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The issue of abortion is the most troublesome social and political issue in the United States today. For many years people from different walks of life have expressed varied opinions about abortion. The two most prominent opposing armies of devoted believers (pro-choice and pro-life) feel their views are both morally and ethically right. This issue is addressed from the pulpit in many churches in the form of sermons and it is also debated in the political arena.
The pro-choice supporters see a woman's right to choose to abort a baby from their body. Furthermore, views the baby does not have individual rights within the mother's womb. The citizens of the United States never voted on or supported this pro-choice position. babies' life is the main focus of the pro-life advocates. Abortion is the wrong choice not only because it goes against what God has said, but also because it's murder and should be illegal except in instances where the mother life is endangered by the pregnancy.
Abortion is murder. From the moment of conception an embryo is formed into a person. "Scientist actually identifies a human life from the very first moment a sperm cell unites with an ovum or egg cell." Although, many pro-choice supporters believe a fetus is not a person until first or second trimester. Pro-choice people don't think of there action as murder, they consider the aborted fetus as a mass, cell or tissue. Abortion is taking one's innocence of human life, which is wrong under many circumstances. An unborn baby is meaningful, and has the potential that should not be expendable. Human life begins at the time of conception. No matter what stage of conception for a middle age person or teenager. Killing an unborn baby is no more justifiable than killing two other people. Abortion is a practice that should be illegal and should be equal up to murder.


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Every school day, the Westerville Public Library delivers books and other materials requested by students, faculty, and staff to 27 schools within the Westerville district through a service called Library Link.
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One of the staples of the upcoming baseball season is picking your season long bets. Player Prop bets are fun like who will win MVP, CY Young, Rookie of the Year or who will have the most home runs, RBI's etc. They are very hard to predict and that is why the pay outs are huge on them. For example, Yoenis Cespedes is +3300 to lead the league in home runs this season. What that means for the non degenerates out there is that if you bet $100 you would win $3,300 if Cespedes does indeed lead the league in home runs (We are Hoping). Looks tempting, but generally a sucker bet. What is much more winnable is betting on the season win totals for the individual teams. How it works is each MLB team is given a win total for the season and you can either bet that they will win more games or fewer games than the number.
If you are familiar with Mike Francessa of WFAN radio in New York every sports season he picks his over/under team win totals. He generally picks 5 or 6 teams and it was great radio when he and Chris "Maddog" Russo would go head to head. Mike Francessa is a sports radio legend and his work on WFAN is still in my opinion the best pure sports talk show that has ever existed. I grew up with Mike and will be sad to see him leave WFAN at the end of 2017. However, Mike is still on for now and he did his picks today on the radio for this upcoming MLB season.
I figure this is my last chance to try so here is my idea for Mike. I would like to challenge his picks with 5 different ones of my own. Since nothing is fun without some action and more importantly why would Mike care about this without something to gain ? Answer is, he wouldn't, so here is my proposal. If Mike Picks more winners than me I will donate $1,000 to a charity of his choice. If I pick more winners all I want is to be able to call in to his show and plug Wing Span Sports with him. Let see if we can make this happen but either way here are Mike's picks followed by mine.
Cleveland Indians OVER 92.5
San Francisco Giants OVER 88.5
Toronto Blue Jays OVER 85.5
Chicago White Sox UNDER 69.5
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim UNDER 79.5
Los Angeles Dodgers- 93.5 Wins
The Pick= UNDER
The Dodgers are the sexy pick this season to not only win the NL West but to win the World Series. I do not see either happening honestly and if they do win the NL West I do not see them running away with it which would have to happen for them to get to 94 wins. The Dodgers have won 90 plus games in the last 4 seasons with their high total being 94 wins during that span. I do not see this Dodger team being as strong as some of those other teams and they defiantly are not as deep. Depth is key to putting up gaudy win totals because every team is going to have guys get injured so you must have guys ready to fill in when someone goes down. Corey Seager is a great young player but I could see him struggling a little more often this season as the pitchers adjust to him. The rest of the lineup to me looks thin and has some age to it. The team has no speed and really not that much reliable power so they will have to rely on stringing hits together and that can be problematic when talking about trying to get your win total into the mid 90's. The real problem for the Dodgers is yes they have Kershaw, but 2-5 in their rotation does not strike fear into my heart. Julio Urias to me would have to pitch like a number 2 for this team to get to 94 wins and I do not see that happening yet as he did not even make the opening day roster. The Dodgers will be in it and may even win the NL West but I see a competitive division with the winner being in the low 90's.
Texas Rangers- 85.5 wins
The Pick= OVER
The Rangers have a great offense and very nice 1-2 punch at the top of their starting rotation with Yu Darvish and Cole Hamels. They also have a bunch of power arms in the pen that should be able to get the job done. What I love about the Rangers is they have a great mix of young talent and steady veterans. Adrian Beltre does not age and should put up another big season. Adding Mike Napoli back into the lineup is a nice addition and obviously a full season with Jonathan Lucroy will only help. Also having Sin-Soo Choo back setting the table after an injury plagued 2016 should also help the lineup. Their young guys Odor, Mazara, and hopefully a healthy Jurickson Profar all have all-star ability and will make this lineup lethal. If they get something out of Andrew Cashner and Tyson Ross to go along with Darvish, Hamels, and Perez at the top of the rotation they can challenge for the AL Crown.
New York Mets- 88.5 wins
The Pick= OVER
Did you really think I would not pick the Mets and the over ? Of course I am a fan and maybe even bias at times but this season I see no way the Mets do not win 90 plus games. I have 2 overlooked reason for this so I am going to skip over the obvious here. Everyone knows the Mets have elite pitching and a powerful lineup when intact. They need to stay healthy and again that is obvious because every team has to have their best players stay healthy to put up big win totals. So let me give you the 2 overlooked reason we should not be handing the Nationals the NL East just yet.
Without using names what would you say if I told you your favorite team was going to have these guys starting for you this season. Player A) Slashed 333/345/476 when he was called up and has a career 324 batting average in the minors. Player B) Hit 16 Home Runs and drove in 48 runs in 301 at bats last season. Player C) First 478 Major League At bats has 35 doubles 21 home runs and 68 RBI's. Player D) Has not hit much yet but has a Gold Glove to his name. You would probably feel pretty decent, I know I would. The great thing for the Mets is these players make up their bench. T.J Riveria, Wilmer Flores, Michael Conforto, and Juan Lagares (When he's healthy). The Mets have the best depth I think they have ever had and what this does is puts pressure on guys who are starting to perform which is good, and gives Terry Collins options and the ability to put each guy on the roster in the best spots to succeed. The Cubs have mastered this and versatility and depth is the hottest trend in baseball and the Mets have it.
We all know about athletes and contract years in every sport and what it generally means. They tend to perform at high levels with the impending pay-day coming in the offseason. Look at this Mets team, basically the entire team is in a walk year so motivation will not be lacking to get the job done. Jay Bruce, Curtis Grandson, Neil Walker, Jose Reyes, Rene Rivera, Lucas Duda, Asdrubal Cabrera (Team Option), Addison Reed, and Fernando Salas are all heading to free agency at the end of the year. Throw in Travis D'Arnaud who will be gone if he does not step up and probably will not get another chance to start in his MLB career. Then you have Matt Harvey and Zach Wheeler who really need to show everyone they still got it if they ever plan on a big pay-day. Bottom line is basically the entire team including Terry Collins has big financial incentives riding on this season and that should only help things.
Chicago White Sox- 69.5 Wins
The Pick= OVER
This is an interesting pick because Mike Francessa picked the White Sox to go under and I think the opposite. I like the White Sox trades as they added a surplus of young talent but more importantly for this bet they added guys who are close to Major League ready in Moncada, Lopez, and Giolito. They have a nice young core they have built and I think they will play pretty well for stretches this year and that is all you need to crack 70 wins. They have some pop in the middle of the order with Jose Abreu and Todd Frazier and when Moncada comes up which should be soon they will have a pretty formidable 1-5 with freshly signed Tim Anderson and Melky setting the table. I hope Carlos Rodon can get over his bicep issue and come back early in the season because I think he can be a dominate starter once he figures it out. Jose Quintana leads the staff and will be good but he is a trade candidate so I am hoping while he is here he pitches lights out which he is more than capable of. James Shields might be done but at least he will eat innings and Miguel Gonzalez is a proven pro whose career numbers of 44-41 W/L with a 3.80 era are very respectable. Overall this pitching staff has some high upside if the young guys can develop led by Rodon, Lopez, and Giolito. They also have an established back-end of the bullpen with Nate Jones and David Robertson and that is more than a lot of teams have. In the theme of young guys developing the new White Sox manager is Rick Renteria who was the Cubs Manager before Joe Maddon was hired. Renteria is known to work well with young players so this could be a good fit. They probably are looking to trade a few more pieces but I really like the young talent and I am betting on that fact.
Tampa Bay Rays- 78.5 Wins
The Pick= UNDER
The Rays won 68 games last year and Evan Longoria had his best season in a long time and Logan Forsythe continue to emerge as one of the games better second baseman. Forsythe was a 5 and 3.3 WAR player the last 2 years for the Rays. Forsythe is now gone to the Dodgers and Longoria is a year older and upset his buddy Forsythe was traded. The Rays lineup has some power but not enough to over come the fact only 1 guy in the starting lineup is projected to hit better than 250. They also do not have much speed so offensively this team will struggle and I think struggle badly. Their pitching staff is led by Chris Archer who had a down year last season and is looking to rebound. I think he can but will be hard pressed to find wins with this lineup backing him. They traded Matt Moore mid-season to Giants who would be their number 2 starter and will now rely on their young arms. The problem is I do not love their young guys and think they are overrated personally. The Rays have some prospects in the system but probably will be reluctant to start their MLB service time. I can see them trading guys like Archer, Colome, Miller, Souza, and maybe even Longoria. Wilson Ramos would have helped but he is already guaranteed to miss the first 2 months of the season as he recovers from a torn ACL. I think at this point once he comes back and proves to be healthy he will be immediately traded. At the end of the day the Rays are in a tough division, have below average talent, will be looking to shed whatever talent they do have, and do not have much help on the way for this season at least. I expect another sub 70 win campaign in Tampa Bay.


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Nationality dominates in discussions of Kazuo Ishiguro. Moving to Britain at the age of six, he was brought up in a Japanese speaking household, at once an outsider in his adopted home but also cut off from his birth country.
Indeed, Ishiguro's imaginative vision of Japan forms the setting of his early works, the haunting A Pale View of Hills (1982) and An Artist of the Floating World (1986). Etsuko, the protagonist of A Pale View of Hills, is, like Ishiguro, a Japanese immigrant to Britain, who retreats into her memories of her homeland after her daughter Keiko commits suicide. Place looms large in the novel: the very absence of Etsuko's adopted home from most of the novel is significant, Ishiguro implying that it is Keiko's failure to place down roots in Britain that ultimately leads to her death. By the close, Etsuko resignedly admits, 'I knew all along. I knew all along she wouldn't be happy over here.'
Yet while A Pale View of Hills clearly borrows its setting from Ishiguro's own life, in other ways it appears to bear little resemblance to his own experiences as an immigrant. Ishiguro did not return to Japan, after all, for nearly thirty years after he left, and has persistently insisted that stylistically his work owes little debt to Japanese literature. In fact, there are striking comparisons to be drawn between Ishiguro's own work and those of Japanese writers, both contemporary and past, yet he can hardly be regarded as a part of the Japanese literary canon. Indeed, were Ishiguro to write under a pseudonym, one could easily be forgiven for thinking that this is the writer who has lived their entire life in Britain.
Rather than seeing outsider status as a purely external imposition, Ishiguro explores marginalised 'otherness' through a preoccupation with introspection, memory, and its (lack of) reliability.
This is highlighted by Ishiguro's focus on social turning points. Both A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World are set in the immediate post-war era of Japan, a time of rapid social and economic change. In The Remains of the Day (1989), both Stevens' remembered past, interwar Britain, and his present, the late 1950s, can be considered moments of acute social transformation. While Stevens acknowledges changes in his present time, mourning declining standards and his reduced staff at Darlington Hall, the 1930s in his memory are frozen in time. Nostalgia subtly reduces it to a dreamlike caricature of antiquated gentlemen influencing politics from country houses, a world that is in fact vanishing before Stevens' own eyes. Similarly, in Ishiguro's latest work, The Buried Giant (2015), the protagonists are an elderly couple whose collective amnesia, fondly titled 'the mist', blinds them to most details of their past.
Marginalisation as psychological phenomena is further explored through the passivity of many of Ishiguro's protagonists. In A Pale View of Hills, Etsuko's sense of guilt and responsibility for the death of her daughter is transmitted to another mother, whose daughter appears to echo Keiko. Whereas Stevens in The Remains of the Day has – at times comically – an exaggerated sense of his own importance as a butler, his position is nevertheless one of an unknowing performer, mistaking himself for an actor yet passively accepting his role. Indeed, the horror of Never Let Me Go (2005) comes from Kathy's unquestioning acceptance of her role as an organ donor. Here there is a striking comparison with Haruki Murakami's works, the protagonists of which, like Ishiguro's, often appear more as observers than agents; it links also to classical Japanese poetry's emphasis on acceptance that our fates are out of our hands.
What makes this self-marginalisation all the more complex in Ishiguro's work is the persistency with which characters return to the topic of their occupation. Both Kathy and Stevens are driven by a deep conviction that what they do matters, yet as drivers of plot they appear to do almost nothing. Meanwhile the protagonist of An Artist of the Floating World, Masuji Ono, an aged painter struggles to accept responsibility for his past actions during the Second World War.
What Ishiguro appears to suggest, therefore, is that we subconsciously marginalise ourselves in the account of our own lives. But why? Stevens' failure to confront the political extremism of his master, Lord Darlington, is to his mind justified by his status as a servant. Similarly, Kathy comes to terms with her fate by emphasising the importance of her work as a donor, which in reality reduces her humanity. Both characters belong to an underclass yet what is most striking is the way in which they subconsciously reinforce that status by attempting to dignify it. However Ishiguro does not close his novels on irredeemably bleak notes. The end of The Remains of the Day is intentionally ambiguous: Stevens announces his intention to surprise his new master, though whether this represents an attempt to escape the confines of his social status, or just another attempt to adjust to the changing expectations of his new master, is left for the reader to decide.
Characters make outsiders of themselves. This is not because they attempt to impersonally scrutinise their own lives, but rather because the very impossibility of interrogating one's past so dispassionately leads us to subconsciously rewrite our own memories. Paradoxically, introspection and memory to not bring great knowledge of oneself, but rather turn ourselves into strangers. Ishiguro, by making transformation a powerful backdrop, suggests that the antidote is to embrace the impermanence of our worlds – even if this is usually ignored by his protagonists.
Interestingly, temporariness forms the central theme of The Tale of the Heike, one of the greatest classics of fourteenth-century Japanese literature. Yet Ishiguro has a very timely point to make: that we must acknowledge change.
His own experience as an immigrant, somewhat caught in a cultural limbo, is best seen as a starting point for his discussions of marginalisation and 'otherness'. Just like the young Ishiguro, the characters in his early works are bound in the world of an imagined Japan, which cuts them off from the here and now. With this in mind, the quintessentially British Stevens' nostalgia for the peak of his career at Darlington Hall, and Kathy's embellished memories of an idyllic childhood at an English boarding school, are potent reminders: we ourselves can be subconsciously complicit in creating a psychological outsider status.


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Tom Brady Eats His First Strawberry Ever, Chugs a Beer on 'The Late Show'
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is known for his restrictive diet. He doesn't eat processed foods, sugar, or fruit, and he has legitimately never even had a sip of coffee. There's also his extreme hydration routine — he reportedly drinks over 37 glasses of water each day, enough to hydrate a healthy person for five days. But on March 12, Stephen Colbert brought out the big guns and got the football star to bend the rules a little.
"My producer tells me that you said to him, 'I hate strawberries,'" The Late Show host said as he unveiled a bowl of red fruit. Brady immediately turned his nose away and said, "Aw man. I hate strawberries."
But the funny thing is Brady has never had a strawberry in his life. That's what he told New York magazine in 2016, anyway. After being challenged about the fact check, he admitted, "I hate the smell of strawberries." But Colbert challenged him to eat one nonetheless.
Surprisingly, the five-time Super Bowl winner, who was on the show to promote his new book The TB12 Method, went right in and took a big chomp. Judging by the look on his face, he expected to hate it and may have even been anticipating having to spit it out. But then he turned back to the audience and says, "Not that bad."
To celebrate, Colbert presented Brady with another luxury that he rarely indulges in: beer. The California native grinned from ear to ear and declared, "I was [a] pretty good beer chugger back in the day." He tossed the brew down his throat, finishing it in less than three seconds.
Although Brady seemed to thoroughly enjoy chugging that beer like a frat boy on spring break, he and wife Gisele Bündchen enjoy their healthy diet of organic vegetables, whole grains, and grass-fed meats. The Bradys are definitely not normal — but to be fair, lots of other celebrities have some sorta weird diet habits, too.


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Two Dutch soldiers have been killed, and another seriously wounded, following a training accident, as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission, in Mali.
Two Dutch soldiers were killed and another seriously injured during a training exercise in Mali on Wednesday afternoon, the latest casualties in a mission that has become the most deadly place for United Nations peacekeepers to serve.
More than 11,000 soldiers are serving in the Mali mission, which aims to support the Bamako government in its fight against Islamist militants in northern Mali, who have staged assaults in the capital, as well as in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.
Corporal Kevin Roggeveld, 29, and sergeant Henry Hoving, 24, were killed by an exploding mortar shortly after 11:30 GMT, the acting head of the Dutch armed forces told a news conference. At least 103 peaeckeepers have died since the start of the mission in April 2013.
"A terrible accident took place in Mali where our soldiers are participating in the UN peacekeeping mission," vice-admiral Rob Bauer told reporters. A 23-year-old soldier was operated on in a field hospital before being evacuated.
Some 450 Dutch soldiers are participating in the mission to the West African country, which is meant to help implement a peace deal signed last year between Mali's government and separatist groups.
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Asia cities dominate, Oz cities move up latest Mercer cost ranking
Asian cities account for half of the ten most expensive cities in the world for expats, according to Mercer's latest cost of living survey, while four of Australia's major cities moved between 17 and 31 places higher up the Mercer ranking than they stood at a year ago.
Mumbai was another big mover, edging up 25 places to 57th place, fueled by the Indian city's booming economy, according to Mercer.
The most expensive city in the world on this year's list is Luanda, the capital of Angola, which was in second place last year; this year it displaced Hong Kong, which slid into second place. Tokyo was third, followed by Zurich, Singapore, and Seoul. (See chart, below.)
Of the Australian cities, Adelaide moved up the list the most, 31 places, to 77th place from 102nd; it was followed in terms of movement up the ranks by Canberra, up 27 places, to 71st; Melborne, up 25 places, to 46th; and Sydney, up 17 places, to 25th.
Mercer, a New York City-based subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan, conducted its survey in March. It covers 209 cities around the world, and uses as its base point of comparison the city of New York, which this year was ranked 9th, up from 11th last year. The Mercer researchers look at the cost of more than 200 good and services expats normally fork out for, including housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment.
In a statement accompanying the results, Mercer noted that the strengthening of the Australian dollar had contributed to the rise in the Australian cities' rankings.
Likewise, Mercer principal Nathalie Constantin-Métral, who is responsibile for compiling the annual survey, said the strengthening of the Japanese yen over the past year, along with the high costs of expatriate consumer goods and a dynamic housing market in Japan, had helped to push Japanese cities up in the ranking.
"However, the majority of Chinese cities fell in the ranking, due to the weakening of the Chinese yuan against the US dollar," she added.
The UK's major cities fell in the ranking, compared with last year, a a result of the EU referendum, which has weakened the country's currency, Kate Fitzpatrick, global mobility practice leader at Mercer for the UK and Ireland, said.
"Aberdeen saw the second biggest drop in the overall global rankings, only behind Cairo, due to a significant softening in the housing market as a result of the slow-down in the energy sector.
"However, London did not drop as far as [might have been] expected, with steep prices keeping London as one of the most expensive cities for expatriates worldwide.
"The capital's rental costs remain at the higher end globally, and have remained stable, or increased slightly over the last year, as construction cannot keep up with demand."
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Welcome to BookingLive v3.10
Welcome to BookingLive v3.10. This release has been several months in the making and contains well over 100 development items, making it one of our largest ever updates! There are a few improvements which virtually all our customers will notice right away, but the vast majority of the changes in this version have come from a real, concerted push from everyone at BookingLive to fix as many reported issues as possible to produce one of our most stable versions ever.
The main improvements in this version are all focused around the final part of the booking journey. We've introduced new ideas, and also taken a step back, based on your feedback.
- Membership discounts based on participants
- New confirmation page after billing page to final discounts
- Ability to enter a Customer Reference on the Billing Page
- Switch back to actual email attachments
- .ics file support
- Many, many fixes and other improvements
In a previous release, we rebuilt our Memberships module to allow a person to buy multiple memberships, for themselves and others. With v3.10, BookingLive will now allow you to calculate membership based discounts based on who the participants are. The typical example here is a kids club type of environment where one parent might be booking their children onto various events, and each child has a different membership entitling them to different prices. In previous versions of BookingLive, this simply wasn't possible without making several separate bookings. With v3.10 we have separated out the payments section of the booking process. This allows us to make further calculations based on who is attending each event. (more on this next).
An additional Summary screen has now been added to the end of the booking Journey (before payment is made). Once the user has put in all their purchaser and participant details and clicks to continue, they will now see a final 'Summary' screen where they can review the details they have put in and manage their payment. As mentioned above this additional step has allowed us to introduce improved Pricing Scheme support for memberships but it will also mean we can, potentially, introduce further discount options in the future.
With these new changes to membership pricing, it quickly became a requirement that a customer should be able to add someone as a participant and get their correct pricing, even if they were not related. Due to GDPR however, there are a number of limitations to what we can do here. As such, with this version, it is now possible for a Customer to enter in the Customer Reference Number of another individual on the Billing Page and the system will pull through their details (without revealing them) and charge them the correct price if a membership price exists for them. To use a similar example to the previous one, in a kids club environment a parent may be booking their own child and a friends child onto events. Whilst their own child will most likely be in the system as a 'relating member' their friend's child would not be. With this new option, the user can simply enter in their reference number and the system will do the rest. This could include populating important health and safety information about this person which the purchaser may not know themselves.
Following feedback from our customers, we have acknowledged that we made a step in the wrong direction and have brought back actual email attachments. In the past, we moved to use links in BookingLive system emails to improve the deliverability of them. However, over the past couple of years, email systems have become more accepting of email attachments and their deliverability is almost no longer an issue. As such, we have now reverted back to sending out actual attachments in our emails rather than generated links.
You should notice this as soon as you upgrade to v3.10. Your customers will no longer have to click on the links in your emails or log in to receive attached PDF files or Vouchers, for example.
Combined with the above email attachments update. BookingLive will now also allow you to automatically include a .ics file with your Order Confirmation email. This will mean that any of your customers using a modern email service like Outlook or Gmail will receive an invite for their events which they can go directly into their calendar.
- Grouping the Product Summary by Product is now possible in specific circumstances
- Changes to Deposit Calculations so that they apply only for specified products.
- Added the ability to delete data older than x amount of time.
- Membership discounts based on the Participant
- Entering customer ref on Billing Page to load a Participant's details
- Added Accounting Codes to the Payments Report
- You can now manage 301 redirects for your website through the admin system
- Added support for Account ID in Global IRIS Payment Gateway
- JSON feed now supports pricing schemes
- Product Pricing Expandable option on pricing schemes
- Switch to actual email attachments
- .ics file update
- Display last updated time on the dashboard
- The Confirmation screen now only shows fields that are in the templates
- Ability to filter Search Widget results by product group
- "Show on Location Manager" options on Products and Resources
- Moved Help links within Enterprise to redirect to Freshdesk
- Added Event Code to the ProductAvailability Feed
- Fixed issue with the Events - Send Message Group Op - Edit window not styled correctly
- Fixed an issue where the GDPR consent checkbox showed twice on a relating member.
- Fixed an issue where deleting a Booking Timeline doesn't delete the Timeline event
- Fixed issues with the Merge Customer feature not working correctly
- Fixed issue with attaching room layouts to product availability
- Fixed issue with the PDF Content field - adding an image didn't work
- Fixed issue where the help icon wasn't appearing on the type UploadDocuments field
- Fixed issues with the default merge tags on the feedback request email not working
- Corrected a problem when forgetting to check the Data Protection field clears the whole booking form
- Fixed an issue stopping an admin user from adding multiple physical item products to existing orders
- Fixed issue when two products with confirmation message attachments are bought, only one attachment is sent.
- Fixed some minor issues with Order statuses
- Fixed an issue where a black line showed at the top of PDF attachments
- Fixed a styling issue with the Display Anything widget
- FIxed an issue where a custom Purchaser field, when updated, was not updating the linked "I'm attending" participant
- Fixed an issue with the JSON feed product availability not returning proper information about template event products
- Fixed an issue where editing Product availability does not respect the event pre and post time
- Fixed issue where a "There are no items that can be paid for with child care vouchers" message showed incorrectly
- Fixed styling issue on Feedbacks and Documents pages in the MyAccount
- Fixed issue with Memberships not expiring when the end date has past
- Fixed an issue when deleting events using Group Action that may cause an endless loop if there are orders.
- Fixed an issue when call products method in JSON feed with logged used to return error 500
- Fixed an issue where an admin could not change the language for "Participant 1" in the upsell
- Fixed issues with the log-in and password reset screens so you would be redirected to where you were trying to get to, if successful.
- Fixed an issue with paying by invoice as an organisation.
- Fixed issues when clicking in the "my organisation" section in the MyAccount
- Fixed an issue when cancelling a Membership still keeps the Membership Group
- Fixed an issue whereby orders with multiple attendees would show attendee information to all participants
- Fixed an issue related to cancelling orders in a subsite from the admin system
- Fixed an issue with Mandatory Resource Upsells not working
- Fixed an issue where Membership renewals took today's date not the end of the last membership as the 'start date'.
- Fixed an issue where the Start Booking screen hid Availability Products if "Resource Always Available" is in use.
- Fixed an issue where the Volume report did not support Membership type
- Fixed an issue where documents that customers had uploaded couldn't be downloaded in Internet Explorer.
- Updated the default permissions for the Staff Group
- Fixed styling issue where a bulleted list from underneath the breadcrumb was showing on Login screens.
- Fixed an issue where there was no possibility to create events series as getting "invalid resource" for all the events
- Fixed an issue with the selection on calendar view being ignored if the quantity was changed
- Fixed an issue with the Dashboard graphs showing duplicated dates
- Fixed an issue with the OpenID Connect provider not working when User details endpoint is being used
- Fixed an issue where Publish/Unpublish does not work for the template product
- Fixed an issue with the Feedback Report Export not exporting all columns
- Fixed an issue with the MyAccount Forget Me request sitting on "Please Wait..."
- Fixed an issue with the Sign Up booking page Continue button stops working after you try to enter another email address
- Fixed an issue where removing a buffer time on the availability product didn't seem to change on the front end
- Fixed an issue with the date field on the Admin Booking - More Options was incorrect
- Fixed an issue where vouchers where being created with the expiry date matching the issue date
- Fixed an issue when editing an Availability Product Order Item did not recalculate the amount due
- Fixed an error message shown when deleting an item from an order
- Fixed an Incorrect error message showing on availability product when a booking adjusts at the end of the day


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Student nurses extend home health services to rural HoosiersFor more than four decades, Southern Indiana Health Care (SICHC) has provided high-quality, community-based healthcare to families in Southern Indiana. SICHC, the Center for Rural Engagement's Sustaining Hoosier Communities program, and IU SON, Bloomington have teamed up to conduct home visits for patients with chronic diabetes this fall and spring.
As part of their clinical experience, students in Assistant Professor Greg Carter's classes are helping patients with diabetes test their A1C values, learn how to improve their health, and evaluate the safety of their homes. Dr. Carter's students are also assessing the availability of health services in Orange County that would benefit their patients.
"Together, SICHC, the Center for Rural Engagement, and Dr. Carter's School of Nursing students are not only providing patient-centered care to individuals with diabetes, they are also studying how to improve the health services system in the county," says Kyla Cox Deckard, Director of Communications for the Center for Rural Engagement.
Congratulations, Dr. Carter and students, on your partnership with SICHC. We look forward to hearing more about your efforts on behalf of Orange County families and your recommendations for improving families' access to quality patient care.


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Oh my god, how exciting! Louise Goldin IS doing a footwear collaboration with Topshop AND it will be in stores from Feb 5th!
There are two designs; the first is studded on the toe with diamante around the heel in black on black or cream and gold. The second design is reversed; studded heel and diamante toe and is available in rose with crystal.
Louise says "The pastel colours and stones represent opulence and glamour; the studs give the shoe a very 'cool', tough edge."
The shoes cost £150 and will be available at Oxford Circus, Manchester Arndale, Liverpool, Selfridges and TOPSHOP.COM


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Sheep by Philip Armstrong
Sheep Philip Armstrong ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 208
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
The majority of sheep are white, with an 81.836% chance of spawning. The light gray, dark gray, and black sheep have a 5% chance of spawning. Information for kids about sheep, lamb meat, and wool. Sheep is an unofficial firmware for Mutable Instruments' Tides which implements wavetable synthesis. The Soay sheep is a breed of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) descended from a population of feral sheep on the 250-acre (100 ha) island of Soay in the St. Sheep are an important part of the economy of North Africa, Europe, and West Asia even today. Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. About Sheep 201 and its author; Getting Started Why do you want to raise sheep ? Exciting shaun the sheep games Use your memory skills to pick which barrels those pesky sheep are hiding under! 10000 sheep drawn by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. They were much more important long ago. National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center, a Wildlife Experience for Everyone! A sheep found in the wild in Australia had to undergo emergency shearing — 89 pounds, 3 ounces of wool was cut away. Chris the sheep has broken world records after having 40.45kg of fleece trimmed in potentially life-saving surgery on Thursday.


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Adding last few images from the final results.
The day has finally arrived. We are done! With blood ,sweat and NO tears we made it. Thanks CM. We are looking forward to next year.
Some specials buttons added. On and off for power and lights. We have added some more lights in specific spots. Cable management is almost done. Then its on to adding the hardware. We are close to finish . Its been a fun journey and we have learned alot. We appreciate this oppertunatie that we had. Its been a great ride.
So we have attached some more shine. And almost done with the colour. Looking better by the minute.
Purposely posting thos blurred one. Dont want to give everything away. Excitement is rising! Everything looks great.
Continue. "The VIPER guys"
So we are all getting closer to the end and we are rushing to get it finished. We had a bit of a delay. But managed to continue. So far we had to take everything apart after we have fitted the parts together. Sad story. But we are pleased to see the results. Its been a tight period for us only having so mich free time on our hands. But we have finally come to the closing part. Not completly there yet. But close. So close.
Step by step we are getting closer. With oir mod looking better and better as we step closer to the end. Still alot to do. We still need to add mountings for the motherboard and all the rest. A few comppnents will be hiddin with enough airflow added. Then we wil get to adding the components. But first, some colour would do the trick. And finishing off the whole mod.
Some more progress from the viper mod. We are seriously excited.
So we are one step closer to the end. With still a few more things to do. We have assembled all the parts to where they need to be. Just a few more cuts and mountings to do and we are done.
A small cardboard prototype and drawings for us to get the image.
With a tight schedule we are showing some progress. Not everyone has all the time in the world. But we are getting there slowly but surely. We gatherd as much material as possible we could get our hands on.
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Francois van der Merwe replied to Modding Team's topic in Case Mod World Series 2017I need to know how you determine Tower and Scratch. I am using a old CM case, but im changing the whole setup. Only using few parts from old case. Would it be scratch build?
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Francois van der Merwe posted a topic in Scratch BuildWe are a team of two guys from South Africa trying this for the first time. We have a wide range of ideas and putting them to use. For now we are limited on what to use. But we are making the best of what we have.


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Location: Port Geographe, WA.
Builder: ProLiving
Photography: Ange Wall
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If you want to create a home with a style that transcends fashion and also complements its natural surroundings, the devil is in the details. And one big detail is the materials you use.
In Western Australia's stunning Port Geographe sits a house where careful attention has been paid to striking the often-precarious balance of a home with architectural cachet that also makes sense within its environment.
WA builder ProLiving crafted this modern home using a clever collection of materials, from various claddings to polished concrete and glass. But to give the house a warmth and texture that would anchor its contemporary aesthetic, ProLiving designer Kelly Price chose to use Austral Bricks' San Selmo Reclaimed range. The location has "views of the Port Geographe Marina, and the Reclaimed brick – with a variation of neutral and earthy tones – ties the house back to the natural surroundings of the sand, beach and water", says Price.
A kiln-fired clay brick made in Italy, the San Selmo Reclaimed range has a naturally rustic finish that brings a distinctly tactile element to projects. Price says that when designing this stand-out home, she was looking to use a brick that "wasn't too dramatic, but stylish enough to make a real impact". After seeing the San Selmo brick, she immediately knew it was perfect for the Geographe Bay location.
Using the brick to establish an eye-catching street frontage, the effect extends deep into the house, creating a visually impressive entryway threshold and providing a counterbalance to the sleek polished concrete floor. "The San Selmo bricks bring the wow factor with major street appeal," says Price. "It instantly draws your attention to the home."
With contrasting colours, cladding and textures on the home's frontage, the San Selmo brick unifies these elements and lends softness to the overall look – ultimately creating an inviting warmth, while still maintaining a covetable contemporary edge.
With the home's proximity to Geographe Bay Marina, the client wanted to echo the area's nautical ties in a modern aesthetic without labouring over the theme. A mixture of claddings and the gently worn look of the bricks give a subtle nod to life lived by the bay.
While ProLiving used a variety of tools from their design kit to fulfil the brief, Price says it's the San Selmo brick the proud owners of the home have fallen in love with. "They told us their favourite feature of the home is the brick. Everyone that comes through their house comments on how beautiful the feature bricks are."
While the Port Geographe house is a contemporary expression that uses the bricks to add depth of character, the soft palette of the San Selmo Reclaimed range is also suited to more traditional styles. Working well as a unifying or stand-out component in a build, the brick almost invites you to run your hand over its rough-hewn texture and effortlessly brings a next-level element to a new home.
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With 2016 Olympic floor finalist Wang Yan of China dropping out of the race due to a sore ankle, the doors opened up for several other competitors to take the gold on floor in Melbourne.
It was hometown hero Emily Little who ended up taking advantage of this, breaking up the Chinese dominance that saw Wang and teammate Liu Tingting take the first three golds when she posted the top score on floor to win her third medal of the meet.
In the first final of the day, beam, Liu showed an Olympic-caliber routine that included a punch front pike mount with a little bobble, front handspring to front tuck with a step, switch ring to back handspring, split leap to side aerial, front walkover to Yang Bo to Korbut, front aerial to stag jump, and a double tuck, stuck cold. Aside from the early bobbles, this was a brilliant routine, earning a 14.766 to defeat the reigning Olympic champion by almost three tenths.
Sanne Wevers had a fabulous routine of her own, improving on her qualifications routine to match Liu's difficulty, though she lost out on gold due to a slightly lower execution score.
The Dutch Olympic gold medalist actually was pretty perfect for the most part, including on her back handspring mount, wolf jump full to full-twisting back handspring, double L turn, side aerial to side aerial, and gorgeous triple pirouette. Her famous turn series — the L turn to full spin to double spin to split leap to straight jump full — was almost flawless, but she ended up having a big wobble on the final skill, putting a damper on what could've been a gold-winning routine. She saved the skill and then brought her Steingruber dismount back, hopping on the landing, to get a 14.5.
Little ended up winning the bronze with a great set that included a punch front mount, punch front with a slight wobble, solid bhs loso, a few clean singular elements, and then a double pike with a big step back for a 13.233. Her difficulty in comparison to the top two was pretty low, because she hasn't yet taken advantage of some of the new code's bonuses and connection values, but she went up and did her job, and it was more than enough to get on the podium.
China's Luo Huan was hoping to challenge for a medal, but had many bobbles throughout her routine, including on her roundoff layout, full turn, and front aerial, missing the connection to her sissone to Onodi…which she also wobbled on. Even after all that, she was still in the running for bronze, but then landed her double pike back a little too far on her heels, causing her to flip onto her back to count a fall and only earn a 12.866.
The remainder of routines also had falls, including fifth-place Emma Nedov of Australia on her bhs bhs layout, sixth-place Tan Ing Yueh of Malaysia on her side aerial to loso (though her tour jeté half was lovely and she also had a beautiful double spin and stuck gainer layout), seventh-place Estella Matthewson of New Zealand on her bhs loso, and eighth place Ang Tracie of Malaysia on her side aerial to loso (and just like her teammate, she also had a great double spin and a generally good command of beam artistry and presentation).
On floor, Little wasn't giving up her gold for anything, coming out on fire to earn a 13.4 for her beautiful stuck double layout, tucked full-in with a hop, front tuck through to double tuck with a bounce back, and double pike with a hop. Yes, the landings were a little bouncy first pass aside, but it was a stellar routine and you could see on her face how much heart and soul she put into that routine.
Her teammate Georgia Godwin surprised for the silver after placing sixth in qualifications, showing a double layout with a small hop, a slightly cowboyed double tuck, also with a hop, great Memmel turn to full spin, and a double pike to finish, landed a bit low with a hop to earn a 12.8.
In third was Liu, who seemed a little tired in this routine after giving her all on bars and beam. She did have a solid triple full to punch front tuck, but then lost gas on her 2½ and sat it before finishing her routine with a double tuck, taking just a small step there. Despite the fall, she still managed a 12.733, winning the bronze medal for her third prize of the meet.
I was hoping Ang would medal here, though her difficulty was a little too low to allow her to take advantage of Liu's fall, and she ended up in fourth with a 12.466. Just like beam, Ang's presentation on floor was top-notch, and I don't think her smile left her face once throughout her energetic and fun routine. She also gets a nod for her dance elements, which were exact and precise (especially on her Popa), and she also threw in a few unique combos, like a full L hop turn to switch side. Her tumbling was pretty basic, with a front full, double pike, and double tuck with a stumble forward, but I really enjoyed this routine and hope to see her at more world cups in the future.
Her teammate, Tan Ing, was fifth with a 12.0, hitting her double tuck, double full with a couple of steps, lovely triple turn, and front full with a hop, and not far behind were the kiwi girls, Matthewson and Isabella Brett, both still 15 and just excited to be there. Matthewson earned an 11.833 for her hit routine, while Brett stumbled her 2½ out of bounds and put her hands down to earn a 10.8.
As for Wang, it didn't look like she was seriously injured, but she was icing her ankle after warm-ups, and likely withdrew from the final to stay healthy for the rest of the season. The vault gold medalist is set to compete at the next two world cups in Baku and Doha, so we hope a little rest was all she needed and that she's able to come back strong to take home more gold.
All results from the competition are available here, and we'll have a full men's recap coming up tomorrow! Next up in the world cup apparatus series is Baku in two weeks, while the all-around world cup series kicks off this weekend in Newark, New Jersey with the American Cup.
Article by Lauren Hopkins


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China ends US reign as 'Global Sports Nation' as Tokyo confirms Cities dominance
By Tariq Saleh
China is the leading sports hosting nation in the world, ending USA's three-year reign, while Tokyo, Japan maintains its place as the dominant sports city, according to the latest in-depth research from Sportcal.
China accumulated a total score of 40,709 in the Global Sports Impact Nations Index 2019 to be crowned the 'Global Sports Nations', having hosted or secured to host no fewer than 43 major sports events, second only to USA which registered 49 events in total.
Among those events, China will host the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as the 2022 Asian Games and 2021 Summer Universiade.
Chengdu was recently named host of table tennis' ITTF World Championships team event in 2022, and the same city is expected to be named as the host of the 2025 World Games next week.
Events taking place in 2026 were in play for the first time, including the 2026 Fifa World Cup, which scored for co-hosts USA, Canada and Mexico.
However, this was not enough for USA to retain top spot due to China securing several multi-sport games and world championships over the last 12 months.
With the Index spanning a 14-year period from 2013-2026, the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics in Los Angeles was not taken into account.
Japan climbed two places to third, with the country set to host this year's Rugby World Cup and the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020. The top five was rounded off by the UK and Russia, which fell to fourth and fifth, respectively.
Meanwhile, Tokyo retained and strengthened its title as 'Global Sports City', opening up a significant gap at the top of Sportcal's GSI Cities Index 2019, with the RWC and Olympics on the horizon.
With a total of 19,867 points and 13 events, Tokyo now holds a near-4,000 point lead on second place Paris, one of the venues for soccer's Fifa Women's World Cup this year and host of the 2024 Olympics, which climbs two positions.
Budapest made the biggest jump in the top five, climbing four places to claim third. The Hungarian city also has the largest number of events to its name (16), recently hosting the 2019 ITTF World Championships, with the inaugural World Urban Games to follow suit later this year.
It was recently announced that the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's three annual 'Grand Tours', will next year start in Hungary, with its capital city hosting the official start, while in 2023 Budapest will stage athletics' showpiece IAAF World Championships.
Rio de Janeiro continues to fall down the Index having failed to secure any future scoring events other than the Pan-American Masters Games in 2020. Doha, Qatar holds fifth position after being awarded judo's IJF World Championships in 2023, the year after the city will host matches at the Fifa World Cup 2022.
London moves out of the top five, falling four places to sixth.
Sportcal's data-driven GSI Nations Index analysed 730 world championships and multisport games in 83 sports for 2019. Using a proprietary methodology developed by the GSI Project, core event data was analysed in order to produce a GSI Event Rating for each event.
The GSI Event Rating is then weighted and attributed to host cities, nations and continents across a 14-year time period, creating the sports industry's original and most comprehensive ranking of sports host destinations worldwide.To read more on Sportcal's GSI Nations Index 2019 click HERE.
To read more on Sportcal's GSI Cities Index 2019 click HERE.


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Do you wish you could shop for furniture in a quiet boutique setting where the choices are abundant and the staff is knowledgeable? You can – when you visit The Studio at Janet Brown Interiors – just a few doors down from our main shop in Cary Court. The studio offers personalized, accessible interior design services. Stop in to pick out a chair, make plans for a room, or discuss changes for your entire house. No appointment necessary. We are here to answer your questions and make you feel right at home. We offer so many lines, including the furniture of Hickory Chair from Hickory, North Carolina. Take a look at some of the company's pieces . . .
Post by Kathleen Sams Flippen for Janet Brown Interiors.


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Economic Development News
City of Brockville Receives Two Economic Developers Council of Ontario Awards of Excellence
Posted Feb-09-2018
The City of Brockville accepted two awards on February 7th at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Centre in Toronto for their work on Canada's First Railway Tunnel Revitalization Project. The awards ceremony, held by the Economic Developers Council of Ontario (EDCO) following their annual conference, recognize excellence in the field of Economic Development with awards for Promotion, Collaboration and Partnership, Planning and Building Initiatives, and Individual Leadership. The program is built to allow communities to have their economic development initiatives judged by industry leaders against their peers in communities of similar size.
The City of Brockville received EDCO Awards of Excellence for Local Collaboration and for Physical Infrastructure & Redevelopment Initiatives in the 10,000-50,000 population sub-category.
Award submissions were judged on the effects of the product on intended outcomes, innovation, originality, cost-effectiveness, demonstrated economic benefit to the community, creativity in executing the project, level of collaboration and partnership, and impact of the product on the community in generating jobs, spin-offs, and community pride. Of over 100 submissions, Brockville took home two of the award wins, and was nominated alongside three other winning projects for the Lieutenant-Governors' Best of Show Award for outstanding effort in economic development.
The Brockville Railway Tunnel is scheduled to reopen on March 31st for the 2018 season.
For more information, please contact:
Rob Nolan, Director of Economic Development
City of Brockville
(613) 342-8772 x4445
Click here to contact the Economic Development Office at the City of Brockville
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By: Mireya Oidor Pachón
Green Keeper: https://www.greenkeeperdecolombia.com/
Avocado is a climacteric fruit very sensitive to the ethylene (ripe hormone produced naturally by the fruit; it is a gas and it is stored in the post-harvest areas). Exposure to low levels of ethylene during the avocado postharvest life accelerates the riping and cold damage at the usual refrigeration temperatures and increases the susceptibility to decay (terminal rot, anthracnose) [1,2]. It has been reported that the ethylene acts as chemical signal to stimulate the germination of the spores of the fungus Colletotrichum gloesporioides, which causes anthracnose [3].
The simplest way and Price- effective of removing the ethylene during the transportation and distribution from the avocado is by using ethylene absorbent of potassium permanganate. They exist many commercial brands in the market that had being homologated for the ecological agriculture/organic according to the European and American normative (EC 834/2007 y NOP).
It had being demonstrated that the use of a set of controlled atmosphere and ethylene absorbent is the best way to minimize the cold damages and extend the commercial life of the avocado [2,4] without compromising quality. The use of ethylene absorbents don´t harms the final process of riping [2] and contributes to maintain the nutritional quality of the avocado because it delay the oxidative degradation of the polyunsaturated fatty acids [5].
To protect the avocado in a effective way from the ethylene effects it is recommended efficient solutions, as the envelopes and absorbent blankets, able to maintain the ethylene at low levels (<0.1 ppm).
Know more about the avocado market reality, the technologies implemented in the sector and other thematic of great interest for the industry, assist to the IX World Avocado Congress. Get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/2IdoC7R.
Asist to the event that brings together to the national leaders of the avocado industry and learn side by side of the experts about the avocado market in a event without cost that it´s going to take place in Pereira. Register here: https://bit.ly/2BIaPjS
Bibliography:[1] Pesis et al (2002). Post Biol Technol 24 (2) 171-181. [2] Illeperuma et al (2002). www.edepsciences.org [3] Flaishman et al (1994).Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 91, 6579-6583. [4] Faubion et al. Proc. Second World Avocado Congress 1992, 467-472. [5] Plaza et al (2003). Acta Hort 600. ISHS 2003


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The Bohemia Cristal Trading Company, with headquarter in Selb (Upper Franconia), belong to the leading glass trading companies in Germany.
The success of Bohemia lies in the unusually wide range of articles, which includes all glass articles for the well-laid table, glass gifts as well as heat resistant household glass.
We are a dynamic and medium-sized company, which support direct communication and team spirit. Our employees work committed and success-oriented.
It doesn't matter if you are a pupil, a student, a young professional or someone with work experience, on our website you will find the right entry!


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ParodiesForEver was a Croatian Unterganger living in Rijeka.
ParodiesForEver's account was established on the 28th March 2012. his first parody was Hitler is informed he has 2 heads, which was uploaded to YouTube on the 28th March 2012. He now has over 80 videos and over 200 subscribers.
Downfall Parodies
One of his best known parodies is his Real life Hitler vs Downfall Hitler series.
He also uploaded Hitlers Uboat adventure, in which Hitler tries german U-boat from WWII.
His most viewed parody is Hitler is informed by Jim Carrey.
He is implied to have silently retired as of December 2016, where his last parody was already 2 years ago.
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Sweet potato croquettes with roo tail and native herbs
I like cooking with native ingredients for Australia Day. It gives me pause to reflect on the Traditional Owners of this land, give thanks for their custodianship and recognise their knowledge. I had great success with my first ever batch … Continue reading
Wallaby tacos
Taco Tuesday went Australian this week, to celebrate this great land. I visited Hobart's Farm Gate Market on Australia Day, and have been carrying on the theme all through the week. I was chuffed to meet Ross O'Meara from Bruny … Continue reading
Australia Day at Hobart's Farm Gate Market
If you haven't gathered by now, I'm a bit of a nut for farmers markets. Coming from a Tasmania family, I follow and really appreciate Tasmanian produce. I've always loved Salamanca Market, but it's not a food market. I have … Continue reading
Wombat biscuits
On 26 January each year, we celebrate Australia Day. When I was young, the day was not an occasion. It was merely a day off. These days, it is celebrated with much more fervour, despite the debates over the past … Continue reading
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Australia Day is fast approaching. This year, rather than cooking up some lamb why not take a cue from the first Australians. Emu and kangaroo meat is very good for you and raising the animals has a much lower environmental … Continue reading


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Items > Basic > Doll > Ragdoll
The Ragdoll is an item in the Basic category. It is basically the center of MaD2.
They are the only living thing in the game (unless if the alive property was used on other items or count Buffdoll). Ragdolls cannot lift up infinite weight, as they can not lift up a single Mjölnir. Other than that, they are capable of holding tremendous amounts of weight. They cannot do things, ever, as said in the official description. They can however move and swing their arms and legs slightly.
They are made up of 12 body parts, 1 Head, 3 Torsos, 2 Arms, 2 Hands, 2 Legs and 2 Feet.
They are used to be mutilated or customized.
- Every time the game is reset, there is a single ragdoll in the center of the lab.
- Seperating a ragdoll's head from the rest of the body (or simply destroying the head, or moving the head's health bar down to zero) will "kill" it, meaning that it won't stand up anymore, when the "Dolls Stand" option is on. Though if the head is put back on, they will stand back up
- By default, the ragdoll is keymapped to "1".
- This and the Square are items favored by default.
- Players can cut a slice out of a ragdolls head and it will survive. If the cut goes too deep however; the ragdoll will still die.
- Players can re-attach bodyparts to ragdolls, by using the joint or revolute tools. This is effective after losing a head and then re-attaching it to revive the doll.
- When the ragdoll's bodyparts are completely out of health, they can break apart extremely easily. This could be disabled in the settings.
- Research shows that a ragdoll can survive a gunshot to the head by using the health bars and doll status a gun shot only reduces a quarter health and it only knocks them out/gives them a "concussion" it will take a minute or to speed it up shock them for them to stand back up but they can though.
- It is possible to make it tear apart by rapidly dragging it while holding G.
- A ragdoll appears on the logo of Mutilate-a-Doll 2.
- It is possible to make a headless ragdoll function without the animate power (the head is invisible, however).
- If you hold G on a ragdoll long enough it will explode.
- If you hold G while dragging a ragdoll and there's other ragdolls in the proximity they'll split in half too.
- Use the ghost power on the ragdoll's head.
- Use the glass power on the ragdoll's head.
- Enjoy.
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The garage door is considered as a very crucial feature in your home as it offers entry of everything and everybody in your home. The opening and closing of the weighty garage door make it to break easily. You should have regular checks on your garage door to know if there are arising damages. You are likely to be stressed when you notice that your garage door is not at its best. Most people feel that fixing or repairing of the garage door is very easy. Opposite to what most people think, the garage door requires proficient persons who are equipped fully to do the repairs. You will only be comfortable with your garage door when you hire the professionals to do the repairs. Analyzed below are the important reasons why you need to hire professionals to fix the problems with your garage door.
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They are known to be the source of entry of the burglars.Knowing that garage door opener repair professionals, will be quick to respond to your calling for the problem to be fixed. They are guaranteed of restoring back your peace of mind. To be confident of a secured family and property, make sure you go for the experts to repair your garage door.
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The professional expertise have several years of experience installing and fixing garage doors of any magnitude. The pros can identify and analyze any problem that a garage door can have. They can muse their experience to do the work faster and credibly.
You should know that when you do the job yourself or involve the persons who are inexperienced, you will probably end up by causing more problems and all you will do is to look for the professionals to redo the job. You should engage the professionals at the first place and you would not incur the extra and unnecessary costs because their work is perfect.they will not only repair your garage door but also advice you on what you should do to your door so that you can save more money in future.
The permission from the relevant bodies shows that the garage door repair citrus heights professionals have qualified to undertake the job.
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Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
"Our Lady is the culmination of that long process of selection, of choosing here and rejecting there a human instrument suited to his purpose. which is so characteristic of God's dealings with his ancient people...God's grace and man's free will corresponding with it--that ancient mystery is illustrated at every turn of the Old Testament story, until at last we turn over the page into the New Testament and find its ideal illustration in the life of our Lady herself...She is the culmination of all that process; for in her human nature reached to its highest dignity, to greet the divine condescension of the Incarnate. In her, as nowhere else, God had found the human instrument suited to his purpose; the worthy receptacle of a grace that had not dwelt on earth since Adam lost his paradise. The work of selection is consummated; mankind stands ready for its Redeemer." --Msgr. Ronald Knox
Today we celebrate the birthday of the Virgin Mary. We don't know a whole lot about Mary's birth or childhood because these things aren't mentioned in the Gospels--but there are a lot of apocryphal stories about her floating around, which is where we get the names of her parents, Joachim and Anne, for example. Still, we are happy today to celebrate our Blessed Mother's birthday! As Fr. Peter John Cameron, O.P. writes, "Mary's is a birthday to remember because the answer to our sorrow, misery, malice, loneliness, inability, and strife is to be born of Mary." Happy birthday, dear Mary!


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Let me start by saying that I do not own this tunic, or yet at least. Also worth noting, the outside of the tunic is really bad - or at least what's been done to it. I'm reluctant to post pictures of the insignia that have been applied to it, with its lack of regard for historical accuracy. The tunic appears to be a HBT tunic, belonging to the 14th SS division. However, some reproduction insignia has been added to it making it look terrible, and contradictory to its possible origin.
Anyways, if the tunic itself is legit, I'd be interested in buying it to have it professionally "corrected". I do have the means to acquire most of the original insignia that actually belonged to this jacket, if it's even real. I do think there are a couple things wrong with the markings, but I'll hold my judgements until someone who has much greater knowledge than me can take a look at it.
And yes, I'm totally aware the pictures are terrible quality. Well, here are the pcitures:
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