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Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment and pharmaceutical products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the key emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA.

Group’s key figures (as of March 2019) are approx. 4.56 billion Euros, over 800 laboratories across 47 countries and about 45,000 staff.

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Eurofins CEI, Inc. is searching for a Laboratory Administrative Assistant to support our team in Cary, North Carolina.

Laboratory Administrative Assistant responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Regular attendance and punctuality

• Applies GMP/GLP in all areas of responsibility, as appropriate

• Review lab reports for data accuracy

• Assist with scanning reports

• Perform QC data entry

• Maintaining lab licensing and accreditations

• Assist with sample login

• Assist with sample retrieving

• Assist with customer services

• Conducts all activities in a safe and efficient manner

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Assist with lunch reception

The ideal candidate would possess:

• Experience in editing and/or review is a plus

• Experience in laboratory environment

• B.S. degree in science-related discipline

• Excellent in Excel spreadsheet;

• Detail oriented with multi-tasking skills.

• Good communication skills

Position is full-time, M-F 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., with overtime as needed. Candidates currently living within a commutable distance of Cary North Carolina are encouraged to apply.

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• High school diploma or equivalent

• Must be able to lift up to 50lbs on a regular basis

• Minimum one-year laboratory experiences

• Can review on the average 20 laboratory reports per hour;

• Be able to send out 20 lab reports per hour.

• Have a typing speed of 40 words per minute

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• Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship

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Eurofins is a M/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

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Target is horrible! I ordered a gift card to se...

A Target customer review by GetHuman user ~Mary from November 27th, 2017

Background on ~Mary's case

GetHuman: ~Mary - can you tell our other Target customers when your case took place?
~Mary: Yes I can. It was evening, on November 21st.
GetHuman: Did you reach out to Target, and if so, how?
~Mary: I used the 800-440-0680 number I found for on the GetHuman Target customer phone number page I was on: Target Customer Service Phone Number
GetHuman: And which of these common Target customer issues best describes the reason you wanted to talk to them?
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~Mary: "Returns" was why I was trying to call.

~Mary's review of Target customer service

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~Mary: Target is horrible! I ordered a gift card to send to my son for his birthday. I ordered it May **. His birthday was June *. He never received it. I have called six times. All I wanted was for them to send him another one. I was told they would. He never received it. Today I talked to four different people. They sent ME an electronic gift card. I talked to a supervisor who was horrible. All he would do was cancel that one & send my son an e-card. I didn't want an e-card I wanted the gift card sent. They wouldn't do it, even though they cancelled the first one. Ridiculous people. They were rude and very hard to understand. I hope the head of the company sees this. Never shop at Target!!!
GetHuman: Let's quantify your experience contacting Target. On a scale of 1 to 5, how easy is it go get help on a Target problem?
~Mary: I'd give them a one out of five for ease of finding your way to help.
GetHuman: What about quality of communication. How would you rate that on a 1 to 5 scale?
~Mary: I'd give them a one out of five on communication.
GetHuman: And what about Target's ability to quickly and effectively address your problem?
~Mary: For that I would say one out of five.
GetHuman: And finally- any advice for other Target customers?
~Mary: Call them early in the day or late. Don't forget any personal or account information you might need for Target to know who you are.
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(Part 2/3 – A summary of the Sunday morning teaching on 16-Aug-15, in AFT Church, English service. From the series The Foundation For Victorious Living)

God entered into a Covenant relationship with man. A Covenant was no trivial deal. It meant that the parties were bound to keep it to the T or else they would be considered cursed. In Exodus, God called Moses aside and handed him the Ten Commandments which were to be part of the Covenant. The Israelites agreed to obey them. Then when Joshua led them into the Promised Land, he reminded them about the Ten Commandments. The Israelites enthusiastically agreed to follow them. Finally, before his death Joshua exhorted the people again to follow the Commandments, which they heartily committed to.

A few years went by.

One party broke the Covenant. Guess who? The people of Israel.

Lying, stealing, oppression, perversion, injustice and prostitution abounded in the land. Right from the common man to the priest, everybody was involved.

It was at this time in history (around 8th century B.C) that God sent Prophet Hosea with a message. He wanted to proclaim to His people through Hosea that even though they had been unfaithful to Him, He would continue to be loyal to them. His love for them was ‘hesed’ meaning ‘steadfast, enduring and unchanging love’. God says in Lamentations 3:22-24 ‘Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. 24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!”’

So, God asked Hosea to marry a prostitute!!

If that wasn’t stunning enough then God asked him to continue loving his ‘unfaithful and disloyal’ wife! Hosea’s wife would continue to remain unfaithful to him even while she was married to him!

There is nothing more hurtful in a marriage than having a spouse commit adultery.

The worst is yet to come.

Soon afterwards, Mrs. Hosea ended up in a slave market waiting to be sold!

But you know what happens? Hosea goes to the market and buys her back. He brought her home and loved her with all his heart.

Even as his life is played out, Hosea alternates between two voices of God – one that condemns people’s sins and announces judgement on them and the other that compassionately loves His people.

Let’s now analyze this attitude of God’s compassionate love. It’s beautifully described in Hosea chapter 11.

Marriage vows typically conclude with the phrase ‘Till death do us part’. Sadly, nowadays marriages don’t last till death. Divorce and separations are on the boom. A British poet humorously described this trend in a simple poem as:-

She said she loved me for eternity but managed to reduce it to eight months for good behavior.

She said we fitted like a hand in a glove but because of the hot weather now she took the glove off and got rid off me.

She said the future was ours but the house was made out in her name

She said I was the only one who understood her completely and then she left me saying that I would understand her completely.

Marriage relationship shows us that we are made in the image and likeness of God. God instituted marriage with the desire for us to experience and reflect His enduring love.

God’s loves us faithfully like a husband, father and a shepherd.

2) A Husband’s love

Hosea 11:4 says, I drew them with gentle cords with bands of love, and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. I stooped and fed them’. God loved His people like a husband. He wooed them with words and actions and drew them to Him.

3) A Father’s love

He also loves us like a father. Hosea 11:1,3 says, “When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son. “I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; but they did not know that I healed them’. God loved the Israelites like a father would tenderly love his children. He anticipated their fears, feelings, apprehensions and loved them all the way.

4) A Shepherd’s love

In Hosea 11:4, God says, ‘I stooped and fed them’. Like a Shepherd, God loves His people and ensures that they have no want.

…to be continued…

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One of the things with always make me wander are all those comparisons, silhouettes: this one if presa this one is dogo… And one showing photos of two dogs that are different one from another with some conformation traits traits to prove a point of his or hers views. But how? By showing something totally out of context? Presa Canario is and was a very diverse breed, with lots of things that make you look at the dog and say: this is Presa Canario. You can also put one to another two very different dogs and say: this ar both Presa Canarios. And even more interesting thing might be this both dogs might both be good Presa Canario’s even when quite different one from another. Sometimes on our own yard we have dogs from different breeders and this dogs are different one from another and have great qualities to add to our breeding program making it impossible to say… with one is a better Presa Canario? Or is the other one less of a Presa Canario? We try to judge this amazing breed like we judge show dogs… by a silhouette and some imaginary picture of perfect Presa that do not exist. Consistency of looks is a trait of show dogs, very pretty picture, quite amazing when you go to shows and really look this breeds make like from one production conveyor belt… but are we really in need of making Presa this type of breed? We do not need this type of consistency in this breed. Why would we. If we know there were two separate philosophies between Gran Canaria and Tenerife with conformation and function how we can say one was better than the other… they are both our breed.

Presa Canario should be judged by functionality in the first place and without forgetting the breed standard, especially the further from the Islands the more important it is to be careful to keep it a Presa CANARIO if we like to call it with this name.

Here’s a picture collage of dogs that are all Presa Canarios, pictures picked randomly – with ease one can find Presas with way different characteristics one from another. How can we label them with silhouettes? They are all different, and with matter of taste some will say one is more or less good example of the breed. Just by the looks… it’s fine. But Presa Canario should be judged more than by looks

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Breeder and researcher of Presa Canario. Lived in Poland, London UK and presently stays in Kentucky, USA and traveled through whole Europe and 22 States discovering the breed. Speaks Polish, English and Spanish. Master of Science of Management and Computer Modeling and Engineer of Production Engineering of Kielce University of Technology. Avid traveler, photographer and dog book collector. Instagram @reygladiador


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They discovered a better way, and were first to market with a solution that eliminates specific pain points related to knowledge management, collaboration, communication, quality control, vendor selection and more for both buyers and sellers.

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James Parkinson returns with a fresh new single ‘The Haunted’ and a video inspired by the death of a friend and their incredibly colourful life as a poet, teacher and passionate music follower. Having received support from the likes of BBC Radio Lancashire, Louder Than War and even members of New Order for his understated cover of ‘Age Of Consent’, the artist returns with his most epic, emotive song and a visually stunning music video.

The song is a collection of thoughts on how today’s ever-changing world of social media creates a false and damaging perception of the lives around us. Many of us find ourselves feeling envy at what we see through the lens of our friends’ social media presence, only to learn much later about the suffering behind the smiles.

In some cases, far too late.

The video (directed and produced by Jason Marshall of I am eye productions) is inspired by the life of James’ friend and celebrates his incredibly colourful and vivacious character; his love for music, art, films from the highest arthouse to the most popular of pop culture. Its aesthetics take inspiration from the paintings of Edward Hopper, specifically the clown in ‘Soir Bleu’ and the scene from ‘New York Apartment.’

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TRAVEL: Eilat to love in Israel’s beautiful south

If you haven’t visited Israel’s beautiful south lately, Richard Ferrer asks: ‘What’s kept you?’

Bet it’s been a while since you last dipped a toe in the warm waters of Eilat. Minus Tel Aviv’s big city buzz or Jerusalem’s biblical city culture – and an extra plane ride or four-hour drive away – the resort can often seem a bit Red Sea pedestrian to us Brits, who tend to go once then rarely again.

Well, if you haven’t been to the beautiful south in a while, now’s the perfect time. It’s never offered so much, or been within such easy reach.

Last month Monarch Airlines became the first UK carrier to fly direct to Ovda Eilat [it also offers six weekly flights to Ben Gurion from Luton and Manchester]. The airline’s ample Airbus A320s guarantee a comfy four-and-a-half hour flight to a riviera that delivers everything you’d expect – plus plenty you didn’t know existed.

So what’s changed in Eilat?

A lot.

For starters, its iconic attractions have really upped their game.

Shark feeding time at the “we’re not a normal” zoo.

The Coral World Underwater Observatory has given guests a rare glimpse beneath the waves for decades. It’s also housed the world’s freakiest fishes and creepiest crawlies such as red-bellied piranha, tarantulas, anacondas and dear old Hannah, the 100-year-old turtle.

But its breathtaking new Shark World exhibit, with 20 species viewed from an underwater tunnel and vast viewing window, is an entirely different kettle of fish.

Every lunchtime children eagerly gaze in wide-eyed wonder as a diver plunges into a 790,000-gallon tank to present these kings of the deep with a giant lunch menu. [The guide tells the children to scream ‘Noooo!’ if the sharks order pizza].

Elsewhere, interactive stations reveal chilling lessons about man’s inhumanity. Some 110 million sharks have been taken from the ocean for their teeth, livers and fins.

An estimated 11,000 are killed every HOUR. The focus is on informing and entertaining, inspiring the next generation to do a better job of conserving and sustaining the planet than their parents. The park was also the first to grow coral in captivity.

It runs school projects for children cultivate their own [When I was at school we just grew cress]. It’s a lifelong process with a metre of coral [underwater ecosystems where fish thrive], taking up to a century to form.

Dolphin massage anyone?

Jeep rides through the Eilat mountains can be a right old pain in the tuccas.

Israel has found more common ground with its Arab neighbours below the water than above. Egyptian and Jordanian scientists pay regular visits to the park to work on joint conservation projects that benefit the entire Middle East.

Our impressive young guide Alex summed this miraculous place up in five understated words: “We’re not a normal zoo.”

Another local favourite worth a second look is the much-loved Dolphin Reef, where visitors have swum with man’s best aquatic friend for decades.

Its botanical garden, featuring rainwater, seawater and Dead Sea-style salt-water relaxation pools, is less well known.

It was the perfect setting for my first watsu water massage – a back-to-the-womb experience that involved a therapist gracefully cradling, stretching and dragging my weightless body hither and tither across the warm water.

Just writing about it makes me drift awa…

OK. Back in the room.

Other attractions worth your time include the impressive Ice Mall with its huge rink and giant igloo, encircled by an array of top-brand shops – the perfect place to take advantage of the 17 percent off tax-free shopping for tourists.

Kids will also love swinging by the new Top 94 Extreme Park with its 20-metre high rope park, go-karting, archery, paintballing and giant climbing cliff.

Sweet dreams in the desert?

Eilat’s secret ingredient is getting holidaymakers to abandon their beach towel for an hour or two of adventure. From some of the finest diving sites on the planet to camel rides, nature tours and camping trails deep into the desert mountains, with stunning views of neighbouring Egypt and Jordan.

Israel and Jordan may have signed a peace treaty, but a Red Sea boat ride will soon reveal the heated “Mine’s bigger that yours!” flag war that’s broken out across the ocean. On Jordan’s Aqaba coastline, standing 80-metres wide and 150-metres high, the flag of the King of the Hashemite kingdom flaps proudly in the wind. Israel’s response? A whopping 135-metre wide, 80-metre high Star of David painted on the side of a vast storage container. For the sake of Middle East stability, we’ll call it an honourable draw.

There are some 50 hotels to choose from, standing shoulder-to-shoulder along the chaotic coastline. Most visitors book one of the big four – Herod’s Palace, The Hilton, Royal Beach and The Dan, where I checked in. They all offer deluxe five-star luxury, but none can match The Dan for sumptuous in-house restaurants.

Sun-splashed, action-packed

There are five, all overseen by one of Israel’s most celebrated chefs, Ophir Kedem. Meze restaurant Shipudei Habustan, which dishes up some of the finest hummus on the planet, is equally popular with tourists and locals.

It’s also worth splashing out at picturesque Pago Pago, one of Israel’s finest fish restaurants overlooking the marina.

The crane – “the national bird of Israel” according to our expert guide Herzl – is busy working on the new Eilat Ramon Airport [named after Israel’s first astronaut Ilan Ramon]. With the ongoing suspension of international flights to nearby Sharm el-Sheikh over security fears, the airport is gearing up for a busy opening in 2017.

Eilat is a seaside city with a constantly changing landscape. It may not have Tel Aviv’s modernity or Jerusalem’s antiquity, but for a sun-splashed, action-packed, exhilarating adventure holiday, it’s got Eilat to offer!

Monarch, the scheduled leisure airline, operates year-round flights to Tel Aviv from London Luton airport with fares, including taxes, starting from £99 one way (£189 return) Or fly with Monarch to Ovda, the gateway to Eilat, from London Luton airport with fares, including taxes, starting from £99 one way (£198 return) For further information or to book Monarch flights, Holidays or Hotels, visit Dolphin Reef Underwater Observatory Marine Park Herzl Ein-Eli Tours, call: 00972 50 670 0400 or search “Herzl Ein-Eli Tours” on Facebook.

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We encourage citizen participation in government. This is an opportunity to speak with Rep. Spanberger to voice your concerns, and may be a good opportunity to discuss her support to enable 16 year old children to vote, her support of reinstating the failed and utterly meaningless assault weapons ban, or perhaps where she stands on the Antifa domestic terrorist organization who is committing violence regularly.

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S. Sudanese activist says president wants to kills him, flees to US

Prominent South Sudanese economist and government critic Peter Biar Ajak have sought asylum in the United States, accusing South Sudan President Salva Kiir of trying to have him abducted or killed.

Ajak landed on Thursday at Dulles Airport outside Washington with his wife and three small children after travelling from Nairobi, an anxious departure complicated by coronavirus restrictions.

He told Reuters that top South Sudanese officials whom he declined to identify had warned him that Kiir had ordered a team to abduct or murder him in the Kenyan capital.

“The last few weeks have been a bit terrifying. Extremely terrifying,” the 36-year-old activist told Associated Press shortly after landing. It was only when the plane was taxiing for takeoff that he could feel relief.

Ajak, a Harvard graduate and economist who helped shape his young country’s national security system — one that imprisoned him years later — was tipped off by “very senior” officials back home, his lawyer Jared Genser said.

A US State Department spokesperson noted Ajak’s announced arrival and referred all questions on his immigration status to the Department of Homeland Security.

“I knew this was no idle threat,” Ajak wrote in an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal after his arrival. “In January 2017, two other dissidents were abducted from Nairobi and murdered, leading the U.S. to impose sanctions on five South Sudanese officials.”

Ajak urged the U.S. to impose additional sanctions, including against South Sudan President Salva Kiir while insisting on a path to elections or “the world will have squandered billions of dollars to create another African failed state led by a brutal dictator.”

South Sudan government spokesmen Ateny Wek Ateny and Michael Makuei didn’t respond to requests for comment.

Ajak now plans to resume his work and, if the chance arises, meet President Donald Trump to thank him for the pressure U.S. government officials have applied: “It would be my great honour.”

The drama reflects the plunge in U.S. confidence in South Sudan, the world’s youngest country, which won independence from Sudan in 2011 and massive support from Washington, including billions of dollars in aid. Now, however, after years of devastating civil war and corruption by high-ranking officials, the U.S. is losing its patience.

The latest U.S. action “speaks volumes about the enormous concerns Washington clearly has about what’s happening in South Sudan and the serious problems about President Kiir’s leadership,” Genser said, describing Ajak as “one of the most feared critics of Kiir’s regime.”

Ajak, a former refugee who went to the US as a teen but later gave up his green card, played a key role as an adviser in shaping the new South Sudan’s national security structures. But he was fired after clashing with the official who now leads the National Security Service, Gen. Akol Koor Kuc, and became an outspoken government critic.

In 2018 he was arrested as he tried to attend a youth conference. He later was accused of inciting trouble behind bars. But early this year he was released along with other political prisoners as part of a peace deal ending the country’s five-year civil war.

The prison experience was “extremely harsh,” Ajak has said.

Ajak now plans to settle down and continue pressing for a “generational exit” of South Sudan’s leaders, with the help of the country’s diaspora — and he didn’t rule out the idea of pursuing South Sudan’s presidency himself.

The United Nations has warned the country is at risk of becoming a police state. Human rights are being trampled, and killing and intimidation are widespread, a UN commission warned in March. The need to swiftly implement the peace deal “has never been so urgent,” the UN secretary-general has said. (Source: Mainichi Japan)


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The Sound of Music fills RMACL’s Kingston Building every Tuesday and Thursday.

In September 2018 RMACL commenced a pilot project to explore the benefits of Music Therapy with select individuals. While the agency has always included music in its many programs, RMACL had never offered a dedicated “therapeutic music program” with a trained Music Therapist. To clarify, while music and singing are inherently positive for most people, the difference when working with a Music Therapist is that individuals work towards specific goals such as improving speech, gross and fine motor skills, social confidence.

To support this project the agency hired Birgit Giesser a well-known and respected formally trained Music Therapist who was willing to help us explore this therapeutic tool. Birgit credentials are impressive and include BEd., BMT, MTA Music Therapist Accredited, Neurologic Music Therapist accreditation.

Beginning with just a few students and a handful of instruments it quickly became clear that the benefits of this program were incredible and that we needed to expand this program as soon as possible. In the fall of 2019, the second day of Music Therapy has added thanks in part to the amazing support of Haney Rotary and local business “Once Upon A Tea” who hosted an amazing street party fundraiser and a significant grant from the charitable organization “Music Heals. ”.

Plans are now underway to create a dedicated studio space that can accommodate a variety of sensory and therapeutic needs allowing for even more creativity and varied activities.

To help appreciate how impactful this program has been we proudly share with you a sampling of the overwhelmingly positive comments from students, supporting staff, families, and caregivers…

· “ she waits all week to go” … caregiver
· “ he never used to ask for anything… now he is singing requests” …support staff
· “he used to sit alone at lunch, now he sits with peers” … Program Supervisor
· “ I used my music therapy to help relax before my surgery, I couldn’t have done it otherwise” … Student
· “I have so much to share with the world” … Student
· “ we cannot explain how wonderful this has been…it’s been a revelation for us all” … a family member

Due to the success and popularity of this service RMACL cannot accommodate any new referrals at this time but are accepting internal agency referrals for our waitlist.

If you’d like to support this program, please consider making a direct donation to RMACL here or consider making a dedicated donation via Music Heals and help us grow this opportunity and share the joy of music.

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Midway between the mountains and the lake, Garda Trentino offers natural amenities of the highest order for all kinds of outdoor sports and is known in Europe as a prime destination for active holidays year round thanks to the mildness of its climate. From sailing to mountain biking, windsurfing, climbing, canyoning, Nordic walking, trekking and ski tourism, the Upper Garda offers myriad opportunities for a healthy active lifestyle.

A tradition of excellence in food and wine

The finer flavours of the lake and the more robust flavours of the mountains come together in the traditional recipes of Garda Trentino, where the main ingredients are fresh water fish, carne salada, the broccoli of Torbole, the plums of Dro, the sweet chestnuts of Drena, to name but a few. Garda Trentino DOP extra virgin olive oil and our excellent range of wines bring out the flavours of local specialities and, last but not least, apple strudel and "torta di fregoloti" are the perfect
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Wellness is real culture in Garda Trentino. There are many hotels, such as those belonging to the club “Vita Nova – TrentinoWellness”, offering customised treatments which combine relaxation, exercise and body care treatments. While there is sport, culture, shopping and wellness to fill the days, in the evenings the visitor can enjoy the restaurants, “trattorias”, traditional pubs and lounge bars or the wide range of events for young and old which take place all year round in different parts of the area.

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Kudos & Announcements – April 2020

We are optimistically listing all the events and meetings in hopes they can actually happen. All the events and meetings are subject to postponement or cancelation. Check your e-mail or the club’s calendar for updates.

  • Stay in touch with other members.
  • Keep your social distance.
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  • Wash your hands.
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Car Show to be held Oct. 2 & 3 at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.

  • Security –  same volunteers as last time
  • 50/50  Raffle- Clare
  • Vendor Food Trucks – David G
  • Sponsors- Gary B
  • Trophies- Ron C
  • Trash – Pam and Fred
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  • Registration  – Karen R
  • Liquor – Jim G
  • Big Raffle – Sue C ( with help)
  • Most of buildings will not be used :
  • No Art Show
  • No trailers
  • No poker run
  • No stripping for car parking

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  • Currently the Fairgrounds wants a basic cost of $8400 plus, plus (deposit, liquor license  vendor insurance, parking concession  etc.) Jim is going to try to negotiate lower price if we do not use buildings.
  • Food Trucks to park near picnic tables for easy trash pickup
  • Show participants to meet Oct 2 at 1 pm and be out of fairgrounds by 9 pm, Oct 3rd.
  • Concerns regarding lighting that time of year to do breakdown.
  • Would a swap meet near race track add revenue or just add more work?
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The 11th Doctor is a badass.

Who wants a fish-fingers and Custard Smoothie?

By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

The Eleventh Doctor enjoys some fish fingers and custard with the young Amy Pond.

If you want to be properly grossed-out, the folks from YouTube’s Dude, Where’s My Challenge? have done a spin on the Eleventh Doctor’s signature dish, fish fingers and custard. And when we say “spin,” we mean that quite literally. Watch as this poor lad tries to down a fish finger and custard smoothie. Not quite what the Doctor ordered.

Here’s what else is going on in time and space this week:

• Well the big news of the day is that the first episode of Series 7 has been announced, and after weeks of hints and sneaky pics of various bits of Dalek anatomy, the official Doctor Who blog has revealed it will be called Asylum of the Daleks, and will indeed feature every kind of Dalek that the Doctor has ever faced, including the Special Weapons Dalek (bigger gun, no sink plunger).

• Speaking of the stalk-eyed menaces, who wants to see a video guide to painting your nails as if they are Daleks? I thought as much:

• And here’s an informative clip which shows how Dalek weaponry has improved over the last 49 years, thanks to YouTubers DalekHighCouncil for making it:

• Five monsters — a Cyberman, a Ood, a Silent, a Scarecrow, and a Dalek — escaped from the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff last week, and it was all caught on camera.

• The saddest news of the week was the death of Caroline John, who played the Third Doctor’s companion Liz Shaw, and more than held her own against a particularly pompous Time Lord incarnation.

YouTube’s BabelColour has done a lovely tribute to Caroline John, set to Sacred Miracle Cave‘s elegiac “The Ghost of Elizabeth Shaw”:

• This week’s Rogues Gallery rogues are the Krotons, organic robots, grown in a vat, and enemies of the Second Doctor.

• We also pulled together a collection of David Tennant’s work leading up toDoctor Who, and then realized we had so many clips we had to make a second blog of his post-TARDIS work. Busy boy…

• Who wants to see an alternative retelling of the Doctor Who history, with special focus on libraries and how they impact on the story? That’s right, YOU DO! (Seriously, you do, and hats off to the Boolean Berry: Adventures In Librarianship blog for writing it).

• Oh and hats are also off to Shortlist, for putting together a series of Doctor Who posters, made for the love of the making, on the internet. Here’s our fave, made by

• Finally, VERITASERUMUK has done a brilliant four-minute super-trailer for the entirety of modern Who, spanning from Series 1 with Christopher Eccleston to today:


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How to calculate a robot’s forward kinematics in 5 easy steps

November 25, 2015

forward_kinematicsCalculating the forward kinematics is often a vital first step to using a new robot in research. While there are some good tutorials available online, up until now there hasn’t been a simple step-by-step guide for calculating forward kinematics. In this post, we provide a simple guide along with some tips on calculating the kinematics of any robotic manipulator.

Calculating kinematics is a cornerstone skill for robotics engineers.  Kinematics can sometimes be a pain, however, being told to “go and calculate the Forward Kinematics” is almost robotics research shorthand for “go and get familiar with this robot”. It’s the vital first step when using any new robot in research, particularly for manipulators.

Even though I had learned the theory of kinematics in university, it wasn’t until I had calculated various kinematic solutions for a few real research robots that the whole process started to feel intuitive. Even then, because I was not calculating kinematics every day I had to go back to my notes to “remind myself” how to do it every time. It would have been really helpful to have a step-by-step guide to remind myself which stages to go through, without having to read through hundreds of pages of academically written equations in text books. A sort of kinematics “cheat sheet” would have been useful.

This post is exactly that sort of cheat sheet. For now, we’ll primarily focus on the Devanit-Hartenberg (DH) approach to forward kinematics, as it’s the most common, and we’ll get to inverse kinematics in a future post.

Step 1: Get a Pencil and Paper

It can be tempting to jump straight for the computer when starting out with a new robot. However, even if the robot looks like a “standard” 6R manipulator, I always sit down with a pencil and paper to draw out the kinematic diagram. This simple task forces you to carefully consider the actual physical configuration of the robot, avoiding false assumptions that can wreak havoc later on during coding.

There are various ways to draw a kinematic chain. Pick whichever style you prefer. I favor simple cylinders for the revolute joints and lines for the links. Do a Google Image Search for “kinematic diagram” and see some of the different styles available.

As you draw, work out which way each joint moves and draw this motion as double-ended arrows onto the diagram.

Step 2: Figure Out Your Axes

The next key step is to draw the axes onto each joint. The DH approach assigns a different axis to each movable joint.

If you set up your axes correctly then working with the robot will be easy. Set them up incorrectly and you will suffer countless headaches. These axes will be required by simulators, inverse kinematic solvers, and even other researchers (nobody wants to solve a forward kinematic problem if someone else has already done it).

The z-axis should lie on the axis of rotation, for a revolute joint, or axis of extension, for a prismatic joint. The x-axis should lie along the “common normal”, which is the shortest orthogonal line between the previous z-axis and the current z-axis. Have a look at the video below to see how to set them up:

Personally, I draw the axes using the following coloring: z-axis (blue), x-axis (red) and y-axis (green). This is the coloring scheme that’s used in the RViz visualizer from ROS. Back in my undergraduate days, our lecturer made an axis “sculpture” out of three colored straws stuck into a sphere of blue-tack to explain the theory to us. Though this might seem a bit “playschool,” it can sometimes actually be helpful as you can position the sculpture next to the physical robot to make sure you’ve got the axes pointing in the right direction. For a virtual version of this, check out this interactive tool.

Step 3: Remember Your End Effector

The goal of calculating the forward kinematics is to be able to calculate the end effector pose from the position of the joints.

Most forward kinematic tutorials will generalize the end effector as a single distance from the final joint. This is fine for a simple “open-close” gripper. However, as modern grippers are often more complicated than this, it’s worth considering how the end effector operates. The Robotiq 3-Fingered Adaptive Gripper, for example, has a few different gripping modes. Each mode will correspond to a slightly different desired end effector pose. You should consider the end effector carefully when formulating the kinematic model.

Step 4: Calculate the DH parameters

Denavit-Hartenberg parameters are often required to enter the robot model into a simulator and start performing any sort of analysis on it.

The best way to visualize the DH parameters is to once again watch the video above. Have a look one more time with the DH parameters in mind.

The DH parameters break down each joint of the robot into four parameters, each taken with reference to the previous joint. They are calculated in reference to the “common normal” described above. Note that if the previous z-axis intersects the current z-axis, which is often the case, the common normal has a length of zero.

  • d – the distance between the previous x-axis and the current x-axis, along the common normal
  • θ – the angle around the z-axis between the previous x-axis and current x-axis.
  • a (or r) – the length of the common normal
  • α – the angle around the common normal to between the previous z-axis and current z-axis.

Go through each joint on your drawing and write down the DH parameters for each joint. Each joint should have one value, which is a variable representing the actuated joint. For a more detailed explanation and some examples, I recommend this handout by Peter Corke or this chapter from Introduction to Robotics.

Alternatives to the DH parameters — The DH approach is the most common approach to forward kinematics, but it’s not perfect. One of its failings is that it doesn’t handle parallel z-axes very elegantly. There are various alternatives, including Screw Theory representations, Hayati-Roberts and other geometric modelings (see this paper for a comparison). Although these may (or may not) be better approaches, most of the kinematic libraries below do accept the DH parameters, and for that reason it’s a reasonable approach to begin with.

Step 5: Choose Your Library

There are loads of kinematic software libraries, and many of them do far more than just calculate forward kinematics. Most of them include inverse kinematic solvers, dynamics, visualization, motion planning and collision detection, to name just a few features. These libraries will transform your DH parameters into matrices, which are then multiplied together to calculate the relationship between joint positions and end effector pose.

Of course, you can also quite easily “roll your own” forward kinematic library using your favorite programming language, if you’re inclined that way. I’ve taken this approach myself, but apart from being a good learning exercise it didn’t offer many more benefits than using an existing library.

Some good development libraries include: Robotics Library, Orocos Kinematics and Dynamics Library, ROS MoveIt, OpenRave, RoboAnalyzer and the Matlab Robotics Toolbox.

Even though you’ll usually require inverse kinematics to actually control the robot, computing the forward kinematics is a necessary step to get familiar with any new robotic arm. If you found this post useful, make sure to bookmark it so you can find it when you next encounter a new robot!

What is your favorite method of getting familiar with a new robot’s kinematics? Do you prefer another method over the DH parameters? Have you got any questions on implementing Forward Kinematics in your research robot? Tell us in the comments below.

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It was announced via press release that th Paint Creek Center for the Arts will have an open reception on Friday, October 3, from 7–9 p.m. and a gallery talk on Saturday, October 4, at 2 p.m. The opening reception and gallery talk are free and open to the public. For the upcoming exhibition, Evidence, Paint Creek Center for the Arts presents in the Main Gallery the work of two notable members of the Detroit art community, Carole Harris and Lester Johnson and in the First Floor Gallery the … [Read more...]

PCCA announces 4th Annual Arts and Culture Awards

Paint Creek Center for the Arts (PCCA) is pleased to announce via press release the return of the annual Regional Arts & Culture Awards to be presented Thursday, June 26, 2014 at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester. Individuals and organizations will be recognized that are fostering arts & culture in significant ways within their communities. PCCA is delighted with the incredible support from the participating municipalities within Oakland County (Auburn Hills, Rochester, Rochester … [Read more...]

Donita Simpson – Portraiture: Detroit Area Artists

Donita Simpson’s portraits of Detroit area artists reflect her love of people, her knowledge of the area art community, and the importance she places on art and artists in the culture of Detroit and the region. For many years, Donita has made a practice of creating portraits of emerging and established artists in the area. She photographs her subjects in personal environments and private spaces, in their studios or surrounded by personal objects in their homes. The environments, combined with … [Read more...]

Rochester Area Artists Perform at Art X Detroit

Rochester Connections The Rochester community has two of its own in the 2013 Art X Detroit: Kresge Arts Experience held in Midtown April 10-14. Laurie Eisenhower, owner of the Eisenhower Dance Ensemble, and Kathleen Pfeiffer, professor and chair of the English Department at Oakland University, represent the Rochester area. Thirty-eight artists are involved this year. The public is invited to this free, five-day celebration of visual art installations, dance, musical and theatrical … [Read more...]

Rochester Hills Museum inaugurates leadership speaker series

Rip Rapson, president and CEO of the Kresge Foundation, will speak on Leadership in Philanthropy--Supporting Local Community Heritage on Nov. 16 at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester. An attorney and expert in urban policy, Rapson is the inaugural speaker in what will become a series of educational forums on leadership presented by the Rochester Hills Museum’s Broomfield Center for Leadership. Headquartered in Troy, the Kresge Foundation is a $3.1-billion private foundation established by … [Read more...]


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Liberte Blue Lace Small 3" Ceramic Pot with Saucer

Inspired by the Corningware dishes in Grandma’s kitchen cupboards, the round Blue Lace Pot and Saucers achieves the “succulent in a tea cup aesthetic” but takes that to next level by making it purposeful and adding the all important drainage hole and saucer. Our Blue Lace Pot is a modern take on classic Danish tea cup design. This porcelain combo can set off your favorite succulent or cactus and also dress up your plant shelf.
• 3.25” diameter, 3” tall
• Fully glazed
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Connecticut Residential Pool Enclosure

connecticut residential pool enclosure

This Connecticut residential retractable pool enclosure, manufactured & designed by Roll-A-Cover, gives these homeowners year-round use of their swimming pool. The swimming season in CT is quite short, so the family was not getting enough use of their pool investment without their pool enclosure.

Roll-A-Cover’s pool enclosures are retractable, opening & closing in moments with just 2 people sliding the enclosure. The pool enclosure is also trackless, which provides a safe & clean space around the pool. So, why would you want to miss out on using your swimming pool when you could use it year-round with a pool enclosure, rain or shine? Create a stay cation in your backyard your family can enjoy all four seasons of the year.

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Rollin' On TV adds 17 new COX YUR/View TV stations in 14 states

March 1,2018
Mattapoisett, MA

We are delighted to announce our largest increase in new television station coverage since the launch of Rollin’ On TV almost eight years ago.

One of our longest television media relationships has been with COX Sports TV and individual COX MEDIA stations. This relationship dates back to 2000, when COX took a chance on an unknown production company and started airing Boating Today, our boating lifestyle show that aired from 2000 through 2008.

When we launched Rollin’ On TV, COX Sports and Cox Media were one of the first networks to pick up the show and, as the saying goes, the rest is history.

Cox Media has combined all its local and regional stations into one brand called YUR/VIEW Network. These YUR/VIEW stations will cover local programs and national network programs. COX has qualified ROTV which means all YUR/VIEW stations will now carry ROTV.

According to an article on DiversityInc – “Cox (No. 18 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) is providing exclusive national content on its recently launched YurView network, available to Cox video customers in all markets. The company has rebranded existing local cable programming stations and is enhancing the lineup with nationally produced content.

The list of stations is extensive and numbers in the dozens and covers every state that offers the COX Cable system. Starting March 4th , ROTV will be adding 17 new YUR/View stations in 14 states, and in a prime time airing schedule.

This March 4th launch is just the first phase of this “COX Network rebranding” and they will be adding additional states and stations throughout the year.

For a complete list of this new coverage area including states, stations and times, visit our website at www.rollinontv and click on the TV Schedule link.

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Learning your business, understanding your customers expectations, and providing multimodal options is what it’s all about at Rome. Being accountable and providing track and trace visibility just isn’t enough – the caring connection we make to prove our dedication to delivering your freight as promised is what brings our customers back to us after every shipment. Rome has industry leading compliance standards for partner carriers and has a network capacity of hundred of thousands of qualified drivers. Combined with our proprietary TMS and multinational presence, Rome has you covered.

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Contracts don’t last forever and in many cases they have strict and aggressive deadlines. From the initial planning phase of any project, Rome understands how important it is to manage and control timelines and costs for contract bidding. Rome is experienced in handling the full logistics of any project from start to finish: coordinating and working directly with suppliers, planning loading times, supplying the transportation along with any warehousing, crossdocking, customs brokerage or special unloading equipment needed. When it comes to project freight, Rome has you covered.

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At Rome Customs & Trade let our experienced trade specialists guide you and your business through the uncertainty of cross border shipping. We offer 24/7 Canadian & US clearances, duty drawback amendments, vehicle importations, NAFTA preparation and storage, trade consulting and most of all competitive pricing that wont be beat.

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Rome understands your company is unique and so is your supply chain. Shippers continue to trust Rome for their entire logistics needs as an external extension to their shipping department, to audit and create processes that solve their unique challenges, and to create value for their sales department to fulfil the needs for their customers. Small, medium and large customers lean on us to help reengineer transportation strategies and build an outsourced team to tackle all of their challenges as they come up, with the end goal to enhance visibility, increase control, and minimize unnecessary costs.

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How’s everyone doing? As always, we hope you’re well, healthy, and enjoying your family! Whose summer plans got re-directed amidst the pandemic? So many families are choosing not to fly, or have had flights and hotels canceled. To that end, who has a #Romp&RoostRoadtrip planned? It’s the perfect time to load up the family truckster […]

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Coles’ commitment something to crow about this New Year

The search for higher welfare products in the supermarket has become a whole lot easier for Australian consumers with Coles today announcing their own brand of fresh chicken will be from RSPCA Approved farms.

The RSPCA’s Approved Farming Scheme ensures good welfare for meat chickens by focusing on the housing conditions that affect bird welfare, providing enrichment such as perches, and an environment that meets their physical and behavioural needs.

RSPCA Australia CEO Heather Neil said the announcement by Coles is a substantial step forward for animal welfare in Australia and proof that consumer demand for more humanely farmed food is growing quickly.

“The RSPCA applauds Coles’ commitment to source only RSPCA Approved chicken under its range of Coles brand fresh chicken, and its commitment to improving the welfare of farm animals,” said Ms Neil.

“Coles’ decision is one that will benefit both farm animals and consumers, with millions of meat chickens now being raised in higher welfare systems.”

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Aluminium Alloy

2011 T6 Extruded Rod and Bar

Aluminium alloy 2011 also corresponds to the following
Commercial 2011
standard designations and specifications but may not
EN 2011 be a direct equivalent:
Aluminium alloy 2011 is a high mechanical strength A92011
alloy that machines exceptionally well. Often called a CB60
Free Machining Alloy or FMA it is well suited to use in 3.1655
automatic lathes. AlCuBiPb
Machining at high speeds produces fine chips that are
easily removed. The excellent machining
characteristics allow the production of complex and
detailed parts. In some circumstances 2011 can The most common tempers for 2011 aluminium
replace free machining brass without the need for extruded bar is:
alterations to tooling. T6 - Solution heat treated and artificially aged
It has poor corrosion resistance, which means parts
made from 2011 tend to be anodised to provide
additional surface protection. SUPPLIED FORMS
When higher levels of corrosion resistance are
required, 6262 T9 may be a suitable replacement. Bar

Applications - 2011 is typically used in applications that GENERIC PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

require parts manufactured by repetition machining.
These applications may include: Property Value
Appliance parts & trim
Automotive trim Density 2.83 g/cm
Fasteners and fittings Melting Point 535 C
Thermal Expansion 22.9 x10-6 /K
Modulus of Elasticity 70 GPa

BS EN 573-3:2009
Element % Present
BS EN 755-2:2008
Copper (Cu) 5.00 - 6.00 Extruded Rod and Bar
Up to 75mm Dia.
Bismuth (Bi) 0.20 - 0.60
Property Value
Iron (Fe) 0.0 - 0.70
Proof Stress 230 Min MPa
Lead (Pb) 0.20 - 0.40
Tensile Strength 310 Min MPa
Silicon (Si) 0.0 - 0.40
Hardness Brinell 110 HB
Zinc (Zn) 0.0 - 0.30
Elongation A 8 Min %
Others (Total) 0.0 - 0.15
Properties above are for material in the T6 condition
Other (Each) 0.0 - 0.05
Aluminium (Al) Balance
Alloy 2011 has extremely poor weldability and thus
welding is not recommended. However, as it is used for
machined parts there is rarely a need to weld this

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Aluminium Alloy
2011 T6 Extruded Rod and Bar

Process Rating
Workability - Cold Fair
Machinability Excellent
Weldability Gas Poor
Weldability Arc Poor
Weldability Resistance Poor
Brazability Poor
Solderability Fair

Address: Please make contact directly with your local

service centre, which can be found via the
Locations page of our web site
Web: www.aalco.co.uk

Datasheet Updated 22 January 2016

This Data is indicative only and as such is not to be relied upon in place of
the full specification. In particular, mechanical property requirements vary
widely with temper, product and product dimensions. All information is
based on our present knowledge and is given in good faith. No liability will
be accepted by the Company in respect of any action taken by any third
party in reliance thereon.

Please note that the 'Datasheet Update' date shown above is no guarantee
of accuracy or whether the datasheet is up to date.

The information provided in this datasheet has been drawn from various
recognised sources, including EN Standards, recognised industry references
(printed & online) and manufacturers data. No guarantee is given that the
information is from the latest issue of those sources or about the accuracy of
those sources.

Material supplied by the Company may vary significantly from this data, but
will conform to all relevant and applicable standards.

As the products detailed may be used for a wide variety of purposes and as
the Company has no control over their use; the Company specifically
excludes all conditions or warranties expressed or implied by statute or
otherwise as to dimensions, properties and/or fitness for any particular
purpose, whether expressed or implied.

Advice given by the Company to any third party is given for that partys
assistance only and without liability on the part of the Company. All
transactions are subject to the Companys current Conditions of Sale. The
extent of the Companys liabilities to any customer is clearly set out in those
Conditions; a copy of which is available on request.

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