Organizations face a March 1 deadline for ensuring their cloud and other service providers comply with Massachusetts' data protection regulation.
In the past few years, Massachusetts has adopted stringent rules with respect to the handling of personal information. One of these rules, the Massachusetts data protection regulation, 201 CMR 17.00, requires businesses that receive, maintain, process, or have access to certain personal information of Massachusetts residents to design, implement and comply with a comprehensive written information security plan (WISP).
Most cloud users may encounter insurmountable obstacles.
A first implementation deadline required all businesses subject to the regulation to adopt WISPs for their operations by March 1, 2010 and to include a requirement for the adoption of WISPs in their services agreements executed after March 1, 2010. Massachusetts 201 CRM 17.00 contained a safe harbor, which gave businesses a little more time with respect to their existing contracts with service providers and data processors that have access to protected personal information if these contracts were already in place as of March 1, 2010. The two-year grace period was to allow for time to amend or renegotiate these services agreements and ensure all service providers of a business also comply with the requirements to adopt a WISP.
The end of the grace period is right around the corner. By March 1 companies that collect, process, use or store protected information of their Massachusetts employees, contractors, customers, prospects, business contacts and other third parties, directly or through cloud computing and other IT service providers, must fully comply with the regulation in their own operations, and must require their service providers to do the same.
201 CMR 17.00: What personal information is protected?
Companies that fail to develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive WISP or to require their cloud and other service providers, in writing, to do the same may be subject to a $5,000 civil penalty for each violation. Think of the number of files or records in your database, and compute the potential financial exposure for your own company.
201 CMR 17.00: What is required?
+ Reviewing the scope of the information security measures at least annually or whenever there is a material change in business practices that may reasonably implicate the security or integrity of records containing personal information.
201 CMR 17.00: What does this means for cloud users?
Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00 poses significant problems to most cloud users. It requires companies to mandate their cloud computing service providers -- and other service providers -- adopt a WISP, and the WISP must be adapted to the nature of the personal data to be protected and the specific risks to these data. Cloud computing agreements tend to be one-size-fits-all, with little or no room for negotiations. Unless a company does significant business with a cloud service provider, it may have major difficulties trying to negotiate a contract that applies to its business and that incorporates all requirements of the Massachusetts regulation. Furthermore, cloud service providers are generally reluctant to make specific promises about the nature of the security measures made. Thus, most cloud users may encounter insurmountable obstacles.
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However, inability to negotiate the proper contract and lack of bargaining power will not be an excuse for the custodians of personal information protected under 201 CMR 17.00. If data is lost, modified, or compromised due to inadequate security, a company that failed to implement the comprehensive security measures required by the Massachusetts regulation or that did not adequately ensure its cloud service providers comply with the Massachusetts regulation will be exposed to significant legal and financial liability, damages and penalties.
The March 1 deadline provides an opportunity for users of cloud services to reassess their security compliance obligations. It would be very risky and imprudent to hold personal information protected under the Massachusetts regulation without the proper internal security measures or without ensuring cloud service providers that hold protected personal information also comply fully with the regulation.
The IT Law Group has published a more detailed description of Massachusetts 201 CMR 17.00 requirements.
Francoise Gilbert focuses on information privacy and security, cloud computing, and data governance. She is the managing director of the IT Law Group and serves as the general counsel of the Cloud Security Alliance. She has been named one of the country's top privacy advisors in a recent industry survey and, for several years, has been recognized by Chambers USA and Best Lawyers in America as a leading lawyer in the field of information privacy and security. Gilbert is the author and editor of the two-volume treatise Global Privacy & Security Law, which analyzes the data protection laws of 65 countries on all continents. She serves on the Technical Board of Advisors of the ALI-ABA and co-chairs the PLI Privacy & Security Law Institute. This article only reflects her personal opinion and not that of her clients or the Cloud Security Alliance.


Spelling of Carrot: Carrot is spelled c-a-r-r-o-t.
Definition of Carrot: A carrot is a root vegetable that is orange in color and shaped like a spindle. Carrot may also refer to a reward or bonus offered or promised in order to motivate one to work harder or strive for something.
Pronunciation of Carrot: Carrot is pronounced care-et. Carrot and karat are homophones. Carrot rhymes with merit and ferret.
What does carrot mean? Carrot is a noun. It is a biennial herb of the Umbelliferae family that is orange, shaped like a spindle, and classified as a root vegetable. Carrots are often used in cooking and are eaten cooked or steamed, as well as raw.
While they were preparing the soup for dinner, he showed her how to properly chop carrots.
They checked the garden for crops that were ready to harvest and found only one single carrot ready for picking.
Carrot is also used to refer to a particular reward or advantage offered to someone, usually an employee, in order to induce or motivate one's work or behavior.
Workers who could meet their deadlines consistently were offered a carrot in the form of additional vacation time.
The carrot being offered was only a small bonus payment and did not seem worth it to many of the employees.
Carrot and a stick: a tactic that uses reward(s) for good or desired behavior and punishment for undesired or poor behavior. Many often say "carrot on a stick," but this is not the correct idiom.
If your methods of persuasion do not work, here is the carrot and stick policy.
According to Merriam-Webster's, carrot was first used in the year 1533.
Carrot comes from Medieval French, carotte, from the Late Latin word carota, which is originally from Greek's karoton.
Since carrot is the name of a specific food, there are no synonyms.
Carrot is a noun referring to the orange-colored root vegetable, or to the reward offered for desired behavior or results, usually in the workplace.


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Food-producing animals such as hogs, cattle, and poultry have to undergo certain treatments that include administering drugs. This prompts the question as to what these drugs do to these animals and if drugs have any affect on the meat that we eat.
Since 1950, the Food and Drug Administration has allowed the use of steroids to stimulate growth in cattle and hogs. These hormones include progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone and their synthetic forms. They are usually formulated in the form of pellets or implants. These are placed on the underside of the animal´s ear or under the skin.
The condition for FDA's approval is for the hormone to prove that the food obtained from the animal is safe for human consumption. Besides increasing growth rate, these hormones also increase the efficiency with which they convert the food they eat into meat. They do not have any harmful effects on humans. The truth is that the amount of these hormones applied synthetically is not significant in comparison the amount of natural hormones the animal produces by itself.
There are no steroid hormones for growth approved for cows, pigs, or veal calves.
These are widely used in food-producing animals. Just like humans, antibiotics are prescribed to fight the persistence and emergence of bacteria. The issue here rises when the antibiotic applied to an animal creates a stronger bacterial strain that can present some antibiotic resistant infections in humans. Therefore, it is important to keep antibiotics effective against the fight of infection in animals.
The FDA regulates what medications can be administered to animals and which may not. They are given to animals that are sick, to groups of animals that are sick, and to animals that are at risk of getting sick. In the specific case of food-producing animals, regulations go in favor of preserving human health.


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History Of Scrapbooking: How It All Began!
Scrapbooking History
Have you ever wondered about scrapbooking history? After all, scrapbooking ranks as one of the top hobbies enjoyed by men and women of all ages.
In fact, over four million adults are scrapbookers! Has scrapbooking been around for a couple of decades or dozens of decades? Actually, scrapbooking has been around for quite some time. The form of scrapbooking has changed over the years, but the history of scrapbooking begins in the 15th century.
According to scrapbooking history, people wanted a way to preserve "scraps" that were important to them. Scraps included love letters, greeting cards, business cards, poems and other paper items of importance or sentimental value. Interestingly, embellishments were added to the pages. Ornate designed paper would be cut into small shapes and glued to the pages.
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Scrapbooking history has its roots in England. In the 15th century, commonplace books and the friendship album became popular. Letters, poems, recipes, scrapbook quotes and similar items were kept in the commonplace books.
Friendship albums were typically used when company was invited to a home. The company would be asked to sign the album and to include something personal. Some people included a quote, a poem or their thoughts about the homeowners. Others drew pictures.
Wait! Now That You Know About The History Of Scrapbooking, Then You Should Start Working On Your Own Scrapbook....Let Me Show You...
Over time, scrapbooking history included preserving black and white photos and newspaper clippings. To house these mementos, scrapbooking albums were invented. Many of these albums were large and bulky.
During the mid-1800s, leather bound albums were manufactured and quite often contained themes. Some albums contained corner pockets to hold photos and even had pages for water coloring or drawing.
A Scrapbooking President!
Thomas Jefferson:: A Presidential Scrapbooker!
In the world of scrapbooking history, you might be surprised to learn that one of our presidents was a scrapbooker! That's right! Thomas Jefferson created album after album of pages containing newspaper clippings of his presidency.
In the late-1800s, Mark Twain capitalized on the scrapbooking idea and invented the Mark Twain's Adhesive Scrapbook. The book contained pre-pasted pages that made putting an album together super easy to do.
Scrapbooking takes a dive
Then there was a shift in the history of scrapbooking. With the recession that followed World War I, the production of scrapbooking albums drastically dropped.
People still collected and saved their photos, letters, greeting cards, and such, but they were kept in boxes and stored in a dry area. For those who wanted to keep their scraps in an album, it was difficult to find a store that carried the albums.
Later, as the world of photography began to expand, scrapbooking took another hit. People were eager to purchase photo albums and spent less time on scrapbooking albums. In fact, some people tossed out their filled scrapbooking albums because they felt the albums were inferior to the photo album.
Scrapbooking history drastically changes
In 1980, scrapbooking history took another turn. A woman, Marielen Christensen, had put together 50 volumes of her family history. These books were shared with the public and caused a lot of people to become interested in scrapbooking. Ms. Christensen opened the first scrapbooking store–Keeping Memories Alive. Within a decade, scrapbooking became one of the fastest growing hobbies in America.
Although modern scrapbooking still includes photos, love letters, newspaper clippings, etc., how the items are displayed has changed. Scrapbookers can now choose from a wide variety of scrapbooking albums. Layouts now include backgrounds, matted photos, and interesting embellishments. Pride is taken in designing each page. Scrapbook albums are made with the intent of sharing their contents with other people, rather than keeping the information private.
A Social Event
What was once considered to be an individual hobby has turned into a social hobby. Some scrapbooking companies encourage parties as a way to promote their products.
Scrapbooking groups, formal and informal, have popped up all over the United States. For the truly committed scrapbookers, there are scrapbook cruises and retreats readily available!
Today, scrapbooking history also includes the impact that the internet has on this popular hobby. Now, scrapbooking materials are accessible worldwide.
There are numerous scrapbooking websites, many of which offer compilations of layouts. Recently we have released our scrapbook sketches book which is available on this site.
Within seconds, scrapbookers can find answers to their scrapbooking questions or can order supplies online. Scrapbookers also have the choice of scrapbooking by hand or digitally.
Walk into most any craft store and you'll find a good selection of scrapbooking supplies. Large retail stores typically have a scrapbook section as well.
Scrapbooking has certainly become a multi-billion dollar business. Now with the availability of ordering supplies via the internet, some of the individual small scrapbooking stores have closed.
However, the hobby of scrapbooking continues to grow and the scrapbooking sections in craft sores have increased.
Your next step now is to learn how to scrapbook and read through some good scrapbook tips.
It will be interesting to see what impacts scrapbooking history during the next couple of decades!
Click here to be part of history and begin creating enchanting scrapbook pages with these scrapbooking ideas!
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Remember that the Spring Student horse show is this Saturday, June 4th!
Entries were due today, but if you are interested, give Jess Kulp a call or email to see if there are any spots open to compete!
No riding lessons on Saturday, but there will be regular lessons on Sunday, June 5th!


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Double glazed window to front, Laminate flooring, Under stairs Cupboard.
Double glazed window to rear, Laminate flooring, Under stairs space with storage and currently housing tumble dryer and a freezer.
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Official website of Hollis Bulleit™, Artist and Former World Ambassador of Bulleit Bourbon, Bulleit Rye, etc.
Neatpour Article
EXCLUSIVE: Hollis B. Worth Opens Up About Bulleit, Diageo Split
By B.E. Mintz | Published July 18, 2019
Hollis B.Worth, (née Anne Hollister Bulleit) is known to thousands in the spirits industry as the "First Lady of Bourbon" and as the face of the Bulleit brand that is named after her family.
For 20 years, Worth has been behind some of the company's most successful moves, including their mercurial rise in the craft bartending community. She was one of the creative forces behind the brand's unique packaging, and responsible for the brand's embrace of art in marketing.
"In the mixology community, everyone knows and loves Hollis," exclaimed former Master of Whisky, Dr. Tom Turner.
But, in 2017 she and Bulleit's parent company, Diageo, parted ways. It wasn't amicable.
In her first interview since the split, Hollis talked with Neat Pour about an alleged pattern of homophobic harassment that started in her own family and bled into her work environment at Diageo, the $12 billion multinational beverage company that also owns about 30 other brands including Tanqueray, Johnnie Walker, Ketel One, and Smirnoff.
Neat Pour reviewed recorded phone calls, dozens of memos, job reports, emails, affidavits, and internal communications; interviews with 20 individuals including former Diageo ambassadors, distillery employees, affiliated sales staff, and industry gatekeepers, all of which supports Worth's account of what happened when she asked to be separated from her main accused harasser: Tom Bulleit, her father and the founder of the Bulleit brand.
Bulleit Bourbon, Diageo, and Taylor Communications, publicist for the brand and Tom Bulleit, repeatedly denied requests for comment from Neat Pour.
BUILDING A HISTORY
Bulleit's current marketing is focused on the story that Tom "revived an old family bourbon recipe" from his great-great-grandfather Augustus Bulleit. Yet, the product we currently drink reportedly owes more to the Bronfman family than the elder Bulleit.
In 1997, ten years after Bulleit founded the brand and almost two years after Worth began working at the distillery as her father's first and only employee, Bronfman owned Seagrams bought Bulleit Whiskey and implemented changes to the bourbon and the marketing.
"Edgar Bronfman Sr. invested in scotch; he built those classic distilleries up," explained Worth. "But, I think Junior wanted to build a name with bourbon. So, Senior and his distiller pushed a high rye [a close relative of barley, a dominant ingredient in Scotch] product. They also decided to waste the heads and tails [of the distilling process], something that they do with Scotch [but at the time, rare for bourbons]."
Many of these details were corroborated by Tom Bulleit in a draft affidavit written for an unrelated legal dispute about the brand.
"Bronfman, Sr., master of whiskey blending, influenced the Bulleit Bourbon recipe by imposing his unique 'mingling' philosophy on the bourbon-making process used at Seagram's Four Roses Distillery, where Bulleit Bourbon is produced," he wrote in part.
Tom Bulleit also credited Seagrams team of Art Peterson, Jim Rutlege, John Rhea, and Neil Gallo with "selecting a yeast, a mash bill, and mingling codes" in the document.
Bulleit tried to reconcile the official brand story with the new formula, writing, "Today, the recipe for Bulleit Bourbon is 68% corn, 28% rye and 4% barley malt, which carries forward Augustus Bulleit's recipe of 2/3 corn and 1/3 rye."
Seagrams not only offered feedback on the grain mix, they also began to transform the marketing and brand identity of Bulleit products. They commissioned the now recognizable apothecary style bottle, for example. And they pushed the family history narrative.
The original Bulleit bottles and materials focused Kentucky's equestrian culture, featuring a line drawing of a horse, no mention was made of history or tradition. However, the new package included a story about Augustus Bulleit.
Worth also noticed her father's sudden emphasis on family lore. "Tom took me on a trip to Indiana in '97 to see his dad's home. Tom also took me to a cemetery and showed me a grave that he told me was my grandfather's fathers' and then said, [my great great grandfather] 'Augustus knew a thing about bourbon,'" she recalled.
"I thought, 'I'm 23 and I work at a distillery. Why am I just hearing about this now!' I'm not saying that it's not true, but it's not something I grew up with."
HOME & ROAD
Worth said she had always sensed that her family wouldn't be receptive of her sexuality — something she grappled with as a child.
Looking back on her early youth, Worth said that the first lesbians she met lived across the street. "I knew from a young age that I was drawn to them. I wanted to see how they worked together. That was my first inkling of 'Maybe I'm gay,'" she told NP. " But, every time their dog barked, my father would scream 'those fucking dykes are at it again.' He called one a 'bull dyke,' 'hedonist,' and 'thug.'"
"I was in Kentucky; you just didn't talk about some things."
Worth said she learned to keep some thoughts to herself. "I was in Kentucky; you just didn't talk about some things."
While home for break from Smith, she told her father she was bisexual.
"I told him that I was bisexual and he told me that I was going to hell," she recounted. "That was a very strong statement to hear from him. We didn't go to church a lot and he didn't really say things like that—ever.
From then on, her trips home involved abuse, she said.
On one trip home, having shaved her head, her stepmother would not speak to her until it grew back. Family friends made surprise visits to lecture her.
"It was weird. People would come over who didn't normally and they would sit me down to tell me that I looked, 'too feminist,' 'too gay.' That I looked like an 'Auschwitz survivor.'" She theorized, "It was like they were calling in the troops to let me know it was not okay. Tom would sit there and say nothing while they said nasty things to me."
When Tom took a role as a consultant and brand ambassador shortly after selling to Seagrams Worth saw it as her chance to try something new. She travelled internationally.
"I was briefly married to man but the divorce was longer than the marriage," said Worth. "It turns out it is really hard to pick a good man when you are gay. I felt a lot of pressure from Tom and Betsy to fit in to keep my family."
In 2005, she was living in New York, where she opened a children's mural business after getting a Masters of art at NYU.
"I periodically checked in with Tom to see if the brand team had work for me. I worked a couple Whiskey Fest unpaid; I kind of needed to prove to them that I could do this. Then, I signed a six month contract, did a program called 'Bulleit Frontier Roundup.'"
Soon, Worth carved out a role as a brand ambassador at a time that role was pivotal to the brand. Neat Pour spoke with nine ambassadors, salespeople, and bartenders working on the West Coast at that time. They all relayed a similar story of Hollis as the brand's identity.
In the mid-00's, the brand was still small, selling around 80,000 cases in 2006 according to industry reports. The brand's current success is widely credited to a marketing push on the West Coast in the subsequent years.
Tom Bulleit echoed that sentiment in a June 2017 interview with Paste. "[San Francisco] is really where Bulleit was to a very considerable extent, grew up and was built," he stated. "Northern California is our best market."
"At that time, Bulleit was just a blip on the map. We weren't selling that many cases, we were just building that brand. It was very much an unknown at first," said Barry, an employee of a Diageo affiliated distributor who asked to be referred to by his nickname for fear of endangering his job in the industry.
"In our area [the West Coast], a very small group had met Tom or knew Tom. For what we were building in that area, it was very much Hollis. She was the face of the brand. I never once worked with another Diageo person regarding Bulleit."
The analysis was shared by West Coast cocktail icon, Rocky Yeh. He said simply, "Hollis built that brand on the West Coast and it spread from there."
When Bulleit expanded its range, Hollis was one of the "primary designers of the Bulleit Rye package" according to the draft affidavit by Tom Bulleit. According to a 2010 job report, she provided the Pantone colors for the bottle's label and the cap's lettering, consulted on the label's language, and created the sales story to explain the choices.
Nationally, Worth became a fixture in the early days at the high profile industry events like Camp Runamok, Tales of the Cocktail, and Whiskey Fests. Travel logs show that she visited thousands of accounts over her tenure.
Despite Worth's strong performance for the company, relations with her father got worse she said. In 2007, Worth met her spouse Cher Worth. After the relationship became serious, she decided to come out.
"I knew that I needed to have a job first. I knew that I needed to be in a serious relationship also for Tom and Betsy to take it seriously," she remembered. "I told Tom that I was a lesbian."
According to Worth, Tom was "very vocal about Cher not being in the family" and introduced her as "Hollis' special friend" carefully avoiding words like partner or girlfriend. Cher was rarely included in family gatherings.
"A few months after coming out, my father tried to push me back into the closet."
In one instance, he told her that he'd talked to his wife's trainer, who was a lesbian.
"Tom made a point that he was repeating the trainer's exact words of 'I love you and I want you to be happy,'" Worth said. She interpreted that in a "maybe with time, my father could grow to accept my sexuality and my relationship with Cher"
This effort was short lived according to her.
A few months after coming out, my father tried to push me back into the closet. He told me not to tell Diageo, not to hold hands in the street," she lamented.
Worth said that she and Tom and Betsy Bullet grew increasingly distant, talking less and less. "I noticed that before I came out Tom was really helpful. Then, it became a cycle where we had one good conversation and one bad," she said. I stopped staying at their house when I was working in Kentucky."
But the episode that really severed the relationship took place in the spring of 2010 Worth remembered. One evening at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, both father and daughter were working a promotion together Tom lost his temper.
"He grabbed my arm and kind of manhandled me to the side and started getting in my face and yelling at me not to mess it up," she stated. "I got home and I had finger prints up on my arm and it wasn't the first time. I was used to it, but Cher explained to me that this was not normal, this was abuse."
"I told her that she needed to be in a safer work situation," Cher intervened. "I was scared because I could not protect her."
"I said to her that her father was not a safe person for her to be around. He shouldn't be allowed to do that in public or in private… but what made it even worse for me is that he got away with it with witnesses present."
"A TOXIC WORK ENVIRONMENT"
Worth said that following the talk with her wife, she called corporate and asked that she and her father split up their responsibilities into regions so that they wouldn't interact professionally.
"At first, I wanted to protect the relationship, so I pitched it like, 'Hey, You have two Bulleits. We can do twice as much work," Worth said, recalling that she offered to take the West Coast while her father kept Kentucky and the East Coast. "We were still pretending that the family relationship was good though."
But Diageo's work culture was not particularly attuned to issues like this according to several former employees.
"The market blitzes were an old boys' club," said Teresea Menendez-Meyers, a Master of Whiskey, the elite whiskey ambassador program that Diageo ended in 2016.
Three women who previously worked for Diageo used the term "boy's club" to describe sales trips. They shared stories of lewd texts, discrimination based on gender, and excessive drinking by others.
Worth's experiences were often similar. Neat Pour viewed text messages from a bartender who apologized for physically assaulting Worth in front of a crowd during a different sales trip in March 2013. The offender blamed being "over-served."
Likewise, in a 2010 memo to Diageo management, she complained about being left by herself in car after the sales excursion made an unscheduled stop at a strip club. The subsection titled, "Request of Future Diageo Presence/Support" also mentions being forced to care for an egregiously drunk colleague early in the morning as well as being set up on unsolicited dates.
In response to that memo, Diageo demanded that Worth recant her reports of the events before they offered her a new contract, she said.
The same culture of denial was apparent in the corporation's handling of Worth's familial conflicts according to many of her colleagues.
"There was definitely a clear line drawn and it seemed like nobody was going to be talking about Hollis—and definitely not Cher for that matter," said Barry. He recalled a visit to Tom Bulleit's house in Kentucky. He didn't see any pictures of Worth, save a photo from her wedding to a man — almost a decade after the divorce and well into her domestic partnership with Cher.
Dr. Tom Turner, a former MoW, told Neat Pour that as time progressed, Hollis was discussed less and less by Tom Bulleit. "As time passed, I learned that talking about Hollis was something that we just didn't do."
Every source interviewed by Neat Pour noted a similar protocol. Menendez-Meyers also noted that when she raised the topic of Hollis to Tom Bulleit, the topic got changed.
"The mixologists in market loved her! But, to the other MoW's, she was a joke," said Turner. "When we were at meetings and when we were out, there were always these comments about 'crazy Hollis' among my colleagues. It was not about celebrating her difference, it was about mocking her difference."
Turner added that by mid-decade, it became clear to him and other brand representatives that Worth had been replaced as heir apparent by her brother Tucker, then a teenager. "Hollis was less and less talked about and Tucker got more discussed," he lamented. "Everyone sort of sensed that Hollis' time was putting in time until Tucker reached 21. It was kind of an open nudge, nudge, wink, wink."
The outsider status did not go unnoticed by Worth herself. Ultimately, she decided to take action, setting up a meeting with two senior Diageo management and the brand's PR team.
According to Worth's records, she often regularly worked without contract—and consequently, timely payment. In 2010, Worth's contract took six months to extend; in 2012, she had to work one to two months without pay while a new contract was tied up in negotiations; in 2014, she worked two months without pay while another contract was negotiated.
"In 2014, I pretty much knew that something needed to change and I was on borrowed time. In 2015, I went in and I talked to Diageo," she stated.
"I told them, 'You people need to understand that Tom is homophobic. I don't have a relationship with him, it's affecting my job.' It was very easy to drive this point home. I asked Diageo, 'Have you seen any photos of me as an adult at Tom's house?'"
"I asked for my own whiskey. 'That's why I'm still here,' I said. 'I'm the only queer woman right now. Tom can play the conservatives, I can help you play the liberal end.' The next day they sent me to Boston and had someone shadow me. They started trying to fire me literally the next day."
"THE FAMILY IS THE BRAND"
Worth's final contract with Diageo covered January 1, 2015 through December 31, 2016. However, in 2016, the brand first cancelled a planned Worth trip to Kansas and then cleared her schedule altogether.
In a recording of a May 2016 conversation between Worth and a senior Bulleit executive, the issue is addressed. The exec stated that he was open to renewing her contract, but explained that they"benched" her due to the conflict with her father.
"The things that I've heard are disparaging comments about the family," said the Diageo exec referencing a quip Worth made about her family at a training event. "Frankly, the family name and the brand are one and the same in my book and that's absolute."
Over the course of several calls reviewed by Neat Pour, the corporation appears enmeshed in the family conflict, though the executive told Worth her father had "nothing to do with this [decision]. This is a Diageo decision."
In multiple conversations with Diageo, Worth expressed her passion for the product and her desire to keep working for the brand. The corporation agreed to negotiate a new, five-year contract with her, provided that she did not disparage her family in public.
Worth attempted one final reconciliation with her father. In June 2016, she tried to sort out the issues during a phone call with Tom and Betsy Bulleit. However, the core issues remained.
During the call, listened to by NP, Tom Bulleit declared, "I know my daughter. I know the woman that she has grown up to be less."
Despite having barely seen his daughter over the last six years, he suggested she might have bipolar disorder. He offered to help her financially, but attached conditions. Quoting two friends, he ultimately had a demand: "Hollis Bulleit, may be bipolar and she's having peaks and valleys in her life and that will cause her to be unhappy and that will cause her to have difficulty having relationships, maintaining [them]… We want you in the next few weeks and on an ongoing basis to seek medical attention [in Kentucky]."
Worth responded by noting that she had spent the past two years in treatment, was diagnosed as "recovering C-PTSD" due to childhood trauma and she was able to maintain plenty of friendships.
Bulleit replied by dismissing her doctors' diagnosis. "I have to say, to be quite frank, that sounds like more of the same. Obviously, we haven't been in contact for two years; so, I don't know; maybe things have changed dramatically." He then followed up by lamenting that his daughter does not go to Al-Anon meetings or the Catholic Church.
Despite the strained conversation, Worth agreed to give a relationship with her father a final shot she recalled. A few weeks later, Diageo formally reopened contract negotiations with her. in 2016.
As confirmed by multiple emails, in mid-January 2017, Worth's attorney began negotiating a new deal. However, at this time, Tom Bulleit independently began working on a contract for his daughter—without her permission.
In March of 2017, Diageo sent Worth another proposed contract for exponentially more work and less pay according to records. After demanding her father's removal from the process, negotiations with Diageo continued in a stop-and-go fashion documented in a series of emails.
Instead of moving forward with Diageo for a new work contract, Worth requested compensation for severance, unpaid overtime, and damages incurred on the job.
After receiving an offer that did not include severances or damages in July 2017, Worth posted to Facebook of stating her opinion that her father is homophobic and Diageo facilitated the discrimination by looking the other way.
The corporation responded quickly, releasing a statement of their own. In the response, they labelled her statements as "false," "untrue," and "inaccurate." The company denied any past knowledge of the issues.
"Diageo was surprised and concerned to learn of Hollis' allegations, which came after our negotiations failed to produce a contract acceptable to Hollis. The concerns she raises are not consistent with our experience of the family, but of course will be examined," read their statement.
A review of numerous communications between Worth and Diageo dated between 2015 and 2017 reveals that this is untrue. In conversations recorded prior to that statement, Worth explicitly expresses her grievances and Diageo representatives acknowledge them.
Yet, the negotiations resumed. In January 2018, Worth and Diageo announced a deal. Neat Pour verified that the resolution agreement provided payment equal to the failed five year deal as well as unpaid overtime. The agreement also included confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses. Worth believes that Diageo violated that clauses and consequently felt comfortable speaking to Neat Pour.
Today, Worth's imprint on the brand is still visible. At the prestigious 2019 Diageo World Class competition, one of the featured submissions was named, "The Hollis Fizz." The artistic elements that she pushed are still utilized in Bulliet's branding. Likewise, her work on the West Coast is still touted as the foundation of the brand.
Cher and Hollis Worth
Her influence is still felt in the bartending community, where many bars and consultants dropped Bulleit.
"I just chose not to partner or work with Diageo. Before I would again, I'd like to see Diageo say, 'Here are the steps that we're taking to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.' Then, issue Hollis an apology," said Yeh. "I'd like to see them live up to their policy of being an LGBTQ friendly corporation."
Indeed, Diageo does trumpet their embrace of the LGBTQ community. The company recently put out a release celebrating their perfect score of 100 in the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. Diageo is also a 'Platinum' or top tier donor to the group.
However, HRC has many vocal critics in the LGBTQ community. They frequently point out that the Corporate Equality Index also awarded perfect scores to Chevron, Goldman Sachs, Monsanto.
"It's a corporation. It's self serving. Diversity is important when they want a product to be diverse and it's not diverse when it doesn't suit the market. I was in meetings where female Masters of Whiskey were asking for marketing materials geared towards women. And they had no interest," said Turner. "Smirnoff caters to the LGBTQ market. Bulleit does not; that's not the brand and they have no interest. I, myself, asked them to sponsor the gay rodeo several times and they had no interest."
Worth lives with Cher currently and is pursuing her artistic talents. After the alleged breach of her resolution agreement, her attorneys once again are in contact with her former employer.
The multi-decade experience has made Worth reflective. "My story is one about erasure and omission," she mused in a prepared statement. "The only way to prove those things is by talking about the events that I should have been at, the photos that I should have been in, what the history does not say, and the acknowledgements that have gone by the wayside. It is talking about how my father should have treated me and how that company could have treated me."
PERSONAL NOTES:
This article has since been buried by (we are assuming) Diageo. You can see the original article without the opening photo on the wayback machine link by clicking here: NeatPour article
The article does not talk about my sexual assault experiences. I told my interviewer about the abuse, and he decided that the subject would bring too much legal heat to his small website. None of the journalists that interviewed me had any skills or experience dealing with reporting on sexual abuse. It is interesting to keep in mind that guilty people tend to defend themselves in the press by making the victim seem unstable or crazy and minimizing their contributions; which is exactly the pattern that Diageo and the Bulleit family have followed. While the Neatpour article was not paid for press, articles since this one have been paid for by the Diageo/ Bulleit team.
This type of abusive and bullying behavior from the Bulleit/ Diageo team is not singular as can be seen in (link) Eboni Major's New York Times article of this year.
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A brand new year often inspires positive life changes such as breaking free of debt. If collections calls have been interrupting your dinner or you're just stressed out from heavy-duty debt, here's how to eliminate the burden.
In order to solve a problem, you need to fully understand it. Assess your situation by listing all your debts, including balance owed, interest rate and minimum payment required for each. Next, order your free credit reports to make sure you haven't forgotten any debt or overlooked errors. Finally, compare your income and expenses and calculate how much you can realistically use toward debt reduction each month.
You'll save more in the long run by paying off debts with the highest interest rates first. This category usually includes consumer debt such as credit cards, personal or payday loans, and medical bills. Other types of debt, such as mortgages, car loans and student loans, typically have lower rates, making it more affordable to pay them off over a longer period. Throw as much money as you can each month at your highest-interest debt while still making timely, smaller payments on everything else. Then focus on paying down the next higher-interest loan.
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Eliminating debt can bring dramatic changes over the coming year. In return, you'll enjoy improved financial health, stress relief and the freedom to spend your paycheck on what really matters instead of having it siphoned away by past obligations.


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You can find some of the best dive sites in Jamaica near the city of Montego Bay.
Jamaica is a favorite travel destination for visitors to the Caribbean. Being the 3rd largest island in the Caribbean and famous for its Jamaican Rum and Blue Mountain coffee, Jamaica has become quite the popular destination for travelers. Scuba diving in Jamaica is one of the most popular attractions for vacationers to the island.
There are plenty of shallow reefs to explore close to shore that offer excellent adventures for beginners and advanced scuba divers. Marine life is less active here than in places such as Aruba due to overfishing. Regulations have been put in place to help preserve the existing marine life. There are still lots of great dive sites with huge caverns and tunnels to explore as well as wreck dives to visit. Most all dive operators on the island offer advanced and pro PADI scuba diving classes as well as more advanced scuba dive sites to visit.
While there are over a hundred dive sites in Jamaica, some are more popular than others. Many visitors to the island who scuba near Montego Bay or Negril will find some really nice sites to explore.
Shallow coral reefs still are hugely popular with snorkelers and scuba divers alike. They always end up being some of the best dive sites in Jamaica as they are literally found everywhere. If you are ever on the West side of the island, the Throne Room off the coast of Negril is a large underwater cavern located about 60 feet below the surface. It is filled with a huge throne-shaped elephant ear sponge, thus giving it its name. Scuba diving here you will see lots of yellow sponges, marine coral, sometimes a few nurse sharks frequent this site along with barracuda, eels and a variety of colorful fish.
Reefs are always some of the best dive sites.
In Montego Bay, the most popular dive site is Widowmaker's Cave. Here you will see barracuda, parrot fish, black coral and more. You have two options when diving here. You can swim down and enter the cave through the bottom, near 80 feet and venture upwards through it to a small chimney exit about 30 feet deep. Another option is to start the dive and enter it at the top, completing it by exiting out the bottom while making safety stops to the surface. Both options allow you to see the same things, just give you different challenges for your diving adventure.
Off the coast of Ocho Rios, Jamaica, you will find the SS Kathryn Wreck. This WWII mine-sweeper was purposely sank to create an underwater artificial reef. Home to many coral, sponges and marine life, this wreck dive gives you the option to swim around and explore it or venture inside the wheelhouse to have a look around. A very popular dive, but not really for beginners.
All around the island, but in Montego Bay and Negril in particular, there are many marine park areas that have been designated as prohibited zones. Coral harvesting is prohibited and other regulations have been put in effect that are designed to help preserve the natural marine life around these heavy visited areas. You can still dive in these sites, but rules such as no gloves allowed are enforced. These efforts are meant to preserve and will hopefully encourage the regeneration of reefs and attract new marine life to the area.
If you're feeling adventurous, visit Port Royal near Kingston. The sunken city of Port Royal lies off the coast of Kingston and is unique to explore. This dive requires special permission from the local authorites and can be easily organized through any licensed and reputable dive operator.
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Food Trucks Meet Fine Art in Museum District
The Houston Museum District is certainly one of the city's most visited neighborhoods. Hundreds and sometimes thousands of people make their way through the museums and cultural institutions that comprise the district each day. But unlike other Houston neighborhoods where great eateries are on every corner, the dining options inside the district are far from plentiful.
A new program at the Museum of Fine Art, Houston aims to change that. MFAH is partnering with local food trucks to bring some of the city's most interesting "street food" to the district on a daily basis.
Starting this week, at least one food truck will be stationed in the lot adjacent to the entrance to the MFAH's Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullent Sculpture Garden from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., seven days a week. There will even be limited seating inside the garden at Montrose Boulevard and Bissonnet Street.
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Black Cowboys in Harlem
Did you know the first Black rodeo was started in Harlem? "I showed the whole world: there have always been Black cowboys," says Dr. George Blair.
Did you know that the first-ever Black rodeo was started in Harlem?
"I showed the whole world: there have always been Black cowboys. And there always will be," says Dr. George Blair. Blair was recently featured on Humans of New York's social media pages, and he tells a story about how he grew up on horses and struggled to find success in the rodeo circuit as a black cowboy. So in 1984, he organized the Black World Champion Rodeo.
The History of Black Cowboys
Like much of American history, many narratives have white-washed the stories of the Wild West era. In fact, historians estimate that one in four cowboys were Black, according to Smithsonian Magazine. During the Civil War, Texas Ranchers tasked their slaves with tending to their land and cattle herds while they rode off to war.
But there wasn't yet any good way to contain cattle, and many ranches didn't have near enough cowhands, most herds were out of control or lost by the time the war ended. And with the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all their slaves, Texas ranch owners had to hire newly freed Black cowhands. And thus, Black cowboys were born.
Black Cowboys in the Rodeo
The first Black honoree in the National Rodeo Hall of Fame was a cowboy named Bill Pickett. Pickett entered his first rodeo in 1888 and went on to become a popular rodeo performer who even found his way onto the silver screen in the 1920s. He is often credited as the inventor of "bulldogging".
Bill Pickett died in 1932, but he wasn't inducted into the National Rodeo Hall of Fame until 1972, 40 years after his death.
Though there were many great Black rodeo stars during and after Pickett's time, this trend of shunning and erasing Black cowboys from historical narratives lasted into the 1970s and 80s.
In 1969, four Black cowboys formed the American Black Cowboy Association and set about creating the first all-Black rodeo in Harlem. In 1971, Muhammed Ali even showed up to witness the Wild West descending into urban Harlem. The Association tried to get a permanent rodeo and events schedule up and running, but it never took off.
And then, in 1984, George Blair organized the first Black World Champion Rodeo. The rodeo took place annually in Harlem, Brooklyn, and Coney Island until 1997 (you can watch some of that footage here, thanks to the AP Archive).
To hear the story in his own words, you can watch an interview with Dr. George Blair on the Black World Championship Rodeo website, where he talks about the origin of the word "cowboy," which comes from the roles and names given to Black ranch and cattle workers.
The Seeds of Change
In his interview with Humans of New York, Dr. Blair has some powerful things to say:
I organized The Black World Championship Rodeo. Nobody thought it could be done. It was the first rodeo ever held in a US urban city. But I got all the permits. I covered all the expenses from my own pocket. We flew in all the best Black cowboys from around the country, and we flew them first class. We held our first rodeo in Harlem's Colonel Young Park. Colonel Charles Young was denied a generalship during World War I because he was Black. He rode his horse all the way to Washington DC in protest. The protest wasn't successful, but sixty years later 20,000 people filled Colonel Young Park for the world's first Black Championship Rodeo. And that number doesn't even include the people peering down from the high-rise apartments.
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Crawlspaces are notorious for the nasty discoveries made there by inspectors, and it isn't hard to figure out why; for one thing, their cool, dark environment attracts undesirable pests and can promote dangerous conditions. Hantavirus, snakes, wood decay and electrical hazards are just a few of the things encountered in crawlspaces and inspectors should be ready for them.
Since crawlspaces are mostly unmonitored, hazards can breed there unchecked for long periods of time. Inspecting the crawlspaces during the general inspection help the buyers to make a sound decision on the best home choice.


Home Analysis Triple Talaq Bill: Are the Muslim women being cheated?
Triple Talaq Bill: Are the Muslim women being cheated?
The eight state assembly elections looming on the political parties and what could be a better opportunity to toss the age-old Triple Talaq issue on the table than by introducing a thoroughly unsound bill?
It's disconcerting to see hordes and hordes of Muslim women out on streets hailing the Triple Talaq Bill without sparing a second to foresee what the bill holds for the Muslim families as a whole in the very close future.
The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017 introduced in the Lok Sabha on Friday, couldn't get passed in the Rajya Sabha. The Bill makes instant triple talaq or talaq-e-biddat a punishable offence and follows the Supreme Court judgment given on August 22, 2017 in the case of Shayara Bano vs. Union of India.
How the court defined Triple Talaq?
What is the Triple Talaq Bill?
A man pronouncing talaq on his wife will be jailed for a term that can extend to 3 years and made to pay a fine. Also making the practice a non-bailable offence within the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1973.
How the shrewd "Muslim women empowerment" steps in?
The divorced woman will receive an allowance from her husband, and she will get to retain the custody of her children.
The biggest problem with the Bill, since the offence is based on oral utterance, how do you think the woman who has been divorced prove to the court that the husband divorced her via instant triple talaq? It will be an impossible task for the women whose husband who's husband anyway would be jailed before finally being acquitted. Just, what sort of procedure this would be?
Did you know that a Muslim husband cannot approach a court to file for divorce? By the current ruling, a Muslim woman can go to courts, Islamic clerics, or community elders to seek divorce but a husband cannot. Muslim husbands don't have a judicial forum to seek divorce.
It's just politics to keep playing with the triple talaq issue for electoral and political benefits. This Bill, which is so weakly drafted makes Muslim men freely vulnerable to harassment by cops, especially when communal leaders win in a certain region.
The Bill instant triple talaq a cognisable offence, implying that no cop requires any warrant to arrest a Muslim man, in fact a Muslim man can be arrested without any complaint filed by the Muslim woman. Basically, any person can file a complaint against a Muslim husband to get him arrested.
If only one looks at it closely, the Bill is a master move to jail Muslim men instead of benefitting Muslim women. Because, think about it, if Triple Talaq itself has been banned, then why arrest a man if he does it since the divorce hasn't happened anyway?
Time to sit up and take notice of the disasters disguised as opportunities.


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Haida Gwaii (previously known as 'The Queen Charlotte Islands") has always been something of a second home for me since I was a kid. My father grew up in the Moresby Island town of Sandspit, so visiting the islands wasn't only a familial necessity but also significantly easier than if I had discovered the place on my own.
A previous trip to Haida Gwaii in Bigsby Inlet.
The Islands while currently developing themselves as a tourism destination still is one of the most expensive and hard to access parks in Canada. Incorporated after Indigenous Canadians protested the logging industry's use of the islands in 1978; the park (Gwaii Hanas) is jointly managed by the CHN (Council of Haida Nations) and Parks Canada. In addition to the Gwaii Hanas, Haida Gwaii is also home to a number of provincial parks including the famous Yakoun Provincial Park.
The only way to gain access to the islands is either a Ferry which services both Vancouver Island and Price Rupert or one of two airports in either Masset or Sandspit. Beyond that you'll either need to own a boat or book one of the many tour companies to enter the park which has a strict policy of only admitting 12 people per day.
In celebration of Canada's 150th birthday, Parks Canada has generously waived the entry and reservation fees normally associated with the park. This was the prompt for our 6-day Kayak trip to Skincuttle, an inlet in the south Gwaii Hanas.
The annual trip to Haida Gwaii for my family involved a lot of visiting with family and hanging out, and tradition but generally centered around one fantastic adventure. In previous years we had done everything from ambitious multi-peak ascents and backpacking to historical/geographical site visiting. The culmination of these years of visiting, while, by no means makes me an expert on the area; allows me to boast fairly incredible coverage of the islands.
Standing by the old mine site at Ikeda Cove.
This year I was there in time for the most luxurious-6-day-boating-kayak-trip of all time. Family friends and previous guides Bill and Joanne came as mentors and guides for myself and young cousins. My uncle Doug Gould previously of Moresby Explorers fame, had organized to carry kayaks down to Skincuttle eliminating a significant portion of the work and travel time involved in exploring such an area.
Establishing a sort of base camp in and around the Swan Islands allowed myself and the other new kayakers to ease into the skills and energy requirement necessary for kayaking on the islands while remaining fairly protected and scenic.
Our small portion of the inlet was central to accessing the Bolkus Islands (one of the islands famously visited by Captain Pool on his voyage through the south in the 1800's), Burnaby Narrows (one of the most densely populated areas on the planet) and a host of other interesting things to see and visit.
Ultimately spending any time in the park is a treat, Haida Gwaii is home to some of the most magnificent flora on the planet.
Beyond kayaking in the park I was treated by my uncle Ian to multiple excursions to some of the more remote parts of the north island (Graham) including Rennel Sound. A strong south-easterly contributed to relatively nice weather and untypically large waves crashing off the west coast.
Every year I look forward to returning to the islands for some new adventure to be had or sight to see – I highly encourage anyone who is interested in a remote wilderness experience to search out and explore Haida Gwaii – just be sure to treat it well while you're there.
A killer-whale surfaces off the east coast Gwaii Hanas.


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Q: AWS Lambda issue connecting to DocumentDB Okay, I have written an AWS Lambda function which pulls data from an API and inserts the data into a DocumentDB database. When I connect to my cluster from the shell and run my python script it works just fine and inserts the data no problem.
But, when I implement the same logic into a lambda function is does not work. Below is an example of what would work in the shell but not through a Lambda function.
import urllib3
import json
import certifi
import pymongo
from pymongo import MongoClient

# Make our connection to the DocumentDB cluster
# (Here I use the DocumentDB URI)
client = MongoClient('mongodb://admin_name_here:<insertYourPassword>my_docdb_cluster/?ssl=true&ssl_ca_certs=rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem&retryWrites=false')

# Specify the database to use
db = client.my_db

# Specify the collection to use
col = db.my_col

col.insert_one({"name": "abcdefg"})

The above works just fine in the shell but when run in Lambda I get the following error:
[ERROR] ServerSelectionTimeoutError: my_docdb_cluster timed out, Timeout: 30s, Topology Description: <TopologyDescription id: ***********, topology_type: ReplicaSetNoPrimary, servers: [<ServerDescription (my_docdb_cluster) server_type: Unknown, rtt: None, error=NetworkTimeout(my_docdb_cluster timed out')>]>

From my understanding, this error is telling me that the replica set has no primary. But, that is not true there definitely is a primary in my replica set. Does anyone know what could be the problem here?

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This is the ninth in a series of ten posts which will take us up to the date of publication of my new book Paranormal Warwickshire, out from Amberley Publishing on 15th November. This richly illustrated compilation of strange tales from Shakespeare's county can be pre-ordered now from all online bookstores, and from Warwick Books and Kenilworth Books.
George Eliot Hotel in Nuneaton (photo credit Jamie Robinson)
Nuneaton is strongly associated with one of the greatest of English novelists, George Eliot, who was born on the Arbury Hall estate here and brought up in Nuneaton; this background afforded her the opportunity to meet people in all walks of life, the 'high-born' and also the working people. From these she found much inspiration and demonstrated her insight through her many fictional characters. George Eliot is rightly celebrated in the town of her birth and upbringing. In harmony with her own literary focus, I found that some of the most extraordinary tales in my book come from working people in their everyday environment.
60 & 62 Queens Road Nuneaton, during the time the property was owned and managed by Angela Collings as The Entertainment Exchange
Here's an extract from Paranormal Warwickshire.
As we have seen, George Eliot was a radical intellectual; her novella 'The Lifted Veil' (an example of the Victorian horror genre), published in July 1859, is unique amongst her works for its supernatural premise. It explores themes of extra-sensory perception, the essence of physical life, the possibility of life after death, and the power of fate.
I believe that if George Eliot had been alive and writing her novels 200 years later she would have been keen to bring her spirit of enquiry into the extraordinary series of events reported by ordinary working people in their workplaces at Queens Road, Nuneaton, in the late 20th/early 21st century.
Queens Road was in former times the main street of the town until it was split into two parts by the Nuneaton ring road. In Queens Road, strange events are reported by the staff of several retail businesses – and none more so than those who have worked at number 62. Angela, the former lessee, experienced supernatural disturbances there for several years along with many staff members and customers,
Angela first bought no. 60 Queens Road in order to start up a business with her partner Dawn, selling video games and movies.
Having made a success of this, they leased 62 and turned their business into a big two floor music store. Entertainment Exchange opened in 1994 and became the biggest music / gaming / film collectors store in the West Midlands. This culminated at the height of the business in their having twenty-five staff on the rota at any given time.
Both buildings are extremely historic and atmospheric; Angela's account focuses on 62 where she spent most of her time during the twenty years she traded there. As from 2014, Angela no longer owned or operated from either of these two buildings.
Angela's story begins on the day before her store opened at 62, when she spent four hours upstairs alone in the shop, with the door to the street locked, pricing vinyl and laying out displays. As she was putting LP's in racks, she saw something in the corner of her eye in the direction of the old office: a small dumpy woman dressed in black with dark hair which she wore in a bun at the back of her head. Shocked, Angela turned her head straight to the store room door and the image vanished in front of her.
from Paranormal Warwickshire by SC Skillman
Angela's story is developed further in my book, and this experience was the first in a series of astonishing events, experienced independently by herself and her partner, many of her customers and staff, and by those who had worked in the building during the decades before her ownership
Find out the full story in Paranormal Warwickshire.
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I love George Eliot's books, especially Middlemarch. However, Daniel Deronda, her last book shows to me that she had seriously lost the art of good writing. So boring and the interjections of Eliot throughout the novel are very irritating!
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 * ex1.cpp
 *
 * 	\brief     First exercixe
 *  \details   This class reads in a data document and counts the valid lines
 *  \pre       Create the data file
 *  \author    Julia Baumbach
 *  \date      25.04.2017
 */

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>

using namespace std;

/**
 * \paran SOURCE_FILE_PATH default file name
 * if none is set while starting the program
 */
const string SOURCE_FILE_PATH= "ex1.dat";

/**
 * \fn bool lineIsValid(string line)
 * \brief checks if line is empty or a comment
 * \param line a string representing a line
 * \return returns if the given line is valid
 */
bool lineIsValid(string line){
	if (line.empty()){
		return false;
	}
	size_t pos = line.find('#');
	if (pos == 0) {
		cout << "Ignore comment line" << endl;
			return false;
		}
	return true;
}

/**
 * \fn double geoMean(vector<double> vec, int length)
 * \brief computes the geoMean of a vector
 * \param vec a vector with the data as double
 * \param length the length of the given vector
 * \return the geometric mean of the data of the vector
 */
double geoMean(vector<double> vec, int length){
	double sum = 0.;
	for (int i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
		sum += log(vec.at(i));
	}
	sum /= length;
	return exp(sum);
}

/**
 * Main function which reads in a document file
 * and stores its data for computing the geometric mean
 * Shows a warning if no file path name is given while
 * starting the program.
 * Stops if no file could be found.
 */
int main(int argc, char* argv[]){
	ifstream infile;

	if(argc <=1){
		cout << "No file-path found. Try to open default file path." << endl;
		infile.open(SOURCE_FILE_PATH, ios::in);
	}
	else {
		infile.open(argv[1], ios::in);
	}

	if (!infile){
		cout << "File could not be opened." << endl;
		return 1;
	}

	string line;
	int lineCount=0;
	vector<double> loc1;
	vector<double> loc2;

	double location;
	double value;

	char overage[2];

	while (getline(infile, line)){
		lineCount++;
		if(lineIsValid(line)){
		 int values = sscanf(line.c_str(), "%*d ; %lf ; %lf %1s", &location, &value, overage);
		 if (values != 2) {
			cerr << "Error while parsing data" << endl;
			continue;
		 }if (isnan(value) || value <= 0){
			 cerr << "Invalid value" << endl;
			 continue;
		 }
			 if (location == 1){
				 loc1.push_back(value);
			 } else if (location == 2) {
				 loc2.push_back(value);
			 }

		}
	}

	int sizeLoc1 = loc1.size();
	int sizeLoc2 = loc2.size();

	cout << "File: ex1.dat with " << lineCount << " lines" << endl;
	cout << "Valid values Loc1: " << sizeLoc1 << " with GeoMean: " << geoMean(loc1, sizeLoc1) << endl;
	cout << "Valid values Loc2: " << sizeLoc2 << " with GeoMean: " << geoMean(loc2, sizeLoc2) << endl;

	return 1;
 }


We have been in Texas for the past week and normally I take a million pictures and love writting out milestones that my kids go though when they're out here. But this year I haven't taken even a single picture and biggest milestone is that now Siah is old enough to take his sisters in the elevator by himself. It may not sound like a big deal, but let me tell you that the fact that he can navigate himself and his sisters around this enormous house without any assistance is an AWESOME accomplishment!
This trip has been so incredibly restful for me... which I must say is just what the doctor ordered! This newest little one in my tummy has been causing my eyes to feel very heavy and my tummy to feel quite queazy. Everyday, since we arrived at this glorious retreat, better known as Papaw and Granny's house, I have taken excessively long naps and gone to bed quite early. I have enjoyed good conversations and eaten my fair share of delicious food. There have been so many people around that have loved on my kids that I've felt so free to escape and rest.
Although I have throughly enjoyed this week of what feels like pure pampering, I am looking forward to going back to my real life with my three little treasures. I have had lots of time this week to think about things... about life... about the new year... about my relationship with my Joey, my kids, my friends, my Savior. I've thought about things that I feel are going well, and things that I want to change.
Last Year I decide to skip the "New Years Resolution" idea and instead pick a few things that I wanted to commit to prayer for the upcoming year. And I am so stoked to say that that worked out much better for me. Instead of trying to do a zillion things on my own, I was able to do most of the seven things that I picked to accomplish last year with God's grace and help.
So this year I have chosen only three things that I would love to see the Lord refine in my life.
I have been overwhelmingly lazy and distracted by other things and have lost my love for God's Word over the past few months. How can I expect to train up my children in the Word of God if I am not consistently in it myself????
This is such a great time in my life. I have very little that I am committed to on a daily basis. But sometimes I use all my spare time to waste my life away. Granted I am pregnant and my body is worn out, but I know that I can still be more intentional about my time. So I pray that this year the Lord will bring to my mind ways that I can specifically be a blessing to those around me, even if it's something as simple as a phone call.
There are a lot of exciting changes brewing in the Clark house. I have no doubt that all the things coming up will allow me to grow in these three areas if I have a humble, willing heart and allow the Lord to work in my life. He is able to do so much more in me than I could ever dream. This year I am whole-heartedly giving him my entire life, and anticipating that he will enthusiastically mold me into the kind of woman that he wants me to be.
I can't wait to see what you have me Lord! I love you with my WHOLE heart!


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Public Hearings - CHR 2-2016 Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers
PUBLIC HEARING - March 1, 2016
CHR 2-2016 Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers
A public hearing was held today at 6:18 p.m. in the County Commissioners' Hearing Room, County Government Center, 400 High Street, Chestertown, MD, for the purpose of discussing the proposed amendment to CHR 2-2016 Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers which is AN ACT to amend Section 8 of Chapter 120 Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers of the Code of Public Local Laws of Kent County. The purpose of this amendment is to amend and clarify the recordkeeping requirements of regulated businesses under this Chapter, to provide a minimum value for items subject to recordkeeping requirements, and generally relating to Pawnbrokers and Secondhand Dealers and the regulation of the purchase, sale, recordkeeping, and reporting of certain transactions involving used items of value within Kent County.
County Commissioners, William W. Pickrum, Ronald H. Fithian and William A. Short were in attendance as well as Shelley Herman, County Administrator and Thomas Yeager, County Attorney.
Commissioner Pickrum read the notice of public hearing into record. The rules for public hearings are in effect.
Commissioner Pickrum invited comments and questions from the audience. Sheriff John Price and Alex Smolens, Proprietor, Atlantek Computer Systems, LLC, stated that they both agree with the amendments. No one signed the testimony log.
Mr. Yeager summarized the legislation includes a minimum value threshold, reduction to one form of identification, and stylistic amendments. Ms. Herman inquired as to whether further definitions of pawnbroker or secondhand dealer should be made to the proposed bill due to concerns that have been raised. Mr. Yeager questioned whether a licensed regulated gunsmith would fall under these regulations. Commissioner Pickrum stated that with this legislation and what is already established in the Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR), there is no conflict. Mr. Yeager suggested that a licensed firearms dealer should be exempted from the bill to avoid any misunderstanding and Sheriff Price agreed. Mr. Yeager suggested that future legislation could be considered, if the Commissioners desire to do so.
Written comments will be accepted in the County Commissioners' Office until Friday, March 11, 2016, at 12:00 p.m.


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Demographie, Demoskopie
Courbage / Todd
A Convergence of Civilizations
The Transformation of Muslim Societies Around the World
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ca. 29,53 €
2014. Buch. 152 S. Softcover
Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-15003-3
Format (B x L): 14 x 21 cm
We are told that Western/Christian and Muslim/Arab civilizations are heading towards inevitable conflict. The demographics of the West remain sluggish, while the population of the Muslim world explodes, widening the cultural gap and all but guaranteeing the outbreak of war. Leaving aside the media's sound and fury on this issue, measured analysis shows another reality taking shape: rapprochement between these two civilizations, benefiting from a universal movement with roots in the Enlightenment.
The historical and geographical sweep of this book discredits the notion of a specific Islamic demography. The range of fertility among Muslim women, for example, is as varied as religious behavior among Muslims in general. Whether agnostics, fundamentalist Salafis, or al-Qaeda activists, Muslims are a diverse group that prove the variety and individuality of Islam. Youssef Courbage and Emmanuel Todd consider different degrees of literacy, patriarchy, and defensive reactions among minority Muslim populations, underscoring the spread of massive secularization throughout the Arab and Muslim world.
In this regard, they argue, there is very little to distinguish the evolution of Islam from the history of Christianity, especially with Muslims now entering a global modernity. Sensitive to demographic variables and their reflection of personal and social truths, Courbage and Todd upend a dangerous meme: that we live in a fractured world close to crisis, struggling with an epidemic of closed cultures and minds made different by religion.


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Enjoy this family collection of 24 tales for the Christmas season. This is a book that will become a storytelling tradition for years to come. Original stories and adapted hard to find old legends recreated for young listeners. Tales like The Clay Birds (one of my favorites), Little Jack's Plum Pie, The Christmas Slippers, Beetle Bug, the Christmas Messenger, Mouse's Christmas, Grandmother Gnome's Christmas, the Christmas Quilt, and many more! Author: Suzanne Down All of the stories make wonderful puppet shows! This is a lovely resource for teachers and parents.


So I'm looking at the shots I took while Euka and Micron were doing that weird labrador mouth play game and this one appears on the the screen.
I dunno, I get the feeling that some covert information was being shared here. Like Micron is telling the kid No, don't look at her! Just act normal and listen up . . .
What?! Telling her what?! Surely they're not plotting against the Food Lady.
What do you think Micron is telling the new kid? If you can read those dog lips, drop me a comment so I can get a heads up on things, won't you?
Right, like he knows where the "good stuff" is kept. Like how I keep my special candy stash in with the pots and pans, because I figure nobody else in this house is getting into that cupboard, lol.
"Sit down here by me little one and let me tell you the facts of life"
Ack, not yet, Micron! She's too young! Well, it's probably better here than learning it from the kids at school, I guess. Thanks for stopping by on this fine WW.
They're planning to knock you over and make off with all the treats. Dogs are so short-sighted. Sadly, the puppy will be blamed.


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Rayagiri es una ciudad y nagar Panchayat situada en el distrito de Tenkasi en el estado de Tamil Nadu (India). Su población es de 11223 habitantes (2011). Se encuentra a 77 km de Tirunelveli.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2011 la población de Rayagiri era de 11223 habitantes, de los cuales 5494 eran hombres y 5729 eran mujeres. Rayagiri tiene una tasa media de alfabetización del 76,88%, inferior a la media estatal del 80,09%: la alfabetización masculina es del 85,72%, y la alfabetización femenina del 68,46%.

Referencias

Localidades de Tamil Nadu

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What great season for Hillingdon CC this year for our Masters and U23 Squad riders. Starting with the TimeTrial scene. The Club 25 record was broken by Scott Holmes with a 52-32 . Next the Team record went twice but finished up with a 52:32 Scott, 55:12 Paul, 56:02 Andy. The fastest 10 of the year went to one of our U23 Squad riders Will Houghton with a 20:51.We had Paul Egan riding two personal bests in a 10 and a 25 with a 21:27 and a 55:12. Then Gregory Holmes at only 16 yrs recording a 21:20 for a 10 and 56:37 for a 25 .Looking forward to next yr gunning for those club records up against Will Houghton.
Gregory also had a great ride in Norwich with a superb 4th place in the Stradasport RR.Next came that victory at MK Bowel which gave him his 3rd Cat licence.
On the Masters side we had that ride by Peter Jones elevating him to National Crit Masters British Cycling Champion. Not satisfied with just that he also won the Ford Dunton series for the second year running with eight wins. Also the Joint winner for the Spring Hog Hill series.
IN the Masters E-1-2-3 over 50's event on Wednesdays at Hillingdon we had Andrew Barnes winning his first race. This was well deserved as Andrew is a true work horse.Scott Holmes winning the over 50's a few weeks earlier with a few 2nd places as well. Peter Jones at 67 yrs obtained five top 10 places also in the over 50's "Amazing".
As far as BC points goes it looks like Peter Jones has the Road Race title with 55 Point next Will Houghton and Scott Holmes both with 45.
Here is a retro Photo of Scott Holmes in a TT in 1980 as a junior on his Mal Rees cotton shorts and toe clips.


Battery manufacture relies on the electrode materials being applied as a slurry, to form a film. The size and shape of particles within the slurry are critical to the production of the film and its final uniformity, via the viscosity of the slurry. In this application note, the Morphologi automated image analysis system is used to characterize efficiently the shape of particles in high and low viscosity electrode slurries.


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Greg Ploetz: More on former Texas Longhorn fighting dementia in Colorado
By Terry Frei
Greg Ploetz's former roommate and teammate, David Richardson, presents Deb Ploetz with the check from the Longhorn Support Group.
My story on Greg Ploetz, the former Texas defensive tackle from the Longhorns' famous national championship team in 1969, is in the Sunday paper and here.
I quote Greg several times in the story, simply noting he was speaking in 2001. Perhaps some wondered why I didn't credit or explain where those quotes came from. I left that unanswered in the story and this is a more appropriate spot to confirm what many reading the story might have known, anyway: The 2001 quotes from Greg in the story and much of the material about his background were gleaned from my interview with him while researching my book, Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming, about the 1969 Texas-Arkansas game in Fayetteville. That's not meant to be a plug; it's an explanation because the book came out in late 2002, not last week. I spent much of the summer of 2001 in Texas and Arkansas, then made return trips to Austin and Dallas in the fall. Read more…
Categories: College Sports, Football
RIP, ex-Texas QB James Street, original Wishbone Wizard and Huston's father
James Street is at right here as President Nixon presents his private national championship plaque to Texas coach Darrell Royal in Fayetteville, Ark., on Dec. 6, 1969 Associated Press Photo
Horrible news this morning: Former Texas quarterback James Street, the original Wishbone Wizard, died early Monday at age 65. UPDATED: Here's James' obituary/tribute and funeral service information.
He was a terrific man, a great quarterback who was involved in one of the most famous college games ever, and instrumental in a single play — "the Peschel pass" — that still lives in Texas and national football lore. He was a wonderful father, including to former Colorado Rockies pitcher Huston Street, now with San Diego. My sympathy to James' wife, Janie, and his five sons. Here's my 2011 Post Father's Day story on Huston and James.
I was fortunate enough to get to know James when writing about the 1969 Texas-Arkansas football game, initially for a Sporting News story at the 25th anniversary of the landmark contest attended by President Nixon and Texas Congressman George Bush, and then for Horns, Hogs and Nixon Coming (2002).
As a tribute, I'll append my introductory chapter on James.
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