Beauty boxes subscription is becoming a cult trend these days in the beauty community. Although some people (like my mom) thinks it is a waste of money to pay for something which you don't know and maybe, something you might not want, but for beauty bloggers, product testers, and beauty enthusiasts, beauty boxes subscription can save us a lot of money. It also lets us venture into new stuff that we never knew existed.
Beauty boxes requires you to pay upfront a certain fees, and the service provider will send you a beautiful box full of surprises. The surprises consist of cosmetics, skincare, hair care and beauty related products. Some even throw in some magazines and shopping vouchers. The products that you received value more than the subscription fees you pay. Well, that really depends on how you measure the value. On lucky days, you might get really expensive stuff packed in a box. But on not-so-lucky days, you might get products that you dislike. The products come in travel size, deluxe size, trial size or even a full size!!!
I hope you will find the list useful. There are many brands that venturing into men products, as well as clothing and accessories. I am looking forward for the clothing and accessories one!!!! And if I have missed out anything or made any mistake, please let me know in the comment below. Enjoy your weekend, girls.
i subscribed to the very first australia glossybox before. it was quite disappointing. but now theyre getting so much better.
I subscribed to glossybox australia. It wasn't that great since it was the first one. But they've improved a lot. In malaysia, I tried to subscribe to fabulous finds but they've discontinueD the service. My Wonderbox and Vanity Trove are on the way. Will write a review soon.
any idea how the beauty boxes work in australia?
they dont mention anything about getting points or unboxing like they do for malaysian ones.
So many boxes, sadly none ship to my country!
Any boxes ship to new Zealand?!
A new French beauty box is available in Taiwan. It's called Bloombox Paris.
- 1x 24 pages magazine including interview, product description, recipes and beauty tips.
The thing that I really like is that is costs 699$ (with delivery) while the total retail value is +-1400$ (New Taiwan Dollars) and they've got a nice online store.


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• A super-antioxidant critical to every organs including heart, brain, and lungs
• Improves Heart Function. Decreases Risk of Heart Disease
• Enhance Body Immune System
• Increases Energy Levels
• Protects Against Adverse Effects of Statin Drugs
CoQ10...........................50 mg
CoQ10 Antioxidant Supplement
Natural Assets' Coenzyme Q10 is a nutrient that naturally occurs in every cell in the body. CoQ10 benefits are well established and published over 600 Medical Papers.
Recommended DOSAGE: As a dietary supplement for adults. Take one to two capsules daily with each meal.
CoEnzyme Q10 Health Benefits:
A super-antioxidant critical to every organs including heart, brain, and lungs
Improves Heart Function. Decreases Risk of Heart Disease
Enhance Body Immune System
Increases Energy Levels
Protects Against Adverse Effects of Statin Drugs
Protects Liver Cells Against Toxicity
Relieves Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Helps To Regulate Blood Sugar In Diabetics
Protecting LDL Cholesterol from Oxidation & Plaque Formation.
The Best CoQ10 Supplement
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is produced by the human body and is necessary for the basic functioning of cells. CoQ10 levels are reported to decrease with age and to be low in patients with some chronic diseases such as heart conditions, muscular dystrophies, Parkinson's disease, cancer, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. Some prescription drugs may also lower CoQ10 levels.
Furthermore, Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a vitamin-like substance that functions as an antioxidant, preventing free-radical damage at the cellular level. It has strong & important anti-aging properties. Levels of CoQ10 in the body can be increased by taking CoQ10 supplements. CoQ10 has been used, recommended, or studied for numerous conditions.
CoQ10 and Nobel Price
In the mid-1970's, the Japanese perfected the technology to produce pure CoQ10 in quantities sufficient for large studies and clinical trials. As a result of one study, Peter Mitchell received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to the understanding of biological energy transfer which includes the vital role of CoQ10 in the body's energy systems. In 1986 a prominent CoQ10 researcher, Professor Karl Folkers received the Priestly Medal and the National Medal of Science from President ush in 1990 for his work with CoQ10.
Each cell in the body needs a source of energy to survive, so cells break down sugars, fats, and amino acids to make energy. Small enclosures within cells that make this energy are called mitochondria. CoQ10 exists naturally in our mitochondria and carries electrons involved in energy metabolism. CoQ10 is essential in the production of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the basic energy molecule of each cell. In the bloodstream, CoQ10 is mainly transported by lipoproteins such as LDL (low-density lipoprotein) and HDL (high-density lipoprotein). It is thought that CoQ10 is one of the first antioxidants to be depleted when LDL is subjected to oxidation. Hence, CoQ10 is an important nutrient that prevents the oxidation of lipoproteins, thus potentially reducing the risk of arteries from forming plaques and getting damaged.
You Need CoQ10
Besides being fundamental to energy production, CoQ10 is also essential for helping to protect cell walls and neutralize free radical that can damage DNA, organ tissues, and even your skin. There are over 300 published papers on the heart disease-preventing roles of CoQ10. In addition, promising research continues to emerge that examine CoQ1o's role in brain, nerve, skin, and oral health. But it's crucial to note that your organs have the highest demand for uninterrupted energy - so you MUST have plenty of CoQ10 to meet your body's demands. Your body depends on CoQ10 to keep your heart muscle beating, your blood flowing, and your liver, kidneys, and lungs working properly.
Atherosclerosis, is a chronic inflammatory disease. It may be a consequence of several risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure or an unhealthy, fatty diet. Atherosclerosis can lead to the formation of blood clots, which may in turn cause strokes and heart attacks. So far, the main focus of attention has been on the prevention of atherosclerosis and providing information about the risk factors and ways to improve cardiovascular health.
Usage Based On Scientific Evidence
Heart Disease - In the early 1980's, there was a considerable acceleration in interest in CoQ10 and in both the number and size of clinical trials. For the past 14 years, the great bulk of clinical work with CoQ10 has focused on heart disease. Many of these clinical studies centered on the treatment of heart disease and were remarkably consistent in their conclusions: that treatment with CoQ10 significantly improved heart muscle function while producing no adverse effects or drug interactions.
Breast cancer - Several studies in women with breast cancer report reduced levels of CoQ10 in diseased breast tissue or blood. It has been suggested by some researchers that raising CoQ10 levels with supplements might be helpful. However, it is not clear if CoQ10 is beneficial in these patients, or if the low levels of CoQ10 may actually be a part of the body's natural response to cancer, helping to fight disease
Migraine - There is fair evidence to support the use of CoQ10 treatment in migraine prevention or treatment. The objective was to assess the efficacy of CoQ10 as a preventive treatment for migraine headaches. Thirty-two patients (26 women, 6 men) with a history of episodic migraine with or without aura were treated with coenzyme Q10 at a dose of 100 mg per day. There were no side-effects noted with CoQ10. From this open label investigation CoQ10 appears to be a good migraine preventive
Parkinson's disease - There is promising human evidence for the use of CoQ10 in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Strong evidence that CoQ10 could help slow the progression of the neurodegenerative disease Parkinson's. A small but promising study found that coenzyme CoQ10 may help stop the nerve cell death that characterizes Parkinson's disease.
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The United States Pharmacopeias (USP 24) / The National Formulary (NF 19), United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc., Rockville, MD 20852, 2000
Physician Desk Reference (PDR) for Nutritional Supplements, First Edition, Medical Economics Company, Inc., Montvale, NJ 07645-1742, 2001
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Phyllis A. Balch, CNC and James F. Balch, MD: "Prescription for Nutritional Healing", 3rd Edition, Avery Books, New York, 2000
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Osaka Prefecture is the third-most populated of Japan's 47 prefectures. In Osaka, there are 37 buildings that stand taller than . Abeno Harukas, which was completed in 2014, is the tallest building in Osaka and the second-tallest in Japan at . Both rising , the Osaka Prefectural Government Sakishima Building and the Rinku Gate Tower Building, which were completed in 1995 and 1996 respectively, are the second-tallest buildings in the prefecture. The prefecture's third-tallest building is The Kitahama, which rises 55 stories and  in height. Overall, of the 25 tallest buildings in Japan, 4 are in Osaka Prefecture.

Osaka has been the site of many skyscraper construction projects in recent years. Since 2010, 12 buildings rising higher than  have been completed. As of June 2015, three such buildings are under construction in the prefecture. Several other construction projects planned to exceed the height of 150 metres are proposed for the near future.

Tallest buildings
This lists ranks Osaka skyscrapers that stand at least  tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts.

Under construction
This lists buildings that are under construction in Osaka and are planned to rise at least 150 metres (492 ft). Any buildings that have been topped out but are not completed are also included.

Timeline of tallest buildings

This is a list of buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Osaka.

Tallest structures
This list ranks Osaka structures that stand at least 150 meters (492 feet) tall, based on standard height measurement. This height includes spires, architectural details and antenna masts.

Demolished or destroyed structures

See also
List of tallest structures in Japan

Notes
A. This structure is not a habitable building but is included in this list for comparative purposes. Per a ruling by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, freestanding observation towers, chimneys or masts are not considered to be buildings, as they are not fully habitable structures.

References
General
 Osaka, Emporis.com
 Diagram of Osaka skyscrapers, SkyscraperPage.com

Specific

Osaka

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Hello, what are the struggles of a business owner looking to sell their business?
The answer is simple. Establishing a value for the assets you have available to sell is the single struggle of someone selling their business. What you think something is worth doesn't mean anything if someone else isn't willing to pay it. Reaching the middle where you both think the exchange is fair is the only struggle.
Sure there are elements that contribute to that you might call struggles, such as explaining your business, transitioning control to a new owner, preserving good will of customers during the transition, proving revenue, etc. But they all roll-up to establishing the value.
This is too vague to answer. Do you have a business you are trying to sell (see Paul's comments) or are you trying to "sell" others on why your business ("huge dream and an idea") should be valuable to them, and ultimately to you?


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Centre Avenue sixth-graders in Kelly Dowling's class created interactive number lines that represented positive and negative integers in real world context. As part of the lesson, students were provided with painter's tape, a sharpie and different positive and negative numbers on index cards. As a group, they had to create a number line where they would plot each point provided on the painter's tape and explain its meaning. For example, -13 could represent a drop in 13 degrees and a +$20 could represent a deposit of $20.


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An endowmnet is a gift of funds to the parish as a source of income for the future. It is a wonderful way to express confidence in the parish and to support it for years to come. St. Leonard parish has established an Endowment Fund. The funds are carefully invested by a lay advisory board. Part of the growth of the fund is distributed annually to support worthy programs which help the parish to fulfill its mission. The principal of the fund is not spent, but remains to provide funds for the future. Currently, the fund is valued at over $110,000.
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Can you remember those carefree days when you could ride your scooter anywhere you fancied at the drop of a hat? At home or abroad. A group of mates having a few days away or heading off to a rally… It's not so long ago but still feels like a distant memory, past and future.
As our third National Lockdown was announced earlier this week I'm sure many of us could envisage a repeat of 2020, waiting for the next date on our calendars to be scribbled out (Modrapheniacs have already been forced to cancel). We have to remember the good times though and hope they'll soon be back. Until then, once lockdown is eased we may see more rides like this one, a few mates heading off on a little trip
SLUK reader, Tony Regan managed to get away last summer (in-between lockdowns) and thought he'd share his trip with us. We've all had some fantastic times away on two wheels, let's remember them and spread some hope and positivity for the coming year. Things will get better.
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We're always happy to publish the stories and scooter adventures of our readers. If you'd like to share yours, you can email us at editorial@scooterlab.uk
There's a free SLUK T-shirt for every story we publish, so relieve the lockdown boredom and get typing. Your story can be about any memorable scooter trip, good or bad but we'll need some photos to accompany it.
Leeds fans, riding on together…
Having ridden the NC500 in 2019 we decided we'd have another Scottish scooter trip in 2020 – but where to? Browsing the net I came across another Scottish route called the South West Coast 300. After a bit of investigating and a quick consultation with a few mates, we decided to go for it in July. Then Covid struck and it was all thrown into doubt. By June restrictions had slackened off a bit and the trip was back on.
Thursday Dumfries
We decided to ride up from Leeds to Dumfries on the Thursday (150 miles), then roughly split the SWC300 in two on Friday & Saturday and ride back home on Sunday. It was around 600 miles in total. We set off at around 08:30 and made good progress up the A65, stopping off for brekkie near the Lancashire border. Then it was up the A6, through the Lake District and up to Carlisle – where the sat-nav went a bit haywire. This lead to several laps of the town centre and many smiles and stares from the locals as nine smokey and noisy Lambrettas tried to find our way back on track.
We had the usual splitting up of the group with traffic lights etc. but eventually rolled into Dumfries around 3:30. Then it was time to find the hotel, have a shower, a change of clobber and head for the boozers (there's a phrase we can't use at the minute).
The following morning, there were a few banging heads but we were all fit and ready to ride to Stranraer. Then came the first panels off moment but only a minor one, a snapped clutch cable. We stopped for a coffee in Kirkcudbright having passed a sculpture of the Wickerman on the way, as this was the area where the original movie was filmed.
Friday Stranraer
Later that day we had our first real problem when the hub on Gary's Series 1 cracked a lug, which pulled the hub off as it got trapped in between the frame and engine casing and his machine came to a halt. It happened at a junction, so only at low speed but he had just pulled onto an 'A' road and a 40ft artic was fast approaching. He, and Jep – who had to take evasive action to avoid hitting Gary, just made it onto the 'apron' at the side of the road – a very near miss!
Lambretta Club of Scotland to the rescue
He refitted the hub and 'limped' (50mph) the ten miles or so to the North West Castle Hotel in Stranraer with only 3-wheel nuts and a dodgy hub. It was then that the magic of Facebook came into play. I put a call out for a spare hub on the Lambretta Club Scotland page and within 90 minutes we had two offers, from Shaun Hills & Joe Reilly. The first offer was in Dumfries but the second was in Stranraer. Ten minutes later Joe turned up at our hotel with a hub and refused to take any money for it. A fantastic gesture and massive thanks to him, Shaun and all at the LCS.
We decided to fit it in the morning, so first a trip to the pubs and a late night in the Stranraer FC Supporters Club – where the steward happened to be a Leeds United fan and played a few stirring LUFC tunes for us – much to the chagrin of our loan Chelsea fan.
On Saturday after breakfast the new hub was fitted so away we went – to the end of the hotel drive where the same lad's clutch cable snapped! Soon sorted, we headed off again and were met with another problem. A big part of the route was closed for roadworks. A quick re-jig of the sat-nav found an alternative route and to be honest it took us off the beaten track on roads not too dissimilar to the NC500. In my opinion, it was the best part of the route, twisty, hilly almost track like roads and the usual hazard of cattle and sheep standing in the middle of them.
It was on this detour that Tony Denton had to pull up quickly when it was pointed out to him that his back tyre had a white stripe down the middle where it had worn down to the fibres.
It had a decent tread on at the start – I've never seen a tyre bare so quick!
We stopped off in Girvan for snacks and continued the journey back to Dumfries. More food and beer followed. A couple of lads had ridden up from Leeds that day to join us for a drink so that boosted our number to 11.
Sunday morning came too soon and we groggily set off south. We had strong winds and heavy rain as we rode back through the Lake District. It was here that we had our only casualty of the weekend – Gez with a holed piston. He arranged recovery so we waved goodbye and headed back down to Leeds. With only one more incident of note when Crad's fibreglass panel flew off (unbeknown to him) ten foot into the air, Jep's quick reactions helping him to avoid disaster. He strapped it on to his bag and carried on until he caught up with Crad – who still had no idea of the incident!
It was an excellent trip and although not as spectacular as the NC500 it's definitely a worthwhile route with lovely coastal roads and beautiful countryside aplenty.
Participating clubs: Three Owls SC, Rothwell Crusaders SC, Kippax SC, Maidenhead Phoenix SC.
Words and photos: Tony Regan
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September 13 - 19, 2015: Issue 231
Plover Appreciation Day September 16th
Beach Nesting Birds Project Trailer
Published on 3 Sep 2015 - This is the official trailer for the upcoming release of BirdLife Australia's Beach-nesting Birds Project mini-documentary! Hear about one of Australia's most successful conservation stories.
Plover Appreciation Day September 16th - BirdLife Australia
What is Plover Appreciation Day?
September 16th is Plover Appreciation Day. This special day is aimed at raising awareness of the plight of ground-nesting plovers around the world! Many plover species are highly threatened, largely due to their habitats being some of the most popular for human recreation, e.g. the beach, shores of lakes and wetlands, or even open grasslands. This, together with their highly camouflaged nests and cryptic behaviours, mean that humans can have major impacts on the survival of eggs and chicks, without even knowing it! The key to coexistence between people and plovers is awareness, understanding and sharing space with them. Help us save these amazing, loveable birds by participating in Plover Appreciation Day!
In Australia, the day will honour our beloved Hooded Plovers, Red-capped Plovers, Black-fronted Dotterels, Spur-winged Plovers, and overseas, Piping Plovers, Shore Plovers, Snowy Plovers, Kentish Plovers and the list goes on! If it's a plover, we plan to appreciate it!
So what will the day entail? We have been working on two mini documentaries all about beach-nesting birds and these will be launched along with our revised and improved Education Kit on the day. Our amazing interns, Georgie and Hannah, have been working hard to produce a social media competition with a prize draw on the day, see below. Visit our Facebook (Hooded Plover BirdLife), Instagram or Twitter (birdlife_hoodie) sites!
Watch this page for exciting updates including downloadable Fact Sheets, stories about plovers across the world and events running as part of this celebration.
Competition! Closes September 16th 2015
Put yourself in a Hoodie's shoes! Hooded Plovers are one of Australia's most threatened birds. With a total population of less than 6000 individuals, these birds are currently listed as Vulnerable. One of the greatest threats to the Hooded Plover is disturbance from people visiting the beach. Disturbance is at its highest during their breeding season, in the spring and summer months, as it coincides with the peak period of recreational use of beaches. As a result of increased threats the Hooded Plover has just a 2.5% chance of surviving from an egg to become an adult. This is too low to ensure that young will be added to the population over time, and thus as the older birds die out, the population declines.
You can help raise awareness of their struggle for survival with just 3 easy steps.
1. Like us on social media
Facebook: Hooded Plover www.facebook.com/hooded.plover.birdlife
Instagram: birdlife_hoodie instagram.com/birdlife_hoodie/
Twitter: @birdlife_hoodie twitter.com/birdlife_hoodie
2. Download our Hoodie mask (either the wearable version 100kb or selfie stick version)
3. Upload a photo using the mask to express what it means to be 'vulnerable'
Don't forget to use the hashtag: #vulnerablehoodies
By participating in this national competition you will go into the draw to win some amazing prizes - including a day out in the field with the Beach Nesting Birds team! This will give you the chance to have a close up experience with a Hooded Plover and gain an insight into our recovery program.
Ask yourself, what does it mean to be 'vulnerable'?
The aim of this competition is to use our Hooded Plover masks to anthropomorphize the plight of the birds, and their 'Vulnerability', by taking imaginative photos of a seemingly vulnerable situation. By using social media, we hope to increase the awareness of the threats to beach nesting birds and to further promote behaviours which will conserve and protect them.
These images can, but do not need to, have an environmental focus. An example would be an individual wearing the Hooded Plover mask and an Essendon football jumper, surrounded by a group of people in Collingwood jumpers!
Have fun, be safe (safety is imperative and unsafe images will not be accepted) and get creative to win big prizes!
Prizes will be drawn on September 16th at 3:30pm EST.
What type of Aussie Plover are you?!
Try our quiz to see which plover your personality traits most represent! This is designed to raise awareness of the different behaviours and habits of plover species in a fun and quirky way!
Click here to take the quiz
The Hooded Plover is a medium-sized sandy-brown plover. It has a black head and a white nape, and the black hindneck collar extends around and forks onto the breast. The underparts are white. The iris is dark brown, with a red eye ring. The legs are pink. Males and females are similar. Juveniles look like adults, but without the black head, hindneck and front of mantle, which are sandy-brown instead. Juvenile legs are pale orange. This species is also known as the Hooded Dotterel or Hoody. The genus name used to be Charadrius.
The Hooded Plover occurs on sandy beaches between Jervis Bay, New South Wales and the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, as well as in Tasmania and between Esperance and Perth in south-west Western Australia.They are not abundant.


This has been an October filled with gorgeous weather (sun!), insanity (vote!), untimely deaths (Tom, more below) and fall colors that brighten our days (larch!). Amidst this comes the latest IPCC Report from the world's best scientists which, in a nutshell, tells us the pace of climate change is happening way faster and the consequences even more dire, unless we act. The report gives us 12 years to change course on climate pollution.
And along with the IPCC report we learned about the coffee and barley and beer. It's real. It's happening now.
First, come to Climate Smart Missoula's Clean Energy Expo this Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Caras Park (see poster, right). Together with our main partners — the Montana Renewable Energy Association, Missoula Federal Credit Union, the city of Missoula and Missoula County — you'll learn something new, and be inspired with tangible actions.
This free event showcases local solar and renewable energy opportunities and businesses, energy efficiency, and other efforts to move our community to clean energy. The Expo also highlights other arenas that intersect with energy, particularly zero waste and active transportation.
Partake in family-friendly activities — including Pumpkins for the Pov!
Take the 0-50-100 pledge and get involved with any of a dozen organizations.
To be clear, it's more than just an EXPO. This draft 100% Clean Electricity Options Report that we're releasing is kind of a big deal. Over the years, our city and community have made commitments to act locally on climate change. We have City and Community Climate Action Plans with goals of carbon neutrality. And earlier this year, Mayor Engen endorsed Mayors for 100% Clean Energy, supporting a goal of 100 percent clean, renewable energy in our community and across the United States. So how do we meet such goals?
This draft report allows us to get our minds around Missoula's electricity landscape and options for adding more clean, renewable electricity to our mix. It's designed to spark a conversation with our community, our utilities, elected officials, and others to determine just how we might achieve 100% by the target year of 2035. It's a starting place.
So where did this Initiative and Options Report come from and why the "All In" headline?
About a year ago a whip-smart community member begin working with Climate Smart, the City of Missoula and others to jump start this entire effort. Tom dived right in with incredible energy to understand, document, and get on paper just how we might get more renewable electricity in Missoula. He met with experts. He pushed and prodded. He wrote and foot-noted.
This 100% Options Report is now dedicated to Tom Platt—he left us all too soon after a short battle with cancer. We are incredibly sad that he is not here – to author this column, to explain the intricacies of energy regulations, to shine his huge smile on all of us as he talks about just how great solar energy is. "Keep this going, it's important," he told me just a couple of months ago.
As his remembrance service earlier this week, Tom was repeatedly described as a Man of Action and someone who was always "all in." He has inspired me to stay all in and to bring others along. We hope you'll join in.
And isn't it rather curious that the sun has been shining bright here in Missoula every single day from Tom's memorial service until and through this Clean Energy Expo? There's hope.
Amy Cilimburg is the Executive Director of Climate Smart Missoula. This Sustainable Missoula column is brought to you – via the Missoula Current – every Friday by Climate Smart Missoula and Home ReSource.
October 21: 9th Annual Tweed Ride – 1:30-5 pm, Starting at Free Cycles.
November 1. Climate Smart Missoula's Monthly Meetup: Sustainable Economic Development. 5 – 7 pm in the Community Room at Imagine Nation Brewing.
November 8. Montana Natural History Center. Learn about climate change and earth's processes with Dr. Steve Running. 3-4:30 pm.
View more climate and energy events via Climate Smart Missoula's Calendar. There are many more conservation events for the upcoming months HERE.


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"we are a nation deeply rooted in community values and a mindest of reciprocity. For this reason. We invite individuals and families from around the world to invest in our country, and in exchange we promise to provide you with citizenship of the commonwealth of Dominica – a status that comes with a myriad of opportunities aimed to transcend borders in a continually globalizing world." – Dr the Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit prime minister commonwealth of Dominica.
How one small island is incorporating sustainability into its economic framework?
Did you know that the Caribbean island of Dominica is one of the best places in the world for visiting and getting responsibly up-close to sperm whales?
At least 300 sperm whales are thought to come and feed off the Dominica coast, while around 150 may call it their permanent home. The reason why this small Caribbean island is so attractive to sperm whales is due to the deep water surrounding the island, which create favourable socialising, feeding and mating conditions.
Eager tourists from all corners of the globe congregate to the island to catch a glimpse of this magnificent endangered species, but in a manner that always primarily protects the animals. For Dominica, caring for the planet, and its many inhabitants, is an attitude entrenched deeply into the foundation of the island.
Known as the "Nature Island" and quickly progressing as a world leader in ecotourism, Dominica offers visitors several activities in and out of the water – all in accordance with the island's commitment in nurturing and protecting its natural surroundings. With extreme weather events inevitable on this side of the hemisphere, the time for action against climate change has arrived. The sentiment runs deeply with the island's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, who is known for driving Dominica's green ethos even further by pushing sustainability high up on his agenda. Following Hurricane Maria, PM Skerrit pledged to make Dominica "the world's first climate resilient nation", a feat that garnered the support of international bodies such as the World Bank and the Government of the United Kingdom.
With the help of Dominica Citizenship by Investment Program (CBI), an initiative that invites investors to contribute to the economy of the nation in exchange for citizenship, the island develops local projects rooted in sustainability. One of these projects, titled the "Housing Revolution", provides affordable, all of which are built to withstand weather disasters. Investors, under the CBI program, can either contribute to the island's government-held Economic Diversification Fund or buy into selected real estate options, including upcoming eco-luxury villas.
In return, successful applicants gain access to increased global mobility with visa-free/visa-on-arrival travel to approximately 140 countries and territories, alternative business opportunities and the invaluable option to pass down citizenship to future generations. Since 1993, Dominica has been offering investors a chance to become part of its Global Community, making it one of the longest-serving programs of its kind. Not to mention that the island has been ranked as the world's best economic citizenship offering – for the second year in a row. Professional Wealth Management specialists from the Financial Time highlighted factors such as ease of processing, strict due diligent procedures and efficient timeline as some of the reasons for its ranking.
The island of Dominica proves that fostering an environment that cares for all its living species is not only vital for the survival of the future but is equally an attitude that should be adopted all over the world. As for now, Dominica remains one of the world's best kept secret.
Two Investment channels, A myriad of opportunity
There are two paths to achieve economic citizenship in the Commonwealth of Dominica. The first is a contribution direct to the government, with funds being spent on building the future of the country, to realize its potential.
The second option involves the purchase of government-approved real estate, allowing investors the opportunity to become proud owners of prime Caribbean real estate, as well as obtaining citizenship.
The first option is the ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION FUND (EDF), a non refundable contribution to the country, starting from USD 100,000. This option allows an applicant to play a major role in Dominica promising future.
The second option to obtain Dominica citizenship is to invest in PRE-APPROVED REAL ESTATE, starting from a minimum investment of USD 200,000. This option provides an investor with the opportunity to become a proud owner of prime real estate. There are a number of high quality projects available for investment with trusted global brands.
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Some were low in fat and cholesterol, some showed the influence of ethnic flavors and some were entirely new creative ventures, but in the end, top quality was the overriding characteristic of the top 10 new products selected for the 16th annual 1992 Retail New Products Contest sponsored by Delta Communications Inc.
The winners in 9 categories were selected from more than 4,800 new products tracked in 1992 by Delta`s New Product News, a magazine that reports on new items in retail supermarkets, gourmet shops, natural food stores and drugstores.
Judged by a panel of nine food experts, the products ranged from a yogurt and peach juice beverage to a preservative-free wine and mushroom sauce. A grand winner will be announced in October.
- Platina Italian Style Gourmet Flatbread, Dough Delight Ltd., bakery convenience category. Made with olive oil, this bread works well as a pizza base or a salad accompaniment and comes in 7 1/2- or 12-inch rounds.
- Kemp`s Yo-J Peach Yogurt & Juice, Marigold Foods Inc., beverage category. Blending the health benefits of yogurt and juice into a refreshing drink, Yo-J supplies 100 percent of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of vitamin C and has added calcium.
- Gold Plate Wild Mushroom Sauce, Gold Plate Inc., condiment category. This sauce contains veal demi-glace, red wines, imported mushrooms, balsamic vinegar and no added sugar. It is sold in Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago in 8-ounce jars for $4.50 to $8.
- Ruggles Country Ranch Lowfat Dip, Smith Dairy Products Co., dairy specialty category. Made with a live yogurt culture, which lowers the fat content, it has a ''very authentic ranch flavor,'' according to the contest judges.
- Smucker`s Peach Fruitage, J.M. Smucker, dessert category. Made from 99 percent fruit, this non-dairy dessert has no fat, added sugar or cholesterol. It is sold in West Coast supermarkets for about $2.60 a pint.
- Stefano`s Great Stuff! Stuffed Breads, Stefano`s Provisions Inc., entree category. Sold frozen, these rolled stromboli are made of cold cuts and cheeses wrapped in dough. Available in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, it will go national next summer.
- Freshtables Oriental Style Crunch Salad, Pillsbury-Green Giant, side dish category. This is a bag of fresh vegetables with packets of dressing and ramen noodles. It should be available nationally in four varieties this summer.
- Mr. Phipps Pretzel Chips, Nabisco Biscuit Co., snack food. The object of this product is to try to improve upon the pretzel by making it more attractive more convenient to dip. In national distribution since last July, it was the best-selling pretzel, according to sales tracking services.
- Lemon Snack Crisps, Estee Corp., special foods for special needs category. Low in sodium and low in fat with no sucrose, the waffle-shape crisps are made to appeal to diabetics and hypertensives but are tasty to others as well. A 2/3-ounce bag sells nationwide for 79 cents.
As America consistently searches for the pure and natural in foods, don`t forget baby. Growing Healthy, a Minnesota-based company, is selling frozen fruits, vegetables and ''dinners'' ready to microwave for infants and containing no additives, preservatives, extracts or fillers. The two-tray package of strained carrots (two 2-ounce portions), for instance, contains only carrots and water.
For comparison, we checked a 4 1/2-ounce bottle of Gerber`s strained carrots in the supermarket and found it contained only carrots and water, though other flavors of Gerber`s and other brands of baby foods did have added flavoring and fillers.
Compared with regular baby food in jars, Growing Healthy frozen has three to 15 times more vitamins and nutrients, says Julia Knight, the company`s chairman and founder. The line consists of 18 products: four strained fruits, five strained vegetables, three strained dinners, 3 junior dinners and three chunky dinners. Items sell for 80 cents to $1.19, depending on variety.
Iced tea in cans has been around for about 15 years, providing an alternative to carbonated pops, but mostly it`s very sweet and flavored with lemon. And it tastes as if it is made with instant tea powder, which it is.
So now the Thomas J. Lipton Co. and Pepsi have teamed up to produce a bottled iced tea called Lipton Original, which is made from tea leaves with no preservatives or artificial ingredients. And it tastes-well-pretty much like iced tea you would brew yourself.
The Lipton-Pepsi team also has been revamping Lipton`s canned tea and now calls it Lipton Brisk, but it still is pre-sweetened and made with tea powder. Like canned pop, Lipton Brisk is sold in 12-ounce cans for use in vending machines and elsewhere.
Stouffer`s also has added six new dinners to its Lean Cuisine line, which now totals more than three dozen. The new dinners: angel hair pasta, fettuccine primavera, baked potatoes with sour cream and chive sauce, meatloaf with macaroni and cheese, honey mustard chicken and sweet and sour chicken with rice. Prices range from $1.89 to $2.79.
Finally, the packaging has been updated on all of Stouffer`s frozen food line using a more sophisticated logo, but retaining much of the old package design, some of which has been characteristic of the brand since the 1950s.
Burger King, Arby`s and California Pizza Kitchens use them to keep hands safe from burns, scalds and other injuries and now you can too. For $30, you can buy the Tucker BurnGuard oven mitt.
That may seem a lot to pay for a glorified hot pad, but rest assured you are buying one of the best gloves on the market. The 15-inch Kevlar-covered glove-designed to protect against flames, heat and hot liquids-can be washed as often as needed and should last 20 to 30 times longer than a cotton glove. The mitt and other Tucker protective clothing is made for commercial use, but you can get the 15-inch mitt by sending $30 to Tucker Industries Inc., 405 E. Gardena Blvd., Gardena, Calif. 90248. Tax and shipping are included. To order call 800-786-7287.
Ravioli, Growlin` Grilled Cheese, Wobblin` Wheels and Cheese (like macaroni), Belly Bustin` Beef Patties and Frazzlin` Fried Chicken.
In addition Swanson, a subsidiary of Campbell Soup Co., has created four Swanson Kids Breakfast Blast frozen entrees, which feature french toast, french toast sticks, pancakes or waffle sticks to dip in hot syrup.
Geared to 6- to 12-year-olds, the dinners have a suggested retail price of $1.89, the breakfasts are about $1.


Visitors to the Works on Paper Fair can view and buy from some of the best dealers in Early, Victorian, Modern and Contemporary art.
A wide range of original works on paper including watercolours, drawings, prints, and posters can be found at the Fair. This includes all types of pictures drawn by hand, in ink, pencil, crayon, chalk, pastel, gouache or charcoal, and all of our images are vetted to ensure they are of the highest quality.
Prices tend to range from the affordable at £500 and less, to the majority on offer from £1,000 – £25,000.


William Leavitt (born 1941) is a painter, installation artist, and theater director and one of the pioneers of the Los Angeles Conceptual movement. In the latest Ooga Booga publication, Alligator Maze Orchid, Leavitt uses free association to create an extensive collection of sketchbook drawings using fragments of popular and everyday culture to construct playful storylines of environments familiar within Southern California and beyond. The images, shuffled and selected at random, serve as narrative devices and props for Leavitt's imagined theater. Design by Lauren Graycar.
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Publisher Of Largest US Catholic Network Tears Into Biden Over 'Complete Opposition To Fundamental Church Teaching'
(Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Mary Margaret Olohan Social Issues Reporter
The publisher of the Eternal World Television Network tore into President Joe Biden Friday over the new president's "complete opposition to fundamental Church teaching."
Michael P. Warsaw warned that "there is an additional hazard associated with Joe Biden's propensity for promoting radical agendas from behind a benign mask of genial faith."
"One major reason Biden has been able to enact an agenda that should be generating far more national controversy is the complicity of most major news outlets," he wrote. "In contrast to their reflexive opposition to almost everything the Trump administration undertook, the White House press corps has expressed little criticism of Biden's actions to date."
Michael P. Warsaw, Chief Executive Officer of the EWTN Global Catholic Network and the publisher of the National Catholic Register, wrote that Biden's first 100 days in office are ones of "disappointment" that foreshadow peril for the Catholic Church, warning that "there is an additional hazard associated with Joe Biden's propensity for promoting radical agendas from behind a benign mask of genial faith."
"As Joe Biden passes his 100th-day mark in office today, the early returns show how, for faithful Catholics, this period couldn't be more disappointing," Warsaw wrote in a National Catholic Register op-ed. "There are also signs that the next 100 days and beyond will be even more disturbing." (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Catholic, Pro-Life Campaigns Highlight 'Unprecedented Abortion Extremism' Of Biden's First 100 Days)
"Sadly, during the second Catholic president's brief time in the Oval Office, Biden's policies show he intends to govern in complete opposition to fundamental Church teachings regarding human life and sexuality, despite his spokeswoman's continual professions of the centrality of the president's Catholic faith," Warsaw continued.
Biden, the second Catholic in the nation's history to become president, has frequently drawn criticism for supporting and advocating for policies which the Catholic Church explicitly opposes, such as abortion. (RELATED: Media Treats Catholicism In Vastly Different Ways Depending On Politics)
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will hold a national meeting in June where the bishops will decide whether to tell the president, and other high profile Catholic politicians, not to receive Holy Communion at mass if they continue to publicly advocate for abortion.
"Because President Biden is Catholic, it presents a unique problem for us," Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas, who chairs the USCCB's Committee on Pro-Life Activities, told the AP. "It can create confusion. … How can he say he's a devout Catholic and he's doing these things that are contrary to the church's teaching?"
US President-elect Joe Biden (C) and incoming First Lady Jill Biden attend Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021. – Biden is to be sworn in as the 46th US President at the US Capitol. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Warsaw listed a number of progressive and pro-abortion actions that Biden has taken during his first 100 days in office, such as reversing former President Donald Trump's ban on using abortion fetal tissue for taxpayer-funded research and taking steps to undo former Trump's Protect Life Rule, which prohibited Title X Family Planning Program funds from going to organizations that perform or promote abortions. (RELATED: Psaki: White House 'Respectfully Disagrees' With Catholic Church Position That It's Wrong To Use Aborted Babies For Research)
"Alongside his promotion of abortion, Biden has gone all-in for promotion of 'transgenderism' and other central elements of the 'LGBT' agenda," Warsaw wrote. "As with abortion, Biden initiated his drive with an immediate executive order. It communicated that the federal government will now equate 'gender identity' and 'sexual orientation' with existing federal statutory prohibitions of sexual discrimination."
He continued: "Along with facilitating destructive 'gender-reassignment' medical procedures — including for minors — and compromising women's sports by allowing competition by biological males who identify as female, legal scholars warn that Biden's policies will inevitably transgress against the conscience rights of Catholics and others who reject gender ideology."
Warsaw noted that Biden's progressive actions should not surprise anyone, since he was open about his agenda before he became president, but the EWTN publisher said that Biden's "haste and intensity in pushing forward with these moves" is surprising. (RELATED: Here's Why Media Calls Biden A 'Devout Catholic' According To Theologians, Commentators)
Catholics have a "double responsibility at this political moment" to highlight how Biden's policies are "harming all Americans," Warsaw wrote.
"We also need to highlight how they are undermining the Church, by making it seem that it's possible to remain authentically Catholic while dissenting so fundamentally on such key moral issues," he continued. "This double challenge will not be easy, but faithfulness requires both prayer and action in defense of the truths upon which our Church and our country have been founded."
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The biases that keep good R&D projects from getting funded
Research and development (R&D) May 2, 2017
By Linus Dahlander, Paola Criscuolo, Thorsten Grohsjean, and Ammon Salter
Theodora chairs the R&D selection panel at a global professional service firm. She recently had to lead the committee in deciding whether to fund a proposal from an up-and-coming engineer and one of the company's business leaders.
The project focused on how to design rooms in intensive care units to minimize sleep disruption and facilitate healing. Gerhard, from the infrastructure group in Munich, started the discussion: "This project is just too out there. It is not really what we do." Frank, an expert in water engineering from the consulting unit in Edinburgh, said, "Funding should be sought for client work. This is not going to generate much benefit for the organization."
But Julie from the London office, who has focused on designing public buildings, countered, "Sure, it is a bit off topic, but the area was mentioned in our R&D strategy last year. My office is getting increasingly involved in design work for hospitals." Gerhard noticed that the R&D budget was nearly spent for the year and suggested that the project was "a nice-to-have, rather than a need-to-have." Theodora compromised: "Let's fund the project at 30%. Is that OK?" The panel members nodded and moved on to the next proposal.
This story is fictional, but it is based on our observations of managers deciding whether to fund new projects. We set out to explore how organizations decide to invest in different innovations. There is little data on this, because these decisions tend to be made behind closed doors. But in studying a large professional service firm with offices in 37 countries, we were able to get access to all of the R&D project proposals submitted by its staff, including information about which projects received funding.
In this company – like in many other large organizations – a panel of different managers and engineers comes together to discuss what they think is worth funding. We studied 556 different project applications, and conducted interviews and observations inside the company. Our findings, recently published in the Academy of Management Journal, are that managers don't always carefully weigh the pros and cons of each project and that biases can creep into the decision-making process.
The sweet spot of novelty
R&D selection is not always based on objective estimates of a project's costs and returns. We found that funding decisions in this organization were influenced by how novel a project seemed. Proposals that were deemed either too novel or not novel enough got little or no funding. In other words, there is a sweet spot of novelty that makes R&D committees more likely to fund a project. (This has been found in other contexts too, such as academia.)
If a project strayed too far from the company's main activities, or if it seemed too difficult to commercialize, it wasn't funded. If the idea was considered to be too incremental, such as one that aimed to improve existing processes, it met the same fate. However, projects that found a new way to serve increasing client demand, perhaps by stretching existing capabilities, fell into the sweet spot of novelty and received funding.
The biases that affect panel members
Projects aren't simply evaluated on merit. We also found that three characteristics of the R&D panel can influence funding decisions:
Workload: When the selection panel has to evaluate many proposals in one meeting, they are less likely to fund novel projects that lie beyond the sweet spot. This is likely because assessing new ideas takes more time and effort. For instance, one panel we studied had to assess more than 60 project proposals in a single meeting. But when panelists only had to evaluate 30 projects, they funded three times as many highly novel projects.
Diversity: We measured expertise diversity, or whether people have expertise in multiple areas. The more diverse the panel is, in terms of expertise, the more likely it is to provide funding to a very novel project. Diversity increases the likelihood that the members of the selection panel will look at multiple facets of a proposed project. For example, one of the panels we observed had selectors with backgrounds as diverse as acoustics, structural engineering, sustainable building design, and fire engineering. This panel could assess the value of highly novel R&D proposals that spanned a broad range of engineering disciplines; they were better able to see their potential applications for an equally wide range of clients.
Location: The panel's willingness to accept novelty decreases when the project applicant is in the same location as one of the panel members. There are at least two reasons that can explain this. First, to avoid being accused of favoritism, members of the selection panel might put proposals from people sharing the same location under more scrutiny, causing them to underestimate the benefits and to overestimate the costs of novelty. Second, panel members shy away from highly novel projects if they're being proposed by people in their location, because more novel projects have a higher risk of failure and that could potentially harm the panel member's reputation.
Overcoming biases against innovation
Our findings raise questions about the current practices companies use to select and fund R&D projects. The process in the company we studied is not unique. Many organizations use structured processes for evaluating their innovation projects and deciding which to fund and which to discontinue. But these practices may be limiting the number of groundbreaking ideas that ultimately get executed. History is rife with examples of organizations that have been exposed to novel ideas but failed to invest in them, as well as organizations that over-invested in ideas after failing to evaluate them properly.
The first step to alleviating these biases is to be aware of them, but there are also some actions managers can take to eliminate them. Overcoming some of these biases against novelty can help them better evaluate and spot potentially game-changing ideas.
To avoid the panel workload bias that prevents managers from seeking novelty, companies could limit the number of projects the selection committee has to screen at once. One strategy could involve "binning" projects, which means designating windows for people to submit proposals and then convening a selection panel when a "bin" is full, rather than at a set date or time of year. This way, sufficient managerial attention could be devoted to each project under evaluation.
Creating panels with a more diverse range of expertise can also help organizations look at projects from multiple angles. More diversity can help organizations appreciate new ideas that could turn into big innovations. Research has shown that diversity helps teams come up with great ideas, but diversity may also help people detect and decide to fund novel ideas.
To increase diversity of expertise, companies can involve external experts in their selection panels. For example, almost 10 years ago, GSK set up interdisciplinary Drug Performance Units to discover new medicines and develop them for early-stage clinical trials. Each DPU developed a business plan with milestones to be reached within a specific period. A review panel, consisting of senior R&D managers in the company, as well as external experts with relevant expertise, periodically assessed their performance. In 2012, the panel was able to help GSK increase funding for six units that held promise, decrease funding for five units that weren't yet meeting their targets, and eliminate three of the units that failed to deliver.
Of course, while novelty is important for finding and developing groundbreaking opportunities, managers should seek to balance their firms' R&D portfolio, so that it includes projects with high and low levels of novelty. Less novel projects are usually easier to implement, less risky, and they generate more immediate benefits. At the same time, many companies under-invest in novel projects simply because managers err on the safe side. This is when it becomes important to think about how projects are being evaluated.
Decisions about R&D projects are signals of an organization's strategy and its future. To make innovation a part of that, managers need to be aware of these biases and of what can be done to avoid them.
This article was originally published by Harvard Business Review.
Linus Dahlander
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Students can work on: reading for any course, personal or professional reading, writing assignments for any discipline, admission application essays, resumes and cover letters, creative writing, speeches, and presentations.
The Center also houses tutors from other disciplines, such as history, anthropology, and psychology.
The Center is located on the first floor of the library and is open five days a week, including some evenings. Students can be tutored in person or over the phone. Assistance is also available at the Wilton Center, Monday through Thursday. Check the Center's web page at www.sunyacc.edu/academics/center-reading-and-writing for hours, schedule, and other information.


Spacious, move-in ready Ranch home with attached two-car garage. The covered front entrance opens into a spacious living room with cathedral ceiling, a brick wood-burning fireplace, and sliding glass doors that lead to a covered porch, stone patio, and large back yard.
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Country ranch home build in 2015 with geo thermal heating & cooling. Enter into the front foyer to a spacious open floor plan with an open staircase leading to the loft office/family room. The cathedral ceilings are all tongue & grove Wainscoting and the flooring is all engineered wood. The main floor includes a living room, dining room with French doors that lead to the back patio with a view of the hills.
Enter this home by the circular black top driveway. The main floor includes a living room with a gas fireplace, formal dining room, spacious kitchen with appliances and a view of the backyard from the breakfast nook. There is a room that could be used as an office, a 1/2 bath and a bright enclosed sunroom. Upstairs you will find a large bedroom with a window seat, a second bedroom with built-in-shelves, a full bath and an office/playroom. The full basement is dry with a concrete floor.
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{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards, TypeFamilies,DeriveDataTypeable #-}

{-|
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module SimpleStore.Cell.TH (
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import Language.Haskell.TH

-- Controls
import Data.Traversable

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import SimpleStore.Cell.TH.StoreMakers

-- | use this function to make your acid Cell
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makeStoreCell :: Name -> Name -> Name ->  Q [Dec]
makeStoreCell ckN initN stN = do
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Bats in the Basement, Bees in the Parlor: When Your Historic Home Has Unexpected Visitors
Morris-Butler House in Indianapolis.
At Indiana Landmarks' 1865 Morris-Butler House in Indianapolis, Indiana, we've had our share of animal sightings inside the house over the years. Every year when the weather cools, there's always at least one small critter who finds their way inside and expires. We'll come into work one fine fall day to discover (as we call it) the "stench of death" in the basement, usually around the elevator shaft and/or HVAC pipes/vents. It's not just water that can find its way into our historic basements! Perhaps some of you can relate?
My (Kelly's) animal sightings are relatively tame compared to my colleagues' encounters – I've found bats. The first bat had unfortunately already died when I found him. The second was definitely alive. I was eating my lunch in our staff kitchen when I hear a noise coming from the trash can. Looking inside, I saw a small bat trying to climb his/her way out of the trash can. After taking one very large step backwards in surprise (okay, maybe several steps backwards), we used the trash can to take the bat to a better life outside.
But these are just the tip of the iceberg of animal visitors to Morris-Butler House. Most of the really good stories predate my time at the house, so I've invited my colleague, Gwendolen Nystrom, to share her recollections about other unexpected—and endangered—historic house guests.
My (Gwendolen's) experience with unexpected guests are usually endangered. It seems fitting for endangered species to find our historic site. They must somehow know that we support preservation efforts!
One Saturday several years ago, a colleague was giving a tour when she heard shrill shrieking coming from inside the chimney. People always ask if the house is haunted, and after hearing the shrieking, this was one tour group that just didn't believe her when the answer was "No!" After the tour group left, we went upstairs just as a tiny "chimney swift" bird came tumbling out of the chimney… and then another… and another. Because these birds are an endangered species in Indiana, it was illegal to take any actions to remove them. Knowing that these birds are endangered, the kind-hearted staff in consultation with professionals moved the displaced birds to a local shelter who could help relocate them. The rest of the bird family eventually migrated. Once they were gone, we promptly had the chimney recapped to prevent further house guests.
Chimney swifts. Photo by Greg Schechter.
The most unexpected encounter with endangered species house guests went something like this: One day, I was sitting at my desk when a normally calm and reserved docent came in and in a very shaky voice while wringing her hands said, "Gwendolen… um… there are BEES …in the parlor…." Expecting to see a few errant bees dive-bombing tour guests, I went up to the parlor and found not one or two bees, but an emerging colony of honeybees covering EVERY artifact and the floor in the room! What do you do next? RUN! And shut the doors. The bees had gotten into the walls from a crack in the mortar between the bricks on the outside of the house, built a nest, and emerged through a hole in the plaster. Perhaps it was because they were intrigued by the docent's tour? Once the endangered honeybees were safely removed by a trained beekeeper, we repaired the holes in the plaster and mortar.
The overarching lesson learned here is that it's important to keep up with your historic house's maintenance to prevent unexpected house guests. Despite proper maintenance and planning, even an endangered Indiana brown bat may find its way into the basement anyway… like one did this week! I'm sure Morris-Butler House isn't alone in attracting animal visitors. What are the strangest, or most exciting, animal encounters you've had at your historic site?
Gwendolen Nystrom is Director, Indianapolis Volunteers and Heritage Experiences. Kelly Gascoine is Heritage Experiences Manager. Both Nystrom and Gascoine work for Indiana Landmarks. Indiana Landmarks is a statewide historic preservation nonprofit with a mission to revitalize communities, reconnect people with their heritage, and save meaningful places.
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THE WHITE HOUSE: Obama's first meeting with all the lawmakers in the House Republican majority started at 10. Since today is the start of Atlantic Hurricane Season, the president will get a briefing at 11:30 on the government's long-range weather forecast and on disaster preparedness
THE HOUSE: Convened at 10 and at noon will begin debating its first appropriations bill for the budget year that starts in October — a $40.6 billion (3 percent cut) measure for the Department of Homeland Security. The wide-open amendment process that's traditional for spending bills means it's hard to predict timing of the vote on passage; it may be tomorrow, because lawmakers have promised the last roll call of the day will be by 7.
Kathy Hochul, the upset winner of last week's special election in upstate New York, will be sworn in as the House's newest Democrat.
THE SENATE: Nothing's happening there this week.
IN THE BEGINNING: Years from now, yesterday's House show vote against raising the debt ceiling without conditions will be remembered as the opening bracket for the period of time when Republicans and Democrats actually came together on a plan that gives projected deficits a visible but not too-visible haircut — and also avoids a government default, although only for perhaps the next 18 months, until the 2012 winners of the White House and Congress are at the controls.
And there will be some good clues from the rhetoric of this afternoon, once the East Room meeting is over, about whether the other side of that bracket will be closed in just a few weeks, or not until the calendar is right up against the Treasury's Aug. 2 deadline for needing additional borrowing authority.
If both Boehner and Obama come out of the room describing the atmospherics as collegial — and declaring that their side is ready to give as much as it wants to get — then the summer could yet be smoother than its start is suggesting. But that also will mean the deal both sides envision is the most minimalist required to assuage the big players in the financial markets, who have enough heartburn in their lives already and thus want Congress to play against type and finish this deal a week or more before Zero Hour.
But get ready to postpone vacation plans — and to envision a more historic bargain — if the president goes to the microphones and shakes his head about GOP intransigence against raising more revenue, and if the GOP rank-and file starts tut-tutting about what a shame it is that their first invitation to such a White House meeting was a waste of time because the words "entitlement reform" weren't heard. A continued public standoff means both sides will want to use all their available bargaining time to push for the grandest deal possible.
GEEK CRED: Boehner went into the meeting with a manifesto, signed by 150 economists, that endorses the Speaker's bargaining position: That whatever amount the borrowing authority is increased must be exceeded by the amount of projected deficit reduction. Doing otherwise, the economists say, "would harm private-sector job growth and represent a tremendous setback in the effort to deal with our national debt."
The 87 GOP freshmen are sure to pound on that theme when they have their own meeting tomorrow with Geithner, who in return is bound to emphasize the calamitous and long-lasting global economic consequences of not raising the debt ceiling in time — and thereby preventing the government from paying its bills punctually.
That session will come as Obama has the fourth and final budget listening session meeting with one of the congressional caucuses – the always-an-afterthought-this-year House Democrats.
NOMINATION SITUATION: Jim Inhofe is vowing an all-out effort to stop John Bryson from being confirmed as Commerce secretary.
The top Republican on Environment and Public Works, who's become world-famous for calling man-made global warming a hoax, says he's dead-set against Bryson because he helped to found the Natural Resources Defense Council, which the Oklahoma senator deems "a radical environmental organization," and because the nominee also worked on a U.N. advisory group on climate change.
It's hard to see how Inhofe might be mollified. But the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce quickly endorsed Bryson, so his filibuster would probably be broken with the help of most other Republicans — so long as they get what they want in return for their confirmation votes. McConnell reiterated yesterday that Republicans would block the confirmation of any new Commerce secretary until the administration formally submits its trade liberalization pacts with South Korea, Panama and Colombia for congressional approval. (Democrats want to use those bills as a vehicle for extending the Trade Adjustment Assistance program, which helps U.S. workers who lose their jobs because of overseas competition.)
Bryson, 67, would replace Gary Locke, who seems to be on course to win confirmation as ambassador to China. Bryson retired in 2008 after 17 years running Edison International, California's largest electric utility, and is now running the solar-plant developer BrightSource Energy.
ILLINOIS SUIT? Disgruntled Illinois Republicans, who could see their delegation halved next year, and disgruntled Hispanics, who think a second Chicago seat should have been created for them, may yet team up on a lawsuit that tries to block the new state congressional map that Democrats muscled through the state legislature over the weekend.
But if that litigation comes to nothing, then Democrats may already be one-fifth of the way to gaining back control of the House in 2012. (They need to pick up 24 seats, and the Illinois map could yield five of those.) Not only that, but the Justice Department has now endorsed the implementation of a Florida referendum that was designed to limit the ability of the GOP legislature to gerrymander that state's map, meaning the Democrats should have a reasonable shot at maybe another five gains there, as well — putting them within striking distance of making Steny Hoyer the Speaker (yes, that's right) more than a year before the actual voting.
SHORT ON INFORMATION: Anthony Weiner is just a couple of tabloid-frenzy news cycles away from being toppled from his newly prominent perch as one of the most trenchant and vigorous voices in the new House Democratic minority — which would also mean his dream of becoming mayor of New York would probably be gone for good, too.
The bulging-briefs photograph that was sent from the congressman's Twitter account to Gennette Nicole Cordova's Seattle inbox was initially easy to dismiss as the work of a prankster/hacker — because how could it be humanly, politically possible for someone as smart as Weiner not to have learned from Chris Lee's example.
But the congressman has refused every opportunity to deny that he sent the picture. He's hired an attorney to help him handle the summer's first Capitol sex scandal. He's declined to have that lawyer call the Capitol Police to investigate. (A little bit of software sleuthing will prove where the picture came from). And he's refused to answer why he was following the young woman on Twitter in the first place.
Instead, every time he's asked about the matter he says it's a distraction akin to having a pie thrown at him while he's giving a big speech. But that rebuttal isn't the refutation that the Daily News and the New York Post will insist on having before this story goes away.
TOUGH TEN: The first 10 House GOP incumbents who will be getting special organizational and fundraising attention from the NRCC were announced today. The list will be expanded significantly in the next several weeks, as the campaign organization meets with virtually every politically endangered member and pushes them to commit to a rigorous program of raising money a year before the election — and threatens to cut off their NRCC assistance if they don't do their part.
Identified for the special incumbency protection program were seven freshmen, two back-for-a-second-time lawmakers and one incumbent — Iowa's Tom Latham, who's been forced by redistricting into a race against incumbent Democrat Leonard Boswell. The other lawmakers are New Hampshire's Charlie Bass and Frank Guinta, Florida's Allen West, Wisconsin's Sean Duffy, Texas' Quico Canseco, Nevada's Joe Heck and Pennsylvania's Pat Meehan, Lou Barletta and Mike Fitzpatrick.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop of New York (61) and Republican Rep. Gregg Harper of Mississippi (55).
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Q: My Xcode simulator's location is stuck on custom Location I was testing a GPX file with Xcode. I read this tutorial and downloaded this file. Edited my scheme and added the GPX file as a custom location.
Then I decided to change the GPX file. I added the modified GPX file to Xcode. My Xcode crashed. I reopened and added again and it crashed again. I removed all GPX files in my folder and tried adding again, but it crashed again. I cleaned build, cleaned derived data, reset my simulator, restarted my mac. None worked. So I just forgot about adding the GPX file.
Looking into the crash logs of Xcode this is partially what I see meaningful:

ASSERTION FAILURE in
  /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/DVTFrameworks/DVTFrameworks-11754/DVTFoundation/FoundationClassCategories/DVTNSStringAdditions.m:1110
  Details:  (basePath) should not be nil

I also looked into this Apple Forum thread. But that wasn't helpful.
I also asked a friend of mine to look into that folder and share their file with me. They looked but said they don't have such a file, and yet they don't have any errors :(

So then now I opened another project (I never added any GPX file to this). I'm trying to change the location on the simulator. I set it to Freeway drive. It only enforces a momentarily location update, after that it switches back to Custom Location.
So I did all of the above and also uninstalled Xcode and had in reinstalled. Still same issue, can't change simulator location!
Has anyone had any similar experience?

A: I'm not sure but I think for things that can be modified from multiple places of your Xcode: You have to go to ALL entrypoints that you can change and just tweak it back and forth see if it works.
I was changing the location from simulator itself. It wasn't working. So I went to:

Edit Scheme >> Options >> Allow Location Simulation

From there I just changed the location between different locations. Quit simulator and all of a sudden I was able to simulate to Freeway drive on my simulator. Haven't tried adding any GPX file yet. Most likely I won't! The issue was too much of a headache!

A: All you need to do to fix this immediately is to switch Location Services (device or simulator) off and then on.
Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services

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Courteney Bass Cox (* 15. Juni 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Zu ihren größten Karriereerfolgen zählen die Fernsehserie Friends sowie die Horrorfilmreihe Scream.

Leben und Karriere
Courteney Cox wuchs als jüngstes von vier Kindern in einer konservativen, wohlhabenden Familie auf. Entsprechend einer in den US-amerikanischen Südstaaten beliebten Tradition trägt sie den Geburtsnamen ihrer Mutter als zweiten Vornamen (middle name). Ihr Vater, Richard L. Cox, war Geschäftsmann; er starb 2001. Cox hat zwei Schwestern und einen Bruder. 1974 trennten sich ihre Eltern. Nach der Scheidung lebte sie bei ihrer Mutter und ihrem Stiefvater.

Nach Abschluss der Highschool begann Cox Innenarchitektur zu studieren, verließ das College jedoch alsbald zu Gunsten einer Model-Karriere in New York City. Sie posierte für Titelblätter kleinerer Magazine und wurde für diverse Werbespots gebucht. Gleichzeitig nahm sie Schauspielunterricht. Ihren ersten Schritt ins Rampenlicht machte sie 1984, als sie Regisseur Brian De Palma unter einer Vielzahl von Bewerberinnen für einen Auftritt in Bruce Springsteens Video Dancing in the Dark auswählte.

Kurz darauf erhielt sie eine Hauptrolle in der Fernsehserie Die Spezialisten unterwegs, die aber bereits nach 16 Folgen eingestellt wurde. 1987 spielte sie im Kinofilm Masters of the Universe. Größeres Medieninteresse begleitete noch im selben Jahr ihre Besetzung als Michael J. Fox' Freundin in der populären Sitcom Familienbande.

Nach dem Ende der Serie 1989 wirkte Cox in mehreren Fernsehfilmen und -serien mit, hatte unter anderem einen Gastauftritt in der Sitcom Seinfeld. In der Presse fand vor allem ihre Beziehung mit dem Schauspieler Michael Keaton Beachtung, mit welchem sie von 1989 bis 1995 liiert war. Ein Überraschungserfolg gelang ihr 1994 mit der Rolle der Melissa Robinson im Film Ace Ventura – Ein tierischer Detektiv, der auch den Grundstein für die Karriere ihres Leinwandpartners Jim Carrey legte.

Cox gelang ihr Durchbruch beim Sender NBC mit der Rolle der Monica Geller in der Sitcom Friends. Das ursprüngliche Konzept sah Cox als Mittelpunkt der Serie, da sie als Einzige der Darsteller über einen hinreichenden Bekanntheitsgrad verfügte. Doch schnell zeichnete sich ab, dass gerade das Zusammenspiel des Ensembles den Charme der Sendung ausmachte. Friends entwickelte sich schon kurz nach dem Start im Herbst 1994 zum Publikumsliebling und machte die sechs Hauptdarsteller über Nacht zu Stars in ihrem Heimatland. Auch außerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten erfreut sich die über zehn Jahre erstreckende Serie bis heute großer Beliebtheit.

Auf der Leinwand konnte Cox zudem Erfolge mit der Horrorpentalogie Scream – Schrei! feiern, in der sie die Journalistin Gale Weathers verkörperte. Im Mai 2011 war sie in Scream 4 erneut neben ihrem damaligen Mann David Arquette und Neve Campbell zu sehen. Im Januar 2022 erschien mit Scream der fünfte Teil der Reihe, mit abermaliger Mitwirkung von Cox.

In der achten Staffel der Serie Scrubs – Die Anfänger übernahm Cox im Jahre 2008 für drei Episoden die Rolle der Chefärztin Dr. Taylor Maddox. Von 2009 bis 2015 verkörperte sie die Hauptrolle Jules Cobb in der Comedyserie Cougar Town. Bei der Serie fungierte sie auch als ausführende Produzentin. 2013 hatte Cox einen Gastauftritt in der Fernsehserie Go On neben ihrem langjährigen Friends-Kollegen Matthew Perry.

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Während der Dreharbeiten zu Scream lernte sie 1996 den Schauspieler David Arquette kennen, welchen sie 1999 heiratete. Sie spielte mit ihrem Mann auch in zahlreichen anderen Produktionen zusammen, wie etwa in The Shrink is In und in Friends, wo David Arquette eine Gastrolle übernahm. Im Juni 2004 wurde Cox Mutter einer Tochter. Im Oktober 2010 gaben Arquette und Cox ihre Trennung bekannt. Im Juni 2012 reichte David Arquette im Einvernehmen die Scheidung ein, nach dreijähriger Trennungsphase wurde am 28. Mai 2013 die Scheidung ausgesprochen.

Seit 2014 ist sie mit dem Musiker Johnny McDaid liiert.

2010 unterstützte Cox gemeinsam mit Jennifer Aniston, Ben Stiller, Woody Harrelson und anderen Hollywood-Stars die Kampagne The Cove PSA: My Friend is … gegen die Aquarienhaltung von Delfinen.

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After slumping to the year's lows following central-back actions to expand liquidity, the Chicago Board Options Exchange's Volatility Index (VIX) is higher Thursday following weaker-than-expected economic reports.
China's flash PMI report, soft U.S. employment data plus earnings warnings from key transportation companies have spooked investors who are now actively buying call options on the VIX to protect their hard-won stock gains against the risk of a sharp correction.
China's September flash purchasing-managers index from HSBC came in at 47.8, up from 47.6, though it is still below 50, which indicates economic contraction. The PMI report stripped 2% off the value of the Shanghai Composite Index, which exacerbated investor reaction to weak U.S. economic data.
Initial claims for U.S. jobless benefits in the latest week declined slightly from the previous week, to 382,000, but from an upwardly revised 385,000 in the previous week. Economists had expected a decline to 373,000, and the shortfall sparked demand for options that would increase in value if the stock market fell further.
After weeks of bullish positioning for a stock-market advance in anticipation that the European Central Bank and Federal Reserve would further ease monetary policies, which pushed the major indexes to their highs for the year, the data have prompted investors to revisit hedging stock portfolios in the options market in anticipation that the next few weeks could be rocky.
With the VIX up 0.64, or 4.6%, at 14.52, investors are actively buying VIX October 18 and 19 calls in anticipation the investor's fear gauge could soon spike higher from the current extraordinarily quiescent levels. If the stock market declines, VIX will rise, and that will increase the value of VIX calls. In addition, investors are actively selling VIX October 15 puts, indicating growing expectations that volatility will increase in the third-quarter earnings-reporting season. So far, more than 2,270 VIX October 18 calls and more than 1,250 VIX October 19 calls have traded.
The trading activity represents a sharp departure from recent days when market pundits wondered if the latest central-bank interventions into the financial market might have changed the fundamental nature of volatility—notwithstanding the very real risks facing the stock market, including earnings season and January's so-called fiscal cliff.
But until Thursday, options volatility has done little but drift lower. Indeed, the Fed's latest monetary measures—the purchase of $40 billion per month in mortgage-backed securities and the lengthening of the planned period of zero short-term interest rates all the way to mid-2015—seem expressly designed to reduce market uncertainty and, thus, volatility to lure investors into riskier assets, such as stocks. That happened initially after the Fed's Sept. 13 announcement, but the steady drip of negative news since then—including warnings from FedEx (ticker: FDX) earlier this week and Norfolk Southern (NSC) Thursday underscore the growing macroeconomic risks facing risk assets.
Now, trading-desk chatter is focusing on buying defensive options when volatility is low before major events like earnings, and the election, potentially scaring investors into buying portfolio hedges. After slumping to multiyear lows following the Fed's action, the VIX has seen a sudden uptick; the VIX call buying shows that investor confidence is not nearly as sanguine as widely described.
Michael Schwartz, Oppenheimer & Co.'s chief options strategist, is advising clients to buy Standard & Poor's 500 index November 1400 puts for $17. Each contract will hedge $140,000 worth of Standard & Poor's 500 index stock. Schwartz's hedge trade would offset 60% of a 10% decline in the market.
A snapshot of intraday trading does not make a trend—but it does show how quickly investor sentiment changes. The key is to anticipate what might happen. It seems a safe assumption that the start of third-quarter corporate earnings will prompt even more investors to seek defensive shelter in the options market.


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