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Since 1973 Montana Silversmiths has focused on producing and offering products of exceptional value. Nestled in the tiny hamlet of Columbus, MT, they've grown to become the largest supplier of western jewelry, watches, home decor, and legendary buckles to the industry. Handcrafted silver, rich in western heritage, is the very core of Montana Silversmiths.
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Medical Aid - administer First Aid and CPR, in addition to cardiac care using semi-automatic defibrillators.
Rescue Operations -Search and rescue; removing injured persons from motor vehicles, industrial accidents and confined spaces; water rescue.
Firefighting - handling hose lines, operating firefighting equipment using hand tools.
Public Education - presenting programs and attending public events to promote fire safety awareness.
Fire Prevention - inspecting commercial, industrial and residential buildings; enforcing the Provincial Building and Fire Codes and Municipal by-laws; preparing emergency pre-plans.
Hazardous Material Management - controlling toxic spills that may endanger the public or the environment.
Maintenance - daily upkeep of grounds, buildings and apparatus.
Minimum Qualifications
- Possess a valid Ontario Fire Administration Inc. (OFAI) Candidate Testing Service certificate including Stage One, Two and Three. Certificate must be valid throughout the duration of the entire recruitment process. Please visit www.ofai.ca for more information.
- Possess a National Fire Protection Association Firefighter Certification NFPA 1001 (I & II) & NFPA 472 or 1072 Awareness & Operations Level.
- Must be 18 years of age or older at the time of application.
- Legally entitled to work in Canada.
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma or academic equivalent.
- Possess a valid and unrestricted Ontario's Driver's License, minimum Class "G" and a driving record that is acceptable to the City of Mississauga.
- Successful applicants must receive a Class "DZ" Ontario Driver's License within 6 months of hire date.
- Current Standard First Aid and CPR "C" Level certificate.
- Excellent hearing without the use of artificial aids.
- Ability to swim proficiently.
- Effective English communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly and precisely in stressful situations.
- Criminal Record Search, Vulnerable Sector Check (Level Three) that is acceptable to the City of Mississauga from the Police Service where you reside at the time of the interview.
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- Possess Fire and Life Safety Educator NFPA 1035 and Fire Inspector & Plan Examiner NFPA 1031.
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A potential I-55 rivalry in Major League Soccer is looking less likely after St. Louis voters didn't pass a stadium bill that was a key part of a push for an expanion team, but the U.S. Open Cup has come to the rescue.
The Chicago Fire will start its 2017 U.S. Open Cup campaign against Saint Louis FC, the Fire's USL affiliate last year.
St. Louis beat PDL club Michigan Bucks 2-1 in Pontiac, Mich., on Tuesday to advance to the competition's fourth round against the Fire. The Fire will head to World Wide Technology Soccer Park in suburban Fenton, Mo., for the game on June 14.
The June 14 date will slide in between a Fire home game against Atlanta on June 10 and a trip to New England a week later. This will be the first time the Fire will play a team from St. Louis.
Last year, a number of Fire players went to St. Louis to play on loan. Patrick Doody, Collin Fernandez and Drew Conner all spent extended time with the Missouri club. Fernandez is back on loan this year with the Fire's new USL affiliate, Tulsa.
St. Louis is 3-3-3 in the USL this season.
To advance, St. Louis got a pair of first half goals from Sebastian Dalgaard, but the Bucks got back into the game with an early second half goal. St. Louis held on, but not before the bizarre dome in Michigan (where the Fire lost a cup game in 2012) played a small part:
Ball hit the ceiling in this #USOC2017 game between @MichiganBucks & @SaintLouisFC. Not something you see every day.— U.S. Open Cup (@opencup) May 31, 2017


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Tello is based in Southern Spain. Mr. Juan Antonio Tello, founder and CEO states, "We have come a long way in our core business of olive and olive oil testing. We have always strived to maintain quality work by hiring quality team members from the olive oil industry, and hiring top notch junior scientists fresh from college and molding them to our culture. Our growth in the past years has been exponential. However, as a business we still need to be able to expand our services while maintaining healthy growth. The marriage of Tello with Tentamus Group who wishes to expand its high-end analytical testing in the world is music to my ears in the sense that I don't have to grow to areas that are outside of my expertise. At Tello our motto has always been 'Growth Through Quality' and this will help us reach that goal while maintaining 'Quality.'
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Laboratorio Juan Antonio Tello, S.L. ("Tello") was founded in 2007 and is based in Jaén, Southern Spain. Tello offers testing services for olives and olive oil. Tello is accredited by ENAC according to ISO17025 and employs close to 50 technical experts for matters regarding olives.
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Every 51 minutes, other person dies in an alcohol-related traffic collision. In 2012 alone, more than 10,000 people were killed in drunk driving accidents, accounting for nearly one-third of all fatalities.
You can find more drunk driving statistics on the Mothers against Drunk Driving (MADD) website here.
Drunk Driving Prevention In America
In the perspective of these staggering numbers, what are governmental agencies and private campaigns play to educate American drivers practically drunk driving? This article will provide a survey of the most widely-publicized anti-impaired driving campaigns, and an analysis of their real-world effects.
Buzzed Driving
In the last few years, weve seen numerous ad campaigns, initiated both by state-funded organizations and private incorporation groups, advocating for widespread nod of something called buzzed driving. as a result what is it?
Buzzed driving is a categorically easy concept. After ingestion, alcohol is absorbed snappishly by the bloodstream and common tests, taking into account a breathalyzer, can put-on the amount of alcohol in your blood reliably and quickly. Driving with a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) of 0.08 or sophisticated is illegal in all state. At that concentration, drivers approximately invariably experience sedation and slower admission times. In new words, its straightforwardly dangerous to drive in the manner of that much alcohol in your system.
Buzzed driving is simply having a BAC humiliate than 0.08% but higher than 0.00%.
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And significant studies have found that less is no better. One financial credit from UC San Diego that evaluated accident reports found that buzzed drivers, those with a BAC of 0.01 percent are 46 percent more likely to be officially and solely to blame than self-disciplined drivers. The fact is that driving even slightly buzzed is dangerous, in the distance more dangerous than driving sober.
The real trouble is that American take action and public policy tend to see on 0.08% as a definitive, meaningful boundary. under that origin and youre relatively safe, above it youre dangerous. But the researchers at UC San Diego found that the chances of causing a crash increases steadily and expertly from BAC 0.01 to 0.24 percent, meaning that there is no curt transition behind comparing a buzzed driver to a drunk driver. It turns out that 0.08% is not a definitive boundary, and that no amount of alcohol is secure in the resolved analysis.
The credit from UC San Diego was published in the British medical journal insult Prevention. You can log on a summary here.
The Worlds Stance on Drunk Driving
Much of the world has even more rigorous limits.
China has a legal limit of 0.02%
Japan uses 0.03%
Frances legitimate limit is 0.05%
Germanys is 0.05%
Sweden uses 0.02%
Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia every have zero-tolerance policies; any BAC above 0.00% and youll lose your license, be penalized following aggressive fines, and your car can be impounded.
In fact, North America (including Canada and Mexico) is one of the worlds unaided regions to use 0.08% BAC as its authenticated limit.
Has The move around Worked?
The Ad Council, Americas largest non-profit producer of public assistance announcements, spearheaded the Buzzed Driving preparedness campaign. on their website, they bank account that their ads reached nearly one half of all American adults greater than the age of 21. And that there was a significant accrual in the proportion of men age 21 35 who called themselves extremely concerned nearly the thing of drunk driving, from 22 percent in 2005 to 27 percent in 2011.
And while public attentiveness is utterly important, Americas legislators have nevertheless to reply to our additional contract of buzzed driving. In fact, gone most make a clean breast governments dispatch to zero tolerance, they either limit this prohibition to drivers under 21 or aspire understandably that they wont tolerate any driver taking into consideration a BAC over 0.08%.
Only era will tell whether or not state governments follow through upon the current research. assist in 2013, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended lowering Americas real limit to 0.05%, but no welcome has yet to deal with this stricter limit.
Alcohol Addiction Treatment
Another answer has been to contextualize drunk driving, to define it in terms of marginal tragic condition. As the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) states: drunk driving is often a symptom of a larger problem: alcohol maltreatment and abuse. The underlying premise to this stir up is that some drunk drivers sham vehicles while impaired because (in for that reason many words) they cant encourage it. And if you acquire substance dependent persons treatment, you might take some impaired drivers off the road in the same gesture.
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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) Water Resources Division (WRD) collects fish and water samples from Michigan lakes and streams. Fish are collected to help identify where fish consumption advisories are needed. Water sampling is done to help identify sources of PFAS. Below is a summary of some of our efforts.
The WRD works with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to collect fish to be used by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to determine if a fish consumption advisory is needed. As of mid-September 2018 nearly 1,300 fish samples from 55 waterbodies have been analyzed for PFAS along with other contaminants. Fish have most recently been collected from Gull Lake (Kalamazoo County); Lake Pleasant (Genesee County); Base Line and Portage Lakes (Livingston/Washtenaw Counties); Emerald, Myers, Bella Vista, and Reeds Lakes (Kent County); and Long and Palmer Lakes (St. Joseph County). Fish collections are planned for the Rogue, Chippewa, Flint, Huron, and Thornapple Rivers.
Learn more information about PFAS testing in fish and wildlife.
EGLE first analyzed PFAS in surface water in 2001 when 21 Michigan streams were sampled for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS). The study found varying levels of both chemicals but the concentrations were not considered to be a problem based on what was known about PFAS at the time.
The discovery in 2011 of very high levels of PFOS in fish from a pond near the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda prompted a more intensive statewide sampling of Michigan rivers in 2013 and 2014. The results of that effort indicated several rivers had PFOS concentrations above background levels in either water, fish, or both.
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The WRD sampling efforts have found sources of PFAS contamination that are now being addressed.
In 2017 lake and stream PFAS samples were collected from 12 rivers across Michigan. In 2018 the WRD continued this sampling for source identification, drinking water protection, and protection of public health. Significant sampling events have targeted the Kalamazoo, Huron, Clinton, Flint, and St. Joseph Rivers, as well as the River Raisin.
All of the WRD's current efforts play a large role in source identification in response to elevated fish, surface water, point source, or drinking water PFAS concentrations. As new discharges and detections come to light, the WRD mobilizes staff to collect water and fish tissue samples to pinpoint sources and contribute key data to determine public health advisories. WRD staff also work with the responsible entities to reduce usage of PFAS and treat PFAS on-site.


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Patrick grew up in a musical family and learned to play the guitar and bass at an early age. He began taking piano lessons at the age of 11 and he is grateful to have had that foundational instruction in music theory. Though his specialty is stringed instruments, Patrick composes songs on the piano and acknowledges it as a vital part of any musician's development.
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ANDY CURLOWE: Un mythe immaculé
Jun 6 – Jun 30, 2019
Galerie D'Este is pleased to present Un mythe immaculé, the gallery's third solo exhibition of recent works by painter Andy Curlowe. Upon learning that one hundred years ago his family's beautiful and thickly wooded property in Vermont had once been clear-cut for lumber and reduced to a field of stumps, the artist struggled to reconcile this image with his own understanding and internal narrative of the American wilderness. Research introduced Curlowe to a far more complicated history of this wilderness, one which includes historical misrepresentation of Native American peoples who populated, farmed, and hunted the land before the first European settlers set foot on American soil.
19th and 20th century conservation efforts have perpetuated the myth of a pristine American wilderness in well-intentioned attempts to respond to and heal the land from the effects of clear-cutting and industrialization. Nonetheless, this myth has simultaneously and (assumedly) inadvertently oversimplified the history of indigenous cultures who inhabited the same lands that conservationists seek to protect. A more nuanced narrative reflects that indigenous peoples altered the landscape in various ways for millennia, such as through intentional fire-setting and the cultivation of anthropogenic forests.
Regarding humankind as an integral and historically impactful element of a larger complex environment may leave us with far more questions than answers. Although this ambiguity can be unsettling, Curlowe calls upon us to be aware and introspective of our history and impact on a world that he affirms to be exponentially approaching dire, irreversible and detrimental change. Un mythe immaculé juxtaposes real and imagined human impact upon our natural world, strives to understand and balance disparate truths through historical and imagined narratives, and evokes conversation.
Born in 1984 in Schenectady, New York, Andy Curlowe studied at the Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. Following his bachelor's degree in visual arts, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States, and in 2013 received the CPAC Creative Workforce Fellowship. In 2014, he made his debut at the international contemporary art fair Art Toronto. His work was received with great enthusiasm by the Canadian and international public, and he was subsequently featured in the SOLO section of the fair in 2015.


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"Global Entrepreneurship Culture" by foreign delegates for BBA/BCA students
I.T.S UG Campus organized an Interaction session on "Global Entrepreneurship Culture" by foreign delegates for BBA/BCA students on October 26, 2016. The objective of the session was to make the students aware about the nitty-gritty of entrepreneurship at international level. The session enabled the students to understand the scope & challenges faced by entrepreneurs at international level. Ms. Inna Levchenko, Argo-M Ltd from Russia and Mr. Nhampembe Loydy Marrurele, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Investment and Promotion Centre from Mozambique were the distinguished persons to interact with the students.
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The Rev. Billy Graham just celebrated his 95th birthday with a special message. What a life this man had! And God even gave him the grace to give a "final" message on God's grace, ending with the sinner's prayer. I watched the moving messages, but then it hit me; In the form of a Limerick:
You spoke to the billions on earth
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Why Perez Deserves Another Shot At The Big Time
Second chances are few and far between in F1. It is one of the most competitive environments in world sport, and with 1000's of hungry young chargers vying for their shot at the big time, opportunities are few and far between, particularly when it comes to the sport's premium seats. For Sergio Perez, his chance to shine came in 2013, when McLaren paired him with 2009 champion Jenson Button, following a breakthrough 2012 campaign where the 21 year-old Mexican claimed three podiums for Sauber. Ultimately, Perez fluffed his lines during his spell at Woking but so did his team.
Here's why Sergio Perez deserves another shot with one of F1's most illustrious squads.
In truth, it is fair to suggest that should Checo earn another seat in one of the sport's most highly rated outfits, it would be only his first real opportunity to notch consecutive podiums and career victories. His chance at McLaren came at a time in which MTC was heading into a period of decline. 2013 was their last season with title sponsor Vodafone and the MP4-28 was notoriously unpredictable under braking, leaving Perez with a difficult car to become acclimatized to.
Placed within the McLaren pressure-cooker and forced to contend with a far from ideal package, even the most experienced names would struggle. In reality, Perez's 2013 statistics were far from dire. He managed to claim 49 points over the course of the campaign and while this total is dwarfed by Button's 73, the Briton had the advantage of and extra decade of experience to guide him through what was a difficult term for the team.
The difficult nature of the 2013 season for McLaren is a critical aspect of the argument. Heading back to the points records, it is notable that Sauber, guided by Perez and teammate Kamui Kobayashi, scored 126 points in 2012 – Four points more than McLaren managed in the following year.
Two teams, two years, so why compare? Ultimately, the numbers illustrate the argument that despite their higher profile and glittering history, Perez's career move to McLaren was hardly a launch pad into one of the sport's most competitive seats. Certainly, it was billed as such, and rightly so following the rapid MP4-27, which barring unreliability would have surely taken Lewis Hamilton to a second world championship, but its successor was no match for the RB9, W04 and E21 which were the class of the field.
Hence, I would suggest that my own title for this article is in fact misleading. Not so much a second chance – rather a first shot at the sharp end for Sergio Perez. The Mexican's 2015 campaign has certainly placed him into the shop window once again, with his sublime drive in Russia yielding his second podium for Force India.
The difficulty which Checo will inevitably face in the coming years is a challenge which has similarly foiled the likes of Romain Grosjean and Nico Hulkenberg in recent seasons. All have demonstrated the traits required to succeed in a marquee seat, but the front-running stalwarts such as Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and others hold the box seats and show no desire to bow out of the sport anytime soon.
One seat at Ferrari is potentially up for grabs in the near future, should Kimi Raikkonen retire at the end of next year, but there is an extortionately expansive list of candidates, of which Sergio Perez is one of a number. Fortunately, Force India are currently riding the crest of a wave, upon which both Perez and Hulkenberg have an opportunity to scrap for podium placings. They can achieve some success with the Silverstone based outfit, which is just as well, given the stability at Mercedes and Ferrari.
So many drivers, so few championship challenging seats available.
Three car teams anyone?
Image Credit: "USGP_2015" By Joe McGowan (via Flickr) [CC-BY-NC-2.0]


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What is the worst thing you can do when you start your day?
Wake up feeling lethargic and expect yourself to perform at 100% from the moment you get up in the morning; and then compare how you are doing during the day against this unrealistic benchmark.
There is a better way!
As you wake up in the morning take charge of your thoughts in that early morning awareness before you fully awake.
You've read all the self-help books: Attitude is everything! Change your perspective! Have a positive outlook! Can these ideas really change your future? And if so, how? In my childhood and adolescence, I was skeptical. Let's fact it, if my brother was born without being able to walk, how could my attitude or outlook change anything?
Success quotations or affirmations as they are known to some, are an exceptional and important part in shifting your life from disaster to success.
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Following on from delighting us with their third studio album 'In Plain Sight' earlier this year, Honeyblood have now returned with a brand new single.
The new track 'Bubble Gun' is their first since the release of their latest full-length, and comes accompanied by a new Gareth Goodlad-directed video.
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Check out the new video for 'Bubble Gun' in the player below.


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Discussion in 'Gear Chat' started by Shewie, Jun 18, 2014.
Beware the Go Outside shop.... I've heard divorces are created at the till
Don't like the side pockets, to deep for my liking. No bungy cord, love that on the 20 - it is where my rain jacket travels. Just the general shape of it doesn't work for me.
28 mile round trip across the moors and somehow I still manage to accidentally fall through the door.
Dog likes it. She drags me in there because they always have doggy biscuits in a bowl by the door.
If you find that a item on the Alpkit site is out of stock try calling one of their shops and ask about the item. I've tried this twice at the Hathersage shop and have been lucky with both the Gourdon 30 & the Hunka XL Bivi, both were saved for me to collect.
Let me see....
Did I buy one set of injinji liners or for less dosh.... all these?
EE Enigma apex 30 in camo colour (20d) This arrived last week and still no sign of a customs letter
Mittens with fingertips or gloves for frostbite victims?
Where are they from Martin? I fancy trying them out.
Cheers, Michael.
Michael, I got mine off Ebay:
5 Pairs Men's Cotton Blend Soft Five Fingers 5 Toe Socks Absorbent Stockings
sold by nice-fashion-home_3
Thanks very much, I'm give them a try.
Train ticket to Ilkley £5.90, Train ticket from Windermere to Leeds with insurance £17.55.... Hopefully my esbit will arrive before I leave
Nothing wrong with a bit of a colour clash. I bought something similar from AliExpress but it is heavier duty than expected. I'm going to strap it onto my gravel bike pannier rack on a cycling holiday in Belgium. The idea is it'll be waterproof and if we want to lock up the bikes and go for a walk I can just unwrap it and easily carry it.
Snus, saltstick caps, esbit, 2 pair of drymax socks (2 old pairs still going strong after a years every other day use on top of runs and treks ... Should let me roll through the miles ahead...
What you bought that's esbit? I'm thinking of buying an Esbit ti stove and some tabs to give a go based on the thread on lightest weight method to heat water.
24 x 14g blocks for my stove.
Got the 15cm big sky stake and guy kit from ulog. They had sold out of the longer ones.
So was very happy to see they had sent me 20cm ones
Just the job!
Also got some 400d / 120g/m uhmwpe cloth. Beastie proof food bag, or if I can waterproof it possibly a bomber pack fabric.
Nice aren't they.
I'll be using them tonight, soon find out!
Feel a good weight!
Have you counted them?
I have the Esbit 585 Alu cookset that weighs in at 205g. I combine it with the Speedster 30ml burner & foil windshield for a total of 238g. I've not timed boiling as I'm in no rush, I'm happy with it.
There are 4 stakes and lines. Going to swap my Zing-it guys with the big sky ones as they are reflective and this tent gets used at sites.
I got that. It split just around the filler housing on its first outing (the pouch that is) and I've brought my heavier original Sawyer pouches out of retirement - never had a problem with those (although some have). Happy with the Micro otherwise though - flow rate significantly better than the Mini although still not going to win any races.
A "proper" winter tent in forrest green 40D silnylon to replace my beloved but heavy and cramped hooped bivy tent {Jack Wolfskin Gossamer 1}.
Finally I'll be able to sit up to get changed and not have to sleep buried amongst rucksack and gear through lack of vestibule.
Being a 4 season tent with solid inner it's not ultralight though it is still a fair bit lighter than what it replaces.
I've ordered a second inner, narrower and mesh, for non winter use. That should shave off some weight. Due to arrive separately.
Was a one off bargain since it was made as a prototype so excellent price. Having popped it up indoors for a quick look I'm just going outside and may be some time.
What make?
Is that one of M. Caffin's prototypes?
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I've put up a couple of posts about strange medical/scientific occurences and predicted that we'll see them on CSI someday (the Sheboygan cactus assault and the quadripedal Turks).
Well this time I really mean it. This is the surest bet of all: people born without fingerprints.
I am not making this up. Rare genetic mutuations in the protein keratin 14 (there are 23 different keratins) can result in the absence of fingerprints.
Start typing, screenwriters!
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25 September 2006
Medical Mystery Monday
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Kroger spent millions to convert clock-in boxes to require fingerprints. Rather than risk having someone clock someone else in early or clock them out late, they computerized the entire operation to include biometrics (index finger prints) everytime employees clock in, out, or go on break.
As you pointed out, some people have no fingerprints but many, many more have such light prints that machines cannot read them. A few of the printless employees were able to circumvent the system entirely but everyone else has to keep plugging into it until it finally works.
I've literally made hundreds of dollars standing in front of the clock, trying to get it to take my fingerprint.
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Letter to the NZ Herald, Dec 2015
Dear Miriyana Alexander,
This is not a Letter to the Editor, but a personal one regarding your comments on Lucretia Seales and the implications for future NZ Herald coverage of assisted dying and voluntary euthanasia.
As you know, the NZ Listener covered her plight over many editions and now the NZ Herald editorial team describe her cause as a "human right".
In effect, the NZ Listener and the NZ Herald are nailing their colours to the mast and saying we support the NZ Voluntary Euthanasia Society and their aims. You may disagree, but that is how it looks.
It has to be a matter of concern when the dominant source of printed news is so partisan on what is a very divisive and complex issue. I'm sure that in future articles Phil Taylor may call a spokesperson in the Care Alliance or Voice for Life for a quote. But it will be just that and perceived as pre-empting complaints to the Press Council on lack of balance.
I am genuinely disappointed to see the NZ Herald abandon so readily any pretense to journalistic integrity, objectivity and commitment to presenting both sides.
On the 11th September, 2015, in the House of Commons, MPs voted 330 against, and 118 in favour of a bill to provide "assisted dying" for those with a terminal illness. The debate by all accounts was passionate, but civilized, with many MPs drawing on personal experiences with their families and loved ones and expressing concern for the vulnerable elderly and the disabled.
One pro-euthanasia spokesperson said that the cause in Parliament had been set back by 20 years and they would now seek social change through the courts.
Now, I don't recall seeing any mention of this historic and important vote in the NZ Herald. If I missed it, I retract my comments.
One final point. Last year I was talking to a very experienced family lawyer who remarked to me: "You have no idea the sort of pressure we lawyers come under from families to help do something about their elderly father or mother in a rest home."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Well they see Mum or Dad sitting in a rest home eating up their inheritance and they ask us to help them somehow put a stop to it."
He was with a group of six other lawyers and they all smiled and nodded their agreement.
Dr David Richmond in Auckland is a retired consultant Professor of Geriatric Health who has been involved with many hundreds of deaths. He told me that very few patients request assisted suicide, invariably the requests come from their families.
Because of the documented extent of "Elder Abuse" in modern NZ society, he is actively opposed to legislating for assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. I don't see him viewing it as a desirable human right.
Yours sincerely,
Bernard Moran
National President of Voice for Life Inc


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How Learning Happens: Skills, Experiences and Values
Thursday, March 2, 2017 Categories: Internships
By Emily Weier, Events & Travel Team Intern
I shadowed at Jackson as a freshman, now I am interning here as a senior, and I've had dozens of classes, projects and professors along the way. To say I am grateful to each person who cheered me on, gently told me when I was wrong (which was more often than I would like to admit!), taught me how to think critically, and became a friend/mentor to me would be such an understatement. As I finish up college, I know that the "what" of my education is vital and significant, but in the end, it will always be the "who" that sticks with me and impacts my choices for years to come.
Here's the thing about education—it is always changing and it never stops. I am in the final stretch of my undergrad years. As my classmates and I see the finish line approaching just a few short months away, we can't help but reflect on the past and think about what is waiting for us after the caps, gowns and celebrations.
In the past seven semesters of classes, and all that accompanies them, I have been taught various skills—soft and hard—and have been given incredible opportunities to take advantage of experiences that enhance my education. I could categorize college takeaways into three main groups: skills, experiences and values. The way I see it, skills are what you learn, experiences are what you do, but values are the lifestyle choices you develop because of where you are and who you are with.
Skills are the things I've learned in the classroom setting. I have enjoyed learning about a variety of subjects while focusing on the ones I love most. Employers today are looking for people with the technical skills to do the job but, equally important, the soft skills required to excel at the job. To my peers, don't overlook the critical rhetorical training you need to succeed in any field you wish to enter. Taking extra speech and writing courses is invaluable to a student in entering their career in today's world. Knowing how to think and communicate effectively will be the foundation of your accomplishments, and the lack of them will be a major cause for your shortcomings.
We all know that it takes professional athletes and musicians years of dedicated practice to achieve their goals, so why would we expect the art of communication and the training required to learn be any less rigorous? In the 18th century, students woke up before the sun to begin their day full of education. They spent hours and hours studying Latin or learning geometry. This seems absurd and would be labeled "too harsh" by the education system of today, but it was this very system that brought about the Scientific Revolution and produced philosophers that enlightened our knowledge in so many ways. I will be honest, if I was given a choice I think I'd stick with the 21st century—please and thank you. However, because the educational expectations of today are so different, our futures are left in our own hands. It is up to us to go the extra mile, to read the book, to do the experiment. If you want the skills to be successful, you have to roll up your sleeves and do the work!
Experiences are the opportunities you capture outside the classroom setting. Sometimes the experiences placed in your lap are small, insignificant and repetitive. Take them. Use the short-term, summer job opportunities to narrow in on what you love and what you are good at. Participate in campus associations, go to city events, volunteer in your community. They may seem small, but it is in those settings that relationships are developed. Sometimes the experiences placed in your lap are big, overwhelming and scary. Take them. I have been able to compete in national marketing competitions. My small, Christian, liberal arts school from Greenville, SC went up against some of the biggest schools in the nation. And guess what—we survived. But more importantly, we learned. I would not trade the sweat, tears and lack of sleep from those competitions for anything! Sometimes the experiences placed in your lap are exciting, unbelievable and exhilarating. Take them. I have been able to travel the country on behalf of my school, meeting prospective students and alumni. From California to Florida and all the places in between, I have met individuals with incredible success stories that taught me to challenge the status quo. And sometimes the experiences are not placed in your life, and you must find them. Do it. I spent a semester of my college career working in a preschool classroom as a teacher's aide. Trust me—that is not at the top of my "dream jobs" list, and I do not ever expect to work there again, but through it, I learned communication from a whole new perspective. The very best thing about experience is that it is never wasted; there is something to be learned from every job and person.
Values are defined as "judgment for what is important in life." Values are the constant when skills and experiences are gained, lost or changed. Values cannot be taught exclusively in a classroom although they are learned there! They are not instilled for merely academic or professional purposes, but for character enhancement. You are taught what to value by the people in your life. In actions and words, they constantly, actively demonstrate what is significant to them. Creativity, teamwork, gratitude, humility, focus, integrity, honesty, dependability—and the list could go on and on. If developed, those traits are your primary assets. I am so thankful to attend a school that emphasized character qualities that develop me as a practical, successful, future professional. In just a few weeks of my internship at Jackson Motorsports Group, I have seen those values highlighted and rewarded over and over again.


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Bigg Boss season 12 is almost on-fire. With unending rivalries among the contestants, the audience is glued to their screens for watching India's most-viewed reality TV show.
Sreesanth and Rohit Suchanti to indulge in a fist fight?
Hosted by Salman Khan, BB12 is getting crazier as days are passing-by and so are the contestants. We all witnessed a considerable amount of tension between Sreesanth and Rohit Suchanti in the last night's episode. Where Rohit seems comfortable in using false moves for winning the game show, Sreesanth disagrees with it.
Last night, we saw Suchanti betraying the blue team for his friendship with Karanvir and Sreesanth boiling on the same. Sreesanth and Suchanti get into a heated verbal argument which is later joined by Srishty Rode.
Our sources suggest that tonight's episode will pool in more drama and will reveal the ugliest side of former cricketer Sreesanth. As the task will continue, Rohit will try his best for making Red team the winner while Jasleen Matharu and Sreesanth will try to stop him.
Suchanti will not stop teasing Sreesanth and calls him 'Flip-santh'. Soon after, Sreesanth will remove his shirt and mic for settling it down with Rohit for once. Sreesanth and Rohit are about to lock horns the old-school way.
Will Sreesanth actually hit Rohit Suchanti or is it going to happen the other way round? Well, one thing is for sure that Sreesanth has had enough mockery from Rohit and its payback time for Suchanti.
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"I am 16 years old and live in Harrisburg, Virginia," the legal document starts. Grant Serrels, the young Virginian, goes on to describe what it's like to be a 21st-century kid growing up on the Shenandoah River:
When we moved to Timberville, Virginia almost six years ago, our family lived in a house located on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. My excitement of being able to play, fish, and swim in the river was quickly thwarted. As a new resident, my family and I soon learned the river had become polluted as a result of lax standards of factory discharge into the river. The river water had also increased in water temperature due to climate change and the bottom of the river was covered in algae. The Shenandoah River had become unsafe for swimming. Also, 'fish kill' became a common vocabulary word for the die off of trout, bass, and sunfish (sometimes in large numbers). My dad is a fisherman, and we would go fishing together a lot. We caught several fish in the Shenandoah River that had lesions. The reason for these lesions and the fish kill is related to the increased temperature of the river waters over the past decade.
Serrels is one member of an unusual group of plaintiffs suing the federal government: unusual, because they're between the ages of 10 and 17; unusual, because they are suing to ask government agencies to more effectively and more quickly address climate change; and unusual, because their case relies on the Public Trust Doctrine, which requires the government to protect and maintain certain shared resources for the health and survival of everyone, including children and future generations — that is to say, Serrels and his fellow plaintiffs. According to Our Children's Trust, the nonprofit organization that assembled and filed the case, it is the first time that the Public Trust Doctrine has been applied to the atmosphere and on behalf of the country's youth.
The young people's quarrel with the government is that it's dragging its feet on addressing climate change. Their voices combine youthful sincerity and naiveté with a scientific understanding of climate change, its troubling trajectory, and its political gridlock, which makes this adult both sad and ashamed. The shame comes when I read Madeleine MacGillivray Wallace's plea for adults to address global warming before it reaches a scientific "tipping point." "I'm not in a position to take action of the scale needed to fight climate change," the 15-year-old New York City native writes. "I have to instead depend on my government to live up to its responsibility of protecting the public commons and making sure I, my generation, and future generations have a livable planet."
Serrels ends his declaration with a similar combination of concern and determination: "I felt very depressed but at the same time motivated to do something about protecting the earth before it's made uninhabitable for my and future generations."
These young people are far more politically engaged than the average teenager (or the average adult), but their anxiety about the future is shared by many of the nation's youth. In a 2011 survey of teen attitudes about nature by The Nature Conservancy, nearly three-quarters of the respondents agreed with the statement, "Previous generations have damaged our environment and left it to our generation to fix it." Less than one-third thought the government was doing a good job of addressing such major problems.
The young people involved in the climate-change lawsuit have already won a first victory. A hearing was originally scheduled earlier this month in San Francisco, but when the case began to receive national publicity, the hearing was moved to Washington, D.C., at a date yet to be determined. Several of the plaintiffs hand-delivered letters to members of Congress before the holiday break urging them to take action.
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– Watch videos made by the young plaintiffs in the lawsuit brought by Our Children's Trust.
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Indian Restaurant and takeaways available. Popular with locals, often busy so worth booking tables.
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I have lived in Shropshire for ten years and tonight I had A Curry at Anjali's and realised I had never had a bad meal here over the last 9 years. The staff are so so friendly as ever. Can't see why to go anywhere else. Food is really good and I have travelled all over England and Scotland and I do believe this to be the best place for a excellent curry and service.
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Have been eating at this Restaurant since it first opened top quality food and service, nothing is too much trouble if you you want advice on ordering something hotter or different spices adding, Keep up the good work.
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absolutely first class food and great service, the herbs and spices compliment each other and dont leave that day after taste cheaper curries leave. a must try place
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Best Indian in Shrewsbury, tried all in town centre, nothing compares an absolute delight, we will go there again.
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we have been eating at anjalis since we moved from lancashire in 2004 always great food and great service excellent
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best indian in shropshire, never had a bad meal, service great, staff always friendly and attentive.
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Fantastic food. Top 3 place in all Shropshire
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the best indian i have ever had !!
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Explore the diversity of France! Start your visit in gorgeous Paris, the pulsating city of lights. From here, you will first head to Normandy and the city of Caen for an historical and emotional day, seeing D-day sites. Continue to Strasbourg, the city of the European Parliament, and spend two days discovering on your own! From here, head to Annecy, the perfect city for anyone who wants to mix picturesque city life with outdoor activities and hikes. The last stop on the journey will be the French riviera, where you will have two days to discover Nice! Stroll the gorgeous city, discover the nightlife, and of course: grab your bathing suit and hit the beach!See more
The itinerary has been created by our local agency with one idea in mind: to inspire you. Every element can be adapted to your needs and interests, from duration to accommodation and activities.
Welcome to Paris!
• Upon your arrival a private chauffeur will be waiting for you!
• You will be transferred to your hotel for check-in, then have an afternoon at leisure.
• Perhaps venture out in the city on your own: there is so much to see!
The culture capital!
• Today is a day just for you!
• Explore this capital, it has so much to offer!
• Why not visit one of the many museums, stroll along the Seine, explore the cool neighborhoods...
• ... or why not join a cooking class, to learn how to make macaroons?
• Make your way to the Saint-Lazar train station, and board the train to Caen.
• Upon arrival a driver will be waiting, and bring you to the D-Day landing sites.
• This is a day of respect and emotion, that will start at the Memorial deCaen War Museum.
• After lunch, continue to the D-Day landing beaches and the Colleville-sur-Mer's American Cemetery by minivan.
• Return to the train station in the afternoon, which will bring you back to Paris.
Politics, architecture, and history!
• After hotel checkout, a private driver will take you from your hotel to the train station!
• Hop on the train to Strasbourg, where you will be transferred to your hotel for check-in.
• Take some time to relax and unpack, and why not start discovering Strasbourg on your own?
• This city is packed with gorgeous architecture and activities!
• Sleep in for as long as you'd like, before having a delicious breakfast.
• Take these days to visit Strasbourg on your own and see what you want to see!
• See the ancient cathedral and stroll by the beautiful river.
• If you are here during winter, we definitely recommend you to go to one of the cozy Christmasmarkets!
• In the evenings, perhaps try one of the specialties for this region at a local restaurant?
Calling all nature lovers!
• After hotel checkout, a private driver will take you to the train station.
• Board a train to head to the picturesque city of Annecy, where you on arrival will be transferred to your hotel.
• After check-in, we recommend you to take a stroll in this gorgeous city...
•... the architecture and landscapes around are truly mesmerizing!
• Annecy is also the perfect destinations for hikes, treks and any outdoor activity!
• After breakfast, head out in the city!
• Enjoy Annecy at your own pace on this day of leisure.
• Perhaps try the delicious delicacy of this region, raclette!
• Or rent a kayak, and paddle out on the gorgeous lake located right in the city center.
A dash of sun, a pinch of salt and a cup of sand...
• After hotel check-out, a private driver will take you from your hotel to the train station.
• Board the train to one of the pearls of the south, Nice!
• A driver will bring you to the hotel on arrival.
• After check-in, you can choose either to relax or start strolling this beautiful city...
• ... perhaps on the gorgeous beach?
Its all about you!
• Today, you are free to discover Nice on your own!
• Head out in the city on your, and see the gorgeous architecture and streets.
• Why not grab your bathing suit and spend a day at the beach?
À bientot mon ami!
• Eat breakfast at you own pace, and soak up the last of the French riviera.
• A private driver will bring you to the airport in time for your flight.
• We hope you have enjoyed your stay in gorgeous France, and wish you a safe flight.
Au revoir!
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"You Don't Act Like a Jerk When You Have Business Cards"
Lynn Loar, Ph.D., LCSW with
Geoffrey Pott, Sebastian Pott and Noah Carlton
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"You don't act like a jerk when you have business cards" explained eight-year-old
Geoffrey Pott when I asked about his newfound maturity and impulse control. The business cards were one in a series of reinforcers he – and by now members of his staff – had received for stellar behavior in my ice skating class at the Winter Lodge in Palo Alto, California.
The Family Ice Skating Program, featured in the short documentary TAGs on Ice,** offers ice skating instruction for children with special needs and their families. It's one of the few programs that entire families can enjoy regardless of the disparate abilities of their several children. A peek at the class through the Winter Lodge's picture window yields the impression of a laboratory testing prototypes for the next generation of Energizer Bunnies, lots of little boys zooming around with no interest in learning to stop – and a few zooming dads, too!


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The United States and China have become entangled in a number of disputes of late, ranging from trade and development of the global economy to fundamental values and human rights. Five particularly urgent issues now at stake include U.S.-China trade tensions, Hong Kong's anti-extradition bill protests, territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and human rights concerns as well as religious freedom.
US-China trade war
In August 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to investigate China's technology transfer practices. Based on Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, the USTR concluded that China's policy violated fair trade practices and thus negatively impacted U.S. enterprises operating in China.
In March 2018, Trump signed an executive memorandum to impose billion-dollar tariffs on Chinese imports. This led to the year-long trade dispute between the U.S. and China.
1. The U.S. trade deficit with China is huge. The value of Chinese goods exported to the U.S. is much higher than those of the U.S. to China.
2. China's practice of forcing corporate technology transfer and stealing the intellectual property of American firms has to be resolved. China is using policies such as "Made in China 2025" to steal U.S. technology and intellectual property. Such practices allow China to seize a leading position in cutting-edge technological fields while hurting the U.S. economy.
HK anti-extradition protests
The extradition bill, proposed by the Hong Kong government in February, would have allowed any individual to be extradited to China. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and other non-governmental organizations promoting human rights warned that such a bill, if passed, would undermine Hong Kong's judicial system.
The legislation would allow the Hong Kong authorities to hand over individuals to China. There, they could face trials, torture, and other forms of ill-treatment.
South China Sea disputes
Conflict in the South China Sea would, on the surface, seem to be a battle between China and Southeast Asian countries over control of the region. However, there are also strategically important resources in the South China Sea.
The United States Energy Information Agency estimated there are 11 billion barrels of gas and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas under the South China Sea. The energy reserves are greater than many energy-exporting countries possess.
In addition, the South China Sea has abundant fishery resources. These are estimated to account for about 10 percent of the world's total.
Above all, the South China Sea is an important trade channel where 30 percent of the world's trade goods pass through every year, surpassing US$5 trillion in value, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Defense. These goods include large amounts of oil and more than US$1.2 trillion of U.S. imports and exports.
Disputes derive mainly from China's increasing control over the waters in the South China Sea. These were previously claimed by other countries or considered to be "high seas."
China has occupied reefs and used them as bases to construct artificial islands, where military facilities have sprung up. Chinese vessels also regularly patrol these areas and drive away non-Chinese ships.
Human rights issues
China has established concentration camps in Xinjiang province, which the CCP refers to as "re-education centers" that offer "job training" to local Uyghur people. Many reports have shown that China exaggerates the threat of Muslim extremism in the region as an excuse to suppress the Uyghur population.
An unprecedented network of concentration camp facilities has been built, with up to 2 million people detained in the region. At these camps, Uyghurs are forced to learn Chinese, abandon their cultural traditions, and renounce their Islamic beliefs.
Individuals who have experienced these "re-education centers" and fled from China have described programs of brainwashing and inhuman torture. Media reports have observed that the CCP equates belief in the Islamic religion with mental illness.
How is it that the world can turn a blind eye to these abuses? Is it perhaps because there is no longer any room for human rights in a world of increasing globalization?
The deafening silence of many Muslim nations toward China's inhuman treatment of the Uyghur people would seem to illustrate a sad truth of globalization: that wealth has been placed above human rights.
China is also known to persecute human rights and defense lawyers, often threatening their livelihoods and demanding they be "loyal to the party."
Likewise, the Falun Gong movement, which meets the spiritual needs of many ordinary people, is also a regular target for persecution by the CCP. Falun Gong's explosive growth in China is seen as a threat to state power and as an enemy of the party.
Freedom of religion
The United Nation's "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" states that every human being has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. This means that any member of any society should be able to freely choose their religion and be permitted to participate in religious traditions without fear of persecution.
As such, individuals are also free to choose not to believe in any religion, and likewise, they should also not fear discrimination or persecution by the government or other social organizations. However, China has adopted laws which permit only "normal" or "state-approved" religious activity, which stipulates that all religious organizations must be registered and their activity pre-approved.
For this reason, there are many marginalized religious traditions that are not permitted in China such as independent house churches, underground Catholic groups, Islamic associations, Tibetan Lamaism, among many others.
Those individuals whose religious activity is found to be in violation of China's state laws regularly face harassment. They can also be imprisoned and forced to publicly renounce their faith or join approved religious groups so they can be monitored.
U.S. President Donald Trump should hold a summit meeting in Hong Kong with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. They should address these five important issues in their talks.
If Trump can effectively make Xi confront these issues, it will create peace in the region and benefit the people of the world by promoting economic prosperity. In turn, Trump should be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize if he convinces Xi and the CCP to address these issues and works toward genuine solutions.


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Join England's most famous outlaw and his band of merry men in Robin of Sherwood, a 5 reel, 243 ways to win slot from Rabcat. This trip to Nottingham comes with royal symbols that can magically transform into wilds as well as a free spins round where the lower value symbols are gradually removed from the action. Play on all devices from between 20p and £40 per spin.
The design here is excellent. With Sherwood Forest and the Sheriff of Nottingham's castle in the background, you'll see A to J royal banners as well Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, Little John and the wicked Sheriff. The best of the standard symbols is of course Robin Hood – he pays 5, 25 or 50 times your total stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 in combination.
They're joined by the arrows symbol which is the wild. As well as substituting for everything apart from the scatter, it also offers awards of up to 50 times your stake. There are 3 bonus features on offer in Robin of Sherwood.
Wild Turning feature – this can trigger at random in the base game. 1 or more reels are chosen and become active. All of the lower value A, K, Q and J symbols on those reels are converted into wilds and a new payout consideration is made.
Free Spin feature – land 3 or more of the target scatter to trigger this round. You'll then be awarded 10 free spins. On every second free spin, 1 of the lower value royal symbols is removed from play. The J is removed on the second free spin, the Q on the fourth and so on.
By the end of the feature, you'll only see higher value symbols spinning around the reels which means if you do bag a winner it has the potential to be a decent sized one. This removal of symbols is known as the Royal Clearing feature.
We enjoyed this re-telling of the classic tale of Robin Hood. The 3D design is from the top drawer and works very well. The range of extras isn't wide but the transforming wilds and free spins round offer enough to keep things interesting. The overall variance here is in the medium range which offers a balance of payouts.


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Provides Opinion & Testimony In:
Paragliding, Paraglider, Hangliding, Paragliding Techniques, Hangliding Techniques, Commercial Tandem Paragliding, Paragliding Advanced Pilot, Paragliding Tandem Instructor, Paragliding Surface Tow Technician, Over Water Paragliding, parasail
Expert Witness No. 3102
Education and Training
Training in paragliding with Alan Barnier (Le Carroz, France), Hangliding and Paragliding instructor recognized by the Federation Francaise de Vol Libre, September 1987.
Expert 3102 was first local paragliding pilot in Bariloche, Argentina, and one of the first three Argentinean pilots; opened new take-offs at Cerro Catedral, Cerro Otto, Cerro Lopez, Cerro Meta, Cerro Piltriquitron and Cerro Bayo.
Train each summer in Chamonix area, France, for new paragliding information and flying techniques.
Training in tandem paragliders in France, October 1992.
Maneuvers and Safety clinic with Swiss instructor Benny Shilling in Bariloche, Argentina, November 1993.
First surface towing seminar and competition in La Pampa, Argentina, as tow operator and pilot, December 1994.
Began commercial tandem paragliding (over 1000 flights to the present), July 1995.
Maneuvers and Safety Clinic with Swiss instructor Andy Hediger, July 1997.
Aerobatic Flying Clinic with Argentinean Acro-Pilot Pablo Lopez, Bariloche, Argentina, March 1998.
USHGA Tandem and Advanced instructor training. Several clinics.
USHGA Surface Tow technician training.
Training and Teaching
Assistant on beginner pilot training, Bariloche, Argentina, November 1987 (with an experienced German pilot, Sabine Sohnhutter).
Basic paragliding instruction, Bariloche, Argentina, November 1991, with 50 beginning students in four years.
Organized the first Instructors Seminars, Bariloche, Argentina, also teaching in some of the subjects, September 1994.
Advanced paragliding courses for confirmed pilots, specializing in Thermal and Cross Country flying, with over 300 students to the present, in Argentina, Chile and U.S.A. starting December 1994.
Advanced Maneuvers and Safety Courses over water for confirmed pilots, with over 160 students to the present, in Argentina, Chile and U.S.A., starting February 1995.
First Paragliding Instructors Course in Chile, for the Asociacion Chilena de Vuelo Libre, for 15 instructors, March 1998.
Began organizing international paragliding trips for pilots, August 2000, with a record of 58 pilots to France in May / June 2008.
Organized PAMPACROSS, the annual Record Flying Camp on pay out towing, Argentina, November 2001 and 2002.
Tandem instructor at Aspen Paragliding, Colorado, 2004.
Instructor at Atlanta Paragliding Enterprises since 2005.
Owner and instructor at Atlanta Paragliding Enterprises since 2006, with over 60 beginner students and 3,000 tows as tow operator and/or instructor.
Licences and Appointments
Federation Francaise de Vol Libre, Annecy, France, Paragliding Pilot License, October 1990.
Federation Aeronautique Internationale license (to compete in F.A.I. competitions representing Argentina), May 1993.
Federacion Argentina de Vuelo Libre, Argentine Paragliding Pilot License, July 1994
USHPA, Paragliding Advanced Pilot (P-4) License, October 2001.
USHPA, Paragliding Tandem Instructor rating, June 2002.
USHPA, Paragliding Surface Tow Technician, May 2005
USHPA, Paragliding Surface Tow Administrator, June 2006
USHPA, Paragliding Advanced Instructor Rating, February 2006
USHPA, Paragliding Instruction Program Administrator, March 2007
USHPA, Paragliding Tandem Administrator, October 2007
Professional Associations
Created the Subcomisión de Parapente of the Federación Argentina de Vuelo Libre, January, 1994.
Developed the practical and theoretical examinations for the Argentine Paragaliding Pilot License, later recognized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, as useful worldwide, and equivalent to the IPPI Card (International Pilots Proficiency Identification Card), also later adopted by Chile (with some small modifications).
Created all the internal administration rules book for the Federacion Argentina de Vuelo Libre (competition organization requirements, national ranking systems, etc.).
President, Federacion Argentina de Vuelo Libre, 1995-1999, Board Member 1995-2002.
Competitions and National Rankings
Available Upon Request
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Books, Magazines, Articles
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text: arkahys 137 Posted March 26, 2018 (edited) A way to relaod batteries ? if not already possible : reload on generator+wire+batterie or better such battery jumper cable ( action as add gaz from pump ) generator near car to start it, then have to keep car on to reload battery... Hood / trunk : if the hood was already visited and opened but not closed : when open hood ( to open mechanic window), that's close the hood. Have to push key twice to open hood and mech window. >> When the hood is already opened the mechanic menu should appear directly (withtout close hood). When I have the mechanic window and trunk opened. Press use button to close hood, should close mechanic window too. (as close window close hood) I guess that's display opened doors car are difficult actually because all work needed to draw car indoor, and no sitting anim player. doors and trunk are "only visual add". On the other hand display opened Hood change the field of view when driving, I shouldn't see road ahead with trunk opened. A simple motor picture under it, 3 picture max for the 3 type of vehicles or one could do the trick. MP : It seems that opened door or/and trunk is a client side state ? I hear teammate open trunk whereas I transfert on it... Trunk capacity isn't balance yet : (rear seat capacity) 1 step Van : 90 2 Nyala : 43 (40) 3 dash : 34 4 Valuline (6 seats) : 85 (80) 5 Valuline (2 seats) : 85 6 Bulldriver : 90 7 Taxi : 36 (40) 8 cerise wagon : 42 (40) 9 pickup (not on picture) : 85 Spoiler there is incoherance in car with tail board between separated trunk, trunk heights, and seats. 2 > and ~= 8 6 > 5,9 4 = 5 (without seats) 9 = 5, 4 1 = 6 and 1 ~= 4,5,9 2 /= 7 (more difference than 1 and 5) suggestions of capacity to balance car between them : Spoiler There is 2 way to revise : nerf little cars, or increase carrier, I revise little upward, thinking to bag and container capacity balance. But while adjusting realize that Seat space is cheaty and the capacity restriction that's devs seems to want to apply on big volumes even if proportions are evident is hard to keep. 1 step Van : 135 (last adjustement, with all others capacity sets, can't "do less"... but less than 400% nyala, 150% bulldriver. valuline become smaller. that's seems to me balanced). 2 Nyala : 40 (40) (little nerfed : closed trunk). 3 dash : 38 (not closed trunk, all trunk height avalaible, is a car close to a cerise wagon without rear seats ). 4 Valuline (6 seats) : 40 (80) (as nyala with a vertical trunk space). 5 Valuline (2 seats) : 128 (keep space advantage of no seats). 6 Bulldriver : 95 ( a little more than cerise wagon, so shorten car but without rear seats occupation. little less than a pickup, very less than a valuline) . 7 Taxi : 36 (40) 8 cerise wagon : 50 (40) (more than nyala, total capacity little less than bulldriver and very less than valuline) 9 pickup (not on picture) : 100 (little more than bulldriver, as trunk seems to be as no closed bulldriver ) If I open the mechanic window I can know the state of all the car while be around, be sitting, watching hood. May add a selective display in 3 differents states ? ( engine and mechanic / indoors / outdoors ) all engine and mechanic related by watching hood. outdoors when being around outdours and indoors when sitting. It seems to me that the gaz level system is mechanic. So needle should move even without battery. Edited March 26, 2018 by arkahys Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


text: A snake in our room! Nov 14, 2014 | 2014-2015 There was a live snake in our room! However, it was well trained and controlled by Keeva's granny who was kind enough to bring it in. We rubbed it and held it. It was really friendly, smooth and soft. What an experience!


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Simple Audio Mixing Tips Part 2
Hey all,
this is my second installment of "Simple Audio Mixing Tips," I'm back to share 5 more interesting tips to try out while mixing your audio! Ok, lets just get right to it:
1) Mute vocal tracks when there is a break of more than a second or two, to kill the noise. In my experience, vocal tracks tend to be the noisiest and contain the most artifacts out of any other instrument. I think it is because much more sensitive microphones (LDC's, in particular) are being used, and really just pick up everything happening inside & immediately outside a room (damn you airplanes!!). Well, to cut back on some of the noise in your mixes, try this simple technique to eliminate unwanted breaths, licking of lips, or any other interesting noises that really don't belong in your audio.
2) For drums especially, import a known good track into the session, and see how yours sounds compared to the reference. Mix to get yours sounding more like the reference. This is an extremely helpful technique. You should always A/B a reference mix that has certain qualities you may want to emulate. It is much easier to hear it than to think you know what it sounds like already, because you are most likely wrong. Use this technique for any instrument, and for entire mixes, its really helpful!!
3) Cool Vocal Sweetener: Duplicate your vocal track 2 times (so now you have three). Take one of the duplicates, detune it (downward) by12 cents, delay it by 25 ms, and pan it hard left. Take the other duplicate, detune it (upward) by 12 cents, also delay it 25 ms (you're delaying both of these 25 ms behind the main vox—they're in sync with each other) and pan this second dupe hard right. Now bring the faders all the way down on these new "mangled" tracks. While your listening to the original vox (which is still in the center), bring these 2 new ones up gradually. Too low—there's no difference. Too high—it just sounds wrong. Just right—the voice is nice and thick with a cool edge to it. If you're doing reverb on the vox, you can also just add it to the two new tracks—so you get some depth, but your main vocal in the middle stays big and present. I have yet to try this one, so please let me know how it sounds if you ever play around with it!!!!
4) Octave track: same thing as whisper track but the 2nd track is an octave above or below the original—tough to do, but if they've got the range, it can be cool. I have tried this with mixed results — in the end i usually just omit the octave track because it sounds odd to me, but if you have success with it let me know!!
5) Always mix in mono, until you think the mix is ready and done and sounding good. THEN start panning. I don't mix this way, but i thought it was an interesting approach to go about mixing because the assumption is if you can get it to sound great & balanced in mono, panning will be a cinch! But personally, i believe panning is a great way to get the mix sounding balanced & less cluttered, so I usually bring up the faders to desirable levels, then pan, THEN start EQing & other effects. But anyway, try this way out maybe you'll like it better than what you're already doing!
Hope these are interesting/helpful — I thought they were, for what that's worth 🙂


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When the Calgary Flames acquired Mike Smith from the Arizona Coyotes in June, it was heralded by some as a significant upgrade on what the team deployed between the pipes last season. While I don't mind the acquisition and understand the rationale behind it, I'm also not expecting Smith to be a night and day upgrade on the tandem of Brian Elliott and Chad Johnson. However, I do think there are a few more subtle ways having Smith in the fold could help the Flames take a step forward in net.
Last month, I made the case keeping Elliott wasn't a crazy idea based on the available options. Smith was one of those available options and I still think he and Elliott are comparable goaltenders. However, if Smith can tick three key boxes this season, he definitely has the chance to be a slight step up from what we saw during the 2016-17 season.
Perhaps the most frustrating of Calgary's goaltending struggles last season was the wild swings in form we saw. Elliott was scorching in the second half of the season but dreadful in his first few months with the Flames. Similarly, Johnson put together an elite run of hockey in November and December but was generally average the rest of the way. For Elliott, his season is easy to split into two halves, one good and one bad.
In that same vein, Johnson helped salvage the season with an incredible run starting with a win in Minnesota on Nov. 15 and carrying over into the middle stages of December. What followed from Johnson, though, made it hard for Calgary to justify giving him the type of money he got from Buffalo in free agency.
This is where Smith might be able to make some inroads. On a bad Arizona team, Smith's splits were pretty steady over the course of the season and certainly didn't have the wild swings like what we saw from Elliott and Johnson.
In the table above, I omitted October and April because Smith only played in four games combined those months. Regardless, you can see that of the three goalies in question, Smith was much more steady and consistent. The Flames ranked 21st last season with a 0.907 team save percentage, while Smith finished the year at 0.914. If he can stay steady and in around that number over the course of the coming year, it should improve Calgary's fortunes slightly.
If Smith can pair the consistency discussed above while also taking the bulk of the starts this season, things will look even better for the Flames. One thing Elliott and Johnson haven't been able to do over the course of their careers, last season included, is tackle the workload of a true number one. Smith, on the other hand, has proven he can do that, and at a high level.
Upon arriving in Arizona for the 2011-12 season, Smith has averaged 56 starts per season (prorating the shortened 2012-13 season to 58 starts). Compared to Elliott's average of 44 over eight seasons (prorating 2012-13 to 34) and Johnson's average of 29 over the last four years, Smith's track record is clearly superior in this regard.
If Smith can make 55-60 starts this season and keep his save percentage in the range it was last year, all of a sudden this looks like a much more positive acquisition. Obviously there are no guarantees, but Smith's ability in recent years to handle a number one workload is somewhat encouraging.
Finally, Smith is going to have to carry his relative success from last season to his new team. On a very bad Coyotes team, Smith was one of the few bright spots and routinely kept games closer than they probably should have been. One piece of logic would suggest he stands to have at least the same amount of success playing behind a much better team. Of course, goaltending is finicky and that is only one school of thought, so by no means is that iron clad science.
On the encouraging side, though, was how well Smith performed with a heavy, heavy shot load. Arizona averaged 34.1 shots against per game last season, the second highest total in the league. Smith himself saw 33.1 shots against per night and many of those were of the 10-bell variety. According to NaturalStatTrick.com, the Coyotes allowed 844 high danger scoring chances last season, by far the most in the league. So not only was Smith's nightly workload high, he was also facing extremely difficult shots on a regular basis. At 0.837, Smith's high danger save percentage was among the league's best, too.
While Smith had a fairly positive 2016-17 season in Arizona, he also missed time with injury for a second straight year. As such, he's only started 87 games over the last two years, which calls into question slightly his ability to shoulder a big workload at this stage of his career. Now 35 years old, Smith is adamant any injury concerns are behind him, but it's certainly something that lingers in the back of my mind heading into the season.
In saying that, though, Smith has the potential to give the Flames an upgrade between the pipes if a few of the boxes above are checked successfully. It's a crapshoot to forecast if that's going to happen with a new team, but it does allow for some optimism entering Smith's first season in Calgary.


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Note: state and local laws vary widely, and this is not legal advice. Consult a local labor law attorney with any questions.
Does HR need to tell a manager the reason for an employee's medical leave?
No. With medical leaves of absence, I do not disclose the health information to a manager. I will send the manager the dates of the leaves of absence as soon as I am aware. Otherwise, I keep the health information in a separate file.
As an employee, do I need to tell my manager the reason for my medical leave?
No. It is up to you if you want to share your private health information directly with your manager.
Who at work do I need to tell about my medical leave?
If you need to take a medical leave of absence from work, you should inform your company's HR department. You can also let them know if you'd like the reason for the leave to remain private. They'll help you figure out your next steps.
How do I know if my employer offers medical leave?
Some states require employers offer some form of medical leave. Start by checking your employee handbook, or ask someone in your HR department.
When should I tell my manager about a medical condition?
If you need a special work accommodation because of a disability, most likely, your manager will find out. She'll be part of the team as the company decides what reasonable accommodations they can make.
Some accommodations don't need to involve your manager. For example, a larger computer screen for a vision-impaired employee or more space around a desk for an employee with an anxiety disorder.
Other accommodations do require your manager's input. If you need to work from home, for example. Or if you need more days off in a year than a time off policy allows and there isn't a leave of absence policy.
In those situations, your HR representative may need to work with your manager to figure out what to do so you don't have to take any unpaid time off.
Remember this is not official legal advice. If you have any concerns, it's best to consult an employment lawyer.


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Perfect Family Home!
Situated on a quiet street with a fully fenced yard is this renovated three bedroom home
Features include:
- Large modern living space with polished timber floors
- Modern kitchen with dishwasher
- 2 bedrooms up stairs & 1 bedroom downs stairs
- 2 bathrooms
- Built-In Wardrobes
- Ceiling fans
- Internal Laundry washing machine included
- Fully Fenced Yard with a large back deck & wrap around front deck
- Garden maintenance included with weekly rent
- Single Lock Up Garage & off street parking for 1 car.
Located in the highly sought after suburb of Empire Bay close to local Schools, Schools & Water front.


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RIM BlackBerry 'Empathy' Concept Device to Communicate Emotions
Do you ever think your Black Berry would be telling others on how you feel about the business around? A RIM sponsored project at Art Centre College of Design had proposed an idea of a BlackBerry device that can understand user emotions and communicate with others. The concept, which is now called BlackBerry Empathy, may not translate itself into being real soon, but it sure has some interesting features.
The device works in unison with a biometric ring which will inform it about the body conditions of the user like heart beat rate and body secretions with which the device can assume user emotions.
It not only assumes your emotions and changes the themes and features according to your emotions, but also shows the emotions of the people in your contact list having a similar device. This way you can decide whether to call somebody or not.
The proposed idea will let you see the people in your contact list two circles, the inner one showing their past emotion and the outer one showing the present emotion.
Specs wise, the device will feature a transparent OLED screen that becomes transparent when not in use and opaque when active. Well, we don't know if it will ever become a working device, but the world suspected many innovative ideas the same way. Here's a video for you: