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18417 South US Hwy 377
Dublin, TX 76446
New 2019 Forest River RV Flagstaff Shamrock 19Expandable and Light Weight!
SOLD!!! Forest River Flagstaff Shamrock expandable 19 highlights:
- Sofa
- 44" Booth Dinette
- Queen Tent End Beds
- 15' Awning
SOLD!!! This Flagstaff Shamrock 19 expandable is perfect for a family of five or six individuals. You can easily sleep two on each queen tent end bed, plus the sofa and booth dinette provide extra sleeping space. Once everything is set back up in the morning then head outside to enjoy your coffee under the awning. You have the convenience of your own bathroom, and a kitchen that is perfect for making meals for your family. There is even an outside bar-b-q grill for the person who loves to cook outside!
The Forest River Flagstaff Shamrock is exactly what you should take a look at when searching for the ideal expandable. Each unit uses Easy Lube axles and Nev-R adjust brakes, plus a Torsion axle, and Rubber-Ryde suspension for a smooth ride to your destination. Inside you will enjoy solid surface kitchen countertops, all the appliances necessary to make meals on the go, a bed cable system with no poles, a heated mattress, a flat screen TV, am/fm/dvd, and a WiFi Ranger WiFi Booster to mention a few reasons you will love any expandable you choose!
It has the American Maple Woodgrain with Granite interior, larger 15K A/C, furnace heater, gas/electric water heater, power awning, power tongue jack, heated tanks, flat screen TV, aluminum wheels, spare tire, and lots more. Come check it out! Call us @ 254-445-4807. Very Low close-out Sale Price! NOW SOLD!!!
Savings: $10,389
Stock# R1156
Exterior Color: Champagne
Interior Color: Granite
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|Ext Width
|8 ft
|Ext Height
|10 ft 6 in
|Int Height
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|4018 lbs
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|1710 lbs
|Fresh Water Capacity
|43 gals
|Grey Water Capacity
|30 gals
|Black Water Capacity
|30 gals
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|Furnace BTU
|18000 btu
|Available Beds
|2 Queen Tent End
|Refrigerator Type
|Double Door
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|6.5 cu ft
|Cooktop Burners
|Number of Awnings
|LP Tank Capacity
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|6 gal
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|110 DSI Gas/Electric
|15000 btu
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In 1996, Forest River founder Peter Liegl had a vision. He foresaw an RV company dedicated to helping people experience the joy of the outdoors by building better recreational vehicles. Today, we have grown to become one of the largest RV manufacturers in North America, producing class A and C motorhomes, travel trailers, fifth wheels, toy haulers, camping trailers and destination trailers. From the new family just starting out in the world of RVing to the experienced full-timer, we offer something for everyone.
Forest River RV is a division of Forest River, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway company, which produces recreational vehicles, pontoons, park models, buses, cargo trailers and commercial trucks. The diversity of Forest River, Inc., enables us to approach the RV industry with a unique perspective, incorporating lessons learned at each one of our divisions. Operating with openness across a wide range of products is what makes us stand apart from the competition. At Forest River, Inc., quality and dependability are a necessity in everything we make.


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THE romance between Shirley M. Knappe, 83, and Frank Sterling Long, 88, began electronically, with poetic early-morning e-mail messages from Mr. Long to Ms. Knappe, who live in an assisted-living facility in Coral Springs, Fla. But now that they have been married for three years, their day-to-day affairs are tracked on Post-it notes, which Ms. Knappe corrals onto the kitchen cabinets above the toaster oven: her activities in yellow, his in blue.
"I thought I was going to be knitting and reading when I came here seven years ago," Ms. Knappe said. "But when Frank came along after my husband died, we decided to join forces. It was a real love story. We have so much fun together. I developed the system to keep all our activities straight."
Ms. Knappe was speaking last Thursday as she and her husband were on their way to a wine tasting, which was marked on a blue Post-it (group activities are in blue, Mr. Long's color, because "my memory is better than his," she said). Their ID numbers for the Wheel Watchers Club, the "Wheel of Fortune" show's lottery, are on Post-its, along with "everyone's cellphone numbers and my odds and ends, like the name of Frank's daughter's cat, Millard," said Ms. Knappe, who had paused to consult the note in question. The couple is working on a mystery novel set in an assisted-living facility. Post-it notes may be a plot device, Ms. Knappe suggested.
In 1980, when the 3M company introduced the Post-it, no one could have foreseen the effect the 3-by-5-inch Valium-colored rectangle would have on domestic life. Its beginnings were folkloric: 40 years ago, Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M, discovered the imperfect adhesive that would adorn the Post-it; it took another six years for Art Fry, another 3M scientist, to find the application for this half glue, which came in a flash of inspiration after the bookmarks for his church hymnal kept falling out.
And for years Post-its were marketed primarily for this purpose — as tools for capturing a thought or for marking a spot on a document, among other typically office-bound tasks — even as they were steadily migrating out of the office and into people's homes (and garages), onto vertical surfaces like cabinets, refrigerators, dashboards, mirrors, walls, toilet seat lids, bathroom scales and the edges of pet food bowls.
The notes' migratory tendencies are why 3M scientists developed Post-it Super Sticky notes in 2003, with a stronger glue that hangs on tighter to those nubby, homey, largely vertical surfaces. (Artists and pranksters have used the colored ones like mosaic tiles — an online search for Post-it Elvis will provide one impish example — as have decorators like Jonathan Fong, who made a randomly patterned Post-it wall for a family room in California and photographed the result for his book "Walls That Wow: Creative Wall Treatments Without Fancy-Schmancy Painting.")
Post-its crept into the Museum of Modern Art in 2004, beckoned there by Paola Antonelli, curator of architecture and design, who named the Post-it one of her Humble Masterpieces in a show and, later, in a book of the same name, inducting them, along with the white T-shirt and the rubber band, into the design hall of fame. "Hypertext on a refrigerator door," Ms. Antonelli wrote, "the Post-it shook the world."
The 3M company would not say what percentage of its annual profits came from Post-it notes or what kind of growth the brand has enjoyed. But according to the NPD Group, a research firm that tracks retail trends, the category known as self-stick notes, which is dominated by Post-it notes, accounted for $106 million in sales at office superstores like Staples between June 2006 and May 2007, a 13.5 percent increase from the year before.
And next month the company will sail further into the not yet fully charted, topographically fraught home environment with its first official "home collection," the Samba line of hot Latin colors and patterns, the better to accessorize the conversation you may be having, via Post-it notes, with your memory, your loved ones or your inner vixen. (Post-its are big with life coaches as a vehicle for affirmations.)
No mere half-sticky slip of paper, the Post-it is a cache for information that will not stick elsewhere — like in your brain. "Outsourced neurons," offered Dan Heath, a business consultant and teacher and a co-author of "Made to Stick," a new book about business concepts and slogans with staying power. "Or let's call them prosthetic memory."
Memory experts, in fact, call them retrieval cues, an assist for absent-mindedness.
Daniel L. Schacter, chairman of the psychology department at Harvard and the author of "The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers," describes absent-mindedness as an encoding failure caused by distractedness, divided attention or the fact that your mind is filled with bulky and outdated information like the lyrics to "Muskrat Love." The Post-it, Dr. Schacter said the other day, works as a "prospective memory cue or an external memory aid" that can compensate for that failure.
Even memory virtuosos rely on sticky notes, said Dr. Schacter, who in his book quotes a national memory champion, Tatiana Cooley, as saying: "I'm incredibly absent-minded. I live by Post-its."
But sticky notes have not caught on in the home merely because of fading memories. They also serve as a voice-saving substitute for orally delivered parental directives. Since the leaver of the message does not have to be present when the message is read, the notes are handy deflectors of the tedious, whining responses of progeny ("Mom, stop nagging me!").
Whether you view these domestic telegrams as signs of dysfunction, the decline of face-to-face communication or merely as nifty argument-savers, there is the plain fact that members of many contemporary families are seldom in the same place at the same time.
Tina Miller, 39, is a photographer and the divorced mother of two teenagers, David and Katarina, in Merrill, Wis. She has found that nothing gets an urgent point across better than a well-placed Post-it. The front door of the Miller house is the most common canvas, but other surfaces can be called into service. "My daughter went through a couch potato phase," Ms. Miller said Saturday, "so for a while the TV was a good place to say things like, 'Load the dishwasher before you turn me on!' "
Katarina took up the story. "Sometimes I use them for getting money out of her," she said. "I'll be like, 'Mom, can I please have some moolah for a movie?' and I'll stick it on the toilet seat so I'll know she'll get it. Sometimes my brother writes over my note, 'Wake me up at 6:30' type of thing, and that really ticks me off."
Being able to communicate at the site of the action is the sticky note's particular talent, as Dr. Schacter pointed out. "That's why less portable memory aids like P.D.A.'s or diaries don't work so well," he said. According to Darrell Coutu, the Post-it brand manager, 3M ethnographers have noted folks layering their electronic organizers with Post-its. "Paper is not dead," he said.
In St. Louis, shocking pink is "the color that moves best around our house," said Inda Schaenen, 46, who teaches, writes novels for young adults and describes herself as "your basic suburban mother of three." Ms. Schaenen described the Post-it as "this perfectly designed artifact, low-tech and easily placed in areas that are kind of obscure and remote."
"Minky ate," is what Ms. Schaenen stuck on the dog's bowl the other day. "Claim your cleats," is a recent communiqué that found its way next to one on an orphan shoe in a mudroom: "Where's my mate?"
The search for another sort of mate is what propels the lovelorn to Rhonda Britten and her Fearless Living Institute, a life-coaching brand and umbrella for a blog, books, television programs and coaching services. The application of Ms. Britten's manifesto, "Live the life your soul intended," hinges on the Post-it, upon which Ms. Britten directs her clients to write their intentions, which, she said firmly, are different from affirmations.
"Affirmations are like, cut to the chase, get to the result, so in an affirmation you'd write: 'I am now in a beautiful relationship.' But I want people to take action, rather than being so passive in their lives, so an intention might say instead, 'I am willing to be loving in all my relationships.' I ask my clients to stick them in unexpected places, like inside the medicine chest, so they become inspirations rather than 'uh-oh, there's that note again.' "
Ms. Britten, who charges $400 for a 50-minute coaching session, which she conducts by telephone, said Post-its were critical to her method. "They build awareness," she said, "and building awareness is the key to change."
She keeps Post-its in her wallet, for signing autographs and writing down book ideas. She said she had 25 or so Post-it notes stuck around her house in Eagle-Vail, Colo. They are tucked into books, her underwear drawer and her junk drawer, she said, ticking off a few prime sites, but there are just three intentions written on them.
"I never have more than three intentions going at one time," she said. "Otherwise it confuses the energy."
Rebecca Murtaugh, an artist, was thinking about space, value and the "thingness" of objects, as she put it, when she created her 2001 Post-its installation in her bedroom in Arcata, Calif., where she was living at the time.
"I was really mesmerized by Post-its," she said last week. "They come in all these colors. They are beautiful. They have a purpose, but it's different for everyone: sometimes it's a note, 'I'll be back,' or maybe it's a phone number. But for all these important things, the note itself is always ephemeral and temporary. Yet it's carrying all this valuable information. So there is this duality: it's disposable, but it's very valuable. I wanted to mark an important space, not a book with a note, but an entire room."
It took Ms. Murtaugh six days to cover her bedroom and all the objects in it with Post-it notes. She used the original yellow for areas that she said had less value, like the walls, and neon colors for areas of more value, like the bed coverings and the rugs. She spent over $1,000 at her local stationers, and titled the piece, "To Mark a Significant Space in the Bedroom #1." Only five people saw the original, including her now-husband, who had gone away on vacation and returned to find the work in place. (Ms. Murtaugh dismantled it after 24 hours, but the piece lives on in digital form on design blogs like insurgentmuse.com and the artist's Web site, rebeccamurtaugh.com.).
"He was kind of alarmed," she said. "It sort of felt like you were on the inside of a piñata."
Her relationship to the more mundane applications of Post-its has been irrevocably altered. "What's interesting is that I don't use them for organizing anymore," said Ms. Murtaugh, who teaches art at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. "I don't want to waste them."

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I continue to work as a Seminars Program Specialist at the East-West Center in Honolulu, where I have been since 2002. My main role is to coordinate short term professional development and exchange programs for younger leaders (aged 25-40) and for journalists from Asia Pacific and the United States. Like CIE, our programs are unique in that they bring participants from countries across the Asia Pacific region and from the United States together for collaborative learning through dialogue, seminar sessions and travel.
I just returned from a fascinating exploration of China's development challenges with a group of journalists representing the U.S., China, India, Nepal, Australia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Japan. We spent 17 days in China, traveling to Beijing, Chongqing, Fuling, and Lijiang and meeting with government officials, students, business leaders, factory workers, farmers, villagers relocated by the Three Gorges Dam, migrant workers and many others for a diverse and complex picture of China's development. Last year I had two equally interesting activities. I took another group of journalists to San Jose, Beijing, Shanghai, Bangalore and Chennai to gain perspectives on 'innovation offshoring and indigenous innovation' in the region and I had the opportunity to lead 16 emerging leaders from Asia Pacific and the U.S. on an enlightening program to study 21st education challenges in Asia, with visits to schools and universities in Honolulu, Hiroshima and Shanghai.
It's been an exciting year in which I have learned a lot about the Asia Pacific region not just from my travels but equally from the diverse participants in each program. In addition to work, I keep busy with my two children, Spencer (aged 2) and Maggie (aged 4). We live in Ewa Beach, Hawaii. Hawaii is a delightfully diverse place, with a wealth of opportunities to learn about Asian cultures as well as the traditions and language of the native Hawaiian people. [6-08]
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Johannesburg City Guide
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Gauteng sights and sounds with an Avis City Mini GuideJohannesburg is one of the world's most diverse and interesting cities, with many activities, sights and attractions to be enjoyed by all who visit here.
Our handy Avis mini guides are your perfect travelling companion while exploring this part of Gauteng and our Avis rental agents will be happy to assist you with any hire car related questions.
Prepare to start up the engine of your Avis hire car and explore the sights of Johannesburg with us.
Gauteng at a glance
Avis car hire is here for you throughout the province of Gauteng, with branches conveniently located in all of the city's most popular suburbs, at strategic Gautrain stops and at all the major airports.
This network of Avis car hire outlets enables you to access our services and products easily wherever your travels in Gauteng take you.
A wealth of world-class restaurants, pubs, malls and entertainment is at hand in this city and all its suburbs, and there is no shortage of excellent accommodation options to suit every budget.
If you prefer to spend time outside of the city, head off in your Avis hire car for a scenic drive among the rolling hills of The Cradle of Mankind, a UNESCO world heritage site, to the shores of the Hartbeespoort Dam where you can take to the skies in a cable car when you arrive.
All of the above attractions are within striking distance of our Avis car hire branches, so you can take to the road in your Avis hire car between flights or business meetings, and make the most of your time in this bustling and vibrant city.
If you have time to kill before your flight after dropping off your Avis hire car, OR Tambo Airport is filled with gift and curio shops, take away outlets, restaurants, coffee shops and a large duty-free store stocked with a variety of luxury goods to admire or splash out on.
We can't wait to welcome you at one of our Avis Gauteng branches to help you get your journey around Johannesburg underway.
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Mr. Rodriguez is thrilled to enter his second year of teaching at Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy, where he will be teaching 7th and 8th Grade Religion. In addition to Religion he is excited to teach Spanish to the Kindergarten, First grade, and Second grade students. He has obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy at St. John's University and is currently in the process of obtaining his Masters Degree in Catholic Theology.
Mr. Rodriguez was raised in a devoted Catholic household that upheld morality, faith, and unity as pillars of happiness and success. He received two years of Seminary formation at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, and Mr. Rodriguez hopes to inspire in the youth the same passion, love, and energy he shares for the faith. He wishes to help his students develop into virtuous young men and women as they continue to grow intellectually, physically, and spiritually. He is excited and ready to face the new school year with passion and dedication to teaching Religion.


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This year's issue of Motley Magazine has been uploaded to the web and looks amazing.
Check out the fabulous work by 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. Stories, Poems, Songs, Drawings, Paintings, Prints, and Photos.
As usual, I am blown away by the talent of our FMS student body!


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James Rivington writes: Most hi-fi systems on sale worldwide are so heavily marked up that the majority of customers are being scandalously ripped off. That's what AVI hi-fi chief Ashley James said in an interview conducted with Tech.co.uk last Friday at the Bristol Sound & Vision Show .
He also said that companies are selling inferior products for extortionate prices, and that the magazine industry is supplying unhelpful and inaccurate reviews which allow the hi-fi manufacturers to get away with it.
"I'm not going to mention the name of a company which sells an AV processor for several thousand quid. You boys with computers will know perfectly well that if you want Dolby 5.1 you can get a PC card for £7.50 with the same chipset in it," he said.
"We had a customer who came to see us last week, [who paid] £4,000 for a power supply from this company, but it hummed like buggery and it drove him up the wall so he took the lid off of it. And what was in it? One transformer, two capacitors and a regulator! Forty quid's worth of bits in a box that cost £4,000."
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Man suspected in doctor killing apparently tried selling stash of guns online days after killing
A Houston real estate agent and former deputy constable suspected in the daytime shooting of a cardiologist in the Texas Medical Center last month apparently tried selling a cache of weapons and ammunition online days after the killing.
A seller using the same phone number as the alleged killer posted listings for two tactical vests, a Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver, a $4,500 semi-automatic FN rifle, two sets of ballistic door panels for a Crown Victoria and a box of ammunition - items totaling thousands of dollars.
It's unclear whether the guns listed for sale included the weapon used in the doctor's fatal shooting.
Authorities on Wednesday identified Joseph James Pappas as the man behind the killing of renowned Houston cardiologist Dr. Mark Hausknecht, who was shot to death in as he rode to work to work on his bicycle the morning of July 20. Previously, police said the killing appeared to be a targeted attack - but it wasn't until late Wednesday that they offered a possible motive: a 20-year-old grudge.
THINGS TO KNOW: Everything we know about Joseph James Pappas
In the 1990s, Pappas' mother died in surgery under Hausknecht's care, Houston police Chief Art Acevedo said. It's not clear why he apparently waited two decades to seek revenge, and police did not clarify what evidence they'd recovered linking him to the slaying.
"We believe that this man is absolutely the killer," Acevedo said at a press conference. When police got a search warrant and went to pick up the suspect at his Westbury home, they found he wasn't there. He hasn't been seen in at least 36 hours and police said he may be suicidal.
During the July 20 morning rush hour, Hausknecht was biking near the intersection of Main and Holcombe when the gunman passed him from behind. Two blocks later, the shooter turned around on his 10-speed Schwinn bike and fired at least twice. The doctor went down immediately, and the shooter rode off northbound.
The listing for the sale of the weapons went online five days later.
Police have not released information on the murder weapon, but did say that Pappas had numerous guns after searching his residence on Wednesday.
Though the seller doesn't identify himself on the site, the phone number is the same listed on his real estate license and matches other public records. A call to that number late Wednesday went straight to voicemail.
An earlier listing on another site back in January lists the seller's name as "Joe," notes a southwest Houston location, and offers a variety of ammunition reloading equipment.
When asked for comment, a Houston Police Department spokesman said investigators would look into the listings.


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Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) has confirmed to Eutelsat that all manoeuvres to deploy the Express AT1 and Express AT2 satellites are progressing according to plan, following their dual launch on March 16, 2014, by a Proton M rocket.
Express AT1 and AT2, owned and operated by RSCC, are high-power, Ku-band satellites designed to support expansion of digital services in the Russian Federation, complementing coverage of the European part of Russia provided by the EUTELSAT 36A and B satellites located at 36 degrees East. Express AT1 will replace an existing satellite at 56 degrees East to bring fresh and expanded broadcasting resources over Siberia. Express AT2 will be located at 140 degrees East to deliver satellite broadcasting services to homes in Far East Russia.
Following agreements with RSCC, Eutelsat has contracted 15-year leases for transponders across Express AT1 and AT2 that will principally serve the Tricolor TV and NTV Plus TV platforms.
Express AT1 will be commissioned following completion of in-orbit tests in April. Commercial operation of Express AT2 will start in May.


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Polar Beer Fest is the winter celebration of craft beers and the brewers that carefully create them on January 14th at the Royal Oak Farmers Market!
Live Entertainment provided by SpaceCat cover band!
VIP Session (6:30pm – 11pm) $65
20 Drink Samples. Entry into event one hour before the general session opens – Meet and greet with some of your favorite local Michigan brewers – First access to rare, limited, Firkins, and seasonal beers – Over 100 Craft Beers available to taste – Commemorative Pint Glass – Keepsake photo – food will be available for purchase – Only a limited amount of VIP tickets will be available.
General Session (7:30pm – 11pm) $45
15 Drink Samples. Includes Commemorative Pint Glass – Keepsake Photo.- Food available for purchase – Over 100 Craft Beers available to taste.


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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu issued the following statement after House Republicans passed their devastating tax scam, which eliminates key deductions for middle class families, students, teachers and seniors across the country. Instead, the tax scam hands deficit-exploding giveaways to the wealthiest Americans and corporations shipping jobs overseas. A new analysis released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy that finds California stands to be the biggest loser in the House tax reform bill. Under this plan, Californians will shoulder the largest net tax increase at $12.1 billion in 2027.
"The GOP tax plan is terrible. Hard-working families are going to foot the bill for tax breaks for the wealthy and Californians will be among the hardest hit by this tax scam. It's despicable. California is already a donor state to the federal government, meaning we give more in tax dollars to the Treasury than we receive in services and programs. Removing the state and local tax deduction, for example, means middle class families in California will be paying more taxes to subsidize breaks for the super-rich. This scam is both unfair and irresponsible.
My hope was that House Republicans, especially in states like California, New York and New Jersey, would realize how much they're going to hurt their own constituents with this vote. Now Americans know where their representative's priorities lie."
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Foldable phones are coming, there's no doubt about that. Samsung, LG, and Huawei are among those who've set out their intentions to launch bendable handsets within the next year, but they've all apparently been beaten to the line by the Royole FlexPai.
Whereas last year's ZTE Axon M stuck two displays together with a hinge, the FlexPai screen really does fold over – it's a tablet one moment and a phone the next. The Chinese manufacturer behind the device says it can be folded open and shut more than 200,000 times before breaking. When folded, you actually get three screens on the FlexPai: one on the front, one on the back, and one down the side of the device (across the fold) to show notifications, messages and more. So how has this little-known firm beaten the big names to market? Based on demo videos, this looks very much like a prototype device, and not something Samsung or LG would officially push out into the world. Indeed the FlexPai is being sold as a "Developer Model" for now, indicating it's not yet fit for the public at large.Royole is also charging a hefty sum for the technology – prices start at US$1,318 for the cheapest model – and delivery isn't scheduled until "late December." This is very much for early adopters only.


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- Every PhP 2,000.00 single or accumulated receipt from any of our MC Home Depot Branches – Fort Bonifacio (Taguig), Ortigas (Pasig), San Fernando (Pampanga) – their tenants within, and; MY MC Home (Diosdado Macapagal, Pasay) – entitles the customer to one (1) raffle coupon for the MC Home Depot Build & Drive 8 Raffle Promotion.
- Every PhP 2,000.00 single or accumulated purchase that includes a PhP 1,000.00 worth of MARIWASA Products will receive twice the number of raffle coupons.
- Customers must:
- Redeem the raffle ticket at the Customer Service Office in MC Home Depot, or at the counter for purchases made at MY MC Home (Diosdado Macapagal, Pasay)
- Write their COMPLETE name, address, contact number, email address and affix their signature on each raffle coupon
- Drop their raffle coupons in the designated drop boxes located in any MC Home Depot Branch or in MY MC Home (Diosdado Macapagal, Pasay)
- Deadline of submission of raffle coupons is 8:00 PM on December 31, 2019.
- Raffle draw will be held at MC Home Depot (Fort Bonifacio Taguig) on January 14, 2020 (Tuesday) at 4:00 P.M.
- Prize at stake in the raffle is: One (1) Toyota GL Grandia HI ACE AT.
- Prize is not convertible to cash.
- Winner will be notified thru telephone, email and registered mail. Prize can be claimed at the Administration Office of MC Home Depot Fort Bonifacio.
- Winner is responsible for the 20% withholding tax for prizes exceeding PhP 10,000 in value and any other expenses that may be incurred in relation to the prize.
- To claim his/her prize, the winner must present the letter of notification and the winning ticket for verification at MC Home Depot Fort Bonifacio. The winner must also present 2 valid IDs (i.e. Passport, driver's license, voter's ID, SSS/TIN Cards)
- If the prize remains unclaimed within sixty (60) days from receipt of notification, it shall be forfeited.
- Owners and Employees of MC Home Depot (Ortigas), MC Home Depot (Fort Bonifacio), MC Home Depot (Pampanga), MY MC Home and all our suppliers and tenants including their relatives up to the second degree of consanguinity or affinity are not allowed to join the raffle promo.
- Promo period is from July 01 to December 31, 2019
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Jim Hara
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Prior to establishing Premier, my experience with the foodservice industry stretched back to my college days when I worked my way through school dishwashing. Then I was a line cook and also had a job in a metal fabricating shop. After college, I was a practicing CPA for four years and learned even more about the business side of foodservice.
Every year since Premier opened, I've appreciated the opportunity to work with many talented and dedicated people here. Our people are our greatest resource. We work hard to have the best team in the industry to create outstanding hospitality venues.
We continually strive to raise the bar in finding better and more cost-effective solutions for our customers. I'm especially proud of our work on the Stratosphere Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Designing and building a rotating, round restaurant 1,150 feet in the air was very challenging and equally rewarding.
When I'm not at Premier, I enjoy family time. I'm an empty nester with four successful adult children. I also like home improvement projects and a variety of outdoor sports.


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KARACHI: An impasse looms large over the relief effort in Balochistan's earthquake-devastated region – an area known to be a hotbed of Baloch rebels – which has already resulted in mushrooming clashes in the region. However, a top commander has offered a way forward through the mistrust between rebels and security forces: Let the relief effort be handled by private or international organisations.
Abdul Razzaq Baloch worked nights. After dinner, he would start his shift as a proofreader at the Daily Tawar, a newspaper published on a shoe-string from a cramped office in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital. At 2 a.m., the 42-year-old would make the short journey home on his new Super Star motorbike.
The CPJ report said that deadly, unpunished violence against the press rose sharply in Pakistan and Mexico, continuing a dark, years-long trend in both nations
British imperialism was skilled at manipulating ethnic divisions in south Asia, but in 1947, it choose instead to act as midwife to an artificiality based on religion rather than ethnicity, thereby spawning via a bloody Partition a new state named 'Pakistan' ('Land of the Pure') in which an inherently implausible gaggle of Bengalis, Sindhis, Punjabis, Baluchis, and Pashtuns found themselves lumped together.
Dr Allah Nazar is Balochistan's most popular middle-class nationalist leader. Belonging from a modest family in Balochistan's town of Mashkay, he started his political career from Baloch Students Organization (BSO). He founded his own faction of BSO in February 2002 that openly advocated an armed struggle for liberating Balochistan. In 2003, he went underground to organize his own militant group. His Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) made headlines when it claimed responsibility for killing three Chinese engineers in Gwadar on May 2, 2004.
To this day, Balochis turn up dead by the side of the road as the Army and the ISI kill and dump them with impunity. It never seems to make it to mainstream American news sources. Pakistan has killed as many as 10,000 Balochis, using American supplied weapons, in a matter of days. That was OK, it seems. But Assad is somehow a threat to American national security because he does the same things to his own people. Really? I don't think so.
Pakistan has no resource management policy and doesn't have a transparent and well-established system. The Islamabad elite, in fact, is unwilling to establish or introduce a transparent system to channel natural-resource earnings towards human development. Balochistan's multi-billion copper-gold project, Saindak, was gifted to a Chinese company without any transparency by Musharraf in 2002 – and recently extended for another five years – without sharing a single clause of the agreement with the public or parliament.
Balochistan not only suffers because of the misuse of its natural gas resources and low employment but also because of the low prices for the misused gas
India should raise its voice against the state sponsored genocide of Shias and Balochs in Pakistan. R2P be damned.
Surprisingly, and unfortunately, all those confronted with national struggles like those of the Baloch, Kurds, Palestinians, Kashmiris, Chechens, etc, impute that foreign powers fan the insurgency and fail to comprehend that injustices and a colonial yoke provoke insurgencies and not RAW


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Over $38,000 invested in central Ohio
Almost 500 local REALTORS®, family and friends cleaned, painted, pruned and planted this past Wednesday as part of the Columbus REALTORS®' 12th annual REALTOR® Care Day, helping improve many homes and organizations all over central Ohio!
Started in 2005, REALTOR® Care Day is an annual day of service to the communities in which REALTORS® live, work and raise families. In the last 12 years, REALTOR® Care Day has contributed $369,000 in improvements and repairs and hundreds of hours of service to residents and communities around central Ohio.
"It's really something to see how much we can accomplish in one day," said John Royer, 2016 president of the Columbus REALTORS®. "But what's really heartwarming is the appreciation from the homeowners as well as the organizations. This is such a rewarding event for everyone involved."
For the main project this year, led by co-chairs David Gill, Leslie Cady McFadden and Stacy McVey, 85 volunteers worked on 12 homes and a community garden in the Reeb-Hosack neighborhood in Columbus' south side.
"It was amazing to see so many dedicated volunteers," said Erin Synk, commissioner with the Columbus South Side Area Commission. "The REALTORS® have such big hearts and truly care about helping the community. The residents were thrilled. Their efforts made our neighborhood a brighter place."
In addition to the main project, 21 area realty associations participated in REALTOR® Care Day attacking service projects all over central Ohio.
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Rural Chinese households are characterised by significant gender differences; men are more influential than women, and the genders also differ in the way they make decisions. Relative status is important to Chinese farmers. For women, spending money on clothes, restaurants and mobile phones signals status; mobile phones serve the same function for men. All of this is found in a new doctoral thesis from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.
Xiaojun Yang's recently presented doctoral thesis is a study of gender-related issues among rural Chinese farmers. Her economic experiments focused on two topics: household decision-making and the farmers' views of status and consumption.
Yang's results point to differences between men and women when it comes to long-term economic decisions for their households. Although both spouses generally have a significant impact on joint decisions, men's impact is generally stronger. Yang confirms these findings by comparing them with the households' real-life savings decisions. Perhaps more surprising is how joint decisions can differ from the spouses' individual decisions:
'Some of the subjects made more patient and consistent decisions when they were made jointly. Yet a surprisingly large proportion displayed the opposite behaviour – they made worse joint than individual decisions,' says Yang.
When one spouse makes decisions for the other, there are generally small differences in the decisions made. Yet men tend to make more patient decisions than they expect their spouses would have made in the same situation.
'Given the importance of Chinese consumption for the global environment, the Chinese society should acknowledge how decisions are made in Chinese households. Stronger women would help strengthen the welfare of households. Chinese authorities should also increase the general support concerning gender issues in order to improve the economic situation of households over time,' says Yang.
Rural Chinese households are relatively poor. Yet the issue of relative status and income is very important. As regards status items, certain types of consumption stand out.
'For women, status is linked to the household's expenditures on clothes, restaurant visits and mobile phones. For men, mobile phones are important. The study shows that houses and cars are not very important for somebody's status,' says Yang, who believes that these findings may be of interest to the Chinese government's redistribution policy in terms of taxes on income and consumption.
The thesis was written with support from Sida's environmental economics capacity-building programme.
Thesis title: Household Decision Making, Time Preferences, and Positional Concern: Experimental Evidence from Rural China.
Link to the thesis: https://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/32784
For more information, please contact:
Xiaojun Yang, +46 (0)31 786 46 69, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Monsoon season in Nepal has officially started. If you're taking advantage of the off-season to travel in the country without many other tourists around, you may end up finding yourself in Kathmandu on a rainy day. If you don't want to get wet and muddy outside, then here are some fun rainy-day activities for you to enjoy in the city.
Go climbing at Astrek Climbing Wall
Astrek is a climbing gym located in Thamel. It's outdoors, but with protection from rain. There are two tall walls for climbing with ropes, as well as some shorter walls designed for bouldering. There are plenty of routes suitable for beginners, as well as some very challenging routes for more advanced climbers.
You can rent climbing shoes and harnesses at the gym, and there are very good staff who will make sure you have a good climbing experience. Just because it's raining doesn't mean you can't enjoy some good rock climbing!
Sit in a café and read a book
There are plenty of good cafés and coffee shops all over Thamel and Patan where you can relax for a few hours. Order some tea or coffee, have some lunch, and finally read that book that you've been meaning to open for the past three months. Or bring your laptop with you, enjoy the free WiFi that many cafés offer, and finally sort through your travel photos and catch up with your friends. Many have Nepal-related books for sale, too.
Here are some suggestions of great coffee shops:
- Kar.Ma Coffee: Gyan Mandal, Jhamsikhel, Lalitpur
- Himalayan Arabica Beans: Saat Ghumti Marg, Thamel
- Himalayan Java Coffee: Locations throughout the valley, including two branches in Thamel, one at the Kathmandu Durbar Square and one at Boudhanath
- Café Swotha: Patan
- Tings Tea Lounge: Lazimpat
- Café Soma: Jhamsikhel, Lalitpur
Visit a museum
There are a few museums in the Kathmandu Valley that could entertain you for a couple of hours on a rainy day. They house important pieces of art, historical relics, weapons, coins, and a number of other archeological finds. A visit to these museums will give you a better understanding of the history and culture of Nepal.
Patan Museum (located at Patan Durbar Square)
Housed in an old royal palace, this museum features many statues and pieces of traditional Buddhist and Hindu artwork, with very informative descriptions. A visit to this museum is a great addition to a walk around the UNESCO World Heritage site of Patan Durbar Square. There's also a great courtyard restaurant and gift shop, with lots of books.
Narayanhiti Palace Museum (located at the northern end of Durbar Marg)
This museum is located in the last palace of the Nepali royal family. The building and rooms tell the story of Nepal's political turmoil over the past few decades, and it was where the royal massacre took place in 2001.
National Museum of Nepal (located near Swayambhunath)
Nepal's largest museum houses historical artwork and features collections of historical weapons and coins. A visit to this museum will give a good overview of the history and culture of Nepal.
Play futsal or squash
If you want to be a bit active, there are many futsal arenas and a few squash courts spread around Kathmandu and Lalitpur. These generally charge at an hourly rate and sometimes need to be booked in advance over phone. It will be hard to make a booking on a weekend, but during the week the arenas and courts will be more open.
Go see a movie
There are a number of movie theaters around Kathmandu and Lalitpur where you can enjoy Nepali and Hindi movies, as well as more popular Hollywood movies as well. The main cinema chain in Kathmandu is QFX Cinemas. The theaters are pretty comfortable, with good quality audio-visual set-ups.
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During this period while we emerge from lockdown please note that we've had to restrict and even completely close some experiences at Llanelli to help everyone stay safe. We haven't updated the whole website because the situation changes frequently, so this page is likely to be inaccurate. We hope this doesn't affect your enjoyment of your day.FIND OUT MORE AND BOOK YOUR VISIT
Go nose-to-beak with some of nature's most exciting animals
Our fabulous flock of Caribbean flamingos are ready and waiting to meet you. Watch as they preen and display, then uncover the fascinating facts behind their pink feathers and their curious one-leg poses. For even more colour, head to our wonderful wildflower meadows, buzzing with butterflies and bumble bees.
Hundreds of our friendly ducks and geese are keen to meet you and will happily feed from your hand, including the rarest goose in the world, the friendly Hawaiian Nene. Buy a bag of grain from our Information Desk on your way in and enjoy close encounters of the feathery kind!
Our mosaic of pools, lagoons, reed beds and marshes provide a haven for birds and wetland wildlife. Accessible paths winding through the reed beds lead you to our comfortable hides, which give great views of water birds.
Exciting hands-on discovery for all ages
Adventure awaits along our winding wetland paths. Make your way through our jungle of reeds, past the hide and seek den and over balance beams to our giant nest building area. Wellies are a must!
It's always raining in our brilliant interactive Water Lab thanks to our clever Sustainable Drainage Systems. Rainwater powers the lab's inspiring features, such as our mug cascade and giant waterwheel.
Clamber up the climbing net for the best view of Top Pond, play in the sand, and swing and slide the hours away in our fabulous flamingo themed outdoor play area!
Little explorers will love puzzling through our exciting nest maze on the hunt for four giant swan eggs and they'll go wild for our Water Vole City with its network of wiggly tunnels and grassy banks for a unique water vole view of the world!
Pick up a net and see what lurks in our ponds*, find creepy crawlies on our mini beast hunts* and use telescopes and binoculars to discover more at our family bird watching sessions. We add exciting new events each season so you're sure to discover something new on every visit! (*Available during spring, summer and autumn.)
Little ones will love our indoor soft play area – complete with comfy chairs overlooking the scenic Bury Inlet. After a good play session, enjoy tasty treats from Kingfisher Kitchen.
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Website Security Best Practices
Website Security Best Practices
According to statistics there are over 500 million hacks per year. That is 1.5 million hacks per day. But what are they after? Many small business owners think they're too small to be hacked. They have nothing worth stealing, they say. Here are some website security best practices. If you know the following, maybe you'll think again:
- Hackers do not choose which websites to attack. They just attack. They attack just for the fun of it: look at clever me: Look at what I did! (just like an arsonist)
- If you sell anything on your website, they are after your clients' credit cards
- They are also after personal information. ANY personal information. So they can steal an identity.
- They are after banking information: So they can use the credit cards
- Sometimes the hacking is specific: They redirect your contact us page to that of a competitor.
- They redirect a product buy now button to that of a competitor.
- They want to put malware on your site so the malware can spread via your site
Here are responses from small business owners on the reasons they were hacked:
As you can see from the data, the main reason was malice. They just did it because they could. And to show how clever they were.
Do you have nothing worth stealing? How much did your website cost you? How much will it cost to get it back?
How to Protect Your Website
You can see that you absolutely need to protect your website from these hackers. Here are a few best practices when it comes to website security:
Change Your Passwords
Your passwords cannot be something or someone close to you. A good password is made up of random letters, numbers and characters. Keep it in a secure place, not on a sticky note on your desk or in a diary. And change it often.
Have a Surveillance Team
Your website is your business' identity online. It is your branding, it is your life, it is you. Your customers do business with you because they are attracted to your business' identity and because they trust you. Your website is your online Real Estate. If a hacker puts malware on your site or maliciously redirect or deface your site, your customers will lose their trust in you and stop doing business with you. Then you will no longer have a business.
You therefore need to look at your online real estate as if it's your physical business: You need to lock your doors to the hackers. If you don't have any security, you have an open door and the hackers/thieves can walk right in. Most people secure their homes with alarms. They have a security company monitor the alarm. You need the same kind of security for your website.
Azgad Security is such an alarm. They have 24-hour surveillance on your website and they monitor what happens in real time. They stop the hackers in their tracks.
We hope that this changed your mind about website security best practices and that you see the importance of getting security for your website. Click here now to find out more: Azgad Security.


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Newly installed horn professor Dan Grabois knew that an assemblage of horn players (a/k/a French horns, to those of us new to classical music) could offer much more than the standard brass literature.
(Photograph by Mike Anderson.)
From Dan Grabois, UW Professor of Horn:
"Before I arrived at UW (this is my second year), the Horn Choir used to give its annual Christmas concert at the Chazen museum, then take the second semester off. I wanted to keep going during second semester, but to go in a new direction, where we could learn a new style and increase our level of creativity. To me, this meant turning the Horn Choir into a rock band. This year, we actually did it. I told the students the plan partway through first semester, and was met with a mixture of enthusiasm and skepticism. My expectations were that we would write pieces together, as an outgrowth of group improvisation, and that the students would arrange rock tunes for the group. I had no interest in performing rock music under the name "UW Madison Horn Choir," so I changed our name to Twisted Metal.
"A few students came back from winter break with arrangements they had done, and we started working on them. It's funny that a style of music that is so integral to the lives of the students can be very difficult to reproduce on our instruments, but we worked long and hard at playing the music in the right style. We also improvised, coming up with our tune TM Funk Machine in our very first rehearsal (it got its name at the last possible moment, when I was typing up our concert program). Another improvisation became a section of an arrangement one of the students did. During the course of the semester, more and more of the students' arrangements were completed and quickly learned.
"We had two scheduled concerts: one at the Rathskeller (at the Memorial Union) and one in the School of Music in Mills Hall. Performing our debut in front of people who were drinking beer was the perfect introduction to rock stardom for my students. We had found a drummer, the final missing piece to kick the band into shape, and we played a bang-up set. Everyone was primed for our Mills concert, and the outfit purchasing and makeup application moved into high gear. This concert was a real culmination for Twisted Metal: we created an identity, learned a style, moved our performance energy up several notches, and had a great time to boot. Twisted Metal is here to stay.
"Twisted Metal performed the music of Queen, Boston, Alanis Morissette, The XX, Nena, Rush, and Twisted Metal. Two students sang, and everybody rocked."


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The Rail
• 281 W Main St • Smithtown, NY
Doors: 8:00PM
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| Ages 21+
Featuring: The Chris Ruben Band, Rick Eberle, Silversel, Debenedetta, Dana Macleod, Delaney Rose, Jackson Reed,
Event type: Ages 21+
Solo artists and bands from around the world and every imaginable genre hit the stage, all while being filmed for a reality TV show called "RiseUP TV"! Footage collected from this show and 28 other shows in North America and Europe around the same time, will be the subject of this TV show. The evening will be hosted by COO of Rock solid Talent Entertainment "Kristina Jones" and New York radio personality "Rick Eberle". Please also bring a can of non-perishable food as well, as the evening is also raising awareness for the local food bank! Thank you in advance!
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May 5, 2019 - June 2, 2019
Cutoff is Saturday, May 11, 2019 5:59 pm EST unless it sells out earlier.


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Dec by Titan Healthcare
Nandrolone decanoate is a drug with a high anabolic and moderate androgenic component. Dec use is therefore primarily in the stack with stronger androgenic steroids.
A combination of nandrolone decanoate, sickness testosterone enanthate and Dianabol is used since the beginning of doping with steroids and is still one of the classic stack. Dec is one of the steroids , help which is also often used by women .
Side effects :
Acne , seek headaches , increased blood pressure , nosebleeds , prolonged blood clotting time , increased sebum production , sexual stimulation ( initially) , sexual inactivity (later) , inhibition of spermatogenesis , gynecomastia, strong suppression of own hormone production , water storage , women can be translucent pregnant.
Important: gynecomastia, suppression of own hormone production and increased water storage is more triggered by progesterone, as the estrogen. This effect , which proceedeth from the nandrolone decanoate , so can hardly be counteracted with anti- estrogens.
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intramuscularly, as a rule of thumb for dosing, is widely used in bodybuilder circles nandrolone decanoate 4mg ??per kilogram of body weight per week. However, the dosage must be adjusted later very probably to continue to achieve success, so dosages are between 200 – 1000mg per week often be found. Since nandrolone decanoate over a period of 4 – 6 weeks acts in the body, one injection per week is usually sufficient to obtain a relatively uniform levels.
Nandrolone decanoate is often stacked with other steroids.
An example stack for advanced bodybuilders might look like this: Nandrolone decanoate: 400-600mg per week, depot testosterone: 500-750mg per week, Dianabol 30-45mg per day.


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The Q3 2014 edition of the FreshFacts on Retail report, which examines overall retail trends in produce, has been released by The United Fresh Produce Association.
The study shows that during this quarter, fruit and vegetable volume remained steady compared to the previous year, while dollar sales increased slightly due to a small increase in average retail price. The report, produced in partnership with the Nielsen Perishables Group and sponsored by Del Monte Fresh Produce, measures retail price and sales trends for the top 10 fruit and vegetable commodities, as well as value-added, organic and other produce categories.
It also features a more detailed look at the berries, citrus and packaged salad categories, as well as produce in the deli. Highlights of this quarter's report include the following:
•Cherries posted the highest growth in the fruit category, with dollar sales increasing 16.9 percent and volume increasing 36.7 percent
•Packaged salad posted the highest growth in the vegetable category, with increased dollar sales 9.1 percent and volume increasing 6.8 percent
•Value-added fruits posted average weekly dollar and volume sales growth of 10.5 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively
•Average weekly dollar and volume sales for snacking vegetables both increased by double digits compared to Q3 2013
•Shoppers continued to seek out organic produce, resulting in significant dollar and volume sales increases for organic fruits and vegetables.
This quarter's FreshFacts report also features a spotlight on consumer demand of value-added convenience produce items. Multiple convenience items experienced double-digit growth, including fresh-cut fruits, mixed melons, snacking vegetables and value-added vegetable side dishes.


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Take Steps to Prevent Heat Exhaustion and Other Heat-Related Illnesses
While summer means a return to your favorite sports and outdoor activities, prolonged exposure to the season's heat and humidity also increases the likelihood of experiencing a variety of heat-related illnesses. However, equipped with some basic knowledge of risk factors, symptoms and precautionary tactics, you can safely enjoy the best summer has to offer.
What Is Heat-Related Illness and Why Does It Occur?
"When you exercise or work outdoors in the summer heat, your body temperature rises," says Dr. Ryan Wennell, a sports medicine physician with LG Health Physicians Sports Medicine. "Fortunately, your body also springs into action to try to maintain its normal temperature by transferring that heat through sweating and blood flow to the skin. Heat-related illnesses occur when you can no longer transfer enough heat to stay cool."
The result can be:
- Heat exhaustion (heat prostration)—generally develops when a person does not drink enough liquids to replace lost fluids
- Heat cramps—occur in muscles after exercise because sweating causes the body to lose water, salt, and electrolytes
- Heatstroke (sunstroke)—occurs when the body fails to regulate its own temperature and body temperature continues to rise, often to 105°F or higher. Heatstroke is a medical emergency. Even with immediate treatment, it can be life-threatening or cause serious long-term problems.
Risk Factors
Obviously, the main risk factors for heat-related illnesses are heat and humidity. But according to Dr. Wennell, other factors can cause or worsen these conditions:
- Dehydration—alcohol increases this risk
- Wearing improper attire—dark, non-breathable clothing
- Some medications—including those for high blood pressure and depression. Ask your doctor for advice about hot-weather activity and your risk of getting a heat-related illness.
- Being sick—especially if you have a fever
- Age—people younger than 16 years of age or older than 65 are at increased risk of heat illness due to their inability to sweat effectively
How To Avoid Heat-Related Illness
Most heat-related illnesses can be prevented by keeping your body cool and avoiding dehydration.
"Consider acclimating to the heat by gradually increasing the amount of time you exercise in the heat over a period of 10-14 days," says Dr. Wennell. "Wear light-colored clothing and exercise in the early morning or evening to avoid high intensity sun periods (10 a.m.-2 p.m.). Use caution when participating in outdoor activities in temperatures above 80°F and extreme caution when temperatures exceed 90°F."
To help prevent dehydration:
- Drink 20 ounces of water/sports drink, 1-2 hours before activity. You may add another 10 ounces 15-20 minutes prior to activity.
- During activity, drink 10 ounces every 15-20 minutes or when thirsty
- Avoid alcohol and sugary drinks, including soda
- For every pound lost during activity, drink 20 ounces of water/sport drink
When To Take Action
If you experience any of these symptoms, get out of the heat immediately:
- Fatigue
- Excessive shortness of breath
- Dizziness
- Headaches
- Nausea/vomiting
- Involuntary muscle contractions/cramps
- Elevated core temperature (rectal) above 104°F
- Mental status change including confusion, irritability, lack of coordination
- Seizures
"Rest and begin to hydrate with an electrolyte solution (Gatorade or other sports drink, commercial electrolyte solution)," advises Dr. Wennell. "For cramping, try passive stretching, or using an outside force (leaning into a wall, having a partner push you into a deeper stretch). If your symptoms don't begin to improve, call 9-1-1 and submerge in cold water. Always seeks medical attention if you have any concerns. Heat-related illnesses can be medical emergencies."
Armed with this information and a healthy dose of common sense, you're off and running to safe and enjoyable summer fun. Before engaging in any exercise or physical activity, especially in heat and humidity, it's always important to touch base with your doctor.
Learn more or schedule an appointment with LG Health Physicians Sports Medicine here.


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The rambling diary of an ordinary slightly quirky dodgy artist in the rolling hills of the English Welsh borders, telling the tale of the life of the common man in an uncommon way and also explaining many things about science and the world. Zombies, Monsters and strange mechanical things included by request. Plus some bad Poetry
Thursday, 7 February 2013
Badgers, Big Mac's and Chillies, home alone with a Pizza
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Before he became completely unhinged, the lil man once asked that if flies didn't have wings, would they be called 'walks.'ReplyDelete
As for Esmeralda, no female should have to face the trauma of a naked man flashing his big macs at them. Hope that she is over the shock. :)Replies
Yes my blog is a family friendly blog and Mr Jones leaping about waving his Big Mac's at Esmeralda is a bit of a worry, however it would be so much worse if I had written.Delete
Big Mac was standing naked waving his Mr Jones at Esmeralda . . . . . . AH DAMN I just wrote that DAMN. If you are a child please avert your gaze now....YICKS.
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I have been busy with math today doing research on Mersenne Prime Numbers, eXperi-mental eXcitement.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Best Manual Breast Pumps in 2020 – Updated List
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Best Manual Breast Pumps in 2020
Every new mother desires to be close to her child in order to attend to his/her needs when they arise. However, not all mothers are afforded this luxury as an unforeseen circumstance that you need to attend to outside the home may present itself or you may need to get back to work after your maternity leave. This is not usually an issue for mothers that practice mixed feeding, but the same cannot be said for those that breastfeed exclusively.
Medela Harmony Manual Breast Pump
The Medela Harmony is one of the best breast pumps on the market. It is a high performance levered device with powerful suction. This product is comfortable and it makes the expression of milk easier. It is ideal for mothers who have only a little milk and thus looking to encourage milk production with the use of a breast pump.
The device ships with a milk bottle, breast shield, stand, and a lid. The product is relatively easy to assemble and use even though it does not ship with any guidelines. The manual breast pump features two levers. While the first one is used to prepare your breast for the procedure, the longer one is utilized to support the expression of milk. It is sizeable and may be carried around in a large bag without been noticed.
Additionally, it doesn't make much noise and thus may be ideal for use in public places. The product is made of a BPA-Free plastic that is easy to wash. The product is reasonably priced and it ships with a 30 days limited warranty. However, some users report that the suction strength of the product reduces after repeated use.
Others have complained that the handle may fall off easily. It is hard to hold in place while using, and the connection may also loosen thereby causing loss of expressed milk. It ships with only one size (24mm) flange.
Philips Avent Manual Breast Pump
This is another amazing levered manual breast pump on the market. The product is famous among new mummies because of its amazing features and a budget-friendly cost. The product works very fast and allows you to express more milk compared to similar products. Interestingly, it features a rubber cushion it shields to make the process easier and more comfortable.
Unlike many other products on the market, the comfort offered by this device allows you to express breast milk for a long period of time without getting too tired. The top quality and durable build of the Philips Avent manual pump makes it ideals for women who pump breast milk on a daily basis. It is easy to assemble and relatively easy to use. Cleaning is also pretty effortless as the product can be safely dropped in a dishwasher.
Although the suction is good, it is relatively mild thus eliminating the fear of soreness associated with pumping. The breast pump is lightweight, and portable making it a great choice for outdoor use as it can easily fit into a large purse. It ships with a two years warranty to further assure you of the durability of the product.
If you have the Philips Avent electric breast pump, then going for this product is a big win-win as its parts can best be used with the former. However, dried leftover milk may cause the handle of the product to become squeaky while using. Another set back for the product is that it can only be used with the Philips Avent bottles. It ships with only one size (25mm) flange.
Lansinoh Manual Breast Pump
The Lansinoh Manual Breast Pump is ideal if you are looking for a device that packs both high performance and comfort. It comes with two different modes – the stimulation to prepare your breast for the procedure and the expression mode to pump breast milk into the bottle you provided. It works really fast and it rarely has performance issues.
Unlike many products on the market, this one ship with two different sizes (25mm and 30.5mm) of a shield. This further makes it easier to express milk as you have an option to use the shield that works best for you. Furthermore, the product is easy to assemble and easy to use, thereby preventing you from expending too much energy while expressing milk for your little one.
This breast pump is easy to clean, and it supports dishwasher cleaning. It is portable thus allowing you to easily carry it around during your normal day to day activities. But the product does not support the use of standard bottles, and it can only be used with Lansinoh's Momma bottles. Some users have reported that the parts of the product may be difficult to find when you need a replacement.
Haakaa Silicone Manual Breast Pump
Haakaa silicone device is one of the best suction manual breast pumps available on the market. You will find this product ideal if you don't pump milk regularly. In addition, it requires you to do less compared to other competing products. This means that you may be able to store a small amount of breast milk for your little one by doing almost nothing.
You can use the product by simply using it to trap milk from one breast while you breastfeeding your baby on the other. The strong but mild suction of the product allows you to collect enough milk for your baby within a short period of time. You have fewer concerns about sore breast with this product as it is easy to use and comfortable. Assembly is also not an issue with this breast pump as it ships already assembled
Haakaa breast pump is lightweight and portable thereby making it easy to carry around in your purse. It is easy to clean and maybe wash using a dishwasher. Additionally, it is affordable and it offers good value for money. However, some users have complained that the product only works well as a milk catcher and may not be good as a breast pump.
Others state that the suction may become weak and unable to pump milk after repeated use. The measurement of the inbuilt maker is not correct. Also, it is sometimes difficult to find a comfortable position.
Ameda One Hand Manual Breast Pump
If you are looking to buy a breast pump that makes the process of expressing milk relatively easy, then you should consider checking Ameda manual breast pump out. Although it is a levered device, it allows users to control it using only one hand. As already mentioned above, this will allow to feed your baby with the other hand or even attend to other businesses.
The product is easy to assemble because the breast shield comes already attached to the device. Also, easy to clean as it part are dishwasher friendly. It is lightweight and portable thus making it ideal for outside-the-home feeding. The product works fast and the suction is strong which invariably translates to more ilk within a short period of time.
Another advantage of this pump is that it supports the use of standard baby bottles and not just the ones that came with the product. Unlike other similar products, this breast pump is comfortable and easy to hold in place so that you don't feel exhausted after expressing milk. This will go a long way in reducing the possibility of having sore breasts after the process is completed.
The maker of the product has taken steps to prevent leakages by placing the handle at an angle that differs from that of other companies. This may make it a little bit difficult for you to use the device if you are already used to others. The product makes less noise compared to similar products on the market, but it may begin to make loud squeaky noise after repeated use. It is reasonably priced, but the product does not ship with any warranty.
Also, some users have concerns about the quality of the Ameda One-Hand Manual Breast Pump. others state that it is too pricey compared to similar products on the market.
NatureBond Silicone Manual Breast Pump
The NatureBond Silicone Manual breast pump is another amazing product on the market. The product is popular among mums and it has received lots of favorable reviews from past users. It is made from a top quality silicone material that is BPA, PVC, Phthalate, and Lead-free thus making it safe for you and your little one. The material is durable and will probably allow you to enjoy the product for a long period of time. It features a powerful suction that will make the process of expressing breast milk a breeze.
It comes in a complete package that includes Air-Tight Vacuum Packaging, 1 x Luxury Pouch, 1 x Dust Cover Lid, 1 x Silicone Breast Pump. the product is easy to use, thanks to the Full Colour English Instructions that comes with it. The pouch will go a long way to the product from dust when not in use. It will also provide you with a beautiful, easy, and luxurious way to take the breast pump from one place to another.
Furthermore, the NatureBond Silicone Manual Breast Pump is lightweight as it weighs only about 2.88 ounces. This will go a long way to make it easy to use since the lightweight will allow for a hands-free use thereby allowing you to engage in other activities while expressing breast milk. It will also allow you to effortlessly carry the product from place to place. The product comes with a stopper that is designed to prevent milk from spilling while using the product. The manufacturer stated that the stopper will make the product 100 percent leak proof.
You will find that maintenance is easy with this product since it supports dishwasher cleaning. Many users like that the product is budget-friendly. However, some users complain that the product is likely to lose suction every time they move. It is also stated that it is somewhat difficult to position the pump in a way that allows easy and fast expression of milk. Also, some users complain that using the product is painful and uncomfortable.
In order to attend to other areas of life and keep your baby fed, you may need to store breastmilk that will be used when you are away. The constant advancement of technology brings about the regular invention of new machines and equipment designed to make life, even more, easier, breast pumps inclusively adds to this stimulation. But, buying even a device as basic as a breast pump is never easy because you may need to consider a few important factors to help you make the right decision. This is one of the reasons why we have created this post in order to simplify the buying process.
We have done almost all the difficult parts for you in order to make the buying process less tasking providing you with different types of manual breast pumps on the market. All you need to do is read through our buying guide, the list of the best manual breast pumps on the market and then decide which product best suits your needs. Read on for a comprehensive guide to buying the best breast pump. Scroll down for more information.
The Advantages of Manual Breast Pumps
Talking about breast pumps, you would probably agree with me that the electric variants such as spectra, babyation, Somex, and Bellababy Pocket are faster as well as more efficient than their manual counterparts. For this reason, many new mothers prefer to go for the former considering the fast performance. However, some women still prefer working with manual breast pumps to electric ones for their everyday uses. Whatever the reason maybe there are also excelent manual breast pumps on the market that offers great services. It is important to note that the lactose in breastmilk comes from the breast and the mother's everyday diet does not get affected by it.
You are probably reading this post because you are also considering the idea of purchasing the best manual breast pumps. Here is the thing, although not as efficient as the electrically powered variant, manual breast pumps come with lots of benefits that you may not enjoy with their electrical counterparts. For instance, manual breast pumps may be the only way out in the case of power outage since they do not require power to function. This means you can make use of the product anywhere you are without the need for electricity to power it. These manual breast pump variants also allow you to easily get the milk for your little one without pushing too much pressure.
In addition, the idea of coupling a device powered by electric to a sensitive part of the body such as breast does not settle well with some new mothers, and for others, manual breast pumps are more comfortable and convenient compared to their electric counterparts. Manual breast pumps may also be ideal for you outside the home because they are less noisy and will not attract too much attention to you. They're also portable and easy to carry from place to place.
Although it helps to express less milk and maybe a little bit more tasking than the electric variants, manual breast pumps are easy to use, assemble and maintain. They are also relatively inexpensive and can be found everywhere in the market, unlike the other variants. Again, even mothers who use the electric breast pumps still consider using the manual variant for thorough draining of breast milk as the pump allows you to have total control over it.
The Types of Manual Breast Pumps
Manual breast pumps can be generally categorized into two groups namely: levered and suction breast pumps. While the former usually features a handle or lever that helps you pump milk manually by moving it up and down with your hands, the latter usually requires you to squeed the silicon base of the device in order to establish a suction.
A levered pump feature designs that look just like electric pumps, only that the former is controlled by hand. It is usually quiet, and portable, thus making it ideal to use at work or outside your home since the device provides you with more privacy. These types of breast pumps allow you to pump milk directly into your baby's feeding bottle. Suction pumps also known as milk catchers also make pumping significantly easy just that you may need to move milk to your baby's bottle or storage containers consistently after pumping.
Key Thing to Consider When Choosing Manual Breast Pumps
Breast pumping is an intimate and sometimes uncomfortable procedure. Going for a product that best serves your needs will go a long way to make the process a less demanding one. That is why it is essential to make your research before making your final decision. Although the best product for you will be dependant on your unique needs and personal preference, here are a few general tips to help your decision-making journey an easy one:
Strong Suction
The suction strength of the manual breast pump is the first and the most important factor you should put into trying. This is because it determines how fast and easy milk pumping will be as well as whether you will get enough milk for your baby or not. Using a manual pump to express milk is tasking and the process will be made more difficult with devices that come with loosed suction. For the best manual breast pumping experience make sure that the suction strength of the product is intact to perform this daily task.
Ease of use
While some breast pumps will require you to use your two hands in exerting pressure so as to express milk properly. You may comfortably use only one of your hands with the other, thus affording you an opportunity to feed your baby with the other or attend to other businesses. It may take about 30 minutes or more to express milk using a breast pump, a device that requires you to use two hands may be too tiring for you. It is important to consider going for the device that allows you to use one hand for your convenience.
Ease of Cleaning
This is another important factor to consider when choosing the best manual pump. As devices that are hard to clean may support the growth of bacteria the possibility maybe minimized with other devices that are easy to clean. I need not mention that breeding bacteria in a breast pump may adversely affect your health and that of your baby. For this reason, it is best to go for products that are easy to clean. Those with detachable components often make the exercise easier.
Compatibility With Other Bottles
Many levered manual pumps on the market allow you to use only the bottle that shipped with the product. This is not a very good thing as you may be forced to discontinue your use of the device when something happens to the body as the levered will not size other bottles. However, you will have other options and sourcing a replacement of the bottle will be easier with pumps that support other bottles. It is advisable to go for a product that supports other bodies in case the one that comes with it got spoilt.
Quality & Durability
It best to go for a top quality device that ships with amazing features to make breast pumping easy. You may need the product for about one year or even more, it depends on how long you intend to breastfeed your baby. A breast pump that is durable will go a long way to serve you during this period without presenting you with the need to go in search of another. A quality product will withstand the hassles associated with ins and outs of breast pumping.
This factor is important if you intend to express breastmilk outside the home. Since the process is intimate, you should consider going for a breast pump that you can easily drop into your bag and it would not be noticed on the outside. Going for a lightweight and portable breast pump will allow you to carry the device along with you from place to place without any difficulty. The manual breast pump offers more privacy as the expression process is noiseless.
The cost of the product you are about to buy should be carefully considered especially if you are on a budget. Either way, it is advised to go for a device that offers the best value for money. Manual breast pumps are relatively inexpensive, and you may get a good one for about $25 to $50. Most importantly make sure that the product you are about to purchase offers the best value for money.


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AS journalists, we spend our lives communicating basic facts to the public, yet somehow we've done a poor job of communicating the basics of journalism itself. Its values. What news is and isn't. Why journalism matters to the broader good. Why it's the quality of journalism, not necessarily the quantity, that matters most — a notion that journalists have had a hard time communicating even to the executives of their own publicly held companies.
Rarely will you see displays of this divide more vivid than in James O'Shea's new book, "The Deal From Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers" (PublicAffairs, $28.99).
The subtitle seems misleading, as do so many these days. Mr. O'Shea, a onetime top editor at both The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times, tells the story of these two papers' magnificently botched corporate marriage — a fine tale, though from the subtitle it would appear that his publisher didn't want to market it as such, perhaps thinking that no one much cared.
And the publisher is probably right. Many Americans may worry deeply about presidential elections, hurricanes and other major news, but I suspect that they care far less about the slow degradation of the newsrooms that provide it.
It's just as misleading to suggest that the current troubles of "great American newspapers" result from being "plundered" by "moguls and Wall Street." It's true in some cases — and Mr. O'Shea trots out some splendid examples.
As evidence of Wall Street's attitude toward newspapers, the book describes a JPMorgan Chase vice president being congratulated by a colleague for securing the oh-so-profitable task of restructuring The Tribune's corporate parent. The V.P. responds by e-mail from Aspen: "Tnx dude. Can you say ka-ching?" Next time I hear an investment banker ask in exasperation why the public so hates Wall Street and its minions, I'll point him to that exchange.
But it wasn't investment bankers, no matter how irksome their behavior, who caused newspapers' woes. It was, by and large, newspapers themselves, especially their managements, as Mr. O'Shea makes abundantly clear.
The abysmal state of newspapers today has largely been precipitated by the loss of classified advertising to Craigslist and other online sites; by the mass migration of readers to free online news sites; and, to a degree I hadn't appreciated, the scandals in the early 2000s that revealed how thoroughly some newspapers had been misstating circulation numbers for years. Once those papers had to issue correct numbers, official circulations fell sharply, with a corresponding loss of credibility among major advertisers.
Mr. O'Shea argues that what's killing newspapers isn't the Internet and other forces, but rather the way newspaper executives responded to those forces: "The lack of investment, the greed, incompetence, corruption, hypocrisy and downright arrogance of people who put their interests ahead of the public's are responsible for the state of the newspaper industry today." Strong stuff, but Mr. O'Shea can back it up.
The problem, however, goes deeper than that. For years, most large American newspapers were owned by families — the Grahams in Washington, the McCormicks in Chicago, the Chandlers in Los Angeles — but as those families grew and spread, their far-flung members sought greater returns. Beginning in the 1960s, many of the companies began going public, and therein can be found the underlying problem.
The demands placed upon publicly held companies — more profits, a higher stock price — cannot easily be reconciled with the demands of quality journalism, which needs more people and higher salaries than a cut-rate alternative. When newspapers faced any kind of challenge, whether from the Internet or higher newsprint costs, the answer has long been to cut costs, which leads inevitably to lower-quality journalism.
"The Deal From Hell" is chockablock with examples of what happens when bean counters take over newspapers. In the mid-1990's, Mark Willes, a former General Mills executive, became C.E.O. of Times Mirror, then the parent of The Los Angeles Times. The book describes Mr. Willes bringing in consultants who held a meeting so that executives could literally sniff the paper; they felt that declining circulation might be caused by newsprint that smelled like fish. And this happened even before the Tribune Company bought Times Mirror in 2000.
The Chicago Tribune had it worse. During the 2000s, its management started crusades in favor of "market-driven journalism," that is, giving readers what they wanted, rather than needed, to read. Young (read: cheap) editors were promoted, emphasizing the hyperlocal standards of local television news. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, Mr. O'Shea reports, an editor at The Tribune asked what any of this had to do with Chicago.
The two papers' travails grew exponentially after a 2008 takeover by the Chicago investor Sam Zell, whom Mr. O'Shea portrays as someone who knew nothing about newspapers. When Warren Christopher, the former secretary of state, and a group of concerned Los Angeles citizens met with Mr. Zell to express concern about The Times's health, Mr. Zell told Mr. Christopher that he didn't care what he thought, revving up his response with an expletive.
Mr. Zell's new hires used the office of the longtime Tribune editor Robert R. McCormick for beer-and-poker parties; it was formerly a sort of in-house museum. Randy Michaels, a onetime radio executive chosen by Mr. Zell to serve as C.E.O., was obliged to resign last fall after complaints about offensive behavior by him and associates.
"THE DEAL FROM HELL" is a strong, significant book — not a true page-turner, but it won't put you to sleep, either. Mr. O'Shea offers balanced and nuanced writing throughout, not an easy task, since his sympathies clearly lie within the Tribune and Los Angeles Times newsrooms and not with the executives who all but wrecked them.
Mr. O'Shea became managing editor of The Chicago Tribune in 2001, leaving in 2006 for a brief tenure as the third in a series of Los Angeles Times editors who refused to make deep editorial cuts. The book's first-person sections, which at first seem out of place in a book of this scope — they consume maybe 15 percent of the book — actually make the narrative stronger, illustrating the compromises forced upon journalists who are arm-twisted into dumbing down their papers.
There's a reason that quality journalism has begun migrating to nonprofit outfits like ProPublica and its Chicago cousin, the Chicago News Cooperative, where Mr. O'Shea now works. The old business model is broken, and it's unlikely to be fixed. Maybe the day will come when the American public appreciates what it is losing. But I doubt it.


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I LOVE chocolate and I adore chewy cookies. I also tend to like oatmeal chocolate chip cookies – possibly because they tend to be chewy. This chewy chocolate chip cookie recipe is the result of lots of tinkering with different recipes. I'm so glad that I finally came up with a version my family and I adore!
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
- 1 cup butter
- 3/4 cups brown sugar
- 3/4 cups white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 3 cups rolled oats
- 1 11.5 oz package chocolate chips
- Cream butter and sugar together
- Add eggs and vanilla, beat until smooth
- Mix in baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg
- Add flour
- Add oats
- Stir in chocolate chips
- Bake at 350F for 10 minutes
This recipe made about four dozen cookies. The dough towards the end is VERY thick, you'll need a good wooden spoon to mix it. Emma loved stirring the dough before it got too thick. We used Ghiradelli 60% cocoa chocolate chips, which I've written about loving before. These are huge chocolate chips, it's more like eating a cookie with chunks of chocolate.
Do you love chocolate as much as I do? Be sure to try these recipes as well:
Do you have a favorite chocolate recipe? Let me know in the comments – I would love to try it!
MaryAnne lives in Silicon Valley with her Stanford professor husband Mike and their four children. She is passionate about parenting through education, creativity, and play. Mama Smiles - Joyful Parenting is a space to share crafts, activities, and family outings that enrich lives and bring families together.


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