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Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
David Seabury's quotes
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
When you are getting ready to become a mom, being in love with someone just isn't enough. You need to think about whether he would be a good parent and raise your children with similar beliefs.
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.
Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
William Lyon Phelps
You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
Silvia Cartwright
I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.
Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.
I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origin of which, however far back we penetrate into the records of the past, we do not probably trace its real source.
The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude.
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony.
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
The US constitution's First Amendment rights only cover Americans, but I believe that in a democracy the competition of ideas and free speech should combat beliefs that it does not agree with - more speech and debate, not censorship.
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.
My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.


If you are thinking about getting (another) tattoo then below you will find a collection of tattoo ideas that, although not to everyone's taste, sure are different. In the past, a tattoo had to be as realistic as possible. Hearts, skulls and naked women were very popular with the predominantly male clientele. However, times change. Tattoos have penetrated the mainstream and are no longer public domain of bikers and salty sea dogs. The result is that the art of tattooing has come a long way and thanks to creative people, especially graphic designers and street artists, tattoos are being revived and re-imagined all the time. Below we have rounded up a collection of unique tattoo ideas that you might not have seen before. These new designs are possible due to the development of advanced tattoo machines, making much finer drawings possible. I hope you like them and don't forget to drop a comment below to let us know which one you like the most.
These sorts of tattoo designs are currently skyrocketing in popularity. The designer chooses graphics, such as geometric shapes and straight lines, but also fully anarchist experiments in the style of children's drawings.


Author(s): Francesca L'Episcopo, Cataldo Tirolo, Nuccio Testa, Salvo Caniglia, Maria Concetta Morale, Bianca Marchetti. OASI Institute for Research and Care on Mental Retardation and Brain Aging (IRCCS), Section of Neuropharmacology, via Conte Ruggero 73, 94018 Troina (EN) Italy.
Parkinsonsdisease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence of tremor, muscle rigidity, slowness of voluntary movements and postural instability. One of the pathological hallmarks of PD is loss of dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons in the subtantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). The cause and mechanisms underlying the demise of nigrostriatal DAergic neurons are not fully understood, but interactions between genes and environmental factors are recognized to play a critical role in modulating the vulnerability to PD. Current evidence points to reactive glia as a pivotal factor in PD, but whether astroglia activation may protect or exacerbate DAergic neuron loss is the subject of much debate. Astrocytes and microglia are the key players in neuroinflammatory responses, secreting an array of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines, anti-oxidants and neurotrophic factors. These mediators act as double-edged swords, exerting both detrimental and neuroprotective effects. Here, the contribution of astrocytes and microglia in mediating the effects of both genetic and environmental factors, including hormones, endotoxins and neurotoxins, and their ability to influence DAergic neurodegeneration, neuroprotection and neurorepair will be discussed. Approaches capable to regulate glial-associated oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage, by decreasing inflammatory burden, restoring mitochondrial function and DAergic neuron metabolism, might hold great promise for therapeutic interventions. Therapies that support astrocyte function, replacing astrocytes either modified or unmodified in culture, may represent novel approaches targeting astrocytes to promote DAergic neurorescue. Dissecting the molecular determinants of glia-neuron crosstalk will give us the possibility to test novel strategies to promote restoration of injured nigrostriatal DAergic neurons.
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Abstract: Parkinsonsdisease (PD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence of tremor, muscle rigidity, slowness of voluntary movements and postural instability. One of the pathological hallmarks of PD is loss of dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons in the subtantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). The cause and mechanisms underlying the demise of nigrostriatal DAergic neurons are not fully understood, but interactions between genes and environmental factors are recognized to play a critical role in modulating the vulnerability to PD. Current evidence points to reactive glia as a pivotal factor in PD, but whether astroglia activation may protect or exacerbate DAergic neuron loss is the subject of much debate. Astrocytes and microglia are the key players in neuroinflammatory responses, secreting an array of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines, anti-oxidants and neurotrophic factors. These mediators act as double-edged swords, exerting both detrimental and neuroprotective effects. Here, the contribution of astrocytes and microglia in mediating the effects of both genetic and environmental factors, including hormones, endotoxins and neurotoxins, and their ability to influence DAergic neurodegeneration, neuroprotection and neurorepair will be discussed. Approaches capable to regulate glial-associated oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage, by decreasing inflammatory burden, restoring mitochondrial function and DAergic neuron metabolism, might hold great promise for therapeutic interventions. Therapies that support astrocyte function, replacing astrocytes either modified or unmodified in culture, may represent novel approaches targeting astrocytes to promote DAergic neurorescue. Dissecting the molecular determinants of glia-neuron crosstalk will give us the possibility to test novel strategies to promote restoration of injured nigrostriatal DAergic neurons.


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Q: Create a view which is visible over all applications I want to create a view which is always visible even when my application is not in foreground(Like Toast). And also I can hide this view when task completed.
For Example: Like the view of CPU usage in android 4.0 which is visible on all screens in top left corner of device

A: Check out the StandOut library, it enables you to create applications that can hover on top of the other apps on the screen.
Once you get it imported to your project you just create a class that extends StandOutWindow override all of the relavent methods and then to show it you call like this:
StandOutWindow.show(this, YourWindow.class, StandOutWindow.DEFAULT_ID);

The library takes care of the rest for you, and even enables your windows to be shown/hidden from the view itself or the notification bar.

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Home » NCERT Solutions » Class 7 » Science » Chapter 5 Acids, Bases and Salts
Chapter 5 Acids, Bases and Salts
NCERT Solutions for Chapter 5 Acids, Bases and Salts for Class 7
Question 1. State differences between acids and bases.
Acids Bases
They are sour in taste They are bitter in taste.
They turn blue litmus red. They turn red litmus blue.
They contain hydrogen ions. They contain hydroxyl ions.
They are not soapy to touch. They are soapy to touch.
Example: HCl, H2SO4 , HNO3 Example: NaOH, KOH
Question 2. Ammonia is found in many household products, such as window cleaners. It turns red litmus blue. What is its nature?
Answer 2 Ammonia is basic as it turns red litmus to blue.
Question 3. Name the source from which litmus solution is obtained. What is the use of this solution?
Answer 3 It is obtained from lichens.It is used as an indicator to distinguish between an acid and base.When added to an acidic solution, it turns red and when added to a basic solution, it turns blue. So, it is used to test the acidic or basic nature of solutions.
Question 4. Is the distilled water acidic/basic/neutral? How would you verify it?
Answer 4 Distilled water is neutral in nature.Litmus paper can be used to verify the nature of distilled water.Water does not change its colour in either red or blue litmus.
Question 5. Describe the process of neutralisation with the help of an example.
Answer 5 The reaction between an acid and a base to form salt and water with the evolution of heat is called neutralisation reaction.
HCl + NaOH ———> H2O + NaCl + heat
When the solution of sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid react with each other, the acidic nature of acid and basic nature of base are destroyed.The resulting solution is a neutral solution.In this reaction the hydrogen ions from acids reacts with hydroxide ions of base to form water and salt is formed.
Question 6. Mark 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if it is false:
(i) Nitric acid turn red litmus blue. (T/F)
(ii) Sodium hydroxide turns blue litmus red. (T/F)
(iii) Sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid neutralise each other and form salt and water. (T/F)
(iv) Indicator is a substance which shows different colours in acidic and basic solutions. (T/F) (v) Tooth decay is caused by the presence of a base. (T/F)
Answer 6 (i) Nitric acid turn red litmus blue. (False)
(ii) Sodium hydroxide turns blue litmus red. (False)
(iii) Sodium hydroxide and hydrochloric acid neutralise each other and form salt and water. (True)
(iv) Indicator is a substance which shows different colours in acidic and basic solutions. (True)
(v) Tooth decay is caused by the presence of a base. (False)
Question 7. Dorji has a few bottles of soft drink in his restaurant. But, unfortunately, these are not labelled. He has to serve the drinks on the demand of customers. One customer wants acidic drink, another wants basic and third one wants neutral drink. How will Dorji decide which drink is to be served to whom?
Answer 7 Add few drops of drink on litmus paper and take the decision according to the following:
1) If it turns blue, drink is basic.
2) If it turns red, drink is acidic.
3) If it turns green, drink is neutral.
Question 8. Explain why:
(a) An antacid tablet is taken when you suffer from acidity.
(b) Calamine solution is applied on the skin when an ant bites.
(c) Factory waste is neutralised before disposing it into the water bodies.
Answer 8 a) Acidity is the excessive amount of acid in stomach which causes pain and discomfort. Antacids contain base like Milk of Magnesia which react with excess of acid and neutralises its effect and brings relief.
b) When an ant bites it releases or inject formic acid into the skin. Calamine lotion contain zinc carbonate which is basic in nature and neutralises the effect of acid injected by ant bite.
c) Factory waste contain acids.If they are allowed to flow into the water bodies, the acids present in them will cause a serious threat to the aquatic organism.Therefore these waste are neutralised before disposing it into water bodies.
Question 9. Three liquids are given to you. One is hydrochloric acid, another is sodium hydroxide and third is a sugar solution. How will you identify them? You have only turmeric indicator.
Answer 9 When a base is added to turmeric solution, the solution turns into pink colour. However turmeric remains yellow when an acid or neutral solution is added to it. Take few drops from each solution and test it with turmeric solution. If the solution turns into pink colour then that solution is base i.e. Sodium Hydroxide. Take a test tube and add few drops of base solution and second solution. Check if test tube becomes warm and then add turmeric solution to it. If the colour does not change, it means the solution added is acidic (HCl). The test tube becomes warm due to neutralisation. If the test tube of the above solution does not warm and it does show pink colour when turmeric is added, the second solution is neutral
Question 10. Blue litmus paper is dipped in a solution. It remains blue. What is the nature of the solution? Explain.
Answer 10 If a blue litmus paper when dipped in a solution, remains blue, it implies the solution is either basic or neutral.
Question 11. Consider the following statements:
(a) Both acids and bases change colour of all indicators.
(b) If an indicator gives a colour change with an acid, it does not give a change with a base. (c) If an indicator changes colour with a base, it does not change colour with an acid.
(d) Change of colour in an acid and a base depends on the type of the indicator. Which of these statements are correct?
(i) All four (ii) a and d (iii) b, c and d (iv) only d
Answer 11 (iv) only d
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge
By Carolyn Burns
Fleabag opens with the titular character accidentally flashing her bra at a disgraced manager during a job interview for a company plagued by sexual harassment allegations. Staged at the Sydney Festival in 2018, five years after its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe, the play would feel eerily prescient if the constant spectre of sexual assault was some novel phenomenon. But as it is, Fleabag is not particularly concerned by the bad behaviour of men.
Instead, Fleabag examines the way that women's lives and self-perceptions are shaped by an omnipresent fog of objectification, and how complicated this can make the sexual experiences of women. Fleabag takes enthusiastic pleasure in her youth and sexuality, espousing how much she loves fucking (always described as 'fucking', she reacts with disgust to her ex-boyfriend's attempt to initiate a gentler kind of intimacy): 'not the way it feels', but the drama of being the object of the sexual desire of others. This fun-house mirror of self-perception translates to a profound puzzlement when men don't treat her primarily as a sexual object.
Maddie Rice as Fleabag,
Phoebe Waller-bridge, Fleabag (2013)
Sydney Festival 2018
Image Credit: Jamie Williams
The play launched the career of playwright and actor Phoebe Waller-Bridge, after a BBC scout attended an early Fringe performance and immediately commissioned her to adapt the play for television. In this production Maddie Rice brings a cheerful complexity to the monologue, but the performance lacks Waller-Bridge's slightly brittle and acerbic energy.
Fleabag chafes against a variety of feminist principles that fail to accommodate or acknowledge her interests, appetites and self-perception. In one scene she scoffs at an article in the newspaper about the political failings of young women, and in another she and her sister raise their hands in a feminist lecture to indicate they would trade five years of their lives for the perfect body. Turning up drunk on her father's doorstep early one morning after a night of drinking, Fleabag makes a stark admission ('I have a horrible feeling that I'm a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist'), before immediately asking him to confirm her sexual attractiveness ('would you click on me, if you saw me online?')
The dilemma that Fleabag faces is not a trivial one: attempting to contextualise her desires in a society hostile to any sexual expression that falls outside the narrow band of acceptability. The play's strength lies in the way it connects these raw admissions with a genuine ambivalence, allowing its unlikely heroine to stumble around in the proximity of self-awareness without ever finding secure footing.
It's a black comedy that doesn't always feel like a comedy, with Fleabag rattling of a string of jokes that are never quite given the chance to land: her mother died of breast cancer despite having 'really great tits', her best friend accidentally killed herself by stepping into a bike lane to get her boyfriend's attention, and she describes inflicting various acts of cruelty on guinea pigs with a sense of childish wonder.
Towards the end of the play Fleabag briefly acknowledges a creeping anxiety about what she will do when her body no longer meets her perceived standards of desirability. She does this without quite recognising that the value system on which this status is based also feeds the society that censures her.
As the culture around the gender dynamics of sexual power shifts rapidly, we are not only confronted by a long list of sexual abusers and enablers working in the cultural industries, but also the stark realisation that our understanding of romance and desire, so heavily informed by the products of these industries, has been built on unsteady ground.
And this is another reason why Fleabag feels very relevant right now—it is a frank reckoning with a culture that fails to keep its promises to young women and then is unsettled when they find a way to take pleasure in being objectified. Fleabag might be hypersexual and broken, but the play works to maintain a deep sense of ambiguity about how far this brokenness is self-inflicted, how much it has been caused by a willingness to comply with the social expectations about sexual availability, and whether it should be a problem at all. Fleabag luxuriates in this uncertainty and closes with a fitting rejoinder: 'fuck you'.
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Motivational Growth
Posted byReally Awful Movies 2014-09-22 2015-12-29 Posted inStrange cinemaTags:2010s movies
We all need a mentor in our lives. Someone who gives us a little guidance and sets us on the right path. A Tony Robbins-like figure to snatch us up by our bootstraps and elevate us to our highest potential. Granted, most don't have immediate access to a freakishly tall, horse-toothed guru, so why not a gigantic heap of bacterial fungus instead?
In Motivational Growth, we meet Ian Foliver, a man who could certainly use some life-coaching. A depressive agoraphobe, Ian lives in squalor and hasn't left his apartment in nearly a year. He's disheveled, scraggly-bearded, and looks like he hasn't seen a bar of soap in months (actually, give him a banjo and he could easily fit right in to the latest hipster band du jour.) His days revolve around watching his television, Kent (yes, he gave his television a name) and alternately looking forward to/dreading his semi-regular bowel movement. When Kent blows a tube, Ian's had enough. He decides to take his own life.
Unfortunately for Ian, he's as successful at self-annihilation as he is every other aspect of his life. Upon recovering consciousness, Ian discovers The Mold, a giant-talking fungus nested in the corner of his bathroom sink. The Mold, voiced by Jeffrey Combs of Re-Animator fame, dispenses wisdom and barks orders in an Elvis-drawl. The Mold refers to itself in the first-person and demands to be called The Mold (do not drop the definite article!) This despite continuously referring to Ian as Jack for some non-defined reason.
Horror has a long-tradition of animate inanimate objects, including the killer Laundry Press in The Mangler, the murderous Tire in Rubber, and my personal fave, the carnivorous Bed in Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (just Eats, not Eats People, Patton!) But a sentient fungus is original indeed. Before long, due to The Mold's coaching, Ian's life is on the upswing. He cleans his apartment. He gives himself a shave and a haircut. He even invites in the endearing neighbor that he has been window-stalking every morning at precisely 10:16 a.m. Yet it's not all rainbows and lollipops. I mean besides living with a talking mold, Ian continually suffers blackouts, spews copious amounts of green goop at inappropriate times, and may or may not have murdered the grocery-delivery girl, his landlord and possibly others.
Motivational Growth, the feature-length debut by indie-auteur Don Thacker is admittedly pretty nutzoid. Definitely not your average Saturday-night date flick. But therein lies its charm. It's inventive, unique, and certainly not something you'd see at your average multiplex playing next to the latest tepid remake of a '70's thriller starring Denzel Washington. Ian is a likeable sorta fella and his relationship with The Mold is at times oddly charming. And despite the film's low budget, the practical puppeteering used to bring The Mold to life is nicely effective. There are pacing problems and the single set (Ian's apartment) does give the film a bit of a stagy feel. Motivational Growth is also not without some ambiguity, but I feel that given the tone of the film, the uncertainty is a credit rather than a debit.
For those with a taste for the bizarre, not bad at all.
**1/2 (out of 5)
Drive-In Massacre


The rocket launched this week by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' private space company may help break the U.S. military's reliance on Russian engines.
Bezos' company, Blue Origin LLC, on Wednesday successfully lifted off its New Shepard spacecraft from a range in West Texas. The unmanned vehicle, powered by a liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engine called BE-3, hit Mach 3 and climbed 307,000 feet into space before beginning a controlled descent back to Earth.
The firm has teamed with United Launch Alliance LLC, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co., to develop an updated version of the engine that could eventually serve as a replacement to a Russian design used on U.S. military rockets.
The RD-180, made by Russia's NPO Energomash, is a first-stage engine on the Atlas V rocket in the Air Force's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.
While the engine is relatively cheap and has helped fuel ULA's long record of successful launches, it has become a flash point in the debate over American reliance on Russian technology for national-security programs, particularly amid rising tensions between the two countries over Russia's military involvement in the Ukraine and other matters.
Faced with pressure to use another engine and potential future competition from another commercial rocket-maker, known as SpaceX and headed by billionaire Elon Musk, ULA this month unveiled a new rocket called the Vulcan that could be powered by Blue Origin's reusable engine.
In a press release promoting Wednesday's liftoff, Blue Origin referenced the enhanced propulsion system, called the BE-4. Designed to provide 550,000 pounds of thrust, it would pack five times the punch of the existing engine and run on liquefied natural gas and liquid oxygen.
"We continue to be big fans of the vertical takeoff, vertical landing architecture," it states. "We chose VTVL because it's scalable to very large size. We're already designing New Shepard's sibling, her Very Big Brother – an orbital launch vehicle that is many times New Shepard's size."
Like SpaceX, Blue Origin vows to continue to work to make rockets reusable.
"We've already been in work for some time on an improved hydraulic system," the release states. "Also, assembly of propulsion module serial numbers 2 and 3 is already underway – we'll be ready to fly again soon."
ULA, meanwhile, is hedging its bets. If Blue Origin hits a snag building the BE-4, the venture plans to use the AR-1, a liquid oxygen and kerosene-fueled propulsion system being developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne.


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You are at:Home » Weather & Traffic » Environmental » An Interview with Governor Carney during Delaware Coastal Cleanup Day
Gov Carney: keep Delaware litter free, we won't have to have cleanups like this to the extent that we do now, if folks just not don't litter in the first place, you know, keep their trash out.
AUGUSTINE BEACH (DE) BY GEORGE SHEA, PHOTOJOURNALIST: Governor John Carney joined Delaware Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) secretary Shawn Garvin at Augustine Beach for Delaware Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday September 11, 2021.
The two were also joined by members of the community and Delaware Technical and Community College (DELTECH) students who volunteered for Saturday's cleanup at Augustine Beach.
Carney, who has taken a stand on Delaware's environment as Delaware's Governor explains one of his biggest priorities as governor is to make Delaware attractive for residents and visitors.
"So one of my biggest priorities as governor is to make our state attractive for our residents and for visitors. And part of that is our campaign against letter and dumping, Coastal Cleanup has been going on for years. But it's also an opportunity to do a lot of cleanup of the litter that we see along the coastline.," said Carney.
Photo by George Shea, For Delaware Newsline | Governor John Carney joined Delaware Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) secretary Shawn Garvin at Augustine Beach for Delaware Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday September 11, 2021.
We can all agree that Delaware's coastline is one of the biggest attractions in the state. Nested in a corner on the map with the Atlantic Ocean on one side and beautiful bays on the other, Delaware is a state that attracts people from all around the world simply because of our beaches and tax free shopping.
While traveling from New Castle County to Sussex County has proven to be more difficult this past year, a 2018 Visitor Profile State Records indicate that 12 to 13 million visit the State annually and a State Beach Report indicates over 5 million (5,096,908) visit Beaches.
The count comes from Travel Industry Association of America, who also say that 53% of the visitors stay two or more nights, 39% spend money dining out, and 32% spend money on shopping. These figures could account for the high volume of traffic you see on Route one in Lewes and near the Rehoboth Outlets. While tourism is great for the First State, it makes it more critical for keeping Delaware and our Coastal areas liter free.
"If the beaches aren't cleaned up, if they're not the pristine as we want them to be, then we won't get those visitors and they won't be as enjoyable for the residents of our state.," Carney said.
Today's a good day to basically show your support for the beauty of our state to protect our coastal areas. And to make it more attractive for people, for our visitors. And for the people that don't wear.
Just amazing to see the volunteers here from DELTECH and the program and all the volunteers that DNREC puts together on an annual basis, we have the "Anti-Litter Campaign", Keep the litter free, keep Delaware litter free, we won't have to have cleanups like this to the extent that we do now, if folks just not don't litter in the first place, you know, keep their trash out, and in the trashcans in the appropriate places.
So today's a good day to basically show your support for the beauty of our state to protect our coastal areas. And to make it more attractive for people, for our visitors. And for the people that don't wear.
Plastic, Plastic, Plastic, plastic everywhere in Delaware and you're more likely to find plastic along Delaware's coast than anywhere else.
A lot of plastic, plastic bottles, beer bottles, plastic bags are the remnants of plastic bags, everything plastic, there's not a lot of kind of wood products or other things that are dumped out here. It's seems like at the end of time, all the plastic will be, you know, still be here present someplace. So that's the biggest part, you know, plastic bottles, a lot of lot of cigarette stubs as well. Little small plastic tops for four bottles and that type of thing.
But where is all this trash coming from? "I think there's a fair amount of it that comes from visitors here to Augustine Beach," Carney explains. "A fair amount of it washes up on the shore from north of here…and so a combination of the two, I would guess."
Speaking of plastics, Delaware Newsline ran a story on Newark Charter School back in April 2020 for Earth Day. Tami Lunsford's class has been very involved in cleaning up Deemers Beach in New Castle all year long during the pandemic.
At the time, I wanted to learn more about these students and the awesome work they have been doing so I caught up with Tami Lunsford, a Marine and Science teacher from Newark Charter High School. Lunsford was with her students on the beach Saturday April 18, 2020, collecting trash, recyclables, and plastic pellets.
Coming to Deemers Beach for more than a month, these students have been collecting trash – trash that's being left every day by it's visitors. Plastic bottles, glass bottles, plastic lawn chairs, kites, glass, and fishing string are just a few of the things being collected from this small beach.
To be exact, 200 Pounds of trash, 100 pounds of recyclables, and 900 plastic pellets. That's what these awesome Newark Charter High School students have been collecting at Deemers Beach in New Castle, and it was all collected on Saturday and this is just one day. These kids come out here several times during the school year to do the same thing over and over.
Photo by George Shea For Delaware Newsline | Newark Charter H.S. Students have collected over 200 pounds of trash at Deemers Beach – trash being left by it's visitors.
The students range from 7th to 12th grade and trash isn't the only thing they're collecting. They're also collecting plastic pellets which are also known as Nurdles. The students are Handpicking them one by one, and placing them into vials that are then counted and submitted to an organization called Nurdle Patrol, who then tries to determine how many Nurdles are in the environment.
I couldn't help but ask Carney what he thought about the many young kids who are involved in keeping our environment clean and the work they are doing to help us better understand our environment.
"Yeah, it's amazing. And even today with students from DELTECH, who were here and volunteered, we have students across the state, different high schools, of course Newark charter, just tremendous, you know, our young people, they're the ones that are going to inherit the environment in the world that we, you know, turn over to them. And so it's great that they have that."
When asked what message he wanted to send those who come to our coastal areas and pollute, Carney said, "That's our slogan, keep Delaware litter free. Don't do it in the first place, and I'll have a beautiful state for residents and for visitors."


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Yale Team Makes Final Round at Nespresso Sustainability Challenge
Sharada Vadlamani '18 M.E.M., Ariel Russ '17 M.E.M., Thuy Phung '18 M.E.M., and Michelle Mendlewicz '17 M.E.M.
A team of students and recent graduates from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies this summer traveled to Switzerland where they were finalists in the 2017 Sustainability MBA Challenge hosted by Nestlé Nespresso, an operating unit of the Nestle Group.
The team, which included four women from four different nations, had the opportunity to present before Nespresso executives and international experts in sustainability, human resources management, and marketing.
Members of the team were Michelle Mendlewicz '17 M.E.M., a native of Brazil; Thuy Phung '18 M.E.M., a native of Vietnam; Ariel Russ '17 M.E.M., a U.S. native; Sharada Vadlamani '18 M.E.M., a native of India.
The Yale team — which took second place in the competition — was one of just three finalists from a field of more than 80 applicants.
In their proposal, the team suggested that Nespresso develop regional "green teams" to better engage its employees and customers on sustainability challenges and opportunities. These green team members — which would include sales associates — would have a strong understanding of how to convey important messaging to customers as well as what customers are asking about, the team suggested. In addition, they would bridge the traditional hierarchical structure of the organization to ensure that each participant has equal weight on the team. According to their proposal, the green teams would submit proposals and receive funding as well as mentorship from senior managers to successfully implement their innovative ideas.
The team also proposed that Nespresso integrate sustainability into every function of human resources, including hiring, training, communication, and performance appraisal.
Vadlamani, who came to Yale with six years of experience in management and technical operations for sustainable agribusiness, said was intrigued by the challenge of bringing environmental management and sustainability science perspectives to customer-facing business challenges.
"The positive reception to our idea — enabling sustainability behavior change among customers through greater employee engagement — proves how integral responsible business practices have become for multinational companies like Nespresso," she said. "And as environmental management scholars, this was an exciting opportunity to bring our academic and professional background to put forth innovative ideas to Nespresso's sustainability division and company leadership."
In developing the proposal, the team used customer and employee data that they gathered to garner insight from these stakeholders. They received 137 survey responses from current customers and spoke with 10 employees at four Nespresso Boutiques in the New England area.
Russ, a recent F&ES graduate, worked in corporate sustainability for several years before coming to Yale. She says she decided to participate in the competition because she wanted to prove that F&ES students could compete with top MBA students from across the world on sustainability challenges.
"The challenge was quite interesting and relevant to what many organizations are facing today — how do you engage your customers and employees on sustainability while improving profitability," she said. "I am most proud of our all-female F&ES team competing against 87 business schools, thus proving the value of the Yale MEM degree."
Phung, who recently completed her first year at Yale, said the competition offered a valuable opportunity to learn about Nespresso's end-to-end approach to sustainability and to help develop solutions that address the company's heightened commitments.
"The topic this year was employee and customer engagement, which was extremely timely as this is an area that many companies struggle with in the journey to become sustainable businesses," she said. "Specifically for Nespresso, which has developed capacity to recycle 100 percent of their coffee capsules and have invested heavily in creating programs to make it easy for consumers to recycle, yet only about 25 percent of customers return the capsules."
In addition to presenting their case, the team members had dinner with some of the judges and with Nespresso's sustainability team. Those discussions allowed opportunities for frank discussions about the relative sustainability of single-serve coffee versus bulk-brewing systems, and whether luxury branding is compatible with sustainability, Phung said.
"Overall, it was a great learning experience and I feel empowered knowing that Nespresso will put some of our ideas into practice," she said.
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When was the last time you saw the word "SYRIA" in the headlines or on the front page of a newspaper?
And now the old professor seems to be the only person that actually cares about the events taking place in Syria.
ISIS has been herded into a Southern region of Syria….where there has been a couple of pot shots fired into the region and all parties seem to be playing some sort of game…..
For instance…the US is only pretending to fight ISIS…….
Not to worry the US has re-started a tried and true technique….body count….
Not to worry….Our Dear Supreme Leader has said that we have defeated ISIS…..
President Trump declared in an interview Tuesday that the U.S. has defeated the Islamic State, even as the military says it will still take months before forces are driven from Syria.
The comments came the same that day that a military spokesman told reporters in the Pentagon that it was unclear whether the remaining fighters could be wiped out by the end of this year.
Since Iran is also fighting in Syria…what happens if they stay….will the US remain as well?
Today, NBC News reported that the new strategy will include ramped up diplomatic and political efforts, but stay within the limits imposed by the current congressional authorization for the use of force in Syria. Part of the Trump administration's strategy will be to withhold reconstruction aid from areas where Iranian and Russian forces are operating, in an attempt to further choke off funds to Tehran. While the strategy appears to seek to avoid direct confrontation between U.S. and Iranian forces, Washington has made it clear that American forces will defend themselves as necessary.
I try to keep my readers up to date on the conflicts that this country is fighting….since the media does not deem these wars as important enough to report on…..I feel I must step in ans fill the gap.
The BBC had a report at the weekend about British volunteers killed fighting with the Kurdish militias against ISIS. Their parents were taken to Syria to see where they were killed, and were received with respect and compassion by the YPG .
You mention that you are probably the only person concerned about what is happening in Syria and you might just be correct.
We pay the troops to handle the heavy lifting of issues surrounding defense and wars. They are doing what they are paid to do in our "Voluntary" Military and they are getting the best food, the best training, the best equipment and the best medical care that money can buy so I do not understand the intensity of your concerns. By the way — The Military does not hide the "Risk Factor" in serving and everyone who signs on the dotted line and puts on the uniform understands the risks to life and limb that may be inherent in their sphere of service. There is no need to be making a big issue out of some of these things.
The "Troops" are expendable pawns on the chessboards of the power brokers. Worse, they are willing pawns. (It is an all-volunteer situation after all.).
I am actually totally certain, positive and convinced that the day when we do not see the dead and their flags will never happen in America. We have been killing our military people in world-wide conflicts for a long time now. I think it is in the dna of the leadership regardless of who they might be. Yes, we will continue to see the dead and their flags — our descendents and their descendents after them will also continue to see the dead and their flags because that is what America does.
War is all we have known since the days of the Redvolution and the Holocaust of the Native Peoples.


Boys Team Scores: Catoosa 163, Central 146, OC Classen 73, Ponca City 71, Bixby 55, B.T. Washington 18, Hale 12.
Girls Team Scores: Idabel 116, Bristow 95, Metro Chrst. 80, OC Douglass 64, Luther 59, Henryetta 39, Okmulgee 36, Beggs 28, Stigler 20, Morris 19, Spiro 10, Stilwell 10, Sequoyah 8, Okemah 0.


Since the music video came into its own as an art form in the 1980s, it has heightened our experience of listening to music in myriad ways. Nicola Meighan explores how video can enhance – or even change – the life of a song.
Henry's whistle stop tour of some of the best packaged vinyl records!
In our new video blog series, award-winning Linn Records pianist, Alisdair Hogarth, sheds light on Mozart's classical underdog – Piano Sonata in A Minor.
My favourite record is the one that I keep coming back to the most. Since it's (relatively recent) release, I have quite literally lost count of the number of times I've listened to it, both on CD and vinyl. Yep, I bought it twice. That record is John Frusciante's The Will To Death.
Are some music streaming channels causing us to listen to music in a glass house? Can we really call the consistent, automatic Facebook posting of everything we listen to on streaming sites, such as Spotify, sharing?
Enjoy a taste of our 40th Anniversary Celebrations which culminated in a fantastic day at the Linn Factory followed by an evening gig by Admiral Fallow in Glasgow's historic Merchant Square.
Check out the winning music review from our 24-bits of Christmas Kiko Competition. Matt Picco wrote a great, inventive poem telling us all about his favourite Studio Master track.
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Find out more about our open source software and get access to our developer forum and resources.
Linn was started in 1972 by Glaswegian, Ivor Tiefenbrun. Ivor was passionate about music. He couldn't find a music system that was good enough to meet his exacting standards. So he decided to make his own.
Today, Linn DS sets the music standard for digital music players and outperforms every other CD or digital player on the market. It embodies everything we've learned about music and our passion for creating great music systems which last.
Some things haven't changed. Linn is based just outside Glasgow and still owned and run by the Tiefenbrun family. Most importantly, the passion for music and commitment to excellence that inspired Ivor back in 1972, still drives Linn today.
Not only did the Sondek LP12 improve sound quality, it turned the hi-fi industry on its head by proving once and for all that the source of music is the most important link in the chain.
We wanted to make a digital music player without compromise — something that combined our passion for music with the latest technologies to make everything you listen to at home sound better.
Ivor Tiefenbrun has always been passionate about music. Sent out by his wife to buy much-needed furniture for their first flat, he came back with a hi-fi. He bought an expensive turntable and speakers but was deeply disappointed by the sound quality — he could only listen to music for a couple of hours, before wanting to turn it off.
Ivor was also a keen engineer and he made an interesting discovery: the music sounded better when he put the speakers in a different room from the turntable. He found this rather puzzling. How could the speakers interfere with the turntable? He decided to explore this further and so began a 40-year old love affair with music systems.
The answer lay in the quality of the engineering. The turntable was so badly designed and made, it was affected by the vibrations from the speakers. The only solution was to go back to basics.
Ivor redesigned the turntable from first principles using precision-engineered components to ensure a constant speed and minimum distortion. The result was the Sondek LP12 turntable. It was a revolutionary design backed by new levels of manufacturing quality, with parts made to the same standards required for aerospace.
The Sondek LP12 was launched in 1972. It introduced the music world to unique features, such as the patented single-point bearing which inspired the Linn logo. More importantly, it retrieved more music from a record than any other turntable on the market, then and now. You only had to listen to hear the difference.
This set a standard for Linn which still holds true today. We don't just design outstanding products; we build them to the most exacting standards, sometimes to within 0.001 mm. It's about accuracy, consistency and reliability.
Back in the early 70s, the conventional wisdom was that sound quality was determined by good or bad speakers. The experts believed the hi-fi chain started with the speakers and worked down to the source of the music, which at that time was the turntable. Ivor proved the opposite to be true — that the source of the music was the most important.
Ivor took to the road with his new precision-engineered Sondek LP12 and demonstrated the difference to everyone who would listen. He could put the LP12 with their cheapest speakers and it would still out-perform any other turntable and speakers combination. The LP12 sounded so much better, it started a revolution — in thought, design and performance.
No matter how good the amplifiers or loudspeakers, you can't get back what has already been lost. Quite simply, information lost at the source is lost forever. In computing it's known as Garbage In, Garbage Out; but it means the same thing. This seems perfectly sensible to us now. But then we're all children of the revolution.
Ivor didn't set out to build a business; he simply wanted to listen to great music at home. But inspired by the musical improvements he achieved with the LP12, he established Linn Products with the aim of increasing the quality of sound all the way from the microphone to the ear.
Ivor's son Gilad joined Linn in 2003 with the dream of creating a digital music player which would do for digital what his father's LP12 had done for analogue: revolutionise the source by eliminating the weakest link.
The launch of the iconic CD12 in 1999 proved that Linn could excel at both analogue and digital music players. But as good as the CD12 was, it was held back by the limitations of the compact disc format. The new CDs were easy to use and heavily marketed, but in truth there was far less information on a CD than vinyl or 8-track tape.
Linn supported the emergence of disc formats such as Super Audio CD (SACD) and High Definition CD (HD-CD) because they offered better audio quality than the standard CD. We launched the Unidisk as an ''all-formats' disc player and began to release Linn Records music in these higher quality formats.
SACD offered higher quality than the standard CD but it never really took off. Not much music was released and most people didn't own a SACD player. SACD was a proprietary Sony technology and their tight control and high licensing costs made it difficult for both manufacturers and customers to enjoy the benefits.
As head of R&D at Linn, Gilad experienced first-hand the difficulties involved in supporting a 'closed' proprietary format during the Unidisk launch. Despite the massive investment made in SACD by Linn and other manufacturers and labels, they were wholly reliant on Sony to correct problems within the SACD platform itself. Gilad resolved never again to put faith in a proprietary disc-based format that required specialised hardware. Instead, he started to think about a new type of music player that wasn't tied to one particular disc or format but would fully realise the potential of digital music...a digital LP12.
Gilad's dream was a music player that would play all digital music and make everything sound better, a digital LP12. The only way to create this was to build a system from scratch, using open standards and formats to create something designed specially for music and engineered to last.
By 2002, Linn Records were recording music at increasingly higher quality in order to capture every last detail.
The logical step was to create a standalone music player that was capable of playing this higher resolution music and design it to work on a standard home network. Building it for the 'open' network rather than a proprietary system would ensure it worked alongside the growing number of networked products and make it easier for anyone to get started.
We developed a streaming platform from scratch that would allow music to be pulled from the network rather than read from a drive within the player itself. Sound quality improved greatly and there would be no reliance on particular discs or formats — music could be ripped to a hard drive from any disc or downloaded from the internet at any resolution.
The growth of broadband meant most homes already had a home network and faster download speeds were available to download better than CD-quality music directly from linnrecords.com. These new Studio Master files were too large to be stored on a normal CD anyway.
Klimax DS was launched in 2007 and proved that Linn DS sounded better than any CD or digital player available.


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Areije Al Shakar is Senior Vice President, Head of Development Services at Bahrain Development Bank (BDB). After over 6 years at BDB, her role and involvement at the bank includes training, coaching, business guidance, and business development. She established the Rowad Program at BDB, a holistic entrepreneur support platform focused on creating a regional entrepreneurship eco-system through its partners and network. Areije helped set up Bahrain's first home grown accelerator SeedFuel-Rowad, a program that is managed and run out of BDB. Areije works closely with entrepreneurs on a daily basis, coaching and mentoring them at various stages of the entrepreneurship business cycle beginning with start-up through to growth, expansion, and even turnaround management. Her role also involves the development of programs, products, and services to support entrepreneurship in the country which include the establishment of incubators, clusters, and other associated initiatives. Areije's work also involves close interaction with network organizations with the aim of building awareness and fostering an entrepreneurial culture. She is Editor in Chief of Rowad Magazine and represents BDB on the board of Rukn.me and Tenmou. Areije Al Shakar has over 12 years of experience in banking and advisory. She has worked in reputable organizations such as BNP Paribas and Lehman Brothers on the Investment Management and Advisory side. She holds a Master's of Science in Public Policy and Management, from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and is a Certified Business Coach and Mentor, from the Chartered Management Institute, UK.


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Divenne famoso per il suo coinvolgimento nel mondo criminale di Melbourne.
Gatto è un mediatore professionale nell'industria di Melbourne. Gestisce una catena di compagnie.

Nel 2004 Mick Gatto fu accusato dell'omicidio del killer Andrew Veniamin e fu messo in custodia per 18 mesi.
Al processo fu dichiarato non colpevole, durante il quale Gatto dichiarò che agì per difesa personale e che fu minacciato di essere ucciso.
Poi disse che ebbe con lui una colluttazione e fu in grado di rivolgere la canna della pistola verso Veniamin e sparare un colpo all'altezza del collo e uno nell'occhio.
In quella conversazione Veniamin gli confessò di essere implicato nella morte di Dino Dibra, Paul Kallipolitis e Graham Kinniburgh.

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VINTAGES releases thousands of wines each year, and this is consistently a top seller. It put Pinot Grigio on the map with its refreshing green apple, peach and citrus notes. A favourite with a plate of antipasti, grilled chicken or seafood salad.
Tasting Note: VINTAGES releases thousands of wines each year, and this is consistently a top seller. It put Pinot Grigio on the map with its refreshing green apple, peach and citrus notes. A favourite with a plate of antipasti, grilled chicken or seafood salad.
Serving Suggestion: Serves well as an aperitif wine, with antipasto, gnocchi, carbonara and cream sauces or light meat dishes with mushrooms.


Vancouver Spine Care Centre's chiropractic spinal manipulation eases neck, shoulder and arm pain. Medical research is crying out for more conservative, non-surgical care of such pain. On top of that, there are even predictive elements to figure out if chiropractic spinal manipulation will aid your neck pain, shoulder pain, and arm pain. Such signals may even recognize if the pain and disability you are afflicted with will be soothed with chiropractic care. Vancouver Spine Care Centre tests, diagnoses and treats neck pain and accompanying shoulder and arm pain with the mildest of care.
Have faith in our Vancouver chiropractor and our chiropractic services to soothe your pain.
How? Conservatively. No drugs or surgery. Why should you give a chance to Vancouver Spine Care Centre as your Vancouver neck pain relief center? Our non-surgical care. A new research document just came out asserting that even a cervical spine disc herniation may resorb without surgery. It advises conservative treatment of the cervical disc herniation for 2 months before surgical intervention is turned to, except, of course, there are specific neurological signs to signify earlier need. (1) We recognize those and will unquestionably talk about them with you and refer you, if needed, to a Vancouver spine surgeon.
So, contact Vancouver Spine Care Centre to get relief and meet with your Vancouver chiropractor to relieve your neck, shoulder and/or arm pain with our gentle, safe care.


Margie J. Baldock's "The Mother Lode Manifesto" is a book that aims to give women the tools and inspiration necessary to achieve their financial goals.
Baldock, as an entrepreneur, property developer, and financial commentator, comes from an eclectic background, and at the same time, she is very active in her family life.
Baldock calls upon her personal background frequently in the book to offer concrete examples of how she solved the work-family balance problem.
The book begins with a significant amount of social commentary on women's history; then the author shifts toward giving advice on how to reach financial goals as a woman.
One of the strengths of the book is that the author lays out her plans in a step-by-step fashion, making it easy for the reader to follow along.
Additionally, Baldock knows that every woman has different interests, so she lays out different options for attaining wealth, such as property investing and starting a business from scratch.
Baldock includes information outside the specific financial aspects of wealth, such as how to have the proper mindset and how to gain support from your family.
The book also includes references to helpful resources the author has provided on her website.
Overall, "The Mother Lode Manifesto" is a great personal finance book, with lots of history and social commentary, for any woman looking to achieve wealth in a way that meets the demands of her life.


Matt Doherty made it an afternoon to remember for the Wolves supporters at Selhurst Park on Saturday. Can you spot yourself celebrating?
Ryan Bennett believes the down-to-earth nature of the current Wolves squad is helping them stay grounded after an excellent start to their Premier League campaign.
Wolves TV brings you all the angles of Matt Doherty's winning goal at Selhurst Park.
Another three points locked in after a whole-hearted performance at Crystal Palace. Matt Doherty's strike may have earned Wolves three points but here are five other things we noticed during a rainy afternoon in south London.


There is a growing need for fitness in Lancashire as people in the UK continue to grow fatter every year. Being overweight can significantly increase the risk of heart problems in later life, as well as several other ailments. The chances of long-term fitness in Lancashire are far greater if people find activities they enjoy on a regular basis. Whether it's cycling or membership of a local gym, there are plenty of ways to get fit and lose weight. However, it is often the cost of such activities that stops people from participating. Thanks to leisure offers from Groupon, people can now access a range of discount vouchers in only a few seconds. The vouchers can be printed as many times as you need, so your friends and family can get fitter with you!
Being fit usually means that your general health is in a good state. However, for many people, the cost of fitness in Lancashire is simply too much to bear. The cost of participating in sport and leisure is high because regular payments are often needed. It doesn't matter whether you play Badminton three times a week or join a local gym, the cash required is significant. However, Lancashire fitness regimes no longer have to cost a fortune. There are some simply incredible leisure offers on the internet which drastically reduce the price of regular sporting activity. Simply log on to the Groupon website, and print your vouchers today!


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Wkly Report: Short Term List returned 79% High growth stock: NVIDIA Corporation ($NVDA) at 197%
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One of the biggest challenges in investing in the stock market is picking the best stocks. In my book, "The Confident Investor" I teach my readers how to pick Good Companies. This page is designed to show the raw performance of these companies. It is not designed to show my personal portfolio, which may or may not exceed the performance stated here. Since I use the trading system described in my book, you can assume that I beat the performance recorded here.
I must caution you, I do not actually propose that you "buy and hold" any given stock, but rather you should "buy to hold" the stock. My investing technique teaches you to efficiently move your money to the stocks that are currently increasing in value the most. I use my Watch List for this work, these are Good Companies that I wait for great buying opportunities. This strategy is well described in my book, "The Confident Investor" and tends to be a very safe strategy in bear markets while typically still providing above market returns in a bull or flat market.
My Short Term Watch List are 15 companies that are hot right now. I select this list every quarter. I evenly divide a portion of my portfolio among these 15 companies. The next quarter, I add or delete companies as necessary and then re-balance the portfolio. This tends to be a more risky strategy because I don't bail out on bad stock movement (at least until the end of the quarter). In a bull market or a flat market, these very well-run and high-performing companies tend to beat the general market by a significant margin.
You can purchase my book wherever books are sold such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Books A Million. It is available in paperback as well as e-book formats for Nook, Kindle, and iPad.
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AAPL Apple Inc. $116.97 $58.47 100.04% $95.74 22.17% $112.00 4.44% $113.02 3.49%
ABMD ABIOMED, Inc. $273.56 $169.64 61.26% $264.51 3.42% $269.77 1.40% $261.99 4.42%
ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated $502.16 $278.29 80.44% $466.20 7.71% $471.35 6.54% $478.99 4.84%
ALGN Align Technology, Inc. $328.64 $200.16 64.19% $273.29 20.25% $317.66 3.46% $314.89 4.37%
AMAT Applied Materials, Inc. $63.29 $51.03 24.01% $62.38 1.46% $55.00 15.07% $58.21 8.73%
AMZN Amazon.com, Inc. $3,286.65 $1,731.92 89.77% $3,200.00 2.71% $3,116.22 5.47% $3,125.00 5.17%
ANET Arista Networks Inc $227.61 $236.44 -3.73% $216.11 5.32% $203.81 11.68% $203.90 11.63%
AVGO Broadcom Inc $376.70 $268.07 40.52% $316.52 19.01% $356.41 5.69% $356.83 5.57%
CSGP CoStar Group Inc $874.37 $614.12 42.38% $722.03 21.10% $785.65 11.29% $855.10 2.25%
CVGW Calavo Growers, Inc. $68.62 $92.63 -25.92% $59.26 15.79% $63.58 7.93% $67.76 1.27%
DPZ Domino's Pizza, Inc. $390.95 $255.55 52.98% $397.51 -1.65% $393.89 -0.75% $433.78 -9.87%
ETFC E*TRADE Financial Corp $49.26 $39.00 26.30% $51.30 -3.98% $52.24 -5.70% $49.26 0.00%
EPAM EPAM Systems Inc $337.25 $189.02 78.42% $261.14 29.15% $314.95 7.08% $326.92 3.16%
EVR Evercore Inc $73.83 $73.47 0.48% $54.83 34.65% $61.80 19.47% $69.01 6.98%
FB Facebook, Inc. Common Stock $264.45 $184.19 43.57% $245.07 7.91% $266.61 -0.81% $259.94 1.74%
FIVE Five Below Inc $135.78 $130.15 4.33% $101.13 34.26% $130.02 4.43% $129.42 4.91%
FND Floor & Decor Holdings Inc $79.64 $48.92 62.80% $59.62 33.58% $71.56 11.29% $75.53 5.44%
FSS Federal Signal Corporation $31.20 $31.75 -1.72% $28.29 10.28% $31.19 0.03% $29.73 4.94%
FTNT Fortinet Inc $126.18 $79.16 59.40% $145.80 -13.46% $115.17 9.56% $116.38 8.42%
GOOGL Alphabet Inc Class A $1,510.45 $1,215.71 24.24% $1,539.01 -1.86% $1,515.76 -0.35% $1,455.60 3.77%
GTN Gray Television, Inc. $13.59 $15.66 -13.22% $13.91 -2.30% $14.51 -6.34% $13.57 0.15%
ILMN Illumina, Inc. $339.04 $302.58 12.05% $370.25 -8.43% $349.93 -3.11% $308.43 9.92%
JAZZ Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC $155.41 $118.67 30.96% $106.60 45.79% $136.80 13.60% $143.50 8.30%
KEYS Keysight Technologies Inc $105.26 $95.00 10.80% $97.64 7.80% $92.35 13.98% $98.27 7.11%
KNX Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc $40.25 $35.84 12.30% $43.78 -8.07% $45.20 -10.95% $41.61 -3.27%
LGIH LGI Homes Inc $126.26 $82.51 53.02% $101.61 24.26% $112.53 12.20% $126.20 0.05%
LRCX Lam Research Corporation $362.71 $233.13 55.58% $338.68 7.10% $292.86 23.85% $328.71 10.34%
LULU Lululemon Athletica inc. $346.46 $201.62 71.84% $314.39 10.20% $313.39 10.55% $332.67 4.15%
MA Mastercard Inc $352.39 $274.46 28.39% $295.34 19.32% $329.77 6.86% $338.44 4.12%
MKSI MKS Instruments, Inc. $118.88 $92.95 27.90% $112.30 5.85% $103.30 15.08% $108.46 9.61%
MKTX MarketAxess Holdings Inc. $522.05 $346.24 50.78% $536.60 -2.71% $453.07 15.23% $482.52 8.19%
MTZ MasTec, Inc. $46.75 $65.68 -28.82% $38.07 22.80% $42.93 8.90% $42.61 9.72%
MU Micron Technology, Inc. $49.89 $45.10 10.62% $50.70 -1.60% $46.09 8.24% $46.55 7.18%
MTCH Match Group Inc $112.38 $74.10 51.66% $100.39 11.94% $103.65 8.42% $111.94 0.39%
NFLX Netflix, Inc. $539.44 $282.93 90.66% $548.73 -1.69% $482.03 11.91% $503.06 7.23%
NSP Insperity Inc $72.23 $98.68 -26.80% $62.41 15.73% $62.91 14.81% $67.54 6.94%
NVDA NVIDIA Corporation $550.51 $185.60 196.61% $419.05 31.37% $486.58 13.14% $522.49 5.36%
NXST Nexstar Media Group Inc $92.16 $96.60 -4.60% $79.29 16.23% $96.99 -4.98% $89.96 2.45%
PATK Patrick Industries, Inc. $64.10 $41.49 54.50% $58.77 9.06% $52.18 22.84% $63.48 0.98%
PYPL Paypal Holdings Inc $197.27 $101.58 94.20% $178.40 10.58% $184.00 7.21% $191.91 2.79%
SBUX Starbucks Corporation $90.01 $84.62 6.37% $73.89 21.82% $85.27 5.56% $86.57 3.97%
SUI Sun Communities Inc $148.14 $148.65 -0.34% $134.79 9.90% $140.82 5.20% $150.34 -1.46%
SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc $154.28 $84.09 83.47% $130.76 17.98% $136.15 13.32% $146.83 5.07%
THRM Gentherm Inc $46.84 $41.09 13.99% $38.08 23.00% $43.18 8.48% $42.97 9.01%
TMUS T-Mobile Us Inc $117.23 $79.53 47.40% $107.05 9.51% $111.58 5.06% $113.41 3.37%
TNET TriNet Group Inc $65.76 $59.03 11.40% $59.88 9.82% $61.53 6.87% $60.61 8.50%
ULTA Ulta Beauty Inc $233.55 $248.46 -6.00% $195.99 19.16% $228.90 2.03% $228.68 2.13%
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc $327.84 $218.50 50.04% $290.03 13.04% $301.48 8.74% $311.98 5.08%
V Visa Inc $206.64 $175.94 17.45% $192.26 7.48% $200.68 2.97% $201.46 2.57%
VEEV Veeva Systems Inc $294.12 $152.04 93.45% $254.16 15.72% $264.53 11.19% $275.56 6.74%
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2012 Bands, Brews & BBQ at SeaWorld Orlando: The beer garden.
I know that the Band Brew and BBQ promotion at SeaWorld Orlando has been going on for some time, but I had never been before this year. We went to see the Doobie Brothers on February 25 and Scotty McCreery on March 4. I was pleasantly surprised at both events. The Bayside Stadium is really a nice place to have a concert. The stadium has individual seats with an upper and lower level. The sound quality was great and the backdrop for the performers was of the lake and the Manta ride. It was really stunning.
For the Doobie Brothers concert, the crowd was a little older and more laid back and drank more beer. They played for almost 2 hours. They have been around for a while and have a plethora of hit songs. For Scotty McCreery, if you didn't get there early you were out of luck in getting a good seat. There were a lot of young girls with their parents. A lot of screaming and the concert lasted a little under an hour. No big surprise since he just became famous after winning American Idol and only has about 4 or 5 songs to his name.
After the concert, we hung around for dinner since both concerts started at 4:00 pm. The design encompasses a variety of vendor carts along the walkway leading up to the stadium. The vendors featured were local BBQ restaurants such as Wesley's BBQ, Sonny's BBQ and Bubbalou's Bodacious BBQ. SeaWorld even had their own cart. They also had popcorn and other snacks besides BBQ. The set up reminded me a lot of a Fiesta in the Park type of event around Lake Eola in downtown Orlando. The prices were reasonable such as $8 – $12 for a dinner (minus the drink).
Depending on your tastes, the BBQ pork waffle sandwich was one of the highlights or lowlights at this year's Bands, Brews & BBQ.
The feature was the Beer Garden where you can sample a variety of beers. You pay for a lanyard where they will punch up to 12 tastings. You can have the sample size or the full size (see the image at the top of the page). This was interesting and allows for you to sample unknown label beers.
Before departing the park, we had to walk around SeaWorld and see the sharks and pet the dolphins. What is a trip to SeaWorld without seeing some type of animal?
Overall I was impressed by the experience and would recommend it. The only thing is the promotion is over and should be returning next February. I would certainly come back.


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Charlie Brenneman vs. Erick Silva slated for UFC on FX 3
A welterweight bout between Charlie Brenneman (15-3 MMA, 4-2 UFC) and Erick Silva (13-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) is in the works for UFC on FX 3.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) today confirmed the planned matchup. Silva recently tweeted that he's fighting at the event, and Globo later reported his opponent. UFC officials haven't formally announced the bout, though.
UFC on FX 3 takes place June 8.
No host city or venue are set for the event, which is part of the Harley-Davidson Hometown Throwdown promotion, in which fight fans vote on the location.
Regardless, the event's main card airs on FX, and FUEL TV and Facebook are expected to carry the prelims. It's not clear where Brenneman vs. Silva will be placed on the lineup.
Brenneman recently rebounded from a TKO loss to Anthony Johnson and picked up his third win in four fights with a unanimous-decision victory over Daniel Roberts. The former Lock Haven University and "Pros vs. Joes" reality-show winner also owns UFC victories over the likes of Jason High, Amilcar Alves and – in one of 2011's bigger upsets – Rick Story.
Silva, a veteran of the Brazilian circuit, made his highly anticipated UFC debut in August and extended his win streak to nine fights with a TKO victory over Luis Ramos. However, in his most recent bout, he dominated Carlo Prater at UFC 142 in January but suffered a controversial DQ loss after the referee complained of an illegal blow to the back of the head. UFC officials, who regulated the overseas event, said the decision couldn't be appealed or overturned due to the referee's verbal warnings and his determination that the blows were intentional.
Regardless, UFC officials issued Silva his win bonus anyway.
For more on UFC on FX 3, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
(Pictured: Erick Silva)


Description	 I see the message about my spellcasting reaching level 4, and it requiring me to select a new skill, then the game crashes immediately.
I've attached both the crash log and save file.
Welcome, Anglot the Deep Elf Fire Elementalist.
Found a sedimented emerald potion, a scroll labeled PENTOW NICH and a club.
Welcome back, Anglot the Deep Elf Fire Elementalist.
A dart slug comes into view.
A leopard gecko comes into view.
The flame tongue hits the dart slug.
The dart slug is moderately wounded.
The leopard gecko hisses angrily.
The dart slug is heavily wounded.
You feel a strange surge of energy!
The dart slug is almost dead.
The slug dart hits you!
You kill the dart slug!
The goblin closely misses you.
The flame tongue misses the goblin. The leopard gecko barely misses you. The goblin misses you.
You don't have enough magic to cast Flame Tongue!
The flame tongue hits the goblin.
The flame tongue hits the leopard gecko.
You kill the leopard gecko!
A hobgoblin comes into view.
The flame tongue hits the hobgoblin.
The flame tongue misses the hobgoblin. The hobgoblin closely misses you.
The dart slug is too close now for your liking.
The slug dart misses you.
The dart slug is lightly wounded.
Training target 4.0 for Spellcasting reached!
Your Spellcasting skill increases to level 4!
You need to enable at least one skill for training.
Further detail: If I enable a second skill *before* leveling up spellcasting, the game does not crash, it appears that the crash bug is specific to achieving your target skill level in the only skill you are training.
Confirmed that the bug still occurs in 0.22-a0-799-g88f5e90, Reproduced it with a new character.
Thanks for reporting! This was fixed by advil at 4c1e2d5471; should be working fine now.


On 18th September, a selection of Church literature and media were presented to students from a senior RME class at Glenrothes High School in Fife. In the Autumn term, the senior students study World Religions and members were asked to visit their class for one period to talk about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The students were all engaged and asked a few questions. They were particularly interested in the Family History information and they were left with a few copies of "Our Family".
The students were invited to learn more by attending the local interfaith group and view a few Church films including Meet the Mormons and The Testaments.
Karen, the RME teacher, was thrilled with the presentation and the materials left. She is excited to read them herself and looks forward to discussing more with her pupils.
These films were among the things presented along with a copy of the Book of Mormon, The Encyclopaedia of Mormonism, Our Search for Happiness, and other publications.
The students were also given a list of websites, including the Church's YouTube channel, Facebook and Twitter pages, so they can research anything of particular interest on official church sites.


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John Heskett (26 May 1937 – 25 February 2014) was a British writer and lecturer on the economic, political, cultural and human value of industrial design. Heskett taught primary in the fields of design history and design thinking, and was a professor at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology (1989–2004) and the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2004–11), where he became the acting dean (2011–12). He was also a visiting professor at various universities in Turkey, Japan, Chile, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland.

Between the late 1970s and 2010, he published Industrial Design and Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life, and several other books. These are considered to be significant contributions to the study of the history of design, to the study of design policy and latterly to the theoretical and applied articulation of the economic value created by design, first in the United Kingdom, then in the United States, and, in the last decade of his life, in Hong Kong.

Early life and education
Born in Coventry in 1937, Heskett went to the Humphrey Perkins School in Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire (1947–54); did national service; and gained a degree in economics, politics and history at the London School of Economics.

Career
With his background, Heskett began to write history considering social, economic and political as components of design. In the early 1970s, he became part of an emerging generation of historians of design. A variety of positions followed before he obtained a design history post at Lanchester Polytechnic (1967–77). Then he taught design history and theory in Sheffield, and at Ravensbourne College, Bromley, in south-east London (1984–89).
In the late 1970s, he became a prominent member of a group of academics who developed the discipline of design history and theory. His first book, Industrial Design, published in 1980, was instantly successful, since it provided one of the first accounts of industrial design as responses to changes in production methods and the organization of capitalism. His 2002 book, Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life, became a common introductory text to design history due to its wide scope and interdisciplinary breadth.

In United States
Heskett left the United Kingdom for the United States in 1988, first to work on a project with the Design Management Institute in Boston, and, then after 1989, to teach in the graduate programmes of the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. By 1990, he was working for a Japanese consultancy and, throughout the next decades, he was invited to speak and advise at institutional and governmental levels in Mexico, Chile, Finland, Japan, Taiwan and South Africa.

In Hong Kong
Since 2004 in Hong Kong, Heskett undertook teaching and research concerning the roles of design in production and more widely in the economy as a whole, examining design policy at national levels in the United States, Europe and, increasingly, Asia.

Heskett was a member of the INDEX: Design to Improve Life Award Jury from 2004 and a board member of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design from 2007.

Personal life
Heskett was survived by his second wife, Pamela Smith, whom he married in 1992; his daughter, Ingrid, and son, Peter, both from his first marriage, to Irene Alksnis, which ended in divorce.

Bibliography
Books As single author;

 A John Heskett Reader, edited by Clive Dilnot, Bloomsbury Publishing, New York ( forthcoming 2016)
 Works in China, Joint author with Michael Young, privately published, Hong Kong (2011)
 Design: a very short introduction (2005) Translated into Spanish, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese, Greek, Chinese, Turkish and Serbo-Croat. Oxford University Press, Oxford. This book is the second edition of Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.
 Philips: A Study of the Corporate Management of Design  Trefoil Publications, London, and Rizzoli, New York. (1989)
  Design in Germany 1870-1918 Trefoil Press, London and Taplinger, New York. (1986)
  Industrial Design  Translated into Spanish as Breve historia del diseño industrial, Portuguese as Desenho industrial, Japanese as インダストリアル.デザインの歴史, Korean, Dutch as Industriële vormgeving and Italian. Thames & Hudson, London.

Books Edited;

 Very Hong Kong: design 1997-2007, with Hong Kong Design Centre and Hong Kong Trade Development Centre (2007).
 Designed in Hong Kong, with Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Hong Kong (2004).

Reports;

 Design In Asia: Review of national design policies and business use of design in China, South Korea and Taiwan Research report commissioned by the Design Council, UK as a contribution to Sir George Cox ' s report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the future of design in the United Kingdom (2005).
 Shaping the Future: Design for Hong Kong: Report of the Design Education Task Force, Hong Kong Design Centre and Hong Kong Trade Development Centre (2003).

References

External links

* John Heskett Official Website

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Design educators
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2014 deaths
People from Coventry
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Academics of Coventry University
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