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The Long Victory
The Long Victory
I must confess, I didn’t always enjoy reading. In fact, I’m the type of person who gets aggravated when others declare, “That movie was good, but it was nothing like the book!” Personally, I enjoy the visual experience of a film over that of reading a book. However, in the last few years, reading and studying have become my favorite pastime. Perhaps it’s what I’m reading, or rather, who I’m reading and studying about.
Believe it or not, the last “secular” books I read for mere pleasure’s sake were Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The tale that Tolkien tells is so visceral and emotional that it’s impossible not be swept up entirely into the world of Middle-Earth.
But there’s an intriguing line in The Fellowship of the Ring, in which the elf-queen Galadriel speaks of her Lord Celeborn: “I have dwelt with him years uncounted… and together through ages of the world we have fought the long defeat (Tolkien, 348).”
Allow me to explain this passage briefly.
In Tolkien’s mythology, ever since the great ring was found by Bilbo, the malicious Lord Sauron has been moving and stirring, knowing that if he were ever to be reunited with the One Ring, it would mean certain annihilation of all who oppose him. Now, with this ring re-surfacing and the quest to destroy it standing “upon the edge of a knife,” the heroes know that hope is thin and defeat imminent, one even admitting, “There never was much hope… Just a fool’s hope (Tolkien, The Return of the King, 83).”
Sometimes, that’s precisely how we view our Christianity.
We know, or maybe you’ve come to know, that the Christian life is one of struggle, often great struggle. One of the reasons for this is that in our pursuit of God, a darkness remains inside us that desires only to bring us down. The spiritual life of the Christian is one of conflict: it’s a battle in your soul between what your old nature wants and what your new nature wants. The “work” and “effort,” then, is to consistently and constantly yield ourselves to those new desires (Col. 3:1-4, 12-17) and strangle the former ones (Col. 3:5-11).
This struggle weighs us down; it is an internal war that often demoralizes us into thinking that what we’re doing is worthless, and that we’re just engaged in “the long defeat.” I know that, for me, whenever Satan gets the victory and I stumble, the thought races through my head: “Why am I doing this? This struggle is stupid; I’ll never be able to defeat Satan! I’m just going to give up.”
Sometimes, in the midst of our own sanctification, we can get caught in a routine of “two steps forward, one step back,” or maybe even “one step forward, two steps back,” where it seems as though our old self is getting the better of us. But these thoughts are false and deadly to the life of a believer. They don’t come from Jesus, but from the devil, who seeks only to destroy us, and make us worthless vessels for the gospel.
Remember, we can say about the future, as if looking back at history, that Jesus wins; and therefore we, His rescued sons and daughters, are merely waiting for the consummation of that victory.
Christian, don’t give up hope, for it rests in Christ, your Savior, Redeemer, and Rescuer – He who has already delivered you and assured you of final victory. We’re not engaged in “the long defeat,” but the long victory. Death has no dominion and Satan has no power; he is but a declawed and defanged lion with nothing left to impose upon God’s people but lies and regrets.
Believer, let your hope, confidence, and joy rest in this: Jesus has established and secured your victory, once for all (Heb. 10:9-10; Rom. 6:9-11; 1 Pet. 3:18)! We must embrace this glorious fight, not out of any strength or fortitude of our own, but solely from the knowledge that life in and under the gospel of Jesus’ grace enables and empowers us to be “more than conquerors through him who loved us” (Rom. 8:37).
This is the idea that Paul was urging upon the Corinthians when he wrote: “When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain” (1 Cor. 15:54-58).
Don’t stop short in the race (Heb. 12:2); don’t relent in the battle—be steadfast, knowing that your life of faith stands upon a Firm Foundation, a Solid Rock, a risen Savior!
“Jesus Christ is risen from the dead, therefore what we do is not done for a dead Christ. We are not fighting for a dead man’s cause; we are not contending for an effete dynasty, or a name to conjure by, but we have a living captain, a reigning king, one who is able both to occupy the throne and to lead on our hosts to battle. Oh, by the Christ in glory, I beseech you, brethren, be ye stedfast!” (Spurgeon).
Dear readers, remember the gospel, remember the cross, that place of glorious triumph where Jesus utterly canceled your debt and thoroughly defeated every one of His foes (Col. 3:14-15). You’re not fighting “the long defeat,” but a long and glorious victory, whereby God’s magnificence, grace, love, and power get all the glory.
Embrace the struggle; engage in the conflict; and live for Jesus. “All for Jesus, always for Jesus, everywhere for Jesus” (1).
(1) Taken from Charles Spurgeon’s sermon, “Motives for Steadfastness”: http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/1111.htm
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Our ears are burning… Business in Vancouver interviews Maggie Langrick in an article on BC female entrepreneurs on April 10, 2018. Publishers Weekly covers the Hybrid Publishing panel, featuring Maggie Langrick as a participant, in an IBPA conference recap on April 9, 2018. Publishing Perspectives reports on the release of the IBPA’s Hybrid Publisher Criteria, developed in part by Maggie Langrick, on February 26th, 2018 Publishers Weekly quotes Maggie Langrick in an article that covers the release of IBPA’s Hybrid Publisher Criteria on February 23rd, 2018 The Authors Guild shares the IBPA’s press release of their Hybrid Publisher Criteria, which Maggie Langrick helped develop, on February 23rd, 2018 CreativeBC interviews Maggie Langrick to talk about LifeTree Media and the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 31st, 2016. LifeTree author Robert Tercek wins prestigious getAbstract International Book Award in Frankfurt on October 19th, 2016. Bleeding Ink host JS Leonard interviews Maggie Langrick to talk about getting the best of both worlds through hybrid publishing Pauline Holdsworth interviews Maggie Langrick to talk about LifeTree Media and Hybrid Publishing for The Tyee on June 6th, 2014. Shawn Conner mentions LifeTree Media in a feature about self-publishing that ran in the Vancouver Sun on April 19th, 2014. A primer on LifeTree Media ran on the very awesome vancouverisawesome.com on October 15, 2013.
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NEW YORK – A strong onshore flow and an approaching cold front will bring the return of showers across the region for the next few days. On top of this, a tropical system which could become Joaquin by Monday night, and will drift northwest before getting caught with the cold front on Thursday.
The moist flow off the ocean could bring some drizzle and fog Monday night. Temperatures will be in the mid to upper 60s.
On Tuesday, the morning fog will eventually burn off by midday. The cold front will start to make its way east reaching the Appalachians by the afternoon. That could bring a few scattered showers late in the day. Ahead of the front, expect it to be warm and humid with highs at around the 80-degree mark.
Eventually the front approaches and rain will become steady Tuesday night into Wednesday. The front will be enhanced by deep tropical moisture so the rain will be heavy at times dumping anywhere from 1-3”. Rainfall rates are also expected to be high at times, so flash flooding will be a concern across the region.
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The cold front that will pass through our region on Wednesday will “catch” the storm and drive it quickly up north on Friday as an “extratropical” low. That is just a fancy name stating that the storm loses its tropical characteristics. Regardless of this fact, this storm could bring another round of drenching rains from late Friday into part of the weekend.
There is a lot of uncertainty this far out on what this storm will do to our area. We do not know the extent of the rain across the region. On top of that, coastal and river flooding will be questionable. The exact details will have to be worked out for the next few days. We’ll keep you up to date as we get closer.
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This week was pretty much the same old thing. Lots of walking and biking and trying to talk to people without much success. Hopefully things will pick up soon. We had a mission wide fast on Sunday to help us do better with finding people to teach because I guess since the big rule changes that were made our numbers on that have dropped. I think it'll just take a while for us to figure out how to balance all the resources we have and make the most of them.
Sunday we also got a ride from a member out to the county roads where we can't really get to on our bikes. We weren't able to see the referral we were going out there to see but it was good to finally get out there and see some of the less active members out there. We even got the opportunity to help one lady by moving her broken fridge out of her house.
We've also been able to meet with some part member families this week. Tuesday we went to the B's and were able to have a lesson with them, which went really well. Mr B is the only non-member in his family and he said he'd start reading the Book of Mormon, so hopefully he will. We also got to see the G's and Bro G, who hasn't come to church for about 12 years, came to church on Sunday! It was probably just because his wife was speaking in sacrament meeting, but hopefully he felt the spirit and will want to come back.
Also, our one investigator moved to Arizona this week. We weren't even able to teach her since I've been here and I didn't even know she was an investigator the first time I met her! Oh, well. I guess we'll just have to keep trying to find people and hopefully our fast will help speed up the work.
It sounds like y'all are having fun and thanks Mom for the pictures from Park City! One of the things I really miss right now is fall, haha. A few of the trees here are losing leaves slowly, but I doubt many of them will change colors and look as pretty as it does in Utah. I love and miss you all.
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Hotel Lötschberg offers free WiFi in all rooms, free tea and coffee around the clock, free use of bicycles, and free use of the microwave and the fridge. Washing, drying and ironing facilities are available at an additional cost. Read full review
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CML’s Lee Teasdale was lucky to come out unscathed after his Honda CBR1000rr crashed in wet and tricky conditions in the qualifying round of the championship at the Croft circuit in North Yorkshire. Lee was racing in the Open Unlimited class, which is the super bike class for the North East Motor Cycle Racing Club (NEMCRC). “This is the toughest race of the championship because you get a number of British superstock and TT riders entering,” says Lee.
After patching up the bike overnight Lee raced again, knocking three seconds off his personal best, finishing sixth overall. “The top five were all from big teams on new bikes so I was happy with my results. I’m very grateful to CML for its sponsorship as a 1000cc bike gets through a tyre a day.”
Lee is hoping to compete in seven race meetings this season in the North of England and Scotland.
CML Sponsors Football Finals
Over 700 children took part in the finals of the York and Ryedale League administered by York City & District Football Association which were held at Poppleton Junior Football Club. The day was a great success with 27 Group Finals taking place for ages 7 to 11 years, cheered on by friends and relatives.
Approximately 2,500 children took part in the group phase from January to mid-April from areas such as Selby, Pocklington, Malton, Pickering, Easingwold, Tadcaster and York.
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CML’s support for Dinnington Under 15’s allowed them to raise money for their recent French tour. The sponsored kit is even passed down to the Under 10’s for the next generation so nothing gets wasted!
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A couple pieces I wrote went up at Headlock Press this week.
You can take a look at a story/prose poem thing I wrote around five million years ago. I had originally called it “Detective Story” but then a (now-defunct) online mag published it with the new title of “A Metaphor.” Fast-forward a few years, I show it to Paul Agostino, editor at HP, and he rechristens it “Creating Conflict.” I’m eager to see who renames it next.
That one’s followed by “Must be nice,” a poem from a while back.
The whole thing starts off with an excerpt from an email I sent to Paul recently. It includes my response to his new book, Appalachian Calculations. I see now how what I wrote reads almost like a book review, and you can take it as such. The book is non-fiction, a collection of short essays and anecdotes about Paul’s travels through small-town mountain country in North Carolina. Spoiler alert: It’s a good book, and worth the fifteen bucks it’ll cost you to get a copy.
A new installment of my advice column over at Paper Tape Magazine, If You Ask Me, just went live today. This time we’re talking about ranting sisters and the ebola virus. Fun stuff.
Check it out, and as always, send me questions and I’ll write up some sort of response! You can email [email protected] or use the anonymous form at the bottom of the post. Do it!
I’ve mentioned the online magazine Paper Tape a few times now. You might remember the story “Still Warm From Satan” published there last year, or maybe “Flooding” that just showed up this summer. Well, here’s something completely different…
A while back, Paper Tape‘s founding editor/all-around-genius Kristy Harding asked me if I’d like to contribute anything on a regular basis to the site. I said I’d love to. After batting around a few ideas, we settled on, of all things, an advice column. I will be giving other people advice. Clearly, Kristy has never met me in person.
You can read my very first column here. With any luck, what I wrote doesn’t ruin this person’s life! Fingers crossed!
In general, the column’s focus will most likely be relationship advice, but that may change as time goes on. Check it out, and please, send questions to [email protected] so that I have something to write about for next time.
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Before My Autism Diagnosis: Being the Little Girl Looking Out the Window
If I could take a single snapshot of myself as a child, it would be of me as a little girl looking out the window, watching the children play. A child wishing to join in, but too afraid to step outside and ask, “Can I play?” Maybe if she had asked, they would have let her join in the circle. But repeatedly being a victim of bullying, she didn’t dare risk rejection. She maintained her distance on the sidelines where she felt safe.
She compensated the loneliness with retreating into a world of make-believe where she could be anybody she wanted to be. She made up a cast of characters who let her join their circle. In this world, she got to play the starring role. The little girl knew it was a world of her own imagination. And when she invariably got caught pacing back and forth, talking to herself, she’d bear the brunt of the heckling of other children and the bewilderment of adults.
I am on the autism spectrum and was only diagnosed recently at the age of 58. My diagnosis was a gift I shall treasure for the rest of my days. I know now what’s behind how I think, feel and act. Before the diagnosis, it was like walking in pitch-black darkness. The diagnosis was the lightbulb.
It was largely through working as a substitute teaching assistant that I came to the realization of being autistic. Sometimes I would cross paths with a child who reminded me of the little girl looking out the window. One of those times occurred in an elementary school gym while subbing for a P.E. aide. I was watching the children play in stations, each section being a different game. I noticed a third-grade boy standing next to me. I asked him why wasn’t he at one of the stations, and he shrugged his shoulders. I asked him, “How about basketball or tetherball, or jumprope, or hula-hoop?” He nodded “no” at all my suggestions. I asked him what he liked to do. He said, “Eat!” I could not keep a straight face.
This youngster was tugging at my heart strings. I knew what it was to just watch the other kids play. Instead of pushing him to shoot baskets or jump rope, I asked him if he’d like to take a walk with me. He agreed to that. As we went for our walk around the other kids playing, I asked him questions, such as what his favorite food was. He said “hamburger,” and that the hamburger place he liked best was “Mom’s.” I assumed he meant his mom’s homemade hamburgers were better than at any restaurant.
He pulled out his mom’s business card with a beaming smile on his face. It seemed to be of such comfort to him to have the card with her phone number in case he needed to call her. He let me see the card, and it was a hamburger restaurant. That explained to me why his mom’s hamburgers were the best and his favorite food.
I gave that child a little bit of time and attention I wished someone had given me when I was that little girl looking out the window. I believe I have been so blessed by God with my diagnosis and a job that helps me cope with that diagnosis. The past can’t be changed or relived. But my job gives me numerous opportunities to help any young ones who might struggle with what I struggled with and still do.
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(Yicai Global) April 26 -- WeWork, the world’s biggest co-working space operator, has acquired Shanghai-based rival Naked Hub in a deal reportedly worth USD400 million.
New York-based WeWork, which rents trendy workspaces to startups and freelancers, will gain 10,000 new members across 24 locations mainly in China and Southeast Asia following the completion of the deal.
Naked Hub will continue to operate as an independent brand at least until the end of the year. The acquisition is part of the company’s plans to gain a stronger foothold in the crowded Chinese coworking space market, which is expected to be worth almost nine and half billion dollars next year.
Competition is fierce in the Chinese market with local players such as Shanghai-based People Squared and Beijing unicorn U-Commune performing well.
According to some industry insiders, the WeWork deal may be a catalyst for greater consolidation in the Chinese coworking sector with only those companies with considerable financial clout and distinctive product offering left standing.
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The Manchester United star scored a 12th-minute penalty to set the Three Lions on their way to a 6-0 rout that secured their qualification for Euro 2016.
Rooney's spot-kick success saw him tie level with Sir Bobby Charlton in England's all-time record goalscoring stakes.
However, he was denied the chance to go one better after being withdrawn after 58 minutes against the minnows ranked 193rd in the world.
But Rooney said: "To be honest I knew that the most I was going to play was an hour.
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"There is a game coming up on Tuesday. It was a good opportunity for the manager to get a few players on the pitch, so whether I had scored one or three, the most I was going to play was an hour.
"I was just happy to get the goal and the win."
Rooney, 29, insists moving level with England's World Cup-winning forward was a source of great pride.
"It's a proud moment. To be there sitting at the top with him in terms of goals is a great achievement and something I'm very proud of.
"Obviously I feel like I've got a lot of time left to go on and be the leading scorer but it's just a huge moment for me."
England sealed their spot in next summer's finals in France after their seventh-straight win in qualifying.
Captain Rooney added: "It's a great achievement. Qualifying was our aim after a disappointing World Cup and we have won every game.
"Slovenia and Switzerland away are difficult ties, and we have come through every one."
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https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/england-star-wayne-rooney-says-6392673
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|What’s Candy Crush Really Worth?|
Posted by James Surowiecki
The New Yorker
March 12, 2014
On Wednesday, King Digital Entertainment, the mobile-gaming company that makes Candy Crush Saga (which I wrote about in the magazine this week), set the terms for its coming I.P.O. Its projected valuation is as outrageous as expected. King (and its existing shareholders) plan to sell more than twenty-two million shares at a price of twenty-one to twenty-four dollars apiece, which would give the company a projected market cap of around seven billion dollars. That’s two billion more than Zynga’s market cap, and, even more strikingly, just a few billion dollars less than the market caps of the gaming giants Electronic Arts and Activision Blizzard.
The enormous profits that King is raking in from Candy Crush makes the company look reasonably priced on a price-to-earnings (P/E) basis, with a trailing P/E ratio of just 13.3. At Yahoo Finance, Aaron Pressman argues that when you compare King’s valuation to those of other tech high-flyers (which often have P/Es above a hundred), there’s a case to be made that it’s undervalued. The problem, of course, is that this assumes that King’s current profits are sustainable, not just for a couple of years but for the foreseeable future. Price-to-earnings ratios are crude tools at best, and they’re useful only if the “earnings” part can be counted on to be stable or growing. In King’s case, as I argued in my column, there’s just no reason to assume that Candy Crush—which brings in eighty per cent of King’s revenue—is going to keep generating enormous piles of cash for years to come. Nor can it be expected that King will come up with sequels that replicate Candy Crush’s success.
When you buy shares in a public company, you’re buying a share of future profits, and the future of any company that’s reliant on a single faddish product for so much of its revenue is inherently uncertain—too uncertain for investors to confidently accept a seven-billion-dollar valuation. I have no doubt that investors will snap this offering up: the market is willing to value Zynga, which has lost six hundred million dollars over the past three years, at five billion dollars. King looks like a bargain by comparison. But this is a pure gamble.
Pressman alludes to the fact that there are successful video-game franchises. But, almost without exception, those franchises are titles in which companies invest huge sums of money, and many of them (like sports franchises) have a natural upgrade cycle built in: people buy the new Madden like clockwork when football season starts again. King has yet to demonstrate that it’ll be able to do anything similar with Candy Crush.
King’s offering does make clear just why the company is going public—to allow its current shareholders to make a whole lot of money. The company itself is planning to raise about three hundred and twenty-five million dollars. Shareholders are going to sell shares worth another hundred and fifty million, which represents a very nice payday, particularly since many of those shares will be sold by individuals. (The private-equity firm Apex Partners, which owns nearly half the company, is going to dilute its stake by only four per cent.) Going public, as I argued in my piece, still seems like a mistake for a company that has more than enough money in the bank to stay afloat for years to come (and is going to be generating hundreds of millions of dollars annually for the next couple of years), and that operates a business ill-suited to the demands of shareholders, who want consistent and steadily growing profits. But there are few better ways to make a lot of people really rich than a high-priced I.P.O., and, looking at these numbers, it’s not hard to understand why King’s current shareholders are happy to take the money. Whether future shareholders will ever be quite as pleased, though, is another question.
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https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=29436784
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Ball hockey is often played on inline skates, so you need to know the 5 best inline hockey drills for this sport. You are probable already aware that inline skating itself is a whole different experience from ice skating or four-wheel roller skating, and you want your drills to reflect this.
- Dribbling drills: Playing ball hockey means that you dribble the ball at times, while you are skating. The best inline hockey drills include dribbling practice, so set up some cones and practice your dribbling skills.
- Shot drills: Just like in hockey, you take shots towards the goal. These shots can come from anywhere, so make sure your best inline hockey drills include practicing corner shots, wide shots, close shots, and any others you think you might take.
- Stickhandling drills: Again, you are going to use stickhandling maneuvers in ball hockey, just like in regular hockey. In ball hockey, however, you aren’t allowed to bring the stick past your weight when making corner shots, so practice stickhandling drills such as those which help you remember to keep your stick low and ready to contact the ball. Remember, too, that you are on inline skates, so your best inline hockey drills should include stickhandling.
- Defensive drills: You may play only defense in ball hockey, and this, too, can be different when doing so on inline skates. So, adapt your best inline hockey drills to include defensive drills such as continuous ball running (never letting the ball become stationary), channeling (maneuvering the ball between two lines of players), and others.
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http://www.mademan.com/mm/5-best-inline-hockey-drills.html
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SoftPerfect File Access Monitor, previously a commercial program, has been released as a freeware version by its parent company.
The program has been designed to monitor file operations such as read or write on Windows machines.
File Access Monitor supports the monitoring of local and network connected systems. Setup of the application is not overly complicated but it is still not as easy as clicking on its shortcut to start it up.
First thing you will realize is that the program displays a connect prompt on start. It is set to connect to localhost -- the local system -- by default. There is also a password field, but that can be left empty on first run.
You may add a password to the app to protect it from unauthorized access. Once connected, a list of available drives is listed in the interface.
You may click on any drive to browse its structure, or to be more precise, the folders and files that were accessed based on filters set in the program window.
The program lists all file operations on the right side of the program window once you select a folder or file. The example above highlights several operations including creation, read and deletion operations.
Each operation is linked to a particular user, a process, and time. This makes it easy to link any file event to a user account and process.
A click on the chronological button opens the list of file operations in chronological order. Each file is listed with its name, process, user account it was executed under, time, and details when you open the chronological view.
You may click on any header of the table to sort the data accordingly (the default sort order is by time). This allows you to sort by operation, process, or file name among other things.
Filters are listed at the top to display matching file operations. If you are only interested in delete operations, operations by a specific user or process, then you may use the filters to display only those in the interface.
The same filtering options are available in the main program window as well. Apart from those, you may also use the find functionality to search for files or folders.
Simply enter a partial or full name, and wait for the population of the results. You may double-click on any entry to jump to the location right away in the main program window.
SoftPerfect File Access Monitor was a commercial program and it comes as no surprise that several administrative features are built-in that appeal to businesses more than to individuals.
You may save logs at any time, but can configure the program to create reports in intervals automatically as well. These can be saved to csv, HTML or plain text files, created hourly, daily, weekly or monthly, or sent to an email address.
The settings lists other useful options. You may configure filters there to block files or paths from being monitored, or add include paths and files instead. The operations tab lets you furthermore deselect operations that you don't want to monitor, and include or exclude processes.
SoftPerfect File Access Monitor is a professional file access monitor for Windows. SoftPerfect has turned the program into a legacy product. This means that it is no longer developed or updated, but available for free to all users.
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https://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/01/file-access-monitor/
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Offering smart surgical robots with an innovative type of machine intelligence that would extend the abilities and assist surgeons to perform operations is the aim of the latest major grant announced by National Robotics Initiative.
The Complementary Situational Awareness for Human robot Partnerships is a project worth $3.6 million that would be undertaken for 5 years term. This is a joint venture between research teams headed by Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nabil Simaan, Robotics Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Howie Choset and Russell Taylor and John C Malone, Computer Science Professor, John Hopkins University.
Simaan said that their goal was to establish an innovative concept known as complementary situational awareness. This new concept refers to the ability of the robot to gather sensory data while it is working and to make use of the data to guide it during operations.
Choset said it was a delight to work with Nabil Simaan on this project concerning medical robots as he considered him a leader in this arena. Taylor also added that the project puts forth the vision they shared together regarding human surgeons, robots and computers working as a single team in order to make a surgical procedure less invasive, effective and much safer.
One of the objectives of this project is to support the kind of awareness surgical experts have while performing an open surgery. This is because it allows them to see all the major organs along with the tissues directly and touch them. Performing open procedure is lost during the recent times as surgeries that have minimal invasive procedures as the surgery is performed by making tiny incisions on the skin of the patient. This procedure has become a common one these days as it accounts for reduction in blood, trauma and pain.
In addition, the recovery period is much quicker, less or no infections and cheaper procedures when compared to open surgeries.
Simaan, Taylor and Choset prefer to carry forward this effort to a much higher level. They strive to create a distinct system that will make the robot partners and create awareness about the task. The fund of the project is offered by National Science foundation.
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http://themedguru.com/?p=700
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“Wait. So. Where are you going?
Who’s going with you?
You’re going by yourself?!
But, aren’t you scared?!
Girl, I could never do that! I’d be so afraid!”
This is a conversation I’ve had 525,600 times.
When I tell people about my travels and the fact that I travel alone most of the time, the overwhelming response is pure astonishment, confusion, disbelief, and fear.
For me, traveling alone has often been the most feasible option. Either people don’t have the money or time or desire to go. I never made any kind of declaration that I only wanted to travel solo…it just kind of worked out that way. And so I gained an appreciation for being in some foreign land all by myself.
As a woman, I understand the hesitation of other women when it comes to traveling alone. Many women are worried that they’ll be preyed upon in some country if people see them alone or that they’ll be mistaken for a sex worker of some sort. But a lot of times, women are afraid of going alone simply because there’s some sort of stigma attached to it. There’s this idea that we need to wait-for a man, for a friend, for a pre-packaged group excursion, for some sort of permission from our personal circles or families or society at large. And my question to that has always been…why? Why and what?
Why are we waiting for someone to give us permission to travel alone and what are we afraid of?
If we really take the time to unpack our fears we may discover one of two things.
1) We may discover that our fears are really someone else’s fears that have been projected onto us.
2) We may discover that we are afraid of things that could happen to us anywhere in the world, whether it’s across the street or across the globe.
Now, anyone who knows me or has been reading my blog for any amount of time knows that one of my catch-phrases is “Fear Is Stupid”. It keeps us grounded and bound and living a life that other people are comfortable with but not necessarily the life that allows us to pursue our visions and passions and be responsible for our own happiness.
What makes me a little sad is the thought of all the experiences and revelations that are missed because of that fear.
There are many things that I have gained from solo travel. So many lessons learned and experiences had because I was alone.
I’ve learned to rely on and trust the voice on the inside of me.
I’ve learned my loves, likes, and dislikes.
I’ve learned how to be content in my own silence and with my own thoughts.
I’ve learned that it’s ok to have gelato for breakfast…
I’ve learned how I best hear from God (usually in nature).
I’ve learned to be easy(er) on myself…that’s an ongoing lesson.
But most importantly, I’ve learned that I can do whatever I put my mind to, that I can make my own decisions, and that I can trust myself.
“But, what are people going to think?”
“Who will take pics of me?”
“How will I know what to do once I get there?”
Well, who cares what other people think? Maybe they’ll think you don’t have friends. Or maybe they’ll think you’re the dopest person they know for doing what you want to do without waiting for someone else to go with you. And trust me folks. If you’re putting off that dream trip (or anything, really) simply because you’re waiting for someone else to go with you or give you permission, you will ALWAYS be waiting and you will NEVER go. Regardless, no-one else’s opinion really matters here.
If you’re at a loss for activities, a simple google search will reveal tons of tourist attractions, excursions, restaurants, wine bars, etc, etc, etc.
OR you may find that you enjoy simply sitting on the beach, strolling along the Champs-Élysées, taking a bus from Maiori to Positano and back, or watching the sunset in some town square.
Whatever the case, the only schedule, desires, and budget you have to think about are your own. There’s no consulting anyone else to decide what to do and when to do it.
And as far as pictures go…your selfie game will grow tremendously! You’ll also learn how to mount your camera on a tripod (or rock or tree or ledge) and figure out the angles you need for the shot you want. AND, you’ll learn that sometimes, you may need to observe a stranger and, once you’ve deemed one safe, ask them to take a shot of you in front of whatever amazing backdrop you choose.
The point is, you’ll figure it out. And your life and your experience and your story will be so much better for it.
Now I’m not suggesting that you throw caution to the wind and not take precautions. You definitely want to be wise in your travel adventures, especially if you’re going alone.
Here are a few basic tips for safety abroad.
1) Do research on your chosen destination to find out about the political climate and that country’s relationship with the U.S.
2) Register your trip with the U.S. Embassy or Consulate especially if there has been recent political unrest or upheaval.
3) Always share your travel details with a friend or family member at home. Someone should have knowledge of your flight info, accommodations, activities, and excursions.
4) Check in from time to time with home base. Even if you want to unplug, you can send a quick email or text to let folks know that you’re ok.
Now these are the basics. The point is to reassure you that traveling alone does not have to fill you with dread. It may, in fact, teach you about yourself, inspire you, or grow you. And that only makes you a better person…for yourself and for everyone around you.
Kick the dread, folks! Plan that trip. Go alone. You’ll have your time and thoughts to yourself to do what you want and discover more about who you are. So go! And when it’s over, tell me all about it!! I can’t wait to hear from you!
#wedontsitoncouches #livelovegodobe #fearisstupid
** featured image taken while traveling solo in Roussillon, France.
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https://wedontsitoncouches.com/2016/04/23/solodolo-kick-the-fear-and-go-alone/
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Our contemporary range of silver ties for men are stylish, modern and elegant – ideal for modern gents who want to look sharp, but stay professional. This shade is extremely versatile, but more fun than grey. It is the perfect choice for corporate events and formal dinners, which welcome a little personality.
At Ties Planet, we offer a full range of silver ties for men, in a wide variety of different shades and styles. We stock everything from plain to charcoal, pearl, patterned, checked and polka dot products. We also have a range of silver designer ties, from household names like Profuomo, Van Buck and Simon Carter.
Choosing a Silver Tie
Our ties are of the highest quality, and make great gifts for loved ones, as well as sophisticated accompaniments to all kinds of different outfits. This colour is an easy one to wear, because it makes a statement, but it is still rather relaxed. It is complemented by navy blues, whites, blacks, creams and greys.
In regards to this colour, it is useful to stay away from other shiny or metallic shades, like gold. It works most successfully with slightly muted tones, so feel free to wear bold colours, but pick a slightly darker shade each time.
If you are looking for something laid back, opt for one of our patterned silver ties for men, featuring flowers, animals, checks or stripes. These ties look very contemporary, when teamed with a crisp white shirt and a leather jacket.
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https://www.tiesplanet.com/ties-c1/silver-t16
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So, my house is 1800 square feet. And, we have seven people and two dogs. We outgrew this house about 7 years ago, but because of the market and some not so wise decisions, we will be staying here, for better or worse. Space is always an issue now. I am constantly rearranging, trying to find a ‘better way’ to store things. My kitchen is probably the most difficult room, because we have growing kids and seem to be buying more and more food. I have been wanting a hutch for.ev.er. (and a day). But, sadly the budget doesn’t allow for it right now (and honestly, space is an issue…I had 50” to work with, and found a BEAUTIFUL hutch right around the corner at a yard sale a couple of weeks ago, but when I measured it…heart break…it was 54”, and even worse, it was only $50…that is just not right! I find exactly what I want, in my budget, but it doesn’t fit? Not right I tell you!). Anyway, I found this dresser on Craigslist for $30, and thought it might work. They measured it for me and it was perfect! So I ran right over, and even ended up getting it for $25 (yay!).
The door looks crooked because it is just propped up there, I had already removed the door and drawers and started sanding, when I realized I forgot to take a ‘before’ picture… oops! So, I put it back together for the picture
I sanded it, primed it white, then painted it Heirloom White. I didn’t understand everyone’s infatuation with this particular color. UNTIL I painted my dresser. Oh my goodness. It was love at first sight. The primer was white, and it looked nice, but the Heirloom was so warm and lovely. I love it! I decided to paint the top black (or, Oil Rubbed Bronze), because I had bought new black knobs, and I hoped it would look pretty together (plus, a white surface with 5 kids is not a good match around here!). This was my first attempt at adding a stain wash type of finish, and while it’s not exactly what I had in mind, I actually am learning to love it. Next year, I am going to repaint my kitchen (including cabinets), and this is what I had in mind. I didn’t put a poly finish on it, because I figured if the kitchen cabinets don’t match this finish, I can always change this (much easier than trying to change all my cabinets).
I cannot believe how much room we have for storing food and goodies! The middle drawer is still empty, and the top drawer is pretty much empty. And the cabinet? Well, the 16 quarts of spicy green beans and an extra half rack of Diet Coke are stored there! Yay for storage! And yay for hidden storage! This (I think I’ll call her ‘Lovely’ from now on) replaced a baker’s rack that I got about 7 years ago. It worked well, but didn’t have enough storage and everything was out in the open…I hated seeing it all! I still have lots of other plans…like painting the monstrosity of a freezer that lives next to the beautiful new sideboard (can I call it that now, instead of a ‘dresser’? I hope so, it sounds much more sophisticated!). I’ve been begging the hubby for years to get rid of that freezer, but it is a necessity…unfortunately…it’s just so U.G.L.Y. Really ugly. Especially now, sitting next to “Lovely”. Oh how I wish we had a garage!!!
Well, that is one project down, about a million more to go! Thanks for stopping by. Please leave a comment and let me know you were here!
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http://bloomingfreckles.blogspot.com/2011/07/
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(Me on the right, my sister on the left... I do not normally dress country, Stampede is a "country costume party" for 10 days in Calgary)
First off, because I know you'd hate me for dragging it out any longer... the results, for me, of the knitting competition.
It turns out the Misery blanket was worth the misery! I'm very happy with this 1st place red ribbon. This was a hard fought (with myself) ribbon and I'm damn proud of this one.
The socks also placed, just further down with a 3rd place white ribbon.
The competition was pretty stiff this year, and a 3rd in this category makes me feel pretty damn good about my socks and my skills.
This year I felt the "overall winner" was very deserving. Their submission, (which they designed themselves) was outstanding and every bit a "#1 overall" piece. It's lovely! (It's also in my queue!)
And so with another Stampede behind me, it's time to start formulating a plan already for next year... hmmmmmm. Any suggestions?
Progress continues to slowly... um... progress on the stripey blanket. I'm nearly done the colorful section (1 color section of each left) and then I'll need to decide how I'm going to border this one. Here's a progress photo... that probably looks like the same blanket essentially.
This has been sort of a disjointed post- but I thought I would leave you a picture of my two favorite cowboys at a party we attended last week. (Parker's first petting zoo... he loved it!)
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https://nennieknits.blogspot.com/2013/07/circle-wagons.html
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Have you used paint on a previous DIY project — maybe painted a room in your home or the cabinets in your kitchen — and find yourself with a couple of cans taking up space and collecting dust in a closet or a garage? There are plenty of DIY details you can add to your home with just a little bit of paint. Perhaps one of these real-life project examples will spark some inspiration to make use of some leftover paint you've got around the house?
Pictured above: If you've just got small amounts of many colors, why not make a rainbow of a decision and paint some stripes on a small piece of furniture. Even better if it's a bench with slats!
Use just a bit of leftover paint to add contrast to an old piece of furniture that needs spicing up. It would make for a great detail if it was the same color as a wall.
Have a few colors to play with? Why not add some geometry to a vintage piece of furniture in a pattern that enhances the piece's architecture.
Have a small seat like a stool? Adding just a bit of color with left over paint or spray paint (or both) can make it really stand out.
Ombre is a great way to stretch a little bit of paint color, and a neat effect to add to a piece of furniture to add personality.
Consider using a little bit of leftover paint to add some personality to something utilitarian or industrial, like a fan!
You don't just have to have some leftover colored paint; you could add contrast and freshness to a piece of furniture with leftover white paint!
Even just a bit of leftover spray paint can make a huge impact on something small like a lamp.
Don't have enough paint to cover an entire chair? Just paint some parts of it.
Planters are a perfect canvas for any leftover paint colors you have lying around because they're small in surface but big in impact!
How have you put leftover paint to use around your house? Share any ideas you have in case they spark some inspiration for someone else!
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https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/reuse-restyle-10-home-diy-project-ideas-for-leftover-paintem-205550
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We hope our locals are marking Burn Awareness Week by performing community outreach and education on how injuries can be prevented.
Over 500,000 people in the United States and Canada receive medical treatment for burn injuries each year.
Most burns occur in the home usually in the kitchen or bathroom. No one understands better than fire fighters that burns can leave scars that last a lifetime and painful emotional wounds.
Hopefully these tips will be enough to help save someone in your community from injury:
When cooking in the kitchen please remain in the kitchen. Roll up your sleeves and avoid wearing loose-fitting clothing that can easily catch fire. Always turn pot handles inward to prevent an accident. Do not reach over burners and other hot surfaces.
Also share the following:
• Turn heated foods with steam (whether it is on the stove, boiling, a bag of popcorn) away from you at all times
• Stand back from hot grease and boiling liquids, including water. These liquids can spatter and burn you
• Be careful when draining hot pasta or pouring hot liquids like soup from a pot into a bowl. A splatter of boiling water, hot soup, or hot oil can burn you.
• Never touch the stovetop with your bare hand.
• Always use oven mitts
• Be careful if you have young kids in your kitchen area. Test the temperature of the food before you give it to them
The IAFF offers numerous resources for affiliates interested in burn safety campaigns.
For more information, contact Tom Flamm, IAFF Burn Coordinator.
You can also visit the IAFF Foundation for more information: http://www.iafffoundation.org/causes/burn-fund/prevention-education
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http://blog.iaff.org/post/2014/02/07/Burn-Awareness-Week
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HeadBox, the UK’s first online network for creative, inspiring and off-site meeting spaces, has named Blackjack Promotions as its recommended provider of event staff.
Blackjack will now feature in the ‘Friends of HeadBox’ section on the online company’s website and will feature in HeadBox’s member communications.
Andrew Needham, CEO of HeadBox, says: “We aim for HeadBox to be the global go-to platform for bringing people and spaces together all in one place to make brilliant things happen. We want to change the way people think about space, unlocking people’s imagination to the different uses and applications of space and what incredible things can be created, made, experienced and achieved within the right space. With partners of the calibre of Blackjack on board, we’re well on the way to delivering on that commitment.”
Fiona Tindall, head of domestic retail at Blackjack Promotions, says: “HeadBox is a brilliant high-tech solution to the challenge of finding the sort of meeting spaces that leverage people’s inner creativity. But there’s a human element to every meeting, and we’re delighted to partner with HeadBox to provide their clients with the right people to make their meetings run smoothly.”
HeadBox, dubbed the ‘Airbnb for meeting space’, offers event organisers a fast and simple way of finding and booking unique spaces for work related events; at the same time, it allows owners of under-utilised space to potentially earn some extra revenue.
During 2016, after moving from Beta to full operation, HeadBox expanded from its London base to add Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool.
Companies including Google, BBC, Dentsu Aegis, Diageo, JC Decaux, BBH, L’Oreal and many others are using HeadBox to search, book and pay for spaces ranging from galleries, cafes, theatres, cinemas, creative and photographic studios to churches, boats and tree houses.
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http://fieldmarketing.com/news/blackjack-promotions-links-uk-online-meeting-space-finder-headbox/
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The most disliked companies in America once again include airlines, utilities and banks, according to the latest cycle of ratings from the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
Service industries typically score worse than manufacturing because of limited competition and the difficulty of interacting with customers.
"Where companies have little or no competition or where customers encounter barriers to switching among competitors in terms of cost and/or convenience, companies may not need to satisfy their customers to the same degree in order to keep them," ACSI's David VanAmburg says.
This opens an opportunity for some companies like JetBlue, however, that can excel in unpopular industries.
ACSI's customer satisfaction rating has been shown to be strongly related to financial performance.
The biggest gainers this year include Pepco rebounding 28 percent after a significant infrastructure overhaul; and Delta rising 16 percent after working the kinks out of the Northwest merger. The biggest losers include Northeast Utilities and Long Island Power Authority which plunged after power outages during massive storms.
Rated 68/100. The worst big bank.
The bank was a major focus for the Occupy Wall Street movement and had to discontinue its $5 debit fee in November — only after adopting it for two months — following public outrage.
The bank is America's largest mortgage servicer and most of its complaints come from the mortgage division.
One customer wrote: "I completed a loan modification one year ago. However, BOA has botched up their system and does not post my payments. They have no problem collecting the money and reporting late payments to the credit agencies. Attempts to correct this for the past year have been fruitless. No one at BOA bothers to return calls or correct the problem with their electronic systems."
Rated 68/100. Actually one of the higher scoring companies in an unpopular industry.
The most common complaints for DirectTV are related to billing issues. On the Consumer Affairs forum, thousands of customers complain about how the company changes contract details without notifying customers and therefore, hiking prices without authorization.
One customer wrote: "DirectTV raised the price for 30% after one year and said that they told me about this verbally, which is not true. My agreed price with Saha on the phone, a DirecTV employee, was $56.99 including two receivers and one HD/DVR receiver. DirecTV overcharged me on my first bill. When I complained, they said they forgot to give me my 30% discount. So over the next six months, they kept revising my bill but never got it right."
Rated 67/100. The worst health care provider.
The most common complaints include prescriptions co-pay being too high, withdrawing funds without authorization from clients and not being organized. One physician called the company "a big mystery" because (s)he can't get anyone to call him(her) back.
The consumer wrote: "I can't give up, because if I do, hundreds of my Aetna Patient's will have to find a new physician."
The social site's common complaints include users' privacy and child safety.
One user wrote: "I had to change everything. I have not ever done anything. Customer support is non-existent. These people think we can't fight back. I'm talking to an attorney now. Facebook, you're not God."
Rated 65/100. Nine-point improvement from last year.
Most of the complaints include customer representatives not responding in a professional manner.
Since acquiring Northwest airlines in 2008, Delta's consumer satisfaction score decreased rapidly and was at its lowest last year. The airline seems to have worked out some of the kinks last year.
Rated 65/100. Four point improvement from last year.
Regular complaints include inaccurate billing, failing to notify passengers of flight delays and terrible service. One customer says he saw a crew member on a Charlotte to Toronto flight bullying a disabled elderly woman for asking to get her belongings out of a carry-on bag.
In November 2011, the airline was at the center of a PR nightmare after forcing a passenger to stand for seven hours because of an overweight man seated next to him. In the same month, the company was attacked for initially denying a ticket refund to a terminally ill cancer patient.
Rated 64/100. The second-worst big airline.
The legacy airline, whose parent company, AMR Corp. filed for bankruptcy in November 2011, has done a worse job of pleasing passengers than small, low-cost airlines such as Spirit or Frontier.
In a recent study, American ranked last among 10 major airlines at keeping customers informed, leaving them on hold for an average of 1 hour and 32 minutes and failing to respond to to questions on Twitter.
One traveler explains her frustration: "American Airlines canceled our flight one day before traveling to Mexico. We had to call and wait for over 30 minutes just to find out our refund will take one to two days. We needed our refund quick to make other arrangements to travel over Easter since they just screwed up our Easter travel. I will never use them again. No wonder they filed bankruptcy."
Rated 63/100. Four-point decline from last year.
According to ACSI, "higher rates and fees for many Cox customers are sapping customer satisfaction."
One customer said the Atlanta-based company demanded money after changing the contract: "I setup 2yr service w/Cox —1st yr @ $29.99, 2nd @ $49.99. Now after 6mon they changed it to 1st 6mon @ $29.99, 2nd 6mon @ $49.99, and 1 year @ 79.99."
Rated 63/100. A four-point improvement from last year.
On customer vented, "TWC has destroyed my business and doesn't give a damn: I first complained five weeks ago about outages and miserable upload speeds. I need to send large files to clients. I've had two technicians visit, who both found it was in the neighborhood. Today, I found the situation has not changed and am told there's no further work order."
Customers also complain about being stuck with Time Warner because there are no competing services in the area.
Rated 62/100. The worst big airline.
It's no surprise that United Airlines has been dubbed the "the worst airline in America." In March, the carrier generated an unusually high amount of aggravation after a computer switchover following the airline's merger with Continental caused widespread flight delays.
Poor customer service, flight cancellations and lost baggage are other common gripes. One customer wrote, "It's unbelievable! I was charged twice, and I had to wait over an hour on the phone to talk about the overcharge on my credit card. This company has a serious problem. I will never fly United Airlines again!"
Rated 61/100. The second-worst TV service.
Ever-unpopular media conglomerate Comcast has been blasted for early withdrawals, faulty equipment and unprofessional service technicians. One customer complained that a repairman lied about arriving 15 minutes late, another said a Comcast employee left equipment, including plastic wires and clips, all over his front lawn.
ASCI lists Comcast as a cable company (61/100) and a telephone company (67/100).
Rated 59/100. The worst TV company.
Poor customer service and unfair billing practices are common complaints about the fourth-largest cable company in the country.
One customer explained, "The sales rep originally promised us a $42.95 a month for services, with an introductory price of $24.95 for the first 3 months (a savings of $18 a month). After the introductory period ended, the company started charging me $56.95, when I finally caught on that they were charging me $14 more per month than what is said on the Work Order (could provide at anytime for proof), he never once mentioned that there will be a $10 more per month, and now the company says if you have no other cable service with us (Charter Communications), you are to be charged $10 more per month!!"
Rated 59/100. 16-point decline from last year.
The company's reputation was severely damaged after two major storms at the end of 2011 caused massive power outages.
A destructive snow storm last October left hundreds of thousands of homeowners and businesses sitting in the dark without heat for up to two weeks. The extensive outages ultimately led to the resignation of the president of Northeast's subsidiary Connecticut Light & Power in November 2011.
New England's largest utility company is also at the center of a dispute with federal regulators over complaints by several states that it, along with other utilities, "are making excess profit," the AP reported.
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Edgar Pratt Overson, fourth child of Margaret G. Jarvis and Henry C. Overson, was born at St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona, May 27th, 1904. Pratt was a plump, healthy baby, grew normally, learned quickly in school, passed all his grades easily a year ahead of average. His parents kept him from school a season on account of some trouble with his eyes, thinking a rest from study would be helpful, and that some experience helping his father with a building he had on hand to complete would give Pratt some experience in construction work, and at the same time help a little financially. But Pratt did not take kindly to working at building. He wanted to get a string of traps, and try catching muskrats, coyotes, and other fur bearing animals of the region. He liked to study the habits of wild life, to follow the streams, roam in the mountains, and enjoy nature. This desire has been a life hobby. He knows about birds, fish, all kinds of wild animals, their habitat, the laws pertaining to the protection of Wild Life, all kinds of fire-arms, the kind to use for different purposes, etc.
Pratt continued on at school until he graduated from high school, then filled a two-years mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Canadian Mission. After returning home, he entered college at Flagstaff, and completed two years, the amount then required to be eligible to teach, then taught school some years.
Since his marriage, he has done office work, held a County Office one term, taught school, done Road work, some building, farming, looked after cattle, etc.
He has continued in his work in the Church, wherever called to labor, and has been a class teacher, Home Missionary, President of the Stake Missionary Work, --always doing something. He has sent a son on a mission, also.
He is ready and willing to help in times of trouble, wherever and whatever it may be. He is still and ever has been a great reader. He has quite a nice library, and is well versed, generally.
Home address: Mr. and Mrs. E. Pratt Overson, St. Johns, Arizona.
Edgar Pratt Overson was married to Alice Whiting, daughter of Fred Arthur Whiting and Lurlene Tenney Whiting, January 16th, 1931, at Mesa, Arizona. (Temple) She was born June 2nd, 1913, at St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona.
Alice is a fine woman, of true "Mormon" pioneer stock on all lines [she was a granddaughter of Ammon M. Tenney], and doing her best to live in accordance with her traditions. Has dark eyes and hair, rather fleshy [perhaps a more diplomatic term could have been used!] a good manager in her home, a consistent Church worker, and specially gifted in music. She has given piano lessons most all her married life, teaches singing groups, has led the ward choir groups often, the Singing Mothers, and other special groups, including Primary children. The last few years she has worked in Offices at the Court House part of the time, also.
From Margaret Godfrey Jarvis Overson. George Jarvis And Joseph George De Friez Genealogy. Mesa, Ariz: M.J. Overson, 1957, ii: 188-191.
Pratt died on July 27 or 28, 1972, and was buried on July 29, 1972, in St. Johns, Arizona.
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The above map may be incomplete as we continue to add more trails. And, while the trails link to a mountain biking site, the map and descriptions provided are helpful for all trail users, wheel-powered or not.
Location: 1/2 mile southwest of Viroqua on E Sidie Hollow Rd.
History: In the Spring of 2013 the VT Trail Crew started working on property belonging to Scott Champion and Sarah Meyer.
Description: Rusty Ridge adjoins Hubbard Hills.
Trails: .8 miles and counting
Future Goals: To continue working with adjacent land owners to gain access to lands and develop a much larger system that ultimately connects to Sidie Hollow County Park.
Nearby Amenities: Biking & walking distance to Viroqua
Trail Stewards: Pete T.
Here’s what’s happening at Rusty Ridge (and next door at Hubbard Hills)
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Hey guys, I am super excited about all the kick-ass reviews coming in for Hexing the Alpha. Thank you! It's because of you this series has earned bestseller status on ARe and hit several top lists on Amazon. You guys rock!
Jake and Honor's story started out a series I never thought would grow and expand as it has in the last year. Now I'm writing a spin-off and the witches and shifters of Sweet Briar Hollow will make several apperances alongside the DraegonStones. In case you missed it, read this post for more on that series.
As a thank you I'm giving the first the Hex My Heart series FREE for a limited time! Simply tell me where to send it! ;)
I've received numerous emails and messages from several of you (seriously you guys amaze me with your sweet words!) asking about the dragons, Obsidian and Razer, who busted onto the scene in Enchanting the Alpha and then in Charming the Alphas from the Hex My Heart series.
From the small glimpse you've had of their world I'm blown away by your enthusiasm and questions about the Draegonstone Warriors. There's so much you want to know. You even had me laughing at a few of them... Yeah, that's right, you know who you are! ;)
Alas, my goal is to get them to you as soon as possible. I'm working long hours pulling together the release dates, covers (*cough* that to the left is only a small sample!), and all the behind the scenes mechanics that goes into writing/releasing books.
Among some of the questions asked is, will they have their own series, who will have their story first, what are the release dates, will their be review ARCS, is Razer Obsidian's twin brother, and how many brothers are there? And will there be ménages in this series, too.
Good questions and a few of them I can answer. :)
First up... hell yes the DraegonStones will have their own series! I want to write their stories as much as you want to read them (hopefully! lol)
Obsidian, will have his story first. There's a brief look at the beginning of his book at the end of Charming the Alphas.
Yes, Razer is Obsidian's brother. I can't say much more than that. ;)
There are five brothers left in the ancient order of DraegonStones that I know of so far. This is a tricky lot of characters and they've pulled a few fast ones on me already, so there could be more.
I don't have firm release dates yet, but I can say that I'm on track for a late summer release for the first book. Here are the titles you can expect from the DraegonStone Series.
Book 1: BENEATH THE SHADOWS - featuring Obsidian
Book 2: SMOKE AND EMBERS - featuring Razer
Book 3: WHISPERS OF SIN - featuring Aras
Book 4: KISS OF A DRAEGON KING - featuring Ziron
Book 5: CURSE OF THE DRAEGON - featuring Drogan
I'll be doing a cover reveal via my newsletter closer to release time. So, if you sign up, you'll be among the first to see the covers. :)
I've already started writing Obsidian's books and I'm loving these guys. I can't for you to meet them all!
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The couple: Debbie, from Auldhouse, East Kilbride, works as a pharmacist and dance instructor. Groom Tom, from Chapelton, Strathaven, is a self-employed joiner.
Where they met: Debbie and Tom met at a Young Farmers night out in Lanark in 2007.
The wedding: the ceremony and reception were held at Lochside House Hotel, New Cumnock on Thursday, April 30, 2015 and attended by over 100 family and friends.
Attire: the bride wore Pepe Botella by Christie Couture, Clarkston, with shoes by Jimmy Choo from House of Fraser, while Tom wore his only kilt in the Anderson tartan.
Bridal party: bridesmaids were Nicola Morrison, Ailsa McDiarmid, Fiona Fraser, Nicola Cairns and Anna Anderson (dresses also from Christie Couture, Clarkston), flower girl Ella Davidson, best man David Clark, ushers Derek Allison, James Baillie and Gavin Baillie.
Honeymoon: the newlyweds travelled to Dubai, UAE and Capetown, South Africa for their honeymoon.
Photography: Caireen Harvey Photography, Hamilton.
Flowers: Allison’s Flowers, Stonehouse.
Cake: family friend, Ellen Watt.
Cars: Waterside Cars and own classic car.
Bands: Cairn String Quartet and T-Junction.
Videographer: Loudoun Media.
Personalised wooden invitations: Camdeco, Worcestershire and Artianne, Glassford, Strathaven.
Thanks: Debbie and Tom wish to thank their parents, family and friends for support, cards, gifts and kind wishes.
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Nigel Benn and Steve Collins are apparently in talks to have a rubber match, 21 years after they last shared a ring together.
In their first encounter in July 1996, Benn, 53, was unable to continue in the 4th round due to an ankle injury. In the rematch in November that year, Collins triumphed again to defend his WBO super-middleweight title when he forced Benn to retire on his stool midway through the contest at the manchester Arena.
The common consensus then was that ‘The Dark Destroyer’ was at the end of his career and had gone to the well one too many times. They were the last two fights of Benn’s career and he sailed off into the sunset to Australia leaving behind one of the finest legacies in British boxing history. Continued below…
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Collins, 52, retired a year after the rematch with Benn having had two more successful world title defences. The Dublin-born, ‘Celtic Warrior’ who won world titles in two different weight categories, now owns and runs a working farm in Hertfordshire since retiring retiring from the sport.
There are stranger things that have happened and are happening in boxing, but Benn vs Collins III would have many scratching their heads as to why? The purists and defenders of the sport will appose, suggest the health implications of two 50-odd year olds battling two decades after they last laced up the 10oz gloves, but ironically all would probably watch it, abiet through frustrated stiffened fingers.
Lets make no bones about it, these two are respected institutions in the game and seem to get on well and have each others respect. They have joked about sharing the ring again in the past but despite their good humour, both now seem serious about fighting each other for a third time. Collins admitting his decision to box again is purely financial and denies the pair are putting their health at risk.
“It’s very dangerous… for Nigel,” Collins joked to the BBC.
He added: “I had an MRI recently and the neurosurgeon was very pleased with how it was. I’ve more or less been preparing myself for 20 years for the Roy Jones fight so I’m ready.
“Of course I will knock him out again. But Nigel looks in better shape than when I fought him years ago.
“It’s just about money, a payday which will allow me to buy some more land for my horses and sheep. If the money’s right I’ll have it again.
“I have no problem for Nigel. I have a lot of respect. I like him.”
Benn will be watching his son Conor (6-0, 4 KOs) in action at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday and has recently been living in Australia.
“It’s about the final chapter, it’s about closure,” Londoner Benn told the BBC.
“I was going backwards and forwards with Chris [Eubank] and I thought, ‘I wouldn’t have a problem with Steve’. So I asked him if he wants to fight. He said ‘yes’. No mucking about.”
Benn claimed to feel like Benjamin Button, the F Scott Fitzgerald character who becomes younger in appearance as he gets older.
“I am Nigel ‘Benjamin Button’ Benn. I feel like I am in my thirties,” he said.
Both boxers also now have sons who are now professional boxers.
Collins son, Steve Jr (10-1-1, 4 KOs), tweeted on Thursday: “When I’m 50 something and have a midlife crises, I will just buy a new motor bike. You get me.”
Benn had a three-year reign as WBC super-middleweight champion (1992-1995) with epic encounters against the likes Chris Eubank and Gerald McClellan. He also beat Doug DeWitt and Iran Barkey in WBO world middleweight title fights in America.
Collins turned professional in America and also held world titles at middleweight and super-middleweight. He beat Chris Pyatt for the WBO middleweight belt in 1994 before two points wins over Eubank a year later. He was linked to a fight against Roy Jones in 2013.
The British Boxing Board of Control would unlikely sanction the fight to take place under their body, but that may not stop it from happening as an unlicensed event with October or November the proposed dates being mentioned.
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Third fight between Steve Collins and Nigel Benn ‘unlikely’ says BBBofC
Robert Smith, the general secretary of the BBBofC, insisted there was no maximum age limit for a fighter but told Press Association Sport: “You’re talking about two gentlemen who haven’t boxed for donkey’s years, but there’s nothing for us to consider at the moment.
“The only age limit we have is you’ve got to be over 18. However, the older you get, the more unlikely it is you’re going to be granted a licence. We haven’t had any applications from Nigel Benn or Steve Collins for a boxer’s licence.
“We’re aware they haven’t boxed for a considerable amount of time, and if we do receive such applications we will have to consider all these matters.
“I’ve not spoken to any promoters. Two weeks ago I had a phone call advising me this was being looked at, but I’ve not received anything from anyone wanting to put it on. I’d be very surprised if any promoter wanted it.
“Anybody can apply for a licence. We’d have to do our job properly and consider any application: whether it gets any further than that consideration I can’t tell you.”
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It really sucks when you get home, and you're so tired you just want to get to bed, but even though you've changed, you catch a whiff of yourself and smell like a goddamn ashtray. It makes the blood boil instantly. I don't understand how smokers kiss each other. How do they stand it? Neva's got a screed going on her blog, I'm still thinking about what to put in mine.
Neva and I have become obsessed with The Office. It has been described by The New Yorker, of all snobs, as "perfect." And it may well be. Of course, that's subjective. But we utterly, utterly love it. We love it so much we know the theme song by heart. We love it so much that at random times of the day we'll crack up by ourselves because we just remembered a scene. We love it so much we were fighting over who would use the computer first because we both wanted to go to the official website. This, after going through all 12 episodes of the main series. There were only 2 seasons (called "series" in the UK), 6 episodes each, and then a 2-part Christmas special, each part an hour long (collectively called The Office Special). We haven't seen The Office Special, and are dying to. DYING, do you hear?! The ending of Series 2 isn't so much a cliffhanger as it is a downer, and with the prospect of more material, the suspense is unbearable. I almost succumbed to reading online synopses. When I look for websites where I can download the Special I only see part 2. :(
It is supremely funny, despite not adhering at all to the typical sitcom format. There is no laugh track, no music either. It's not taped in front of a live audience. There aren't even any set-ups like punchlines, etc. Its format is the mockumentary, and the humor comes from the characters. But one of the things I love most about The Office, and something that seems to be common to some of the best British comedy, is that, underneath the surface of everything, SOMETHING SERIOUS IS BEING SAID, but with such grace, style, and subtlety that it never comes across as preachy or self-important. And if you pick up on it, you feel better for it because it's something you worked at, it's like a reward you earned instead of something that had to be handed to you on a silver platter.
The show can also take turns to drama at the drop of a hat, and these scenes are just as effective as the humorous ones. The romance between Dawn and Tim, for example, is almost achingly painful to watch, because of their circumstances. And since the format is a mockumentary, it results in something interesting: all their movements, flirtations, gestures are careful, guarded almost, because their characters are under the impression that they're being watched by cameras. So it perfectly loads the smallest things: a laugh, a glance, a pat on the shoulder-- with so much meaning and almost-yearning that it makes you want to rip out your hair.
My favorite character is Tim, played by Martin Freeman. He has the best sense of humor, and his expressions are priceless. I looked him up on IMDB and was surprised to find that I'd seen him lots of places before: in Ali G In Da House (yes, I saw it; the first half's not bad); as the male porno actor in Love, Actually; he has a cameo in Shaun of the Dead; in fact he was in a short film that played at the Edinburgh Film Festival. And I'm gladdened to see that he was given the role of Arthur Dent in next year's Hitchhiker's Guide film. I hope it's good. He deserves to be big.
Of course, consequent research has turned up that NBC is making an American version of The Office for their '05 season, with the name The Office: An American Workplace (ugh). I don't know, I can't help but feel that this is bad news, even if series creators/writers/directors Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are executive producers, the writer's Greg Daniels (alum of SNL, The Simpsons, and Seinfeld), and the guy they got to be their "David Brent" is the hilarious Steve Carell. Early rumors decry the show as tripe. Oh well.
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The principal aim of the Geography Department is to allow students to develop a well-rounded knowledge and understanding of the world in which they live. As a result of a broad, wide-ranging curriculum, with topics varying from The Middle East to Plate Tectonics, the students will become more aware of the links between physical and human environments and the ways in which our world is changing over time and space. Within all schemes of work, students are provided with the opportunity to develop a range of geographical skills – including Ordnance Survey map skills, statistical and graphical skills, and extended writing skills. We also encourage deeper thinking about contemporary issues and events, supporting the students in undertaking research-based study and providing opportunities for engaging in geographical debate.
In addition to this, the department aims to provide students with the opportunity to explore and discover different cultures and environments, which will broaden their spiritual, moral, social and cultural understanding of the world in which they live. As part of the GCSE and A Level courses, fieldwork is undertaken in Snowdonia and North Yorkshire, providing the students with the opportunity to develop their practical investigative skills. This also serves to fulfil the fieldwork requirements of the AQA specifications which are followed at these Key Stages.
The department also organises a residential trip to Iceland every two years for Sixth Form geographers, and has also collaborated with the Latin Department to visit the volcanic island of Sicily.
Beyond the classroom, the Geography Prefects in Year 10 organise the Young Hums lunchtime society for Key Stage 3 students, and the Year 12 Prefects organise the lunchtime GeogSoc – a discussion group for Key Stage 4 and 5 students.
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No matter whether it’s a residential property or a commercial property, it is important to take the appropriate measures in order to ensure that it is kept protected at all times, especially in the winter months. During winter, homes are typically more vulnerable to damage and robberies due to the harsher winter conditions and long hours of darkness. However, if you prepare for the season in advance, then there is no reason as to why you can’t get through the month without any major incidents occurring. This infographic has been created by vacant property services experts and explores the 10 top tips for ensuring that your home stays safe this winter. Lucky for you, the prices for each service have also been listed, so you are kept aware of how much money you will be saving when preventing these issues.
Check Your Piping
During the winter months, water damage from burst pipes is a very common occurrence, however, it can be easily avoided by installing a special type of insulation which is called lagging. Make sure that all your water pipes are properly lagged before the temperate starts to drop and you shouldn’t be facing any piping issues in the future. The average cost of replacing broken pipes is £3,000 and can easily be avoided with correct insulation.
Servicing Your Boiler
Fully functional central heating systems are less likely to run into problems with freezing pipes and other issues arising from cold weather. It is a good idea to have your boiler services and certified by a professional toward the end of autumn. The average cost of replacing a boiler is £2,000, but the average cost of servicing a boiler is £60… you do the math!
Update Smoke & CO2 Alarms
The risk of fire and CO2 inhalation from faulty appliances increased significantly during the winter months, so make sure that all of your alarms are in good working order. These should be checked on a regular basis throughout the year – the average cost of smoke and CO alarms is around £40.
Clear The Gutters
Guttering containing fallen leaves and debris becomes blocked very easily. This happens when the clogged water begins to freeze when the temperature drops below zero. The average service cost for your gutters is around £60, and will be extremely beneficial, as replacing guttering can be quite the investment.
Remember Outside Furniture
If you leave your chairs and furniture outside during the winter, then they become prone to rust and mould. When the weather is too cold to be outside, store your furniture in a dry environment or cover it with a protective sheet to prevent this from happening.
Take a look at this infographic to discover even more ways to keep your place safe this winter. All these points are suitable for any budget and will save you a lot of stress and money in the unfortunate event of a bad incident during winter.
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A few of you lovely people have requested that my Medicine Hat paint be available in The Sims 2 (since not everyone owns/likes The Sims 3). While I do own the game, it's on my old relic of a Mac, and I have ceased to play it except infrequently. :) Christina from thevintagesim has been AMAZINGLY sweet and agreed to toss it into the game as a recolor for TS2! <3
Head on over to | Equus-Sims | to my Medicine Hat paint recolor for The Sims 2!
Original recolor created by myself, here at Vicarious-Sims
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Sting has made a musical and it's coming to Dublin. The Last Ship, which was initially inspired by Sting's 1991 album The Soul Cages and his own childhood experiences, tells the story of a community amid the demise of the shipbuilding industry.
The production, which will star Jimmy Nail, has a TONY-nominated original score and lyrics composed by Sting. It will play a 4-week season in Newcastle before embarking on a major UK & Ireland Tour.
The Last Ship is described as a "personal, political and passionate new musical", and an "epic account of a family, a community and a great act of defiance."
The show is directed by Lorne Campbell, the artistic director of Northern Stage, with set design by the Tony Award-winning 59 Productions.
The Last Ship will run at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre from June 4th 2018 - June 9th.
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As you know, Allen from Polocini Coffee shop is taking me to Belgium to ride the cobbles. We were supposed to be going last weekend, but due to work commitments of some of the group, it meant we'd only really have one full day there. So it was decided we'd go this weekend instead.
We're driving down to Dover at dinnertime on Friday, then ferry to Dunkirk, staying overnight there then driving to Nokere, south of Gent, where we're staying Saturday and Sunday. We'll be returning on Monday afternoon after visiting the beer market for the drive home.
Can't wait. Just got to pack now.
Health wise the last couple of weeks have been all about getting out as much as possible on the bike. Building up from little rides to longer rides. I've also been to the gym to start some work on my upper body. I've never really been keen on the gym, but circuit training is hard work and structured enough to give you a good workout for an hour. The fact that I'm still aching all over from doing that on Monday is testament to how hard it can be. If the weathers ok though, I still prefer the bike.
My heart rate has improved over the last few weeks as well. I was going out on little flat rides, dead slow pace, no hills, and seeing stupid heart rates like 177 bpm! That's the sort of rate if I was sprinting up hills, not bumbling along on the flat. However, that's improving with every ride, and I'm finally able to climb the odd hill again, which is nice.
Once again, the support from riding buddies has been terrific. I'm posting rides on Twitter, and they'll be at least two or more people replying that they're coming along. No matter how slow I go, there's always been someone to help me along or tow me back to the group. Thanks again everyone.
With only 13 days left to my operation on the 22nd (actually going into the MRI on the 21st) that doesn't leave me much time to get the last of my rides in, but I'll give it a go. We should get some good rides in this weekend on the Sat & Sun, then back on the bike on Tuesday onwards for the rest of the week.
I'll leave you with a picture John took of me up Eccles Pike the other day. It was my first proper hilly ride for a while, and I really wanted to go further towards Combs, but just didn't have the strength for it on the day, maybe next time.
I'll take another picture next time I'm up there after the operation, and see how much thinner I look with no stomach :)
Take care xx
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Motorway call-outs rise by 55% in 2010
As the country launches its first motorway service station this week, AA Rescue reveals it has responded to 142 callouts by members who have completely run out of fuel on our motorways since January. In total the AA has attended 2113 call outs on the Motorway network so far in 2010 a rise of 60% on the same period last year.
The figure of just under four callouts per week for empty fuel tanks comes to light as the National Roads Authority announces its plans to erect 130 signs to direct drivers off motorways to nearby towns and villages where they can refuel and use the facilities.
“Whilst the opening of the service area on the M1 at Lusk this week and the scheduled openings at Castleblaney on the M1 and Enfield on the M4 are welcome, that is still only 3 service areas in the whole country and none at all between Dublin and Cork or Waterford.” Says AA’s Director of Policy, Conor Faughnan. “The indefinite hold on service areas for the M6, M7, M8 and M9 is devaluing the network.”
Since 2008, AA Patrols have attended close to 400 callouts by AA members who have found themselves stranded on the hard shoulder with an empty tank. Call outs to those who have run out of fuel account for 7% of all motorway callouts received by AA Rescue each year. Overall there has been a 55% increase in the number of motorway callouts handled by AA Rescue Services in 2010, averaging 255 per month. This is compared to an average of 165 per month in 2009.
The increased rate of incidents is in line with the AA’s forecasts and reflects both the addition of 188 kilometres to our motorway network this year and the fact that the continuous inter-urban routes are nearing completion.
“The drivers we meet who have run out of fuel on the motorway usually feel pretty embarrassed, but as the numbers show, we see it all the time.” Says Noel Keogh, AA Patrol Manager. “Mostly it’s people who are unfamiliar with the route and don’t realise there’s no petrol stations along the way.”
One of the main concerns is that motorists are less inclined to take a rest without the convenience of service stops on the route itself. According to the most recent data available for the Road Safety Authority, 35% of all collisions are single vehicle only collisions with driver fatigue among the main casual factors.
“Drivers who are over-tired especially on monotonous motorways can be just as dangerous as those who have drunk too much alcohol. Concentration levels can wane and drivers begin to weave between lanes.” Says Faughnan. “The fact that thousands of Cork fans will make the journey to Dublin for the GAA football finals this weekend without the opportunity to stop at a service station between Dunkettle and Naas is a huge concern.”
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A film school in Colorado, USA, has taken up the responsibility of training a selected group of Nigerian movie directors according to a 9news.com report.
“It’s one of those few film schools where you find out that they combine academics with the hands-on,” Nigerian movie director Onyeka said.
Onyeka first came to the Colorado Film School in 2012. He liked his experienced so much that he approached the film school’s director, Frederic Lahey, about bringing the top directors in Nigeria to the school within the Community College of Aurora system.
“If my mindset could be changed, I think then it could also happen to any one of us,” Onyeka said.
Lahey spent the next three years working with the U.S. government and the Nigerian government to create an opportunity for filmmakers in Nigeria to improve their craft.
“If I can create a place where it’s a democratic access to the means of expression, then that’s a worthy endeavor,” Lahey said.
Lahey worked out a deal for the core of the Directors Guild of Nigeria to come to the Colorado Film School for an intensive three week session which contains about two years worth of instruction.
“We need to take a step above where we are right now to international best practices,” Andy Amenechi, president of the Directors Guild of Nigeria, said.
The Colorado Film School is ranked as one the top 25 film schools in the world by The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Amenechi met with officials with the federal government in Nigeria which issued the directors a grant to come to the United States. He says this learning experience may change the Nigerian film industry forever.
“It’s going to be a revolution,” Amenechi said. “I foresee a different style, a different professional input into filmmaking from this program.”
Twenty three of Nigeria’s top directors are attending classes at the Colorado Film School through April 18. The plan is to have them take what they have learned and share with it other filmmakers from around Nigeria and Africa.
“It’s a milestone,” Onyeka said. “Every one of us is gathering enough information and knowledge that we’re going to take back home.”
Lahey says this is part of what the Colorado Film School is all about.
“Nothing would move me more than to see that impact,” Lahey said. “I think this is Africa’s century.”
Onyeka says he is thankful for the hospitality that he has received from Lahey, the film school, and for everyone in Colorado. He says it is making this long trip worthwhile for all the directors involved.
“Colorado film school, yeah, it’s far away from Nigeria, but it’s good,” Onyeka said.
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Avaya Boosts Security for Enterprise Mobile Collaboration
Avaya today released new security enhancements for enterprise collaboration, designed to protect today's increasingly distributed businesses that have remote, home-based, and mobile employees around the globe.
The new release of Avaya Session Border Controller for Enterprise (SBCE) provides secure Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based applications across networks.
The Avaya SBCE helps companies manage Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategies where employees use a single device for both work and personal use.
Key capabilities of the Avaya SBCE include the following:
- Enhanced security for mobile collaboration is provided through new Avaya SBCE support for the Avaya Flare Experience on Apple iPad devices, as well as for Avaya one-X Mobile applications on iPhones. By securing wireless unified communications (UC) over public data networks, workers have protected access to mobile UC capabilities, including instant messaging, presence and video.
- VPN-less capabilities improves convenience for employees accessing rich UC functionality and simplicity from a remote location. Now, users can have a secure, business-dedicated deskphone or softphone that automatically authenticates to one IP address on a single SBCE, without connecting to a virtual private network.
- Secure SIP trunking and SIP-based remote worker applications enable companies to gain the benefits of SIP with greater protection.
Contact center outsourcing services provider Teleperformance was one of the first companies to test Avaya SBCE. ;With more than 138,000 employees across 260 contact centers in 46 countries, Teleperformance needed a sophisticated solution that could handle large volumes of calls with maximum security.
"Customer service is at the heart of what we do, and as a leader in outsourced contact center services, our clients count on us to ensure superior functions and secure service. The Avaya SBCE delivers this, and does so with an eye towards cost-savings. We can reduce our hardware expenses, simplify implementations, and use fewer resources, saving us time and money. Avaya SBCE is critical in helping protect our network, while delivering the cost-saving benefits of SIP trunking," said Richard Blake, manager of IT telecom at Teleperformance, in a statement.
"Advancements in enterprise collaboration are taking off, and with an Avaya Aura platform in place, businesses can accelerate their own collaboration evolution with speed and simplicity. But with threats to networks on the rise, the need to take action on security is essential. The Avaya SBCE brings the rock-solid security needed to ensure business collaboration and mobility initiatives are strengthened and protected against those with malicious intent," added Gary E. Barnett, senior vice president and general manager of collaboration platforms at Avaya.
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December 26, 2010
Haiku by Jim Kacian. Artwork by myself.
This is one of the early haiga of mine. Jim is the first foreign haijin I met in person. Before the time when I took up haiku and haiga, Jim approached me via email, asking me to do a cover and inside drawings for his "Twelve Tongues" haiku anthology booklet. He later visited me in my hometown during his world-wide haiku tour. I learned from him situations of haiku scene in both Japan and the world, especially USA. This was like more than 10 years ago so we go way back. I met him a couple of times after that meeting, at haiku getherings and such. See the image of computer. It is one of Mac early version.
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What do you imagine when you think of parenting books?
I devoured a bunch of them back in my child-rearing days, and they all left me feeling somewhat inadequate. They influenced me positively, I’m sure, but when reading chapter after chapter of solid techniques and creative ideas I couldn’t escape the feeling that I had missed the perfect parenting train. I was running behind trying to catch up, and it was exhausting.
Colin Smith’s book, 10 Keys for Effective Parenting, is a parenting book of another kind. It would have refreshed my soul.
What is the difference? Perfect parenting is not the goal of his book. It includes no examples of dynamite family devotions or stellar discipline methods. None.
Honest, genuine and godly relationship is his objective.
10 Keys for Effective Parenting is a useful book for all kinds of relationships. Any “life shaping relationship,” with friends, grandparents, pastors, and mentors will benefit from the tools described in this book.
A parent – child relationship is the first relationship an individual develops. It begins in infancy and extends throughout adulthood; it never ends. Healthy relationships will continue to deepen over time. Parenting practices end; the relationship doesn’t. Therefore, these 10 keys apply to me and my adult children just as they apply to brand new parents and their infants.
Smith uses 2 Timothy 3:10-11 as the source of his 10 Keys: my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance, my persecutions, my sufferings, and my deliverance.
He notes that the pronoun “my” is important in the first and each of these keys. “…this is the language of relationship.'” (p. 8) “My” relationship with God is a necessary starting point. The parent’s language of relationship is wonderfully multi-directional. My relationship with God must grow if I am to continue to deepen relationships with my children. It’s a win-win prospect.
What is my teaching? Is my life consistent with it? Can I clearly express my faith? Am I completely loving? These and other good questions must be answered before I can enter into meaningful conversations with my children.
Taking these 10 keys seriously is a life-long process that will take the form of self-examination, conversation and modeling. Repeat. And repeat again. Interaction appropriate for a ten year old will prepare her for further conversations as she grows older. What a child understands about her parent’s faith, way of life, purpose, patience and love will be greatly expanded upon as the relationship grows.
Modeling endurance, persecution, suffering and deliverance is a little tougher, but it will happen sooner or later. My children observed me endure cancer almost 10 years ago. They saw me through a stroke last summer. They have seen my husband and I persevere through some recent challenges. These have not been easy situations to handle, but they are the stuff of life and are tremendous opportunities for meaningful, relationship building, life changing conversations. Reading 10 Keys for Effective Parenting has challenged me to talk with my children abut these events more purposefully. More importantly, I want to make sure they know how God has delivered me.
It is never too early or too late to start using these 10 keys for effective parenting. It is never too early or too late to build relationships with your children on the basis of your teaching, your way of life, your purpose, your faith, your patience and your love. Your life will present you with opportunities to share your endurance, persecution, suffering and deliverance. Be prepared to share it.
You may not be the perfect parent, but your relationship with God and your children will continue to grow. That is the goal.
This post is featured on the blog of Unlocking the Bible. I encourage you to check out Unlocking the Bible for many excellent resources.
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Means of Grace | Day Apart for Spiritual Formation is a two year program which offers a day apart every quarter where the participants will learn about John Wesley’s means of grace and their potential for spiritual transformation. The leadership team for this program has heard the call to co-labor with God and the local church in making of disciples for the transformation of the world. The first day apart will be an Introduction to the Means of Grace, the next six days apart will cover each of the six means of grace, and the final day apart of the two year program will be Celebrating the Means of Grace. Our hope is that each participant will not only learn about each of the means of grace or spiritual disciplines but will also experience them and will be able to implement them into their daily lives. Each day apart will be held at Blue Lake begin at 9:00 a.m. and end at 4:00 p.m. and will offer time for worship, learning, silence, fellowship, sharing a meal, and a chance to actually experience what is being taught. The schedule for each day apart is:
- Fasting and Holy Living Saturday, May 19, 2018
- The Sacraments Saturday, August 25, 2018
- Christian Conferencing/Living in Covenant Community Thursday, November 15, 2018
- Living Generously/Seeking Justice for All February 2019 (date to be determined)
- Celebrating the Means of Grace May 2019 (date to be determined)
The cost for each day apart is $40.00. Ten private rooms have been reserved for each day apart. Should you desire to spend the night there will be an additional cost of $63.00, which includes supper. Breakfast the following morning is not included as check-out is at 9:00 a.m.
Our speaker for May 19th:
Roger Short is a child of God, husband, father, spiritual director, retreat leader, and retired pastor in the North Alabama Conference (NAC) of The United Methodist Church, where he is an ordained elder and professionally certified in spiritual formation. He holds a BSEE degree from the University of Arkansas, an MEIE degree from Texas A&M University, and an MDiv degree from Emory University, Candler School of Theology. Roger lives with his wife, Jeri, in Montevallo, AL. They have two grown sons. They belong and serve in the congregation of First United Methodist Church, Alabaster, Alabama. Roger also serves on both the NAC Adult Discipleship Formation Team and the NAC Spiritual Formation Team. He also ministers in the Alabama Emmaus Community. Roger’s interests include music, reading, fitness, and camping.
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|The “conveniently” LAST section 35 may
be of more impact than all the others put together and perhaps should be
35.05b ... constructs a significant percentage of
very low or low income units ......
35.12b Eliminate Use Permit processes
35.15 Making illegal units legal.
35.16 ....... increase workforce affordable housing
35.22 ..... redevelop ... School District, Sanitation
District, churches with
35.23 ...... Designate ... zoning for ... affordable housing
35.29 Single-room occupancy units .............with linkages
to social services.
Source:- "GP sect 35 - Watch Out
"Comment on Policy Statements" is now gone from the GP Home
Each of the items on the Policy Statements page are "hot" for
you to make comments on. We must liberally comment on Section 35.
San Rafael's current Mayor will allow Infill Development.
building in open space and second stories added to scenic buildings. He was
FOR building 800 homes on St Vincent's farmland. The "business as usual"
philosophy of the City Council must be stopped.
San Rafael needs Councilors who are in touch with their constituent's
Mayor of San Rafael
help needed - email
Possible Programs discussed so far:
(The state of
California has mandated that every county will provide affordable housing. The
exact number required for Marin, as well as other Bay Area counties has been
finalized through negotiations with the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). The “regional housing needs
determination” for Marin is that we shall provide 6,515 total units by 2006;
almost 2000 of these must be affordable to those with “very low” to
“low” incomes. Penalties for not providing this housing can range from the
county and cities defending themselves in court (ala Corte Madera), to losing
all state funding for any development at all, including roads.)
rid of the bowling alley.
. Residential dev around Davidson Middle School.
. Gathering places and housing near Civic Center.
. Promenade at Rite Aid.
. Parking lots are being picked to develop housing above (retaining the parking)
. Apartments on Las Gallinas by Northgate One.
. St. Vincent’s got dropped from the list as This project is already in
. CalPox site has no services or other residential in the vicinity. It is also a
former toxic dump. This may not be a good site for housing.
. Pedestrian bridge across canal at Montecito shopping center and Harbor St.
. Amend and adjust the zoning regulations to address infill development,
redevelopment and remodeling and upgrades.
. Support commute trip reduction measures such as flex hours, carpooling,
telecommuting, public transportation, and employer incentive programs.
. Provide incentives and support for workforce attainable housing.
. Support businesses that generate jobs for residents.
. Support the completion of the HOV Gap Closure project.
. Encourage employers to offer workplace alternatives and promote the formation
of satellite business centers.
. Develop and maintain a database of buildings and parcels with potential for
. Establish a room rental service administered through a local church.
. All new housing projects must be exclusively affordable and/or workforce
. Establish gross receipts tax for home-based businesses.
. Sponsor English as a Second Language (ESL) training.
. Develop mentoring programs, possibly through cooperation with churches and
. Provide more support for the development of non-profit organizations,
including grant money.
. Create a training center that offers a variety of diverse skill development
. Establish transportation program for workers who can’t get here on their
. Continue the working relationship with the Marin County Economic Commission
and participate in their activities.
. Provide a City-subsidized office/warehouse/storage space for new/startup
. Marin Square at Bellum why keep retail center if something else is more
useful? Explore mixed use of this area
. A Day laborer Center?
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This post follows Marie Haines and Josh Broehl’s latest trip to Moscow, Russia on behalf of Big Red Rooster’s client: Russian retailer Tvoy Dom.
Creative Manager David Denniston shares why an “imperfect” retail approach resonates with consumers.
We announced six new hires and one promotion across our Atlanta, Phoenix and Columbus, Ohio offices today.
Localization isn’t a new trend, but it’ll continue to grow as consumers seek ways to eat healthier and live sustainable lives. Check out how the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area embraces local.
What’s on the menu? For one lucky winner, it’s a complete foodservice operation makeover.
Our Meet the Roost series gives you a glimpse at the strategic, collaborative associates who lead Big Red Rooster’s client engagements. Today we’ll introduce you to our SVP and Atlanta Office Managing Director, Staci Mandrell.
We’re pleased to announce that Columbus Business First, one of Columbus, Ohio’s leading business news publications, honored Big Red Rooster as one of the fastest growing privately owned companies headquartered in Central Ohio.
QSRs continue to improve operational efficiency and meet key benchmarks. Yet the impersonal, drive-around-back experience remains relatively the same. It’s a key innovation opportunity for QSRs that are brave enough to differentiate themselves from the competition.
Display and Design Ideas Magazine, a retail-focused trade publication, honored Columbus, Ohio-based Big Red Rooster with two retail design industry awards.
Our Meet the Roost series gives you a glimpse at the strategic, collaborative associates who lead Big Red Rooster’s client engagements. Today we’ll introduce you to our President, Co-CEO, and 2012 DDI Magazine Retail Design Luminaries award winner, Aaron Spiess.
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A distinguished group of researchers wants to redefine Alzheimer’s disease by focusing on biomarkers instead of symptoms, such as memory loss.
For a better understanding of what’s being proposed, WUWF called on Dr. Rodney Guttmann, a professor in the University of West Florida Department of Biology, who is now leading clinical trials at the university focused on agitation in Alzheimer’s disease.
The proposal from the National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer’s Association is part of an effort to update guidelines approved in 2011, and Guttmann believes it represents an important shift in how Alzheimer’s disease is going to be viewed – particularly from a research perspective.
“They really want to focus on biomarkers, trying to improve the research direction to target plaques and tangles, which are the original definition of Alzheimer’s disease back in the early 1900’s,” said Guttmann, clarifying that the clinical definition will remain unchanged. “So, this is a reflection of kind of the reality on the ground that Alzheimer’s is a disease of plaques and tangles in the brain.”
According to Dr. Guttmann, those pathological changes in the brain result in the cognitive decline that’s observed in a clinical setting. And, in the past two to three decades, it’s been the changes in brain function that’s been driving how Alzheimer’s is defined.
For researchers, the proposed change means a shift from focusing on first on brain function, such as memory loss and other symptoms, and instead beginning with biological changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s disease. The primary reason is because scientists have found that those changes within the brain, the formation of plaques and tangles, actually starts happening decades – 30 to 40 years - before the clinical symptoms occur.
Dr. Guttmann adds that the most recent clinical trials that have focused on the plaque-busting drugs, don’t seem to be having an effect on cognition.
“So, I think that’s what’s driving this notion that we need to go back and look at the foundational element of Alzheimer’s disease, plaque and tangle formation; what is driving that, how can we detect that, and how can we change that path, with a goal of treating that cognitive decline that happens later.”
In a closer examination of plaques and tangles, while everyone forms them, they are abnormal protein deposits that occur in the brain of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
A significant factor in the proposal to define Alzheimer’s based on biomarkers is that doctors now have the tools to definitively diagnose the disease before a person dies.
“Many people have heard and I hear it at many presentations I give, “Oh, I thought you could only diagnose Alzheimer’s disease upon death,” said Guttmann. “That has been the case traditionally that Alzheimer’s is defined by plaques and tangles, and now we can image those things in living time, in living people.”
Dr. Guttman says this newly proposed research framework is very much in line with how he views Alzheimer’s disease and the biomarkers research he’s been conducting for several years at UWF.
“Biomarkers are (going to) be key,” said Guttmann, noting that everything on the market now treats symptoms or changes in cognition and behavior. He says the biomarkers, now identified through cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood testing, would be useful for an earlier diagnosis when there are no symptoms.
“It is well known in the literature that people with Alzheimer’s disease have changes in their brain occurring in their thirties, forties, and fifties, so 20-40 years before clinical symptoms occur. So, it makes logical sense that we want to be able to detect that as early as possible and there’s (currently) no way to do that in a clinical setting.”
Biomarkers, he says, are the future in terms of developing reliable ways to screen for Alzheimer’s disease, similar to the testing that’s now available for other diseases such as diabetes. Additionally, they can be used in establishing what’s called ‘disease modifying therapy,’ which currently doesn’t exist.
Clearly, Dr. Guttmann is optimistic about this new vision for Alzheimer's researchers who are working to develop strategies for the prevention, treatment and eventual cure of the disease.
More details about the new research framework are available in the April 2018 issue of Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. The first author is Clifford R. Jack, Jr., M.D., of Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN.
UWF is currently conducting clinical trials on agitation in Alzheimer’s. More information, 850-474-3181 or ClinicalTrials@uwf.edu.
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Understanding the common types of dementia
by Shannon Lee
Watching a loved one struggle with the effects of aging is no picnic. But when that loved one develops dementia, the normal course of aging suddenly takes on a very different slant. Understanding the types of dementia can help you feel more in control and better-equipped to help your loved one through a difficult diagnosis.
What is Dementia?
Dementia is a brain disorder that can result in memory problems, trouble doing day-to-day activities, mood swings, and personality changes. Millions of people are affected by dementia every day, and their symptoms are determined by what type of dementia they have, and how far it has progressed.
What Causes Dementia?
Unfortunately, dementia is a disease that typically worsens over time. Dementia can be caused by many things, including a brain infection, the death of neurons and cells, or a brain injury, such as a stroke or a trauma. Dementia is rarely caused by actions or behaviors.
Common Types of Dementia
Though Alzheimer's is the most common form of dementia, others can have just as devastating an effect. Here are a few of the common types:
- Alzheimer's: This accounts for 70 percent of all dementia cases, and affects over 5 million Americans. Symptoms include memory and speech problems, mood swings, disorientation, and an inability to learn.
- Vascular Dementia: A type of dementia caused by strokes, this usually begins rapidly and can progress very quickly.
- Dementia with Lewy Bodies: Lewy bodies are protein deposits in the brain that can mimic the effects of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
- Frontotemporal Dementia: Also known as Pick's disease, this type of dementia affects personality first, and can often strike at a younger age than the other common types.
Other Types of Dementia
There are a few lesser-known types of dementia. They might not occur as often as those listed above, but when they can be just as devastating.
- Dementia Caused by Infectious Disease: Dementia related to HIV/AIDS, encephalitis, neurosyphilis, meningitis, and other infections might be reversible or treatable if caught early enough.
- Traumatic Injury: A significant injury to the brain increases the chances of dementia, but it is rare, appearing in less than 5 percent of all dementia cases.
- Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease: This form of dementia usually begins with spasms throughout the body. It is caused by a slow-moving virus in the body, and once symptoms appear, progression is usually rapid.
- Huntington's Disease: An inherited disease, Huntington's can cause problems with memory, changes in personality, and mood swings. Some eventual problems include lack of coordination and involuntary twitching.
- Alcohol Dementia: This type of dementia can lead to cognitive problems as result of the toxic effects of long-term alcohol abuse.
Learning to Live with Dementia
Dementia can be a very difficult diagnosis to hear, but it is important to always stay positive around your loved one. Talk with your loved one and remind them that you are there to take care of them. Help them feel useful by asking for their opinions and giving them small tasks to complete.
Most of all, be patient with both your loved one and yourself. Dementia exacts a heavy toll, so remember to find support for yourself and your family.
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The year was 1989, and Mariners would leave Arizona to start their season. They would have some new rookies to kick off the year. One was much hyped to be the greatest outfielder of all-time. The other was a little infielder no one knew too much about. That outfielder has retired, but the shortstop named "Little O" is still around. Omar will turn 45 this April!
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Saturday was Springtown's annual Wild West Festival. Every year we have a parade and float entries. Erin's cheer squad won first prize last year with their float entry and all the girls wanted to "keep" the pride rollin'. So, they voted on a theme and "Under the Sea" won. Our coaches and volunteer parents did a great job on the float! I was amazed when we walked up to it. I honestly don't know HOW we're gonna top it next year. But KUDO's to our coach, asst. coaches and volunteers. Later in the day, the girls coach brought their TROPHY to the game. Yep, first prize second year in a row!!
For all my friends that know me, this was a weird year. I haven't volunteered for anything really and it feels soooo liberating but at the same time, strange. I'm use to wearing multiple hats and I'm down to a few. Oh well, I'll just sit back and enjoy the ride.
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- Registered on: 2011-10-07
- Last connection: 2014-07-07
Reported issues: 12
- 22:15 Redmine Defect #13654: Can't set parent issue when issue relations among child issues are present
- Pierre Pretorius wrote:
> 1) Remove any existing parent and related tasks.
Ouch, ever since we got history on a...
- 19:09 Redmine Defect #15811 (New): Changing Ticket's Project In Parent/Child Relationship Fails
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Changing "1001" to a different project fails with no error, like #15320.
- 16:21 Redmine Feature #11069: Ability to search tasks of Locked Users
Ran into this when moving tickets from a terminated employee.
- 16:53 Redmine Defect #15320: Changing Child's Parent Ticket Field To Parent's Parent fails.
- It's a generic "this is an invalid parent ID" changing it to "" then "1000" works fine though.
- 16:53 Redmine Defect #15320 (Closed): Changing Child's Parent Ticket Field To Parent's Parent fails.
Changing 1002's parent from 1001 -> 1000 results in an error.
- 16:42 Redmine Defect #15319: Can't Move Parent Ticket Between Projects
- Additionally nothing shows in production.log.
- 16:42 Redmine Defect #15319 (Closed): Can't Move Parent Ticket Between Projects
- I have a ticket that has children two issues deep, and I cannot move the parent ticket to another project.
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- 16:06 Redmine Feature #13387: Improving Redmine's version model (not just milestones)
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£57,995 Offers over
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I’m back! And it feels great. Have you missed me? 😉
What was meant to be a short writing break turned into a month-plus hiatus. I really needed the month of May to clear my head and refocus on my goals, and it helped a ton to step away from the blog for a while. I was beginning to focus too much on what other bloggers were doing to be successful, instead of focusing on what feels right for Woven Words. I never started this blog with the intent to become internet famous or make money off it (although, I wouldn’t complain about getting paid to do what I love). Throughout April I was stressing over the quality of my photos, the types of posts I was creating, the type of content I needed to create in the future, and boosting my Instagram engagement. All with the purpose of becoming an overnight sensation. Yeah, I’m eye-rolling at myself too.
All this stress, over the wrong things for me.
Now, I’m feeling less pressure to turn this blog into something it wasn’t meant to be. I have a ton of ideas up my sleeve and going forward I’m going to make sure those ideas will satisfy my creative spirit, not just the spirit of internet consumers. And I cannot wait to share my ideas with all of you! So thank you for taking this journey with me. For reading my posts, providing feedback, and staying with me at every bump in the road. I couldn’t do any of this without the support.
So what else have I been up to since my last post? Well, May was a very busy month for me! I didn’t have a single free weekend, something I surprisingly enjoyed. Mike and I visited Disneyland for three days before converting our tickets into Annual Passes; it feels great to be part of the magic again. We also went on the Warner Brothers Studio Tour Hollywood, where I fulfilled my dream of stepping into Stars Hollow. Every Gilmore Girls fan needs to add this tour to their bucket list ASAP. I also rediscovered my love of crafting, which resulted into two knitted beanies, one work-in-progress Ravenclaw scarf (more about that to come!), three pairs of floral Mickey ears (DIY post coming next!), and two race medal displays that I’m finishing up. I didn’t read as much as I wanted, but I finally had a chance to devour Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur and I loved it.
But the biggest thing I did this month was begin training for my summer job as a Site Assistant and Teacher with Destination Science, a summer camp for kids! The goal of DS is to get kids engaged with science while also teaching them life skills. It’s high energy and jam-packed with a ton of cool experiments for the kids to do. I’m really excited for this new journey in my career, but even more excited not to be stuck at home all summer break. I will miss sleeping in on weekdays, though!
Those are all the updates I have for now, but I look forward to sharing more soon! Now I’m off to my Sunday ritual of reviewing my planner and watching a few episodes of Downton Abbey. And drinking lots and lots of coffee 🙂
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Houston women get Blues Award nominations
Three prominent Houston singers -- Trudy Lynn, Diunna Greenleaf and Annika Chambers -- received nominations for the 39th annual Blues Music Awards, which will be held in Memphis in May.
Lynn was nominated in the soul blues female artist category along with Mavis Staples, Bettye LaVette, Denise LaSalle and Vaneese Thomas. Chambers and Greenleaf are nominated for the Koko Taylor Award for traditional blues female singer. The category also includes fellow Texan Ruthie Foster, along with Miss Freddye and Janiva Magness.
Nominees for contemporary blues female artist include Shemekia Copeland, a New York native who has a following in Houston due in part to her father blues great Johnny Copeland, who started playing in Houston in the mid-1950s.
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Nominees in other categories include Taj Mahal, the North Mississippi All-Stars, Bobby Rush and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
The event will be held at the Memphis Cook Convention Center on May 10. More info on the Blues Foundation and the event here.
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A promotion for the stepson of the SNP’s leader in Westminster is symptomatic of why the party has lost its mojo, writes Euan McColm
At the heart of the SNP’s message for as long as I can remember has been the assertion that the party is morally superior to others.
Nationalist politicians rose to prominence in Scotland while condemning the behaviour of opponents. Labour and Conservative MPs were characterised as gravy train-jumping freeloaders who cared nothing for the many plights of their constituents; SNP MPs, on the other hand, would place Scotland and its people first.
Among the battalion of Scottish Labour MPs defenestrated by the SNP in the 2015 general election were a number who deserved much of the criticism levelled at them. Years of Labour dominance in Scotland had helped foster a sense of entitlement. While MPs coined it in, abusing an expenses system that allowed clearly unjustifiable claims, they would ensure those closest to them were well looked after by handing out taxpayer-funded jobs to relatives.
It was almost unseemly, so when the SNP focused its political attacks on the excesses of opponents, it was hardly surprising when it began inflicting some real damage.
But the problem with holding other people to high standards is that, in order to avoid the charge of hypocrisy, one must also live up to them.
The defeat of Angus Robertson in last month’s general election means the SNP has a new Westminster leader. Ian Blackford, who unseated the late Charles Kennedy two years ago to become MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber. It is a measure of how poor the calibre of SNP MPs now is that Blackford was able to secure this position.
The SNP’s Westminster leader’s success is the result of Robertson’s defeat rather than his own political skills.
Still, even if he’s a second-rater in the debating chamber, at least he’s one of those new politicians who reject cronyism and spurn the advances of the rich and powerful in favour of standing with the many and all that noble sort of stuff.
Actually… perhaps Blackford isn’t quite so different from the sort of politicians the SNP enjoys denouncing. During the recent election campaign, he benefited from a £3,000 donation from multimillionaire hedge-fund manager, David Craigen, who has, in the past, donated large sums to the Conservative Party. Furthermore, Blackford received an identical sum from Craigen before the 2015 election.
And if the beneficial relationship with a city high-flier doesn’t quite do it for you, how about the fact that Blackford recently promoted his stepson, John O’Leary, from being simply his caseworker to being his senior caseworker. This promotion – which took place just before a ban on MPs employing relatives in new posts came into effect – entitles O’Leary to a taxpayer-funded salary of just north of 35 grand.
Blackford has, of course, done absolutely nothing wrong in either of these cases. Campaigning politicians are perfectly entitled to accept donations and who that money comes from is – some legal restrictions aside – a matter for the politician in question. If Blackford, the Westminster leader of a party standing up for “progressive” values wishes to accept £6,000 from a hedge-fund manager then that is up to him.
Likewise, if the Westminster leader of a party that has spent much of its existence attacking the cronyism displayed by its opponents wished to employ his stepson in a key role within his constituency office, he was – at the time the appointment was made – entirely free to do so. Doubtless, O’Leary was the very best candidate for the job.
Over the years, the SNP has played its part in creating a political culture where perception is all. It doesn’t matter whether no rules have been bent, whether no laws have been broken, it matters how things look.
Even the most enthusiastic SNP supporter would surely accept that Blackford’s actions look awfully like the sort they enjoy denouncing when opponents are involved.
The SNP’s rise was accelerated by a rapidly growing public disillusionment with established – or establishment, if you go for that sort of thing – parties and the way they did things. If the SNP won the 2007 Holyrood election because Labour lost voters to the idea it had lost touch with them, the nationalists grew support through the crises and scandals that followed. From the financial crash to the Westminster expenses scandal, here was the evidence that politics needed a new force to sweep away the crooks and wastrels who’d cluttered up the House of Commons.
Remarkably, the SNP managed to sustain this idea that its politicians (selfless, hard-working) were fundamentally different from others (grasping, lazy) for a long time. But perceptions change.
A backlash against the SNP which began with the loss of its Holyrood majority last year and gathered pace with the loss of 21 of its 56 MPs last month suggests that the notion of the nationalists as uniquely straight-dealing is far less widely held than it was.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is now presiding over a party in decline. A serious miscalculation on the referendum issue – insisting on having another crack despite massive public opposition to the idea – cost the party barrowloads of votes in the general election. Her party, which once appeared so dynamic, looks weak and uncertain when it comes not only to the constitution but to the domestic agenda.
I am not at all certain how Blackford helps the SNP rebuild its reputation as an outsider party, on your side against an uncaring establishment.
The SNP, of course, has always held opponents to standards nobody could be expected to meet. The nationalists happily exaggerated the “misdeeds” of others while sticking yet more Saltires into the soft earth of the moral high ground.
The truth is that SNP politicians are no different to any other kind. Ian Blackford reminds us that, for all its claims of moral superiority, the SNP are – as your mate in the pub likes to say – the bloody same as all the rest.
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Analyzing the Intersection of Genetics and Crime with ATLAS.ti: The Case of Argentina
This time we interview Florencia Rodriguez, from the Youth Observatory of Buenos Aires, a program belonging to FLACSO – Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences. Florencia tells us about her work on using ATLAS.ti to analyze data on the use of DNA databases for the crime research.
Hi Florencia. Thank you for talking with us. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
I am a sociologist graduated from Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina. I hold a postgraduate diploma in Gender, Society and Policy and I am currently pursuing a master’s degree in Sociology of Culture at Universidad Nacional de San Martín. My main research interests are gender studies, youth, and public policies. I am also interested in using different computational tools used for data gathering, processing, analysis and visualization. I have worked in the public sector for more than five years in research areas and also as a consultant for policy evaluation projects. I am also a teaching assistant for a master´s degree at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales.
What does the Youth Observatory do?
The goal of the Observatory is to provide a global and permanent perspective on the situation of young people in the city. Based on scientific knowledge, it makes recommendations on public policies for young people. It develops quantitative and qualitative research and uses methodological tools to monitor and evaluate public policies. We have carried out studies on the representations that young people have of relationships and gender violence, the incidence of unintended pregnancy among young women, the educational and employment situation of young people, and their consumption habits and cultural production. For more information, visit: http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/bajoven/cultura/investigacion-y-documentacion.
The Master’s Degree in Gender, Society and Policy at FLACSO, where I teach, focuses on gender equality policies in South America and the Caribbean. We teach about models of democracy and citizenship, legislation, public policies and institutions oriented towards the achievement of gender equity and strategic planning in public policies. For more information, visit: http://www.prigepp.org.
How are you using ATLAS.ti?
I used ATLAS.ti for the first time while studying a public policy recently promoted in different states of the country (Argentina) and at a national level. My goal was to analyze the creation of genetic data banks for criminal identification purposes, a type of initiative inspired by the policies of other countries, especially the United States and Europe. I wanted to explore how genetics came into contact with criminal policy and justice and what were the arguments that justified the creation of these genetic data banks. I used the software to analyze the bills presented to congress, the congressional speeches of the legislators during the debates as well as the sanctioned laws.
I first free coded the data (speeches, bills, laws) looking for recurrences and then started to create families of codes that represented argumentative dimensions. With this first experience I understood that Atlas.ti does not replace (nor should) the researcher work, but it can ensure greater control over the process. Memos played an important role in the writing process, keeping all tasks (coding, analyzing, and writing) in one place (ATLAS.ti project).
The main findings of the analysis were that: 1) legislators’ speeches focused on a specific type of crime – sexual crimes- to justify this kind of policy, while others were not present in the debates, 2) sexual crimes were constructed as an exceptional type that requires equally exceptional criminal policies, 3) rape was defined, through psychology and psychiatry discourses, as a problem of pathological behavior, 4) genetics was constructed as a technical and scientific solution to that problem (because genetic data banks were believed to be deterrent and because they would bring more justice to the victims by achieving more identifications).
As a result, a complex social problem – sexual violence – becomes a problem of sick or deviant individuals, a problem that could be solved through genetics presented almost as a magic solution. Thus, power relations and gender asymmetries disappear from the debate as explanatory concepts of the problem addressed and technology is reified as a solution uncontaminated from “human” intervention.
Would you like to add a few final words?
ATLAS.ti is a very intuitive software that allows an orderly, self-reflective and productive research process. I want to emphasize the ease of use from the first moment. In addition to being a strong support tool for the researcher’s task, I believe that ATLAS.ti encourages creative thinking and offers new perspectives on the data being analyzed, for example, through data visualization. I recently attended a presentation of version 8 in Spanish where new features were presented in terms of functionality and interface. I am very interested in the possibility of importing data from Twitter and Evernote and hope there will be more news about the incorporation of geographic data in the near future.
Thank you, gracias, Florencia!
Florencia Rodriguez can be contact via email at [email protected].
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https://atlasti.com/2018/02/14/analyzing-intersection-genetics-crime-atlas-ti-case-argentina/
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Weather hee isn;t too bad, this morning the sun is peeping out which makes it look much cosier.
I already did my shopping yesterday, but if the weather stays like it is at the moment, I always can find a purpose to go outside for a moment LOL.
It's going to be a real sports weekend again for us, because there is the world championschip speedskating for allrounders in Moskou! You know Jan and I are real fans of the speedskating, so our weekend is spoken for!
We have great expectations of our Dutch team, so cross fingers they will do real well!
This evening I'll be following the Kids Voice of Holland again. The past couple of weeks there were a few kids with outstanding performances. It's sometimes unbelievable how much talent there is.
This song contest is for kids and youngsters till the age of 14 , I believe, and I already have some favourites.
So it's a "busy"weekend, ROFL, better I do a few things around the house today.
Nothing much more to tell you, it's a bit "low"on activity and events at the moment, but I am sure that will change quickly enough. By the end of next month it will be time to clean up the garden again, do some pruning and so on and then hopefully nice spring weather will not be far.
Kit for the weekend is "Powderbox". The name for it came by the colours I used for it.
Have a happy and great weekend
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It’s finally Spring! Let’s just ignore the fact that there is SNOW in the forecast on Saturday and pretend like it’s April and warm outside. Seriously Nashville, get it together!
In an attempt to make myself feel a little more spring-y, I’m participating in The Blended Blog Asks : Spring Edition. Maybe that will keep the snow away! I also gave my blog a little Spring makeover. Let me know how you like it!
1. What 3 colors remind you most of Spring? Kelly green, hot pink, and baby blue. Such a random combination, right?
2. What is the first thing you add to your wardrobe in Spring? My filthy floral printed TOMS. Filthy as in they need to be washed…not that they’re obscene…ha! They were the first pair of TOMS I bought, and they remind me of Spring. I’ll wear my other pairs year round, but these go into storage at the end of every summer.
3. What is the first wardrobe item you ditch in Spring? Boots and heavy cardigans!! I’m usually so over them by the time Spring arrives!
4. Who mows the grass where you live? Last year we had a high school student who took care of it. He is graduating this year, so I’m not sure if he’ll be interested. It’s actually on my to-do list this week to see if he still wants to mow our yard or has a friend who wants to.
5. What’s Spring like where you live? We usually have warm weather with some thunderstorms and tornadoes. This year has been really rainy, and like I said above, there is snow in the forecast, so who knows how Spring will shape up this year?!?
6. What’s your favorite thing about Spring? Not having to wear 17,456 layers anytime I go somewhere or take Charlotte anywhere! It’s so much easier to just put on clothes, easy shoes, and go, without having to worry about boots, coats, hats, scarves, etc.
7. Are you a Spring Cleaner? I’d like to say yes, but we all know I would be lying…
8. Are you a Baseball Fan? Not really. I’ve been to a few Nashville Sounds games and enjoyed them, but I think that had more to do with all of the other entertainment during breaks in the game!
9. Tulips or Daffodils? Tulips!!! They’re my favorite flower!!!
10. Favorite Outdoor Spring Activity? I like going for walks. Honestly with as much rain and gloomy weather as we’ve had lately, anything outside sounds like a dream!
11. Flowers in the Ground or in Pots? No preference since I don’t garden or plant flowers.
12. Favorite Bird? I don’t have one. I’ve never thought about this!
13. Car Wash or Wash Vehicles at Home? Car wash but I don’t go very often, especially since it’s been raining so much here (have I talked about that enough yet?).
14. When do you pull out your sandals? I don’t really like sandals that much. TOMS for liiiiiife.
Linking up with The Blended Blog
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https://amberiam.com/2018/04/02/tbb-asks-spring/
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Queen Silvia of Sweden during a visit to an inclusion initiative in Berlin on day three of the State Visit to Germany
The Swedish State Visit to Germany has continued in Berlin with a day all about inclusion. From the fun of the circus to the harsh realities of life as a refugee, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia have been seeing projects that work towards making sure everyone in society is welcomed and has the opportunities they need and deserve.
State Visits always cover business and the day started with a meeting with trade leaders and the royal couple heard about the way that graduates from both Sweden and Germany are integrating themselves into the lives and economies of each other's countries.
King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia then headed to the Chameleon Theatre which is housed in the early art nouveau building, the Hackesche Hofe. This visit focused on the first professional circus in Germany to include people with Down's Syndrome or disabilities among its performers.
King Carl XVI Gustaf then moved on to a seminar about the digital economy and development while Queen Silvia took part in an event on sustainable fashion at Bikini Berlin, a shopping centre which opened two years ago featuring all sorts of style and fashion and providing a home to pop up shops.
The afternoon saw Carl Gustaf and Silvia head to an integration initiative called Give Something Back to Berlin which was set up by a Swedish journalist, Anna Maria Olsson. It aims to bring together migrants from across society to strengthen bonds and help local communities fuse.
They met people taking part in the initiative at Sharehouse Refugio which was set up last year to provide somewhere for refugees to live and work together. It's run by Berlin City Mission and during their visit, the King and Queen of Sweden met people using it and the initiative as well as those who have helped establish and run it.
#SweDE2016 will come to an end on October 8th 2016 when King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia visit Wittenberg and Leipzig. This four day visit is the second State trip they have made to Germany during their reign.
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I felt like doing another Fall makeup look this weekend. You can see last week’s look here if you missed it. This week, I was feeling inspired by bonfire’s, so I tried to incorporate that into the look.
Here are the products I used:
- Makeup Revolution – Pro Base Blur Primer
- Makeup Revolution – Eye Primer
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Genetic Programming Bibliography entries for Ram Narasimhan
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Genetic Programming conference papers by Ram Narasimhan
Steven Gustafson and Ram Narasimhan and Ravi Palla and Aisha Yousuf.
Using Genetic Programming for Data Science: Lessons Learned. In
Rick Riolo and William P. Worzel and M. Kotanchek and A. Kordon editors,
Genetic Programming Theory and Practice XIII, Ann Arbor, USA, 2015. Springer.
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Now presenting your new leader, President Barack Hussein Obama! Woo! Enough politicizing, let us move to the ice. There were 8 games on tap Tuesday night around the NHL. Former Islanders have visibly ramped up their contributions. FIs tipped in their help in 4 of those contests. Here is the happenings:
Los Angeles center Derek Armstrong scored his 2nd goal in the last 4 games netting the first insurance tally as the Kings downed the host Minnesota Wild 5-2. Army has 3 goals and 1 assist for 4 points on 22 games. He has managed to net 3 goals on only 17 shots giving him an impressive 17.6 shooting percentage.
Edmonton defenseman Denis Grebeshkov scored the goal that knotted the score, briefly, at 3 a piece. Greb now has 4 goals and 17 assists for 21 points on 43 games. Over the last 4 games he has set new single season highs in assists, points and goals. Grebeshkov seems to have found a new level of play this season and even appears to be physically more dominant than the past. It is just speculation but astute teams might send an offer sheet Grebeshkov's way this summer in light of his recent play. Greb is a Restricted Free Agent come July 1. Just something to keep a lookout for.
Phoenix center Olli Jokinen netted the Coyotes' 3rd goal as they effectively dispensed of the visiting Detroit Red Wings 6-3. O-Jok has 17 goals and 16 assists for 33 points on 42 games. Jokinen has 6 goals in his last 11 games after scoring only 4 in the previous 18 matches. He is second only to team leader Shane Doan is goals scored with only 1 less score than the captain.
Three games, three losses. The return to play for Vancouver goaltender Roberto Luongo has not been a good one so far. Luongo stopped 27 of 29 shots but it was the 4th one he faced in OT that bested him as the San Jose Sharks edged the visiting Canucks 2-1. The Sharks kept the 'Nucks to a manageable 14 shots outshooting them over 2 to 1. The OT loss dropped Luongo to 11-6-4 on the season with a .921 save percentage and a 2.37 goals against average. Since returning from his groin injury Luongo has gone 0-1-2. Scoring the lone Canucks' goal was winger Taylor Pyatt. He has 6 goals and 6 assists for 12 points on 40 games. After going 12 games without a goal or point T-Py has notched 2 goals in the last 2 outings. The last time Pyatt had goals in consecutive games was March 17-20, 2008.
Check back soon for more updates at FIW.
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Tuesday 24 Jan. A few spots of rain should have warned me, but reports of lesser spotted woodpecker were too much to resist. There is also a re-cycling centre near this site so I took the opportunity to get rid of some cardboard. The rain increased but not enough to dampen my enthusiasm. Mute swans and mallards came to welcome us as we also kept a lookout for dipper in the River Yarrow. Some black-headed gulls and one or two common gulls roosted on the "tern raft" and a lovely male goosander swam past as well. I noticed some screens that had been erected since my last visit ( it is quite a while) and looked through these to observe the birds feeding. The usual culprits, both common tit species as well as dunnock, nuthatch, goldfinch, chaffinch and reed bunting were feeding here. It is good to see these birds starting to change into breeding plumage - spring is on the way. We continued towards the waterfall with still no evidence of the lesser spotted woodpecker, but lots of rain trickling down the back of my neck. My companion thought I had gone crazy when I started jumping up and down - no not the woodpecker, but a good sighting of the gem that is a kingfisher. Our journey had not been without reward. I am sure you are beginning to see a pattern emerging. I often do not see the bird I am searching for, yet still see something good. After my 700 challenge, perhaps a book? "Birds I have dipped on in 2012"
The kingfisher ensured I reached 150
Wednesday 25 Jan I will call this Deception Day. A visit to RSPB Hesketh Outmarsh to catch a high tide. In the end nothing new or remarkable here. However I walked down river and saw a group of swans feeding in a field adjacent to the footpath. One was seperate from the others and did not have as much yellow on the bill. My hoped for Bewick swan was soon recognised as a whooper with most of its bill covered in black mud. On the other side of the path in one of the pools, a cormorant with a very pale tummy and throat gave a reasonable impression of a diver. Not good enough to fool me though. That evening, I went to Cuerden Valley Park to see if we could count the jackdaws which have been roosting there. We counted in excess of 1200
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A new approach for discrimination of varieties of yogurt by means of VisINTR-spectroscopy was present in this paper.
Firstly, through the principal component analysis (PCA) of spectroscopy curves of 5 typical kinds of yogurt, the
clustering of yogurt varieties was processed. The analysis results showed that the cumulate reliabilities of PC1 and PC2
(the first two principle components) were more than 98.956%, and the cumulate reliabilities from PC1 to PC7 (the first
seven principle components) was 99.97%. Secondly, a discrimination model of Artificial Neural Network (ANN-BP) was
set up. The first seven principles components of the samples were applied as ANN-BP inputs, and the value of type of
yogurt were applied as outputs, then the three-layer ANN-BP model was build. In this model, every variety yogurt
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What do we really hear when we hear the wind? If you step from a wood into an open field, the sound changes, although it is the same wind blowing over both. A winter pine tree far from the coast makes the wind perform like an angry sea, while a neighbouring bare birch makes a gust-like sound as soft as the brushings of a jazz drummer. A single blast can turn telephone cables and barbed wire fencing into the strings of a wind-harp.
In fact, what we are hearing is moving air colliding with – and playing – the surface of the Earth. It is the grass that is singing and the trees that are soughing. When the wind blows, each thing creates its own distinctive sounds, from the swells of the sea to the sands of the desert, from the rolling mountains to the vast ice-sheets, from our blocky buildings to the cables that connect them overhead. But we’ve simplified all this – we just call it wind, hoping to encapsulate in one word a great singer and all of its songs. Imagine, though, if we could get an interview with the source, an audience with the wind. Might it be possible to hear the singer solo? And could we somehow listen to what the wind sounds like to itself, in its own ears?
These thoughts have long fascinated me, and now BBC4 has made Into the Wind, a film about me trying to hear and capture some pure wind. I have some history here. I’ve worked as a radio producer for 27 years, and I’ve been a birdwatcher for almost twice that time. The wind is a big player in both activities and, as such, has blown through much of my life with an unusual determination.
Air is the birds’ element and wind transports them around the world. For there to be any birds to watch, there has to be wind beneath their wings. But, as a boy, I hardly knew it. I grew up inland, under soft hills and sheltering trees. I never had a kite. Only when I learned about birds, and got excited by migration, did I begin to look up and watch the sky.
I discovered then how important it was to know which way the wind blew. Avian casualties of its force became an obsession. I liked nothing more than a blow-in or a hurricane vagrant: a tiny warbler from the knitted forests of eastern Siberia, catapulted to a treeless Fair Isle on Europe’s western edge; an ocean-going fulmar forced to crouch in the lee of a wheelie-bin outside a fish-and-chip shop in Bedford, after hitting wild weather in the North Sea.
Keeping out of the wind was the mantra at the BBC. On the first day of my radio instruction, having been told where to hold a microphone when recording a single voice, my fellow trainees and I were given a lesson in wind avoidance. “Stay indoors” was the gist of it. If ordinary breath could pop and snag on unprotected microphones, wind was absolutely diabolical. If you had to record outside, you could try turning down your input levels and bringing the microphone close to the mouth. Otherwise, your best bet was to stand, like a wall, between wind and interviewee.
Recording outside is less of a tall order these days. I am a devotee of the Rycote Windjammer, a fluffy casing that is half shaggy dog and half hairy caterpillar, and perfect for baffling the wind. It allows me to record in almost any conditions in which human conversation might take place. And, despite what my trainers urged, I’ve always preferred outdoor talk. It is where the birds do all of theirs, after all. To me, weathered voices seem more human. Fresh air oxygenates and enlivens most conversation – and wind, so long as it is not booming, is far less distracting to our ears and destructive to our intelligence than the hateful granulated white soup of air-con.
The real wind is asking to be heard. At the end of an interview, I’ve often turned away from the human chatter and said: “I’ll just grab a minute of this wind.” Such gathered atmos or “wildtrack” is immensely useful in editing, giving you something to smooth out the joins as you cut between remarks. But it goes further than this. Turning to record a little minute of the wind lets me experience the place beyond human talk. On good days, in good places, I can sense myself joined to a landscape. It is the wind that carries me there.
As I have grown old, even though I have liked most of the people I’ve talked to, I’ve become more and more keen on listening to the sound of the world after we’ve all shut up. This means going after wildtrack, the song of the Earth, for its own sake – wind, above all, pure wind. And Richard Alwyn, who directed Into the Wind, caught me at it. He asked where I might like to go for a walk and talk about the weather. I showed him my fluffy dog on a stick and said the Wash, that jaw-bite out of East Anglia, opening to the sea.
Although a manmade shore (drained and reclaimed and banked, and now a place of bombing ranges and intense farming), the Wash has surely the wildest miles in England. We went to hunt the wind there, walking the various flats: grass banks then marsh paths, then the great whale’s tongue of mud. Richard filmed with the widest of angles. The distant flocks of knot looked like lit dust scattered over the falling tide, while the bulky brent geese shrank to inky calligraphy against the huge sky.
Closeups were neither available nor what we wanted – save for the wind. For that, we recorded the sound of me in pursuit of my longed-for pure blow. It wasn’t pretty. My nose ran and eyes watered. But we weren’t making a natural history programme. I simply wanted to catch the wind – before we might identify it as such, the wind where it first meets something to sound against. I wanted that to be my microphone and me. So we walked the Wash and I climbed a bank and pointed all of me, kit and bones, north over the mud towards the sea, to encourage a signal, to channel the weather, and secure the best of all outside broadcasts.
• Into the Wind is on BBC4 at 7.30pm on 12 April.
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|St John where it is ‘Go Barefoot Day‘ every day of the year!
Truly, there is a ‘Go Barefoot Day’
and it is today, June 1! And, why not celebrate it on St John since our temperature averages 85 degrees year round. The water temperature is just about as toasty warm (and always pristine) 12 months a year.
There really isn’t a need for shoes. We even have a famed’ Barefoot minister
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Even our fabulous webmaster, Vickery Hill, has gotten hooked on St John’s magic where he takes off his shoes (sandals below) to chill and regroup:
Where do you go to let it all go — and go barefoot?
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I am a thirty-something parish priest in the Church of England, also a wife, mother, sister, friend, Marvel & DC Comics fan, plainchant lover, multi-lingual, ex-barmaid, with a love of linocut prints, swashbuckling films, cheese, native trees and the seaside.
I have a dog and a toothless cat – you can love both – I sing, -play the piano quite badly and due to overenthusiastic parents I have a broadly encyclopaedic knowledge of natural history. I wish I knew how to sail – but I don’t, though at one time I could quote Swallows and Amazons almost by heart… now we live near the Norfolk broads my family do have a little motor boat.
My favourite smells are old wooden furniture, fresh blossom and damp ferns (not generally all at once unless the church roof has fallen in).
My bad household habit is books – (I often buy an old book because I think I could give it a good retirement home – it’s really more like literary adoption – but I do read most of them eventually). And my bad life habit is absentmindedly tying myself in knots over small things whilst being distracted by the bigger picture – and then tripping over my own feet.
My favourite view is sunlight flickering through new leaves, and my favourite sound is my daughter singing in the morning when she wakes. Though I once heard a nightingale and I’d love to hear that again one day.
What else?… Most underrated food in my opinion is egg on toast, most overrated drink: earl grey tea. Best sports team – the New Zealand AllBlacks – any sports team that starts with burly men dancing has my vote – though I won’t stick around to watch the match – I also agree with my husband that we should try and work our English Morris Dancing into some kind of fierce pre-match war-dance (though maybe not for rugby but for cricket… and maybe not with jolly bells, but more along the lines of Terry Pratchett’s ‘dark morris’ – which I saw performed once for real in Huddersfield Town Centre – and it was pretty scary!)
This blog began in the environs of a monastery, the Anglican Community of the Resurrection, which founded and sits alongside the theological College of the Resurrection. Now it provides a space for ongoing reflection.
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Fleming leads from the front as Kiwis tame Pak
New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming cracked his sixth Test century as New Zealand built a solid base to be 295 for six at stumps on the opening day.india Updated: Dec 19, 2003 13:09 IST
New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming cracked his sixth Test century as New Zealand built a solid base to be 295 for six at stumps on the opening day of the first cricket Test against Pakistan here Friday.
Showing no evidence of the abdominal strain that had troubled him for the past month, Fleming scored freely to all points of the ground to be unbeaten on 125 including 20 boundaries.
Although Pakistan fought their way back into the match with four wickets in the final session it was not the start they expected when Inzamam-ul-Haq won the toss and relished having New Zealand bat on what had the hallmarks of a bowlers' track.
Even though there was a green tinge on the pitch and scattered cloud overhead, the conditions did not hold the expected fears for the New Zealand batsmen who were assisted by a flood of no balls and the late withdrawal of the tourists' trump card, Shoaib Akhtar.
Lou Vincent was out early with the score at 16, but the arrival of Fleming at the crease saw New Zealand take charge.
He started cautiously before ripping three boundries in one over from Shabbir Ahmed and then going on to feature in century partnerships with Mark Richardson and then Scott Styris.
Richardson reached 44 before he authored his own dismissal.
After surviving two run-out appeals, he chanced his luck once too often calling Fleming through for a quick single but failing to outsprint Umar Gul who picked up the ball on his follow-through and whipped off the bails at the striker's end.
Scott Styris (33) and Craig McMillan (22) both took the cudgel to Danish Kaneria before the young off-spinner tempted them once to often and both were caught at slip by Taufeeq Umar.
Chris Cairns and Jacob Oram had brief stays at the crease before Robbie Hart brought some stability at the end to rise out the final 10 overs and be seven not out at stumps.
Without Akhtar, the weight of leading the attack fell on Mohammad Sami who was not able to rise to the challenge and instead led an atrocious spree of no balls being guilty of firing 15 of the 30 sent down in the day.
Shabbir and Kaneria shared the wickets, while Gul toiled hard but could only claim the run out as reward after being thrust thrust into the side at the last minute to replace Akhtar.
The Rawalpindi Express was was pulled out an hour before the game due to calf and hamstring strains.
Pakistan manager Haroon Rashid said the injuries, picked up in the warmup match against Auckland, were not serious but it was feared he would not get through a significant bowling workload.
It left Akhtar, the world's fastest bowler who has 107 wickets from 28 tests, still waiting to play his first test in New Zealand.
On the last tour here three years ago, Akhtar was sent home before the Test series after his bowling action was reported as suspect.
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Hello guys, we’re back with some fun activities for your children’s birthday parties. We see more and more, parents eschew the DJ and bored kids sitting around for these activities. Plus, all those playdates!
Oldies but goodies
Dancing chairs will never go out of fashion, neither will Hopscotch. And I’m dying to attend a Mummy-Daughter playdate that has a TenTen game for all. Or Catch the Hankie.
Foam paper sheets, cardboard, kid-safe paper scissors, white glue (may I recommend Mod Podge, as it’s non-toxic), fake gems, thin elastic (the black one tailors use), markers and more. Arrange them on your tables and encourage the children to create or cutout whatever they want.
A very good example of a nice craft is this Shimmer and Shine bracelet. You’ll need: spray paint (1 can), big gems (I usually get them in markets), glue and…..toilet rolls. Yup.
Here’s a nice idea for Pin The Wish on a Genie Bottle: get a large piece of carton, draw an outline of a bottle on it, paint it. Then get gold stickers. Blindfold the child and tell them to try stick a max of 3 stars on the bottle.
Try Some Science
I love seeing STEM clubs be invited to children’s parties to educate the kids. And almost all those experiments are easy to do (if you did Integrated Science in JSS 3, you can dazzle a bunch of 7 year olds). Look online for simple experiments. Also, invite one of the Recycling or Conservation agencies to your party! Your kids are never too young to start learning about their own environment.
Games, Games, Games
The saddest thing we realised was how many schools are cancelling their Sports Day. So not bring them to your party. Lime-n-spoon, sack races etc. Try getting a small water hose, cut it up and use Duct tape to turn them into rings. Place gifts on a white sheet on the floor and have the kids do a Ring toss: whatever the ring lands on, they win. You can use a simple bottle of groundnut as the cheapest gift and scale up.
How about a bowling game, with a medium-sized ball and some empty plastic bottles? You could spray the bottles to spruce them up.
It’s not really about the gifts, it’s about having fun.
There are so many ideas out there for activities for kids’ parties. Have fun with it and throw an awesome, different party!
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Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease
"Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease" is a 1949 scientific paper by Linus Pauling, Harvey A. Itano, Seymour J. Singer and Ibert C. Wells that established sickle-cell anemia as a genetic disease in which affected individuals have a different form of the metalloprotein hemoglobin in their blood. The paper, published in the November 25, 1949 issue of Science, reports a difference in electrophoretic mobility between hemoglobin from healthy individuals and those with sickle-cell anemia, with those with sickle cell trait having a mixture of the two types. The paper suggests that the difference in electrophoretic mobility is probably due to a different number of ionizable amino acid residues in the protein portion of hemoglobin (which was confirmed in 1956 by Vernon Ingram), and that this change in molecular structure is responsible for the sickling process. It also reports the genetic basis for the disease, consistent with the simultaneous genealogical study by James V. Neel: those with sickle-cell anemia are homozygous for the disease gene, while heterozygous individuals exhibit the usually asymptomatic condition of sickle cell trait.
The paper introduced the concept of a "molecular disease", and is considered a major impetus to the development of molecular medicine. The paper helped establish that genes control not just the presence or absence of enzymes (as genetics had shown in the early 1940s) but also the specific structure of protein molecules. It was also an important triumph in the efforts of Pauling and others to apply the instruments and methods of the physical sciences to biology, and Pauling used it promote such research and attract funding.
Linus Pauling was a prominent physical chemist at the California Institute of Technology (a main focal point of Warren Weaver's efforts to promote what he called "molecular biology" through Rockefeller Foundation grants). In the mid-1930s, Pauling turned his attention to the physical and chemical nature of hemoglobin. In 1946, he set graduate student Harvey Itano (who had been previously trained as a physician) the task of finding differences in hemoglobin that might explain sickle cell disease. After failing to find any differences in size, weight, or acid-base titration (despite the advanced instruments available at Caltech), Itano found that oxygen could inhibit the sickling process while various reducing agents could speed it up; this was the basis of Pauling and Itano's first publication on the disease. Itano also found that the globin portion of sickle cell hemoglobin had a barely detectable difference in electrical charge.
To measure this electrical difference precisely, Pauling assigned graduate student John Singer to work with Itano and another medical researcher, Ibert C. Wells, before Pauling left in early 1948 for a guest lectureship in England. Using a "Tiselius Apparatus" to perform free-boundary electrophoresis, Pauling's three researchers were able to estimate that molecules of sickle-cell hemoglobin had about three more positive charges than normal hemoglobin. They also estimated that blood from those with sickle cell trait was a mixture of 60 percent normal hemoglobin and 40 percent sickle-cell hemoglobin. Near the end of the project, they learned of parallel results by geneticist James V. Neel, who demonstrated the inheritance pattern of the disease by traditional genetic methods; both Neel's work and that of Pauling's group were published in the same issue of Science.
Following the 1949 paper, Itano left the Pauling laboratory to work with Neel; in the following years Itano and Neel used electrophoresis to identify a number of other human hemoglobin variants, including some associated with other diseases. At Caltech, a comparison of the amino acid content of normal and sickle cell hemoglobins showed that there were several differences in chemical makeup, but did not explain the difference in electric charge that made electrophoretic separation possible. The cause of this difference was pinpointed in 1956 and 1957, when Vernon Ingram used protein fingerprinting (a combination of electrophoresis and chromatography) to show that the key difference between normal hemoglobins and sickle cell hemoglobins was a single difference in one chain of the protein: a glutamic acid residue on the normal hemoglobin in place of a valine residue on the sickle cell hemoglobin.
The molecular disease concept put forward in the 1949 paper also became the basis for Linus Pauling's view of evolution. In the 1960s, by which time it had been shown that sickle cell trait confers resistance to malaria and so the gene had both positive and negative effects and demonstrated heterozygote advantage, Pauling suggested that molecular diseases were actually the basis of evolutionary change. He also advocated eugenic policies, such as marking all who carry the sickle cell trait and other molecular disease genes, to reduce the number of children born with genetic diseases.
Notes and references
- Pauling, Linus; Harvey A. Itano; S. J. Singer; Ibert C. Wells (1949-11-01). "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease". Science. 110 (2865): 543–548. Bibcode:1949Sci...110..543P. doi:10.1126/science.110.2865.543. PMID 15395398.
- Strasser, Bruno J. (1999-11-19). "Perspectives: Molecular Medicine: "Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease"". Science. 286 (5444): 1488–1490. doi:10.1126/science.286.5444.1488. PMID 10610548. Retrieved 2008-12-30.
- Kay, Lily E. The Molecular Vision of Life: Catltech, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. pp. 256–260.
- Hager Thomas. Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. pp. 333–334.
- Ingram, V.M. (13 October 1956). "A specific chemical difference between the globins of normal human and sickle-cell anaemia haemoglobin". Nature. 178 (4537): 792–4. Bibcode:1956Natur.178..792I. doi:10.1038/178792a0. PMID 13369537.
- Evolution and Molecular Disease, accessed January 5, 2009.
- Eugenics for Alleviating Human Suffering, accessed January 5, 2009.
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Variant position: 479 The position of the amino-acid change on the UniProtKB canonical protein sequence.
Protein sequence length: 494 The length of the canonical sequence.
Location on the sequence:
The residue change on the sequence. Unless the variant is located at the beginning or at the end of the protein sequence, both residues upstream (20) and downstream (20) of the variant will be shown.
Residue conservation: The multiple alignment of the region surrounding the variant against various orthologous sequences.
Human PSLQPLPHCSVILKMQPFQV RLQPRG--MGAHSPGQNQ---
Mouse PSLQPQPYAGINLPIPPFQV RLQPRN--LAPQDQGE
Rat PSLQPLPYTGINLLIPPFQV RLQPRN--LAPQDQGQ
Pig PSLQPHPHSGINLKVQPFQV RLQPRG--GRGEGPGP
Bovine PSLQPDPYCGVNLKVQPFQV RLQPRGVEAGAWESAS
Cat PSLRPRSHCGINLTMQPFQV RLQPRG--AVAPGPSQ
Sequence annotation in neighborhood: The regions or sites of interest surrounding the variant. In general the features listed are posttranslational modifications, binding sites, enzyme active sites, local secondary structure or other characteristics reported in the cited references. The "Sequence annotation in neighborhood" lines have a fixed format:
Type: the type of sequence feature. Positions: endpoints of the sequence feature. Description: contains additional information about the feature.
Type Positions Description
1 – 494 Steroid 21-hydroxylase
478 – 482
Detection and assignment of CYP21 mutations using peptide mass signature genotyping.
Zeng X.; Witchel S.F.; Dobrowolski S.F.; Moulder P.V.; Jarvik J.W.; Telmer C.A.;
Mol. Genet. Metab. 82:38-47(2004)
Cited for: VARIANTS AH3 LEU-30; ASN-172; ASN-236; GLU-237; LYS-239; LEU-281; SER-291; GLN-356; TRP-356; TYR-365; SER-453; LEU-479 AND PRO-483; VARIANT ARG-102;
Any medical or genetic information present in this entry is provided for research, educational and informational purposes only. They are not in any way intended to be used as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnostic, treatment or care.
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Difference between pram and stroller 2019
Baby is a welcome addition to any family. As the baby grows up, you will need her to learn walking and support herself. Prams and Strollers are the two means of transporting the baby. But, are they different from each other? If yes, What is the Difference between pram and stroller?
Prams and Strollers – What are They?
A pram is a short form for the word Perambulator. It is a wheeled carrier for baby. It is so designed so that the baby can sleep in it if needed.
The Prams come with soft bottoms so that the baby can sleep in a horizontal position while you can carry the baby around. There is also a canopy wider enough to protect the baby from dust and heat. The canopy is completely adjustable.
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How do they differ From Each Other?
Well, the basic difference between the two would already be clear to our readers from the definitions and explanations we provided in the above paragraphs. However, to present you a clear understanding of the differences between the two, we will explain the differences in a detailed manner.
The Prams and Strollers can be used interchangeably in most cases.  However, they come with a few inherent differences. Prams are meant for newborn babies. Strollers are used for the babies who have learned to sit. One of the features that differentiate prams from strollers lies in their weight. Prams tend to be a little heavier compared to the Strollers. T may not be suitable for carrying your babies through a longer distance.
The following listing can help you in understanding the major differences between the Prams and Strollers –
- Prams are best suited for newborn babies and infants.
- The carriage is also known as Baby Carriage.
- There are no harness or other safety arrangements.
- Baby needs to be in the lying position all the time.
- Portability can be an issue. Prams may not be suitable for longer distances.
- The prams can be quite heavy and bulky. Thus they can be a concern go carry around.
- The ground clearance is quite too high.
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- The Strollers are best meant for those kids who can sit upright. If your kid has not yet learned how to sit, you may not be able to use Strollers.
- The carriage can look like a chair placed on wheels.
- The Strollers are also alternatively called Pushchair and Buggy in some regions.
- They are one of the safest means of carrying your baby around. Strollers come with a host of safety options built into the carriage. Harnesses, safety belts, and crotch straps are some of the thoughtful additions that make your baby safe in a Stroller.
- Strollers tend to be lightweight compared to the prams. That would make them more portable.
- The modern strollers come with an adjustable design as well. You can even collapse a stroller so that they can be easy to
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Prams and Strollers are just the couples of ways you can use to transport the baby. Most of the new parents are confused on which one to opt for – whether prams or strollers. We have made an attempt to make them understand the underlying differences between the two through the discussion we have had above.
Which one would you choose should be dependent on the needs you may have with respect to the traveling conditions and the age of your baby. Of late we have been witnessing some sort of an amalgamation of the two in the form of Hybrids Baby Carriages. They will offer you the benefits of both a pram and a stroller. Buying them would be a more practical decision as you need not buy a new carriage as your baby gets older. In any case, keep the child comfortability as the most important prerequisite when buying a baby carriage.
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I spent these last few weeks of 2016 swiping left and right for fuckboys. As 2017 is quickly approaching, I realized that 2017 is the year I will be saying goodbye to these fuckboys. These are the lessons I’ve learned, and I thank my best friends wholeheartedly for drilling these into my head, which have now become my daily mantras to welcome my best self yet.
You can’t ask someone to be in your life; they have to be there willingly.
There is no need to chase people. A relationship is a two-way street, where both parties are required to put in their solid 100% effort, but you are only required to put in your 50% of that 100%. If he doesn’t reply your texts, then leave it. You deserve more than someone who doesn’t have the decency to take 5 seconds out of their day to tell you that they’re busy or unavailable to you.
If someone is sending you mixed signals, a snap over here and an Insta like over there, but doesn’t reply to your messages or phone calls, they aren’t serious enough for your time and affection.
If someone doesn’t reply when you ask to hangout or for something more, leave them. You deserve someone who will give you definite answers. You deserve someone who doesn’t play games with your head and heart or toy your emotions. There is no need to beg. The moment you start to realize that you become desperate and yearn for any reaction out of them is the moment you walk away. Your self-worth is more than spamming texts and snaps in hopes they’d reply. Either you stay or you go, and most likely it’s time for you to go.
Stop making excuses for why he doesn’t reply in exchange for those dumb and meaningless likes on your latest Instagram pic or Facebook post. Stop feeding into those drunk snaps at 1am on a Wednesday. If he wanted you, he would have said so. He would have taken every moment he had to get to know you, the real you, at 1pm in the sunlight. You don’t have to compromise his inconsistent attitude, even if he is good eye candy. You sat on the floor crying for a reason.
You deserve a better man, one who cares about every single part of you, and thinks your humor and passionate heart is more beautiful than the color of your hair or the makeup on your face. But sometimes there is no better man, so why waste time on all these flaky and inconsistent fuckboys when you can spend time on yourself instead?
2017 is the year to say goodbye to boys who simply do not appreciate and respect you.
There is a better version of you waiting to be explored, strengthened, and grown. 2017 is the year you’ll find that you are the most worthwhile; there is simply no fuckboy better.
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Actor Jason Momoa may not have been a part of the recent epic Game of Thrones battle onscreen – but the star is still using his Dothraki strength to fight even bigger battles offscreen. In an appearance on the Ellen Degeneres Show Momoa showed off his ax-throwing skills to raise funds for his battle against plastic pollution.
But before he got into the ax-wielding, the 39-year-old chatted about the Oscars and more importantly, explained his newly shaven beard and how it tied into his newest environmental mission. The new look had trended across the internet and was his way of raising awareness about his new company Mananalu, which produces canned water as an alternative single-use plastic water bottles.
Actor Jason Momoa stopped by the Ellen Degeneres Show to throw some axes for charity
In his Instagram posts, he shared from the show he admitted he had some pre-show jitters when it came to speaking about this important cause: “I was very nervous because I came on to talk about something that I love dearly. Our Mother Earth and what I can do to help,” he wrote. “I have a mission to get rid of single use plastic water bottles. To clean up our oceans and land. To ask ourselves how we hydrate. Even though I may carry a canteen to try to reduce these plastics are still being made.”
He explained in the chair that his role in Aquaman had been part of his motivation to start the sustainable water company. “I’m Aquaman now and I have all these little beautiful kids come up to me, and I never thought I’d be a role model,” Momoa told DeGeneres. “So I wanted to save the planet from single-use plastics.”
Talks are underway for Aquaman 2, which the actor said joins ocean and earth. More than a creative project he explained that this environmental threat is not a movie, “There’s no outside alien destroying Earth, it’s us,’ he said. “So I was excited to get back in there so I’m working with our previous writer. We’ve got a locked story and we’re getting into it. I think it’s gonna be in like two years or something, the beard will be back by then.” Momoa added, “I wanted to kind of save the planet from single use plastics. I was looking at all these statistics where it’s like, 91% of all the plastics we’re using aren’t recyclable.”
After the interview, it was time to throw some axes
He began by giving Ellen a short lesson, “So here’s the thing, because we throw footballs and baseballs, everyone kind of turns it like this,” Momoa explained to the host, demonstrating the proper way to throw an axe. “It has to go straight over your head … it has to go right with the grain.”
However, as you can imagine throwing an ax is way harder than it looks so the actor decided that after her attempt it might be time for him to take over
Before he took a swing though, Degeneres’s producer Andy Lassner added some water bottle shaped targets to the board for an even better visual
The organization stunt was not only entertaining to the audience but was for a good cause to raise money for the organization ‘Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii.’
Which according to their website is: “A grassroots, local nonprofit organization run by a small team of dedicated staff and supported by passionate volunteers, just like you. We inspire local communities to care for their coastlines through fun, hands-on beach cleanups. We also coordinate educational programs, team building corporate cleanups, waste diversion services, public awareness campaigns and help others run their own beach cleanups.”
In 45 seconds Momoa raised $31,000 for the beach cleanup charity. DeGeneres joked that they only thought he would get up to $10,000, so a sharpie was brought out so they could cross out the “10” and write “31” over it.
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Student trustee candidates Joe Rudnick ’08, Dave Kurczewski ’08, Ray Taylor ’07 and Mao Ye grad spent a lot of time agreeing with each other yesterday evening at a debate sponsored by The Sun.
The dominant campaign issue of the evening was declassification of course evaluations, which each candidate agreed was a priority. The candidates also addressed sustainability and Cornell’s position in national rankings.
The recent alleged West Campus stabbing also figured prominently into discussion on the heels of yesterday’s rally. Sitting Student Trustee Doug Mitarotonda grad moderated the debate, posing community-generated questions selected by The Sun.
The four candidates are running for a two-year term on the Board of Trustees. The seat being vacated is currently held by Josh Katcher ’06. Mitarotonda, who was elected last spring, has one more year in his term.
One student trustee is elected each year to a two-year term, ensuring that there are two Student Trustees serving at all times on the 64-member board.
Rudnick and Taylor, constrained by a rule change, tiptoed around their past associations and current implied support for each of the two main tickets in the Student Assembly and University Assembly elections. Campaigning in those elections began this evening at 5:30 p.m.
Mitarotonda, who sits on the Student Trustee Nominating Committee, said that rules for the student trustee elections were changed this year to prohibit trustee candidates from affiliating with slates of candidates running in the S.A. and U.A. elections. Mitarotonda said that this change reflected the difference in the responsibilities of student trustees and members of other assemblies, and also concerns about funding regulation in trustee elections if undergraduates were able to combine forces with large tickets for the assemblies.
Rudnick was affiliated last year with the SixPac ticket, some of whose members are running this year on the anti-establishment Clean Slate ticket, which is seeking to oust incumbents they claim are corrupt and ineffective. Although Rudnick said that due to the new rules he could not comment, his candidate statement lashed out at the corruption he said he found while serving as a new student representative to the S.A. last year.
“The [assembly and trustee] elections are completely separate,” he said. Now that the rules are different, I have absolutely no ties to Clean Slate. But do I want things to change? Yes.” Taylor ran unsuccessfully for student trustee last year, at which point he befriended Sarah Boxer ’07, who heads the Voice ticket. Last year, Boxer was involved with the Students First ticket, which Taylor ran against last year. Taylor, like Rudnick, said that he was in no way affiliated with an assembly ticket.
“[Boxer and I] share a similar vision, I’d say. If things were a little bit different, she’s someone I’d love to work with in any capacity-win, lose, or draw,” Taylor said. Taylor’s candidate statement and his closing statement at the debate echoed the candidate statements and slogans of the Voice ticket.
“I wish to be your voice, please make me your choice. Ray Taylor for student trustee,” he said.
During the debate, candidates expressed approximate unanimity regarding the declassification of course evaluations and attitudes of the need to address security and racial issues surrounding last week’s Baker Tower stabbing, which is alleged to have been racially motivated although District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson has not yet made a decision regarding whether Nathan Poffenbarger ’08 will be charged with a hate crime.
“We’re in a situation now where not every student feels safe,” said Taylor, who is African-American.
“It broke my heart this afternoon to go to a rally and hear a young lady say that she didn’t feel safe and she’s leaving [Cornell] because of it.”
Taylor said the university needs to take a “firm stance in the sense that we need to let the public know that this isn’t acceptable.”
Taylor said that he was attacked his sophomore year while at Cornell over the summer as a teaching assistant and that no action was taken in relation to the incident.
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More than 60 runners and walkers participated in the 2018 Hunger Hike 5K Run this past Saturday. The Hunger Hike 5K Run is open to runners of all ages and abilities who share a goal: Fighting Hunger with their Hearts & Soles!
It was sunny and cool — a picture perfect day for a race. The Hunger Hike 5K Run 2018 followed the beautiful, paved Cattail Trail Loop through West Lafayette and the scenic Celery Bog Nature Area — giving runners and walkers an opportunity to support three local organizations while enjoying a professionally timed 5K event.
Pictured above L to R: Joe Micon, LUM executive director; Sheila Klinker, Indiana State Representative; Assemgul Bissenbina, #1 Female; Kyle Morales, #3 Female; Colin Frier, #1 Youth; Phoebe (Colin’s dog); Aauba Aditye, #1 Male; Sarah Sellers, #2 Female; Lucy Edmundson, #3 Youth; and Kenny McCleary, #2 Male.
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The HH5K Run winners are as follows:
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These runners supported these outstanding local organizations while enjoying a 5K event on a scenic trail.
Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice. ~ Jacques Diouf
A hungry man can’t see right or wrong. He just sees food. ~ Pearl S. Buck
35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don’t know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we’d be at war. ~ Jeff Bridges
Food is our common ground. ~ James Beard
A hundred years from now it will not matter what your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of clothes you wore, but the world may be much different because you were important in the life of a child. ~ Author Unknown
A hungry man is not a free man. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth. ~ Hubert Humphrey
Food is national security. Food is economy. It is employment, energy, history. Food is everything. ~ José Andrés
America is the richest country in the world. And yet tonight, thousands of your neighbors will go to bed hungry. It may be your child’s schoolmate who is undernourished and has difficulty learning on an empty stomach. Or it could be a co-worker, a working mother whose low-wage job doesn’t make ends meet. Perhaps it’s an elderly neighbor who has to make a decision whether to delay filling a prescription or buying groceries. The faces of hunger are as broad as the faces of America. ~ David Nasby, General Mills
As we talk about those who are starving in countries abroad, we have indeed all of the elements of a third world nation within our own borders. ~ Rep. Floyd Flake
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. ~ Mother Teresa
Close to a billion people – one-eighth of the world’s population – still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve. ~ Jonathan Sacks, Jewish scholar
Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the heart, clawing at your insides. Hunger feels like pincers, like the bite of crabs; it burns, burns, and has no fur. Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven’t eaten; let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow, and a plate like the moon itself from which we can all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating. ~ Pablo Neruda, Chilean Poet
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. ~ Saint Augustine
For now I ask no more than the justice of eating. ~ Pablo Neruda, Chilean Poet, Nobel Prize Winner
God, to those who have hunger, give bread, and to us who have bread, give the hunger for justice. ~ Prayer from Latin America
Growing numbers of corporate executives are aware of the inextricable link between the well being of our families and the well-being of our nation. Nowhere is this link manifest so strongly as with the problem of hunger. ~ Arnold Hiatt, Chair of the Stride Rite Foundation
Hunger is actually the worst weapon of mass destruction. It claims millions of victims each year. ~ Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
Hunger is not a problem. It is an obscenity. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank
Hunger makes a thief of any man. ~ Pearl S. Buck
I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for the minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we’ve been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world. George McGovern
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one. ~ Mother Teresa
I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it’s my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better…we must! ~ Dolly Parton
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ~ John F. Kennedy
If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger. ~ Buzz Aldrin
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~ Mother Teresa
If you want to eliminate hunger, everybody has to be involved. ~ Bono
In this country that grows more food than any other nation on this earth, it is unthinkable that any child should go hungry. ~ Sela Ward
Investment in the eradication of hunger today is a good business decision. If we fail to make this investment, it is doubtful that we can sustain healthy economic growth. Without this investment, our nation may disintegrate into a country sharply divided between those who have enough to eat and those who do not. ~ Alan G. Hassenfeld, Chair & CEO of Hasbro, Inc.
It is important for people to realize that we can make progress against world hunger, that world hunger is not hopeless. The worst enemy is apathy. ~ Reverend David Beckmann, president of Alliance to End Hunger
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ~ George Eliot
Make us worthy, Lord, to serve those throughout the world who live and die in poverty or hunger. Give them, through our hands, this day their daily bread; and by our understanding love, give peace and joy. Amen. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Most of our citizenry believes that hunger only affects people who are lazy or people who are just looking for a handout, people who don’t want to work, but, sadly, that is not true. Over one-third of our hungry people are innocent children who are members of households that simply cannot provide enough food or proper nutrition. And to think of the elderly suffering from malnutrition is just too hard for most of us. Unlike Third World nations, in our country the problem is not having too little – it is about not caring enough! Write your elected representatives and promote support for the hungry. ~ Erin Brokovich
My motto in life is ‘If you think it, you can do it’ and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over. ~ Dionne Warwick
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ~ George Orwell
One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger. ~ Jeff Bridges
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal that is literally within our grasp. ~ Jeff Bridges
Others have questioned if hunger exists in our country; I can tell you that hunger does exist in this country. For many adults and children, going to sleep hungry is not a threat; it’s a regular occurrence. And it must end. ~ Former USDA Secretary Mike Espy
Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother’s keeper… ~ George McGovern
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. ~ Jonathan Kozol
Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don’t have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition – the kind most common among poor people in America – can do it. ~ Carl Sagan, Cornell University
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ~ Muhammad Ali
Some people are born with very little; some are fortunate enough to have it all. When I grew up, we didn’t have much. I had to hustle to get what I wanted… but I had that hunger for more. I didn’t always make the right choices, but I learned from my mistakes. ~ Curtis Jackson
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them. ~ Gunnar Myrdal
The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth, there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world on the day of that great revolution. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist
The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world’s food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock–food for the well off–while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation. ~ Dr.Walden Bello, 2003 Right Livelihood Award winner
The first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. ~ Norman Borlaug, biologist and humanitarian
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out. ~ Plato
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. ~ Mother Teresa
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The victims of social injustice, since time eternal, have always been without the resources and the ability to fight back. They are defenseless and voiceless. Thee sad aspect of social injustice is that the defenseless and voiceless are the ones who most need a defense and a strong, vibrant voice. ~ Tommy Makem, Irish folk musician
The war against hunger is truly mankind’s war of liberation. ~ John F. Kennedy
There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry. ~ Ed Asner
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
There’s enough on this planet for everyone’s needs but not for everyone’s greed. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man. ~ Alan Paton
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ~ Albert Camus
True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures. ~ Menno Simons, Founder of the Mennonites
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way. ~ Les Brown
We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our responsibility, not only as a nation, but also as individuals, to get involved. So, next time you pass someone on the street who is in need, remember how lucky you are, and don’t turn away. ~ Lesley Boone, actress and social activist
We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry. ~ Jimmy Carter
We must act together, as a united people… For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. ~ Patricia Young, World Food Day Coordinator
When people were hungry, Jesus didn’t say, “Now is that political, or social?” He said, “I feed you.” Because the good news to a hungry person is bread. ~ Desmond Tutu
When you are hungry, you can’t think about anything else. ~ Juana Janie Mendez, 17
When you sit in council, think not of yourselves not even of your generation. Think of those yet unborn, even unto the seventh generation, making all decisions with those generations in mind. ~ The Iroquois Confederacy cir. 1000 c.e.
Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn’t the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it’s the working poor. They don’t look any different, they don’t behave any differently, they’re not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that’s it. ~ Mario Batali
Hunger Hike T-shirts have been designed and they are being manufactured this week. The Hunger Hike shirt is pictured above to the left; and the HH5K Run T-shirt, to the right.
Hunger Hike participants who raise more than $50 will get a commemorative T-Shirt.* For 2015, the Hunger Hike team has gone with a bright color and a bold design. Hunger Hike Participants will get their shirts at check-in on Sunday, September 20th starting at noon.
Runners registered in the HH5K Run will get their shirts at check-in on Saturday, September 19th starting at 8 a.m.
Register today for both Hunger Hike and the HH5K Run to get both of the 2015 Hunger Hike T-shirts. Participate in Hunger Hike — work hard raising funds to Fight Hunger — run fast in the Race to Fight Hunger — and wear your shirts with pride!
*T-shirts are available only while supplies and sizes last. Hunger Hike team does it’s best to have enough T-shirts on hand in a variety of sizes for all of our participants — but we may run out of certain sizes if you check-in late.
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I’m three chapters in to my newest novel, completely hand written. My wrist is killing me, my fingers are sore, but you know what?
I’m okay with it.
Honestly, my wrist stops hurting if I just stop writing and go do something else for about twenty minutes. My fingers are getting used to it, so long as I take breaks. I hold the pen with the iron grip of anger anyway, and have to learn to relax and ease up. That will help my wrist, as well.
So does switching pens now and then. I think through the course of these three chapters, I’ve used four different pens. All black ink, because I’m a black ink sort of person, but various tips and types. Today, for instance, I’m using a Papermate Liquid Flare, extra fine tip. It’s a cheap pen, but really comfortable to use.
Each time I start out, my penmanship is pretty good, readable and not too wonky, but as the page progresses, my penmanship notably digresses. By the end of each piece of college ruled paper, it’s pretty scribbly.
But I’ll tell you one thing – – writing by hand makes you give serious thought to each sentence, each paragraph, and really concentrate on the NOW, not the next scene or the chapter following this. Although as a writer, I can see the novel as a whole, while I’m writing I’m completely in the moment. Nothing matters but the words I’m writing just then, nothing exists further ahead than the sentence I’m on.
Writing by computer can so easily make a writer hurry, and rush through important scenes in a mad dash to get to the next important scene. I think that’s where the ridiculous notion of “write a million words of shit, you can always delete later” comes from.
What a waste of time. Why take the time out of your busy life, while you’re struggling to find time to write amidst chores, kids, work, spouse, errands and life, to write down crap you fully intend to delete later?
You know, another reason I write with a pen is so I can’t erase anything. I hate seeing lines crossed through mistakes, whenever that happens it irks me until I can get beyond that page and go to another. I hate it. Writers using a computer could do themselves a favor, if they resolutely refuse to walk away from the computer – Remove your delete key.
Just pull it right up, set it aside for when you’re balancing your checkbook or editing that scathing email. And while you’re at it, pull off that Backspace key, because I know you’re all thinking “Okay, fine, I won’t delete, but I can backspace and type over what I don’t like.”
Just. Do. It.
I admit, this morning my wrist started hurting right in the middle of a good scene. I was anxious to get down another six or eight paragraphs, and my fingers were screaming at me. I told Pete that maybe, just maybe, it’d be okay to use the computer for a while, and only hand write half the novel.
He reminded me who else did things half way – HITLER. That’s right, Hitler did things half-assed. I’m sure lurkers supported him in email, which was odd, since he and I were emailing that conversation. /old forum references
Anyway, I didn’t. I set the papers aside, did something else for an hour, then went back to it with renewed vigor. And you know what? My scene was better off for it.
Get a pen.
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need some help with threading module...
mefjr75 at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 27 21:22:41 CET 2004
> "M.E.Farmer" <mefjr75 at hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 1104102769.321923.4140 at z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> > Just a warning!
> > Threads and newbies don't mix well,
> > many pitfalls and hard to find bugs await you.
> > I would avoid using threads if at all possible.
> Indeed :). But how will i learn using threads if i avoid using them
That was the point , you probably don't need them, and if so avoid
If you want to learn how to use them , go for it!
That is an excellent reason to mess with them, it was just a warning
because you WILL be bitten by them, just a matter of time ;)
> > Now we have all that over lets see some code.
> > py> import threading
> > py> class Test(threading.Thread):
> > ... def run(self):
> > ... x = 0
> > ... while x < 10:
> > ... print x
> > ... x += 1
> > ... print " Ending"
> > Use it like this:
> > py> Test().start()
> Your example is interristing...somehow this is not exactly what i
> realise. I have exposed the problem in an earlier reply...
> Yacine Chaouche -- France.
I should have mentioned this was an attempt to show you how to make a
thread 'exit' after it reached 10. You are having problems with the
controller class, please look again at what I gave you this as an
example. Did you run it?
It was specific to your question. You were having problems making the
It should explain where you are lost, notice I inherit from Thread and
not object, notice a much simpler way to write the thread ....
You also mention the MVC pattern. If you are trying to implement MVC
with threads you are going about it the wrong way ;)
More information about the Python-list
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Last weekend was busy for us! Held a big birthday party and a big block party. Take a look at some of the pictures! Multiple games of NBA2K15, Halo, Minecraft and more were going throughout the first party. Barely made it into for our second party later that evening, where we followed up after local neighbors showed off their skills with a magic show, and some singing! Everyone had a blast! Glad to be help out with some awesome events. Looking forward to more great events coming later this month!
Check out the photos from this event over at our Facebook page!
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Last fall, New Yorkers got the sad news that the city’s very last dairy plant was headed for the big pasture in the sky. Elmhurst Dairy, as it was known, was a century-old company whose milk could be found everywhere from Manhattan Starbucks cafés to 1,400 different public schools citywide. Until August, products were bottled for 80 years at the same facility in Jamaica, Queens. But as CEO Henry Schwartz told the New York Times at the time, the family-owned operation wasn’t profitable anymore, and their plant had stayed open “long past the years that it was economically viable” — mostly because he’d promised his dad it would. More depressing, though, at least from a dairyman’s perspective, was what he said about his product: that “milk has sort of gone out of style.”
In hindsight, maybe that wasn’t so depressing after all? Elmhurst (officially now without the “Dairy” part) has suddenly reemerged as, of all things, a producer of vegan nut milks. It quietly debuted four varieties — almond, hazelnut, cashew, and walnut — at the Natural Products Expo in Los Angeles two weeks ago:
Coincidentally, milk sales have been tanking in the U.S. for a while, so it’s hard not to read something deeply symbolic into this switch. Elmhurst’s redesigned site even offers an “Our Story” tab — sort of a paean to its past — that starts:
In the 1900s, New York City looked a lot different than it does today. Taxi cabs were still horse-drawn, and much of Manhattan remained covered in farmland. This is why it is fitting that the Elmhurst story begins with a small herd of cattle.
Of course, “Manhattan farmland” sounds hilarious now, and it looks like Elmhurst thought continuing to run a New York City dairy company in 2017 does, too. It brags its new nut milks are GMO- and gluten-free, kosher, minimally processed, sustainable, produce little food waste, contain no additives, and pack in more nutrition using a proprietary cold-milling technique.
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Dark Wooden Kitchen Table
Okay lady you basically found my dream table.
Dark wooden kitchen table. Reply christine at design catharsis february 8 2013 at 1236 pm. Thats exactly the type of work table im hoping to find for my kitchen reno. And for those who will cry about the patina well theyre not eating off it. Dark isnt the first theme that comes to mind when designing a kitchen.
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Stereotypical assumptions are of white and bright kitchens matched by light wood the colour of breakfast pancakes. This stylish dog crate doubles as a wood end table complementing your homes decor and saving space in your living room.
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After high school, I was lucky enough to find a well-paying job. The problem I had was knowing what to do with my new-found money.
The fact that I didn’t know wasn’t a surprise. Most people graduating are sadly under-educated when it comes to money. In fact, the National Financial Educators Council asked a handful of young adults between the ages of 18-24 what course would benefit them the most in high school. Not surprisingly, 51.4% responded with money management. So it makes sense that it took me many years to get a grip on my finances.
If education is an essential human right, financial education should be a large part of that. But it’s not. So, in the hopes that I can help others facing the same cold reality, here are the top four things I wish I knew about finance before I was 20:
1. The Compound Interest
Compound interest will be the main driver of growth for your retirement nest egg. It’s not that complicated, but if you don’t take a look at the numbers you may not understand why it’s so important.
Imagine you put $1000 into a savings account that has an annual interest rate of 5%. That means you would gain 5% on your account balance, every year!
Year One: $1,000 + 5% ($50) = $1,050.00
Year Two: $1,050 + 5% ($52.50) = $1,102.50
Year Three: $1,102.50 + 5% ($55.13) = $1,157.63
Year Four: $1,157.63 + 5% ($57.88) = $1,215.50
After five years, without putting any more money into your account, you would end up with $1,276.28. It might not seem like a lot, but after 25 years you would have $3,386.35. Now imagine what it would be like with regular contributions! The earlier you get started with an account that earns you interest, the better your result. As your account grows, so does the benefit of compounding.
2. Compound Interest – The Bad
Everything you just learned about compound interest is amazing. The only problem is, you aren’t the only one armed with this knowledge. You know that amazing credit card you got that you used to fund your vacation? Let’s pretend it has an interest rate of 20%. You used $2,000 of credit, and you don’t pay your bill. Here’s what happens after a few years:
Year One: $2,000 + 20% ($400) = $2,400
Year Two: $2,400 + 20% ($480) = $2,880
Year Three: $2,880 + 20% ($576) = $3,456
After five years, you now owe the bank $4,976.64. That got out of hand fast, didn’t it? As you can see, compound interest works wonders in favor of whoever has the cash.
Alarmingly, 43% of millennials use high-interest borrowing methods such as payday loans. As a result, they have compound interest working against them. Make sure you keep that in mind when you’re spending money that you don’t actually have (aka credit).
3. How To Create A Budget
Two-thirds of Americans would struggle to gather $1,000 in an emergency situation. Are you one of those people? Making a budget can be difficult at first. There are several different ways you can approach it. After trying (and failing) at a few different methods, I finally found one that worked for me.
It was obvious I needed a method that was simple. Something I could do on a daily or weekly basis, without getting bogged down by too much work. I settled on a gamified method that goes like this:
- Calculate your after-tax income per month
- Add up all your fixed expenses (think rent, phone, gym, loan payments etc.)
- Subtract fixed expenses from after-tax income; this is your allowance
- Divide your monthly allowance into 31 days to get your daily allowance
- Every time you spend, you subtract from your allowance!
If you spend less than your daily allowance, you Win The Day! Try to win at least 75% of the days in a month. Again, there are many other methods out there but this is the one that stuck for me. I love trying to see if I can win the day and the month.
4. Couch Potato Investment Strategy
Once you have a budget down, and you’re spending less than you’re making with no high-interest debt, it’s time to start taking advantage of compound interest in an investment account. The problem with high-interest debt is that you cannot guarantee that your investment returns will be higher than your debt. So – unless you can predict the future – squash the high-interest debt before embarking on an investment account.
A lot of people want to invest and make fast money. The problem is, the stock market is quite unpredictable. What you want to do is play the long game. I like to use the couch potato strategy. It’s easy to manage, it’s fairly safe, and it will make you money.
This strategy recommends that you invest your money in Exchange Traded Funds. These are like stocks but they often track a basket of assets like an index fund instead of single companies. You get great diversification and usually have lower fees than mutual funds. Reading the Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned in School helped me develop my first investment strategy. I recommend it as further reading.
If our schools aren’t going to teach us what we need to know about money management, we will have to do it ourselves. Becoming financially literate enables us to plan for our future.
Not only will financial planning help you retire, but it can also reduce your stress. 67% of Americans say that paying their bills or expenses is their greatest source of anxiety. I’m just going to assume that you’d prefer to keep your stress levels below moderate levels.
In short, your personal finance journey will be a lot like a marathon versus a sprint. Warren Buffet summed it up well when he said:
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
Plant your tree as soon as possible, but give it plenty of time to grow.
Now that you know the four things I wish I knew before I was 20, what are the tools or strategies you wish you would have known?
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A Florida judge has ordered one of the state's largest healthcare systems to unwind a controversial deal in which Adventist Health System attempted to acquire the publicly run Bert Fish Medical Center in New Smyrna Beach.
Judge upends Adventist-Bert Fish deal
Florida Seventh Judicial Circuit Judge Richard Graham ruled that Bert Fish executives illegally held 21 meetings about the merger behind closed doors to iron out details of the deal. And after the Daytona Beach News Journal exposed the illegalities, officials with Adventist and Bert Fish exerted improper influence on a subsequent request-for-proposal process that also wound up selecting Adventist.
Graham noted that Bert Fish executives and advisers had strong financial incentives to steer the second round of merger talks toward Adventist, and that the first attempt at a merger had put them in a position to influence the outcome of the second process.
Graham's opinion noted a major flaw in the merger paperwork that was ignored by hospital executives and would have overpaid Adventist for uncompensated care by “hundreds of millions of dollars” over the 35-year deal by including bad debt expenses as charity care, thereby double-counting the figure.
Bert Fish spokeswoman Sara Brady said the hospital was disappointed in the ruling, and is still weighing its legal options while it complies with Graham's order to produce a plan to transition the hospital back to public control. “The hospital is still a priority to Adventist Health System,” she said.
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