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Not counting the goalies, there are 10 players on the floor during a set play in indoor lacrosse, five offense and five defense. One player normally has the ball, meaning the other nine guys are either waiting for the one possessing the ball to pass to them, make a shot, or stop him from scoring. The guy with the ball and the player defending him are referred to as "on-ball." For the other eight players in a set play, we consider them "off-ball."
You'll often hear of how important work is off-ball for both offense and defense. And while we covered this a bit with the first Film Room looking at what Randy Staats does after he passes the ball, it's a bit tougher to break down for defenders. After the Swarm's loss to the Bandits last Saturday, you would probably be correct in assuming that not a lot went right on- or off-ball for the Swarm defenders.
But that wasn't the case for Jason Noble, who was arguably the best Swarm defender that night. This isn't to say he wasn't on the floor when the Bandits scored; he was. But two of the goals against he was directly involved with were power play goals from Corey Small, who has scored 10 of his 22 goals this season on the man-advantage. The other goals against Georgia when Noble was on the floor happened when Noble was on the opposite side of the defensive zone.
A lot of Noble's success as a defender comes from what he does off-ball, which makes him perfect for us to examine in this Film Room. And it starts with his footwork and quick-thinking.
Noble spent most of the game guarding the right-handed Bandits players, and he wears black shoes with white trim at the base. In the below GIF, he starts off as the on-ball defender against Shawn Evans before Dhane Smith sets a pick for a pick and roll attempt. Teammate Lyle Thompson makes an excellent slide to shut Smith down as Noble hands his assignment off to Brendan Bomberry in the low right wing.
Noble leaves Evans to cover Thomas Hoggarth, a guy that lives inside and on the crease. His quick slide shuts down that avenue for Smith and helps lead to a shot on goal right at Mike Poulin.
Another good example is during this extra attacker opportunity for the Bandits at the end of the second quarter. Now with six Bandits offensive players on the floor, the Swarm have to adjust to the extra man. In the center of the zone, Noble does a lot of shifting from assignment to assignment before settling on Hoggarth with Chad Tutton having two guys tied up in front of him and a lot of traffic to his left.
It takes a lot of quick thinking to be able to decide how to adjust against such a fast offense, but Noble demonstrates some excellent footwork which allows him to change assignments as soon as the thought dawns in his mind. You can see it in both GIFs when he moves laterally. Noble never crosses his feet, helping him keep his body wide in front of the net and allowing him to move back diagonally pretty easily.
Earlier in the game, we see another good example of this. He starts on-ball once again, this time guarding Ian MacKay. A check to his back from Small doesn't bother Noble as he pressures MacKay further out of the zone. But Jordan Durston tries to cut inside and create a lane by momentarily getting in Noble's way.
Alex Crepinsek takes Durston, and Noble quickly adjusts to Small instead. An illegal pick on the other end of the floor turns the ball over to the Swarm.
Noble's got the speed mentally and physically, but you need some strength and aggression to be a successful NLL defender. And while it may not seem like a guy listed at 5-foot-10 and 165 pounds would be a force against dudes on the other side of six foot and 200 pounds, that's not the case for the Cornell University alum.
Take when he got into Bandits captain Steve Priolo's chest to tie him up for a spell. Priolo – listed at 6-foot-5 and 234 pounds – stayed out for an offensive shift and tried to set a pick against Noble. So Noble just spun around and chilled with Priolo for a few seconds.
Priolo's really good at using his body to create space for his teammates, and he also has a pretty good scoring touch. Noble got his stick above Priolo's and shut him down as Small tried to figure out where to pass to get the ball inside. The play eventually results in an errant pass that the Swarm collect.
While it's important that Noble can get in opponents' faces, what he does with the space around him is just as important. Let's look at him on the penalty kill.
The Swarm normally run out Noble and Connor Sellars to guard the posts by the goal, with Bryan Cole and Jordan MacIntosh guarding high in case a fast break chance arises. The group does a good job of shifting appropriately, as we see below when Noble presses on Small.
Noble's speed and aggression is on display again as he forces passes from Small and Durston with some quick slides and stick checks. But before he presses, the Orangeville, Ontario native places himself in the best spot to shift to either Bandits player Smith feels like passing to, simultaneously narrowing the passing window from Smith to Durston.
While positioning is important, especially while man-down, Noble is one of the better players in the NLL to use his wingspan effectively on the penalty kill unit. When he presses, it's two hands on his stick, but when he's off-ball, Noble spreads his arms out to help obstruct lanes.
Other defenders will do similar things. When your defense is down a man, the more space you take up, the better. But it's hard to think of too many players that instantly swap between on-ball defensive checks to extending their wingspan off-ball as quickly and often as Noble does.
You want your off-ball defender to shut down one of the four weapons an opponent has on the floor, limiting where the ball can go and who it can come from. Noble uses a strong combination of brains, footwork, aggression and space management to be successful as an off-ball defender.
But just because Noble's so good off-ball, that doesn't mean he isn't deadly on-ball. So here's a quick video of him being successful at the other half of his game.

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This following article highlights the failure of the New Zealand government to properly understand the scope and depth of the issues surrounding the failure of the building compliance system from the early 1990's to around 2005 and to respond accordingly. We're now starting to see the fallout of this inaction and we think this just is the tip of the iceberg.
There is a desperate need for the government to review its response to the issues being uncovered to ensure that the financial resources of hard working New Zealand citizens is not further undermined leading to social issues such as poor health, homelessness and full dependence on the State in retirement.


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Only news that fits the print
Is it just me, or does the new New York Times look and feel like USA Today (or worse)? The NYTs acknowledges fewer words per page while raising their price. I know they are saving $10 million, and that newspapers are in trouble these days, but making an appreciably cheaper product and charging a premium doesn't make sense to me. Those of us who love the Times love more words per page not fewer. People will pay for quality, but you have to offer it.
(Why does this make me think of the tabloids? While I was in Saratoga Springs waiting on the grocery store check-out line, I saw what is now my favorite fake-news head line: "First Photographs from Heaven." Apparently someone had smuggled their camera phone through the Pearly Gates. Who said "you can't take it with you"? I'd bet $499 and a Sprint PCS cancellation fee that it was an iPhone!)
(The New York Times shouldn't have missed this one . . . )


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Kaptur Statement Following Veteran's Suicide Outside Cleveland VA Medical Center
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) released the following statement after a veteran died by suicide outside the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center in Cleveland:
"I am heartbroken following the suicide of a veteran outside the Cleveland VA this morning," said Rep. Kaptur. "The level of pain that brings someone to suicide is fortunately unimaginable to many of us. My sincere condolences and prayers are with the veteran's family and friends during this immensely difficult time."
"The fact that 20 veterans a day take their own life – over 7,000 a year – is a tragedy. With seven incidents of veteran suicide on VA property in 2019 alone, 25 in the last 18 months, its critical we do more to stop this sustained national crisis. That is why I am working closely with my colleagues in the House and Senate to take decisive action to investigate and bring to an end the epidemic of veteran suicide."
To reach a trained mental health professional, veterans in crisis can call 1-(800)-273-8255 and press 1, chat online at VeteransCrisisLine.net/Chat, or text 838255. This confidential support is available to all veterans & their loved ones 24/7. For additional resources, visit www.veteranscrisisline.net/BeThere.


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Representatives with the Platte Institute say a new study commissioned by the group makes the case for a proposal that would give state lawmakers veto power over agency regulations that would be economically burdensome.
Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny, or REINS, would give the legislature the chance to vote up or down on any regulation where the cost of compliance meets a dollar amount predetermined by lawmakers.
John Sanders with the John Locke Foundation says his study of Nebraska's regulatory climate uncovered mixed results but overall the state's track record has been good. "Reviews of it by different organizations found mostly good things to say. Some of the problems they found, (were) especially low marks in occupational licensing and regulatory flexibility," says Sanders, "But the Governor and the Legislature were addressing those problems, and have been in the last couple of years, and that's a good sign."
Sanders says his report should help lawmakers find other ways to keep the ball rolling, and a REINS Act would be one such tool.
The report says slowing the growth of 'red tape' would make a stronger climate for economic growth by prompting agencies to be more mindful of the economic impact of proposed rules, and inducing legislators to take greater care not to over-task those agencies.


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NFL Rumors starting surrounding the Combine.
Bengals looking to trade John Ross? #NFLCombine https://t.co/XFHZ0oWFRo
— Cincinnati 💔 (@CincyProblems) February 26, 2019
Two years ago, top WR prospect John Ross set fire to the Combine with his 40 time. Now, sources say the #Bengals are shopping their former first rounder. A fresh start would be welcome by both parties, sounds like.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 26, 2019
*spits out drink*
Wait, what!? Oh god, this is what I get for starting my 'Happy Hour' at 11am.
Damn you Tequila Tuesdaaaaaaaaaay!
What the fuck is going on here!? Are you telling me that the high powered, offensive mind of Zac Taylor couldn't look at John Ross and think 'Yeah, I can work with that.'? This guy knows Sean McVay right?!
I mean, I know the guy hasn't had the most productive NFL career, but I thought that was due to nagging injuries and being, not in, but buried under Marvin Lewis' doghouse.
What a disaster of a track record for recent Bengals first round draft picks. I can count on one finger the number of Pro Bowls the last 8 Bengals first rounders have been voted to and that guy hurt his damn ankle in that Pro Bowl game.
But hey, at least he was able to make *another* recovery video.
Well, shit. Add 'Wide Receiver' to the already long list of Bengals off-season needs. What are they even expecting to get for this guy? Do they really think that a mid-to-late round pick is worth giving up on the potential of Ross, alone? What SHOULD we even take?
What would you offer for John Ross? 🤔 #Bengals #NFLCombine
— Elite Andy Dalton (@EvilAndyDalton) February 26, 2019
I have no clue what to expect from this team. Things were sure looking bright when Zac Taylor first came in, then it's been one coaching-hire-debacle after another – followed by this. I want to be optimistic, and maybe getting rid of Ross is the answer. Maybe not.
Just bring me Yasiel Puig and Opening Day…and another drink.
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They came for my cigarettes — who among you said one word against it? I could ask questions like this all day long and there are no answers.
Why should I care? I've got a bagful of nice guitars, and when they take them away from me, then I'll be in the same leaking kayak with the rest of you, with one signal difference: I always told you they were coming, and almost all of you always thought I was out of my mind.
Well, I wasn't. I was way ahead of all of you.
Well, you missed one salient point, Billy. Look at the Usenet history if it's still there, and you will notice I told you in no uncertain terms,…. jeez, near 20 years ago… that when it came… not if but when… that it was going to come from the left, and would unquestionably come in political retaliation.
Who will argue that Obama is not the farthest left president we've ever had? And who looking at the case of Gibson vs, say, Martin, that the only difference between them is of the two Gibson leans toward the GOP in their donations?
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Laura told The Design Hub, "they were clearly impressed with my work and we had a conversation about future opportunities. A while after the show they asked for some examples of work to figure out which projects they would like to work with me on and then came back to me with a brief to submit some initial ideas. They really liked my artwork and so I secured this amazing project!"
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Design of the Day – Bags of delight!
The team at The Design Hub are huge fans of this particular designer and certainly believe she needs another shout out. If you've read Laura Olivia's interview on the blog you'll understand why she's getting so much attention from the design industry. Her vibrant prints and electric colour palette have attracted the attention of Jethro Macey who picked Laura to exhibit in his One Year On exhibition at New Designers 2011, as well as MyDeco who've added her designs to their exclusive online boutique store.
Today I've chosen Laura's range of bright lavender bags which would look absolutely delightful scattered along a windowsill, hung on a door handle/wardrobe or placed on a dressing table. Oh, of course there is the benefit of making a room smell of delicious lavender as well!
You can get your mitts on a bag for £12 and order through Laura's website, which features many more designs from wallpaper to lampshades and stitched art work.
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Freelance textile designer Laura Olivia is making waves with her striking prints!
Laura Olivia, never dreamt that one day she'd be supplying her designs to manufacturers all over the world, as well as being selected by Jethro Macey for this years New Designers "One Year On" event in London.
Her colourful designs started off as watercolours, sketches and photographic images inspired by nature. Laura combines digital technology and embroidery to create bright, colourful designs, perfect to lift any mood. In an interview with The Design Hub, Laura talks about her journey from being a textile design student to now owning her own brand and how other people can go about starting their own business. Continue reading


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I have just come back from Rome. I was only there for 3 days. After a short 2 hour flight we landed in Rome and I noticed that my whole body had swollen in particular my hands and ankles/feet. I have slowly been swelling more over the 3 days. Flew home yesterday and I still have a very swollen body. I must have gone up 2 dress sizes. I always have the feeling of my body being swollen but without the actual swelling.
I am in so much pain and my feet and ankles also feel like they are on fire. The slightest bend of my ankles feels like my skin is splitting.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is this a typical fibro reaction?
Thanks for any help or advice.


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Jaguar C-X75 Stunt car featured in Spectre 2016
One of 7 stunt cars used for the James Bond - Spectre movie.
500 miles, 5 Litre V8 engine, semi auto.
The C-X75 concept originally debuted as a hybrid-electric, 2-seat, concept car produced by Jaguar Cars in partnership with Formula One team Williams F1. Created to celebrate 75 years of Jaguar, Project C-X75 is the ultimate expression of the brand's design and engineering innovation. While not planned for production, the C-X75 concept will be used for continuing research and development of future Jaguar technologies. The C-X75 was revealed as a concept at the 2010 Paris Motor Show, where it received AutoWeek's coveted "Best in Show" award and the 2010 Louis Vuitton Classic Concept award. "The C-X75 received an incredible reception as a concept car," said Adrian Hallmark, Jaguar's Global Brand Director. "No other vehicle will better signify Jaguar's renewed confidence and excellence in technological innovation." The astounding look of the C-X75 is pure Jaguar. "This will be the finest looking and most innovative Jaguar ever created," says Ian Callum, Jaguar's Director of Design. "Even in the world of supercars, we can still produce the most beautiful. C-X75 is an exciting project for us and a clear statement of Jaguar's intent to continue creating bold, innovative and beautiful performance cars."
In December 2012, the company announced the cancellation of production due to the ongoing global economic crisis.
5 developmental prototypes were produced in the production car specifications in 2013.
The car was featured in the 2015 film Spectre, the twenty-fourth James Bond film in which 7 cars were supplied to the film makers. Although the cars are visually faithful to the original C-X75 concept, they are mechanically unrelated.
I am not a natural flatterer, I like to think that I "tell it like it is", politely I hope. So when I tell you that I am very impressed by the contents of your website, it is just not English politeness. I of course love the subject matter but you deal with it in an energetic and respectful manner. I am overwhelmed by the research that has gone into compiling the list of coachbuilders/bodybuilders for Europe and North America. I have never heard of the vast majority of them.
Congratulations on an excellent website.
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We use Coachbuild.com almost daily as our main reference source!
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Join us for an afternoon with Olympia author Breeana Shields.
About the book – The Bone Charmer
On the day of Saskia's kenning―a special bone reading that determines the apprenticeships of all seventeen-year-olds―her worst fear comes true. She receives an assignment to train as a Bone Charmer, a seer, like her mother.
Saskia knows her mother saw multiple paths for her, yet chose the one she knew Saskia wouldn't want. Their argument leads to a fracture in one of the bones, with the devastating result of splitting Saskia's future.
Now she will live her two potential paths simultaneously: one where she's forced to confront her magic, and one where she tries to run from it. But when both paths become entangled in the plot of a rogue Charmer, Saskia learns that no future is safe, and some choices have unimaginable consequences. Only one future can survive. And Saskia's life is in danger in both.
About the author
Breeana Shields is an author of fantasy novels for teens including The Bone Charmer, Poison's Kiss, and Poison's Cage. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in English. When she's not writing, Breeana loves reading, traveling, and playing board games with her extremely competitive family. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, her three children, and two adorable, but spoiled dogs.
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) Updates
Cumnock's Town Centre has been transformed with a multimillion pound regeneration programme in the past few years. With the renovation of many of the town's beautiful historic properties and the 2016 building of seven brand new retail units in Townhead Street, the built landscape has already changed for the better.
Now, with the construction of a brand new development on the site of the former Glaisnock Shopping Centre, which includes a brand new 930 sqm Farmfoods store, we are proud to offer a parade of four new adjoining units available to rent for retail, leisure or business purposes.
Cumnock, set in the rolling East Ayrshire countryside less than 40 miles from Glasgow, lies 15 miles south east of Kilmarnock and 15 miles due east of Ayr.
The properties on offer for leasehold are part of a brand new development set right in the heart of Cumnock's busy town centre on the corner of Townhead Street and Glaisnock Street. With ample adjacent free parking, the subjects enjoy a prominent position on the newly renovated streetscape.
The four adjoining ground floor units can be subdivided in a variety of configurations and vary in size from approximately 61sqm to 179sqm. They will be suitable for a number of uses including retail, leisure, food and beverage and office space.
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Horses do not make a specific noise when they are in pain and yet with practice it is possible to read their state of health from their face and especially their eyes. One year's work went into developing the unique 3-D animation which clearly demonstrates where false riding hurts and why.
This DVD shows how incorrect "modern" riding negatively affects horses' health. Why was this DVD made? Because the horses need a voice! Who made it? Someone who is passionate about the welfare of our horses! This shocking DVD is based on the bestselling book Tug of War by Dr Gerd Heuschmann. Taking over a year to complete and using state of the art graphics this new film takes you further into the horses "riding experience" to show just how specific kinds of movement and posture impacts the horse's skeleton and musculature.
Complex and spectacular 3D animation shows how the horses limbs, muscles, and ligaments interact at various gaits, as well live examples of horses being ridden and the effect that good or bad riders have on a horse, clearly demonstrating how incorrect 'modern' training methods can lead to permanent damage to the horse.
Included are interviews with top professional riders, veterinarians, and academics that specialize in horse anatomy and who show how riders can work positively with the horse's anatomy rather than against it. This DVD also includes clips of the dark side of competitive horse sports.
Everyone who loves their horses will want to watch this film to understand their horses anatomy and the effects their riding has on it, while this DVD gives us the opportunity to truly understand why we have to return to the classical principles of training horses.
Running time approx 75 mins
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Moth balls have been on my mind. Mostly cause when we arrived in our apartment last night, the whole place smelled like a large moth ball convention (aka a ton of old man sweaters). Turns out there were two moth balls in every drain in our apartment, 2 drains per bathroom, 3 bathrooms total - so 12 moth balls that I searched for and tossed out upon arrival. Opened the windows this morning - problem solved and we were on the way to cleanish smelling non-moth ball home! Came home this evening after a long day of "shopping" and again with the moth ball smell?!? Dellip had carefully replace all the moth balls that I had carefully removed (which kinda made me feel bad). I know enough to know that I have no chance and so have embraced the moth balls. It's sort of like Easter here but the bunny keeps putting the eggs back and the eggs don't smell very good! And so it goes, another normal day in India!
Now you might wonder why I put shopping in quotes above. That's because shopping from a US perspective means, prancing around a fancy mall or down 5th Avenue picking up all that your heart desires with the only problem being funding. I've learned in the course of my time in India, that "shopping" = WORK. No big box stores here -- not going to allow it. If you say leave the apartment in search of groceries, diaper/baby stuff, a printer and milk (not to be confused with groceries). You have to go the market for each particular item and the markets are sprawled across Delhi.
Let me just back up to say that when I refer to a market, it's really more like the garment district or the diamond district in NY. Long, sprawling, open air blocks of very similar products crammed into hundreds of very similar looking stall sized stores with large numbers of men standing outside aggressively trying to get you in their stall. How do you choose which is best out of the 100? Good question, no idea. You just wander until you get tired then buy what you are looking for in as grumpy a manner as possible. It is at these times that I can see Hamish is considering divorcing me, but I have him trapped because (a) I have his passport and (b) he would have trouble looking after the baby without me. And so it goes, another normal day in India.
Today we went to see the attorney who will glide us seamlessly through the citizenship process. Below is a picture of me at the entrance to the High Court, Lawyers Chambers with the security guards. Curious picture, you might say. Well, we showed up for our appointment with the lawyer and who knew that they have a no camera policy. Our blackberrys which have cameras did not seem to bother anyone, but don't you dare try to get in to see a lawyer in Delhi armed with a lumix.
So, security person says "you can't go in with that" and I say, "ok", and turn around to leave. What else am I to do? Not going to dump the camera. I was just going to call our driver and have him come get the camera - not really going to leave, but I did have that disgusted "I can't believe you are doing this too me" look on my face and it was hot, so the look was amplified. Enter nearby police officer who says, "that's ok miss, I'll hold your camera for you" and then a gesture towards his pocket and then his watch.
Wow -- now what would you do? Don't want to offend the officials, but holding my camera in your pocket sir for some imagined amount of time, now that seems strange/weird/wth (note the use of "heck" in the wth; I'm trying to change my potty language ways). Anyway, I handed over the camera and when we came out of the meeting with the lawyer, there was the smiling policeman and I had to take a photo cause who would believe such a thing. I truly don't know of any law enforcement officer in the US that would agree to hold on to personal items, in their pocket, for an undisclosed time period just because a woman got a little testy. And so it goes, another normal day in India.
More later -- Hamish is bellowing at me that we have to go now, now, now. AND SO IT GOES, ANOTHER NORMAL DAY IN INDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!
No baby news - will update later!!
Me at Gate of Lawyer's Chambers with the police.
Moth balls in drain.
Tea in the outside deck.
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We also see the effects of procrastination all around us. Our neighbor's overgrown lawn. The layer of dust accumulated on that fancy exercise bike we bought last year. Many of us have more than a few "passing C grades" in our past to show for it.
The fact is, much of our society thrives on the assumption that we will procrastinate! How many 10-minute oil service centers would we see if we actually went out in the garage and took care of our cars? How many packages shipped overnight express might have been sent standard 5-day if we simply had the contents ready on time? And the fast food industry wouldn't exist at all if we took the time to pack a lunch to work with us in the morning.
The "good news", I suppose, is that procrastination is biological. It's built in. We're born with it. Great excuse, huh?
The bad news is - it's biological. We're born with it. We'll never lose it. The forces that cause us to procrastinate will never go away. So what is to be done about it? And when should we plan to start doing that something-or-other excellent sounding plan? Tomorrow? Or next week? No wait, next month, yes, after that one thing, THEN we'll be free to deal with it.
The answer can be found in the most unlikely of places - Diet Coke.
"WHAT?!?!?!" you exclaim, "You're going to tell me that Diet Coke is the answer to my procrastination woes??? Oh I love you already!!!"
Not so much. Might want to hold off on the love letters. Let's be clear about something - Diet Coke is NOT good for you. Replacing sugar with some other substance that tastes sweet and calling the resulting product a "diet" product is just a clever way to get past peoples' guilt over buying and consuming things they know are bad for them.
Carbonated soda actually dehydrates you. Many of them contain brominated vegetable oil, which can actually poison you if consumed in significant amounts. Sugars throw tons of empty calories into your system and act as an addictive component, caffeine seals the deal by giving you a jolt of energy... It's a complete waste all the way around. So now replace the sugar with something else. Something even more dangerous, in many cases. I won't go into all of the fear-mongering stories people tell about artificial sweeteners, but most of us already realize deep down that they're bad for us.
At any rate, the prospect of having our cake and eating it too is just too tempting for many of us, and we buy diet sodas in abundance, telling ourselves, "yes, but it's better than the regular stuff, so I'm doing good!" Fine. Continue telling yourself that. But think about what Diet Coke does for us on a mental and emotional level.
We like sodas. They make us feel good. This reaches in and prods the part of our brain that governs our automatic actions. It says, "This feels good, therefore it must be good, therefore continue to do this!" This is the limbic system, or unconscious zone of our brain, including the "pleasure center". Our limbic system is one of the more primitive systems we have. It runs on full automatic. If you accidentally touch something hot, your limbic system is responsible for telling your hand to snatch away from it. Fast as lightning, you're no longer touching the hot item. Often it will take a moment or two before your conscious mind is fully aware of what just happened.
On a related note, did you know that the average human finger is about the same difficulty to bite through as the average carrot? Try out that theory next time you find yourself in a tight spot and can't get to your pepper spray. Interestingly enough however, you cannot actually bite off your own finger. Once again, your limbic system protecting you from harm.
Now then... We know we need exercise. We know we need to be active. We know we should take care of things in a timely manner. These facts are NOT foreign to us, they live within the prefrontal cortex - the planning and decision-making portion of our brains. And there's the rub - when we know we must DO something, yet also know that doing it will be PAINFUL, our limbic system and prefrontal cortex are suddenly on opposite sides of a war. On the one hand, the planning center exclaims, "If I don't do it now, life will suck later!" On the other hand, the pleasure center screams back, "If I do it now, life will suck now!"
So how does Diet Coke play into this? Well, you like sodas. You drink lots of sodas. But one day, you glance in the mirror and could swear the Michelin Man winked back at you. What to do, what to do... Oh! Stop drinking sugary sodas, and instead replace them with sugar-free sodas! Voila!
Now as we discussed above - diet sodas are actually no better for your health than the regular ones - but for the purposes of our example, they do taste very similar. They still contain the caffeine we crave. They're still cool and refreshing and tingly on the way down. They STILL FEEL GOOD. So our limbic system latches on and tells us to continue drinking them - regardless of whether they have sugar in them or not.
The same applies to other areas of our lives. Ever gone for a walk and come back an hour later feeling this strange combination of exhaustion and happiness? Ever notice how a brisk walk outside will clear your head and make the problems of the day seem less important?
If you haven't, then you've got bigger problems than I thought, and you need to go outside and run around the block. Now. No seriously. NOW. GO DO IT.
For the rest of you who are left, that "good feeling" you get when you exercise comes from the release of endorphins. It's not as potent as some other kinds of (in)activities you may be accustomed to, but it's still a rush of "feel good" and your limbic system will take notice. All you have to do is train your body to crave this new rush, and suddenly the urge to procrastinate is dealt a sounding blow.
Now when your prefrontal cortex shouts, "We have to exercise now or it will suck later," our limbic system is forced to reply, "Meh. That is going to suck right now. But I also strangely LIKE exercise... Fine, let's do it!"
All you have to do is force the substitution long enough to sway the balance.
You like watching TV. But you don't like exercise. MAKE SURE exercise wins anyways. Next week, you like watching TV, but you don't like exercise near as much. Make sure it wins again anyways. Next week, you still like TV, but man you're starting to really like exercise too. And thus the underdog overcomes, the pounds melt away, you slowly begin to stop having nightmares about the Michelin Man force-feeding you mountains of Twinkies, and you start to realize visible rewards for your efforts.
So what's stopping you? Your limbic system? What's holding you back? Your own biased perception of what's good and what's bad?
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It seems there's been a renewed and increasing interest in Telematics as technology develops and the need for greater road safety becomes mandatory for fleets.
Of course, like any technology, its invention prompts new questions for Fleets as they wrestle with the best way to use the information that is now available.
These new questions might be:
This could be the recipe for the 'perfect storm' as fleets invest in expensive technology to 'solve' a safety issue and actually end up being potentially liable because they didn't read or act upon the high risk data that was available to them via the Telematics system in which they'd invested.
If I had £1 for each of the fleets I've visited who admit to not really using the data being provided by the expensive Telematics system that had been fitted to the fleet, I'd be a wealthy man!
In truth, fleets don't always know the answers to these new questions, which is why all Telematics systems should be provided with a management service that can answer them – but they're not. So, the fleet is left alone to decide what to do.
The Broker doesn't know the answers and nor does the Insurer and that's because the answers depend on three key factors that are pertinent only to the fleet:
The difficulty arises where the fleet doesn't even know the answer to these three questions and yet someone has already invested considerable sums into acquiring the Telematics system in the first place.
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Construction Adjudication Symposium
Significant Change – Time for Alignment
Presented By:
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators – Canada Branch.
The 2019 Construction Adjudication Symposium will study the development of Prompt Payment and Construction Adjudication, its introduction to Canada, its wider potential use on Federal government contracts, the ability to refer matters to arbitration and what this means for construction in parallel with the United Kingdom experience over the last two decades.
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and its Event Partner the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) are two of the largest Adjudicator Nominating Bodies (ANB's) in the UK. Both the CIArb and RICS are internationally recognized in the training and development of Adjudicators.
We are pleased to have Bruce Reynolds and Sharon C. Vogel of Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP present at this event. This Symposium will have sessions chaired by Geza R. Benfai, McMillan LLP and Glenn W. Ackerley, WeirFoulds LLP. Moderators will be Marcia J. Oliver, Advocates LLP and Richard Wong, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.
The Symposium has an equally impressive list of presenters, including: Andrew Heal, Heal & Co. LLP, Brendan Bowles, Glaholt LLP, Emilio Bisceglia, Bisceglia & Associates, Howard Krupat, DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Howard Wise, Goodmans LLP, Kenneth W. Movat, Fogler Rubinoff LLP, Sandra Astolfo, WeirFoulds LLP and the current President of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers (CCCL) Matthew Alter, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP.
Key speakers also include representatives from the Ontario General Contractors Association (OGCA), Toronto Construction Association (TCA), General Contractors Alliance of Canada (GCAC), National Trade Contractors Coalition of Canada (NTCCC), and other senior construction industry representatives.
We are also pleased to announce our Event Supporters that include the Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS), Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario (ADRIO) and the Project Management Institute Toronto Chapter (PMI), the Construction Economist, BPL Events and our hosts Vantage Venues.


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The Baltimore Afro-American – February 25, 1956
Close to 600 pounds of muscle and brawn will be bruited about the Uline Arena ring tonight (Friday) when Bo Bo Brazil, perhaps the nation's top colored wrestler, tangles with Cowboy Rocky Lee in the co-feature of an all-star mat card.
Brazil, who tips the scales at 270 pounds, is considered one of the better big boys on the grunt and groan circuit. But he is something of a half-pint in comparison to Lee, who boasts a 300-plus avoirdupois even before he gulps his daily steak.
Both the Cowboy and Bo Bo were winners when last they appeared in the local arena, the former scoring over Karl Von Albers and the latter getting the nod over Buddy (Nature Boy) Rogers.
THESE TWO, Von Albers and Rogers, clash in the other half of the Uline feature.
Also on tap for the evening is a team match involving girl wrestlers.
In this contest, always popular with the fans, white Carol Cook and Ethel Johnson will take on Babs Wingo and white Mary Jane Mull.
The first bout is set for 8:30 o'clock.
As an added feature, Jersey Joe Walcott, former world heavyweight boxing champion, will referee at the show.


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Or perhaps I should ask, is the word feminism outdated? I'm not questioning whether we live in a postfeminist society, as I think the answer's pretty clear — compared to (cis)men, (cis)women still make fewer than eighty cents on the dollar, there are still huge double standards, etc. etc. etc. However, the feminist movement's narrow focus (women's equality, women's rights) does not seem expansive enough for the society in which we live.
I have absolutely claimed myself to be a feminist in the past; unlike some, I've never had an issue with using the "f-word" as BMC's Women Center's "Use the F-Word: Feminist" t-shirts called them. Once I took a feminist theory course, I began to add clarifications — I'm a third-wave feminist; I believe in intersectionality. I tried to separate myself from the (straight, white, middle- to upper-class, able-bodied, ciswoman) second-wave feminists and from the extremists and misandrists that people like Christina Hoff Sommers pretend represent all feminists. (For the record, I can't stand Christina Hoff Sommers. I just want to make that very, very clear.) Nevertheless, I still claimed a strong tie to feminism.
Nowadays, however, I look at the word itself, and it makes me uncomfortable. Feminism. It's about women. Even the word itself exclusively focuses on women. That just doesn't seem right to me. Back when I claimed most strongly to be a feminist, my definition involved people being treated equally regardless of gender (not merely supporting women).
And since I've realized more clearly that there's more to gender than just women and men, the word "feminism" seems short-sighted and exclusive. There should be a movement to make society better for people of all genders — of course, Leslie Feinberg argues that "trans liberation" is a movement for all people, women and men included.
I originally thought of "genderism," but then I realized that I've also considered that as a term for treating people differently based on gender (similar to the word "racism," but for gender). It's interesting how adding "ism" as a suffix to a word can do so many things. The use of "ism" in feminism, for example, is completely different from the use of "ism" in racism, classism, sexism, ableism, and heterosexism.
There is absolutely not gender equality in U.S. society — not in terms of formal, legal equality, and definitely not in terms of actual, practical, day-to-day equality. Furthermore, there is not gender self-determination — we, ourselves, should have the right to decide what our gender is and what that means to us. In order to change this, we need to all work together. This is not merely a problem for women; this is not merely a problem for men; this is not merely a problem for trans and gender non-conforming people: this is a problem for everyone. Feinberg wrote:
And if you do not identify as transgender or transsexual or intersexual, your life is diminished by our oppression as well. Your own choices as a man or a woman are sharply curtailed. Your individual journey to express yourself is shunted into one of two deeply carved ruts, and the social baggage you are handed is already packed.
So the defense of each individual's right to control their own body, and to explore the path of self-expression, enhances your own freedom to discover more about yourself and your potentialities. This movement will give you more room to breathe — to be yourself. To discover on a deeper level what it means to be yourself (6).
Instead of feminism, we need trans liberation. We need an inclusive movement that works for the good of all people. We need to work together. We all deserve a world in which neither our sex, nor our gender, holds us from our full potential. We all deserve a world in which we decide what will happen with our bodies. We all deserve a world in which we can both fully express ourselves and determine what it means for us to do so. We all deserve a world in which we can be free from the sexism, misogyny, transphobia, and deeply restrictive gender and sex binary systems that currently hold us down. Let us work together to make that world our world.
Feinberg, Leslie. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.


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There's a huge range in taxi prices in Hanoi. A trip from Tay Ho to Ba Dinh can cost as little as 70k and as much as 140k and still be legitimate. Companies such as G7 offer fares at the lower end of the spectrum, while a Taxi Group 7-seater could cost more than double.
Sometimes, however, we find ourselves in a taxi with a meter that's running like a fan. If you're confident that you're being swindled, follow these steps:
- Show no alarm, emotion or any signs that you're shocked about the price. Keep a poker face and don't stare at the meter.
- Tell the driver that you've changed your mind about your destination, apologise profusely and direct him to a hotel. If you can't speak Vietnamese, it pays to always carry the card of a hotel that's close to your home.
- When you arrive at the hotel, the porter will of course open the door to your taxi. Kindly ask the porter to deal with your problem. Porters are used to dealing with problems like this and invariably take your side if you're clearly being scammed.
- While the porter is assisting you, take a photo of the taxi's number plate and the driver's ID card, which should be mounted on the dashboard. This will show the driver that you intend to report him.
- Pay the taxi driver what the ride should have cost you – discovering you have a scamming taxi driver does not mean you don't have to pay anything.
- Email the photos of the offending taxi and driver to the taxi company so that they know they have a dishonest employee on their books. Companies do want to know about shonky drivers, as they stand to lose their operating licence if caught by the transport police. Reporting scams will help to eradicate dodgy drivers & we will all benefit from that.
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'Jurassic World 2' will naturally continue the story started in 2015's soft reboot of the dino-loving franchise, but it will also have a strong connection to Steven Spielberg's 1993 original, according to new director JA Bayona.
Asked by Cinema Blend the extent to which the sequel will be 'Jurassic Park 5' as well as 'Jurassic World 2', he said: "That's a good question! I think somehow it's both. It's a very good question, and what we're doing is a sequel to 'Jurassic World', but it's definitely the fifth chapter of a longer saga.
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"It's very interesting. It's always tricky, but you need to find a balance in what people expect to find, and the new stuff you're bringing to the story. And I think the story is looking for a connection between 'Jurassic World' and 'Jurassic Park' – more than what 'Jurassic World' did."
'Jurassic World' was set 22 years after the events of the original and was set in a fully-operational dinosaur theme park, which had been operating for roughly a decade before it was devastated by the escape of a new, genetically-engineered dinosaur called Indominus Rex.
The nature of what happened between the two films, and how the sequels (set on a different island) factor in as well, was never really explored. It could be assumed that corporate greed led people to creating a new park despite the obvious and evident dangers.
Asked about the plot of 'Jurassic World 2', Bayona said: "I think what this film does is, it's the second chapter of the story that started in 'Jurassic World', and it's open to a third chapter too. It's very interesting in the way that we're approaching the story, and where we are leading the story. We're leading the story to a place that the audience is not expecting, and that's always exciting when you do a sequel."
His comments follow the news that the film will start shooting in March 2017, ahead of a June 2018 release date, with Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard reprising their roles from Colin Trevorrow's enormously successful re-invigoration of the stagnant series.
When asked about the plot, and direction of the series, Trevorrow quoted the first movie, saying: "'Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?'"
Last week it was reported that Brits Toby Jones and Rafe Spall were in talks to join the cast as pre-production gets into full swing.
'Jurassic World 2' is set to be released on 8 June 2018.


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So you want to install security lighting to keep the villains away, how difficult can that be? Well, there are a few pitfalls that are best avoided. Here are some mistakes to dodge when securing your property.
1) Don't be a hazard to others
Regardless of the efforts that we put in to protect our property, life goes on for everyone else around us. A lighting installation that's directed along an access road, or situated on a bend in a road can be a deadly hazard to road users not expecting to meet a wall of floodlighting.
Keep the light within the confines of your own property and make sure that floodlights are screened from the view of anyone approaching or passing by.
2) Don't be a nuisance to others
Mis-directed lighting can find its way in through bedroom windows, annoying the people who you really need to have on your side – your neighbours. They're the ones who'll contact the police if they see or hear anything dodgy, unless they're spending all their time writing to the council to complain about your lighting.
Think about who can actually see what's going on at your property after you've headed home. A lighting installation that helps neighbours to keep an eye out for intruders is free surveillance. It's a reason for lighting from the perimeter inwards towards the building, not from the top of the building, facing outwards.
3) Avoid upwards lighting
It's unlikely that a break-in attempt will come from the sky. Not impossible, but unlikely. Light that goes above the horizontal just spills into the sky, wasting energy and exacerbating the light pollution that's blighting our night-time environment. At the very least, try to pretend that you care about astronomers and other nocturnal wildlife by not exacerbating the issue.
Good quality projectors will combine optical control with hoods and baffles to keep light within bounds. But remember to make sure that, once installed, projectors are directed in accordance with manufacturers' recommendations.
4) Work with your other security measures
Poorly placed floodlighting can actually help intruders conceal themselves from CCTV coverage and on-the-ground security teams. Try to avoid deep shadows and be conscious of how car parks and perimeter fences can become congested, creating hiding places for the bad guys.
If you're combining CCTV with a security lighting installation it's vital to make sure that your lighting specification matches the requirements of your CCTV system. This may call for more uniform, but lower, lighting levels in order to balance bright and dark areas as recorded by the cameras.
5) Don't be cheap on the hardware
There is a lot of cheap floodlighting around and you may think that you can save a lot of money by ignoring the more expensive, quality, brands. But cheap hardware will fail more often, the light output will degrade, and you'll be left with a patchy security installation at best. And guess which route your unwanted visitors will take when only half of your compound is lit?
It really is tempting to save money on the lighting specification, but it's a false economy. Make sure that you're working with a respectable, and responsible, lighting installer. And be sure to get hold of manufacturers' warranties on lighting performance and equipment quality.
6) Failures need to be put right
It is always possible that equipment can fail, so the other question concerning floodlighting you need to ask is how sensible you've been on the siting of equipment. Failed floodlights that can only be accessed by a cherry-picker (that you don't keep on site) will leave you vulnerable to security lapses. This doesn't mean that everything should be accessible from a step-ladder. It means that you need to have a strategy in place so that a failed unit can be replaced in a reasonable amount of time.
There are too many instances of security lighting failures not being picked up, and the longer it's left – the greater the risk to your property. This can be a problem in the summer months when the property may be locked up before it gets dark. Make sure that someone is checking regularly on the lighting and be clear on who's responsible for getting failures fixed.
7) Speak to the Local Authority
Finally, before you get started, have a word with the Local Authority. They have rules and regulations that you need to be on the right side of.
Local Authority planners can be really annoying, but not as annoying as the situation that you may find yourself in when the neighbours get together to bring an action against you. Assume that the LA planners are your friend and listen to what they have to say.
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Shifting paradigms in the history of classical biological control
BioControl 63 (1), 27-37
Abstract: Classical biological control using insects has led to the partial or complete control of at least 226 invasive insect and 57 invasive weed species worldwide since 1888. However, at least ten introductions of biological control agents have led to unintended negative consequences and these cases have led to a focus on risk that came to dominate the science and practice of classical biological control by the 1990s. Based upon historical developments in the field we consider that the era of focus on benefits began in 1888 and that it was supplanted by an era in which the focus was on risks during the 1990s. This paradigm shift greatly improved the safety of biological control releases but also led to a decline in the number of introductions, probably resulting in opportunity costs. We note here the development of a third paradigm: one in which the benefits and risks of biological control are clearly and explicitly balanced so that decisions can be made that maximize benefits while minimizing risks.
(The abstract is excluded from the Creative Commons licence and has been copied with permission by the publisher.)
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Database assignments for author(s): Matthew J.W. Cock
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biocontrol - natural enemies
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classical biocontrol/new introduction
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PPI (payment protection insurance) and packaged accounts are complained about than any other financial product, according to the latest data published by the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Between April and June, 43,569 people brought new PPI gripes to the Ombudsman, accounting for 53% of all new cases received over the time period. For closed cases, 57% of PPI complaints were upheld in the consumer's favour. This represents a significant fall compared to the previous year, where two-thirds of complaints were upheld.
A further 7,319 people brought packaged account complaints to the Ombudsman between April and June, representing 7% of all new cases. Almost a quarter of these complaints were upheld, nearly double the 14% that were upheld during 2015/16.
Payday loans complaints meanwhile are snowballing, according to the latest figures. In 2015/16, the Ombudsman opened 3,168 new cases regarding short-term loans, but 2,729 were opened in the three months to June alone. If these complaints stay at current levels, 244% more cases will be opened in 2016/17, compared to the previous year.
However, more self-invested personal pension (SIPP) complaints were upheld than any other product (66%), significantly higher than the 57% of upheld complaints in the previous year.
However, new cases for this financial product only totalled 328, accounting for less than 1% of new cases.
Overall complaints figures down
Overall, 81,709 new cases were brought to the Financial Ombudsman Service between April and June. If complaints continue at this rate, the Ombudsman will open 3.7% fewer cases this year.
Less than half of settled complaints were upheld in favour of the consumer during the first quarter of this year, despite the Ombudsman upholding the majority of complaints in both 2015/16 and 2014/15.
If you've got a gripe with a financial services provider, complain to the company in the first instance. If you don't get a response within eight weeks or you're not happy with the response you do get, take it to the free Financial Ombudsman Service to look into.


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Introduced on Monday, Jan.14 The 2014 Infiniti Q50 sedan
What is it? The Q50 is Infiniti's replacement for the G sedan, the Japanese luxury brand's best-selling model in the United States.
Is it real? An introduction provided by Cirque du Soleil added some Las Vegas razzle-dazzle to Infiniti's news conference in Detroit. But don't let the bright lights, smoke and more than
a few handstands fool you: the Q50 sport sedan is a very serious step for the Infiniti brand's goals of improving sales and refining its image.
What they said: Infiniti says it believes its new drive-by-wire system will eventually be an industry standard. A spokesman said the system has several fail-safe modes, along with a mechanical steering connection that engages should all three of the Q50's steering-control modules fail. Technophobes, fear not.
What they didn't say: No mention was made of the replacements for the current G coupe and convertible. They're definitely in the works, though Infiniti was only talking up the Q50 sedan here in Cobo Center.
What makes it tick? A 328-horsepower 3.7-liter V-6 gasoline-powered engine and 3.5-liter gasoline-electric hybrid model will be available. Interestingly, with its net power of 354 horsepower, the hybrid is the variant with the power output bragging rights. Both models come fitted with a 7-speed automatic transmission equipped with steering column-mounted shift paddles. Infiniti intends to offer a choice of rear or all-wheel drive with either powertrain.
How much, how soon? Look for Infiniti to announce pricing details closer to the Q50's arrival this summer, as a 2014 model. For reference, the current G sedan ranges from $38,000 to $42,000, depending on engine choice and trim level.
How's it look? Suitably aggressive, yet not too polarizing that it would scare off newcomers to the Infiniti brand. The Q50 has a more substantial look to it than the current G sedan. There are enough curves along the flanks and fenders to appease younger buyers, but Infiniti wisely avoided anything too gimmicky that would quickly date the design. The cabin also promises to provide a noticeable improvement in quality of materials used versus the outgoing G sedan.


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Recent light curve for CH Cygni
Here is my light curve for CH Cygni since the start of 2016.
The CH Cygni system contains two stars. One is a semi-regular variable showing roughly periodic brightness changes. The other is an eruptive variable which shows erratic changes. The two combine to produce a very interesting light curve.
For most of the time, the brightness variations can be followed using binoculars. However, CH Cyg did briefly fade to around mag 10.5 in 1996. It also reached mag 5.4 in the early 1980s.


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Brockport creating first solo strategic planby Shelby Toth - Executive Editor
For the first time, the Village of Brockport is creating its own comprehensive plan. For years prior, the village typically joined with the Town of Sweden to have a joint plan. However, according to village trustee Katherine Kristansen, it was time for a change.
"It was a long time coming, because we tried to go through grants, we tried to use combination comprehensive plans with the town but because the village and the town are so different, we decided we need to go on our own," Kristansen said. "We finally bit the bullet and hired a planning firm."
The group they hired to help construct the plan is Ingalls Planning, based out of Fairport. Deputy clerk-treasurer Erica Linden, who is Ingall's main representative for the project, described the comprehensive plan as a "living document," meaning it will be reviewed and revised consistently. The plan will help to guide the village for the next few years on various decisions. She also described it as necessary for the government to function in a certain way.
"I mean there are legal requirements to have [a comprehensive plan] in order to make certain changes in your law, in your code," Linden said. "It will allow us to assess zoning regulations in a way that we haven't been able to do before."
Kristansen, who described the plan as a "vision," explained that by having this plan, there will be a sense of continuity as the village government changes and shifts. By having the plan in place, she hopes that the village can continue to move in a more steady path.
Both Kristansen and Linden sit on an advisory committee for the comprehensive plan. Other members include a representative from Brockport Student Government, Daniel Jimenez, a representative from the Community Development Office of The College at Brockport and local landlords and business owners, as well as other members of the community.
Currently, Linden explained, the project is in a "data-gathering stage," where those involved are attempting to gather as much information and as many demographics as they can, including questions on how community members use the services currently provided by the village, how often college students travel into the village and how different people use the recreation and parks of the village. To gather this information, Ingall interviewed all the department heads of the village, issued a survey online and through the village newsletter and went to the college to interview students.
"The results were overwhelming that folks are satisfied with majority of their departments and seem to be happy about what it is that they are getting from there taxes here in the village," Linden said. "…Really, we were trying to understand how people access the services and assets that we have and where are the gaps, what are we missing, how can we help drive our community to be more successful and fill the needs of its residents, whether they're temporary, part-time or full-time."
While those involved cannot currently disclose the results of the survey, Linden noted that two primary values to be revealed from the data-gathering are historic preservation and walkability/rideability into the village.
So far, the process has been going well, according to Kristansen.
"A lot of good things have happened, and a lot of work has been done in the last four to five years, and we would like to keep that motion going even as the boards change because we're on a roll," Kristansen said. "I mean, we've never had it as good with the college as we do now. The village board itself is an active board whose [members] work together, and we all have our strengths and we want to see this move forward, keep going in the right direction."
Linden explained that the village is hoping for a draft of the plan to be out before June, and a completed product before college students return in late August. When the draft is finished, there will be a public meeting to discuss it, and it will be posted online and made available on other formats for people to read it.
When the actual comprehensive plan comes out, the goal is for it to be very accessible for everyone in the village.
"We're moving right along with it and it's going to be very exciting to see what the final product looks like," Kristansen said. "They have guaranteed us that it will be very usable, very user-friendly, very readable and short and to-the-point, because that's what you want with a comprehensive plan… It's not going to be just a dream."
Along with being able to assess zoning regulations there are hopes to use the plan to be able to help apply for grants, revitalize the canal front and assist with any infrastructure needs. The plan will also directly affect students in many ways, perhaps the biggest being housing.
According to Kristansen, there were many houses in the village previously unsafe for students to live in. The village has already worked in conjunction with the college to help alleviate the issue, and the plan will only aid in that area even more.
"It's huge, I mean you guys are not going away," Kristansen said. "You're staying. We want you to stay. We need to have a plan that helps everybody to have that quality of life. Everybody. And this is going to help us do it. It's going to bring us into the zoning and into codes that need to be updated."
This will be the first time the village has its own plan outside of the town. However, according to Sweden town Supervisor Kevin Johnson, there is no hard feelings between the two municipalities.
"In terms of what went into the decision, why they didn't adopt the common plan, I have no idea," Johnson said. "Frankly, it's water under the bridge. I don't much care at this point. As I understand it, with the village doing its own [plan], they feel it's appropriate to have their own, I have no problem with that."
As far as the town's comprehensive plan, they have no major urgency to update it as of now.
"The next time we update [the plan], I guess we'll have to take a look at what we do in terms of planning for the town property that's in the village…" Johnson said. "We're not currently looking at that issue, so I don't know exactly how that will turn out."
The next meeting for the Village of Brockport's comprehensive plan will be within the month, and will be a closed meeting. Meetings are held monthly, and will continue to be held until the village's first solo comprehensive plan is completed.


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ISO-100 is a protein powder produced by Dymatize. Although it is not changed enough to describe it as "revamped", the manufactured does claim to have improved the flavor.
The company's documentation makes a lot of statements that the product is clean and does not contain any banned substances. There is a story behind this. In 2013, a number of reports came out of Europe claiming that this product contained banned or controlled substances. Also, the proportion of protein and carbs were very different from the label. This caused a lot of scares at the time, and Dymatize suffered consumer backlash as a result.
However, closer examination revealed that the products which contained these substances were actually forgeries! The genuine Dymatize products were clean at the time, and are still clean. Since then, Dymatize makes a point of confirming this on their labels. They have had the product inspected and certified as clean so that you can be confident in the quality of their ingredients.
Dymatize has been a top brand for over twenty years. However, the company was bought by a conglomeration last year. The question on everyone's lips is will the high quality protein powder continue now the firm is under new management?
Dymatize claims that this product is absorbed ultra-fast in order to provide users with the quickest acting nutrition. It backs this claim with a description of the benefits of hydrolyzed protein, and describing the process used to filter the proteins from whey. Apparently the cross-flow micro-filtration process preserves more of the important elements than other methods.
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Law students Laura Taylor (Harvard), Rochelle Ellenburg (McGeorge), and Lindsay Rasmussen (Univ of Utah)
Approximately 35 women attended the WIL Breakfast Friday morning, despite the early 7:00 am hour. Special kudos to those who flew in from the East Coast the night before. Several mentioned having received a personal email invitation to the breakfast from Nan Barker, WIL Vice-Chair, alerting all of the time and place. Intangibles made the introductions perhaps the best part of the day--warmth, eagerness to learn about others' lives in the law, acceptance, relief to be able to share experiences: all were part of the breakfast ambiance. The great diversity in age, geography, time of coming to the law, current job/no job, and new babies all helped shape the congeniality in the room.
The four speakers at the breakfast also reflected a bouquet of experience and emotions: Mary Hoagland, assistant dean at BYU Law School, on professionalism and career options; Rochelle Ellenberg, third-year student at McGeorge Law School near Sacramento, on what the JRCLS has done for her and what she hopes it will do for her; Angel Zimmerman, WIL Committee member from Topeka Kansas, mother of four, seminary teacher, president of the Kansas Women Lawyers Association, on work-life balance and involvement in the non-LDS legal community; and Heather Takahashi, Los Angeles WIL leader and future LA-chapter chair, on the LA WIL activities and organization.
Jeanne Young (Sacramento, CA) and
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I'm sitting here trying to study for my exercise physiology test… let me tell you something, it's not working.
I both love and HATE this class. I want to learn all this information for a million different reasons- to apply to my clients (I am personal trainer after all!), because I want a career in the fitness/health field, because it's my major… I think you get the idea. But, this class is really really really really hard! My professor is one of the hardest. He is british and hilarious but I think he's one of those guys who is just so smart he has a hard time brining it down to our level. He's terrible at connecting everything together in class, so it basically just feels like he's talking about 10 different things and switching around between them but not connecting the dots. AHH! Normally I put effort in and get A's, this class I have to put extra effort in just to get a C! I'll be happy if I end up with a C at the end of the semester…
Well anyway, onto another crock pot pork recipe 🙂
1 lbs. pork roast
1 tbs. paprika
1/2-1 tsp. chili powder (more if you like spice)
1/2 tsp. black pepper
1/2-1 tsp. garlic salt
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. rosemary
1 head of cauliflower
2 onions
Cut up your cauliflower into big chunks (or break into the different floret's) and cut up your onion into strips or chunks.
Mix all the spices together.
Place half your cauliflower and onion in the crock pot then add your pork. Sprinkle the mixed spices over your pork and a little on the veggies. Save a tiny bit of spices!
Put the rest of the veggies in and sprinkle the remaining spice mix over top of everything.
Set crock pot to low for 6-8 hours or until pork is done. It should fall apart nicely and shred.


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I hadn't been on TheSite in quite a while but decided to have a little browse, restricting my search to those mentioning a hotel or visiting from out of town.
There were a couple of okay-looking ads, one that I decided to look up listed his messenger name rather cryptically. It's not like TheSite didn't allow you to list a messenger name – some ads listed coded phone numbers or email addresses, but anyone who used messenger generally just listed their username, so the fact that this guy was cryptic was rather intriguing.
I found his messenger profile and opened up a chat window but didn't say anything, I wasn't sure whether I wanted to say hi or not. It was mid-week and so I just left it.
I woke up the next morning to a "Hi", which had been sent late the night before. I hesitated but decided to say hi back. We started chatting and he asked for my stats. He liked what I told him about myself and we quickly established we were on the same page about many things. I learned that he was similarly unfulfilled at home, like me, and had been playing for a year or so, having had a couple of successful encounters on his trip to my hometown the previous week.
He was very open in sharing a face pic and I was taken aback by how gorgeous he was….amazing eyes, sandy hair – very much 'Hollywood' looks, I almost named him TheDoppelganger for his likeness to a couple of movie stars. I'm not afraid to admit that I found his looks a bit intimidating but he was very complimentary and flattering about my pics. He kept telling me to stop downplaying myself.
I sent him a voice clip which he responded to with a clip of his own…it was early morning, he'd just woken up and I was surprised about the deepness of his voice – not at all what I was expecting. My messenger name is French, which he pronounced expertly in his voice clip. I later learned that he'd studied French for several years – this, coupled with his ad mentioning a well-trained tongue due to another hobby of his, as well as his mutual love of words, like me, lead him to be named TheLinguist.
TheLinguist was going to be visiting my town a couple of weeks after we started chatting and we enjoyed almost daily flirty banter in the lead-up, interspersed with general conversation. In one early chat session, he jokingly pointed out that we were getting into some BFF banter territory but didn't even know each other's names. He was easy to talk to and I enjoyed his perspective on things. We spoke of other playmate encounters and I mentioned TheMaster. TheLinguist was definitely keen to compete for the top spot as my 'fave'. I enjoyed his extra attention in his pursuit of this but despite so many odds in his favour, I couldn't see him out-mastering TheMaster.