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The more you sweat, the cooler this technical fishing tee gets!
You read that correctly, it actually gets cooler the more you sweat!
Instead of getting clammy, hot and heavy like a cotton tee does when you're out in the sun and sweating, Columbia's PFG Zero Rules™ Shirt doesn't just dry quickly and feel cool, it feels COOLER! How could that be? Technology. Although this tee looks normal enough, in fact it contains some high-tech answers to the most common problems you face when engaged in vigorous activities like fishing, paddling and other strenuous outdoor endeavors.
The first thing you'll notice when you slip this tee on is it's soft, lightweight and stretchy. It has a universal, easy fit for a comfortable range of motion that won't hold you back when you're fighting a trophy fish, kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding or any other activity that requires pushing your limits.
Once your exertion level starts to increase you'll feel the Omni-Wick® technology pull sweat away from your skin and disperse it to the outside of the shirt where it quickly evaporates. That's also when the Omni-Freeze ZERO™ sweat-activated super cooling kicks in. This technology features blue rings that react with your sweat to actually lower the material of the shirt's temperature. Wow! That's like sticking your shirt in the freezer when it gets wet and then putting it back on after it gets colder. Without taking your shirt off and putting it back on, of course. And if your shirt is cooler, it only stands to reason you will be, too!
The next thing you'll notice is that after hours of being in the sun (which is particularly strong when you're also dealing with reflection off the water), your skin doesn't resemble a steamed lobster. Omni-Shade® UPF 30 fabric uses tight weave construction, UV reflectors and UV absorbing technology to protect your skin. Like sunscreen. But unlike sunscreen, you don't have the mess and hassle of constantly having to reapply it. Omni-Shade fabric even carries The Skin Cancer Foundation's Seal of Recommendation which is given to products meeting their standards for sun protection. You should also consider ordering a hat and neck gaiter if you want to extend all-day protection to your head, face and neck.
Antimicrobial, 100% polyester ZERO interlock fabric also smells fresher and stays cleaner longer so you can wear this tee after you come ashore as well. Imported.
Omni-Freeze ZERO: Sweat-activated super cooling. Blue rings react with sweat to lower the temperature of the fabric so you feel cooler.
Omni-Wick: This technology actively breathes and pulls moisture away from your skin to the outside of the fabric so sweat can evaporate quickly.
Omni-Shade UPF 30 Sun Protection: Blocks UVA and UVB rays from reaching your skin to help prevent sunburn and long-term skin damage.
Antimicrobial: The fabric is treated to protect this shirt from bacterial growth so it smells fresher and resists stains longer.
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KI Logistics expanding South Carolina operations
COLUMBIA, SC – KI Logistics, a division of Kimura, Inc. a subsidiary of global logistics leader Kimura Unity, will expand its new North American headquarters and major logistics facility in South Carolina. The addition of 64,000 square feet – before the state-of-the-art facility has even opened — will add an additional $2.7 million in investment and is expected to create at least 20 more jobs.
In October 2013, KI Logistics announced that it would invest at least $11.5 million and generate as many as 149 new jobs over "the next several years as business warrants" company officials said at the time.
"Ever since we announced plans for the new facility, we have been requested by both existing and new customers across the region to provide additional assistance," said Harry Chase, Vice President of Logistics for KI Logistics. "As we prepare to open our new facility in a matter of weeks, the time is right to undertake this expansion."
KI Logistics originally planned to build a 208,000 square foot custom facility at The Matrix, with an option to expand the facility in the future. The addition will expand the building footprint by roughly 30%, Chase noted, bringing the facility's full capacity to 272,000 square feet. He expects to begin operations at the completed facility in July, with the additional space completed by September.
""It is truly a testament to our growing business community when a company chooses to expand in our state and another great sign that we are headed in the right direction. We congratulate KI Logistics on their decision to invest another $2.7 million and create 20 more jobs, on top of the $11.5 million and 149 jobs already announced."," said Governor Nikki Haley.
While parent company Kimura Inc. already operates a 70,000 square foot facility in Laurens, SC that manufactures steel containers and racks for the automotive market, the century-old Kimura Unity is best known for its leading-edge expertise in logistics and distribution, serving as a preferred partner for such leading organizations as Drive Automotive, JTEKT and Toyota, the latter which it serves in numerous countries around the world.
"Our customers are doing well and new opportunities are presenting themselves, and we are excited to expand our operations to reflect that growth and market vitality," said Chase. "We are appreciative for the confidence and commitment of those customers, and the leadership of the Greenville Area Development Corporation, readySC, South Carolina Department of Commerce and others who are helping to make this expansion a reality."
"South Carolina is heavily investing in our logistics network to support the growth of these kinds of businesses," said Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt. "It is great to see KI Logistics expand their plans – even before their facility opens."
The Greenville County facility is intended as "a showcase of KI Logistics' expertise, efficiently assisting clients in optimizing their supply chain and operations while teaching and training a new generation of associates to embrace the lean tools and processes the company embraces organizationally," said Chase. "We believe Upstate South Carolina is the ideal location to support world-class companies as customers, and to attract and retain a top quality workforce."
"The distribution and logistics sector is among the fastest-growing industries today, and a key target for Greenville County and the Upstate," said Dr. Bob Taylor, board member of the Greenville Area Development Corporation and Chairman of Greenville County Council. "The company is a globally respected business focused on innovation and we are pleased to see KI Logistics grow and thrive here."
KI Logistics has already added several dozen employees, and is working with readySC in the recruiting and training of additional associates. Persons interested in being considered for positions including support technicians, customer service representatives, team technicians and forklift drivers should contact their local readySC office or visit them at www.readySC.org.
The Greenville Area Development Corporation is a non-profit organization established by Greenville County Council to promote and enhance the economic growth and development of Greenville County. Since its founding in 2001, GADC efforts have resulted in the creation of more than 17,500 new jobs and more than $3 billion in capital investment in Greenville County, SC. To learn more, visit www.goGADC.com or call (864) 235-2008.


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Full opened to Modified and Modified Opened to Improved Cylinder
The original markings on Model 21 #30,136, a Duck Gun fitted with an extra set of barrels, were over struck with two lines each and the new chokes stamped exactly as Ed Ulrich describes in his article in the Double Gun Journal1
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Full Choke opened to Improved Modified.
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Model 21 #6,515 is a made for stock 16 gauge Field gun that was removed from inventory to fill a special order. Notice how the original choke markings were marked out with two lines in both examples. The new markings on gun #6,515 were not placed as Mr. Ulrich stated in his article in the Double Gun Journal1 .
1Edward E. Ulrich, "Winchester Model 21s ~ A Good Investment~", Double Gun Journal, XII Issue 1 (Spring 2001), 51.
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In Saturday's upset win over Vanderbilt, Tyson Lee continued to prove himself adept at managing the game, a QB who hasn't existed at Mississippi State in seemingly forever. I'll still maintain that the last good Bulldog quarterback was Sleepy Robinson. But don't worry, I'm not anointing Lee to any privileged status just yet. The kid has a way to go, but I like the progression.
Part of the Bulldogs success resulted from creative play calling in the early going. Some passes, some draws, but mostly runs…oh, and a little luck in Vandy being off sides on a blocked field goal. Sure the first drive of the game only resulted in three points, but an early score is exactly what the doctor prescribed. Another part of success involved Tyson Lee being a gritty S.O.B. (all due respects to his mother….the semantics is a compliment in this case) and using his feet to make key plays.
Mississippi State was not without their mistakes. Punter Blake McAdams looked far from a Ray Guy candidate. Penalties continued to be part of the story: a face-mask giving Vandy 1st and goal at the one, a bad offsides on Kyle Love, a running your mouth way after the play is over on Co-Eric Riley. J.C. Brignone didn't return confidence in him either with a bad snap on a big 3rd down at the end of the third quarter.
Ultimately, the Bulldogs prevailed. The game changing play coming as an early 4th quarter interception by De'Mon Glanton, and Croom deciding to punch the ball in with field position at the Vanderbilt seven. I'm sure Bulldog "faithful" would have booed if Christian Ducre didn't score a TD on 3rd and goal from the three yard line. But who cares what the fans think (or would have thought)? Sylvester Croom especially should not, and that's why he chose to run and not pass.
To my question, can the Bulldogs build off the Vandy win? I think so. This team is coming together, mostly speaking about offense and the ability of the coaches to call the right plays. They are getting used to their confirmed starting quarterback and Tyson Lee is gaining the trust of his teammates. Mississippi State still must, I repeat, must learn how to limit self inflicted mistakes. Tennessee is a vulnerable opponent. If the Bulldogs play their cards right, a shot at season redemption is in sight.
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Google's in-house tensor processing units (TPU) are packed with specialized circuits optimized for AI model training and are at the heart of Google products like Translate, Photos, Search, the Google Assistant, and Gmail. They became publicly available through Google's Cloud Machine Learning Engine in beta in February, and the Mountain View company is now bringing them to European and Asian regions and introducing preemptible pricing.
"Cloud TPUs allow businesses everywhere to transform their own products and services with machine learning, and we're working hard to make Cloud TPUs as widely available and as affordable as possible," Brenna Saeta, lead tech for TensorFlow at Google, wrote in a blog post.
The cost savings with preemptible plans are substantial. Google says that training a Cloud TPU ResNet-50 — a neural network that's often used as a benchmarking tool for AI training speed — on a database of images from scratch costs as little as $7.50. That's compared to the $25 it costs to train the same model on a normal plan.
And preemptible pricing offers the same performance advantages as standard Cloud TPU training. In Stanford's DAWNBench AI benchmarking competition, Google's Cloud TPU trained a ResNet-50 model 6 times faster than non-TPU submissions, taking just 30 minutes to reach the target accuracy.
So what's the catch? Preemptible instances are given a lower compute priority than normal instances, which means if a normal instance requires additional resources, Google's Cloud Compute Engine might terminate the workload. That won't pose a problem for fault-tolerant models, Google says, thanks to TensorFlow's built-in support for saving and restoring from checkpoints. But more complex systems might not be great candidates.
Cloud TPU preemptible pricing plans are available starting today.
Google isn't the only one with cloud-hosted hardware optimized for machine learning frameworks. In March, Microsoft opened Brainwave — a fleet of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) designed to speed up machine learning operations — to select Azure customers. (Microsoft said that this allowed it to achieve 10 times faster performance for the models that power its Bing search engine.) Amazon, meanwhile, provides its own FPGA hardware to customers, and is reportedly developing an AI chip that will accelerate its Alexa speech engine's model training.
At Google's I/O Developer Conference in May, the Mountain View company took the wraps off the third generation of TPUs: the Tensor Processing Unit 3.0. Google claims they offer up to 100 petaflops in performance — 8 times that of the company's second-generation chips.


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Srinergy Helps Detroit's Church of Messiah to go Solar!
Detroit is a city that has taken a hard hit in its history. An age-old city whose roots run deep and culture runs deeper. Despite the blizzards in the past, the landmarks of faith have taken root in such a place called Church of Messiah. For over a century, this church has helped many young individuals find their ways through the struggles and hardships of life. With such grounding efforts in helping the community, Srinergy took part to help this 130-year-old building go green with an even brighter future ahead. Srinergy installed a 4-panel off-grid solar charging station to allow for the...Read More


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I have traveled the long road of life and seen many things, some cruel, some beautiful. I have always been open to the many wonders of life, like a young flower grows up towards the sun. The light I have found within gives me a radiant warmth, and shines a soft glow of brilliance to all those who are willing to open their mind. Hopefully you will join me on this magnificent path to self enlightenment; search for the truth and accept nothing else. It is your right to be free.
Jonathan Edward Avis was born on the 8th of September 1996 in East London and was raised in the small town Grahamstown, Easter Cape, South Africa. He was educated at the private school St Andrews before going to university at Rhodes. After struggling with a minor drug addiction, Jonathan triumphantly made his way through rehab where he found his love for words and poetry along with a desire to understand the deeper meaning of life and all its unanswered questions.


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Our winter here in Los Angeles was one, long, wet weekend as I reported a couple of weeks ago. The winter began on a midday Thursday and finished up by the end of Sunday. Temperatures were miserable though, getting down to 48 degrees…brrrr…it was tough believe me, really tough.
Fortunately for us, such rough weather hasn't put off Spring. Far from it. It's come early in fact. Oh, Spring…a chance to begin anew.
Today, Sunday, feels a bit like summer to be honest, with highs predicted in the high-eighties, which is good because Nettie and I are going to be play in the St. Patrick's Day golf tournament and it's hard to do well when you're hands are frozen and your toes threaten frostbite.
Okay. Enough sarcasm. You East-Coaster hate us plenty already. I hear it's still snowing out there. It must be dreadful. I've seen snow on TV…isn't it white and wet and cold?
I went to our local hardware store yesterday, Franklin's Hardware, for some stainless steel bolts to tune-up our golf carts for the tournament. As I parked, I could see spring plants on sale everywhere, spilling into the parking lot.
As I got closer, I noticed an old woman in a wheelchair with her 50-ish daughter pushing her around. I snapped a quick picture of them in front of pepper plants, tomatoes, and other vegetables.
They moved from there to the citrus trees seedlings in pots…lemon and orange and lime. The old woman picked out a lemon tree. Wow, I thought, what expectations she has. Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
It'll be something like 20 years before that tree bears fruit, 10 at least. Will she be alive in 10 years? In 20? Does she even consider it? Maybe not. Maybe she's buying the tree for the sake of buying the tree. Nothing more.
Like the birds building nests all over our neighborhood this week. Will they be here next Spring when their babies build nests of their own? Who knows? Does it cross their minds? I doubt it.
That's the way to live, isn't it? With no expectations. Letting the sun rise without your help. Letting the moon blossom in the night sky without you tugging it along. All by itself. For you and not for you. With you and without you.
We've got to wear green today for the St. Paddy's golf scramble. For those of you new to golfing, a "scramble" means our team of four hits the ball, and then the best ball hit becomes the position from which we next hit our ball. Make sense? No? Well, who cares? Which is kind of the message of St. Patrick's Day, or at least the way we Americans celebrate it.
It's a celebration of Spring, really, hence its association with the Shamrock, the early blooming three-leafed clover. The three leaves have their connection to the concept of the Trinity (father, son, Holy Ghost), and from there to Easter and Resurrection…the Big Expectation Theme of Spring.
I'm writing this an hour or so before the tournament starts. I'll take some photos and plop 'em in when I get back. I'm pretty sure the day will begin with drinks, also an Irish tradition. Then onto the first tee.
Nettie and I don't expect to win, of course. We'll be happy just to make a couple of nice putts or perhaps a good drive or two, or even a decent chip or pitch.
"Hold on!" I say to myself. "No expectations, remember? None."
One foot in front of the other, nothing more, which may be expectation enough after the Jameson and Baileys have been passed around.
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03. Loco, Gray – Good (feat. Elo)
09. San E, Raina – Sugar and Me
10. Simon Dominic, One, G2, BewhY – It's Not Me Who You Used to Know (prod. by Gray)
18. BoA, Beenzino – No Matter What
21. The Quiett, Superbee, myunDo, Flowsik, Dok2 – Air DoTheQ
22. Zion.T, C Jamm, Reddy, Xitsuh – $insa
62. 10cm – I Really Like You
65. Mad Clown, Donutman, Boi B, #Gun – Rose of Sharon
85. Gray – Just Do It (feat. Loco)
87. The Black Skirts – Wait More OST
88. Kiha and The Faces – Kieuk
91. Younha – Get It? (feat. HA:TFELT, Cheetah)
97. Xia – Lean on Me OST
98. WheeSung – Hold Over (feat. LE of EXID)
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85. DIA – On The Road
86. Noel – Hold My Hands
90. Guckkasten – Pulse
No Matter What is nice, though maybe a little repetitive, mainly because of the background beat.
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Weekly Bible Study
Holy Jerusalem, 104 Fair Street in Garden City, will host a weekly bible study every Tuesday night at 7:30pm with Pastor, Dr. Willie E. Johnson, PHD as the teacher. It's free and open to the public. Causal dress is appropriate.
Mayor Edna Jackson To Speak at St. Paul CME
On Sunday, March 20 at 11:30 AM, the congregation of St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church will welcome former mayor The Honorable Edna B. Jackson as its keynote speaker. The program will also feature the inspiring music of the Anointed Voices Gospel Choir of Armstrong State University. They will join forces with St. Paul's musical director Ms. Shayla Loadholt and musician … Continue reading "Mayor Edna Jackson To Speak at St. Paul CME"
First Bryan Baptist Church
First Bryan Baptist Church, located at 575 West Bryan Street, will hold their annual "Seven Last Words Of Jesus" on Good Friday, March 25, 2016 at 12 p.m. Afterwards, dinner will be served to the homeless from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The public is invited to attend. For more information, please call 912-232-5526. Rev. Aaron M. James, Sr., Pastor; … Continue reading "First Bryan Baptist Church"
First New Light Baptist Church
Sunday School @ 10:00am every Sunday. Morning Worship @ 11:30am, 1st & 2nd Sundays. Youth Day Worship @ 11:30am on 3rd Sunday. Holy Communion @ 11:30am on 4th Sunday. Family Prayer, Praise & Bible Study every Wednesday @ 7:00pm. Please join us as we "Praise JESUS and HE Lights our Way."
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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control (Ref: Galatians 5:22- 23) are all seeds planted within us when we accept Jesus into our hearts. Theses gifts are tools given to help us maintain the upkeep of our minds and our spiritual walk with Christ. Each gift works in a different yet cohesive way to renew the mind and … Continue reading "Using The Fruits of The Spirit"
Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Of Savannah
Please join the Bethel Male Ensemble for a live enactment of The Last Supper, a play that captures the essence of the last conversation between Christ and His disciples. The curtain goes up at 7:00 p.m. March 23, 2016. This is a repeat of the sizzling performance held last year. We are praying that you will help us in remembering … Continue reading "Bethel Missionary Baptist Church Of Savannah"
Townsley Chapel A.M.E. Church
The Pastor, Officers, Missionary Society and Members of Townsley Chapel A.M.E. Church, invites everyone and all Church Missionaries to come out and help us celebrate, The Bates-Spikes Missionary Society Annual Day, Sunday March 20, at 4:00pm. Our theme is " Living a Holy Life; Have you had a Check-Up Lately?" Please come out and support our Annual WMS Day. Sis. … Continue reading "Townsley Chapel A.M.E. Church"
Apostle Juanita Edwards' Appreciation Service
Newborn Church of Faith in Christ, located on 120 McIntyre Street, will celebrate Apostle Juanita Edwards' Appreciation. The celebration date is Wednesday March 23 , 2016 through Saturday March 26, 2016 @ 7:30 pm nightly. The speakers for this event are Dr. Carrie Coppock, Elder Claude Thomas, Bishop James Wright and Bishop Jackie Gilbert Grant. We at Newborn Church look … Continue reading "Apostle Juanita Edwards' Appreciation Service"
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Bryan Neck Missionary Baptist Church
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My life living with Multiple Chronic Illnesses. I have learned that all effect each other as I manage each one and my life. I have Chronic Intractable Migraines, Cervicalgia, Hypothyroidism, NCS a type of Dysautonomia, Essential Tremor, Narcolepsy w/o cataplexy, Tinnitus, and anxiety. I have a love of life and find I have to constantly re-define success for myself.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Migraine, Migraine, Migraine - and Familial Tremors
But, the pain came back when I went back to work and dealt with that and was back in my normal life. As normal as could be. Now I live with constant pain at a high level - usually average daily 7-71/2 on a 10 scale with spikes up every day to 9 or above at times and when I take my medications the pain can get down to as low as a 5 or 6. But that's it. That's what I live with. I have been once again placed on short term disability and have been since May and am not seeing improvement.
I think I have gotten used to some of my medications and my doctor is making some changes to see if that helps. I'm not your normal even chronic migraine sufferer - like who is? - I can't take any normal migraine medications - the triptans - because I have vaso-spasms and they worry about stroke. They also worry that the longer I am in constant pain the chance of stoke goes up.
I also am hypothyroid severely and so I have to manage my thyroid with my migraine medications. I also have narcolepsy without cataplexy - meaning I don't nod off unexpectedly like they show in funny movies - which it isn't - but I have trouble - hah trouble, I don't reach deep sleep very often. I go straight to REM and stay there and awake and have what I used to call night terrors but actually is called "sleep paralysis with hallucinations" and is common with narcolepsy and can happen occasionally to anyone but was happening to me a lot. Basically your body puts you into a paralytic state when you are in REM sleep so you do not act out your dreams - good - bad when you become conscious during REM and then also have hallucinations and feel like you can't move or wake up - because you can't - and it is extremely scary. Too much on that one - the medication they gave me has helped tremendously with that. I also have NCS which is a type of vasovagal syncope. I pass out at unusual and bad times - see my post of most embarrassing fainting episodes.
If that isn't enough, my blood pressure runs very low normally. Apparently it is more common with migraine patients than I had thought. Anyhow, my other condition is a familial tremor. Not a big deal it was when I had a slight tremor in my hands that got worse now and again and was told that would get worse and move into my arms, legs and neck and head as I got older. I thought, Kathryn Hepburn rocks so no big deal and my mom has tremors and it's still just in her hands.
Well, the constant migraine pain kicked it into high gear. I shake so bad now that the doctors and my husband and grown sons don't want me driving because it shows up in my legs while I'm driving. I still drive to the doctor but everyone's at work so I have to. The tremor gets to where I can't control it at all and I shake all the food off my fork or out of my sandwich before I can get it to my mouth. Then, so bad I can't get my contacts out because the tremor decides to also become a jerk and I keep poking myself in the eye. I have to have people fill out paperwork for me because I can't write. And I have a hard time reading when I shake the book or paper and if I don't then the migraine causes a twitch in my eye - minor - but enough to cause major pain. The computer is better because I can make the words bigger. I miss reading.
I miss not feeling like a freak and I miss not being a part of the world - contributing like I used to. Now, I have to pat myself on the back for very small achievements. And that's okay. I am here and I will be okay. I will survive. I hate feeling like I wonder what others are thinking when they see me and I can't give my medical history to everyone that sees me because then they think I'm more of a freak.
And then I hate that the people close to me that care about me and understand go through periods where they don't understand and are tired of me. Not of me but they miss the real me - the old me - and want me better. I do too - but I can't force that to happen. I tried. It put me back on disability and with the knowledge that when it's medical - no matter how many other obstacles you've overcome in your life - you have to let go and meditate and relax and not push and force your way out of this one. It tends to make migraines worse.
That's all for now - been awhile since I wrote - I'm going to try to do so a lot more often. I'm looking forward to invisible illness awareness week and the free conference - see link - week of September 13th. Last year's I got a lot out of.
Love to all and take care of yourselves.
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Not sure of your medication, but I was put on dilantin once for headaches and I had tremors and dystonia (writhing movements) from the medication to the point I coudn't hardly feed myself. Neuros are very good about giving neuroleptics but very bad at discerning adverse reactions. Wishing/hoping that your tremors are worsened by medication and not by your headache disorder.ReplyDelete
I'm sorry you're dealing with so much. Thinking of you.
Thanks Winny - I wish the tremors were medication related but they are not - I was long ago before my constant migraines and without a migraine diagnosed with familial tremors that run in my family - think of Katherine Hepburn in her later years. They said it would gradually get worse and it was getting worse before my constant migraine and all the meds. They think that yes pain contributes to more tremors but more so my anxiety contributes to them acting out more and getting worse faster. I remember 12 years ago thinking they were bad and now I think WOW I thought it was bad then? The worst part is the way strangers look at me like I'm a junky or something and you can't explain - well some people I say I have familial tremors like Katherine Hepburn and they go oh and look at me normal but fewer and fewer people remember her and most just go whatever in their roll of eyes and I know I shouldn't care what strangers think but I do.ReplyDelete
Jeanne! I miss you! I have been going through too hard of a time. Hope to be coming out of it soon and back so we can talk and catch up - I think of you often as well and of our talks.
I just ran across your blog. I hope that things start getting better for you. It sounds like you're a fighter, so keep up the good work.ReplyDelete
Thank you Jamie - I am a fighter and I am sorry for the depressing blog but it just all came pouring out - I held back I thought but all the same.ReplyDelete
One of the things I am going to work on my fight back is to write more blogs more often so please come back and visit and I hope to be more inspiring than depressing!
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You need to say "You Old Poop" to people and THEN they will associate you with Katherine Hepburn!! Or maybe they might REALLY think you are a junky? Wishing there was someway to fix it.ReplyDelete
I have gifted you with the One Lovely Blog award! Hope you are feeling better soon.
Hi Elizabeth...I'm Jessica. I was just reading through your blog and saw that you had mentioned going to MHNI. I recently received a referral to go there. I am still doing research and trying to decide whether or not to go. Any advice would be SO helpful! Do you live in Michigan? I will be traveling from Florida if I do go. So I don't know if I'd stay in a hotel or the hospital???ReplyDelete
Winny - thanks for the advice - you are AWESOME!!!ReplyDelete
I am so far behind - I was writing a new blog, got sidetracked doing some research and now have a whole new idea AND I can only be on the computer for short bursts at a time due to the pain so I promise more is coming!
Jessica - HI!!! Welcome - I loved MHNI and they were so helpful. I live in Kansas City and my Mom went with me. It is a difficult trip to make and I do have some GREAT advice for you on this - on where to stay, etc, and you have to make reservations early if you decide to go, because if they decide to admit you it can take a week or more to get into the hospital because of so many patients - but there is a great place to stay that has others waiting and they are SO awesome there - and families and all - but again takes an early reservation. I'll get it for you. One thing I have to say to you is that while I was there some patients had a very negative attitude and didn't get any help. Patients with a positive attitude got excellent help. The "complainers" tried to recruit others to their side - you have to have an open mind - they are formed to help you on every level - not just hospitalized in a room and medicate you - you go to seminars, see a therapist, may have other tests depending, and are expected to NOT sit in your room - they will only serve you breakfast in your room. They have SO many interactive "seminars" everyday to go to an interact with so many different ways to deal with your illness including everything from medications to arts and crafts as a therapy - they have may places to hang out and relax and you make many friends and don't feel so alone. And now I have doctor's here that trained there under Dr. Saper. They freely share medical records with your doctors at home and are so good. I'll get you more info and post very soon. Pain is horrible and I have to sign off - but I will tell you that when I got back from there my pain was very low and I thought I could take on the world - but they were very honest with me that it could come back and although it wasn't gone that it may never be completely gone and that I may need more visits - I would go back if my insurance would pay or I could afford it - but at least my doctors still talk to them.
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Series: The O'Learys #3
on December 27, 2018
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Pages: 303
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Business...and pleasure
Determined to show her father she's capable of running the family business, Elizabeth Brannigan sets out to save a failing Chicago bar. As she struggles with the rough clientele, she encounters the handsome co-owner of a thriving Irish pub. With him she's ready to take on those late-night shenanigans.
Colin O'Leary's father passed away before he could prove to him that he isn't a screw-up. Now he wants to show his family that they can count on him and that he's responsible enough to own a bar of his own. And Elizabeth just might be the saving grace he's always needed. Can they mix a little business and pleasure or will the merger destroy everything?
I don't mind books with family drama and everything that brings. With this book though, it didn't make me want to go back and read the rest of the books. This was an ok read, but it won't stick out to me. I read a lot of books, most of it romance, so it takes a lot for one to stay with me. This one though, it was all cliche and predictable. The ending was abrupt and missed the mark for me. Colin was too weak for my liking, and Elizabeth never won me over. I also never felt the need to root for them to be together. I'm rating this what I am just because I think others may enjoy it even though I did not.


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Commercial cards can be a point of disagreement between buyer and supplier. For a vendor, the cost of the interchange associated with accepting a card payment may outweigh its client's desire to pay with a card, often preferred by payers to gain rewards points.
Adoption of cards for supplier payments has been limited, but analysts predict a bright outlook for the tool. B2B payments company Viewpost is putting its own confidence in commercial cards through a new partnership with Comdata, a top issuer of virtual cards.
The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Dec. 13), aims to support buyers' demand for card payments. According to a Viewpost survey, 16 percent of companies said credit cards are their preferred payment method. But the benefits of using commercial cards — and virtual cards — are vast and go beyond an ability for buyers to rack up rewards and points.
"From a consumer perspective, they're maybe focused on rewards or points coming back through card programs," said Pat McMonagle, EVP and director of payment operations at Viewpost. "Larger organizations may not be focused on that. A virtual card program allows them to have an opportunity to turn a cost center into an opportunity to generate rebates that they can bring into their organization."
Proponents of commercial card use have pointed out that cards allow suppliers to get paid quickly but support payers' cash management needs by still providing a float. Viewpost's own survey found that 65 percent of companies agree that using a card is a cash management tool "critical to running their business."
Indeed, cards can support buyers' cash flow management needs. A recent report published by American Express highlighted commercial cards' ability to make payments, while enabling them to keep cash-on-hand for more strategic investments.
All of this, however, doesn't address the hesitancy suppliers face when deciding whether to accept cards. Viewpost's McMonagle said that there is a tradeoff to be made.
"It's a question we've discussed many times: Why would a vendor opt into this program?" he said. "It's about simplification of their processing on their sides and the costs that they have for the interchange rates in comparison to the cost of processing the paper check."
Cards can allow vendors to access a dependable cash management structure, too, with the acquiring bank landing money in a vendor's account at predictable times. Further, McMonagle said, cards don't have the same types of exceptions paper checks face, like stop payment.
For Viewpost and Comdata, a key differentiator in their offering, McMonagle added, is that their partnership targets another key source of friction for B2B payments made via card. The task to ensure that a buyer that wants to pay with a card can actually do so and validating that a supplier will accept that payment rail can be a challenge. Viewpost and Comdata are automating that for their clients.
"Viewpost will take care of that burden of mapping which one of their partners is eligible and have agreed to accept virtual cards," McMonagle said. "That removal of that friction associated with management of vendor relationships is a tremendous simplification."
For both sides, commercial cards — especially virtual card solutions — can heighten companies' grasp of payments data. It can be key for the reconciliation process, McMonagle pointed out, but proponents of the technology have also highlighted virtual cards' ability to provide data and insight into cash flow management, forecasting and other key metrics of business performance.
According to the Viewpost executive, supporting an array of B2B payment rails for both buyers and suppliers is part of strengthening their strategic relationships.
And while interchange fees and other points of friction associated with accepting cards may deter suppliers from getting on board, research shows that vendors are demanding to be paid electronically. Research from Receivable Savvy earlier this year found that 63 percent of suppliers prefer to be paid electronically. However, the same report found that only 9 percent said they'd like to be paid via commercial card, instead preferring ACH payments.
That's the hurdle that Viewpost and Comdata — and the entire commercial and virtual card space — will need to overcome. McMonagle told PYMNTS, though, that there is space for the payment tool in B2B payments, and it's a technology that can support both sides of the transaction.
"Virtual cards benefit the trading partner relationship," he said. "Buyers can deliver payments in the preferred mechanism of their vendor, which helps strengthen those bonds between the customer and the vendor."
"They want to be a good payer and a good customer and to deliver electronic payments as opposed to check payments," he continued, "which is the desire of many of their vendors."
New PYMNTS Report: The CFO's Guide To Digitizing B2B Payments – August 2020
The CFO's Guide To Digitizing B2B Payments, a PYMNTS and Comdata collaboration, examines how companies are updating their AP approaches to protect their cash flows, support their vendors and enable their financial departments to operate remotely.


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GoFundMe has set up a relief fund to help federal workers who have been affected by the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history. The fund was announced by GoFundMe CEO Rob Solomon, who matched New Age guru Deepack Chopra's initial $10,000 donation.
"Across the country, hundreds of thousands of government workers are furloughed or forced to work without pay," Solomon wrote on the campaign's description.
"They are honest, hard working Americans serving our country. They are showing up to work protecting our coastal waters and keeping our airports and skies safe, among other important duties as civil servants and contractors.
"They're going through a very tough time through no fault of their own. They put in a full day, and when they come home they have to figure out how to pay rent, put food on the table, or afford diapers for their newborn. We all read these stories and feel helpless. We are stuck because we don't know what to do."
Nearly 800,000 federal workers across nine departments have been affected by the shutdown since it began last month. Around 380,000 thousand federal workers have been asked to stay home, while the other 420,000 essential employees are working without pay. Federal employees missed their first paycheck more than a week ago.
"We want to provide a place for people to take action and help someone in need, because, together, we have power to make a difference and provide critical short-term relief," the fundraiser's page reads. "The over 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay don't deserve this hardship, but we have the opportunity to take action and deliver a message of hope and solidarity."
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"I hope the shutdown ends soon. In the meantime, please join me and help our fellow Americans by providing some short term relief," Solomon wrote in a press release about the campaign. "This is not about politics. This is lending a helping hand to someone in need."
As of Monday morning, more than $100,000 had been donated to the fundraiser.


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In 1974, a man disappeared somewhere in the Siskiyou Mountains, never to be heard of again. He wasn't a tourist lost in the forests – he's been living in the region for years. He wasn't a rookie camper overwhelmed by wilderness – he had written several articles on camping and survivalism, based on his own experience of practising these skills. So what happened to Tom Marshall?
Letting Go Isn't Free
A basic and well-known tenet of stoicism is to stop trying to act on (and worrying about) things that aren't really in your control, or that can't at least be significantly influenced by you. Some of this is obvious and easy: the weather, traffic, the economy, chance. A lot of it is much harder: what other people think of you, bad things happening in other places, the ideas of your friends, politics.
I think everybody wants to worry less – it's a massive energy drain, and it really crushes quality of life. Following this thinking does indeed deliver a lot of tranquillity – the actual reward promised by the Stoics. But it sure seems like you have to sacrifice a lot in the process! Depending on what your core needs are, one or both of these concerns quickly arise even when just thinking about stoicism:
1. What about my impact on the world? I don't want to curl up in my bed and die in Stoic tranquillity, oblivious to what I've left behind.
2. How can I provide safety to myself and my family if I choose to spend less in time on the news, withdraw from politics, stop studying the economy, and stop worrying about what others think of me? How will I know if there's some larger problem, and how will I make sure I'm not harmed in the process?
It was the first question that Shane Radliff set out to answer, but in the process, he discovered the solution to the second one.
Become Invulnerable
Shane was fed up with the political means – the Sisyphusian task of betting the fulfilment of your personal needs on the whims of millions of other people. He wanted to find ways of direct action instead: creating freedom in his own life, without the permission of others.
It was in this search that he found an obscure, out of print book collecting the works of an obscure man from the late sixties. To say that this book has had an impact on him is an understatement – he has since not only seen to it that it is transcribed and narrated but has even created a whole standalone podcast about it. The book was Tom Marshall's work, the man who was to completely disappear in the Siskiyou Mountains in a few years, written under his better-known pen name: Rayo.
Though a few decades apart, Shane and Rayo have pretty similar perspectives: both are concerned with personal freedom and autonomy and prefer private solutions to government action. Similar to Shane's Direct Action Series, Rayo's strategies were developed after disappointment with mass action – he tried to establish a libertarian island nation before moving on to van nomadism and later wilderness camping.
As the few written accounts that exist about him show, he was a very safety-conscious man, and his quest to dissociate with most of a society he didn't like, he encountered the same problem that we did at the beginning of this article: How do you stay safe without being plugged in all the time?
As an engineer, he wasn't interested in half-measures, so he developed a radical concept that turned the idea of safety on its head: invulnerability to coercion. He called his strategy Vonu (voluntary, not vulnerable). This approach is worth considering even if coercion (a favourite libertarian word) is not one's main concern – there are very few of us in personal development who aren't dissatisfied with some aspects of society and wouldn't like to be able to avoid that influence.
Vonu Tactics
A vonuan seeks to meet her need for safety not by changing what others do, but by becoming as resistant as possible herself. Rather than convince others to create social structures that would reduce crime (under which he included many government actions) Rayo decided to become immune to crime instead.
He practised what he preached – which in his case meant living a very private life in the mountains with his "free mate". Most of his communication with the outside world was secretive, he had a van for mobility and lived in polyethene tents he designed, he stored a considerable amount of food – according to an account, he would even duck when aeroplanes flew above him to maintain his location a secret.
Not only that, but he created a number of alternative strategies that may not have appealed to him directly, but were regardless valid means of achieving invulnerability to coercion: sailboating, financial independence, country shopping, intentional communities, free ports etc. Shane and I discussed these strategies in the podcast episode in more detail (which has a longer, more thorough version on his Vonu website).
Safety AND Impact?
How about impact – do you have to give up on the world if you stop worrying about it? Did Rayo stop trying in favour of complete isolationism?
Not quite. He did have a typewriter with him, and up until 1974, when all correspondence stopped, he kept publishing newsletters and contributing articles, promoting the Vonu way and comparing it with other libertarian strategies of the time. He also stayed in touch with a number of carefully selected people, whom he would educate in his tactics by organising Vonu weeks.
Did he actually manage to have an impact? He wasn't particularly popular even in the libertarian circles at the time, and though I few people remembered him, most people haven't heard of him. That said, his works had a circulation at the time and he did manage to create a book that still exists today, five decades later. And now that Shane and his associates were inspired by him, he has a people once again discussing his ideas on the Internet and even has an entire podcast dedicated to exploring and building on his thoughts.
That's no small achievement for a man who, based on the information available about him, wasn't all that interested in impact (when it came at the detriment of his safety). How many of us will have our work alive and well decades after our (presumed) death?
As a side note, there were mistakes that probably limited Rayo's reach that we can learn from. In his books and articles, he often used terms that likely alienated not only people with different political views but libertarians alike – for instance, calling them "controlled schizophrenics". He didn't seem (to me) particularly interested in understanding other viewpoints or creating a bridge of understanding at least towards ideologically close perspectives.
A Viable Alternative to the Non-Actionable
Above everything else, what impresses me most about Rayo and the reason I've decided to interview Shane about him is that he had a strong focus on the actionable in an environment that was much more interested in philosophising. He went out, learned new skills and changed himself rather than waiting for others to give him freedom.
I believe this is a powerful lesson whether you agree with Rayo's particular political outlook or not. As I've said in my previous article, my particular non-actionable addiction was politics and economics too. It may be something else in your case: anything that you pay attention to that fills you with anger and/or fear and which you can do very little about falls under this category.
Can you stay safe without following the news? Yes, if rather than trying to dodge bullets or plead with the shooter, you instead focus on becoming as invulnerable and independent as possible.
Do you have to become a hermit, sacrifice your impact on the world, on making it a better place? I don't think so – not only will your personal change inspire others, but you will be able to have a voice from a much safer position.
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"Available on business.govt.nz, ONECheck is a free online tool to help businesses get their branding 'right' from the beginning of their business journey - with information they need made available through one simple search," Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Kris Faafoi says.
"This is the first in a series of tools to be provided by business.govt.nz to help businesses get from 'started to sorted' including easier registration with government services, and more personalised guidance for small businesses."
"With the refresh of this tool we are helping Kiwi businesses and innovators get ahead, as ONECheck searches widely across web domains and social networks, which form a crucial part of many businesses' marketing.
"Because ONECheck also searches the NZBN register, it means your name is checked against all business types registered with NZBN so you will know if for example a sole trader is using your proposed name before you make this important decision.
After users have researched a name for their business, they are then provided with information and direction on how to register it as a company with the Companies Office, or as a trade mark with the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ).
Since ONECheck was launched in 2012, it has been used to perform more than 1.5 million searches – a reflection of the aspirational nature of many New Zealanders – with more than 50,000 companies, and 23,000 trademarks registered in the 2016/17.
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Cambria Funds added new multi-asset ETF that incorporates a wide range of asset categories, with a focus on diversification, value investing and trend following.
The recently launched Cambria Trinity ETF (Cboe:TRTY) has a 0.66 expense ratio.
The Cambria Trinity ETF tries to reflect the performance of the Cambria Trinity Index, which is designed to provide diversified exposure to all of the major asset classes in the various regions, countries, and sectors around the globe and absolute positive returns with lower volatility and risk compared to global equity markets, according to the fund's prospectus.
The fund acts as an ETF-of-ETFs and may include exposure to equity and fixed income securities, along with real estate, commodities, listed derivatives and currencies. Other ETP exposures pursue shareholder yield and managed futures strategies, which involve dividend investing and short sales, respectively.
TRTY is also incorporates a smart beta play, focusing on factors like value, momentum and trend investing. Momentum and trend following strategies try to invest in assets when their prices are in an uptrend or when prices are increasing over a specified time period relative to the prices of other assets. It also sells or shorts assets when their prices are in a downtrend relative to the prices of other assets.
The underlying index allocates approximately 16% of its portfolio to equity securities, 24% to fixed income securities, 44% to trend following strategies and 16% to other asset classes such as currencies and real assets, including commodities, listed derivatives and real estate.
Current holdings include Cambria Global Momentum ETF (GMOM) 33.5%, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Government Bond ETF (VGIT) 7.8%, Cambria Value and Momentum ETF (VAMO) 7.8%, Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND) 5.9%, Cambria Sovereign High Yield Bond ETF (SOVB) 5.8%, PowerShares DB Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Strategy Portfolio (PDBC) 4.0%, WisdomTree Managed Futures Strategy (WTMF) 3.9%, JPMorgan Managed Futures ETF (JPMF) 3.9%, Cambria Shareholder Yield ETF (SYLD) 3.9% and Cambria Global Value ETF (GVAL) 3.9%.
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Dominant Wife – For 14 years of marriage I had begged, pleaded, cajoled, been patient etc…
Eventuly my wife agreed to go with me to some hotel bars where she could experience chatting and flirting with other men. It all started pretty innocent with her dressed to kill in form fitting leather pants and some type of halter top. After the first night out, when she had been approached by a number of men and chatted we went home to have exeptional sex. She was clearly extremly turned on and woke me at 4 in the morning for more sex.
We did this a few times with the same results. She always said that she was afraid of my reaction if she ever went through with it. I suggested that she could lock me in a CB cchastity cage so that I would have to be nice to her no matter what. She was a little intimidated locking me up but it was fun for an hour or two.
One night at her suggestion we rented a room in a swanky hotel where she had met some appealing men on previous occasions. On entering the room I was really hot for her. After a pretty quick fuck she commented that it was good that my cock was now soft because she wanted to lock it up, laying back on the bed I could feel her lubing my cock so that it slid into the tube and heard the lock click.
She then went and took a really long shower to in her words "clean myself up".
She came out of the bathroom with her face made up in what could only be described as a very slutty look.
She then pulled out a super sexy red lace gstring, asked me if I liked it, and then said good, but it is not for you. I sat there watching her slowly get dressed into her sexy outfit, everytime she saw me staring at her she commented that I shouldn't get too excited because it was not for me.
In the elevator on the way up to the bar on the top floor of the hotel she became a cold bitch to me more or less telling me to stay away from her. When I asked why she told me that she was meeting someone and I was not to interfere or my cock would stay locked forerever.
She exited the elevator before me and went to meet a man at the bar, it seemd not for the first time, he kissing her on greeting. Sitting behind them at a table I could see their hands were all over each other and within less than 10 minutes they left.
I waited at the bar for about 2 hours and then she called me on my cellphone invitng me down to the room. Upon entering the room I saw her dressed in a very tight very short leather miniskirt with zippers down the side. She knew that this outfit always drove me crazy. Her hair was messed, the makeup was mostly gone and the bed had clearly been used.
Looking me in the eyes with a michevious and sheepish look she gently led me by the hand to the chair. Sitting in the chair she ordered me to strip. I knew what to do next as we had spoken of it often in fantasy. Geting on my knees I started kissing her feet slowly working my way up her leggs which she parted as I went up. As I got near her pussy I could smell cum and sticky parts of her thighs had a salty taste. I must admit that I was feeling a little reluctant, but she told me that I had to prove my love and devotion to her if I wanted to get laid.
After eating and cleaning her extensively we moved to the bed, with me begging her to release my cock. Before she would do this she made me tell her how happy I was for her and how pleased I was to be able to support her. She also told me that when I came I would be locked up again until such time as I had learned to behave properly.
The sex that night was amazing and pretty endless. The next day we said little to each other about it. But two days later it was time to talk. She told me that she loved me, but that after all my begging she had gooten used to the idea of fucking someone else. She said that at this point the barrier had been broken and that I had better get used to it. That enjoying her pussy was a priveledge not a right and that I would need to be gracious about sharing. That if I was good about it she would still fuck me, and if not I would just have to wait until she was over it.
Since then she has fucked him 2-3 times per month and me a similar amount although I would like much more. She has never let me meet her lover, she says it would be too wierd. She also told me that after that first night it was wierd having two men cum in her, and that her lover does not want me to cum in what her considders his slut's pussy, so I now have to use a condom. She says that I should be glad that he still alows her to fuck me. She loves to make me eat her cum filled pussy though, saying that as I thought it was ok for her to have another dick in her pussy it should be fine for me to eat it.
More recently she has shaved her pussy and changed in other ways too. She loves flirting with him on the cellphone while holding my balls in her hand. Although she is more dominant with me, she has told her lover that in their relationship he should think of her as his personal slut and that there is nothing she will not do if he wants her to. In bed she asks me to teach her how to be a good whore for him, and when I complain she says that is what you wanted isn't it. She also says that the only way I will get my cock sucked is so that she can practice to be better for him.
I am hornier than an 18 year old, I think she is hotter than ever, and whenever I feel remotly down about it, she makes me tell her how happy I am to serve her, failure to do so she assures me will lead to prolonged periods of sexual denial. Although this was my idea, she is now more agressive about it, and I feel I am being trained to love it more and think of nothing other than pleasing her.
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- Property Value$299,900
- Property Address2606 Labieux Road, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
- TypeHouse
- BasementYes
- ParkingRV PARKING
- Taxes$2,685
- Living Area2,190 sq.ft.
- Lot Frontage50 ft
- Lot Depth150 ft
- Lot Size Area0.28 acres
- Bedrooms3
- Bathrooms1 full & 1 half
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2606 Labieux Road, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Immaculate 3 bedroom 2 bedroom home. A heat pump, vinyl windows, 200 amp service and an updated roof are just a few of the major updates this home has to offer. Sitting on a large, fully fenced .28 acre lot with RV parking this is the perfect choice for a growing family. Upstairs features 3 bedrooms and 1.5 baths. The master bedroom has ample closet space and a 3 piece ensuite. The other 2 bedrooms are also large ( 11.4 x 11.4 ). The living room has a cozy fireplace with a stylish rock surround and attractive mantle. The living room is open to the dining room that walks out to the huge deck perfect for entertaining. The kitchen is functional with loads of cupboard space, new countertops, an eating nook and also walks out to the deck for your summer BBQs. Finishing off the main living is a renovated bathroom. Downstairs there is a large rec room with a certified woodstove, huge laundry room and a roughed in bathroom. Finishing off the downstairs is an unfinished bedroom/bonus room.
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1. Sai & Kou
I feel like Kyary's new A-side Sai & Kou sounds like a march at the beginning before it becomes a rather cutesy and upbeat track for her. It does sound like a lot of stuff that came from her "Pikapika Fantajin" album, being all synthy (thanks to Nakata) and just being a sugary song itself. Really though, it's sort of catchy, but not at the levels of "Mondai Girl" unfortunately.
2. Cosmetic Coaster
A song for her Universal Studios attraction? Weird to say the least but original in the same sense. Right from the start, it does give me a theme park kind of feeling with the beats and generally appealing cute sound. I do feel that its fantasy-esque sound and nature just suits me more than "Sai & Kou" did which in the end made it the better song overall. Cute and catchy for sure!
3. Mondai Girl -extended mix-
I'm surprised "Crazy Party Night" or even "Mondai Girl" had any extensions (the latter having a remix), but we're back right at it with a Mondai Girl extension which is great! Adding almost about a minute more, this version begins immediately with the chorus before the actual song kicks in which is odd but cool. The new changes within the song are OK, maybe a little unnecessary here and there, but I still love the song regardless!
Kyary's 3rd single (and probably the last to represent her upcoming "KPP BEST" best album), Sai & Kou at least stood out a bit more than her previous single by a decent amount. The leading track, while very reminiscent of past works, is OK for the most part, but most of my interest was at Cosmetic Coaster that's for sure! The extended take on Mondai Girl was decent too for the most part. Just wonder what comes next after the best album to be honest.


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A pre-Collins v. Virginia dog sniff of defendant's car on his property was valid under circuit law at the time it occurred, so the good faith exception requires no suppression. United States v. Velazquez, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 28445 (7th Cir. Oct. 9, 2018).
Defendant's claim to withdraw his plea that defense counsel didn't file a motion to suppress is unavailing because he doesn't show that the motion to suppress would be granted. United States v. Napper, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 173376 (W.D. Pa. Oct. 9, 2018).*


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High Court hears arguments on UK government decision not to ban further exports to the United States of execution drug sodium thiopental
November 17, 2010
Reprieve and British lawyers Leigh Day & Co are in the High Court today seeking to prevent further exports to the United States of sodium thiopental, a drug used in lethal injections.
Representing two clients on death row in the US, Edmund Zagorski (pictured) and Ralph Baze, Leigh Day will be arguing that Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business Innovation & Skills, was wrong to refuse to place export controls on sodium thiopental.
On 25 October the state of Arizona executed Jeffrey Landrigan. The execution had been delayed by a shortage in the United States of a drug required for execution by lethal injection. When it emerged that Arizona had obtained the drug, the Attorney General of Arizona, apparently to assure the public of the quality of the drug, announced that it had been imported from the UK.
Leigh Day then wrote an urgent letter to Vince Cable asking him to use his powers under the Export Control Act to place an immediate ban on the export of sodium thiopental to the US for use in executions.
On the 1 November, Vince Cable declined to place export controls on sodium thiopental, reasoning that it would place a disproportionate burden on UK businesses wishing to export the drug to the US and arguing that such a step was not justified because the US states could always source the drug from elsewhere in the world.
The Secretary of State's position sits very uncomfortably with stated British government policy on actively seeking the abolition of the death penalty worldwide and, in particular, in the US. It also seems to fly in the face of the UK's international law and human rights obligations.
Richard Stein, partner, Leigh Day & Co said:
"Having failed to persuade Vince Cable that it is wrong for the UK to be facilitating the death penalty in the United States, we hope that the High Court will now compel him to exercise the powers of export control which parliament has granted him to prevent just this sort of violation of human rights."
Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith said:
"Why on earth would the Government not issue a temporary ban in exports of Sodium Thiopental to the US, pending resolution of this litigation, given that the drug is virtually never used in the US any more except to execute people? If they fail to take this basic, humanitarian step, the blood of Ed Zagorski and others will be on their hands if the horse bolts while the stable door is open."
Notes for Editors:
The US has recently run short of Sodium Thiopental, one of the drugs used in the execution protocol. On Monday 25th October, Jeffery Landrigan was executed in Arizona using drugs supplied by a British company – despite a plea for clemency from the judge who sentenced him to death.
The Arizona consignment was sufficient for four executions, so the British company will contribute to three more deaths there. Soon afterwards, the American lawyers for Edmund Zagorski contacted Reprieve with a plea for help: Tennessee was seeking to purchase the drugs to kill Mr Zagorski, apparently from the same British company.
On Thursday 28th October, Reprieve and Leigh Day contacted the Government and asked for emergency measures to be taken to avoid British complicity in Mr Zagorski's execution. All it would take to prevent the death of Mr Zagorski and others would be for Vince Cable to issue an emergency order regulating its export.
On Monday, November 1st, Mr. Cable responded that the British government would take no such step, because if the US did not get the drug from the UK it would just go elsewhere. Mr. Cable also said he was unwilling to interfere unnecessarily in US-UK trade. On behalf of the FCO, Jeremy Browne took the same line.
On Tuesday 2nd November, lawyers with Leigh Day & Co. filed a judicial review application of the Government's refusal to lift a hand to prevent British complicity in a series of American executions. The case is particularly urgent because Mr Zagorski's lawyers have learned that the Sodium Thiopental has not been shipped to Tennessee yet but may leave any day: the anonymous "Sales Agreement", dated September 30, 2010, indicates that the shipment may take place in November. Ed Zagorski is scheduled to die on 11th January 2011.
Sodium thiopental is one of cocktail of three drugs prescribed for use in lethal injections by US states which retain the death penalty. Sodium thiopental is supposed to anaesthetise the victim before pancuronium bromide is used to paralyse the victim and finally potassium chloride is used to induce a heart attack. Sodium thiopental is bona fide anaesthetic and is included in the WHO list of essential medicines.
However, it is old and has largely been superseded by more modern and efficacious drugs in western countries. Its use in the United States, other than for lethal injections, is confined to a few residual specialist areas. The only producer of the drug in the United States, Hospira, had ceased production due to a shortage of raw ingredients. Hospira has also publicly stated that it did not support the use of its product in lethal injections.
Edmund Zagorski:
Edmund George "Ed" Zagorski was born on December 27, 1954, in Michigan. He grew up very impoverished in Tecumseh, Michigan. Ed suffered from a learning disability and a bad stutter as a child, both of which he fought to overcome. He never finished high school, but trained to become a boat captain.
Ed was just 28 when he went to jail; he is now almost 56. He is on death row in Tennessee for the killing of two drug peddlers – John Dale Dotson and Jimmy Porter — in a marijuana deal gone bad in 1983. By the time he is set to die – on January 11, 2011 – he will have been awaiting the death penalty for half of his life, 28 years.
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that forcing a prisoner to wait more than five years for his death is, standing alone, degrading and inhuman punishment. Ed was convicted and sentenced to death based in part upon statements abused out of him.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) have described Ed Zagorski's treatment in the Robertson County jail as "torture": Arrested in May of 1983, Mr. Zagorski invoked his rights to remain silent and to counsel. The State of Tennessee then placed Mr. Zagorski in a windowless, unventilated 8′ x 8′ steel box.
After fifty two days of near total isolation and sensory deprivation – a period punctuated by an oppressive heat wave – Mr. Zagorski was physiologically compromised and psychologically disturbed. Thirty pounds lighter and despondent, he offered a confession in return for the ability to dictate the terms of his execution.
Subjected to harsh confinement conditions similar to those used for the express purpose of "breaking" pretrial detainees, it is little surprise that Mr. Zagorski's will was broken. The local Sheriff justified this treatment in part because Ed had attempted suicide in jail. He put Ed in the isolation cell despite a court order forbidding it.
Ed implicated himself simply to put an end to the interminable abuse. Indeed, he was attempting suicide by a more official route. According to the police, "he said, well, I'll tell you what I'll do—if you'll let me pick the type of execution and the day of execution, I'll confess to these murders." Typically for the unreliable kind of death sentence that often tarnishes the reputation of the U.S. justice system, significant evidence against Ed was supplied by an informant who had bartered for his testimony, who worked closely with the authorities, and who appears to have taken part in planting incriminating evidence against Ed.
Ed has been under a death sentence for almost three decades despite suggestions that other people had the form, and the motive, to commit the murders. Tormented by his depression, when he was convicted of the crimes, Ed Zagorski just asked to die. Therefore the jurors heard nothing in mitigation of his sentence.
The abuses of his human rights have been ignored by the courts, with the federal appellate courts refusing even to consider most of his claims based on "procedural bars". The original prosecutors recognized that Ed Zagorski did not merit the death penalty, offering him a sentence of life imprisonment before trial – a sentence that would have allowed him to seek parole in due course.
Ed has been a model prisoner for the past 27 years and he is well-respected by other inmates and prison personnel. In other words, his execution will be wholly pointless. January 11, 2011, is slated to see another "drug deal gone bad", with the drugs sold by a British company used to kill him – notwithstanding the fact that nobody felt this was a death penalty case to begin with.
Ed's contact details are: Edmund George Zagorski # 102839, Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, Unit 2, 7475 Cockrill Bend Industrial Blvd., Nashville, Tennessee 37209, USA.
Reprieve, a legal action charity, uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve investigates, litigates and educates, working on the frontline, to provide legal support to prisoners unable to pay for it themselves.
Reprieve promotes the rule of law around the world, securing each person's right to a fair trial and saving lives. Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve and has spent 25 years working on behalf of people facing the death penalty in the USA.
Reprieve has represented, and continues to represent, a large number of prisoners who have been rendered and abused around the world, and is conducting ongoing investigations into the rendition and the secret detention of 'ghost prisoners' in the so-called 'war on terror.'
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ASSOS MILLE GT JACKET ULTRAZ WINTER EISENHERZ for men
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The MILLE GT JACKET ULTRAZ WINTER EISENHERZ by assos helps you brave the winter. Thanks to the combination of different windproof NEOS materials and a light RX fleece as an insulating layer on the collar, this cycling jacket is the perfect choice for rides with cold wind.
• Insulating, breathable softshell jacket
• Front panel and upper back made of windproof, water-resistant NEOS LIGHT three-layer softshell with PU membrane
• Upper sleeves made of windproof, water-resistant and very breathable NEOS ULTRA three-layer softshell material
• Warm RX Fleece material in two different qualities as lining and along the spine
• Bi-elastic 2W waistWave construction stretch panel on the bag for a more robust pocket design
• Raglan sleeves
• Close-fitting stand-up collar
• Stow-away ergonomic neck warmer made of warm RX material
• Full-length front zip with chin guard
• Three rear pockets with new layout for secure transport and fast access
• Elastic, close-fitting cuffs and hem
• Longer back panel
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Outer fabric: 62% polyamide, 18% polyester, 20% elastane
Inner fabric: 78% polyamide, 22% elastane
The high-quality three-layer softshell with polyurethane membrane is absolutely windproof and offers light insulation. Thanks to four-way stretch it follows all your movements.
Breathability: approx. 27 000 g/m²/24h
The high-quality two-layer softshell with polyurethane membrane is not only absolutely windproof and ultra-light, but also offers high freedom of movement thanks to four-way stretch material.
Breathability: approx. 44 500 g/m²/24h
Thanks to its special insulation characteristics, the RX fleece material always offers pleasantly warm comfort. Even on cold days, this material offers high insulation.
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