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A New Jersey teacher’s lawsuit for alleged national origin discrimination took an unusual turn in a recent court hearing, according to media reports. The plaintiff alleges that she was subjected to disparate treatment and retaliation because of her Palestinian heritage. Hashem v. Hunterdon Cty., et al., No. 3:15-cv-08585, 2d am. complaint (D.N.J., Oct. 19, 2016). During a hearing in early 2017, the defendants reportedly claimed that the case lacks merit because Palestine is not a “nation,” and therefore the plaintiff cannot claim “Palestinian” or “Palestinian-American” as a national origin. While this does not appear to be a prominent element of the defendants’ legal arguments, it captured media attention, and it raises important questions about how U.S. and New Jersey employment laws define “national origin.”
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) both expressly identify national origin as a protected category for discrimination claims. See 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a), N.J. Rev. Stat. § 10:5-12(a). The term “nation” can have multiple meanings, depending on the context. It can refer to a sovereign country, such as the United States, Canada, or Mexico. It can also refer to a group of people with a shared heritage, language, or culture who do not have their own distinct country, like the Indian tribes of the United States, the First Nations of Canada, and trans-national regions like Kurdistan. Palestine, with its limited international recognition and “non-member observer” status at the United Nations, would seem to fit the second definition.
Since “countries” can come into being and cease to exist, multiple courts have held that “national origin” is not limited to countries in existence at the time of a discrimination claim. In Pejic v. Hughes Helicopters, a court held that Serbians were a protected class at a time when Serbia was part of Yugoslavia. 840 F. 2d 667, 673 (9th Cir. 1988). Serbia had been independent in the early 20th century and would become independent again in the 1990s. The Pejic court cited a district court decision finding that Louisiana Acadian—a/k/a Cajun—is a national origin under Title VII. Roach v. Dresser Ind. Valve & Instrument Division, 494 F. Supp. 215, 218 (W.D. La. 1980). | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://www.thenjemploymentlawfirmblog.com/category/national-origin-discrimination |
Recently, we received an email from an educator who said that he was, “looking for resources from which he could use sports to teach Jewish concepts.”
As a rabbi or educator, you are always looking for ways to help your congregants or students better their behavior and conduct. It follows that the use of sports references or analogies can come in very handy, as they will help people easily connect and relate to your message.
Indeed, when it comes to G-d and sports, a recent study (see here) found that nearly 30% of Americans say that G-d plays a role in the outcome of sports events. And so, we figured we’d highlight for you the resources that we’ve collected:
- Time-out: Sports Stories as a Game Plan: Using various sports, this book (authored by the American-born and recently elected Knesset member, Rabbi Dov Lipman) teaches positive lessons from a Torah perspective. Whether it’s learning about consistency from Cal Ripken, Jr. or developing a work ethic from Michael Jordan, each chapter conveys a timeless lesson using a sports metaphor.
- Alan Veingrad: This is the personal website of retired Superbowl champion, Alan Veingrad. Today, Alan Shlomo Veingard travels the country relating his experiences as a professional athlete, a sales and marketing executive, and an observant Jew. Alan’s presentations bring audiences laughter, inspiration and valuable insights into both life and business. Plus, you can sign up for a free monthly newsletter which is filled with great Torah and sports related metaphors! Here is a link to a couple of full-length talks by Alan Veingrad.
- TheFanaticRabbi.com: Rabbi Joshua Hess serves as rabbi of Congregation Anshe Chesed in Linden, NJ. According to Rabbi Hess, when he realized that his dreams of playing professional basketball weren’t meant to be, he pursued ordination at Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, MD. To merge his passion for Torah and sports, he started a blog, TheFanaticRabbi.com, in which he which extracts religious lessons from the sports page. He enjoys using sports themes to connect to his students and congregants, and shares his thoughts on sports news and commentary on his blog.
Here’s a golf and Torah message by Aish Denver’s Rabbi Baruch Zuckerman, who is a proud graduate of an affiliate program of Ner LeElef: The Jerusalem Kollel.
Finally, below is a piece written by Rabbi Ron Yitzchak Eisenmann, a guest contributor on more than one occasion to NLEResources.com. The message, while relevant to the Superbowl, can be used throughout the year and applies to sporting events such as the NCAA Championships, NBA Finals, and more!
As I write these words over 163 million Americans, (that’s more than half of the people living in our great country) are tuned out and glued to the event referred to as “The Super Bowl”.Indeed, if you are reading this as I am writing it, you are part of a minority of Americans who are not glued to the tube. Truth be told, I am not against watching the game, and although I myself do not have the luxury of dedicating even a few minutes to indulge in watching twenty two men bang and slam into each other-as things go this is one of the more innocuous diversions which someone can chose from.
However, even with acknowledging that the diversion of the Super Bowl is relatively banal, nevertheless a diversion or better said a departure it nonetheless is. Meaning, let us ask ourselves a basic question.
Why do so many people spend hours and often much money to sit and watch the game? Indeed, any and every thinking person certainly realizes that none of the players-irrespective of their respective uniform-represents you as an individual.
The life style, salary scale, and entire world outlook of any of the players is probably very different than the average viewer of the game, and certainly and hopefully radically different than your Orthodox Jewish game-watcher. So, let’s go back to our original question.
Why watch the game?
The answer I believe has already been given away.
The game is a diversion or better said ‘a departure’.
From what do we want to ‘depart’? We want to depart from many things; however, most surely we want to remove ourselves from the reality of the pressures of life. Life is hard; there is no doubt about it. It is hard to make a living in this world and it is difficult to raise a family. It is challenging to get up in the morning and perhaps even more so to go to sleep on time. Yes my friends, life is hard.
Therefore, for a few hours on a Sunday evening in February 163 million Americans escape from the lethargic doldrums of daily like and are transformed into the heroes of the stadium.
For a few brief hours these couch potatoes become active athletes through vicarious competition. It is nice to escape and perhaps even necessary. Indeed, when I dissolve myself in the virtual world of my writing I escape.
And when I immerse my being into the sea of Torah, I am also departing from the humdrum and pedestrian pace of daily life.
There is nothing wrong with escaping; just make sure that the place you depart to is superior to the place you have escaped from.
Photo Credit: Malingering | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://nleresources.com/2013/02/judaism-and-sports-a-roundup-of-helpful-educational-resources/ |
As a basketball enthusiast on both the collegiate and pro levels, it’s always interesting to watch a guy elevate from an amateur in college and be able to watch him throughout his career in the NBA. On the other hand, I’m always amazed by guys who prove to be better in the pros than they were in college. Deron Williams comes to mind. But it’s also very disappointing to see special college players never make it on the next level. The guy who I would’ve most liked to have seen enjoy a long NBA career is Randolph Childress from Wake Forest.
For those of you out there who remember Childress, you know what I’m talking about. He could fill it up like nobody’s business. Known mostly for his outside touch, he was still able to put the ball on the floor. He was very unassuming. In his 4 years at Wake, he averaged 14.0, 19.7, 19.6 and 20.1 points per game respectively. That’s pretty impressive. As a senior, in 1995, and joined by sophomore Tim Duncan, he put on one of the best performances, perhaps ever, in college basketball. The 1995 ACC Championship game was epic thanks to Childress. I can’t even put into words the type of show he put on against North Carolina that day. To say that he scored 37 points doesn’t even begin to describe it. Just about everything he threw up went in. The Tar Heels, led by Rasheed Wallace and Jerry Stackhouse didn’t really have much of an answer for him. Nor did Jeff McInnis. What Childress did to McInnis right here was just straight up disrespectful. There’s really no eloquent way to put it. Especially the way he signals for him to “come here” after McInnis falls. Because of this move, I was never able to take McInnis seriously as a pro because all I could see was was this move.
I got chills watching that again.
Childress was drafted #19 overall in the 1995 Draft by Detroit but only hung around in the league long enough for a cup of coffee. A very small cup. Since leaving the NBA, he has played internationally in Turkey, Australia and Italy. He was a tremendous talent and it honestly bugs me that we weren’t able to see him enjoy a long NBA career. Generously listed at 6’2″, what played against him was that he was an undersized shooting guard (I think he was more of a shooting guard than a point). Nevertheless, he was truly a joy to watch. Here’s a full clip of the 1995 ACC Championship game highlights.
If you’re looking for your everyday, predictable basketball talk, then go somewhere else, because Kevin Burke of The Kevin Burke Project brings provocative, thought provoking content about basketball as only he can. Kevin also hosts The Hoop Doctors weekly podcast show, which you can subscribe too for free on iTunes. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://thehoopdoctors.com/2010/07/does-anybody-remember-randolph-childress/ |
National park gets new name
Legislation has been introduced into State Parliament that will rename the St Arnaud Range National Park.
The Government says the new name is the Kara Kara National Park and reflects the wishes of the public and acknowledges the Aboriginal heritage of the site.
The renaming is part of a bill that adds 10,000 hectares to Victoria's parks, including small additions to the Grampians National Park.
Victoria has about four million hectares of parks and reserves, covering 15 per cent of the state. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-28/national-park-gets-new-name/3605942?site=ballarat&source=rss |
By Lauren Raab Los Angeles Times
The Defense Department has identified the fifth of five soldiers killed last week in southern Afghanistan, possibly by friendly fire: Army Staff Sgt. Jason A. McDonald, 28, of Butler, Ga.
Military officials released few details about McDonald and have said little about the incident. The soldiers were fighting Taliban forces in remote Zabul province last Monday night, and Afghan officials have said an airstrike by the U.S.-led military coalition mistakenly targeted the US soldiers.
“Investigators are looking into the likelihood that friendly fire was the cause” of the soldiers’ deaths, a Pentagon spokesman, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said in a statement Tuesday. The U.S.-led coalition concurred: “The casualties occurred during a security operation when their unit came into contact with enemy forces. Tragically, there is the possibility that fratricide may have been involved,” it said last week.
In addition to McDonald, also killed were Army Staff Sgt. Scott R. Studenmund, 24, of Pasadena, Calif.; Cpl. Justin R. Clouse, 22, of Sprague, Wash.; Spc. Justin R. Helton, 25, of Beaver, Ohio; and Pvt. 2nd Class Aaron S. Toppen, 19, of Mokena, Ill. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.heraldnet.com/news/us-ids-last-of-5-soldiers-killed-in-possible-friendly-fire-attack/ |
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We plan to go to the second highest level in Washington DC – the Old Post Office Clock Tower. This tall lengthy and lanky eating desk is perfect for small intimate eating in your patio. A should for every dining room so you may as well lengthen other sets if you find yourself having additional friends. The eating table and chairs are from the Dol-toi Contemporary Range, together with the matching sideboard. Whether you are beginning with a miscellaneous collection of LEGO, a few of the home units or Brick Boxes. Most ships have an off-the-cuff, serve-your self buffet along with a number of major dining rooms. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://cnatu.org/contemporary-dining-room-furniture.html |
Summer heat waves in Santiago, just like anywhere else, mean one thing: cute kids playing in fountains.
Or blasting the crap out of each other with hoses.
More photos of heat wave antics are posted in the Santiago Times photo gallery.
The title of this post, in case you were curious, is from Ismael Serrano's song "Vine del Norte." The song contains an almost excessive number of references to all things Chilean, but I think that anyone who's been lucky enough to spend a slightly drunken night wandering aimlessly around Santiago will be able to relate. Given the sunburn I've managed to develop despite the best efforts of my SPF 55, I thought the quote was appropriate. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://florycalavera.blogspot.com/2007/11/y-en-santiago-con-tus-luces-y-su.html |
John Irwin Marshall IV, 39, of Lake Bluff passed away unexpectedly on March 5, 2017.
John was a graduate of Williston Northampton School in Easthampton, Massachusetts and completed his studies at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Most recently, he was a devoted employee at Bernie’s Book Bank in Lake Bluff. John was an avid guitar player and had a great love for music and fishing.
Beloved son of John I. (Andrea) Marshall III and Frederica (the late Thomas D.) Hoyt; cherished brother of Samantha (Barrett C.) Davie; loved uncle of Ford Robert, Taylor Frederica and Carolyn Ely Davie; fond step-brother of Craig Palmer, Joshua Hoyt, Amy Knowlton, Darcy Hoyt, Peter Hoyt, Phoebe Volla and Nathaniel Hoyt.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at Bernie’s Book Bank, 917 North Shore Drive in Lake Bluff. Interment will be private. For additional information contact Reuland & Turnbough Funeral Directors of Lake Forest at 847-234-9649 or visit www.RTfunerals.com.
Memorial contributions in John’s name may be made to Bernie’s Book Bank. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://jwcdaily.com/2017/03/07/john-irwin-marshall-iv/ |
Live edge wood slabs, when used in décor, offer an added dose of texture and one-of-a-kind style. Because no two are ever the same, you can rest assured knowing that your piece is completely custom-made. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to turn a live edge wood slab into either a coffee table or a bench that can be changed up on a whim.
Things You'll Need
- Live edge wood slab
- Wood carving tools
- Sand paper, 40-grit and 100-grit
1-inch foam paintbrush
- Clear urethane sealant
- 4 flat table leg brackets
- 16 #8 1 1/2 inch screws
- 4 16-inch wood round tapered table legs with threaded center section and metal caps
- Drill bits to match the screws and table legs
- Electric drill
- Painter's tape
- 1-inch foam paintbrush
- Interior paint in your color of choice (orange was used for this project)
- Felt table leg pads (optional)
Step 1: Find and Prep a Slab of Live Edge Wood
To find a live edge wood slab, visit your local lumber yard. These large warehouses often source all types of wood and will have a section specifically dedicated to wood that still retains its natural edge and bark. Once you've chosen your slab and brought it home, cut off the bark with a sharp carving tool (if desired) and sand both sawed edges and the sides of the slab where the bark was removed with sandpaper—first with a rough 40-grit, and then a finer 100-grit sandpaper.
Then finish the slab prep process by coating the entire slab with two coats of clear urethane sealant—including the sides of the slab where the bark was cut off—using a foam paintbrush. Allow the urethane sealant to dry for one hour between coats, and allow the final coat to cure for a full 24 hours.
Be sure to wear thick safety gloves while trimming the bark off your wood slab. You'll also want to wear safety goggles and a face mask while sanding.
Step 2: Place and Mark Where the Table Leg Hardware Will Go
Flip the wood slab over and place your four flat table leg brackets where you'd like them to go on the underside of the tabletop. You can use a ruler to ensure an even placement on the wood. For this project, the hardware was placed 1 inch in from the front and back of the table, and 14 inches in from either end.
Hold each bracket in place, and mark through the bracket holes with a pencil. Make sure to mark all four of the screw holes on the corners of the brackets, as well as the center hole where the table legs will be screwed in.
Step 3: Drill and Screw in the Table Leg Hardware
Using drill bits matched to the widths of your screws and to the center threaded section of the table legs, pre-drill all five holes that were previously marked on the underside of the wood slab. Then, use an electric drill outfitted with a Phillips-head screwdriver to attach the brackets to the wood with the accompanying screws.
Step 4: Mask Off the Ends of the Table Legs
Use painter's tape to carefully mask off the metal caps of the tapered table legs so that they don't get paint on them. Press the tape firmly in place before moving on to the next step.
Step 5: Paint the Table Legs
Paint 2 to 3 coats of an interior paint in your desired color on the wooden table legs using a foam paint brush. Allow each layer of paint to dry for one hour between coats and allow the final coat to cure for a full 24 hours. Remove and discard the painter's tape.
Step 6: Screw in the Painted Table Legs
Situate each of the four table legs over the center of the metal brackets on the underside of the wood slab, and screw them into place by turning the entire leg over the hole. Make sure that the threaded section on the end of each table leg securely screws into the pre-drilled hole you added in the center of the bracket in step 3 to ensure a tight, wobble-free construction.
Step 7: Style Your Live Edge Wood Slab as a Coffee Table or Bench
Flip your completed live edge table over and check for stability. Because live edge wood is often rough hewn and not perfectly straight, you may need to add a felt cushion to the bottom of certain legs that don't quite touch the floor. This will further stabilize the table and prevent it from wobbling when in use. Finish by styling the bench as either a coffee table or bench!
Get the DIY for the headboard pictured above here. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.ehow.com/how_7719339_make-wood-slab-coffee-table.html |
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Screenings are sure to sell out quickly this year, so make a list and buy tickets early. These are the movies you don't want to miss.
- I Am Another You
3 out of 5 stars
Chinese national Nanfu Wang first started working on I Am Another You when she was a New York University film student on vacation in South Florida. She met a charismatic young drifter named Dylan Olsen and spent most of her vacation following him around to document what his life was like living on the street. If you already think you know how the rest of the film goes from that brief synopsis – the drifter turns out to be less of a free-spirited hero than a manipulative grifter – you're both right and very wrong. After Wang parted ways with Olsen, she went on to make the acclaimed documentary Hooligan Sparrow, about Chinese human rights advocate Ye Haiyan, before following up. The difference between Wang's approach in the first act of I Am Another You, filmed when she was a student, and the latter two thirds, filmed after she had the experience of running from Chinese police in pursuit of Hooligan Sparrow's story, is palpable. Early on, Wang falls prey to the rookie mistake of making herself too much of a subject. But her subsequent investigation into Olsen's past and present ends up – for both better and worse – humanizes him. It's a revealing look at how first impressions – even if accurate – fail to tell the whole story. – TM
- Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken Spoke
4.5 out of 5 stars
If you don't already have a favorite bar in Austin, Texas, you will after seeing Honky Tonk Heaven. The documentary tells the story of James and Annetta White, the proprietors of the Broken Spoke, an old-school country dancehall smack in the middle of trendy South Austin. James White tells stories about the history of the place over its half-century in existence – which included residencies by Willie Nelson and George Strait – while introducing the viewer to the importance dancehalls had in country music culture. Those days are long gone, but the Spoke keeps plugging along, even as modern multi-use apartment buildings spring up all around (sound familiar, Orlando?). With plenty of live music performances and even a little bit of a two-step lesson thrown in, Honky Tonk Heaven is as close as you'll get to spending a night at the Broken Spoke without having to travel to Texas. – TM
International FilmsPop Aye
3 out of 5 stars
A touching look at getting older and maintaining a connection to our youth, Pop Aye is the story of Thana (Thaneth Warakulnukroh), a Thai architect who is finding himself to be more and more irrelevant both professionally and in his strained relationship with his wife. But when he has a chance meeting with the elephant he had when he was a boy growing up in rural Thailand, he decides to purchase it and bring it back home. The ensuing road movie is filled with memorable characters like a hypochondriac ascetic, a trans prostitute and a pair of beleaguered policemen. Though the journey sags in the middle, much like the titular elephant, Pop Aye is filled with just the right amount of humor and pathos to make it a recommended watch. – TM
Midnight FeaturesBad Black
3 out of 5 stars
By any normal standard of filmmaking, Bad Black is not a "good" movie. A product of the zero-budget "Wakaliwood" film industry of Uganda, Bad Black utilizes amateur production techniques and actors to tell a uniquely Ugandan version of an over-the-top American-style action film. The plot can be hard to follow, but thankfully there's a narrator who fills in gaps while providing MST3K-style commentary about the characters and events on screen. It's a perfect fit for the festival's midnight slot, and will undoubtedly be a hit, especially since this screening is customized for Orlando audiences. – TM
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas)
4 out of 5 stars
Cute animated animals deal with not-so-cute issues in this feature-length adaptation of a Spanish graphic novel. On an island devastated by some unspecified industrial disaster, Birdboy scrapes out an existence in the forest. Like a goth version of Looney Tunes' Egghead Jr., he drags his skeletal, black-suited self mutely through daily horrors – illness; drug use; trying and failing to fly; nightmares of terrifying demons. He's pursued by Dinky, a troubled schoolgirl (schoolmouse?) who wants to escape the island, but doesn't want to leave Birdboy behind. As she and her friends (a bunny who hears voices telling her to do bad things and a tubby, bullied fox) make their way through the scary dump full of mean, violent rats, they confront class warfare, rage, pain, greed and a lot of other stuff that's not usually on the menu for adorable cartoon critters. Psiconautas screens as a midnight movie, but aside from the trippy visuals and occasional flashes of black humor, it isn't average midnight movie fare – these animated characters are more likely to make you cry than laugh, and will stick in your mind for days after viewing. RIYL: dystopia, teen angst, anthropomorphic alarm clocks. – JBY
3.5 out of 5 stars
The festival presents a special screening of Unrest, a documentary about people with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). The film is special not just for its topic but because the director and subject, Jennifer Brea, grew up in Orlando. After developing a high fever several years ago, Brea slipped into what is often labeled "chronic fatigue syndrome." But she didn't fight just the condition, she fought for answers – on film.
"It was like I had died but was forced to watch as the world moves on," she says in the documentary. "I didn't know what else to do, so I just kept filming."
But instead of becoming a self-indulgent cinematic exercise, Unrest embraces everyone who has suffered silently with this misunderstood condition (17 million worldwide, 85 percent women) and partially morphs into a medical thriller by exposing the horrible history of "female hysteria."
"Central Florida is where I spent all of my formative years, and it's where I spent all of my time, dreaming what I would grow up to become and what I would do with my life, and it's also where I fell in love with film," Brea told OW. "[This screening] rivals how I felt about appearing at Sundance. I'm really excited to be coming home."
"One of the amazing and I think really beautiful things about filmmaking is that it is a collaborative, creative process," she says. "When I started production, I was almost homebound and almost entirely bed-ridden, and at first I tried to travel to go on shoots, and I would, you know, go an hour from my house and would shoot for a day on location and would spend the next 30 days in bed. ... It took six months to get to six shoot days. ... I started to think about what were some sort of technological solutions that would allow me to have a presence in the field without actually having to travel to set. What I want people to take away [from the film is that] life is fragile and often unpredictable, but I think that it is ... possible to find a way to survive, and I think that's what a lot of the film is about on the deepest level," she says.
"We are fighting. This is a movement." – CM
Competition Documentary Features
- Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
4 out of 5 stars
Hats off to the documentary Cassette for handily answering the question, "Are cassettes still a thing?" Yes, they're still a fucking thing, and they never really weren't "a thing," for those in the underground interested in transmitting their sounds in an affordable, quickly produced physical medium. At the core of this documentary is the notion that cassettes represented a democratization of sound production and dissemination in a way that no physical medium had before or since. This love letter to the format is all heart – the emotion during interviews with Henry Rollins, Rob Sheffield, Daniel Johnston, National Audio Company employees, and DJs Ron G and Red Alert is palpable. The true coup of this film, however, is extended conversations with Lou Ottens, the inventor of the cassette tape. He talks about his work with a dispassionate lack of nostalgia. And yet, there is one beautiful moment towards the end when Ottens, the slightest smile creeping across his face, confesses fondly, "The best thing is, it's not over yet ... all those crazy people are still working with cassettes." – MM
3 out of stars
For most of us, it's too late to run away and join the circus. But the next-best thing might be watching Circus Kid, a delightful documentary that shines its follow spot not just on the history of the modern American circus but the meaning of family. At just 71 minutes, Circus Kid might seem too slight. And the fact that it's directed and partially narrated by its subject, Lorenzo Pisoni, might strike some as self-promotional. But the stories that Pisoni presents about the famous Pickle Family Circus and the countless clowns and acrobats (including Bill Irwin) it inspired will likely inspire you too, regardless of your opinions of the Big Top. The feature is accompanied by Richard Twice (3 stars), a short, partially animated documentary about a talented musician who walked away from potential fame after a life-altering stage experience in the late 1960s. It's a fascinating yet melancholy examination of how a single event can irreparably alter one's life. – CMFor Ahkeem
3.5 out of 5 stars
Most documentaries either report past events or observe unfolding ones. For Ahkeem is a memorable example of the latter, as its camera provides extraordinary access to Daje Shelton, a 17-year-old black girl from the slums of St. Louis. The film, directed by Jeremy Levine and Landon Van Soest, follows her for a year and a half, as she struggles to avoid legal trouble, graduate from high school, raise a baby and maintain a relationship with her boyfriend – while he is trying to stay out of jail. And behind it all is the shadow of the 2014 Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Though the subjects' actions are undoubtedly altered by the camera, the film is still a memorable and painful portrait of a world that seems hopeless. (The film's executive producer is Jeff Truesdell, former editor of Orlando Weekly, who now lives in St. Louis.) The feature is preceded by a short Florida doc titled The Rabbit Hunt (3 stars), which is exactly what its name suggests. Directed by Patrick Bresnan, it is extremely difficult to watch, especially if you're an animal lover, but it also feels culturally and morally necessary. – CM
Shorts ProgramsInternational Animated Shorts
3.5 out of 5 stars
This annual block is known for filmmakers who push the thematic and technical limits of animated cinema. This year's offering is a mixed bag of quality, but discovering the assorted treats is nevertheless a worthwhile, mind-expanding experience. Most of the 12 films are surreal, absurd or experimental, and the group would have benefited from one or two selections with a traditional narrative structure, to serve as palate cleansers for the stranger fare. In addition, Pussy (2 stars) is better suited to the midnight shorts block. (About a vagina that springs to life and escapes a woman's body to wreak havoc, it is surely President Trump's nightmare.) Most accomplished is the Spanish-language Decorado (4 stars). The only foreign-language film (with subtitles) in the group, it's both laugh-out-loud funny and hauntingly dark. Only slightly less brain-bending are The Absence of Eddy Table (4 stars), Journal Animé (3 stars) and This Is Not an Animation (3 stars), while Fears (3 stars) is the sweetest. But sweet or not, make no mistake: This is an adults-only program. – CMShorts Program No. 2: “Everybody Knows”
3.5 out of 5 stars
This narrative shorts block is titled "Everybody Knows" in tribute to Leonard Cohen. And, fittingly, most of the characters in the eight films are either being watched or judged, but ultimately exceed or defy expectations. Cul-de-Sac (3 stars), written by and starring Oscar winner (and Florida Film Festival friend) Shawn Christensen, is well acted, shot and paced but lacks some context and emotional punch. Laurels (3 stars) offers a unique and twisty take on film festivals while providing the block with its only comedy, albeit a dark one. Zaar (3 stars) is an unconventional and touching examination of an act of terror – from the terrorist's point of view. And Zero-Zero (4 stars), about an unlikely bond between a little girl and her seemingly unscrupulous neighbor, is an absolute gem. – CM
- New Chefs on the Block
4 out of 5 stars
Like pictures of food on Instagram, movies about food and chefs are apparently irresistible, and this tale of two restaurants spreading their wings is no different.
The film follows Aaron Silverman of Rose's Luxury and Frank Linn of Frankly ... Pizza! from construction to doors opening and through their first year, covering 2013 to 2015.
Viewers who know that 30 percent of restaurants fail in the first year, some even before opening their doors, may be biting their nails wondering whether these places will make it, especially in the challenging Washington, D.C., area, where business slows to a trickle when congress is out of session. Despite some pacing issues, including a slow start full of unnecessary Restaurant 101 info (some of the talking-head interludes are pointless — I don't care if it's Michel Richard saying it, lines like "You have to focus 150 percent" are just a waste of screen time), Silverman and Linn eventually emerge as engaging characters, and the filmmakers manage to make viewers care deeply about whether they'll succeed. The two men, and the two restaurants, are very different – Silverman's personal reserve dovetails with the studiedly casual perfection on his plates, while Linn seems like a big goofy kid who just wants to open a slice joint – but both end up surprising us. – JBY | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://m.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/12-movies-you-have-to-see-at-the-florida-film-festival/Content?oid=3889128 |
Beckwith reports three different versions of the "trouble" story: one with Rabbit as the foolish partner, one with Rat, and one with Goat.
[Notes by LKG]
This story is part of the Jamaican Stories unit. Story source: Jamaica Anansi Stories by Martha Warren Beckwith (1924).
Sheep and Anansi
Anansi tell Sheep, "Mr. Sheep, lef' you spoon here, don' carry it."
Den go to de second house an' get some breakfas' again. After him get de breakfas' him say, "Mr. Sheep, where you spoon?"
An' said, "Don't you tell me to lef' it at de firs' house?"
"You mus' go back for it now!" Mr. Sheep gone for it, him eat off all de breakfas'.
An' said, "Come, Mr. Sheep, but you mus' let' you spoon."
"Me won't carry it at all."
Den go up to de nex't yard an' get dinner now. Night is coming. An' said, "Mr. Sheep, where is you' 'poon?"
An' said, "I lef' it at de las' yard you eat."
Well, den, Sheep have to go back fe his spoon again; tell Sheep come back again an' Anansi eat off de dinner. Sheep couldn't get not'ing to eat.
Rabbit and Anansi
An' while dey go on, Brar Anansi saw Tiger den wid a lot of young Tiger in it. Brar Anansi took out one an' kill it an' give Rabbit a basket wid a piece of de Tiger's meat to carry for de Tiger's fader, an' took Rabbit along wid him to Tiger's house an' tol' Brar Rabbit to han' Tiger de basket.
Anansi run, an' Tiger catch at Rabbit to kill him, but he get away.
Brar Anansi run up a tree an' say, "Run, Brar Rabbit, run! Run fe stone-hole!"
Took a razor an' give it to Rabbit. An' Tiger got up a lot of men to get Rabbit out de hole an' Tiger sent for Reindeer to dig him out, as he had a long neck to put down his head an' dig him out, but Anansi tol' Rabbit when Reindeer put down his head in de hole, he mus' tak de razor an' cut it off.
A lot of people gadder to see Reindeer tak Rabbit out of de hole, but instead, Reindeer head was taken off an' he drop an' was dead an' de whole crowd run away wid fright.
After Rabbit come out, Brar Nansi say to him, "Brar Rabbit, so 'daytime trouble' stay. So, as long as you live, never ask anybody to show it to you again!"
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Debellish. When I collapsed next to her sparkling languid frame I called upon Shelley and Coleridge and Ovid and Virgil and O’hara and Miller and Penthouse Forum and every French film I saw growing up to get something back to you and…and…every line I composed simply debellished the beauty at hand. Nope, this one was for me and me alone, my friends. My words could do it no justice. No, no mortal soul could relay that info back without the transfer suffering brutally from flawed debellishments. However, when word finally leaked to Veronica and I was subjected to answer that question amidst the assault, “Was it fun!? Well I hope you at least had fun, you scumbag!” how blessed I was to have debellishments and all the lackings that come with them on my side, “No, no, please, Jeez, it really wasn’t. I hated every minute of it.”
-- Chris Leo
Desceltic or (di)celcian words are proud and free. They refuse all constraints of icons, phonetics, and borders, yet one way or another their point is always clear. Like shadows that move with stealth from one object to the next, Herodotus believed they came from caves. Like galleys, galleasses, gales, and the bile from the gall, they are both fluid like wind and calloused by toughened skin. When they are runes on rocks in Cork they are Keltic. When they are drunks and goons in Boston they are Seltic. When they are Milanese secessionists who draw their lineage ultimately from Czech they are Cheltic. When they were Keltoi in Greece they used another alphabet entirely. The Mandarin name for China is even Wade-Giles, like Wales-Gael. Like Smurfs they smurf smurfingly. They may conspire ("with spirits")at one moment, then turn and conspire ("against the steeple")the next, returning "Eiffel" to "I fell" and abscond on schooners like scoundrel pirates. And speaking of Pirates, Christopher Colombus' boat the Santa Maria was originally named the Gallega yet no one called it that. The Vulgate Bible misprinted certe ("certain, forever") as celte and it stuck. They knew. Though they are of one blood, they are from Gaul, Gall, Gael, Galatia, Gaia, Galicia, and Portugal and once spoke some form of Gaelic or Goidelic. When they gallivant in Paris they smoke Gauloise. The sound galno itself once meant “strong” in all of these hamlets, yet the word gall also meant "stranger" in all the same households -- yes, all those words are related. If it can be agreed that words mutate fastest on streets and ports, then it’s also worth noting that the Spanish word for “street”, calle, comes from Callaeci, the ancient Celts of the port that became Porto. These stubborn words have gall.
Diselltious often comes from the Italian “scegliere” which means “to decide” which when then translated back to Latin means “cut off” which when then translated back to English any wise soul should interpret as “stay out of it, this word remains savage, protean, and ubiquitous”.
"Goccia" is Italian for a "drop" and may have come from "Galicia" or the Portuguese Indian colony in Goa or both. In Galicia a drop is a "morriña" which is also their word for "saudade", the longing for something distant and unattainable. It's roots are said to lie in the missed feeling sailors experienced after returning home during the age of the great Portuguese discoveries. Not officially all out tears, but a few melancholic drops. These dicelcian words even move away from themselves.
-- Chris Leo
Dethrowned reigns leisurely at both the peak and valley of the bell curve, yet it can never be dethroned. In Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diaries a young reporter takes a job in San Juan to write an editorial on why so many Puerto Ricans leave the tropics for NYC. Puerto Ricans, having the world's most priveledged duplicitous status of neither sovereignty nor statehood, neither Latinos nor gringos, have chosen only one other exclave as their own, New York City. One Million Puerto Ricans live in New York. Why? Should we not pay attention to the choices of a people graced with a wisdom that comes with such a sweet situation? Why New York then when they could just stay on their better beach and kick it? By the book’s end the only answer Thompson comes up with is “want” -- but if only he went bike riding with me that day last summer when outside of George Washington High in Washington Heights at the northern tip of Manhattan I stopped the dirty ice cart to grab a cup of tamarindo and the perfect Puertoricana who learned something in 17 years women on Madison Ave never learn in 70, that nothing looks hotter than tight jeans and a wife beater in July, asked me what I was doing in the barrio, Thompson may have arrived at a slightly different conclusion and we may therefore have never received The Rum Diaries. I told her I was “fuggin’ diggin’ the fact that between the GW Bridge and GW High in GW Heights our man GW got what he wanted on the same piece of land he was once defeated: nobody speaking the Queen’s English in his rebel state. You know, he was hoping it would be German or French we spoke. If you had told him then it was gonna be Spanish!…shit. So after this I’ll ride back downtown, try and write something smart about it, sell it, and go buy a margarita with my hypothocized earnings, you?” To which she replied, “…White guys, why you always trying to make something of yourselves?” To which, as defeated as Washington once was on this very street corner, I then hopped back on my bike consumed like a skipping record trying to think of a rebuttal for that crafty cunt all the way from Washington Heights to the Gowanus. Upon arrival at home I couldn’t write that smart essay I had hoped to. Upon margarita to my lips I could not put the needle back into the groove. Eventually the breaking rebroke when I looked at my skinny man’s pancha caused by necessary margaritas to keep me in this party I'm always trying to leave and coughed up soot I ingested while trying to get healthy and productive and I got my answer: time to move to Italy and plant my feet. A "throne" began in Proto-Indo-European as “to hold firm”, yet something which is "thrown" is not held firmly at all. An ascent up the social ladder is generally seen as a good thing, but when it comes at the expense of your accent, when every cent gained is but a seed for a more reputable nascent grade, and every July sunset is not spent with your family, cousins, and friends outdoors in the best city in the world, it is proof that your long questions should start coming in shorter sentences. She dethrowned me.
dethrowned = relax, wait here and it will come...that is, if you're waiting for it at all. But still, so why New York? If waiting nets the same results moving does, and Puerto Ricans can see things others can't, then what better place to wait than a city where everyone's moving? Don't mix moods though, dethrowning Puerto Ricans does not make them deseatful. On the contray, it is the anxious deseated mover and shaker who's more likely up to some form of deceit or another.
-- Chris Leo
dissert, from the Latin dis "apart" + the French servir to "serve", is one dessert with two spoons for one couple, which is most likely similar to the original dessert which meant "to clear the table", to "deserve". There's an easy rule to follow with new words: if it doesn't sound like the word it represents it is not a new word. "de-serve"Therefore, be careful not to dissect dissert, keep it beautiful, don't desert the goal. Or, if that poses a problem but the old word's grown as stale as a desert and you're looking for something new, try mixing Italian with Italian for "the true dessert," dulcerto (dulce for "sweet" + certo for "correct"). Just be sure to make no room for impostres (im for "not" + the Spanish postres for "dessert" = things like pizzert), or have we already disserted (think dissertation) on the topic at length.
-- Chris Leo
Divisionary verbs are auxiliary verbs that once supported primary verbs using “have” but now use “of”. They are semi-realized prodigals whose future evolution is obvious though the elder and middle stages are still the only versions in use. “Should have gone”, “might have known”, “could have taken” have become “should of gone”, “might of known”, “could of taken.” “Should of gone” literally means “the should part of gone” as if every verb already holds all possibilities within them. There is a should part of gone, a might part of gone, a could, would, am, was, has, and possibly even a got part already integral to “gone”. Basic verbs (be, give, have, take, keep, etc) being the most ancient verbs means relentless usage through the ages has exposed them to more mutable elements than newer verbs. In every language these verbs are never regular and therefore neither are the sentences and idioms they operate within. Though without fail the mutations of the basic verbs are gorgeous and playful, there’s an ebb and flow that in English is currently drawing them in to a gradual and temporal unirregulation (which is never quite a reregulation, but just a pull back in rather than a push out). Soon these divisionary verbs will close the bridge between the verbs they support thereby antiquating the main verbs while assuming positions of verbs proper themselves. Shouldgone, couldgone, wouldgone, and gotgone etc will solidify their previous slices of the “gone” pie into autonomous actions. Pioneering paths idioms like “how (does it) come?”, “what (does it) gives?”, “I (have) never (heard or anything like that)!” take are referencable for insight into the future evolution of these divisionary verbs before they push back out again.
-- Chris Leo
Downstate is not a word. Crack open the frizzy chiznazz and celebrate with River Plates because it is one rare decade indeed when you'll finally here us say, "no." There is the south, down south, down there, lowlands, meridianale, extremadura, and the rainbow of other colorful words we romanticize all things "south" with (the best of course being "Upper Egypt"), but downstate? No. Put downstate in the same skinny folder with mainlining heroin and studying yoga with the sole goal of autofellatio: things not to do. Please, we will rarely ask you to draw a line. Here, draw a line.
-- Chris Leo
Drawer in linguistics is an historical back-formation. An historical back-formation is a back-formation that continues to dig deeper and deeper into the past rather than plow ahead into the future in search of its lost soul. In this case, a drawer is someone who necessarily betrayed someone so the story could progress, or so he’s rewritten. Without betrayal and treason the plot can not curve, he pleads. We need him, the letch whines. Naturally, a drawer feels like a traitor and a traitor feels like a piece of churned mud. What to do then to appease your inner peace while the masses about loathe you, you traitor, you traducer, you plotter! Ration it out. Find the root of the reason for your t-reasoning ("t" as a symbol of the Cross) and reduce. Benedict Arnold hands it over to the crowd, “You tell me! You tell me! Why then did I do it? What drives a traitor to be a traitor?” “Traitor”, he argues, comes from the same source as “tract”, “trattoria”, and even “dates” and “tradition” as well as “traducer”, “plotter”, and “dare”. From the Latin “tradere” (“to hand over, to draw out”) do we not kill the fruits of the earth so that we can survive and our story grow? Do we not betray with every full tray served? Is to serve not therefore to survive? In French a traître is a caterer. The drawer keeps going back in his quest for absolution, to the Holy Lands and the Coptic Bible! There would be no resurrection without the most selfless of all saints, Judas Iscariot. Forget not that the “jew” sound of both Judas and Jesus is from the beginning of the almighty Yahweh. Of course the dip (from Old English dyppan, “to baptize”) into the hummus (“earth, clay, mud” out of which He molded us in His likeness) happened amongst trays. What a different course history would have taken if Jesus called himself a "Coward of Men" (as a British surname, from "cow herder") rather than a "Shepherd of Men" (from "sheep herder")! The very sound are, the English verb “to be”, in Proto-Indo-European initially meant “to plow”. The drawer, poor guy, therefore simply drew the shortest straw; and “straw” of course comes from the Proto-Indo-European stere, “to spread”, to help our story spread. And the drawer's draws, poor guy, are also often as muddied as this field tilled.
i.e. “Oh man, this thing was starting to write itself -- boh-ring --I had to be the drawer so we could get to the next episode.”
“I’m sorry, I don’t follow.”
“Oh well I just figured, fine, I’d be the scapegoat and rat you out to Sylvia so this thing could progress y’know? No one else had the balls to be the bad guy for the sake of movement. The ease at which you fibbed was losing its excitement to all of us, man? So for the sake of everyone I drew, I drew man, you get it now, no?”
-- Chris Leo
Drungry, a relative of hangry, comes from Dubai and refers not only to the mysterious equation that colories from alcohol create a need for complimentary calories from food after, but also to the type of late night/early morning cuisine you might find to satiate said need: "A'ight, I'd like some aloo motor drungry and my sister would like a bowl of whatever it is you got stewing down there in the drungry."
Folk etymoligists may try and tell you that "the drungry" was the lowest hold on pirate ships of the Arabian Sea where they kept their contraband hidden, but when the need actually hits, anyone living through it can assure you that the history of this word is much more direct.
drunk + hungry = drungry
(for more information on the current baby boom of words from Dubai, we recommend anotherfashionblog.blogspot.com)
-- Chris Leo
Dustriousness is a poster child for back-formations. A back-formation happens when a new word is formed by shortening a longer word when integral syllables mistaken for affixes are removed. The most confusingly disastrous back-formation occured when Prudence raced so hastely through a "below-job" it never grew bigger than "blow job" again. In this case the logic went: if a busy person is industrious then the opposite would be formed by simply removing the negating "in". When the new word looks like "something which collects dust" you light one up, call your assumption a fact, and kick back all dustriuoslike.
industrious - in = lazy lazy lazy
-- Chris Leo | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://riverplatetectonics.blogspot.com/2008/02/d.html |
You won't see me coming....
You never know where these conspiracy theories end up. I have heard that David Lammy is really a Chinese dwarf tasked with the fall of western society. Another theory is that David Lammy is a heavily made up Tony Blair, whose middle eastern paymasters have tasked him with the fall of western society, while another theory is that David Lammy is the bastard child of Peter "I'll have some of that guacamole" Mandleson and Diane Abbott during a cheating on Jeremy Cornyn episode and in anger, decided to bring down.........you get the drift.Alternatively, there is the theory that Theresa May is really a bloke.Penseivat
Many West Yorkshire police dealers will be delighted at news that are you heading up an activist movement to establish respect and liberty for drug-dealing scum, Jaded. PCs Kerry Reeve, Adam Jackson and Inspector Keith Boots, all responsible for disposing of seized drugs, should be particularly grateful.
"Alternatively, there is the theory that Theresa May is really a bloke."A pretty weedy & uninspiring one..."#drugdealingscumlivesmatter#"I doubt a little matter like this will derail the legal aid gravy train.."...all responsible for disposing of seized drugs...."And all caught & brought to justice.
You must have wet your adult nappy when you saw that story MTG. Three corrupt police officers in your area......all your Christmases come at once. Jaded
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It wasn’t long ago that people used only little camcorders for making videos but now we have a lot of options. Many are turning to DSLRs to get the job done. A good DSLR can take high-quality video, operate well in low light situations, accept external microphones, and, of course, also take high-quality still photographs.
While most modern DSLRs have video capabilities, some rise above the rest when it comes to specific features that videographers want. Here we’ll talk about some of the things to look for when choosing a DSLR or mirrorless camera for video and give recommendations for some of our favorites and picks for the best mirrorless camera for video. You can also check out which photos made our list as the best Canon DSLR for any photographer.
The Best DSLR for Video
Best DSLRs for Video
1. Canon 5D Mark III
($129 7 day rental, $2,500 retail, body only)
Canon’s ever-popular 5D Mark III may be a photography powerhouse but it works as a video camera as well. Because of its low light performance, stunning image quality, and 41 cross-type autofocus points, the 5D Mark III is the best Canon DSLR for video (as of this writing) and leads the field when it comes to autofocus points and low-light performance.
While this camera, which was first released in 2012, lacks some of the features (like a flip-out screen and 4K capabilities) of newer models, its superior image quality and robust autofocus system make it worthy of a place in any videographer’s toolkit.
This camera’s predecessor, the 5D Mark II, has been used extensively in television and film and was used to shoot the entire final episode of the TV show House. Check out the video above, which was shot in Iceland entirely with a Canon 5D Mark III, to see what this camera can do.
2. Sony Alpha a7S II
($171 7 day rental, $3,000 rental, body only)
While we’re focusing largely on DSLRs, they aren’t the only cameras that take excellent video. Sony’s a7SII is a mirrorless camera that excels at videography.
This camera has 169 autofocus points and records 4K video on its full frame sensor. Because the a7S II is mirrorless, it is smaller and weighs considerably less than the other full frame cameras on our list. This camera has built-in image stabilization and is known for working exceptionally well in low-light situations.
Videographers who want the ability to take 4K video, shoot in dark conditions, and don’t want to lug around a DSLR all the time will love the a7S II. A stunning example of the a7S II’s low light performance is above.
3. Nikon D810
($148 7 day rental, $2,800 retail, body only)
The powerful D810 is the best Nikon DSLR for video (as of this writing). This camera, which was released in 2014, shoots 1080p video at 60 FPS, has a 36 MP full frame sensor, and locks into focus with its 15 cross-type (and 51 total) autofocus points. The D810 competes with Canon’s 5D Mark III—and does it well. Watch the video above to see just how good this camera is.
4. Panasonic Lumix GH4
($83 7 day rental, $1,300 retail, body only)
If you like the smaller size of the Sony Alpha a7S II but balk at the price, this may be the camera for you. The GH4 is a mirrorless micro four thirds camera that records 4K video at 24 and 30 FPS and weighs only 1.2 pounds.
It has a 49-point autofocus system and 3” swivel screen. It’s also the only camera on this list that can record videos longer than 29 minutes, 59 seconds. This camera is an ideal option for budget-minded videographers who want a small but extremely powerful camera. Above is an example of what it can do. Those who want even better performance may consider waiting for the release of the GH5, which is coming out soon and is rumored to have 6K video capabilities!
5. Canon 80D
($78 7 day rental, $1,200 retail, body only)
Canon’s 80D is a favorite among vloggers and videographers as a budget friendly DSLR that takes amazing video. This crop sensor camera records 1080p at 60 FPS and has fast and accurate autofocus thanks to its 45-point AF system. The 80D is a good option for videographers who want good image quality at an affordable price and who don’t need a full frame sensor or 4K recording. The 80D’s beautiful imaging can be seen above.
6. Canon T6i
($47 7 day rental, $750 retail, body only)
Canon’s T6i is the newest member (as of this writing) of the Rebel line and a powerful crop sensor DSLR for aspiring videographers. This well-priced DSLR has a flip out screen, 24 MP sensor, and records 1080p video at 30 FPS. This camera is a good fit for those who like the size and video capabilities of the Nikon D3300 (below) but also want a flip screen and improved autofocus. This video above shows just how good the T6i is.
7. Nikon D3300
($39 7 day rental, $550 retail, lens included)
The D3300 is the least expensive camera on our list but don’t be fooled by its low price. This camera, which only comes as a kit if purchased (you can get the body alone if you rent), records 1080p video at 60 FPS on its 24 MP sensor. The D3300 is a suitable option for those who want good video quality at a really great price. If you think you can’t take beautiful video with an entry-level DSLR, check this out.
|Camera||Canon 5D Mark III||Sony a7SII||Nikon D810||Panasonic Lumix GH4||Canon 80D||Canon T6i||Nikon D3300|
|Max Video Res.||1080p at 30 FPS||4K up to 30 FPS, 1080p up to 120 FPS||1080p at 60 FPS||4K at 24 and 30 FPS||1080p at 60 FPS||1080p at 30 FPS||1080p at 60 FPS|
|Sensor Size||22.3MP Full Frame||12.2MP Full Frame||36.3 MP Full Frame||16 MP Micro Four Thirds||24.2 MP APS-C||24.2 MP APS-C||24.2 MP APS-C|
|Battery Life||950 shots||370 shots||900 shots||500 shots||1390 shots||440 shots||700 shots|
|Screen||3.2″ rear screen||3.0” tiltable LCD||3.2″ rear screen||3″ swivel screen||3″ articulating LCD||3″ pivoting LCD||3″ rear screen|
|Weight||1.89 lbs||1.4 lbs||1.9 lbs||1.2 lbs||1.6 lbs||1.2 lbs||0.9 lbs|
|Autofocus||61 points, 41 cross-type||169 points||51 points, 15 cross-type||49 points||45 cross-type||19 cross-type||11 points, 1 cross-type|
Features to look for in a DSLR for Video
When it comes to picking the perfect camera for video, there are some important things to consider. It helps to know how, where, and why you plan to use your camera. Thinking about things like whether you will be shooting in low light, if you plan to take slow motion video, and how big of a camera you are willing to carry around will all help make your decision easier. Here are some features to consider when choosing a DSLR for videos:
Autofocus Type – Modern DSLRs typically have two different types of autofocus points: cross-type and phase detection. Phase detection points are the most common and least powerful. All focus points look for contrast in the frame but phase detection points are only able to detect vertical changes in contrast. Cross-type points are able to detect both horizontal and vertical changes in contrast, allowing them to find focus better and more quickly. Simply put, the more cross-type points you have, the better your autofocus capabilities will be.
Max Video Resolution – Resolution is simply a measure of how many pixels a video or image contains. The more pixels you have, the sharper your image. 4K video resolution is on the rise but it is certainly not always necessary.
You may be surprised to see that two of the top cameras on our list (the Canon 5D Mark III and Nikon D810) only shoot at resolutions up to 1080p. The truth is that while 4K video may be stunningly beautiful, many screens are not able to make the most of all of those glorious pixels. But that’s not to say that 4K video isn’t worth it.
Having a lot of pixels to play with gives you more cropping options in post processing, allows you to edit for different views (wide angle, zoomed in, etc.) from the same clip, and lets you pull high-quality still images from your videos. So while 1080p is more than enough (as evidenced by our recommendations for cameras that max out well before 4K), it definitely has some advantages. Videographers who want a camera that captures more data, allows for more flexibility in editing, and produces the clearest videos possible should look for 4K capabilities.
Size and Weight – A camera may not seem heavy when you first pick it up but after a long day of shooting your hands and arms will feel it. One of the biggest downsides of full frame DSLRs is that they can be heavy. If you are using a tripod or plan to only shoot in smaller chunks this may not be a big deal but if you see long days behind the camera in your future, you may want to take size and weight into consideration.
Mirrorless cameras (like the Sony a7SII) may be the best option for smaller videographers or those who want a lighter setup. It’s also worth noting that size and weight is one of the few places that crop sensor (APS-C) bodies have a leg up on their full frame counterparts. Crop sensor cameras are generally lighter and smaller.
Battery Life – Recording video eats up camera batteries fast and other camera features like LCD screens and continuous autofocus can drain batteries even faster. While most modern DSLRs and mirrorless cameras have decent battery life, there is some variation across the models. Battery life is typically measured in still shots on one charge but it can still give an idea of how long a battery will last for recording video. You’ll likely need multiple backup batteries for recording a project, and even more to account for lower battery performance in colder climates.
Sensor Size – Modern DSLRs are either full frame or APS-C (also known as crop sensor). A full frame sensor is larger, allowing it to capture more light (for better low light performance), achieve shallower depth of field, and have a brighter viewfinder.
But just because they’re the gold standard in photography doesn’t mean full frame cameras are without drawbacks – like being heavy and expensive. APS-C cameras are typically lighter and cheaper than their full frame counterparts. Videographers who do not plan on shooting in low-light conditions or don’t care about achieving a shallow depth of field may want to forgo the extra cost of a full frame camera and stick with APS-C.
It’s also important to know that the same lens will appear to have a to have a longer reach on an APS-C camera than it does on a full frame (see diagram above), this may be a bad thing if you like wide angle shots but it’s often appreciated by sports and wildlife photographers. Learn more about this in New DSLR Owners: What You Must Know About Full Frame vs Crop Frame Sensors Before Choosing a Lens.
I/O Ports – Input/Output (I/O) ports on DSLRs allow for greater flexibility in the way the camera interfaces with your computer, phone, and other external devices. Things like headphones, microphones, and USB ports can give you more options for how you use your camera and what you connect it to. Ideally, your camera should have ports for a microphone and pair of headphones as well as HDMI out (for connecting external monitors, etc).
Slow Motion – Sports and action videographers may appreciate the ability to shoot slow motion video. A high frame rate is the key to being able to slow the action down. The faster your frame rate, the more you can slow down your final product. A camera that shoots in 60 FPS or above is ideal for those who know they want to include slow motion in their videos.
Lens Availability – It is important to keep in mind that when you invest in a camera with interchangeable lenses you are also investing in an entire system. A Nikon camera cannot support Canon lenses and vice versa (without using adapters, that is, which can have AF and aperture drawbacks). If there is a specific focal length or type of lens that you want to use for your videos, be sure to choose a camera body that will support it.
Stabilization – Taking smooth video, especially if you are shooting handheld, is hard. Image stabilization (IS) helps to nullify the effects of camera shake. This is especially useful for videographers who will be shooting with longer lenses, as camera shake is more noticeable with increased focal length.
Some cameras, like the Sony a7SII, have built-in stabilization but for most you will want to look for IS in your lenses. This is not as big of a deal for videographers who don’t plan on moving around much or will never use a longer lens but it is something to consider when investing in a camera system.
The Best DSLR for Video under $500
For those who want to keep the budget down while still being able to take high-quality video, Nikon’s D3300 is the way to go. This small crop-sensor DSLR is a good way to try out videography at an excellent price. It is also a good option for a camera is a perfect way to get started while you rent other bodies to see if a more expensive one is right for you.
The Best DSLR for Video under $1,000
Those who want more features and improved performance without breaking the bank will be well-served by the Canon T6i. With its robust autofocus system, flip screen, and ability to shoot high-res video, this is a camera that will make a budget-minded videographer happy for years to come.
The Best DSLR for Video Overall
For those who want the best quality and most features regardless of price, the Canon 5D Mark III is the obvious choice. There’s a reason this is the camera so many pros use. Despite its inability to shoot 4K video, its image quality, 41 cross-type autofocus points, and stellar low-light performance make it the best of the bunch.
There are a lot of things to consider when it comes to picking a DSLR for videography and few things are as useful as actually getting your hands onto the cameras you are considering. Remember that renting cameras before you buy is a good way to be sure that you are making the right choice. Also, don’t forget to check out our other tips and tricks including this guide for the best low light video camera. Make the most out of your videography with the proper gear.
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Introduction to Online Jobs are investment free
Online jobs are the need of the day; especially an online job is a worth for students, senior citizens, disable peoples and housewives. Most of the people around the globe are interested in to earn some money for their living by working online. Online job are considered as the most comfortable one as by doing these jobs an employee is free of working hours as well as transportation and other requirements of an offline job.
Still there are many people who are reluctant to apply for an online job. They think that it is not possible to do such kind of job without an investment. They are not sure that even if they invest for it either the net result will be in their favor or they will end up as a loser.
To your great surprise I am giving you the good news that there is no investment required if you are interested in to work for an online job. The only thing what you have to do is to look for a legitimate website which is offering the legitimate jobs to its employees. To search for a legitimate website you should have lot of patience, should be hard working, and above all it needs your time and dedications. In this article I would like to discuss some of the basic strategies which could help you to search for a genuine employer.
What Tools are required for searching an online job?
Keyword is a basic tool to search for required information on the net, but without a proper combination of the keyword it is not possible to achieve the favorable results. For example if you are interested in to search for a site which is giving services for dating on line the best keyword will be “online dating”, “date online” or “online dating for singles”. There is lot of search engines including Google, and Yahoo where you could start your search. Including Google AdWords there are some other services which are providing help in searching for the proper keywords. These services provide you a lot of information about the proper keywords in one click.
There is no question that someone has to invest for an online job. These job are always free to all, there are hundreds of website which are directing you to such companies who are offering investment free online jobs. If any of the website or company ask you to pay before offering you a job than make it sure that it is scam.
As I say that there are a lot of companies available on the net which are offering for online jobs to the job seekers. These companies are giving the full details of the job they offer for, but if still you need to have some more additional information about a job to which you are interested in then do not hesitate to contact them and ask them for the required information.
Where to find an online job on the net
It is easy to search a job of your choice on the net but still you need some more information which could be helpful to you to come closer to your target. Forums are one of the best examples of it. Forums are one of the best places where you could search your required information more easily. Forums are like the houses of community where people come and sit together. On online forums people discuss and share their views and experiences. If you need a good advice or if you are in search of a legitimate online job site then forums are the best place for you. You can get an honest advice from an experience member as well as there are many other members who will willingly ready to lead you to a legitimate online job site.
It will be better for you to study the trends of the members of the concerned forum, see what most of them are talking about and what is interesting in it for you. Do most of the members discuss the same as what you are looking for? If the answer is in YES then you may start posting your posts and asking the other members for an online help. Ask them what you need, tell them about your experiences and qualifications. They will definitely be glad to help you. But if the answer is in a NO and the forum is not closer to your requirements then you should join some other one as net if full of the forums on different topics.
Members of the forum could give you the information about the website of different companies. These companies are providing complete details of each and every job they are offering for. Most of them provide a form where you could fill in all the required information they are asking for. But again before you fill in their online form you must be very careful and should check the worth of that site on the net. See that what page rank (PR) they are having on the net. There are lots of scam companies which also work in the same way as of a legitimate one and even they offer a better package as compare to a legitimate one.
Social networking is also a good source where you can search the job in the same way as what you are searching at the different online forums. Facebook, LinkedIn and google+ are some of the social networking site where thousands of people are available all-the time and are ready to help you.
End credits to Online Jobs are investment free
I hope that I already have discussed a lot about Online Jobs are investment free. I also hope that my readers will found this article very helpful for them. Any suggestions from my readers will be an honor for me. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://onlinejobs-madeeasy.blogspot.com/2016/ |
Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth BeharHistorical Fiction. In 1966, things are looking up for Jewish-Cuban immigrant Ruthie: she's the hopscotch queen of her New York neighborhood, her English is getting much better, and her Papi finally let her have a pair of white go-go boots. Then a terrible car accident lands her in a full-body cast, and Ruthie is stuck in bed for nearly a year. Adjusting is hard, but with support from her diverse group of family and friends, Ruthie finds new ways to explore art, faith, and her own fears. If you like bittersweet, realistic stories about surviving tough situations, you don't want to miss Lucky Broken Girl.
Real Friends by Shannon Hale; illustrated by LeUyen PhamGraphic Novel Memoir. Before she became a famous author, Shannon Hale was an awkward, imaginative girl with a mission: to find "one good friend." She thinks she's found the one in pretty, confident Adrienne -- until 5th grade, when Adrienne begins hanging out with a group of popular girls who have no problem with being mean to Shannon to make themselves seem cooler. At home, Shannon's scary older sister Wendy continues the bullying -- can Shannon ever find a place to fit in? With crisp, colorful illustrations, this honest yet optimistic memoir is perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile or Cece Bell's El Deafo.
King of the Bench: No Fear! by Steve MooreFiction. Middle school baseball player Steve suffers from a case of "Bean-O-Phobia" -- he's terrified of being beaned in the face by a baseball. This fear is just one of the many reasons that Steve spends most games on the bench alongside his friends, Carlos Diaz and Joey Linguini. Through short chapters and goofy, exaggerated cartoons, you can follow Steve as he tries to find his courage, as well as deal with a worrywart mom, a homework-eating snake, and a coach with an earwax problem. If you laugh-snorted your way through Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid books and want more stories about likable underdogs, this series opener is a home run.
Cilla Lee-Jenkins: Future Author Extraordinaire by Susan Tan; illustrated by Dana WulfekotteFiction. Eight-and-a-half-year-old Cilla Lee-Jenkins knows that she's meant to be a big-name author someday. People will want to know her life story, but she's got to start writing it now, before it's turned upside down by "The Blob" (also known as the new baby her mom is expecting). On top of this unwelcome deadline, Cilla also has to deal with two pairs of beloved grandparents -- one Chinese, and one white -- who can't seem to get along. Anyone who's ever felt both loved and annoyed by their family will want to root for Cilla in this funny 1st book in a series.
Thunder Underground by Jane Yolen; illustrated by Josee MassePoetry. What's in the ground beneath you right now? You might be surprised by the unexpected things you discover in this book of poetry about the underground world. Here, alongside whimsical cutaway artwork that gives you a peek inside the earth, you'll find poems about living things (like moles, bugs, and roots), things that are built (like rushing subways and pipes), and things that are buried (like pirate treasure and fossils). You'll even get some facts about caves, magma, and earthquakes, making this easy-to-read book a good pick for "scientists and daydreamers" (School Library Journal) alike.
Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt and Alison McGheeFantasy. On a snowy morning in Vermont, an unusual fox kit is born. At the same moment, 12-year-old Sylvie Sherman falls into the river and disappears. Devastated, Sylvie's sister Jules struggles to find her way in an "After Sylvie" world. She finds comfort in the forest, where she can sort her treasured rock collection and catch glimpses of a fox -- a fox whose spirit is connected to Jules in ways that neither of them understands...yet. Told from the point of view of both girl and fox, this heart-wrenching yet hopeful book will appeal to mature fans of Sara Pennypacker's Pax.
The Second Life of Abigail Walker by Frances O'Roark DowellFiction. Although Abby Walker is sort of friends with Kristen and the other popular girls, they've started being really mean to her. In a brave moment, Abby stands up to them -- and "that's that," no more friends. But after Abby spots a mysterious fox in her neighborhood, she soon finds herself making new friends and figuring out how to live according to her own rules. Readers who like a touch of fantasy will enjoy following the fox's story, while those who like realistic, emotional stories about friendships and family will want to read about Abby and what she's going through.
Nocturnals: The Mysterious Abductions by Tracey HechtAnimal Fantasy. Animals are disappearing from the Valley every night. First, small animals like kiwis, jerboas, and a tarantula, but soon wombats, coyotes, and honey badgers go missing too. It seems like there's a kidnapper on the loose, and the Brigade -- Dawn the fox, Bismark the sugar glider, and Tobin the pangolin -- is determined to find out who it is and what they've done with the missing animals. With a twisty mystery, fascinating Australian animal characters, and just enough humor, The Mysterious Abductions kicks off the Nocturnals series, which continues in The Ominous Eye and The Fallen Star.
Foxcraft: The Taken by Inbali IserlesAnimal Fantasy. After a mysterious gang of foxes burns down her home, young foxling Isla has no choice but to flee. Separated from her family, Isla tries to survive in a dangerous city full of furless (you might call them humans). There, she meets red fox Siffrin, who teaches her the magic of foxcraft…but can she truly trust him to help her find her family? Fans of Erin Hunter's books who want further sagas about complex, magical animal societies will be enchanted by this 1st adventure in the Foxcraft series -- so be sure to have book 2, The Elders, ready for when you're done!
Pax by Sara PennypackerFiction. Peter and his pet fox, Pax, are best friends. Peter found the orphaned kit on the day of his mother's funeral, and the two have been together ever since. Even after Peter's father, who's headed off to fight in a war, forces Peter to abandon Pax in the wild, the two can't bear to be apart: Peter sets out to walk the hundreds of miles back to his pet, while Pax struggles to survive until their reunion. Illustrations by award-winning artist Jon Klassen enhance this moving tale, which has all the honesty and heart of classics like E.B. White's Charlotte's Web and Robert Newton Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die.
Contact your librarian for more great books! | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.libraryaware.com/406/NewsletterIssues/ViewIssue/5fdab680-953f-405b-9495-8b7ace614096?postId=3268462c-5388-4585-8adf-d3ae0ea93dc6 |
The 2009 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XXV Summer Universiade were celebrated in Belgrade, Serbia from July 1 to 12, 2009. The event has also been organised by a range of co-host cities mostly in Vojvodina (Serbian Autonomous Province), close to Belgrade. It was the largest sporting event ever to be organised by the city. At this Universiade the biggest star was the Russian rhythmic gymnast Evgeniya Kanaeva who won 5 gold medals. Russia was the leading nation in the medal table, with most gold medals (27) and most medals (76). | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.universiade-belgrade2009.org/ |
In his SVG is for Everybody talk at An Event Apart in Seattle WA 2014, Chris Coyier walked through the current state of SVG and how Web designers and developers can use it on their sites today. Here are my notes from his talk:
- SVG can made from essentially anything "vector". You can learn the syntax but you don't need to. If you can open it in Illustrator, you can save it as SVG.
- SVG will never replace raster graphics (sets of pixels), it is good for icons, illustrations, diagrams, charts, logos, etc.
- SVG is not new -its been around since 1999. It was designed for the Web but coverage was not great.
- 10% of sites on the Web are using SVG according to Google.
- To create SVG, you can hand-craft code or use a vector editing tool.
- IE 9 does not support gradients but it does support SVG, so you can use it to create gradients in that browser.
- SVG will resize itself to whatever space it has to fill, without loosing resolution.
- Images set to max-width 100% will fill the size of their container and not more. With vector images, you can instead set width to 100%.
- Inline SVG is just SVG code right inside HTML. You can set styles on each element in the markup.
- Three big advantages to inline SVG. 1) all the elements are in the DOM so they can be styled and scripted. 2) No additional http requests are needed to load the image 3) You can define it once and reuse it again.
- SVG templating system: sites need a system for icons. Use inline SVG and wrap elements with DEF tags, which makes sure it does not render. Then display: none on the whole SVG element.
- From that point on, you can reference the DEFs in your SVG throughout the site. Define an object once and reuse it in many places.
- You can set a folder of SVGs and use Grunt to create the inline code and DEFs you need for it. This is the idea of sprites for SVG
- Unlike image sprites, SVG sprites are vector based, don't require background positioning code, can be restyled with colors, strokes, etc. (including SVG CSS controls).
- You can control individual parts of SVG using CSS. You get some of these advantages with SVG images but not all of them.
Icon Fonts vs. SVG
- Both are vectors but icon fonts use anti-aliasing rules.
- Both have CSS control but SVG has lots more: class names, target parts, SVG specific
- Positioning of icon fonts is subject to line-heights and letter spacing. SVG is a lot easier to position.
- Icon fonts have weird failures like CDNs/headers, IE6 supports font-face but other versions of Windows phone do not.
- SVG has better semantics as it is just images instead of images in text/fonts.
- Accessibility with icon fonts requires a lot of care. SVG is better as it is just an image tag.
- Icon fonts win at support (IE6+) vs. SVG (IE9).
Dealing with Fallbacks
- SVG needs fallback for IE 6-8 and Android 2.
- One fallback is to show nothing. If you are using SVG for icon enhancements, you may not need them on lower end browsers.
- Multiple background support is basically as good as SVG support so you can use them as fallbacks in background-images.
- You should also optimize your SVG files like you optimize other Web graphics. SVG-O is a tool that can do that for you.
SVG also supports animations, filters (including CSS filters), and more. It's a massive world of potential. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1859 |
I finished the custom afghan order this week and it's packed up and on it's way across the country to CA. I hope she likes it!!
Now to decide what my next project will be......a crocheted scarf or maybe a prim doll? Hmmmm
Hope everyone is enjoying their summer!! | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://craftsbycarrieblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/ |
The cloud formations have been magnificent lately- so I started this from a window view. I was thinking about composition ideas I've been reading about, like dominance and subordination or notan, light/dark shape relationships. Since this was small I decided to paint more thickly than I usually do, pushing the paint around.
Oil on hardboard
5" X 7" | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://daily-painting-practice.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html |
Opinion seems to be divided about ITV's Sunday night showing of the new Mansfield Park with Blake Ritson and Billie Piper.
General criticisms in the media seem to be that it was too short - agreed! - and that the beginning felt rushed - also agreed! - but with a 90 minute running time, these things were inevitable.
Billie Piper's acting and casting have come in for a variety of opinions, with some people thinking she was excellent and some thinking she was miscast, but overall, here on the blog, we liked her.
"I think it is one of JA's better books and enjoyed the tv adaptation," says Wendy. "It's very easy to criticise the costumes and such but shouldn't we stop worrying about details and simply enjoy being entertained? When all's said and done, isn't that what every tv programme and books strives to do? Having said all that, I did think that anyone unfamiliar with the book would wonder what Mrs Norris was all about. The adverse effect she had on Fanny's upbringing wasn't apparent from tv. I hated Fanny's hair and agree that she ran around too much - she was supposed to be the ultimate poor relation, after all - but I still sat spellbound for two hours"
Blake Ritson seems to have been liked by all for his portrayal of Edmund. He captured Emdund's upright qualities without making him seem preachy or a drip.
Melinda found it a bit static but says, "I think this is a very difficult book to put on screen - it is the story of two nice people, so not a lot of scope there.Maybe Ken Russell could have done better."
Ken Russell making Mansfield Park? Now there's a thought!
And for those who can't get enough of Fanny and Edmund, why not try Edmund Bertram's Diary? The hardback (left) is already out, and the paperback (right) comes out in August 2008. Experience the story through Edmund's eyes!
There are further books in the series, with Mr Darcy's Diary, Mr Knightley's Diary and Cpt Wentworth's Diary already out, and Col Brandon's Diary coming out in 2008.
More details on Amanda Grange's website. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://historicalromanceuk.blogspot.com/2007/03/mansfield-park-with-blake-ritson-and.html |
Job Opportunities in Dubai
As one of the world’s fastest growing economies, there are many job opportunities in Dubai. The area has seen an enormous boom in it’s property market and as a result this has created jobs across most if not ALL industry sectors.
The demand for construction jobs in Dubai has been immense with the UAE government looking to employ non UAE nationals who posses the technical ‘know-how’ as well as experience within their specialist fields. Vacancies seem to be coming through thick and fast, even through the credit crunch.
With more innovative development projects being implemented all the time, engineering jobs in Dubai also seem to be well sought after as developers are looking to hire those with innovative and unique ideas.
The tourism industry in Dubai accounts for the largest income (after Oil & Gas) and is still burgeoning. There are no signs of the economy slowing down or the Emirates tourism industry decelerating. Because of this, millions of visitors are flocking to Dubai year after year and those working within the corporate hospitality sectors can look to search for hotel jobs in Dubai as this is also a growth area.
Whatever your background or experiences, there are always job opportunities in Dubai. If you are looking at potentially moving to Dubai, then be sure to register yourself with all the necessary job agencies so you can give yourself a head start.
Living and working in Dubai offers a great opportunity for those thinking about relocating to Dubai. As a country that offers tax free earnings, a fantastic quality of life and all year sunshine, its no wonder that there are so many people who want to work in Dubai.
Why not become a member of the Dubai Forum now? It’s free and only takes a few minutes to sign-up. You can find vacancies that people have posted or let people know that you are looking for work in Dubai | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.dubaiforum.co.uk/dubai-job-opportunities.shtml |
Re: sasl on smtps: allowing plaintext
- On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:19:56AM +0200, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> Maybe I'm being paranoid, but because not all my relays support TLS IThe suggestion is I believe to use smtp_tls_policy_maps to ensure
> cannot be stricter than
> smtp_tls_security_level = may
> without also having separate transports (if I understand correctly).
> So if I do not set noplaintext and someday one of the
> usually-TLS-enabled relays doesn't offer TLS (config hickup...),
> postfix will AUTH.
that TLS is used for destinations where you will be using plaintext
# MITM resistant authenticated TLS
[smtp.example.com]:587 secure match=smtp.example.com
# MITM vulnerable unauthenticated TLS
# Some day when provider adopts DNSSEC and publishes a suitable TLSA
# RRset and you've deployed Postfix 2.11
- On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:37:53 +0000, Viktor Dukhovni
> The suggestion is I believe to use smtp_tls_policy_maps to ensureThanks, I think I understand now:
> that TLS is used for destinations where you will be using plaintext
main.cf (or a few -o in master.cf's submission service):
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_tls_security_level = must
smtp_tls_policy_maps = hash:blah
This is indeed closer to the mental picture I had of the solution
(host-based lookup), but I didn't notice the need for a laxist
I've the idea to someday move my postfix setup to a server also sending
& receiving mails for its own domain. Is it a bad idea (error-prone)
to mix both of those use cases on a single postfix, generally speaking ?
If I understand correctly, a setup with both roles would need your
initial suggestion (which I setup successfully before noticing the
- On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 08:10:44PM +0200, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:37:53 +0000, Viktor Dukhovni"must" is not a valid value for "smtp_tls_security_level", see the
> <postfix-users@...> wrote:
> > The suggestion is I believe to use smtp_tls_policy_maps to ensure
> > that TLS is used for destinations where you will be using plaintext
> > authentication.
> Thanks, I think I understand now:
> main.cf (or a few -o in master.cf's submission service):
> smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
> smtp_tls_security_level = must
documentation for details.
> smtp_tls_policy_maps = hash:blahEither a secure default and insecure exceptions, or the converse.
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That day was a watershed in my transition from a talented amateur to a serious artist. I had always subscribed to the mantra "good enough is not good enough" in my profession, but until that day I had not done so as an artist. From then on I resolved that I would make things as good as I could in my art, even if that took time and effort.
Which is a long way to get to how I spent yesterday afternoon.
Several weeks ago I was well along on quilting a piece when I went to brush away a bit of what seemed to be black lint. Oh, the klong when I realized that the lint was actually some kind of gooey foreign substance that left a spot on the pale yellow of my quilt! Scrubbing it with a wet washcloth accomplished nothing. My next plan was to put the quilt away and work on something else -- maybe the spot would disappear. (I firmly believe that in the entire history of textile art this has actually happened at least once.)
In my pre-serious days I would have cussed a few times, then carefully planned my stitching to pass over the spot and hoped that it would be camouflaged from view. I toyed with that idea for several days but this afternoon I realized that I just had to do the right thing, which of course was to cut the spot out and sew in new, clean fabric.
Rather than rip out any of the quilting, I decided to slice right through the spot and piece in another narrow strip of red-and-white striped fabric. I opened a seam so the repair would be as small as possible. I chose to slice the top parallel to a nearby strip so it looked like part of the original design (the ruler runs right through the spot).
To make sure I had plenty of fabric for the mend, I cut a new piece of yellow fabric at the same angle as the original piece but an inch bigger in either direction. Then I cut a new piece of stripes and stitched the new piece back into place. It was cumbersome to fold the top away from the batting and backing, and to work so close to the huge bulk of the quilted portion, but with a lot of pins and patience everything worked.
PS -- note to self -- don't make any more quilts with wide expanses of plain, pale yellow. It's like wearing a white dress to cook spaghetti. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://artwithaneedle.blogspot.com/2010/08/doing-right-thing.html |
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I booked a single room and I got the deluxe room for the same price as well as a huge warm wellcome and friendly and be treated like a family member with the owners, lovely couple .
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Conveniently located next to Keynsham station, the room was clean and tidy, the bed was very comfy and the gentleman working there was very friendly.
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Friendly, clean, excellent
We stayed for 1 night and the host couldn't of been more helpful.
She allowed us to check in early due to our evening arrangements. She fixed a new button on my partners jacket (which was a complete life saver!). We were able to have an extra long lie in as we didn't leave our party until late and we were then given our own breakfast even though we had missed the time slot and haven't even booked it.
The room was beautiful, bed was really comfy and all finished were well done.
I recommend this hotel 100% and would stay again whenever in the area.
Hospitality Goes a long way
Due to walking out of my previously booked hotel due to noise and frankly rude reception staff I came to the manor last minute out necessity.
The Lady there was lovely, extremely accommodating, very friendly and made me a glass of orange when I arrived which I thought was really nice of her, she gave me a choice of rooms and allowed me to stay a little longer in the morning after I came off my night shift. I had a sound sleep and the bed was comfortable. It is in my view great for workers who are here on brief visits to Bristol. My only gripe, which was very small was the sausages were fried not grilled, which I personally don't like. Other than that it was a nice little family run place, run by a lovely couple.
i got free wine here!
Family run business and because I spoke her language she cracked a bottle of wine open for me.
Cool. Fabulous rooms and very quiet. Clean and comfy. Highly recommend this place.
Everything is adequate about this hotel. nothing flash, just basic accomodation
Had to leave early so no breakfast.
Place was clean, but basic.
Excellent for the price | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://www.laterooms.com/en/p1301/pv2076832/hotel-reviews/264673_the-manor-lodge-guesthouse-bristol.aspx |
By Tammy Straw-Dunn
Initiated by a small group of neighbors, this community message board was brought to fruition through donations & volunteered time, collaborating with The City Repair Project & the Portland Bureau of Transportation. The design, includes exciting features like living roof, re-purposed hardware, and artistic mosaic work at the foundations, created by neighbors of all ages.
The South Burlingame neighborhood is a mix of residents who have lived here since they grew up in the neighborhood in the 1950s, including active senior walkers & gardeners, empty nesters, renting students, and many young, new families. The residents are excited to meet and participate in activities with their neighbors and were looking for better ways to share their interests and hear about planned activities than word-of-mouth or scattered email list serves.
The planning, construction, and continued use of this message board all represent a wonderful and engaging way to foster community… that is easy for any neighborhood to replicate!
Here is a fun, pictoral How-To of our process!
Build form work & structure; pour concrete; remove forms once set.
Collect, break, & sort tile pieces; mortar design to backer board; mortar designed panels to pair of concrete foundations; grout & sponge-rinse completed tile work.
Living Roof & Sign Board
Mill salvaged wood to build sign board; stain wood surfaces; build roof with waterproof membrane, root barrier, flashing, & drainage openings at lower fascia; line roof bed with moisture blanket & filter fabric; spread river rocks at lower edge for drainage & roll filter fabric beneath to hold in place; fill roof box with soil mixture; plant with sedum in autumn. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.communitecture.net/updates/category/public-space |
Changes in Schedules
The Doane Cross Country teams will participate at the Concordia Invite on Saturday, October 6. The meet has moved up the start time of both races. The women will go at 10:00 (originally 10:30) and the men will go at 10:45.
The Tiger Sports Network (TSN) has added three games to the broadcast schedule. On Wednesday, October 10, the women's & men's soccer games, as well as volleyball game at Concordia, will all be broadcasted on TSN. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.doane.edu/news/changes-in-schedules |
I pride myself on being independent and objective and have explored the policies and planks of the three UFT caucuses and have come to some decisions on who I will be voting for in the UFT election. This post critiqued the different caucuses running in the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) elections and how I came to my decision. I hope this guides many of you to make the right choices.
MORE: This is a dynamic and vibrant organization and many of my favorite educators and bloggers are running under the MORE banner. While I really want MORE to do well, their emphasis on the leftist dogma of "Social Justice" is very disturbing to me. I suspect many educators who are "moderate" like me will have a problem with MORE's "Social Justice" part of their plank and is the main reason I cannot join MORE. Nevertheless, MORE may be the first caucus that could garner enough votes in the high schools to capture a seat or two and maybe more since the hayday of ICE.
New Action: This caucus, despite its leftist origin, has drifted into the center and is probably most closely aligned with my own philosophy. While I really do understand why New Action "sold their soul" to Unity for some limited power, I would never have made such a deal and despite how closely I identify with the political goals of New Action, I cannot join an organization that sold their "soul to the devil".
Unity: The most dominant caucus and likely winner. However, the Unity caucus is a "top down organization" and fails to allow its members to vote on important matters that affect the classroom. I have personally experienced the smug attitude and down right arrogance of the leaders and how they lack democracy and transparency when negotiating member rights. . Examples are the ATR crises which they created from that very same 2005 contract and then changed to make the ATR's life a living hell by rotating weekly to different schools, supporting the badly flawed "race to the top" program and allowing the DOE to use Charlotte Danielson's rubric which will have a detrimental effect on the classroom teacher. Who can forget the terrible 2005 contract that made teaching in the classroom a nightmare. I could never join an organization that requires an oath that stifles dissent as a condition of advancement.
Listed below are my picks
President: Julie Cavanagh - MORE While Michael Mulgrew is a step up from Randi Weingarten, his failure to bring more democratic and transparent policies to better reflect member concerns was the determining factor.
Secretary: Brian Jones - MORE The co-star in" the inconvenient truth of Waiting for Superman" really impressed me and he deserves a chance to bring the union into another direction.
VP Special Education: Carmen Alvarez - Unity. She has done a great job and never replace what works. District 75 in particular believe her advocacy has made their life easier and the driving force to get paid for working on SESIS.
Assistant Treasurer: Michael Fiorillo - MORE Few teachers are as intelligent and knowledgeable than Michael. The other two cannot compare to Mr. Fiorillo.
Treasurer: Camille Eterno - MORE Mel Aaronson was a very effective Treasurer but has been long retired. I want an active teacher who understands the present day realities of the classroom to handle my money. Being married to James tells me she is a good decision maker.
Executive Board: - High School -
Jonathan Halabi - New Action/Unity He really tries and has been a dissenting voice in the past.
Kit Wainer - MORE Is an effective advocate for the classroom teacher.
James Eterno - MORE - The best there was, the best there is, and the best there ever will be.
Peter Lamphere - MORE. We all know his story and I hope he wins.
Other people I will be voting for:
Amy Arundell - Unity. She really helps teachers. One of my heroes.
Peter Zucker - MORE. A blogger and a fighter.
Rona Feiser - Unity. A good person to have in your corner.
Norm Scott - MORE A one person information center and that's important.
Debbie Saal - MORE. Great teacher, nuff said.
Richard Skibins - Unity One of the original bloggers.
Angela Artis: - Unity. She's always helpful, very knowledgeable.
Fransesco Portelos - MORE. Rubberized and we need him to represent those teachers in trouble.
By default, I will be voting for MORE candidates when I have not identified a candidate because we need a change, despite their wrong headed "social justice" plank. Remember, if you pick a caucus slate by putting an "X" on the first page and try to select candidates, you invalidate the entire ballot. Therefore, either pick the candidates individually or select a caucus slate not both!
One last point is the absense from the UFT election process is the education deformer sock puppet and "fifth columnists" Educators 4 Excellence (E4E) and the reason is that they would have been exposed as a fraud with only the fringe (less than 100 TFA educators) who would actually vote for E4E. My advise to E4E just go away, your failure to participate in the election makes your organization irrelevant to New York City teachers. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://chaz11.blogspot.com/2013/04/critiquingthe-uft-elections.html |
Monday morning bus stops will be full of chilly children doing the two-sneaker shuffle dance, hands stuffed in wind breaker pockets, collars turned to the breeze, the air suffuse with old bug spray. These are sure signs of fishermen parents who, forcing the hand of spring, have banished all winter clothing to dark cellar corners, creating precious space for new season valuables. Rods, spare reels, waders, trout nets, selfies with stripers can all reclaim their order in closets and on shelves. Parents will tell their children, “It was so much colder when I was a kid”, “the heat’s on at school”, or “The days are getting warmer anyway”.
This annual transfer, which may possibly occur without the agreement of all household members, is a direct result of this weekend’s New England Salt Water Fishing Show in Providence, organized by the Rhode Island Salt Water Anglers Association. These three days of all things fishing is as good an indicator of spring’s arrival as the osprey’s return or the smell of warm waffle cones at Brickley’s. There are over 250 vendors to visit, including our local Snug Harbor Marina, the Lonely Angler and a personal favorite, the Fluke ‘til You Puke Tournament.
Attending the show is a good logical move as it affords fishermen an opportunity to coordinate networking, purchasing, shipping and even continuing education. We can stock up on staples such as lines and lures, swivels and scum frogs, bunker oil and bait keeper hooks, while conveniently taking stock of new technologies and outdoors-themed fashions. Time should always be allocated for a troll through the worm bar. There really is a worm bar.
Each day offers seminars on catching wicked tuna with captains from the National Geographic TV show, rod and reel care, rigging plastics and dragging umbrella rigs. You can purchase some nutritious black pepper wild boar jerky to enjoy while appreciating the touring replica of an 18 foot great white shark or Peter Vican’s record 77.4 pound striped bass. It’s a lot like taking your family shopping, to college then out for lunch and an art gallery. Parenting can be very rewarding.
This is also a great opportunity to speak with representatives from Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management. Our government controls how where and when we fish, so if you have questions about stocking, water access, clean water, licensing or regulation changes, this is your chance. They will be at booths 114 and 115.
Women and kids under 14 are free on Sunday. This year kids can practice their casts, discover small gifts as they work through a scavenger hunt and meet the RI Sea Scouts. RISAA folding tables are heaped with used tackle bargains, much of which is just right for young fishermen. The real deal, however, comes when members help kids pick out a rod or lure or offer some assistance with casting. There is a genuine gleam in their eyes. More than just getting together to talk fishing, this group does a wonderful job encouraging young people to be good fishermen.
Our new world puts pressures on children from angles few of us may have imagined; they benefit from natural outlets that keep them grounded. While a light tackle tarpon Xbox battle is a fine recliner chair challenge, real memories are cast on sandy riverbanks, wearing a silly fly fishing vest-just like your Dad’s- or paddling a canoe through water lilies in total silence. A subtle tug on your rod tip can be the greatest of erasers.
Based on my admittedly sketchy science, this show may also be responsible for many spring yard sales, much like my hypothesis tying the increase of yard sales to rising bay temperatures. Closets exceeding their safe carrying capacity, bulging with shoes scarves and bags-belonging to either gender, mind you- might be easily bartered for cash over a Saturday morning early bird table. This frees up necessary capital for inventory replacement well timed for the northern striper migration. There may be a low incidence of minor injuries resulting from poor prior communication.
Regardless, this asset reassignment creates important space for corkers, fly rods, self-help casting books and minnow traps, which over time, develop a patina very similar to fine art. This movement may include a vital collection of camouflaged hats because, for fishermen, there is an obvious difference between too many pairs of shoes and just enough of whatever we need to go fishing in a safe, fully loaded kind of fashion.
After the show there is plenty on our horizon. RIDEM is hosting a public workshop on proposed hunting and fishing rule changes on April 2 at the Arcadia Management Area. US Fish& Wildlife is offering classes on tying cinder worm patterns on Tuesday, April 29th at the Kettle Pond Visitor Center. Snug Harbor has early morning party boat trips for cod and pollock. Finally, alewives have returned to the Saugatucket and even as far north as Massachuck Creek in Barrington; they can be seen with decent sunlight at the Main Street bridge.
By Monday, we will have balanced economics, continuing education and art, making for a long but rewarding weekend, while officially welcoming a long overdue season. It won’t be long now until sunrise casting into Deep Hole makes us late for work, squid reappear under the lights and our pickups get that wonderful stale salt water essence. For the bus stop crew, odds are good there is a piece of spicy hot jalapeño turkey jerky in that windbreaker pocket just large enough to take away the chill. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://fishwrapwriter.com/2014/03/28/4282014/ |
Begin it with a BANG! BANG BANG! hahaha!
Happy New Year to our CHINESE brothers and friends!
Being a Filipino, when I see and hear news about the Chinese New Year, all I have in mind is: HOW MUCH LUCK WOULD COME IN - into my POCKET, CAREER and even LOVE LIFE! lol
Uhmm, I think the Chinese New Year is the most festive generous celebration in the Philippines - frankly, its like all the RICH people celebrating in a day or two, wearing RED and GOLD Chinese Costumes! HONG BAO's , DUMPLINGS , COOKIES, DRAGON DANCE, lots and lots of LUCKY CHARMS and TIKOY! And so I went to Binondo last Wenesday an the place was so festive already!
Saw some men getting ready with the "DRAGON" for the dragon dance.
2014 - according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar is the YEAR of the WOODEN HORSE. Uhmmm, luck for the horse-race-betters! hahaha!
It is generally predicted to be a year that brings health and prosperity and is an excellent year to travel. I sure hope those predictions are correct because I want to TRAVEL A LOT this year! Haha
Shing nien kwai le, gung xi fa cai -
Have a happy and prosperous new year! | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://jeredscribbles.blogspot.com/2014/01/ |
I had the privilege of meeting this awesome family through a mutual friend. You can’t tell at first glance, but mom is a fighter. No, not MMA or boxing; she’s battling cancer and kicking its butt! When we sat down to talk about their session though, she didn’t want to incorporate it in their photos; the C-word already takes up enough of their energy that it didn’t need to be part of their photo session as well. She wanted to go out, have fun and make some great memories and photos to decorate their home with. So, that is just what we did. We met out at the Riparian Preserve in Gilbert (next to the Gilbert Library), its an amazing park that as you walk through, you forget that you’re in the middle of town. Little sister took a few minutes to warm up to me, but once she realized that I had my “magic smile-makers” (pink tic-tacs), then it was all grins and giggles! And big brother… man, oh, man. Mama & Dad are in for a load of trouble when the girls start knocking down their door. He’s got long eye-lashes that make me jealous, and such a charming personality! As for mom & dad, its apparent by the way they looked at each other, held hands and laughed over the kids antics, that these parents are so in love. Made me happy to create these images for them! And, seriously, check out the sunset that we got that evening! Ah-mazing! Just like them. Thank you M family for a beautiful and fun-filled photo session. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://kristencarterphotography.com/fun-family-photos-at-the-riparian-gilbert-az-family-photography/ |
I was able to snag some great deals on punches recently.
I went a lil' crazy here...
Love the colors from Authentique's July Inspiration Color Challenge
I used their sketch too.
Celebrate the sunshine while you can~it'll be fall before you know it.
Stamp:American Crafts Dear Lizzy Warble sentiment
Paper:Authentique Lively collections
Ink:Tsukineko Memento Ink Rich Cocoa
Embossing Folder:Ellison Tim Holtz Rays
EK Punches: daisy chain,lines and dots,medallion chain,Links
Other:Spellbinders Label eleven,Crop-A-Dile Corner Chomper | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://marlenaisfaithfullycrafting.blogspot.com/2012/08/authentique-and-border-punches.html |
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Dr. Tran also was the sole recipient of the Edward Mittelman Memorial Scholarship in 2003 from University of California, Irvine based on her ability to demonstrate compassion. Dr. Tran truly believes in the core principles of osteopathic medicine that a person is a unit and that the body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing, and its own maintenance.
Dr. Tran was consistently praised for extraordinary surgical skills and excellent bedside manner with preventive care in mind.
Dr. Tran discusses the causes and symptoms of uterine fibroids, a common health issue for woman as they age, and provide an overview of treatment options. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://www.memorialcare.org/events-education/podcasts/understanding-uterine-fibroids-symptoms-diagnosis-and-treatment |
Rugby Union is - relative to soccer at least, where a game can be decided by a single lucky shot - a fairly predictable game in terms of results. Big teams are rarely beaten by the smaller teams because of the gulf between professional and amateur rugby. This makes South Africa’s defeat by Japan all the more stunning, particularly to the statisticians, none of whom will have predicted the result correctly.
These sorts of results do not, however, suggest that data is of no use in rugby union. It used to be that rugby coaches could get away with using personal experience and gut instinct for decision making. This is no longer good enough for most clubs, with many having adopted an evidence-based approach to performance that relies on data science and analytics.
Wearable technology has vastly increased the number of data points that analysts can use to leverage insights, to optimize both individual and team performance levels level. Players now wear RFID devices throughout both training and matches, so coaches can monitor their fitness levels and ensure they do not suffer from fatigue. They can also monitor areas of their game that need improvement. Such knowledge can help greatly with selection, helping to note which players are fresher and more ready for the game.
Data science has revealed a number of more general points about the game as well, many of which have been long believed by coaches but not proved. For example, teams that use a kicking game tend to be more successful. The less time you spend in your own half, and the more you play in the opposition half, the more likely you are to be successful. This seems like common sense, but by looking at how it is true - running the ball in rugby leads to more collisions and rucks which drain energy, and being turned over near your try line means more tries conceded - you can reinforce methods.
In terms of opposition analysis, statistics providers, such as Opta, can reveal a lot about an opponent’s playing style and find areas of weakness that can be targeted. How often a player kicks, the type of kick, and the area of the field that they tend to do it in can help predict their movements. This information does, however, still require a human to establish what the best method of defence should be, although they can look back at the data from past defence and run models to determine exactly how effective this will be.
Data science is also being utilized by the RFU in order to provide fans with as satisfying an experience as possible, installing sensors all across Twickenham to provide statistics in real time that can be aired on television to drive engagement.
For many of the sport’s purists, drilling the game down to numbers moving around a screen has become something of a bugbear. They argue that numbers are misleading, and they lead to the game becoming predictable. Teams can be unprepared for deviations from what the data expects, which can be easily exploited. Metrics such as tackle completion can also be misleading, with no consideration taken for power, and whether it is behind the goal line. England coach Stuart Lancaster has denied making substitutions based on GPS data, and the reluctance is understandable. It is also important to remember that sport is first and foremost entertainment, and should it turn into a purely kicking game, it is likely that it will turn many fans off, with most preferring the total rugby style of game where the ball is carried in hand more frequently. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://channels.theinnovationenterprise.com/articles/data-science-at-the-rugby-world-cup |
|In general, the planning and building functions of Town government are responsible for administering policies and regulations governing use of and construction on private property. This includes zoning, subdivision, signs, design review, environmental management, shorelines, plan checking and building inspection, in addition to longer term projects such as the Town’s Comprehensive Plan, park planning, and historic preservation. In addition, staff works closely with two boards and commissions – the Planning Commission, and the Historic Preservation Commission – providing support in their respective areas of responsibility.
The Town Planner is a resource for questions on land use reviews such as variances, conditional uses, subdivisions, shoreline permits, and certificates of appropriateness (design review), as well as interpretations of and amendments to the zoning code in Title 16 of the Coupeville Town Code and the Comprehensive Plan.
The Building Official provides assistance on building, mechanical, and plumbing codes and permits, and code violation complaints.
The Town Engineer provides engineering support to the Public Works and Utilities Superintendents, write reports required by state agencies and provides plans and calculations for water, sewer and storm utility improvements.
Land-Use Applications, Building Permits, & Resources can be found here.
Images on this page graciously provided by Denis Hill. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://townofcoupeville.org/departments/planning/ |
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A clear incandescent SBC (small bayonet cap) golf ball lamp.
Produces 600 lumen of lighting output and consumes 60 watts of energy.
Bulb has an energy rating of F and the average life of this bulb is approximately 1000 hours.
Metal fitment at the bottom is finished in brass.
Other wattages are available in the SBC range.
This is part of the Golf Ball Sbc Range.
Bulb Cap: B15 (Also known as SBC or 15mm Small Bayonet Cap).
Light Source: SBC-B15 Incandescent.
Alternative Light Source: Retrofit LED Bulbs are also available.
Dimming Info: Dimmable. A high quality dimmer switch is recommended.Size:
- Height: 65mm
- Width: 40mm | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://www.thelightingsuperstore.co.uk/products/golf-ball-sbc-60w-b15-clear |
Education and Training is the acquisition of learning, acquiring knowledge, developing skills, understanding moral values, religious beliefs, and social habits. Therefore, academic training strategy involve storytelling, group exercise, activities, discussions, directed research and much more. Generally, specific centers are allocated for the facilities of Education. However, with the development of the internet, people are now able to download educational materials and study from their own homes. Therefore, this category lists all the top selling popular products and services to facilitate online training.
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Welcome to the top Downloadable Training products category site. Here you will discover the top educational products and service reviews and recommendations on the best selling items online. These products and services are also the most popular and reputable brands on the market today in 2017. Therefore, these products is rated 4 to 5 starts by our readers and reviewers. These top selling popular products is listed here below with brief descriptions.
Right now read this simple review on Human Anatomy and Physiology Course by Dr J. Ross and quickly learn how to remember medical terms without difficulty. Read more…
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Here are some photos that I have found inspiration from
Restoration Hardware - LOVE the side table
So... After much searching here is my inspiration board.
The fabrics are still TBD... We are waiting for the samples to come in and once those get here we will make a QUICK final decision, order the fabrics, and start making the bedding... That is one thing about having a round crib all bedding really does need to be custom made (by my amazing mom) because the ones sold in stores are WAY to frilly for our taste. My mom made Emma's bedding and it was amazing!
We are going to cover one wall with wood and we will hang our West Elm Elephant head on that wall.. Our elephant came in the mail earlier this week and I am in love with him... I think that we will name him Harold.
Also, I found the picture of the Restoration Hardware Side table after I feel in love with a unique piece from Nadeau in Alexandria. The piece looks just like the one above exceptt the storage goes the floor and the doors have distressed wood and painted numbers. (like the basket but 1-8) I LOVE the piece so much. I also think that my piece has more personality, is not as dark, and HELLO best thing is that it is half as expensive as the one on my mood board!
I'm still holding on purchasing a rug until we determine fabrics and the baskets pictured above are from Restoration hardware... but this home girl will be stalking Homegoods for something similar.
Lighting also up in the air. I like the light above from Shades of Light but I do not think that it will be bright enough... Plus it is outside of my budget for want I wanted to spend on lighting.
Well I hope that this give you all an idea of what we are looking to accomplish in our little ones room!
Now I have to turn my attention back to the laundry room... Photos on Monday! | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://foodlaughterandhappilyeverafter.blogspot.com/2012/06/baby-room-thoughts.html |
My Mom has a birthday this week. She will be a whopping 59 years old! The sad thing is, she looks younger every time I see her! People now mistake us for sisters instead of Mother and Daughter. I like to think it is because I haven't lived in my hometown for over twenty years so people FORGET my Mom has TWO daughters. That being said, I look just like her so if I look as good as she does when I'M 59... yay genetics!
This is the card I will have to express to her on Monday. My card making mojo was M.I.A. for a few days - focused on the garden at this time of year. To the rescue came the CPS 120 sketch for this week.
Nestabilities Small and Large Labels were used for the image panel. The Flower image was coloured twice with PrismaColour Pencils, with the second image cut out and popped up for dimension.
And this is the sentiment inside the card.
Again with the Nestabilities Labels.
card base measures 5 x 6.5
Papers: CTMH Perfect Day Paper Pack
Sentiments: Verve Because of You
Flower Image: The Greeting Farm For Someone | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://kanatanewfpapercrafts.blogspot.com/2009/06/happy-birthday-mom-cps120.html |
Monday, July 27, 2015
Let's get a little more active
Happy Monday! Or better yet, I hope you have a ton of coffee to get you through this Monday. I've had this blog for a few years now, and really it's been a platform for me to showcase my Polyvore sets. Which I hope you all have enjoyed. But, it's time I actually put this blog to use. Expect weekly posts(hopefully, lets face it I'm a busy girl). Posts will range from beauty, fashion, home tips and a little bit of insight to my everyday life. If you have any suggestions feel free to shoot me a message or comment on one of my posts. Have a great week everyone! | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://mimosasandmissoni.blogspot.com/2015/07/lets-get-little-more-active.html |
Home game tournaments are a little more complex to organize than cash games. First of all you obviously have to pick appropriate stakes(this is actually easier than in cash games). Second, you have to set the blind structure. Third, you have to decide on prize distribution. Fourth, you have to run the tournament. Now, how do you do these things:
1.Deciding on stakes is easy, just ask around before hand how much people are willing to invest and set the buy in at an appropriate amount. Since the amount of money involved doesn't change over time(if you don't have rebuys) like in cash games, this shouldn't be too hard of a task.
2.How you set the blind structure is totally up to you. You have to decide what blind levels there are going to be and how long they are going to last. This totally depends on you, and what you want. If you want a quick gamble, set the blinds high(relative to the starting stack) and make them short... but if you want some nice deep play set long blind levels and small blinds relative to the stack size. For your convenience I've set three blind structures that you can use for 2-10 players:
Turbo(30-60min of play):
Starting stack: 1500 chips
Blind levels last 5min
Fast(60-120min of play):
Starting stack: 1500 chips
Blind levels last 15min
Deep(4hours+ of play):
Starting stack: 2000 chips
Blind levels last 20-30min
3.Like the blind structure, the prize structure is totally up to you as well. There are a couple of thing you should consider while forming your own payout structure:
-Number of players
-Amount of prize money
What I'm trying to say is that if there are more people playing there should be more paid places, if there is little money in the prize pool there should be less paid places, if the tournament last longer there should be more paid places(so players don't feel like they wasted a bunch of time). Again, it's up to you to find a balance that suits your needs, but to help you a little here are some »standard« payouts relative to the number of players playing:
2-4 players = Winner takes all!
5-7 players = 2nd gets his money back, 1st takes the rest
8-10 players = 1st: 50%, 2nd: 30%,
3rd: 20%(flatter structure) or
1st: 65%, 2nd: 25%, 3rd: 10%(top heavy structure)
4. Running a tournament can be pretty hard, but thankfully there are gadgets and apps out there that can help. The beginning shouldn't be a problem, just collect the buy ins and distribute the chips(be careful to put enough small denomination chips in play so that people can easily pay blinds). Later on, when the blinds get bigger, you can also exchange some small denomination chips for larger ones so that collecting pots won't be such a mess every time. Now, the one thing where problems usually arise is keeping track of blind levels. Here are links to some helpful apps and gadgets that will make tracking blind levels easy as pie:
That's it! All the magic you need to organize a nice home game tournament. The only thing left is to call your friends and start playing!
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Minka Kelly Sex Tape Scandal?
Could it be?
With her girl-next-door-looks, Minka Kelly, has maintained her fairly clean image from her Friday Night Lights days all the way to her split with New York Yankees star, Derek Jeter. Now it seems that there is a sex tape being shopped around but Minka was rumored to be just a few days of 18 when the video was filmed.
According to TMZ, Minka is aware that cameras are rolling while the video is shot. They always say even bad publicity is good publicity…hopefully producers of the upcoming film Minka just signed on with will agree. Minka is set to play Jacqueline Kennedy opposite James Marsden in The Butler.
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I recently read an opinion piece called “Greatest Long-Term Threat To Boeing Is The Loss Of Talent,” written by Richard Aboulafia for the industry-leading magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology. Last month, aircraft manufacturer Boeing (NYSE: BA) moved many of its defense services and support functions out of Seattle, citing competitive and cost concerns. While the author agrees with the company’s line of reasoning, he says that “it’s also important to remember that when a company takes aggressive action to move jobs and reduce labor costs, it always creates risk. In particular, key skills and experienced workers can be lost, threatening execution and company capabilities.”
This article had me thinking about what it takes for a large company like Boeing to retain talent in an increasingly competitive business environment. As the author suggests, companies in a growth phase need to focus on attracting and retaining talent, but a company in a “retrenching” phase needs to focus on costs. The analogy given is Tesla versus General Motors, respectively. This in turn reminded me of a talk I attended a few weeks ago by Brian Welle, Director of People Analytics at Google. In his day-to-day role, Welle “conducts research and designs programs that strengthen Google’s Human Resources initiatives.” One of his primary areas of research is on the “unconscious bias,” a set of factors caused by our environments and experiences that influences our decision-making capabilities. Although Welle’s primary focus is to help Google employees become aware of and reduce their personal unconscious biases, during his talk he frequently mentioned the company’s overall drive to recruit and retain talent. The underlying assumption here is that Google remains in a growth phase – but I wonder what will happen when (or even if) Google reaches a point when it needs to shift focus to cost-based “retrenching” like that referred to in Aboulafia’s article. Obviously, this would require viewing Google as a mature corporation – hardly the case given the growth in the technology industry and Google’s new monetization initiatives.
Furthermore, I wonder why a company like Boeing doesn’t have a similar human resources structure to Google. This may seem like an outlandish idea, but I feel that many of the human resources functions at Google can be replicated in the wildly different industry that Boeing operates in. Welle’s People Analytics team focuses on organizational behavior (OB) issues as they pertain specifically to Google – so why doesn’t Boeing focus on the OB issues that affect the aerospace & defense industry? In my earlier posts “The Failure of Crew Resource Management (Part I, Part II, and Part III),” I focused on the failure of an OB system in the aviation sector (Crew Resource Management or CRM). I think it would be interesting to see Boeing expand its human resources functions to address industry-wide OB concerns like CRM. In my mind, Google is able to recruit and retain the best talent because its human resources professionals are focused on remedying OB issues that affect the broader industry, such as the lack of women in technology and the unconscious bias in most recruiting decisions.
At present, the cost issue remains crucial for Boeing’s short-run competitive strategy. But perhaps a shift towards the Google human resources model could help Boeing with its recruiting and retention issues in the long run. It’s definitely something I want to look into more. In Aboulafia’s words: “Boeing management needs to remember the greatest long-term threat to [Boeing Commercial Airplanes] isn’t the cost of labor; it’s the loss of talent and the erosion of core capabilities.” | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://vivekjois.wordpress.com/tag/google/ |
Minister for inform as great as informative affairs Abul Kalam Azad pronounced kid reporters have been personification a critical purpose in strengthening a children’s rights transformation by their writings.
He came up with a regard whilst inaugurating a two-day National Child Journalists Summit-2011 during a assembly residence of Bangladesh Institute of Administration as great as Management (BIAM) in a city Tuesday.
Journalism Institute “Shishu Prakash” mutually run by Mass-line Media Center (MMC) as great as UNICEF have orderly a summit. More than 600 kid reporters from opposite tools of a nation have been in attendance a summit.
“As a supervision has upheld a Right to Information Act as great as believes in giveaway upsurge of information, we have ensured sum leisure of press,” pronounced a minister.
Among others, Dhaka University Vice-chancellor highbrow Dr. AAMS Arefin Siddique as great as UNICEF nation executive Carol D. Roy attended a rite as special guests.
Terming kid broadcasting a singular e.g. in a history, VC Arefin said, “All a young kids contingency be courteous to posterior their studies as many of today’s kid reporters competence widespread out to assorted fields, such as healing as great as engineering, in a future.”
Mentioning a origination of broadcasting sanatorium spoken “Shishu Prakash” which constructed around 3,000 pup journalists, UNICEF arch Carol D. Roy said, “They have highlighted children’s problems as great as possibilities by their broadcasting practice.’’
Executive executive of MMC Qumrul Hasan Manju presented a keynote paper whilst kid publisher Kaberi Sultana Joty presided over a function. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.dhakanews.info/child-reporters-strengthening-kid-rights-movement-information-minister/ |
125 Broad Street. Where I’ve spent the past 5 years of my life.
I will be saying goodbye on the 27th.
I tendered my resignation today; I’m excited, sad and terrified all at the same time. Moving onwards with my life to bigger & better things! I’ll be focusing on school full time now (not like I wasn’t already, as you know!) and pushing forward with food writing. If you have any food writing gigs for me – freelance, full time, part time, whatever! – let me know 🙂
A big leap forward today… the end of an era, but the start of a new chapter – I can’t wait to see where the story goes. 😉 | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://feistyfoodie.com/2010/01/11/project-365-day-10/ |
You may be eating better, but are you eating less? If you’re not controlling portions, you could be sabotaging your weight-loss efforts.
Everydayhealth.com offers these picture guides to keep you on track
Baked Potato: A Woman’s Fist
You can certainly include a baked potato as part of a balanced diet. If you’re counting calories for weight loss, though, keep your potato small — about the size of a woman’s fist. “When possible, prepare potatoes with the skin intact,” Begun suggests. “Most of the fiber and many important nutrients reside in the skin.” Also, try herbs or spices rather than butter or sour cream as a topper. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.ardmoreite.com/article/20130411/NEWS/130419970/1015/LIFESTYLE |
State of the nation
Strictly speaking I ain’t gonna talk about the ‘nation’ of the US of A, but just about New York City. I love this town in so may ways. I’ve just had a great evening down Max Fish catching up with folk and it’s been lovely. Before that I had a wonderful, busy day seeing other friends who I don’t get the chance to see often enough. So what’s the beef?
Well it’s this… A lot of people are thinking of leaving New York at the moment. It’s been a while since 9/11 and the economy has at least stopped it’s tumultuous plummet towards nul points, even if it’s not exactly booming any more. The truth is that many people seem to have lost the belief that New York is an avatar of success and generator of wealth, at least in the circles I move in. People are feeling pressured to live, rather than enjoying the hey day of hard work with good rewards. Now, hard work is stated up front as a minimum requirement to get a job to just survive. And you know what? That’s arse. Pure and simple. People need enjoyment to live their lives. If their jobs don’t provide satisfaction to some level then they look elsewhere and the job becomes an impediment rather than part of a well rounded life. Consequently unhappiness sets in.
This is a bad thing.
Creativity and societal growth can happen anywhere, and maybe it’s simply that the time is not now New York’s, but to my mind NYC is a symbol of all that is good and creative in the US. Yes, money plays a huge part in what happens here, but the truth is that amazing things are made here and people burst with ideas that get proper support to grow. If that doesn’t happen any more then something wonderful has been lost. A symbol that helps not only the US, but a lot of the western world flourish becomes tarnished and less powerful.
Not only is general creativity in flux, but human aspects of relationships seem also to be stiffled. In the same way that people aren’t investing their financial holdings in the stock market, emotional holdings are being held back for ‘safer’ engagements. Physical interactions happen, but more for the physical comfort fuck aspects than deeper emotional aspects. The art shows here are rife with sexual imagery, with little of the deeper ‘love’ type emotional ties visible in their offerings. Even if the choices of art galleries is not indicative of the current emotional tides then the behaviour in bars is much more obvious – there is a predatory aspect in place that is palpable. People want some form of contact and physical will do, spiritual and emotional can wait for the moment for better times.
Most likely this is all part of life’s long term cycles of creation and hibernation/recovery. Over time New York will again regain it’s glamour, and not just on a superficial level. For now though, dealing with the emotional fall out of earlier events, and probably the ‘business first’ focus of a new mayor will continue to take its toll. I’m glad that I got to see New York at its best over the years that I lived here, and know that it will be great again when the time is right. Just a shame that it’s struggling a bit at the moment. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://matthobbs.com/2003/06/285/ |
God worked on his most ambitious project and created man. He endowed the super toy with a tiny chip of his mind along with other gizmos.
In the tropical resource rich woods on the banks of ancient rivers, human civilization flourished. The clever ones took up the job of learning and teaching. And they marketed their theories in the name of God and under the trade mark of Dharma(religion). They made rules and formulated code of conduct, which was binding on all. However, they kept the knowledge under wraps. This knowledge was only available to their families and caste. ....God's will thus far.
These knowledgeable guys enjoyed their status in the society and had little materialistic desires. They believed in indestructible soul and illusionary disposition of the universe. They gave body little importance and thought that by controlling senses and mind they could attain super-natural powers and finally crack the perishable shell of matter to come out of the great illusion, they all were bound to.
The creator got scared of his toy, who was about to wreck the stage he created for his entertainment. God gave a 180 degree twist to the script and started revealing algorithm and logic in nature and matter through common subjects, who were obsessed with material. A new religion was born called Science. The religion had its roots in material. It rewarded the disciples with materialistic rewards instantly. The master stroke worked. From soul, the man was swayed to material. Soul preachers and practitioners were frustrated in their wild goose chase and the toy was soon dancing on the beats of science and technology.
Science describes nature by way of principles, rules, theorems etc, but all these hold good under certain limits. However, we have seen the extent and realm of these principles stretching over the time. But till now we have not had a set of rules which are not limited by conditions. Having come thus far, scientist have ample indications that it all is a digital illusion. But having their roots deep down the matter, it will be hard for them to breach the limits, which bind us all to the material.
The creator is now preparing his toy for celestial launch and mobility as reward for his unperturbed obedience and faithfulness. Theatre Universe will rock with activity for a long-time as God has slyly reversed the bias of the tiny chip in the toy's brain. The poor toy has now moved far away from the switchboard to be able to switch off the light. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://sudkjain.blogspot.com/2013/11/ |
Go for Samsung Galaxy Star..
1 Ghz processor,
Android OS 4.1.2 Jelly Bean,
3" Capacitive Touch Screen,
4GB Internal Storage + 32GB Micro SD supported.
MRP: 4990/- Only..
Five, 06 Jul 2013Impressive Indeed! i m willing to buy this phn. Does this phn supports minimizing the apps. And return to home screen. While the apps. Is running on other side?
Not Complete My Expectations.
As not fast as we see in videos.
Sound quality in headphone brilliant but loudspeaker not so loud.
Setting option/menu copy of Android 4.0(tipo).
Fastlane is not like multi-tasking.
Switch off phone receive copy from lumia.
At least i can say it is a good but not the best in this budject.
New Ui is Mix Of Android+Windows+S40=Nokia Asha Ui 1.0.
Not Happy with This.
Yash, 05 Jul 2013does whatsaap work on nokia 501??nokia asha 501 is good mobile
First full charge battery update:
After 42 hrs since my first full charge (on 4th July 11 pm) the battery is now 50% using games/calls/wifi and some usual fiddling around the phone.
tripranav, 05 Jul 2013I got the phone on 3rd July at around 3pm and since then (without charging my phone at all) I ... morethis is the reason why I use asha 501 as my main phone and my lumia 820 as a media player a la iPod. instead of finding the charger every time I am back from work, I can simply put the asha on my desk and my lumia on the charging stand. I just need to charge the asha around once in 2 days, very convenient.
sumanta, 06 Jul 2013Guys i m willing to buy this phn. Does this phn supports minimizing the apps. And return to ho... moreMinimizing the apps or returning to the home screen works this way on this phone: So you open an app, you can either -
1) Press the hardware back button to return to the home screen.
2) Swipe left or right from the either edges of the screen to return to the home screen.
So to answer your question, yes we can easily return back to the home screen from an app but I am afraid that closes the app as well.
Although I haven`t tested all the apps to check which ones run in the background but till now only the music/radio app run in the background.
pinki, 06 Jul 2013how is battery after single charge and using internet?
is whatsapp and viber compatible?I am currently testing the battery life. I fully charged my phone on 4th July at 11pm and since then I am still on my first full charge (today is 6th July 4:30 pm) using games/calls/wifi and some usual fiddling around the phone.
About whatsapp and viber it is currently not supported. Although Nokia has said whatsapp will arrive soon on the 501 in couple of months.
shams569, 06 Jul 2013this phone looks awesome and features are also good but i get dissappointed by not having 3G ... moreYes but this phone comes with Nokia Xpress browser which uses proxies to browse, which can improve speeds greatly and reduce data costs. Its very good so dont mind about 3G.
this phone looks awesome and features are also good but i get dissappointed by not having 3G connectivity. now days there is no use of smart phone without 3G feature. Now i am waiting for the updated version with 3g connectivity of this phone.
Dhanjit, 05 Jul 2013Battery is good sound is good overall phone is good in pictre phone looks larger in actual ... morei have heard tht whatsapp is not working on this.. n i want a new handset at 5 to 6k range with dual sim. it has dual sim but no whatsapp.vl it b updated soon? shud i wait to buy it. and wht bout map navigation or has it got ny similar feature?
Hey guys can i get a help about how to download/install chatting apps like whatsapp or wechat?
I think this phone dosent supports these apps and however line messenger says that it will be soon available..
Got nokia 501 y'day.. So far my experience has not been great. This is a "feature phone" n may be i expected little more than that. Phone restarts again n again while playing .avi video file of more than 160mb file size, its frustrating..
N browser is also not able to download file whose size is more than 150 mb - Pops up message "file size too large".
And there are no good chat apps available as of now like whatsapp, ebuddy, line etc...
I sold spice mi 425 to buy this but...i m now regretting on my decision. It is just a feature phone, dont expect smartphone capabilities as i did.
Its good for those requiring only basic features like calling, messaging, playing dumb games etc, others stay away !! | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_asha_501-reviews-5445p224.php |
Table of Contents:
- Symptoms of MS
- What Is Multiple Sclerosis?
- Multiple Sclerosis Treatment
- Early Signs of MS
Part 1 of 11
What are the symptoms of MS?
People with MS experience a wide range of symptoms. Due to the nature of the disease, it can vary widely from one person to another. The symptoms can change in severity from year to year, month to month, and even day to day.
Two of the most common symptoms are fatigue and difficulty walking.
About 80 percent of people with MS report having fatigue. Fatigue that occurs with MS is more than feeling tired. It can become debilitating, affecting your ability to work and perform everyday tasks.
Difficulty walking can occur with MS for a number of reasons:
- numbness of the legs or feet
- difficulty balancing
- muscle weakness
- muscle spasticity
Overwhelming fatigue can also contribute to the problem. Difficulty walking can lead to injuries due to falling.
Other fairly common symptoms of MS include:
- speech disorders
- cognitive issues involving concentration, memory, and problem-solving skills
- acute or chronic pain
Part 2 of 11
What is multiple sclerosis?
MS is a chronic illness involving the central nervous system. The immune system attacks myelin, which is the protective layer around nerve fibers. This causes inflammation and scar tissue, or lesions. This can make it hard for your brain to send signals to the rest of your body. Types of MS include:
Relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS)
RRMS involves clear relapses of disease activity followed by remissions. Symptoms are mild or absent during remission, and there’s no disease progression during the remission period. RRMS is the most common form of MS at onset.
Clinically isolated syndrome (CIS)
CIS involves one episode of symptoms that are due to demyelination in the central nervous system. This episode must last for at least 24 hours.
The two types of episodes are monofocal and multifocal. A monofocal episode means one lesion causes one symptom. A multifocal episode means you have more than one lesion and more than one symptom.
Although these episodes are characteristic of MS, they aren’t enough to prompt a diagnosis. If lesions similar to those that occur with MS are present, you’re more likely to receive a diagnosis of RRMS. If these lesions aren’t present, you’re less likely to develop MS.
Primary-progressive MS (PPMS)
Neurological function becomes progressively worse from the onset of your symptoms if you have PPMS. However, short periods of stability can still occur.
Progressive-relapsing MS was a term people previously used for progressive MS with clear relapses. People now call it PPMS. The words “active” and “not active” are used to describe disease activity.
Secondary-progressive MS (SPMS)
SPMS occurs when RRMS transitions into the progressive form. You may still have noticeable relapses, in addition to gradual worsening of function or disability.
Part 3 of 11
Treatment for multiple sclerosis
No cure is available for MS, but multiple treatment options exist.
If you have relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), you can choose one of the disease-modifying drugs. These medications are designed to slow disease progression and lower your relapse rate.
Self-injectable disease-modifying drugs include glatiramer (Copaxone, Glatopa) and beta interferons, such as:
Oral medications for RRMS include:
Intravenous infusion treatments for RRMS include:
Disease-modifying drugs aren’t effective in treating progressive MS.
Other treatments may ease your symptoms and improve your quality of life. Because the disease is different for everybody, treatment depends on your specific symptoms. For most people, a flexible approach is necessary.
Part 4 of 11
Early signs of MS
MS can develop all at once, or the symptoms can be so mild that you easily dismiss them. Any symptom can occur first. The following are three of the most common early symptoms of MS:
- Strange sensations, such as numbness and tingling of the arms, legs, or one side of your face can occur. It’s similar to that of feeling of pins and needles you get when your foot falls asleep, but it occurs for no apparent reason.
- Your balance may be a bit off, and your legs may feel week. You may find yourself tripping easily while walking or doing some other type of physical activity.
- A bout of double vision, blurry vision, or partial vision loss can be an early indicator of MS. You could also have some eye pain.
It isn’t uncommon for these early symptoms to go away only to return at a later date. You may go weeks, months, or even years between symptom flare-ups.
These symptoms can have many different causes. If you have these symptoms, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have MS.
Part 5 of 11
Your doctor will need to perform a neurological exam, a clinical history, and a series of other tests to determine if you have MS.
Diagnostic testing may include the following:
- MRI is the best imaging test for MS. Using a contrast dye allows the MRI to detect active and inactive lesions throughout the brain and spinal cord.
- Evoked potentials require stimulation of nerve pathways to analyze electrical activity in the brain. The three types of evoked potentials doctors use to help diagnose MS are visual, brainstem, and sensory.
- A spinal tap, or lumbar puncture, can help your doctor find abnormalities in your spinal fluid. It can help rule out infectious diseases.
- Doctors use blood tests to eliminate other conditions with similar symptoms.
The diagnosis of MS requires evidence of demyelination in more than one area of the brain, spinal cord, or optic nerves. That damage must have occurred at different times.
It also requires ruling out other conditions that have similar symptoms. This includes Lyme disease, lupus, and Sjogren's syndrome.
Part 6 of 11
What causes multiple sclerosis?
If you have MS, the myelin in your body becomes damaged. Myelin is the protective layer that covers nerve fibers throughout the central nervous system.
It’s thought that the damage is the result of an attack by the immune system. As your immune system attacks myelin, it causes inflammation. This leads to scar tissue, or lesions. All of that inflammation and scar tissue disrupts signals between the brain and other parts of your body.
It isn’t clear what may cause the immune system to attack.
Is MS hereditary?
MS isn’t hereditary, but having a parent or sibling with MS raises your risk slightly. Genetics may play a role. Scientists have identified some genes that seem to increase susceptibility to developing MS.
Researchers think there could be an environmental trigger such as a virus or toxin that sets off the immune system attack.
Part 7 of 11
What is the prognosis for people with multiple sclerosis?
It’s almost impossible to predict how MS will progress in any one person.
About 10 to 15 percent of people with MS have only rare attacks and minimal disability ten years after diagnosis. It’s not a medical diagnosis, but this is sometimes called “benign MS.”
Progressive MS generally advances faster than relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS). People with RRMS can be in remission for many years. A lack of disability after five years is usually a good indicator for the future.
The disease generally progresses faster in men than in women. It may also progress faster in those who receive a diagnosis after age 40 and in those who have a high relapse rate.
About half of people with MS use a cane or other form of assistance at 15 years after receiving an MS diagnosis. At 20 years, about 60 percent are still ambulatory and less than 15 percent need custodial care.
Your quality of life will depend on your symptoms and how well you respond to treatment. Most people with MS don’t become severely disabled and continue to lead full lives.
This unpredictable disease can change course without warning. It’s rarely fatal, and most people with MS have a lifespan that’s close to normal.
Part 8 of 11
Living with MS
Most people with MS find ways to manage their symptoms and function well. You’ll face unique challenges, and those can change over time. Many people with MS share their struggles and coping strategies through in-person or online support groups.
Having MS means you’ll need to see a doctor experienced in treating MS.
If you take one of the disease-modifying drugs, you’ll have to make sure you adhere to the recommended schedule. Your doctor may prescribe other medications to treat specific symptoms.
A well-balanced diet, low in empty calories and high in nutrients and fiber, will help you manage your overall health.
Regular exercise is important for physical and mental health, even if you have disabilities. If physical movement is difficult, swimming or exercising in a swimming pool can help. Yoga classes range from beginner to advanced levels, and some are designed just for people with MS.
Studies regarding the effectiveness of complementary therapies are scarce, but that doesn’t mean they can’t help in some way.
The following may help you feel less stressed and more relaxed:
- tai chi
- music therapy
MS is a lifelong condition. You should focus on communicating concerns with your doctor, learning all you can about MS, and discovering what things make you feel your best.
Part 9 of 11
Dietary recommendations for people with MS
Diet hasn’t been shown to impact the nature of the disease, but it can help with some of the challenges. If you have fatigue, for instance, a diet high in fats and simple carbohydrates won’t help.
The better your diet, the better your overall health. You’ll not only feel better in the short term, but you’ll be laying the foundation for a healthier future.
Your diet should consist mainly of:
- a variety of vegetables and fruits
- lean sources of protein, such as fish and skinless poultry
- whole grains and other sources of fiber
- low-fat dairy products
- adequate water and other fluids
You should limit or avoid:
- saturated fat
- trans fat
- red meats
- foods and beverages high in sugar
- foods high in sodium
- highly processed foods
Portion control can help you maintain a healthier weight. Read food labels. Foods that are high in calories but low in nutrients won’t help you feel better.
If you have coexisting conditions, ask your doctor if you should follow a special diet or take any dietary supplements.
Part 10 of 11
Statistics about MS
MS is the most widespread neurological condition disabling young adults worldwide.
About 400,000 people in the United States have MS, though that’s only an estimate. Doctors in the United States aren’t required to report MS to any agency. According to the National MS Society, there hasn’t been a scientifically sound, national study on the prevalence of MS in the United States since 1975.
Most people are between the ages of 20 and 40 when their doctor diagnoses them with MS. Women develop MS 2 to 3 times more often than men, a difference that has grown steadily for five decades. MS is more common among Caucasians of northern European ancestry than other ethnic groups.
Rates of MS tend to be lower in places that are closer to the equator. The rates of MS are higher in places farther away from the equator. This may have to do with sunlight and vitamin D. People who relocate to a new location before age 15 generally acquire the risk factors associated with the new location.
Part 11 of 11
What are the effects of MS?
The lesions from MS can appear anywhere in the central nervous system. This means they can affect any part of your body.
One of the most common symptoms of MS is fatigue, but it’s not uncommon for people with MS to also have:
- some degree of cognitive impairment
As you age, some disabilities from MS may become more pronounced. If you have mobility issues, you may be at an increased risk for bone fractures and breaks due to falls. Mobility issues can also lead to a lack of physical activity, which can lead to other health problems. Fatigue and mobility issues may also have an impact on sexual function. Having other conditions such as arthritis and osteoporosis can complicate matters.
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- Who gets MS? (Epidemiology). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.nationalmssociety.org/What-is-MS/Who-Gets-MS | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.healthline.com/health/multiple-sclerosis?globalHeader=yes |
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell was in Ramsgate on January 19th and gave a speech to a packed hall. For a taste of what he had to say, including the story of how Jeremy Corbyn became leader, take a look at this video from Thanet Watch.
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The August Challenge for our Elizabeth Craft Designs Team is to create an Asian themed project.
I love the Waterlilies peel-off stickers by ECD, and decided to do a triple ring accordion card with them.
I cut the coloured ring panels, and embossed them with ECD's Damask embossing folder, then used the Ring Accordion die to cut Shimmer Sheetz centre panels in matching colours.
I stuck the peel-offs onto watercolour paper, and coloured them with a waterbrush pen, and some Tombow Dual Brush pens. When they were dry, I cut them out and stuck them to the Shimmer Sheetz with little foam pads.
The card front.
Finally, I used a Sizzix stamp with VersaMark ink and gold embossing powder for the sentiment.
Some of the products used: | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://diningroomdrawers.blogspot.com/2014/08/ |
It's nearing that time of year again - Christmas music playing on the radio and in the stores, halloween decorations being replaced with pilgrims and turkeys and then eventually reindeer and sleighs. As a kid, I lived for these holidays, especially after spending hours drooling over the Sears and JCPenney catalogs.
Now that I'm an adult (opinions vary on that point), Christmas has lost a little of its charm for me. The presents under the tree for me are more practical gifts like pants and socks, and I gave up the catalog daydreams a long time ago. All of the joy in Christmas that really remains for me is the sparkle in my kids' eyes when they open presents on Christmas morning. And I'm okay with that.
However, what I'm not okay with is the annual anti-Christmas movement that goes on all around the country. Companies and organizations have been distancing themselves from the holiday by not using words like Christmas in their ads and events. Never mind the fact that without Christmas, they'd have no holiday shopping rush (who really is out there doing last-minute Kwanzaa or Hanukkah shopping?).
They say it's not inclusive enough. Non-Christians will be offended. I don't really understand this mindset - I was never offended over my Jewish friend's holidays, and Kwanzaa wasn't something I'd ever heard about until the last few years.
But every now and then, something beautiful happens. Something that reminds me that I'm not alone in feeling this way. Something like this:
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - A famed fireworks company is pulling out of a holiday boat parade because "Christmas" was dropped from the event's name.
Fireworks by Grucci won't lend its sparkle to Patchogue's Nov. 23 parade — decorated yachts on the Patchogue River — because the organizers have renamed it the Patchogue Holiday Boat Parade. It was the Patchogue Christmas Boat Parade last year, when the Grucci company donated $5,000 worth of fireworks.
The company's vice president, Philip Butler, who has criticized the secularization of Christmas in the past, said parade organizers were "using all the themes of Christmas and plagiarizing all those themes."
Bravo, I say. This is a move that puts the lie to the notion of greedy corporate America. Mr. Butler has principles and has made a stand, profit be damned. I doubt you'll hear any liberals complimenting him on it though.
As a consumer, I'm not really a direct customer of a company like Grucci, but if I was on a town committee that organizes fireworks displays, I'd definitely consider throwing them our business.
So this December, have yourself a Merry Christmas, and if that offends you, tough shit. I'll wish it for you anyway. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://jfarr.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html |
The latitude and longitude gps coordinates of Gdynia (Poland)
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Gdynia is a city in Poland.
Its area is 50 sq mi 136 km2. The city's population is 250,242. The stright distance between Gdynia and Warsaw
is 188 miles (303 kilometers). Current local time in Gdynia: August 18, 2017, 8:07 pm; Percent change from previous month (Jul 2017) by the visitors: -30%
Distance between Gdynia (Poland) and an optional place as the crow flies:
The geographical location (geolocation) of Gdynia is on the north and east hemisphere.
Current temperature and weather in Gdynia (Poland): F 66.2 | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://thegpscoordinates.net/poland/gdynia |
An 800lb bride-to-be has her NINE-foot-waist measured
ahead of big day
For some, having a wedding dress custom-made is a luxury, but for Susanne Eman it is the only way she will be sure her gown fits.
The morbidly obese Arizona mother who is hoping to set a world record for being the fattest human, is busy planning her wedding to chef, Parker Clack, and the dress needs to cover all 800 pounds of her.
That is, all except her bulging arms as the 32-year-old says she’d like to be sleeveless for her summer nuptials.
While Ms Goff sets about preparing for her job, Ms Eman has her own goal for the big day: not to be deterred from reaching her target weight of 1,600lbs by the time she is 41 or 42.
That means that Ms Eman will continue eating 30,000 calories a day that her husband gladly cooks and feeds her.
The larger than life unemployed bride-to-be told Inside Edition: ‘Oh, he’s wonderful. He loves to cook. That helps out. His food is soooo good.’
The day of her appointment with the seamstress, Ms Eman and her sister Cassie made a pit stop for snacks and arrived at Ms Goff’s with a spread of three guacamole bacon cheeseburgers, two orders of chili cheese fries, nine tacos, a chocolate shake and a large Coke.
That is just a small portion of the daily diet that has given her a waist size of 107.5 inches, or, nine, staggering feet.
After being measured, Ms Eman also tried on veils and head pieces, talking excitedly about her expectations for the wedding.
‘I’m feeling like a bride. I can’t wait,’ she gushed. ‘I like an off-whitish, not completely white. Because if I wear completely white, I guarantee I’m going to spill something on it.’
On their way: Sister Cassie wheels Ms Eman to the car for their trip to the seamstress but first they must stop to get snacks
Tucking in: The mother of two eats three guacamole bacon cheeseburgers, two orders of chili cheese fries, nine tacos, a chocolate shake and a large Coke
Spilling food is a likely possibility for this bride.
While details of the catering menu for the big event is not known, the couple insist that despite the gargantuan quantity of food consumed by Ms Eman, she likes to eat healthily.
Mr Clack has said of her ambition: ‘I support her because it makes her happy, and I love big women.
‘I do worry about her health of course, but I try to make sure she eats some healthy food like salad, and I make sure she does exercises. She’s taken up swimming since we met and we love to swim together.’
Love at first bite: Susanne Eman and Parker Clack met online and bonded over their shared love of food
Happiness: The morbidly obese heavyweight believes that her goal of becoming the fattest human will remove the stigma that fat is bad seeing as she believes she is healthy, her sons are happy and she has found love
Her doctor does not agree with his patient’s mission but Ms Eman believes she can reach her target weight without endangering her life and worrying about her two sons.
Ms Eman has said in the past: ‘I want to try and break the stigma that being fat is bad. And it’s helped me to find love, so what’s wrong with that.’
Maid of honour, Cassie, shared her excitement for her sister’s future exclaiming with delight as they looked at fabrics: ‘Oh my God, I can’t wait to see her in the actual dress.’
Fit? Ms Eman tries to stay mobile and healthy by swimming and ‘waddling’ and though her doctors warn her against pursuing her dream of creaking the record, she believes she in no danger | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://mylovelywedding.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/is-this-the-worlds-biggest-wedding-gown/ |
“Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters—four yarns—is one of the smallest strands in the mighty cable of the Scriptures. Yet what depths of the soul does Jonah’s deep sealine sound! what a pregnant lesson to us is this prophet! What a noble thing is that canticle in the fish’s belly! How billow-like and boisterously grand! We feel the floods surging over us; we sound with him to the kelpy bottom of the waters; sea-weed and all the slime of the sea is about us! But WHAT is this lesson that the book of Jonah teaches? Shipmates, it is a two-stranded lesson; a lesson to us all as sinful men, and a lesson to me as a pilot of the living God. As sinful men, it is a lesson to us all, because it is a story of the sin, hard-heartedness, suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment, repentance, prayers, and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah. As with all sinners among men, the sin of this son of Amittai was in his wilful disobedience of the command of God—never mind now what that command was, or how conveyed—which he found a hard command. But all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do—remember that—and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavors to persuade. And if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.
“With this sin of disobedience in him, Jonah still further flouts at God, by seeking to flee from Him. He thinks that a ship made by men will carry him into countries where God does not reign, but only the Captains of this earth. He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks a ship that’s bound for Tarshish. There lurks, perhaps, a hitherto unheeded meaning here. By all accounts Tarshish could have been no other city than the modern Cadiz. That’s the opinion of learned men. And where is Cadiz, shipmates? Cadiz is in Spain; as far by water, from Joppa, as Jonah could possibly have sailed in those ancient days, when the Atlantic was an almost unknown sea. Because Joppa, the modern Jaffa, shipmates, is on the most easterly coast of the Mediterranean, the Syrian; and Tarshish or Cadiz more than two thousand miles to the westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar. See ye not then, shipmates, that Jonah sought to flee world-wide from God? Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas. So disordered, self-condemning is his look, that had there been policemen in those days, Jonah, on the mere suspicion of something wrong, had been arrested ere he touched a deck. How plainly he’s a fugitive! no baggage, not a hat-box, valise, or carpet-bag,—no friends accompany him to the wharf with their adieux. At last, after much dodging search, he finds the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo; and as he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin, all the sailors for the moment desist from hoisting in the goods, to mark the stranger’s evil eye. Jonah sees this; but in vain he tries to look all ease and confidence; in vain essays his wretched smile. Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners he can be no innocent. In their gamesome but still serious way, one whispers to the other—”Jack, he’s robbed a widow;” or, “Joe, do you mark him; he’s a bigamist;” or, “Harry lad, I guess he’s the adulterer that broke jail in old Gomorrah, or belike, one of the missing murderers from Sodom.” Another runs to read the bill that’s stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a parricide, and containing a description of his person. He reads, and looks from Jonah to the bill; while all his sympathetic shipmates now crowd round Jonah, prepared to lay their hands upon him. Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward. He will not confess himself suspected; but that itself is strong suspicion. So he makes the best of it; and when the sailors find him not to be the man that is advertised, they let him pass, and he descends into the cabin.
“‘Who’s there?’ cries the Captain at his busy desk, hurriedly making out his papers for the Customs—’Who’s there?’ Oh! how that harmless question mangles Jonah! For the instant he almost turns to flee again. But he rallies. ‘I seek a passage in this ship to Tarshish; how soon sail ye, sir?’ Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah, though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does he hear that hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance. ‘We sail with the next coming tide,’ at last he slowly answered, still intently eyeing him. ‘No sooner, sir?’—’Soon enough for any honest man that goes a passenger.’ Ha! Jonah, that’s another stab. But he swiftly calls away the Captain from that scent. ‘I’ll sail with ye,’—he says,—’the passage money how much is that?—I’ll pay now.’ For it is particularly written, shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this history, ‘that he paid the fare thereof’ ere the craft did sail. And taken with the context, this is full of meaning. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.doctumtv.com.br/features/ |
Cost of living in Sialkot, Pakistan compared to Aksu, China
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These prices were last updated on July 10, 2017. Exchange rate: 0.06341 CNY / PKR *
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Cost of living in Sialkot (Pakistan) is 37% more expensive than in Aksu (China)
For example, you would need at least 元7,827 (₨123,443) in Sialkot to maintain the same standard of living that you can have with 元5,700 in Aksu.
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What some folks don't seem to understand is that NOTHING will ever appease the AAC, or the Network (same group, different name). They want a split. That's been their goal from the beginning. The plan has been to get themselves recognized as an "alternative Anglican province" in North America, get the Episcopal Church kicked out of the Anglican Communion, and then claim ownership of all assets previously held by TEC (with Bob Duncan as the new Archbishop, of course).
One would think that the article in the Washington Post over a year ago; Plan to Supplant Episcopal Church USA Is Revealed, regarding the leaked Chapman letter would have been enough to wake up most Episcopalians to what was going on. Here's just a small piece of that document;
During the months of Stage 1, we will begin to reform our relationships to build the Network of Anglican Communion Dioceses and Parishes. We will move to initiate support structures for fellowship and strategy, We will act courageously and faithfully to support "at risk" parishes. We will creatively redirect finances. We will refocus on Gospel initiatives. We will innovatively move around, beyond or within the canons to "act like the church God is making us". Stage 1 will enable congregations/clusters to keep clear use of their buildings for the foreseeable future, and would give critical time to strengthen our leadership circles for what promises to be a turbulent spiritual season.The Via Media groups interpreted the Chapman letter this way;
Stage 2 will launch at some yet to be determined moment, probably in 2004. During this phase, we will seek, under the guidance of the Primates, negotiated settlements in matters of property, jurisdiction, pastoral succession and communion, If adequate settlements are not within reach, a faithful disobedience of canon law on a widespread basis may be necessary.
The letter speaks for itself. Property, not piety is keeping dissident parishes in the Episcopal Church. In the longer term, the AAC expects to use foreign intervention to trump American law and the Episcopal Church Constitution and Canons. Its leaders are assuring dissident parishes that the Anglican primates, a consultative body with no governing authority or standing in the United States, will ride to the rescue of Network parishes, negotiate property settlements and transfer the assets of 2.3-million-member church to a group representing perhaps a tenth of that body. The Chapman letter reveals the AAC's "realignment" for what it really is -- the overthrow of the Episcopal Church by extra-legal means.The defense was that this was just the opinion of one person, was not the view of the AAC/Network, and various other smoke and mirrors tactics which seemed to have successfully removed this letter from the consciousness of many Episcopalians.
Since then, more documents have come to light as a result of legal action taken by Calvary Episcopal Church against certain officials of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, including Bishop Duncan. Calvary felt the need to do this because of planned diocesan canonical changes that would allow Pittsburgh not to be bound by the canons of the Episcopal Church, thus allowing the diocese to claim title to all property. This was seen as the first step in a plan by some officials of the diocese of Pittsburgh to leave the Episcopal Church.
The court documents used to prove that there was indeed a plan to leave the Episcopal Church are quite revealing. The link is to a rather large pdf file (sorry folks). The entire thing is worth reading, but you may want to jump right to the last dozen pages, which shows copies of the documents placed in evidence. Interestingly, every one of the members of the "Dromantine Six" (those lurking about the primates' meeting in Ireland who were chastised by name by PB Griswold this last week) make an appearance in these pages. I'll just mention a few things that jumped out at me.
The first piece of evidence is what appears to be a verbatim transcript of an earlier hearing, in which the Chapman letter was dismissed as "one individual...(making) notes on a piece of paper." A bit weak, it seems to me, but ok, let's move on.
The next document, which appears to have "Mainstream Meeting" scribbled at the top, dated 11/20/03, seems to be from a meeting of Network/AAC bishops. It has quite a few enlightening pieces to it, but the ones that caught my eye were near the bottom; "D. We intend to cross diocesan boundaries...F. We commit to the guerrilla warfare of the next year." Oh, that's what was going on in Ireland; guerilla warfare? Imagine that.
Next follows a few e-mails. The one from Hugo Blankingship, an attorney, is worth noting. He states, "John Rees won't listen to anything but our staying in ECUSA." Who is John Rees? The legal consultant assigned to the Eames Commission, the body which drafted the Windsor Report. The plan was to have the recognition of a separate province included as one of the recommendations in the WR. Since it looked like that wasn't going to happen (it didn't), plan B was to make sure "that changes if pressure within the Communion builds up."
The next rather revealing document is an e-mail from Diane Knippers, President of the Institute on Religion and Democracy, with whom the AAC/Network shared office space, board members and wealthy contributors for many years. To refresh your memory, the IRD started as an anti-communist grant clearinghouse during the Reagan era, focusing especially on Central America (does Iran-Contra and death squads in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras ring a bell?) When they ran out of communists, they turned on the mainline Protestant churches. Knippers begins with this statement; "...I believe it will be increasingly important for the Network to take on the various functions of a Church." Sure sounds like a planned coup d'etat to me. We then see Knipper's continued inclination towards clandestine operations in the last paragraph; "I'm still on the SCER (Standing Committee on Ecumenical Relations) - but not because I could honestly represent the Episcopal Church in ecumenical dialogue...I'll resign when I need to, but I would like to hang in there as an obstinate and contrary voice a bit longer." Infiltrate and be a subversive element; hmmm...that tactic sounds familiar.
Take a careful look at the "Draft Proposal for Overseas AEO" (Alternative Episcopal Oversight). This is where the foreign bishops come in. It's all spelled out in black and white. I wonder how Abp. Akinola is going to feel when it dawns on him he's been merely a pawn in the plan?
What conclusion do you come to when you read this stuff? What I see is a handful of folks, primarily bishops, priests, and attorneys, trying to orchestrate a takeover of the Episcopal Church; building this "parallel universe" on the backs of our gay and lesbian members. To the troops, they scream about the bible and tradition. Among themselves, it's all about property and power.
The sad thing is, I know quite a few good folks who have bought their...what was the phrase they used?...oh yea; "road shows," and are going to really be hurt when they wake up one day and realize they've been hoodwinked by a band of scoundrels, and in the name of God, no less. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/closer-look-at-attempted-coup.html |
At the height of NYFW, Janine Just Inc. presents TechStyle NYC, a day-to-night leisure of experiences at the nexus of fashion & technology, drawing influential media, bloggers, & celebrities into one fashion-forward event. Set above the bustle of fashion week, the lounge offers a welcome reprieve to VIPs to discover, the new, next and now among the emerging brands curated into the showcase. The event had a wonderful turnout and attendees enjoyed the chance to celebrate NYC’s fashion week in techsy style!
But just who are the brands that attended the event? What’s their take on the event industry? And what did they think of TechStyleNYC? We took the opportunity to interview a few of the attendees and over the next few days will be featuring their interviews, read on for a peek inside the experience:
We talked to Sara Shake and Jonna Piira, Co-founders of Kali
First of all, please tell our readers about you – what is the company all about?
Kali is an organic tampon subscription box that donates $1 from every box sold to Girl Up, a campaign that is a part of the United Nation’s Foundation. We are leading what we call the “Tampon Revolution” to educate women about the benefits of choosing organic when it comes to their feminine hygiene products. We shipped our first boxes in December of 2015 and are gaining new Kali Girls everyday.
What were the 3 keys to getting the company off the ground – where did you invest your time?
We subscribe to the Traction model, so 50% of our time was spent on discovering the most effective traction channels and 50% of our time was spent on product development. Once we were live, we made adjustments quickly to adapt to what our customers were asking for, which is why almost immediately we implemented customized ordering frequency and started working on additional products (in this case organic cotton pads and liners, due out this Summer).
Just having participated in TechStyle NYC, what role do live events play in your branding and marketing initiatives?
Events give us the chance to connect with our target audience and tell the story of our brand in person. Events have also given us an amazing platform to change the conversation around women’s menstruation and make it a topic that is no longer spoken about in whispers. We also love explaining the concept to men, and have been extremely impressed at how many men are supportive of the products and movement towards organic.
What was a successful social media campaign you hosted that showed great engagement and traction?
We have had the opportunity to work with some amazing influencers along the way and have seen many subscriptions come from reviews posted on social media from women like The Goofy Mermaid, NiHao New York, Foxy Boss Life, and The Strong Movement. Initially, we used Thunderclap to launch the Kali website and had a great response.
Finally, what is your favorite app?
We recently did a wrap up of our favorite wellness apps on our blog, right now we are really loving TalkSpace, ZocDoc, and period-tracker, Clue. For travel, you can’t beat the AirBnb app, and of course we live by our JetBlue app. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://techsytalk.com/ask-attendees-kaliboxes-techstylenyc/ |
Tour Type: Pilgrimage and Heritage
Duration: 2 Nights/3 Days
Destination Covered: Hindu and Buddhist Pilgrimage site
Group Size: 1 & above
Arrival city: Kathmandu
Departure City: Kathmandu
Meals: Daily Breakfast
Price: Budget, Standard, Deluxe & Luxury
Day 01: Arrival transfer and Evening Arati at Pashupatinath temple
Arrive in Kathmandu. Upon arrival you will be welcomed by airport representative waiting at Kathmandu airport with sign-board with your name just outside the arrival hall. You will be assisted and transfer to your hotel.
In the evening, you will drive to Pashupatinath area. Enjoy short darshan of the temple and go to the bank of the holy river Bagmati to witness evening Arati dedicated to Lords of the animals “Pashupatinath”. Return back to hotel. Overnight at Hotel in Kathmandu
Day 02: Full-day visit to temples and Stupas – Pashupatinath, Budanilakantha temple & Boudhnath
Morning start your sightseeing tour with first visit to Pashupatinath temple. Enjoy full darshan inside temple and if interested for “Special Pooja” then can do the same at this time. For special pooja you need to obtain special permit at-least a week in advance and we can organize the same for you. However the price depends on the pooja you are looking and every arrangements will made by the temples.
After visit at Pashupatinath temple, you will proceed to Boudhnath stupa located 3 Kilometers away from the temple. Boudhnath stupa is also known as “Mini Tibet” and one of the largest Buddhist stupa in Nepal. This stupa is surrounded by Tibetan settlements and monasteries. You will witness Buddhist rituals and traditions at Boudhnath area which is en-circle by Buddhist prayer flags and mane.
In the afternoon, you will visit to Budanilakantha temple located on north of Kathmandu.
The Budhanilkantha statue of the Hindu god Vishnu, located approximately 10 kilometers from the center of Kathmandu at the base of the Shivapuri Hill, is the largest and most beautiful stone carving in all of Nepal. It is also the most enigmatic.
Carved from a single block of black basalt stone of unknown origin, the Budhanilkantha statue is 5 meters in length and it lies in a reclining position inside a recessed tank of water (representing the cosmic sea) that is 13 meters in length. Called the Sleeping Vishnu, or Jalakshayan Narayan, the statue depicts the deity reclining on the twisting coils of the cosmic serpent Shesha (Shesha is the eternal, multi-headed king of the serpent deities known as Nagas, and also is the servant of Vishnu). Vishnu’s legs are crossed and the eleven heads of Shesha cradle his head. Vishnu’s four hands hold objects that are symbols of his divine qualities: a chakra or disc (representing the mind), a conch-shell (the four elements), a lotus flower (the moving universe) and the club (primeval knowledge). Return to hotel for overnight. Overnight at Hotel in Kathmandu
Day 03: Patan Durbar Square with Krishna temple and Departure transfer
Morning visit to Patan Durbar Square another UNESCO site located in Kathmandu. Patan is known as “City of Beauty” and visit to Patan Durbar Square offer excellent opportunity to see local Newari people, ancient Royal complexes and architecture of medieval era. Stroll narrow lanes of Patan visiting Patan Durbar Square, Krishna temple, Mahaboudhi stupa and Golden temple. Patan is also famous for metal works and wood carvings.
Today special highlights at Patan is famous Krishna temple. It is built in the Shikhara style imported from India although it is unique in its own way. The stone carvings along the bean above the first and second floor pillar is most notable. The first floor pillar carvings narrate the events of the Mahabharata, while on the second floor there are visual carvings from Ramayana.
The temple was built in 1637 by King Siddhinarasimh Malla. It is said that one night the King saw the Lord Krishna and his consort Srimati Radha standing in front of the royal palace. He ordered a temple to be built on the same spot. There are 21 golden pinnacles in the temple. Below the pinnacles are 3 stories. The first floor holds the main shrine of Lord Krishna with shrines of Radha and Rukmini at each side. The second floor is dedicated to Lord Shiva and the third to Lokeshwor(Lord Buddha).
The square is crowded with thousands of Hindu Pilgrims and devotees during Krishnastami.
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I heard this week from Ian Kleinman -- our own personal Mr. Wizard, the man who brought molecular gastronomy to Westminster and blew the heads clean off almost everyone who was lucky enough to walk through the doors of O's Steak and Seafood when he was running his molecular gastronomy tasting menus there. But Kleinman was laid off from his chef's gig at O's this fall, and took some time to relax, unwind and spend time with his family.
Well, he's apparently done with that. Because now he's started a catering company called The Inventing Room.
"It's named after the place where Willy Wonka thought up his sweetest concoctions," Kleinman announced on his blog, Food 102 (pretty much required reading for any of you food geeks in the audience). "The Inventing Room team will provide one-of-a-kind food experiences for holiday parties, corporate gatherings and celebrations with family, friends and foodies."
One-of-a-kind is something of an understatement whenever Kleinman is involved in a project. He'll be offering liquid nitrogen ice cream parties, Miracle Fruit tastings, homemade soups (the guy really is a master at doing soups) and customized four-course molecular-tasting menus for anyone who asks (and is willing to pay, of course).
All of this is good news for anyone who has need of instant peanut butter ice cream, food pills, Guinness gelee or s'mores spring rolls. Anyone who's truly interested in the extremes to which food can be taken and the flavors that live there -- out on the edge of the possible. And it's also the perfect business plan for a guy who once made a pulled sugar Oompa Loompa while at culinary school.
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Kleinman really is our own private Willy Wonka, our chef-jacketed mad scientist, pushing the boundaries of what's possible and what's sane in a world of food too often mired in tradition and copy-cat-ism. If I might paraphrase Roald Dahl and Gene Wilder just a bit:
"Meine Damen und Herren, der Inventing Room," said Wonka with a flourish. "Now remember, no messing about. No touching, no tasting, no telling. You see, all of my most secret inventions are cooking and simmering in here. Old Slugworth would give his false teeth to get inside for just five minutes, so don't touch a thing!"
For more information on the Inventing Room, check out Kleinman's blog or drop him an e-mail at email@example.com. He'll have a website up and running shortly, and promises more surprises in store. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.westword.com/restaurants/and-presenting-ian-kleinman-as-willy-wonka-5731438 |
Cast-Iron Skillets: Three Reasons They’re Great
Learn how to care for your skillet and reap its benefits.
Ever wonder what the big fuss is about when it comes to cast iron for your everyday cooking? There are plenty of benefits in using cast iron. Here are the top three:
- Nonstick properties: When properly cared for, cast iron has a naturally nonstick surface that minimizes the amount of oil you need to cook.
- Iron Fortified: Cast iron also increases the iron content of food up to 20 times, especially when it’s an acidic food such as tomato sauce. The longer the food has contact with the pan, the more it absorbs. Iron is an important mineral and is beneficial in producing red blood cells.
- Versatile: Cast iron's third great strength is its versatility. You can use it for sautéing, deep or shallow frying, stir frying and baking. It can be used on an electric or gas stove, on an open fire or in an oven. Another bonus is that the pan evenly distributes heat, promoting uniform cooking.
To season your pan properly, follow these simple steps:
- Hand-wash the pan with hot water. No soap is needed. Never place a cast-iron skillet in the dishwasher due to the detergent’s effect of removing the seasoning.
- Remove burnt-on food by scrubbing the pan with coarse salt and a nonmetal brush.
- Dry the pan immediately after each wash and lightly coat the surface with a neutral oil such as canola or coconut oil.
Although there are many benefits in using a cast iron skillet, be aware that these pans are heavy and require a little bit more attention than a typical pan. To find out more about cooking with cast iron cooking, visit www.Lodgemfg.com.
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A two year old video posted to YouTube over the weekend conjured up raw emotions from the father who could only watch as a Transportation Security Administration official swabbed his wheelchair-bound son for explosives.
"I'm pretty angry," Matt DuBiel recalled Monday as he watched the video again. "I start talking to my wife and I noticed he's shaking."
The incident happened at Midway International Airport during the spring of 2010, he said. DuBiel said he rediscovered the clip of his then-3-year-old son, Rocco, while looking over old family videos with his oldest son.
DuBiel said he was troubled explaining to his son that he stood there and watched a TSA employee swab his younger brother's legs, arms, even his bare back for more than three minutes.
"My biggest problem with this experience is looking him in the eye and telling him that this sort of thing is OK," DuBiel said. "And this is no big deal. And that's the part I regret."
This episode happened before the TSA changed guidelines for child screenings.
"The new modified screening measures have greatly reduced, though not eliminated, pat-downs of children," the TSA said in a statement. "While recognizing that terrorists are willing to manipulate societal norms to evade detection, our officers continue to work with parents to ensure a respectful screening process for the entire family at the checkpoint."
DuBiel said he doesn't fault the employee heard on the video talking with Rocco, saying he was just following protocol.
The TSA said the boy was given extra attention because his wheelchair couldn't pass through the metal detector.
DeBiel said the most troubling part of his experience was having to wheel his son to that screening area. By doing so, he said he went around security and doesn't remember walking through metal detectors or imaging devices himself. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.nbcchicago.com/traffic/transit/tsa-midway-airport-chicago-pat-down-wheelchair-dubiel-143430816.html |
The Congo is a tropical country in western Africa located at the equator. Formally called the Republic of the Congo, or Republique du Congo in its local language, it was formerly named as French Congo when it became a colony of the French and Middle Congo when it became part of the French Equatorial Africa. It is bordered by the countries of Gabon in the west, the Democratic Republic of Congo in the east, the Angola exclave of Cabiada in the South, and Central African Republic and Cameroon in the north, and the Atlantic Ocean in its coast.
Its capital city is Brazzaville which is located on the Congo River across Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Brazzaville is named after the Frenchman Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza who made possible the colonization of the country of Congo by the French. It is largest city in the country, both by land area and population, followed by Pointe-Noire. Pointe-Noire is located in the southern part of the country and is its main port for trade and industry.
The Republic of the Congo is a French-speaking country and French is the language being used in almost all communication situations. It is used as the medium of instruction in schools and is being taught as a subject as well. It is used in the government and in general conversations. With almost hundreds of ethnic groups in the country, it is inevitable that each region has their own mother tongue and lingua franca, but French remains to be the dominant language used by the Congolese especially in trade with their export and import partners. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.studycountry.com/guide/CG-intro.htm |
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Mediation is sometimes confused with relationship counselling - In actual fact mediation is not designed to explore whether it is possible or desirable to save the relationship. Mediation is instead designed to assist when there has been or will be a separation and both parties involved want to deal with the practicalities of that separation as amicably and productively as possible.
The key difference with mediation is that we would help both parties together, as opposed to one individual. This means that as mediators we are impartial and therefore cannot give either party legal advice but we can give a lot of legal information, using our skills as legal advisors.
Mediation can deal with the following:
- Arrangements for formalising the separation
- Living arrangements
- Financial arrangements
- Children arrangements
- Communication difficulties
If you are interested in mediation once you contact us we will need to contact your partner to invite them to mediation. If you are both willing to mediate, we shall firstly arrange initial meetings with you both individually, and then secondly, arrange the joint meetings to discuss the issues you want to address. You will set the agenda for mediation meetings so you will be able to give priority to the most important issues you are seeking to resolve.
Our mediators at Eric Robinson are Beverley Pym and Vicki Rawlins. Mediation can be conducted at any of our offices. Mediation costs are on a fixed fee basis.
If you are interested in mediation, please contact Beverley Pym on 01489 788922 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
If you want to discuss your options in greater detail, to help you decide which process to follow and which service you would like us to provide, we do offer an 30 minute options meeting, free of charge. Within this meeting we will not give you any legal advice on your family situation, but we will go through these options in greater detail, including cost and process information.
Please note that due to issues of impartiality, we will need to carry out conflict of interest checks for all of these alternative options. These checks will tell us if there is any reason due to confidential information held by Eric Robinson, we will not be able to assist you.
In addition, please note that if we give you any advice on your family law matter, we will then not be able to act for you as your mediators as we would no longer be impartial. Therefore if you are undecided as to which route to follow, we would recommend an options meeting so we are not prevented from acting as your mediators if you do decide that to be the route you wish to take.
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5 coordination or management of your health care with another provider. For example, we would disclose your protected health information, as necessary, to a home health agency that provides care to you. We will also disclose protected health information to other physicians who may be treating you. For example, your protected health information may be provided to a physician to whom you have been referred to ensure that the physician has the necessary information to diagnose or treat you. In addition, we may disclose your protected health information from time-to-time to another physician or health care provider (e.g., a specialist or laboratory) who, at the request of your physician, becomes involved in your care by providing assistance with your health care diagnosis or treatment to your physician. I should also be known that, as a Physical Medicine Clinic, Oahu Spine & Rehab is an open environment and as such, it is possible that some of your information, including name and condition(s), may be seen and/or overheard by other patients in the clinic during your treatment process. If you object to this, please contact our Privacy Officer immediately so we can make accommodations. Payment: Your protected health information will be used and disclosed, as needed, to obtain payment for your health care services provided by us or by another provider. This may include certain activities that your health insurance plan may undertake before it approves or pays for the health care services we recommend for you such as: making a determination of eligibility or coverage for insurance benefits, reviewing services provided to you for medical necessity, and undertaking utilization review activities. For example, obtaining approval for a hospital stay may require that your relevant protected health information be disclosed to the health plan to obtain approval for the hospital admission. Health Care Operations: We may use or disclose, as needed, your protected health information in order to support the business activities of your physician s practice. These activities include, but are not limited to, quality assessment activities, employee review activities, training of medical students, licensing, fundraising activities, and conducting or arranging for other business activities. We will share your protected health information with third party business associates that perform various activities (for example, billing or transcription services) for our practice. Whenever an arrangement between our office and a business associate involves the use or disclosure of your protected health information, we will have a written contract that contains terms that will protect the privacy of your protected health information. We may use or disclose your protected health information, as necessary, to provide you with information about treatment alternatives or other health-related benefits and services that may be of interest to you. You may contact our Privacy Officer to request that these materials not be sent to you. We may use or disclose your demographic information and the dates that you received treatment from your physician, as necessary, in order to contact you for fundraising activities supported by our office. If you do not want to receive these materials, please American Medical Association All Rights Reserved
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7 tribunal (to the extent such disclosure is expressly authorized), or in certain conditions in response to a subpoena, discovery request or other lawful process. Law Enforcement: We may also disclose protected health information, so long as applicable legal requirements are met, for law enforcement purposes. These law enforcement purposes include (1) legal processes and otherwise required by law, (2) limited information requests for identification and location purposes, (3) pertaining to victims of a crime, (4) suspicion that death has occurred as a result of criminal conduct, (5) in the event that a crime occurs on the premises of our practice, and (6) medical emergency (not on our practice s premises) and it is likely that a crime has occurred. Coroners, Funeral Directors, and Organ Donation: We may disclose protected health information to a coroner or medical examiner for identification purposes, determining cause of death or for the coroner or medical examiner to perform other duties authorized by law. We may also disclose protected health information to a funeral director, as authorized by law, in order to permit the funeral director to carry out their duties. We may disclose such information in reasonable anticipation of death. Protected health information may be used and disclosed for cadaveric organ, eye or tissue donation purposes. Research: We may disclose your protected health information to researchers when their research has been approved by an institutional review board that has reviewed the research proposal and established protocols to ensure the privacy of your protected health information. Criminal Activity: Consistent with applicable federal and state laws, we may disclose your protected health information, if we believe that the use or disclosure is necessary to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a person or the public. We may also disclose protected health information if it is necessary for law enforcement authorities to identify or apprehend an individual. Military Activity and National Security: When the appropriate conditions apply, we may use or disclose protected health information of individuals who are Armed Forces personnel (1) for activities deemed necessary by appropriate military command authorities; (2) for the purpose of a determination by the Department of Veterans Affairs of your eligibility for benefits, or (3) to foreign military authority if you are a member of that foreign military services. We may also disclose your protected health information to authorized federal officials for conducting national security and intelligence activities, including for the provision of protective services to the President or others legally authorized. Workers Compensation: We may disclose your protected health information as authorized to comply with workers compensation laws and other similar legallyestablished programs American Medical Association All Rights Reserved
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12 Oswestry Low Back Pain Scale Please rate the severity of your pain by circling a number below: No pain Unbearable pain Name Date Instructions: Please circle the ONE NUMBER in each section which most closely describes your problem. Section 1 Pain Intensity Section 6 Standing 0. The pain comes and goes and is very mild. 0. I can stand as long as I want without pain. 1. The pain is mild and does not vary much. 1. I have some pain on standing but it does not increase with time. 2. The pain comes and goes and is moderate. 2. I cannot stand for longer than 1 hour without increasing pain. 3. The pain is moderate and does not vary much. 3. I cannot stand for longer than ½ hour without increasing pain. 4. The pain comes and goes and is severe. 4. I cannot stand for longer than 10 minutes without increasing pain. 5. The pain is severe and does not vary much. 5. I avoid standing because it increases the pain immediately. Section 2 Personal Care (Washing, Dressing, etc.) Section 7 Sleeping 0. I would not have to change my way of washing or 0. I get no pain in bed. dressing in order to avoid pain. 1. I get pain in bed but it does not prevent me from sleeping well. 1. I do not normally change my way of washing or 2. Because of pain my normal nights sleep is reduced by less than dressing even though it causes some pain. one-quarter. 2. Washing and dressing increase the pain but I 3. Because of pain my normal nights sleep is reduced by less than manage not to change my way of doing it. one-half. 3. Washing and dressing increase the pain and I find it 4. Because of pain my normal nights sleep is reduced by less than necessary to change my way of doing it. three-quarters. 4. Because of the pain I am unable to do some washing 5. Pain prevents me from sleeping at all. and dressing without help. 5. Because of the pain I am unable to do any washing and dressing without help. Section 3 Lifting Section 8 Social Life 0. I can lift heavy weights without extra pain. 0. My social life is normal and gives me no pain. 1. I can lift heavy weights but it gives extra pain. 1. My social life is normal but it increases the degree of pain. 2. Pain prevents me lifting heavy weights off the floor. 2. Pain has no significant effect on my social life apart from limiting 3. Pain prevents me lifting heavy weights off the floor, but I can my more energetic interests, e.g., dancing, etc. manage if they are conveniently positioned, e.g., on a table. 3. Pain has restricted my social life and I do not go out very often. 4. Pain prevents me lifting heavy weights but I can manage light 4. Pain has restricted my social life to my home. to medium weights if they are conveniently positioned. 5. I have hardly any social life because of the pain. 5. I can only lift very light weights at most. Section 4 Walking Section 9 Traveling 0. I have no pain on walking. 0. I get no pain when traveling. 1. I have some pain on walking but it does not increase 1. I get some pain when traveling but none of my usual forms of with distance. travel make it any worse. 2. I cannot walk more than 1 mile without increasing pain. 2. I get extra pain while traveling but it does not compel me to seek 3. I cannot walk more than ½ mile without increasing pain. alternate forms of travel. 4. I cannot walk more than ¼ mile without increasing pain. 3. I get extra pain while traveling which compels to seek alternative 5. I cannot walk at all without increasing pain. forms of travel. 4. Pain restricts me to short necessary journeys under ½ hour. 5. Pain restricts all forms of travel. Section 5 Sitting Section 10 Changing Degree of Pain 0. I can sit in any chair as long as I like. 0. My pain is rapidly getting better. 1. I can sit only in my favorite chair as long as I like. 1. My pain fluctuates but is definitely getting better. 2. Pain prevents me from sitting more than 1 hour. 2. My pain seems to be getting better but improvement is slow. 3. Pain prevents me from sitting more than ½ hour. 3. My pain is neither getting better or worse. 4. Pain prevents me from sitting more than 10 minutes. 4. My pain is gradually worsening. 5. I avoid sitting because it increases pain immediately. 5. My pain is rapidly worsening. TOTAL
13 The Neck Disability Index Patient name: File# Date: Please read instructions: This questionnaire has been designed to give the doctor information as to how your neck pain has affected your ability to manage everyday life. Please answer every section and mark in each section only the ONE box that applies to you. We realize that you may consider that two of the statements in any one section relate to you, but please just mark the box that most closely describes your problem. SECTION 1-PAIN INTENSITY I have no pain at the moment. The pain is very mild at the moment. The pain is moderate at the moment. The pain is fairly severe at the moment. The pain is very severe at the moment. The pain is the worst imaginable at the moment. SECTION 2-PERSONAL CARE (Washing, Dressing, etc.) I can look after myself normally, without causing extra pain. I can look after myself normally, but it causes extra pain. It is painful to look after myself and I am slow and careful. I need some help, but manage most of my personal care. I need help every day in most aspects of self care. I do not get dressed; I wash with difficulty and stay in bed. SECTION 3-LIFTING I can lift heavy weights without extra pain. I can lift heavy weights, but it gives extra pain. Pain prevents me from lifting heavy weights off the floor, but I can manage if they are conveniently positioned, for example, on a table. Pain prevents me from lifting heavy weights off the floor, but I can manage light to medium weights if they are conveniently positioned. I can lift very light weights. I cannot lift or carry anything at all. SECTION 4-READING I can read as much as I want to, with no pain in my neck. I can read as much as I want to, with slight pain in my neck. I can read as much as I want to, with moderate pain in my neck. I can t read as much as I want, because of moderate pain in my neck. I can hardly read at all, because of severe pain in my neck. I cannot read at all. SECTION 5-HEADACHES I have no headaches at all. I have slight headaches that come infrequently. I have moderate headaches that come infrequently. I have moderate headaches that come frequently. I have severe headaches that come frequently. I have headaches almost all the time. SECTION 6-CONCENTRATION I can concentrate fully when I want to, with no difficulty. I can concentrate fully when I want to, with slight difficulty. I have a fair degree of difficulty in concentrating when I want to. I have a lot of difficulty in concentrating when I want to. I have a great deal of difficulty in concentrating when I want to. I cannot concentrate at all. SECTION 7-WORK I can do as much work as I want to. I can do my usual work, but no more. I can do most of my usual work, but no more. I cannot do my usual work. I can hardly do any work at all. I can t do any work at all. SECTION 8-DRIVING I can drive my car without any neck pain.. I can drive my car as long as I want, with slight pain in my neck. I can drive my car as long as I want, with moderate pain in my neck. I can t drive my car as long as I want, because of moderate pain in my neck. I can hardly drive at all, because of severe pain in my neck. I can t drive my car at all. SECTION 9-SLEEPING I have no trouble sleeping. My sleep is slightly disturbed (less than 1 hr sleepless). My sleep is mildly disturbed (1-2 hrs sleepless). My sleep is moderately disturbed (2-3 hrs sleepless). My sleep is greatly disturbed (3-5 hrs sleepless). My sleep is completely disturbed (5-7 hrs sleepless). SECTION 10-RECREATION I am able to engage in all my recreation activities, with no neck pain at all. I am able to engage in all my recreation activities, with some neck pain at all. I am able to engage in most, but not all, of my usual recreation activities, because of pain in my neck. I am able to engage in few of my recreation activities, because of pain in my neck. I can hardly do any recreation activities, because of pain in my neck. I can t do any recreation activities at all. Instructions: 1. The NDI is scored in the same way as the Oswestry Disability Index. 2. Using this system, a score of 10-28% (i.e., 5-14 points) is considered by the authors to constitute mild disability; 30-48% is moderate; 50-68% is severe; 72% or more is complete. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://docplayer.net/1525724-Oahu-spine-rehab-patient-information-form.html |
A number of puppets from the Muppets show sesame street have been donated to the museum of American history in Washington DC. One of the Muppets that got donated was miss piggy. also join here was Kermit the frog. and joined this week was cookie monster .Bert. Ernie, Elmo and Fozzie bear. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://pesjaydenp.blogspot.com/2013/10/kiwi-kids-news.html |
Earlier this month, the Seattle Times ran a thoughtful article about a long journey for Microsoft contractors to unionize. The short story is these “perma-temps” where seeking benefits and stability afforded permanent Microsoft employees. Please read here before proceeding further so you have the proper context about what I plan to say.
Many words have been written over the past two years about the changing nature of the relationship between partners and vendors. My own take is that partners pride themselves as technology and business advisors providing value as consultants to clients. That’s what gets us up in the morning. No doubt about it.
But in a quantitative-based “Marketing 2.0” world of measurable metrics, the SMB vendors have become not nice people, viewing us as “resellers” who have no other passion than to sell licenses. Their Jim Crow language about “partnering” and their degrading actions are repulsive and highly offensive to our culture. And they don’t care. It’s all about the monthly pipeline report. Unknowingly they are increasingly biting the hand that feeds them.
This sets up the dynamic for considering some type of organization. When relationships are out of balance, there will be a reaction. Just ask the US Republican party in this Fall’s elections. Given over 80% of the SMB Nation tribe self-identifies themselves as MSPs, I’d offer this is a segment you shouldn’t ignore.
Years ago, under the late Jim Locke, the fledging SMB Technology Network (SMBTN) messaged aspects of organizing as a collective to bargain both against and fairly with the vendors. It was one of its pillars if not mission statement. While its intentions were noble, it didn’t execute broadly to truly organize MSPs to cut better deals with vendors and receive better treatment.
So in the spirit of late August crowd sourcing, use the comment section to tell me what you think. Should MSPs lead a revolution?
PS - this topic is just in time for Labor day next week LOL! | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.smbnation.com/content/news/should-msps-unionize |
A Lap Puppy Diary by SEMPCAmember Tom Fielitz
Early in the 23 year history of the Cannonball One Lap of America race, a competitor was asked what motivated him to come back every year. His response was “You either run with the big dogs or sit on the porch.” Since then, experienced One Lap competitors have been known as Lap Dogs, and One Lap rookies – Lap Puppies. This year, Al Wright and I became Lap Puppies and this is an account of our adventure.
Most people’s knowledge of this event is limited to the glorified Hollywood movie version titled The Cannonball Run, with Burt Reynolds and friends. The real Cannonball is very different!
The original Cannonball was contested on public roads. For the past two decades it has been contested on the top race tracks in the country, linked together in one long week of transit driving from state to state. The 2006 Cannonball race route began in Indiana, ranged west into Iowa, south into Louisiana, east to Virginia and north to Wisconsin before ending back in Indiana. There were 86 cars in various classifications contesting 20 racing events ranging from skid pad to stock car oval and road race courses to drag strip.
Al and I were entered in his leased 2004 Porsche Cayenne S, an SUV that does normal duty as tow vehicle for his racing Porsche GT2 Turbo. Why would we choose to race the Cayenne instead of the race car? Because it would be more comfortable on the long transit drives and we presumed that the SUV class would not be hotly contested. Our first surprise was to learn that there were six entries in our class. The hottest prospect was an entry by Chrysler’s SRT group of a Jeep Hemi Cherokee with 425 horsepower, carbon fiber body panels and Plexiglas windows, piloted by the SRT test driver, Eric Heuschele. Two other factory entries were Honda Odyssey vans sporting racing motors, brakes and suspensions and driven by professional Honda test drivers. The non-factory entries were equally potent with a Chevrolet S-10 Blazer body cleverly covering a Corvette C4 chassis and Grand Sport engine. The Blazer was driven by a team from the Carolina Speed Shop in their 18th consecutive Cannonball – legends in this race. Finally there was a Ford F150 4X4 entered by Powerworks with a 550 horsepower supercharged engine. Our Cayenne, with its 340 horsepower and 5,300 pounds seemed hopelessly outclassed.
Our total preparation consisted of replacing the stock tires with the lowest profile, softest compound Bridgestone tires that would fit the rims. It lowered the Cayenne by over two inches and gave it a distinctive “low rider” appearance. We optimistically figured we would make up the performance difference with driving talent and Porsche technology.
The only rule in the Cannonball is that “there are no rules.” Our fellow participants drove such things as a Viper race car with a 1,000 horsepower twin turbo Chevrolet race motor and a Porsche 944 with a Corvette Z06 motor. Cost is no object and no car combination is too weird. It should also be noted that driving talent ranged from the casual driving school participant to the career professional racer. This is the “Big Show” of unconventional racing.
This was the fastest and most evenly matched group of One Lap competitors that had ever been assembled.
Our One Lap adventure started on Friday night with a banquet in South Bend. We shared dinner with our Blazer competitors, Glen Dodd, Charles Lovelady, and Michael Stein. They entertained us with their past exploits both on the track and on the road. They became our instant friends and our closest competition throughout the race.
Saturday morning we all gathered in the parking lot of The Tire Rack. The first event was a skid pad that was soaking wet. A good effort by Al resulted in a second place in class behind the Jeep and 36th overall. That Saturday afternoon we were on the road to Illinois for the first road race event.
That was when we discovered that transit stage drives would be every bit as intense as driving on the track. Unfamiliar roads and unpredictable traffic made every transit drive a tension-filled experience. Without the front and rear radar detectors plus the latest computerized route technology, the transits would have been much more difficult.
The tracks were also demanding since we had not seen any of these track layouts except on paper. A pre racetrack walk seemed to us to be a poor use of our energy. The race events consisted of one reconnaissance lap followed by three timed laps with results based on cumulative time. Our poor Saturday afternoon race track result put us back in 74th overall and fifth in class. We went from second in class to fifth – all in the same day. The fight was on and we were humbled, but not discouraged.
The Saturday night transit took us to Iowa. We arrived at 3:30 a.m. looking for any available motel room. A Warren Buffet Convention had booked every room in Sioux Falls. A $20 bribe to a gas station clerk got us the honeymoon room in a small motel where we indulged in a three hour nap. Our second transit discovery was that motel rooms were essential. Every minute saved on a transit drive became another valuable minute of bed rest. Sleeping during the transits turned out to be too noisy and rough.
On Sunday we had two races which we split with our Carolina Blazer team. We were fourth in our class standings, but only barely. With no time to celebrate we headed off on a 1,000 mile overnight express drive to Louisiana.
Monday in Louisiana we were greeted by oppressive heat and Al’s brother-in-law Rod. Rod surprised us with a huge Cajun lunch of gumbo and stuffed pork roast. Although we struggled to run well at the two races on a challenging track, Rod made our day with cheerful support and good cooking. Our Blazer competitors hit the first of many calamities which kept them out of both race events with electrical gremlins. We took our leftover Cajun food with us on our next transit of 700 miles to Georgia in another all night drive.
Tuesday would be a very busy day with two races, a checkpoint in Midway, Georgia and another 200-mile transit drive to a night race at our one oval track race in Florence, South Carolina. Our day was easy compared to that of our Carolina Blazer team, who literally had the steering wheel fall come off in the driver’s hands at the end of their first race of the day. The normally very composed driver, Charles was much more animated after that incident. In true Cannonball spirit the Carolina team found a junk yard replacement and had it installed in time for the second race! That was typical of many of the Cannonball competitors who were constantly repairing all types of failures from oil pumps to wheel bearings. Our Cayenne maintenance consisted of one quart of oil and swapping the tires front to rear. The grinding under-steer of the Cayenne had worn the Bridgestone name off the front tire sidewalls!
The short, banked oval race track in Florence, SC was an unknown track to everybody. Al was picked to drive this race in honor of his 20-plus years of Southern living plus his stock car driving experience. He listened carefully to the track owner describe the nuances of this track and then drove a very inspired race. But it was the big black SRT8 Jeep Cherokee that provided the big show. The driver proved the aptness of his moniker: “Hollywood” by running the oval track with a huge “sprint car” racing wing on the Jeep’s roof. As soon as we could pack up the Cayenne we were on the road again for the 200 mile run to Virginia.
Wednesday was the most difficult race day of all with three races on three different track configurations. With more luck than skill, we bested the Carolina Blazer in two out of the three races. Now solidly fourth in class, we faced yet another all night dash of 675 miles to Indiana and what would be the high point of our Cannonball.
Thursday morning we awoke to a steady rain that would raise the anxiety level of even an experienced Cannonball racer. Track knowledge and the slippery conditions minimized the horsepower advantage of the rest of the field over our Cayenne. The fast cars all slipped and slid to slow times. By the time our turn came to run, the rain had stopped and the racing line around the track was dry. As a result, we finished an astonishing fourth overall on the entire 88 car field and well ahead of everyone in our SUV class. The finishing points brought us right back into competition with one of the Hondas and well up on the rest of our class.
Cancellation of the drag race was good news for our Cayenne team. Canceling an event we were unlikely to win meant extra hours of time to cover a short 215 mile transit leg and a much needed full nights sleep. By this point, distances of 200 miles seemed like mere drives around the block. But in this drive, the temperature plunged to 34 degrees and we faced snow! It must have been a terrifying drive for the team in an open-topped Ultralight. This was a home built car just large enough to hold the driver and passenger but with no windshield, doors, trunk, or roof. Totally exhausted on the transit stage, the team decided to sleep in the car still wearing their helmets. After a while the driver, Kevin Boulton, awoke to what he thought was a passing train. It was the snoring of his co-driver Loren Edwards! After running up and down the road to wake himself up, Kevin fired up the Ultralight and revved the engine to wake Loren. Loren was so shaken that he couldn’t sleep for the rest of the transit.
Friday in Wisconsin was another terrifying day for most competitors but not for our team. It might have been cold and raining but it was a track that I knew from over thirty years of driving schools. We managed to beat half the field including several Corvettes and a Cadillac CTSV. We were now close in points to third in our SUV class with only one race event left back at the start in South Bend, Indiana.
Saturday morning everyone was reunited in the parking lot at Tire Rack in South Bend. In just one week we had come full circle; but all the strangers that had gathered a week before in that same parking lot were now fast friends and fellow Lap Dogs. Cars and drivers were posed over and over again for pictures of such an epic moment. On the final skid pad the tables were turned on us and we ran on a cold and damp track first, leaving a dry and warm track to the faster cars.
In the final tally, we were a solid fourth in class and not far behind the Honda Odysseys. We were 71st in the overall classification. The winning car for the third year in succession was a Porsche 996 Twin Turbo. They only won one race but never finished lower than third, except for the race in which our modest Cayenne had beaten them! We had spent over $1,000 in gas and $500 in rooms and meals. We averaged only 4 hours of bed rest per night and short naps during transit drives.
When we were preparing for this race we were brave and confident. What could possibly beat a well-prepared and well-driven Porsche? When the race started we were stunned to see the level of factory involvement and competition-prepared cars. We were also humbled to be racing against seasoned and talented amateur and professional drivers. The races and transits were physically and emotionally exhausting. Our hopes were raised at the results of one race only to be dashed at the results of the next race.
When it was over, we both agreed that we were proud of a very good effort, the very best we had in us. I could not have asked for a better team mate or better friend than Al. When you share such an intense experience it cements a friendship. So much so that we will be going back next year in a more competitive Mini Cooper JCW edition and we will be official Lap Dogs. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://sem.pca.org/2013/04/28/the-2006-tire-rack-cannonball-one-lap-of-america-presented-by-car-and-driver/ |
Advised early on by his father that real estate was a wise career, particularly for an African American, Eddie L. Jackson Jr. was recently made a Senior Associate at CB Richard Ellis, the largest commercial real estate firm in the world. “This is an honor and testament to the theory that you can achieve anything you put your mind to,” Eddie says
But Eddie Jackson, Jr.’s principles have always placed people first: He attended VCU in the ‘90s, where he majored in Social Work and minored in Real Estate and Urban Land Development. Today, Eddie lives on the Southside of Richmond and enjoys time with his “four wonderfully talented children,” Trinity, 8, Eden, 6, Jordan, 4, and Eddie III, who is 4.
How long have you been with CB Richard Ellis?
I joined the team at CB Richard Ellis about thirty days ago as a Senior Associate. I have had the opportunity to work with and be trained by one of the Richmond office partners for the past 4 and a half years. Transitioning to the firm full time and converting my business solely to commercial real estate was an easy decision. Currently, I am the only African American working for this firm throughout our MidSouth region, which is Fredericksburg, Richmond, Norfolk, Raleigh and Charlotte. Additionally, I am the only African American in Richmond working for any of the “true commercial brokerages.”
What drew you to a profession in real estate?
My father gave me the thirst and understanding of real estate and development. As the saying goes, “Since I was knee high to a grass hopper,” this is what I learned and easily established a love and passion for. He added one important fact which helped me focus and learn to go after what my goals are. He shared his thoughts regarding this industry, “Eddie, Real estate is a black man’s ticket to wealth and freedom. If you own land, you can learn to leverage your financial status and lift your family out of poverty.”
Do you specialize in a particular kind of commercial property?
I am a jack-of-all-trades, which will narrow down as my career continues to unfold. I have extensive broker experience in the historic tax credit and development side of the business. In addition, I work in the following areas: Industrial office, multi-family and retail. I am able to offer consulting services to business owners who may wonder how to expand their market presence. I am currently working toward the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation. A CCIM is a recognized expert in the disciplines of commercial and investment real estate. A CCIM is an invaluable resource to the commercial real estate owner, investor, and user, and is among an elite corps of more than 9,000 professionals who hold the CCIM designation across North America and more than 30 countries.
What are some of your hobbies, and how do you relax when you have time off?
My hobbies consist of looking for new projects to develop mainly. In addition, I spend time with my shared pets, Leonidus, Neapolitan Mastiff, Moses, an English bulldog, three cats, Stella, Memphis and Assar. Oh yeah, and [I have] two very fertile rabbits. At home, I enjoy quiet times to reflect on my blessings and how I can be a better role model to my children and youth of today. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://urbanviewsweekly.com/2008/11/12/his-fathers-wisdom-is-eddie-l-jackson-jr%E2%80%99s-destiny/ |
Women’s golf traveled east last weekend for the Wellesley Invitational, a two-day event that became a one-day Sunday tournament due to the heavy rains that blanketed the area. The Ephs played in a field of eight teams at the Nehoiden Golf Course on the Wellesley campus, which is only a nine-hole course. The small course forced the women to play around twice to count for one round. Melissa Barton ’09, Anne O’Leary ’10, Mary Gelber ’10, Aimee Weber ’11 and Kristen Tubbs ’12 represented the squad. At Sunday’s end the women tied for third with Vassar with a team total of 348, following first-place Middlebury (335) and runner-up, Amherst (340).
The women began Sunday’s round in the rain which continued throughout the day, but despite the conditions, the team was ready to put on its game face and challenge the competition. Unfortunately, the day’s outcome was not what the Ephs were looking to achieve. Overall the rainy conditions inflated the scores, with only three individuals from the field shooting in the 70s. The Ephs were especially concerned with how they placed in the rankings, feeling that they played beneath their potential. “We have yet to come out of a weekend feeling like we put together four good scores,” O’Leary said.
Leading the Ephs for the weekend was first-year Tubbs carding an 83, followed by Barton with an 86. Gelber and O’Leary contributed with an 89 and 90, respectively. In the field of 40 players, Tubbs finished eighth individually. Head Coach Kris Herman and the team were excited to see Tubbs making such an impact in her third collegiate event.
The individual medalist of the event was from Vassar with a score of 77.
This weekend the team will travel to Middlebury for a two-day invitational. Before then, the women plan to change some of their practice habits to work towards a better finish.
“With two tournaments left in the season, including our home invitational, we would like take home some hardware at each event,” said Tubbs. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://williamsrecord.com/2008/09/30/womens-golf-takes-third-at-wellesley/ |
More than 100 Libyan men stood at attention, marched in place and chanted "God is great" before a squad of trainers in Benghazi, the epicenter of the opposition-controlled eastern half of Libya.
The trainers gave them patriotic speeches before putting them to work cleaning machine gun parts.
Even while the rebel army tries to bind together its disparate parts to face off against the forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, it has to deal with an influx of eager volunteers filled with enthusiasm for a march to Tripoli, but short on real military experience.
Already, bands of Libyans have picked up weapons and headed west to help rebels in Tripoli and the nearby embattled city of Masrata, although many have run afoul of pro-Gadhafi forces along the 600-mile (1,000-kilometer) journey, especially in his hometown of Sirte.
Training sessions for the volunteers have been set up around Benghazi, but the zeal of the new recruits is being tempered by the caution of the officers _ and the need to clean up some rusty weapons and equipment.
"All the Libyan people are volunteers and want to do anything to get military training," said Col. Mohammed Rifai, a fighter pilot at the military air base, which has also taken on its share of volunteers. He just shook his head about reports of bands of fighters heading off on their own.
"We don't approve. Coordination is the best thing _ but it is a revolution of the people," he said with a shrug.
So far, the rebel army is just getting organized, with an announcement Tuesday that the Libyan Military Council has been formed to coordinate among the disparate units scattered across the east.
Benghazi, however, is still gripped by a revolutionary fervor less than two weeks since the rout of Gadhafi's forces and freeing of the east from his control.
Volunteers are still directing traffic and manning checkpoints into the early hours of the morning to make up for the continuing absence of police and traffic cops and cars still drive around waving the newly adopted flag of the old monarchy.
The most fervent are flocking to recruitment centers to sign up as volunteer fighters and already some 5,000 have registered in Benghazi and hundreds elsewhere in the east, according to authorities, despite word that some volunteers have been killed trying to join the fighting in the west.
"I would prefer to go immediately," said Mohammed Shebeik, 38, as he waited in line in a converted school yard to sign his name, while patriotic songs blared over a loudspeaker. "I hear at least 20 people died in Sirte, but we are not afraid. All of Libya is one hand."
He added that like most Libyans, he learned a bit of weapons training in high school.
Faisal Mohammed, 28, who had already signed his name and sat in the school yard with 100 other recruits waiting for the training to begin, was more blunt.
"If there was a group leaving (to go fight), I would go," he said.
Next to the training area, Col. Saleh Ashur supervised soldiers and a number of volunteers polishing the rust off the barrels of anti-aircraft guns and greasing up the individual parts.
"Speaking as an officer in the army, I say they have to be organized to attack not just to go out on your own," he said, with the weariness of age and experience in the face of all that enthusiasm.
He noted the irony that Gadhafi had ordered weapons training for all high school students, and "now the training is being turned against Gadhafi," but he said once their five-day refresher course was complete, the volunteers would be asked to go home and wait for a call.
At the school, trainer Ahmed Jibreel ordered his recruits to stand up, march in place, turn left, turn right and shout "God is great," while behind him others patiently scrubbed away at another filthy anti-aircraft gun.
"We are getting the guns ready in order to fight, and the guns need to be kept clean for battle," he said, when asked why the recruits seemed to be largely reserved for cleaning duties.
"Eventually we will use live ammunition in the training," said Jibril, who declined to give his rank saying that in the new Libyan army, there were no ranks. "We are here not to show off but to create fighters to win the battle."
The rebel army says there are plenty of weapons with which to arm these new recruits, although by most estimates the military lacks up-to-date equipment, heavy weapons and large supplies of ammunition. All the soldiers were wearing different kinds of uniforms and camouflage, including a fair amount of U.S. Army surplus.
"Uniforms aren't important," Jibril said. "What's important is the determination which makes the impossible, possible. Gadhafi is a paper tiger."
Paper tiger or not, Libya's rebel military is remaining cautious, even as battles rage across the country's west as Gadhafi tries to retake fallen towns.
"We are waiting for the revolution in Tripoli to do something before we move," said Ashur. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://townhall.com/news/world/2011/03/02/libyan-volunteers-eager-to-fight-gadhafi-n1409160 |
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When the bullpen doors at Yankee Stadium fly open, it begins. The crowd roars and rises to its feet. And its not just the sight of a slender Panamanian relief pitcher lightly trotting toward the mound that thrills the pinstriped throng. It's the explosion of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" from the speakers. With the song reverberating throughout this corner of the Bronx, it seems inexplicable that any opposing hitter could muster the courage to get a hit. Of course, that cutter helps.
The Philadelphia Eagles have "Fly Eagles Fly." The Baltimore Orioles have "Oriole Magic." Nearly every sports team has an anthem Some of these stadium songs have been played years while others are fad tunes that fans latched onto during a particularly memorable season.
Whether you're sick of it or not, it's hard to deny that oft-repeated songs like "Kernkraft 400" by Zombie Nation pumps up the crowd after someone throws down a monster dunk. But before the players create those memorable moments, they're getting amped up by whatever they've got pulsing through their own headphones. When they take to their stage -- be it court, pitch, gridiron or diamond -- they may then be serenaded by fans belting out a rendition of "Seven Nation Army." Music has its role before, during and, most certainly, after any game. After all, when a team wins the whole thing, you can bet "We Are The Champions" by Queen gets played.
Sports can also inspire music but we'll save that for another playlist. Here are a group of songs that you'll likely recognize from a stadium near you. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-klopman/huffpost-sports-playlist_b_1416390.html |
Laura Graham will be hot favourite for the Dambusters Half Marathon at the Silent Valley Reservoir on Saturday.
The event – organised by Born 2 Run – includes the 10th and last round of the Pure Running/ChampionChip Ireland Series and is expected to attract upwards of 500 runners.
Graham, from Mourne Runners, has dominated the series with her wins including Larne, Omagh, Newry and Ards and she added the National title in Dublin and should win again comfortably.
Last year’s champion Karen Alexander may enter again while Martsje Hell, Amanda Perry, Eileen Stephenson, Ann Fitzpatrick and Gillian Logan will all go well.
David Simpson from Newcastle, winner at Groomsport, can dispute the Men’s race with Danny McLaughlin from St Malachy’s who took the Sea 2 Sky victory.
The half marathon starts at 11am, the walk at 11:30am and 10K at 12noon.
Meanwhile, William McKee and Diane Wilson will be fancied for the Slieve Bearnagh Mountain Race which includes the eighth round of the NIMRA Championship.
Meanwhile, the finals of the Northern Ireland Youth Development League will be held in the Antrim Forum on Saturday starting at 10am. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.newsletter.co.uk/sport/more-sport/athletics-laura-graham-hot-favourite-to-prevail-at-dambusters-half-marathon-at-the-silent-valley-reservoir-1-7536167 |
Haaaaaa I read Sandra's Post and I am soooo glad I'm not the only one that had a giggle.
Ok I may be just a little .... childlike but hey, who wants to grow up?!
It's fair to say I have had the odd fight or two... or ten with my sweet tooth over the years but I love to bake Cookies at Christmas and as I am doing the prep work I can add as much or as little goodies that I choose.
The boys love to help and it's nice to spend some baking time with them. I am a cookie cutter
I have to admit I love looking at cookies from all different countries but it has to be said the US wins hands down.... Just thinking about them is enough to put myself on the naughty list and partake in some sugary goodness.
This year I plan to bake/make the following treats again and maybe have a go at something new too.
|Giant Chocolate Chunk Shortbread|
I will be deffo be making shortbread but instead of the heart tin, I will be using my Star one. I may well do smaller ones too.
|Blueberry Crumble Bars|
These Blueberry Crumble bars went down a treat, I'm contemplating trying them with mincemeat instead to give them a Christmasey Twist.
|Chocolate Covered Oreos|
I haven't made these in over a year so plan to treat the family to a few of these morsels of delishiousness but I will only make a small amount as they are very moreish lol. I don't really eat chocolate any more so I will be fine but the boys - and the hubster have been known to sneak a cookie or two. I'm thinking of doing some with coconut oil chocolate and see how they come out. Sugar has made it a point to put me on her enemy list and attacks when I'm least expecting.
I Purchased a 3D Christmas Tree Cookie set in the sales a while back and will be trying it out this year, we can have it for desert on Christmas day.. just wondering whether to do them in Gingerbread or Sugar Cookie...... decisions.... maybe I'll do both. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://lifesapeechy.blogspot.com/2014/12/blogmas-with-dosahm-day-10.html |
Container data services vendor Portworx announced on April 5 that it has raised $20 million in a new Series B round of funding. The funding will be used by the company to grow marketing, sales and development efforts.
The new round of funding was led by Sapphire Ventures and included the participation of GE Ventures and Mayfield. Total funding to date for Portworx now stands at $28.5 million.
At the core of Portworx's product portfolio is the company's PX-Enterprise stateful container storage technology, which first debuted in June 2016. The promise of PX-Enterprise is that it can provide a stable storage interface and backend for DevOps container application deployments in production.
"For the first time, we've eliminated the complex and expensive decision of purchasing storage for containers in production," Murli Thirumale, CEO and co-founder of Portworx, said in a statement. "Portworx will enable enterprises of all sizes to realize the true potential of containers."
Part of that potential is realized thanks to Portworx's scheduler-integrated data services, which is what helps to enable the stateful approach for production deployment data.
"There is a lot of hype around containers today, but we believe there are a select few container-focused companies that have breakthrough technology and significant customers, and Portworx is one of them," Jai Das of Sapphire Ventures, said in a statement. "Enterprises are heavily investing in container data services like Portworx because data is core to their business operations, and organizations need a reliable solution backed by enterprise storage experts."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at EnterpriseAppsToday and InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://mobile.enterpriseappstoday.com/data-management/portworx-raises-20m-series-b-to-advance-container-data-services.html |
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From what I can gather, the people in charge of the stadium atmosphere are sort of oblivious at times. I've heard that they once asked the band if their pre-game show could be shortened by deleting Script Ohio.
There are plenty of reasons to drop "Seven Nation Army" in favor of "Ohio", and many good ones were listed above. But the biggest reason has to be that the White Stripes are from that state to the north and west of us. How embarrassing is that? | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://www.elevenwarriors.com/users/jme |
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Location: Highway 7 & Jane St
Developer: CentreCourt Developments
Prices: 2 bedroom suites from the low $400,000s
Estimated Completion: 2020
Welcome to Transit City Condos
Welcome to Transit City Condos by CentreCourt Developments, the first phase in SmartREIT’s ambitious 100-acre SmartCentres Place development that is set to redefine Vaughan’s downtown area.
Transit City will be next door to a Viva bus terminal, which will be connected by a tunnel to the new Vaughan Metropolitan Centre subway station, the northernmost stop of the new Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension set to open in 2017.
We could list all the places that will be within easy reach of Transit City, but there are too many to mention. Instead, let’s just take a look at the new TTC map to understand how amazingly connected this building will be:
Currently in the pre-construction phase, the 55-storey condo tower will redefine condo living, in addition to being one of the most connected buildings in the entire GTA. In the words of Don Schmitt, principal from Diamond Schmitt Architects, it is “the first transit-friendly, pedestrian-oriented, urban community in the 905 district”.
Transit City Condos phase one will boast 553 suites, which the developer says will be bigger than average condo sizes in Toronto. In addition to more square footage, each suite will have a balcony and floor-to-ceiling windows, giving the feeling of even more space.
Elegance and Style
The lobby is set to have the elegance of a luxury hotel and will be complemented by the first Buca restaurant outside of Toronto. The high-end eatery will be 4,500 square feet and will serve top quality Italian food to residents in the finest of surroundings.
In another innovative move, Transit City won’t have its own gym. Instead, residents will have access to a brand-new, custom-built, 100,000 sq ft YMCA facility, which will be just steps away and part of SmartCentres Place.
The building will also be next to a new 9-acre park that will be the focal point of SmartCentres Place. The emphasis on creating wide-open green spaces show the intentions of the developers to create a genuine community for people to live, work and play in. In addition to the park, plans for SmartCentres place include shopping, office towers, a library, a community centre, and other entertainment options. It will truly be a community of the future.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
This old man was the star of many news . I remember seeing him in quite a few places. Now another newsclip has surfaced on the British Pathe Website - titled "Nehru In Kashmir", it shows the visit of PM Nehru and various other delegates to Kashmir sometime in November 47.
One still from the clip shows the same Prisoner - being examined by Group Captain Arjan Singh DFC (later Air Chief and Marshal of the AF). I do not remember where Arjan Singh was - probably with Air HQ or something, but he is seen in the clip very curious about the tribesman's coat buttons - My guess, the buttons have some kind of an embossed crest that sparked Arjan's interest.
I do wonder who this old POW was - if he got repatriated, if he went back to his village with tales of his stay in India and all.. etc etc.
Monday, December 07, 2009
The contents of the album were mostly the sights of the NWFP - places like Peshawar, Kohat, Lower Topa find mention. Some are Aerial shots, others are on the ground. Of people, of cattle and the sights. These were interspersed with the odd RAF aircraft photographs. This was what caught my interest.
The Upper Left photo shows a pranged Westland Wapiti with the caption "An Error of Judgement" - The Wapiti K1294 appears to belong to No.5 Squadron RAF - as indcated by the white fuselage band around the rear part of the aircraft. Other photographs in the series also showed a colour print of "HMT Dunera", "S O P Farnborough 1934" and a photograph titled "Lower Topa". HMT Dunera apparently began its career in 1937 and this sort of gives us a timeframe for the Album. The name of the ship sounded familiar - later I realised that it was the same ship in which Fg Offr Balan Dandapani, a WW2 Veteran that I interviewed in 2007, travelled as part of the British Commonwealth Occupational Foces in Japan.
It was the next series of photographs that made me stand up. In the lower right, was the picture of a Westland Wapiti in flight. What sets this one apart was the chequerboard fuselage marking - a marking sported only by the aircraft of No.1 Squadron, Indian Air Force. I do not ever recall seeing this particular picture - and is probably one of the very rare few of an IAF Wapiti in Flight.
The next page had a very interesting color drawing - the official crest of Aircraft Depot Karachi. Again, most certainly a post 1937 development. This figures in with above as the IAF unit was initially based at Drigh Road, where the Aircraft Depot was. Other shots include aerial views of Karachi and Manora, Kohat, Peshawar, Lahore etc.
Ofcourse the question still unanswered - where is this album now? If you are the owner and you are reading this, why not drop in a comment ?
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
After downloading two years worth of issues and going through them, some interesting nuggets turned up. Being in Delhi they have access to all the Air Force events and have several photographs from the Parades. One of the is as follows:
This is the first time I am seeing a Kh-29 Air to Surface Missile mated onto a MiG-27ML of the Indian Air Force. While MiG-23s and 27s were known to carry this munition, it has never before been seen mounted on an Indian MiG-27 in public before. While the missile itself is on display in the Museum and had been showcased in photographs or republic day parades as a seperate entity, this is certainly the first time it is shown mounted on a MiG-27, and that too a plain vanilla non-upgraded MiG-27.
Yes, the missile does look like an inert example. It had never been shown being fired in any of the IAF's FPD, and any that were acquired in the 80s are probably time expired by now, but hey - lets savour the moment - an ASM on the good old Bahadur - never seen in twenty years but now out in the public!
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Among my collector friends (some of them with very deep pockets) , no one has a copy. So I solemnly declare that this is the only copy known to be in the wild. Even USI is said to have only a photocopy.
I am listing the copies with other Libraries here. Let me know if you run into any stashed away anywhere.
Oh btw. I owe you one - eBay!
Catalogue Searches: (Zero, Zilch, Nada)
Amazon.com : Not Listed , Amazon.co.uk : 0 , Amazon.ca : Not Listed , Abebooks : 0 , Bookfinder : 0 , WorldCat.org : 0
30 November 2013 Update : Roughly four years after i made the above post, I am glad to mention that a SECOND copy of the above book has been spotted in the wild - in the hands of another Indian Aviation Enthusiast. Vinayak Dutt Shukla has one copy in his collection too - and he sends proof! Its actually in better condition than my copy..
Congratualations on the great acquisition - Now guard it with your life VDS!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
The book offers the first critical look at the PAF's role in 65 and offers a honest and dispassionate look at the PAF planning and claims. There are some great stories about 71 too. It would take too long for me to write all about it.. but in short.. go out and buy this book - its money well spent.
Monday, June 08, 2009
At the risk of being accused of blowing my own trumpet, my forthcoming book on the Bangladesh Air War will have more information on the Squadron ops than the Squadron;s official history.
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Not the whole collection - There are a few more books to be bought and procured. This is from last year. The earlier post which is similar is two years old. Will update a photo from this year shortly as I got yet another half a dozen new books including the elusive "Touching the Sky" Coffee table book.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
First about the scope of this book - Contrary to the title, which tends to raise expectations among history buffs like me, the book is about the personal experiences of Air Cmde Rais Rafi (Retd-PAF). who has been in the thick of action in both wars flying missions in B-57 bombers. Rais Rafi was one of the two Squadron Commanders from the 65 war, the other being Air Commodore Najib Khan. Being the Squadron CO, Rafi is in a good position to give a blow by blow account of the operations that he was involved in.
Expectedly, the book provides a very in-depth minute by minute coverage of the missions flown by him and his compatriots. While most of the major events are covered, a few of the events from the perspective of his compatriots are missed out. Since Rafi was based at Mauripur at the start of the 65 war, the focus is on ops from Mauripur which are well covered. there is not enough info on the initial and later ops of the B-57s from Peshawar. Especially the effective raids on Adampur on the evening of Sept 6th.
The coverage of the war improves towards the latter days. The narration is interspersed with profiles of notable B-57 pilots in the PAF, along with their photographs and the details of the actions. There are several snippets of information related to the B-57 tactics that one finds useful. In no particular order
1. The B-57s used their RB1A all weather radar to map the terrain. key features like bridges clearly showed up on the radar screen . This explains their relative effectiveness as compared to the Indian Canberras in 65.
2. The B-57s used skip bombing techniques at Ambala during 65, one of which resulted in the bomb bouncing off and hitting the Cathedral near the airfield.
3. The ac used the wing mounted guns liberally.. i.e use them to strafe airfields once in a while - not just drop bombs.
4. bomb dropping is done by 'punching a clock' - reference to some bombing computer? on most occasions it appears the pilot would release the bombs manually, but the calculations are done by this onboard computer.
5. Nice insight is given into the B-57 shot down over Adampur on Sept 14 . It appears that the crew (Altaf Sheikh and Bashir Choudhary) pushed their luck by making multiple attacks on the airfield on the same sortie - the guns finding their mark on the fourth pass. Though nothing is mentioned about the travails of both the airmen on the ground - they were nearly lynched by the Punjab farmers - a very nice anecdote is given on their repatriation and the stark contrast on how they were received in Pakistan versus the reception Indian POWs got on their repatriation in India.
The three PAF POWs look on as the Indian POWs get a grand reception in Delhi on their repatriation
The book draft was probably finalised in 1989, but it could have benefited from some updating. For example, the author believes that the B-57 lost at Jamnagar crashed into the Sea due to disorientation of the pilot - Rafi was exiting out of the Jamnagar flying area when the ill-fated B-57 was coming in. This information of it crashing in sea could easily have been corrected as enough evidence existed even in 65 that it crashed on land. Several artifacts were salvaged from the crash site by the Indian government - most notably a page from the diary of the pilot.
The B-57 force was somewhat reduced by the time of the 71 war and it now comprised only one Squadron (No.8 PAF). They operated initially out of Mauripur and later moved up north. As with the 65 War narration, the coverage of Rafi's personal sorties are covered in great depth. He describes in good detail the launch of attacks on Ambala and Agra on the first day. Amritsar on the second day etc. However the details of many other important B-57 missions are missing - including the mission details on which B57 losses have occurred. Most get only a cursory mention - eg ' a B-57 was lost in the south today'. It is slightly disappointing to note that after describing the 65 losses in great detail, he is unable to do the same about 71.
Rafi's last Sorties were done on 8 Dec so not much is written about other operations till the rest of the war. Absolutely very little info exist on the operations in the southern sector. Details of Mauripur's B57 force do not get any space here - but that is expected because this is a personal account.
Other interesting facts that come out of the book -
-Rafi confirms the presence of atleast one B-57 at Rafiqui on the morning of Dec 4th. This was a mystery before as Air Marshal VK "Jimmy" Bhatia's article mentions seeing a B-57 at Rafiqui, while the Pakistani contention was always that B-57s were not based at Rafiqui. The book gives in details the a B57 ended up at Rafqiui on that day. and says it was flown out the next morning. - A nice description of the aftermath of the "Steel Tripod" attack done by Wg Cdr Gautam of No.16 Squadron on Mianwali. The raid was a surprise to the Pakistanis - it created no damage but was of some nuisance. The date however appears to be wrong (Night of Dec 3/4 instead of Dec 4/5)
-Rafi talks about the destruction of a B-57 on the ground at Mianwali - and attributes it to a Hunter attack. Previously the PAF had mentioned that this aircraft was lost on the ground during a servicing accident in which it caught fire. This is a revelation. Rafi also claims that the Hunter that attacked the airfield and caused the damage was shot down by Flt Lt Qazi Ahmed Javed. however this claim is not present for this date in the PAF list but is actually on Dec 4. Did he mix up some dates and places? This definitely needs further research. And having seen the number of things that Rafi actually got wrong, I wouldnt pin much hopes of him being correct on this front either.
With the scale down of operations after 8th December and the subsequent 'march to surrender' - Rafi writes considerably about the anguish felt by him and his fellow pilots. Till the very last moment they felt they could make a difference - perhaps 'secure a ceasefire on more honoroble terms'. But as we know they never got that opportunity to try.
The copy I have seems to have the quality of a good photocopy. In fact it looks like a "second edition" that was made up of binding photocopies. The book has no ISBN, which would mean its market is limited - major stores many not carry it. I got my copy via seller ehjaz786 on ebay.com . He just might have more copies with him. If your focus is air wars of the subcontinent, your library should have this interesting addition!
Post Script: This review was done months ago - based on one of my posts at ACIG/Warbirds Forum, but posted only now. The Author Air Cmde Rafi passed away early this year in Pakistan.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Six and a half squadrons flew this aircraft during the 1971 War, and more than a Squadron's worth were lost in the operations - Aerial Combat, Ground Fire, Accidents.
What is unusual in this photograph is the lack of tail number on the aircraft. The roundel on the front fuselage confirms that this is not an early model but probably one of the batch that was delivered after 1969.
I dont know the source of this colour photograph other than that it appeared in one of the Air Enthusiast series of magazines. It is also on the cover of Puspindar Singh's "Aircraft of the Indian Air Force 1933-73" - thus one can safely assume that this photo predates that book. Air to Air Colour photographs from the 60s are almost non-existant and the origin of this photo is a mystery to say the least.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Years ago,I read suggestions that Brewster Buffalos may have served with the IAF (Dan Ford's Warbird Forum) and one example was transferred to the IAF (Joe Baugher) etc. I used to laugh at that suggestion. I was pretty damn sure that the Buffalo never served with the Indian Air Force. But if you ask me today, I am not laughing! The reason, I was emailed some a couple of scans of late Squadron Leader Jehangir Merwan Engineer's logbook last year from his daughter - Mrs Farida Engineer. The logbook discloses that between May and July 43, He served with No.22 Anti Aircraft Cooperation Unit ( a composite RAF/IAF Unit ). (No.22AACU Was formed as an RAF unit out of IAF Anti Aircraft Coop Flights - It was later transferred to the Indian Air Force and became the No.22 AACU, IAF.) .
Right among the list of types he flew during his stint were two Brewster Buffalos! The first ever record that established Indian pilots flew Buffalos with what was later an IAF unit. The Buffalos in question are W8243 and W8245 (Profiles and Pictures above). I note from elsewhere on Dan Ford's Board that these are two of the six Buffalos that were flown back by 67 RAF sqn from the Burma Retreat. it appears these two aircraft were transferred to No.22 Anti Aircraft Cooperation Unit's A flight in Karachi Drigh Road at beginning of 1943 and were flown by Indian pilots later on. I also noticed that the fate of these two aircraft was marked as unknown in the production list available on other sites and books. if anyone is updating their lists, they can add No.22 AACU andthe period May -July 43 for these two aircraft.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
I wrote some basic reviews on Amazon for a few - including Mansoor Shah's Gold Bird, Peter Smith's Vultee Vengeance, Roopinder Singh's Arjan Singh, but there are still a lot more great books that I have read over time that I didnt write about. (Yes I have written about YEAGER! - but that was more of a rant than a review!)
Without further ado - the books that I should review in detail .. at the earliest! (In no particular order)
- The Incredible War - Air Marshal Bharat Kumar
- Himalayan Eagles - Pushpindar Singh
- Battle for Pakistan - John Fricker
- The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965 - Yours truly and Samir Chopra
The first two are fairly recent. Frickers book is now three decades old, but still a great read if you know what you are looking for. the last one is my own book - its been five years since its final draft, and with loads of research work in between, there are lot of criticisms that I have about it. well.. some day!
Sunday, January 04, 2009
The above photo was taken from Defence Journal Magazine from Pakistan. The original article dealt with the 1959 incident where an IAF Canberra was shot down on a recce mission into Pakistan. It took a letter or two before some reader wrote in saying that the photo doesnt look like a Canberra. Infact it looks quite suspiciously like a Bristol Brigand , a type which the PAF had a lone example of. The Brigand crashed on a ferry flight from UK - I believe outside Basra.
Anyways - Would this turn out to be a picture of the said Brigand? Did DJ actually uncover a hidden gem unknowingly? What do you think? | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://osmaniac.blogspot.com/2009/ |
"Columbia Pictures has revealed the trailer for director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's thriller The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, Rufus Sewell, Timothy Dalton and Steven Berkoff.
Opening in theaters on December 10, 2010, the film revolves around Frank (Depp), an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise (Jolie) is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. Against the breathtaking backdrop of Venice, Frank pursues a potential romance but soon finds himself the pursued as he and Elise are caught in a whirlwind of intrigue and danger."
It's sort of in tone with Knight and Day. It's funny and action-packed. I've read that Depp does a sort of "Jimmy Stewart in a Hitchcock film" performance. It sounds fantastic. That's gonna be an interesting war between The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Tourist, because Treader's in 3D and a third film in a popular franchise. Tourist does however have more star power and will certainly bring in fans of both Depp and Jolie. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://upcomingflicks.blogspot.com/2010/09/tourist-boards-trailer.html |
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm announced today that assistance from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) has helped convince DENSO Manufacturing to choose Battle Creek, Michigan for a major new manufacturing facility expansion. The expansion will add 90,000 square feet of manufacturing space to the company’s existing facility.
The project is expected to create 702 new jobs by 2012, including 300 directly by the company.
“DENSO has been a rock-solid employer in southwest Michigan for nearly 20 years,” Granholm said. “This expansion will mean more jobs for the Battle Creek community and be a real boost to the local economy.”
DENSO Manufacturing Michigan is a leader in the design and production of advanced automotive heating and cooling systems. The company currently has more than 2,400 employees in Michigan.
The company had considered Battle Creek and another competing state for the new facility. A Single Business Tax credit worth $1.4 million offered today by the MEDC helped convince DENSO to expand and create new jobs in Michigan.
“We are competing in a global community and appreciate the support of the state and local government agencies that help us to grow and protect our future,” said DENSO Manufacturing Senior Vice President Stan Tooley. “We are particularly pleased that this expansion at our Battle Creek facility will provide jobs for as many as 300 additional associates in the next two years."
The city of Battle Creek assisted in presenting a solid business case for DENSO’s expansion. The city is supporting a 12-year tax abatement for the new facility worth more than $4.4 million, and is providing 1.8 acres of land and a new road to the expanded facility.
Battle Creek Unlimited, the city’s economic development organization, worked closely with the MEDC and city officials to convince DENSO that Battle Creek was the right location for the company’s new facility.
“Over the past twenty years, DENSO has steadily grown to the point where it is a premier employer in the area,” said Battle Creek Unlimited President and CEO Jim Hettinger. “All of us congratulate and thank DENSO for their continued confidence in Battle Creek, Michigan.”
Total capital investment for the project will be approximately $45 million, including $9 million for a new building and $36 million for new machinery and equipment.
According to an economic analysis conducted by the University of Michigan, it is estimated that DENSO’s expansion in Battle Creek will create an additional 402 Michigan jobs as a result of increased economic activity due to the expansion, in addition to the 300 jobs created directly by the company. The company’s increased operations will result in a net state revenue gain of approximately $23 million over the life of the Single Business Tax credits.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation, a partnership between the state and local communities, promotes smart economic growth by developing strategies and providing services to create and retain good jobs and a high quality of life.
(All estimates in 2002 dollars)
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Competition – Win Tickets to Soundcrash Presents DJ Kentaro
COMPETITION NOW CLOSED
As summer ends and we officially move in to autumn, the memories of the glorious summer seem so far away now. The steamy nights in Ibiza or Mallorca are long gone. So we turn our attention to the UK club scene.
With this in mind we partner with Soundcrash to offer you the chance to win a pair of tickets to the DJ Kentaro gig on Friday at London’s Village Underground. If Kentaro wasn’t enough, then the likes of Hexstatic and Dr Meaker are also on the bill.
So what do you have to do to get your paws on the tickets? Well not much. You can tell us why you would like the tickets by adding a comment here, tweeting us @MusicEyz or by posting on the Music Eyz Facebook page. You can also email your entry to us.
The gig is this coming Friday (4th October 2013). The winner of a pair of tickets will be drawn completely at random on Thursday 3rd October 2013 and the winner will be notified on the day of the event. Good luck and enjoy the show.
The Boring Bit aka Competition Rules and Conditions
Competition Rules and Conditions
1. The competition runs until 20.59 3rd October, 2013. The winner will be drawn at random on 4th October. 2013. The winners will be notified on 4th October, 2013.
2. The judges decisions are final, no debate, conversation or communication will be undertaken in relation to the process or the winners.
3. There are no alternative prizes to the prize publicised in the competition. Music Eyz have been provided with the prize by Soundcrash and we take no responsibility for the accuracy of the prize or the guarantee of delivery. No cash alternative is available.
4. Your personal details, if provided, will not be shared, sold or used with any third party without your prior consent.
5. We may ask the winner to take part in publicity including but not restricted to a photo, review of the gig and comment to be placed on the Music Eyz website.
6. The promoter (Music Eyz) retain the right to change the promotion at any time, including but not restricted to the prize, T&Cs, promotional period and qualifying criteria. We may also change the end date or remove the competition without any notice.
7. The tickets are sourced by Soundcrash and will be fulfilled and delivered by them. Any issues with the items should be discussed directly with Soundcrash . Music Eyz will not enter in to communication regarding the prize.
The promoter of this competition is Music Eyz, for any queries please e-Mail Music Eyz on email@example.com | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | https://musiceyz.co.uk/2013/09/29/competition-win-tickets-to-soundcrash-presents-dj-kentaro/ |
I have been on a very intense First Aid course all day, so I am more than ready for the weekend to be here!
There was a frost on the ground this morning. The grass looked like sugared spearmint.
The sky was beautiful, when we left the house, the moon was still out to the west and the sunrise to the east was filled with purples, strawberries, oranges and blue velvety colors. I can’t think of a better way to start the day then to be greeted by a sight like that!
Here’s to the weekend! Long may it last! | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://jennifermichie.com/2012/11/first-aid/ |
We expected Crisfield to be a bit more scenic and interesting.
Maybe we just missed the interesting part, other than this water tower
with a crab on it. Another highlight of Crisfield was the crabcake sandwich
at McDonald's. After enjoying a lobster roll at McD's last week in Maine,
I was surprised to have been lured into one of my least favorite restaurant
for the second time in a week, but how could I turn down a cheap crabcake?
Turns out it was nothing like the one I had at Camden Yards later in the
week, but it was worth the $5 or so that I paid for it, if only to give
me something to say about Crisfield. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://pqdsms.net/2004-08/20040817.htm |
Nature interpretation has always been a focus
of Friends' programs. Through the delivery of interpretive programs,
including nature walks and wildlife viewing days, Friends provides
opportunities for people to experience and strengthen their passion
Walks are available upon request throughout the year for groups.
The walk guarantees participants fresh air, exercise, and an introduction
to the Second Marsh Wildlife Area and the McLaughlin Bay Wildlife Reserve
trails. During the walk a variety of topics are discussed and may
include the marsh and its features, plants of the marsh, trees,
birds, amphibians, reptiles, as well as the history of the area.
Specialty themed walks are also offered throughout
the year and may include anything from trees to birds to reptiles.
Be sure to check our
Calendar of Events
for a listing of upcoming walks or call Friends at (905) 723-5047. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://secondmarsh.outdoorontario.ca/Programs_Edu_Interpretive.html |
Our Family was in Lake Powell this week and so I wasn't able to email back and forth with Jordan this week. I did get his email on Monday afternoon while we were there and it brought tears to my eyes. Lake Powell has always been Jordan's favorite place and so it was a little sad not having him there with us this year, but we know he is exactly where he is supposed to be right now.
Well, the baptism went great yesterday and I was the one who did it but I forgot my camera so I am going to have Elder Gomm email them to me so I will have the pictures. It was such a cool experience. I am so happy that I got to do it. Um, what else, haha. I'm sure the boat is clean enough and that is weird that our family has the least amount of people going to Powell this year. I hope everything goes smooth down there. It is a great place and I am sure going to miss that place this year. Um, the week was great. THis week I get to go on exchanges with Elder Thacker so we are excited about that. Tell Zac to write to me, haha, I miss that kid. Um, I do need some new bread and also if you could ask Abbey's mom about the popcorn balls one more time that would be great. Elder Gomm and I are doing great. We are working hard and finding a lot of people. The only thing is, is that the people aren't coming to church so we don't have any more dates yet. I am kinda frustrated about that because we always have great lessons with them and then Sunday comes around and we call them and they don't answer. We played soccer this morning again. I was not too happy about that. That is so sad to hear about Goza (one of Jordan's teammates from Dixie who hurt his knee). Will you get his address for me. I really love that kid. He is such a stud and I love how he just was so nice to me and helped me out. Well, that is all that I have to say. I am doing great and am so happy that I had amazing parents that raised me the way that you guys did and taught me all of the attributes that I have. I am proud to carry the name of Parkinson along side of our Savior, Jesus Christ. I love you and I will talk to you next week. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://elderjordanparkinson.blogspot.com/2012/07/proud-to-carry-my-name.html |
I would like to take the opportunity of this Valentine’s Day to thank a few people who have been instrumental in my growth as a person in this lifetime.
My Dad – He has been the cornerstone of my development as a person. He taught me honesty, loyalty, the power of knowledge, the positive attitude, the ability to laugh, reading, writing, music, cinema, theatre, focus, method and above all love and affection for other people. He was a people man!!
My Mother – She has been my vigil teaching me tidiness, the eye for detail, value of time, the need to study hard, healthy living and all above – the ability to keep working towards a goal. She has great resolutions in life that is tough to emulate!
My Brother, Shuddhasheel – He is 6 years younger and went through the first part of life doing what he did best, being the good younger brother. But then he transformed and how!! Today, he is a Corporate Trainer and a very good one at that. He has taught me a lot. The Power of Self, Determination, Clear-headed focus, Follow through in a work process, diligence, innovative thinking and team building. He taught me the essence of acceptance.
Vijay Dewan, presently MD of The Park Group – He does not remember me. I do not expect him to. The last time he saw was in 1994. But he has left an indelible stamp on my growth as a person. He taught me the beauty of Systems, Procedures and Continuous Development at work. He was far ahead of his times in thought processes. He taught me, indirectly – as I did not dare ever sit down with him, I was a measly Supervisor when he was a VP, the value of class, design, value to customer, posture management, eye for detail, work competence and zeal or passion for excellence. That sure was incredible!!
My Father – in – law – I learnt the art of simplicity, humility and honesty from this remarkably down to earth person who rose up the ladder in Tea Industry only through uncomplicated hard work. I have not seen another person like him!
Jeffrey Shabong – If a combo of knowledge, quest for excellence, hard work, smart work and curiosity can carry a person far…here was one example and I just had to emulate this person. It also helped that he has been my brother – in – law for sometime now.
Sujith Gopinath – An unassuming guy with tons of aptitude towards planning. Whew! I sure learned the goodness of planning from this colleague of mine. Absolute method to counter all madness and emerge victorious!!
Rakesh Upadhyay – A master in the Culinary world and my room mate in college, I still try to keep up to his simple adage in life, ‘Be the best in what you do’. He has lived unto it. He has been a hard act to follow.
Vijay Thombre – A creative thinker who provoked me to new levels of creativity in my profession. People like him have the ability to ignite the minds around them and that has occurred with me too. It is a pity I cannot work with him continuously.
Kiran, My Spouse – Last and arguably the one who has influenced my life most. She has a host of qualities I have emulated – Listening ability, clear and concise thought process, uncluttered mind and unfettered decision-making, thoughtful spending, budgeting, target orientation, target achievement (you should just ask her company), logic usage (in all situations), tidiness, eye for taste, planning, practicality, emotional leadership (she gets her teams to do anything…and I mean anything!!), friendliness and above all the capacity to be unruffled. Oh! I have conquered my temper just watching and emulating her!!
These people are men and women that I have lived and worked with. I shall quote the Kotlers, Welches, Dr. inghs, Gandhis of the world to cover myself in adjusted glory. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://indraneel.blogspot.com/2007/02/ |
I am an active 44yo male with AI diagnosed in childhood. I have enjoyed annual checkups and echos (until this year). Recently I visited my cardio for my exam and he now informs me I have progressed to "severe" and surgery is needed. I am going for a second opinion in early January. I have always known that surgery is immanent but now? I feel great exercise pretty regularly, and am very active with no limitations. I have always been told what symptoms to look for and I have none
It's amazing how you can walk around and do most anything even though your valve is in bad shape. If you are in good physical condition, the body adapts and this can fool you. I'm in the severe range myself with a bicuspid aortic valve and a 4.3cm ascending aortic aneurysm, yet I feel fine and can do most anything...well, I get winded and I can't push to hard or else I get chest tightness. But I don't feel like I need surgery even though I do. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://jimshd.blogspot.com/2008/12/asymptomatic-but-needing-surgery.html |
This Blog is Scott's fault and cannot be blamed on anyone but him.
Awarded Best Morning Show and Radio Personality of the Year 2007 and 2008 by the Colorado Broadcaster's Association.
Scotty Bondo is a mostly retired Juggler and Comedian spending his days in Breckenridge Colorado. An artist with several Ullr posters to his name, Scotty loves painting and drawing. Other interests include Skiing, Unicycling the local single-tracks and bike-paths, hiking, and hanging with #1 pal and fan; Kim. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://scottybondo.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-post_5084.html?showComment=1352759411731 |
Friday, August 9, 2013
...I Found It, You Pin It...Friday!
I'm all about arriving to your wedding in style! I'm in love with the fullness of this beautiful white wedding gown and how it flows out the door of this chic Rolls Royce to reveal a lovely bride, bouquet in hand, going to meet her groom! BREATH-TAKING!!!
Until next time...PIN IT and WEDologize!
(photo credit - http://somethingblue4u.tumblr.com) | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://wedologize.blogspot.com/2013/08/i-found-it-you-pin-itfriday_9.html |
9. March 2015 22:08
The southern area of Anza Borrego or as I like to call it , "the forgotten side" of Anza Borrego is often overlooked when it comes to desert flower season. Desert flower seekers tend to frequent the well known locales near Borrego Springs and other more accessible areas of the park.
While it is true those areas, can put on a spectacular display, unfortunately you usually get the crowds along with it.
Our preference is to search out the hidden washes and canyons of the south, climbing up boulder littered hillsides and hopping over stands of cholla in an attempt to get that one perfect flower picture.
The downside is that you tend to go home... [More] | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.anzaborrego.net/Travel/AnzaBorrego/?tag=/anza+borrego+wildflowers+2015 |
Chevrolet has taken the wrapping off its newest iteration of the Camaro. Engulfed in a holy war between the Mustang, the Camaro has always been a bit of an underdog. The original Mustang wiped the floor with the original Camaro, in terms of sales, and has kept going up until 2010 where the Camaro has outsold the Mustang since. The last Camaro was a good looking car, though the design got a bit frumpy as time went on, and in most trim levels was very fast.
But, aside from the Z/28, it always seem to lack in the handling and interior departments, compared to its competitors.
However, Chevy seems to be hellbent on rectifying those issues with the new 2016 Camaro. The biggest changes come from under the hood, where the Camaro now offers three engine choices. A 2.0 liter turbocharged four-cylinder is now standard in the base car, while a naturally aspirated V6 is optional as well as a fire-breathing 6.2 liter LT1 V8, sourced from the Corvette, in SS guise. The four-banger will boast 272 horses while the V6 will make 335 horsepower and the V8 will have 455 stampeding horses. All engine choices will be available with 6-Speed manuals and 8-Speed automatics.
For 2016, the Camaro has also dropped some weight, around 200 lbs worth. That’s a significant amount, and much needed, considering the previous Camaro was a bit of a porker. The New Camaro is also built upon GM’s latest Alpha architecture, which also underpins the Cadillac ATS and CTS, so it should be a rigid chassis with good dynamics. Another benefit of the new chassis is size. The 2016 Camaro will be 2.3 inches shorter in length, 0.8 inches narrower and 1.1 inches shorter in height. This should give the Camaro a bit more nimble feeling over the outgoing car, as that one felt a bit barge-like.
Both exterior and interior have been revised as well. The exterior is a bit of the same, which just a nip/tuck here and there to give it a cleaner, tighter look. The last car looked pretty good, so why fix what ain’t broke, right? But it’s the interior that has gone through the biggest change. With a flat-bottomed steering wheel, much nicer ergonomics and a fancy LCD screen in the gauge cluster, the new Camaro’s interior is miles ahead of the outgoing car. The last-gen’s interior felt like it was built by Fisher Price, but Chevy claims this new one has far better materials.
According to some track drives, the new V6 is responsive with a throaty engine note and the shifter is quick and crisp with a light clutch pedal. It’s also said to have direct steering and a balanced and firm chassis. No word on performance numbers just yet, but expect the Camaro to be very competitive with the new Mustang in comparable trim levels.
We won’t know for sure, exactly how the Camaro feels, until we get behind the wheel, but with the success of the ATS and CTS I have a feeling that GM is learning how to make some nice handling cars. So I’m assuming that this new Camaro will be no different. | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb | http://www.bmwblog.com/2015/05/18/new-2016-chevrolet-camaro-with-455-hp/ |
Measurement Matters—Alternative Input Price Proxies for Bank Efficiency Analyses
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