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You could be facing problems if you currently have dentures or perhaps a dental bridge. They usually slip out of the mouth most of the time, and the only option you should consider is having dental implants. Following this, we’ve collected some tips and advice to assist you make a decision about dental implants.
For many people, losing teeth harms their confidence far more than it harms their health. When you stop smiling in order to hide your tooth loss, you’ll feel your entire attitude about yourself and towards others change for the worse. If you begin to lose confidence in social settings, you could eventually isolate yourself and suffer from severe loneliness. Dental implants can restore the same smile and confidence you had before losing teeth.
Not only will dental implants preserve your bone, but they may also promote the natural growth of new bone. Dentures can fall out or move around in your mouth because they’re not implanted. Dental implants present no such problems and look, feel, and function much like natural teeth.
Whether you’re missing a tooth or several teeth, dental implants can potentially provide a great solution for you. Dental implants have many more advantages over other dental procedures to mask or replace lost teeth than just the ones listed. Dental implants are strong enough to deal with anything your permanent teeth can and more. Since they are produced using high caliber, sturdy materials, you won’t need to stress over building up a cavity in your embedded tooth.
Be aware that your implants may require adjustment over time. Maintaining dental implants becomes easier if you’re under the care of a dentist who has skills. As long as you care for your implants according to instructions given by your dentist, you could expect them to last for the rest of your life. The implantation procedure is finally a permanent solution to missing teeth.
If you’re looking for a solution for a single missing tooth, then you definitely should consider a mini implant. This is also a great choice if you do not want traditional implants or if you have dentures and just want some additional support. Implants are permanent, and require the same daily care that you already provide to your natural teeth. This is in contrast to traditional dentures and even bridges, which should be completely replaced throughout the patient’s lifetime.
When considering a dental implant, ensure that your dentist has the appropriate experience. A well-trained and knowledgeable dentist in the field of implants can deliver amazing results. A great dentist may also keep up with the newest technology to assist your experience be as successful as possible. Knowing you’re in good hands will make your dental implant experience a relaxing one. | 2019-04-20T04:17:26Z | https://www.marcodentalcare.com/cost-implants-dental-cheap-4-on-all-crown-cerec-ceramic-dentistry-implant-for-center/ |
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Authors from both of these books will be joining me in the South of France in a couple of weeks time for my Stories With Soul Life Writing weekend. But there are a few spots still open to other authors (and aspiring authors) too.
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Everybody tells me that the best thing I can do as a writer is write a series.
I can understand why. You get your reader hooked and then they’ll keep coming back, wanting to know exactly what happens next. You get them to build up a strong relationship with your characters, so they’ll really care about what happens to them. It makes complete sense.
I’m just not quite sure if I can do it.
The first is that I have a really short attention span. By the time I’m halfway through something, my mind is already moving on to something new. I can barely keep the focus to work on one individual book, let alone a major project that involves three or more books.
The other problem relates to the way I develop my stories. As I’ve mentioned before, I call myself a plontser – which is something halfway between a plotter and a pantser. I usually have a broad idea about where my story is going, but I’m constantly filling in the details and making up a lot of stuff as I go.
This means that, especially with first drafts, I change my mind a lot as I go. If you read any of my first drafts, you’ll see how things change, maybe even characters and their names change, from chapter to chapter. It’s something that I gradually tidy up during the rewriting process.
But imagine if I did this with a story that spanned multiple books. Halfway through book three, I’d realise that there were a bunch of things wrong with book one that I’d want to change. Only problem is, by this time book one is most likely done and dusted.
Clearly, the only way I could manage this process was if I didn’t release any books until the whole series was done. This would mean constant re-editing of all books. I’m not sure I could handle that.
Having said that, I am having a go at a series of a sort. Once I get my third Neville Lansdowne story out (tentatively titled Scrawling), I’ll have three volumes of Neville. I suppose it’s kind of a series, even though each story basically stands on its own. I’m not sure if there’s some sort of a rule I’m breaking there as far as series definition goes – and I don’t really care anyway.
So I’m continuing to churn ahead with Neville’s new adventures – and I’m not looking back at his old ones. We’ll see where he takes me next. | 2019-04-18T22:43:35Z | http://www.jonathangouldwriter.com/full-steam-ahead-and-no-going-back/ |
Intervening during an Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Maina Kiai, at the ongoing 23rd Session of the Human Rights Council on Thursday, Sri Lanka’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Manisha Gunasekera said “while Sri Lanka agrees that access to resources is important for the vibrant functioning of civil society, we observe that Kiai does not seem to adequately take into account “the negative impact of lack of or insufficient regulation of funding of associations on national security and counter-terrorism”.
Gunasekera recalled challenges faced by Sri Lanka where “front organisations of the LTTE posing as legitimate civil society organisations and charities based overseas formed part of a complex international terrorist network which through various means injected the funding and resources needed to nurture the 30-year terrorist conflict in Sri Lanka.
These are actual situations and experiences which the Rapporteur should take cognizance of to provide a balanced and pragmatic assessment on the subject of funding of associations and counter-terrorism, she said.
The statement: “We note the reference made by the Special Rapporteur to the desirability of permitting the flow of unhindered funds to associations. Kiai refers to the transparency and accountability argument being often used by governments to place limitations on funding of NGOs.
“While we agree that access to resources is important for the vibrant functioning of civil society, we observe that Kiai does not seem to adequately take into account the negative impact of lack of or insufficient regulation of funding of associations on national security and counter-terrorism. While Kiai expresses the view that civil society organisations play a significant role in combatting terrorism, it has been Sri Lanka’s experience as a country that defeated one of the most ruthless terrorist organisations in the world, that certain NGOs and associations can also play a fundamental role in feeding terrorism and conflict.
“For example, front organisations of the LTTE posing as legitimate civil society organisations and charities based overseas formed part of a complex international terrorist network which through various means injected the funding and resources needed to nurture the 30 -year terrorist conflict in Sri Lanka.
These are actual situations and experiences which the Rapporteur should take cognisance of in order to provide a balanced and pragmatic assessment on the subject of funding of associations and counter-terrorism. “Sri Lanka therefore notes that in actuality, regulation, transparency and accountability of funding to NGOs and NPOs is a pre-requisite in the interest of national security and counter-terrorism as recognized by states. In this regard, we highlight the obligation placed on states to adhere to the regulatory framework all countries are expected to put in place in compliance with 40 Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force, which makes it mandatory to monitor fund transfers of all financial institutions inclusive of NPOs and INGOs (associations) and other financial institutions, in countering financing of terrorism, money laundering or other related trans-national crimes.
“We agree with the Special Rapporteur that the ability to hold peaceful assemblies is a fundamental and integral component of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly.
In this context we note that the enjoyment of rights pertaining to the freedom of expression, of peaceful assembly and of association, are fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution to all citizens of Sri Lanka, subject only to strictly defined restrictions set out in the Constitution which the Supreme Court has vigorously applied.
“While peaceful assembly including demonstrations is permitted under the law, law enforcement authorities retain the right to disperse such assembly in the event it ceases to be peaceful and impinges on the rights of others, particularly in instances where such demonstrations lead to disturbance of public tranquility. | 2019-04-22T15:55:42Z | https://www.spur.asn.au/2013/06/04/sri-lanka-tells-hr-council-session-make-ingos-accountable/ |
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A series of public scandals tested America’s faith in its experts during the 1960s and 1970s. Watergate and the government’s mismanagement of the Vietnam War are only the most memorable episodes. The crisis in authority was widespread and affected multiple facets of expert culture from politics to science, but its effects upon regulatory agencies, health professionals, and food scientists are of particular interest. First, there were the cancers caused by thymus irradiation. Then the estimated five million pregnant women who—acting on their physicians’ advice—took the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES) to avert miscarriage and preterm labor, only to discover later on that it severely deformed the reproductive organs of their unborn children. Then there was the swine flu fiasco and the sulfa drugs that gave people kidney stones. There was also the milk formula that was supposed to be better than mother’s milk, but which contained so little vitamin B6 that it caused convulsions and brain damage. Headline after headline suggested that perhaps the experts entrusted with the health of the American people were not doing a very good job. What if the experts meant well but did not really know what they were doing? Or worse: What if the experts did not mean well at all? What if they could not be trusted to work towards the common good? What if the experts were in fact in league with special interests whose aims were at cross-purposes with the public good? In the 1962 bestseller Silent Spring, Rachel Carson argued that government scientists entrusted with the public welfare were shirking their responsibilities and allowing private interests to poison the earth and sky. The book sparked a vitriolic debate over the merits and demerits of the widespread use of agricultural chemicals.
The controversy surrounding Carson’s Silent Spring launched two of the most influential, and most uniformly white middle-class movements of the late twentieth century: the environmental movement and the natural health movement. There were precursors, of course. For instance, Jerome Rodale—who actually coined the term organic in 1942 —made the same argument and raised all of the same concerns about pesticides and herbicides in his organic farming classics, Pay Dirt (1945) and The Organic Front (1948), which were both published long before Silent Spring (1962). Rodale reiterated the same concerns throughout the 1940s in Organic Farming magazine and its successor, Organic Gardening and Farming. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he hammered away at the same themes in numerous books, and in his health magazine, Prevention. Even so, for the most part, Rodale’s message had fallen on ears still attuned to the authority of experts. His ideas, as well as his publications, existed at the fringes of mainstream American society.
Rodale was nevertheless well placed after 1962 to focus the public outrage unleashed by Silent Spring. Carson lacked the will and the means to institutionalize her dissent. Moreover, she died of cancer less than two years after the publication of Silent Spring. Rodale, on the other hand, was in good health and had already amassed a small fortune, the result of several successful entrepreneurial ventures. He had two established monthly magazines as well as a publishing house, Rodale Press, which allowed him to get his message out to the health-conscious subculture on a regular basis. Prevention magazine was where all sorts of unorthodox health writers vetted their new ideas and wrote monthly columns that paid the bills; Rodale Press—located in Emmaus, Pennsylvania—also published many of their books when no one else would touch them. When an influential member of the natural health movement wanted to get out a message to the health conscious, he or she did it in Prevention. While Rachel Carson must therefore be credited with initiating the public debate that transformed the concerns of a quirky subculture into the ideology of a movement, it is Jerome Rodale, more than anyone else, who created and maintained the institutions that grew the natural health movement from a passing fad into a political and cultural force to be reckoned with.
Along with an institutional framework, Jerome Rodale possessed an aversion to expert culture that made him particularly attractive to a significant segment of the American population that was growing skeptical of expert opinion. Unlike so many health gurus past and present, he did not buy a mail order PhD, nor did he pretend to have any kind of specialized training in the science of nutrition. Adolphus Hohensee and Carlton Fredericks were not nearly as scrupulous. Hohensee, a health reformer whose popularity peaked in the late 1940s and early 1950s, described himself as a PhD in nutrition. He did have a doctorate. But it was worthless in the eyes of his would-be colleagues, for he had purchased it from a shady, unaccredited institution.
Carlton Fredericks, famous for his syndicated radio show “Good Health,” also pretended to have specialized training in nutrition, but he did so in a way that must have pleased his lawyer. Fredericks reinvented himself as a nutritionist soon after he legally discarded the name he was born with (Harold Frederick Caplan). A prolific writer of articles and books from the early 1950s until his death in 1987, Fredericks made a point of putting a PhD after his name. He studiously failed, though, to specify the discipline within which he had completed his graduate work. He wrote on nutrition extensively—and described himself as “a nutritionist” —so his readers assumed that he was a professionally trained nutritionist. This was not the case. His formal training was neither in medicine nor nutrition, but rather communications.
Jerome Rodale never felt it necessary to engage in this kind of duplicity. He did, like Fredericks, change his name (he was born Jerome Irving Cohen). But this was not an uncommon thing for an American Jew to do in the first half of the twentieth century. Aside from the name, Rodale was who he said he was. He flaunted his lack of formal education. His charm lay precisely in his down-to-earth persona. He was the little guy who made up for his lack of degrees with an extra helping of commonsense; a feisty, unpolished, five-foot-six-and-a-half-inch tall New York City Jew who refused to go on blindly trusting an Anglo-Protestant establishment that seemed to be doing such a terrible job. The emperor had no clothes, and he was going to shout it from the rooftops.
Before Prevention magazine arrived on the scene in 1950, the leading health magazine in the United States had only 10,000 subscribers. But Prevention’s first edition went out to 50,000 paid subscribers, making it—from its inception to the present day—by far the most widely read health magazine in America. Ever the astute businessman, Jerome Rodale had been drumming up support for his new venture months in advance. Subscriptions rose steadily in the 1950s and 1960s, reaching just over 400,000 in late 1969. The pace picked up considerably in the early 1970s. Between January 1970 and March 1971, subscriptions doubled to 800,000; by July of that same year, they had cleared the one million mark. Four years later, in 1975, subscription numbers had grown to one and a half million, and the magazine was being read by over four and a half million Americans a month. By decade’s end, in 1980, Prevention was going out to well over two million people a month, with an estimated readership of at least six million. Ten years later, in 1990, it had just over three million paid subscribers and a readership of close to eight million. In 2008, Prevention was reaching more than ten million readers a month, making it the eleventh largest magazine in the United States, and, by a significant margin, the country’s top health title. Furthermore, Prevention became the most widely read health magazine in the world, with editions in dozens of countries, including Finland, Poland, and twenty-two Latin American nations.
The dramatic upsurge in Prevention’s circulation numbers during the early 1970s corresponds remarkably well with a striking increase in public support for the natural health movement’s ideas, industries, and institutions. The demand for wheat germ, vitamin E (extracted from wheat germ oil), sunflower seeds, pumpkins seeds, ascorbic acid (the synthetic form of vitamin C), fish livers (a source of vitamin A), and other health-food products, had grown so large by the early 1970s that it often outstripped supply. Likewise, more and more Americans joined health clubs during this period, engaged in regular exercise, and worried about pesticides, herbicides, and food additives. With the natural health movement, the anti-nuclear movement and, to a lesser extent, the environmental movement, Americans began to put together new kinds of social movements, ones with weak or fragmented institutional structures and enormous diversity, but held together by a few fundamental principles, a connection to personal lifestyle, and a skillful use of the means of communication.
The Rodales benefited greatly from the expansion of the natural health movement. And as the family fortune grew, so did their power and influence within the movement as a whole. Advertising in Prevention magazine became a necessity for any business that wanted to help meet the multimillion-dollar demand for vitamins and other food supplements. The magazine’s position as more or less the only game in town allowed the Rodales to keep the price of advertising high. In 1974, a one-page advertisement in Prevention cost between five and six thousand dollars, a great deal of money for a publication of its size. Ten years later, in 1984, a full-page black-and-white advertisement cost $15,047; the same page in color went for $26,550, while the highly visible back page cost $34,500. Advertisers clearly believed that they were getting a good return on their investment, for each edition of Prevention contained between sixty and one hundred pages of advertising out of a total of about two hundred pages. Prevention’s power and influence permitted its publisher, Robert Rodale, to command these handsome sums; it also allowed the magazine’s editors to keep its advertisers on a short leash, policing content in ways that would have made advertisers in other industries cringe in horror.
Getting on the wrong side of the editorial staff of Prevention magazine was tantamount to financial suicide for a vitamin manufacturer. Thus, while other magazines coddled their advertisers—removing offensive articles, firing offensive writers—Prevention magazine could (and did) dictate strict guidelines, to which its advertisers were obliged to adhere. Each month the editors ran a page-long column that piously discussed their exacting advertising policy. Rodale Press even went so far as to hire a private laboratory to spot check the products advertised in Prevention and ensure their strength and purity. Any advertiser found wanting was banned from advertising in Prevention. This stern approach towards advertisers reflects the character of the magazine’s founder.
Jerome Rodale was enthusiastic, quick-tempered and impulsive, and he was anything but careful and measured in his writings. Beyond the class and cultural motives that fueled Rodale’s assault on expert authority was a more visceral fear of death by heart attack. As the youngest child in a family with a serious propensity toward heart disease, he stood by and watched cardiac arrest kill most of his immediate family at relatively young ages. For obvious reasons this experience informed much of his obsession with health and wellness. Rodale claimed to live according to a rigorous regimen that included healthy organic food and plenty of exercise—and for the most part, he probably did. Nevertheless, it is hard to believe that he was quite as virtuous as he claimed to be. Photographs of him taken throughout his life suggest that his adherence to the Spartan ideal was spotty and subject to a fair amount of backsliding. He was not always the picture of health. Pudgy often, and sometimes downright overweight, Jerome Rodale had a prominent double chin, which was hidden from late middle age on by his signature goatee. An awareness of his own weakness and susceptibility to temptation could, perhaps, have been precisely what fueled Rodale’s apostolic fury. Regardless, while he was at the helm, a sense of urgency and anger pervaded Prevention magazine. This changed noticeably when his son Robert took over in 1971. Prevention became more respectable. | 2019-04-23T20:19:21Z | https://committingsociology.com/2016/02/27/jerome-rodale-and-the-founding-of-prevention-magazine/ |
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If You Leave is Daughter’s celebrated debut album. A bold first move for a young act whose songwriting displays a maturity that belies their youth. Darkness may prevail on If You Leave, but the future looks extremely bright for Elena, Igor and Remi. | 2019-04-20T17:16:57Z | https://4ad.com/releases/643 |
At Connecticut Children’s Healthy Homes Program, we work year-round to raise awareness about the impact of lead poisoning on children, which triggers poorer developmental and health outcomes with effects that linger for a lifetime. We also take extra steps to get our message out to children and families during Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, which ran from October 22-28.
We hosted community outreach events throughout the week at the Community Health Center at Connecticut Children’s primary care clinic on New Britain Avenue in Hartford. During such events, our lead safety experts greet families in the lobby as they wait for their children to see a primary care physician.
When we host outreach events like these, our goal is to educate families about the dangers of lead while also encouraging them to get children tested for lead poisoning during their primary care visit through a simple blood test. We also provide families with information about how they can get their homes tested for lead exposure, as well as other environmental or safety hazards.
Healthy Homes works with community partners; local and state agencies; and utilities to improve living conditions for the families we serve. We provide inspections for lead and safety hazards in homes, as well as plans to correct the problems. We also provide financial assistance for remediation and relocation assistance while the work is underway. To date, Healthy Homes has made more than 3,140 housing units lead safe and healthy.
Our services are now available to property owners and tenants in 17 Connecticut communities. Our eligibility requirements and application are accessible online.
Childhood lead poisoning is 100 percent preventable. The key is to educate families about the risks and empower them to recognize hazards in their homes and take steps to correct them.
Luis Alvarado is the program coordinator for Connecticut Children’s Healthy Homes Program. | 2019-04-22T06:25:44Z | https://advancingkids.org/2017/10/26/raising-awareness-about-lead-poisoning/ |
Based in Corndale, in the Byron Bay Hinterland, New South Wales, Corndale Grove is an organic and biodynamic farming business, producing a range of food products including eggs, lamb and vegetables. Martlette was proud to develop a visual brand identity for Corndale Grove that reflected their passion for farm fresh organic and biodynamic produce.
The research phase of this logo design project was the most important part of the process, ensuring that future needs for packaging were considered, while focusing on the need to communicate organic and ‘farm to table’ feeling to the brand. The result was a suite of logo artwork in a range of organic inspired colours to support a range of farm produce. The logo itself speaks of the well known location of Corndale Grove, featuring the five landmark silos on the hill top. Supported by a strong but friendly typeface, the logo design has been met with warmth and praise by both the client and its regular customers surround Byron Bay, New South Wales.
Martlette was also engaged to design the new egg carton label for Corndale Grove, featuring the new logo and images that capture the essence and quality of the product.
LOGO DESIGN. PRINT DESIGN. PACKAGING DESIGN. BYRON BAY, NEW SOUTH WALES. | 2019-04-26T08:15:25Z | https://www.martlette.com.au/project/corndale-grove |
Mr. Zhu Kang-Jian, CEO of Borche Machinery Co. Ltd., believes that Epicor has provided them with first class software services. He explains how choosing an ERP system is equal to selecting a method to run a business. Just one year after implementing Epicor ERP, their revenue doubled. Kang-Jian feels that Epicor has given him wings to become the most vigorous industry leader, not only in China but also in the world. | 2019-04-26T14:01:14Z | https://www.epicor.com/en-sg/resource-center/videos/erp-software-success-stories-borche-asia/ |
“The people complained against God and Moses” (Num. 21:5). It is easy to relate to the recently liberated slaves as they tried to adjust to their new status. Like them, we, too, grumble and complain. Like them, we ultimately attribute the blame for our lack of happiness on God. Grumbling erodes the bond of unity within a community and poisons the heart. Saint Benedict saw the danger and firmly legislates against it: “First and foremost, there must be no word or sign of the evil of grumbling, no manifestation of it for any reason at all. If, however, anyone is caught grumbling, let him undergo more severe discipline” (R.B. 34:6-7). It is reasonable to say that we have been complaining against God from the beginning of our existence, just like our desert-crossing ancestors of faith. When we mummer, or grumble, or complain we place our will over God’s. That’s when we get bitten! Whenever, like our ancestors in the wilderness, we come to our senses, we can find the cure. Having been brought to our knees, we are invited to lift our eyes to the Savior, who was lifted up on the Cross.
Every night, we chant the Salve. A line from that beautiful devotion identifies us with the freed slaves of Egypt: “To thee (Mary) do we send up our sighs, Mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.” It was for our sake that the Word became Flesh. Out of love for us, was lifted high on the cross so that we who have murmured against God might be forgiven. The Israelites raised up their eyes to the heights and were healed, if we look to Christ lifted up on the cross we shall be given eternal life. To focus on God’s loving care and infinite mercy towards us calls forth a response of humble thanks on our part. Let’s pray together that we remember in humble gratitude the ups and downs of human living.
Lord, our God, help us to open ourselves to the glory and joy of your constant presence to us. Keep us faithful in experiencing your magnificent gifts of grace that you shower on us. Be with us even as we whine about how difficult life is and call us to deep gratitude for your constancy and faithfulness to us. | 2019-04-20T18:36:48Z | https://www.geneseeabbey.org/april-9-2019/ |
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The 2013 NFL Playoffs ended this Sunday with the Seattle Seahawks dismantling the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII. Percy Harvin's kickoff return for a touchdown and two interceptions of Peyton Manning passes were too much for the best offense in the NFL to overcome. Those three plays were all huge, but the entire playoffs were full of big moments, from last-minute kicks to one of the best comebacks in NFL history. Click through the slideshow to remember, through photos, how it all went down. | 2019-04-24T01:56:20Z | https://www.stack.com/a/2014-nfl-playoffs |
Want to be able to gather feedback on a specific, large event or campaign you recently launched or simply to gauge the current temperature with regard to how parents feel about you and your staff?
You can do all this and more by conducting surveys using NET PROMOTER SCORE.
Conducting surveys can either be simple or complicated depending on the type of feedback you are looking to solicit. Regardless, the information you collect about your students and parents’ behavior, opinions, and their needs will go a long way in assisting you with your next course of action as it relates to addressing their needs and concerns. By asking them directly, you are going straight to the primary source of information which is indisputable, more so than relying on secondary sources such as documents or records.
There are numerous tools and methods available for collecting survey data. One to consider that will allow you to effectively gauge your school community’s feelings and opinions is the Net Promoter Score (NPS) system.
On a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being the highest, what is the likelihood that you would recommend us (our school) to a friend or colleague?
Have you ever asked this question before? You probably have, more times than you can remember. It may seem like a simple question, but the reason why it’s so familiar is because of the concept behind it.
The question is part of the Net Promoter Score system, which was developed by Fred Reicheld and Bain & Company back in 2006 and has been widely used by most companies and schools like yours ever since. It’s also been recognized for its effectiveness in that it uses simple questions in the form of a survey to have people rate their interest (or the lack of it) through a numerical system.
NPS has several values associated with the range of numbers the respondents answer, and thus offers a similarly broad insight into customers’ sentiments.
Due to its simplicity, your respondents are more likely to answer since it doesn’t take up much of their time nor do they need to write anything too lengthy. And for you, the evaluators, it’s also very simple to calculate since you have one simple formula to work with.
• Promoters (scored 9-10): These are your loyal families who are enthusiastic about your school and also candidates for retention. They will refer your school to other parents, which is a source of growth for you and your school.
• Passives (scored 7-8): These are your satisfied families, but not as enthusiastic about your school. If not attended to properly, they are vulnerable to leave or direct their attention to your competitor schools.
• Detractors (scored 0-6): These are your unsatisfied, unhappy families who can harm your school’s reputation. They have the potential to spread negative word-of-mouth about your school and deter its growth.
On average, if your school is doing poorly, you can get a low score of -100. This rare, unfortunate case means that your parent respondents are all Detractors. Yes, you might consider breaking the glass on that red box at this point.
In contrast, if your school is performing perfectly, you can achieve 100, which means all your parent respondents are very satisfied and which makes them all your Promoters. It’s confetti and balloons for you and your staff, then.
NPS is one of many tools for measuring Customer Satisfaction and is used mainly by industries that focus on it. It is an extensive system that requires procedures with different objectives that may not be applicable to the education sector. We can adopt its methodology through its survey questions and scoring without having to enroll in its corporate evaluation program and measure what is relevant for our schools.
What does NPS measure, exactly? It focuses on your customers’ satisfaction. In other words, your current parents. By being able to gauge their opinion of your school on a scale, through NPS parents can provide feedback on your school, or your brand’s, performance. As a result, NPS can be a valuable tool in providing feedback for policy review.
Are the effects of Word of Mouth marketing (WOMM) qualifiable? If you’ve ever sought out recommendations from friends and colleagues to influence you in your purchasing decisions, you’re undergoing the processes of a WOMM strategy. Over 83% of consumers rely on personal recommendations, and most claim that it is quite a dependable form of advertisement. With your NPS results, you’ll be able to assess if your WOMM strategy is working or not. You may also try to win your Detractors over by having your Promoters perform a WOMM campaign focused on them.
We've discussed Word of Mouth Marketing quite extensively in several of our blogs. If you want to catch up on it, you can download our Ultimate Guide to Word of Mouth Marketing for Private Schools. You can also view our infographic about WOMM facts and recommendations in implementing it for your private school.
Since customer satisfaction directly relates to your school’s growth, make sure your parents and students’ Customer Experience is always addressed. NPS is a factor behind 20-60% of the variation in organic growth rates between competitors, and your customers’ loyalty should always be paramount.
To ensure this, you should always be measuring NPS, if you are able to. Track whether your current parents will be likely to refer your school to other parents. Establish an overview of whether they are fans or, better yet, promoters of your school.
In aiming for a positive experience for your parents and students, this unites your staff in striving to project and deliver better experiences for them. In a way, this creates a common goal that benefits their outlook, as well as morale, benefitting your school’s reputation.
A 2017 Gallup study reported that 67% of US employees were actively disengaged at their jobs. Since this affects the company’s performance and revenue and overall growth, giving them a clear goal to work for will shift its focus. If your entire staff strives to reach your school’s mission and strategies, they’ll be more engaged and committed.
NPS measures your customers’ loyalty while providing your staff with guidelines on strengthening theirs, as well.
Here at Schola, we’ve performed surveys in all of our client schools throughout the year. We see to it that our surveys incorporate questions for NPS, as well as several that complement them, to arrive at in-depth results.
Brief and train your staff on ways on how to engage with your customers. Ask each department to participate, notably admissions and marketing. Your admissions people should improve their communication with potential parent enrollees. Meanwhile, make sure your marketing people are creating strategies on how to draw and excite more potential parents about your school.
Ask your Promoters to share their positive experiences on social media. Encourage engagement by conducting polls, or asking questions. You should also consider that social media platforms usually have survey applications that you can use for your NPS campaign.
Parents will appreciate any and all the attention you can give them. Make them feel you value their opinion. Ask your Promoters for their suggestions, with emphasis on what they think can be done differently. In the same vein, your Detractors may have important criticisms that you need to hear. There’s no better source for it, and there is no better solution than by giving them extra care and attention.
Train your front office staff to be more pleasing when they talk to your parents and students, in person or when they answer the phone or reply to e-mails. This applies to all your staff, but especially those whose tasks involve direct customer relations.
Even with successful WOMM campaigns, you’ll still get low NPS ratings if you ignore feedback and fail to improve the quality of your services. You can conduct focus groups and talk to individual parents to determine and address these as soon as you can.
The Net Promoter Score may be a simple tool but its effectiveness lays in its simplicity. When used with other survey questions, tools, and metrics, you’ll increase its potential to offer you a deeper insight into what your school needs to improve in order to get higher NPS ratings. You and your staff will also understand the importance of tracking your performance using this system, as this will serve as your guideline for increasing Promoters and recovering Detractors. You’ll be able to track your customers’ loyalty, too.
There's a reason as to why NPS is still trusted and used today by large, successful companies, as well as startups and those in the education sector. Its simplicity to implement and interpret keeps it on top of the list in determining customers’ satisfaction. While it should not be the only metric you can use as a basis for your school’s enrollment and marketing strategies, it definitely should be a part of it. | 2019-04-21T15:03:41Z | https://www.schoolinboundmarketing.com/blog/introducing-net-promoter-score-to-help-your-school-grow |
Order online for delivery and takeout: 81. Scallion w. Garlic Sauce from Jumbo Chinese & Japanese - Suffern. Serving the best Asian fusion in Suffern, NY. | 2019-04-25T19:55:29Z | https://www.jumbosuffern.com/order/main/menu/81-scallion-w-garlic-sauce |
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A beautiful collection of new baby gifts, including handpicked luxury products & personalised items from small creative businesses and individuals. Making ideal new baby gifts, christening presents and unique baby shower gifts. | 2019-04-24T12:15:53Z | https://www.teyboutique.com/collections/new-arrivals |
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Treat your things well and teach your child to do the same. Explain that you work hard to purchase the items you all enjoy. Your time and effort is valuable.
Encourage entrepreneurship. Kids can sell their unwanted toys or clothes online or in the driveway (with your help, when they’re young), walk dogs, or come up with their own money-making venture. Watch Shark Tank together for ideas and a healthy dose of reality.
Talk about financial values. Be open about what you think is right and wrong about money but be respectful of your child’s emerging perspective.
Teach your child to pay - early. Even a kindergartner can buy a drink at a cafe. On days when no one else is in line, let him or her order and hand the money over. Explain how to count the change and drop the right gratuity in the tip jar. This process should not be a mystery by the age of ten.
Give a tax lesson. When you get a store receipt, show your child the line item for sales tax and tell him where that money goes. Explain that some of what you earn goes to the federal government, too. Roads, fire stations, defense, and schools are financed this way.
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My older children had this cash register and loved it.
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Dropprice is an innovative startup that rewards moms for being social. Essentially, they empower moms to drop prices of kids & baby products with a click. The price continues dropping as more moms click “Drop the price”. Every week new promotions are launched and moms drop prices by sharing them on social media. See the chart below to understand the power moms have and how important it is to share with other moms. In today’s promotion for the PackIt Bags, it started out at $45.00 and for each mom that clicks, the price drops a bit. The price will continue to drop for each mom that participates.
All you have to do is help moms drop the price of the PackIt Bags and you will be entered to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Just click “Drop the price” on the entry form below for a chance to win. For even more entries, share it on your social media networks via the entry form — every time one of your friends also clicks to drop the price, you’ll automatically receive additional giveaway entries! This giveaway ends on 4/26/2017; you must be a US Resident and be 18 years or older to enter. Winners are randomly selected and contacted via email; the winners will be listed at the top of the entry form when the giveaway ends. Click here if you don’t see the entry form below.
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This giveaway ends on 4/26/2017; you must be a US Resident and be 18 years or older to enter. Winners are randomly selected and contacted via email; the winners will be listed at the top of the entry form when the giveaway ends.
I have never really been into Lugz but I have to say I would wear these.
When we moved we stored our scale in the storage unit so we had been without one for quite a while. Having a scale helps me to keep an eye on my weight and also have it available for when my girls would like to use it.
I like that I don't have to tap on this scale I can just get right on and it will weigh me. The EatSmart Precision Digital Scale is slotted at weighing up to the 400lbs which is perfect for our needs. This scale also includes a body measuring tape which is nice if you are building muscle or losing fat. It was a nice extra that goes hand in hand with having a scale.
The tempered glass looks great with any decor and easily slips under your bathroom sink if you have a small bathroom. This does weigh in both pounds and kilograms so it is always your choice which you would like to use.
This takes 4 AAA batteries to run it but they are included which is nice when you want to set it up and use it right away. No learning curve in using this simple scale. Just put batteries in choose pounds or kilograms and then step on for your weight.
The EatSmart Precision Digital Scale is available on Amazon.
What EatSmart has to say about their product.
Disclosure: MarksvilleandMe received one or more of the products mentioned above as part of a promotion with Tomoson and EatSmart. Regardless, MarksvilleandMe only recommends products or services we use personally and believe will be good for our readers. Some of the links in the article may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive compensation. If you would like MarksvilleandMe to review a product or service please contact us at marksvilleandme@gmail.com.
I am so glad I was able to get this watch. It is so much better in person then the pictures could show. It is water resistant to 3m 3atm. The pink numbers with the hearts and rhinestones really make this watch pop. It comes packaged for gift giving with frustration free packaging. Great for gift giving.
The wristband of the watch is thick and padded unlike other leather watch bands I have had in the past which makes it comfortable to wear.
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I have a few sets of Mellanni sheets but have never bought just a single piece before but needed a dark fitted sheet while we are staying at the motel. Sure they give us sheets, but there are times in a women's life where we want dark sheets. These sheets from Mellanni are microfiber. They are stain resistant and hold their color wash after wash.
Sometimes you will buy sheets that look and feel nice the first time you use them to find out after a few uses you area already seeing major wear. You won't find these with the Mellanni sheets which is probably why I keep coming back to their products over and over again.
My favorite part besides the the quality is that the fitted sheets are elastic all the way around so that you have a nice snug fit with no draping flat pieces which makes a bed look great as well keeping it in place while in use. I also love the generous 16 inch pockets that will fit most mattresses with room to spare.
Mellanni's sheets are available in many colors, sizes, and of course in flat as well.
If you are interested in Mellanni Sheets they are available on Amazon or on their site below.
Disclosure: MarksvilleandMe received one or more of the products mentioned above as part of a promotion with Tomoson and Mellanni. Regardless, MarksvilleandMe only recommends products or services we use personally and believe will be good for our readers. Some of the links in the article may be “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive compensation. If you would like MarksvilleandMe to review a product or service please contact us at marksvilleandme@gmail.com. | 2019-04-25T21:51:47Z | https://www.marksvilleandme.com/2017/04/ |
Meet people who have a real photos. In 🏘️Jinka, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People s Region. Meet people with real photos 📷. Without registering. | 2019-04-24T11:56:50Z | https://loveplanet.ru/a-znakomstva/cn-ethiopia/ct-jinka/c-photo |
Some monsters live in your head. Not this one.
Skye Cree is a survivor. Fighting the demons that have haunted her for years, she trusts only in herself—until she falls hard for a man for the first time in her life. Now, discovering her abductor is back with a vengeance, she becomes locked in a deadly race against time to stop the horrors of an evil human-trafficking ring that threatens to tear her world—and her new found love apart.
Brutalized as a young girl by a vile sexual predator, Skye Cree is a survivor. Guided by the visions of her mystical spirit guide to the whereabouts of abducted girls, she uses her unique abilities to turn her horrifying past into a positive force for justice. Fighting the demons that have haunted her for years, she trusts only in herself—until she falls hard for a man for the first time in her life.
Now, discovering her abductor is back with a vengeance, she becomes locked in a deadly race against time to stop the horrors of an evil human-trafficking ring that threatens to tear her world—and her newfound love apart. | 2019-04-19T00:40:36Z | https://readingdeals.com/deals/the-bones-of-others-by-vickie-mckeehan-2 |
This morning Sprint announced that the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 and the Galaxy S4 Mini will both go on sale starting November 8 - the same day that Sprint is being you the HTC One Max and the LG G2 - so Sprint customers will have four new devices to chose from for the holidays. Both the Galaxy Mega 6.3 and the Galaxy S4 Mini can take advantaged of Sprint Spark and the "enhanced LTE network" which combines the three bands of 4G LTE wireless spectrum on Sprint's network.
Sprint is touting the "Pocketability" of the Galaxy S4 Mini and the "Supersize" of the Galaxy Mega 6.3, so whatever your fancy, Sprint has you covered. The S4 Mini is great for kids or adults that want something to slide in their pockets or purses, while the Mega 6.3 is for those that play games, watch videos, or reads a lot and wants that larger screen size.
As you can see, other than the screen, battery, and internal storage, these devices share the same processor, same amount of RAM, the same camera (front & rear), the same Android version 4.2.2, and they both allow you to use a microSD card. Obviously, these phones are targeting different customers because of the extreme difference in the size of the devices.
Although Sprint is the bunt of many jokes as the number four carrier in the U.S., it is nice to see that they are getting a variety of phones in a variety of sizes. If you are using the Sprint network, this will open up some more variety and also before the holidays - so treat yourself to one of new additions to the Sprint line up. | 2019-04-21T00:42:56Z | https://www.androidheadlines.com/2013/10/samsung-galaxy-mega-6-3-galaxy-s4-mini-sprint-november-8.html |
I do an average 6 hours per wedding, sometimes they are so emotional that they look like 14 hours weddings, right like city weddings, but in the end smaller and shorter weddings are more emotional, true and real weddings, I am not saying that 14 hours weddings are not! I am just saying than most brief weddings are like this. When you get married, do not worry to invite people that does not love you or at least know you a bit, just worry to invite people that really love you, cares about you, are with you maybe not physically but m in willing, so then, only then you will have try memories of your wedding. These marriage is one of those I was talking about, true people that love them all! | 2019-04-24T18:33:37Z | https://www.luckiephotography.com/panama-jack-cancun-wedding-photography-mia-vedran/ |
Epel, D, Cole B, Hamdoun A, Thurber RV. 2006. The sea urchin embryo as a model for studying efflux transporters: Roles and energy cost. Marine Environmental Research. 62:S1-S4.
We describe the use of the sea urchin as a model for studying efflux transporters and estimating energy cost for the cytotoxin protective system provided by these transporters. The unfertilized egg has low transport activity, which increases to a new steady state shortly after fertilization. Activity results from p-glycoprotein (p-gp) and MRP type transporters which protect the embryo from cytotoxic drugs that can disrupt cell division or induce apoptosis. The energy cost is estimated from a novel use of calcein-AM as a substrate; keeping 0.25 mu M substrate levels out of the cell utilizes only 0.023% of steady state respiration. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | 2019-04-24T10:17:17Z | http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/ahamdoun/content/sea-urchin-embryo-model-studying-efflux-transporters-roles-and-energy-cost |
The PICAXE 14 Audio Kit is a self assembly project kit that enables the playback of multiple music/speech and MIDI MP3 files within a PICAXE project. It is easily assembled with basic soldering skills and can then be programmed via graphical methods such as PICAXE Blockly or PICAXE flowcharts (as well as PICAXE BASIC).
The serial MP3 player module is included within this AXE171 kit. It is also available separately as part SPE035.
A low cost serial MP3 player. | 2019-04-21T06:28:58Z | http://www.picaxe.com/Hardware/Project-Kits/PICAXE-14-Audio-Kit/ |
After the past 5 years of sold out crowds at DIO Fest, we want to thank everyone for coming up to support the cause. All came together in beautiful fashion... the music, art, community, and a heightened sense of respect for Camp Krem.
DIO Fest serves as a benefit for special needs at Camp Krem. With proceeds from the festival, we've helped to support music enrichment programming for their campers each year. We at DIO couldn't be more appreciative for such encouraging and gracious hosts, or for the opportunity to assist the incredibly impactful work they've done for decades. Their mission is a huge part of the inspiration behind it all, and we're humbled to call them our friends.
William Tyler & Shannon Lay on Sunday were two beautifully delicious cherries on top of a mighty yummy cake. Shannon had 89% of the crowd in tears, most of whom braved a beautiful mid-day misting to enjoy her delicate, yet distinctly deliberate approach to folk songwriting and composition. The "Kovalamantes" played the classic 90's hits as the ever-necessary family band Sunday performance, before Kendra McKinley & Olright did their 5th take as the Whiz Bang Operation from the truckbed of an antiquated Ford.
We'd like to give special thanks to Meg and Paul with Do It For The Love for joining us this year and speaking during the festival address. They both spoke during this keynote moment in the amphitheater, led by our founders Stevee and Jono. Willy Tea was so gracious as to lend the stage back to us, after completely captivating both the floorboards and faces of the crowd for the entirety of his set.
Meg and Paul spoke to the shared work of DIO and DIFTL - to foster the healing power of music, give back through art and performance, and create positive experiences all around. Through providing musical experiences and appreciation, DIFTL's goal is to inspire joy, hope, and lasting celebratory memories in the face of severe illness or trauma. This serves as a suiting compliment to our own credo of giving back to Camp Krem's music enrichment program.
We have huge gratitude for Emily Afton's legendary performance in the amphitheater, but also her swab party to combat blood-related disorders. Her goal of 75 swab volunteers was likely exceeded by Saturday evening, all thanks to the amount of support she received from all of you... Ike Simpson of Halibut4Humanity might have been the biggest rockstar on site, deserving of special recognition for donating the entirety of his profits from the project to a scholarship fund. Well, that... and his tacos are down-to-Mars delicious... SC Waves brought the beach town vibes, tequila, and the booty song in a strong showing of hometown funk. Being our media sponsors, it's no surprise they had their ear on the pulse of the crowd.
Keep your eyes peeled for our festival recap video! See the project from 2017 here... We'll have some teaser peaks out in the coming weeks, before releasing the whole enchilada once it's polished. Our Love for Mike with Up Above Creative knows no bounds. Thanks so much for coming up the mountain to film some of the magic that went down.
Our friends at SEED and Squared Away came back to run the shuttles and logistics for the event. Sending tremendous Love to Russell, Justin (a.k.a. Mama bear), Jerry, Nate, West, Griggs, and all the rest of their staff and volunteers for getting everyone up and down the mountain safely, right on time, and always with a high five at the ready.
THANKS SO GOSH DARN MUCH TO ALL OF YOU WHO MAKE THIS EVENT POSSIBLE!!! | 2019-04-21T08:38:44Z | http://do-it-ourselves.com/news/diofest2018/thanksmuch/oneforthebooks |
I have to admit, I’m not much for World War Two fiction; but when I thought harder about what I have read that features WWII, I was surprised to find that three of my favorites dovetail neatly with that terrible time in history.
They’re not on the battle front in any way, but the characters in these books are fighting hard all the same; to do the right thing, to keep the normalcy of family going during the War, and to root out some of the most dangerous traitors to their nation.
So without further ado, presented for your reading enjoyment are my picks for May.
It’s not just the soldiers who shouldered hardship in World War II; those on the home front fought battles too. Not even the middle-class in the United States escaped unscathed.
For ten-year-old Kay Hennings, life had been a mêlée long before the war began.
1944, however, is shaping up to be the kind of year that proves the skirmishes she’d had before, are nothing to the ones advancing towards her position.
Kay’s mother died when she was very young and her father remarried a woman whose talent according to Queenie, the housekeeper/maid, is to kill any and all happiness that tries to grow in the house.
Dubbed “Amazing Grace” by Queenie, because it is amazing to everyone how furious and nasty Grace can be at all times, Kay’s stepmother is as fierce and terrible as the advancing Nazi army.
She physically beats Kay, humiliates her in public, actively seeks to embarrass her, and genuinely hates the young girl. Whether it’s making her wear dresses made out of feed bags simply to look as if she’s doing something for the war effort, sending Kay to get eggs from the butter-and-egg man woman who has a fierce dog that terrifies Kay, or punishing her by refusing to let her listen to her favorite radio programs, if there’s a way that Amazing Grace can hurt Kay, she does.
Queenie runs interference for her as best she can, and is the only one who can keep her from Amazing Grace’s violence.
At the beginning of the story, Kay’s protection is coming to an end. Queenie’s prince has finally come to whisk her away to New York City for good. Before she leaves, Queenie gives Kay one last bout of encouragement, telling her that she will grow up to be someone amazing not because she’s like her radio heroes, but because she’s Kay. She also promises that when the war is over, she will come back and visit. Or Kay can come to New York and visit her.
Queenie’s leaving soon sends shockwaves through the house and makes the family scramble to split up the chores she was taking care of during the day. Amazing Grace is too delicate to do much.
Kay responds by retreating into the afternoon radio dramas, looking to The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, and Hop Harrigan, to show her how to be a hero. When she has a chance to do something truly brave and sacrificial like her radio idols, things go from horrible to unlivable.
It takes the words of a German-American woman to help Kay to “keep smiling through’’ and to know that just because she did the right thing, doesn’t mean Kay will get a happy ending.
This Agatha Christie mystery focuses on the only detectives among her characters to marry one another, Tommy, and Tuppence Berenceford.
If you’re interested, their story starts back in the closing days of World War I with the book The Hidden Adversary written in 1922. The pair does quite a bit of sleuthing before deciding that they care deeply about one another. They show up again in Partners in Crime written in 1929; in that book Tommy and Tuppence are young newlyweds running a sham detective agency as they work on another bit of espionage for the Crown.
In this outing with the Beresfords, written in 1941, they are firmly middle-aged. Tommy is forty-six, and Tuppence slightly younger. Both are desperate to do something for the war effort, and both are being made to sit out of the action. They have twins, a boy, and a girl, and Derek is in the RAF and Deborah is doing something mysterious possibly linked to code breaking.
The story starts when Mr. Grant stops by, sent by their old handler, to offer Tommy a job filing papers and rolling out the red tape in a government agency. In reality, he has a job for Tommy to take on, a rather important one ferreting out a Fifth Columnist, sent to England to undermine the war effort and the nation’s morale. One of the Crown’s agents was mercilessly run down in the street and before he died whispered “N or M, San Souci.” This fifth columnist known by the code letters either N or M is at the hotel, but which of the guests is it? That’s what Mr. Grant wants Tommy to find out.
But he only wants Tommy working on this puzzle. Tuppence can’t know anything about it.
Torn between his heart and his duty, Tommy chooses duty and heads off to Sans Souci, a hotel in Leah Hampton to start his investigation.
When he arrives there, he is met by a curious cast of characters, any one of which might be the deadly “N or M”. There’s only one who he knows for certain cannot be the person he’s after; Mrs. Blenkinsopp.
Because Mrs. Blenkinsopp is none other than Tuppence herself.
She had overheard everything that he and Mr. Grant had discussed and decided she was not being left out of this adventure. So she came ahead to Sans Souc under a false name, beating Tommy there by several days.
Together Tommy and Tuppence, under the approval of Mr. Grant, begin to investigate their fellow lodgers, being careful not to let on to any, who they are. But which of their fellow lodgers is their enemy, the young German scientist who is a refugee? The great fat Irish Mrs. O Rourke who sits all day in the parlor and watches everything? The fiery young lady Sheila who is the daughter of the proprietor of the hotel? The elderly couple who have a pharmacy in their room? Or is it one of the other lodgers?
This book has more twists and double backs than Christie’s usual mysteries, combining the thrill of a mystery with the breathlessness of a war-time spy story. It allows readers to take a look at what life was like in Britain for the everyday folk in 1941.
Neither a fractured family, nor a book choked with secret identities and spies, Then There Were Five is the third book in the Melendy family series and a much cheerier look at life on the home front during World War II.
You don’t need to read The Saturdays or The Four Story Mistake to enjoy this one, but the whole series is delightful, and I highly recommend it.
The Melendy children consist of Mona age fifteen, Rush age fourteen, Miranda (Randy) age twelve, and Oliver age seven. Each Melendy has a passion; Mona’s is acting focused on Shakespeare, Rush is a music geek and loves to compose and play his pieces, Randy is determined to be a great ballet dancer, and Oliver loves learning things. Their mother passed away a long time ago, and their cook/housekeeper Cuffy is their substitute mom though more of an age of a grandmother. Willie, their handyman also helps keep the kids in line, as their father is at work for the government in Washington D.C. on a very secret, important project.
This book focuses on the children’s summer, and their adventures in the country, but this particular summer falls in the year 1944. The war is a subtle but constant theme throughout the book. The book begins with Rush and Randy working on a scrap metal drive, taking their horse Lorna Doone and the buggy out to see if their farmer neighbors have any metal to donate to the war effort.
The Melendys have lots of amazing adventures; they dam a stream and make a pond, befriend a young boy named Mark who has an abusive Uncle as his guardian, try their hand at canning the produce from their Victory Garden, watch shooting stars, put together a play and general faire at their house to raise money for war bonds, Mona gets a role on a radio drama and Randy finds a diamond in the last place anyone would think to look for treasure.
Throughout the book, Mark’s life is juxtaposed against the chaotic and happy life of the Melendy kids, who have their eyes opened to the fact that not all the evil is on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
When his uncle is killed in a rather gruesome way, the Melendy family has a decision to make, and their choice becomes the title of the book.
Winsome and much warmer than the other two books in this recommendation, And Then There Were Five deserves its status as a classic. | 2019-04-22T02:35:24Z | http://straightoffthepage.com/wwii-may-recommend-reading/ |
Golden-Mantled Rosella Personality, Food & Care – Pet Birds by Lafeber Co.
If you want a gorgeous bird for an aviary or habitat setting, or have the space in your home to give this bird the appropriate room, then the golden-mantled rosella might be the bird for you.
The golden-mantled rosella, often called the Eastern rosella and the white-cheeked rosella, originates in Australia and is the most colorful and popular parrot of the rosella family. The golden-mantle rosella parrot is a favorite among fanciers because of its stunning appearance and gentle nature. It is possibly the most stunning of the rosellas because of the palate of bright colors that grace its feathers. It has a crimson head and chest, white cheeks, bright yellow belly, cobalt shoulders, flight and tail feathers, a pale green underbelly and a darker green back. Its beak is white and its feet are a light gray. This bird looks like piece of art. It is about 12 inches long, about the size of a sun conure, though its tail is longer, its head is smaller, and it has a more slender appearance.
The golden-mantled rosella is native to southeast Australia and Tasmania. It inhabits open forests, woodlands, gardens as well as parks, and its wild diet consists many of native grass seeds, herbs, fruits and flowering buds.
Rosellas need space and a good diet to thrive. The largest cage you can afford is ideal, but be careful that the bars are the correct spacing for a bird with this head size. An aviary situation is great for rosellas, which will live peacefully together in a large enough space. Rosellas also love to bathe, so offer a shallow dish or pan of water for bathing.
A rosella’s diet should include lots of fruit and vegetables, and some healthy table foods. Your hand-fed, tame rosella will love to sit on your shoulder at the dinner table, and will be quite well behaved, unlike many birds that will tend to wander. This is a good way to reinforce the bond between you and your bird, and you can feed him tidbits from you plate. These birds are reported to live for more than 25 years if cared-for properly.
A gentle, easy-going bird, the golden-mantled rosella can be an ideal family pet. It is not a cuddler, and will not stand for much petting, but will be content to ride around on your shoulder. A very tame rosella is a good bird for a child who is mature enough to behave properly around any bird. As with all birds, there is the possibility of biting, so be careful with a child’s tender fingers. Rosellas make great aviary birds, and will still retain their pet quality in a flighted situation if you take the time to play with them.
A well-socialized golden-mantled rosella can become quite attached to you and will relish your company. He may become despondent if you do not have to time to spend with him. In this case, you may want to consider two.
The golden-mantled rosella is not a consistently noisy bird, save for some chattering and shrill contact calls, which can be loud. The golden-mantled rosella is not a great talker, but it might pick up a few simple words. If you want a great whistler, the golden-mantled rosella is a bird for you; play a CD of whistle songs while you are at work, and you might find that your rosella picks up tunes easily.
Rosellas housed in aviaries ground forage, which makes them more susceptible to fungal infections and intestinal worm infections, which means diligence in keeping their enclosure clean. Rosellas are also susceptible to psittacosis.
Rosellas, including golden-mantled rosellas, are more likely to be available from a bird breeder or from an avian-specialty store. | 2019-04-23T21:02:56Z | https://lafeber.com/pet-birds/species/golden-mantled-rosella/ |
T he 3rd largest town in Crete Rethymnon has an easy-going provincial air; it’s a place that moves slowly , the old town still preserves much of its Venetian and Turkish appearance. Here the streets are fascinating mix of generations of architecture, the Venetian buildings largely indistinguishable from the Turkish and all of them adapted by later generations.
Ornate wooden doors and balconies and ancient stone work crop up everywhere and there are a number of elaborate Turkish fountains hidden in obscure corners.
Your will also stumble across curious old stores, and craftsmen- often manufacturing lyhras, the Cretan violin-working away in their traditional get –up of high boots, trousers (vrakes) and black headscarves (sarikia).
The Venetian or inner harbor is the most attractive part of Rethymnon’s water front, these days its elegant 16th century lighthouse looks down on a line of fish taverns .
Rethymnon city center is the area around the 17th century Venetian Loggia, The Rimondi Fountain, nearby at the western end of Paleologou, half hidden under a blocked-of arcade, the fountain’s lion-head spouts still splash water down to a marble bowl, and nowadays they look out over Platia Petinaki, one of the liveliest areas in town.
South from the fountain, a line of cafes and taverns leads into Ethinikis Antistaseos, the market street. Turn right just before this and the backstreets lead to the fine Nerandzes Mosque (used for concerts but not open to the public) with its iconic minaret dominating the skyline. Up through the market area, the old city ends at the only surviving remnant of the city walls, the Porta Guora. Through the gate you emerge into the busy Platia Tessaron Martyron with its unprepossessing modern church. Almost directly opposite are the quiet and shady Public Gardens, a former Turkish cemetery now laid out with a fine variety of palms and other trees.
The largest Venetian castle ever built, the Fortezza was a response, in the last quarter of the sixteenth century, to a series of pirate raids (by Barbarossa in 1538 and Uluch Ali in 1562 and 1571_) that had devastated the town. Designed by the Italian engineer Sforza Pallavicini, the mammoth edifice took a full ten years to build at a crippling cost and was large enough for the entire population to take shelter within its walls. In 1645 the Venetian city fell to the Turks.
The enjoyable museum, in a very nice restored 17th century Venetian mansion has two rooms filled with musical instruments, old photos, basketry, farm tools, traditional costumes and jewellery, lace, weaving and embroidery, knives and old wooden chests and pottery. | 2019-04-25T02:15:33Z | http://fivostravel.gr/crete/rethmnon-city/ |
They relive it every morning, the day when Allen Carl and his son Jon-Allen were fishing on their shrimp boat off South Carolina. In the blink of an eye, the elder Carl's arm became stuck in the boat's hydraulic winch.
"My finger had got caught in it and it took me into it," Allen Carl said. "It was over before it happened."
They could not save his arm, but they saved his life, thanks to his son. | 2019-04-26T07:49:59Z | https://www.soundingsonline.com/news/child-honored-for-saving-skipper-father |
A Snowman Contest, sponsored by Price Chopper/Market 32, will provide area school and youth groups the opportunity to build snowmen in front of the Expo Center. Attendees will be able to vote for their favorite snowman on their smartphones and at the Winter Fair website. Winning team members will receive $100 US Savings Bonds.
“While we’re trying to bring the best of the summer State Fair to the winter, we’re also embracing the current season. The dramatic ice sculptures and the snowman competition showcase some of the great things about winter in Upstate New York,” said Steve Becker of Premier Promotions, the company that is operating Winter Fair with assistance from the Great New York State Fair.
For more information, contact event promoter Steve Becker of Premier Promotions at 315-622-2249 or steve@premierpromo.com. | 2019-04-20T15:09:53Z | https://www.agriculture.ny.gov/AD/release.asp?ReleaseID=3874 |
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It is time for a change Beautiful Coolaroo Patio Shades #4 Coolaroo Outdoor Window Shades around your house. One fundamental suggestion in interior remodeling is to prioritize changes that maximize both the functions and also price of your house as recommended by Lisa Campbell.
Show a decent impression to anyone with top quality landscaping. People cherish looking at Beautiful Coolaroo Patio Shades #4 Coolaroo Outdoor Window Shades plants, particularly in town spots. In addition to turning your house outer part looks more appealing, integrating greenery like trees and shrubs into your lawn helps chilling down your home, decreases noise pollution as well as gives you fresher air quality.
In case your kitchen was not renovated for years, you could definitely reap the benefits of an upgrade. The easiest update is by swapping obsolete home appliances with more energy-saving appliances. New cabinet doors, stainless steel appliances, and modern backsplash tiles are some inexpensive makeover priorities for your kitchen.
Having more Coolaroo Patio Shades space as compared with the standard dwellings would raise your home value. Building up an attic bedroom, creating functional basement, and setting up wooden deck are a few ideas to create extra living area.
Home redesigning must never cost excessive amount of money, thus do your research and determine what Beautiful Coolaroo Patio Shades #4 Coolaroo Outdoor Window Shades you really want and the ideal route to reach it. | 2019-04-22T04:35:57Z | http://www.newsonair.org/coolaroo-patio-shades/beautiful-coolaroo-patio-shades-4-coolaroo-outdoor-window-shades/ |
The average number of hairs on the human scalp is 120,000. Hairs grow from single follicles, indentations in the skin. We are born with a specific number of follicles, which we cannot change. The size of the follicle will determine the thickness of the hair. The shape of the follicle will determine how straight or wavy the hair will grow.
Hair grows about 1 cm a month. It grows faster in the summer than the winter because the sun increases mitosis (cell division) in the basal layer of the hair follicle. The growth phase anagen lasts of 2-7 years. So someone who has a 7 year growing phase may grow their hair 84cm for example. At he end of anagen the hair goes into catagen and then to telogen where it rests for about 2 months before falling out. The hair will then be replaced and the cycle will be repeated.
Each hair follicle is independent having its own growth cycle at different times; otherwise all your hair would fall at once! Instead you normally lose only 80-100 hairs a day. Of course the cycle can be disrupted by certain metabolic circumstances in the body and that is when we will have increased shedding.
Our hair has certain protective functions. Scalp hair shields us from the wind and from the sun’s burning rays. It also keeps us warm in cold weather – up to 25 per cent of body heat is lost through the head. Hair also gives some protection to some extent against knocks and bumps.
Eyebrows protect the eyes from sweat and the glare of the sun. Eyelashes provide a shield against dust and grit entering the eye. Also the fine hairs that line the nostrils act as a filter, trapping dust and other particles so they don’t enter the lungs. Similar protective hairs are also found around the openings to other body organs such as the ears.
A healthy scalp hair can stretch up to 30% its length, can absorb its weight in water and can swell up to 20% of its diameter. Its strength is greater than that of copper wire of the same diameter and an average head of hair can support 23 tons in weight. | 2019-04-19T03:23:02Z | https://www.hairtransplants-hdc.com/blog/item/useful-facts-about-hair |
What's contained in the Pet Food Labeling Law?
the internet for your state for specifics.
Pennsylvania Commercial Feed Law of 1966 (3 P. S.
§ § 58.1—58.16) (Repealed), unless otherwise noted.
Pa.B. 1330, unless otherwise noted.
Act—The Pennsylvania Commercial Feed Law of 1966 (3 P. S.
ingredients of which the pet food is composed.
normal and customary conditions of display for sale at retail.
(1) Statement of net content.
(4) Directions for use, if a limited purpose food.
§ 72.3. Statement of net content.
analysis, such as ‘‘protein 15-18%,’’ is prohibited.
of all the minerals contained in the ingredient statement.
and thiamine need not be stated in true vitamin units.
guarantee and need not be repeated in the guaranteed analysis.
or trade names shall not be used in the ingredient statement.
appear in the ingredient statement of a pet food product label.
§ 72.6. Brand and product names.
the designated or claimed flavor to the Secretary.
considered ingredients for the purpose of this subsection.
cattle, swine, sheep and goats.
(3) It is not otherwise false or misleading.
size, style and color printing.
compliance with subsection (a), (d), (e) or (f).
§ 72.7. Balanced and complete rations.
Council of the National Academy of Sciences.
capabilities in this regard demonstrated by adequate testing.
shall have been demonstrated by adequate testing.
§ 72.8. Limited purpose pet foods.
and in the same size, style and color printing.
its capabilities in this regard demonstrated by adequate testing.
which are so labeled, may contain moisture in excess of 78%.
§ 72.10. Drugs and additives.
recognized as safe for that use.
Cosmetic Act of 1938 (21 U.S.C.A. § § 355 and 357).
American Feed Control Officials shall be used.
§ 72.12. Identification of producer.
in a current city directory or telephone directory.
§ 72.13. Outer containers or wrappers.
apertures or transparencies in the outside container or wrapper. | 2019-04-22T02:53:49Z | http://petcaretips.net/pet-food-label-law.html |
Scientists have claimed that smoking weed may actually help alcoholics kick their drinking habit for good.
Despite cannabis being regarded by anti-drugs campaigners as a ‘gateway drug’ to more addictive and harder substances, experts at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada think the opposite is true.
UBC researcher Zach Walsh explained: “Research suggests that people may be using cannabis as an exit drug to reduce the use of substances that are potentially more harmful, such as opioid pain medication.
However, the team said that while cannabis can help treat symptoms of depression and anxiety, it was not recommended to help people suffering from conditions like bipolar disorder.
Walsh added: “There is not currently a lot of clear guidance on how mental health professionals can best work with people who are using cannabis for medical purposes.
“With the end of prohibition, telling people to simply stop using may no longer be as feasible an option. | 2019-04-26T05:48:41Z | https://realpeoples.media/smoking-cannabis-may-help-alcoholics-to-quit-drinking/ |
The Samaritan PAD 360 Fully Automatic AED, manufactured by HeartSine, is a lightweight, compact, easy-to-use defibrillator specifically designed with public access in mind. The Samaritan PAD is one of the lightest AEDs, weighing in at 2.4 pounds and has one of the highest IP ratings against dust and water damage. This unit also boasts very simple functionality with only two necessary buttons—on/off and shock—and a combined battery and pad pak that expires at the same time (3.5 Years), making replacement orders a breeze. | 2019-04-22T10:36:05Z | https://www.aed.com/heartsine360-samaritan-pad-aed.html |
Tonight is an evening of worry and concern. I left early from work to care for my wife who call and asked if I could come home early. She is sick and has been sick more often lately. The last time was a trip to the ER for a long night and no answers. Tonight, it’s just about trying to make her feel comfortable.
Upon arrival at home, I learned that one of my sisters has gone into ICU due to liver failure. Because I’m not sure what my wife is fighting, I hesitate to go to see my sister in her compromised situation.
Emotionally, I feel stretched and drained. And a little helpless. I hope this weekend brings healing.
I can empathize with you. My brother was torn last week between being with his 39yr son who was going through a triple by-pass surgery and being with our dying mom. I told him to go tend to his son, I had mom covered. It’s hard being between and rock & a hard place.
I’ll lift prayers up for you and your family. Keep your faith. It will see you through. | 2019-04-18T21:11:43Z | https://mikemjensen.com/2018/08/24/when-it-rains-it-pours/ |
By S.M. Drobenkov, et al.
14 color plates, references, index.
This book summarizes the results of a long-term investigation of amphibian distribution, ecology and morphology in the Republic of Belarus. For all amphibian species, Triturus vulgaris, T. cristatus, Bombina bombina, Pelobates fuscus, Bufo bufo, B. viridis, B. calamita, Hyla arborea, Rana temporaria, R. arvalis, R. ridibunda, R. lessonae and Rana esculenta, geographical and habitat distribution, assemblage structure, feeding, activity, reproduction and development are described. Detailed analysis of morphological variation and the differentiation of populations by landscape regions are given. Regional problems of anthropogenic pressure and methodology of species conservation are discussed. The book may also serve a guide to the amphibians of Belarus and may well be used by both specialists and amateurs. | 2019-04-22T13:09:16Z | http://www.coronetbooks.com/books/new/amph2613.html |
WellPartner and industry partner Statoil are awarded support from DEMO2000 in order to qualify and demonstrate WellPartner’s WellSafe Installer System in conjunction with a subsea operation.
Adjustment of tensile force required to release the weak link.
Subsea switching between Weak Mode and Strong Mode, i.e. to optimize the structural capacity and corresponding weather window depending on actual operational requirements.
Torque and bending moment capacity of WellSafe Installer are independent of the tensile force setting in Weak Mode.
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Reduced risk of weak link failures and more efficient operations for clients.
The project will be initiated January 2017, where the system will undergo onshore testing and qualification in Q2/Q3 2017. The final goal is to execute an offshore pilot test in Q3, 2017. | 2019-04-21T14:51:45Z | https://www.wellpartner.no/awarded-support-demo2000/ |
This Easy Chili Dip Recipe is a favorite appetizer at my house! It is such an easy dip to prepare and always the first dip gone at the party. There are only 3 ingredients needed! You can use any brand of store bought canned chili. I personally like to use Gold Star Chili or Skyline Chili which is Gluten Free so Melissa can enjoy it too!
My boys love when we have Appetizer Night for dinner and this is one of the dishes on the table. My oldest son loves Skyline. Whenever I have a party and am serving this dip I usually make two of them. I also like to serve with tortilla chips and Fritos. Some people prefer tortilla chips but some like Fritos — like me 😉 Skyline is a Cincinnati Style product – however this is a great copycat recipe too. You can use any canned chili that you want.
You can also used FROZEN Cream Cheese – this is a stockpile ingredient at my house for sure! By freezing it you can extended the life when you catch it on sale.
I hope you enjoy this Easy Chili Dip Recipe. It is always the hit of the party when I serve it. Best of all it is affordable and so easy to prepare. I love easy appetizer recipes and this is one for sure.
Spread cream cheese into bottom of baking dish.
Open can of chili and pour on top of cream cheese layer.
Remove and sprinkle cheese on top; place back in oven for 10 minutes.
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Broken teeth are a source of ongoing pain for many people. Learn about the 3 types of fractured teeth.
You know it’s time to go to the dentist and seek affordable tooth repair when you are in pain. However, for some just the thought of the cost and inconvenience of going to the dentist can make you want to forget about it. But don’t ignore the painful signals your body is sending you. If you think you might be in one of the situations considered below, do yourself a favor and get it taken care of by making an appointment as soon as possible.
You may have more or less acute symptoms, depending on the type of fracture you have. No matter how intense the pain is, your broken tooth must be fixed as soon as possible to avoid more serious problems! Penn Dental Medicine offers affordable tooth repair, cutting the costs of a procedure by using dental students overseen by experienced dental professionals.
There are three types of fractures that you need to be aware of, which your dentist can explain in more detail depending on which type you are experiencing. Here, we explain the tooth repair options associated with each problem.
Chips: This is a minor crack in your enamel. A dentist will file and polish the rough spots.
Cracks Down to the Nerve: Even if the pieces appear not to be broken apart for the time being, you need immediate care. Your dentist will provide tooth filling and grounding, and if the root has been damaged, it may require a root canal.
Broken Cusp: You may have breaks on the surface of your teeth. Your dentist will offer a crown or inlay to maintain the tooth’s shape.
Maintaining your dental health and well-being starts with your initiative. When you feel pain in your tooth, it is time for immediate action. A dentist can help you prevent further problems down the road and more serious pain by addressing your cracked or fractured tooth now. To learn about the affordable tooth repair options available at Penn Dental Medicine and what you get for tooth repair cost, call us at 215-898-8965 or fill out our appointment form here. | 2019-04-26T16:56:52Z | http://www.penndentalmedicine.org/affordable-tooth-repair/ |
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Bring your family together around the stove, and you're guaranteed to make memories that will last a lifetime. Cooks of all ages can pitch in and help for so many recipes. We've put together a collection of family favorite dishes, from baked breads to slow cooker apple butter. All of these recipes are easy to make with multiple hands. Even better, many of them create extras so you can share with family, neighbors, or co-workers. That's the ultimate gift of family time together.
Family time is a great time to cook together. You teach kids valuable skills, while also sharing and making memories together. Whether you're making a family-favorite recipe or trying something new, cooking and baking as a family is a worthy endeavor. We've put together a collection of recipes that are especially great for groups. Either they make plenty to share, or the steps allow for chefs of all skill levels to be a part.
First up is our top-rated Pecan-Topped Pumpkin Bread. This much-loved recipe was the subject of a recipe makeover that earned rave reviews. With a few low-fat baking tricks, our healthy pumpkin bread recipe shaved 33 percent of the calories and more than half the fat from the original recipe. "I love this recipe because it makes two loaves. Many quick breads only make one, but with very little effort, you can double your results," Kimberly Holland says. "I usually take a loaf to work, or I'll cut the second loaf and freeze individually wrapped slices for quick desserts when I'm too busy to bake later."
Several hours of cooking over low, steady heat renders apple slices juicy, tender, and oh so flavorful. Like reader Morgan Hartlage, we enjoy making this fall favorite when temps start to drop. Our Overnight Apple Butter is a sweet, rich apple spread that goes perfectly on a toasted English muffin or served over pork chops. One taste and you'll never believe it's fat free.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar eats holes through the middle of lots of foods. You can keep the authenticity without the bug by skewering your young readers' favorite healthy snacks. These skewers are an easy and portable way to get a pick-me-up with fruit and cheese without the fork and bowl, making it easy for you to keep going with your busy reading schedule.
French toast doesn’t have to be a junky breakfast. In fact, with the protein from the eggs and some fresh strawberries, it can be an energizing start to the day. Serve a small amount of syrup on the side if you want to control how much sugar your kids are getting. They’ll love dipping the “soldiers” into the syrup.
Kids love having some control over what they’re eating. You just need to make sure you give them smart ingredients to choose from. Any of these are good choices. Whether your kids prefer sweet or savory, one of these 4 are sure to hit the spot. | 2019-04-23T00:02:45Z | https://www.cookinglight.com/food/recipe-finder/recipes-families-make-together |
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Lilongwe City Mayor Desmond Bikoko will contest as Member of Parliament in Zomba Malawi Constituency, faceofmalawi can reveal.
According to information at hand, Bikoko who dumped the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) earlier this year after winning the Mayorship, will contest on the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ticket.
Bikoko is expected to face son to former president Joyce Banda, Roy Kachali Banda who is the incumbent MP for constituency.
The Lilongwe City Mayor recently made headlines following reports of corruption especially on locations of plots in the capital Lilongwe.
Bikoko is accused of allocating plots to DPP top officials including the country’s first lady Madam Gertrude Mutharika. | 2019-04-19T19:20:10Z | http://www.faceofmalawi.com/2018/09/lilongwe-city-mayor-desmond-bikoko-to-contest-as-mp-in-zomba-malosa/ |
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I’ve probably said this before, but Integration Manager can be both very useful and also most infuriating, because when you get an error the error message usually isn’t useful.
I did a search and found a most useful KB article from Microsoft which detailed the problem (Microsoft Dynamics GP hadn’t been written to the registry correctly) and also the solution.
When I retried the integration, it ran through without further problems. | 2019-04-21T12:59:17Z | https://www.azurecurve.co.uk/2015/03/17/ |
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Description This volume was written by Dr. Louis T. Jones and published by the State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) in 1914. According to the author's preface, "In the present work the author has endeavored to present the essential features of the history of the people called the Quakers, from the time of their first appearance in Iowa down to the present time." In the editor's introduction, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Superintendent of the SHSI, states, "Although the Quakers have not been numerous in Iowa, the influence of their attitude toward life has bene considerable in the history of the Commonwealth." | 2019-04-19T16:28:08Z | http://digital.lib.uni.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15897coll18/id/360/ |
The air filter of a HVAC unit…well, although they look quite insignificant their role in enabling us maintain optimum comfortable level at home is a lot bigger than most homeowners realize. Changing or cleaning the air filter is one of the most crucial jobs of air conditioner maintenance. It prevents most of the potential issues and therefore spares costly repair bills and keeps the unit energy efficient. Regardless if it is cooling season or heating season, having a dirty air filter can cause a number of concerns for your heating and AC system. Here are some potential problems that dirty filters can cause.
When you keep the filter unchanged or unwashed, the mesh of the filter through which the air passes get covered with dirt. The room air after being taken thorough the return ducts passes through the filter. As a result less air passes through it and you get less cool air later in the cycle. The rooms are cooled insufficiently. The result is decrease in comfort level.
The air after being screened by the filer is sent to the evaporator coil for cooling. As less air percolates through the dirty filter, a marginal amount of air reaches the coil. The refrigerant is not able to absorb enough heat to get vaporized. As a result the temperature of the evaporator coil drops down. It becomes frozen. Moreover a partial quantity of liquid refrigerants reaches the compressor. This is bad for the health of the compressor.
Due to restricted ait flow the air conditioner will work harder to cool your house. This will lead to rapid wear and tear. The device will also cycle off frequently than it should. Short cycling will cause noise pollution. It would also mean wasted energy and uncomfortable temperature changes.
If anyone in the family gets allergies due to dust, pollen or mold spores, it is very important to keep filters clean. The dirty filter will lead to dust build-up in the duct which will travel to your rooms as well. | 2019-04-23T22:15:30Z | http://www.airconditionerunitprices.com/what-happens-to-a-heating-and-cooling-system-when-the-air-filter-isnt-changed-in-your-city.html |
[L]et me remind the Committee of what we British mean when we speak of responsible government. We mean, firstly, government by a unitary Cabinet fully responsible to Parliament; secondly, a Cabinet, usually dependent upon one party, and always dependent upon a majority of elected representatives in the House of Commons; thirdly, a system under which the cabinet resigns, and usually dissolves, when the support of the House of Commons is withdrawn; fourthly, as the result of a dissolution, a general election is held in a small, thickly populated, politically alert country, with clear issue between two or three party programmes, and a homogeneous electorate in touch with the candidates. It seems to me that without these conditions there is a grave risk to the stability of government. Unfortunately none of these conditions appear to exist in India at the present moment.
The most controversial recommendation was for the introduction in the Provinces of a dual form of government, or dyarchy, as it came to be called. Certain subjects, e.g. agriculture, education, health and local government, were to be 'transferred' to the Governor acting with Indian Ministers chosen from and responsible to a Provincial Legislative Council with an elected majority. Other subjects, such as law and order and revenue, were to be 'reserved' to the Governor and his nominated Executive Council responsible to the Secretary of State. The idea of dyarchy originated in England among members of the Round Table group, many of whom had played a part in bringing about the union of South Africa. Some former Anglo-Indian officials, including Sir William Duke who in 1914 had become a member of the Secretary of State's Council, joined this group, and it was Duke who first propounded dyarchy in writing. Another member of the group, Lionel Curtis, toured India in 1916-17 to air the suggestion, but did not meet a very favourable response. Montagu, however, was much taken by it and included Duke in the delegation that accompanied him to India; and Chelmsford, having once been won over to the idea, supported it firmly. Dyarchy would, however, introduce needless complications and be difficult to work. It was an easy target for criticism by those who did not want there to be any political reforms at all and was described as 'a spider's web spun out of the brain of a doctrinaire pedant'. Nearly all the Provincial Governors were opposed to it, Willingdon in particular objecting to the 'rotten dyarchy idea'. These dissenting Provincial Governors put forward simpler, more straightforward proposals of their own under which Provincial Governments would remain, as before, unitary. The Governor's Executive Councils would be composed of an equal number of official and non-official members, the latter chosen from the elected members of the Provincial Legislative Councils, and would act together as undivided governments, influenced by the Legislative Councils, but not at their mercy, as Governors would be empowered to restore budgetary provisions cut by them, to veto bills and to legislate, if necessary, by Ordinance. These sensible proposals, slightingly referred to by Montagu as 'the satraps' scheme', gave the Governors more reserve powers than the mere one-year veto on legislation suggested by the Congress and League at their Lucknow meeting, but otherwise approximated to their demands; and these, as a leading Congressman confessed to Meston, they did not expect to be accepted in full. But the `satraps' scheme' was turned down and dyarchy preferred, largely on the absurd doctrinaire ground that Indian Ministers must be made wholly responsible in certain fields, as otherwise they would never learn responsibility!
During these disorders, progress continued towards legislation on the constitution. By the end of 1918 Montagu received the lengthy comments of provincial governments on his scheme. None questioned the statement of August 1917, but all were critical of the proposed dual system of administration. The burden of their attack was that its complicated theory did not fit reality. Indian politicians were not ready for an unshared responsibility and did not desire it: there was no need to try to fix it on their shoulders. Nor would the attempt achieve its purpose, because the people could not distinguish between different branches of the sirkar and the British would be blamed for the errors of ministers. It would be impossible to divide the functions of government; unity of financial control, which was essential, in itself made a division impracticable; and when this was realised there would be disillusion. The system was a recipe for friction, and the burden on the governor in holding it together would be too great. A scheme which pre-supposed for its continued existence the perpetual exercise of mutual goodwill and forbearance would be destined for a short life. Nor indeed would there be goodwill: Indian politicians would be glad to squeeze out British officials and it was a mistake to pretend, as did the joint report, that they would not rapidly disappear. Such power as was transferred would rest with an oligarchy, who would use it against the interests of the masses: new racial and sectarian cleavages would emerge. Willingdon's government in Bombay thought it better to build on the existing system, with a unitary executive, including members of the legislature, and the governor free to allocate portfolios at his discretion, to overrule his council, and to reinstate estimates reduced by the legislature. Butler took a similar view, dismissing the argument that a unitary executive would mean eventually a leap to responsible government over the whole field, by saying that this assumed the adoption of a parliamentary system. Only the Governments of Bengal and Bihar and Orissa were ready to accept dyarchy, and that not on the merits but because the joint report had aroused excessive expectations.
Many of these criticisms proved in the event well-founded. The weight of experience behind them, were likely to strengthen the opposition to Montagu in Britain when they came to be published. So was the shift of the Congress party to shriller language and wider demands as they lost hope of unity. In London, Holderness thought dyarchy 'a specious scheme of journalist origin', and Meston feared the weak position in which the executives would be placed in their legislatures, both in the provinces and at the centre. Montagu demonstrated his dismay by charging the civil service with enmity.
Chelmsford, having committed himself to dyarchy, was now robustly convinced of its rightness; and he was determined in his calm, uncomplicated way to drive it through. He held a meeting of heads of provinces at Delhi in the middle of January and warned them that, if they preferred some different scheme, they should now agree on one and develop it in detail. His aim was to extract a specific proposal which he could attack. Butler, with O'Dwyer, Craddock, Robertson and Beatson Bell from Assam, thereupon criticised dyarchy as going further than the announcement of 1917 required or the facts justified; and as putting excessive emphasis on 'the idea of responsibility' and on constitutional theory, at the expense of the `cooperation and association' on which the announcement had placed equal weight, and which by `a natural growth' would provide a better bridge to popular government. They proposed executive councils which would be half official and half drawn from the legislature. There would be no division of subjects and governors would be free to allocate portfolios as they wished. All would be responsible ultimately to the Secretary of State, but all would be responsive in practice to the legislature. The governor would be able to overrule his executive council, restore grants reduced by the legislature and certify essential bills. Ronaldshay and Gait dissented on the grounds that this scheme would be regarded by Indians as a breach of faith and that in practice it would concede to the legislatures more power than was intended. Lloyd, who could not be present, merely urged that delay was a greater danger than an imperfect scheme.
What Montagu called `the satraps' scheme' conflicted with the niceties of the currently accepted constitutional doctrine as expounded by Curtis. It would not have imposed on Indians the undivided `responsibility' within a limited field which Chamberlain had pressed for in 1917 and which formed the basis of the Montford report. But, in its lack of complication, its association of British officials and Indians in executive councils on a level basis, and its flexible reliance on the power of governors to overrule their councillors and to act independently of their legislatures when need arose, it had practical merits and might have worked well. It would have left the door open for India's progress to self-government otherwise than down the path of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy.
Chelmsford welcomed the clean conflict thus presented. It closed the ranks of his executive council who sent home a powerful defence of the dual system. They dismissed the satraps' plan on the ground that the unitary nature of their executive would be illusory, as some members of it would owe allegiance to the Secretary of State and others to the legislature. This would be a 'forced and artificial' coalition, the two sides of which would be in conflict over the whole range of their duties: it would lead to impasse and 'reduce the executive to impotence'. The Viceroy added a personal note, accepting the difficulties about dyarchy, but arguing that it was the only means of fixing responsibility for particular decisions on Indians and of gradually increasing the range of their responsibilities. In a unitary government an increase in the Indian element in the executive would give them full control at a jump. Frequent use by a governor of his powers to certify legislation and supply would reduce his legislature to a body of irresponsible critics, while failure to use these powers would leave an irremovable executive facing an irresponsible but supreme legislature.
Montagu had visions of Congress and his right-wing enemies in Britain joining forces on the basis of the satraps' plan; and, in the hope of disarming opposition, he first played with ill-formulated devices to camouflage dyarchy to look like unitary government. This led Round-Tablers to complain lest dyarchy be masked. He was also worried that the Government of India might whittle down his scheme. But Chelmsford took the broader view that its critical examination would do more to support its main principles than a mere show of outward agreement; and he advised, as had Chamberlain, that some spars might have to go to save the hull. His government’s despatch thus gave a cautious tilt to the proposals and immensely strengthened Montagu's position, as it set against the satraps a considered defence of dyarchy by other experts on Indian administration, and denied his critics a split between him and the Government of India.
Lord Chelmsford addressed us, setting out the points in favour of the Montagu-Chelmsford Scheme, criticising the objections we had put forward, and for the first time gave us an opportunity of putting forward an alternative scheme, "in some detail, so that I and my colleagues may have the same chance of judging it as the critics of the Report have had of judging the proposals of the Secretary of State and myself."
HARCOURT BUTLER (Lieutenant-Governor, United Provinces).
B. ROBERTSON (Chief Commissioner, Central Provinces).
N. D. BEATSON BELL (Chief Commissioner, Assam).
The Majority Scheme is printed among the parliamentary papers. But in view of its importance as expressing the views, however hurriedly formulated, of men experienced in and responsible for the administration of over one hundred millions of people, of the scant consideration given to it by higher authority, by Parliament and the Press, both of which seem to have been generally unaware of its existence, and of the fact that the Montagu-Chelmsford Scheme, to which it was an alternative, has now admittedly broken down in certain Provinces and threatens to break down in the rest, it seems advisable to quote from it at some length.
" Para. 2. We desire to make it clear beyond any misunderstanding, that we are in entire accord with the statement made by His Majesty's Government on 20th August, 1917. We desire to give effect to it by a progressive scheme of a liberal character based on a policy of trust and co-operation. We desire to avoid future friction by framing a scheme on broad and simple lines which will require only a few checks and those based, so far as possible, on existing practice and accepted principle.
There is great division of opinion among Indians in regard to it. We are also impressed by the misgivings that exist in the services generally, British and Indian, as to their position and prospects under a dual form of government. The scheme exposes a large surface to legislative, administrative, and financial friction. It has all the elements which make for division at a time when there is most need for co-operation and association.
3. The proposals of the Report appear to us to have gone much further than the terms of the announcement required, but they have raised expectations which may render it necessary to make a greater immediate advance in the direction of the goal than the facts which face us justify. . . . The idea of association (of Indians in the administration) has been overshadowed and obscured by the idea of responsibility. . . . The Report begins by dividing (the Government) in order to get responsibility and ends by uniting in order to get association. We are also firmly of opinion that it is clearly advisable, as far as possible, to build on existing foundations, and to have a Scheme which, while giving effect to the announcement will fit in with an administrative system which has its roots in centuries of Indian (Oriental ?) rule. We believe that it is only by close association between officials and non-officials that we can bridge over the gulf that separates the present form of administration from popular government. We respectfully deprecate the sacrifice of practical experience to constitutional theory.
In the Report, responsibility is defined as consisting primarily in amenability to constituents, and in the second place in amenability to an (elected) assembly. We need scarcely argue that in the absence of an electorate capable of enforcing a mandate, these conditions do not exist. In the words of the Bengal Government, ' responsibility can scarcely be derived from an irresponsible source.' "
Having dwelt upon the doctrinaire and theoretical character of the Montagu—Chelmsford proposals we went on to set forth our alternative.
" 4. It is also evident that for some considerable period we shall be ignorant as to how the (new) electorate will act. The scheme in the Report in this respect is at present a leap in the dark. We content ourselves therefore with the outline of a scheme which is as close as possible to the Scheme published in the Report, but which eliminates those features of dual government that seem to us to imperil the success of its practical working in existing conditions.
5. Structure of the Provincial Executive. The Governor will have a Council of an equal number of official and nonofficial members, the latter being selected by him from the elected, or, in the Punjab, from the elected and nominated members of the Legislative Council. We would do away with the distinction between reserved and transferred subjects and it should be open to the Governor to give any portfolio to any Member of his Council, whether he be official or non-official. They (the non-official members of Council) would be ultimately responsible to the Secretary of State; but they would necessarily be influenced by the opinions of the Legislative Council. . . . They would be responsible to the electorate in the same way as the Ministers under the Report Scheme (so far as the term ‘responsibility' can apply) in that they would have to seek re-election at the end of the life of the Council. In this way a unitary government would be secured. The Government would further be kept in touch with the Legislative Council by Standing Committees and Under-Secretaries taken from the Council as in the report. We wish to see a substantial elected majority and we wish to give the Council very real powers in the matter of legislation and supply. . . .
We believe that this will be a more liberal system in practical working than the schemes of the joint report in that, in the words of the announcement, it will associate Indians with every branch of the administration. We would only reserve to the Governor his present power of over-riding his Executive Council.
We accept the powers of legislation proposed in the joint report, reserving to the Governor the right of veto. .. . It is part of our proposals that the existing powers of the Governor-General in regard to Ordinances and of the Governor-General in Council in regard to Regulations should be unimpaired.
We would allow the budget to be voted by the Legislative Council, reserving to the Governor-in-Council powers of restoring the original budget provision on occasions covered by S. 50 of the Government of India Act (i.e. so far as essential for the security of the State). In regard to financial procedure, we desire to follow as nearly as possible the practice of the House of Commons.
We recommend that our scheme may be adopted only for a period of years, in the course of which experience will be gained on the many points of which we are necessarily in ignorance at present. The advantages of the scheme are that it is based on experience rather than on theory, that it will associate Indians with the Government more effectively than will the schemes of the Report, that it will avoid the admitted dangers of dual government and the inevitable friction between the official and non-official elements of government and foster a spirit of harmonious co-operation, that it rests on a system understood by the people, that it is capable of expansion in the light of experience subject to the realisation of the conditions of progress (that Indian politicians should show a spirit of co-operation and a sense of responsibility in exercising the new powers conferred on them) set forth in the announcement of 20th August, 1917.
Firstly. Will it be possible under it to affix responsibility to Indians with regard to any particular question of policy?
As regards individual responsibility in the Executive Council, our answer is in the negative, also that the announcement does not require it, nor does the scheme of the report secure it; but the responsibility of the individual in the legislative Council will be manifest from the proceedings.
Secondly. Does it provide machinery by which a greater area of responsibility can later be transferred?
(a) by increasing the number of subjects in non-official members' portfolios.
(b) by decreasing resort to the use of the powers of the Governor in regard to certification and of the Governor-in-Council in regard to the budget.
(c) by giving more effect to resolutions and the advice of non-official members in matters of policy.
(d) by increasing the number of Councillors chosen from the elected members of the Legislative Council.
Lastly. Does it lead up gradually to a stage under which full responsibility can be attained by Indians in the provincial sphere?
10. We conclude by re-stating our general position. Except in the matter of control by the Legislative Council over supply of ‘transferred' subjects . . . we consider that our scheme is at least as liberal and progressive as that of the report. It does not comply with the test of responsibility as defined in the report; but, as pointed out by more than one local Government, that is a narrow definition, the cardinal conditions of which (a competent electorate) are non-existent at the present time and cannot be created for some time to come. The definition also overlooked the necessity, proclaimed in the announcement, of the principle of association and co-operation. WE MAINTAIN CONFIDENTLY that in any case our scheme is a substantial step towards realising the policy of the announcement, and pays due regard to the conditions of progress laid down in it."
The above proposals emanated from the Heads of five of the nine major Provinces and had the general support of two more….
" Our judgment on the Majority Minute may therefore be summed up by saying that we regard it in the first place as failing to lay any measure of definite responsibility for any act of government upon the representatives of the electorate ; we therefore hold that it does not comply with the policy upon which the Home Government have decided. In the second place, it fails to fulfil what the authors themselves present as the paramount requirement of an undivided government, a unity which can, to our thinking, be secured only by a common allegiance and a common policy. In the third place, it affords no prospect of successful working without giving rise to such conflict and bitterness of feeling as may produce a deadlock ; and in the fourth place the scheme cannot progress in any direction except by one leap into full responsible government."
This dispatch is signed by the members of the then Government of India.
It would not have been difficult for us to demolish the rather doctrinaire arguments which they used to override our practical experience. But the opportunity was never given. We went back to our provinces…. The Majority Scheme of local governments appears to have been completely overlooked.
Letters from provincial govnts attached to the G/I's despatch of 5 March 1919, Cd.
S/S's ptel to VR, 17 Dec. 1918, C9.
VR's letter to S/S, is Jan. 1919, Cs & M3.
Minute by Ronaldshay and Gait, 16 Jan. 1919, J &P(R) 143/19.
Lloyd's note of 28 Feb. 1919, C22.
G/I's Reforms despatch to S/S, 5 March 1919, para 21, Cd 123.
S/S ptels to VR Nos 89, 435 and 554, it Jan., 22 Feb. and 6 March 1919, C10.
S/S's letters to VR, 22 Jan. and 4 Feb. 1919, C5 and M3.
VR's letter to S/S, 29 Jan. 1919, C5 and M8. | 2019-04-22T05:10:56Z | http://www.houseofdavid.ca/satrap.htm |
1. Pulled the drive, mounted it in an external USB enclosure, and booted the computer from that. It worked.
2. Installed the older drive in the computer and booted. Got the white screen, etc.
3. Disconnected the hard drive cable and cleaned the ends with electronic cleaner. Reconnected and rebooted several times. Sometimes white screen, sometimes successful boot.
4. Physically pushed on the cable gently while booting. Got successful boot.
Now the cable was suspect. Other people on iFixit reported having bad cables, so I decided to try a replacement.
The repair was successful. With a new cable in place, the computer boots correctly every time.
It is tedious to get the old cable out, due to the fact that the cable is glued to the computer in two places. (On the underside of the palm rest, and at the bracket at the front of the computer.) I had to peel it off very carefully.
1. Use a good magnifier to inspect the connection to the bracket at the front of the computer. There is a narrow cable that goes from the hard drive cable to the hard drive indicator light. There is a little clasp that secures the narrow cable. That clasp must be lifted to release the narrow cable. Be sure to note how the narrow cable is inserted, because you need to re-insert that narrow cable into the new hard-drive cable.
2. I did use the supplied peel-and-stick tape to secure the hard drive cable to the front bracket (after I had re-inserted and locked the narrow cable to it).
3. I did NOT use the peel-and-stick tape to secure the hard drive cable to the underside of the palm rest. I decided it would be difficult to get the cable positioned properly. Instead I put a length of electrical tape on top of the hard drive cable. Kapton tape would have worked well, as an alternative. I did not notice any additional mechanical pressure on the hard drive after as I installed the hard drive. | 2019-04-25T15:47:51Z | https://nl.ifixit.com/Story/20608/This_worked |
Elaine (“Cookie”) Frances Reynolds was born in San Francisco in 1930. She grew up in an extended family setting with her grandparents, mother, dad and uncle all under the same roof. Her grandmother doted on her and cooked delicious meals for the family every day. When Cookie was 18, her mother, father and brother drove cross country to New York city for a veteran’s convention. Her aunt and cousin had already moved there, and Cookie met her husband-to-be while visiting them. They maintained a long distance relationship for a short while, but eventually Cookie moved to New York and married Bob. After seven years in New York, Bob’s dry cleaning store went out of business and he couldn’t find a job in his field, so they moved back to San Francisco, into Cookie’s parents’ house.
After 8 months, Cookie was in the hospital giving birth to the first of their three children when her roommate told her about veteran’s housing in an area called Pedro Valley (now known as Pacifica). They bought a small house and moved there to raise their three children. Cookie and Bob eventually divorced and Cookie remarried, this time to someone she had known in the community and lived in the neighborhood. Cookie and Chuck were married for thirty-six years, and sadly, he just passed away a few months ago.
Cookie loves to cook, and learned a lot about it from her first mother-in-law who was Hungarian. She always cooked for the family, made breakfast and packed lunches for all the kids and her husband daily. They never ate out at a restaurant unless they were on an occasional family vacation, and even then they rented a room with a kitchen so she could cook. When her kids were teenagers during high school, all the kids preferred hanging out in “Cookie’s Kitchen” where the larder was full and there were always freshly baked cookies or cake. As her daughter Louanne tells us, “mom is a good cook because she invests every dish with the best of intentions, humility and heart.” We hope your taste the love in her dishes this month! | 2019-04-26T12:07:39Z | http://www.mothersbistro.com/elaine-reynolds/ |
Surfer Competing at The Eddie This and all photos are by the author except where noted.
Never one to miss an excuse to have a good time, Honolulu throws big parties for Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo. To get a closer look at that distinctly Hawaiian mixed-up culture where there is no ethnic majority, try to time your visit with one of these annual events that have particular significance for the island.
All these festivities are free, but bear in mind that parking on Oahu is a headache at the best of times. For high traffic days such as festival dates, it’s better to take the bus.
Chinese New Year is a big deal here. The Chinese have a long-established connection with Hawaii, stretching as far back as the first arrivals in 1788 and most significantly to the mid-to-late 19th century when when 46,000 Chinese immigrated to the Islands. Currently around a third of the state’s population claim full or partial Chinese descent.
For two weeks over the New Year period, events are focused in downtown Honolulu’s Chinatown district. The Narcissus Queen Pageant selects the new Queen to serve as an ambassador of the Chinese community, followed by a coronation ball for which you’ll need to purchase tickets. Subsequent festivities include Choy Cheng (a traditional lion dance blessing), a parade featuring dragon dances and kung fu artists, childrens’ rides and games, and food vendors.
March’s Honolulu Festival is a celebration of the cultures of Pacific Rim countries. Japanese culture is strongly represented at this festival, which began in 1985 — not unexpected given that 16% of Hawaii’s population is Japanese. Three days of events take place at various locations throughout Honolulu and include performances of Japanese Taiko drumming, Hawaiian hula, Alaskan native dance, educational activities, and craft fairs.
At the Hawaii Convention Center you will find stalls selling native crafts and dishes from the various represented countries. Since 2009, students of the University of Hawaii have presented a Maid Cafe, proceeds from which go towards their annual field trip to Japan.
Each year the festival concludes with a parade down Honolulu’s main drag, Kapiolani Boulevard, featuring mikoshi, marching bands and beauty queens.
A festival devoted to Hawaii’s favorite canned meat, the Spam Jam closes off Kalakaua Avenue all day so roughly 20,000 Spam-lovers can enjoy live music, tastings, and games all dedicated to Spam.
Hawaiians eat seven million cans of Spam a year. While Paul Theroux has suggested that Spam’s popularity amongst Hawaiians is down to its similarity to human flesh, it is rather a legacy of U.S. military influence on the Islands. Fresh meat was difficult for U.S. soldiers in Hawaii to acquire during World War II and so easily-stored, long-lasting Spam became a staple, eventually winding up in the kitchens of the locals as well.
Hawaiians have created many popular dishes with Spam, such as Spam sushi, Spam musubi and Spamakopita, and it often turns up in stir-fries and salads.
If you visit the Spam Jam, you can sample new Spam-based inventions courtesy of some of Waikiki’s most popular restaurants. Volunteers are also on hand to collect Spam donations for the Hawaii Food Bank.
For over 60 years, the largest celebration of Hawaiian culture has been what is now known as the Aloha Festivals. For six weeks in September and October a series of events are held on six of the Hawaiian Islands. Oahu’s Aloha Festival takes place at several different locations in and around Honolulu, beginning with a block party, Hoolaulea, on Waikiki’s Kalakaua Avenue.
The festivals highlight Hawaiian culture with events that illustrate the traditions of the Islands, including chants, hula and parades. There is also the opportunity to sample Hawaiian cuisine from food vendors at the Hoolaulea.
During November and December the waves on Oahu’s North Shore can reach heights of up to 50 feet, bringing the world’s best surfers to compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing. The event, made up of three separate competitions on Sunset Beach, Haleiwa Allii Beach and Banzai Pipeline, is the culmination of the annual ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals) World Tour, and decides who will be crowned the world champions.
Surfing plays a central role in Hawaiian culture. More than just a sport, surfing is deeply rooted to the society, customs and mythology of the Islands. Attending some of the Triple Crown competitions gives visitors a feel of Hawaiian surfing culture, and the North Shore is an enjoyable place to spend a day, with its cafes, surf shops and slow pace.
If you are very lucky, you might be able to catch The Eddie, an invitation-only big-wave competition held in memory of beloved lifeguard Eddie Aikau.
The competition takes place at Waimea Bay between December and February only when the waves are big enough. ‘Big enough’ meaning face heights of at least 30 feet. The event was started in 1985, but (as of mid 2010) has only been held eight times.
Looking for other things to do on Oahu? MatadorTrips’ Big Adventure on the Big Island of Hawaii has a few suggestions for you.
If you’re looking for a way to get around, BraveNewTraveler’s Hawaii Car Rentals: How To Score Wheels In Paradise has a suggestion or two for you.
Thirty foot waves too high? Check out TheTravelersNotebook for the Top 10 Surf Spots (for Mortals) in Hawaii. | 2019-04-24T06:18:15Z | https://matadornetwork.com/nights/chinese-new-year-spam-and-surfing-oahu-hawaiis-festivals/ |
I'm very happy to be assuming the reins of The Arizona Plein Air Painters group from Matt Sterbenz. He has worked hard for us and his dedication to the group and his craft have been amazing. He's ready to retire his stewardship of APAP, however, but will be helping us in many other ways. As I hope all of you will.
Bell Mountain, Sedona. Plein air study by Kimber Scott.
APAP is undergoing some exciting changes. Not everything will change. Our primary focus has been and will be to practice and promote the tradition of painting outdoors. With that in mind, however, look for some new and exciting events coming in 2018.
We'll be looking at ways to cover the group's expenses. We may need to reinstate the dues system or ask for donations. This is still up in the air. It will be decided by the first of the year.
I'd love to hear your ideas, as well, about how we can make this group more relevant to ourselves, our artistic journeys, (as a group and individually), and to our beautiful state, Arizona. We are its best ambassadors. Being an Arizona native, I'm very proud of my state and look forward to the chance to show it off.
My name is Kimber Scott. People who know me, call me Kim. I've been a painter since I was about eight years old. I received my BFA in Painting from Arizona State University in 2006. Believe me, there were quite a few years and several lifetimes between being eight and graduating in 2006. My work has focused mainly on portraits/figurative, still life, and murals. I am still a newby, however, when it comes to plein air. I'm finally at a place in my life where I can devote more time to my work and plein air is going to be a very big part of it. I'm looking forward to sharing this adventure with all of you as we put in the brush miles and make beautiful work, together.
Please, introduce yourselves in the comments below. Maybe, include a little bio and your website address, if you have one. You can also post ideas, questions, and suggestions below. I can't wait to meet you here and out in the real world! | 2019-04-20T20:09:52Z | https://arizonapleinair.com/apap-blog/2017/11/14/apaps-new-deal |
The Mbox 2 Mini offers a simplified feature set in order to maximize portability.
With stereo I/O that includes a single XLR mic input, it's safe to say that Digidesign created the Mbox 2 Mini ($329) with singer-songwriters in mind. The USB 1.1 bus-powered Mbox 2 Mini (M2M) is less than half the width of the Mbox 2 Pro, and a third as heavy. And because Pro Tools interfaces act as a dongle — you cannot use the program without one — the M2M's small form factor makes it useful for the traveling Pro Tools user who might not have the space for a larger Mbox but needs only basic I/O for listening and editing.
To reduce the interface to this size, Digidesign includes a minimum of analog I/O, completely eliminating MIDI and S/PDIF ports. The rear panel holds a single XLR mic input, a pair of unbalanced ¼-inch line/DI inputs, a pair of unbalanced ¼-inch line outputs, a USB port, and four buttons — a pad switch for each channel, a 48V phantom power switch, and a Mic/DI switch for channel 1. This last button lets you select between the XLR and ¼-inch input, so you can keep cables plugged into both jacks.
The front panel has a ¼-inch headphone jack and level control, a mute switch for the monitor outputs (which doesn't affect the headphone output), an input level control for each channel, and a control that mixes between the direct input signal, for latency-free monitoring, and the playback signal coming from the computer. A green LED indicates when the M2M is receiving power from your computer. The package also includes the Pro Tools Method One instructional DVD for new Pro Tools users.
The interface's housing feels solid but is reminiscent of a metal project box. Four rubber nubs on the bottom of the case keep it from sliding around the desktop.
The M2M's specs are similar to those of the Mbox 2 Pro. The main differences are less than 50 dB of gain, as well as unbalanced line-level jacks and a few decibels less dynamic range on the M2M's I/O. However, the two interfaces sounded nearly identical to me in daily use with my 1.33 GHz Mac G4 laptop running Mac OS X 10.4.8. When I wanted to edit my Pro Tools sessions while touring, the M2M was the winner hands down, not only because of its size but also because it doesn't require external power. If I had a wish list, it would be to have balanced I/O and the buttons relocated to the front panel.
The Mbox 2 Mini is great for Pro Tools LE users who don't need more than one mic at a time. It's also a boon for those of us who like to get some work done while in planes, trains, and automobiles. | 2019-04-19T01:02:58Z | https://www.emusician.com/gear/digidesign-mbox-2-mini |
Pure Jazz with Rich Keith airs Sundays at 12Noon EST on Metromedia Radio.
Rich plays time-tested, proven tunes and artists that will be appreciated by the die hard Jazz fan as well as new comers. Pure Jazz is the ultimate in weekend destination listening! It’s certain to keep adults entertained and asking for more!
Rich’s thoughts on Metromedia Radio, “It’s a kick to be part of the Metromedia Radio team. Music all day from the Great American Songbook presented in the Spirit of Metromedia WNEW…and the “New York Tonight Show” Sundays from 12 pm noon ET. | 2019-04-19T18:28:04Z | http://www.metromediaradio.net/online-jazz-music-radio-shows/pure-jazz/ |
Now, does this sign mean the the entire school is slow? Or just the adults? Or just the students? Hahaha! I took this photo in 2015 while on an antique car tour with my dad. There were a couple stops scheduled each day, it was a fun trip with dad! How times have changed, nobody wear’s gloves like that today do they?
I actually remember seeing these school zone signs when I was a kid. (Guess I’m dating my self somewhat, huh?) I have recently seen one in fair condition go for a high price at an auction. Was this shot in a school’s history display? I noticed the home plate and what looks like a picture of a ground braking ceremony on the wall. Neat stuff.
I believe this was in a some sort of museum in one of the small towns dad and I visited whilst on antique auto tour. I could be wrong, this was 2015, I don’t have the recall I used to! | 2019-04-26T16:39:35Z | https://lvphotoblog.com/2019/01/15/slow-school-zone/ |
The Resource Sharing Project (RSP) was created to help state sexual assault coalitions across the country access the resources they need in order to develop and thrive as they work to support survivors and end sexual assault. The project is designed to provide technical assistance, support, and the dissemination of peer-driven resources for all designated state and territorial sexual assault coalitions. The RSP recognizes the needs of all coalitions, especially those designated as new or emerging, regarding issues of organizational growth, professional development, and policy/protocol development. We believe in the importance of peer–to–peer technical assistance and the voices of survivors as guiding principles.
Select a state from the map or the drop-down menu to view contact information. | 2019-04-22T13:33:10Z | http://www.resourcesharingproject.org/technical-assistance-coalitions?page=4 |
Popular airport parking deals site OnAirParking.com is proud to announce its partnership with the National Forest Foundation to plant 250,000 trees over the next five years to help reduce carbon emissions produced by its travelers.
CCI Consulting, a Talent Management and HR Consulting firm, is excited to announce that their Chief Operating Officer, Brian Clapp, has been promoted to a new role as President. This new title of President formalizes all of the work that Clapp has been doing in his eight years at CCI Consulting, such as running operations and sales within the company.
Workplace Languages is now offering customized onsite "survival" language training in the workplace. There are over 100 languages to choose from and curriculum is customized and industry-specific to meet the needs of your company. They offer a "grammar-less" approach to give the phrases and words participants need to be successful at their job and help close the communication gap between management and employees. All training options produce results immediately, easily and effectively.
In an ongoing effort to maximize efficiency, convert leads and generate results, Musselwhite Marketing is now an Ontraport Certified Partner. The company is excited to add Ontraport's extensive customer relationship management suite to its credentials. An existing DigitalMarketer Certified Partner, Musselwhite Marketing is now a Double Certified Partner joining a mission to double the size of 10,000 businesses in the next five years.
For broken or cracked teeth, CEREC technology can be a great solution if extensive dental work is not required. Most patients are able to receive a customized crown in as little as one visit, which is better able to preserve the original tooth.
Ori Klibansky, owner of Maine Carpet Cleaning, is pleased to announce the company has completed the IICRC Water Damage Restoration 501 Course.It is a major step forward for the company, which now will handle water damage restoration in addition to standard carpet cleaning.
Stick Royale is an exciting new couch fighter game and it is a game that is all about fun. The physics-based game is primarily inspired by Stick Fight and it has been developed to make people laugh. Moreover, the developer of this game has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to introduce this game and also to raise funds and support for its success. The goal of this Kickstarter campaign is to raise a sum of NZ $10,200, and everyone is being welcomed for generous backing.
Nagler Foot Center Houston specializes in treating foot disorders that range from the most common to the most complex problems. The podiatrists working at the center have spent years in medical practice while specializing in ailments like foot pain, surgery, and ankle pain. They help their patients in relieving pain, restoring foot function, and improving the appearance of their feet. This foot center has specialists that can provide treatments for all types of foot problems, and they provide their patients with a comfortable experience.
On April 25, 2019, we will be joined by Mr. Julian Treasure, famous sound expert and one of the most listened-to TED speakers of all time. Learn about the different ways sound affects us as individuals and as a society. Julian will also share with us how to listen to others effectively, and how to be truly heard.
A cooperative questing board game with dice-battle mechanics, Return to Ravingspire takes place within a Tower amongst the remains of a crashed far-future space station in a land of swords and sorcery, with ever-shifting parallel realms of space and time.
Tune into the next episode of the Revolutionary HR Consulting podcast Join the Revolution! where CEO, LaCoya Shelton, is joined by Executive Director of Insight Mediation Group, Amy Lieberman. They discuss the art of the apology – an area in which Amy has extensive experience and an impressive body of work. Amy has been consistently ranked as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Alternative Dispute Resolution and recognized as a leading lawyer as well as one of the "Top 50 Women in Business" by the Phoenix Business Journal.
May, May & Zimmerman (MMZ), a client-focused general law firm in Lancaster County, Pa., is excited to welcome Eric Schelin Rothermel as the newest partner on the MMZ team.
EZMarketing will host two free seminars this spring at the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, located at 115 E. King St. Lancaster, PA. The first seminar, Harnessing the Power of Social Media Marketing for Your Business, will be on Friday, May 17, 2019, at 8:30 a.m. The second session is No B.S. Strategies for Effective SEO, which will be held on Friday, June 7, 2019, at 8:30 a.m.
Bilt-Well is a world-class roofing company that's committed to providing high-end roofing solutions to their broad range of clients. Enjoying over 80 years of hands-on roofing experience, the company has evolved to become an industry guru where they handle all kinds of roofing projects. Their roofing portfolio features a variety of services which include roofing installations, repairs, consultations, and maintenance. These services are provided by their team of experienced technicians who bring a different set of skills to the table. So, whether it's a standard roofing project or a complex one, clients can be sure that Bilt-Well Roofing will meet all their requirements to the latter. | 2019-04-23T22:26:38Z | http://www.releasewire.com/newsroom/ |
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WWE 2K16 : Hall Of Fame Showcase CUT SCENES!
FORTNITE CUSTOM MATCHMAKING SCRIMS LIVE! XBOX, PS4, PC, SWITCH AND MOBILE PLAYERS WELCOME!! | 2019-04-20T18:12:16Z | https://zink-hd.com/video/HNUpn5YgWzM/my-caws-entrance-svr-2011-psp |
Many years ago, during a lengthy research trip, I rented an apartment near Nuremberg’s Rathenauplatz, a square named after the liberal German-Jewish industrialist and foreign minister Walther Rathenau, murdered by right-wing extremists in 1922. Each time I boarded the underground train at the Rathenauplatz station I was confronted with one of Rathenau’s phrases, which decorated the platform wall: Denken heisst vergleichen – ‘To think is to compare’. The phrase has stayed with me over the years, and came to mind most recently when listening to BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions on February 10th, as an audience member asked the panel whether comparison of Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, ‘besides being juvenile and historically inaccurate, threatens to trivialise the unique evil of the Holocaust’.
It is a superficially reasonable question and one it seems legitimate to ask. Yet as the basis for a meaningful discussion about the relationship between past and present, about the warnings that the events of the 20th century carry for the 21st, it is problematic in a number of ways. First, for historians at least, comparison is a method, not a result. It is a process that produces a conclusion, but it is not the conclusion itself. After all, one can compare chalk and cheese and conclude, inevitably, that they are fundamentally different things. But one can also compare stilton and cheddar, just as one can compare strong cheddar with mild cheddar. The thought process is the same, but the conclusions will not be. As this example shows, the problem lies in formulating a question with sufficient precision to produce conclusions worth having. Either way it is easy, in the current political context, to mistake the question for the answer and thereby to miss the point.
The question is also guilty of dressing up disputable assertions as unassailable facts. ‘The unique evil of the Holocaust’ carries assumptions about the singularity of the event that much careful work of the last 20 years has brought into question. Certainly, the commonplace trope of the ‘uniqueness’ of the Holocaust, which still governs the popular-cultural imagination of the event, is deployed with a far greater degree of circumspection by most scholars now than it was a generation ago. What was once seen as standing ‘outside’ history, demanding silent contemplation but resisting explanation or contextualisation, has now been firmly historicised. Comparative genocide studies, histories of colonialism and genocidal violence, studies of western penal practice and more besides have demonstrated that the processes which led to the Holocaust were integral to modern history, not an aberration from it. While most would still acknowledge that the Holocaust had singular aspects, the rhetoric of uniqueness is now heard far less than it was 20 years ago.
Throwing accusations of ‘fascism’ at Trump may be intellectually lazy and a substitute for critical thought, yet to continue to repeat the shibboleth of the Holocaust’s fundamental uniqueness – in spite of all this accessible, compelling and persuasive scholarship – is in its own way, indefensibly inattentive to what the academy has been saying for a long time. In fact, suggesting that comparative thought trivialises the uniqueness of the Holocaust is not so much a morally unassailable position as a rhetorical posture which, in the current climate, performs the political and cultural work of closing down the space for legitimate and necessary reflection. It is, much like the over-hasty accusation of ‘fascism’: a substitute for thinking rather than the product of it.
This is all the more important when one remembers that no one is seriously comparing the beginnings of the Trump administration with the murderous culmination of the Third Reich. Rather, a scholarly community that spends most of its life cautioning against facile comparisons is suddenly finding, in ways that make it collectively concerned, that some of what they are now observing in the United States – and in some European polities – feels worryingly familiar. This is helping us to formulate some appropriately precise questions of our own. What is the relationship between the odd charisma of the central actor and the wider economic, social and cultural forces that have made him possible? What is the relationship between popular protest politics and the complicity of sections of the economic and functional elites? What is simply desperate protest, born of economic crisis? What forms of ideology give that protest coherence and direction? How fragile is the commitment to constitutional propriety among leadership and support base: for all the rhetoric of the United States’ unique democratic mission, will the US turn out to be another ‘Republic without Republicans’?
For me, it has been particularly interesting over the past year or so to ponder the ideological heterogeneity of Trumpism and the diversity of racist discourses that feed into its toxic nationalist mix. A ‘white blacklash’ against the achievements of the United States’ first black president is part of the story, reminding us that there are contexts of racism that are rooted in an American story of segregation, civil rights and simmering resentment that has comparatively little to do with Hitler. An intense Islamophobia that predates 9/11 but has obviously been given impetus by those events and is now reinforced by more recent terrorist atrocities in Europe and the Middle East, is another strand of the incoherent ideology that underpins Trump’s rule. Somewhere else in the mix is the palpable streak of antisemitism that surfaced in the election campaign and appears to animate the agendas of some of those around Trump. Some elements within the administration seem isolationist, others appear tempted to throw the United States’ considerable weight around on the global stage.
On the face of it, the variety and incoherence of Trumpism’s nationalism and racism stand in stark contrast to the singularly aggressive antisemitism that seemingly drove Hitler and culminated in the Holocaust. Yet precisely what has encouraged me to think hard about the ideological openness of Trumpism, how to interpret it and what sense to make of it has been a large wave of scholarship on National Socialism demonstrating that much that is true about Trump was also true back then. National Socialism was also a broad church, incorporating a wide variety of different traditions of nationalism, racism, antisemitism, militarism and imperialism. Nazi ideology was not just something one found in Mein Kampf, with anything that departed from that figuring as somehow ‘not Nazi’. Rather, it incorporated and absorbed those heterogeneous ideological traditions without, for the most part, ever resolving the differences – because it never had to. That was precisely what helped it to naturalise itself in German society so swiftly.
My attempts to think about Trumpism, in other words, have been shaped by much compelling recent scholarship on the Third Reich, just as what I am now witnessing in the United States and across Europe – including the United Kingdom – is sensitising me anew to problems of interpretation of interwar Germany in return. Far from being juvenile, that careful work of comparison, which seeks to tease out both similarities and differences, would seem to provide a far more fruitful way forward than the rehearsal of superseded slogans posing as morally superior positions, however well intentioned that may be.
This item originally appeared on the History Today site in February 2017. | 2019-04-21T00:55:14Z | https://neilgregor.com/2018/03/24/to-think-is-to-compare-walther-rathenau-trump-and-hitler/ |
The 22-year-old woman shared the amazing story of her delivery in a Twitter thread and the world went in awe of her bravery.
What is the one possible thing that can happen to you while you are pregnant, and you are traveling? Well, you can have a baby! But interestingly this woman from Nashville went into labour while travelling from US to Germany and delivered her baby in a hotel room by watching You Tube videos.
Tia Freeman though of having a good time on the holiday when she started suffering contractions as she landed in Istanbul for a stopover in March. She thought it was just food poisoning from the food she had on a flight because her baby was still due for three months. It was only later that she realized that she is going into labour. The 22-year-old woman shared the amazing story of her delivery in a Twitter thread and the world went in awe of her bravery.
The first thing Ms Freeman did was to reach her hotel room search on You Tube about the best ways to deliver a baby on your own. Filling the bath tub with warm water and grabbing two towels- one to bite onto and other one to wrap the baby- the lady started with the process.
Fortunately, it was just 5-6 pushes and the baby slipped out, floating on the water. She wrapped the baby and after checking the gender of her little one, she started the next process.
The next thing she searched for was how to cut an umbilical cord without any tools beyond a knife. Shoelaces came to the rescue. She sterilized the shoelaces in the boiling pot available in the room and began the procedure.
It was not until four days that her family and friends knew about the baby. Next day she reached the airport to figure out how to take the new born baby home and successfully convinced the local police and Turkish Airlines staff of her story.
Ms Freeman was eventually taken to the US Consulate in Istanbul, where she applied for a birth certificate and passport for her son, whom she named Xavier Ata Freeman.
She stayed two weeks in Istanbul for which the Turkish Airlines paid and left left for her own land. Tia Freeman told The Insider, "The experience taught me so much. I learned how to be resourceful and calm under pressure. I was able to bond one on one with my son from his first breaths. | 2019-04-23T03:59:57Z | https://www.indiatvnews.com/buzz/news-woman-delivers-baby-in-hotel-room-watching-you-tube-videos-calls-it-diy-439387 |
FILOFAX Personal Month On Two Pages.
Filofax personal size diary refill month on two pages. Vertical layout with weekends highlighted, much like the vertical year planner but with more room. | 2019-04-25T01:14:28Z | https://www.woodsthestationers.co.uk/filofax-personal-month-on-two-pages-english-block-format-tabbed-2015.ir |
The urge to self-harm is like a wave.
It feels the most powerful when you start wanting to do it.
Comfort, Distract, Express Yourself, Release, Random and Breathe.
When you ride the wave, the urge to self-harm will fade. | 2019-04-20T18:45:43Z | https://calmharm.co.uk/ |
You’re foolish. You have no life experience. You only make decisions with your feelings. Really, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
William O’Brien, a New Hampshire politician, accused college students of these things a few months ago. He was supporting a voter suppression bill that would prevent college students living in his state from voting there.
His bill is unlikely to succeed in New Hampshire, and your vote should be safe in D.C., too. But some Americans won’t be as lucky in November 2012: A national movement to suppress the vote, of which O’Brien is a part, has had some recent successes.
I want to address the most common form that these bills have taken: personal identification requirements to vote. Like O’Brien’s favored legislation, they will shut some Americans out at the polls; unlike his initiative, these bills are constitutional and have been passed into law across the country.
Although they are legal, identification requirements are unjust, harmful and costly. They threaten to hurt our political system and isolate some of our most vulnerable neighbors. We simply can’t afford them.
ID requirements injure our democracy. Studies show that photo identification requirements make poorer Americans less likely to vote, while affecting the turnout rate of richer Americans little, if at all. Because poorer Americans often share party preferences, this depression of turnout could swing election outcomes away from what the people really want.
These requirements also isolate certain subpopulations of particularly vulnerable citizens from the political process. Elderly, middle–aged and young people are all inordinately affected. Another example comes from my own research, funded by Georgetown’s Raines Fellowship: Publicly available voter histories indicate that after a state implements a photo ID requirement, turnout among people who are homeless declines about five percentage points more than in states without new requirements. These effects threaten to muffle what little say in the political process such marginal populations — the sick, young or homeless — have.
ID requirements are costly to the state that implements them. Training election officials on appropriate procedure costs money, providing the free identification required by the courts costs even more and waiting in longer lines at the polls will cost our citizens and our businesses. It’s estimated that the photo identification requirement in Missouri will cost the state $16 million over the next three years. Is this really where we should be spending the tax-payers’ money?
Claims from pundits and politicians about how these laws discourage voter fraud and promote confidence in elections are well-intentioned, but misinformed. Check out Lorraine C. Minnite’s book, “The Myth of Voter Fraud.” The title explains a lot, but the gist of her argument is that pervasive, outcome-changing voter fraud is little more than a rumor. And two political scientists — one from Harvard and one from MIT — have shown that ID requirements have no appreciable effect on public opinion about elections.
There’s no evidence that these laws even prevent what little voter fraud does happen. If you’re going to commit a felony like voter fraud, very little is stopping you from fabricating identification.
The bottom line is that America can’t afford these laws. Their benefits aren’t guaranteed to be big: Voter fraud isn’t a huge problem, and ID laws might not stop it anyway. The costs, on the other hand, will surely be sizable. Millions of dollars will go toward enforcement and education. But perhaps more importantly, these laws’ de facto suppression of turnout in some populations more than others will make our government less representative. That’s a cost, too, and one we can’t afford.
Although states should protect elections from voter fraud, it doesn’t seem like this problem is sufficiently large to warrant the costs of identification requirements for the states, the taxpayers and voters. Voter ID laws might be legal, and they might help some politicians win their elections. But personal identification requirements hurt our democracy and our most vulnerable citizens. We can’t afford them.
Patrick Gavin is a junior in the College. | 2019-04-20T16:27:55Z | https://www.thehoya.com/identifying-a-harmful-policy/ |
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Granite Pathways – Manchester, NH Clubhouse – the first clubhouse in New Hampshire with whom we are working closely with to further Seacoast Pathways.
Genesis House – Long-established clubhouse in Worcester, MA and site of our member and staff training.
Clubhouse International – The governing body for Clubhouses around the world that oversees development of the clubhouse model, supports new clubhouses, conducts accreditation and manages clubhouse research. | 2019-04-22T14:15:58Z | http://www.seacoastpathways.org/resources/ |
BBT (groothandel, zowel als de winkel) is tijdens de kerstperiode gesloten vanaf maandag 24 december 2018 tot en met 1 januari 2019.
Nous sommes fermés pendant les vacances de Noël à partir de lundi 24 décembre 2018 jusqu’au 1 janvier 2019.
We’re are closed during the Christmas holidays from Monday 24 December 2018 till 1 January 2019.
Wegen Weihnachtsferien sind wir ab Montag den 24. Dezember 2018 bis den 1. Januar 2019 geschlossen.
Christmas is always a good time to look back over the year.
Look back, see and feel who was important in the last years. And therefore we like to thank you, customers, distributors, suppliers, supporters and friends. Thank you so much, for making BBT of what it is today and give us the opportunity to serve you even better in the years to come.
The happiness we give you, we like to share with all of you as well. Together we can create wonderful things, let’s continue together.
Enjoy the christmas card from our whole team!
In a week where there was more political turmoil than VW parts, we managed to get another couple of projects to a “perfect” finish! Political wise I don’t feel the need to write anything, because the low profile political games they played this week (and especially in Belgium) are not worth my words, thoughts or comments. Or as I read in a column the political class of today is only busy with their own profile, not with what really matters… actually I think this lady is right!
But meanwhile we do have a new nice pallet of brand new parts and a couple of back in stocks to write about and warm up our fingertips on our keyboards.
What started as a rough idea in the summer of 2016 is finished now. We made the worm for the early bay window (T2a) steering box.
Made by a highly specialised steering box components manufacturer in Europe, this is really top of the bill! Many of the early bay window steering boxes have worn out worms… well here we offer the solution.
Currently we’re working on a peg roller bearing pen with correct dimensions (there exist several reproductions with all different but none correct dimensions) but our worm functions perfectly with NOS and good used peg roller bearing pens, we tried and tested multiple very intensively!
Our worms come complete, bearing and clips are pre-mounted, for easy assembling. We sell the oil seals for these steering boxes separately under BBT 1368-210 and 1368-211.
This is a 100% BBT product, quality guaranteed! Beware for cheap & inferior imitations! Making a good worm as it should is not an easy one!
The next new product we already had for longer time, but not in our catalogs yet. So now we offer the choke element for your PDSIT carburetor.
Solex PDSIT are the original carburetors for your type 3 and 4 engines. Please note this choke element is different for left and right side.
Finally back in stock after searching the world for about half a year or so, we’re happy we got those back in a perfect quality.
And also the rebuild set for the king pin central on your front axle of your split window bus came back in earlier this week and is ready for immediate delivery.
That’s about it for this week news. Just a small message that BBT will be completely shut down next friday. We will be entirely closed between the Christmas and New Year. So if you want another order, before New Year pls order asap, next week we will ship out all orders we receive, and after that it will be after January 2nd.
Next Friday we will be there with the last BBT News of the year.
We wish you all a very happy winter weekend!
Yep, another week has gone, and was it worth full? You bet!
Ah, what an easy living world full of wonders we may live in our daily life, the wonderful world of our Volkswagens. That’s exactly what we did this whole week en some new arrivals made it pretty interesting to do….
Next we added some items for Karmann Ghia to our ever-growing range of Ghia parts. We like these little cars, and really see them as our little sporty car of the range.
Next product we brought in this week is very specific for Karmann Ghia convertible, as it’s always broken or missing we thought this would be a perfect product to stock for your Ghia. It’s the plastic cover over the seam from the rear panel left and right behind the B-pillar.
They come in ABS kind of plastic exactly like original, for the right looks, and because it’s for a Ghia, in the right style. Order yours now!
This week we got finally our reverse light switches back in stock after way too long being unavailable.
The BBT News Team wish you a peaceful weekend, avoid thinking about politics and migration, and sweet dreams about our Volkswagens. Enjoy!
Work on your safety! This little valve keeps the vacuum to your servo when your engine stalls, so your servo keeps working (and let you brake normally) when your engine stalls… This valve You can find in between your vacuum line right after your inlet manifolds, make sure yours is in place and works fine or replace with BBT’s perfect reproduction.
we do have a limited stock of these fine bulbholders for your very early cars back in stock, get yours as long as stocks last….
Our prefered partner Wolfsburg West from California USA brought out a full line of locks and latches for your split window bus build between 1955 and 1963.
These locking and latches set is all complete for all that needs a key with simple one fitting key for all and every set will come with two keys, exactly like You bus came new from the factory… now how cool is that? Just as standard or stock as it can be!
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BBT’s april 2015 Newsletter is out now!
30 new items have been added to our parts range. | 2019-04-23T14:27:42Z | https://blog.bbt4vw.com/category/newsletter/page/2/ |
Find out more about Conviasa including the airports and routes operated by Conviasa plus the latest Conviasa sale offers, discount codes and online deals for 2019/2020. Learn about hand & checked baggage allowances, upcoming Conviasa sale dates and much more.
Browse the latest sale offers, discount codes and online deals on Conviasa flights in 2019/2020. Compare airline fares with popular flight booking engines and comparison websites. Discover how you can save money on your next Conviasa flights before you book online.
Explore which airports are served by Conviasa and the flight routes that it operates. Select a route and check flight prices before you book online. Alternatively compare flight prices using the search form below. | 2019-04-18T13:15:07Z | http://www.weather2flights.com/airlines/conviasa/ |
IELTS Academic Task 1 Table.
IELTS Essay Correction: Air Travel Should Grow Without a Limit.
IELTS Answer Correction: Leisure Activities in Australia – 4.
IELTS Academic Task 1 Correction: Goods Transported in the U.K. – 1.
IELTS Essay Correction: Necessary for Parents to Attend Parenting Training Course.
IELTS Essay Correction: People Should not Work Once they Reach the Retirement Age.
IELTS Essay Correction: History has Nothing to Tell us.
IELTS Essay Correction: More Disadvantages of Car than Advantages.
IELTS Essay Correction: Social, Medical and Technical Problems Associated with the Use of Mobile Phones.
IELTS Essay Correction: Animal Species Becoming Extinct due to Human Activities.
IELTS Essay April 2018: Vehicle Free Days.
IELTS Essay Correction: A Zoo Has No Useful Purpose.
IELTS Essay Correction: Film Stars and Music Celebrities Earn a Great Deal of Money.
IELTS Essay Correction: Plan Detailed Activities for Leisure Time.
IELTS Academic Task 1 Correction: Number of Mobile Phones and Landlines per 100 People.
IELTS Essay Correction: Safety Standards in Homes – Building Codes. | 2019-04-24T04:47:18Z | https://eltecenglish.com/2018/05/page/3/ |
Jerome Seymour Bruner, born in October 1915 in New York, United States. At 16 he entered Duke University, graduating at 22. He continued studying at Harvard and got his doctorate in Psychology in 1941. When World War II broke out he enlisted in the ranks of the US Army and served in the psychology department. After the war, he entered Harvard to pursue research and teaching. Later, he applied his knowledge to the field of educational science. He warned of the need to understand the mental functioning of the child for the teaching-learning process to be consistent, avoiding the mere accumulation of subjects and information presented to the students. Considers learning as an active process in which the association of ideas, categorization, decision making and hypothesis testing are involved. | 2019-04-19T21:16:55Z | http://imaginelephants.com/en/glosario/jerome-bruner/ |
T1 lines are new being installed even in rural areas of Howard, MD for use as a centralized hub for homes and businesses to tap into. Ethernet and wireless transmissions can tap into the T1 hub to reach the end user. Businesses with a demanding online presence can locate in rural areas by being in close proximity to the hub. The speed of the lines are not significantly diminished by line length. | 2019-04-19T04:30:52Z | http://t1serviceproviders.com/maryland/howard-county/ |
Branded custom apparel and accessories are affordable, powerful marketing tools. What makes them unique in the world of marketing is their desirability…. embroidered or screen printed with your logo, tagline or mark, they are something you do not have to work to put into someone’s hand. Like all promotional products, custom branded items are useful and appreciated by your customers. What other type of advertising media could you seriously put a pricetag on and sell as merchandise?
Reward staff for a job well done or customers for their loyalty. It will both express your gratitude and serve as a highly visible reminder of your quality and generosity.
Provide staff and employees with branded “uniforms” or work attire, regardless of the type of business. Screen printing and embroidery offer a stylish, crafted finish to almost any garment you could need. You recognize the UPS drivers immediately – do your customers recognize your employees? Even if you feel your business is not suitable for a uniformed workforce, an embroidered shirt in your brand’s color for employees who deal with the public is attractive.
Consider offering branded clothing and accessories in a sort of “gift shop” for the public as well. For instance, if you are in the restaurant or food business, why not offer customized aprons, chefs hats, oven mitts and kitchen towels for sale? When customers wear your brand or use these items in public, there is no better form of effective advertising… and best of all, that’s FREE brand exposure!
You’ll have no trouble finding a huge array of clothing and items to choose from when investing in custom apparel. All types of quality merchandise in current styles are available: t-shirts, polos, oxfords, fleece, sports gear, caps, scrubs, gloves, blankets, linens, tote bags, accessories and more. Use your imagination to decide what works best with your brand in terms of color, style and usage.
Group multiple products into one order for quantity breaks. Best quantity breaks are at 25, 50, 75, and 100 pieces.
Quantity price breaks are not as significant as with screen printing, but great for small orders. Can do as few as ONE!
Rely on your printer for advice and direction in deciding between what options are out there for creative ideas that fit your marketing budget. They should be able to provide you with the latest information and innovative ideas in print, signage, apparel and integrated marketing. If they can’t, you have the wrong printer! The best advice, always, is to ASK YOUR PRINTER!
This entry was posted in Branding, Promotional Products and tagged branded apparel, branded merchandise, branding, clothing, custom apparel, embroidery, marketing, printwear, promotional products, screen printing. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-26T14:28:31Z | http://blog.imagesmith.com/2012/12/07/apparel/ |
The GIGA Fixxoo guarantee ensures your iPhone repair is always a success. Simply contact GIGA Fixxoo in the unlikely event you cannot complete the repair yourself and our professional technicians will gladly take care of it for you. Apple iPhone 4 battery replacement has never been so easy! | 2019-04-19T20:44:40Z | https://www.fixxoo.com/shop/iphone-4-battery-repair-kit/ |
The following websites are provided as a resource for our referring doctors and patients. This page contains hyperlinks to World Wide Web sites that are created and maintained by other organizations. We have included these links because we think that our referring doctors and patients may find them of interest. Keep in mind that Peachtree Dunwoody Oral & Facial Surgery, PC does not necessarily endorse the views expressed on these websites. Also, we do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information presented on these sites. | 2019-04-23T20:22:03Z | https://www.jawsoms.com/patient-information/links-of-interest/ |
We work with local authorities, housing associations, architects, landscape architects, planning consultants and developers to support the production of designs that address crime and security issues and minimise future opportunities for offenders.
We are a small team of professionals with backgrounds in planning, architecture, landscape architecture and the development industry, and are accredited by the College of Policing to deliver crime prevention, and ‘designing out crime’ advice. Everyone is entitled to live in a well-designed, safe environment where the quality of life for individuals and communities is not undermined by crime or the fear of crime. | 2019-04-19T22:53:37Z | http://designforsecurity.org/ |
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Click on the link below to download the user manual for your system. If you’re not sure which system you have, give us a call at (605) 343-3333 ext 0 and we can help you out. Files open in your browser in a PDF format so you can view, print and save the manual to your computer.
For a free download of the PDF viewer software, visit the Adobe PDF Reader homepage. | 2019-04-21T04:09:21Z | http://knightsecurityinc.com/?page_id=202 |
A speakeasy in the heart of 17th avenue.
Located in the same block as Model Milk, this 50 seat speakeasy, can be accessed through it's own door—marked with the #300 address—on 17th avenue. The parlour offers a seated cocktail experience for smaller, intimate groups of imbibing guests. Model Citizen features a monthly rotating cocktail menu and weekly features with bar snacks from the Model Milk kitchen. No Reservations required, but due to the intimate style of Model Citizen, groups larger than 6 can inquire with our events team about bookings. | 2019-04-20T04:35:44Z | http://www.modelmilk.ca/model-citizen-1/ |
It may seem hard to believe for some, but the UK is jam packed full of destinations that are beautiful, interesting and unique. Just because you have a travel bucket list doesn’t mean you have to travel to the other side of the world for a life changing experience. While there is nothing wrong with wanting to travel the world, surely it’s also important to explore what your own homeland has to offer too. You could be missing out on places you didn’t even know existed. So have a read of these ten bucket list destinations that you need to see before you die.
If you enjoy nothing more than a day spent on the water this location is for you. Alderney is a small island located just off the UK’s shores and will give the impression of being away from it all when really you aren’t. It’s an island packed with caves, shorelines and historic buildings to explore. Which is perfect for any budding adventurer. Take a kayak and travel around the island to see the local wildlife and hidden beaches up close.
This Scottish ski resort is situated beneath the mountains of a National Park. So it is phenomenally beautiful with winters like scenery and a huge array of terrains to explore. If you enjoy your skiing or snowboarding, but cannot afford to pay the prices of say the Alps, this is the place for you. Spend a day or week skiing down the luscious hilltops and take in the sights on offer. You will not be disappointed.
This small fishing town situated in Cornwall is quaint but full of character. If you’re looking for secret beaches, art galleries, music and culture this tiny town has it all. Talk a walk along one of the many sandy white beaches and breath in that sea air. Team with a bag of fish and chips and feel the relaxing childhood nostalgia take over.
This beautiful part of South West England is a prime location for walking and hiking. With it’s lush fields, forests and historic cottages it has everything that emulates British country life. The locals are friendly, and you’ll feel instantly welcomed in the picturesque market towns nestles in the valleys. Have a pint in a pub after your relaxing stroll to finish off a wonderful day outside.
If you’re interested in stargazing and astronomy, the isle of man needs to be on your list. It’s been known to have some of the clearest night skies of anywhere else in the world. Making it ideal for spotting the Milky way and the Orion Nebula with just the naked eye. It’s another location you can spot the infamous Northern lights too which just adds to it’s appeal even more.
It may not seem like an obvious destination to add to a bucket list, but Blackpool still boasts some of the most beautiful shorelines and parks in the UK. Blackpool tourism is at an all-time high due to so many people wanting to experience the attractions available. But also to see the iconic shoreline we can all recognise. This is the ideal location for you to visit if you enjoy a combination of nostalgic and historic seaside life. But combine it with fast-paced roller coasters and rides.
These beautiful islands may be part of the UK, but feel as though they should be in the Mediterranean. Take a walk through this sub-tropical paradise and gaze in wonder. Look at the incredible flowers and insects that have decided to make this place their home.
For a more boutique destination, you should head to Whitby. This Kentish town has a bohemian vibe and also have a thriving market for oysters. Which if you have never tried one before could be another bucket list item you can tick off.
Spend a few days here and explore the vast array of lakes, rivers, countryside and beaches they have on offer. You will fall in love with their laid back way of life and the stunning natural beauty.
These bucket list destinations are fantastic for a day or even a week-long fun vacation. It’s almost guaranteed seeing these places will make you feel uplifted and thirsty for more adventures. You never know what kind of impact they might have on you. So add which ones you fancy to your bucket list and tick them off ASAP! | 2019-04-24T20:42:42Z | http://thelistlove.com/10-uk-bucket-list-destinations-to-see-before-you-die/ |
One day I was feeling more like Cruella DeVil than Marry Poppins and I must have looked it. One of the other teachers looked at me and said, “You’re not shiny any more, Mrs. B.” Honestly, I didn’t disagree. I’m not a shiny new penny any more. I’m a 39 year old working mother of two who, at middle age, has followed her husband down a completely new path into full time ministry! I mean, it’s like we’re kids fresh out of college just starting out. Many of my colleagues are nearly ten years younger than me. Sometimes I have to stop and laugh just so I don’t cry. This is not what I had planned!
On top of that, working with children will break a person’s heart. I taught music for ten years, so I’m not completely green, but the dynamic of being a classroom teacher is completely new to me. Gone are the surface relationships built with students in weekly thirty minute music classes. Now I have one little group of ducklings that are all my own. We’re together all day every day. It is a whole new world! I take care of their every need during the school day, and I worry about them when I’m not there. Sometimes there is a problem that I just can’t fix for them and it breaks my heart. If there was ever a profession that could wear the shine off of a person, education would be it. Some children have needs that are difficult to accommodate within the classroom setting. Some come to school still reeling from the affects of a something that happened at home. Some have lost parents. Some have been abandoned. Some don’t even speak English, so how on Earth are you supposed to reach them? It wears a person down, and stretches you thin. It can cause you to become frustrated and disillusioned. That will definitely dim your shine.
When I started with this class I was fresh and rested and new. I was excited about this new adventure. I was organized, laying out my clothes and packing my lunch the night before. My lesson plans were neat and tidy. No scratch outs allowed. As time wore on, though, I became less organized, more tired, frazzled, and definitely less shiny. I started to feel so small compared to the fallen-ness around me. Ecclesiastes came to mind once again, “all is meaningless.” (I’ve really got to move on from Ecclesiastes!) My friend’s words made me kind of sad. If I wasn’t shiny anymore, did that mean that I was no longer representing Jesus the way I should? How can we ever hope to maintain that spiritual light within our hearts when we have to live in this fallen world?
The answer? We keep our eyes on Jesus. I’d love to tell you that I read my Bible faithfully every single morning, but here lately, I just want ten more minutes of sleep. On the days when I stick to the plan and spend time with the Lord before the day starts, things are significantly different. I find that I can bear the load of responsibility for these young ones with the grace and dignity that I long to show the world. That character that I so eagerly desire God to complete in me is more evident on the days when I walk closely with Him. Taking each step in His power is the only way to genuinely shine like a light in the darkness of this world, especially when your mission field leads you to places where that darkness is more evident than others.
That struggle to shine comes in the hardest moments, but there are also moments of happiness and delight with my kinder-friends. We laugh and joke. We sing and play. When I am tired and struggling, they give me hugs and encouragement. If my temper gets the best of me, my apologies are met with kindness and mercy. For the most part parents and teachers are helpful and supportive. There are moments that are blessed and rewarding, and they far outweigh the moments of frustration. Somewhere within it all, I pray that my life will have a lasting affect that will benefit God’s kingdom. My hope is that each child that is in my care will see kindness and will follow that example as they grow.
The “You In Me” tip in pictured above is available in my set of three “Modern” color pages in my Etsy store, here.
I love this….you are so right with everything you said, but one thing… you always started your day being shiny! You did a beautiful job and will be missed! | 2019-04-20T08:39:23Z | https://sarahboger.com/2018/05/31/shiny/ |
The Appraisers by State web site is an expanding directory of real estate appraisers across the United States. Currently there is not a Hardeman Real Estate Appraiser listed.
Please view the complete Appraisers by State appraiser list for Tennessee or try selecting a county adjacent to Hardeman County to find a real estate appraiser who may be able to assist you.
If you are a real estate appraiser and you want to be listed as a Hardeman Real Estate Appraiser in Tennessee sign up now. Listings are placed in the order they are received, so reserve the top appraiser listing for Hardeman County by signing up today! | 2019-04-21T12:33:36Z | http://appraisersbystate.com/tennessee-county-appraiser/hardeman-county-appraiser.htm |
Visit a real working farm and see what life is like at one of the busiest times of the year. If you are lucky enough you may even see a lamb being born! Help feed the pet lambs at 11 am and 2pm The woodland walk and den building area will be open for children to explore. | 2019-04-24T22:28:50Z | https://northleeds.mumbler.co.uk/lambing-live-at-birchfield-ice-cream-farm-harrogate/ |
Meet ELECT staff and gain program-specific professional development, share best practices, and learn skills to better serve the expectant and parenting teens of Pennsylvania.
It is recognized that ALL high school graduating students could benefit from goals that prepare them for adulthood. The Midwestern Intermediate Unit’s ELECT program took it a step further and categorized these goals into 6 independent living categories. Students are empowered to complete the Steps to a Successful Transition with intense follow up 10-12 weeks following their graduation. This webinar will highlight a best practice for serving students in the ELECT transition component and allow for discussion and sharing among program staff.
From overuse to addiction, the ugly side of smart technology is impacting everyone – from children to adults. Learn the do’s and don’ts so that your experience with technology is a positive one. This webinar will help participants understand the overall effects of technology on emotional and physical health, recognize the signs of technology overuse and addiction, learn strategies and tips for using technology in a positive way, and find resources for educating students and parents about technology use.
The Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework is a strengths-based approach to working with families. It is composed of five protective factors that, when robust in families, promote healthy outcomes for children. As youth mature they take on an increasingly active role in their own development. This shift is the focus of Youth Thrive, a research-informed framework that promotes factors that increase the likelihood that adolescents can develop into healthy, thriving adults. These complementary frameworks describe attributes that mitigate risk and enhance well-being for families and youth. Pregnant and parenting teens are at the juncture of these frameworks – they are developing as both parents and young people. Participants in this webinar will explore these frameworks and identify strategies to create environments where parenting teens feel empowered, build protective factors, and ultimately, experience positive outcomes.
During the webinar, participants will learn about the basic eligibility requirements for subsidized child care, how services for teen parents are prioritized, and where they can go to access those services – the newly formed Early Learning Resource Centers (ELRCs).
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him or her. Participants will learn about the continuum of addiction and discuss prevention strategies and treatment options best suited to pregnant and parenting teens. No amount of alcohol is safe during pregnancy. Participants will identify symptoms of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). Not all children with FASD are alike, the symptoms vary from mild to severe and early identification is the first step to an improved prognosis. Additionally, participants will explore the distinction between helping behavior and enabling behavior in order to assist pregnant and parenting teens who may be struggling with substance use or abuse.
Serving young parents requires a commitment to supporting delay of another pregnancy. Parenting one baby while attending school can be challenging – two could make academic growth truly difficult. One of ELECT’s stated goals is delaying more childbearing. How does an educator offer education on contraception while empowering young parents to make healthy choices benefiting themselves and their little ones? This webinar will offer medically accurate facts to assist ELECT personnel teach contraception with respect, honoring each young parent’s personal values while creating an atmosphere of open communication.
Providing home-visitation consultation services is an important part of the work we do. It allows us to provide better technical assistance to our clients as we observe their interactions with their children. But it is important that home visitors take steps to make sure that they, their co-workers and clients are all safe before, during and after home visits. This webinar will provide best practice recommendations for home visitors to keep them safe during home visits.
Many myths exist around the topic of suicide. One of the most dangerous myths is that talking about suicide with a young person will plant the idea in their head and cause suicide. In reality, the opposite is true. Asking directly about suicidal ideas or intentions can help people who believe like there is no one to talk to about how horrible they feel. This webinar will introduce the risk factors that contribute to mental health issues and suicidal behavior and the warning signs that require immediate action. Strategies for intervening will be explored as well as best practices for referrals and follow up. | 2019-04-22T22:26:24Z | https://elect.center-school.org/capacity-building/professional-development/ |
As we left Las Vegas, New Mexico, we turned straight eastward and climbed up onto a high plain. For the first time I began to feel our passage through the southwestern desert. The Rocky Mountains were receding behind us, though we would see them for many days and still catch glimpses of them in the distance in the weeks ahead. We had arrived at the top of what would have been a giant mesa had nature carved it out with a bit more definition millions of years ago.
A man stopped his Winnebago camper along the road. He had a horse trailer on the back with 2 horses in it. Gizmo and the horses whinnied at each other. He said his name was A. Kelly Pruitt, and that he was a cowboy artist. He seemed in no hurry, so I tied Gizmo to the side of the trailer and Kelly gave him some grain. We sat and talked for about an hour. He had lots of wonderful paintings that he had done, and a bunch of great old cowboy horse gear in his camper. He asked me if he could take some pictures of me on Gizmo, to use as studies, and I said sure. Was a nice break, visiting with him.
We traveled along a little-used two lane road that headed straight toward Texas and took us across an enormous flat prairie that was covered in grama and buffalo grass, with some bluestem and others competing with the cholla and rabbit weed against the wind and draught. It felt as if we had set sail on a great brown ocean beneath pastel blue skies that spread to the horizon in all directions and disappeared behind the great mountains behind us. I could see a windmill for many miles before we got to it, and they dotted the landscape here and there. No trees were to be seen, except those that were planted on purpose for shade next to the few ranch houses in the distance.
The land reminded me somewhat of the Painted Desert, though it lacked the striking buttes and mesas that had surrounded us there. Instead, the Sangre de Cristo mountains lay behind us to the west—the tailbone of the Rockies—and the land began to give way to a flat plain in front of us, with a chain of rugged hills doing its best to block our trail to the headwaters of the Canadian River. But it still felt big and open. Once we had climbed up onto the great plateau, we lost sight of Las Vegas and of anything else that tied us to civilization. Save for a ranch house and barn here and there, it was empty, open country.
I watched a coyote stalk and kill a rabbit today. We were cutting across some foothills and were camped at the edge of a large draw, up near the tree line. I was reading a paperback and looked up to see a big, healthy looking coyote trotting across the meadow below. His coat was shiny and he was fat and looked like he was having a good year. He stopped, then began to move slowly. His eyes were focused on something ahead. I couldn’t see what it was. After a minute or so he broke into a run and I saw a cottontail leap from a bush just in front of him. After a few twists and turns he landed on the rabbit and killed it. Then he trotted back the way he had come, the dead rabbit flopping in his mouth. For some reason, the whole scene had a certain elegance to it and I felt as though I had witnessed something special.
On our third day out on this flatland, we camped at a windmill with a metal water tank and a small wooden creep feeder nearby. The mill was an old Dempster ten-footer that sat on a thirty-two foot, four-legged tower. Most water pumpers in these parts were made by the Aermotor Company, so this Dempster, while not exactly uncommon, created a unique silhouette against the New Mexico sky as it spun with the wind. The mill’s wheel and tail both creaked and groaned in the wind as its sucker rod slapped against the guides with every stroke, a small bit of water leaking from the stuffing box as it pumped water into the tank at two or three gallons a minute. It was a reassuring sound to me, one that will always be connected with survival. A windmill means water, and water means life.
The grass in this part of the country had been overgrazed until there wasn’t much left but dirt, so Gizmo didn’t have a lot to eat. There was some tall green rye grass growing around the shady side of the water trough, so I staked him to the windmill where he could reach the grass and the water. I made a crude camp, then took a bath in the trough. It was big enough to swim in, so I floated on my back, naked, looking up at the wispy clouds forming in the afternoon sky. The water was icy cold but refreshing after several hot days of trail dust and sweat. I washed my clothes and hung them on the windmill tower to dry, which they did in a few minutes in the dry New Mexico sun. I sat and read for a while then noticed a storm front moving toward us from the northwest. It was miles off, but it was very black and threatening. I could see lightning hitting the ground as it grew closer, and I quickly rounded up all my gear and moved it to the creep feeder.
Creep feeders are used for feeding calves, and sometimes for horse foals that are still nursing. They are too small for the mother to fit into, but big enough to allow a foal or a calf through the opening. They allow the rancher or horse breeder to feed supplements to the young ones without their mothers taking it instead. Creep feeders are constructed in various ways, sometimes just some fence panels strung together with a small opening and some, like this one, built of wood with a tin roof and railing around it, high enough for a calf to walk under, but too low for a mother cow to pass beneath. I crawled into the wooden feeder and dragged my saddle and all my gear under its small roof as it started to rain. I ducked back out and headed to fetch Gizmo as the rain began to pour down in earnest. It arrived suddenly, with a vengeance, much sooner than I had expected. The lightning exploded when it hit the windmill tower where Gizmo was picketed. I was knocked off my feet as the light rain turned to a downpour within seconds. I watched as he jumped around, staked to the metal tower, and I jumped to my feet and ran to him. As I reached him and took ahold of his halter I rubbed his nose and talked to him to calm him down. It was the second time lightning had hit a windmill that Gizmo was tied to, and I felt like we had run out of luck. The lightning hit again, very close, and he reared up and jerked me off my feet.
I managed to hang onto the halter. The downpour suddenly turned to hail the size of golf balls. They were giving us both a pounding, but my hat took the brunt of the punishment. Gizmo was being beaten pretty badly by it all, and I knew I had to get him under shelter of some sort. I unclipped the rope from his front hobble and clipped it to his halter. Then I untied it from the windmill and led him back to the creep feeder. I couldn’t get him inside, but I could coax his head and neck in, so he was partially protected from the hail. It lasted a few more minutes then reverted back to a steady, driving rain for another half hour.
Most of the afternoon summer showers in that part of the country come and go within an hour or two. This was a full-fledged storm that looked to be settling in for the night. The creep feeder did a poor job of keeping the gear dry. Everything was soaked. Gizmo and I were both muddy and drenched, and there was no place to sit or stand to get away from it. I decided to saddle up, and we set off for a building I had seen in the distance.
He dropped his head and walked along, pretending he hadn’t heard me. I led him a couple of miles to where a large hay barn stood by itself near a dirt road. The barn doors were open, so we slipped inside and out of the storm.
As I was unsaddling and spreading my gear out to dry, I heard a pickup truck pull up outside. I looked out to see the truck’s doors opening, and two men stepped out and came into the barn. The older of the two (I figured for the father) asked me what I was doing, and I told him we had gotten ourselves trapped in the lightning storm. He was a bit stroppy and aggressive at first, but when he saw that we were traveling and meant no harm, his bearing changed and he became friendly. He told me it was fine if we spent the night and to help ourselves to some of the grass hay that was stacked in the barn. I told him I wouldn’t break open a new bale, but would find one already broken. We talked for a while, the younger man asking questions about where we’d come from, the older one offering suggestions for how to navigate the country ahead. They said their goodbyes and left us to weather the storm in the barn. It rained well into the night.
The air was crisp and clear when we hit the trail early the next morning. We had taken a bit of a detour by heading to the barn so we had to backtrack to find our way along the fence line to the east. We had covered a quick six miles at Gizmo’s smooth trot when we came upon a large truck and a couple of pickup trucks parked alongside the road. There were several men at work along both sides of the fence and it wasn’t until we were almost upon them that I realized what they were doing.
Several cattle were dead, piled on top of one another inside the barbed wire fence. Gizmo snorted in fear as we pulled up to the scene and stopped. The rancher and his son were there, along with several others. They were butchering the cattle. They wrapped the pieces in white butcher paper from a roll in one of the pickup trucks. They set the meat inside the large truck, which was refrigerated and used to haul meat and produce. The rancher told me that thirty-two head of cattle had bunched up against the fence. When the lightning hit the fence, it had killed all but three of them. He told me I had made the right choice, taking cover in his barn. I asked if they needed any help and he said no, that they had it all under control. He spoke in a matter of fact manner, as if this was just part of the job of raising cattle. And I suppose it was. I turned Gizmo back up the road, and we left them there, trying to make lemonade out of lemons.
Camped at an abandoned schoolhouse outside of Trujillo. Last night I saw a mother sparrow making a nest. This morning she was dead, caught in some sort of nylon webbing she had brought home. She had flopped around until she died. I cut her loose and buried her. For some reason it made me sad and I cried. | 2019-04-21T20:51:42Z | http://johnandgizmo.com/another-summer-storm-excerpt-2/ |
The Sofia dress is a beautiful, modern take on a classic shift dress. The slight asymmetry at the bottom of the dress gives an air of sophistication with an alluring edge. Sofia is the perfect combination of beauty, simplicity, and unexpected detail to bring your wardrobe to life. | 2019-04-25T09:46:06Z | https://www.artisara.com/products/sofia-dress |
The EuroXanth COST Action held its 1st Annual Conference on “Integrating science on Xanthomonadaceae for integrated plant disease management in Europe” in Coimbra, Portugal, from 13 to 15 December 2017. The conference welcomed >80 participants and served as a platform to exchange knowledge and to share technical knowhow with respect to members of the Xanthomonadaceae family.
All four topics were quite equally represented, with a slight overrepresentation of WG1. In total, 31 oral presentations were given and 15 posters were presented. The program and the abstracts are available for DOWNLOAD: EuroXanth_First Annual Conference-Abstract Book. The conference program gave ample time for interesting discussions. As the first large gathering of European scientists working on Xanthomonas and Xylella, this event can be considered as a great success of the EuroXanth COST Action. The success is also linked to the great job that was done by the organisers, Prof Joana Cardoso Costa (Instituto Pedro Nunes & Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal) and her colleagues António Portugal, Eva Garcia and Aitana Ares. Thanks a lot to all of you for your commitment!
The conference was held in TecBIS in Coimbra, an outstanding example of an integrated university city with a specific urban typology as well as its own ceremonial and cultural traditions that have been kept alive through the ages. Coimbra is a town in the Center of Portugal, approximately 100 km south of Oporto and 200 km north of Lisbon.
A highlight of the conference was the visit to the university and the old town of Coimbra (UNESCO World Heritage). This social gathering gave plenty of opportunities to discuss with colleagues in an informal way. No doubt that new collaborations will emerge from this event. | 2019-04-22T06:06:02Z | https://euroxanth.eu/events/annual-conferences/annual-conference-2017 |
The whitelash thesis is convenient because it absolves liberals of not recognizing how their own obsession with diversity has encouraged white, rural, religious Americans to think of themselves as a disadvantaged group whose identity is being threatened or ignored. Such people are not actually reacting against the reality of our diverse America (they tend, after all, to live in homogeneous areas of the country). But they are reacting against the omnipresent rhetoric of identity, which is what they mean by “political correctness.” Liberals should bear in mind that the first identity movement in American politics was the Ku Klux Klan, which still exists. Those who play the identity game should be prepared to lose it.
We start early, telling young children all about differences... and I wonder how is that helpful when children do not see through adult, prejudiced lenses. We create groups and then encourage people to engage in victimhood competition. My marginalization is worse than yours!
Too often my liberal and progressive friends tear at each other, complaining that one person has too much privilege to understand group X, Y, or Z. The response is "Oh yeah? I belong to groups A, B, and C, and I'm therefore marginalized in soooo many ways!"
Stop it. Get over it.
Address serious, real racism, sexism, and so on. But stop making such big productions about how marginalized groups deserve automatic sainthood. No. They don't. Making it sound like oppression is somehow a baptism that purifies the soul is as absurd as assuming that belonging to the groups in power makes a person evil.
This is a lousy time in the United States, created by two political parties playing groups against each other. And don't claim I'm guilty of unfair equivalence. The progressive movement has, in fact, done serious harm to groups by emphasizing checklists of people and caring more about those factors than anything else.
Was Pres. Barak Obama the first black president? Yes. Okay. Great. Now move on. He seemed to be more ready to move on and do his job than some of the white academic progressives I know.
Would Hillary Clinton have been the first female president? Yes. But that's not a reason to elect her. I opposed Trump, but I was not going to vote for anyone based on superficial traits. Yes, I used the word superficial because that's how the fawning over Hillary started to sound. Focusing on her qualification and her skills would have been much better and maybe more persuasive.
Read Mark Lilla's column. It's thoughtful and offers a moment of reflection for liberals / progressives wondering why their identity politics backfired.
This is good. It understands that the election is a call for us to examine the way we view the world. It is a bit scary though since that world view may be seriously flawed. Lots of work to do if we take this and the Lilla piece thoughtfully. | 2019-04-25T08:22:43Z | https://almostclassical.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-end-of-identity-liberalism-new-york.html |
The Government of Macau Special Administrative Region Statistics and Census Service has released new statistics showing a 3.0% rise quarter-on-quarter in overall tourist satisfaction with the gambling mecca.
A further sub measure shedding light on visitors’ satisfaction with casinos in the city hit 78.4% for the first quarter of 2018, up from 75.4% for the same period last year.
Overall, 73.9% of visitors to the former Portuguese enclave expressed satisfaction with their stay in 2017, according to data from the Statistics and Census service.
In further good news for Macau, the Statistics and Census Service also reported a 22% year-on-year increase in total tourist spending minus casino revenues to reach $2.03 billion for the first quarter of 2018.
Overnight tourist spending increased to $1.56 billion year-on-year, while for the same period of time daily tourist spending increased 30.7% year-on-year to reach $460 million.
Total visitor arrivals reached 8.55 million people for the first three months of 2018, up a solid 8.6% year-on-year. Visitors from mainland China still comprised the lion’s share of travelers visiting the city in the first quarter of 2018 at 6.031 million, followed by visitors from Hong Kong at 1.478 million (down 2.8%), Taiwan at 253,390, (down 0.9%) and the republic of Korea at 240,079 (up 4.6%) visitors for the quarter.
Hotel occupancy rates came in at 87.1% up from 80.3% for the same period in 2017. The average length of a guests’ stay was 1.4 days with guests from Vietnam and Portugal opting to stay the longest at 6.6 and 5.2 days respectively.
Some 713,266 of Macau guests arrived on package tours.
Out of a total of 76 hotels in operation during the quarter, according to statistics released by the Statistics and Census service, there were 33 five-star, 17 four-star and 15 three-star hotels. Seven new hotels and guest houses were opened in the first quarter of 2018, as the total number of guest rooms in Macau rose by 6.4% to reach 39,000.
On the down side, as in any rapidly expanding major metropolitan area, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes told the Macau News the number of complaints about the cities taxi service, especially rogue taxis, has been increasing.
Police recently charged a rogue taxi driver with abduction and extortion after said taxi driver refused to allow a woman from Taiwan to leave his cab after he was not paid the fare he expected.
While not commenting on the actual number of complaints received by her office, Senna Fernandes went on to tell journalists, that the recent high-profile case did not mean the entire taxi industry in the city was corrupt. She was, however, quick to point out that rogue taxi drivers were definitely hurting the city’s image as a safe and secure tourist destination.
Overall, first quarter tourism numbers are strong and indicate that thanks to China easing its grip on its citizens gambling abroad, as well as solid visitor numbers from neighboring regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, and Japan, the city may well be on the way to setting record visitor numbers in 2018. | 2019-04-20T14:54:23Z | https://www.usaonlinecasino.com/casino-news/macau-tourist-numbers-rise-in-q1/ |
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