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But there is also a myriad of questions that newcomers might have regarding many parts of the online game, parts that those people might find very confusing.Online Poker Sites Accepting US players. In October of 2006, the Bush Administration passed the UIGEA bill, which has influenced how Americans play poker online today.
Use the map below to find out if online poker is legal in your particular state.In this area, there will be a mixture of disciplines of poker but in a multi-table tournament (MTT) or Sit and Go (SNG) format.
Customer traffic to a site is also a strong indicator that trust in the online poker site is waning.The world of online poker is one that is enjoyable for millions of people across the United States.
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In late 2011, a new path forward for online poker in USA became known.Sportsbetting Poker offers US players one of the best player rewards programs.PokerStars further made its mark by being the sponsor of the next two World Champions, Greg Raymer (2004) and Joe Hachem (2005).
Bovada Poker had served U.S. residents for several. Bovada accepts players from the USA except. You'll be able to choose between credit card and.Normally the protection of the players comes down to the governments of the countries where the players are located.There are absolutely ZERO consumer protections on these sites and, should you have any issues with payment or questions regarding the game, you have no recourse should they arise.
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Some sites, such as PartyPoker and 888, pulled out of the U. S. poker market because, as publicly traded companies, they could not violate the laws of any sovereign nation.In Great Britain, France, Italy and other countries, laws have been put in place to protect the players (customers) should sites shut down.In 1998, Planet Poker brought the game online, but initially players were reluctant to put critical financial information in an area where people were unsure of its security. As tribal casinos came into existence, poker was also a part of the mix.
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Walking into Svetlana Grass' new shop on a cold January day is like entering a fantasy world of colour and warmth.
Grass is a designer and maker of large floral installations, lamps and decorating accessories, a line of work that's unique to the region.
Last year, Grass learned how to form sheets of rubber-like material into petals, using heat and glue to create elaborate blossoms. She makes roses, peonies, sunflowers and anemone into spectacular bouquets that stand two metres high.
She also makes single flowers into lamps and centrepieces, or groups them together as designer pieces for homes and businesses.
Grass moved to Sarnia 14 years ago from Yekaterinburg, Russia. Her husband is from Sarnia and, when he brought her to his hometown, she was drawn to the water and wanted to stay.
Grass has been a homemaker much of her time here while pursuing hobbies such as jewelry making and sewing to fulfill a creative streak. She also took an interior decorating course and is studying bookkeeping.
Last spring, during a trip to see family in Yekaterinburg, she was impressed by a new trend sweeping Russia of large floral arrangements and décor.
Once home, she marketed her creations online, filling custom orders locally and, on occasion, shipping internationally.
But her house became crowded.
She found a storefront at 118 Mitton St. South where the rent is reasonable and floor-to-ceiling windows allow her to display her designs in a big, bright space.
Summer BloomS has been open less than a month and curious customers are coming in to learn more about the mysterious, oversized designs visible from the street.
Probably the largest bouquet on display has six flowers and took two months to complete.
"That's because I make the pattern, cut each petal, and heat and shape each one," she explained. There's a wide range of prices and each oversized item can be rented or purchased.
A large, white hanging lamp, for instance, is $285 to buy or $75 to rent for an event.
A flower-shaped wall lamp is priced at $195 while a smaller table lamp is $65.
One of Grass' most popular designs is a two-blossom floor decoration about a metre high that sells for $135. At the other end of the scale is a two-metre pink and white bouquet made from crepe paper that rents for $450 and sells for $1,200.
Grass says she is open to discussing ideas with her customers and creating new products in various colours. She has plans to make a floral wall for wedding rentals and is participating in wedding shows.
She'll have a display at the True Fantasies Bridal Expo at the Quality Inn on Feb. 22.
For more on Summer BloomS, visit www.instagram.com/grass.svetlana/, check out the Summer BloomS Facebook page or call the shop at 519-331-0937.
Got a great idea for the Business Journal? Contact cathy.dobson@thesarniajournal.ca.


Culver-Stockton College's Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble perform October 13th.
Culver-Stockton College's Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble will be performing Saturday, Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center's Alexander Campbell Auditorium. The Wind Ensemble, conducted by Dr. Trent Hollinger, Associate Professor of Music and Director of Bands, with guest performer and Adjunct Instructor of Flute Rose Bishop. The Jazz Ensemble will be directed by Dr. Aren Van Houzen, Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet.
Wind Ensemble will open the show with Illryian Dances, followed by On Wings of Song, in which will feature Bishop, and ending the opening part of the show with Chester. The Jazz Ensemble, with their portion being called "Suit and Tie" will be performing songs that deal with different articles of clothing. This includes: Fancy Pants, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, My Little Suede Shoes, and Patent Leather Shoes.
Bishop received her Bachelor of Music degree from Georgia State University, and received her Master of Music degree from the University of Iowa. While Bishop is one of the Adjunct professors at C-SC, she is also the Adjunct Professor of Flute at: Cornell College, Kirkwood College, and Mount Mercy University in Iowa. She also serves as the Principle Flute in the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra, Second Flute and Piccolo in the Ottumwa Symphony, Second Flute with the Quincy Symphony, and Piccolo in the Oneota Valley Orchestra.
Piccolo is known to tend to have more of a vigorous sound, many pieces of work tend to have the instrument do runs with either eighth, 16th, or 32nd notes. On Wings of Song. While it does feature some technicality, it features many lovely moments that are more lyrical coming from the piccolo.
Dr. Hollinger believes that the audience will be surprised at Bishop's playing.
The performance in the Jazz portion features a new student to Culver-Stockton College, Barclay Raith will be the student feature in Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.
Culver-Stockton College Bands will also have a concert on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. This concert will take place in the Performing Arts Center's Alexander Campbell Auditorium, from 3-5 p.m. and features the Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band. On Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, the Christmas Concert will be in Performing Art Center's Alexander Campbell Auditorium from 7-9 p.m. and a Camerata 808 concert on Thursday, Dec 13, 2018 at 8:08 in the Performing Art Center's Merillat Recital Hall. These all count as ACE credits.


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Do You Walk and Text? Research Shows the Dangers of Distracted Walking
By Ephrat Livni, Esq. on September 28, 2015 6:59 AM
You know better than to text while driving, but what about when walking? Distracted walking accidents are reportedly on the rise. Petextrians -- pedestrians who text -- are partly to blame.
Pedestrian injuries due to cell phone usage are increasing. As we become ever more reliant on the technology, researchers are focusing on unfocused walking.
Distraction Nation
According to Ohio State University researchers, using data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, from 2005 to 2010, the number of cell-phone-related walking injuries more than doubled to 1,500 -- even while pedestrian injuries on the whole dropped.
In 2012, University of Washington researchers studied more than 1,100 pedestrians at 20 Seattle intersections. They found that about a third of the people were walking distractedly, i.e. walking while talking, listening to music, or writing email.
Similarly, the Georgia Department of Transportation studied 20 busy intersections in that state and found that nearly half of pedestrians were distracted while crossing the street. Electronics accounted for most of the lack of focus, with 26 percent of people wearing headphones, 15 percent texting, and 13 percent talking on the phone. Six percent were engaged in multiple distractions, such as texting and listing to music.
Multitasking Takes More Time
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to cross the street, so what's the big deal? Well, researchers in both studies mentioned above found that distracted walkers took one to two seconds longer to cross. They also forgot basics, like looking both ways and making sure they had the light.
The Georgia study noted that the carelessness of the distracted also seems to give more focused folks false confidence. "This may be because they perceived their risk to be lower due to the fact that they were paying attention," the study's authors wrote.
A sociologist at William Paterson University observed pedestrians at five busy Manhattan intersections found that one quarter of those who crossed when they had the light were distracted by headphones or cell phones. Meanwhile, one half of the walkers crossing against the light were distracted by technology.
The Manhattan study noted many near-misses, situations where distracted pedestrians were pushed out of the way of an oncoming vehicle by their fellow walkers. Researchers recommended that the city post warning signs telling people to text before stepping off the curb, just as drivers are advised to pull over when making a phone call.
Don't Be Cellfish
Walking can be a very healthy activity. But not when it ends in injury. And it's not as healthy when done in conjunction with a phone. Pedestrians who walked with their cell phones experienced less of the health benefits of walking, according to Australian researchers. Focus on the phone changes gait and makes it difficult to walk straight.
That ends up being a problem for all of us. According to Pew Research Center data from 2014, more than half of all adult cell phone users have bumped into something or someone -- or have been bumped -- due to distracted walking. That rate rises to 71 percent for 18- to 24-year-olds, an age group notorious for attachment to its tech.
So don't be a cellfish petextrian. Put your phone in your pocket and look both ways when you cross the street. If you are involved in an injury accident for distracted walking, contact an experienced personal injury lawyer for assistance.
Injured in an accident? Get your claim reviewed by an attorney for free. (Consumer Injury)
Pedestrian Accidents Overview (FindLaw)
Pedestrian Accidents on Interstate Highways (FindLaw)

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Michael paced lazily toward Blood who had stopped in among the tables.
"So, what is it?" he asked, leaning slightly to him.
Blood didn't react. He was scanning the place, looking for something — as if they had anything to do with a place like this.
Michael had been in more saloons than he ever wished in South Dakota, but it was the first time he set foot in a speakeasy here in Chicago. And he had been perfectly fine with it.
"I hope you realize you won't keep me here with that excuse," Michael said.
Michael shook his head helplessly. His skin crawled with the need to get out, but he knew Blood wasn't going to leave.
"Are we getting a table?" he asked. He started to move when the music exploded. Applause, whistles, cat-calling rose from the people crammed around the dance floor. In the thin spaces between patrons, Michael saw a show had started.
A group of dancers, all girls with a flapper air about them, whirled, kicked their dancing feet and waved their naked arms in the center of the dance floor. Their lustrous bobbed hair gleamed under the spotlight, blacker in the contrast with the white feathers clipped to their headbands. All wore yellow dresses — all except one, who wore red.
Blood was staring at the red girl. He had stopped dead in among the tables and was staring at her as if he had just seen the light.
Michael grabbed his arm and jerked. "You must be kidding me," he hissed. He dragged him to a table in the corner, where he pushed him down on one of the three chairs around it. Blood let him but he never turned his gaze from the dancers.
Michael sat beside him and sighed. Fine, let him take her in. He turned his attention to the club.
It didn't look like a saloon at all. People came for basically the same purpose — get drunk — but the place was completely different. First, there were women. Lots of them. Was this what made all the difference in the feel and look? Possibly. It wasn't a classy place, but it was obvious it strived to look like one. The tables were arranged around the dance floor not randomly but in a spiral pattern. All the tables had a round, stone top. All the chairs matched. A thick candle inside a big stained-glass lamp stood on each table together with a glass ashtray. The two waiters — Chinese like the whole staff except the jazz band — wore matching, tidy uniforms of a dark color Michael could not quite distinguish through the dusk in the club. Sconces shone at regular intervals on the walls, dim haloes in contrast to the spotlight on the dance floor. It wasn't a bad place, even though it was a speakeasy.
The people matched the place. No one was really elegant, but everyone had carefully dressed to the best of their ability. Women especially. None wore the latest fashions, but they were all made up and covered in jewelry.
There was an awkward moment of silence filled with the fast jazz music. As the young fellow's smile faltered, Blood said, "Two Old Fashioned," which was likely the only cocktail name he knew, and was one more than Michael knew himself.
The waiter hesitated just long enough for Michael to notice, then he smiled again as Blood handed him money enough for the drinks and a tip.
"I'll be right back," the waiter said and disappeared toward the bar.
Michael looked sideways at Blood, narrowing his eyes.
Blood shot back an awkward glance.
A smile crept onto Blood's lips.
"I want to dance." He turned to the dance floor and Michael followed the line of his gaze.
People crowded the edge of the dance floor, clapping their hands at the rhythm of the song, trying to imitate the dancers' steps. In the narrow spaces between them, Michael saw a flash of red.
Blood's smile faded. A long hesitation. "She's calling," he said.
Blood let his gaze float down to the tabletop and roam as if looking for something. Then he looked up at Michael. "She's calling," he said again. Simply.
He started when the waiter reappeared. Michael straightened up.
"Here you are." The waiter took a tumbler from the tray and placed it on the table.
A sickening feeling settled in Michael's stomach. A hitch bothered him between his shoulder blades and his skin crawled as he distinctly perceived the temperature drop. The sound of the music bent in his ear in such a weird way and then screeched, making his teeth grate.
Michael looked down at the hand placing the glass on the table. Had the light dimmed too? It was hard to see even near the light of the candle. It hadn't been so hard before. And the light from the candle hadn't been that weak and that cold. In the bluish glow of the lamp, he saw that the guy's hand was now a claw of bones and skin as dark as old leather. Or parchment. So thin it split at the knuckles as Michael watched. It peeled away and a nail fell from a finger as the hand retreated.
The music didn't sound like jazz at all. It sounded like nails scratching a blackboard and Michael couldn't say whether that was what sent a chill down his spine or the intensifying cold.
He looked up at the waiter's skeletal arm. Pus filtered through rotten tissues, maggots slithered out of tattered clothes. On the man's chest, ribs punctured the skin and protruded like a fiend's toothy jaw. The neck barely sustained the weight of the skull covered in parched skin, stretched over angular cheekbones and bared teeth. Hair fell from a dry scalp. Yellow blind eyes stared down at him.
The music grated hard at Michael's brain, then his sight cleared. The cold dispelled. He saw the young fellow again, whose smile had now faded entirely. Michael wasn't surprised to see him took a step back, swaying enough to notice, then turn and run away.
When he looked, Blood was studying the two tumblers, his brows creased as if he expected the cocktail to jump. He looked up and Michael knew Blood hadn't seen it, but he had sensed it. He had smelled it.
Susie danced and forgot everything. As it had always been. She had discovered jazz in America and the music did something to her. It set her body free. When she danced, it was as if she was another version of herself, the Susie who didn't dance in a dark, underground, smoky speakeasy, but free in another, brighter place.
Her trained ear heard all the inflections of the music and the cadence that signaled the final bars of the song. She felt a little pang. She knew soon she had to leave her place of light and freedom and go back to the speakeasy. When she heard the last notes, she whirled toward the edge of the ring as she and all her fellow dancers did every night, so to leave the dance floor free for customers. But before she stopped as she was supposed to, a hand wrapped around her waist and she halted against a man's body.
No. Simon never danced with her. It wasn't dignifying.
She looked up and met the stranger's gaze.
Her heart skipped. The music stopped.
His eyes were chestnut and a smile brightened them. She couldn't look away. People — men — seldom smiled to her with their eyes.
Odd. Dangerous? Possibly, her mind thought, but her body felt comfortable inside his embrace. When the music started again and the stranger prompted her to the dance floor, she let him guide her back inside the music.
They danced and they danced and she never changed partners. A few men asked her, as customers always did. To each of them she said, "Maybe the next one." But the next one was always for the stranger and she never tried to explain that to herself. It was a good sensation, moving inside the music with him, feeling their bodies move at the same rhythm. It was different, but she didn't try to work out how that was. She was there and she enjoyed it. As long as it would last.
He never said anything. She didn't need him to. When the time for the last show came, she said, "I must go, now," in such a little voice she thought he might not hear.
Instead he nodded. He searched her eyes with his and she felt the most peculiar warmth bloom in her chest. She stepped back. His hand kept hers across the space between them. A moment. Just one moment. And when their hands finally let go, that warmth slowly died out.
As she reached her spot on the dance floor she looked for him. She looked for him while dancing, she looked for him when the show ended. She didn't find him. The pang of disappointment that pierced her gut surprised her.
The speakeasy emptied as dawn approached outside. She said goodnight to customers that came to exchange a few words with her, then she walked down the back corridor, where all dressing rooms stood opened. Susie exchanged jokes and laughs with the dancers lingering there for some company, a smoke and a drink.
"Come have a drink before bedtime," a girl called to her, winking and raising a glass.
She walked down to the very end of the corridor. A metal door stood there, its big, heavy handle cold under her touch. She turned the handle and pushed the door with her entire body. The door was opened most of the time, but none of the girls had ever wondered beyond it. When Susie closed it behind her, the bustling world of the club remained on the other side and the darkness of the stockroom greeted her.
She knew what the stockroom looked like in the daylight. A huge room with no walls within its perimeter. Little windows clung to the upper part of the walls letting light in during the day. By that light she could see the wide rectangle of the ceiling and the many piles of wooden crates stored in there. Some were piled three or four one over the other, and formed walls that created a maze she had never tried to brave.
At night, it was even more intimidating. The ceiling was invisible in the dark and the walls of crates barely emerged from the night of the stockroom. The invisible walls seemed to lean over, to curved over that labyrinth and gave her a sense of oppression even if the place was as cold as the night outside.
The yellow light of the elevator called for her from a short distance away, though the darkness in between seemed to stretch indefinitely. She strode quick across it, her heels clicking on the concrete floor. Such an eerie sound.
She was inside the freight elevator's light when she stopped and turned. Her heart quickened.
It's voices, she thought. Don't you know there will be voices? Simon would do his business at one of the club tables, but sometimes he would come here. Why, she could not fathom. Susie tried to listen for his confident tone, but the voices were too muffled.
Not your business, anyway, that was what Simon would have told her.
The rail of the elevator screeched as she opened then closed it, scratching the silence of the stockroom like nails of a blackboard. She sighed deep and her shoulders relaxed when the underground floor disappeared from her sight. She passed by the first floor, where the restaurant was. Passed the second floor where Simon's offices for his import/export company were. Passed the third floor where three apartments were, none of which rented at the moment, and stopped at the top floor.
She opened the elevator and walked down a short corridor to the only door standing there. A heavy, polished, carved mahogany door that was always unlocked, because nobody came to the fourth floor unless Simon wanted them to.
She opened the door — and her throat tightened. She flashed her gaze across the darkened leaving room seeing everything that was familiar to her: the glass coffee table in the centre of the room, the couch on one side, the two armchairs on the other, the big chest of drawers next to the heavy, dark curtain hiding the corridor leading inside the inner apartment. The big window on one side and the weak lights of the night filtering in, reflecting on the mirror on the opposite wall, gleaming off the vases and glasses and bottles on the little bar corner.
Her hand flew to the light switch next to her. Someone was there!
The light went on. She flinched.
Simon didn't move from the couch he slouched on.
Simon sat upright and took her hand. The switch she had used had only turned on the two sconces by the entrance door, two on each side of the curtain. That must be the reason why shadows seemed to cling around his eyes.
She thought about joking, What do you need to make up for with me? but she swallowed it down. Uneasiness still lingered in her throat, and joking with him wasn't proper.
He pulled her down and Susie sat on his lap. Shadow still circled his eyes.
She caressed his cheek hoping to dispel that darkness.
"Are you worried about something?" she asked in a whisper. She thought about putting her arms around his shoulders. He was his closest friend. This was her home and Ma Shu had given it to her. A queen's apartment, filled with beautiful things. Nice dresses. An exciting nightlife. He had taught her to speak English, to deal with Americans. He had given her more freedom than she could have dreamed of in China.
She still didn't put her arms around his shoulders.
He cupped her face in his hands and pulled her to him.
They kissed. She leaned to him and finally slid her hand down his back.
"I haven't been with you as much as I wanted, lately," he whispered in her ear and kissed her neck.
She found his mouth with hers and kissed him long.
"We're both here now, right?" she whispered back and smiled.
He smiled too. His lips did. Did his eyes smile?
She remembered eyes smiling at her. As Simon's burning lips kissed her skin and she closed her eyes, she remembered the stranger smiling at her.
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Born and raised near Verona (Italy), I spent the last few years hunting ghosts with my characters in Prohibition Chicago.
"Give in to the Feeling" goes live!


This colorful and gorgeous red abalone seashell is commercial grade #1 quality, but as with anything created by Earth Mother herself, it is naturally imperfect. This red abalone shell has five open perforations and prominent closely spaced spiral ribs. The abalone shell does show signs of natural aging, such as scars, blemishes, chips, cracks and broken points. But, these are what make the seashell so unique! You will receive the shell shown in the accompanying photographs.
If you are a shell collector or if you are just seeking something fun to beautify your home, garden or patio, consider this red abalone seashell.


You must be a PAID member in good standing of the Orange County Mineral Society in order to attend any field trip. Members are covered under the club Insurance.
Safety is our #1 Priority on all field trips.
1. Work Boots or hiking Boots. NO FLIP FLOPS, SANDALS, OR OPEN TOE SOFT SHOE.
5. Hard Hat is required when collecting in an active quarry or mine.
Reminder: Rocks are heavy it does not take many to add up the poundage.
Also bring Bug Repellant, Sun Block, and water.


I was amazed to hear this so called news item this morning. The subject has cropped up several times in other places.
It has always been obvious to me that if you wish to book something you go straight to the source and deal with the place concerned. For example when Mr R booked for my birthday treat at Maison Pic last year he rang them and told them exactly what he wanted and it turned out cheaper than similar offers on the internet. I did the same in London last year.
Does anyone use sites like those mentioned ?
We do both. Sometimes we get the same quote directly or through a site, in which case we go through the site to get a subsequent discount.
On one occasion we booked accommodation with a site and the hotel didn't put it into their booking system, so when we turned up they were fully booked but quickly realised we had a booking and put us somewhere else (of their choosing) for the first of the two nights. For that reason, if we're going somewhere for a treat or special occasion, such as a nice restaurant with rooms, we go directly.
I have used them. I find them very useful for comparing hotels in a place I am not familiar with both in the UK and overseas. I would also look at the website of the hotel I liked the look of and compare the price and description before choosing how to book. Sometimes, as with flights, you can get a room on one site and not the other. I have had some really good deals and never been disappointed. A friend and I found a gem of a place in Paris which she has used regularly ever since.
If I was planning something really special at a specific hotel such as the birthday treat, I would go straight to the hotel.
I also sometimes use them simply as a listing app to give me an idea of what is available in a location - TripAdvisor is in the process of making itself useless, so many pop ups demanding you review a place you once looked at but decided against or insisting you book the place you are looking at, and the site has never been low vision friendly. Local tourist boards vary in efficiency and you can't have all the print travel guides.
I am similar to Sue. I have booked through Expedia and Hotels.com but not for a while. I usually have an interplay of looking on one of these sites, Tripadvisor (for reviews, ignoring US gripes about room size...) and the actual hotel. More often than not I book through the hotel.Often £10 more. but that's usually because it's refundable if cancelled. In the (not so) old days. it would be the guide book and the dreaded phone call in a foreign language!
I've not used a travel agent since about 2000.
earthmaiden wrote: A friend and I found a gem of a place in Paris which she has used regularly ever since.
If it's still going, EM, do share please!
One of my friends is going to Paris soon and was asking me if I had any recommendations - OH and I used to go a lot a long, long time ago so we're not a very good source of info any more!
We have our favourite hotels in places we visit often, like Edinburgh, and book directly with them. But as others have said it is useful to compare hotels and exactly where they are etc and we use Booking.com for that. It the price is good, then we book with them, because you can cancel without penalty, until the day before, and of course you don't pay until you are there.
We are going to our nephews wedding in Mallorca in the height of the holiday season, and we want to stay in different parts of the island and spend 2 weeks there altogether. We don't know the island very well, and booking through a site has made the decisions easier.
I use a lot of booking sites for info. We've been driving around Europe on holiday from time before the internet! These days they do give a list of places that have the facilities you need and also have vacancies on the right dates.
In the early days of the internet, it was rare for small hotels to have a website, so a booking site was the only reliable way to book. You could phone the hotel but it was difficult if there was no common language.
These days, once you have found the hotel, a trip to their own site and direct booking is the usual thing.
If you are touring, I find it helpful to look at an area on www.viamichelin.co.uk and choose "Hotels". Then you add the dates and conditions and it only shows the hotels that are available. It doesn't have all the hotels, so Google Earth, with "Lodging" chosen, will show a slightly different map of places.
I'm currently looking at places around Copenhagen for the Swedish trip in June, using this method.
Have never used a booking website and would not as I have always found I get a better deal going direct and prefer to deal direct - less opportunity for things to go wrong with a 3rd party.
I am glad to hear that companies are being exposed for fraudulent claims of 'only 2 rooms left'. The sooner they go the better as far as I am concerned. I use TA to obtain information but try and book direct or find the contact details from them.
We 'use' booking,com or tripadvisor for info, but usually book direct where possible.
We're possibly looking at France, the Black Forest, Switzerland and Holland this year.
We drove up to Stockholm three years ago, it was fine on the way there and back, but the three August days we were in Stockholm were absolutely freezing!! This time we are really going to Copenhagen. We couldn't find a cheap hotel on the way back fro Stockholm, it was the European centre for the gay pride festival that weekend!! We go back this year for four nights, then pop-up to Gothenburg and Trollhattän for a euro car club festival.
If you are going to the Black Forest we had a very nice stay at Sankt Blasien in the Klostermeisterhaus. It's a small guest house/hotel linked to the Klosterhof Hotel. The owner runs a restaurant on the ground floor and is a superb cook! Breakfast is also very good but next door in the Klosterhof. Our room had a spectacular view across to the abbey. Only downside is that the rooms are on the second and third floors and there's no lift! An upside is that we got a free Baden-Wurttemburg tourist card with free travel throughout Baden-Wurttemburg. So we went everywhere by bus and train! We have a couple of regular hotels that we use on the way down, if you would like some more recommendations.
I use booking sites in the same way that others do, for research.
Always compare the price with the hotel's own site and book via which ever is giving the best deal.
We are going to a wedding in Shrewsbury later in the year. I don't know the place at all so the booking sites were very useful.
I started working for an airline in 1979 and haven't used a travel agent since - spent too much time sorting out the errors!
aero280 wrote: We drove up to Stockholm three years ago, it was fine on the way there and back, but the three August days we were in Stockholm were absolutely freezing!! This time we are really going to Copenhagen. We couldn't find a cheap hotel on the way back fro Stockholm, it was the European centre for the gay pride festival that weekend!! We go back this year for four nights, then pop-up to Gothenburg and Trollhattän for a euro car club festival.
Thank you, we've already booked three nights. We're now looking at Holland and Belgium. It's not easy .
We've tended to drive through Holland and Belgium and get into Germany. We have a regular B&B on the Mosel near Bernkasel-Kues, which is an easy drive from the Channel. They make their own wine which is tasted in the evening around the communal table!!
We did stay at a strange hotel in Holland a few years ago. The room was good and the food was fine, but the restaurant service was dreadfully slow. The evening turned into one of those ad hoc meetings where people chatted to eachother around the restaurant while waiting. A bit like those times when the motorway comes to a halt and people get out of their cars and walk around. Groote Zwaan at De Lutte near the German border. If you do get right up north, we had an overnight at the Mercure in Groeningen 18 months ago. Very good chef.
I'd be interested too. I aim to go to Paris at least once a year Next trip in a few weeks. Hotel already booked, though.
Two years ago daughter and I stayed at Hotel Joyce, part of the Astotel group, couple of streets away from Montmartre - currently £113.00 per night double room. Good restaurant in same street.
Key card entitles you to soft drink bar in all of its hotels in Paris. Useful.
dennispc wrote: Two years ago daughter and I stayed at Hotel Joyce, part of the Astotel group, couple of streets away from Montmartre - currently £113.00 per night double room. Good restaurant in same street.


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Today's Ringside Seat: Did you see Marco Rubio's excellent speech? Yeah, us neither, but some people surely did.
by Jaime Fuller
The snark firestorm that exploded after a dehydrated Marco Rubio ran a duck-and-cover water-grabbing operation in the middle of his State of the Union rebuttal turned the senator's big debut into a big blah. Republican savior? Not quite-the wet whistler became the latest in an eminent line of has-beens who saw their stars flicker and fade as a direct result of giving a lackluster rebuttal. Or so we heard from the Internet, which saw a drab speech full of stale bromides-only one flux capacitor away from the 1980s, marred by that fateful sip of water-and not much else.
However, non-conservative pundit opinions of Marco Rubio-whether progressive, centrist, or only adhering to the ideology of clicks-are as easy to predict as the Weekly Standard's views on the president's marquee policy speech. On the other end of the spectrum, it doesn't matter that Rubio's speech was void of any novel policy proposals, or that it made egregious misstatements about Obama's plans, or that dehydration left him looking more Falstaff than Prince Hal. Republicans ate it up, as is evidenced by this not-so-scientific poll on the National Review homepage.
Why is Rubio's hot-thang cachet undiminished after earning the Beltway equivalent of a single-digit Rotten Tomatoes score? Because he's the key to keeping the party's makeover from being anything but plastic surgery. He's Latino-a demographic that was once in reach for Republicans before the Party made being a Latino and conservative near mutually exclusive propositions. He's a young whippersnapper in a party of creaky old men, and yet he votes like someone who's collected Social Security for decades. As all the voices condemning the rebuttal today note, it seems like a tenuous bet to ride all your hopes on a guy who is making the same tired speeches Republicans have been making ad nauseum for years-albeit with a babycheeked, nonwhite face.
But Rubio and the Republicans think they have one trump card: Marco Rubio is a charismatic son of a gun. Except, is Rubio connecting to anyone besides the party's base? It doesn't seem likely, but don't tell the GOP. Rubio might not be a scientist, man, but that feeling Republicans get when the senator starts railing against taxes is one that will greatly prolong the lifespan of the party's little makeover scheme. It may not be until 2016 that they finally learn the majority of the country ain't buying what he's selling.
"People say Marco Rubio is a good speaker. I see why they say it. He's warm. Polished enough. He has a nice smile. He exudes what seems like earnestness. If Arrested Development's Lucille 2 had to take a GOP presidential contender as her escort to a charity auction at the Balboa Bay Club, Rubio is the one she'd invite."
-Conor Friedersdorf
Daily Meme: The SOTU VIP Cheatsheet
Obama and Rubio are receiving the bulk of the media's post-SOTU fawning and scoffing, but the real stars of the night, in our humble opinion, were the people who earned shoutouts in Obama's address.
There was Desiline Victor, a 102-year-old Haitian immigrant who had to wait hours and hours to vote in the 2012 election, but wait she did.
"When she emerged from the North Miami Public Library with an 'I Voted' sticker, the crowd erupted in applause."
Victor, who calls Obama her son, said yesterday, "No one should have to wait in line that long. But I was going to persist because I really wanted to vote."
Then you had Menchu De Luna Sanchez, a nurse at the NYU Langone Medical Center who helped move 20 high-risk babies when Hurricane Sandy shutdown Manhattan. She said of being able to sit in the chambers, "It's a dream of a lifetime. This is the best thing that ever happened to me."
The other people mentioned in the State of the Union all were victims of American's gun-violence epidemic, and provided a powerful and unsettling denouement to Obama's otherwise rote speech.
There was Gabby Giffords, who was recently profiled in Vogue and is staffing up a super PAC to promote gun safety.
There was Brian Murphy, the officer who was shot nine times by the Oak Creek sikh temple shooter but pushed his colleagues to continue on and stop the murderer instead of tending to his injuries.
When Obama asked how he did it, Murphy replied, "That's just the way we're made."
And most heartbreaking was the story of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old who performed in Obama's inaugural with her high school's marching band, and was killed in a shooting in Chicago less than a week later.
Obama said of her, "she loved Fig Newtons and lip gloss. She was a majorette. She was so good to her friends, they all thought they were her best friend."
Her parents sat with the First Lady, and Obama said the same adlibbed refrain he said after introducing each of the victims of gun violence-"They deserve a vote." Expect to hear that again-and again.
Hadiya's mother, Cleopatra Crowley, said of the night, "It's bittersweet, because it's as a result of losing my daughter, but it's also exciting to have an opportunity like this."
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Obama made pre-kindergarten education a priority in last night's speech, and while conservatives have long decried the idea of public pre-K, Sharon Lerner demonstrates, with facts, why they're so, so wrong.
Words are hard, but pictures are easy, and the ones that move might be even better. Anne Friedman has a GIF round-up of the SOTU just for you.
We heard "smarter government" a few times last night, but the real point was the rebuttal of that Reagan era Cro-Magnonism, "Government bad, markets good."
The big guy on Penn Ave. also came out in favor of a significantly increased federal minimum wage, which is a big step for the increasingly large number of people that are making it. The problem, as TNR points out, is that $9 is still less than it should be accounting for inflation, and it's way less than a living wage.
As far as foreign policy, the President's speech last night made him seem less decider and more avoider.
The math of the War on Terror has never really worked out, what with the way we kill so many more of each other than terrorists ever have. And now that the conflict is morphing into the War on American Values, Civil Liberties, and the Innocent Children of the Rest of the World, maybe it's time we took a stand against the whole business?
Jeff Madrick writes of Obama and more government spending, "We have an intelligent president who is moving in the right direction. But he is moving too slowly, hobbled by his obeisance to the deficit hawks."
You simply must read Esquire's guide to good eye contact. (Note to a certain senator: Don't keep eye contact while taking a hydration break in a nationally broadcast speech.)
Gallup came out with a poll today designed to fire up both the evangelicals that cluster in the South and the nihilistic, hedonistic, atheistic liberals that flock to the coasts. Mississippi, Utah, and Alabama are the most religious states in the union, with the rest of the antebellum beauties right behind. Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine are the least God-fearing, along with most of the other tried-and-true blue states. Forty percent of Americans overall say that they're very religious, comfortably between Mississippi's 58 percent and Vermont's 19 percent.
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For your Friday night viewing take a look at Nicola Dale's video taster. Very much looking forward to seeing Black Cloud in due course, and particular thanks to Nicola for making two trips down from Manchester to scout for locations after our first choice (appropriately) hit a technical problem. But I think it was definitely second time lucky – I reckon we've now managed to find a space with just the right combination of evocative and sculptural qualities, with a hint of claustrophobia thrown in for good measure. See for yourself at Anglia Ruskin University this October.


Why KeKe Palmer's New BET Talk Show "JUST KEKE" Is Very Necessary.
Many know KEKE Palmer as an Actress, singer and for those who know her personally or follow her on social media know that she is very vocal about her views, emotions and vulnerabilities as a woman. KeKe has been in the industry for years however she has always been the girl next door type … Continue reading Why KeKe Palmer's New BET Talk Show "JUST KEKE" Is Very Necessary.
Beyonce ,Baby Blue Ivy, The Controversial Debate over Her Hair & The Message It REALLY Sends!
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Apple's replaced 11 million iPhone batteries under the discounted $29 program
Christian Zibreg on January 15, 2019
Apple has replaced an astounding eleven million iPhone batteries under its discounted $29 replacement program, which ended December 31, 2018. The initiative was put in effect at the start of 2018 in the aftermath of the throttling scandal.
While Bloomberg's Mark Gurman was first to report that Cook held an all-hands meeting with employees in January, its contents were actually leaked by John Gruber of Daring Fireball.
During Apple's all-hands meeting January 3, Tim Cook said Apple replaced 11 million batteries under the $29 replacement program, and they'd have only anticipated about 1-2 million battery replacements normally.
This is the first real number we have about market performance of the $29 offer.
Gruber offers a viable explanation for why the $29 iPhone battery replacement program was not accounted for in Apple's original holiday quarter guidance:
The battery replacement program ran all year long, so even if it was more popular than Apple originally expected, why wasn't it accounted for in guidance issued on November 1—ten months after the program started?
My guess: the effect of the battery replacement program on new iPhone sales wasn't apparent until after the iPhone XR and XS models were available. A few million extra iPhone users happy with the performance of their old iPhones with new batteries — who would have otherwise upgraded to a new iPhone this year—put a ding in the bottom line.
Many watchers thought that Cook blaming Apple's downgrade guidance on, among other factors, the company's $29 limited-time iPhone battery replacement program was a lousy move with absolutely no merit in reality. But as it turns out, it did have a significant impact on Apple's numbers because millions of people clearly jumped on the opportunity to have a first-party battery replacement for more than half the original price.
If you still think the $29 offer had no significant impact on iPhone sales during the quarter, think again. In my circles, at least a dozen people who would have otherwise upgraded to a new device have prolonged their iPhone's lifespan for less than $30.
I know I took advantage of the offer to replace my Mom's iPhone 6s battery. With a new battery and iOS 12, her phone no longer crashes frequently nor does it show signs of notably decreased performance. Instead, it feels like a brand-new device.
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CIES Pre-Conference workshop Finding solutions: What regulation for private education?
Privatisation in and of education in Africa is occurring at a rapid pace. Non-state provision (NSP) of education is delivered by a mix of community, NGO, faith-based, philanthropic and private providers and takes a myriad of forms including low-fee private schools, for-profit private schools, community schools, educational public-private partnerships (ePPPs), private tutoring, and religious schooling through madrasas and church schools. While the drivers of NSP in education have historical anchors, the relatively recent tide of low-fee private schools and ePPPs is couched within a neo-liberal agenda and a discourse of State failure. Central to the neo-liberal argument for greater engagement of the private sector in education are arguments of increased effectiveness, efficiency, competition and choice that altogether drive better quality learning outcomes in both State and non-State education.
Yet the rigor of the evidence-base for greater efficiency and effectiveness through privatised education – low-fee private schools in particular – is being questioned, alongside new primary research that challenges these claims. Some emergent concerns include: that quality varies enormously across a range of private providers and in many cases is only marginally better than public education, if at all; that access to better quality institutions is based on the ability to pay thereby further stratifying already divided societies; and that governance of privatised education increasingly abdicates the role of national governments and locks out civil society. Associated concerns include the de-professionalisation of teachers and the erosion of confidence in public education, even in spite of increasingly audible claims around the right to education and the roles of States as duty bearers for its provision.
The global economic climate over the last five years is further reducing the amount of capital being allocated in absolute terms to public education through shrinking national budgets. At the same time reduced overseas aid budgets for education is focusing more sharply on methods for greater private sector engagement in education.
As a result, in spite of a burgeoning contrary evidence-base, privatisation in and of education continues to increase, promoted by international financial institutions (IFIs), multi and bi-lateral organisations and private sector providers.
The goal of the conference on Globalisation, Regionalisation and Privatisation in and of Education in Africa was to bring together a range of institutions and representatives for two days to critically debate the relative merits and demerits of privatisation in and of education on education quality, equity, effectiveness and efficiency. The intention was for the event to contribute to greater knowledge production and knowledge sharing on privatisation in and of education in Africa, and the critical engagement of a broader range of stakeholders in policy discussions and processes occurring regionally and nationally across Africa.
The conference methodology involved plenary sessions and critically reflective discussions around seven key sub themes. These were: i) international education frameworks and global actors, ii) liberalisation, education and financing, iii) public private partnerships, iv) equity and privatised education services, v) quality of privatised education services, vi) education rights and legal frameworks, and vii) assessment, regulation and monitoring. Two resource persons and four facilitators ensured the conference deliberations remained focused on the sub themes as well as the overarching conference theme. They also provided insights to further contextualise the debates.
This report is organised to align chronologically with the sub themes, presentations, discussions and summations which emerged from the conference on each of the two days. The focus of this report is on the key messages and deliberations. The full length papers and presentations shared during the conference are available here and are summarised, but not reproduced in this report. The conference programme and list of participants are provided as annexes to this report for convenient reference.


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package com.hxxc.user.app.ui.pager.mine;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;

import com.hxxc.user.app.R;
import com.hxxc.user.app.UserInfoConfig;
import com.hxxc.user.app.ui.base.BaseRxFragment;
import com.hxxc.user.app.ui.financial.FinancialDetailActivity;
import com.hxxc.user.app.ui.mine.SafeProtectActivity;
import com.hxxc.user.app.ui.mine.bankcard.BankCardListActivity;
import com.hxxc.user.app.ui.mine.invitation.InvitationFriendsActivity;
import com.hxxc.user.app.ui.mine.redpackage.RedPackageActivity;
import com.hxxc.user.app.ui.mine.sign.SignActivity;
import com.hxxc.user.app.ui.mine.tradelist.TradeListActivity;
import com.hxxc.user.app.ui.order.OrderListActivity;

import butterknife.BindView;
import butterknife.OnClick;

/**
 * Created by houwen.lai on 2016/10/25.
 */

public class FragmentMineBanner extends BaseRxFragment {

    @BindView(R.id.btn_tab_0)
    Button btn_tab_0;
    @BindView(R.id.btn_tab_1)
    Button btn_tab_1;
    @BindView(R.id.btn_tab_2)
    Button btn_tab_2;
    @BindView(R.id.btn_tab_3)
    Button btn_tab_3;

    private int index = 0;
    private int[] indexTab = new int[]{0, 4};

    public static FragmentMineBanner newInstance(int index) {
        Bundle arguments = new Bundle();
        arguments.putInt("index", index);
        FragmentMineBanner fragment = new FragmentMineBanner();
        fragment.setArguments(arguments);
        return fragment;
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    @Override
    protected void initDagger() {

    }

    @Override
    protected int getContentViewID() {
        return R.layout.home_mine_banner_item;
    }

    @Override
    protected void initViewsAndEvents(View rootView) {

        index = getArguments().getInt("index");

        initData(indexTab[index]);

    }

    @OnClick({R.id.btn_tab_0, R.id.btn_tab_1, R.id.btn_tab_2, R.id.btn_tab_3})
    public void onClick(View view) {
        Intent intent = new Intent();
        switch (view.getId()) {
            case R.id.btn_tab_0:
//                ToastUtil.ToastShort(mContext,"index_"+index+"_indexTab_0");
                if (index == 0) {//签到
                    intent.setClass(mContext, SignActivity.class);
                    mContext.startActivity(intent);
                } else {//
//                    intent.setClass(mContext, TradeListActivity.class);//账单 交易记录
//                    mContext.startActivity(intent);

                    mContext.startActivity(new Intent(mContext, SafeProtectActivity.class));//账户安全
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                    intent.setClass(mContext, RedPackageActivity.class);
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                } else {//邀友
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//                ToastUtil.ToastShort(mContext,"index_"+index+"_indexTab_2");
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//                    intent.putExtra("title","基金");
//                    intent.putExtra("url",UserInfoConfig.URL_fund);
//                    mContext.startActivity(intent);
//                    mContext.startActivity(new Intent(mContext, FundActivity.class));
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//                    in.putExtra("title", Constants.TEXT_JiJin);
//                    mContext.startActivity(in);
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                    intent.setClass(mContext, BankCardListActivity.class);
                    mContext.startActivity(intent);
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//                ToastUtil.ToastShort(mContext,"index_"+index+"_indexTab_3");
                if (index == 0) {//订单
                    intent.setClass(mContext, OrderListActivity.class);
                    mContext.startActivity(intent);
                } else {//我的顾问
                    intent.setClass(mContext, FinancialDetailActivity.class);
                    mContext.startActivity(intent);

                }
                break;
        }
    }

    public void initData(int index) {

        Drawable drawable = getActivity().getResources().getDrawable(UserInfoConfig.tabs[0 + index]);
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        btn_tab_0.setCompoundDrawables(null, drawable, null, null);//画在右边
        btn_tab_0.setText(UserInfoConfig.tabsTitle[0 + index]);

        Drawable drawable_1 = getActivity().getResources().getDrawable(UserInfoConfig.tabs[1 + index]);
        drawable_1.setBounds(0, 0, drawable_1.getMinimumWidth(), drawable_1.getMinimumHeight()); //设置边界
        btn_tab_1.setCompoundDrawables(null, drawable_1, null, null);//画在右边
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        Drawable drawable_2 = getActivity().getResources().getDrawable(UserInfoConfig.tabs[2 + index]);
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What could be more wonderful?
Just being there with the ever so gorgeous senior, Lizzie!
Two beautiful samples of the Wedding Heirloom Album!
I am kinda in love with these. It's one thing to scroll through digital photos on the computer, and another to hold them in your hands! To page through memories. To see these precious days come alive again in their fullness and beauty. And to have something solid and tangible that family can gather around in years to come.
Flush Mounted with Leatherette or Linen covers. Available in in a variety of colors.
So, what is the different between a Flush Mount Album and a Regular Photo Album?
Flush mount photo books first originated as high-end wedding albums that were custom made by boutique binderies. These albums differed from regular photo books by being hand mounted on thick inner board with real silver halide photo paper, thus giving the album many desirable characteristics as listed below.
CORE // Flush mount differs from regular photo books in having a stronger, tighter, finer, superior core. Don't be fooled by flashy covers. Look inside. Binding. Color. Paper. Strength. Texture.
THICKNESS // Press printed books are like magazines. Thin. Weightless. Lacking the solid feeling of a real book. Flush mount books are built like a brick. They feel strong and robust. Their weight carries a crafted feel.
RIGID // Standard press pages are flimsy and tend to bend out of shape with each opening. Flush mount are rigid and meant for rigorous use. These pages don't bend, so they always retain their shape.
PHOTO PAPER // Press print books use the same paper as found in mass produced magazines. Flush mount books use real silver halide photo paper that comes with a beautiful Lustre finish.
STAIN PROTECTION // Standard press paper absorbs stains. These flush mount albums have coating that protects against spills and stains.
PHOTO PRINTING // Traditional inkjet printing uses a CMYK halftoning method. This consists of small dots packed closely together to give the illusion of transitions. Halftoning can never faithfully reproduce a photo's true tones, depths or gradiations. If you examine halftone prints closely you'll notice grainy noise added where there should be soft smooth transitions. Real photo printing doesn't use halftoning. Instead it uses a chemical process done through exposure practices that have been practiced for 100 years. The final result is a real photo with truly seamless tones where no transition is apparent.
LAYFLAT // Standard press printed books lose the image inside the gutter. All flush mount books however use a layflat design, which gives stunning panoramic views.


Ringing in your 2 year anniversary with…a stranger? That's survivor Adrian McDaniel and her stem cell donor Matthew Erbe. The pair had never met before, but they were a perfect match for the treatment she needed. Two years after the successful transplant, the pair finally met.
After her Hodgkin Lymphoma diagnosis in 2012, 33 year old Adrian McDaniel told ABC7, doctors began searching for alternative treatments for her aggressive cancer. She eventually began treatment for an "allogenic stem cell transplant," which means they wanted to put stem cells from a donor into her body. The only problem was, none of her family members were a match, says the article. Her name was placed into a national registry, where Erbe was found to be a perfect match.
Erbe met McDaniel's husband, Cody, their three children and other family members, according to the article, and McDaniel presented Erbe with a handmade cross-stitched canvas with signatures from family and friends.
An allogenic transplant takes stem-cells from a healthy donor that closely matches your body's cell type and may even be related to you. This transplant is promising because these new donor stem cells not only replenish your own stem-cell stores, but can actually help kill off cancer cells as well.
However, new immune cells formed from the donor stem-cell transplant might detect your own tissues and organs as foreign and attack them instead, like they would an infection. This can have serious long-term consequences, and so allogenic transplant is currently only approved in clinical trials.


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Coroner's inquest into deadly B.C. sawmill explosion begins Monday
By: Vancouver Sun
Three years after a deadly sawmill explosion at Lakeland Mills, workers and relatives of the victims say they are resigned to not getting the justice they want from an inquest that starts Monday.
Coroner's inquests are fact-finding processes and do not find fault. However, family and workers say they hold out some hope the inquest in Prince George will help provide answers on how and why the dust-fuelled explosion happened.
It's important, they say, if recommendations are made, they are followed.
The wood dust-fuelled explosion and ensuing fire on April 23, 2012 killed workers Glenn Roche, 46 and Alan Little, 43, and injured 22 others. It happened just three months after a similar explosion killed two workers at Babine Forest Products near Burns Lake.
The quasi-judicial inquest provides the first public airing of the facts surrounding the Lakeland explosion after Crown counsel rejected charges following a botched WorkSafeBC investigation.
The inquest allows for cross-examination.
"We know a lot of the facts, but realize there is a lot we don't know. Hearing them in such a public forum is going to be very difficult," said Ronda Roche, Glenn's widow.
"Hopefully all the facts are presented and at the very least, there are further useful recommendations that will prevent future workplace deaths. I am still holding out the possibility that through this fact-finding process, that further action, such as reopening of the investigation, may happen," she said.
Roche, who will be testifying at the inquest, said she will be trying to find closure through the process, although she said that will be difficult without any "real" justice or accountability.
Families of the victims and workers had pressed for a full-scale inquiry, perhaps overseen by a former or sitting judge, but that idea was rejected by the B.C. Liberal government.
In announcing last year the inquests into the two explosions, B.C.'s chief coroner Lisa Lapointe said there is value in a process designed to hear facts and not find fault. "One of the values of that is people are compelled to speak. Anything they say cannot be used against them in another proceeding, so it really makes sure that all of the available information gets out," she said.
Those who will participate at the inquest include workers, emergency personnel, WorkSafeBC officials and Lakeland Mills' officials.
The Sinclar Group is the majority owner of Lakeland Mills. Canfor holds a one-third stake of the sawmill.
A second inquest into the Babine Forest Products explosion near Burns Lake, 200 kilometres west of Prince George, will start in July.
In that explosion and fire on Jan. 20, 2012, Robert Luggi Jr., 45, and Carl Charlie, 42 were killed, and another 20 workers were injured.
Maureen Luggi, Robert's widow, said she also hopes to get some closure through the inquest process, but it will be difficult as the coroner can only make recommendations.
She added she expects to learn more details of the explosion, which will be painful.
"What we are all hoping for, really, is for the truth to come out. And that someone will be held accountable," said Luggi, a former chief of the Lake Babine First Nation.
United Steelworkers local 1-424 president Frank Everitt said it has been a frustrating ordeal for workers and families seeking justice because they have been left with unanswered questions.
He also noted the inquest cannot assign blame.
Everitt noted WorkSafeBC was aware of the danger of the explosive nature of wood dust before the two explosions.
"What steps were taken to (firstly) follow those rules and secondly to make sure employers were following those rules, and that workers were so advised," said Everitt.
He said it was imperative any coroner recommendations were acted on.
The B.C. government is already implementing recommendations of a special adviser appointed to WorkSafeBC. Those include a new WorkSafeBC investigation model.


Mutton kuzhambu is a very simple recipe. It is very easy to prepare also. It is a Sourashtra cuisine. Non-vegetarians love this dish very much. This goes well with RICE,DOSA and IDLI.
2.Add all the ingredients and add water.
3.Pressure cook it for 20-30 minutes.
The consistency of this kuzhambu should be little watery.
The taste will not be good if the consistency is thick.
If desired, 1 spoon of tamarind water (not tamarind pulp) can be added.


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13 Planets: The Latest View of the Solar System by David A. Aguilar
Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide by Dinah L. Moche
Hubble: Imaging Space and Time by David Devorkin and Robert Smith
I Want to Be an Astronaut by Byron Barton
Our Solar System by Seymour Simon
The Planets: A Journey Through the Solar System by Giles Sparrow
Planets: A Solar System Stickerbook by Ellen Hasbrouck
The Planets in Our Solar System by Franklyn M. Branley
The Sun by Paulette Bourgeois
The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System by David Baker and Todd Ratcliff
Astrophysics is Easy!: An Introduction for the Amateur Astronomer by Michael D. Inglis
The Backyard Astronomer's Guide by Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer
Lecture Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy by Edward E. Prather, Timothy F. Slater, Gina Brissenden, Jeffrey P. Adams, and Jack A. Dostal
Space: From Earth to the Edge of the Universe by Carole Stott, Robert Dinwiddie, David Hughes and Giles Sparrow
Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox and Andrew Cohen
Essential Cosmic Perspective by Jeffrey Bennett, Megan Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, and Mark Voit
Explorations: Introduction to Astronomy by Thomas T. Arny and Stephen E. Schneider
Introduction to Planetary Sciences by Gunter Faure and Teresa M. Mensing
Planetary Sciences by Imke de Pater and Jack J. Lissauer
The Planetary System by David Morrison and Tobias Owen
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The community photosynthetic quotient and the assimilation of nitrogen by oceanic plankton.
Wood, Emily Suzannah. (1992) The community photosynthetic quotient and the assimilation of nitrogen by oceanic plankton. PhD thesis, Prifysgol Bangor University.
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A high precision technique for measuring dissolved oxygen was used in conjunction with the coulometric back titration for total inorganic carbon in seawater, to make observations of the photosynthetic and respiratory quotients in a culture and an open ocean environment. The relationship between the PQ and the nitrogen source utilised was assessed by the concomitant measurement of nitrogen assimilation by the 15-N mass spectrometric technique, with the aim of resolving some of the uncertainty surrounding the calculated and observed PQ values. For the most part the PQ values were found to lie within the constraints set by theory. A complete resolution of the exact relationship between the PQ and the nitrogen source was limited by the analysis of the ambient NH3 concentrations. Measurements of community production and respiration were made in the N.E.Atlantic as part of the BOFS programme. concomitant 14-C rate measurements were made, enabling a comparison of the methodologies. The comparison of the oxygen and 14-C technique was found to be affected by the magnitude of the respiration rate, resulting in elevated PQ values. The in vitro techniques employed in this study were compared to in situ techniques for the analysis of the fluxes of oxygen and carbon dioxide. It was confirmed that the in vitro techniques were not a serious or overriding cause for concern. The productivity rate measurements from the oxygen technique were used to assess the critical depths which are consistent with the development of the phytoplankton bloom. A relationship was observed between the critical depth and the net community production rate.
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Wolfpack (Young Readers Edition) by Abby Wambach
In this young readers adaptation of her #1 New York Times bestselling book, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach inspires the next generation to find their voice, unite their pack, and change the world.
From rising young star to co-captain of the 2015 Women's World Cup Champion team, Abby Wambach's impressive career has shown her what it truly means to be a champion. Whether you're leading from the bench or demanding the ball on the field, real success comes when you harness your inner strength, forge your own path, and band together with your team.
Updated with stories that trace her journey from youth soccer to the hall of fame, this young readers adaptation of Abby's instant bestseller Wolfpack is for the next generation of wolves ready to change the game.


Washington, Dec 8 (IANS) US President Donald Trump once again railed against the Paris climate deal on Saturday, claiming that the ongoing riots in the French capital were taking place because the citizens there didn't want to pay "large sums of money, much to third world countries".
His comments came as world leaders gathered in Poland for the UN climate change conference (COP24) in which key aspects of the 2015 Paris climate agreement were set to be implemented.
"The Paris agreement isn't working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France," Trump said in a tweet.
The US leader also claimed that the protesters in Paris were "chanting 'We Want Trump!'" The President, earlier this week, cited the riots as justification for pulling out of the climate deal, calling it "fatally flawed".
Washington pulled out of the landmark deal in June 2017, saying that the "unfair" accord would have imposed "draconian financial and economic burdens" on the US, as it would have made the country pay for nations which benefited the most from the deal.
That time he had targeted India and China, saying both these nations were benefiting most from the Paris deal, which was "unfair" to the US.


The Force RC 1/8-Scale Muckraker 4WD Truggy is designed to fiercely grip the ground so you can dominate the open road. Durability, stability and power all combine for an incredible experience that includes speeds above 40 MPH, all out of the box!
For pricing and more info head over to Horizon Hobby!
a few more pictures of the chassis and layout would be nice, from what I can see it looks almost like a rebranded arrma talion.
Whoever they put in charge of naming their new RCs should probably be replaced.
I think you might be Muckraking!
My early take on this one and the MT - They seem to be a great alternate to the Bison / Zombie / Sabertooth. If this one can get good USA parts support from the big web shops, it will kill the Banggood/Gearbest sales of those trucks. But, it does need to be at least somewhat reliable too. At $300 I don't expect a bullet proof RC, but it needs to be able to withstand reasonable bashing on 4s.
Other models from this brand seem to be rebrands of other budget imports. The Hammerjaw (another stupid name) appears to be about 95% identical to the RGT Rock Hammer, and seems to be made for Horizon by HSP. Their monster trucks look very familiar to some of the Banggood/Gearbest fare as well.
To Jerry's point, it looks like Horizon is trying to beat the cheap importers at their own game.
If anyone's interested in being the Guinea Pig to try out one of these, using Ebays 15% off coupon today will get you one for $255 shipped, slightly better than using a Tower Hobbies coupon (which are apparently allowed for these). I'm thinking about doing it myself.
At that price, if these trucks are half decent, they will kill the China direct cars! Assuming, Tower, Amain, and some LHS parts support, anyway.
Agreed. They shouldn't be viewed as less expensive Arrmas so much as upgrades from a Traxxas Slash or Stampede and as good/better than China Direct Cars with, hopefully, better parts support. For $250 delivered, seems like it could be really good value.
Same as Jaco here. I think the Arrma Arrmy is a bit shell shocked after this year. Bankruptcy, selling out, parts shortage, finally a light at the end of the tunnel, and they see pillowballs and think it is a Arrma rebrand at half the price, and just start running around with their hair on fire.... If HH could have just one good body off overall chassis pic, I think most would not have gone full bananas.
Yeah, DHK has tried harder than most to get USA distribution. Hobbypeople carried them for a while, but after they went under, there was a china-only gap for a while. Seems they are coming back now - my local HobbyTown has a Maximus on the shelf. They say they want to carry parts, but don't know if it will be a dead end.
Interesting on the Maximum. My DHK has held up well, and I know the SCT truck hey have is supposed to be very good. The DHK trucks look very nice if nothing else, all the orange aluminum would definitely make them sell decently in a LHS I bet.
Force RC Outbreak and Warhawk are Himoto/Iron Track Bowie rebrands with slightly better electronics. Separate esc and receiver in the Force Rc version vs a Esc/Rx combo in the Himoto/Iron track.


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St Paul's Carnival 2017 will NOT be going ahead
But organisers have promised the event, which attracts around 100,000 people, will be back bigger and better in 2018
Laura Churchill
St Paul's Carnival will not be happening in 2017 (Image: Colin Rayner)
Organisers have confirmed St Paul's Carnival will not be going ahead in 2017, but promise it will be back – bigger and better – in 2018 to celebrate its 50 birthday.
No event this year means it will be the third year without the carnival, which has attracted crowds of up to 100,000 people in the past.
The event usually takes place on the first weekend of July, but has been cancelled amid a struggle for funds and organisation problems in the past.
Bristol City Council and the Arts Council England pulled its funding from the event, stating it had a "loss in confidence" with the former organisers, St Paul's Afrikan Caribbean Carnival Ltd (SPACC).
Plans for huge St Paul's Carnival celebrations in 2018 revealed
Since the council has been setting up a new organisation, St Pauls Carnival Community Interest Company, made up of volunteers, to take over the running of what has historically been one of the city's biggest celebration. It was finally incorporated in February this year.
St Paul's Carnival
Councillor Carole Johnson, director of the new organisation, said they did not have the time to sort out a 2017 carnival, but instead were concentrating on building "strong foundations" for a 2018 event.
She said she had attended the carnival since she was a child and wanted to bring it back to its roots and make it a celebration of music, dance, arts and African Caribbean culture.
This is who is playing at the opening of YARD, Bristol's first open-air club
She said: "After the carnival began in 1968 it just grew and grew.
"Somehow the message of what it was about just changed and so the festival changed and took on some negative aspects."
In 2001 four people were shot in five separate incidents and another was slashed across the face with a machete.
St Paul's Carnival 2011 (Image: Nicholas Graves)
Stabbings have taken place at carnivals since and in 2008 teenager April Bright, 18, murdered 35-year-old Mohamoud Hassan in a pub following the festivities.
Uber, taxi ranks, licences and out-of-town competition - why more than 100 taxi drivers protested again in Bristol
"Somewhere along the line the carnival seemed to change message and took on a more rebellious image," councillor Johnson added.
"That meant people, like me, who had gone to carnival for years, began to think twice and that is just really sad.
"I've not felt safe going with my children, they are seven and five, but I would really like to show them the positive piece of their heritage like I got to see when I was growing up in Bristol.
St Paul's Carnival 2014
"I don't want to ignore the things that have happened in the past, but we need to learn from them and bring back a carnival with a positive nature.
"So now we are all about looking forward and getting the positivity back to St Paul's carnival."
St Paul's is now deemed as the fifth coolest place to live in the UK
2018 will mark the 50 anniversary of the carnival and Carole hopes that not having an event in 2017 will mean there will be more chance of putting on an event next year that truly marks the historical importance of carnival in the city.
A review in 2015 found previous organisers had broken funding criteria by failing to host an event twice in four years.
It also found the organisation did not have clear plans to deliver events in 2016.
Bristol City CouncilBristol City Council is not putting more money into Avon Mutual bank, says mayor'What we don't want is this bank to become the next Bristol Energy'


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Q: How to draw paths in Xamarin.Forms XAML Coming from Windows Phone Silverlight, WPF and UWP world I'm now looking into Xamarin.Forms to port an app to iOS and Android. All of the icons and logos of that app up until now are Path elements in the App.xaml file. For example:
<DataTemplate x:Key="ImageAdd">
    <Path Width="30"
     Height="30"
     Stretch="Fill"
     Fill="{StaticResource TsColorWhite}"
     Data="F1 M 35,19L 41,19L 41,35L 57,35L 57,41L 41,41L 41,57L 35,57L 35,41L 19,41L 19,35L 35,35L 35,19 Z "/>
</DataTemplate>

With this the app does not need scaled graphics for different screen resolutions.
Path is in System.Windows.Shapes namespace and therefore not available in XF.
So the question is: How can I load and show such paths in Xamarin.Forms?

A: Starting from Xamarin.Forms 4.7.0 Shapes were introduced, you can draw your paths directly in your xaml. Aspect property is the equivalent of Stretch property in Xamarin.Forms. Shapes (including Paths) are in Xamarin.Forms.Shapes namespace.
<DataTemplate x:Key="ImageAdd">
    <Path Width="30"
          Height="30"
          Aspect="Fill"
          Fill="{StaticResource TsColorWhite}"
          Data="F1 M 35,19L 41,19L 41,35L 57,35L 57,41L 41,41L 41,57L 35,57L 35,41L 19,41L 19,35L 35,35L 35,19 Z "/>
</DataTemplate>

Related documentation

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*Microsoft Blog: Drawing UI with Xamarin.Forms Shapes and Paths.

*Microsoft Official documentation: Xamarin.Forms Shapes.

*GitHub: Specifications: Shapes & Paths

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West Virginia is home to enormous natural gas resources. As a result, the gas drilling industry is a big economic force in the state. However, the gas drilling field is also notorious for being one of the most dangerous occupations in the country. Workers are constantly subjected to unfathomable risks involving chemical exposures and burns, explosions, crushed appendages, and in the most extreme cases, death. If you are a worker in the gas fields, you risk a considerable amount as the result of the nature of your work.
It is entirely possible you may be injured at some point or another on the job, and even more likely you will witness someone else's serious injury. If you are unfortunate enough to encounter such an accident while working in the fields, you are entitled to fair compensation for all of your medical bills, lost wages, and even the pain and suffering associated with the injury.
However, more often than not, the gas companies will try to settle out of court with the injured parties for far less than the injured are entitled to. Therefore, in the event of injury, it is imperative for anyone working in the high risk field of the natural gas industry to consult a qualified West Virginia injury attorney to help get the compensation they deserve.
Hiring a WV personal injury attorney familiar with the natural gas industry, and the compensation packages associated with such on the job injuries, is paramount to ensuring a prompt investigation is had, and the necessary parties are held fully responsible. The reason the gas companies are so willing to settle out of court is because they are aware they will be held responsible in the courts.
Do not let you or your loved one's injuries fall prey to such cost saving industry tactics. Natural gas workers risk their lives for their jobs. They should not have to settle for less than they deserve should injury befall them.


Posted on May 22, 2018 · NPR's John Burnett was in Austin and updates Houston Matters on who will take part in this week's meetings.
Posted on May 21, 2018 · Texas is as gun-friendly a state as they come. But how do voters feel about gun control, according to recent polls?


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Red and blue America intermingle a lot more than you might think
American flags in front of the U.S. Capitol in D.C. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg News)
By Philip Bump
National correspondent
October 4, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. EDT
American politics is deeply divided along partisan lines. You are aware of this, certainly; it's a near-inescapable component of modern life. Nearly everything in American culture has some overlap with politics, naturally or through sheer force of will. We understand certain things through a partisan lens — Starbucks, F-150s — even if there is really no reason for us to do so.
One result is that the near-constant rumblings about secession have seemingly gotten a bit louder. This is anecdotal, certainly, but there does seem to be more conversation about states leaving the union or about civil conflict than there used to be.
It's useful, then, to remember that, for better or worse, the nation's divides are not structured in the same way that they were in 1861. It makes no sense for red states to secede, for example, because most of those who voted for President Donald Trump last year live in blue ones. That may seem surprising in the abstract, but consider that Los Angeles County alone has more Trump voters than more than 600 of the least-populated red counties. At the county level, that contrast is lessened somewhat: only about 45 percent of Trump voters live in counties that voted for President Biden.
We can visualize this another way. Imagine that you're plunked down into the geographic center of a random county in the United States. On average, you're about 180 miles from the center of a county that backed Biden by a margin of at least 50 points and about 52 miles from one that backed Trump by that margin. If the county you're in voted for Biden, you're an average of about 117 miles — a three-hour drive — from the center of a Trump plus-50 county. (You could be as close as 13 miles, if you landed in Warren County, Ga.) If the county you're in voted for Trump, you're an average of 194 miles from a Biden plus-50 one.
There's almost always a county that backed one of the 2020 presidential candidates by an overwhelming margin a relatively short distance away.
(The lines that fly off to the west? Hawaii.)
This doesn't mean there aren't political bubbles, of course. As I wrote in December, a lot of supporters of Biden and Trump had no friends who supported the other candidate. Just because we live near people who supported the other candidate doesn't mean we know them.
But the point is that, regardless of who you are and where you live, you probably live near a lot of people who supported the other candidate for president.
If we break the 2020 results into chunks of 20-point margins, that becomes more clear. If you live in a county that backed Biden by a 60-point margin (anything from about plus-50 to plus-70), you live within a 20-mile radius of about 219,000 Trump voters, on average. This is necessarily a bit wobbly, based on the centers of counties and on the fact that most places that went that big for Biden were large cities. But the point remains: even if you don't see them, there are a lot of people nearby who voted for the other guy.
Average number of supporters in 20-mile radius
Biden voters
Biden +80
Trump +20
Same holds with heavily Trump counties: on average, places that backed Trump by about 60 points are within 20 miles of 7,000 Biden voters. That's far fewer, but there are only an average of 19,000 Trump voters in those mostly rural areas.
There's been a lot of good analysis looking at the extent to which we live within partisan bubbles even within counties. (See this study, for example.) Precinct-level data from Ryne Rohla provided to The Washington Post shows that precincts that backed Biden or Trump did so, by a 40-point margin on average. Even that, though, means that nearly a third of every precinct for which there was data voted for the losing candidate.
We are divided, yes. But there's still an enormous amount of partisan overlap in the fabric of the United States.


The White House wants to include a national health-insurance exchange in the health bill, which would give House Democrats one of their top remaining demands.
With congressional negotiators starting to make decisions on a final health overhaul bill, top Democrats are hoping a White House session with President Barack Obama will narrow differences between the House and Senate.
A wide-ranging discussion with Kaisers Stuart Butler, about the proposal to have the federal Office of Personnel Management have a role in expanding insurance coverage to more Americans; the increasingly heated debate over the roles of the federal government and the states in implementing any legislation, and the merits, or demerits of an individual mandate.
The American Medical Association gave its support Monday to the Senate's latest health care reform bill as a result of several key changes.
Just as dealings with the Obama administration and congressional Democrats soured last summer, six of the nation's biggest health insurers began quietly pumping big money into third-party television ads aimed at killing or significantly modifying the major health reform bills moving through Congress.
A new report today confirms one of Washington's worst-kept secrets – big insurance companies are fighting tooth and nail to kill health reform that will wrest power from their hands and give it to American families.
There is a group of people who really love the U.S. health care system - the fraudsters, scammers and organized criminal gangs who are bilking the system of as much as $100 billion a year.
Under a pilot program, people with Type 2 diabetes will have an opportunity for personal consultations with Walgreen pharmacists and nurse practitioners.
It's hard for some Democrats to believe that the candidate running to replace Ted Kennedy is being attacked over health care reform - in one of the bluest states in the union, no less.
In the fallout after his yes vote on the Senate health care reform bill in December, Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson remains adamant about several things - he didn't sell his vote and two key items, no public option and no abortion funding will have to be included from the final Senate bill before he'll vote yes again.
Nearly 75 health care organizations called for Congress to drop the proposed Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) from consideration in the reconciled health care reform bill.
Furious with the Senate and desperate to regain a foothold in the health care debate, a wave of rank-and-file House Democrats assailed the Senate's tax on high-end health care plans Tuesday night.
Democrats are going on the attack today, calling out Republicans and the insurance industry.
The final health care reform bill will probably look more like the Senate version than its House counterpart and that result is backwards.
A group of House lawmakers and the head of the Federal Trade Commission want Congress to include a provision in the health care legislation that could save American consumers several billion dollars a year on prescription drugs.
Having failed to persuade President Obama to scrap a proposed tax on high-cost health insurance policies, labor leaders took their case Tuesday to Speaker Pelosi, and said they received a more favorable response.
Democratic leaders negotiating a compromise health care bill appear likely to reject a House provision requiring employers to offer generous coverage to their workers or else pay a steep payroll tax.
Merger and buyout activity is likely to heat up in the health care sector in 2010 as the debate over a national health overhaul winds down.


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Aloyzas Kveinys (* 9. Juli 1962 in Mažeikiai; † 26. Juli 2018) war ein litauischer Schachspieler und internationaler Großmeister sowie Nationaltrainer.

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Nach dem Abitur an der 22. Mittelschule in Vilnius absolvierte Kveinys ab 1980 ein Diplomstudium am Institut für Körperkultur in Moskau.
Ab 2009 lebte er im Iran. Dort arbeitete er als Trainer der iranischen Schach-Nationalmannschaft der Frauen und hielt in verschiedenen Städten Vorträge über Schach.

Kveinys war verheiratet und hatte drei Kinder.

Erfolge

Kveinys gewann 2008 die litauische Einzelmeisterschaft und war einer von neun Schachgroßmeistern in Litauen.

Er spielte zwischen 1992, dem Jahr, in dem er den Großmeister-Titel erhielt, und 2008 bei acht Schacholympiaden für sein Land und erzielte dabei 51,5 Punkte aus 97 Partien (29 Siege, 23 Niederlagen, 45 Remis). Bei der Schacholympiade 2010 trainierte er die iranische Frauennationalmannschaft.

Kveinys nahm zwischen 1992 und 2015 an fünf Mannschaftseuropameisterschaften teil (außerdem war er 2013 für die litauische Mannschaft nominiert worden, blieb aber ohne Einsatz). Er erzielte dabei 21,5 Punkte aus 43 Partien (11 Siege, 11 Niederlagen, 21 Remis).

2004 gewann er das Schachfestival Bad Wörishofen vor Wladimir Burmakin. 2016 war er zweiter in Bad Wörishofen.

Vereine
Kveinys spielte in der norwegischen Eliteserien für den Moss Schakklub, mit dem er 2009 Meister wurde. In der polnischen Mannschaftsmeisterschaft spielte er zwischen 1990 und 2008 für KSz Hańcza Suwałki, 2016 für Sz.S.O.N. 'Zagłębie' Dąbrowa Górnicza.

In der deutschen Schachbundesliga spielte er von 1999 bis 2002 und in der Saison 2007/08 für den Godesberger SK; zuletzt war er in Deutschland in der Saison 2017/18 für den SV Lingen in der Oberliga Nord aktiv. In der belgischen Interclubs spielte er in der Saison 2003/04 für die zweite Mannschaft des KSK 47 Eynatten, seit 2004 gelegentlich für Cercle des Echecs de Charleroi. In der französischen Mannschaftsmeisterschaft spielte er für Les Tours de Haute Picardie.

Am European Club Cup nahm Kveinys neunmal teil, und zwar achtmal mit litauischen Vereinen (Kaisė Vilnius, ŠK Margiris Kaunas, NSEL 30 Vilnius, VŠŠSM Vilnius) und zuletzt 2017 mit TSI Riga.

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Schachspieler (Cercle des Echecs de Charleroi)
Schachspieler (Hańcza Suwałki)
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