation quickly because opposition to NCLB continues to grow. With intensifying partisan disagreement, intra-party disputes, and a weakening president, that opposition could lead to a complete deadlock, with no new legislation until after the 2008 presidential election.
FEA Action Alert is at http://www.fairtest.org/FEA_actionalert0407.html
A one-page summary of FEA legislative proposals is at http://www.fairtest.org/FEA_LEG_Recomendations.html
The full legislative proposals are available at http://www.fairtest.org/FEAlegrecs0307.pdf
Joint Statement is at http://www.edaccountability.org/Joint_Statement.html
FairTest's reaction to the Commission on NCLB report is at http://www.fairtest.org/aspen_react.html
FEA has a website with Joint Statement and all FEA materials at http://www.edaccountability.org/.
10 Senators statement is at http://feingold.senate.gov/pdf/ltr_021507_nclb.pdf.


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A disabled woman who has waited almost two years for ramps and a wetroom in her home said delays are making her health deteriorate.
Babs Huggins, 71, said she has been waiting since January last year to have her bathroom adapted into a wet room and to get disability ramps at the front and rear of her house in White Horses Way, Littlehampton.
In July, Arun District Council told the Gazette that a grant for the adaptations was approved in June and 'a start date is due soon'.
But Babs said work did not begin on her bathroom until October and has still not been completed to her standards almost eight weeks later, and that builders would not start on the ramps until 12 days before Christmas Day.
She said the whole process was affecting her already poor health. She said: "I'm the one suffering here; I have blisters all over my body because I can't take the stress.
A breast cancer survivor, the retired interior designer and wedding dressmaker had a double mastectomy and four years ago underwent a breast reconstruction.
One of her breasts began to reject the implant, meaning the skin would not heal.
As a result, Babs had carers which visit every day to help stave off infection while she waited for another operation.
The asthma sufferer said her heart stopped more than 20 times a night, and had to be on a ventilator while sleeping.
She recently went back into hospital for a further operation, during which time she said builders could have started on the works.
She said she paid cleaners £190 to tidy up after the builders, and resorted to having wipe washes because the shower was like a building site and she could not fit into her en-suite shower.
She complained that the pipes fitted in the bathroom also posed a safety hazard as they could burn her if she grazed them.
An Arun spokesman said: "Arun District Council is able confirm that the bathroom adaptations required to this property have been completed satisfactorily which will enable Mrs Huggins to bathe independently.
"Contractors are very busy at this time of year and were unable to co-ordinate the ramp installation with the bathroom adaptations which we understand is not ideal, but unfortunately beyond our control.


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Robinhood users accounts hacked, looted
On Friday, Oct. 9, fintech startup Robinhood Markets announced that some of its customers might have been targetted by hackers. According to a company spokesperson, the issue did not come from a breach in its systems, but users' personal accounts being compromised outside its platform.
Robinhood, which has helped popularize trading among millennials thanks to its "zero-cost" trading model, has seen multiple outages since March. This is due to a recent upsurge in day trade by retail investors resulting in higher-than-usual traffic to its app.
"A limited number of customers appear to have had their Robinhood account targeted by cyber criminals because of their personal email account (that which is associated with their Robinhood account) being compromised outside of Robinhood," a Robinhood spokesman said in an email. "We're actively working with those impacted to secure their accounts."
Robinhood's slow response frustrating customers
While Robinhood says that it's working with affected customers, some of these customers are saying otherwise. They claim that the company's response has left them in limbo in recent weeks.
Worse, since the company has no emergency phone number, they say that they've been unable to intervene while they see their money vanish.
"They don't have a customer service line, which I'm quite shocked about," exclaimed Soraya Bagheri, who saw her 450 shares in Moderna Inc. liquidated and $10,000 withdrawn from her account due to the hacks.
According to Bagheri, a Washington attorney, when she tried alerting the company to what she believed was a theft in progress, all she got was an email saying that the firm would investigate and respond within "a few weeks."
Pruthvi Rao, a Chicago software engineer who saw his Netflix stocks liquidated and $2,850 withdrawn, also said that he got the same email.
"We understand the sensitivity of your situation and will be escalating the matter to our fraud investigations team," read the email which Rao showed to Bloomberg. "Please be aware that this process may take a few weeks, and the team working on your case won't be able to provide constant updates."
This slow response has understandably left many affected customers frustrated.
"They've had more than enough time to deal with this," said Bill Hurley. The metal-fabrication shop owner said that he had emailed Robinhood when he noticed that stock had been sold from his account and $5,000 was being transferred out in two pending transactions. Hurley, however, said that he did not receive any response from the company at that time.
Hurley, Bagheri and other victims of the hack have since reached out to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for help.
Claims of no breach in Robinhood security disputed
Alongside frustration at Robinhood's customer support, affected users like Bagheri and Rao are disputing the company's claim that the hacks were not caused by an attack on their system.
Both Bagheri and Rao claim that Robinhood's assertion that their emails were hacked is false.
Bagheri stated that she was certain that her Robinhood password was unique from her other passwords, including her email. Meanwhile, Rao said that he had set up two-factor authentication to access his account.
Neither believed that they had been the victims of malware or phishing scams. More importantly, both said that they used the same email for Robinhood and other accounts but that only their Robinhood account had been affected.
Whether or not this really is the case and Robinhood's security has been breached is currently unknown as of reporting time.
What isn't unknown, however, is where the money is going. Robinhood's own online portal shows that the money of the affected users was transferred to other online fintech apps. One of these is the London-based Revolut, which also offers "zero-cost" trading, similar to Robinhood.
"Revolut has been made aware of the issue and is investigating urgently," a company spokesman wrote in an email.
Follow Risk.news for more on the possible dangers of online investment.
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Glycogen is a polysaccharide (complex carbohydrate) of glucose (Glc) which functions as the primary short term energy storage in animal cells.
It is made primarily by the liver and the muscles, but can also be made by the brain, uterus, and the vagina.
Glycogen forms an energy reserve that can be quickly mobilized to meet a sudden need for glucose, but one that is less compact than the energy reserves of triglycerides (fat).
Only the glycogen stored in the liver can be made accessible to other organs. In the muscles, glycogen is found in a much lower concentration (1% of the muscle mass), but the total amount exceeds that in the liver.
Small amounts of glycogen are found in the kidneys, and even smaller amounts in certain glial cells in the brain and white blood cells. The uterus also stores glycogen during pregnancy to nourish the embryo.
Function and regulation of liver glycogen
As a meal containing carbohydrates is eaten and digested, blood glucose levels rise, and the pancreas secretes insulin. Glucose from the portal vein enters the liver cells (hepatocytes). Insulin acts on the hepatocytes to stimulate the action of several enzymes, including glycogen synthase. Glucose molecules are added to the chains of glycogen as long as both insulin and glucose remain plentiful. In this postprandial or "fed" state, the liver takes in more glucose from the blood than it releases.
After a meal has been digested and glucose levels begin to fall, insulin secretion is reduced, and glycogen synthesis stops. About four hours after a meal, glycogen begins to be broken down and converted again to glucose. Glycogen phosphorylase is the primary enzyme of glycogen breakdown. For the next 8–12 hours, glucose derived from liver glycogen will be the primary source of blood glucose to be used by the rest of the body for fuel.
Glucagon is another hormone produced by the pancreas, which in many respects serves as a counter-signal to insulin. When the blood sugar begins to fall below normal, glucagon is secreted in increasing amounts. It stimulates glycogen breakdown into glucose even when insulin levels are abnormally high.
Glycogen in muscle and other cells
Muscle cell glycogen appears to function as an immediate reserve source of available glucose for muscle cells. Other cells that contain small amounts use it locally as well. Muscle cells lack glucose-6-phosphatase enzyme, so they lack the ability to pass glucose into the blood, so the glycogen they store internally is destined for internal use and is not shared with other cells, unlike liver cells.
Glycogen debt and endurance exercise
Due to the body's inability to hold more than around 2,000 kcal of glycogen, long-distance athletes such as marathon runners, cross-country skiers, and cyclists go into glycogen debt, where almost all of the athlete's glycogen stores are depleted after long periods of exertion without enough energy consumption. This phenomenon is referred to as"hitting the wall" or "bonking". In marathon runners it normally happens around the 20 mile (32 km) point of a marathon, where around 100 kcal are spent per mile, depending on the size of the runner and the race course. However, it can be delayed by carbohydrate loading before the race. When experiencing glycogen debt, athletes often experience extreme fatigue to the point that it is difficult to move.
Disorders of glycogen metabolism
The most common disease in which glycogen metabolism becomes abnormal is diabetes, in which, because of abnormal amounts of insulin, liver glycogen can be abnormally accumulated or depleted. Restoration of normal glucose metabolism usually normalizes glycogen metabolism as well. In hypoglycemia caused by excessive insulin, liver glycogen levels are high, but the high insulin level prevents the glycogenolysis necessary to maintain normal blood sugar levels. Glucagon is a common treatment for this type of hypoglycemia. Various inborn errors of metabolism are caused by deficiencies of enzymes necessary for glycogen synthesis or breakdown. These are collectively referred to as glycogen storage diseases.
Preserve glycogen when you exercise and use your body fat for energy
Your body has two primary sources of energy – glycogen and fatstored by the body.
Glycogen is easily burned in a short period of time and serves as a source of stamina in events that require a burst of energy.
The disadvantage with this is the limited amount of glycogen reservesyour body has. A mere 450 grams (approximately 1,800 kilo calories) of glycogen is stored in your body (this may vary according to individual body types).
Your stores of glycogen are not sufficient to provide energy during exercise of long duration.
Conversely, fat is stored in abundance by the body, although it is generally difficult to convert into energy, requiring large amounts of oxygen to do so.
Even the slimmest athlete can use their low body fat for energy!
Take a marathon runner weighing 130lbs with only about 5% body fat. This calculates to approximately 27,000 kilo calories of energy reserves. This is enough energy to run a full marathon consuming 3,000 kilo calories, nine times over!
This makes fat an abundant source of energy and stamina for endurance sports.
Enter Hornet Juice…
Hornet Juice Metabolizes Fat for Energy from the Start of Exercise
The comprehensive study of the giant hornet revealed that its incredible feats of endurance were because it used its store of fat for energy, due entirely to the Hornet Larval Saliva that it ingested, which promoted this fat burning process.
Hornet Juice has been developed to achieve this same 'fat for fuel' effect with its optimum combination of 17 amino acids.
Hornet Juice activates the metabolism of fat for energy right from the start of your physical activity. This results in your glycogen being conserved, enabling you to maintain a steady pace to the very end. You will have plenty of energy in reserve and be able to call on bursts of power when you most need them.
The illustration below shows Normal Energy Consumption versus Energy Consumption Using Hornet Juice:
Fat takes a long time to metabolize before it becomes a source of energy during endurance sports. If however fat can be utilized as energy from the commencement of exercise then glycogen will be preserved. This will allow a steady pace to be maintained throughout your training and/or competition event, with bursts of power able to be called upon when needed. This is the feature of Hornet Juice, it functions by activating the metabolism of fat into energy.


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time and where to look 02/16
by Sarah Gracie February 17, 2022 Sports
Winter Olympic program: timing and where to watch 02/16
See the schedule for Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in the most diverse sports of snow and ice
See where to watch the schedule for the Winter Olympics today. Photo: Playback / Olympics @Olympics
In its final week, the Winter Olympics in Beijing this Wednesday, February 16 presents a completely banned event at the Games, with the gold medal hunt becoming increasingly fierce. Follow the fight for the podium and find out what the 2022 Winter Olympics schedule is up to today.
Winter Olympics schedule today
Bobsled, curling and freestyle skiing are on the schedule for the Winter Olympics this Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in Beijing, China.
Norway topped the medal tally for good, with 13 gold medals and 28 overall. Meanwhile, Germany and the United States closed the top 3 of the competition with 10 and 8 gold medals, respectively.
See the schedule for this Wednesday's Winter Olympics below.
bobsled
22:42 – Men's quadruple official training – Heat 3
22:05 – Men's Qualification Round (Denmark vs United States)
22:05 – Men's qualification round (Sweden vs Switzerland)
22:05 – Men's qualifying round (Canada vs Great Britain)
22:05 – Men's qualifying round (Norway vs Italy)
esque alpino
23:30 until dawn – Women's Alpine Downhill Combined
22:30 – Freestyle Skiing Women's Halfpipe – Classification
23:21 – Freestyle Skiing Women's Halfpipe – Rank 2
Where to watch the 2022 Winter Olympics?
Olympic Channel on Globo, SportTV2, GloboPlay and YouTube are responsible for airing bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics.
See also Brazil returns to dominate Lithuania and is guaranteed a place in the goalball final at the Paralympic Games - 02/09/2021
Globo broadcasts the Winter Olympics live for the first time. Under the command of storytellers Everaldo Marx and Daniel Pereira, the station compiles and mains the best moments of the day every day, from Monday to Monday, always from one o'clock in the morning, after Jornal da Globo. match.
The program also includes former athletes and sports commentators.
Sports TV 2 channel is available for those who prefer to watch on off TV and all sports. Natalia Lara, Bernardo Adler and Sergio Arenillas are responsible for leading the program at dawn, night and dawn.
The channel is available only to the subscribers of Pay TV operators.
globeplay
Another option is through Globo Play, Red Globo's subscription streaming service. The platform makes SportTV channel available to the subscribers, hence, it has become another option to watch all winter sports bids this year. You can follow directly from your computer, SmartTV, tablet or even your cell phone.
The service is available (www.globoplay.globo.com) for R$19.90 per month.
olympics no youtube
For those who are not subscriber and like to follow without paying anything, olympics youtube channel The main controversies such as snowboard, skating and bobsled will be broadcast live. However, broadcasts do not contain narration, commentary or translation.
Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics: schedule and dates