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Dr Rod Badcock is the Deputy Director, and a Principal Engineer, at the Robinson Research Institute and has focused on the development and implementation of pilot machines and processes.

He draws on his multi-disciplinary experiences in science, engineering and industrial manufacturing to bring together international teams that deliver substantive outcomes aimed at drastically changing energy usage and production. Recently, Rob has been one of the NASA/IEEE Electric Aircraft roadmap team members looking to solve the challenges of emission and fuel use in commercial aviation. In this blog, Rob will be discussing New Zealand aviation and the challenges and opportunities around reducing air transport emissions.

Current state of air transport emissions

New Zealand’s economy depends on aviation. Whether we are exporting high-value products to the world, or welcoming tourists to our shores, we rely on airlines to serve us.

When the world met in Paris in 2015 to address the challenge of climate change, 195 nations agreed to restrict the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees by cutting their greenhouse gas emissions. The Paris Accord has now come into effect, and there is a global effort to replace fossil fuels for transport. Aviation is the most climate-intensive form of transport. It is responsible for 5% of global warming. Worse, aviation emissions have grown by 75% since 1990, double the rate of other sectors of the economy.

Countries are now looking how best to reduce their aviation emissions. Serious options include a climate tax on air tickets, and investing in new, clean technology.

Few countries depend on international air services as much as New Zealand. New Zealand’s international tourism market has seen strong growth since 2012 with visitor arrivals increasing year-on-year. Visitor growth from all existing markets is currently strong and in particular, the number of visitors from China, United States and Australia continue to grow strongly. According to official projections, visitor arrivals to New Zealand for 2016-2022 are expected to grow 5.4 percent a year, reaching 4.5 million visitors in 2022 from 3.1 million in 2015.

New Zealand does not have a high speed rail network, and only has a rail commuter network in Auckland and Wellington, that can reduce the need for domestic aviation. For many rapid routes air travel is the only viable transport option between the two islands. The majority of passenger seats (85%) are operated by two carriers; Air New Zealand and Jetstar.Add paragraph text here.

Our air transport accounts for around 3500 ktonnes of emitted CO2 per year; around 1000 ktonnes for Domestic and 2500 for International travel. Our passenger movements have seen strong growth, a trend predicted to continue into the future that leads to a worrying growth in emissions from this sector.

New Zealand has committed to reducing its GHG emissions. But our economy would suffer if a climate tax meant that tourists couldn’t afford to fly here. International tourism brought $12 Bn into the economy last year. We rely on it.

New Zealand is recognised for its pro-active stance towards reducing aviation and airport operation emissions. New Zealand’s air navigation service provider (Airways) is globally known for working proactively with airlines to increase flight efficiency and safety. Locally the Ministry of Transport are implementing an action plan to reduce emissions in this sector that you can read here. This Ministry initiative is strongly supported by Wellington Airport with their own reduction plan being put in place.

New Zealand has an important role to play in developing clean aviation technologies, such as hybrid electric aircraft. This research programme is part of our 30-year programme of leading high-temperature superconducting work. The New Zealand team are working on key aspects of the high-torque, high-speed machines needed to make electric aviation a reality. Their international partners include Lockheed, Boeing, and NASA. There are opportunities for NZ companies to produce specialised, high-value components for the hybrid electric supply chain, earn export revenue, and contribute to solving this pressing global problem. NZ can benefit economically from addressing a major global greenhouse gas challenge.

How might you propose to enable our continued quality of life, whilst also limiting our environmental impact through Wellington Airport?

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European Strategic Intelligence and Security Center, which specializes in collecting and analyzing sources of intelligence in the areas of security, geopolitics and economy, in its new article ominously titled "For the EU the ISIS bell tolls" poses the question of the EU members' readiness to confront the problem of the ever growing terrorism threat. Having received several big hits recently, including the loss of its traditional strongholds Mosul and Raqqa, ISIS retaliates by threatening to send back to Europe all its foreign fighters to spread terror in the EU proper.

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Meanwhile, European leaders are in a state of panicked anticipation of the potential drastic changes that upcoming elections in key states could bring to the EU. As a result, in the authors' opinion, the security aspect suffers the most due to leaders being unable and unwilling to raise "difficult" questions during the election season.

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As it says in Ecclesiastes 3:7, there is “a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.” During the campaign for London Mayor, the media approached me many times regarding Zac Goldsmith’s comments about Sadiq Khan. I emulated a Trappist monk, but now that the election is over, I can remain silent no longer.

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As a British Muslim of Pakistani ethnic origin, I was quite pleased to see Sadiq Khan win the Labour nomination for Mayoral candidate. I have also met him on many occasions, and we are both patrons of the charitable research project Curriculum for Cohesion. However, as a Conservative Party member for about 33 years, I had absolutely no doubt about wanting to get a Conservative elected as Mayor of London. In the Conservative Mayoral primary, I voted for Syed Kamall, but was happy to support any candidate chosen by the Party’s members in London.

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My wife, who has been a Conservative Party member for about 10 years, and attends each Party Conference with me, was if anything even more outraged. She could not bring herself to vote for Zac at all, and exercised her democratic right to vote for Khan. She did however vote Conservative for the Greater London Assembly.

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I am well aware of Charlie Brown’s retort that “Losing isn’t anything.” However, the classicists in our Party will know what Pyrrhic victories are.

Since David Cameron became our Party’s leader in 2005, helped by my vote in the leadership election, he has worked very hard to detoxify our brand, from hugging a hoody to living for two days with a Muslim family to bringing in equal civil marriage. It has worked. From being regarded by many Muslims as nothing more than the party of Enoch Powell, we won the votes of 15 per cent of British Muslims in 2010, rising to 25 per cent in 2015, with the trajectory being clearly upwards.

Much of this has been imperilled by the Zac campaign and we have many elections to fight in the future more important than the London Mayoral election of 2016. If we want to avoid the likely fate of the US Republican Party, we have to appeal to Britons of all ethnicities and of all religions and none.

Fortunately, for most of the campaign the Prime Minister stayed above the attempts to smear Khan, apart from two interventions in PMQs, both of which were in my view unwise.

Careless talk costs lives

Ironically, in my opinion Zac’s attempts to smear Khan have probably increased our risks of suffering terrorism. ISIS are perpetually seeking to radicalise and recruit young British Muslims to their cause. At the margin, I believe there is a risk that young impressionable British Muslims who witnessed Khan being smeared in this manner will thereby be made more vulnerable to radicalisation than they were before. I cannot quantify the scale of Zac’s impact, but have no doubts about its directionality. (Just ask yourself if you think Zac’s tactics decreased the risk of radicalisation.)

A good election to have lost?

I am an inveterate optimist and see silver linings in every cloud.

If Zac had won, for the next four years of his Mayoralty it would have rankled with most British Muslims that he won by smearing an upstanding loyal British Parliamentarian who happens to be Muslim. Since Zac lost, his campaign will soon recede into oblivion, a footnote in history, rather like the Conservative campaign in Smethwick in 1964 which I am old enough to remember even though Zac and Khan were not even born then. Accordingly, the Conservative Party’s appeal to British Muslims should recover rapidly after this debacle, provided we learn from it.

The same is true of the radicalisation effect. Whatever recruitment traction ISIS could get from the Zac campaign will vanish in the warm afterglow of London, the world’s most important city, electing as Mayor a citizen who is a Muslim of Pakistani ethnicity. That would not be the case if the smear campaign had succeeded.

Finally, Khan’s victory should help to keep Jeremy Corbyn in power. Long may he continue to lead the Labour Party!

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  2. Have a good working understanding of the Law in relation to the use of ‘reasonable force’ for personal protection and / or the protection of others.
  3. Understand the various elements of the Health and Safety at Work Act etc 1974, in particular sections 2, 3, 7 and 8. In addition, the associated Health and Safety Regulations that relate to the use of physical force in the workplace, including what is meant by the common-law duty of care as well as Manual Handling Regulations.
  4. Demonstrate self- awareness and the impact you have on others
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  6. Demonstrate effective Communication skills and identify why these skills are essential
  7. Demonstrate defusing, de-escalation and calming strategies
  8. Manage high risk conflict
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So this little prick James Frey wrote a book that was supposed to be non-fiction about his life.  Uh, not so much.  Funny story, it turns out that basically he made up a LOT of bullshit and the little that had any basis in fact was wildly exaggerated.  In so doing, he pissed off The Oprah who had selected his book for her Book Club.  An Oprah pissed is a frightening thing to behold.

In a rational country, this asshole’s next job would involve wearing a blue apron and saying, “Welcome to Wal-Mart” a lot.  We do not live, however, in a rational country.

My Dad used to say, “You’ll never get ahead working for a living in America.”  Dad was right.  Work for a living, put in an honest day’s labor and you’ll die broke, and non-famous.  Lie your ass off, perhaps braving the wrath of The Oprah in the process, however, and when the dust settles, HarperCollins Publishers will give you a big box of money for your next book.

Hasn’t anyone thought about the message this sends to The Children?  You know, The Children that we’re all so fucking concerned about.  Yeah, those The Children

OK, since no one else is thinking about The Children, I’ll do it.

Hey, kids, Uncle Bob here.  Listen, I’m going to tell you how things really are.  Don’t bother getting a job with a big corporation on the assumption that it must be stable since it’s so big and all.  Ask your parents (or check Wikipedia) about Enron.  It was the sixth-largest corporation in America and it was a total sham which, when it folded, left all its employees and investors hanging.  Fuck that noise.

Figure out some scam that won’t get your ass thrown into jail if you get caught and ride that mofo for all its worth.  Become a “psychic” who gets booked on TV shows; write an “autobiography” about how your Mom was a crack addict shemale; run for office as a “family values” Republican politician.  In other words, LIE YOUR ASS OFF.

Not only are the odds that you won’t get caught, if you DO, so what?  Here’s the dirty little secret about life: IT ISN’T ILLEGAL TO LIE.  Getting caught doing any of the things I suggested will not only NOT send your ass to jail, it will give your celebrity and income a boost.  Who gives a shit if The Oprah chews you out on TV?  So fucking what?  You’ve never had a black woman give you some static before?  Just put on your pious, I’ll-never-do-it-again face and let her do her “Oh no you di’n’t” shit.  It’ll pay off in the long run with increased book sales.

Above all, DO NOT go to work for some big company where you’ll rapidly become a cypher who will get handed his or her pink slip as soon as the Chinese factory that makes the shit it sells gets caught poisoning the kids who nag their folks for it.  Fuck that!  Take the reins of your life into your own hands.  Get your ass on the only sure path to success in America.  Lie.

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Research has shown that between 30-50% of adult’s struggle with emotional issues at some point in their life. At least one in four adults will experience a mental illness in their lifetime. Counselling is proven to significantly reduce negative emotional symptoms and help you experience a higher overall quality of life. In addition to these benefits, counselling helps you understand the underlying issues, which is crucial to you experiencing healing, growth, and positive change.

Whether you’re suffering from anxiety, depression, substance misuse, trauma, self-harm, mental health, abuse, or bereavement, Emma is here to help. Emma firmly believes any obstacles in your life that are preventing you from reaching your full potential can be overcome with the right support and guidance.

Emma specialises in integrative counselling, a combined approach to therapy which asserts that there is no single method that will help everybody in any situation. Every person is different and the issues you are facing must be considered as a whole for any form of counselling to be effective. Emma’s integrative techniques are tailored specifically to your individual needs and circumstances to provide you with the best possible platform to deal with the emotional obstacles in your life.

The range of issues Emma has experience with includes: anxiety, depression, relationship breakdown, substance misuse and recovery, trauma, self-harm, mental health, abuse, bereavement, CFS. ME & Fibromyalgia. In addition, Emma can also assist with any barriers in your life that are preventing you from reaching your full potential (such as weight issues, smoking or other general problems). Emma has an empathetic, genuine approach to counselling and many past clients have held this in high regard as a crucial part of why they were able to be so successful following their therapy.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Reading Structured Binary files in C#: Part 17

Here we go again.  The last bit we did was pulling out the metadata stream headers which spat out this list:

Starting Address: 0x290
iOffset: 0x6C
iSize: 0x104
rcName: #~

Starting Address: 0x29C
iOffset: 0x170
iSize: 0x100
rcName: #Strings

Starting Address: 0x2B0
iOffset: 0x270
iSize: 0x1C
rcName: #US

Starting Address: 0x2BC
iOffset: 0x28C
iSize: 0x10
rcName: #GUID

Starting Address: 0x2CC
iOffset: 0x29C
iSize: 0x50
rcName: #Blob

for the HelloWorld_CSC_2.0.exe file I tested it with.  The first stream on the list is named #~ which means it is going to be fun to deal with because it is a compressed metadata stream.  The .NET IL Assembler book has a nifty drawing showing all 5 of the streams above:

and looking at the far right, you can see that we have yet another header to dissect.  The structure of the header is:

4 bytes
Reserved; set to 0.
1 byte
Major version of the table schema (1 for v1.0 and v1.1; 2 for v2.0 or later).
1 byte
Minor version of the table schema (0 for all versions).
1 byte
Binary flags indicate the offset sizes to be used within the heaps
.•        4-byte unsigned integer offset is indicated by 0x01 for a string heap, 0x02 for a GUID heap, and 0x04 for a blob heap
.•        If a flag is not set, the respective heap offset is a 2-byte unsigned integer
.•        A #- stream can also have special flags set: flag 0x20, indicating that the stream contains only changes made during an edit-and-continue session, and flag 0x80, indicating that the metadata might contain items marked as deleted.
1 byte
Bit width of the maximal record index to all tables of the metadata; calculated at run time (during the metadata stream initialization).
8 bytes
Bit vector of present tables, each bit representing one table (1 if present).
8 bytes
Bit vector of sorted tables, each bit representing a respective table (1 if sorted).

It is all nice and fixed, so it will be easy to get started so let's dig right into the metadata stream header for the metadata...what?  How about the metadata metadata stream header?  All this naming stuff is hard.

So, here is the code:
But there is a catch.  The bits in the MaskValid represent tables, and this is followed by a bunch of 4 byte unsigned integers for each '1' representing the number of records in the table.  I will work on that part next, this is good enough for now.

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The Golden Star at the Settantacinque Copertino Doc of Cupertinum

The Cupertinum, the historic winery from Copertino, has just received this announcement from the Vinibuoni d’Italia Guide of Italian Touring Club: “Dear President of Cupertinum, Ancient Winery in Salento, I congratulate you and all your staff because your Settantacinque Copertino Doc Rosso 2008, following the tastings and selections made by the board of Vinibuoni d’Italia guide, during the finals held in Buttrio (Udine), won the GOLDEN STAR. This international recognition will be reported in 2018 Vinibuoni Guide with a special symbol. Congratulations for the award and a warm greetings. ” The signature is of Mario Busso, director of this prestigious Guide.

(Francesco Trono, president, Giuseppe Pizzolante Leuzzi, oenologist, Marcello Raganato, vice president)

Satisfied for the recognition received, the President Francesco Trono states: “It is the fourth Golden Star won by Cupertinum wines in the last seven years. A confirmation of the quality project desired by our members and board directors, project that has been carried out with determination also by all staff of the Winery. Just in these days the Guide to Pleasures and Flavors of Apulia by La Repubblica has been relased, and it rewards the Settantacinque with Five Stars, the highest score. A wine about which everybody agrees!” The oenologist Giuseppe Pizzolante Leuzzi is also very pleased: “We have always won the Golden Star with wines based on Negroamaro, but the Touring Guide has always emphasized the high level of the wines of Cupertinum. Copertino has clayy soil, of different composition, placed above hard or tuffed limestones; in vinification our aim is to emphasize the specificity of terroir, that is, of the relationship between soil, microclimate and vine. In my opinion this is one of the simple secrets that give our wines a personality that stands out for harmony and elegance”.

Cupertinum Golden Star Vinibuoni Settantacinque riserva

Technical Sheet of the SETTANTACINQUE Copertino Doc Rosso Riserva.

From Negroamaro grapes, with minor additions of Malvasia Nera and Montepulciano. Garnet red wine, with a scent that from vinous discloses a persistent bouquet, with hints of plum, has a dry and warm taste, rich and slightly bitter aftertaste with notes of ripe fruit that well reveal the variety and its territoriality, harmonious and long at the end.

Serving suggestions: main courses with red meat or game, ripe cheeses.

Recommended serving temperature: 18°.

Harvest: mid September.

Yield per hectare: 80 quintals.

Vine stocks per hectare: from 4500 to 5000.

Training system: Apulian shrub-vines.

Vinification: Maceration on the skins for 7/8 days at 28° C; soft pressing and aging in stainless steel.


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Rest room Remodel Cost Versus Worth Archives

What are the prices of transforming a house?The answer to this query is likely to be a bit extra difficult than it seems. A guest toilet won’t see as a lot use as the common rest room down the corridor. He is tearing down partitions, which has taken awhile. Find more data under on the costs of widespread accessories included in a bathroom remodel, together with design ideas and issues concerning hiring a remodeling rest room contractor.

If your thought for the bathroom does not fit precisely within a kind of fashion like fashionable or contemporary, you might need to rent an expert craftsman to customized build accessories like the vainness, countertop or mirror frame.

Although a bathe or tub is the focal point of a bathroom, the bathroom and sink can outline the room as well. If you are just updating a toilet, you’ll probably not need plumbing or …

Planning Your Remodeling Mission For Worth, Consolation And Safety

There are such a lot of good causes for taking on a home remodeling mission or sourcing it out to a contractor. Contractor Kenny Grono, president of Philadelphia-based mostly Buckminster Inexperienced, suggests owners put aside 5 to 10 percent additional as a contingency fund in the event that they’re working with a skilled design/construct crew. House Beautiful participates in numerous affiliate marketing online programs, which suggests Home Stunning gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites.

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Bathroom Remodeling Value Guide & Worth Breakdown⎮ContractorCulture

There are a couple of thing to consider when tackling a rest room transform mission. We’ll assist you find top-rated, pre-screened execs in your area. Tiles will must be slightly angled toward the drain, and grout between the tiles adds slip resistance. There’s additionally the option of replacing taps and other plumbing fixtures, which prices lower than changing bathtubs and showers.bathroom remodel costbathroom remodel cost

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On this market when it could be so challenging for individuals to amass a loan and for owners to advertise their current properties, an growing number of individuals are opting to make their present dwelling their dream house. It will probably also show you paint colours that will go properly with the colors in your furnishings. To celebrate the monumental birthday of one of many nice author-administrators of our time (though he’s mostly uncredited as a director), here are some facts about your favorite Coen brothers motion pictures.

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Nine Month School Year vs Anytime School Year

Summer Matters Reports 2016

This site provides eight pages of various reports to support extending the nine month school year through after school, summer and extended projects. Some report titles include, but are not limited to,CSBA Guide: Summer Learning Matters,  Every Hour Counts Report, Summer Matters - How Summer Learning Strengthens Student Success, After 3 P.M.: Special Report on Summer, and more.

High Achievement Program 2014

A year-round, multi-year program model, determined Highly Effective Without Reservations according to the US Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse is comprised of 650 annual hours of standards-aligned academic enrichment and serves high-need middle school students. In the six-week Summer Academy, experienced teachers deliver small classroom instruction for 40 hours per week in math, science, social studies, and literature. Students experience a daily elective class, weekly field trips, and an overnight college trip. AfterSchool Academy operates for 25 weeks, and students receive homework help, dinner, an elective, and intensive tutor in math, literature, and seminars. Students attend the program three days per week unti l8:00 p.m., and partner with a well-trained volunteer tutor each night.

Is Summer School the Key to Reform? 2010

But by re-envisioning this maligned institution, those same districts could make summer school an investment in improved student achievement later on—a way to extend learning, provide effective intervention, and offer enrichment opportunities, particularly for those students who have few other good options during those months out of school. Imagine, for example, a summer school program that would provide accelerated and engaging instruction in the morning, fresh local food for breakfast and lunch, and afternoon enrichment activities in which students could choose to canoe down the Mississippi River, create their own video games, or display self-made projects in local museums.

A Brighter Vision for Summer School 2010

The National Summer Learning Association works with thousands of districts to move away from the association of summer school with not doing well academically, and toward a new vision of summer school that promotes comprehensive learning programs blending academic lessons and enrichment activities.

Summer Learning Moving from the Periphery to the Core 2009

Transcending the punitive and remedial model of summer school, summer learning's new form is an artful blend of core academic learning, hands-on activities, 21st Century skills, arts, sports and meaningful relationships.

Alternatives to the School Year Calendar, Shaun P. Johnson and Terry E. Spradlin Education Policy Brief VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3, SPRING 2007


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Venus Freeze treatment

What is the Venus Freeze treatment?

The Venus Freeze treatment is an effective treatment based on a combination of multi-polar radio frequency sound waves and pulsating magnetic fields (MP2), which lay a soothing and therapeutic thermal field on the skin.

The heat generated by the Venus Freeze device results in a shrinking effect of the protein structures (collagen), a natural recovery and renewal of the collagen (collagen neogenesis), a superficial reduction of fat cells (lipolysis) and new formation of small blood vessels (angiogenesis) through which the blood circulation improves and gives the skin a more radiant look.

What is the purpose of a Venus Freeze treatment?

A Venus Freeze treatment is a safe and pleasant treatment for the face and body. The active collagen in the skin will contract, thus resulting in a firmer skin, softening of the wrinkles and less cellulite.

The Venus Freeze treatment is an appropriate solution for:

  • Skin firming or skin tightening
  • Reduction of cellulite
  • Reduction of wrinkles and stretch marks
  • An anti-aging treatment
  • Figure correction

This treatment can be performed on various parts of the body, including the face, neck, décolleté, arms, stomach, thighs and bottom.

Is the Venus Freeze treatment painful?

  • The Venus Freeze treatments are painless. The heat generated can be felt but should not exceed the pain threshold.
  • The generated homogeneous rise in temperature is maintained for a few minutes. The temperature is controlled via a digital infrared thermometer.
  • During the treatment, the patient can indicate when the heat is approaching the pain threshold.

What to expect after the Venus Freeze treatment?

  • After the Venus Freeze treatment, there is some redness (erythema) and a warm, sometimes slight burning sensation that lasts up to several hours.
  • Mild burning reactions are rarely observed.
  • The risk of scarring or pigment damage is negligible.
  • The Venus Freeze treatment can also be performed during the summer, regardless of the skin pigmentation.
  • Also long-term adverse effects are not expected for treatments with the Venus Freeze device.
  • The Venus Freeze treatment, however, is not recommended during pregnancy.

The expected results of the Venus Freeze treatment

  • The results of a Venus Freeze treatment are assessed based on photographic images and / or girth measurements. Skin tension improvement will also be experienced by the patient.
  • A standard treatment consists of six weekly treatment sessions. You can expect the optimal result from the Venus Freeze treatment series after approximately three months. After which, a second treatment cycle can be carried out.
  • While it is expected that the vast majority of patients will have an objectifiable improvement after one treatment cycle, this can never be guaranteed 100 % for each individual patient.
  • A second treatment cycle will probably only make sense if the first cycle showed some improvements.
  • Although the results can be maintained for quite a long time, an everlasting result is unrealistic, as with all aspects of skin aging.
  • The number of treatments that can be performed with the Venus Freeze device is unlimited. To optimally maintain the obtained result, some patients, for instance, those who suffer from cellulite or sagging skin, choose for a maintenance treatment every two or three years.

What you also need to know

  • During the preliminary consultation, we discuss the alternatives for the Venus Freeze technique including accepting the current situation, massage and drainage techniques (such as LPG), UltraShape lipolysis, liposuction or plastic surgery.
  • We take digital pictures before and after the Venus Freeze treatment. These are intended for optimal assessment of the result and evolution.

If you have any question about the Venus Freeze treatment, do not hesitate to contact us.


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Tips on how to Discover the Greatest Relationship Web page for you

Which relationship internet site? With many courting web pages all around the world-wide-web and more popping up day to day, acquiring the best relationship web site for you may be overwhelming. This information will present you with some suggestions on how to examination the internet sites and locate the good ones millionaires dating.

Side bar: This short article is not really about touting specified web-sites. It is actually about supporting make your search less complicated by allowing you are aware of what to search for, and narrowing the field down to a couple of very good web pages.

You’ll find two common methods to choose a dating internet site. One should be to stick to the recommendation of a good friend or relative. Not a bad way, but also error-prone. Recall we’ve been speaking about the top courting web page in your case.

The next, and recommended, selection should be to do some good aged fact-finding by exploration. Will not worry, this article is about earning it simpler on you.

What exactly is the very best Courting Web page?

The best relationship website is not the most significant, nor one of the most features-laden. The most effective dating web page is definitely the one which ideal matches who you might be or matches your personality/need(s).

Kinds of Dating Websites

You will find, generally, a few varieties of courting internet sites:

one. Preferred or Standard

two. Specialty or Specialized niche

3. Group or Unique Curiosity

Now let’s now briefly explain each and every for a far better comprehending:

one. Well-known or typical courting internet sites: These Cater for the common community and all ages, ethnic groups, religions, sexual orientations and so forth. Generally they are going to have enormous databases, generally managing on the tens of millions of associates.

two. Specialty or specialized niche relationship websites: These cater to distinct pursuits like faith, ethnicity, age teams etc. Their associates have something in common.

three. Neighborhood or distinctive desire dating web sites: These are generally comparable to specialty or niche web-sites (#2 above), but cater to even narrower passions. Examples; Catholic (not “Christian”), swingers (not “adult”), Filipino (not “Asian”)… you can get the picture.

So, which way to go? Step one in the direction of achievement in finding the most beneficial dating site will be to be obvious on what you are on the lookout for. You need to do know your self, will not you?

In case you have some on line dating encounter, take into consideration specialty or group internet sites. But if just beginning out, your very best wager is always to choose popular/general relationship websites. Why?

Since well known relationship web-sites serve most pursuits and you will get more rapidly outcomes. This may provide you some knowledge as well as a feel on the characteristics. Subsequently, this aids develop your self-assurance even though also finding out online dating “lingo” and sub-culture.

What to search for Inside a Courting Website

The very best 10 matters to take into account when selecting a courting website are:

one. The amount of profiles: On line courting is actually a figures match. The greater the database the higher your prospect of assembly the ideal particular person.

2. Characteristics: These consist of look for and safety.

three. You have to be able to look by age and gender and also peak, hair color, vocation and many others. if this is imperative that you you.

4. Privateness: Most high-popularity dating web sites supply you with an electronic mail address specifically for on-line courting.

5. Availability of chat rooms and private chat rooms so that you may perhaps discuss along with your prospect(s) once a get hold of has long been initiated. Net video clip would be an additional reward.

6. Some top-rated dating web-sites will provide you with a warning when another person has responded to your email or expressed interest in making contact with you. Not by far the most important characteristic but good to have the many similar.

7. Connection intentions: The internet site should really cater for the sort of partnership you search for.

eight. Place: The positioning must have a enough amount of members within your geographical area, particularly if you are not for lengthy length relationships.

nine. Thorough profiles: If a web page enables associates to stint on aspects about by themselves, chances are high they are really performing it. This helps make it a mere picture contest.

10. Expense: Don’t just choose the cheapest or free of charge web sites (there is a value to pay for for that), however, if they may be way above ordinary they must provide a pretty great for this.


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The ideal Stroller To the Ideal Situation

Does one contain the winter season doldrums? Emotion a little cooped up with your children at home everyday? We know how essential it is actually to cat stroller acquire from the home with the toddler and encounter daily life. But it really is snowing outside the house you say? It is raining cats and canines? It’s just way too cold for your little one being outside the house? No concerns!!

Today there may be a fantastic number of lightweight strollers that you can continue to keep in the car or truck for straightforward impromptu outings, rapid outings to your malls, or even having as a result of that listing of post-holiday errands we know you have been averting.

What should you glimpse for in a very high-functioning light-weight stroller? Listed here are our major five tricks for selecting an ideal light-weight to suit your needs!

1) Match recline to child’s age and behavior: If you possess a younger newborn or perhaps a toddler who frequently naps in the stroller – take into consideration receiving a lightweight that might certainly be a bit heavier but features a effortless recline. This may even be a fantastic feature for prolonged travel times. Examples incorporate the infant Jogger City Mini Sequence, The UPPABaby G-Luxe and more.

2) Does one require a lot of space for storing or could you just attach your diaper bag for the handlebars? While a lot of fantastic diaper baggage in shape simply onto your stroller handlebars (backlink to diaper luggage that connect to strollers), some mother and father like owning a far more roomy underseat basket to keep heavy coats or searching baggage when they are indoors. A lightweight using a good basket will be the Valco Latitude Collection.

three) Will you be employing your light-weight primarily indoors or for brief outdoor errands also? In the event you are primarily employing your lightweight stroller indoors than wheel dimensions is not really as critical. You may choose to force a light-weight with larger sized wheels or more suspension on tough sidewalks and customary outdoor terrain however. Lightweights with larger wheels are the Valco Latitude, Toddler Jogger Town Mini and Bugaboo Bee.

4) Does one want to place your carseat during the stroller? In order for you the convenience of clicking your carseat simply into your light-weight solitary or double, make sure to examine regardless of whether a lightweight is carseat appropriate right before creating the plunge. For anyone purchasing for doubles, be sure to also test which the carseat adaptor attachment fits your model of carseat.

5) Take into consideration your trade-off between fat and capabilities? For lightweight strollers, the lighter the stroller, the fewer padding and recline you always get. On the flip side, heavier strollers frequently have fuller canopies, less complicated fold or other parent-friendly functions. In order for you the lightest stroller to choose from, ensure you are prepared to quit on a lot of the other priorities on your want checklist.

Even though everyone’s ideal lightweight stroller appears distinctive and has unique functions, with all the expansion in the light-weight stroller class, there may be possible a person on the market given that will work for you.


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Self-employment: Getting started

There's a myth in the workplace that self-employment is somehow unusual, something people do when they can't get a 'normal' job. That's just plain wrong. Self-employment is the full-time career of some of the most successful people on Earth. A large percentage of the world's workforce have 'normal' jobs working for people who are actually self-employed.

Self-employment basics

Self-employment is a big learning curve for people who are used to the workforce as employees. It requires some alterations of mindset and new perspectives.

These are the fundamental points:

  • It's a real job and it's a 24/7/365 job.
  • You have to be able to run everything yourself, as and when required.
  • You need to be able to handle all the business elements yourself.
  • You will need the right training to set up a full scale business.
Your business concept

When setting up your business, you have to start with the essentials of doing practical business. Everything about your business has to be functional, and be paying for itself.

Business viability

The first issue is viability. Setting up a business can cost time and money, and a lot of both. You need to be sure you can operate a profitable business, and there are some easy ways to make sure you can. Ask yourself:

  • Where do you want to set up your business?
  • What sort of business can you get for yourself?
  • What can you charge?
  • What are your overheads?
  • What's the competition?
  • What are their charges?

It can take you no more than half an hour to figure that out, if you know your business well. A lot of businesses start because opportunities are obvious when answering these questions. You may need to research commercial ideas, and check out your market, but you can get a good idea of what you can do pretty easily.

Business administration

The next major issue is business administration. Never get casual or lazy about this, and you'll save yourself a lot of costs and worries. All of the business administration work has to be strictly according to law. Always make sure you can operate your own administration yourself, and understand the issues.

You need to have these systems well organized and functional:

  • A full record system for all transactions including your own costs
  • A cash book system
  • A tax record system
  • Receipts
  • Banking account facilities
  • A business correspondence system

This is business, and it's your business. It has to be done properly. Mistakes do cost money, and it will be your money. When self-employed, everything is your responsibility. The better you know your business systems, the better you'll do.

At this point, the things you need to know about viability and administration are the main priorities. Work your way through each part of the setup process systematically, check it all out. Part 2 shows you how to get training.


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Quick Impress Resume

Employers receive 100's of resumes in reply to job adverts. So how much time do you think an over worked HR officer or a busy business man, will dedicate to reading your resume?

10 Seconds

A few guidelines on how to convince your potential employer you are the ideal job candidate in 10 seconds:

  • Make sure the aspects of your career that qualify for this job are on top.
  • Keep a simple design - Visual appeal.
  • Bold style 3 or 4 key phrases in your resume to highlights your strengths
  • Your resume should fit on one page.
  • Keep it simple .
  • Choose wisely between a chronological or a functional resume.
    • This will impact the order of your resume sections.
  • No errors - proofread your resume and avoid common resume mistakes.
  • Include clear and up to date contact information.

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Regarding the recent guest commentary "Peak Service Plan is progress on Northwest rail": The commentary says, "In many ways, the FasTracks has been a great success." Indeed, RTD has been very successful — picking the pockets of the Northwest Denver suburban taxpayers.

Either the authors of this commentary just moved from the southern Denver suburbs, have a very long commute (not by RTD FasTracks) from their homes to Longmont, or have a serious Pollyanna affliction.

"In 2004, the voters in the Regional Transportation District voted to create FasTracks," the piece begins. In 2004, RTD included cost projections for the project, to be completed by 2017. Today, in 2019, "RTD has still not estimated a completion date for these unfunded corridors (the Northwest rail)." Fifteen years later, they have learned they are miserable at projecting time frames and costs.

A perfect example is the comment about the Peak Service Plan: "The beauty of this plan is that it should be significantly less expensive than the full service plan." Let me understand. There are two major components of cost — construction and operations. Construction and retrofitting of the BNSF line to facilitate public transportation over its rails will cost the same, regardless of the frequency to travel. Indeed, operating costs will be less, but is that the major cost? I think not. This sure sounds like more pie in the sky and another verse of "tomorrow is just a day away."

Those holding their breath for the Northwest rail FasTracks will be dead from oxygen starvation long before it becomes a reality.

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No talks unless India accepts Kashmir as a dispute: Hurriyat

In a statement, All Parties Hurriyat Conference spokesman GA Gulzar has said it will be an exercise in futility to hold bilateral talks unless India accepted Kashmir as a dispute.

Days after responding positively to Home Minister Rajnath Singh’s offer for talks for peace in Kashmir, and then calling the offer a “farce”, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) of hardliner separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani took yet another turn on the issue on Tuesday. The APHC rejected the offer and announced that “any talks would be a futile exercise unless India first accepts Kashmir as a dispute”.

In a statement from Srinagar, APHC spokesman GA Gulzar said the “exemplary sacrifices” made by the Kashmiri youth had not been offered for any political adjustment within the Indian Constitution but for the fulfilment of achieving right to self-determination.

He strongly rejected any proposal for “entering into a bilateral dialogue process with India”.

Gulzar said the Kashmir dispute was “above the Indian Constitution” and the only acceptable solution to this vexed issue lay in the compliance of the United Nations resolutions on Kashmir.

Elaborating the “crystal clear stand of All Parties Hurriyat Conference”, the spokesperson said the five-point formula presented by the Hurriyat Conference in 2010 provided a baseline for any dialogue with India. The spokesperson further clarified that this formula laid down the criterion that unless India accepted Kashmir as a dispute, it would be an exercise in futility to hold bilateral talks with India.

Gulzar said India “suffers from arrogance of power so its leadership is hell bent to issue declarations to kill the people of Kashmir by tagging them as stone-pelters”.

Political observers in J&K feel the APHC had toed the line of Pakistan on the Kashmir issue by attaching such pre-condition for talks.

The APHC rejection of the talks offer comes a day after Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti reiterated that separatists should not lose the opportunity for dialogue that would end the bloodbath in Kashmir.

Lok Sabha Member and former chief minister Farooq Abdullah had told the separatists not to enter into any dialogue as they would gain nothing out of it.

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Monday, November 20, 2017

Lines Problem One

Question One:   Below are the median market return and median stock

Median Return for S&P 500 and Apple by
S&P 500 Return Tercile
Median Market Return
Median Apple Return
Median monthly returns from 1980 to 2017.   Data was sorted by smallest to largest S&P 500 returns and placed into terciles by S&P 500 return.

Consider the market return variable to be your X variable and the median Apple return to be your Y variable.   Provide an equation of the form Y=mx+b with the slope defined by the third and first quartile and with the line running through (X,Y) of the second tercile.

Answer:  The slope of the line is 1.74 (0.0569- -0.0034)/(0.0285- -0.0061).  The  line goes through (0.0124, 0.0147) Using these values for X and Y and 1.74 for m we solve for b.

b=0.0147-1.74*0.0124) or b=-0.0070.

The equation is Y=-0.0070+1.74*X.

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1st white farmer gets land back under Zimbabwe's new leader

Farmers, Darryn, left and Robert Smart, right, are welcomed back to their farm, Lesbury, by workers and community members Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017 in Tandi, Zimbabwe. The family who were evicted by gun-wielding police and a mob associated with the ruling party returned to a hero's welcome, in a sign that the new president is charting a path away from predecessor Robert Mugabe on an issue that had hastened the country's international isolation. (AP Photo/Farai Musaka)

By FARAI MUTSAKA, Associated Press
TANDI, Zimbabwe (AP) — A white Zimbabwean farmer evicted by the government of Robert Mugabe has returned to a hero’s welcome as the first to get his land back under the new president, in a sign of reform on an issue that had hastened the country’s international isolation.
With a military escort, Robert Smart made his way into Lesbury farm about 200 kilometers (124 miles) east of the capital, Harare, on Thursday to cheers and song by dozens of workers and community members.
Such scenes were once unthinkable in a country where land ownership is an emotional issue with political and racial overtones.
“We have come to reclaim our farm,” sang black women and men, rushing into the compound.
Two decades ago, their arrival would have meant that Smart and his family would have to leave. Ruling ZANU-PF party supporters, led by veterans of the 1970s war against white minority rule, evicted many of Zimbabwe’s white farmers under an often violent land reform program led by Mugabe.
Whites make up less than 1 percent of the southern African country’s population, but they owned huge tracts of land while blacks remained in largely unproductive areas.
The evictions were meant to address colonial land ownership imbalances skewed against blacks, Mugabe said. Some in the international community responded with outrage and sanctions.
Of the roughly 4,500 white farmers before the land reforms began in 2000, only a few hundred are left.
But Mugabe is gone, resigning last month after the military and ruling party turned against him amid fears that his wife was positioning herself to take power. New President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a longtime Mugabe ally but stung by his firing as vice president, has promised to undo some land reforms as he seeks to revive the once-prosperous economy.
Smart is the first to have his farm returned. On Thursday, some war veterans and local traditional leaders joined farm workers and villagers in song to welcome his family home.
“Oh, Darryn,” one woman cried, dashing to embrace Smart’s son.
In a flash, dozens followed her. Some ululated, and others waved triumphant fists in the air.
“I am ecstatic. Words cannot describe the feeling,” Darryn told The Associated Press.
Smart’s return, facilitated by Mnangagwa’s government, could mark a new turn in the politics of land ownership. During his inauguration last month, Mnangagwa described the land reform as “inevitable,” calling land management key to economic recovery.
Months before an election scheduled for August 2018 at the latest, the new president is desperate to bring back foreign investors and resolve a severe currency shortage, mass unemployment and dramatic price increases.
Zimbabwe is mainly agricultural, with 80 percent of the population depending on it for their livelihoods, according to government figures.
Earlier this month, deputy finance minister Terrence Mukupe traveled to neighboring Zambia to engage former white Zimbabwean farmers who have settled there.
The Commercial Farmers Union, which represents mainly white farmers, said it plans to meet the lands minister.
“I am advising our members to be patient and give it time. But I do see many of them going back into farming,” said Peter Steyl, the union’s vice president. “The government seems serious about getting agriculture on track but how it is going to achieve this, I don’t know.”
The firmness with which the government ensured Smart’s return signaled resolve.
At the farm, a soldier sat quietly in a van that acted as an escort for the family. His services were not needed. The people gathered there share deep social bonds with the family, away from the politics of race and elections.
“I have known this boy since day one,” said 55 year-old Sevilla Madembo. “He was born here. I took care of him when he was young. He is back to take care of me now that I am old.”
She was born at the farm, which was home to her parents and grandparents.
“We are part of one family. We belong to the Tandi people. That’s why we are going to perform a traditional African ceremony before we start on production,” Darryn said, going through the farmhouse.
Locks to some rooms had been changed by the “new owner,” a cleric with close ties to Mugabe’s family who has since lost his claim. Other rooms had been ransacked and most property was missing.
Left untouched on the walls were a portrait of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a photo of Zimbabwe’s last colonial leader, Ian Smith, officiating at an agricultural fair.
Local chief Peter Tandi led efforts to lobby Mnangagwa’s administration to allow Robert Smart to return. “He voluntarily gave up his estates to the community when the land reform program started. He continued helping us with technical knowledge, equipment and other inputs,” Tandi said.
“That man supported the guerrillas during the war. … He gave us a place to hide from colonial government soldiers,” said Gift Maramba, a war veteran and local ZANU-PF official.
Smart and his son held back tears while greeting familiar faces. Others were keen to get on with business.
“Hey Darryn, I want us to talk about my beans I stored in your warehouse,” one villager said.
“We can discuss that later, man. Come on, for now let’s just be happy to be with each other again,” Darryn replied.


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Wawrinka, Muguruza out in 2nd round, heat soars in Australia

France's Gael Monfils bends over while playing Serbia's Novak Djokovic during their second round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

By JOHN PYE, AP Sports Writer
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Stan Wawrinka left it as late as possible before deciding his knee might just be good enough to get him through the Australian Open.
The 2014 champion was being way too ambitious. A 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 loss to No. 97-ranked Tennys Sandgren in the second round was his earliest exit in a decade at Melbourne Park.
“I only had surgery five months ago,” said Wawrinka, who still has a visible scar running down his left knee. “To be that far already, it’s more than what we could have expected.”
On a searing hot day at Melbourne Park when the temperature hit 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), No. 9 Wawrinka, No. 7 David Goffin and No. 13 Sam Querrey were the three seeded players to fall in the men’s draw.
Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza was among the five seeded women to lose on Day 4. And crowds were down on the previous two days. The forecast is for hotter weather on Friday.
Six-time champion Novak Djokovic survived the round, but complained of the “brutal” heat in a comeback four-set win over an ailing Gael Monfils that extended his record to 15-0 in their career head-to-heads.
The temperature had dropped to 29 C (84 F) by the time defending champion Roger Federer wrapped up his 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4) win over Jan-Lennard Struff just after 11:30 p.m. on Rod Laver Arena.
For a while Swiss compatriots Federer and Wawrinka were playing on adjoining courts at the same time, but their fitness and results were contrasting.
Wawrinka was appeared lethargic and generally didn’t threaten 26-year-old Sandgren, who had never beaten a top 10 player. His wins in the first two rounds here make Sandgren 2-0 at majors.
Wawrinka won here in 2014, at the French Open the following year and the U.S. Open in ’16. Until this week, he hadn’t played since Wimbledon last July.
“When you won three Grand Slams, you don’t feel great on the court like today,” he said. “But I need to take what I can to be positive with everything, with the big picture.”
Muguruza also struggled with her fitness in the build up to the Australian Open, hampered at two warmup tournaments by cramping and a thigh problem.
Blisters from the hot court surface didn’t help her in a 7-6 (1), 6-4 loss to No. 88-ranked Hsieh Su-wei, who has been No. 1 in doubles but had a career-high ranking of 23rd in singles.
That left only Maria Sharapova, Aneglique Kerber and French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko as Grand Slam winners in the women’s draw.
Sharapova and Kerber will meet in the third round, meaning only one of the remaining Australian Open winners can reach the second week.
Sharapova beat No. 14-seeded Anastasija Sevastova 6-1, 7-6 (4) to avenge a fourth-round loss in last year’s U.S. Open, the five-time major winner’s first Grand Slam after returning from a 15-month doping ban.
Kerber, the 2016 champion, had a 6-4, 6-1 win over Donna Vekic before the Margaret Court Arena crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to celebrate her 30th birthday.
“Happy to be playing tennis again like 2016,” said Kerber, who has won 11 straight matches.
Still aiming for a first major, top-ranked Simona Halep, a two-time French Open finalist, held off 2014 Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard 6-2, 6-2. Halep next plays Lauren Davis.
Ninth-seeded Johanna Konta lost in straight sets to U.S. lucky loser Bernarda Pera, who is ranked No. 123-ranked and making her Grand Slam debut. She didn’t even know she had a spot in the main draw until another player withdrew on Monday.  Pera next plays No. 20 Barbora Strycova.
U.S. Open finalist Madison Keys opened with four straight aces and won the first 11 games in a 6-0, 6-1 win over No. 92-ranked Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Also advancing were No. 6 Karolina Pliskova, No. 8 Caroline Garcia, No. 26 Agnieszka Radwanska, No. 28 Ash Barty and No. 29 Lucie Safarova.
The heat peaked during Djokovic’s 4-6, 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 win over Monfils. Both players slouched over in the shade between points, earning warnings about time delays from the chair umpire.
The win was a relief for Djokovic, who lost in a second-round shocker here last year, but he said officials need to be more considerate about the players in the conditions.
Now seeded 14th, Djokovic needed four match points in an eight-minute last game before clinching the win against Mofils, who needed a medical timeout for heat stress and said he had trouble breathing.
“It was obvious we both suffered on the court today,” Djokovic said. “Really tough conditions — brutal.”
Djokovic, who won five of the six titles from 2011-2016, is a step closer to a possible meeting with fourth-seeded Alexander Zverev, who had a 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win over Gojowczyk.
Among the leading men advancing were 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro, No. 19 Tomas Berdych, No. 21 Albert Ramos and No. 5 Dominic Thiem, who rallied to beat 190th-ranked American qualifier Denis Kudla 6-7 (6), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.
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The Mistress

Natasha Leonova’s beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection, immersed in rarefied luxury, while he pursues his activities in a dark world that she guesses at but never sees. Her home is the world, often on one of Vladimir Stanislas’s spectacular yachts manned by scores of heavily armed crew members. Natasha’s job is to keep Vladimir happy, ask no questions, and be discreet. She knows her place, and the rules. She feels fortunate to be spoiled and protected, and is careful not to dwell on Vladimir’s ruthlessness or the deadly circles he moves in. She experiences only his kindness and generosity and believes he will always keep her safe. She is unfailingly loyal to him in exchange.

Theo Luca is the son of a brilliant, world famous, and difficult artist, Lorenzo Luca, who left his wife and son with a fortune in artwork they refuse to sell. Lorenzo’s widow, Maylis, has transformed their home in St. Paul de Vence into a celebrated restaurant decorated with her late husband’s paintings, and treats it as a museum. There, on a warm June evening, Theo first encounters Natasha, the most exquisite woman he has ever seen. And there, Vladimir lays eyes on Luca’s artwork. Two dangerous obsessions begin.

Theo, a gifted artist in his own right, finds himself feverishly painting Natasha’s image for weeks after their first meeting. Vladimir, enraged that Lorenzo’s works are not for sale, is determined to secure a painting at any price. And Natasha, who knows that she cannot afford to make even one false move, nevertheless begins to think of a world of freedom she can never experience as Vladimir’s mistress. She cannot risk her safety for another man, or even a conversation with him, as Theo longs for a woman he can never have.

From Moscow to the Riviera, Paris, and London, The Mistress is a riveting tale of vast fortune, cruelty, creative genius, and daring courage, as uncompromising individuals chart a course for collision.


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June 9, 2004

Advice to anyone whose home is hit by lightning: find every electronic device that doesn't work and throw it away. Attempts to fix anything will only result in additional loss of time and energy. Our washer cost $650 new; four years later it will cost $698 to have it fixed! And, the SBC folks told me to unplug the phone and plug it back in. It actually worked. This generous piece of advice only cost $71.

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The Big VW Emission Scandal!

If you’re one of the thousands of people in the UK who owns a Volkswagen TDI diesel, you probably have a few questions right about now. Well here’s what we know so far…

Road emission tests have revealed that the nitrogen oxide levels from some VW TDI engines are significantly higher than the results published following lab testing.

So what’s the problem?

Well these results are used to help sell vehicles and also to decide the level of Vehicle Exercise Duty that you pay, as well as meeting emission regulations within certain countries. VW were questioned about these results, which in a large number of cases were three or FOUR times the level of the published figures! Eventually they admitted fitting vehicles with a device which alters the vehicles emission, performance and fuel consumption, in order to pass certain tests. Originally, they only admitted to it affecting US based models from 2009-2012.

As owners of a VW Caddy here in the UK, we gave them a call today to check if our van was involved in dodgy testing. Unfortunately it was, so VW have said they’ll be in contact in the coming weeks/months (maybe next year – who knows?) to resolve the issue.

We asked “when it goes in for its re-call, will it effect the performance and fuel economy once done?” and we were told YES it would. So we have a VW Caddy 1.6 TDI which we bought specifically for the lower tax band than the bigger engine and now there is a potential threat that the tax could be increased due to this emission scandal.

How do I check if my vehicle is effected?

If you own a TDI VW from 2008 onwards, we recommend you call VW on 0800 083 3914 and press option 3, provide them with your details and registration and they will tell you if its effected or not. Oddly they ask about warranties and service history, perhaps looking for a get-out in the future? Who knows.

What can I do legally? / I want to take legal action!

At the moment it’s not even confirmed if there is going to be the possibility of doing anything legally, it all depends on how it ends up effecting people, resale value, tax increases etc. You can however, register your interest with Slater & Gordon who can keep you posted with regards to what can be done legally, just visit: http://www.slatergordon.co.uk/commercial-and-group-litigation/volkswagen-scandal-legal-investigation

We’ll keep you posted as soon as we have an update.

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Door County Maritime Museum - Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Donation Options

Donation and Membership Options at the Door County Maritime MuseumYour gift to the Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society provides educational and outreach experiences for over 60,000 visitors each year.

The donation process is easy. Simply select the fund you want to support and designate the amount of your gift. You can also call 920-743-5958 for more payment options.

Maritime Lighthouse Tower Expansion Project

For four decades, the Door County Maritime Museum as educated and entertained the public while working hard to preserve rich maritime history. Now, the museum is ready to take a major leap forward with an exciting new initiative: expanding its Sturgeon Bay facility with a spectacular, 11-story Maritime Lighthouse Tower filled with state-of-the-art exhibits for all ages. Evoking the romance of North America’s lighthouses, it will serve as a striking visual landmark on the Sturgeon Bay waterfront.

Annual Fund

Your tax deductible donations ensure that our maritime museum will remain “first rate” as it continues to preserve and celebrate the extraordinary maritime heritage of Door County.

Anchor Appeal

As the name implies, the museum’s annual “Anchor Appeal” is one of the principle fundraising campaigns and is primarily used to help cover the expenses needed to maintain a facility of the highest quality. These funds assist with the sometimes less publicized but essential workings that keep the doors of the museum open as well as help off-set the decline in admission revenue that takes place during the winter.

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Sponsor a Day

Gifts in any amount are appreciated. However, for a $250 donation, you may personally Sponsor a Day at the museum. “Sponsor a Day” is a wonderful way to honor a loved one or recognize a birthday, anniversary or a memory! As a sponsor, you will be recognized at all three museum locations, on our web site and in the museum newsletter. You will also receive a support decal for your car window or business entry. See Sponsor a Day Announcements here.

Print & mail the PDF form to tell us the date and wording you would like. Sponsor a Day form

Estate Gifts Support the Museum – Just WILL it!

Leaving the Door County Maritime Museum a bequest in your will or estate plan represents an investment in its long term well-being. A bequest is a simple way to support the museum in the future while retaining control of your assets during your lifetime. Read More About Estate Gifts

Endowment Fund

Create a legacy! Gifts to the Endowment Fund provide ongoing support of the museum’s day-to-day operations.

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Commemorative Bricks

The Door County Maritime Museum’s “Walk of Fame” is a unique way to capture your connection to maritime history, honor a loved one or celebrate a special occasion.  Bricks range in price from $150-$2,500. Larger bricks may include an image. If paying online, museum staff will contact you to confirm the details. For detailed information regarding the museum’s commemorative brick walkway, please call us at (920)743-5958.

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Illuminating Our Heritage: Cana Island Lighthouse Restoration – Phase 1 Complete

Since 1970 under lease from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society’s mission at Cana Island has been to maintain and upkeep the light station and adjacent grounds. The 1869 resources of the island and light station are irreplaceable; a truly unique setting and experience for visitors.

In 2009, the Museum, Door County Parks Department, and the Historic Structures Report project team identified basic flaws in the current buildings that hinder access by the public, limit interpretation, and cause general degrading of the building fabric over time that will, if left unaddressed, result in the loss of historic integrity.

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Phase 3

2018 – Welcome center to be built to include a gift shop, admissions office and an interpretive area (cost of $250,000)

Phase 4

2019 – Restoration to the interior of the keeper’s house (cost of $800,000)

2019 – Celebrate Cana Island Light Station’s 150 years of service
Help maintain and restore this important historic landmark by getting involved today! Support Illuminate Our Heritage and help out lighthouse keep watch … for us, and for future generations.

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Donate towards Exhibit Development

Exhibit development costs can range from $250 upwards to $100,000! Each exhibit must be planned a year or more in advance.

Artifact, Photograph, or Boat Donations

The museum continuously seeks Great Lakes artifacts, photographs, or boats for the museum’s growing collection.  Call us at 920-743-5958.