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long standing friends. We must reject a policy that is based on anything that infringes on our neutrality. We must work for more stability in our region. A stability that is much needed and upon which we can build a stronger economy and attract real and clean investment in order to ensure a solid future for the next generations.
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Nigeria geopolitical zones , the Nigeria geopolitical zones and their states are given below for as long as is very useful for the student that really know what it takes to know their geopolitical zones in Nigeria and their states. The 6 geopolitical zones in Nigeria and Their States have not been entirely carved out based on geopolitical location, but rather states with similar cultures, ethnic groups, and common history were classified in the same zone. Nigeria is made up of approximately 400 ethnic groups and 450 languages. There was a need for the government to merge similar groups for effective allocation of resources.
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A trustworthy brand. Buyers are increasingly wary of overt outbound marketing efforts. You can create trust by offering a variety of lead levels to opt into. Relevant communications. You know your audience, what they want from you, and when. A multi-channel strategy. Customers quickly switch from email to website to social channels. You must deliver unified messaging to all your channels to be instantly recognizable with consistent branding. Targeted content. Deliver the right content to the right people at the right time is harder than you think. You need to understand each buyer persona and base your targeted content on their interests, objectives and needs. Multiple touches. It takes on average 10 “touches” from the time prospects enter your sales funnel to a closed sale. Each buyer’s journey is different. Your content should help them to progress through their journeys. Timely follow-ups. The chances of a lead entering your sales funnel or become qualified are 21 times greater when contact them within 5 minutes vs. 30 minutes. You can automate this process. Personalized emails. Email is opened 6 times for often wen it’s personalized. Bounce rates. There are two types. Hard bounces. Messages are permanently rejected because of a wrong email address or a blocked site. Soft bounces. Messages are temporarily rejected because the mailbox is full or the email exceeds the size limit. Open/open rates. How many recipients open your email. Open is the number of contacts who open your email at least once. Open rate is the number of opens that convert into sales.
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Clicks. A recipient clicks on a link, button or image in your email. Click rate. The total number of clicks divided by the total number of emails sent. Click rate = open rate x click-to-open rate. Click-to-open. The total number of clicks per recipient divided by the total number of opens. What basics would you add? Alan Graner is Chief Creative Officer at Daly-Swartz Public Relations, an Orange County, CA business public relations and marketing content firm. For content that makes you stand out from the crowd, email Jeffrey Swartz at [email protected]. Or visit www.dsprel.com.
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Superman makes a come back, this time at a gym near you. Celebrities are constantly finding new ways to increase their fitness to look their absolute best and the Superman push-up seems to be the favourite workout of this season. There are several Superhero variations of this workout style but lets stick to the basic for now! The good ol’ version starts in a regular push-up position and using the ground as leverage to take off in to the air and return to the starting push-up position. Sounds simple? wait until you try it. Be warned, the Superman push-up is not for the beginners. If you can do 50 push-ups, you have a strong enough core to attempt this extreme variation. Lets superman away to fitness. 10 ways to Fab abs!
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Roxbury, MA: Castle of our Skins, a newly created chamber music concert series dedicated to celebrating the music of African American composers, will make its debut Friday, May 23rd at 8pm at Roxbury Community College. The hour-long program, entitled Love Affects…, will pair music with spoken word of noted African Americans including H.T. Burleigh, Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama. “With Love Affects…, we really wanted to create a narrative already embedded in the concert experience,” Artistic Director and violist Ashleigh Gordon describes. “The program weaves together chamber music, poetry and speeches in an effort to explore how love can affect our sense of self, responsibility to humanity, feeling of cultural pride and dedication to our future.” Chamber works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, H.T. Burleigh and Adolphus Hailstork intertwine with the poems and speeches of Nikki Giovanni, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama.
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The Gut Microbiota for Health editing team sees intestinal health as the engine for overall health. Our team closely tracks the science on gut microbiota-nutrition interactions, which shows the important daily influences of food on the gut. Since the prevalence of digestive disorders worldwide remains high, the wider public seeks information on this topic, and the internet has a wealth of information about how to improve gut health. The GMFH editing team is pleased to report that for the second year in a row, GMFH has been selected as one of 17 best gut health blogs of 2017 by Healthline! We are proud that our efforts have been rewarded, maintaining our status as a trusted source of evidence-based information on topics related to gut microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics, nutrition, and health. Healthline is a consumer health information website, overseen by a team of medical reviewers, with over 65 million readers per month. The GMFH publishing team is proud to continue bringing you high-quality, up-to-date information about intestinal health. Thanks for reading—and for taking good care of your gut!
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Silverfish have a teardrop-shaped appearance, with three long tail-like appendages on the end of the body. They are about 1/2-3/4 inches in length, not including the tails. Silverfish is the common name for species of this group whose bodies are covered with silvery scales. Immature silverfish are similar in appearance to adults but smaller. Silverfish are nocturnal and prefer to hide in cracks and crevices. They are typically found up high in a structure, usually associated with a top floor or attic setting. (Although with a severe infestation, they may be located throughout a home.). From the roof areas, they can then easily gain entrance into the insulation in void areas and into gib board with its glue and paper coating below. You often find them in skylights and ceiling soffit areas as well as the canister-type light shades in a ceiling. Silverfish are excellent climbers. They prefer areas of high temperature and high relative humidity (70-100%). They are often introduced into a building with cardboard boxes of books or papers after a move from a previously infested area. They feed upon books and bookbindings, envelopes, gummed labels, wallpaper, and wallpaper pastes. They can be serious pests for libraries and museums for these reasons. The gray silverfish is an indoor pest and transports itself throughout a structure by using the heating and air ducts.
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* Open: 5 days per week, closed Tuesday and Wednesday (except holiday periods when they may be open week-long). Legoland may also be closed during bad whether. * Retail Admission: children and seniors are $66 for two days, $53 for one day. Adult admission is $78 for two days and $63 for one day (extra charges for the water park and aquarium). * Dining: includes hamburgers, hotdogs and other specialties of the park. Gluten free, vegan and healthy alternatives are readily available. It is important to check and make sure that the theme park is open, before setting a date for your trip during winter months. Try to plan your visit during the weekdays, when Legoland will be less crowded. There are specific events and shows that you may want to plan your holiday around, such as Star Wars Days, Claws or the Pirate Reef opening. No coolers or food are allowed into the park, unless it is for a specific diet need. However, you should bring your own bottled water, which is allowed, as Legoland charges a hefty price for it.
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This is my favorite way to cook salmon on the grill. Using the cedar plank really makes the difference by allowing the salmon to soak up the smokey flavors and also providing a platform to keep the salmon from falling apart. Just be sure to use a clean untreated cedar plank. Since fresh salmon is a little pricey here I used some frozen salmon fillets that I picked up from a wholesale club and they still came out great. Although I bet fresh would have been even better. Go ahead and mix up the marinade of soy sauce, garlic, green onions, ginger, vegetable oil and rice vinegar in a bowl and then pour over the salmon fillets. Then cover and let this marinade in the fridge. I let this marinade for about four hours. Use a clean untreated cedar plank and cover it with water and let is soak for at least one hour. You'll need to put something on top of it to weigh it down so it's completely submerged. Heat up the grill and and cook these over indirect heat for about about 20 minutes until salmon flakes easily with a fork. I grilled these along with some corn on the cob. This is so easy peasy to make and tastes amazing! Soak the cedar planks for at least 1 hour in warm water. Soak longer if you have time. In a shallow dish, stir together the vegetable oil, rice vinegar, sesame oil, soy sauce, green onions, ginger, and garlic. Place the salmon fillets
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in the marinade and turn to coat. Cover and marinate for at least 15 minutes, or up to one hour. Preheat an outdoor grill for medium heat. Place the planks on the grate. The boards are ready when they start to smoke and crackle just a little. Place the salmon fillets onto the planks and discard the marinade. Cover, and grill for about 20 minutes. Fish is done when you can flake it with a fork. It will continue to cook after you remove it from the grill.
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Let Me Introduce You to A.J. Because I had so much fun with Andie – my heroine in Andromeda’s Fall – I knew I had to make a hero who could match her feistiness. A.J. is one of the Alpha’s Protectors in the Keller Dare. He’s also the one to catch Andie as she tries to break in to the Keller Compound. One of the scenes I had the … Read More Let Me Introduce You to A.J. The first book of the Shadowcat Nation series – Andromeda’s Fall – has one of my favorite heroines to write – Andromeda “Andie” Reynolds. Andie was key to this book from the very beginning. My initial idea stemmed from a single scene. I pictured a mountain lion shifter sitting high on a rock overlooking a forest. She’s there on patrol, but she has something … Read More Who Is Andromeda Reynolds?
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Cartoon time | Something to be said. I’ve been drawing some cartoons in an effort to stop looking at my screens for too many hours. Naturally none of my fine art qualifications show through this work – I’m never going to be an artist. But it is fun to get some coloured pencils out and do something with my hands – that is not typing. I don’t own any pets at the moment, so I have ‘borrowed’ some. Colleen and Tony own Kona the dog, Taylor, Kiki, Pixel and Salju. Vandal belongs to my friend Linda. They have very kindly let me use the likeness. I wanted to draw some cats initially because I like them, but not having any worried me. Then I remembered my childhood reading Garfield strips and that the cartoonist Jim Davis also didn’t have a cat because his wife was allergic. So, I guess it doesn’t matter as much if they are my cats or not. Though I doubt my scrawlings will be such a hit. In honour of Garfield and Darby Conley’s Bucky (let’s hope they are not insulted) here’s the beginnings of the Knight Towers comic strip. Who knows if they will be regular. Clickness for bigness if you’re squinting at them. Hahaha – I love your cartoons J – well drawn and made me laugh out loud. Thank you for sharing! Hahaha this is absolutely awesome!
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 contains some of the most significant changes in tax laws in more than a generation. While the full implications of the Tax Act are still coming into focus, the magnitude of these changes should cause us to reevaluate past decisions in light of changed circumstances. Current tax and market trends suggest that corporations that have in the past decided against divesting of assets or business lines should reevaluate such decisions, and may cause corporations to take a fresh look at new acquisition activity as well. Three factors stand out that justify reevaluation in light of the Tax Act. Among other changes, the Tax Act lowered the stated tax rate for C corporations from 35% to 21%. This historic shift puts the corporate tax rate at the lowest rate in over 70 years. The change in the tax rate has significant implications on potential C corporation sellers. First, lower tax rates means a corporate seller will retain a greater portion of the proceeds from the divestiture of a line of business or business unit. Because less of the purchase price will be used to pay taxes, more will be retained for other purposes. All else being constant, the effective after-tax purchase price will be higher. Thus, the change in rates shifts the cost/benefit analysis directionally in favor of a “sell” decision when compared to the same decision under prior law. Second, the lower tax rate has a secondary impact of increasing the free cash flow of many existing corporations.
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That “new” cash flow can be redirected for many purposes, including the direct funding of acquisitions. The higher cash flow also supports additional borrowing capacity that can be used to fund acquisitions. Though only three months have passed since the enactment of the Tax Act, most practitioners have noticed increased interest and activity in mergers and acquisitions. Third, the Tax Act modified the provisions for so-called bonus depreciation. Bonus depreciation refers to the accelerated depreciation that is generally available for capital expenditures made in respect of depreciable property having a recovery period of 20 years or less. Over the past 15 years, bonus depreciation has been used as an economic stimulus in a variety of different tax packages. In each of those instances, however, bonus depreciation only applied to the initial user of newly employed assets. The Tax Act increases the amount of bonus depreciation allowable from 50% to 100% for property placed in service before January 1, 2023. In addition, the Tax Act extends bonus depreciation to used property, provided that such property is acquired in an arm’s-length transaction from an unrelated party. Bonus depreciation does not generally apply to intangible assets purchased as part of the acquisition of a business (such as goodwill). The extension of bonus depreciation to cover used property may result in a tax advantage for divestiture as compared to merely continuing the operation of qualifying property, since the sale of such property will generate a depreciation deduction in the hands of the purchaser equal to the amount of the purchase
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price allocated to such assets. This benefit will generally support increased discounted cash flows for a purchase of plants and equipment, which will in turn justify a higher purchase price. Bonus depreciation is only be available for transactions treated as asset sales for federal income tax purposes. Such treatment typically applies to divestitures by corporations because the transaction is legally structured as an asset sale, or because asset sale treatment is deemed to occur (e.g., via a Section 338(h)(10) election). See your tax advisor to determine the most efficient structure for you, as asset-sale treatment may be detrimental for some sellers. How long these favorable trends last is a matter of speculation. The increase in the amount of bonus depreciation is set to be reduced by 20% each year beginning in 2024 before phasing out entirely in 2027. As mentioned, however, increasing and extending bonus depreciation has frequently been used to provide fiscal stimulus in the past. On the other hand, while the corporate tax rate change is nominally permanent, Senate Democrats recently introduced a bill in that would fund infrastructure projects in part by increasing the corporate tax rate from 21% to 25%. Because the Tax Act passed without any support from the Democratic Party, it is not unreasonable to believe that, should the Democrats gain seats in the mid-term elections, some of the benefits of the Tax Act may be revisited in the future. Due to these uncertainties, it may be wise to make use of the benefits provided by the Tax Act sooner
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rather than later, further stimulating divestiture and acquisition activity.
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For just £15 a month you can give hope to a child. 46 million children in Africa (which is nearly half the school age population), have never set foot in a classroom. Sadly, the smallest expenses are hampering the enrolment numbers at schools. We believe passionately that EVERYONE has the right to an education. It is through education that we believe that we will begin to see change in Africa. Every child at our schools benefit through the child sponsorship as some of the monthly giving supports the ongoing cost of each child being at school (2 meals a day per child, teaching staff). With the remaining money we ensure that the child’s family get extra focus on support. Upon setting up your sponsorship we will allocate a child to you. You will receive an up-to-date photo of the child, a letter or drawing (depending on age) from them and the chance to write back to them on an annual basis. GIRL POWER - Educate a Girl and you educate a generation. An educated girl results in future generations attending school and here at the Memusi Foundation we are taking steps to encourage girls to stay in education with our target that at least 50% of our children being female. If you would like to sponsor a child please follow the link to our Justgiving page to set up a monthly donation or download the form.
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I was back at the gas station in the morning for an excellent breakfast and some more map talk with the owner. It was sunny so I got a good look at the amazing views they had been telling me about last night. Lots of downhill in the morning, I dropped about 2,200 meters of elevation all told. Unfortunately it wasn't a straight drop, there were some stiff climbs thrown in that had me sweating up a storm in the heat. By the time I reached Honda it was 40 degrees. I stopped for a mango milkshake to boost my morale. Phil and I road this section a couple of months ago so from Honda to Puerto Triunfo it will be Magdalena river ride redux. The ride isn't very exciting to begin with so I just banged it out with minimal stops. Tomorrow will be more of the same. When I hit La Dorada I called it quits and got an hospedaje that has a fan in the room. This side of the mountains has a very distinct feel from the other. Aside from the heat and more obvious poverty, the cities have a chaotic spontaneity that is more reminiscent of Peru. As I was walking around the center of town a lightening bolt struck nearby, followed by ear-splitting thunder and loss of power. When the power came back on 10 minutes later everyone let out a cheer. The gas station where I've been spending my time. In the background the skeezy hotel I stayed at.
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At Glen Dhu Children’s Services we believe believe it is paramount to provide high quality child care & education that promotes a sense of belonging and wellbeing in a safe, inclusive, environment that values connections between children, families, educators and community. We advocate for the rights of the child and recognise that each child is unique with their own interests, strengths and abilities. We provide opportunities for children to build connections to ensure that they are active global citizens with shared responsibilities to their environment and community. We take an active and ongoing role in caring for our environment and our contribution to the world through a lens of sustainability. We support parents/families in their role as the first and foremost influential caregivers and teachers, with the right to make decisions about their child. We develop and maintain respectful and genuine relationships with families and collaborate in shared decision making in order to ensure that all children’s learning experiences are meaningful. Our Educators work collaboratively with children to develop nurturing and trusting relationships that allow children to feel safe, secure and supported.
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Look for Blackbird on CD Baby! From the mountains of Vermont, Wind that Shakes the Barley presents a tantalizing mixture of traditional music and folklore from the Celtic lands of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and beyond. Skellig performs music from Ireland, Brittany, Scandinavia and beyond. Members Rachel Clark and Bob DeMarco of the band Wind that Shakes the Barley join John Drury, a veteran of the Quebecois and New England folk scene. Together they blend their talents to deliver traditional music with a rich and tantalizing flavor! Otter Creek Studio offers full service multitrack recording production for independent musicians 24-track/24-bit/96kHz digital recording, full effects capability, compression, equalization, RSS 3-D panning, Roland VS 2000 work surface, Pro Tools, Sony Sound Forge, Melodyne Editor, Mastering. Art and design service: CD, liner notes, cover art. CD reproduction, duplication or replication through vendor partners. David Cavanagh’s books of poems include Falling Body (2009) and The Middleman (2003), both published by Salmon Poetry of Ireland. Simon Brooks has been spinning yarns and telling tales all his life waiting for the opportunity to tell these stories to you! ‘Just Roses’ in Kilfinane, Co. Limerick. Displaying nothing but Irish grown speciality roses this new approach is a welcome addition to the gardeners’ choice.
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Playing bystanders and party guests was supposed to be a temporary gig. It turned into a viable, and surprisingly fulfilling, way to make a living. I hesitantly walked out of the bathroom at Buddakan to be met with a small army of directors, producers, assistants, and costume designers giving me nods of approval for the outfit a wardrobe assistant had just stuffed me into. The dress was the color of bile, baggy, covered in ruffles, and zipped all the way up to my chin. I felt like I was witnessing firsthand the kind of false-positive reinforcement that lands someone on a Worst Dressed List in Hollywood. But it was my first time on a set, to film a video for Fashion Week, and I thought it best not to refute the opinions of the people who were apparently in the know about a hideous trend that had yet to hit my local T.J. Maxx. Eight years ago, I’d never have imagined I’d be playing the VIP bestie of the supermodel Coco Rocha. Or, for that matter, casually strolling by Matt Damon, pretending not to be aware of his scripted meet-cute on a New York City sidewalk. In 2009, I’d lost my job as an ad sales and marketing executive at a publishing company and was having trouble finding a new one. The recession was affecting most businesses, and unemployment had reached its highest level in 25 years; months of interviews and rejections had me searching desperately for new avenues. Unexpectedly, I’d find my first days back
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at work on a film set, as an extra. What initially seemed like a temporary gig turned into a viable, even unexpectedly stable, way to make a living while also learning the nuts and bolts of a fascinating industry. It took a while to get there. After that first onscreen fashion-video gig (a job that compensated more in pizza than in actual cash), I worked three days as an extra on a movie filming in New Jersey starring Queen Latifah and Common. I was confused and skeptical (but excited) about how simple it seemed to get work on a movie: I’d emailed a couple of candid photos to an ambiguous-sounding email address and received a terse response with a check-in number and information on when and where to show up. I arrived to find that I’d be playing a Nets fan alongside almost a thousand other people, providing stadium-worthy cheers and boos in the background of the action sequences being filmed on the basketball court below. It seemed a wild way to get off unemployment and regain some financial stability, but it worked. While I wasn’t making tons of money—on the basketball movie, I got $85 per day—I could sometimes get rate bumps based on whether I was bringing along props (a stroller, to play a young mom) or driving my own car in a scene. There were many posts I couldn’t apply for, though, unless I was a union member: specifically, stand-in jobs, which paid better (at the time, almost double the non-union extra rate).
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Stand-ins are hired based on body type, skin tone, hair color, and height; they’re meant to match an actor for lighting and camera set-ups. As the actor rehearses a scene, the stand-in watches, then goes through the motions for the camera and lighting departments while the actor gets hair, makeup, and wardrobe touchups. Did the actor drop a file? Start to dance? Open a door with their left or right hand? A stand-in mimics each detail. It’s a practice valued for its efficiency, as it saves the production time and money: By rehearsing cues, all departments are prepped to shoot as soon as an actor is deemed camera-ready. To get there, I had to find a way to join one of the two actors’ unions. I was able to buy a membership into the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and then made it my mission to find a way into the more elusive Screen Actors Guild. (In 2012, the two unions merged to create SAG-AFTRA.) The standard way was to be cast in a part with dialogue, but without an agent I was basically left with the three waiver rule—if you were lucky enough to get put on a production that was short of fulfilling their daily obligation of union hires, you could get bumped up as a union member for the day. If it happened three times, you became eligible to pay the union initiation fee and join SAG. Along the way, something that I had kept looking at as a temporary fix
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started feeling like a reasonable, reliable, longer-term solution while I plotted out my next professional move. I didn’t want to be an actor, but corporate life had lost its luster for me too, and I liked learning about this industry from the bottom up. And as it turns out, film and television were where I wanted to be, only in a different capacity: as a writer. So I used my work days as learning experiences. I asked questions of the camera department, the cinematographers, the directors. I took notes, voraciously read each new script, and paid attention to how scenes were structured on the page and then brought to life. In my sporadic downtime, I would find a quiet corner to write and pitch articles to various publications. The work of an extra or a stand-in may not be front-and-center in the way that a director or starring actor’s is, but it’s an integral part of any production, and helps provide a livelihood for many people. I met aspiring actors and folks who fell into it as I did, including a couple of teachers who’d been laid off and needed some extra money. And the feasibility of doing this sort of work regularly is only growing: As streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon double down on original programming, filming for television shows is no longer relegated to a standard nine-month network television schedule—meaning jobs like mine can be available year-round. As for me, this summer, I started pitching concepts for a television show, and I’m
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almost done co-writing a feature film. And if I’m lucky enough to sell any of it? Maybe it will serve to give someone else a job they really need—like this industry has done for me. But hopefully without that hideous dress. Danielle Sepulveres is the author of Losing It and the co-author of Too Old to Have a Major Too Young to Have a Minor. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Elle, and Pacific Standard.
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This piece is subversive twist on beauty and vanity. The grittiness of a cigarette juxtaposed with the beautiful female form. Much like vintage cigarette ads used to glamorize smoking and said it had great health benefits. When in realty the effects it has on the body are pretty ugly. But ugly doesn't sell!
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Indian Railways have said that the famous 111-year-old Darjeeling "toy train" will not lose its heritage status because of a recent decision to introduce diesel engines. The British-built 84-km long rail link connects the plains of north Bengal with the Darjeeling hills and is a Unesco world heritage site. New diesel engines are being used to supplement the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway's (DHR) vintage steam locomotives. "With the steam loco... no longer commercially viable, its tremendous tourism potential is what its owners - Indian Railways - are looking forward to cash on," a railway official told the BBC. "With the steam engines being phased out now, a 114-year-old tradition has finally has come to an end," a local hill resident, Hiren Tamang, said. "It's so much a part of the mountain scenario that hill residents feel their day is incomplete until it shows up blowing its shrill whistle," he said. To keep these memories alive, the railway authorities have decided to modify the whistle of the diesel engines to make it sound like that of the steam loco - a sound deeply embedded in the psyche of the local hill people. Nostalgia apart, sipping the famous Darjeeling tea and savouring the breathtaking view of the Himalayas on board one of the refurbished trains will still be worthwhile. "So travellers can expect a more luxurious coach, serving nothing less but the champagne of teas and other frills during the journey - reminiscent of the Raj days," a Railway official said. The replaced steam locos - the last of
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which was imported from Britain over seven decades ago - will, however, not be totally phased out. "Two century-old steam iron-maidens along with one similar iron-maiden called Linda, recently brought over from Ffestiniog Railways in Wales under an exchange programme, will be spruced up," the official said. "Since these beauties were still in fine nick, the DHR has decided to use their services for two shorter routes - one between Darjeeling and Kurseong - a 28-km run and the other between Darjeeling and Ghoom, one of the highest railway stations in the world," he said. Since its inception in 1880, the Darjeeling toy train has ferried millions including, viceroys, heads of states, kings, queens and commoners. "We are also setting up a well-equipped railway museum displaying several rare artefacts of the toy train in particular and the Indian railways in general, at a cost of nearly 2 million rupees," the official said. "With this we have tried our best to keep alive the memories of such a beautiful tradition," he said. The railways are hopeful that with the diesel-powered locomotives being able to haul more coaches, the number of passengers will grow substantially. The aim is to attract more foreign tourists and a numbers of additional steps are being taken to develop facilities in the region. Hotels, the laying of new tracks and planting of more trees en route to provide a greener overview along the entire 84-km journey are some of the ambitious plans.
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What Is Sustainable Furniture, Anyway? Start your day with SFC at COCO-MAT & learn all you need to know to have a productive day shopping across the street at NYDC! Learn what sustainability issues we impact as we make choices in furnishings, then learn some key questions to ask and answers to look for as you specify product, whether furnishings or accessories, in wood, leather, textiles, etc. Content includes an overview of Sustainable Furnishings Council's work and an impression of the popular certified sustainability training course GREENleaders, which will be taught November 9 at Parson's The New School Healthy Materials Lab. Refreshments will include fresh infused spring water, Greek Mountain Tea, coffee in a variety of flavors and, native to Greece, snacks of dried figs, and nuts.
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Fortunately for you, you can depend on our podiatrists in Humeston Iowa, to provide the very best services possible no matter what form of condition you may well be experiencing. From the moment you first contact our offices, we will treat you with dignity and respect. In your first visit, we will offer a complete evaluation of your respective current foot health. Of course, we can provide the best podiatrist in Humeston, Iowa services to other types of patients as well. When you are interested in your foot health insurance and your main care physician has suggested you can see a professional for treatment or medicine, we are going to gladly help you. Even if you have not consulted with your doctor, you can make a scheduled visit directly with the offices. This will likely expedite your services and have the feet healed faster! If you would like to feel comfortable and happy, you have to take better care of your feet. Call and request an appointment to become a patient today. Trust our podiatrists in Humeston, Iowa in addition to their highly recommended podiatrist services to get you feeling fantastic and back on your feet!
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Fueled by the belief that classic jazz feeds the heart and soul, THE HOT SARDINES are on a mission to make old sounds new again and prove that joyful music can bring people together in a disconnected world. In the last two years, the Hot Sardines have been featured at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Montreal Jazz Festival, have sold out NYC venues from Joe's Pub to Bowery Ballroom and more than 150 tour dates from Chicago to London, and have released two albums on Universal Music Classics to critical raves and a No. 1 slot on the iTunes Jazz chart in the U.S. and internationally. These mischief-makers of hot jazz have been described as "potent and assured" (The New York Times) and "simply phenomenal" (The Times, London). "Everything in our DNA is about connecting with the audience. That's where we feel most at home," says Elizabeth, of playing live with the eight-piece band (including one wildly percussive tap dancer).
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Genital cancers in women include ovarian, uterine (endometrial), vaginal and cervical cancers. All forms of these cancers are the result of the abnormal growth of cells in the genital or reproductive organs. As with any cancer, the nature and stage of the disease will be diagnosed and then Dr. Shaye, Dr. Lashkari, and Dr. Ho oversee the treatment while keeping in mind your overall wellbeing and lifestyle. Surgery may be recommended as the most viable option to stop the spread of genital cancer.
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What is AdvicePay and what do you do? AdvicePay is the payment processor built specifically for Financial Planners. AdvicePay simplifies billing by allowing for subscription billing while remaining compliant with custody regulations. All new users are offered a 14 day free trial to try AdvicePay. At the end of the 14 day free trial period, you’ll be charged the monthly AdvicePay subscription fee and automatically continue with your AdvicePay account. Why would I use AdvicePay over other popular payment processors? We only serve financial planners and we are committed to a hassle-free billing experience. AdvicePay is compliant and built from the ground up to avoid custody. What are the transaction costs on AdvicePay? How does AdvicePay save my firm time? Do my clients have to approve their subscription payments each month? AdvicePay’s subscription feature is convenient for you and your clients! Once a client enters payment information and confirms a subscription, no further action is needed! Auto payments will be made every month through your client’s bank account or credit card until you or your client cancels the subscription. The enterprise version of AdvicePay was built specifically to allow your firm to compliantly and efficiently manage one-time and recurring billing for multiple advisors. The enterprise login will allow you to fully control the AdvicePay system leveraging administrative level access to supervise all of your advisors. Are there any limits on the amount Advisor’s can bill their clients? There are no limitations to how much you can process. Which payment methods are accepted on AdvicePay? On AdvicePay,
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you can accept payments made with credit cards, debit cards, and ACH that have U.S. based billing information associated with them. In order to keep our transaction costs low American Express is not accepted. How do I receive ACH and Credit Card/Debit Card payments? All payments are automatically transferred into your bank account. ACH transactions will be deposited into your account in 7 business days. Invoices paid with credit cards and debit cards process immediately, and are deposited into your bank account within 1-2 business days. Regardless of payment type, one deposit is made into your account per day. For example, if there are multiple payments all being transferred on the same day, you will receive one lump sum into your bank account. How does AdvicePay avoid custody? AdvicePay does not give an advisor the ability to withdraw client funds without the client’s approval. When an advisor requests payment from a client, the client approves or denies the payment request in the client portal. If it is a subscription payment, the client only has to approve the request once and the remaining payments are automatically billed, however, if an advisor makes changes to the subscription the client must approve the change. This is different than other payment processors where the advisor doesn’t need client approval to withdraw their funds. Advisors never see clients’ banking or credit card information because clients enter that themselves on their client portal. What features in AdvicePay were added due to regulator concerns? One example is that we’ve added the ability for
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