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Something for Everyone with DXP.
As we help our clients to converge myriad of digital technologies including portals, CMS, analytics, mobile apps, cloud systems and many more into unified experiences, traditionally at IMSS, we never stopped to equip ourselves with the same. These unified experiences (or DXPs, a short form for Digital Experience Platforms), are increasingly playing huge role in the customer digital experience of any company, not just from a user perspective, but also from a sales and marketing perspective. Although, we are exploring how we can help companies to define a DXP roadmap for long-term and integrate the digital products offered by many vendors, it is only recently, we started working on the aspects of DXP which can address multiple dimensions of customer, business and operations.
Until now, we relied on various siloed products like responsive portals, analytics, campaign management, sales management, but with our long-term path we set towards DXP, we took a first step to build our gateway to the world with CMS for content management.
Despite the attempts to bring clarity by many vendors with their comprehensive solutions as well as analysts, DXP by definition cannot be an off-the-shelf term. It is a bespoke suite to create a rich digital customer experience – as the name suggests – it should be customer focused outwards, not inwards. Although, there are some pre-packaged DXP platforms available, the overhead and the need to customize functionalities for our processes, we changed our thought-process to allow ourselves build multiple meaningful applications – like a customizable collaboration suite. Our path to DXP is with a heavy CMS focus, to share any type of asset across multiple touchpoints.
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Our old website, although responsive for multiple devices, did not offer an easy way to maintain content. The maintenance was adhoc, archaic with multiple dependencies. Hence, we worked on an intermediary CMS which can provide us with WYSIWYG experience with touchpoint optimization. We integrated with analytics tools which can provide insights on customer behaviour and actions across all devices.
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As the content is not limited by the presentation aspects, in Headless/Decoupled CMS, it is called virgin content and a single instance of it can be used for multiple customer touch points. There are multiple headless CMS solutions available including GraphCMS, ButterCMS, SiteLeaf, Prismic, Contentful and many more but for us, we felt we still need an external user interface and we took an intermediary step which in some limited form, can handle both headless states as well as enable us to quickly rollout content as we can with traditional CMS. Also, it is difficult right now, to fully define access controls with most of the fully headless CMS platforms.
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Global Automotive Fleet Leasing Market Trends, Applications, Analysis, Growth, and Forecast: 2018 to 2027
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"Global Automotive Fleet Leasing Market Analysis Trends, Applications, Analysis, Growth, and Forecast to 2027" is a recent report generated by MarketResearch.biz, which offers in-depth insights, revenue details, and other vital information regarding the global automotive fleet leasing market, and the various trends, drivers, restraints, opportunities, and threats in the target market till 2027. The report offers insightful and detailed information regarding the various key players operating in the market, their financials, supply chain trends, technological innovations, key developments, apart from future strategies, acquisitions & mergers, and market footprint. Global automotive fleet leasing market report has been segmented on the basis of technology, vehicle type, application and region.
This report is based on synthesis, analysis, and interpretation of information gathered regarding the target market from various sources. Our analysts have analyzed the information and data and gained insights using a mix of primary and secondary research efforts with the primary objective to provide a holistic view of the market. In addition, an in-house study has been made of the global economic conditions and other economic indicators and factors to assess their respective impact on the market historically, as well as the current impact in order to make informed forecasts about the scenarios in future.
Fleet leasing vehicles are group of vehicles that are owned or leased by government agencies or organizations which are operated by car leasing companies such as cabs, public utilities, and others. Some benefits of this service such as lower cost of hiring, access to fuel expenditure records, tracking of mileage and location, assistance in insurance claims and repairs, superior operational management of fleet etc., are influencing business entities and individual customers to adopt leasing as a viable option.
Growth of automotive fleet leasing market is influencing by developing automotive sector and growing awareness about the advantages of fleet leasing. In addition, various government regulations and initiatives aimed at creating a more reliable and secure transportation network which are favoring the development of intelligent transport systems. Furthermore, growing e-commerce business and cab services across the globe which is significantly amplifying the need for efficient fleet management solutions. However, restrictions in car leasing agreement and expense involved in replacing with the original equipment at the time of collision or accidents, are expected to hinder growth of automotive fleet leasing market. Recent trend shows that, fleet operators are also investing in fleet management solutions that can enable predictive maintenance and fleet optimization by tracking and managing diagnostic data remotely. Another major trend in the automotive fleet leasing market is emergence of captive finance. General Motors captive finance, Lincoln Ford finance, and Shift finance are the major players of who offers captive finance options in the Americas.
Geographically, North America market is expected to dominate the global automotive fleet leasing market. Technological advancements, and new mobility solutions such as hybrid vehicles and electric vehicles, are some of the factors expected to encourage companies to come up with new personalized mobility services to satisfy the changing needs and preferences of consumers. The finance and leasing sector in above-mentioned region is expected to witness a significant growth over the forecast period. In addition, market players also offer various appealing offers to customers ranging from flexible payment terms to 0% financing. Moreover, many captive finance companies are offering retail banking products, such as credit card facilities, to increase market share. Furthermore, Asia Pacific region is expected to grow with highest CAGR during the forecast period. Low fleet lease payment rates compared to loan due payment also influences business entities and individual customers to adopt leasing as a viable option.
Segmentation on the basis of Lease Type:
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Segmentation on the basis of Vehicle type
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Segmentation on the basis of Region:
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'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Jay Leno ('Jay Leno's Garage')
"When you work in show business, you get paid stupid money for silly things," says Jay Leno, the former host of NBC's The Tonight Show (1992-2009, 2010-2014), Television Hall of Fame inductee and recipient of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (both in 2014), as we sit down to record an episode of The Hollywood Reporter's 'Awards Chatter' podcast. We're meeting in Leno's office within one of several cavernous warehouses near the Hollywood Burbank Airport where he houses and maintains 160 cars and 130 motorcycles and shoots the show that he now hosts, CNBC's Jay Leno's Garage. Its profile and audience are a fraction of those possessed by the iconic late-night franchise over which the 67-year-old presided for 23 years, but it has brought him just as many Emmys — he won for outstanding variety, music or comedy series for The Tonight Show in 1995 and outstanding short-format nonfiction program for Jay Leno's Garage in 2011 — and seems to give him every bit as much satisfaction. "The heart works best when the hands and the head work together," he says with a smile that juts out what may be the most recognizable chin of all time.
(Click above to listen to this episode or here to access all of our 150+ episodes via iTunes. Past guests include Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Eddie Murphy, Lady Gaga, Robert De Niro, Amy Schumer, Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, Louis C.K., Emma Stone, Harvey Weinstein, Natalie Portman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jane Fonda, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nicole Kidman, Aziz Ansari, Taraji P. Henson, J.J. Abrams, Helen Mirren, Justin Timberlake, Brie Larson, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Vikander, Warren Beatty, Jessica Chastain, Samuel L. Jackson, Kate Winslet, Sting, Isabelle Huppert, Tyler Perry, Sally Field, Michael Moore, Lily Collins, Denzel Washington, Mandy Moore, Ricky Gervais, Kristen Stewart, James Corden, Sarah Silverman, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Maher, Lily Tomlin, Rami Malek, Allison Janney, Trevor Noah, Olivia Wilde, Eddie Redmayne, Claire Foy & Andy Cohen.)
Leno was born in New Rochelle, New York to an insurance salesman father and melancholic housewife mother, and he grew up in Andover, Massachusetts. trying to make his mom laugh. He overcame his dyslexia enough to attend Emerson College in Boston, where he developed his interest in comedy (he loved the work of Robert Klein) by venturing into standup (in jazz clubs, strip clubs, retirement homes, mental hospitals and prisons). After graduating, he moved to New York City and continued to perform, but, not long after an unsuccessful audition for Saturday Night Live, he decided to relocate to Los Angeles. "The comedy scene was out here, Johnny Carson had just moved to California, all the shows were out here — I thought, 'Well, this seems to be the place to be.'"
Things in L.A. weren't immediately wonderful for Leno — he briefly was homeless and was picked up by police for vagrancy on several occasions — but once he won stage time at The Comedy Store he quickly made a name for himself. He and another young comedian there, contemporary David Letterman, became mutual admirers and friends. "Letterman was very awkward as a performer — kind of shuffling and looking at the ground — but a brilliant wordsmith," Leno recalls. "I went up to him and I said, 'Oh, man, you really use words well.' And he goes, 'Well, I was watching you. How can you be so confident on stage?' So we sort of took a little bit from each other at that point." Leno soon began landing spots on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and The Merv Griffin Show. Letterman, meanwhile, was the first to land a TV show of his own, Late Night with David Letterman, in the 1980s, and Leno was a frequent guest.
From 1987 through 1991, Leno served as the main substitute for Carson, and then, when Carson announced that he would be stepping down in 1992, NBC offered Leno the job of replacing him and becoming The Tonight Show's fourth host, after Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Carson. This was a blow to Letterman, whose lifelong dream had been to host the program. "Johnny was always very nice to me, but I think it's fairly well known that Johnny wanted Dave," Leno notes, "But Dave had a tough relationship with the network." Leno adds, "Of course, somehow I got this moniker of being this horrible person," ostensibly for "stealing" the job from Letterman, when in fact Leno had been the only person other than Carson in the host seat for years. Further complicating matters, Leno's Tonight Show got off to a poor start and there was talk that he might be replaced by Letterman — some reports suggest that Letterman even received an offer, but pride led him to CBS, where, from 1993 through 2015, he became Leno's chief competitor.
Leno managed to right the ship of The Tonight Show by 1995 — a set-change, a highly watched interview with Hugh Grant and his take on the O.J. Simpson case all helped — and he held on to first place in the ratings ever after. Despite grousing from some critics that he had "sold out" and no longer was the edgy comedian they had fallen in love with before he got the show, he proved a reliably genial presence and played well with middle-America, reading as warmer than Letterman — he shook hands with audience members at the beginning of each show, interacted with the public on the street with his "Jaywalking" segments, generally avoided politics and spent his off days performing standup all across the country. "I was a standup comedian who was lucky enough to get a talk show," he says. "Letterman was a broadcaster who didn't really like being a standup comedian."
In 2004, despite remaining atop the ratings, Leno says he was informed by NBC that they had crafted an exit plan for him, whereby Conan O'Brien, who long had hosted the show after Leno's and with whom Leno says he "used to be great friends," would succeed him as host of The Tonight Show five years later. "I didn't know all this was going on behind my back," Leno says. "They told me about it after it was done." He elaborates, "I mean, they came in and they said, 'Listen, you're out and Conan's in." Leno feels that the network was angling for a younger host who might attract younger viewers and would have forced him to depart sooner had he not had a "pay and play contract," explaining, "They had to keep me. They would have just gotten rid of me at the time — 'Here's your money!'"
But by the time 2009 arrived, Leno still was at number one and was not yet ready to retire. He could have left The Peacock Network for a competitor, but he says that would have meant unemployment for many of his decadeslong employees — plus, with his ratings still strong, NBC did not want him to wind up going head-to-head with O'Brien. They reached a compromise: NBC offered him a prime-time show that would lead in to O'Brien's Tonight Show, and he accepted. "I let myself get talked into it," he confesses. "I thought it was stupid at the time. Anyway, the show didn't work. Okay, fine. But meanwhile, I think The Tonight Show was not doing well either. I mean, you can blame it on the lead-in, but everybody gets bad lead-ins — I mean, that's why they hire you, to make up for a bad lead-in. But somehow this was my fault."
NBC, trying to salvage the situation, proposed moving Leno's show later into the night and pushing O'Brien's start time back, as well, to which Leno was amenable, but O'Brien was not. "And then Conan quit," Leno says, marking the beginning of a public feud in which Leno again was portrayed as a conniver. "I sort of smile when I read about how I 'conspired' — you know, 'Jay Leno demanded the show back and they had to give it to him because they had to pay him $150 million.' No, they didn't have to give me $150 million. I mean, if I'm that smart, how did I lose the show in the first place?" Regardless, Leno stepped back into his old job in 2010, and points out, "When we came back on, we were number one again, just like that, and we stayed number one until we left and I handed it over to Jimmy [Fallon in 2015]."
Tensions between Leno and Letterman continued right through the end of their respective runs. Letterman was invited but refused to participate in Leno's final episode and vice-versa. "I asked David first," Leno says. "You know, David is odd — he's just awkward. I just think it would have been really awkward for him. 'Just something on tape? Leno who? Anything?' He said, 'Nah, I'm just not comfortable. That's your night. I don't wanna do it.' We may have talked over the phone. But he just was not comfortable with it. You know, anybody that knows Dave knows he's quirky, if not— To me, it was always quirkiness; it was never meanness." Leno was surprised when, after his request was spurned by Letterman, Letterman's team made the same ask of him: "I said, 'Well, I kinda feel like Dave. You know, Dave didn't do mine and it worked out fine, so, I mean, I think it looks like I'm trying too hard.'"
Leno insists that he doesn't miss hosting The Tonight Show or the drama that came with doing so. "I was lucky," he says. "I did it at a time when Bush was dumb and Clinton was horny." Now, he says, things have gotten much darker. "I don't like Trump, I can't stand the guy, I don't like him personally. But the constant negative Trump stuff on a nightly basis? I think it has a debilitating effect on people. People are just, 'Oh, gosh, I don't wanna watch TV anymore. This is just the same thing every night.'" These days, the man who once was paid $30 million a year to tell jokes in front of millions on a nightly basis finds similar satisfaction in talking about cars — sometimes with fellow celebrities, other times with full-time mechanics — in front of a much smaller audience once a week. Jay Leno's Garage began as a non-commercial YouTube venture in 2006, but it proved so popular that CNBC commissioned a special broadcast of it in August 2014 and then began airing it as a weekly primetime series in 2015. Over the years, it has accumulated seven Emmy noms for outstanding short-format nonfiction program, winning once.
Leno has been a "car guy" for almost all of his life — he worked as a mechanic during college and always has found acquiring and restoring cars to be therapeutic, in a way. "See, comedy's subjective," he explains. "Some people think you suck, some people think you're funny — they're both right. I mean, they're both correct, you can't argue with that. But if something is broken — if an engine was not working, and now it runs — well, no one can say it's not running. 'Okay, look, see it's running. It's working now.' It's a definitive answer. You can't really get a straight answer in show business." Moreover, he says, working with cars helps him to keep him grounded. "When you take a transmission out of a car, and your hand's all cut up and the fluid's burning your hand, and you realize some guy makes $80 for that — and then you go over and talk and you get thousands of dollars. So it just puts things in perspective."
The third CNBC season of Jay Leno's Garage debuts June 28, with an episode that was shot at George W. Bush's Texas ranch. Even though Leno says the 43rd president is more of "a truck guy" than a car guy, they had plenty to talk about, as Leno finds to be the case with anyone even remotely interested in automobiles. "The fascinating thing about automotive history is it's only about 150 years old," he says. "I mean, if you're studying Egyptology or something like that, you've got to go back tens of thousands of years, whereas with this you only have to go back to the guy who lived before your grandfather, and maybe some of those people are still around or some of those stories are. Most of the artifacts still exist, most of the history is reasonably fresh, so it makes it sort of interesting."
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SmartPak is pleased to announce its new ownership by Covetrus, the standalone public company that resulted from the spin-off of the Henry Schein Animal Health business, and its merger with Vets First Choice. Prior to this transaction, the majority ownership of SmartPak has been held by Henry Schein Animal Health since May of 2014.
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This disc features one of the greatest and distinguished contemporary classical guitarists: Julian Bream. It seems extraordinary that the discography of his youth has been only partially re-mastered on CD. In fact, this is true to such a point that many of his very famous performances are still difficult to find today, such as the Lennox Berkeley Sonatina recorded in 1960. The disc also features Bach's fantastic 'Ciaccona' recorded in 1956, when Bream was just 21 years old, together with a selection of other works recorded in 1960, that are currently very difficult to find. Among them is the famous transcription of Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante défunte'. (Synopsis by Dynamic Records)
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Just a tip for all.
Better take a picture of your phone condition before sending it to asus for a service.
Send my phone to check the screen due to some blue tint found on the screen and also the tablet LCD having some issue with the LED lights.(Claim to have a issue with the installation of the back panel)
*ASUS Agreed to change it.
When i got back the padfone back, i realised that there was a chipped at the side of the phone which before i sent it does not have.(as i just took it out of the box to use and realised the blue tint.Similiar to the issue Sony faced with the Xperia S)
Now i am wondering whether they can get the padfone front cover replaced only (dont think they will change the whole unit) as they will probably say it was caused by me.
But i cant really stand the chipped as its a new phone and it has already a chipped on the side which isnt caused by my usage
(Moreover its beside the screen)
Should i try my luck in trying to get a replacement to the front cover??
As for the station i yet to get it back.Hoping that there isnt any issue with it.
Just a tip to my fellow Asus owners.


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In the race, Ms. Johnson has used fearmongering commercials that try to paint Mr. Murphy as soft on terrorism and, most curiously of all, a big spender. It is unconvincing. Ms. Johnson is the senior member of an important committee. She has served longer in the House than any other Connecticut representative. Yet she has not been able to change significantly the House GOP leaders' reckless fiscal policy or its radical agenda.
Mr. Murphy, a lawyer, is impressive. He has spent eight years in the Connecticut House and Senate. He pushed for the state to adopt a system of campaign finance reform when he first entered the House, long before this was considered an important issue. He helped pass legislation that made it easier for uninsured to obtain health insurance. He wants to work on the same issue in Congress.
Mr. Murphy would be a strong candidate in any race, and even against a seasoned incumbent, is impressive. He would make a superb addition to Congress. We strongly endorse his candidacy.
--- NY Times
OK! So CT PROGRESSIVE just cut and pasted from the NY Times endorsemnet of Murphy. At least the Times can still count, even though they employed Judy Miller at one time and have yet to find one her Iraqi WMDs.
But let us not forget Johnson's signature legislation:
Medicare D(isaster)
Johnson was counting on you to remember that for the election!
It sucks to be anything GOP these days... Even the right wing corporate owned media is "cutting and running" from anything GOP.


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By car
highway A10 ou A89 or A63 direction Bordeaux and then take A660 direction Arcachon
By air
Bordeaux-Mérignac airport
By train
Arcachon railway station. The accommodation is at 300m.
The Gironde possesses one of the finest cyclepath networks in France. You can go all the way round the Arcachon basin with the Eurovelo1, which is a sure temptation to do just that!
You'll see grand Atlantic beaches, wild and free, which contrast with the gentler waterfront cycleways of Arcachon and its café and restaurant terraces. And then there are once again beaches, calmer this time, in the shelter of an arm of the bay. The route takes you from small port to harbour in a succession of changing colours. And it brings you to the vast Bird Park and the salt meadow nature reserve. You'll enjoy slipping through the pine forest to reach Cap Ferret, but the story doesn't end there. There are also the landing pier and the boat which come to collect you, the sea air of the crossing, and a fabulous panorama of the Bay of Arcachon just coming into sight...
The circuit is well-adapted to the needs of children. Most of the route is along cyclepaths. However common sense dictates that some experience and a respect of the Highway Code are required when the route goes through urban areas.
Things to see:
The beach is about 150 metres from the hotel. Arcachon town and seafront.
Night at 3 star hotel.
26 km (level 1/5). Duration around 3 hrs.
A nice way to start your holiday...there's something for everyone. The seafront and beaches, busy shops, or again the peace and quiet of the forest of the Landes.
The "winter town", an architectural curiosity, and the dune of Pyla (sometimes written 'Pilat'), geological rarety. A great bike ride with a walk up the remarkable Dune in the middle.
Night at the hotel.
22,3 km (level 1/5). Duration about 2hrs20.
There are several points of interest on this stage, so you have to choose when you stop and for how long! First there's the beach, but there are lots of nice shops...A little further on there's the port and the "criée" - the fresh fish auction. Then you leave the busy urban world for the small oyster-farming ports. Then it's deeper into the Bay area as you approach the delta of the Eyre river and the Bird Park.
Night in a tourist residence or in a guest house.
23,5 km (level 1/5). Duration around 2hrs30.
We suggest you visit the Parc Ornithologique du Teich as the day's principal objective. It takes from 2 to 3hrs to walk and stop and look and wonder at all the bustling wildlife there is to see at the Bird Park.
The ride after the park is the only time you cycle away from the waters of the Bay to make an inland incursion.
Night at the residence or at the guest house.
30 km (level 1/5). Duration about 3hrs45.
Now you are on the other side of the Bay and the Eyre delta.
The itinerary takes you along narrow country roads to small historical ports. There are plenty of places to picnic and you're sure to appreciate the calm and beauty of your surroundings. The second part of the ride is along a former railway, but you're never far from the Bay and its beaches...
Night in 2 star hotel.
27 km (level 1/5). Duration around 3hrs20.
Bearing west now to come back to the ocean and its windswept beaches.
But first there's a pleasant ride through a pine forest. Song of the cicadas, smell of pine resin, white beaches, all conspire to help us relax in this dreamy atmosphere. . Then the cherry on the cake - the immensity of the blue ocean answering the green of the vast forest of the Landes.
Night at the hotel.
24km (level 1/5). Duration about 3hrs.
This ride will bring you right to the extremity of the peninsula, the 'Cap'.
Leaving this friendly town set in the countryside, where daily life echoes the ebb and flow of the tides, you come to the village 'at the end of the world' which is one of a string of hamlets composing the parish of Lège Cap-Ferret. As you may at any moment go down to the sea to swim, don't forget your bath towels and picnic...
You can if you wish ride another 11.5km (level 1/5) estimated time 2hrs, which takes you right down to the tip of the shifting Cap.
Boat across the Bay to come back to Arcachon.
Possibility to extend your stay in Bordeaux : please contact us.
Adult : 590 €
Junior (12-17)* : 500 €
Child (2-11)* : 415 €
Baby (0 - 1) : 70 €
Adult : 690 €
Junior (12 - 17) : 690 €
Child (2 - 11) : 670 €
Baby (0 - 1) : 70 €
930 €
1015 €
Adult : 560 €
Junior (12-17)* : 475 €
Child (2-11)* : 390 €
Baby (0-1) : 70 €
Adult : 660 €
Junior (12 - 17) : 660 €
Child (2 - 11) : 640 €
Baby (0 - 1) : 70 €
900 €
985 €
*Rates based on a room shared with two adults. Single-parent families, please contact us.
N.B : the accommodation described above is given as an indication and may vary according to availability at the moment your reservation is finalized.
highway A10 ou A89 or A63 direction Bordeaux and then take A660 direction Arcachon
Bordeaux-Mérignac airport
Arcachon railway station. The accommodation is at 300m.
Wir haben einen fantastischen, abwechslungsreichen, unproblematischen und gleichzeitig erholsamen Urlaub verbracht. Die Strecken waren toll zusammengestellt und alle Tour-Unterlagen leicht verständlich und hilfreich. Noch nie haben wir soviel in so kurzer Zeit gesehen... Es war toll! Vielen Dank, Safran-Team.
Traduction: Nous avons passé des vacances fantastiques, variées, sans problèmes et en même temps relaxantes. Les itinéraires étaient bien organisés et tous les documents de voyage étaient faciles à comprendre et utiles. Jamais auparavant nous n'avions vu autant de choses en si peu de temps.... C'était génial ! Merci beaucoup l'équipe de Safran.
Vacances très réussies ! Tout à fait conforme à ce qui est présenté dans les brochures. Excellent accueil dans chaque hôtel et chambre d'hôtes.
Très beau circuit, balades en vélo très agréables.


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Lee Pryke, Cambridge On
Author, Coach, Speaker, Publisher
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Fairies and Dragons
Yes, colouring is good for the brain and so much more whether your 3 or 103 in fact it is documented that colouring is good for dementia.
I have created over 15 colouring books for classes I teach and the most popular colouring book is Fairies and Dragons.
Recently, I updated this colouring book with more pictures and more fun. It is double the size of the first one but NOT in price.
Great gift for yourself or another anytime of the yaer.
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My I Am Journal...
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This journal is Book TWO in a series called Happy in a Handbag, an invitation to bring out the best version of You. It is a guide filled with tips and exercises on building self worth and confidence, by understanding the power of thoughts and the words we use to create the world around us. Within each one of us is an amazing, brave, courageous person and this journal will walk you through some of the major areas towards manifesting the joy of being the Best Version of You and making your dreams a reality. "Inside each one of us there is a unique exquisite individual waiting to unleash their full potential. Let this book be your guide to releasing the negative thoughts and living a life filled with joy, success and happiness." Lee Pryke
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Book One in the series Happy in a Handbag.
This journal is what transpired on my path of finding more "happy", changing the grumbles into endless possibilities, and loving ME enough to take a deep breath and either observe the beauty or make more beauty with a little paint and paper. I hope you smile, find your creative inner child, feel the joy and happy, and love yourself a little more as you create your own journal through these pages.
The art in this journal and the cover was a combined effort of my first art pieces and that of my grandson, Honour Short. He is proud to say he is now also an author! The cover is a rainbow he drew when he was four for my Mom.
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There are tips and extras in the journal and extra pages to keep going every day living a life of gratifude for all things good, bad, or indifferent.
Lee Pryke, Author
Tara Mondou, Cambridge, On
Writer, Author, Mother, Daughter
Little Girl in the Mirror
Little Cathy Barron loved living with her Grandmother on Cape Breton Island. Every summer her Mother would step off the train from Ontario in her fancy outfit and her red lipstick and visit with her daughter for two weeks. In the summer of 1955, her Mother demanded to take Cathy back to Ontario to live with her for good. Cathy reluctantly said good bye to the only life she ever knew.
She was promised a new and exciting life full of love and happiness, but what Cathy got was the exact opposite. The only way to survive in her new empty world was to draw strength from her only friend, the little girl in the mirror…
Based on a true story, Tara Mondou artistically recreates the heartbreaking roller coaster recount of her mother's early childhood.
Erica Humphrey, Cambridge On
Author, Speaker, Inspiration to young people
I am my own superhero
"For starters, do you know that everyone has a superhero inside of them? Yes, that is right! You have the potential and personal power to ignite and unleash your inner superhero to rise up and save your day! Your inner superhero can solve your problems, achieve your life's goals and dreams, and learn how to work with other superheroes.
How does one tap into their personal power? By engaging in this workbook, my goal is for you to realize that the best superhero story in the world will be your own story.
Danielle Joworski, Guelph, On
Author | Speaker | Women's Leadership Catalyst
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The Athena Prodigies
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Danielle Joworski authentically shares her journey from being a corporate drop-out and burned-out Mom, to following her own passion and re-discovering the many facets of herself that she had forgotten over the years. Her desire to empower women to believe that they have a choice, that their desires and dreams are important to who they are as women is only overshadowed by one thing; The ATHENA Prodigies is also written to help women to confidently lead girls, empowering them to also believe in their own desires and dreams, and learning how they can be a catalyst to help girls achieve what their hearts desire.
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Author, Coach, Speaker, Trainer
Showing Up - Becoming the ME I Want to Be
For fifteen years, Christine Wunder Patton worked as a lawyer, judge, and mediator while raising her own son and daughter. Over those years, she took an active interest in youth activities, sports and personal development, enjoying mentoring young athletes in pursuit of their dreams. In 2004, Christine changed her own career focus to follow her true passion.
Christine's new book, Showing Up ~ Becoming the Me I Want To Be, melds cutting-edge research with powerful inspiration and hands-on exercises to help each young person open up to his or her true potential. Students, young and old, gain a competitive edge as they look towards today's ever-shifting workplace and record high unemployment statistics.
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Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Christmas Card #6
My card today is for the weekly Bah Humbug Challenge which this week is to use a doily. When I saw this panic set in as I have never used a doily. Went down to local Wilkies and found a pack of 20 in various sizes. I have used the smallest in the pack for this card. Heaven knows what I am going to do with the rest!!
Friday Sketchers.
Stamp - Art Impressions Christmas Mailbox coloured with Promarkers.
Papers - Zoe Pearn Happy Holidays
Sentiment - Digital, sorry can't remember where from.
Martha Stewart Punch - Arch Lattice
14 comments:
- Debbie said...
Really nice Debs. What a super image and your colourig is lovely. If thats the same MS punch as I have, it's gorgeous. Debbiexx
- 16 February 2011 at 18:27
- Vicky said...
Gorgeous card hun I love to see doilies on cards. Love the glitter on here it really adds to it. Its fab ulous.
Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx
- 16 February 2011 at 18:33
- Annie said...
I agree with Vicky Debs this is just fabulous. Sorry our challenge involved a shopping trip but the results have been well worth it. Your card is just brilliant.
Perhaps you could use some of the large doilies like stencils and perhaps spray through them to make a background. I don't know whether it will work or not but it sounds feasable. If it doesn't don't blame me it was Max's idea.
Ann xxx
Bah! Humbug! DT
- 16 February 2011 at 18:43
- Vicky said...
Super card Debs! fabulous image and I love the doily too, even tho' you had to go shopping!!
hugs Vicky xx
- 16 February 2011 at 19:58
- Donna said...
Lovely little christmas card, love the doilie. Donna x
- 16 February 2011 at 20:05
Gorgoeus card Deb, I am really addicted to using doilies, just love em! Sue x
- 16 February 2011 at 20:32
- the crafty duck said...
Hello Debs, this is gorgeous, love your image and your doilies are fab!! lots of love Steph
- 16 February 2011 at 20:57
- Linda said...
Well done Debs It really works well.
We did a card at our craft class on Monday night and I was well impressed. xx
- 16 February 2011 at 21:31
- debby4000 said...
Beautiful card Debs and love the adorable image.
- 17 February 2011 at 10:14
- Max said...
Your wee doily looks brilliant behind your super image, especially with those gorgeous papers.
LOL @ Ann
Doilies make beautiful stencils and masks - believe me! - so I'm sure you will find more than one use for the remaining doilies ... and if not then you can always jazz up your sideplates next time you have coffee and biccies lol! Thank you for sharing with us at Bah! Humbug!
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- 17 February 2011 at 13:31
- Paula (PEP) said...
Love the way that trellis border picks up on the candy canes & the top patterned paper too. The glitter is gorgeous & I do like that use of the doily - you could always cut the doilys into jhalves & quarters to use on cards. shall have to investigate that myself.
Paula (PEP)
- 17 February 2011 at 13:48
- coops said...
great card debs.i love the fab image and great colours and sparkle :D
xx coops xx
- 17 February 2011 at 14:59
- An Occasional Genius said...
Very lovely Debs, I think between us all we have given the doiley industry a huge boost this last week!! Love how you've used yours though x
- 19 February 2011 at 09:26
- xxxtglxxx said...
I definately have to get me some doilies! :) I expect if you chalk through them onto plain paper it would make interesting DP too?
This is so pretty, love the glitter on this, and the candy canes and ribbon look great. I love the punch too - which is it?
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A while ago, it was suggested that coating actua parts with a certain
plastic spray would make them more durable. I haven´t been able to find
out more about it. Could anyone please describe the product so I can
check whether it is available in my neck of the woods. Product name,
manufacturer, type of material etc would me much appreciated.
Also, a good (but still not perfect) way of transporting actua parts is
by using sawdust or -chip in combination with larger pieces of foam,
chips etc. Fill the box tight with it, making sure the parts are
surrounded by fine sawdust/woodchip.
/Bengt I
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Dear Bengt:
I've heard of using "Plasti Dip" a "heavy duty flexible rubber coating," to
quote the can, on Actua parts, it is available in a spray can or in liquid
form in a can for brush-on or dipping. This is the same stuff used for
dipping tool handles into for an insulating coating. It is available in a
few basic colors such as red, white, and green in addition to the clear
coating. It is available in most hardware store here in the US. It runs
about $6 -$9 US dollars per 11 oz. (312 g) spray can. I'm not sure where
you can get it in Europe but I'm sure if you call them they can help.
The Plasti-Dip spray has toluene, naphtha, hexane, methyl ethyl ketone
(MEK), and aliphatic hydrocarbons so you might want to be careful how much
you use from the spray can or you might end up melting your Actua parts with
these solvents - the brush-on or dip application might be the safer way to
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It is manufactured by:
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Phone: (612) 785-2156
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I often comment on one of our local newspapers (if you can call it that – it is really just a mouthpiece of the editor), and once again I am doing so.
In recent months, probably close to a year, we have had regular contributions from a Viv Forbes who lives in Queensland. This particular person is a member of the climate denialist group "Carbon Sense Pty Ltd".
Money trails unearthed by journalist Ben Cubby in the Sydney Morning Herald :http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/web-leak-shows-trail-of-climate-sceptic-funding-20120217-1tegk.html demonstrates where the misinformation comes from.
Documents from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission show that a group funded by the Heartland Institute, via a thicket of other foundations and think tanks, provided the vast majority of the cash for an anti-carbon price lobby group in Australia in 2009 and 2010.
The Australian Climate Science Coalition, an offshoot of a conservative lobby group called the Australian Environment Foundation, received virtually all its funding from the International Climate Science Coalition, which has been financially supported by Heartland.
In 2010, the Australian group had an income of $50,920, and $46,343 of that came from the American Climate Science Coalition, an offshoot of the International Climate Science Coalition, the ASIC documents show. The amount of public donations received was nil.
I take particular offence to organisations like this, because they have power, money and influence to drive their own agenda. Viv Forbes is a Coal Miiner, but writes to newspapers all over the country with propaganda suggesting that renewables can never do as good a job as coal, and are too expensive. Hmmm
When Forbes has a bio like this:
Viv Forbes is the Chairman of the [denialist group] Carbon Sense Coalition, is the director at Stanmore Coal , has had 40 years of coal industry – Burton Coal; Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal; South Blackwater Coal Mine; Tahmoor Coal Mine; Newlands/Collinsville Coal Mines;MIM; Utah Goonyella/Saraji and Gold Fields.
He is also associated with the denialist group the International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) and the Australian Climate Science Coalition (ACSC) [The ACSC doesn't appear to exist anymore from what I can find].
How can he possibly be taken seriously when he states that Coal will save the world? Perhaps his bias has a little to do with the fact that he is a coal miner?
After a recent tirade to the local newspaper The Weekly Times, a fellow apparent denialist Mitch Geddes of Tennyson Point (near Gladesville in Sydney) wrote that China wasn't reducing coal to cut emission due to global warming. Mr Geddes appears to runs a business "Glades Bay Project Management and Engineering Services". Mr Geddes also appears to be heavily involved in the Liberal Party, and helped door knock with John Alexander during the last election. http://www.openaustralia.org/debate/?id=2010-10-28.44.1
It would be interesting to know if Geddes's company is somehow now associated with property development, as donations from property developers is banned in NSW, (I don't think it is in the Federal system) as there have been a significant number of Liberal ministers resign after corruption hearings by the ICAC in NSW. These Liberal Party MPs received big donations from property developers.
Anyway a little bit of research on Google found that Mr Geddes might have been a mining engineer in a past life, apart from possibly being associated with White Energy (as an investor) which was involved with Cascade Coal.
Just check out the following submission and who it was signed by.
The submission was signed by Mitchell Geddes TECHNICAL SERVICES MANAGER TAHMOOR COAL PTY LTD. And yes the signature is the same as seen on other signed documents found on the web associated with Glades Bay Project Management and Engineering Services run by guess who "Mitch Geddes" of Glades Bay Project Management and Engineering Services.
Anyway back to the point.
I also found facts that completely contradict Geddes statement that coal consumption is reducing in China due to smog.
According to China's National Development and Reform Commission, reducing emissions is a priority "In light of the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change and its worsening impacts, and the related issue of air pollution from burning fossil fuels…"
So we have Mr Viv Forbes – a coal miner (from Queensland), and confirmed denialist, indicating that Coal is the only way forward for the world, and that solar and wind cannot possibly be good for our society; then we have what appears to be an ex coal-mining engineer supporting him (amongst others in the past).
This is not surprising since the organisations that Viv Forbes is involved with or associated with are Denialist groups: Carbon Sense Pty Ltd; International Climate Science Coalition. (links above)
The following article by journalist Ben Cubby in the Sydney Morning Herald is most revealing.
It demonstrates where the money trail leads to and where the misinformation comes from. It also shows the complicity of the coal miners, oil producers and fossil fuel industry in propaganda. This is exactly what the tobacco industry did decades ago.
Prominent financiers of climate denial have come from the IPA in Australia (who founded the Liberal Party, and who John Howard made tax deductible – yep our tax dollars now fund climate denial!) and the Heartland Institute (America's extremist political group – which also hosts forums where Australian Liberal Politicians attend).
The following paragraphs really sum up where climate denial comes from:
Documents form the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) show a clear link between the Heartland Institute in the US and The Australian Climate Science Coalition!
Over the years, the Heartland Institute has provided significant funding for the Denialist movement. Principally because regulating emissions would influence the activities of the big and powerful companies of the US. These companies FUND the Heartland Institute.
The US Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) – another anti-regulation, free market US think tank has been funded by ExxonMobil in the past, amongst others, to promote anti-science and misinformation on Global Warming. (ExxonMobil has since stopped funding the CEI due to public outcry over its anti Global Warming propaganda – however it is highly possible there is still some dirty funding going on – they have too much to lose.)
The CEI has also provided funding for Denialist conferences in Australia and NZ which have involved some members from the Liberal Party (such as then Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer and Environment Minister Robert Hill), along with the NZ and Australian Chambers of Commerce.
I might also point out that the Australian Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), Australia's extremist free-market think tank, with VERY strong ties to the Liberal Party (instrumental in its formation), has strong connections to the Heartland Institute and the CEI, along with mining giants such as BHP Billiton, the Western Mining Corporation, Shell, Mobil and Woodside Petroleum. They are also funded by, tobacco giants Philip Morris and British American tobacco.
I really like this piece by the ABC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_Kbiwl2ok
There are many more articles and reports on the IPA if you do some research. It's a dodgy organisation that meddles with public policy by manipulation and misinformation. It should stop and it must stop if Australia is to become a democracy again!
Anyway back to climate change denialism. From reading the above the constant misinformation in the media, do you think that perhaps this continual propaganda is just away for the fossil fuel industry to maintain their hold on fossil fuel profits?
That's it for now?


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We promised a list of Italy's Ten Most Astonishing Works of Art and, here in mid-July, please know we haven't forgotten. Bear with us. We landed in the USA and turned around and took two more trips! One to Chicago (you'll see the Art Institute stuff here shortly) for the American Assn. of Museums conference. Then off to Boulder to see our godchild and niece,Charlotte, graduate from high school. Suffered a case of delayed jetlag until a few days ago. The Italy paintings are coming...we promise. But I'll post about art-filled Chicago first.
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Kit Myers
Kit Myers is an assistant professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at University of California, Merced. Myers received his B.S. in Journalism and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon (2006) and earned his M.A. (2009) and Ph.D. (2013) in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He was also a UC Merced Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow. Myers' book manuscript is entitled Race and the Violence of Love: The Making of Family and Nation in U.S. Adoptions. He has published an article, "'Real Families': The Violence of Love in New Media Adoption Discourse," in Critical Discourse Studies and a chapter in an edited volume called, "Creating (Un)equal Families in The Child Citizenship Act of 2000." His research and teaching interests include race, family, and adoption; Critical Ethnic Studies; American Studies; Asian American Studies; race and law; and Critical Pedagogy. Myers is also a member of the Adoption Museum Project leadership team.
I am trained in ethnic studies, which means I have interdisciplinary training in analyzing historical and contemporary ways that the notions of race and ethnicity are tied to power and knowledge. More specifically, my research brings a comparative approach to the study of race, gender, family, and nation in relation to adoption and family in the United States. My book project, Race and the Violence of Love: The Making of Family and Nation in U.S. Adoptions, relationally interrogates the racial and gendered aspects of family formation in Asian, black, and Native American transracial and transnational adoptions. It seeks to move away from the good / bad binary of the transracial and transnational adoption debate and instead understand how notions of "love" and "violence" inform the ways we imagine and practice these types of family-making at the individual, institutional, and state levels. My work as a critical race and ethnic studies scholar intersects with American, gender and sexuality, legal, and adoption studies. I also have research and teaching interests in law and civil rights, which includes immigration, indigenous sovereignty, criminal justice/prisons, voting rights, segregation, sexuality, and reproductive rights.


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Background Varenicline and bupropion are effective smoking cessation treatments, but there are concerns about their safety in smokers with COPD.
Objective To investigate whether varenicline and bupropion are associated with serious adverse cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric events in smokers with COPD.
Methods In a retrospective cohort study, we used data from 14 350 patients with COPD included in the QResearch database, which holds data from 753 National Health Service general practices across England. We identified patients with COPD who received a prescription of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT; N=10 426; reference group), bupropion (N=350) or varenicline (N=3574) in the period between January 2007 and June 2012. Patients were followed up for 6 months to compare incident cardiovascular (ie, ischaemic heart disease, stroke, heart failure, peripheral vascular disease and cardiac arrhythmias) and neuropsychiatric (ie, depression and self-harm) events using Cox proportional hazards models, adjusted for potential confounders. Propensity score analysis was used as an additional approach to account for potential confounding by indication. We also modelled the effects of possible unmeasured confounders.
Results Neither bupropion nor varenicline showed an increased risk of adverse events compared with NRT. Varenicline was associated with a significantly reduced risk of heart failure (HR=0.56, 95% CI 0.34 to 0.92) and depression (HR=0.73, 95% CI 0.61 to 0.86). Similar results were obtained from the propensity score analysis. Modelling of unmeasured confounding provided additional evidence that an increased risk of these adverse events was very unlikely.
Conclusion In smokers with COPD, varenicline and bupropion do not appear to be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events, depression or self-harm in comparison with NRT.
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There may be snow on the way or snow on the ground, but that doesn't mean the folks at the Parke Company, Nashville's leading landscaping services organization, are kicking back and taking a winter break.
While it's true, we do take advantage of the reduced workload to perform maintenance on our equipment, winter is actually an ideal time for an important tree service.
Tree, Hedge, and Shrub Trimming
When cold weather hits and trees shed their leaves, tree structure is easier to see. Winter is an excellent time for trimming trees. When trees are bare, it is far easier to locate failing or dead limbs.
Unless you have extensive tree pruning experience, it's best to rely on professional tree pruners to remove the damaged limbs. Done correctly, pruning will improve the health of a tree and eliminate the risk of a falling limb.
Almost every type of hedge and shrub that grows in Nashville can be safely trimmed or pruned during the dormant winter months.
When people think "trimming," they usually think in terms of deciduous trees only, but evergreens are also safe to trim. In fact, evergreens can represent an even greater "falling object" threat because it's easier for snow to pile up on an evergreen than a naked deciduous limb.
The One Service We Only Do in Winter
There is one business operation that the Parke Company only provides in winter: ice and snow mitigation.
That's just another way of saying deicing of walkways, driveways, parking lots, porches, and any other surface that might represent a slip and fall risk.
We use a magnesium chloride formula for our application, not a salt based material. Using magnesium chloride eliminates the potential damage to concrete, painted surfaces, and of course, green growing things that salt is responsible for.
Our residential customers appreciate the safety and convenience that clear walkways provide. Commercial clients are sensitive to their liability for slip and fall accidents. Employees and customers of those businesses appreciate the ease of maneuvering an otherwise icy landscape and the minimal risk of a fender bender in the parking lot resulting from spinning tires.
There is one other service that we will be doing this year. The Parke Company has been selected to help decorate Tennessee's Holiday Tree at the state capitol!
Nashville Winters: An Excellent Time to Plan
A perfectly landscaped space doesn't happen by accident. At the Parke Company, our specialty is installing and renovating landscapes. Before the first piece of field work is performed, every aspect of the landscaping and hardscaping is plotted out.
That means that every type of tree, shrubs, flowers, hardscaping pieces, and sod has to be selected and located on paper.
In a way, installing or renovating a landscape is similar to building a house. Our skilled landscapers follow a blueprint to create the finished product.
Creating that blueprint takes time, a lot of time. A client meeting takes place to establish the client's goals and specific preferences. Time is required for the actual design. Another meeting with the client for approval of the concept is required to get the project off the drawing board.
Time is something that is in short supply for us during the warmer months. Winter is ideally suited for planning.
So while we won't be out installing landscapes in the snow, we won't be taking a break either. Winter is just another season of work for us.


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July 26, 2011
A great way to showcase those beautiful, garden fresh tomatoes is in a classic Italian Caprese salad - a simple combination of tomatoes, basil, fresh mozzarella. We gave our Caprese a twist and created easy-to-serve "towers," alternating stacks of color topped with a luscious green dollop of pesto.
Click below for the easy recipe and instructions:
Try these other delicious Caprese salad twists!
Insalata Caprese With Pesto Vinaigrette
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July 26, 2011
Great simple recipe!!
Check out my simple Orzo Pasta with the same ingredients, just add yummy Orzo!!
Might have to make these ASAP.


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West Virginia gaming officials are confident a delay in the governor's office will not prevent state casinos from taking their first bets in time for football season.
Speaking to the Charleston Gazette-Mail, West Virginia Gaming and Racing Association President John Cavacini said he expects the state's five casinos to be eligible to take bets by September. He said a delay came as the office of governor Jim Justice reviewed final rules for sports betting. The review yielded no changes.
Now West Virginia's government is set to accept license applications from these casinos later this week. It should be the fifth state in America to take a legal sports bet, sometime in the next six weeks. Approving the infrastructure and regulations for online betting is estimated to take a bit longer, but officials are optimistic bets will be taken from mobile devices anywhere in the state won't be too far from the launch in land-based casinos.
West Virginian government's had been one of the most eager bodies to embrace of sports gambling expansion. Seeing that come to fruition has not been as easy.
Legislative efforts to bring legalized sports betting to the Mountain State were perhaps the most straightforward part of legalization. Even before the Supreme Court struck down the federal ban on sports betting, West Virginia lawmakers worked to create a legal framework to take bets.
The West Virginia Senate passed a sports betting bill with a 25-9 vote in February. The state's House of Delegates approved the bill by a 77-22 margin less than two weeks later.
One of the earliest bills to pass any statehouse, West Virginia's sports legalization bill received extensive lobbying from professional sports leagues. Though they had opposed sports betting in court, after the Supreme Court ruling they sought what they called an "integrity fee" as a means to protect the sports from outside influences. The leagues sought one percent of all revenue, a request that was rejected by state lawmakers in West Virginia and in other states considering legalization.
With lawmakers opposed, the leagues turned their attention to West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice. Unlike most other governors, he proved more amenable to acquiescing to the leagues' demands. Justice is also the owner of the Greenbriar, one of the state's five licensed gambling facilities and home to an annual PGA Tour event as well as NFL training camps. Ultimately he allowed the bill to come into law without his signature.
While the law was settled earlier this spring, the state still need to hammer out its final regulations. The state lottery board gained oversight of sports betting implementation and on June 21 it approved its regulatory framework for the state's five casinos. After sending it for final validation to the governor's office, the board announced it was able to move forward with licensing this week.
Casinos will still need to meet stipulations for security, betting windows and independent testing of bet taking equipment, among other criteria. In the Gazette-Mail article, Lottery counsel Danielle Boyd said this should allow the casinos to be up and running come Sep. 1.
In the meantime the casinos are forming partnerships with leading sports gambling technology providers and betting providers, including the Greenbriar, which worked out a deal with leading daily fantasy provider FanDuel.
Despite the prolonged effort to finalize sports betting, West Virginia is one of the earliest adaptors for legal sports betting in the nation. With Pennsylvania unable to garner betting partners due to high fees and the rest of West Virginia's neighbors a year or more from legalizing sports betting, the state has still positioned itself as a de facto monopoly for gamblers looking to place a bet in the region.
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Here's How to Tell If You're a Totally Boring Person, According to an Expert
Rachel Lapidos・May 15, 2019
It happens all the time: I do something social, attend a party or hang out with friends, whatever, have a great time, then come home and wonder…. wait, do they all think I'm boring?
It's this weird paranoia I have in the back of my head (although my colleague Zoë told me that I'm the "least boring person she knows," so there's that), and it was definitely more prevalent when I was a shy kid/teenager, but I like to think that I am not alone in this fear—which kinda feels irrational. And my inkling was right: When I brought up my feelings at work, pretty much everyone in the office agreed that they, too, have this inherent worry that other people think they're boring. WTF?
The dictionary defines boring as "not interesting" and "tedious." Are that many people representing these unfavorable ideas? Here's the thing: It's all subjective. "What I say is fun you might not find fun, and I think boring is similar," says Jennifer Silvershein, LCSW. "I tried to step back and ask myself what constitutes as boring, and to me, those are really abstract definitions to put on something—because what I find interesting you might find absolutely boring, and so it can really be two different things for each of us." That's true—I find it fascinating to talk about Game of Thrones while others roll their eyes and think I'm insane for watching the best show ever made.
So there's that. She also likens the fear of being boring as a cover to a deeper fear of being disliked. "I think the deeper worry is not being liked, rather than just being boring—because 'boring' doesn't actually hold much weight as true dislike," says Silvershein. Also, if you stop to think about it, you'll realize… who is doing the judging here? "Someone could be an introvert, and as an extrovert I might say, 'she's so boring,' but who's to say my judgment is fair?" she asks.
But I'll go back to the definition part of the dilemma—though Silvershein notes that "boring" may be an abstract, subjective idea, I brought up that a definitively "boring" person might, for example, not talk in social settings, constantly be on their phone, and not ask questions in conversations. "At the end of the day, it ties back to what constitutes boring—when I think of boring, I don't think of the person sitting on a phone, I think of the girl copying what everyone else is doing and not bringing her own stuff to the table," says Silvershein. "I think if we fear that we're boring in a scenario, think about what's holding you back from being engaged."
To really analyze your own level of boringness (lol at the sound of this), Silvershein recommends thinking about what you're attracted to in other people. Then, once you figure out what you like in a person, check in to see if you have those traits. "I think what's interesting is when someone talks about something different or has an open mind about a topic," she says as one example. "So I check in with myself to see if I remain open-minded and if I like to try new things. That makes a person interesting to me." Dial it back to your own definition of what makes a person not "boring," and you'll be on a path towards tweaking your behavior to emulate these interesting traits over the "boring" behaviors. Just a theory.
But Silvershein makes a great point: "Tedious" means dull, boring, and monotonous, which, when applied to people, can mean that a person just does what everyone else is doing, at all times. As long as you're being yourself, you're good. Another thing that helps is making sure you're surrounding yourself with people that have shared interests. "Then the fear of being boring will be reduced," says Silvershein, since you'll be more engaged in the convos that happen. So in actuality, you're probably, very most likely not boring… and if you try all of these methods above yet still feel dull AF, then maybe you need new friends who won't lead you to even fear that you're boring them.
Also, maybe you're just an introvert, which is cool—here's how to survive parties as an introvert. And these are pro tips for making friends as an introvert.
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