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NFPA launches Policy Institute to support fire and life safety efforts

Citing the need to have an arm’s-length view on policy issues that impact fire, life and electrical safety, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has announced the launch of the NFPA Fire and Life Safety Policy Institute. The Policy Institute will study a range of issues and provide guidance and information to policymakers on the best approaches governments can take to improve safety for the citizens they serve.




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Happy it’s February by The Pioneer Woman

Is it just me, or did it feel as if January lasted 519 days? Wait, I know it’s not just me. On social media, at church, everywhere I’ve come in contact with other humans, I kept hearing the same sentiment: Please let January be over! Here on the ranch, it was a cold, wet, muddy […]






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Oscars 2021 Will Happen, the Academy Says, but We Don’t Know When




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Happy Hour Thread

Malarkey free zone.




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RiteAid BonusCash rewards for Apr 5-11, 2020 ... 20% ROI on Xbox, GameStop, Apple, Google, Netflix, Nike, Panera, Fandango, AMC, & Regal GC's

It's a bumper crop of BonusCash at your local Rite-Aid this week, with not 1, 2, 3, but 4 gaming GC's, and 1 of those gives you even more options!

  • Nike, GameStop, Netflix ... $5 BonusCash when you buy $25 of these items.*
  • Google Play, AMC Theatres, Apple AppStore/iTunes, Fandango, XBOX, Panera Bread, Regal Theatres ... $6 BonusCash when you buy $30 of these items.*

FYI, "GameStop" is a big win, because not only can you purchase (additional) XBOX, PSN, Nintendo, and Steam credit there, but you order the GC credit from their website, and get a redemption code instantly after checkout.
 
For those who are new to the "Rite-Aid wellness+ reward BonusCash" program, you'll receive the $$$ amount when you purchase the minimum amount specified. Gift-cards within the same bullet-point share the same "limit 2 offers per customer", but you can earn rewards on the other bullet-point lines as well. For example, you can purchase $25 each of GameStop & Netflix (or $50 of GameStop) ... and still be able to purchase another $60 mix of Google & Apple & XBOX, and can stagger your 4 GC purchases throughout the week.

Screenshot of 2 separate GC offers (bullet points) included here:

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Small print (at bottom of weekly ad) and BonusCash T&C's included here:
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FYI ... the limit of "2 offers per customer" is tracked by your "wellness+ rewards" account, so you'll need to limit yourself to 2 offers per line item throughout the week, and not just "2 per transaction" or "2 per day". At the time of purchase, your printed receipt will indicate how many of the "limit 2" you've met, but neither the website nor register will indicate ...

  • if you've met the limit of 2 items per BonusCash group with the current transaction, or
  • if the transaction you're about to complete exceeds the limit of 2 per week, or
  • when your BonusCash rewards will expire.

Luckily the mobile RiteAid app (and website) list your individual accumulation & cashing out on a per transaction basis, so that's a good way to keep tabs on the expiration dates, since you only get 30 days to spend the BonusCash once earned. Good luck!

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    Console Games, Merch Sale with Free Shipping and 50% Off 1 Month Uplay+ at Ubi Store

    Uplay+ service, with access to + 100 games is is 50% off for the 1st month!  Members can get unlimited access to + 100 games for $6.99
    https://store.ubi.com/us/uplayplus/
     
    Free shipping and +50% off on all physical games until April 19th. There's merch on sale as well.
    https://store.ubi.com/us/free-shipping-sale/





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    The Design Divide: Tools vs Appliances

    Talks about product design are a great tool for thinking about sociology because they show us just how much work goes into understanding our basic assumptions about the things we use everyday. Design shows us which parts of a product are absolutely essential for function, and just how much is only there for show. Small […]




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    Trump On Pence Staffer That Tested Positive For COVID19: 'I Don't Know What Happened'

    After it was revealed Friday that Mike Pence's spokesperson, who is Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, tested positive, Trump gave an illogical and moronic response to the media about her and coronavirus testing in general.

    Trump said, "She tested very good for a long period of time, and then all of a sudden today, she tested positive."

    That's the way any virus spreads, especially one as infectious as COVID-19. One day you don't have it, and the next, if you're not protecting yourself, you've got it.

    Trump said he and Pence tested negative after her results came back.

    "So she tested positive out of the blue," he said.

    A person doesn't test positive out of the freaking blue. They were contaminated by somebody else. It's Basic Science 101.

    Trump continued, "This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great."

    Trump has admitted how much he hates the idea of testing Americans in general, not because they are unreliable, but because it affects the number of cases that are reported, and makes him look bad.

    What a swell guy.

    Then he made another baffling statement that makes no sense in any reality. Trump said, "The tests are perfect, but something can happen between a test where it’s good and then something happens and all of a sudden…”

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    Mississippi: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here is the COVID-19 situation in Mississippi.




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    Tapping For Coronavirus Fears!

    By popular request, a video about ALLEVIATING YOUR CORONAVIRUS FEARS! I promise, this will make you feel better. Let’s be real, let’s be rational, and let’s release any panic we’re feeling.

    The post Tapping For Coronavirus Fears! appeared first on Gala Darling.




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    Please Support Civil Liberties and Public Policy During the Covid-19 Crisis: An Appeal from Judy Norsigian

    These challenging times require fierce, broad, and intersectional activism – which is just what Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) has been doing for the past four decades. This now-independent nonprofit, which used to be affiliated with Hampshire College, continues its unique movement-building work preparing younger activists to work on the front lines of today’s struggle for reproductive justice. Please consider supporting CLPP today with a generous donation. 

    As we know, the Covid-19 pandemic is disproportionately harming those in our communities who were already facing ... More

    The post Please Support Civil Liberties and Public Policy During the Covid-19 Crisis: An Appeal from Judy Norsigian appeared first on Our Bodies Ourselves.



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    International Firefighters’ Day: Recognizing and Supporting Firefighters in Their All-Hazards Role

    Today, May 4th, is International Firefighters’ Day. Each year on this day, firefighters are celebrated – and rightly so.   Most people have an image of firefighters clad in heavy coats, over-sized boots and sturdy helmets, rushing into




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    LEED Gold-targeted library and community park has otherworldly appeal

    Toronto-based architecture firm RDHA has completed the Springdale Library and Komagata Maru Park, a new inclusive gathering space for Brampton, a city located about 45 minutes west of Toronto. Designed as a visual contrast to the flat suburban environment, the architects created an undulating landscape of hills that is reinforced by the building’s mountainous form. Surrounded by walls of glass and solar shades, the green-roofed library is powered by geothermal energy and is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification.[...]




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    New Malware Jumps Air-Gapped Devices by Turning Power-Supplies into Speakers

    Cybersecurity researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel's Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in power supply units that come with modern computing devices. Dubbed 'POWER-SUPPLaY,' the latest research builds on a series of




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    Not Giving Up on Happiness: Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year

    The specter of plague haunts our world, and it brings with it not only the ghouls of disease and death but vast economic and social uncertainty of a sort only the most elderly among us remembers (the Great Depression and World War II). My father is 90 and when I called him a child of […]




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    APPRECIATING THOSE ON THE FRONT LINES

    Reader Joe Wolking passed along a poem I’d like to share with you. It speaks to law enforcement officers, by extension offers homage also to firefighter/paramedics and all those on the medical front during the current crisis: Freedom: By Joe Read more




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    Mississippi Blew Money For The Poor On Brett Favre And Pro Wrestlers

    By Isaac Cabe  Published: May 06th, 2020 




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    Twitter Thread: Positive Psychologist Explains Brains Tripping Out

    Alexis Hockley hooked it up with a quick and informative thread on what's potentially taking place in our brains right now, as result of the strange shift in external circumstances. Now more than ever is a time to spread that love and kindness. 






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    Mississippi: Latest updates on Coronavirus

    Here is the COVID-19 situation in Mississippi.




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    Happy 13th Birthday Closet Cooking

    Closet Cooking celebrates 13 years of sharing tasty food and recipes! The 13th year was one of the tastiest yet! I continued to explore new foods and flavours with a focus on trying to keep things quick and easy! I explored plenty of new recipes while also taking the time to update some good old...

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    The post Happy 13th Birthday Closet Cooking appeared first on Closet Cooking.





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    Episode 564 - Whopper time

    It's been a very quiet week on the news front, but things are about to kick off again and Arsenal need to start winning games. Will the trip to Dubai, some extra training and time to assess the squad allow Mikel Arteta to find the right balance? Can he get the team firing again? How long can he give Mesut Ozil and Alex Lacazette to start delivering? And does a full squad allow him to create a really competitive environment between now and May. With me to discuss all that and much more are Clive Palmer and Andrew Allen.


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    How to Increase Your Home Based MLM Business Opportunity Leads Using Articles - 6 Key Tips

    If you want to create some highly targeted leads for your home based MLM business opportunity, I recommend writing Articles. This strategy allows you to make a connection with your reader by providing valuable content to help their business.




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    How to Increase Your Home Based MLM Business Opportunity Leads Using Video - 5 Tips

    Unless you have been hiding in a cave for the last few years you can't help but to notice the online video revolution taking place. The online video industry leader YouTube is now one of the most visited websites in the world. You can take advantage of this popularity and use it to increase your home based MLM business opportunity leads. This article will give you 5 tips to do just that.




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    Do Not Buy MLM Network Marketing Leads - Use Attraction to Grow Your MLM Home Business Opportunity

    Building an mlm home business opportunity is hard work. If you run out of warm list leads you have to think of ways to get leads to keep your business growing. In these cases most will try buying mlm network marketing leads. This Article will explain why you should not do this and explain another better alternative approach.




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    MLM Network Marketing Leads - 5 Tips to Start Building Your MLM Home Business Opportunity Online

    If you look online for information to Start Building Your MLM home business opportunity Online you will be overwhelmed. This articles objective is to give you 5 high level tips that explain the Basic concepts of marketing your business online to generate your own MLM Network marketing leads.




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    4 Marketing Tips to Achieve YourNetBiz Success - The Must See YourNetBiz Opportunity Marketing Guide

    If you are new to marketing the YourNetBiz Opportunity you will soon come to see that it is not as easy as you thought. There is a lot of conflicting information and strategies. If you want YourNetBiz Success follow this guide and try and master the strategies.




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    YourNetBiz, GPT Or MLM? A Look Right Under the Bonnet of the YourNetBiz Opportunity

    I have done a lot of reading about this and most articles or bogs write 1500+ words before they even get to the point. Basically GPT stands for 'Get Paid Today'. It is a way to earn a high income in a short space of time. It is like a sprint compared to a marathon!




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    How to Use the Law of Attraction to Explode the YourNetBiz Opportunity

    Have you been researching the YourNetBiz Opportunity? or maybe you have made the investment and are still looking for ways to make your first sale? Well good news, this article will explain how you can use the law of attraction to literally explode the YourNetBiz Opportunity.




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    How Can I Really Market One of These Platinum YourNetBiz Opportunity Packages?

    So you now have a YourNetBiz Opportunity. You have invested your money and you have setup your website. Now what? Well the good news is you are in the right place my friend. This article will explain how you can focus your efforts and market the right way.




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    I had made a packing design that was approved, but not yet fully paid for. Client: We are really in...

    I had made a packing design that was approved, but not yet fully paid for.

    Client: We are really in a hurry, so please send fonts and colors you’ve used ASAP. And what software do you use to design things?  This is urgent!

    Me: What do you mean? Do you need print files? Sure, but I need to be paid before I send you the finished files.

    Client: Why do we have to pay you? This was our idea of design! I even sent you mock-up in Photoshop!




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    Just ran into this gem at a Facebook group for entrepreneurs and employment opportunities. Client:...

    Just ran into this gem at a Facebook group for entrepreneurs and employment opportunities.

    Client: Hello! My business partner and I are seeking a couple of talented writers for a new online magazine we are creating. This would be an unpaid intern position, but you can work remotely and this would also be a great opportunity to gain some exposure and writing experience. Message me if you’re interested for details.

    The comment section was breathtaking. I made some popcorn and refreshed it all night.




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    November nycdevops meetup: DevSecOps and supply chain attack

    Irina Tishelman from Sonatype will present a talk "Automate or Die - DevSecOps in the Age of Software Supply Chain Attacks" at the November 14, 2019 nycdevops meetup.

    The meetup meets at the Stack Overflow office in NYC.

    https://www.meetup.com/nycdevops/events/265281451/

    You don't want to miss this one!




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    Riled Support

    Does anyone remember watching long movies (like ‘Titanic’) on VHS tape and having to switch tapes in the middle of the movie? Like, halfway through the movie it would just stop, and you would have to get up and find the second VHS tape to watch the second half of the movie? Oof, and sometimes […]






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    Happy Holidays, all!

    Thanks to Crayola for animating one of my Broken Crayon pieces! Special thanks to Crayola's Kate Loffio for being so supportive of me and my work.

    Meanwhile, I am sooooooo excited about the upcoming launch of GURPLE & PREEN, a broken crayon picture book written by Linda Sue Park and illustrated by me, published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers! I'll be posting more info on my Broken Crayon resource page when it's available.

     




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    German contact-tracing app to be rolled out in mid-June




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    A whopper

    Don’t ask me why Penrose didn’t just throw that thing back into the sea. Maybe he just thinks it’d be safer all round to be certain that the damn thing stayed dead.




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    Happy as a clam

    Happy as a clam? Dropped a dime? I think these two have been reading too many hard boiled detective novels.




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    FDA approves ventilator designed by particle physics community

    Led by Princeton’s Cristian Galbiati, a massive international team worked to design, test and finalize the Mechanical Ventilator Milano (MVM), a low-cost ventilator designed to ease device shortages caused by COVID-19.




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    Don’t Miss Networking Opportunities

    A lot of us will know someone who never seems to be without work or opportunities. I've met a few people like this. One friend in particular always managed to get himself into situations that proved advantageous. I noticed he was always making phone calls and receiving phone calls from people I wouldn't consider to […]



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    Sea level rise is speeding up, says Princeton climatologist Michael Oppenheimer

    Princeton's Michael Oppenheimer spoke on CBS's "60 Minutes" about the threat posed by rising sea levels to many cities, including UNESCO World Heritage Site Venice, Italy.




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    For The Animation Industry, The Coronavirus Crisis Has Created A Big Opportunity

    In a guest piece, industry executive Aaron Simpson explains how the animation industry had been preparing for this disaster for decades without even knowing it.

    The post For The Animation Industry, The Coronavirus Crisis Has Created A Big Opportunity appeared first on Cartoon Brew.