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Dr. Riley specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of snoring, obstructive sleep disorders/sleep apnea and TMJ Dysfunction. Dr. Riley is Orange County’s first Dentist to be credentialed by the certifying Board of the Sleep Disorder Dental Society, an affiliate the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.
Dr. Riley is a progressive Dentist with special training and certification in Reconstructive Dentistry, TMJ Disorders and Snoring/Sleep Apnea Management. Beyond his Dental training, Dr. Riley has a Masters Degree in Education, which enhanced his career at USC Dental School as an Associate Professor contributing as an instructor, lecturer and writer achieving an Outstanding Instructor award. After retiring from active teaching Dr. Riley founded and continues to teach Dental Study Clubs.
Beyond his Dental career, Dr. Riley has special interest in the Memory Challenged Community. He has published a book, conducts support group meetings and lectures on the special needs of those who are caring for a loved one. Of special interest to him is the current research around oxygen starvation during sleep apnea and its role in the progression of dementia.
In an attempt to solve his own snoring problem, Dr. Riley discovered he was also suffering from sleep apnea, which was contributing to his decreased energy and medical problems. Study and research has led him to the treatment he offers his patients. He is encouraged by the gratitude that patients have expressed as his treatment has contributed to the quality of person’s lives.
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4 In solitary groves to pass the day.
8 No more can Ranelagh, one joy impart.
12 Such joys no more, can please my sicken'd eye.
16 And what is most absurd, — is most admir'd.
18 And the blith maid who breaths the purer air.
20 Whose soul is gentle, and whose heart sincere.
24 The peaceful mansion of content and rest.
26 She feels those joys, truth only can impart.
30 And fashion taints, bright beauty's greatest pride.
32 Eyes, limbs, and features, are all put to school.
34 And each with fulsome flatt'ry try's to charm.
36 Her face grown common, loses all its power.
44 Yet more, because it is the reigning fashion.
50 They see their ruin, — still they venture on.
52 And laugh at those who teach them to be wise.
60 And happiness, alas! no more is found.
62 And pensive waste, the solitary day.
64 And death affords, a long and last relief.
68 Those transcient pleasures, only born to grieve.
70 Those idle customs of the rich and gay.
72 Far from the insolent, the vain, the great.
78 Shall force one sigh, or wound my placid heart.
80 By friendship, virtue, and experience crown'd.
Title (in Source Edition): LETTER to a FRIEND on leaving TOWN.
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1 Select Category to choose a course or Occupation to see which courses are available for your profession. Alternatively, use the Search box to explore your options.
2 Click Book, complete the online forms and follow the instructions to check out.
Practitioner Development UK's scheduled courses take place at specified dates and venues. They are designed for individuals and small groups and can also be delivered in house.
We're constantly updating the content of our courses to ensure that they reflect current trends and practice requirements. Although there's no substitute for experience, the right training course provides an excellent opportunity to enhance your career, while simultaneously boosting your CPD hours.
For help with your booking, or to enquire about last-minute availability, course times, fees and accommodation, Contact us.
Need to train your staff on site? Check out our convenient bespoke in-house courses.
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Starbucks has unveiled a five-year growth plan under which it plans to open 12,000 more stores around the world, including several high-end coffee shops, while targeting annual revenue growth of 10%.
Reuters reports the coffee chain plans to add the additional stores globally by 2021 and target comparable sales growth in mid-single digits and profit growth of 15% to 20% a year.
The world’s largest coffee chain also unveiled a new feature within its mobile app that uses voice command or messaging to place orders. The feature will be tested first on Apple Inc’s iOS operating system in early 2017, Starbucks announced at its investor conference taking place today.
Details of that launch will be announced early next year, the company says. Starbucks has roughly a dozen stores in and around Baton Rouge.
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A new rock venue has opened in Nuneaton.
The Crew, in Queens Road, has opened in what used to be the Penny Black bar and bistro, which closed more than a year ago.
The building was once home to Nuneaton's first nightclub - the 77 Club - which opened in 1977 and later became the Penny Black.
Nuneaton-born Richard Burlingham has taken on a short-term lease, with an option to extend, to launch the venture.
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For consideration, please submit both a resume and a cover letter. Application deadline is Friday, December 7, 2018.
* Set-up and logistical needs: prepares, distributes and processes course approval and other administrative forms, creates and maintains database records, secures room reservations, arranges for facility set-up and AV/equipment needs, places catering orders, prepares evaluations and course/workshop materials, arranges for student/participant or instructor accessibility needs.
* Monitors and processes registrations (electronic and manual), communicates with participants/students, tracks and directs processing of payments, creates rosters and other event related reports, coordinates 3rd party tuition payments.
* Maintains up to date student data for Endorsement, Certificate other cohort-based programs.
* In relation to these duties, advises on best practices while gathering requirements from and facilitating communication between instructors and department colleagues across campus.
* Hosts classes/events as needed.
* Maintains CCE master calendar, primary contact for incoming communication (phone, fax, email, in person), drafts administrative/business procedures, responsible for the organization and maintenance of CCE databases and files (electronic and paper), maintains a tidy, welcoming and organized office environment, and in collaboration with director, delegates tasks as needed to ensure efficient operation.
* Supports director with program and event budget preparation and updates. Reconciles monthly disbursements from Blackbaud Merchant Services by comparing database records, BBMS and Infonet reports.
* Supports Director on special projects related to office operations and event/class initiatives.
* Supervises student workers including recruiting, scheduling, training, assigning tasks.
* Ability to honor and work with all identities and individuals, particularly those who are underrepresented in the country and/or at Lewis & Clark College.
* Associates degree or two years of full-time college coursework and 3-4 years of related experience. High school diploma and additional related job experience may be substituted for a college degree.
* 2-4 years’ experience working in office administration with moderate to significant independence in a high volume environment.
* 2-4 years’ experience working with financial data, accounting or bookkeeping.
* 2-4 years’ experience working in a service-oriented environment.
* 2 years’ experience working in event coordination/management.
* Ability to independently plan and prioritize complex tasks with overlapping deadlines, frequent interruptions and changing priorities.
* Ability to perform detailed work with a high degree of accuracy, often in situations requiring thoughtful analysis to determine appropriate and effective actions to take.
* Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and familiarity with database systems.
* Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal and diplomacy skills. Ability to interact knowledgeably, clearly, and appropriately with the public and colleagues.
* Ability to initiate and maintain cooperative relationships with students, faculty, staff, visitors, and colleagues in service areas across campus.
* Ability to maintain confidentiality. This position deals with confidential and sensitive information.
* Ability to meet timelines, deliverables, critically think, and exercise independent judgment while recognizing when additional input is needed to make a decision.
* Effective leadership and time-management skills.
* Available to work a flexible schedule that includes occasional early morning, evening and weekend hours.
* Ability to carry out responsibilities in alignment with the social justice mission of the graduate school.
* 3-4 years of event coordination/management experience.
* Experience in higher education.
* Experience with Raiser’s Edge, Colleague and Livewhale.
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YING R JIAN Exercise Bike Indoor Cycling Bike Stationary Bike Trainer Belt Driven with Flywheel – Worked perfectly very good product.
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Just before sunset, join us for dinner overlooking Menemsha Harbor. Enjoy a spectacular view, and a locally sourced three-course meal, with our guests of honor. Dinner includes reserved seating at the outdoor screening of BOBBY KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT to follow. All proceeds benefit the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival.
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Approximately 40 million people in the United States – including 17 million children – have some form of mental illness. And, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 50% of U.S. adults will develop at least one mental illness during their lifetime. These illnesses include depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder as well as addiction and Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and affects approximately one in every 10 Americans over the age of 12 – a number that is roughly equivalent to the entire population of Texas.
Many Americans do not understand why or how certain individuals become addicted to drugs and/or alcohol, and there is a great deal of fear, stigma and misunderstanding about the disease. No single factor can predict whether or not a person will experience addiction. In fact, several factors – including genetics, the environment and personal development – combine to increase the risk.
The genes a person is born with account for approximately half of an individual’s risk for addiction, which sheds light on the common phrase that addiction is a family disease. It not only affects the entire family system, but science also demonstrates that addiction is passed along through generations.
Environment and social determinants of health, such as early exposure to drugs, early abuse, stress and general quality of life, are also factors that can contribute to a person becoming susceptible to addiction. When biology and environmental factors combine and result in an individual becoming addicted, personal development also comes into play. The earlier a person begins to use drugs, the more problematic it is to make sound decisions, exert self-control and practice good judgment.
Our nation is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic. More people died from overdoses in 2014 than in any year on record and more than six out of 10 deaths involved an opioid (1). It is important to stay informed about addiction and recovery and to understand that if you or someone you know has not yet been affected by addiction, it is likely you will experience the impact of addiction in the future.
Our nation is preparing for a new President, and we expect to hear the new administration address the devastating opioid epidemic, the lives lost and the social impacts that addiction has collectively cost us. Resources and budgets have been written and proposed to combat this illness and its deadly side effects. As we look ahead, addiction treatment models are shifting and recovery management will be assisted by technology and resources not previously available.
Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and needs to be treated as such with treatment plans, resources and a long-term approach to prevent relapse and readmission – a similar approach that we take with other chronic illnesses.
Addiction can appear to be bad behavior and oftentimes the side effects of addiction are inappropriate actions, poor choices, crimes, theft, etc. However, addiction is an illness and not a character flaw. Addiction is not a habit that can be broken; it is a disease that requires treatment and support.
The future of addiction treatment is changing and subsequent generations will have opportunities to receive treatment and support through telehealth, software platforms and data-driven technologies.
Addiction cannot necessarily be cured; however, long-term recovery is possible and the probability of maintaining recovery is significantly increased when providers extend the care continuum following discharge. In other words, when providers maintain connection with patients after treatment, patients are more likely to maintain recovery.
Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) has shown to be an effective treatment for opioid use disorder and other addictions and it is likely that the new presidential administration will consider continuing or increasing funding for this relatively new (and somewhat controversial) treatment.
Addiction and SUD is treatable, manageable and preventable. As our nation comes to terms with the devastating opioid epidemic, proactive approaches and collaborative treatment plans will set a new course to effectively combat this illness.
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Woot has the Link2Home EM-SL700B 700-Lumen LED Solar Security Motin Sensor Flood Light for a low $28.99. $5 Shipping or Free Shipping with Amazon Prime membership. Save 22% off the $37 list price.
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Publication details: “Sobbing Cupids, Lamenting Lovers, and Weeping Nymphs in the Early Zarzuela: Calderón de la Barca’s El laurel de Apolo (1657) and Durón and Navas's Apolo y Dafne (circa 1700)." Bulletin of the Comediantes 69, no. 2 (2017): 69-95.
Abstract: How did the mythological zarzuela develop following its creation in 1657? And when did weeping, cross-dressed characters emerge as mainstays of this genre? In this essay I bring together the fields of literary studies and historical musicology to examine the lament, a climactic solo song that peaked in popularity in the zarzuela from the turn of the eighteenth century. I begin by providing an overview of the development and transformations in Spanish musico-theatrical lamenting traditions, and then turn to examine three laments in a little-known zarzuela produced circa 1700: Apolo y Dafne (text anonymous, music by Sebastián Durón and Juan de Navas), based on the same subject as Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s first zarzuela, El laurel de Apolo (1657). Through the analysis of text, music, and performance, I explore changing musico-theatrical conventions in the later seventeenth century. To make this research accessible to a wider audience, I provide English translations of all excerpts in this essay.
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Why Am I Unable To Access MyGIFTS After Making Security Changes?
We are going through changes in security and our remote MyGIFTS users must be able to launch MyGIFTS, but we must remove user groups Everyone, All Users, and Authenticated Users from having full permission to the GIFTS directory for security purposes. When I remove these groups and add one specific group to have full permissions, MyGIFTS fails to launch. When I add the previously mentioned groups back to full permissions, MyGIFTS launches, but my security risks are too high to leave these settings in place. How can I resolve this issue?
If your GIFTS users are running into issues launching MyGIFTS despite having added these users to a new user group that was granted full permissions to the GIFTS directory AND after all other user groups were removed, you must check and be sure that the Anonymous Authentication user also has full rights and permissions to the GIFTS directory as well.
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At cgoldfish's birthday party last night, everyone collaborated to decorate a robot. Today I asked her if I could take some pictures of it in its new lair. She agreed, so here are some robot pictures!
After that a bunch of us went minigolfing and I took a few more pictures.
Shortly I will go to West Side Arts to see Chris Monti and some other folks play music.
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Ideally located in a quiet area and within a few minutes walk to the picturesque fishing village and harbour of Porto Petro. The Mondrago National Park is a nature lovers paradise with trails winding through pine woods.
Set in a quiet area in a tree lined avenue and within a few minutes walk to the pretty fishing village and natural harbour of Porto Petro, which is lined with yachts and local fishing vessels. Flanked by pine clad hillsides the marina has fishermen's stone cottages and excellent waterside tapas bars and restaurants.
There is also a very friendly and helpful diving school. For boat trips along the local coast and coves the "Can Capi" is an excellent choice and the captain Sebastian always ensures you have a good trip. The beautiful sandy beach s'Amarador is within a few minutes drive or visit the Mondrago National park, which is ideal for walking trails through the pine woods.
Attractively furnished throughout to an excellent standard this villa is an ideal family holiday home.
Archway into living/dining room with comfy sofas, LED Satellite TV, iPod docking station and twin French doors to poolside terrace.
Fully fitted kitchen with dishwasher, microwave, fridge/freezer, electric oven/hob.
One twin bedroom with fitted wardrobes and adjacent bath/shower room.
Two twin bedrooms share one full family shower room and there are patio doors to the furnished upper sun terrace. One of the twin bedrooms can be made into a double if required. All bedrooms have air conditioning. There is also a delightful sun room with table tennis.
The crystal clear swimming pool has comfortably furnished sun terraces, and the mature palm gardens have good sized lawns with plenty of space for children to play. Enjoy freshly cooked BBQ meals on the poolside dining terrace. In the evenings you can have a stroll into the village and sample the local way of life. For your added convenience pool/beach towels are provided.
Determined by 46 sets of Customer Feedback.
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1) Its then-25-years-old creator, Donald F. Glut, went on to become a successful writer of animation. That’s right, kids — remember to work hard and dream big.
2) The effects might be as bad as the dialogue, but at least Donald F. Glut had the cajones to not make yet another origin story. Marc Webb, consider yourself SERVED.
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Asbestos awareness training is essential for employees whose work holds the potential to expose them to asbestos. Regulation 10 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2006 (CAR 2006) puts a requirement on employers to ensure that their staff have undergone suitable asbestos awareness training so that they are aware of the potential dangers they may face and also the procedures they must follow in the event they are working in the vicinity of asbestos containing materials (ACMs).
Asbestos awareness training comprises of written and oral presentations with an option for practical sessions if required. Courses can be tailored to each and every organisation and its requirements which allows us to design a course to exactly match your site and employee's needs.
The types uses and likely location of asbestos in buildings.
How to manage asbestos and understand compliance to legislation.
The general procedures to be followed when dealing with an emergency in the event of the uncontrolled release of asbestos dust in the workplace.
If you're interested in attending this course, please get in touch for more information.
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Creating websites is all about delivering experiences that delight and engage users, and for forward-thinking businesses, one of the simplest ways to achieve this is with social login.
Social login allows users to register and log in to websites using their existing information from social accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Not only does it streamline the registration process for end users – no need to fill out a form or remember yet another password – but there are benefits for site owners, too. It lets you gather more accurate data about your users including verified email addresses, their location, gender and more.
If you’re thinking about adding social login to your WordPress site, here are five things you need to know. And when you’re ready to try it out, scroll down for a walkthrough on how to add it to your site with the free Nextend Social Login plugin.
There’s a lot of resistance toward the traditional registration process, so much so that 54% of people may leave a site when they see a form and never come back. These users aren’t just hesitating when they see a form – they’re actually getting irritated and closing browser tabs.
While users generally expect a seamless web experience, it’s more so the case for Millennials. They’re familiar with social login and expect it because so many sites now offer it. They also know that the registration process can be completed in one-click with social login, saving a bunch of their time. So when you don’t offer it, they feel like you’re wasting their time.
Take Pinterest, for example. When you land on the homepage for the first time, you’re given the option to sign up the old-fashioned way with your email, or via social login with Facebook or Google+.
Giving users a choice between spending time entering their details manually and one-click sign up just makes sense.
The wonderful thing about social login is that in one-click your users can log in and get on with browsing your site. They don’t need to remember a username and password because it’s all taken care of.
… the feeling experienced by many people who are required to remember an excessive number of passwords as part of their daily routine.
Social login makes users’ lives easier – and ensures they spend more time using your website rather than trying to remember their login credentials.
Thanks to password fatigue, the odds are stacked against users who’ve signed up to hundreds, if not thousands, of websites in their lifetime.
According to Blue Research, a whopping 90% of users admit they’ve left a website when they’ve forgotten their password or log in information, rather than answer security information or re-setting their password. What’s alarming about that figure is it’s up from 45% in 2010.
I’m totally guilty of doing this 🙋. I’m also guilty of using the same security question for every site, so when I can’t use my go-to question for a particular site and late can’t remember what I originally entered, I’ll just abandon the account. Simple as that.
Here’s an example that should get you thinking: MailChimp experienced 340k+ failed login attempts in just one month during 2012. That’s a whole lot of people who couldn’t remember their username and password, or simply mistyped their information.
The figure, which the email service described as “disturbing” and “depressing” prompted them to add social login to their site. This led to a huge 66% decrease in failure rates, with further decreases month-on-month.
Thanks to social login, there’s zero chance of users forgetting their login details because they don’t have to remember them in the first place.
Here’s an alarming statistic: 88% of users admit to entering fake information or leaving forms incomplete when creating a new account on a website. And this figure is on the rise, with 76% making this admission in 2010.
With more and more users concerned about privacy, it’s no surprise they would avoid sharing their personal information online. But the problem is, it presents a catch-22: research shows 70% of users expect personalized online experiences. But how are you supposed to personalize and provide better experiences when the data users give you is fake?
When a user signs up to your website via social login, their information has already been verified. It’s quality data about their gender, age, interests and other details that you can be confident is correct.
With this information, you can provide experiences that are more in tune with your users’ and tailored to meet their needs.
Have you ever shopped online and reached the checkout process only to abandon it because you were forced to register for a new account and manually fill in a form?
This is one of the main reasons why I tend to shop with only a few select online stores. After filling in my billing information and my shipping information, you’re telling me I have to fill in a registration form as well? No thanks!
When social login is integrated with WooCommerce checkout, it allows users to register and login seamlessly without having to leave their cart. It means their shopping experience isn’t interrupted and they can focus on completing their purchase without distractions.
Use profiles photos from social accounts as avatars.
First up, download Nextend Social Login, activate and install it. Once activated, go to Settings > Nextend Social Login. From this dashboard, you can configure the settings for the social platforms you want to use for your site.
When you click Getting Started underneath each social option, you’re directed to detailed setup instructions to help you link and authorize your website. In the case of Facebook, for example, you need to create a developer app that enables your site to authorize user accounts via Facebook.
Once you’ve set up and enabled one or more social platforms, social login buttons will appear on your site’s login form and your users can start logging in with their social accounts.
And that’s all you need to do! Social Login is set up and ready to use on your WordPress site.
In the plugin’s Global Settings, you can control whether or now you want to show login buttons on the login page, on your registration form, and embedded in login forms.
Once logged in, users can easily link and unlink social accounts in their profile settings. This allows them to choose which social accounts they want to login with and unlink any accounts they might no longer be using.
With the Pro Addon of Nextend Social Login, you can add WordPress social login buttons to the comments section of your blog posts. For users who put off commenting because they have to waste time logging in, one-click login is a simple way to encourage users to join in the conversation.
Another great feature of the Pro Addon is that you can add social login buttons to your WooCommerce checkout. For users like me who loathe having to create a new account when buying something online, one-click social login lets users get on with completing their purchase without interruptions.
For each social platform, you can update labels and even create custom buttons. The pro version offers even more button styles and layouts.
If you were considering adding social login to your WordPress site when you started reading this article, hopefully I’ve convinced you to implement it.
For little effort on your part, there are so many benefits for both you and your users. Adding WordPress social login provides a more streamlined experience for users who have come to expect this feature when signing up to new websites. It takes no time at all to set up and once it’s up and running, your users will immediately enjoy the benefits.
If you have any questions about using Nextend Social Login, let us know in the comments!
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Adobe Photoshop CS4: We use Adobe’s industry-standard image editor to process an image with 10 different filters and effects. We report the amount of time (in minutes and seconds) Photoshop requires to complete the task.
Futuremark PCMark Vantage: Futuremark’s full-system benchmark tests PCs across a variety of everyday tasks such as photo editing, security, and basic gaming. The result is a single number, which we report.
Geekbench: Primate Labs’ cross-platform benchmarking tool uses several tests to measure processor and memory performance across multiple cores, and utilizing the specific architecture of 64-bit systems. The result is a single number we report.
Maxon Cinebench R10: This app renders a photorealistic image from a 3D scene file, using all of a CPU’s available cores and threads. This gives us a number we can easily compare to those obtained from testing other processors.
TrueCrypt: An open-source encryption package, TrueCrypt includes a benchmarking utility that tests several different encryption schema; we run it using 200MB of RAM, and report the AES-Twofish-Serpent mean score it returns.
Windows Media Encoder: Microsoft’s media encoding app can easily change raw formats into files ready for distribution over many different methods. We render a video clip for streaming, and report the amount of time it takes Media Encoder to finish the task.
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You didn’t read that wrong – we have a survival story in store for you today, and it’s a bit different than you’d expect – it’s about how a Harley Davidson Motorcycle survived during a tsunami in Japan. No joke. This Harley has been through quite a bit more than most Harleys go through, and the story behind its life is pretty incredible.
Back in 2011, a devastating tsunami hit the coast of Japan, and this Harley fell victim to the storm while traveling in a shipping container. It was cast 6,000KM – or over 3,000 miles – away from Japan during the storm, and washed up on the coast of British Columbia. The tide from the storm destroyed the motorcycle’s shipping container, and the bike was found by itself, license plate still intact.
The owner was found and contacted, and to this day, the tsunami Harley Davidson now sits in a Harley Davidson museum in Milwaukee, WI to honor its story. Check out the amazing story behind this special Harley below, and tell us in the comments if you’ve ever been to see it in its final resting place! We think it would be pretty incredible to go see the Harley after everything its been able to survive!
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Smudging represents a century-old art of cleansing a space from negative vibes and energies. The process of smudging is done by using herbs and represents a ceremonial practice which can also be used daily or weekly.
Many herbs are known to contribute to a better mood and change the energy in an environment. Sage, for instance, is among the leading and most effective herbs which offer strong cleansing and purifying properties. Sage, among other herbs alike it, is able to introduce negative ions, which later trigger a better mood and an improved energy field.
Mostly, we find calmness and serenity in nature, which is also where plenty of negative ions exist in their genuine form. Cleansing and ever effective, negative ions are able to not only purify the air but also help deal with pollen, spores, strange smells, smoke, bacteria,and dust, among others.
Some of the causes of suffering these problems in the first places include excessive use of electronic devices and having too many dust-attracting items.
This is where smudging can help solve the issues. Smudging is actually a successful technique which delivers a cleanse providing the same quality of air as going to the mountains.
As per Cat Criger, an expert in the field working at the University of Toronto, smudging is highly beneficial when executed properly.
‘To understand the protocol means you have to learn something about aboriginal people. So in a sense the medicines are working in a kind way, saying ‘learn about me and we can respect each other and we can walk together,’ he explains.
Boosting the focus and concentration in a person.
Cleanses rooms from a negative vibe.
Reduces symptoms of grief, stress, phobias, depression, and anger.
Purifies the air and keeps the pollen, allergens, pet hair, mold and dust away.
Serves as a cleaning agent.
Reverses signs of premature aging.
How to Do a Home Smudge?
If you want to harvest any of the aforementioned benefits, you can easily perform a smudging session at home.
A place where you can light the fire, such as a bowl or a container.
A fire source, from matches or a lighter.
Open up the windows and make sure the air is ventilated. Light the fire and bring the sage closer so it can attract the flame.
Blow out the flame and let the sage smoke.
Move clockwise in your home, beginning at the main entrance.
Do this cleanse in storage areas as well, like your cabinets or closets.
Let the sage burn out completely, once done.
A Cleanse for Your New Home?
To bring in positive energy into your new home, close every opening to the outside. Once you lose the doors, windows, and vents, cover the mirrors and open all cabinets and storage spaces. Also, make sure your electronic devices are turned off during the purification session. Repeat the instructions listed above and marvel the wonderful after-effects in your new house or flat.
What is The Best Time to Smudge?
Ideally, you should perform smudging a few times a year. However, that a weekly cleanse can be just as effective as a monthly smudge. Fix your thoughts on eradicating possible negative energy build up and cover the entire area of your home when smudging.
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Seven Databases in Seven Weeks Redis Day 2 - Wakatta!
Redis low level protocol supports the notion of pipelines: sending commands in batch, and collect all the results at the end, instead of waiting for results between each command. This should save a round trip delay for each command, so there can be huge performance boosts for specific usages, as the informal benchmarks below show.
Redis servers can be distributed for performance or memory concern, but much of the work falls on the client side.
Slaves in Redis are just the opposite of MongoDB’s. Whereas MongoDB’s slaves are meant to be written to, so that updates are automatically pushed to the master, Redis slaves are, or should be, read-only. Updates are only propagated from master to slaves.
There is no integrated support for failover; it has to be implemented in client code.
So slaves are mainly a mechanism to distribute reads; combined with monitoring client code, they can also be used to data replication and failover.
Note that each slave needs as much memory as the master, as it contains the same data.
By itself, Redis does not support sharding, and relies on the client library to spread accesses over several instances. There is a ongoing development to have real Redis Clusters, but for the time being it has to be simulated.
One issue not mentioned in the book is that sharding breaks transactions and pipelines: there is no guarantees that the relevant keys are all in the same instance, so the Redis Ruby client, for instance, will raise an exception when invoking MULTI.
The Java client, Jedis, has a mechanism to “tag” a key such that keys with the same tag are guaranteed to be on the Redis server. This makes the distribution of keys predictable, and allows the use of transactions (provided all the involved keys have the same tag).
This shows that not only this is a client side feature, but the actual extent of the feature may vary widely. And of course, there is no reason to think that different clients will shard keys the same way.
Properly setup, sharding will distribute the data over each node, reducing the memory load of each node.
I first tried to rewrite the code in Java, to measure the cost of Ruby’s convenience. The code in Java is clumsier than in Ruby, but it ran a bit faster (105 seconds instead of 155 seconds for the Ruby version using hiredis).
Using pipelines, the difference was 11 seconds against 26 seconds (again, the Ruby version is using hiredis).
Disabling snapshots and append only file did not improve the time significantly compared to the default (snapshots but no append only file).
Enabling the append only file and setting it to always was almost 3 times as slow for the pipelined Java version (27 seconds). For the original Ruby version (with hiredis), it was even worse (1101 seconds). This means the overhead of writing to file can be mitigated with pipelines.
To recap: disabling snapshots did not improve performance measurably, but enabling append only file always degrades the performance significantly; using pipelines makes it a bit better, but it is still much slower.
The exact setup to implement is not described, so what I did is to distribute data between two shards of one master and two slaves.
There is no direct support for such a layout in Jedis (nor, as far as I can tell, in the Ruby library), so I had to write some of it myself.
As always with Redis, the writes are restricted to the masters, and the reads are distributed over the slaves (and the masters as well, if needed).
Jedis does not support slaves directly. What the documentation proposes is to have a dedicated client to the master to write on, and a sharded pool to the slaves. However, such an approach would be difficult, as I need to shard the writes to the masters as well (I would have to use a different sharding algorithm, and manage the routing of commands through the tree of Redis instances).
Fortunately, Redis user Ingvar Bogdahn had posted an implementation of a Round Robin pool of slaves. This implementation manages a connection pool to a master, and another connection pool to a set of slaves. The commands are properly distributed: all the write commands are sent to the master, and the reads commands are distributed over the slaves.
I had to fix the code in some places: a command implementation was missing, another was incorrect, and finally the password was never sent to the master, causing authentication errors. But the bulk of the code is Ingvar’s, and I was glad to use it.
UniJedis: provides pools for both master and a set of slaves, and dispatches commands to the correct pool.
ChainableTransaction: (not used in this project) provides a fluent interface for Redis transactions.
DBKeys: (not used in this project) abstracts database and keys.
Sharding is directly supported by Jedis, but as organized the code is restricted to a set of clients to specific instances.
There are basic, generic classes (Sharded, ShardInfo, …) that can be used to implement sharding of arbitrary clients (such as the Round Robin pool above), but it requires a lot of tedious code to map each command to a method on the right shard. Worse, such code would be the same for every kind of shard.
So I first wrote generic classes that implement sharding in terms of generic Jedis client; the actual implementation is then much simpler (just the constructors, and the few commands that cannot be sharded, such as disconnect or flushAll).
ShardedUniJedis: actual implementation of sharded UniJedis. As promised, the class has hardly any code.
The code for the service itself is now fairly small. JedisClient is the class that builds the tree of sharded master/slaves pools. It is loaded and initialized as a Spring bean. The web services are JSR 311 services, running over Jersey, and loaded and initialized by Spring.
Admin let the user defines a keyword for a specific URL, and Client extracts a keyword from the request URL, retrieves the URL for the this keyword, and returns a request to redirect to this URL.
$ curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/url-shortener/u/admin --data "url=http://slashdot.org&shorter=slash"
The code for the whole project can be found on Github.
And this completes Day 2.
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What do I do if I have suffered harm as the result of a medical mistake?
If you or a loved one has suffered harm as the result of a medical error, you may have questions concerning what to do next. Adding confusion to the issue, often medical professionals are reluctant to discuss or reveal that mistakes or errors occurred, leading patients and their families wondering who they can talk to. As a result, even if filing a lawsuit may be the furthest thing from your mind after suffering an injury during a medical visit, the best course of action is often to seek the advice of an experienced San Diego birth injury lawyer right away.
An experienced medical malpractice lawyer can begin the process of obtaining medical records and determining just what happened to cause your harm. The first step typically involves a client interview. During the initial consultation, a person who has suffered an injury can provide a complete version of the relevant events and provide crucial details concerning his or her version of events. This narrative will then provide a frame of reference to begin gathering records and evidence to determine what mistakes may have been made. It will also provide critical information regarding potential damages. After the relevant records are collected, an expert will typically conduct a review to determine whether medical malpractice has occurred. At this point, the attorney and client can discuss whether a potential claim exists, and the next steps for obtaining justice. For more information or if you believe you have suffered harm as the result of a medical error, please contact the experienced San Diego medical malpractice law firm of Bostwick & Peterson, LLP for an immediate consultation.
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Here at Wheels America we are partial to OEM wheels, but we also believe our customers should have the option to save money by purchasing a quality replica wheel. Replica wheels are made to match factory wheels in both style and safety.Be careful. Some wheel sellers will try to disguise the fact that they are selling you a replica wheel by calling it a Lexus style wheel. If you see the word Style in the title it is probably also a replica.
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For years, I've worked just feet from where this beautiful tree blossoms, and just found out yesterday that it's a Styrax Japonicus. Its common name is a snowbell tree, which is perfect because the petals were falling gently to the ground like snow while I was photographing the wonderful white flowers.
Heisann.... never too late to have new knowledge - blogging has made mine wider and deeper in themes like plants, culture, art, countries, language, food aso.
As always, gorgeous. I think you live in a botanical garden!
Such pretty flowers, I love the red lotus!!
I've never seen one of these trees. How lovely.
I have never heard of a styrax tree either, where do they grow?
Pretty flowers.I love the first capture of snowy flowers.
They do look cool and snowy! Lovely capture.
Those blossoms are beautiful! Thanks for linking up for Wordless Wednesday. Have a terrific day!
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The Brief: The recent rise of Anti-Vaccine or "Anti-Vax" memes on social media target parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated.
They’re back. Just like the sudden 30% uptick in Measles worldwide, Anti-Vaccine memes or Anti-Anti-Vax memes have returned and they’re more critical than ever. Anti-Anti-Vax memes target and criticize parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated.
While the Anti-Vax Movement is nothing new, nor nothing to laugh at though some might disagree, the internet is at it again with dark/comedic depictions of Anti-Vax parents and children. Popularized originally on Reddit, these memes have begun circulating Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook in greater numbers as of late, most likely due to the recently released statistics on Measles cases.
Anti-Anti-Vax memes, much like Man and Woman Microphone memes, make light of more serious issues. In this case, they reinforce the important of vaccines. According to an article published on USAToday.com, “Vaccine hesitancy appears on the World Health Organization’s 2019 list of the top health threats,” right up there with HIV and pandemic influenza.
Certain Anti-Anti-Vax memes take on the Anti-Vaxxers, specifically Anti-Vaxxing Moms. For example, you might already be familiar with Karen, another popular satirical meme, who is often characterized as an Anti-Vaxxer.
In any case, with recent statistics, not to mention a slough of new memes, it’ll be interesting to see where the Anti-Vaccine Movement goes from here.
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After a thrilling season full of epic victories and close calls, your team has finally qualified for a bowl game. If that game is the Sun Bowl here in El Paso, you're in luck. The Sun Bowl. has been played in abundant desert sunshine since 1935, and today it's held at a 51,500-seat stadium carved into the side of a mountain. Whether you're here to cheer on your team or to take in all the festivities of bowl game weekend, you'll find far more going on in El Paso than just the game itself. So pack your favorite team shirt, and perhaps some sunscreen, and check out these things you can do while you're here for the Sun Bowl.
Although you’re here for the game itself, there’s far more to the Sun Bowl than what happens on the field. It all kicks off at the Sun Bowl Fan Fiesta., a free and fun-for-the-whole-family event held at the Judson F. Williams Convention Center from 3 – 9 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 30. Listen to bands and mariachi players, watch dance groups and magicians and check out the battle of the bands from both universities. There will even be free balloon animals and face painting for younger football fans, as well as inflatable and interactive games. Take in all the pregame festivities and you’ll be ready for all the action of the Sun Bowl.
Tailgating is a sacred college football tradition, but our own party takes it to the next level. Starting at 7 a.m. on game day, the Visit El Paso Tailgate Party is the place to go to get a true taste of the Sun City. Try something tasty made by one of several local food trucks and taste a range of salsas and tequilas as local bands play in the background. Stick around for your chance at winning one of the giveaways, enjoy the lively atmosphere and you’ll be ready for kick off.
The fun doesn’t end when the final whistle blows. In fact, it’s just getting started. Since the game ends just hours before the year ends, you can celebrate the arrival of 2019 like a true El Pasoan. Start in the Downtown Entertainment District, where you’ll find cozy hangouts like Later Later.and Blackbird Cantina. DeadBeach Brewery., also located in the district, is the place to go for hoppy IPAs, savory stouts and a tantalizing array of other sessionable ales and lagers. Along with the beer, DeadBeach serves salads and a mouthwatering selection of pizzas.
Of course, the Downtown Entertainment District isn’t the only part of town where you can welcome the new year. The Cincinnati Entertainment District is home to a few New Year’s Eve hotspots as well, starting with the Rockin' Cigar Bar & Grill. Sink your teeth into the world-famous garlic burger, order cocktails made with top-shelf liquor and try a high-end cigar from the humidor. With its energetic vibe, this is a good spot if you’re after a livelier night out. There’s more fast-paced fun to be had at GeoGeskes, an upscale restaurant that turns into a hip lounge where you can savor specialty cocktails and dance the night away. No matter how you like to party on New Year’s Eve, you’ll find the place for you here in El Paso.
Glide across the smooth surface of an ice-skating rink illuminated by pale blue Christmas lights. Step into a festive snow globe for a one-of-a-kind holiday photo with your family. Let the sweet aromas of donuts tickle your nose as you browse the wares of local artisans. These are a few of the ways to embrace the magic of the holidays during El Paso WinterFest, which takes over downtown El Paso through Jan. 6.
One of Winterfest’s main attractions is the ice-skating rink, where you can slide along or sip on a hot cocoa as you watch your kids skate from the heated tent nearby. Then browse The Winter Market and admire the El Paso Electric Winterfest Tree before taking in more than 400,000 holiday lights in San Jacinto Plaza. Christmas may be over, but you can still find yuletide joy here in El Paso.
Proudly painted in pastel green, they look like they’ve been plucked from a bygone era. Instead, our new streetcars offer the newest, and coolest, way to experience downtown El Paso. The route follows Stanton and Oregon streets from the Glory Road Transit Center down to Father Rahm Avenue, passing an abundance of attractions, restaurants and shops along the way. Discover the area’s rich multicultural and multinational past at the El Paso Museum of History, then ride the streetcar down to the El Paso Museum of Art to see American, European and Mexican art dating back to the 16th century. You can even ride the streetcars to the Fan Fiesta, El Paso Winterfest, San Jacinto Plaza and many of the New Year’s Eve spots we mentioned earlier in this article.
Not only are our streetcars convenient (and stylish), but they also have free Wi-Fi. How can you beat that?
Sleek, stylish and modern, our boutique hotels aren't just a place you stay; they're something you experience. Located within a 100-year-old, four-story building, Stanton House is an upscale hotel filled with contemporary art and comfortable rooms where you can enjoy the in-house restaurant and a spectacular view of the downtown area from the rooftop patio. Right across the street, Aloft El Paso Downtown's well-appointed guest rooms and suites, on-site bar and lounge and state-of-the-art fitness center afford the kind of stay that'll have you coming back for more.
Meanwhile, at the Hotel Indigo, you'll admire sunset and mountain views from your room with floor-to-ceiling windows, the rooftop patio with a pool or the fitness center. Stop by the on-site restaurant for breakfast, lunch or dinner, then sip on a locally made beer or a creative cocktail as you listen to live music in the lounge.
Stay in any of these hotels and you'll be just steps away from the El Paso Streetcar line, making each an ideal starting point to exploring the area while you're here for the Sun Bowl.
If you've never been to El Paso in the winter before, you'll quickly learn they don't call it the Sun Bowl for no reason. Along with the plentiful sunshine, daytime temperatures are firmly in the high 50s, a far sight warmer than most places in the country. Given the favorable weather, it's a great time to soak up as much of that desert sun as you can. Head over to Franklin Mountains State Park, home to more than 100 miles of rugged hiking and biking trails that wind through cactus-covered valleys and along the slopes of high-desert mountains. At Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Center, you'll explore even more hiking trails as you admire rocky hills that have drawn people for thousands of years. Look close enough and you may even spot ancient Native American pictographs, a nice bonus to a day out in the abundant sunshine.
Our awesome winter weather and spectacular scenery sets the stage for one of the best games in college football. Cheer on your team and discover everything else we have to offer while you’re here. Whether you want to stay for longer or come back one day, you’re always welcome in the Sun City.
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Between 2011-2015 I studied robotics and mechatronics at Swinburne University of Technology. After graduating I landed at Bosch Australia, where I spent two and a half years as a"software engineer" working mainly on IoT (Internet of Things) projects within the agriculture and automotive sectors, before properly striking out on my own as a full-time indie.
I'm a big fan of podcasts, with a few of my favourites being the Accidental Tech Podcast, Under the Radar, Core Intuition, Cortex, Robots Podcast, The Skeptics Guide to the Universe and of course Hello Internet.
I spend much of my time in Xcode or Android Studio on my 2017 13" Retina MacBook Pro, usually listening to one of the aforementioned podcasts or very possibly some smooth jazz. Most of my design work is done in the excellent Sketch 3, although Pixelmator gets a run every now and then, depending on the task at hand.
I’m an amateur tea enthusiast, with my favourite blends including Ahmad's English Tea No. 1 and Madura's Earl Grey and Green Tea & Jasmine.
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Now that we've had the April rain let's bring on the May flowers during our $200 cash giveaway! You have the option of choosing between $200 PayPal Cash OR an Amazon Gift Card! This event was organized by The Kids Did It & The Mommy Island and sponsored by the awesome bloggers, authors, and Etsy shop owners listed below!
ONE entrant will be selected by the entry form to win $200 PayPal cash OR $200 Amazon e-gift card. Open for entry WW, 18 years and older from 05/01/17 at 12:01 a.m. ET thru 05/22/17 at 11:59 p.m. ET. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. The winner will have 24 hours to respond to notification email to claim their prize or a new winner will be selected. See Giveaway Tools for official rules. The Kids Did It & The Mommy Island are responsible for sending the winner their prize via PayPal or Amazon. The winner has the option of choosing between PayPal and an Amazon gift card. Please email Amanda at thekidsdidit.com if you'd like to set up an event.
Welcome and Good Luck from Mom To Grandma! Please check out our continually changing GIVEAWAY PAGE and our continually growing Mother's Day Gift Guide .
Thanks so much for this chance to win! I would buyn myself a new pair of sneakers and then I could actually go walking to lose weight !
I would buy a baby monitor with an the extra cash! We are expecting our first in a few weeks and we still have a few small things to pick up!
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These bold little white-crowned sparrows can raise or lower their “crown”, depending upon their mood. They occur throughout North America, but their bill color varies. It can be orange, yellow, or pink depending upon where they live.
They have a cheery and distinctive song that you may recognize. Listen to it here.
The fringed gentian, Gentianopsis thermalis, grows in meadows, bogs, and on moist ground. This species prefers growing in warm places and it’s common near geysers and hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. It is the official flower of the park.
This plant grows to a height of 4-16 inches and blooms in May through August. This annual has purple flowers 1.5-3 inches in length. The showy flowers are fringed along the edges.
Fringed gentians can be found across northern Canada and south through the Rocky Mountains and into parts of New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada.
Native Americans used gentians to treat headaches and as an antidote to witchcraft.
Fun fact: The flowers curl up and close on cloudy days leaving just the tops visible. The closed flowers resemble a small windmill.
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
The geology of Utah is so unique and interesting. I imagined many details of alternate worlds while visiting there.
The formations at Capitol Reef form thrones ready for giant-sized royalty.
At Canyonlands National Park, an army of stone soldiers is forever frozen in time.
A city of towers pushes out the forest at Bryce Canyon National Park.
At Arches National Park, layers of earth tilt and reach towards the sky, hoping they may someday form archways of stone.
Oh where, oh where could my little dog be?
I enjoy watching these roses growing along the Mill A Loop trail along the Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon. They produce a bounty in the summer and the fall for walkers and wildlife.
Care to join me for a piece of snowy cake?
Winter is a special time of the year here in Bend. Winter walks around the neighborhood are highlighted with landscapes covered in snow and ice.
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
Buildings are blanketed with snow and edged with icicles.
Twisting trails are carved through snowdrifts.
Meandering rivers are covered with a cool layer of ice.
Bare branches are clothed in frost and snow.
I immediately thought of this picture I took of a white sturgeon when I saw that this week’s photo challenge at Traveling at Wits End was Something that Doesn’t Belong.
In this photo, taken at the High Desert Museum, a young white sturgeon is surrounded by trout. It doesn’t quite fit in.
You might think this odd fish looks prehistoric and you’d be right. Sturgeon existed 200 million years ago, during the Jurassic period.
Though most sturgeon live 11-34 years, they have been known to live up to 104 years (!) They grow to an average length of 6.9 feet and sometimes grow to a length of 20 feet. The maximum weight recorded was 1,799 pounds. In fact, they are North America’s largest fish. So the fish in the picture may look small now, but it has a lot of growing to do!
Here are a few pictures of wild things resting, feeding, and breeding. They are always reminding me to love nature and share that love with others.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
…When alarmed, their rapid career seems more like the flight of birds than the movement of an earthly being.
It’s not only fine feathers that make a fine bird.
The water in some of the springs presents to the eye the colors of all the precious gems known to commerce. In one spring the hue is like that of an emerald, in another like that of the turquoise, another has the ultra-marine hue of the sapphire, another has the color of topaz; and the suggestions has been made that the names of these jewels may very properly be given to many of these springs.
Nathaniel Pitt Langford in Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870.
Grand Prismatic Spring is the crown jewel of hot springs at Yellowstone National Park. The landscape of Grand Prismatic has all the colors of the rainbow. The cracks and tracks add some interesting texture as well. This 370-foot wide spring is the largest in the United States and third largest in the world.
We have many beautiful sunrises and sunsets here in Bend, Oregon. Sometimes the unique colors and forms of the clouds are totally unexpected and they’ll take your breath away. Here are a few of those moments my camera allowed me to capture.
I did this easy hike on the Blue Basin trail in John Day Fossil Beds National Monument last October. I felt like a stranger in a strange land on this trail through blue-green badlands.
The trailhead is 14 miles northwest of Dayville, Oregon. This trail is in the Sheep Rock Unit of the monument. The Island in Time trail is a 1.3 mile long out and back trail with an elevation gain of 200 feet. The Blue Basin Overlook trail also starts here. It’s a 3.25 mile trail with a 760 foot elevation gain. There are several other trails nearby.
The unique blue-green colors of the rock formations in Blue Basin are stunning. They range from a pale dinner mint green to a darker, bluer green. The blue-green and tan claystones and siltstones are part of the John Day formation. There were multiple eruptions of Cascade Mountain volcanoes 29 million years ago. The ashfall formed the blue-green layers of this basin. Celandonite and clinoptilolite give these formations their green color.
You’ll see impressive tiered layers of rock bordering the trail. At the end of the trail, an amphitheater of colorful stone will surround you. I had the place all to myself on my hike. Rotate your way around this photo sphere to see what I saw.
I also noticed the smaller landscapes on this trail. Here are a few of those scenes.
You will see several fossil replicas covered with protective plastic bubbles along the trail. They removed the actual fossils to protect them from the elements. Over 2,000 species of plant and animal fossils have been identified in the vicinity.
Cat-like Nimravids. These cats ranged in size from bobcat-sized to tiger size.
Oreodonts. This sheep-sized mammal was once as common as deer are today.
Tortoise. This tortoise is like species living today.
A cracked shell may have caused its death.
Here’s a map of the Blue Basin. Please note the warnings associated with this trail. In the warmer months of the year, you may see rattlesnakes. In October, I saw none. Blue Basin experiences high temperatures in the summer months so be prepared.
My dog liked this nearby trail better. No bridges!
There are 13 metal grate bridges on this trail. The sign says dogs may refuse to cross and you may have to carry them. My dog would not cross the first bridge. Sorry, but I couldn’t imagine carrying a 60+ pound dog over 13 bridges. She waited patiently in the car on that cool day.
Don’t miss the amazing Thomas Condon Paleontology Center while you’re here. The displays impress me and I’m always excited to see paleontologists hard at work in the viewing area. I often wonder what new treasures they will uncover in their daily work.
I saw this bald eagle standing in the middle of a field this morning and couldn’t figure out why it was there. Then I noticed a couple magpies flying close by. Hmmm. Upon closer inspection, I saw a deer carcass several feet away. I guess everyone was there for a breakfast buffet.
Here are some curving roads to various scenic destinations in Oregon. When you’re driving down the road you never know what sights you’ll see just around the bend.
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge – Curves.
Prairie smoke, Geum triflorum, is a native plant of the prairies and it’s a less showy member of the rose family. The sepals on their droopy flowers are fused shut so they can’t open fully. I was drawn to this plant with its plain flowers and deeply serrated leaves.
The plants grow 6-10″ tall and bloom in late spring through early summer. Once the flowers are fertilized, they are followed by feathery wispy “fruits” (achenes) that somewhat resemble smoke. Another common name for this plant is Old Man’s Whiskers. The semi-evergreen leaves turn varying shades of red, purple, and orange in the fall.
Native Americans used prairie smoke roots and crushed seeds in eye washes, sore throat remedies, yeast infection treatments, and to help with stomach and menstrual cramps. The Nlaka’pmx used its roots in a drink and in a body wash in sweathouses. The Okanagan also used it in a love potion for women.
This plant can be found in southern Canada and in the central and northern United States (Zones 3-7). It grows in gravelly soils, but also in silty and loamy soils.
It can be grown in rock gardens and prefers sites with moist springs and drier winters. Prairie smoke tolerates summer sun and has low water needs.
Fun fact: Prairie smoke flowers are pollinated mainly by bumblebees. They have to force their way into the closed flowers to reach the nectar.
These photos are of our National Park travels within 1,000 miles of our home. We are lucky to live so close to so much beauty.
I tried to consider what was in the foreground as well as the background in these shots.
The color has faded in these blossoms but they are still beautifully framed by the long spiky leaves on this chive plant.
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Richard Webster is the Legal Director for Riverkeeper. He was formerly a staff attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Project at Public Justice, the Legal Director of the Eastern Environmental Law center, formerly the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic, and an attorney with the environmental group at Arnold & Porter in New York.
Richard has had considerable experience representing environmental groups on water and other issues. Most recently, he pioneered the use of litigation regarding coal ash and fracking to both clean up water and reduce climate change impacts. He also litigated the relicensing of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant and an environmental justice issue regarding the Indian Point relicensing. In addition, he has much experience litigating regarding state permit issuance and renewal in both New York and New Jersey.
Before becoming an attorney, Richard was an expert hydrologist and environmental scientist. He established and ran Environmental Development Consultants, providing expert advice and litigation support to, among others, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Sierra Club and the World Bank. Earlier, he was the Associate Director of Consultants in Environmental Sciences in Hong Kong and a Senior Environmental Scientist with Consultants in Environmental Sciences, Ltd., in London.
Richard received his J.D. in 2002 from Columbia University Law School, where he was the Articles Editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, a Kent Scholar, and a Harlan Fisk Stone Scholar. He earned a Master’s Degree in 1989 from London University in Engineering Hydrology and a B.A. in Physics from Oxford University in England.
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CSS is used by 98.3% of all the websites that use Web to date as content management system.
You can find usage and market share data for all site elements amongst Web to date sites in our Web to date market report.
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That an anarchist hesitates before some of the ideas and politics that animate the SAT (its “regional nationalism”, a sometimes heavy top-down internal organisation, with its parallel evocation of leaders, its celebration of work and the dependence on a broader capitalist economy for the functioning of its cooperatives, talk of “food sovereignty”: all of these are real or possible frailties not exclusive to the SAT, nor necessarily worse than those that sometimes afflict many anarchists and anarchist politics) is perhaps understandable; that s/he rejects or ignores their struggles would be ideological arrogance.
The land occupations promoted and organised by the SAT would be impossible without the participation of other groups and individuals, as well as without the active support of broader segments of the population. The occupations are in other words expressions of social discontent and the desire to create social relations that break with the order of State-Capital. Where they take those involved, no one can predict. But what they do display is the courage do go beyond simple refusal and protest, and that it is possible to create the beginnings of something that aspires to a world beyond capitalism.
There are 8 million hectares of agricultural land in Andalucía, of which 50%, that is, 4 million hectares, are in the hands of 2% of the land owners. Agricultural workers represent 43% percent of all workers in the autonomous region. The call, “The land to those who work it”, that has guided the struggles for land in Andalucía since the 19th century, is not a romantic anachronism. Today, the struggle for the democratisation of access to land and to food sovereignty in Andalucía is a question of the sustainability of life for all, beyond the struggle of agricultural day labourers.
This time we want to present the reality of land occupations in Andalucía through two re-appropriations of common lands by Andalusian day workers [jornaleiras/jornaleiros]. The occupied estates of Somonte and Liberty Hill offer up a necessary example of struggle for land sovereignty.
We spoke to comrades who today make possible the daily upkeep of these occupations and this is what they spoke to us of.
What is happening in Somonte?
On the 4th of March of 2012, day workers from the Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadorxs (SAT) occupied a 400 hectare farm in Palma del Río, in the province of Córdoba, to prevent the administration of the regional government of Andalucía from selling it off. Their aim was to alleviate the devastating regional unemployment of day workers. And thus was born the occupied farm of Somonte. If we could now take a look there, we would see, in yet another farming year, that all of the land has been sown. Something which, given its extension and the precarious means available, is no small feat. We are speaking of distinctive annual cultures, among which we would highlight autochthonous varieties of wheat. For the cereal campaign which is coming to an end at this time (the present text was written in early June), we planted more than 20 hectares of local varieties of cereals at risk of extinction, thanks to popular support for the project through a crowdfunding initiative. The harvest was concluded a few days ago and we can already say that it was a success, especially in a year that has been good for cereals in the whole peninsula.
So far for the present, but given that every seed is a promise, we want to continue (we hope) with what will happen soon in Somonte. The next autochthonous cereal campaign will reckon with a greater surface to sow, given that this year’s harvest is going to be used, almost exclusively, to multiply seeds, that is, we are not going to sell the harvest this year so that we can continue to extend their cultivation in the next campaign.
We will be able in this way, in a handful of years, to sow a considerable quantity of hectares of autochthonous cereal ecologically. Moreover, we are working on the possibility of collaborating with a scientific institution interested in carrying out here some experimental ecological agriculture; the vegetable garden will continue grow with the beginning of the agricultural year and we hope, though over time, to realise and develop some other project among the many that we have in mind.
What is happening at Liberty Hill?
Following the example of Somonte, on the 1st of April of 2017, when Andrés Bódalo was completing one year of an unjust imprisonment, the SAT occupied the Adarves Altos estate, on the slopes of the San Cristóbal Mountain, only 6 kilometres from Jaén. After occupying the land, it was re-baptised as Liberty Hill, in recognition of our imprisoned comrade and for the demand for his immediate release. The estate of 73 hectares (63 of which are planted with olive trees) was the property of the SAREB, the so called “bad bank”, and is currently owned by the BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria).
What would we see if we were to pass right now through Somonte and Liberty Hill?
If you were to go by Somonte just now, you would see sunflowers in full bloom, mature chickpeas and a great many hectares of cereal recently harvested. At the right time, you would be able to see loads, tons, of autochthonous grain that begins to be winnowed and bagged, waiting for the next planting season, that we will begin in the Fall. You would also see how the first fruits of the summer garden are growing or how the corn is doing that is destined to feed the chickens, or the experiment we are carrying out with groundnuts.
While at Liberty Hill, we are engaged in a complete exercise of recuperation. In this instance, we rehabilitated a house that was half in ruins, and which today has a common room, different bedrooms where some 10 people live, a storehouse, a kitchen, a bathroom … A one hectare garden was planted where there was only scrub before and a horse stable was built which is today home to Mariano and Susana (our Iberian pig couple), rabbits and chickens. We cleaned up the more than 6500 olive trees that there are, having removed twigs and pruned more than a thousand.
What is intended with the occupation of Liberty Hill?
What we are calling for with our action, which has been going on now for three months, is that the land cannot remain abandoned while we are consumed by unemployment, apathy and anxiety. We call upon the regional government to comply with its own law, given that until now it has ignored the demand that we presented, namely that it apply the Law of Agrarian Reform of 1983 that stipulates that a farm abandoned for more than two years is susceptible to expropriation such that it may satisfy a social labour.
We demand that the land must stay alive and that for this it has to be made diverse; to put an end to mono-cultures and diversify our fields. Our project thus includes livestock, the cultivation of almonds and pistachio, the garden, etc. We demand that we should be free and that our land should be free so as to be able to live freely in harmony in and with it.
We demand, want and feel that one cannot own land, that it belongs to the people that inhabit it. Land is neither to be sold or bought; it is to be managed by those who care for it and work it, which are the hands of peasants and day workers who have worked it their entire lives. This is dignity, future and hope, this is Liberty Hill.
What continues to be defended in Somonte?
Firstly, the occupation of Somonte (already five years ago) had as its objective to show that the regional government of Andalucía sought to sell, yet again, one of the farming estates that it had earlier expropriated with the aim of responding, even if timidly, to the secular demand for an agrarian reform that, let it be said, never went beyond its first stages.
Secondly, it was a direct action that made land available to those who work it. Since then, all of the effort has been directed towards creating cooperatives that can take on the production of food items and, in a second phase, to transform them on the estate.
The effort is enormous … How does Andalucía, the world, benefit from the Somonte project?
In Somonte, we want to make real, and we are doing so, the old demand for workers’ self-management and job creation, once the means of production are socialised, and the just distribution of wealth that follows from this.
On the other hand, this management cannot be acritical; we cannot limit ourselves to self-managing the world as we find it. Even more so in our case, for we are not dealing with any means whatsoever. We are talking about land and food, the basis of all human community; we are talking about our metabolism and its environment, of our relationship with nature. Our labour in Somonte therefore seeks to go further and we work to make real the food sovereignty of people, with all that this implies, both inside Somonte and outside. Inside: recuperation of soils, fertility, biodiversity, forgotten local varieties (it is estimated that some 90% of these varieties have been lost). Outside: development of local consumption of the wealth here produced, thereby favouring local cycles within a local ambit, and fortifying and extending already existing networks of production and consumption.
But not everything is budding sunflowers … What things are making the project difficult?
Obviously, all of the problems inherent to an okupation: instability, uncertainty, alegality, etc. To which must be added that it is not sufficient to liberate a farm; rather costly means of production are necessary (tractors, farming implements, machinery), even more so with the dry lands of Somonte. Little by little, with effort and consistency, we are managing, and thereby increasing our capacity to act.
And the effort at Liberty Hill, in what way does it benefit Andalucía and the world?
We believe that one cannot speak of a Leftist transformation of Andalucía if one does not consider and place at the centre of attention the problem of land. And one cannot possibly speak of such a transformation promoting budgets that sell off public land, or laws that liquidate the social function of land, converting it into pure merchandise.
With this project, we put into practice the idea that the land is for those who work it, without waiting for governments that promise much and do little. With the occupation, we push the authorities and society to position themselves, because no one can remain neutral when a conflict of interests is produced, whether with the banks or with the people.
What things are making it difficult?
At the Hill, as in Somonte, we confront two types of difficulties. On the one hand, the Guardia Civil, that dedicates itself to denouncing us, passing by the estate, and including during days of voluntary work with a mobilisation of eight police vans so as to frighten and threaten those who participate with the crime of “temporary occupation”, thereby ignoring their own laws, given that the case is in court on the accusation of permanent occupation. On the other hand, the BBVA , which not only refuses to negotiate with us any kind of handover or agreement, but has taken the matter to the police, accusing 20 comrades with the crime of “usurpation and damages”. Judgement will be rendered by the court on the 23rd of June. And lastly, the regional government of Andalucía, which could, according to its own statute of autonomy, expropriate the land that has been abandoned for more than two years, as we have asked.
Dear comrades, what things have we learned on this path and why is this occasion ours?
Somonte is already five years old and an okupation of this nature has shown, I believe, that it is not sufficient to put into operation a means of production, but that conviviality is also necessary (one not only works at Somonte, one also lives-with [se (con)vive]). That is, an okupation such as this one needs to work on all of the levels of daily life, not only on that of production. With this in mind, I believe that we are better prepared to meet the current challenges. We are in the struggle; we lack neither desire nor will, neither ideas nor projects. I am confident that within a year we will meet again in these pages to talk about new achievements and new challenges that we will pose.
The first is occupation as a school in which are learned values, dynamics of management, the recuperation of agricultural knowledge, collective labour; it is a space where knowledge flows thanks to the different generations and different social movements present. We can say that it is a school at the level of agriculture, politics and life.
Secondly, and tied to the first, that alliances are fundamental and that they should develop and are developing with movements struggling for dignified housing and against the banks, like the BBVA, with movements for food sovereignty which struggle as we do so that the land is for those who work it, with the movements of the unemployed who mobilise themselves such that work exists, and with the youth of Andalucía, who can come to see that immigration is not the only response to the crisis, that through mutual aid and cooperativism there is a future in this land.
Thirdly, the demonstration that it is possible to care for a farm, in this case, of 75 hectares, based on self-management and mutual aid. Without a single public Euro, the farm is working better now than it ever did during the 5 years that it was abandoned by the BBVA. It is a practical demonstration that there is a non-capitalist way out of the crisis.
Somonte Vs Monsanto. Todavía se puede consultar la información: https://www.goteo.org/project/somonte.
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In a series of videos, Dr Di Davies guides you through the silage making process with expert advice and practical tips across the six steps: Cutting, Wilting, Harvesting, Treating, Clamping and Feeding.
In this video, Dr Davies explains the key things to think about when cutting grass for silage making.
You can also book a Free Silage Consultation now with your local Wynnstay Specialist which will help you to identify how to improve your silage making.
In this video, Dr Davies explains the key things to think about when wilting grass for silage making.
In this video, Dr Davies explains the key things to think about when harvesting grass for silage making.
In this video, Dr Davies explains the key things to think about when treating grass for silage making.
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If you need to create the right Costa Rica vacation, you might consider taking out discounted packages from among the in style resorts and accommodations. For instance, when South Korea cohosted the 2002 World Cup in 2002, a brand new Sangam Stadium was in-built Seoul and the city also welcomed a surge within the number of visitors that yr (Seoul World Cup Stadium, 2017). Here international transport is accommodated in its deeper waters and large ferries transport folks to and from locations like Venice, Ancona and Bari in Italy, the Croatian city of Cut up in addition to the numerous islands in the Adriatic.
And these are high-quality as resort beaches go – golden sand, a number of facilities, quick access and secure swimming. Rhode Island also presents a novel experience in Newport and its famous CliffWalk of antique mansions. Lodge Restaurants – All-Inclusive resorts provide selections in their specialty restaurants however you can not normally stroll up to the situation on the spur of the second.
You can too book a room on an hourly foundation in one of many Dubai airport accommodations five-star Dubai Worldwide Lodge, located contained in the airport, and sleep or snooze during the set time that you have there. They know how to get the perfect value for your time and money, and, due to their world connections, they’ll VIP you at inns, on cruise lines, on excursions, and more.
The primary victim, Kristie Love, had her overview eventually put again up on TripAdvisor’s site efficiently, whereas in the case of the second victim, Jamie Valeri, the company refused to budge after citing her report as “rumour.” The experiences additionally highlighted at least a dozen different incidents at hotels and resorts throughout Mexico, together with that of a 29-year-old man who was raped by a massage therapist at a resort in the identical area, where reviewers had attempted to warn individuals through reviews on the corporate’s website about criminal incidents that the resorts and native authorities had didn’t pursue any legal or legal action for, solely to have those reviews either taken down or declined for posting by TripAdvisor.
Should you fancy a career in journey and tourism then have a look at the skills on offer from City & Guilds. Vaccination is recommended for humanitarian & aid staff & persons in close contact with native populations, but remember that secure food & water precautions are paramount in cholera prevention.
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Battling with energy bills? You’re not alone. Try our tools and expert advice below to help take control of your finances.
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Just like many metropolitan city, Singapore is one of the fastest growing Southeast Asian countries. This post is not blabbering about the economic growth, but something I like about the city, personally.
Living in Singapore for 20 months, I try out many things in the eye of an explorer. I love travelling however skeptical about what are the things being introduced in bookshop’s travel guide. And that’s also the reason why I do not like to go on group tours by travel agents if I can. Here's some of my personal recommendations if you wish to visit Singapore.
#Orchard Road. Here you can get everything you need from head-to-toe, and it's always the place I go to when I need shopping!
All you can get from Local Designers to International Designers, prices from High Street to Luxury.
It is the quirkiest place I've been to in Singapore. Click here to read about my blog post for it.
I'm always into modern art and design stuff. When I know about the existence of this museum, I paid a visit and get inspired. I have lots of inspiration for designs and illustration purposes.
A typical hawker centre offering very affordable delicacies. If you're looking for Singaporean food, lookout for the hawker centres that is located in many corners of Singapore.
Singapore's public transport is efficient and reachable to many corners of the city by MRT or buses. Even when you need taxi, the fare is quite affordable.
I'm lucky enough to been to ZoukOut twice with my best companion, it is indeed an international event that is so grand and fun! You'll get to know more DJs and my favourite for now is Calvin Harris. Look out for this event every year during the second weekend of December.
Many local and international artist performed in Singapore, as a hub for entertainment.
January 2013: Swedish House Mafia #OneLastTour. It was absolutely epic and still so happy that I was there to witness the history.
In Singapore rich with many expats, you can get not only local Singaporean/Asian food, you can get to try many authentic international food, like British, French, American, Japanese, Korean, Lebanese, etc.
Ice-cream sandwich for only $1!
Egg Tarts from a very traditional Chinese bakery.
Many of you may have heard about the infamous macaroons from Paris, Laduree. It is now available in Singapore!
All in all, Singapore is a nice place for a short breakaway, that you get to see, feel, eat, and experience a lot of things. If I return to Singapore, it would be all because of the 8 points mentioned above.
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Doctors – and other medical professionals – who refuse to perform abortions are the wave of the future.
Some of the allies most needed in the fight against abortion include doctors and medical professionals (like these 12 nurses from New Jersey and the doctors featured in this magazine).
The abortion industry knows that without medical professionals, it will lose. And in many places, the number of doctors willing and ready to perform abortions has been declining.
It is likely happening because of advances in ultrasound technology that have led to clearer images inside the womb, argued Jack Fonseca, a spokesman for the Campaign Life Coalition.
A study published by Dr. Norman [a University of British Columbia professor] in 2011…found that the number of physicians providing the service in hospitals in rural British Columbia had dropped 62% between 1998 and 2005.
Abortion Rights, a UK abortion campaign, reports being concerned about responses from medical students when they were asked about their views on abortions and their willingness to perform them.
A report by the Italian government has found that more than 80 per cent of gynecologists – in some areas it is believed to be as much as 91 per cent – and over 50 per cent of anesthesiologists and nurses refuse to participate in abortions, and the number is growing.
Of course, abortion supporters in the United States are concerned about the dropping rate of American doctors willing to perform abortions.
The number of abortions is decreasing, as the Guttmacher Institute reported in January, and among the reasons for that trend might be that the number of doctors willing to perform them has also gone down.
A study published in the science journal Obstetrics and Gynecology last week [in 2011] found that while 97 percent of OB-GYNs have encountered patients seeking an abortion, only 14 percent are willing to perform them, a drop from a reported 22 percent in 2008.
More details about the MedSFL 2013 Summer Fellowship can be found here. Medical students can also find information on MedSFL’s site about forming their own pro-life group on campus or applying for the next Summer Fellowship. Excellent training resources are offered as well, including information on the twice-annual National Speaking Tour, a video gallery, education webcasts, and a very extensive peer-reviewed library.
Here at Live Action, we cheer on the efforts of MedSFL in training pro-life doctors to be the wave of the future. This week, MedSFL and each and every pro-life doctor out there (including those in training) are our selected Life of the Week. Keep up the excellent, life-saving work!
For any readers who are interested in locating a pro-life doctor in your area, visit Priests for Life’s helpful link or check out the list provided by the Association of Pro-Life Physicians.
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I was recently teaching one of my Japanese ESL students about Fall/Autumn／あき. We learned words such as “cornucopia”, “raking leaves”, and “jack-o-lantern.” I asked him what words come to mind when he thinks of Fall. He replied, “Mushrooms“. Mushrooms?!? I was seriously confused.
After some research, it turns out that mushrooms （きのこ）are in fact a big part of autumn in Japan, along with chestnuts （くり）, satsumaimo （さつまいも）, grapes （ぶどう）, and persimmons （かき）.
It is so interesting to me how different cultures view the seasons so differently. In America, Fall means Halloween, Thanksgiving, Pumpkin Pie, wearing layers, back-to-school, and soup (well, at least to me).
In Japan, Fall/Aki often means taking a special trip to observe the beautiful colored leaves（こうよう）, undoukai （うんどうかい）, honoring grandparents, fall food (mentioned above), red dragonflies （あかとんぼ）, typhoons （たいふう）, and moon-viewing （つきみ）.
Am I missing anything else? What is your favorite thing about Fall where you live? What are your favorite Japanese Fall foods?
Click HERE for Fall activities and recipes from Kids.Nifty.
About 1 part heavy cream or milk (heavy cream for a creamier texture, milk for a crunchier texture. I like to use a 50/50 mix).
2. Pour or spoon into ice cube trays.
3. When frozen (about a few hours), pop them out into a dish, and enjoy! My kids love it!
You can buy azuki paste at most Asian grocery stores. If not, they are available online as well.
Azuki paste/Red Bean Paste HERE.
If you don’t like my recipe, HERE is another one you can try, by Closet Cooking.
Type in “アズキアイス” at images.google.com to see what azuki ice looks like in Japan 🙂 It will make you want to buy a plane ticket.
What a perfect time to teach the word “rain/ame”! It has been raining a lot recently around here.
Here are some “rain” coloring pages from ぬりえやさん: Click here.
Are you all familiar with Sasae-san（サザエさん）? I remember watching it as a child. Here is a Sasae-san episode about rain.
“Head Shoulders Knees and Toes” done Japanese-style! I love that they end the song with “I love you”! Another version can be found here.
Another YouTube video teaching various body parts, by Japanesepod101.com here.
Need a quick refresher on the names of body parts in Japanese? Go here.
Other sites worth checking out here, here, and here.
Today I will be teaching my daughter “あひる(duck)” and ”あり(ant)”. Since she is only 2, we are going to keep it simple with some coloring pages and videos.
1) Duck coloring pages here and here.
3) Ant coloring page here.
今週は“あ”を覚えよう！Let’s learn the kana あ this coming week!
I will be printing this hiragana PDF from Yahoo Kids in preparation for the week!
Check back next week for related activities!
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LIVERPOOL boss Jurgen Klopp says he is at fault for Alberto Moreno's performance against Sevilla.
Moreno has regained his place in the Liverpool starting XI this season after struggling last term.
But the Spain left-back had a night to forget on Tuesday after he was at fault for two of Sevilla's goals as they mounted a stunning comeback from 3-0 down.
Moreno was off the pitch when Sevilla got their equaliser in the last minute but it did not prevent him from taking the brunt of the criticism directed at Liverpool.
However, ahead of Liverpool's clash with Chelsea on Saturday, Klopp launched a passionate defence of Moreno.
Klopp said: “I had a talk, of course, to Alberto and I am really happy about his shape, I am really happy about his performances.
“Yes, I know in this game it was obviously [not his best] and that’s then really my responsibility. I could have done different things and obviously it was difficult in Seville with all the circumstances; everyone was talking to him like talking to him like a family member. He left there but a lot of people are still there who he knows well.
“[If you lose] one, two or three per cent of concentration and come a little bit too late and that’s how it started. My response would have been to think about the line-up or change or change earlier or whatever. It’s not the player to blame, I am 100 per cent responsible for that.
“I told him I still trust him 100 per cent, so for me the game is over.
"How you concede the goals is not important anymore after the game, only for the analysis but not for anything else.
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Developing a balanced staffing plan isn’t easy. No matter what industry you work in, predicting your company’s staffing needs is an art – one in which it’s easy to fail. Managers who don’t master this art constantly find themselves either overwhelmed or overstaffed (and wasting valuable resources and budget). No business manager has ever overcome this problem completely, but the right tools and planning can help you sort through the confusion. How do high-level managers overcome seasonal fluctuations in productivity while maintaining the ideal staff size?
All industries – manufacturing, sales, construction, tourism, etc. – experience seasonal variations in their workload. Now is the time to get out the books. Looking at all the years available to you, what do your company records reveal about your productivity? Which are your busiest quarters? When does work slowdown? Recognizing how these seasonal fluctuations work will keep you from being caught off guard.
You can’t expect to find the ideal candidate in a day. If you already know when your business will experience a spike in productivity, start planning. At the very least, you can start crafting job postings and prepping your staff weeks (or even months) in advance.
Layoffs are demoralizing to your entire workforce – even those who you keep on. Hiring temporary staff for a predetermined time allows you to eliminate the damage to company morale. In addition, contracting temps through a local staffing agency will help you minimize the expense of training and eliminate severance fees.
Businesses in semi-rural areas, such as Lancaster County, don’t have access to a massive recruitment pool. This is why it’s so important to make use of every resource at hand. With over two decades of experience as one of the leading staffing agencies in Lancaster, PA, Staffing Service USA can help you connect with the short, and long-term staff your business needs to succeed. Contact us today to learn more about our services.
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The nuts and bolts of your ACO, connected health system, and HIE is the clinical data itself. It informs doctors, feeds Clinical Decision Support rules, and is used for MACRA and other quality reporting initiatives. With so much data flowing from different sources in today's connected health systems, true semantic normalization from Elimu Informatics is more important than ever. Without it critical data could be dropped altogether, or worse, put in the wrong place leading to an incorrect decision.
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Being on the news was one of those dreams in the back of our head that we sorta never really thought would happen - and had never thought about trying to make it happen. But it did!! More than once!
And if all that epicness wasn't enough, the beautiful Christina Janes (Emmy award winning anchor) invited us to their CBS News station for a tour! We got to go with our cancer buddy Reese and her mom, Lisa, and it was so much fun. Christina has a heart of gold, is totally genuine, and is even sweeter than she seems on TV (yes, it is possible).
Thank you UC Davis Medical Center, Inessa (and Dorsey for letting her run with our story), Kevin, Christina at CBS13, Michael at ABC10, Gabrielle at ABC10, Sammy at the Sacramento Bee, and all else who were involved in making this dream come true! You were all so wonderful to meet, and we feel so blessed to have had all these opportunities.
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All want to get married to the person they love. They want to marry that person to whom they trust and understand. But many parents do not agree with this marriage. Due to which they do not support the decision of their children. As in inter caste love marriage sometimes people go neck on neck with each other.
People do not get away from these problems. Besides they can use remedies which help in resolving the problems.
To do inter caste love marriage. One can consult a specialist. They have complete knowledge of astrology and its services. When you consult him. He will understand your problems. He will also analyze your horoscope and birth chart. He will provide you some remedies. It will resolve all the problems. He will also suggest some tantra. It will help in getting relieved from all the bad effects. He also gives various devices. It will help in resolving the problem in a very short time.
For inter caste love marriage the specialist will also help you with other remedies. After analyzing your horoscope and birth chart. He will let you know about your future life. He will make you aware of the issues you will face in life. He will also help you with vashikaran. He will help to get control of your love and make them act as per your wish. He will also make your parents agree and get control of the situation. You will soon get married to the love of your life.
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Did anyone say that politics makes strange bedfellows?
Ah, how true. How true.
Beleaguered Pakistan President and military chief Pervez Musharraf has held secret talks for a second time with his bitter foe Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party and former Prime Minister of the country.
The secret meeting is believed to have taken place in Abu Dhabi on Friday, July 27, 2007.
Both sides are mum on the discussions.
A senior Pakistani cabinet minister said the meeting between the two leaders was part of an effort to develop a consensus on major political issues.
Benazir is currently in exile and divides her time between London and Abu Dhabi.
News reports say that this is the second hush-hush meeting between the two leaders.
The first meeting is also supposed to have taken place in Abu Dhabi in January 2007 but did not yield any results.
Musharraf is under fire from radical Islamic elements in Pakistan who feel he’s sold out to the U.S.
At the same time, the Americans are unhappy with Musharraf believing that he’s not done enough to help the U.S. capture Osama Bin Laden, presumed to be hiding somewhere in the dangerous mountains along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Musharraf’s position has become weakened and precarious in the wake of the controversy over the dismissal of the country’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and the recent violence at Islamabad’s Red Mosque.
The Chief Justice was reinstated recently by a 13-member bench of the high court.
Musharraf grabbed power from the civilian government of Nawaz Sharif via a military coup in October 1999.
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The Bussey Rooftop Bar is transforming into a winter wonderland.
We all love a good winter pop-up, even more so when it doubles up as a rooftop hangout. You can add another spot to your London bucket list now, because the Bussey Rooftop Bar in Peckham is having a festive makeover. Bedecked with lights and tinsel, and filled with cosy pergolas, it’s as fine a spot as any to while away those winter nights.
Famed for their captivating views of London, the Bussey Rooftop will be whipping up some fabulous festive cocktails. My eyes are immediately drawn to the Mint Espresso Martini, which is the drink I never knew I needed until right now. Meanwhile, food comes courtesy of RockaDollar, the hot dog slingers headed up by a former Hawksmoor chef – delicious dishes such as The Pork RFD and the beef cheek nuggets are sure to ward off the chill.
Find the Bussey Rooftop Bar at 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST. Nearest station is Peckham Rye.
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You have the ability to transform your team environment.
Get ready to examine your managerial style and increase your self-awareness. Here’s your chance to adapt your approach, navigate conflicts, and motivate your people. You’ll have an opportunity to experience management simulations and role-model the specific behaviours that will enable you to perform at your very best and move from being a boss to a coach who gets results. Attend this course to learn how to conquer obstacles that are in the way of the results you want to achieve.
Managers with a few years of experience who are interested in enhancing their managerial effectiveness.
I was actually a little cynical about taking this course. I have covered much of the information in other courses, but Bruce was able to make it relevant and gave me real world skills on how to APPLY the knowledge. He is a real asset to your organization and I can't say enough good things about him. See my previous comments. Lunch was very good. The structure and content of the course was good. Also, having the opportunity to meet such diverse professionals was exciting and very helpful, and moved my learning forward a great deal.
Very relevant! The delivery of the program was exceptional! Donna was able to answer all questions and keep the flow of information at a pace that kept us engaged and learning. One of the best CMC courses I've taken!
Donna is wonderful and provided very information tool for managing team effectively. I like the way she delivered the course. The venue is amazing. However, we had the same food 3 days in a row. Also would be nice to get someone else to drink other than tea/coffee.
Excellent and knowledgeable teacher. Excellent, flexible & knowledgeable.
Good experience meeting other people from different fields that I am working on, listening all their sharing experiences and situations. Great course facilitator!
Good content for new managers. It also is good in doing self reflection and assess how a manager is and make the necessary adjustments needed to be a better manager.
The situational discussions were really helpful, it could be from experiences of other participants or from the workbook. The tips on how to handle the situations from the facilitator was good. The homeworks, though it takes time, were also good. It was a good exercise for self reflection and planning. I hope some of these will also be done in class, so that participants can dedicate time in doing it without the distraction of work. The video materials are good, but it will be great if you can update it so it doesn't look so dated. It's superficial but I think if you have younger managers attending, they'll appreciate that and be more focused on the content rather than the video.
Very informative course and was well delivered from instructor who kept everyone engaged with their personal experiences.
Very enthusiastic and knowledgeable in all aspects of the course. Delivered all material in real world scenarios that kept everyone interested and involved at all times.
Really felt that the smaller classroom size (7) benefitted my overall experience and made it more comfortable to ask questions and become involved.
Sherry`s knowledge & skills facilitated an excellent learning experience. Sherry encouraged peer interaction to achieve our objectives. The group benefited from this style.
Karen was a great facilitator, she kept me engaged and was clearly very knowledgeable and interested in the topics she was discussing. I REALLY liked the small class size, it made me feel comfortable to contribute and felt engaged with the other group members.
Excellent communicator with great skills on keeping the team engaged. Nick was great at keeping everyone engaged. Strategies and examples for different types of conflicts was also very useful.
Very effective course that will help me with my day to day events. The pace of the course was excellent and I felt that all our class members will have numerous beneficial take aways!
Of course, 3 days is not enough to cover all the topics in depth. But, it was a great opportunity to get some refresher and to share my own experiences and challenges with other and to hear their solution as well. Very "a la carte", very flexible, super atmosphere, I've already shared it with some colleagues who could be interested to join, for sure.Again, super flexible, good mix of practical and theoritical knowledge. She was able to understand some of our daily challenges and address them very easily. Really nice personality as well.
Very relative and useful content, and the pace was perfect.
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This is the seventh “Noon Wine” reflection in a series on material poverty, with some final thoughts.
Stay tuned for another series to come on “spiritual poverty,” the other kind cited so often in the Bible including Revelation, that terribly misused, abused and misunderstood book-end to the book of Genesis.
What special sinner would Jesus neglect, reject, denigrate or demean with hostile words and actions? The homeless drug addict and absentee father hanging on the street with a bottle? Or the alcohol abusing adulterer and “family man” who is in church every Sunday with his family in the family’s own pew? Which neighbor of ours does God not love or expect us to love and care about?
The quotes about perennial poverty from Matthew and John are the ones invoked routinely by Christians with all kinds of self-serving, ulterior motives. They typically want to downplay a command from God, which is to show love for God by showing love and care and kindness to the poor. They typically cite the condensed gospel versions from Matthew and John for political or economic reasons–or maybe out of fear of the fact that they are a disaster or two away from being thoroughly broke and losing everything.
I submit that it’s that fear and insecurity driving much of the widespread hostility toward the poor in America, the nation that still has, far and away, the most financially and materially prosperous people in the world, bar none.
Only two things in life are guaranteed–God’s extravagant love for us all, and death. Lifelong prosperity and financial security for even billionaires can’t possibly come with a 100 percent, money-back guarantee (even though, admittedly, billions of dollars make for a pretty solid, personal safety net).
That’s why I suspect that so many Christians can turn a blind eye to the poor, or demean them as “bums” and misfits undeserving of charity or loving-kindness. It’s a fear thing, an insecurity thing, that lies beneath the many currents of contempt for some, if not all, of the poor.
Granted, there is such a thing as lazy poor people who game the systems of government and charity. They will always be with us.
But there’s such a thing as greedy, me-first people, and people of all kinds who game government systems for further gain.
Wall Street and Washington D.C. are running over with them.
America does have her share of lazy people, whose numbers include, unfortunately, a countless number of lazy Christians who can justify their hostile attitudes toward the poor by lifting up the scriptures, totally out of context, about the poor being always with us.
I suspect, admittedly at the risk of sounding righteous and judgmental like a preacher or something, that the lazy Christian doesn’t care to be intimate with the whole of the Bible because it requires the time and commitment of digging deep into the Bible with actual Bible reading and study.
Becoming intimate with the Bible–and not just a few scriptures lifted from texts to justify what we want to believe about God–is not for the lazy Christian.
Someone once asked Billy Graham what it means that Jesus said the poor will always be with us. Rev. Graham actually cited the key verse (Deuteronomy 15: 11) that I cited at the top of this posting.
God and Christ and the Bible leave us no wiggle room to show anything less than love and care for the poor. You won’t find any biblically convenient loopholes.
God was speaking to Moses when he made the clear commandment to open our hands to the needy in our land. Jesus never commanded any less and Matthew and John never expected any less with their condensed quotes. They knew very well that God expects us to help the poor and never mind that the poor will always be with us.
“You and I live in the most prosperous society the world has ever seen—-and yet hunger, homelessness and poverty are still a tragic reality for millions every day. At least half the world’s population lives on the edge of survival because of the effects of poverty.
Indeed, if we ask God to show us ways to help those crushed by poverty and to be in ministry with (not for) the poor–if we knock at the door and ask what we can do with the unique gifts and graces as well as the money that God blessed us with–there will be an answer.
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Pedrera, a web development agency located in Doylestown, PA, is looking for a full-time web developer to join our team of professionals.
As much as applicants should understand what this job is, they should be equally clear about what this job is not.
Experience in web design is great, and we’d love to have a coder onboard who can also help with design from time to time. But anyone accepting this position should know that this is overwhelmingly a development job.
This is a full-time employment opportunity at our office in Doylestown, PA. Remote contractor applications will not be accepted.
Pedrera is simply unable to work with recruiters and staffing agencies, due to formal agreements with key clients. So, this position is not viable for staffing through third-party agents.
Applicants should email their resume and cover letter to Tim Carter at Tim [dot] Carter [at] pedrera [dot] com.
ExpressionEngine website programmed by Pedrera for the New York Restoration Project, with CartThrob eCommerce integration for online fundraising.
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I’m in the States now. I have been back almost 6 weeks.
Leaving Ecuador was not a spur-of-moment decision. I had been planning it for some time. After six years there, I was ready to come home.
Mostly, I missed my family, though my three daughters and I have been spread out among four different countries for years (one on California, one in England, and one in Germany – and I lived in Ecuador). However, my daughter in England recently moved back to Southern California with her family, after 13 years there…now just hoping my daughter in Germany will eventually return too.
I have five grandchildren (with one on the way in the next few weeks, in Germany) and I want to be closer to them to enjoy their formative years.
But it was tough, tough, tough leaving behind the little town of Olón, and all the friends made during that time – they became like family to me. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about all of them, and miss them.
Don't say I didn't pay you back.
The earthquake that happened just before I left was devastating and made it even harder to get on the plane to leave, knowing how really, really bad it was on the ground on the northern coast of Ecuador.
The 7.8 magnitude earthquake happened on the evening of April 16, (four days before my scheduled departure) near the town of Muisne, about 3 hours north of Olón.
Of course we felt it in Olón (my brother Jack had come down to help with the move, and he and some of our friends had just sat down to dinner at a restaurant next to the park) when the shaking started. From our perspective, it started out somewhat slow, built to a large crescendo, and lasted longer than any earthquake I’ve experienced (25 years of living in California – Whittier, Northridge, Landers quakes to name a few).
As the earthquake was peaking, we were able to run outside (keeping an eye on overhead power lines, and adjacent cement buildings under construction). Others in Olón tell stories of not being able to stand up through it.
Earthquakes are weird that way.
However, other than power outages, and some strong aftershocks, Olón escaped relatively unscathed.
Not the same can be said about areas near the epicenter. Entire towns were decimated, the death toll is over 650 people, 12,000+ were injured, and hundreds of thousands of people are now homeless.
I personally know of at least three expat couples who live in the earthquake zone who lost their homes (a big shout out to Donald and Cheryl PaPania, Angie Wilkinson & family, Dave and Miriam Weaver – know that my heart and prayers are with you) and numerous locals who I still am not aware of their status.
My heart still bleeds for those affected by Ecuador coastal earthquake...yet what has been inspiring is to now watch how this little, beautiful, wonderful country and its people have pulled together to rebuild and regroup.
Please, if you are reading this, pray and support these efforts. Ecuador is still a lovely, awesome, safe place to live and visit.
The other terribly rough part of moving back to States was leaving darling Daisy behind.
But she never would have been able to make this transition back to the States.
She was about a nine-month old Olón beach stray when we adopted her, six years ago.
She has run free all her life, rules her realm and everybody knows and loves her (locals, expats, and tourists). She would have withered living in a more restrictive pet environment, and too old to make the adjustment.
Thus, I was extremely grateful for my friends Annette and Dan for agreeing to adopt her. Though she’s a very independent and self-reliant dog, it is a BIG responsibility for them, since she is now older, and does require more regular medical attention.
My heart is forever grateful to Annette and Dan.
And Annette, if you are reading this, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart about the way you handled the “last goodbye”.
You know what I am talking about. You are a wise woman, and I miss you.
(Ummm…I was going to continue here about my “first hello” back into the States, but can’t quite figure out how to make that writing transition without making this post too long and perhaps disjointed, so following up shortly with another post).
Thanks,always, Karen for always caring.
You are a special friend, one that completely understands what this journey has been about, since we landed in Ecuador about the same time.
Please always know how grateful I am that our paths crossed, and I will be forever thankful.
This made me tear up, Leigh. Beautifully written and from the heart. I know this was a difficult transition, now I know how difficult. Sending you love and hoping our paths will cross soon.
I can't wait to talk to you and will PM you my new USA phone number (from my new smart phone, which is so far, smarter than me).
Good luck to you. I remember reading your posts before I moved to Cuenca in 2011. I hope your adventure continues. Enjoy your grandkids.
How kind to hear from you..
Cuenca is a great place. Been there many times.
Wishing you all the best during your adventures in Ecuador.
And, yes - so grateful to be closer to at least some of my kids and grandchildren again.
Thank you to much, Louise.
If not in person, feels like it.
Wishing you all the best, and please -- lets keep in touch!
Tears in my eyes Leigh.
This was the right decision for me at this time, but a huge part of my heart will always be in Ecuador.
Wishing you the very best, welcome back to the USA.
Feel like I have landed in the land of "Jetson's"..but expected that.
It's going to take a while to assimilate, but getting there.
Congrats on your move back to the USA. I think your blog was one of the first I read about life in Ecuador. I guess it has been over seven years and we are still here in Canada still unsure of what to do with our retirement days. This last winter we spent three months in San Miguel in Mexico and really liked it. It is a good central spot for exploring.
Daisy sure is a sweet dog and I think it was a good decision to leave her in Ecuador.
Anyhow good luck and thanks for sharing with us for so long.
Daisy is doing well. I chat with my friends in Olon often, and she has settled into her new life well with new mommy, Annette.
But I sure do miss her!!
I have es-pat friends that live in Mexico, and they love it there.
Wishing you the very best on whatever decisions you make, and wherever life takes you.
I did no know you were leaving us. You were and are such an important part of Olon. I wish you the best in your new path. Hopefully the ones behind, will keep fighting to maintain the paradise we choose to live in. And please kept spreading the word as BEAUTIFUL Olon and wonderful Ecuador!
I came by several times to your place (Sea Garden) to say goodbye. Talked to LoLo, but missed you.
YES -- Olon is a great, great place to live.
And I will keep spreading the word.
Miss you, and think of all of you there often.
Please say "hi" to everyone for me!
Aww! Been to Olon since you left, only to find that one of the most remarkable local attractions was no longer there! Will you return to visit?
Miss all of you guys so much!
I'm happy to be back closer to my family, but a HUGE part of my heart will always be there in Olon.
I hope to come back and visit as often as able.
There are a couple of FB groups that are geared specifically for the coastal region around Olon.
In particular, Ruta Del Sol Mates (https://www.facebook.com/groups/81361528151/).
Also, a gal named Deb Anderson (who lives in the area) has a great e-mail newsletter about events, etc happening in and around Olon. I'll ask her to add you. Hope that is okay.
Are you living in Olon now, or planning to visit?
It's a wonderful, magical place!
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on the morning of june 19, when sweet baby nash was exactly one-week-old, we took these photos in our home. our photographer, brittany porter / b.posh photography, made the experience both blissful and fun. she was understanding, compassionate, and enthusiastic- the perfect combination for those early days of recovery. most of all, she beautifully captured images that represent the love i have in my heart as a mother; the newness and all of the delights of the tiny newborn stage. i just adore them all.
if you follow me on instagram, you may have seen the beyond adorable care packages she sent us in the mail before and after our shoot. they were so thoughtful and just my style. so sweet.
again, brittany was the perfect person to come at one week postpartum for a photo shoot! i loved our experience- so much- and these photos... will be cherished forever.
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At Harvest Family Fellowship we take these instructions seriously and do our best to follow them.
Our individual mission statement is "Building Stronger Families for a Better Tomorrow." At Harvest Family Fellowship we believe that strong families are the basis of strong communities. Strong communities are the basis of a strong nation, and a strong nation is the basis of a better world. If we want a better world, we need stronger families.
What do we mean by the phrase "stronger families?" We mean families in which spouses understand what love really is, where husbands and wives are able to communicate effectively with each other, where marriages are strengthened, and differences are understood and celebrated.
Stronger families means parents and children having meaningful relationships. Where parents and children learn to understand and respect each other, and where kids can grow up in a house full of love and encouragement.
Stronger families means giving single parents the help and encouragement that they need to do the world's toughest job.
Building stronger families also means helping singles make the best choices in their relationships - as the old saying goes "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure"
How do we accomplish our mission? We accomplish our mission by offering books, articles, videos, classes, seminars, Bible studies, sermons, as well as counseling and coaching services, that all combine the best in modern research with the endless truths of the Bible. Our hope is to also accomplish our mission by living our lives as an example of what a strong family looks like. Life is hard at times and when life gets hard our goal is to walk beside families and help them in any way that we can.
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A few months ago, I had the pleasure of crossing paths with a company called Arm The Animals. Arm The Animals is not a non-profit organization, it is a regular apparel business that has made "giving back" a core goal of the company. The group consists of regular, down-to-earth people who love animals, care about the world around them and want to make a difference with their lives. They found out about my love for my dog, Walter and were kind enough to send me some dog mom swag.
If you know me, you know that I am a fairly new dog lover. I never grew up with dogs, in fact- I was sometimes scared of them. It wasn't until about a year and a half ago when my fiance, Brian and I decided to adopt a dog. At the time, I was staying with a friend, Nicole LeBris (@NicoleLeBris) a lot in NYC. She taught me the importance of loving and adopting unpopular breeds such as pitbulls, boxers and other poor reputation types. She recently lost her dog, Cali. The two of them taught me a lot about rescuing dogs. Through our online research, we came across this mini-pit named Walter. He's mini because he's 38 pounds, fully grown. How could you not love a dog named Walter? After a few months of figuring out our schedules, we were able to adopt him through Buffalo CARES- a nonprofit animal rescue in the Western NY area. Since then, I have become an advocate for adopting / rescuing animals. Walter is not only an incredible dog, but he is sweet, loving and gentle. He has completely broken the stereotypes of "pits" to us, our friends and families. Which just goes to show, there are no bad dogs- just bad owners.
I was beyond excited to shoot this pittie positive collaboration, with the help of my friends Ryan Kell (@SeekAxiom) and Katie Monacelli (@KatieMonacelli). All images are courtesy of them. This was Walter's first official photo shoot, aside from countless iPhone photo shoots and our engagement photo session (more on that later) and I couldn't be more grateful for such a great time! I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I do!
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Dr. Michael Schaefer is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. He studied law and joined the German Foreign Service in 1978. Among others he has held the positions of Permanent Representative at the German Embassy in Singapore (1987-1991), head of the Political Affairs Section at the German Permanent Mission to the Office of the United Nation in Geneva (1995-1999) as well as head of the Western Balkans Task Force and subsequently Deputy Political Director and Special Envoy for Southeast Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin (1999-2002). From 2002 to 2007, he was Political Director of the Federal Foreign Office, before being appointed Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, a post he held until June 2013.
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"But, soft! what light through yonder stage door breaks?" It's the University of Missouri's production of "Romeo and Juliet." You read it in school. Maybe you've even seen it on stage. You've never seen it like this.
Where: Rhynsburger Theatre, University of Missouri campus. 882-PLAY.
When: 8 p.m. tonight, tomorrow and March 6 through 8; 2 p.m. March 9.
Escalus), Fonzie Geary (Laurence), Nathan Zaring (John), Wale Aliyu (Apothecary/Balthasar), Samantha Cardenas (Citizen Woman No. 1), Tara Daniels (Citizen Woman No. 2).
It's Shakespeare's best known tragedy transformed into an exotically primal folk tale with all the moxie of the original script. Veteran director Clyde Ruffin, who has a proud history of introducing diversity into unlikely productions, sets the piece in an ambiguous culture, somewhere between Asia and North Africa, adding a raw, immediate feel to the Bard's immortal words and creating a stunning visual effect nothing short of breathtaking.
The show begins with a montage in which the characters appear and set the stage for the feud to end all feuds. An oracle, played by the dramatically imposing Jenna Klenke, descends and describes the tragic events to follow. Her costume is strong and beautiful, and her scepter depicts the sun and moon, which mirror the opposition of the "two houses, both alike in dignity." Thus begins the drama.
Lucky for us, the actors buy into this drama brilliantly. It is conflict from the start as families clash, words are thrown, and swords are drawn. The sword fights, choreographed by MU alumnus Robert Dillon Jr., appear real and brutal, enough to throw a hush over the audience. Layered with chants by the rest of the cast, the fight scenes are some of the best. The actors know their stuff, and each found in his or her role a special quality to set him or her apart.
Particularly fierce is Matthew Galbreath (Capulet), whose acting experience shows in this powerhouse role as the stubborn patriarch. He displays compassion as well as ruthlessness, and he doesn't let up for a second. His stage wife, Mallory Backstrom, plays Lady Capulet with a dignity that belies her youth and an honesty to be rivaled. Equally entertaining is CFrancis Blackchild, whose sharp but loveable Nurse shares her wisdom with Misty Anderson's sincere Juliet. Throw in Zackary Ruesler as an intense, focused Romeo, and you have a winning combination. Both Anderson and Ruesler handle their death scenes with grace and integrity.
In Shakespeare, there is always a chance of losing an audience to intricate plots, dated grammar and stilted jargon. With this production, it is refreshing to see the tale jump from the stage like it was written yesterday. After all, Shakespeare wrote theater for the people. The cast seems to understand the text, and the exotic folk aspect makes the script more immediate. One can't help but be drawn in by the vibrant colors, beautifully surging music and sound (designed by Ross Wick), and striking dance choreographed by Candace Ingram.
The set resembles a Japanese tea room at first glance, but it soon reveals the mechanical secrets hidden in its sharp lines and clean walls. The set pieces move like choreography between scenes, sliding us into the public spaces of Verona and the private chambers of the ill-fated Capulets and Montagues. The scenes seem to fade into one another, like a well-edited movie, and there is never time to get bored, though the show is long. Even the costume changes are seamless. The technical aspects are professionally handled down to the last stitch in the curtains.
You owe it to yourself to see this production of "Romeo and Juliet." Shakespeare is timeless, and Ruffin and his cast show us that regardless of time and place, the only thing we can count on is love, no matter how tragic the outcome.
Reach Ryan McNeill at rmcneil98@mchsi.com.
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Crude oil futures jumped more than 1.5 per cent during morning trade in the domestic market on Tuesday as investors and speculators booked fresh positions in the energy commodity after Saudi Arabia and Russia, two of the world’s top oil producers, agreed to establish a working group to monitor the oil market and formulate recommendations to promote stability. Energy Ministers from the two countries are set to meet in Algeria in October and Vienna in November to hold discussions on how to cooperate under this new pact, with an output freeze remaining a favourable option. The news comes as some relief to energy traders, easing fears of a supply glut in the fuel. At the MCX, crude oil futures for September 2016 contract is trading at Rs 3,027 per barrel, up by 1.54 per cent, after opening at Rs 2,990, against a previous close of Rs 2,981. It touched the intra-day high of Rs 3,027.
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Dr. Pallab Chatterjee, Chairman and CEO, Symphony Retail Ai.
Symphony Retail Ai is the new name for the leading global artificial intelligence provider following the integration of two divisions.
The new name of Symphony Retail Ai is the result of the firm incorporating Symphony GOLD and Symphony EYC into the new company as separate divisions. Previously, the firm’s retail solutions division was known as Symphony Gold and provided software solutions for personalized marketing, merchandising and category management, retail operations, and supply chain planning and replenishment. The firm’s customer intelligence division was known as Symphony EYC and focused on solutions for customer-centric insights, category insights, promotions and personalized, omni-channel customer interaction.
According to Chatterjee, Symphony Retail Ai is innovating rapidly to drive faster, better decisions for FMCG retailers and CPG manufacturers with AI, machine learning and voice technologies. In October, the company introduced CINDE, (Conversational INsights and Decision Engine), as the first digital analytic assistant specifically for grocery and hard goods retail. CINDE incorporates AI, machine learning, natural language speech technology, and immersive visualization in a prescriptive analytics system that is visually rich and easy to use for category managers.
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While it didn’t necessarily feel like it, over the last few weeks we’ve been on Irving Watch.
This is, of course, a reference to Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman David Irving and the second-round tender the team placed on him about a month ago. According to ESPN’s Todd Archer, Irving is expected to sign it on Monday.
Irving has really come on strong with the Cowboys since the team poached him off of Kansas City’s practice squad in 2015. He did deal with a suspension for the first four games of last season, and a severe concussion kept him out of the last four games of 2017, so it hasn’t exactly been a total home run. But during the eight games he played last year, he racked up seven sacks, second on the team to DeMarcus Lawrence, and he had six passes defensed.
It was expected Irving would ultimately sign his RFA since no other team came forward with an offer. If he could continues to play well in 2018 and ultimately hits free agency in 2019, he should truly get paid. That’s a smart strategy.
Let’s hope that whatever happens a year from now that it’s after the Dallas Cowboys celebrate a special season.
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New York State Department of Financial Services approved the applications of Robinhood Crypto and LibertyX for virtual currency licenses.
This means Robinhood Crypto is authorized to offer services for buying, selling, and storing seven virtual currencies, including bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash, and litecoin. Its parent company, Robinhood, allows US-based retail and individual customers to trade stocks and options on a commission-free basis through Robinhood Financial.
LibertyX is set to provide consumers the sale of bitcoin through debit terminals, becoming the first DFS virtual currency licensee to allow customers to use debit cards to purchase bitcoin from traditional ATMs.
DFS continues to rapidly and responsibly respond to financial services market innovations by licensing technology-based money transmitters under New York’s money transmitter law; online lenders under New York’s banking law; and virtual currency exchanges under New York’s financial services law.
To date, DFS has approved sixteen charters or licenses for companies in the virtual currency marketplace, including Coinsource, Coinbase for custody and Paxos and Gemini for stablecoins.
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Noah Song, a 6-foot-4 righthander, is used to ducking his head into dugouts. Pretty soon, though, the blades of a chopper will be over his head, and that's where his story diverges from that of other elite pitchers.
Song, a senior at the Naval Academy and the owner of a mid-90s fastball, has had a brilliant college career and has been especially filthy so far this season -1-0 with a 0.00 ERA and 26 strikeouts in 11 2/3 innings. Batters are hitting just .146 against him, and he is averaging 20.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
The key for Song - besides a golden right arm that has never been operated on or injured - is mental focus.
"Being a Midshipman can be a high-stress environment," Navy coach Paul Kostacopoulos said. "But Noah is cerebral and unflappable."
Following this season, Song is expected to be selected in the MLB draft, and his talent suggests his name will be called within the first five rounds.
But he owes a service commitment of at least two years to the Navy, and he expects to report to flight school on Nov. 1 in Pensacola, Fla., where he will prepare to become a helicopter pilot.
Pro baseball - if it happens for Song - will have to wait until at least 2021, when he would be eligible to petition the Navy to be placed on reserve duty so he can pursue his sport.
Song doesn't see this as a problem and is looking forward to commandeering an MH60 chopper for the Navy.
"I was lucky enough to be selected for pilot school," said Song, 21, who is set to graduate from the Naval Academy on May 24 with a degree in general engineering. "I don't have a moment of regret for choosing (Navy)."
Song, the third of Bill and Stacy's four children, comes from a family of selfless people.
Bill is a commander for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department, and Stacy is a special-education instructional assistant. Of their two older children, Faith is a nurse, and Daniel just got hired as a deputy sheriff in Los Angeles County.
In addition, Noah said he's proud to have inspired his younger brother, 19-year-old Elijah, who is on his way toward becoming a pilot for the Marines.
When it came to baseball, however, it was Bill who worked countless hours with Noah, who has been pitching since he was about 6 years old.
"Noah was a natural," Bill said. "I tried to teach him the best pitching mechanics, and he was always very accurate.
"We limited his pitches, and he's never had anything worse than (sporadic) arm soreness."
Even so, Song had just one college scholarship offer out of Claremont High, located about 30 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
Fortunately for all concerned, Bobby Applegate had just been hired as Navy's pitching coach, and he remembered Song from his days as recruiting coordinator at UC Riverside.
Song took a recruiting trip to Navy - his host was Patriot League Pitcher of the Year Luke Gillingham - and he was immediately impressed with Annapolis.
"I thought, 'This is something that could be really exciting,'" Song said. "Ever since then, I have enjoyed it more and more."
Coming from California, pitching in "sub-30" degree temperatures in Maryland and elsewhere in the Patriot League has been an adjustment for Song. Otherwise, though, college has suited him.
He was a freshman All-American in 2016, winning the Patriot League's Rookie of the Year award (9-3, 2.75, .182 batting average against).
"All along, we thought he was pretty good," Kostacopoulos said. "But late in the fall (during his freshman year), you could see Noah and (Applegate) connecting. Noah was coming downhill with a plane that you could see was going to be tough to hit."
As a sophomore, Song went 6-4, 3.67 and finished second in the league in strikeouts. That summer, he became the first Navy player since Mitch Harris in 2007 to compete in the Cape Cod League.
His confidence boosted, Song went 6-5, 1.92 as a junior, earning first-team All-Patriot League honors for the first time.
Song usually throws his fastball 91-94 mph but last week touched 95-97. His hard, late 82-86 slider is often his out pitch, and his 12-to-6 curve buckles knees but serves more as a change-of-pace strike pitch than a putaway offering late in counts.
"I will flash it to keep batters off my fastball and give them something else to think about," Song said.
A changeup is Song's fourth pitch, and there is growth potential there.
College batters find it hard to cope with Song as it is, and that was the case last week when his first 10 outs against Air Force were Ks. He finished that game with 14 strikeouts - two shy of his career high.
About the only thing missing from Song's collegiate career is a big performance at an NCAA regional. Navy has made the field just once during Song's three seasons, which was during his freshman year. In his one regional performance, Song's start lasted just 2 1/3 innings, allowing three hits, two walks and three runs in a win over Saint Mary's.
Kostacopoulos said Song "ran out of gas" toward the end of his freshman year but has become much more physical since then.
"I was super lucky to get to an NCAA regional as a freshman," said Song, listed at 200 pounds. "But sometimes I wish I could have traded that regional and had it during my junior year. As a freshman, that was still my first time facing college hitters, and the regional was an even higher level."
If Navy makes the NCAA field this year, it will be a safe bet that opponents won't want to face Song.
"I don't know how that scenario would work out," Kostacopoulos said. "But I know Noah is a tough matchup for people.
"Noah is really special, and not just because he's at the Naval Academy. He's special because he's a really good pitcher."
Most elite sluggers have that signature moment that everybody else remembers - perhaps a ball that was hit so hard that people are still talking about it months later. For Georgia Tech junior catcher Kyle McCann, that moment came on Feb. 22 against UCLA, when he smashed a walk-off home run in the 11th inning.
"He hit it high up on our batter's eye in center field, and as soon as he hit it you're like, 'OK, game's over. Home run,'" recalled Georgia Tech coach Danny Hall. "That one for me stood out."
Of course, McCann has had quite a few standout moments this spring. He started the season on an incredible power binge, launching 10 home runs in Georgia Tech's first 14 games, including seven homers in the first nine days of March. That stretch was capped by a monstrous go-ahead homer in the 10th inning at Miami on March 9.
His long ball production has flattened out a bit since, as pitchers have worked him very carefully, but he's still hitting a robust .346/.507/.779 with 12 homers and 37 RBIs through 104 at-bats. McCann has always shown a patient approach - he drew 70 walks over his first two seasons, though he also struck out 96 times. This year his plate discipline has reached another level, as he has 32 walks and just 32 strikeouts.
"He's done a good job with that, and the walks kind of attest to that," Hall said. "He's always had a really good eye, I think the last couple of years he has led our team in walks. And his patience is getting tested now because he's not seeing as many pitches to hit, but he's still been willing to take a walk and let Tristin English or Baron Radcliffe or Colin [Hall] clean up and get some RBIs behind him. He's always had that knack for just seeing the ball really well. It is getting tested because people kind of fear him when he steps in there. You get off to a hot start like that with the home runs, you wouldn't be human if you weren't thinking about trying to hit some more. But he's stayed within himself very well."
McCann has come a long way as a hitter in his three years at Georgia Tech. At 6-foot-2, 217 pounds, he's an imposing slugger whose lefthanded power has always been a factor - he mashed nine homers in 121 at-bats as a freshman, even though he hit just .198. McCann took a big step forward as a sophomore, hitting .300/.423/.600 with 15 long balls, but he's on pace to sail past that homer total as a junior, and his OPS is up from 1.023 to 1.286. His raw power has stood out since his high school days, but he continues to get better at putting it to use.
"He was probably 16, and just watching him play, that was what stood out more than anything - obviously a big strong kid, lefthanded bat, had power," Hall said. "He had a good arm, probably wasn't the best catcher at that time, but was a guy you could dream on. Probably the biggest hurdle to overcome was, at that time we were sitting there with [future first-round picks] Joey Bart and Tyler Stephenson signed to come here. To Kyle's credit and his dad's credit, they were willing to wait his turn. He wanted to come to Georgia Tech, he felt like that was the best place for him to develop as a player, and he was willing to wait for Joey to get out of here to get his chance to catch."
McCann's father Joe played pro ball himself, as a pitcher, and his younger brother Cooper is a freshman pitcher at Mercer, though he's injured this spring. Coming from a baseball family, McCann stands out for his baseball IQ, and he showed impressive aptitude to learn behind the plate.
McCann spent his first two years working hard to improve as a catcher while working with then-Georgia Tech assistant Mike Nickeas, a former big league backstop. Stephenson signed out of high school as the No. 11 overall pick, but Bart went to school and became a star, getting drafted No. 2 overall last June. Meanwhile McCann played first base and waited his turn to catch every day.
Now he's getting that chance, and he's improving rapidly as a defender.
"He's much more flexible, and that's something I see him spend a lot of time daily on, loosening his hips up and making sure he's moving right," Hall said. "He has arm strength, but I think his accuracy and throwing the ball on line sometimes, I wouldn't say it's been lacking but I know that's one area he's working on improving, throwing the ball on the money, on the bag. His blocking and receiving keep getting better. It's a work in progress, he knows that. But it's something he's spending a lot of time trying to get better at."
He certainly has the right presence for the position.
"Even when he was kind of the backup to Joey, I think guys enjoyed throwing to him. He's very well liked by his teammates, he's just an easy guy to like," Hall said. "It's kind of funny, James Ramsey just came in here in January and joined the staff, but he has nicknamed McCann 'the low-key genius.' He's got a good baseball IQ, but he's not just gonna throw something on somebody, it'll be more on the low-key, comforting side."
McCann will certainly be drafted as a catcher, and his stock is on the rise - he has a real chance to be a Day One pick. And as Hall pointed out, even if a pro club does eventually decide to move him out from behind the plate, his big power bat will play at first base. That's a nice insurance policy.
"He reminds me a lot of [Mark] Teixeira, even though Teixeira was a switch-hitter," Hall said, referencing the former Georgia Tech great and long-time big leaguer. "But that loft, the ball goes almost as high as it goes far. So I would kind of align him more with that type of hitter. I'd say the area he's improved on the most, and this has been fun to watch, they'll still shift on him, everybody thinks he's a pull hitter, but he does have some hits to left field, and he's really gotten good at driving balls to left center. Early in his career it was, 'I'm gonna pull it to my pull side, and if i get it in the air it has a chance to be a home run.' Now he's doing a much better job driving balls to the left-center gap.
"I think he's right in there with the best power hitters I've coached."
And considering the long line of sluggers that have passed through Georgia Tech, that's quite a statement.
HOUSTON - Connecticut is glad to have junior lefthander Mason Feole back on Friday nights.
The Huskies have gradually worked Feole, the prized 6-foot-1, 194-pound, lefty, back into the weekend rotation after he missed the first couple of weeks of the season because of a shoulder strain he suffered back in January.
Feole worked three innings in his first start back against Illinois and allowed two runs in three innings. He tossed 4.1 shutout innings against Texas State, and once again, he wasn't extended last weekend against Michigan State, where he struggled with command and allowed five runs and seven hits in four innings.
With American Conference play beginning this weekend at Houston, the Huskies desperately needed Feole to be back on his game, keep his pitch count low and give them a lengthier start. And he did all the above Friday night with an impressive performance in a 2-1 win over the Cougars.
"I thought he looked like himself," UConn coach Jim Penders said. "Even in the first, when he had a rocky inning, I thought he was present in every pitch, and that was a step forward. There have been times the past few weeks where he was just kind of out there wrestling with his command, but not tonight.
"We've been really cautious and smart about bringing him back [from the shoulder strain]," Penders continued. "And in between these starts, until now, we weren't doing what he normally does. I mean, when he pitches during the week, he's out there blasting away. He lets it rip between outings. He's gotten over the hump the last week and a half and he's now letting it rip, you're seeing the result of that."
It's not hard to see why Feole relies on a specific approach when it comes to preparation. When he's on the mound, he's always locked in and works with a fast and deliberate tempo. Hitters constantly are out of sync against him, and part of that buildup is going all out in the week leading up to his next start. So, when he was working back from that injury and not going all out in his training, Penders summed up his situation pretty well with a car reference.
"It's hard to command the fastball on Friday night if you're not letting the Ferrari out of the garage during the week," Penders said about Feole. "He's a putting the gas pedal all the way down kind of guy, and if he's going 50 percent on Wednesday, it's not going to work out for him on Friday in most instances."
Feole didn't have perfect command against the Cougars -- he finished the night with five walks. But he sprinkled three of those walks throughout six innings of work with the first frame being his most challenging.
In the first, Feole walked UH leadoff hitter Grayson Padgett before buckling two-hole hitter Derrick Cherry on a filthy 76 mph curveball. Feole got UH stud slugger Jared Triolo to fly out before intentionally walking hard-hitting Joe Davis. The lefty then coaxed a fly out to end the first with a pair of runners on base.
He hit the cruise control button the rest of the way. Feole proceeded to retire 14 of the next 15 Houston hitters he faced. The lefty struck out the side in the second inning on a trio of 91 mph fastballs, while he showed his ability to throw the secondary stuff for strikes in the third by punching out two of four hitters he faced that frame with a nasty 76 mph curveball. Two innings later, Feole went right back to the fastball to tally strikeouts on a pair of 92 mph fastballs.
"Having him back on Fridays certainly helps on a day like today. He hadn't gotten that win yet and tonight he got the win," Penders said. "It's always a good feeling when we get off the base and know he has the ball that night.
"I thought for the most part he had command of his fastball and secondary stuff," he continued. "He will have a batter here and there where it's four-straight balls for no rhyme or reason, but then he'll just come back and strikeout three guys in a row. That's just kind of how he operates sometimes."
Feole, who struck out eight, walked five and allowed one run (unearned) on three hits in seven innings, showed the makings of two strong pitches and another, the changeup, that continues to make strides.
Feole didn't deviate from the norm throughout his outing from a fastball velocity standpoint. He consistently sat 89-91 mph with the offering early, while actually touching 92 on several instances in the middle innings. His fastball command wasn't impeccable, but he threw it for strikes for the most part at the top and bottom parts of the zone.
"I thought the curveball was really good and he didn't really need the changeup much tonight," Penders said. "I thought the fastball command was really there for him, too. It's not where it can be and it's not where it's been in the past, so it's somewhere in the middle. It's a heck of a lot better than it has been, though. But overall, I thought his breaking ball was really good."
His 73-76 mph curveball was a consistent weapon against the Cougars. In addition to striking out the side with the pitch early in the game, Feole's curveball had good depth and some late action on it. His ability to command the offering tonight was what set him apart from the start I saw against Southeastern Louisiana last season. He also showed a changeup at 79-81 mph. He threw the changeup twice early in the game but didn't throw it much the rest of the way. It's a pitch he admits continues to improve and could be used more often as the season progresses.
"It just felt really good to be back out there and back on Friday night and getting a win," Feole said. "That was a really fun game and there was a lot of energy out there. I felt like I was attacking the zone and making hitters as uncomfortable as possible. I was executing pitches and hitting my spots and just really competing -- that was pretty much my main focus."
"I think I'm starting to command my changeup a lot more now," he continued. "I have better command of all three of my pitches, and a lot of that just has to do with working with Coach MacDonald and my coaches and our catchers. That's been the story of my year so far -- get those pitches working and just go out there and compete."
With Feole back and throwing well, Connecticut will be a dangerous team to watch the rest of the regular season and potentially heading into the NCAA postseason. It has weapons at the back-end of the game with righty Jacob Wallace and CJ Dandeneau leading the way, while the rotation is in good shape as well.
As for Feole, he continues to be one of the more unique pitchers in college baseball. He works incredibly fast and has interesting arm action. And there are times when his command can be a little erratic. But on times like Friday night, where he's, for the most part, hitting on all cylinders, he's one of the best in the business.
He's UConn's Ferrari, and he's finally out of the garage for good.
Auburn sophomore righthander Tanner Burns learned so much from Casey Mize, he decided to wear his number this season.
Just a year ago, Burns was a freshly minted righthander who had to learn the ropes. First, he had to figure out his role, then he needed to learn what the SEC was all about. He had the perfect role model to follow in Mize, who had a stellar spring and was the top overall pick in the MLB draft last summer, but who also had a gradual rise and had to make adjustments early in his Auburn career.
Burns, a six-foot, 205-pounder, had a 2018 campaign to remember. He was outstanding in Southeastern Conference play and finished the season as a Freshman All-American. But the passing of another season has brought about new challenges. No longer does Burns have Mize leading off the weekend, ultimately taking the pressure off him every weekend.
Now, Burns is the guy everyone looks to each weekend for that perfect start to a series, and that role only has been magnified during the early part of the season with an injury to righthander Davis Daniel. Daniel should be back in the next couple of weeks, but his absence has put more of the load on Burns' back.
But just like last season, the righty hasn't flinched due to a lofty challenge. He's only gotten better.
"Just in the same way that Keegan Thompson took Casey Mize under his wings two seasons ago, Mize did that with Tanner last year, and it worked out great," Auburn coach Butch Thompson said. "He showed Tanner the ropes and was his throwing partner each day. He kind of showed him how it's done.
"And I think Tanner was thankful for that," he continued. "I think Tanner wanted to find the best way to thank Casey, so he changed his number to '32' this season. I think that's pretty cool if you ask me."
It's one thing to learn the ropes from and be Mize's cohort in crime last season on the way to a solid freshman campaign. It's another for Burns, so far this spring, to essentially dwarf the numbers Mize put up early last season. That includes Mize's no-hit performance against Northeastern. At this stage last year, Mize had a 2.13 ERA in 25 innings along with 38 strikeouts and three walks, along with a .119 OBA. So far this season? Burns has a 0.68 ERA in 26.2 innings, along with 39 strikeouts and four walks and a .124 OBA.
That's all with a year less experience, and his start to the season has even caught Mize's attention as he continues Spring Training with the Detroit Tigers.
"I thought it was really cool that he decided to do that," Mize said about Burns wearing his number this season. "That jersey and number was something I wore with pride for three years, so if he did that to kind of honor me, that's really awesome.
"Tanner is one of the best teammates I've ever had. I don't know if I've ever met a more likable person in my life. Everyone just loves him," Mize continued. "I think he loves to work and prepare almost as much as he loves to compete. His talent and work he puts in shows every time he takes the mound and it was a lot of fun to watch last year. He's even taken a step forward this year, and that's really awesome to see."
Thompson is a wizard with pitchers. The list of premier arms he's developed over the years is lengthy. So, when he says he saw something in Burns from the get-go his freshman year, you just sit back and listen.
Burns, like most freshmen, wasn't a complete product last season. But the potential was all there. The fastball played up a big way, and while the breaking ball wasn't where it needs to be, it had potential. So, Thompson and the talented righty went to work and he managed to piece together an impressive campaign that ended with All-American honors.
"Tanner was one of those freshmen that just looked like he belonged and could compete at this level," Thompson said about last season. "He had a fastball and a half. He had a half breaking ball some days, and others, it was a changeup. But he competed with his fastball.
"He went in there and competed with what he had," Thompson continued. "The fastball, I thought, played up big time, and he really hung in there as the season progressed. He has continued to develop his arsenal from last season, and I think he learned so much last year. We're really grateful, too, that Casey kind of took him under his wing."
In Burns' first start this season, he allowed a run on three hits in five innings, while also striking out seven and walking one. The next week against UCF, he paved the way to an important road series win with another strong performance, striking out seven, walking two and allowing a run on two hits in 5.2 innings. And he's been even more dominant the last two weeks, striking out an insane 15 batters on the way to a complete game shutout against Cincinnati before punching out 10 and walking just one in seven innings in his most recent start against UTSA.
"I think what he did last year kind of took some pressure off him this season," Thompson said. "He got to sit back and watch Casey kind of lead things off every weekend last year. He got to watch a game or two and then pitch to teams. Now he's the one leading us off, and I think he's having success because of what he learned from those experiences.
"I saw those numbers [Burns' numbers now vs. Mize's last year]. Casey's run last year for about the first eight weeks was about as good as anything I've ever seen," he continued. "Talk about someone trying to pick up where the other left off. Wow. It's really hard to replace the first pick of the draft, so what Tanner has done so far this season is pretty special."
Burns has taken his stuff to another level. He's still sitting in that low-to-mid 90s range with his fastball, but the evolution of his secondary offerings is evident. He's still throwing that fastball with conviction but has begun to mimic his fastball grip to throw that slider, and that has led to a sharper offering. Furthermore, he continues to make strides with the changeup.
"We went back to what's our best pitch -- which is the fastball and decided to do a breaking ball grip of the same genre as the fastball," Thompson said. "The grip is really comfortable for him and it's in close relation with that fastball group. He's sharing space with the two pitches and he can flip that breaking ball in there to get ahead in the count. It's just made him feel a lot more comfortable out there.
"His ability to share space with that breaking ball and fastball and be able to throw both pitches with a 0-0 count -- that's been big," he continued. "That's allowed him to go out there and throw and not to be so predictable."
He's also navigated the past two weekends without too much pressure. Just like he was the security blanket for Mize last season, sophomore lefthander Jack Owen has evolved into a security blanket for Burns. He was inserted into the weekend rotation after the UCF series and has been out of this world, striking out 29 and walking just two, while having yet to allow a run in 34.2 innings of work.
Owen's rise and Davis' eventual return, and the big arm of Burns gives Thompson and the Tigers a lot of confidence entering SEC play.
Burns might very well have his ups and downs in SEC play, like most premier pitchers do. But his run through the first four weeks has been remarkable.
Everyone has taken notice, including the guy for whom he wears the jersey number for.
New Mexico State sophomore second baseman Nick Gonzales homered in all four games of the Aggies' sweep over Delaware this past weekend. For Gonzales, that performance qualifies as a nice weekend, but it was nothing extraordinary in the context of his season to date.
After all, Gonzales already has 10 home runs in just 13 games this season. Three weeks into the spring, it's an anomaly when he doesn't go deep.
Gonzales' numbers are simply mind-boggling. He leads all of Division I in all three triple crown categories: home runs, batting (.590), and RBIs (37 … in just 28 at-bats). Not surprisingly, he also leads the country in slugging (1.213), runs (28), total bases (74) and hits per game (2.77). Certainly it's worth noting that New Mexico State plays in one of the nation's most extreme hitters' park, and the entire team has feasted (to the tune of a .408 batting average and 29 homers) against overmatched early-season competition - although Texas Southern and Yale were our preseason picks to win their respective leagues, and the Aggies won seven of eight against them, scoring 13 or more runs in all seven wins.
But caveats aside, Gonzales has performed at an unbelievable level. On a team full of dangerous, disciplined, veteran hitters, Gonzales has become the unstoppable centerpiece.
"His numbers are incredible, but he's really within his own zone, he has tremendous bat speed. And right now if the ball is in his zone, he's not missing it," New Mexico State coach Brian Green said. "Yale had an unbelievable dramatic shift, they used four outfielders against him, twice when they did that he just flipped the ball to the right side to lead the inning off. It was pretty cool."
That kind of maturity is uncommon for a young slugger - heck, even 15-year big leaguers struggle to slap balls the other way to beat the shift. But for Gonzales, it helps that he was a natural born hitter first; he didn't grow up as a feast-or-famine slugger. He's just 5-foot-10, 190 pounds, after all - the Aggies certainly never envisioned him becoming this kind of power threat on the recruiting trail, when Gonzales only drew offers from Austin Peay and NMSU out of Arizona's Cienega High School.
"He was not recruited by many schools. For me to tell anybody when they ask, 'Did you guys see this coming on the recruiting process?' Absolutely not - are you out of your mind?" Green said. "We knew he was a great makeup guy, we thought he'd play center field or second base, we thought he was mentally tough and a baseball rat. His family is unbelievably supportive, it's everything you look for. That was the piece about him coming in here was the makeup part, and you're seeing it now, he's getting everything he's earned."
Green has no shortage of stories to illustrate Gonzales' work ethic. He tells of running a hitting camp for high school players in December, and at lunch break, all the other kids were eating their sandwiches - but Gonzales wanted to pick Green's brain about hitting approaches. He tells of Friday nights in the offseason, when the rest of the Aggies were going out to the movies, and Gonzales was bringing his own exterior lighting to the batting cages and working on a tee by himself.
"That's Nick, he's the ultimate guy who's going to be a lifelong learner, and nobody's gonna get in his way," Green said. "He's clearly one of the best players in this part of the country today, but that's not the way he views it. He thinks like, 'I'd better show up and work hard or I'm gonna lose my job."
So how did Gonzales go from an overlooked, undersized high school player who was content to push the ball the other way at the plate, to one of the most dangerous sluggers in college baseball? Green remembers the "Eureka!" moment when he realized there was more to Gonzales than meets the eye.
"I remember a story with Nick, we were in the cage late in the fall [of his freshman year], we were just doing some drill work, doing some high tee stuff, some exaggerated top hand stuff," Green said. "And the ball started coming off his bat different. You have those moments with your hitters where you kind of look at each other, you both see something. I said, 'Nick, I think you have a chance to have real power, are you aware of that?' He said, 'I guess, I dunno, I never really considered that.' I said, 'You have a chance to have real power.' That was something I never saw on the recruiting process. I saw a good player from a good family with character. But I remember that moment when it changed, the ball started jumping off the bat with backspin.
"Then three months later, he's not a starter, he gets his first real shot in Tucson, one of our players made a couple errors. The first pitch he sees in Tucson, he hammers the ball off the wall, you hear it - BOOM! - he slides in, pops up, pumps his fist, he's yelling loud. A kid from Tucson having a moment like that. He didn't come off the field after that, and next thing you know he's a unanimous freshman All-American."
Indeed, Gonzales went on to hit .347/.425/.596 with nine homers, 17 doubles and 35 RBIs in 57 games as a freshman. Very good numbers … and yet he's already exceeded last year's home run and RBI totals in just 13 games as a sophomore. He's even driving the ball out to all fields - Green estimated that five or six of his 10 homers have gone to left field, his pull side, but that another four or five have gone out to center or right-center.
And if that's not enough, Gonzales has improved by leaps and bounds as a defender at second base. Gonzales and shortstop Joey Ortiz (who is hitting .463 himself) have pushed each other hard to see who can become the better player, Green said, and they have become a superb middle infield tandem. That's a big reason New Mexico State leads the nation with 16 double plays.
"When we recruited him, we really thought as a second-year player, he'd be a starter in center field. That's what we projected him at," Green said. "He was a shortstop who could catch, played some center field in high school. But that was our projection, center. Last year at second base he was just OK, but he was so good offensively he wasn't coming out. His double play turn, he only had one, he could only step back at second base. He was really only skilled going to his left, he struggled going backhand side or any ball that was a slow roller. But now if you profile him, I think you're looking at a legitimate offensive big league second baseman. Now he can really turn it, we lead the nation in double plays. His backhand has improved dramatically, last year he struggled with that. He can throw from different arm slots. These are all throws he didn't have. I think he profiles there now, as a legit plus-armed, plus-exchange second baseman, and he's very athletic."
He's even improved his speed. Green said he typically got from home to first in 4.4-plus seconds last year, but now he's getting up the line in 4.3 - and Green said he thinks next year it'll be down to 4.15 or 4.2, as he continues to improve his strength and athleticism. Green sent Gonzales to Cotuit in the Cape Cod League at the end of last summer to work on his basestealing skills with Kettleers coach Mike Roberts, who excels at teaching that particular skill. Gonzales is slated to return to Cotuit to focus on his baserunning even more next summer - although there's a legitimate chance he could start off the summer with Team USA's Collegiate National Team.
And who would have thought two years ago that Gonzales would find himself on Team USA's radar? Who would have thought he'd turn himself into a potential premium prospect by the time he was a sophomore? At the rate he's improving, it's fun to imagine what Gonzales will be in another five years.
But for now, it's fun for Green and the rest of the Aggies just to watch Gonzales terrorize opposing pitching on a nightly basis.
Stan Stolte remembers when Bryson Stott first popped up on UNLV's recruiting radar, midway through his prep career at Las Vegas' Desert Oasis High School. As a talented, lefthanded-hitting shortstop right in UNLV's backyard, Stott was hard to miss.
"We knew he was a good player. Any lefthanded-hitting shortstop, they're hard to find," Stolte said. "But that'd be crazy to think he'd be a he'd be a possible first-day draft pick. No. We don't get those guys, usually."
Stott hit a solid .294/.359/.379 as a freshman, establishing himself as a valuable everyday regular. But nobody quite anticipated the quantum leap he would make as a sophomore, when he hit .365/.442/.556 and led the nation with 30 doubles. He proved to be one of the most difficult outs in college baseball, drawing 32 walks and striking out just 18 times. Suddenly, Stott was a blue-chip prospect, and the starting shortstop for USA Baseball's Collegiate National team.
"He just takes consistently good at-bats every time, every pitch," Stolte said. "He knows the strike zone, he knows pitches he can turn on, he knows how to go the other way. He's just a professional hitter."
Stott held his own with wood bats for Team USA last summer, hitting .262 with one homer and a team-best seven RBIs. But he also stood out to scouts for a couple of highlight-reel defensive plays, showing range to both sides and excellent body control. Whether or not he has enough range to stick at shortstop in pro ball remains to be seen, but his fluid actions, smooth exchange, sure hands and plus arm give him a chance.
He's certainly one of the best all-around shortstops in college baseball, and he provided invaluable stability for Team USA last summer.
"One of our biggest concerns going into the summer was whether or not we had a defensive shortstop that was good enough," said Team USA coach Paul Mainieri at the end of the summer. "The word we'd received on Stott was that he'd be really good offensively and just OK defensively. Within the first couple of days we were there, we started to work with Bryson on his defense. We saw he had the natural tools you needed to be a good shortstop, but maybe some of his reactions were a little off. His approach to the ball wasn't as good as it could be.
"We drilled that into him the first three days he was here. We felt like he needed to make some slight adjustments if he was going to be our everyday shortstop. He played terrific defense for about three weeks, and he made some unbelievable plays in the process. Midway through the Japan series, he started swinging the bat well, too. He looks like the complete package to me. He's going to be an outstanding draft for someone."
Stott came back from his Team USA and Cape Cod League stints brimming with confidence, and Stolte said he worked hard in the weight room to get even stronger. He still has a line-drive swing more tailored for doubles than long balls, but as he continues to add strength to his 6-foot-3, 200-pound frame, his power numbers figure to continue to climb. He hit four homers as a sophomore, and it wouldn't be a surprise if he pushed for double digits as a junior.
"He's gotten stronger, he has more power, much more than he did as a freshman," Stolte said. "If he gets his pitch, he can hit some long-distance home runs, now. He's got some juice."
Stott hit his first homer of the season during opening weekend - but it was an inside-the-parker, as he scorched a ball to center and used his slightly above-average speed to race all the way around the basepaths after Seattle's center fielder made a futile diving attempt. That was part of an outstanding first weekend for Stott, who went 6-for-11 (.545) with two doubles, a triple and five RBIs along with the inside-the-park homer. He also drew five walks and struck out just once. No wonder Stolte likes hitting Stott atop the order.
"He can start the game off with everything: walk, single, double, triple, home run, whatever. They're all in play when he leads off," Stolte said.
"He's so different, but I've coached big leaguers, and he's got big league possibilities for sure. I thought the same last year with Kyle Isbel. So he's got that 'it' factor, I think he's got a good chance. I've never had an athletic shortstop like that. He's that guy, you'll miss him when he's gone, I'm sure."
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All Communities > Working Moms > Why do SAHM's say that working moms are bad moms?
I am just curious. I get on Yahoo answers a lot, and there are some rude moms on that website. At one time I read that a SAHM said that working moms are bad parents. And in not so many words one of my friends told me pretty much the same thing to my face. The nerve of some people!
I don't think one can really debate the issue of stay at home moms vs working moms. Each person is in a unique situation, has a unique set of circumstances, a unique personality and a unique history. One makes the decision to work or stay at home based on childhood experiences, personality, finances and circumstances. A mom is generally going to make a decision that is best for her children. Every mom knows her circumstances and personality best. I had a stay at home mom and she was great - she loved teaching us and being there for us. I hated being at home. I adore my children but missed the challenges of work, the mental stimulation and the independence. I was a miserable mom at home. I am a great working mom. I enjoy every minute with my children at the end of the day. I love reading them stories, doing homework etc. I tend to do MUCH more with them in the 2-3 hours at the end of the day then I managed in a whole day when I stayed at home (generally I felt tired, screamed a lot about the mess, and seemed to be saying NO - STOP THAT all the time). A happy mom is always the best one. One can not judge another mom, her circumstances are never the same as your own. Obviously one tends to think the decision you make is the best one (and it is for you) but you should not impose you personal opinions on others about whom you know little. Don't take these comments that you spoke about personally. Working or staying a home one has to make sacrifices and it is hard either way. The trick is balance and finding peace within yourself and you decision. If you are a happy self confident mom, your children will be happy and self confident children. Children need love. If you are giving your children love and quality time you are a wonderful mom. When you get home from work just focus on them and give them your full attention. Be happy and make the time you do spend with them as special as possible. Let them know every day that you love them and that they are precious to you. When they ask you why you work be honest.
Not all SAHM feel this way, you just happened to come across some who do. Just like there are working moms who look down on sahm and say we're lazy and don't do anything yada yada. I am a stay at home to 3 girls, ages 4, 3, and 10 months. I've worked every day of my life since I turned 16 up until last October. I had a job I loved, and it hurt me to give it up. But the cost of daycare was approx. $2000 a month. My husband and I saw no choice but for me to stay home because my income wasn't even that much. Trust me, we do not live in luxury. We literally live paycheck to paycheck, I don't buy anything for myself, I buy everything store brand when I can, we've sold a lot of stuff to have extra money, etc etc. We've had to sacrifice a lot for me to stay at home but there just wasn't any other option.
For the record, I obviously do not think working moms are bad. Not only do working moms have to work 8-10 hours a day, then they have to come home and cook, clean, help with homework, and then try to spend as much quality time with the kids before they go to bed. Being a mom, whether you work outside the home, or stay home with them all day, is a tough job. Kudos to all you great moms who do whatever is best for you and your family!
I really don't think the majority of SAHMs feel that way.
I was hurt once by a friend who told me once that all moms should stay home, because your kids are only young once. And that any family can make it work on one income if you really try. Basically insinuating that if I really loved my kids I'd find a way to stay home. Believe me, I'd stay home if I could! But my family needs my income. It's just not as simple as some people think.
However, I do think people like that are in the minority.
THey have never walked a mile in our shoes! I am a single mom (and I am sure they will tell me that is my fault and all that blah...) well, guess what? That person probably has it made as far as luxury.. there is strength in being a hard working mom and most of us HAVE TO WORK!!!! I ignore them... they are ignorant and that is sad and lets pray that their lives stay perfect for them.. or they will surely be lost in the hard reality of a working world! You are providing and that is okay.. You need to get around people who will support you and understand your position. You are fine!! :) Blessings!
Oh and I just wanted to add that yes my husband and I go out once a month on our "date night". On those nights one of the grandparents get to come over and spend time with their grandchildren. I am not jealous of those moms that work and let a daycare or the public school raise their kids. I feel bad for the kids and the parents. I know my kids are happier with us than if they had to deal with the dramas of daycare and moody providers. My children are much happier with the friends they have made in their extracurricular classes and the fact that mom is able and willing to stay home with them. I am appalled that anyone would suggest we are all jealous of working moms. Most of us aren't and quite frankly we all need to accept that everyone is going to have a different opinion on this subject. This is a subject that has been debated for decades and I promise you it will be debated long after our children are grown and they have their own kids. Again I am incredibly proud that I can still be a SAHM and I know when I go to work there are people that depend on me. Those people are a paycheck and a means to an end. They are not and never will be my passion. I care for people just like I want to be treated and cared for but once I leave work I don't really care what happens. I just wish everyone could agree to disagree. I also wish that people would just learn to avoid those that truly offend them. It would make people much happier and more pleasant for everyone.
I guess I should've grabbed the popcorn when clicking on this post! Wow, so going through these comments I noticed that either SAHM's are "ignorant" or working moms have the more realistic and healthy lifestyle. I am a SAHM, but I certainly don't feel that I am superior to a working mom! I am finishing up a bachelor's degree, and do make a small income for my family by doing what I love--teaching dance to 1-5th graders at a local theatre with after school sessions. I also volunteer at the school my younger sisters go to and my mother teaches at. My son has special needs, so caring for him is my full time job, and if he didn't require my every waking minute, you'd better believe I'd be doing more. As it is, though, I managing our finances, taking care of my hard working hubby, and keeping our house clean on top of it all, is completely overwhelming at times. I, however, fully appreciate you working moms because my mom was a single mom of four girls! She got back on her feet after literally escaping our abusive father and relocating 2,000 miles away without a home or prospects. She now has 2 bachelor degrees, her own business and a second full time job teaching at a private school. I owe it all to her, and I'm amazed by all you ladies who have been able to do the same! Go moms!
I think this is one of those touchy subjects for moms. We all want to do the best for our kids and work hard (at home or in a job) to provide what we think is the best. Everyone has a different family dynamic and situation. Some are single parents, some stay at home, some have a stay at home husband and in some homes both work. The questions to ask yourself are: Is my kid happy? Does it work for my family? Can we afford to live this way? Is my child healthy and safe? Bottom line if those are answered you are a great mom! I have done a little of each, stay at home, had a stay at home husband, both working. It seems like whichever hat I put on someone had something negative to say. You just have to realize that sometimes people have strong opinions and/or want to validate how they are living. Do what's best for your family and ignore the negativity. :) Best wishes for your family!
I don't! I am a SAHM and have been told that 'real' moms support their child both financially and psycially. I was like wow.
Good one Cathrine, why can't these SAHM's go and attack those who chooses to have kids and having us working moms having to pay for them to be on welfare. Some stay at home moms do nothing all day but sleep and watch T.V. all day and have all the time in the world to gossip on the phone...Sorry but im proud to be a working mom. there are different ways of supporting our kids and we choose to work for a living to do that!
I don' know any mom tha wouldn't want to stay home with her babies, but different life circumstances require a mom to work. We're nor bad mom, we just want our babies tohave a roof over their heads and food to eat.
I would love to be a stay at home mom because being a mom is first and foremost the most important job. However being a sinlge mom does not call to being home all day and night with my son. I have 3 jobs and i would love to quit 2 of them and stay with my son. i don't think i can ever just indentify myself as just a mom, i have a career outside of that and love working outside the home. Those moms who are making those comments obviously has not realized that it is 2012 and women are aloud to work and help out financially as well.
Say what? I didn't compair you to a pharisee. I was paraphrasing scripture.You are being self righteous by telling women that they are selfish and vain because they work outside of the home. And I'm not the one on here insinuating that working moms don't think of their children as blessings. However, you're free to think and feel how you wish. It's not my concern how you interpret my posts just as it's not your concern how I interpret certain passages.
Also I do believe that many parts of the Bible are judgemental and condemning hence why I don't subscribe soley to its teachings. So point for you. Also you are right that it is not up to you to to convince everyone that God is the only way to seek truth. It's nice that you believe in God, and wonderful that you believe so firmly in His teachings. But it's not right to assume that everyone needs to do exactly as you do to be right in the eyes of the Lord.
By your statement that you can get into heaven soley by believing in God and relying soley on his word then my ex husband is going to heaven and I'm not based soley on the fact that he is a born again Christian and I'm agnostic. Nevermind that he's broken a few commandments, ignores one of his children and is verbally, emotionally and mentally abusive while I've been a good mother, was faithful to him and have never neglected my duties to my children.
Now you can continue to preach to everyone, try to bring me back into the fold, question my beliefs and question why so many women 'selfishly' wish to work outside of the home. But I'm busy watching Ellen and my children so I don't really have time to chat. And I will give you fair warning- a Jehovah's Witness tried to convert me once 2hrs a day, 3 days a week in person for nearly a month and it didn't work.
Megan, that scripture is referring to those who self-righteously parade their works. Sharing my faith isn't the same thing. I recognize that I am a imperfect sinner saved by grace. That's why I'm glad that Jesus is the standard not me:-) Jesus said that He IS the way, THE truth, and THE Life and that no man can get to God the Father except through Him; that is pretty firm to me!
Would your post to me be considered judgmental and condemning? You did refer to me as a Pharisee. If you believe something I said was judgemental and condemning then you believe that Bible is judgemental and condemning because I'm repeating what is in the scriptures. I don't have the power to convince anyone of their need for a savior only God can do that. Neither can I cause you to not put your trust in God. You've made that decision.
Being a Christian isn't about being perfect it's about recognizing that I'm not perfect and that I need Christ to save me. You can do what you believe is right but that doesn't mean it is right. Same for me. God knows what is right because He is infinite in wisdom so therefore I look to Him. We can look to our own understanding but one day we'll have to stand before God and give an account for the sinful choices we've made unless we're covered by the righteousness of Christ we have no hope in front of a holy and righteous God. It would be un-Christian of me not to share my faith:-) God's grace to you and your family!
Well... since you brought the Duggars into it you must be right! How could I have doubted someone who watches the Duggars and follows the quiverfull movement and the Bible? Nevermind that they have a contract with TLC and endorsements from companies to support nineteen children. If they can do it anyone can.
Yes I know, I'm now being rude and sarcastic now, but this has been going on for quite a few hours and Shatyoia you're not understanding that not everyone believes as you do. The women on this forum believe that working outside of the home is fullfilling and helpful to their families. Nothing you can say is going to change that.
Furthermore, how dare you have the nerve to imply that since we work outside of the home (or inside) that we don't see our children as gifts and blessings? I'm adopted! My mom sees both myself and my brother as huge gifts to her and she works outside of the home too. I nearly DIED giving birth to my second child last year and I fought to keep my older daughter so she wouldn't be with her abusive father! So don't you dare sit there and claim that since we work oustide of the home that our children aren't important to us!
Shatoyia, the Bible also says to be wary of people who go around trumpeting their faith such as the Pharasis (I know I'm paraphrasing, but you get my point) and I doubt Jesus went about insisting that people believe as He does. He wasn't pushy about his beliefs.
But I regress, I'm not claiming to be Christian I'm agnostic. I was raised Catholic and yes I sent my older daughter to a Catholic school. However I sent her to that school because it was better than sending her to the hell hole of a school district I went to. There are a lot of beliefs that I respect in Christianity (same with Islam and Judaism, ) but there are also a lot of hypocrisies that I saw in that religion so I can't be true to a lot of what I believe and follow one religion. Reading your posts I'm seeing a lot of judgement and condemnation for women who do not do as you do and I'm finding more reason not to return to any faith.
Again, to you Shatoyia, being a helpmate doesn't mean 'taking on your husband's responsibilities' But not every woman (including Christian women) believes as you do. To me and to others a helpmate means you help whenever you're needed. Including financially. This is what I was taught as a child, this is how I was raised. In my family there are no male and female jobs because that's not how my husband and I opperate. Yes there are certain chores that I do better than he does. But there are things that he does better than I do as well and we help each other. I can't imagine being in a relationship where I am supposed to submit to my husband (happily or not) and where male and female roles are so rigidly defined. That is not how I was raised and it is not in my way of thinking. It's in yours.
Shatoyia, my parents taught me and my brother that God granted us free will to think for ourselves and to make ourselves and those in our lives happy. It is up to each of us as individuals to think for ourselves, not what some book tells us to think. I am doing what I believe is right for my family as is every other woman on here who you so unkindly refered to as selfish, vain and uncaring about her family's well being. That wasn't very Christian in my opinion.
My husband's way of thinking is you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. All you're asked to do in every religion is to live the best life you can and to own up to any mistakes that you make when your life is over. Because you did what you did and there is all there is to it. Nobody can tell you to live your life differently if it conflicts with your personal morals and beliefs. Also don't force your beliefs or morals on others. Because our lives are our own. And personally I prefer that way of thinking to the one of condemning those who don't believe as we feel they should.
Kelly, as Thomas Sowell once said, "What do statistics mean to the individual?". If there are families who do survive on one income then it can be done BUT not all families want that therefore it isn't something they are going to do. What I am saying is that it isn't true! If it were true, then there shouldn't be any families who can live off of the income of one spouse. I know families from all over America, where the cost of living is low and where it's high, who more than survive off of one income. The problem is that Americans have become addicted to consuming material things. I think it's realistic to say that more families are in debt where both parents are working full-time vs the family who is living on just the husband's income. The Duggars are a great example of what happens when a family sees children as a blessing and debt as a burden and not vice versa.
Shatoyia, please stop this non-sense thinking about the reasons why women need to be in the workforce, you have no idea what the financial situations are in the households of people, as for myself, we have 2 salaries coming in as I mentioned earlier and we are not in debt, the only debt I have is my car because I didn't have that kind of money in the bank to buy my car with cash so the bank lent me the money I needed.
As for believing women are to submit to their husbands, I'm wondering if you're not living back in early 20th century when mom did stay home and dad was in the workforce, my mother is a very christian woman as I stated before and she was a working mother as are my sisters and myself. I am very proud of my mother being independent like she was, it made my sisters and myself very independent women that are capable of making decision by themselves without having to pass it to their husbands first to see if it complies with them. Please educate yourself with the womans' movement, we've worked very hard to be where we are today in the world. Do you practice the freedom to vote on Election Day? Do you practice the right to be able to own anything at all without having your husband's permission or your husband's signature on paper? If you can answer yes to these questions, then this movement is not all in vain. I know personally I would not like to have any of these rights revoked because I'm a woman.
Shatoyia, please stop proselytizing. The bible also prohibits eating pork or shellfish, trimming beards, wearing mixed threads, etc. I'm sure you follow all those rules to a tee as well. Some of us don't, and a complete stranger on the internet is not going to change that.
Maybe the men in our lives aren't Christian. I married an athiest last year who places a very high vaule on his marital vows and the meaning of having a family. He also vaules someone who is a hard worker.
Not living a 'biblical' marriage is not a bad thing. Nor does it mean that a woman is selfish and vain for wanting to work outside of the home. Wouldn't that mean that a man who wants to be a stay at home dad is lazy and unmotivated because he doesn't feel the need to be the provider? If the tables were turned and I knew I would be able to make 70K a year starting out (here in BC that's not a lot but it's a start) I wouldn't mind if my husband wanted to be a SAHD because he is a wonderful father.
Megan, You'll enjoy BC, great for any winter and summer sports. As for if Canada has a 401K I'm not sure if we work like the US, I work for the federal government and what we'll get at the end of our careers is what you call a severance pay package - they give you one week's salary per year for the best 5 years of your career. Now last year our contracts were renegotiated and our severance pay were given out to every employee and I invested mine in RRSPs, is that something the US has? Now if I want to continue this on my own I will have to put a week's salary (gross) aside every year for the next 16 since I'll be eligible to retire then.
Francine thanks and of course. I live in Kelowna, BC. But I'm from Rochester, NY so that makes us former neighbours :) My husband thankfully is a natural born Canadian citizen so we only have to wait for a video game company to hire him (he just emailed Club Penguin which has an office at his school here in Kelowna while I was in this thread reading some of the posts to him) and hopefully we'll do a little better than we are now. Right now it's all about budgeting.
I'm considering going into a private assisted living facility when I can work since the government run ones are having some issues. My MIL is a CNA at a government run nursing home here in BC and they've been talking about striking because of the issues with BC Health and our premier (and probably the Liberal party in general) I wouldn't want to look foreward to that. My MIL said that private run facilities don't have a pension plan, but Canada has some sort of 401K right? I'll just transfer money into that and use it when I retire.
Shatoyia, I agree that college isn't necessary. But in this day and age you need some form of advanced education to get anywhere in life. Even a trade school or a training program like the one I took to become a phlebotomist takes some money and time. Also not all public and private schools are equal. You can't make blanket statements about everything (working moms, public schools ect ) and expect them to be true. Your children get a faith based education and that's nice. My older daughter got one as well because she attended Catholic school last year where they were required to have faith based teaching in all subjects. My daughter attends a public school here in British Columbia now and Canada's schools are very highly ranked both public and private. You're doing yourself a disservice by assuming that children who are in public schools (because their parents aren't as wonderfully blessed) are receiving a lower grade education than your sons. Your children will be competing with these children in the real world some day.
Susana, I agree that most men do spend a considerable amount of time away from their families and that's why my husband is passionate about being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship allows families the opportunity to work together and it teaches the children so many valuable lessons. But even though fathers are biblically called to provide for their families, God has given us as wives the responsibility of being their help mates. We should as wives ask ourselves how we can best help our husbands so that they can do what God has called them to do? We can't help them if we are too exhausted from working our own 9-5. Titus 2 and Ephesians 5 give us our biblical job descriptions. The bible does say that Christian women are to submit to their husbands and unto the Lord (and husbands are called to love their wives as Christ loved the church). If husbands are leading their families as Christ leads the church then it makes it very easy for wives to submit but we are called to submit even if they aren't because we are doing it for God's glory not for our own. Yes, divorce is real. Not all Christians have a biblical view of marriage or desire to stay together no matter what. My husband and I are committed till death do us part. If the Lord decides to take him or myself while our children are still young, our trust is in the Lord and He will cause all things to work together for our good no matter the circumstances. Last, that is why entrepreneurship is great. If something were to happen to my husband or myself we could ensure that the one left to take care of the family will be able to do that; not to mention we could pass on our business to our children.
Shatoyia, As I mentioned, my son did not apply for loans or government assistance for his post-secondary education we are providing that for him so he will be debt free in 4 years + 2 years for his masters and the same applies for my youngest son. As for thinking you do not need a post-secondary education, that is not true, I'm not sure which part of the US you are from but here in Canada you need a post-secondary education if you want to have a decent job with a decent salary, I do not want my children to be living on minimum wage their whole life. Right now my son is studying for a major in social worker with a minor in psychology and when we read the job offers they don't even want to interview people with bachelors only they are looking for people with their masters.
In 2011 the median income for US was less than $27,000. That means 50% of Americans have an income BELOW $27,000. Granted, many of those are single people and retirees, but not the entire 50%. The rest are parents trying to support families on less than $27k--that would be next to impossible on a single income.
As for the stress of an income should the bread winning partner cease to have an income. Most sahm's have a back up plan--In addition to savings, the bread winner should ALWAYS have life, disability, and injury insurance policies in amounts high enough to support the family. Many sahm's also have an income, like myself. Before I had J, I bought an office building that I lease out to small companies, that way I have a modest income, but I don't have to work.
ETA: I do work right now, while J is in school, and I do it (gasp!) because I enjoy the work.
Megan, welcome to Canada and sorry to say but there is a lot of red tape here and hope that your papers will have a quick turn around and you'll be able to enjoy life better with your family.
I'm from Ottawa, ON, can I ask where you guys moved to?
Francine, don't beat yourself up. My parents took forever to start thinking like that! Most people don't.
I have to say I miss being able to talk about other things besides sleep patterns, my 1 year old's antics and grocery shopping. I can't wait to go back to work- even if I have to discuss blood draws and colostomy bags!
Shaytoia, I'm with Francine and Susana on this. It's extremely rude (and unChristian) to tell women that they are being selfish and vain for working outside of the home and it's not for the good of the family. Why not tell a husband he is being selfish for wanting to work outide of the home instead of allowing his wife to be the provider? I can say that because in my family my mom was always the provider since she makes more than my dad does. If my mom had been a SAHM (well now she kinda is since she works from home most of the time) we wouldn't have been able to afford to buy food sometimes or pay bills. Those aren't material things ma'am, those are necessities.
God made woman to be a HELPMEET to her husband (it's in the Bible along with Jesus telling people Judge not lest ye be judged and Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.), to me that means that you do what you can to help the person you married in whichever way you feel would work. For many of us this does mean to work outside of the home. For your information, I was raised Catholic, by two very devout Catholic parents. My father never believed that it was the wife's job to stay at home. He wasn't raised that way and my brother and I weren't raised that way either. And I plan on raising my children to believe that they can do and be whatever they want whether it be a pet babysitter or a SAHM.
What I would like to know is how is it health for a child to have an extremely stressed out mom (or parents) who is worried about bills and feels closed in and has no control in her life? I currently can't work because I moved to Canada from the US and I don't have the proper paperwork right now. I sometimes feel stressed because of the bills that are only partially paid (including a 700$ credit card payment for my permanent resident visa) and the feeling that all I can do is finish load after load of laundry and make good dinners and make sure my older daughter is ready for school. Along with grocery shopping and packing up things. A stressed out parent is not healthy for a child and if a mom is not happy with only being a wife and mother then society and complete strangers shouldn't force her to feel guilty about doing what she feels is right.
To me true freedom is the ability to do what you love to do and being happy doing it. Reguardless of what it is or what society and others dictate you should be doing. I love that I have a career in health care and that I can pick my times so I can be home with my girls (at least when I lived in the US) and I can work where ever I live (after pesky government papers have been filed) I also get to educate my girls because I have worked with people who have survived the Holocaust and people from other countries.
You're welcome Francine! 9-10 months is a good cushion though; better than not having one at all. It provides either you or your husband "time" to find a replacement income...in the event something tragic would occur.
And great that you have already set your son's up for a financially stress free start to life!
Heather, I totally agree with you and I'm beating myself up for not thinking like that, what would happen if there was no salary coming into the household????Personally we have put some money aside for a rainy day that could probably sustain us for about 9-10 months but after that what happens? Glad you mentioned it.
@ Shatoyia - "Why do women have children if they want a break from them in the form of spending majority of the day away from them?" I could ask the same thing this way - Why do MEN have children if they want a break from them in the form of spending majority of the day away from them? Why is the onus only on the mother? And please don't give me the "I am a Christian" BS, either. I am a Christian too, and I don't subscribe to the belief that women must subjugate to men.
And to call millions of women you don't know "vain"! Your post comes across as very judgmental, which is NOT very Christian.
That's great Heather! That's one of the issues I have with age-segregated classrooms in public school. I strongly believe that my boys don't need to spend hours at a time each day with a bunch of foolish kids their same age. I mean, besides age-segregation in school, when else in their life are they going to be in an environment with a bunch of people their same age? Never!
Shatoyia, I read your thread and I have to say you are one of the lucky ones that get to stay home with her children, homeschooling I'm not so sure since they are not interacting with other children their own age as you did not mention anything about them interacting with other kids.
I have to state that your point of view on mothers in the workforce is very narrow minded, personally my husband and I cannot afford to have just 1 salary in the household we need 2, the reason being, the cost of living (very high where we are) and we do not spend needlessly and some months we are living paycheque to paycheque. My oldest one is in university (first year) and we've managed to put money aside for his education so he did not need loans or government assistance and he would be debt free once he's done his masters and he still lives at home. My youngest one will be in High School come September and the same applies for him, his education will be paid for by his us and he'll be debt free once he's done. We could never have afforded post-secondary studies to any of them if there was just 1 salary coming in. On an ending note, your comment on your family being Christian I applaud you because now a days people tend to stay away from God, but for your information my mother was a nun for 10 years with her vows when she realised this was not the life she wanted. She met my father (married for 44 years) they had 3 children (all girls) and she worked outside the household as my father did to provide for the family and we did not live a celebrity's lifestyle. I've based my lifestyle after the values my mother instilled in me, to be a wife, mother and career woman and be the best in every aspect or your life. My children respect the fact that mom needs to work outside the household and are very proud of me when asked and they would not for a second change any of it.
I totally agree with that. Our three children go to dinners in restaurants with us, church, etc...they are exposed to varying age groups and situations. Since we have done that with all three of them since birth, they have no problems interacting with others.
Heather, Yes of course:-) And not just with children their age but all ages; adults included. I believe that true socialization isn't about our children just socializing with kids their age but with people of various ages.
Shatoyia--do you take your boys to play groups or are they involved in activities outside of yourself? Just wondering if they interact with or have playmates their age.
I am really sad reading these posts! I've read posts and some of the reasons listed for working outside the home are for selfish reasons not for the good of the family or the children. Who says that what children need most is more material things? Who says that women are to relieve or share in the responsibility of their husbands as the provider? Single mothers I know have no choice. Also, I know their are women whose husbands are disabled, sick, in jail, etc. In those cases I understand that. No jealousy here:-) I truly thank God that I get to be home with my boys and home-school them. I get to share in their joys, hurts, new experiences,play with them, etc: I also get plenty of time alone with my husband and time for myself. If I am going to labor I'd rather labor for my family and not a boss outside my home. This is TRUE freedom! Why do women have children if they want a break from them in the form of spending majority of the day away from them? I just don't understand it. But then again I am a Christian and I believe that God's design for the family is far better than any design we can come up with.
Ok Melissa. That makes a lot more sense. Sorry for jumping the gun on you! And you're absolutely right.
DoubleA I have had my nephews since my sister and brother n law died in April 2003 so I have been a "parent" they are now 16&15 and trust me I know what it takes to make a family run. No not everyone makes the kind of money my husband and I make but does that change the fact. No it doesn't it just means we are lucky enough to be in our situation and not have to worry about money. However it doesn't change the fact that sahm should never judge a working mom. But it still doesn't change the fact that it does NOT take 2 incomes to make it all the time.
Heather, I know that most household do not make a salary of $250K annually it was just a point that if that was the norm mothers would not need to go in the workforce but not all household are that fortunate and so some moms need to bring in a second salary to have the lifestyle they deserve and or want.
Like I posted earlier, my husband and I make comparable salaries...(yearly we make over 150,000 combined). And we live VERY comfortably on that...we are not high maintenance but we do enjoy life. We travel a lot as a family, there is no limit to the activities we enjoy, if the kids need something we can get it, if we want something we are able to get it, etc...We basically LIVE on one pay check and the other goes to vacations and savings...we also have an excellent retirement. BUT not every family has that luxury...in our area, we are considered "wealthy".
And no offense Melissa.. I'm sure your family will be just fine. But I just caught that you're not having a baby until June?! So how can u say and be 100% that u will be able to survive off one income? With that kind of income; yes you will be. But you haven't been a parent (other than being pregnant ) to back up your words.
Melissa, if there was a salary of $250K in every household I think it would be safe to say that yes moms would be able to stay home and never get back in the workforce, but not everyone makes that kind of money annually like our household, we need 2 incomes to have the lifestyle we want for our family.
Double A you are completely wrong saying you cannot live comfortably off one income. I have just recently left my full time career to be a sahm to our princess due June 1. My husband alone makes $250,000 a year and if we cannot live off of that we are in serious trouble. Yes I am used to my $80,000 also and I live a high maintenance lifestyle but I can adapt to be home for our daughter. I never imagined myself being a sahm as I lived for my career and worked everyday to give my patients the best I could but I honestly believe my daughter deserves better than me shipping her off everyday to a stranger since we can afford it.
Like others have said...this is an issue just like breast feeding vs bottle feeding...there is no winning side. There are challenges to both sides. As there are also many benefits to either side.
For my self, I feel I have the best of both worlds...I stayed home with all 3 for the first 6 months. I work m-f 8-3. So I am able to drop off my older two at school every morning then I drop off my 9 1/2 month old. I work one mile from where he is. I pick him up and I am then able to be there (home) when the girls get home from school. I am also off when school is closed. I am able to attend all school activities and have never missed an appt.
Do I have to work? My husband and I can live very comfortably on his income (we make the same amount of money)...but I work due to the convenience of my schedule and my paycheck is "extra" income that we use to put away for (so far) 3 college educations, 2 weddings, etc...By me working our children will be financially secure to start their own lives independently...they will have no student loans to pay back...just as my husband and I had. We were both able to start careers and our life outside of our parents' homes without any financial burdens. Very early on, we both agreed that we will do the same for our children.
If I didn't have a flexible schedule, I am not sure I would work...I do know that the time I spend with my children is quality time. It makes me a more organized Mom...when I was off I seemed to "waste" more time...so I am more efficient with my time now.
Not all working parents are workaholics. My one friend has to work because they wouldn't be able to live in their house and pay their bills on one income. They struggle day to day and live pay check to pay check as it is.
I think it's a lie to say that families cannot survive off of one income. What's the point in having children if we're going to give them to someone else to raise? I wouldn't say working moms are bad parents but I would question any married parents who have children and those children are being raised by someone else because the parents are workaholics.
I'm a working mother and so was mine. I've always taken pride in myself for having the mom I had growing up, she instilled in me the values of being a mother, wife and a career woman and we're talking back in 1968 when women were just starting in the workforce. Even though she's retired from her profession, at 72 she's still very active with the community, church, etc. So for all of you mothers who decided to stay at home to raise your children good for you but I wouldn't change my childhood for a second and if I may say so I think I turned out pretty good, I've been married for 22 years and have 2 beautiful sons (20 and 14) and I'm sure if you asked them what they think about their mom working, they would tell you they are very proud of me and it's not a bad idea for any mother out there to take a break from their kids once in a while, it boosts you and your kids and your kids will appreciate a little time away from mom.
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Eddy current is an important nondestructive testing technique for conductive materials and structures, especially for the detection of surface and subsurface defects such as cracks, voids, and debonds in aircraft engines and wings. In this research, a prototype for wireless eddy current system was designed, and an eddy current probe interface and a main unit interface were developed, where Ultra Wide Band wireless communication technique was applied due to its high data rates and communication range. During testing, the signal at the probe interface was activated, measured, digitized and transmitted wirelessly to the main unit interface, where the signal was then converted back to analog signal for a normal display on the main unit monitor. This wireless system was applied on different conductive materials and various types of cracks in a plate and cylinder. Testing results showed that factors such as wireless communication distance and obstacles in between the probe and main unit have very small influence on wireless signals, but signal distortion such as amplitude drop, phase shift and digitization effects exist can be quantified.
1. Drummy, D. “Enhanced Wireless Eddy Current Probe for a Non-Destructive Inspection System,” United States Patent. Patent No. US 8,138,755 B2. 2012. 2. Filkins, R. and C. Lester. “Wireless Transceiver and Method for Remote Ultrasonic Measurements,” United States Patent. Patent No. US 7,039,362 B2. 2006. 3. Reid, M., B. Graubard, R. Weber, J. Dickerson, K. Smith, D. Raulerson, L. Brasche and G. Baaklini. “Wireless Eddy Current Probe for Engine Health Monitoring,” Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 700, pp. 414-420. 2004. 4. Reid, M., B. Graubard, C. Stolpman, B. Reed, R. Weber and J. Dickerson. “Wireless Eddy Current Probe for Engine Health Monitoring (Phase II),” Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 820, pp. 431-438. 2005. 5. Taheri, H., F. Delfanian and J. Du. “Wireless NDI for Aircraft Inspection,” ASNT 22nd Research Symposium, Memphis, TN, Mar. 18-21, 2013.
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caster semenya tests as "intergender"
bit sad how this has all been dealt with (with the IAAF, etc)... comments?
is to call them by the gender that they elect to call themselves by. so "she" in this case.
lol at "the hands of a statue"
and that evidence suggests that the majority of people with it 'choose' to live as males from their late teens/early twenties.
just a rumour tho. not facts.
she is allowed compete again make anyone else feel uncomfortable?
is she any more a 'freak of nature' than Usain Bolt for instance ?
"i bought it for us so we could watch it together?!"
especially as she has probably already had some sort of insults/picking on when she was younger.
So to make up for her not looking very girly and the taunts that might have gone with it, she might have thought/felt oh well ar least i've got my sport, but it looks like that might possibly be taken from her.
Surely anyone who wins at the upper end of some sports are unusual.
Just because we have classification to try to equalise things doesnt mean that we should hurt people or ridicule them just because our classification system doesn not entirely consider all of reality (she is real after all).
Srsly why dont they just look at her DNA, if its female then shes a woman, sod how much testosterone there is in her blood (unless she artificially ingested it/injected it) And why should people go poking round her 'bits' or even discussing it.
Human society sometimes srsly p**ses me off.
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We welcome people interested in our work to become Certified Learning Love Teachers.
The training program to become a Certified Learning Love Teacher is an individualized process.
It involves having done the basic 5- day Learning Love Seminars as well as The Learning Love Training.
After having completed the workshops and the basic training, you can write to inquire about becoming a Certified Learning Love Teacher and to get an invitation for The Learning Love Skills Training.
Krishnananda and Amana will then assess the readiness of each person and may recommend participating or assisting in other workshops or repeating certain workshops.
Part of the process can also be taking individual sessions and supervision sessions.
The Learning Love Skills Training is only in English without additional translation.
If you are accepted as a therapist there is a process of signing a contract with the Learning Love Institute.
Our contracts are meant to maintain the integrity and standards of the work. We have two separate contracts, one for people who would like to offer sessions and another for those who would like to offer seminars.
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CRICKET: THERE was an excellent start to the new campaign for Alderley Edge, who picked up 20 points and chalked up a confidence-boosting win over Nantwich.
THERE was an excellent start to the new campaign for Alderley Edge, who picked up 20 points and chalked up a confidence-boosting win over Nantwich.
Captain Mark Walker won the toss at Moss Lane last Saturday and elected to field first on a white looking strip that did not have as much pace in it as it appeared from a distance.
Edge soon had the Nantwich batsmen in trouble at 69-3, with new signing Mark Warren's left arm picking up a wicket.
Mark Walker also bowled an economical spell of 11 overs with five maidens, picking up the crucial wicket of Nantwich's overseas player, Aussie Derek Tate.
However, 19-year-old Loughborough student Andy Hicks, playing in his first match for the club was even more economical, eventually bowling 14 overs and taking three wickets for only 20 runs, with a piece of sustained and accurate medium pace bowling.
Edge's overseas star, Sohail Rauf took four wickets to show that last season's form, which ranked him in the top three all-rounders in the ECB Cheshire Premier League, was likely to be repeated again this season.
At tea, Edge looked strong favourites as they needed just 158, with 57 overs available to get them.
Ex-captain Mark Currie, newly returned from a winter season in Australia, immediately showed his best form, scoring 71 to put the match firmly in Edge's grasp. A useful 33 from Nick Reid, and a whirlwind 24 from Rauf saw Edge home with 20 overs to spare in an impressive six-wicket victory.
This was the best display by the Alderley first team on the opening day of a new season for a good few years and promises much for the forthcoming campaign.
Edge travel to their bogey team Bowdon on Saturday, who they have not beaten in the league for well over five years.
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Arm motion is natural when running, but it shouldn't be the focus of your sprint training.
Many athletes and coaches tend to think that arm drive is the magic solution to sprint faster. It's not, although it does provide a strong secondary support role but nowhere close to your lower body, which is primarily responsible for speed.
You would not even move if it weren't for your legs creating Ground Reaction Force (GRF). To illustrate the need for arm drive, just simply run with your arms behind your back. You might not hit your top speed, but you can certainly run. Enough said.
Based on my research, both Latiff Thomas and Charlie Francis have nailed down where our shoulders, elbows and hands need to be in order for us to have an advantage in speed. Our arms and legs do in fact work together, so any motion or lack of motion from your arms will influence how your legs operate.
So while arm drive isn't the be-all-end-all for speed, a proper arm drive helps to optimize your speed. For example, if our arms rotate too high forward or too far back there will be wasted motion, time and a delay in our leg drive resulting in slower acceleration.
When we think about our arms, we need to think 90/90, meaning that our upper and lower arm needs to form a 90-degree angle at the elbow to allow for rapid and efficient arm action rotating forward and back through a sprint. This is a rough estimate for the majority of the arm swing, except when the rear arm practically straightens out prior to when it accelerates forward. Historically, coaches and trainers encouraged athletes to sprint and drive the arms and hands to eye level going forward, and making sure the elbow arrives behind the torso when rotating back. Think eye socket to hip pocket.
Next is the direction of the arm drive. Many coaches preach keeping the elbows in throughout, but it's wrong. If you have to perform something in a conscious state, then you can be assured that it will not occur in competition when focus naturally becomes altered. This effect is natural and there is no need to mess with it. To help explain why you want the arms to cross just envision or actually practice a Close-Grip Bench Press and a Wide-Grip Bench Press. Obviously the wide grip is stronger and a more explosive pattern that is similar to the arm cross.
The bottom line: don't focus too much on arm drive. The proper arm drive pattern is naturally ingrained into our nervous system and we shouldn't fight it. Just make sure not to roll your wrists over like many athletes are guilty of doing, and focus on building an extremely strong and powerful upper body in the weight room. The rest will take care of itself!
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It was nice (barely) knowing you, Curtis Finch Jr.
While some may be mourning the loss of Finch, we were actually more interested in the format changes the show revealed. For the first time ever, the top three contestants that viewers voted for were revealed. While they were not ranked, the remaining contestants were told where they stood in the rankings. It’s a twist rival show The X Factor busted out during its sophomore season.
Falling in line behind them at number four was, surprisingly, Lazaro Arbos, who didn’t do so well during his performance but clearly won the sympathy vote for the night. In fifth place was Amber Holcomb, followed by Janelle Arthur and Burnell Taylor, who acted like he had just been asked to “come on down” on The Price Is Right even though he’s now technically a bottom-dweller.
Bringing up the rear in the bottom three, alongside Finch and Velez, was Paul Jolley.
Also part of the new format was host Ryan Seacrest rattling off weird, useless factoids about the results. Like how Velez received more that 25 percent of the votes in Puerto Rico, making him the top act there. Uh, OK.
In another twist, the show brought back one guy and one girl who fell short of the top 10 to compete for viewer votes to nab a spot on this summer’s live tour. The returning hopefuls were oddball Charlie Askew, who sang original song “Sky Blue Diamond” in a grating chalkboard-like falsetto, and a classy looking Aubrey Cleland, singing the more pleasant “Out Here on My Own” by Irene Cara. The results will be revealed next week, and it basically comes down to whether viewers want to punk ticket-buyers by throwing Askew into the mix or not.
Rounding out the night were performances by Bon Jovi and Phillip Phillips, who sang “Because We Can” and “Gone, Gone, Gone,” respectively. Afterward, Randy Jackson presented the reigning Idol champ with a quadruple-platinum plaque for his breakout hit “Home.” Four million copies later and the kid still can’t afford to buy a bottle of Visine to wipe the pesky red out.
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The versatile EZOPower desktop space-saving charging station is the perfect solution for charging 6 devices simultaneously via 2 AC sockets and 4 USB ports. Unique design allows charging multiple devices at a single location to avoid clutter. Slot holder designed for hands-free viewing while charging. LED indicators ensure that your devices are grounded and protected while charging. This charging station is ideal for home, office or a professional workstation, you now have additional power with added security of surge protection.
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I am very new to this forum or i shud say to this linux world.
I have just got the cds of ubuntu linux, tried live cd and found it quite interesting.
Now i want to install linux on my hdd but the instructions says that it wud wipe off all my existing softwares including windows.
I just want to know that is there any middle way out such that i can have windows and linux both.?
I have heard about some "VMWare" software which create a virtual machine on ur harddisk and linux can be installed on it. but having two os simultaneously cause a loss in RAM which i dont want to have. I have only 256mb RAM.
you have to resize Windows partition to create space for Ubuntu. you can do this easily through GParted. boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD and look for GParted in Menu. shrink last partition of Windows. Ubuntu needs 6-9GB disk space. leave new space unpartitioned/free.
during installation, select 'Unpartitioned/Free space for install'.
It's very important to defragment your hard drive in windows before shrinking the windows partition. This may save you some problems later.
Otherwise, do exactly as devils_casper told you. Use GParted on the live CD to shrink the windows partition (probably the only partition on the drive at the moment), and leave the rest of the space unformatted. Then start the Ubuntu install, and make sure it uses the "unpartitioned/free space".
Good luck, and welcome to the forums.
AFAIK, GParted defrags partition before applying changes. you dont need to defrag partitions manually.
Are you sure about this casper? This is the first time I've heard of this! I've always heard people giving out the recommendation to defragment before resizing, and I've never heard mention of Gparted doing it automatically when resizing.
You could be right, but, if so, it's completely new to me!
I'm not saying your wrong but are you sure about this? I, like smolloy, have never heard about this.
i am sure about this and i used GParted many times. Latest version of GParted uses ntfsresize utility. According to the ntfsresize page, it is NOT necessary to defrag your NTFS filesystem before resizing it. check here.
Thanks casper! You learn something new every day, don't you!
Ditto! Thanks for the info devils_casper!
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Voyager Innovations, Inc. (Voyager), a subsidiary of mobile leader Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), announced today the availability of RaincheckPH, the first locally produced mobile app that promotes rain and hazards preparedness among Filipinos. With data coming from the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards), the RaincheckPH app can predict with 95% accuracy the probability of rain down to the city level within a four-hour period. The app, initially available for Android phones, is the first step in getting Filipinos ready for bigger hazards and natural calamities that affect the Philippines year in and year out. “We are all well aware of how destructive typhoons can get once they make landfall, as we’ve seen in what happened in the Visayas with super typhoon Yolanda,” noted Benjie Fernandez, Chief Operating Officer of Voyager. “But we also know that even monsoon rains can cause major destruction in some parts of the country, as we’ve seen here in Metro Manila in the past few years.” By making users aware of oncoming rain within their vicinity, Fernandez said the app can help Filipinos develop a culture of preparedness for any type of weather hazards or other forms of disasters, no matter how small the impact may be on their surroundings. Covering close to 70 cities around the country, the RaincheckPH app quickly alerts users through a pop-up notification whenever the probability of rain in their current location reaches 50% within the next four hours. This gives users enough lead time to prepare for the oncoming downpour or, as the app’s name suggests, take a “rain check” on any activity planned outside their homes. The app’s simple, color-coded design also means mobile users wouldn’t have a hard time understanding the rain alerts for their specific locations. “With the RaincheckPH app, Filipinos can receive timely and accurate information about rain and other hazards within their vicinity so they can always be prepared,” explained Dr. Mahar Lagmay, Executive Director of Project NOAH. “Equipping Filipinos with the proper tools and mindset to prepare for these natural disasters has always been the main goal of Project NOAH from the start—and this new and innovative mobile app helps in achieving that.” ‘Nowcasting’ Launched in 2011 after the devastation caused by Typhoon Sendong in Northern Mindanao, Project NOAH operates more than 700 sensors that gather a variety of weather information all around the country. Aside from probability of rain, users can also get real-time data on temperature, weather conditions, amount of rain, wind speeds and a full four-day forecast through the app—the latter being a new capability built into Project NOAH thanks to its recent acquisition of a supercomputer from technology giant IBM. To warn friends and loved ones of approaching rain and other hazards, the app also has a social media sharing feature built-in so they can share “nowcasting” details through Twitter or Facebook. In future app updates, users can also get up-to-the-minute reports on class or work suspensions in their area as delivered by InterAksyon.com, the online news portal of broadcast network TV5. Voyager is also working on building a crowdsourcing facility within the mobile app where users can report on flooded roads and other situations within their area, so other users can also take precautions and look for alternative routes to their destinations. “In times of calamities, preparedness trumps whatever measures we implement after storms ravage our towns and cities. By equipping Filipinos with tools like RaincheckPH, we can develop a culture of preparedness and a mindset that is always ready for whatever disasters that may come our way,” Fernandez added. To download the RaincheckPH app, Android smartphone users only need to proceed to the Google Play Store and search for “RaincheckPH.” For more information on this mobile innovation, please visit www.raincheck.ph and www.voyagerinnovation.com.
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We know that a person becomes poor when he or she is unable to exchange his goods or services for currency. When a person cannot find market for his or her products, services or farm produce, he or she ends up being poor. Nearly 95% of people living in Kenya are unable to find market for more than 80% of their farm produce. Kenyan subsistent croppers and pastoralists living in rural areas are extremely impoverished because they cannot find market for their produce. The only available market comes to them in form of organized cartels who buy the farm produce and livestock at a throwaway price. Even at this throwaway price, cartels are only able to purchase less than 20% of all the produce. The rest goes to waste. Perishable produce such as fruits, vegetable, flowers, animal products are rotting away in the villages of Kenya. This extreme waste of produce of the land, kills all possibility of generating wealth for the local people, and multiplies, by several orders of magnitude, the rotting capital in the country (see e.g., de Soto, 2002).
Without anywhere to sell produce, a subsist cropper or a livestock producer slides into extreme poverty. When sick, she is afraid to seek medical service until the disease advances, and becomes incapacitating. She is forced by worsening disease to seek medical care and arrives at a medical facility without enough money to pay for medical service. Her money does not cover for the medical service offered by the provide at the medical facility. The provider reduces the quality and quantity of service offering to match the little money available from the patient. The problem is that the provider of medical service receives hundreds of patients with advanced disease, but with little or no money. In most cases, the patient cannot pay anything at all. This severe lack of money to pay the providers in Kenya has led to a severe decline in the quality of medical service. Many owners of health facilities have to cut-corners just to make ends meet. Cutting corners by a medical provider means cutting a critical service, increased risk of worsening of disease, medical errors, or introduction of new diseases. Distressed medical providers in Kenya are offering the lowest quality experienced in the world. Low quality medical service is a serious health hazard to the people, which by itself results in death of health consumers in many instances. Health providers are seriously concerned by this problem. Without access to money however, and surrounded by masses of people with advanced disease, they are between a rock and a hard place. This is the quandary of health service.
Logical reasoning indicates that the fundamental solution to health production problem lies in a system that improves the economy of each individual. In line with this logic, we have created a system to help people find market for their produce, services and products. In order to help a person, he or she must first join and become a member of distributed autonomous organization (DAO) known as the Co-operative Society of Ubricans (CSU). We intend to enroll 14 million families in Kenya alone. Once joined, our community workers help the member to send to market whatever he or she is producing. We have created an online retail store known as Soko Janja (see shop.ubrica.com) where members can buy and sell produce, products, and services. We have started enrolling individuals onto Soko Janja. Enrolled individuals can post pictures of their products, produce and services to the online retail store. Members of the CSU will use their wealth to finance health production for themselves and their loved ones. We will use Ubricoin to facilitate the management of the online store. Ubricoin will also be used at the point of sale in Soko Janja as well as an incentive structure to encourage people to buy from each other to activate local economy.
We will sell 1 billion UBNs to support our online retail store Soko Janja (see shop.ubrica.com) to help operationalize wealth creation by each individual in any given community. We are proposing to build a platform that will be decentralized. The platform will facilitate peer-to-peer trading without Ubrica mediating. The trading will involve the use of Ubricoin as means of payment which will be validated by blockchain.
We will create an incentive structure to facilitate peer-to-peer trading and purchase of locally produced products, produce and services. Holders of Ubricoin purchasing locally produced products and services in Soko Janja will receive the services and products at a discount. They will also receive loyalty point for shopping in Soko Janja.
These 1 billion coins will be sold in four phases at $0.5 per UBN.
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Perhaps you are a shopping procrastinator -- one of those crazy people who get high off paying a gajillion bucks for overnight shipping from Amazon. Well, this week Karly and I are making it our mission in life to help you spend some skrillaz without resorting to praying for the Fedex god to have mercy on your feet dragging soul. Before you know it, Chrishannzakuh will be all up on you like white on rice, so get jiggy with it and put some ho ho ho in the holiday with one of these scintillating gifts.
$100 will buy a lot of shiny golden goodness. Clockwise from top left: Betseyville Lucky Stripes clutch $62 | Harry Allen Pig Bank $99 | Set of six gold forks $84 | Tobias Wong gold leafed porcelain cup and saucer set $75.
Super excellent limited edition 20x28 poster by art collective Jeanspezial $87.
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Housewares in eyepopping colors make holiday entertaining fun. Vodka helps, too. Agate coasters $55 | Eight piece nesting bowl set includes a colander and measuring cups $58.
Calling all ballers... Gold plated Recession Necklace $65. Just because you don't have a million bucks doesn't mean you have to look all scroungy and poor.
Alright highrollers, let's face it -- in this economy $100 is a lot of money. But hopefully you found the perfect something to tempt you to crack open the rusty old wallet and shower your family and friends with money love. And if you're really Scrooge Mcduck just aswim in gold coins, then tune in tomorrow for the Under $500 edition.
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And Customization.... no news? ... and what happened to the NEW website last year ??
Edit: I'm referring to Wincustomize of course.
We've been hiring up for a WC update. But it's going to be a LOT of work.
As I've just been promoted Master skinner after 4 years of hard labor I've got a LOT of site-contrbuting up my sleeve, I even got My girlie Vampothika (Kitty) to release skins again, so we're all all in for an Upward spiral for skinning futurewise, god knows the OS needs us lol.
so we need to wait another month for that RTS announcement? Dissapointing news.
Hrmm ... I used to love the idea of the GDC, E3 and other interactive entertainment expos/showcases, but increasingly they feel like they're elitist, less for everyday people who love to play games to get our minds off our doldrums from our stupid jobs that fund our gaming habits, and more for the glitzy glamour snob types. It'd be nice if we could at least get some HD footage out of them that is a direct screen capture instead of a digital video camera recording a bigscreen playback that doesn't show the crisp, vibrant graphics to most of us who don't have a few thousand dollars to blow on a convention. I wonder if anyone has considered starting an online game expo to showcase new and upcoming games that don't require airfare, hotel, ground transpo, time off work, etc. I get most of my gaming news these days from a couple of gamecasters (TotalBiscuit more than any other after HD retired and Husky doesn't do a whole lot anymore), but as hard as he works and as much time as he puts in, TB is just one guy who can only cover so much. A lot of the sites I used to check out regularly seem to have shifted their attention away from PC gaming and into consoles which I am not interested in.
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A clonal strain of Trichomonas gallinae is the aetiologic agent of an emerging avian epidemic disease.
Molecular analysis of clonal trichomonad isolates indicate the existence of heterogenic species present in different birds and within the same host.
First report of epizootic trichomoniasis in wild finches (family Fringillidae) in southern Fennoscandia.
PCR for the identification and differentiation of Histomonas meleagridis, Tetratrichomonas gallinarum and Blastocystis spp.
Tetratrichomonads from the oral cavity and respiratory tract of humans.
Mitochondrial type iron-sulfur cluster assembly in the amitochondriate eukaryotes Trichomonas vaginalis and Giardia intestinalis, as indicated by the phylogeny of IscS.
Survival of Trichomonas gallinae in white-winged dove carcasses.
In vivo and in vitro sensitivity of Trichomonas gallinae to some nitroimidazole drugs.
Pathologic changes in pigeons infected with a virulent Trichomonas gallinae strain (Eiberg).
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On behalf of Jim Ryan & Associates posted in domestic violence on Thursday, February 28, 2019.
Facing any kind of criminal charge can be extremely stressful, worrisome and can ruin a person's future. In Illinois, it seems that instances of domestic violence are on the rise. Domestic violence is a big problem across the state and those who are convicted can face many years of jail time and other harsh penalties. Even if allegations of domestic abuse turn out to be false, the damage done to those who are accused can be permanent and irreversible.
On behalf of Jim Ryan & Associates posted in drug charges on Thursday, February 21, 2019.
There are few things more humiliating to a person than being handcuffed, searched and arrested. It's only natural to fret and worry after an arrest and a criminal charge. Being convicted of drug charges can do unspeakable damage to reputations and land an individual in jail for years. Fortunately, in the state of Illinois, those who are arrested on drug charges are always presumed innocent until, and only if, found guilty in a court of law.
On behalf of Jim Ryan & Associates on Tuesday, February 19, 2019.
If you are trying to defend yourself from a criminal charge, it is likely that you will want to learn more about how you can be successful. Many defendants do not realize that often the best strategy in regard to defending yourself against an accusation is remaining silent.
On behalf of Jim Ryan & Associates posted in dui on Thursday, February 14, 2019.
Driving while intoxicated is not only incredibly dangerous, it endangers the lives of others. In recent years, police forces in Illinois and across the country have stepped up efforts to combat drunk driving. Being charged with a DUI can be quite stressful and worrisome. Unfortunately, an individual who is arrested for DUI can potentially face punishment and negative consequences for the rest of his or her life.
On behalf of Jim Ryan & Associates posted in juvenile crimes on Thursday, February 7, 2019.
Adolescence is an infamous time of change and rebellion. It's no secret that the majority of adolescents will participate in some type of rebellious behavior at some point in their lives. Most of the time, this is nothing more than an outlet for harmless fun. Sometimes, however, it can turn into criminal activity. Being arrested and charged with juvenile crimes can ruin a young person's life.
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Over the years, BMX branched into different styles including freestyle (tricks done in skate parks or on flat land) to dirt jump (high flying).
The track in T or C includes challenging hills and turns, but is suitable for both racing and stunt riding. Parents can sit on a nearby bench and watch the action, possibly with their hands covering their eyes.As with most sports, protective gear for riders is always strongly encouraged.
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Spectacular houses can be found in Spain too. Like this one, near Altea, in Alicante. Brilliant white, this building by the studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos won the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2013, for architecture and urban design.
Standing on a cliff, this large house of pure lines appears suspended in mid-air and offers its occupants stunning views. Its white tones are reminiscent of the traditional architecture of the region despite its obviously contemporary style.
With one of the Costa Blanca’s gorgeous beaches at its feet, it is divided into various spaces on different levels. Despite its location on terrain with an 80% difference in height, the client wanted a single-storey home. For this reason, and to prevent unnecessary earth moving that could damage the site, part of the house is partially suspended in mid-air and in the entrance level from the road.
The garage and pool are on different lower levels. The pool, built on a previously existing flat area, gives an optical impression of being part of the Mediterranean Sea and is covered in white marble. White is also the colour of all the exterior walls, which are made of reinforced concrete covered in a layer of white stucco. The other materials used combine with the pure of the white and the blue of the pool, with the most splendid decor provided by the landscape.
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The Global Positioning System, usually called GPS, is the only fully-functional satellite navigation system. A constellation of more than two dozen GPS satellites broadcasts precise timing signals by radio to GPS receivers, allowing them to accurately determine their location (longitude, latitude, and altitude) in any weather, day or night, anywhere on Earth.
GPS allows accurate targeting of cruise missiles and precision-guided munitions (or "smart bombs"), as well as improved command and control of forces through improved locational awareness. GPS increases the accuracy of submarine launched ballistic missiles, since knowing the exact launching position allows for more accurate targeting of the missile. The satellites also carry nuclear detonation detectors, which form a major portion of the United States Nuclear Detonation Detection System. Commercial civilian GPS receivers are required to have limits on the velocities and altitudes at which they will report coordinates; this is to prevent them from being used to create improvised missiles.
GPS is used by people around the world as a navigation aid in cars, airplanes, and ships. The system can also be used by computer controlled harvesters, mine trucks and other vehicles. Hand-held GPS receivers can be used by mountain climbers and hikers. Glider pilots use the logged signal to verify their arrival at turnpoints in competitions. Low cost GPS receivers are often combined in a bundle with a PDA, car computer, or vehicle tracking system.
More costly and precise receivers are used by land surveyors to locate boundaries, structures, and survey markers, and for road construction.
For information about navigation systems for the visually impaired, including MoBIC, Drishti, Brunel Navigation System for the Blind, NOPPA, BrailleNote GPS, and Trekker, refer to the main article GPS for the visually impaired.
The availability of hand-held GPS receivers for a cost of about $90 and up (as of March 2005) has led to recreational applications including Geocaching. Geocaching involves using a hand-held GPS unit to travel to a specific longitude and latitude to search for objects hidden by other Geocachers. This popular activity often includes walking or hiking to natural locations.
Most airlines allow private use of ordinary GPS units on their flights, except during landing and take-off, like all other electronic devices. Additionally, some airline companies disallow use of hand-held receivers for security reasons, such as unwillingness to let ordinary passengers track the flight route. On the other extreme, some airlines integrate GPS tracking of the aircraft into their aircraft's seat-back television entertainment systems, available even during takeoff and landing to all passengers.
Many synchronization systems use GPS as a source of accurate time, hence one of the most common applications of this use is that of GPS as a reference clock for time code generators or NTP clocks. For instance, when deploying sensors (for seismology or other monitoring application), GPS may be used to provide each recording apparatus with some precise time source, so that the time of events may be recorded accurately.
The atomic clocks on the satellites are set to "GPS time", which is the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 6, 1980. Today, GPS time is 14 seconds ahead of UTC, because it does not follow leap seconds. Receivers thus apply a clock-correction offset (which is periodically transmitted along with the other data) in order to display UTC correctly, and optionally adjust for a local time zone. New GPS units will initially show the incorrect time after achieving a GPS lock for the first time. However, this is usually corrected on the display within 15 minutes once the UTC offset message is received for the first time.
The design of GPS is based partly on the similar ground-based radio navigation systems, such as LORAN developed in the early 1940s, and used during World War II. Additional inspiration for the GPS system came when the Soviets launched the first Sputnik in 1957. A team of U.S. scientists led by Dr. Richard B. Kershner were monitoring Sputnik's radio transmissions. They discovered that, due to the Doppler effect, the frequency of the signal being transmitted by Sputnik was higher as the satellite approached, and lower as it continued away from them. They realized that since they knew their exact location on the globe, they could pinpoint where the satellite was along its orbit by measuring the Doppler distortion. It was only a small leap of logic to realize that the converse was also true; if the satellite's position was known then they could identify their own position on Earth.
The first satellite navigation system, Transit, used by the US Navy, was first successfully tested in 1960. Using a constellation of five satellites, it could provide a navigational fix approximately once per hour. In the 1970s, the ground-based Omega Navigation System, based on signal phase comparison, became the first world-wide radio navigation system.
The first experimental Block-I GPS satellite was launched in February 1978 . The GPS satellites were initially manufactured by Rockwell International and now manufactured by Lockheed Martin.
In 1983, after Soviet jet interceptors shot down the civilian airliner KAL 007 in restricted Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people on board, Ronald Reagan announced that the GPS system would be made available for civilian uses once it was completed.
By 1985, ten more experimental Block-I satellites had been launched to validate the concept. The first modern Block-II satellite was launched on 14th February 1989, and a complete constellation of 24 satellites was in orbit by 17th January 1994.
In 1996, recognizing the importance of GPS to civilian users as well as military users, President Bill Clinton issued a policy directive declaring GPS to be a dual-use system and establishing an Interagency GPS Executive Board to manage it as a national asset.
In 1998, Vice President Al Gore announced plans to upgrade GPS with two new civilian signals for enhanced user accuracy and reliability, particularly with respect to aviation safety.
In 2004, President George W. Bush updated the national policy, replacing the board with the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Executive Committee.
The most recent launch was in September 2005. The oldest GPS satellite still in operation was launched in February 1989.
Each satellite repeatedly re-broadcasts the exact time according to its internal atomic clock along with a digital data packet. The data includes the orbital elements of the satellite's precise position, satellite status messages, and an almanac of the approximate position of every other active GPS satellite. The almanac lets GPS receivers use data from the strongest satellite signal to locate other satellites.
GPS receivers calculate their current position (latitude, longitude, elevation), and the precise time, using the process of trilateration after measuring the distance to at least four satellites by comparing the satellites' coded time signal transmissions. The receiver calculates the orbit of each satellite based on information encoded in their radio signals, and measures the distance to each satellite, called a pseudorange, based on the time delay from when the satellite signals were sent until they were received.
In order to measure the delay, the satellite repeatedly sends a 1,023 bit long pseudo random sequence; the receiver calculates an identical sequence from a known seed number, and shifts it until the two sequences match. Each satellite uses a different sequence, which lets them share the same radio frequencies, using Code Division Multiple Access, while still allowing receivers to identify each satellite.
Once the location and distance of each satellite is known, the receiver should theoretically be located at the intersection of four imaginary spheres, one around each satellite, with a radius equal to the time delay between the satellite and the receiver multiplied by the speed of the radio signals. In practice, GPS calculations are more complex for several reasons. One complication is that GPS receivers do not have atomic clocks, so the precise time is not known when the signals arrive. Fortunately, even the relatively simple clock within the receiver provides an accurate comparison of the timing of the signals from the different satellites. The receiver is able to determine exactly when the signals were received by adjusting its internal clock (and therefore the spheres' radii) so that the spheres intersect near one point.
One of biggest problems for GPS accuracy is that changing atmospheric conditions change the speed of the GPS signals unpredictably as they pass through the ionosphere. The effect is minimized when the satellite is directly overhead and becomes greater toward the horizon, as the satellite signals must travel through the greater "thickness" of the ionosphere as the angle increases. Once the receiver's rough location is known, an internal mathematical model can be used to estimate and correct for the error.
Because ionospheric delay affects the speed of radio waves differently based on their frequencies, a second frequency band was added to help eliminate this type of error. Newer GPS receivers can compare the phase difference between the L1 and L2 frequencies to actually measure the atmospheric effects on the signals and apply precise corrections.
GPS signals can also be affected by multipath reflections of the radio signals off the ground and/or surrounding structures (buildings, canyon walls, etc). For long delay multipath signals, the receiver itself can filter the signals out. A variety of receiver techniques, most notably Narrow Correlator spacing, have been developed to mitigate multipath errors. For shorter delay multipath signals that result from reflections from the ground, special antenna features may be used such as a ground plane, or a choke ring antenna. Shorter multipath signals from ground reflections can often be very close to the direct signals, and can greatly reduce precision.
Some GPS receivers can relay position data to a PC or other device using the NMEA 0183 protocol. NMEA 2000is a newer and less widely adopted protocol. Both are proprietary, and are controlled on a for-profitbasis by the US-based National Marine Electronics Association. References to the NMEA protocols have been compiled from public records, allowing open source tools like gpsdto read the protocol without violating Intellectual property laws.
Carries a publicly usable coarse-acquisition (C/A) code as well as an encrypted precision P(Y) code.
Usually carries only the P(Y) code. The encryption keys required to directly use the P(Y) code are tightly controlled by the U.S. government and are generally provided only for military use. The keys are changed on a daily basis. In spite of not having the P(Y) code encryption key, several high-end GPS receiver manufacturers have developed techniques for utilizing this signal (in a round-about manner) to increase accuracy and remove error caused by the ionosphere. Recognizing the civilian need for increased accuracy, "modernized" IIR-M (IIR-14 (M) and later) satellites carry a civilian signal interleaved with an improved military signal on both the L1 and L2 frequencies.
Carries the signal for the GPS constellation's alternative role of detecting missile/rocket launches (supplementing Defense Support Program satellites), nuclear detonations, and other high-energy infrared events.
Being studied for additional ionospheric correction.
Proposed for use as a civilian safety-of-life (SoL) signal. This frequency falls into an internationally protected range for aeronautical navigation, promising little or no interference under all circumstances. The first Block IIF satellite that would provide this signal is set to be launched in 2007.
The clocks on the satellites are also affected by both special and general relativity, which causes them to run at a slightly faster rate than do clocks on the Earth's surface. This amounts to a discrepancy of around 38 microseconds per day, which is corrected by electronics on each satellite. This offset is a practical demonstration of the theory of relativity in a real-world system; it is exactly that predicted by the theory, within the limits of accuracy of measurement.
Neil Ashby presented a good account of how these relativistic corrections are applied, why, and their orders of magnitude, in Physics Today (May 2002) . Whether relativity must be considered as a mere correction to a Newtonian GPS theory, or, rather, as the necessary foundation of a cleaner (and more fundamental) GPS theory, is currently under debate. Bartolomé Coll has recently developed the basic notions necessary for a fully relativistic theory of Positioning Systems .
Ivan Getting, emeritus president of The Aerospace Corporation and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, established the basis for GPS, improving on the World War II land-based radio system called LORAN (Long-range Radio Aid to Navigation).
Bradford Parkinson, teacher of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University, developed the system.
One GPS developer, Roger L. Easton, received the National Medal of Technology on February 13th 2006 at the White House.
On February 10, 1993, the National Aeronautic Association selected the Global Positioning System Team as winners of the 1992 Robert J. Collier Trophy, the most prestigious aviation award in the United States. This team consists of researchers from the Naval Research Laboratory, the U.S. Air Force, the Aerospace Corporation, Rockwell International Corporation, and IBM Federal Systems Company. The citation accompanying the presentation of the trophy honors the GPS Team "for the most significant development for safe and efficient navigation and surveillance of air and spacecraft since the introduction of radio navigation 50 years ago."
When it was first deployed, GPS included a feature called Selective Availability (or SA) that introduced intentional errors of up to a hundred meters into the publicly available navigation signals, making it difficult to use for guiding long range missiles to precise targets. Additional accuracy was available in the signal, but in an encrypted form that was only available to the United States military, its allies and a few others, mostly government users.
SA typically added signal errors of up to about 10 m horizontally and 30 m vertically. The inaccuracy of the civilian signal was deliberately encoded so as not to change very quickly, for instance the entire eastern US area might read 30 m off, but 30 m off everywhere and in the same direction. In order to improve the usefulness of GPS for civilian navigation, Differential GPS was used by many civilian GPS receivers to greatly improve accuracy.
During the Gulf War, the shortage of military GPS units and the wide availability of civilian ones among personnel resulted in disabling the Selective Availability. In the 1990s the FAA started pressuring the military to turn off SA permanently. This would save the FAA millions of dollars every year in maintenance of their own, less accurate, radio navigation systems. The military resisted for most of the 1990s, but SA was eventually turned off in 2000 following an announcement by then US President Bill Clinton, allowing all users to enjoy nearly the same level of access.
The US military has developed the ability to locally deny GPS (and other navigation services) to hostile forces in a specific area of crisis without affecting the rest of the world or its own military systems. Such Navigation Warfare uses techniques such as local jamming to replace the blunt, world-wide degradation of civilian GPS service that SA represented.
Military (and selected civilian) users still enjoy some technical advantages which can give quicker satellite lock and increased accuracy. The increased accuracy comes mostly from being able to use both the L1 and L2 frequencies and thus better compensate for the varying signal delay in the ionosphere (see above).
A GPS tracking system uses GPS to determine the location of a vehicle, person, or pet and to record the position at regular intervals in order to create a track file or log of activities. The recorded data can be stored within the tracking unit, or it may be transmitted to a central location, or internet-connected computer, using a cellular modem, 2-way radio, or satellite. This allows the data to be reported in real-time, using either web browser based tools or customized software.
A large part of modern munitions, the so-called "smart bombs" or precision-guided munitions, use GPS. GPS jammers are available, from Russia, and are about the size of a cigarette box. The U.S. government believes that such jammers were used occasionally during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Some officials believe that jammers could be used to attract the precision-guided munitions towards noncombatant infrastructure, other officials believe that the jammers are completely ineffective. In either case, the jammers are attractive targets for anti-radiation missiles.
The U.S. Air Force conducted GPS jamming exercises in 2003. A detailed description of how to build a GPS jammer was posted on a hackers' site by an anonymous author. And there has been at least one well-documented case of unintentional jamming; if similar, but stronger, signals were generated on purpose, they could interfere with aviation GPS receivers at a range of 50 km. According to the reference below, "IFR pilots should have a fallback plan in case of a GPS malfunction".
There were also incidents of unintentional jamming, traced back to malfunctioning TV antenna preamplifiers.
Russia operates an independent system called GLONASS (global navigation system), although with only twelve active satellites as of 2004, the system is of limited usefulness. There are plans to restore GLONASS to full operation by 2008. The European Union is developing Galileo as an alternative to GPS, planned to be in operation by 2010. China and France are also developing other satellite navigation systems.
Peter H. Dana: Global Positioning System Overview - Large amount of technical information and discussion.
GPS SPS Signal Specification, 2nd Edition - The official (civilian) signal specification.
Is it Safe to use a handheld GPS Receiver on a Commercial Aircraft? - Discusses the safety of personal use of a GPS on commercial aircraft.
Palowireless GPS Resource Center Articles, news and resources.
USCG Navigation Center: Status of the GPS constellation, government policy, and links to other references. Also includes satellite almanac data.
National Space-Based PNT Executive Committee - Established in 2004 to oversee management of GPS and GPS augmentations at a national level.
The GPS Joint Program Office (GPS JPO) - Responsible for designing and acquiring the system on behalf of the US Government.
GpsDrive, external link - GNU Map-based navigation system. It displays your position on a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS receiver.
GPS Visualizer - A free online utility that creates maps and profiles in SVG, JPEG/PNG, or Google Maps/Google Earth format from GPS waypoints and tracks.
ISR FleetTrack - A powerful and robust suite of fleet tracking software working in tandem with its proprietary hardware to provide real-time and report data for fleet managers.
Magnificient Logs - Create interactive GPS logs online, find photo location by linking GPS and Exif timestamp.
Opanda IExif Viewer - a handy tool for viewing detailed GPS data in digital image in Windows Local folder & Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox & ACDSee.
Opanda PowerExif Editor - a powerful GUI editor for adding GPS data into Exif tags of digital images or modifying the GPS data in digital images freely and easily.
GPS Buying Guide - A guide to selecting the right consumer GPS receiver based on intended use.
ISR FleetTrack Silent Position Monitor The hardware component of ISR's total fleet tracking suite.
GPS NTP Server GPS time servers and NTP servers for computer network timing.
sci.geo.satellite-nav Direct or via the Google Groups web site.
uk.rec.gps Direct or via the Google Groups web site.
In Simple Terms, How Does GPS Work?
Neil Ashby: "Relativity in the Global Positioning System"
The GPS Primer - a simple, practical summary of GPS Receivers, their functions and pitfalls.
National Green Check GPS Certification Learn Map, Compass, and GPS Skills through the National Green Check GPS Certification program.
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Particle Size Reduction of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API ). The wet milling technology of WAB allows for effectively reducing the particle size of API and excipients. With the DYNO®-MILL PHARMA equipment, coarse particles are milled to establish the required particle size distribution. The DYNO®-MILL PHARMA equipment line is capable of mechanical Micronization and Nanosization at current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) level protocols. Realised through semi-automatic or fully automatic control units, and the 21 CFR part 11 compliant WAB SCADA-System. In addition, selected DYNO®-MILL PHARMA units are available with Cleaning-In-Place (CIP) and Sterilization-In-Place (SIP) functionality. WAB supports its customers with great attention to detail from the initial definition of the User Requirement Specification (URS) throughout the IQ/OQ.
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturer first prepares a pumpable suspension of the solid API in a liquid medium. This raw suspension usually has a very wide particle size distribution and contains a high percentage of coarse particles. The coarse particles are mainly formed by aggregated and agglomerated API material.
The main task of the DYNO®-MILL PHARMA equipment is to disperse the aggregates and agglomerates to the desired particle size distribution.
With the many stages and requirements in the API development process, a broad range of solutions is a helpful support.
WAB has decades of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry and a proven spectrum of equipment to supports its global customer base.
For the various milling tasks, you need a supplier offering a broad range of products and experience. The combination of these abilities ensures reliable project support and on-time delivery.
Please fill out the form in order to download your file.
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You will love our Natural Wool Embroidered Floppy Hat in your choice of floppy wool hat color and thread color. We embroider this hat made to order in your color choices. This hat is adorable paired with a blanket scarf . This wool hat is practical to wear on any day you can dress it up or down.It's made of 100% wool with a Vegan Leather Accent. The hat has a 4" Brim and 22" Around Head. Our wool hat is available in Wine, Black and Tan.
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Music is a flagship for Shrewsbury International School. The school is renowned for staging musical concerts and recitals of the highest quality.
We attract specialist music teachers from around the world who instill a love of music making within our students. Some students progress to world-class conservatory programmes and careers as professional musicians; others develop a lifelong love of singing and playing. Many simply enjoy making music on a more casual basis; an appreciation which we hope to develop through the regular, timetabled curriculum music lessons for all students from EY1 to Y9.
All students from EY1 to Y9 enjoy music lessons as part of their timetabled curriculum learning, with a number of students going on to study the subject at GCSE and A-Level.
In Key Stage 2 & 3, students have either 1 or 2 class music lessons per cycle, including general music-making and singing. Year 5/6 classes also have one lesson of brass/woodwind tuition, where they are given access to an array of instrument resources, bought especially for this purpose and which has led to many students choosing to pursue the study of these instruments individually as part of the school’s co-curricular programme.
Pre Prep Choir; Prep Choir; Prep Chamber Choir; Senior Choir; Senior Chamber Choir; Year 7/8 Choir; Harmonix (a capella group); Junior Strings; Intermediate Strings; Senior Strings; Chamber Groups; Senior Orchestra; Big Band; Jazz Band.
Some of these ensembles are by invitation or audition, requiring a minimum standard and ongoing commitment to regular rehearsals and performances.
Shrewsbury's Symphony Orchestra, Choirs, Ensembles and other groups perform regularly throughout the year as part of the school's own extensive series of Recitals, Concerts and other performances, as well as within the wider community.
Our students also enjoy regular opportunities to perform internationally, including a recent tour of America’s East coast (incorporating a series of concerts in New York and Boston), and attendance at the Primary Performing Arts Carnivals in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Ho Chi Minh City.
Students often take the initiative in organizing ad hoc performances as part of their own rock and pop ensembles, accompanying community events. In recent years we have also been very pleased to welcome back some of our musical alumni, currently studying or graduated from some of the world’s leading musical conservatoires, to perform on Shrewsbury’s stages once more.
The popular bi-annual House Music Competition gives students from across the Senior School to take the lead and to prepare high quality, entertaining performances that they hope will earn the coveted competition trophy for their House.
Piano (Classical/Jazz); Violin; Viola; Cello; Double Bass; Flute; Oboe; Clarinet; Bassoon; Trumpet; French Horn; Trombone; Tuba; Orchestral percussion; Drum Kit; Harp; Saxophone; Guitar (Acoustic/Electric); Voice (Classical/Pop); Thai Instruments. Aural (listening skills lessons) are also offered.
The majority of lessons take place during the school day with students coming out of curriculum time on rotation to attend their lessons; instrumental lessons for senior students from year 10 upwards are timetabled outside of curriculum time. Lessons are usually 30 minutes in length and are taught by full time and visiting teachers who are all practising professional musicians.
Many of the orchestral instrument teachers work with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, The Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra and other professional ensembles in Bangkok. Lessons are billed separately.
Any instrumental players who wish to progress to practical grades 6+ are required to sit the ABRSM Grade 5 music theory examination. Individual theory lessons are offered as part of the school’s Instrumental programme (paid) and on a group basis as part of the school’s Extra-Curricular activities programme (free of charge and dependent upon capacity).
In addition, we now also offer Composition lessons free of charge as part of the school’s Extra-Curricular activities programme; a huge benefit to GCSE and A level students who are required to submit composition pieces as part of their assessed coursework.
In many cases it is possible to rent a school instrument for a small termly fee. Please contact the Music Department directly if you would like your child to be involved in any of the activities and/or if you would like them to receive instrumental tuition.
The Music School enjoys a beautiful space overlooking the river. It is progressive in design with teaching rooms, multiple practice rooms, a dedicated (Mac) computer suite and specialized rehearsal space, centred around an outstanding Recital Hall with Concert Grand Piano. Major performances are staged in the 600 seat Memorial Hall Auditorium, complete with with its own Steinway Grand Piano.
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FT4JA Juan de Nova - F5UFX, F5CWU, F4BKV, F4FET, F6BEE, F1NGP, F2DX, F5PTM, F4HAU, EA3NT will be active from Juan de Nova Island (IOTA AF-012) 29 March - 11 April 2016 as FT4JA.
They will operate on all HF Bands plus 6m.
QSL via F5CWU, LOTW, OQRS, ClubLog.
Flo MOUDAR, 26 rue Fleurie, 37330 Souvigné, France.
Good propagation is back again on high bands, and that is of course an excellent news ! We are keeping as much stations on the air on the opened bands, staying until it close.
We had excellent runs with NA west coast on different bands, we will continue to focus on difficult areas.
Unfortunately we will have to work on the dismantling plan to match with the necessary high tide. Depending on the high wind these days this might makes things difficult for loading/unloading things with the zodiac, well keep fingers crossed. We plan to leave the island next Monday. More info with the remaining antennas day by day soon.
Operators are tired by the long radio shifts and high temperature but are all still giving their best to put everyone in the log. We really appreciate the cooperation of everyone when we ask to QRX to give a chance to a special area.
The next weekend we will concentrate on the band/mods with the most QSOs in the log to give all a last opportunity for an ATNO.
Propagation seems to decrease from day to day. Signals on high bands are not what they were last week. Bands are also closing earlier. The last days we even had no opening with NA on 20, while the band stayed opened all night long the days before. More than ever this is the right time to send your observation to your local pilot. We take into consideration all useful comments to plan our activities.
Good news, thanks to a better weather today, the 160m antenna has been fixed.
At the time I’m writing this news, we are working on 10 – 12 and 15m with NA, we will stay until bands close. We have checked with W6 long path on 15m at 14-15z with no success, there is another opportunity tomorrow morning around 4z for the LP on 17-20m.
For that night the plans will depends on the propagation on 17-20. But if possible we will work AS-OC, then EU, and finally NA/SA. Same as last night we will also be on 40-30- 80 and of course 160m.
We try to upload logs as frequently as possible to prevent for dupes. The 15m plan with two stations all time provided many uniques with nearly 17 000QSOs on that band, with long openings world wide.
We are focused to get you in our log, good luck !
68243 QSO 18966 unique calls.
There was no 160m activity last night because the 26m high vertical was de-tuned. As we explained before we got high gusts of wind yesterday and the wires of the capacitive hat moved and seems to be not at the right place. The wind dropped down a bit and we’ll try to fix that today. We made many QRX yesterday during the storms to fix several problems on the camp and protect our 3 generators. By chance, nothing has been damaged !
Right now 05:00z wind is still blowing but not at the same level. The tide has been very high yesterday and last night, with waves coming 20m closer than usual. This is positive for the VDA !
80m was very noisy but we ran on that band a part of the night. Last night, when we changed the operators, there was a lot of lightnings all around the island. Still massive clouds in front of us this morning.
Time to start operating for the fresh operators. See you on the bands !
Days after day the situation is different. Last night propagation was not as usual ! High bands closed very early with no conditions on 17 & 20m right after our sunset.
Our hard work on low bands RX antennas has finally paid. Many QSO were achieved on 80 and 160m with all parts of the world, OC/JA, then EU and finally SA/NA including West Coast. We’ll do the same next night.
During daytime we are focused on the high bands. The daily runs on 15m are providing a lot of unique callsigns, and we’ll keep a station on that band till the end of the operation.
Life at the camp is going well. All operators are very tired due to extreme heat and sleep deprivation but still very motivated. We have extremely heavy rain since a couple of hours, as well as high winds. Up to now, all the equipment is ok and nothing has been damaged. Let’s hope the situation will improve quickly as our camp is not equiped to face such storms. As soon as possible we’ll call our skipper to ask for weather predictions. We’ll keep you updated about that point.
We are trying to upload the log at least twice a day. Do not hesitate to check it on ClubLog and help us to prevent useless dupes !
all is going pretty well. We reached last night the 50K qso and we continue to run the pile-up that are at certain time of the day really big. We try to exploit the bands from their opening till the end of the propagation. This allow us to work all continents from East to West and log many unique callsigns.
We have to report a lot of dupes in the log, despite of the online-log that is available on ClubLog. We ask you not to call again until the log is online in order to let a chance to the other stations.
Last night was very noisy on low bands and even with RX antennas we met difficulties to pick up calls. We’ll keep our efforts every night up to the end of the operation.
Weather is still good but heat is terrible in absence of wind. In the shelters we are well over the 50°Celsius during many hours of the day. This makes the operation complicated and we are taking regular short breaks to fresh-up a bit.
To conclude we remind everyone that operator’s instructions have a real importance ! Fighting during 5 minutes to keep the pile-up QRX is a waste of energy and we would really appreciate a better cooperation.
See you on the air if you did not make the contact yet !
40597 QSOs 13090 unique call.
Day 4 and first week-end. We have now entered in the daily routine of the dxpedition : operating, eating, sleeping. During the 3 first days we kept a daily rate over the 10K QSO.
Up to seven stations are on the air simultaneously. It is not possible of course to keep them all the time active with 10 ops. We are managing operators shifts to activate as many of them during best propagation period.
Like Tromelin in 2014, the best band seems to be the 15m. We try to keep one station on SSB and one on CW to maximize the chances and increase the number of unique callsigns.
As expected, Europe is the most simple continent to work from here. We are doing our best to listen for Asia, Oceania and Americas everytime time the propagation allows contacts. Please do not hesitate to report informations to our pilots if needed.
We improved a bit the RX system for 80/160m but theres still an issue in EU/NA direction. 2 phased pennants and reversible beverages have been installed. The one in direction of Japan is working fine. Already 800 stations have been logged on Top Band. We moved slighty our TX frequency because many reports have been received to complain about « fishing beacons» on 1820.5. Check around 1821 KHz.
Few words about the life on the island. The radio camp consists of two tents on the north beach. The life camp is 25 minutes walk away on the southern part of the island. We are trying to minimize our moves as much as possible because with heat and mosquitoes, all is complicated !
28465 logged 10182 unique call.
RX antennas have been set today for EU/NA, JA & West-Coast. They will setup a 4 SQ for 40m tomorrow. Right now, only single vertical is running on 40m. They will move their TX QRG on TB. 1821.5 has been suggested. Waiting to get more info about noise they have to deal with.
FT4JA 160m recording from Sakhalin Island.
FT4JA on 160m recording by RA0FF.
FT4JA Beacon on 6m on freq 50102. If you hear them please drop email to ads ft4ja@dxfor.me and after that you can call them.
Hello from Juan de Nova !
After our trip by boat the finally anchored nearby the lagoon entrance. It took a complete day to bring all equipment ashore, dealing with low and high tides in the lagoon.
We built the radio camp and antennas under extreme conditions. No wind at all during those first days. On night time, the temperature doesn't really decrease and we have thousands of mosquitoes showing up, looking for fresh meat. Hopefully the two tents are well done. The sea is close but very warm, with sharks coming very close to the sea shore.
Prior to the expedition, we worked with satellite pictures. We met on the island a configuration slightly different than expected but we have been able to set-up all antennas as planned. The field around the camp is not a soccer field but rather a place with high bushes (arbustes, broussailles in french) that makes any move a challenge ! in addition, there's spider as big a man hand everywhere. That's Juan de Nova ! Meanwhile, the lagoon and sky colors are just amazing !
We started the operation yesterday around 1230 utc. We worked with as many station as possible around the clock, depending of the operators shifts. The life camp is located a mile away from the shacks. During the first 24h, we did a bit more than 10K qso. The first batch has been send to Clublog and should be visible on the online-log soon.
Conditions are not too bad. We are meting a propagation close to our predictions. We always keep an eye on the planning not to miss any opening toward the "difficult regions of the globe". We ran on 160 and 80m without any RX antennas but we should have them tonight to cover all parts of the world. The 6m beacon is active.
Do not hesitate to drop a mail to our pilot if you have informations to forward to the team. We are in touch through the BGAN terminal or via radio.
The team is now focused on the pile-up. Thanks for your co-operation, see you on the bands !
FT4JA 160m recording by UT7QF.
FT4JA 160m recording by RV9CX.
FT4JA start activity on 15 and 12m now 12.40 GMT.
We start disembarking at sunrise as planned. We have not been able to carry all equipment before low tide. Meanwhile, we started to setup the camp on the north side of the island, shelters are ready as well as most of the antennas. Tomorrow morning at SR we will complete the antenna setup as well the generators. We plan to start activity around noon. Conditions are extreme, very high temperature and no wind make progress difficult.
FT4JA team landed on Juan de Nova island and setting up camp. This will take all day. Scheduled to start activity this evening Juan de Nova time.
After 2 days aboard the « Antsivia » and almost 2000 qso as /MM, we are now anchored near Juan de Nova. As our documents indicates, we’ll be allowed to disembark tomorrow at sunrise. The team is impatient to put a feet on the island and start setting up the camp. The disembarking plan is already defined.
We are a few hours before the departure. Yesterday, under a beating rain, we carried out the loading of our equipment on the boat.
The 4 crates, sent by cargo one and a half month ago, were set at disposal at the right time by our forwarding agent. Once the documents signed by the customs agents of Mayotte, the team started to work. 3 hours were necessary to tranship all the equipment using the tenter boat. That gives a rather precise idea of the possibilities that we will have during the unloading, even if it should be underlined, conditions will be different because of the absence of harbour on Juan de Nova.
The afternoon was devoted to the last purchases on Grande-Terre. We bought all last minute items that will help us to live in totally independently during two complete weeks.
We will embark this afternoon around 14:00 (1100z) and it is envisaged to weigh anchor at 16:00 (1300z). Conditions are for the moment very good, with a sky partially veiled and a temperature of 34 degrees Celsius. We will activate in the next hours the GPS beacon which will enable you to follow the route of the ship and know its position in real time.
We will use the time of the boat crossing to organize the unloading and define a coherent strategy to assembly all stuff. In addition, let us remind you that a convention was signed between the team and the TAAF agency which describe in a very precise way the plan of establishment of the antennas and list in an exhaustive way the prohibitions and restrictions imposed to our team.
Our arrival on the island is envisaged the morning of the 29th. Then, we will spend a whole day to assembly of the antennas and the life camp, splitted on two distinct sites.
Let’s hope that the conditions of propagation improve, so that each one can have the opportunity of hearing and contact us. Thank you for your messages, calls and encouragements. They are much appreciated. The team is very motivated to fulfill its commitments.
After more than a year of work, we are happy to finally get into the thick of it. The team will be complete in Mayotte on Thursday around noon! The schedule for the coming days is pretty full, with the last purchases and technical checks and the loading of the boat. We will sail away on Saturday. Our chief pilot will communicate updated information on the unloading and installation. At this time, we hope to be on the air on the evening of March 29 after a full day spent assembling.
As a reminder, we will use the band plan shared with our friends at VK0EK. Some windows are very narrow and we will have to live together in all understanding, without departing from the intended plan, at the risk of generating confusion and disruption between the two activities. The band plan is available on both websites. Our different pilots are available to transit informations to the team (JJ3PRT, ON9CFG, N5FG). The 10 operators will not have access to their personal emails and because of a lack of internet connection we will not be watching the DX-Cluster. No need to transit messages for us through that medium.
The QSL manager is Flo, F5CWU. He will process OQRS and the direct QSL requests as well as the cards received via the bureau. The ClubLog OQRS will be active by the end of the operation. We strongly recommend its use. Later, the logs will be loaded on LoTW and eQSL.
As part of our expedition on Juan de Nova island, we are pleased to announce that a stamp set will be issued by T.A.A.F. QSL cards sent direct will automatically have the envelope/stamp. We will unveil this commemorative object later.
Everyone connected to the FT4JA project would like to thank all of you who have already contributed in one way or another to the project. It would not be at this stage without the tremendous mobilization of clubs, foundations and individual donors.
The early donation program will be closed on Friday 25 at 1200Z. The “donors” page of our website will not be updated further after that specific time.
The 8 other operators will join them later. We are filling the suitcases with all the sensitive equipment that has not been shipped on the crates. Each piece is carefully checked.
On the other hand, we are working on the last details. We just released a webpage dedicated to 6m operation which gives all details for TEP and EME contacts tentatives (Earth-Moon-Earth).
Our pilots received a bunch of reports regarding 12 & 17m RTTY frequencies. Because it was not our first aim to activate these slots, we have decide not to work RTTY on these bands and keep the focus on 30/20/15m to maximize the number of unique callsigns worked.The band plan has been updated.
On the main page of the website, we just uploaded a short video called « we are ready » with a message to the international amateur radio community.
We are preparing a communication about the QSL and logs. These informations will be published on the website before our departure.
Last month, we reached a milestone with the shipment by sea of our equipment which marks a definite point of no return for the project both for logistical and financial support. Each element has been extensively tested in real conditions in order to overcome any bad surprise, then conditioned to simplify its installation. In total, just over 1,200 kg of equipment are engaged in this adventure, complemented by what is brought by the 10 operators reaching a total of almost 1.5 tons. Departure for Juan de Nova is expected on 26 March.
To do this we have carefully looked at the propagation conditions. These will of course be updated closer to the departure to maximize them. For Tromelin, they had proved fairly accurate, even for short openings LP and other peculiarities. A schedule such as this one (FT4JA Planning) will be displayed in front of each station and will be the score to play for the operators. Not surprisingly, the areas under the best conditions will be Europe and Japan followed by the east coast of the US and Oceania. To conclude, the most difficult area to work will be the west coast of the US. We will follow these schedules so as not to miss any opening, with priority for those benefiting from shorter openings. This is what we announced and this is what we will do. We rely also on the cooperation of all of you.
We invite you to send now your information to the pilot station dedicated to your area. There is still time to make the necessary adjustments. Once there, our pilots will be the only contact persons. We will be sent daily compilations of your comments to adjust our operation if need be.
Finally, let us remind you that the band plan coordinated with VK0EK is available on our website. The success of these two concurrent projects will rely on your understanding of this band plan and how you stick to it.
Only one thing has changed since our initial announcement: we will have 7 stations instead of 6, which you will admit, is a good thing except for our sleep!
Thank you to all those who continue to support us through a donation. It is important that the mobilization continues. Rememberthat all donations above or equal to €/$25 will allow you to receive the QSL card direct automatically. Our efforts to reduce the budget are important. However, wishing to offer a service worthy of the event, the expenses that we face remain very high.
A forthcoming communication, a few days before departure, will detail the practical aspects, such as real-time monitoring, online log, OQRS, QSL manager. Until then, you have a few weeks to prepare your antennas and your station! We are very busy on a daily basis to deal with different topics. Stress steadily increases, but not as much as the motivation that drives our team!
We are extremely glad to receive donations for our project. Everyone is now well informed that Top 10 DXCC countries are not easy to activate, sometime because of difficult access, their political situation or extremely high budget needed to organize an expedition.
Juan de Nova has been for a long time in the list of these islands activated regularly by scientists, mostly members of the french meteorological agency and sometime by militaries. The last important activity was in 2001. Nearly 14 years of silence for an island located in the indian ocean, not very far from other very common DXCC entities. It is true, this small island is about 100km from the western coast of Madagascar ! So, why is it so complicated and expensive to go there ?
Well, first of all, it is a question of obtaining a permit. Like other island, JDN is administered by a separate administation in charge of these lands. Most of them are natural reserves to keep these places as wild as possible. These territories are often regarded as reference (level 0) in term of human impact.. Millions of birds can lay in peace, just like the turtles. It would be a nonsense to authorize expeditions each year or a regular human presence.
After our 2014 operation from Tromelin, the TAAF administration decided to accept our permit request, probably because of the mutual confidence and the very positive relationship established.
From one place to another, the constraints are differents and we had to reconsider a certain number of aspects of the operation. Air transport used in 2014 was not possible, in particular because of the volume/weight of freight to be transported. The assistance received (transport of the crates prior to the operation) for Tromelin was not possible this year. Consequently, we had to book a maritime solution by requesting a ship authorized to station in the lagoon and to transport us. It represents, with the various taxes approximately 70% of the budget.
The cost of our energy autonomy is also important since we must convey several generators and electrical installation as well as the fuel (10-15%). For an operation of this size, these expenses are not easily compressible, more especially as we need to respect precise conditions, to which we will not derogate.
On the other hand, we tried to optimize our expenditures and purchases as well as possible and to employ as much as possible personnal equipments available or lent by our generous sponsors. Although the team (10 operators) finances a good part of the expedition, which is completely logical, we launched an appeal towards fundations, clubs, associations as well as individual DX’ ers. It is undeniable that this mobilization made it possible to advance in the organization and that without this one our expedition would have remained at the state of simple project.
With you, contributors, sponsors or member of one of associations/clubs/foundations which help us, we draw you a great praise.
On the various continents, the mobilization needs to go on to keep supporting our team but we are already very proud and happy in front of as many generosity and expressions of sympathy.
Who said that Ham Spirit did not exist any more?
FT4JA. Where Juan de Nova Island is located. Map.
When are QSLs going to be SENT OUT FOR YOUR OPERATION IN APRIL 2016???
When are you guys planning on sending out OUR QSL CARDS FOR YOUR OPERATION??? Its been 2 MONTHS NOW????
Are you going to give Oceania a chance for an ATNO? Club log reports that OC makes up just 0.9% of contacts. Is it possible to point the beams to OC at a time when we actually have propagation? Thanks and 73.
Finally broke through the pile ! Worked FT4JA on 18.145/18.155. Thanks guys for picking me up! It was tough getting through the pile on 200w and a Gap Titan vert. Good luck through the rest of the DXpedition!
Worked 2 times. SSB and CW 40m band. ATNO. Now 305 for DXCC running. 73 from PY3KN!
In three months, FT4JA will be on the air. The exact dates of the operation were confirmed both by the authorities and by our skipper. We will be there from March 29 to April 11, 2016. These dates include the unloading and loading phases. For nearly a year, we have been working in detail on every aspect of the operation. While it is unrealistic to think that we have everything under control in such an adventure, we make sure to have alternative solutions to overcome any deficiencies while controlling our expenses. In early January, the 4 crates of equipment will be shipped to Mayotte, which will again be our starting point. Part of the team will be on site a few days before loading and a few days after our return to manage, if necessary, last minute details. For now, we are in the process of finishing testing the hardware and are packing it for transport to optimize the time of loading / unloading. Each well-anticipated subject will be extra time at our disposal there. Our luck with FT4JA is that we are able to rely on a more robust team than last year with Tromelin and over a period of operation extended by a few days. We will benefit from these two “bonuses” by being able to make more contacts and allow more of you to contact us. Furthermore, we officially welcome EA3NT, Christian, who has joined the team. His many experiences on islands around the world, many with members of the group, will be an asset. Budget Judging by the support already received, the popularity of our operation is palpable and shows tremendous expectations. Many clubs and associations have confirmed their support and we thank them. Other solicited clubs are still studying our request. Our pilot for Asia, Joe, JJ3PRT, has surrounded himself with a team to mobilize the JA community that is fully invested in the project. Arigatoo! The other countries are not far behind. We record a great generosity on the part of hams around the world and cannot but be touched by this needed mobilization. Remember that anyone with a donation of €/$ 25 or more can automatically receive confirmation of contacts directly to their mailbox. If the pace of donations continues, and in the absence of unforeseen expenses, we are confident to complete the budget of our operation by April. Bandplan Following the change of dates of the expedition to Heard, most wanted DXCC countries # 4 and # 5 will be on the air at the same time! To minimize problems on the bands, we suggested to the VK0EK team to adopt a common band plan to share the segments on the different bands, taking into account the specificities of each region. Each of us will benefit in terms of clarity and efficiency. It is available on our website. Again, all comments are welcome now through our pilot stations. 50 MHz The period during which FT4JA expedition will take place is conducive to 6m. We will be in effect during a period of trans-equatorial propagation (TEP), which suggests many QSO on the magic band. We have planned some 50 MHz high-performance equipment including a dedicated station consisting of a DXBeam 6 element Yagi, an Elecraft K3, and an SPE Expert 1.3 KFA amplifier. The team will also include several operators that usually practice DX on this band and therefore know its subtleties. The 6-meter station will operate mostly in a CW beacon mode (“CQ FT4JA”) whose frequency will be published in our plan. As our satellite internet access will be very limited, we cannot monitor the cluster. We will switch to a transmitting position (CW or SSB only) as soon as we hear someone respond. It is a method that has already proven its worth, particularly on Tromelin. In an attempt to satisfy everyone, and because the technical challenge is very motivating, we also plan to try EME (JT65). Despite limited resources to work stations via the moon, it will be a first from Juan de Nova. It is important for us to satisfy the greatest number, and having real ambitions on 6m is part of the adventure. However, to be consistent with our key objectives, our 6-meter QSOs will be in addition to the rest of the contacts and not to the detriment of our presence on the HF bands. In conclusion, we wish good luck and good contacts to our friends at VP8STI/SGI and K5P who will open in early January the “party” of the Top 10 DXCC DXpeditions planned for 2016 Soon new information will be provided.
Would love to see someone do Crozet.
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Planning to upgrade your front door? If you’ve come up with a decision to do so you are surely having a hard time selecting if you will go with the wooden door or go for an iron front door. Keep in mind, that both kinds of doors have their own pros and cons. However, the pros of the wrought iron doors have a distinct advantage compare to wooden door.
Read on below to learn the benefits and the advantages of iron door.
This is true and talks about reality even back in the old age. When the iron door was first used, it was designed and built with energy efficiency on top of its purpose. The iron door keeps the home warm during the winter and cool during the summer, and advantages are being utilize nowadays. As of the moment, as the technology develops iron doors are also getting more efficient when it comes to energy saving for the reason that ion doors now are foam insulated in order to keep your home temperature as what you desired it to be.
Unlike wooden doors, iron doors have several advantages and its benefits are not only limited to energy efficiency. Compare to wooden doors, iron doors do not require often or a regular maintenance just to maintain its appeal. In addition to this, wood tends to swell on a certain period of time because of the moisture and will eventually rot even you have it treated. By this being said, choosing a wooden front door definitely requires a frequent maintenance and in the long run this makes the wooden door more expensive compare to iron doors.
On the other hand, a luxurious wrought iron door may need some or to a little maintenance, but the fact that metal does not swell, rot, or split like wood. As a matter of fact, iron is as well resistant to dust naturally and this makes it more durable and hard-wearing even with different range of weather conditions. Scratches and dents are the most common issues when it comes to iron door maintenance more likely caused by severe impacts, though, these happen very rare for the reason that iron is a durable metal.
Definitely, a nice elegant wooden door can add up to your homes curb appeal but the luxury just like a wrought iron door is first rate. Imagine the hand-forged scrollwork not to mention the intricacies and complexities of their design, oftentimes considered as a symbol of status and wealth even during the ancient times. And even today, wrought iron doors will give your home a status unrivaled by its neighbors.
Above all, iron doors are not just to make statement of wealth and they are used just to make your house look pretty. Just like in the ancient times, iron doors were used to protect the occupants at the same time the home’s contents, so basically, they are used to prevent intruders. And today when it comes to safety and security the iron doors are still considered the gold standard.
There are some things in the house that you have to admit you cannot do confidently. In cases like that you might think that doing the project yourself may help you save money. However, for some big investments in the house, admitting to yourself you needed an expert help may help you save on cost more.
Projects such as Naples AC services and maintenance can be done by you, sure. However, for some that could mean damaging your air conditioning unit and putting yourself in danger. There is also plumbing and electrical wiring. You can read articles in the internet on how to do a certain stuff. But nothing could beat the knowledge and year of experience of the expert. So, let them do their job and enjoy the peace of mind.
It is crucial for any home owner to look for contractors that they can trust. Contractors who would take care of the job and make sure that it is delivered with excellent results.
There are many people out there that is working to scam you; take your money but not deliver the job properly. That is something that you shouldn’t want to happen to you. That is why looking for a legal license can help build the trust. It is a bonus if the person you hired have experience. Especially if the job requires seniority with it.
It is another good idea to ask for references from your potential contractor. It is easier to just hire the contractor on the spot. This could be a very bad idea, as you don’t know what your contractor is capable of. Customers who have received excellent services will be willing to tell you what your potential is like as a worker all in all.
This point can be connected on the second one. Your contractor should be able to handle a job with efficiency. No matter how dire the situation look, an expert technician can do it without any problem. They can finish the job in a timely manner and deliver the job with excellence. You can feel the money you paid for their services is worth it.
The contractor’s company should have insurance prepared. To protect you and the technicians from accidents. There are many things that could happen in the site no matter how much safety precautions had to make to ensure that everyone is okay. When this happens you don’t want to paying compensation to your technicians, especially if the fault lies in the negligence of the contractor.
When you first meet for an interview of the contractor. Take the time to look at them and decide if they are professional enough with your dealings. It is important to make sure that your contractor is well dressed. If they have uniforms in their office you can use that too. You don’t wan to have men into your home who scares that bejeezuz out of you.
Tree trimming may sound simple and it could be if you know everything that goes about it. If you have a chainsaw you can probably do the tree trimming yourself. However, calling the professional will still trump the do it yourself path. This is because tree trimming Baton Rouge is a serious job that requires experience and knowledge.
There are so many things that could go wrong with trimming your trees. You could damage your tree. You could pose and be a health hazard for the immediate vicinity. You can damage public properties and there are so many more reasons why you shouldn’t do the trimming yourself.
You should check the condition of the tree. Trees can survive without the assistance of human beings. That is why when you do need to trim a tree make sure that it is absolutely necessary to trim the tree. You should know the condition of your tree so that when you are doing your work you are safe from breaking branches and falling head first.
If you have decided to do the trim your tree yourself make sure that you are using safety equipment to assist you with the job. It is imperative that safety comes first so, you should always make sure that you have safety as priority.
Also, make sure that your tree cuttings are not going to fall to unsuspecting victims. People in the immediate vicinity should be informed of the tree trimming and there should also be a thought given to making sure that the trimmings can go on the ground without injuring anyone.
Don’t ever improvise when you are tree trimming. Experts can do this because they have the background knowledge needed for the job and the experience to deliver the job properly but not to a do it yourself owner. You are putting yourself at risk by doing this and you are also putting your neighbors and your property in the first line of damage.
It is important to know the basics of tree trimming of you are doing the trimming yourself. If you don’t do the tree trimming properly you might make the whole tree irreparable. This means that you might damage the integrity of the tree thus it would end up needing to be removed. You don’t want that so make sure to at least use the right technique in tree trimming.
There are so many things that could happen to a tree with tree trimming. It could either make or break your tree. Trees take a long time to grow and being the reason why your tree has to be removed is something that you don’t want to happen to you. That is why you need to think before you do anything to your tree.
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Applicants or enrolled students may apply for student aid by completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The application should be submitted by March 1 of each year, but will also be accepted if submitted at a later date. The FAFSA will be used to determine your eligibility for the Direct Unsubsidized Loan, which is awarded at a maximum of $20,500 per academic year. If awarded this loan, you will also be required to complete Entrance Counseling and the Master Promissory Note.
If you need more aid than the Direct Unsubsidized Loan will allow, you may also apply for a Direct Graduate PLUS Loan. Since the loan is credit-based, you must complete an additional application. You are required to sign in with your Social Security number, date of birth, and Federal Student Aid PIN in order to access the Direct PLUS Loan Request. The maximum amount you may borrow is your cost of attendance budget minus other aid received (e.g. $55,364-$20,500=$34,864). Direct PLUS Loans may also be borrowed to cover summer tuition and fee expenses, if you will be enrolled in a minimum of 2 credit hours.
An emergency loan fund in memory of the late associate dean Morris R. Gelblum assists students who are experiencing temporary financial hardship. Interest-free, short-term loans up to $600 can be made in critical situations, with repayment due in not more than 90 days. For consideration of the Gelblum loan, fill out the application and promissory note.
The Office of Scholarships and Student Aid also has a limited emergency loan fund from which interest-free, short-term loans up to $800 can be made to cover temporary, emergency expenses. The funds can be used for books, living expenses, childcare, etc, but cannot be used for university charges. The repayment date would never be beyond the first day of the last month of the semester in which the loan is borrowed (i.e. December 1 or May 1). If you fail to repay the loan by the due date, a "hold" will be placed on your academic records and late fees will be assessed at $15 per month. The unpaid balance will be automatically deducted from any future refund you may receive from the Cashier's Office and future Emergency Loan requests may be denied. If you are interested in this loan, you must first complete an application( ).
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"timestamp": "2019-04-21T16:13:22",
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Our centres will be closed for the course holiday from Monday, 18 March to Thursday 21 March.
Parents, please take note that our centres will be closed from 4 February to 10 February for Chinese New Year. Classes will resume on 11 February.
If you are considering phonics or reading classes or English enrichment for your child, bring your child to My English School this year during one of our open house events for a free assessment and learn more about our programmes.
We are opening in The Poiz Centre (Potong Pasir)!
We’ve expanded again to serve our parents and students better! We will soon be opening up a new My English School centre at The Poiz Centre at Potong Pasir. We look forward to seeing you there after Chinese New Year!
Singapore’s number one parenting and lifestyle magazine selected My English School as the enrichment center offering the Best English Comprehensive Reading and Primary Programme!
The 2019 calendar is here! Now you can look online to check the dates of public holidays and course holidays observed by all My English School locations.
Our centres will not be conducting regular classes during the course holiday from Monday 3 September to Sunday 9 September.
My English School is now open at The Wisteria (Khatib)!
Now your children can attend our reading and primary classes conveniently located in the shopping mall at The Wisteria. Look for us at #B1-12.
Our centres will not be conducting regular classes during the course holiday from Monday 11 June to Sunday 17 June.
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Festivals in Rhinebeck, NY. Craft Shows, Wine-Beer Events, Farmers Markets.
A Boat Auto Camping Show organized by Hudson River Valley Antique Auto Association.
This New York Boat Auto Camping Show will have flea market, commercial/retail, corp./information and antique/collectibles exhibitors, and 15 food booths. Admission tickets are $10 - $12. This event will also include part of Hudson River Valley auto show.
A Craft Show organized by Stella Show Management Co..
This New York Craft Show will have Fine Art, Fine Craft, Crafts, Homegrown Products and Antique/Collectibles exhibitors, and 15 food booths. Admission tickets are $18 - $40.
This New York Craft Show will have fine art, fine craft and crafts exhibitors, and tba food booths. Admission tickets are $9 - $10. This event will also include kids' activities.
A State Fair organized by DCAS.
This New York State Fair will have Fine Art, Fine Craft, Crafts, Commercial/Retail, Homegrown Products and Corp./Information exhibitors, and 150 food booths. There will be 2 stages with National and Regional talent and the hours will be Fri 10am-10pm, Sat 10am-10pm, Sun 10am-All Days 5pm. Admission tickets are $10 - $15. This event will also include: carnival, agriculture, arts & crafts.
A Wine-Beer Event organized by Wineracks.Com.
This New York Wine-Beer Event will have Fine Art, Fine Craft, Commercial/Retail, Homegrown Products and Corp./Information exhibitors, and 15 food booths. Admission tickets are $15 - $40. This event will also include: cooking demos, wine tasting, wine seminars, kids' activities.
A Craft Show organized by Quail Hollow Events.
This New York Craft Show will have fine art, fine craft, crafts and homegrown products exhibitors, and tba food booths. There will be 1 stage with National, Regional and Local talent and the hours will be Sat 10am-6:30pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Admission tickets are $6 - $12. This event will also include: craft beer, regional wine, harvest activities, children's center, animals.
A Fiber Arts Festival organized by Dutchess County Sheep and Wool Growers Association.
This New York Fiber Arts Festival will have crafts and homegrown products exhibitors, and 20 food booths. There will be Roving Performers with Local talent and the hours will be Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 9am-4pm. Admission tickets are $9 - $17. This event will also include: petting zoo, children's activities, ed the wizard, mad science & more.
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Corten steel. Strong and long lasting, up to 25 years, with practically no maintenance. The pattern Motif is a geometric design similar to a Japanese screen. Use to screen and delineate spaces. 55% opacity. Can be used as a boundary fence panel. Special posts, end caps, and clamps are available.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-22T13:12:41",
"url": "https://www.provendernurseries.co.uk/product_detail.cfm?ProductID=2030222&ProductName=corten-steel-panel-motif-pattern",
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