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The remarks below are an extension of the article “A Slow Fall into the Finish Line” published in the WCDS Magazine 2016-17.
Congratulations, Abby! What moment led you to want to be where you are now, an Ironman triathlete?
I love pushing the limits, and I love being active. So, when I combine those two things, I end up in the realm of endurance sports. I began slowly by running several marathons in college, but I never really felt like they were a challenge. When I moved to Seattle, I found triathlons. I am an abysmal swimmer; I hardly float in water. I’m also an average biker, so when I competed in my first triathlon, it hurt. I remember running across the finish line and thinking, Wow, I’m bad at this. Naturally, that spiraled into a journey to get better. Suddenly, I was meeting people who had competed in these races called Ironmans, so I started reading, and once I knew that there was such a thing as a 140.6-mile race, I was committed to doing it.
How did you train for this, physically and emotionally?
Google is a dangerous tool. I found training plans online, crafted one that fit my schedule, and then set to work. For the past year, I’ve eaten like a 6’6” man. While most people come home after work to relax and watch Netflix, I come home and watch YouTube videos about Ironman races, tearing up over the stories of others. I will confess it has been a very trying year; one of the greatest battles is not letting the race become who you are. I set mental rules not allowing myself to even say the word Ironman just to help strike some balance in my life. Luckily, I have some amazing friends and family who were of great support throughout the entire process.
You’re known to be a bit of a perfectionist. Did that help or hinder your journey?
Fortunately, triathlons are an area where I must bury my type-A personality. A key to the sport seems to be adaptability, and I’ve had to focus more on what’s happening in the moment versus trying to plan every next step.
Regardless of dedication and discipline, every athlete faces setbacks. What were your obstacles and what did you learn from them?
I’ve had so many setbacks – pulled muscles, plateaus in training, and feelings of doubt seeping in throughout my preparation. Thankfully, my parents have been a great support throughout it all, driving countless hours and miles to support me in races and training. My entire family has also been wonderful, constantly checking on me and sending care packages. My friends, too, have been amazing; they’ve fed me, driven me home, worked out with me, and cheered me on when I would lose momentum in my efforts. I couldn’t have gotten through it without everyone’s support. All in all, I’ve learned the value of perseverance, the power of humility, and the necessity for courage in the face of adversity.
Do you want to continue these demanding competitions? If so, how do you balance it all?
Yes, yes, and a thousand times yes again. I’m addicted now to the sport — to the feelings I have when I’m training and racing and to the love I have for the people who do this. As far as balance goes, I just wake up early, around 4 a.m., and get the day started with a workout. Then if there’s a lull or it’s been a long day, I’ll go work out again. I think a big part of finding balance comes from finding my own definition of relaxation. For most people, decompressing comes from enjoying a TV show or socializing with friends. I’ve taught myself that rest comes from calming my mind and stretching it out on a swim or run.
What advice do have for someone who is thinking about competing in triathlons?
My greatest advice would be to get out there and try it. It’s just fun and invigorating to put yourself to the task of doing something that you never thought you would or could do. Right before going up to Lake Placid to practice the biking and swimming this summer, a friend told me about the movie of the Lake Placid monster, which is some big, man-eating alligator. Everyone knows I think open water is relatively terrifying. So, when I jumped in the water, each little piece of seaweed or debris that touched me in that lake sent chills down my spine. Oddly, it was one of my fastest training swims! Then, on race day, a lady was talking to me before we entered the water and said, “Just remember, there are divers in the lake watching us swim for safety, so if you see something moving, don’t freak out.” Little did she know, she saved me. At about 1.6 miles, I saw something swimming around me and panicked before I realized that thankfully, it was just a diver and not the Lake Placid monster. Irrational fears were conquered that day as well. | <urn:uuid:fa671675-2c56-44cf-8df5-455a836bf59a> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | http://wcdsva.org/thousand-times-yes-interview-abigael-whitaker-10/ | 2018-12-12T07:21:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823785.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20181212065445-20181212090945-00480.warc.gz | en | 0.976611 | 1,103 |
When Jay-Z released his first "Blueprint" CD on Sept. 11, 2001, the rapper couldn't have known how monumental, and tragic, the day would turn out to be.
This week, Jay-Z is once again releasing an album with the "Blueprint" tag, but this time, the release of CD around the Sept. 11 date is not coincidental, but purposeful.
"The Blueprint 3," billed as the final album of a trilogy, is being paired with a special benefit concert on Sept. 11 at Madison Square Garden. It will benefit the families of police officers and firefighters who lost their lives when the World Trade Center's twin towers collapsed in the terrorist attacks.
Jay-Z feels the album – which features a myriad of guests including Kanye West, Rihanna and Alicia Keys – shows how he's evolved to become one of hip-hop's leaders.
AP: Why do you feel this is the right time to release the third installment of "Blueprint"?
Jay-Z: This album was actually supposed to come out last year, but for some reason it didn't, and whatever happened and however we got to this place, we're here now. So it just made sense for me to grasp the moment and make it a bigger thing because the first one wasn't planned to come out on September 11, right? There was no "September 11." We didn't know that that tragic event would happen that day. So now with that knowledge, we should never forget and we should always move past it and be strong but never forget.
AP: Tell us about the recording process for this CD.
Jay-Z: It was great. In the face of everything that is going on, just me personally I just stick to true emotions and feelings and strength and growing in music, and not following trends or anything like that. So for me it was refreshing and a great feeling to put out an album, a full album of music that people can listen to and gravitate to. It took me a month just to put the sequence together. I'm proud of the album.
AP: Kayne West was an up-and-coming producer on "Blueprint" back in 2001. How was it different to work with him now?
Jay-Z: The most interesting thing in the studio was Kanye because of Kayne's growth. You got to figure on the first "Blueprint" he was a new producer, so he was just putting in the beats and moving out the way. On this one, he had an opinion about how the songs should sound and it was just great energy that we had in the studio.
AP: The record features a number of newcomers – Drake, Kid Cudi, Mr. Hudson and J. Cole. What did you learn from them?
Jay-Z: Their excitement for the game. You know when you first come in the music business ... you come with really wide eyes. That's why on every single album I have a new producer or new rapper because I love that new energy. Whatever they do from there is on them, but that new energy and what they had right there is raw and untapped, and pretty much cool. | <urn:uuid:a02d7f5a-fc57-46ab-9b1d-2b0da99fa30c> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2009/sep/09/us-music-q-jay-z-090909/ | 2014-10-24T07:52:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119645432.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030045-00166-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98346 | 655 |
Crooners make karaoke a crowd-pleaser for Fair
By Sue Cook, staff reporter
KNOWLESVILLE – Thursday night marked the finals of the karaoke contest at the 4-H Fair and a big crowd turned out for one of the fair’s most popular events.
Seventeen contestants were chosen from prior qualifying rounds throughout the week to compete for the $1,000 prize donated by M&T Bank.
Another prize of 16 hours of studio time was donated by John Wragg, owner of TORQUIL Studios. Wragg was personally judging the contest seeking someone who was very passionate about their and was not simply there trying to win the cash prize. The prize also includes time to make a music video with the studio.
Wragg commented that he was not judging based on age, looks or gender. The important part was that the singer was full of energy and having a great time, while making it clear they lived to be a performer.
Brandon Johnson, the entertainment coordinator for the fair, was one of the judges for the karaoke contest.
“This is one of the biggest competitions in the entertainment portion of the fair that happens throughout the week,” he said. “Lots of people come out for this and come back night after night to try to qualify for finals. We’re looking for stage presence, vocal ability and crowd recognition.”
He added that pure talent was the key to winning high marks from the judges.
“I like all types of music, said Johnson. “It just depends on who is singing it and their vocal ability and whether the song fits them or not.”
Contestant Rich Nolan performed “Eight-Second Ride” by Jake Owen.
“I’ve been singing my whole life, so it’s just natural,” said Nolan. “I’ve been practicing that way and doing other contests. There’s a lot of good competition. It’s going to be hard.”
Taylor Whittier performed an AC/DC for the finals, but also used the band for his qualifier song on Monday. One way he says he gets positive feedback is to get the crowd involved.
“I play music in a local band called Terrible Ideas,” Whittier said. “I’ve been singing since I was 12 or 13 in local places. I just do it for fun.”
Lydia Piazza, a resident of New Jersey, moves to the area in the summer and enters the 4-H karaoke contest each year.
“I love it,” she said about being on stage. “I’ve been dancing since I was 5, so it’s just calming to me. I’ve always been singing just for fun.”
Morgan Parnitzke, 17, was not intimidated by some of the older singers because she was competing for the enjoyment of it.
“I just took a lot of time rehearsing the song over and over again. I just felt it,” she said. “I’m glad I got the chance to sing today.”
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SENECA — The Seneca American Legion will host its annual outdoor “Breakfast in the Park” on Sunday, July 14, 2013.
Serving times for this rain or shine event will be between 8 a.m. and noon. Menu items will include pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage links, homemade breakfast pastries, juice, coffee and milk.
Adult breakfast is $6 and the price for children (10 and under) is $2.
As usual, “Breakfast in the Park” will be served under the shelter at Crotty Park on Shipyard Road in Seneca. Guests will also be able to view the LST Memorial honoring WWII shipyard workers and LST veterans.
In addition to breakfast, the post will be selling and taking orders for high quality U.S. flags in all patriotic sizes.
Proceeds are used to help support Kasal Post 457’s yearly commitments to the community. For more information, contact James Olson at (815) 357-6632. | <urn:uuid:7a2d973c-b8d4-4725-abe4-47a00dcee29b> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.morrisherald-news.com/2013/06/25/breakfast-in-the-park-set-for-july-14/aos7x5m/ | 2016-02-14T02:09:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701168076.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193928-00020-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937696 | 212 |
UNO Theatre Presents “Freakshow”
February 23rd, 2015
Omaha, NE — The stories behind a band of traveling freaks are on display at UNO.[audio:https://kvnonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Freakshow-Web.mp3]
The UNO Theatre department will present Carson Kreitzer’s new play Freakshow this Friday, February 27th through March 7th at the Weber Fine Arts Building on the UNO campus on 60th and Dodge St.
The show take audiences to the turn of the century where a traveling Freakshow is slowly grinding to a halt. The times are changing and people just aren’t as interested in the grotesque as they used to be. Tempers rise as those in the show face the conflict between reconciling the anger of being stared and gawked at with the comfort of knowing your place in the universe.
Along for the show are a woman with no arms and no legs, a human salamander, a pinhead, the dog-faced woman who cares for them, and the Ringmaster who lined his pockets by giving them a home.
“It’s Their Lives as these extraordinary beings and what it’s like for them to be on display; what it’s like to be part of this family on the outside.”
That’s the dog-faced girl herself, played by UNO Graduate Student Mallory Freilich who is performing in the show as part of her Master’s Degree completion. She said one of the key parts of bring her character to life, was the makeup transformation she goes through to create the dog-face girl. She based her face off of her pet basset hound and together with costume designer Sharon Sobel, created a design that was part human, part animal. From there, it was all about figuring out her characters dog-like movements.
“There was a lot of paying more attention to my dog than I think she was okay with,” Freilich laughed. “Developing just how dogs move and then translating into how a human takes that on.”
Then there are, of course, the other performers in the traveling bands of freaks, each with their own unique look and their own unique environment that present a peculiar design challenge.
“There are three characters that are on stage for basically the entire show,” Freilich said. “And each of their homes was made especially for them. To help, we cast the play at the end of last semester so that those measurements could be taken and the set could be started on. It’s theatre magic! That’s what we do.”
While the performers may look like freaks, Freilich said the show will connect with anyone who has ever felt alone in the world, looking for love, looking for purpose.
“Most people went to high school,” Freilich said. “Everyone’s felt like an outsider. They’ve felt like there was something that made them different, that made them ugly. That’s not the only part of someone. The idea of the grotesque and the idea that there is something truly beautiful there is what this story is about.”
UNO Theatre’s Production of Freakshow by Carson Kreitzer will run from February 27th through March 7th at the Weber Fine Arts Building on UNO’s Campus. For more information on the production, visit www.unomaha.edu/unotheatre.
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for the foreseeable future, starting January 18TH, 2021 (in honor of martin Luther king, jr. day), 50% of profits made from Mitchell Matthews' song "i think i found my person" (feat. mathew sproles) will be going towards the national association for the advancement of colored people (naacp), who are fighting to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic rights of all persons, and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
for the foreseeable future, starting January 1st, 2021, 50% of profits made from mitchell matthews' songs "euphoria," "memaria," "loveyoubye," "headspace (i feel lost)," and "i want you (to be happy)," on bandcamp, will be going towards the southwest missouri (swmo) solidarity network, whose primary objective for this winter is to stand with their community, which means performing direct actions that will improve the conditions of individuals in dire need during this pandemic, most notably the large homeless population in Springfield, MO. This includes distributing any survival items that will keep these individuals alive, which includes tents, sleeping bags, blankets, winter boots, etc. With many cold-weather shelters operating far below capacity due to COVID-19, people have nowhere to go, especially when some shelters, in particular, are closed and evicted with notice, and with it being the common practice of Springfield PD to confiscate and destroy these items, more people than ever forced to rough the harsh conditions of the season, and providing someone with these items could save their life.
for the foreseeable future, starting January 1st, 2021, 100% of profits made from mitchell matthews' song "AMAZONIA," on bandcamp, will be DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN AMAZON WATCH, an organization that protects the rainforest and advances the rights of indigenous peoples in the amazon basin, by partnering with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the amazon's ecological systems, and rainforest trust, an organization that purchases and protects the most threatened tropical forests, and saves endangered wildlife through partnerships and community engagement. | <urn:uuid:b9afbf75-9838-48e8-80c5-be334f7e7046> | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | https://songswithapurpose.org/mitchell-matthews | 2022-10-06T20:30:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337855.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006191305-20221006221305-00138.warc.gz | en | 0.960195 | 449 |
Last year, Naheed Nenshi, the mayor of Canada’s energy capital Calgary, Alberta, appeared on MSNBC to promote the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. But before he could get to his points, the host pointed out that Calgary was home to a US presidential candidate.
“I am the the mayor of the birthplace of Ted Cruz,” admitted Nenshi. “And we’re real proud of it.”
There was more than a hint of sarcasm in his voice. Approving Keystone might be the only thing the Muslim mayor and the evangelical Texas senator who wants to “carpet bomb” the Middle East would agree on.
And while Alberta has been called “Texas of the North” – and Calgary “a frigid Dallas” – the prospect that the 45th US president may be a hometown boy is more often a mark of shame than a badge of honour.
Cruz lived in the city until he was four, while his mother – who later took out Canadian citizenship – and Cuban-American father worked in Alberta’s oil and gas sector.
In the US, Cruz’s birthplace has been the subject of debate among both his rivals and constitutional scholars, but in Canada’s north few had paid attention to the matter until the senator’s surprise victory at the Republican Iowa caucus this week.
“I’m a bit shocked and disappointed in the people of Iowa,” says Mary Eggermont-Molenaar – who was shocked herself to learn last year that for the past 30 years she’s lived in the Republican frontrunner’s childhood home. “It was a sombre night in Casa Cruz.”
Eggermont-Molenaar, a Dutch immigrant, is a staunch socialist, but Cruz’s far-right politics rarely resonate even among Alberta’s conservatives. “I’m horrified that he’s even associated with Canada,” says Dan St Pierre, a politically active conservative in the capital, Edmonton. “To be perfectly blunt I think Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are batshit crazy.
The upside, says St Pierre, is he doubts many Albertans know his name, let alone that he was born there.
If Cruz was quick to disavow his Alberta roots, many Albertans have been quicker to disavow him.
“As far as I’m concerned, he’s a Texan, not a fellow Albertan,” says Houston Meding, a legislative assistant to a conservative senator who grew up in the province’s Bible belt. “I’m happy he supports Keystone but there’s a ton of rancour and chest-thumping in his rhetoric, like carpet bombing Isis. I wouldn’t be happy to see Ted Cruz become president.”
This may come as a surprise to even many Canadians. Alberta overwhelmingly votes right in federal politics. Former prime minister Stephen Harper’s electoral district is in Calgary, and he’s a product of what’s often dubbed the “Calgary School” – the north’s answer to Leo Strauss’s neoconservative movement.
As the New Republic put it in an article about Cruz’s roots: “If you can’t be born in conservative America, Calgary is about as close to second best as the world has to offer.”
That may be true of the Calgary in which Rafael and Eleanor Cruz raised little “Felito”. But much has changed in Canada’s conservative heartland, which last May elected a leftist provincial government after 44 uninterrupted years of conservative rule.
Even Albertans overestimate the conservativeness of their neighbours, according to a survey of a 1,000 residents by leftist lobby group Progress Alberta. “Maybe Ted Cruz’s brand of conservatism would have resonated 20 years ago,” says the group’s executive director, Duncan Kinney, “But we’ve gotten younger, more urban, more educated, and those traits don’t correlate with a hardcore Cruz-esque conservative.”
“He may have been born here, but he doesn’t represent us in any way.”
That’s not to say he doesn’t have any hometown fans. But outside of the fringe religious right, support is tepid.
“To be honest, I kind of like Ted Cruz,” says Cochrane town councillor Morgan Nagel. “He’s a more moderate alternative to Donald Trump.”
“President Cruz” would not be a huge point of pride for Nagel. But, he says, “maybe if we get a Calgarian in there, that Keystone pipeline will finally get through.” (President Obama vetoed the Keystone plan a year ago, but many Canadians still hold on to the possibility that it can be realized.)
For Trevor Lynn, a left-leaning Calgary speechwriter who worked for the Canadian government under Liberal rule, Cruz’s appeal is strictly personal. “We were born in the same hospital. He grew up in north-west Calgary and so did I. He is vying for one of the most important jobs in the world, whether or not he’s my cup of tea, it’s neat when anyone from Calgary does well.”
Since learning that she owned his childhood home, author and scholar Eggermont-Molenaar has started studying the “extremist” politician’s life story. Should he become the 45th president of the United States, pilgrims to his childhood home will not like what she has planned. “I’m making a list of all his lies.”
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You’re here because you want to learn how to be a good mom, right? You’re actively seeking out how to grow as a parent. In my books, that makes you an amazing parent!
I heard something incredible this week. Somebody told a mom, ‘I know you’re a good mom.’ It sounds like a lovely statement on the surface… until you think more about it. Labeling a woman as a ‘good mom’ implies that there are others that aren’t- the ‘bad moms.’
This mom challenged the statement on the spot. She responded instantly, ‘there’s no such thing as a good mom or a bad mom. There are just moms who have good days and bad days.’
Wow! What a different way to frame our thoughts around parenting. There is so much room for forgiveness and grace in this statement. It’s a statement that shouts of opportunities to grow and learn and a motherhood ‘path’ rather than a dividing wall. This encouraged me so much.
I was feeling inspired and put together these 7 surefire tips that will show you how to be a good mom– they might not be what you expect!
7 TIPS ON HOW TO BE A GOOD MOMMY
1. REMEMBER THAT IT’S NOT ABOUT ‘PERFECT’
Knowing how to be a good mommy does not mean achieving perfection in every area. We can think it does. We can look around at other families and see how ‘together’ they seem- how that mom had everything under control.
But in what job or role would we normally expect someone to be perfect immediately?
None! And if they thought they were, that would signal an even bigger problem…
You are growing into your role of motherhood. It’s a trial and error process.
Imagine baking a cake for the very first time. First you go for it and do your best. You try to follow recipe books… but it’s your first time baking a cake! Mistakes are inevitable. Hopefully, though, you wouldn’t declare yourself a failure and give up. You would figure out where you went wrong, learn from it, adapt and try again.
The best moms are the ones who understand that they are not born as a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ parent, but that parenting is something you can work at, develop skills in, and learn new ways of doing it. You are NOT a failure if you make a mistake. Instead, mistakes are great learning opportunities (yeah, I know it’s cheesy, but I think it’s important!) You are able to admit you’re not perfect (and can stop trying to keep up the image that you are), then you can become more open to growth.
Having a Growth Mindset in Parenting
There’s another name for this- a ‘growth mindset.’ It’s essential for every area of life! Weirdly, knowing that you’re not perfect, and having a growth mindset actually enables us to improve… and we’re normally happier for it!
I’ll hold my hands up and say that my natural tendency is towards a fixed mindset. I often feel like I’m being judged, and it makes me hyper sensitive to criticism. I’m happy to hear praise for how well I’m doing, but much less OK with ‘suggestions’- in my head it sounds like I’m being told I’m a failure. Learning about growth mindset changed my life, but it’s like using a new muscle- I need to actively use my growth mindset and, little by little, it will start to come naturally.
So how do you have a growth mindset in parenting?
- Understand that your parenting qualities and traits are things that can be developed.
- Value persistence above other things. When you persist and work hard to solve a problem you will see a change.
- Know that every situation can be improved. Add the word ‘yet‘ to your thoughts. For example, ‘my child isn’t behaving… yet.’ Or ‘they’re not eating solids… yet.’ Remember the power of persistence.
- Remember that setbacks are not a failure! They are part of the learning process. You can grow and learn from them
- Love the process of learning how to be a good mom. It’s a journey, not a fixed point.
2. COVER THE BASICS
I thought this point was worth covering early. Arguably the biggest, most important part of parenting is to cover the basics.
What are the basics?
Food. Shelter. Love.
They are all important. Every child deserves these three things.
If you are consistent in providing these things to your kids, you’re doing an amazing job!
The basics are not:
- You must have a child who never has a tantrum in public
- Your parenting journey should never make you cry
- If you have more than one child, they must never fight.
Food, shelter, love. If you are able to consistently provide these three things for your kids then pat yourself on the back. It isn’t easy to clothe, house, and love another human being. It actually takes a massive amount of effort, time, and expense. So don’t underestimate how much you are achieving if you are doing these three things.
If these things are a struggle for you to provide, it doesn’t mean you’re a ‘bad mom’. But remember what I said about growth mindset? Every situation can be improved. Having a growth mindset means taking steps to actively improve the situation (getting support, talking to someone) does not mean that you’re announcing yourself as a failure. It’s understanding that it’s a journey and there’s no such thing as perfect- that setbacks do not mean failure.
3. CARVE OUT YOUR OWN TIME
Making space for yourself as a mom is a point that can be surprisingly contentious. I actually found myself in a heated debate when I shared this point… after all, kids deserve your every waking moment, don’t they? Isn’t that what being a mom is all about? Pouring your all into your children?
I believe that you will be a much better mom if you continue to invest in yourself. You are a person- you have mental, emotional and physical needs. Neglecting these can turn into a lose-lose situation, both for yourself and your kids.
Parenting is quite possibly the most stressful thing you will ever do. It’s draining in every way- physically, emotionally AND mentally.
You might have heard the bucket analogy- when your own bucket is full, you are able to pour into others’ buckets. When you can become stressed and drained, you can reach a point of burn-out of (emotional, mental or physical) exhaustion where you have nothing left to give.
You should never feel guilty about finding time for yourself as a mom! In fact, it’s counter-productive not to! You need to be well in all three areas. You need time to exercise, and to look after yourself mentally and emotionally. This will help you to be the very best mom you can be for your kids.
But it’s challenging to have this time to yourself, right?
What might time to yourself involve?
- Go for a swim, walk or run/ play a sport. Your physical health is important, don’t neglect it!
- Have time to read and learn
- Make time to relax and de-stress
- Carve out time to think and problem-solve- time away from your kids might be when you figure out important parenting stuff.
- Make time for your relationship- you can still have a love life!
- Have a friend!
All of these things are important and will help you be balanced, less stressed, more productive and energetic, and ultimately, a better mom!
Here are some creative ways to find the time alone that you need:
- Have great routines. Routines are fantastic for children, and having a strong morning and bedtime routine can help you to identify little spaces that you might have time alone. Whether it’s over your morning coffee, during nap time, or reading a book when the kids are in bed, being consistent with your kid’s routines will help you to consistently get a window of time for yourself, too.
Check out: How to Establish a Bedtime Routine for Toddlers and Get ‘YOU’ Time!
- Teach independence to your kids. Independence is actually crucial for kids’ development. It helps them to build creativity, imagination and problem-solving skills. Of course, it’s taught little by little. At the beginning, you might need to actively teach your kids how to play independently. Check out this great article on independent play in toddlers. This has far more benefits to allowing extra screen time.
- Get your kids involved in chores. After meal times or at the end of the day, have a ‘tidy up time‘ where they can pick up things and put toys away. Join in with them- this can be a fun family time and also a time where you can actively build a positive relationship with your kids- give positive praise and teach them important life skills. This also means that you’re not left running around picking up after your kids every night when they’re in bed= extra time for you to unwind.
Why not also:
- Look for time saving parenting hacks. I love Good Housekeeping’s article on time-saving mom hacks. Some of these ideas are so simple but can save a lot of time and effort, and just make your parenting that little bit easier. There are tips to help you with meal time, to nail the school run, and even to avoid kitchen floor nightmares.
- Ask someone else to help. If you have a husband or partner then work as a team so you both have some time to yourselves. Could you each have one evening where you can do a new hobby while the other minds the kids? If possible, do your new hobby with a friend, or be intentional about making new friendships there. If you don’t have this, do you have family you can turn to for support? Or do you know another mom that you could make a babysitting trade off with? Try to think creatively to carve out this time.
- See if work can be flexible. If you have a job, it’s worth chatting to your boss about ways they can be flexibly to fit in with your life. The world is moving away from rigid working hours and moving to ‘flexible working’, even more since COVID-19. If you can think of ways that work could be flexible, it’s worth having a conversation.
Also check out: 22 Fully Feasible Work From Home Jobs for Moms
4. HOW TO BE A GOOD MOM WITH A TEAM AROUND
A support network is absolutely essential for anyone trying to figure out how to be a good mommy.
This could be:
- Your husband/ partner
- Family (consider extended family)
- Any kind of community (e.g. church, mosque, a club).
- Other moms
There are endless options as to how this could look in real life. It just needs to work for you!
Why not draw yourself an ‘eco-map’ to check out the supports in your life:
- Put yourself in a circle in the middle of a page.
- At the top, list all family connections that play a role in your life.
- To the left of the page, put the names of friends.
- At the right of the page, list people from other groups such as a church or club you might be in.
- To the bottom, list professionals who might be involved with (e.g. a Health Worker, a Pre-school teacher or your GP).
- Draw a line to each person on your page. A dotted line can signify a source of stress. For others, let the thickness of the line show the level of connection and support you feel with this person.
Take a step back and look at your eco-map. What does this show you? How does it make you feel? Is there anything you want to do as a result of this activity?
This is a reflective activity- there are no right or wrong answers and it can be completely private to you.
5. BEHAVIOR ISN’T PERSONAL
One of the biggest barriers in learning how to be a good mommy is often behavior. It’s absolutely normal for kids to express themselves through challenging behaviors, especially before they have the emotional vocabulary they need for life. Until then, behavior is a communication.
Challenging behavior can also be a way of kids testing your limits. They are checking things out to see whether you follow through on things you say; testing your limits. Sometimes it can be a way to get attention. After all, even negative attention is still attention.
It’s so important to remember that teaching positive behavior is a process. You are not a bad parent if your kids flare up and act out! Learning how to manage and deal with behavior is a whole new skill for you. Luckily, there is lots you can learn about and put into action to help your kids in this area.
The goal as a parent is to teach your child the positive alternative. But remember that teaching any new skill takes time, repetition and patience. Try to be as consistent as you can and you will see the payoff!
When you realize that behavior is not a personal attack on you, you can try to stay calm and implement your behavior plan. It’s hard not to get emotional, but removing that kind level of heightened attention will help hugely to diffuse the situation, and means your child doesn’t get the reaction that they wanted.
- 9 Smart Strategies for Dealing With Tantrums in Toddlers
- 3 Key Strategies for Dealing with Tantrums in School Aged Kids
- 11 Incredible Children’s Books That Teach Positive Behavior
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- 11 Awesome Books To Make Teaching Kids About Emotions a Breeze
6. BE ‘BORINGLY CONSISTENT’
How to be a good mommy can also boil down to this: learning how to be consistent. Of course, you’ll never be perfect, but keep consistency in mind as something to shoot for. It will help family life to run much more smoothly, your child will have a greater amount of respect for your role as a parent, and you’re likely to see a big improvement in behavior.
Again, this is not a cut and dry thing that you’re born with. It’s something you can cultivate in your parenting toolkit.
This quote from ‘Empowering Parents‘ explains it well.
If your response often varies, your child will keep pulling the lever, hoping for a favorable outcome. This is an example of what is called a “variable interval reinforcement schedule”— the most powerful type of reward system in behavioral psychology. Just like it works with gamblers, because the frequency and size of the reward varies, it works with your child. And it becomes very difficult for your child to stop playing the slot machine—which is you, the parent!
How to be a consistent parent:
- Have a plan– and write it down. It’s a good idea to just start with one thing at a time. Pick one behavior and plan how you could teach a positive alternative, as well as a natural consequence for your child that you will be able to follow through on. For example, if your child won’t eat then they feel hungry until the next mealtime. Or, if kids fight over a toy it gets put away for 10 minutes.
- If your child is old enough, share the plan with them. Use ‘when…then’ as a strategy. ‘When your room is tidy, then you can go out to play.’ Get their buy-in and let them know what the consequence will be (no play if the room is not tidy).
- Stick to what you agreed in a matter of fact way. Don’t engage in a debate or emotional conversation. Be fair but consistent. You’re doing them a huge favor by not giving in.
- Stay calm– your child needs to know what you still love them, but that behaviors have consequences.
- Reassure them that they will have another chance to try again.
- If they are constantly failing, consider whether you need to make the goal more achievable. You want them to succeed, after all! Try setting a smaller, more achievable goal so they experience success. Praise them for their behavior. Build up your expectations slowly.
7. HOW TO BE A GOOD MOM AND ENJOY IT!
Don’t stress too much over how to be a good mommy, but remember that parenthood is a journey that will fly by. Enjoy it!
Don’t fall into the trap of ‘waiting it out’- waiting for your kids to be a little older so the tantrums stop, waiting for them to be able to tidy independently, waiting for them to go to school, or even to move out. Take action, do your best, and forgive yourself easily. Nobody is perfect.
Fall in love with the growth mindset and know that you can grow and improve at anything- being a mom is no different!
Remember that setbacks are not failures. Celebrate your small successes when they come!
Above all, live in the moment and enjoy the massive gift that being a mom is.
You got this!!!
AND THAT’S IT!
If you enjoyed my tips on how to be a good mommy, please share- every share is much appreciated! I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments.
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ELECTRONIC eavesdropping has advanced to the point where police can sit in a van outside a house and tell what a person is typing on a computer inside.
It's that kind of capability President Clinton now wants to see used more often as he moves to expand the surveillance powers of law-enforcement agencies.
The catalyst for the Clinton proposal is last month's terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City. But Clinton's legislative response to the blast has its skeptics. Civil-liberties groups, and even some Republicans say that the administration's proposals have little to do with terrorism and could broaden police powers unnecessarily. The proposal comes against the backdrop of an increase in electronic surveillance nationwide.
Last year, for example, US courts granted law-enforcement agencies a record 1,154 electronic-surveillance orders, according to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. The total was nearly 200 more than in 1993, which also set a record.
But police do not appear to be carrying out aggressive campaigns against specific groups -- as they did against anti-Vietnam War protesters and the Black Panthers 25 years ago, though their ability to conduct surveillance is broader and more powerful today.
Instead, law-enforcement agencies have begun what former Massachusetts Institute of Technology sociology professor Gary Marx calls ''the new surveillance.''
''The character of surveillance has changed,'' agrees Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public-interest research group in Washington, D.C.
''What grew up in the [former FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover years and reached its apex in the '60s and early '70s was the targeted approach, where groups were singled out.''
But today, he says, ''Through technology and the growing power of law enforcement generally, we have routinized the practice of surveillance. We have been able to bring under the government's eye a much wider slice of the population.''
Law enforcement's use of other technologies also appears on the rise. Authorities are linking together their computerized databases for faster access to information. And increasingly sensitive devices -- night scopes, parabolic microphones, long-range telephoto lenses -- continue to enable access behind closed doors.
''The new surveillance,'' Professor Marx wrote in his book ''Undercover,'' ''transcends distance, darkness, and physical barriers.... Physical limitations and, to some extent, human inefficiency have lost their usefulness as unplanned protectors of liberty.''
A technology called forward-looking infrared radar, for example, can ''look'' through walls and ceilings to detect grow lights for plants, says Mr. Rotenberg. If police suspect someone is growing marijuana in their home and use the radar, is it good detective work or an invasion of privacy?
Should these technologies require a warrant? Federal courts have reached different answers, he says, and so far the US Supreme Court has not stepped in.
The shock of last month's Oklahoma City bombing has pushed these privacy concerns into the background for now. The Clinton administration last week put forward its plan that, among other things, would relax some restrictions on electronic surveillance. The proposals include:
* Fewer restrictions on ''pen registers'' and ''trap and trace'' devices.
These technologies allow agents to track the telephone numbers a suspect is dialing as well as the phone numbers of the people calling him.
When federal agents want to use these devices in ''national security'' cases, US courts currently require more compelling proof of a threat than in routine criminal cases. Clinton's proposal would drop the higher standard.
* Fewer limits on introducing surveillance evidence in court.
Current legislation requires that police follow strict rules before the evidence obtained for wiretapping can be used in court. The Clinton proposal would eliminate those limits unless investigators acted in bad faith.
* Larger list of felonies justifying electronic surveillance.
Current law restricts the number of felonies that justify wiretapping. The Clinton proposal would add any terrorism-related or explosives felonies to the list.
However, the US Attorney General, a deputy, or an assistant would have to certify that domestic or international terrorists were or might have been involved. Emergency wiretap orders, which cut through much of the usual paperwork, could also be justified on the basis of terrorism.
* Expanded use of roving wiretaps.
The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution protects people from ''unreasonable searches and seizures'' unless authorities obtained a warrant ''describing the place to be searched.''
But in 1986, Congress allowed a small exception, so that police could wiretap organized-crime suspects who moved from phone to phone or used other evasive tactics. The Clinton proposal would open the door wider, allowing roving wiretaps if a judge found that specifying a place for the surveillance was ''not practical.''
* Funding telephone companies that make digital networks capable of being wiretapped.
President Clinton already signed a digital-telephone bill last year. But without funding it, the administration in essence was giving telephone companies up to four years to comply.
The new Clinton proposal speeds up the process by providing up to $485 million in funding over the next three fiscal years. To raise the money, a 40 percent surcharge will be added on all civil penalties levied by federal agencies.
The White House is pushing for quick action. ''There's real bipartisan interest in this and there's considerable overlap between the president's bill and the Republicans' bill,'' says Bruce Reed, White House adviser on counter-terrorism.
''Our experience has been that the more people study the details, the less concerns they have about the proposals we have put forward, which certainly don't break new constitutional ground.''
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Sunkanmi is a result oriented, open minded & highly confident digital enthusiast. A tactical leader, team builder with the ability to attract and secure key team players, he has been actively involved in 2 successful startups so far.
After finishing university in 2012, Sunkanmi Ola founded a digital advertising agency when he saw a gap in the market. During the venture’s early days Ola kept close contact with a mentor who gave him leads on when companies where taking pitches from advertising agencies to market their brands. Today, Sunkanmi is the founder, CEO and chief digital strategist for his registered company, Syracuse Digital, which helps brands translate their marketing activities online.
His most recent startup currently handles the entirety of the digital marketing activities of a prominent Telco in the West Africa. He has proven success in motivating clients to invest in groundbreaking digital approaches, creating digital firsts for the brands he has handled in the process. His specialties include Integrated Digital Marketing, Strategy Planning, Digital operations & Business Development.
Sunkanmi speaks to YBLN about his journey and experiences as a young entrepreneur.
Please tell us about yourself and what you do?
My name is Sunkanmi Ola, and I am a tech entrepreneur. I started a digital marketing agency six years ago called Syracuse digital. Syracuse digital handles digital marketing, branding and promotions for brands and businesses. We are an award-winning agency and have worked for big and small brands across Africa. About two years ago, I also rolled out a startup called Hirefreehands - a freelance service workplace where enterprises and entrepreneurs can hire pre-verified top-quality freelancers at affordable prices. Hirefreehands offers quality control and project management assistance to ensure value for work and money.
Where was the idea of your business derived from?
The idea was derived from opportunity. Around 2010, social media marketing and digital marketing was unexplored in Nigeria. Back then, I and a group of like-minded people who had an interest in digital marketing were learning through online resources and studying agencies from other countries and we found out that there was an opportunity for this locally in Nigeria.
What challenges did you face as a startup?
There were points where we did not have an office at the time where we were starting and we had to creatively find ways around solving problems. You needed to be able to prove to clients that you could provide value even when it did not reflect in your outlook. We’ve gone through the regular challenges every small growing business face in Nigeria: Power outage, High running cost, you can’t really compete financially with bigger agencies. For us, one of our challenges was our inability to get the best hands in the industry so we trained ourselves, for a long time what we did was to take a fresh entrant and teach the person over a long period. By doing this, we were able to infuse the DNA of the agency into the person until the person became a professional. We’ve made mistakes, championed highly successful campaigns, lost clients and acquired International brands. Business is a learning curve
What is your greatest entrepreneurial achievement?
I have had a couple of success points but being listed on Forbes Africa 30 under 30 is so far my biggest recognition.
Can you talk us through your recipe for building an effective team to achieve great results?
Syracuse is just one large team, we don’t follow the structure of work subordinacy. It’s a kind of team where an intern can have a meeting with the CEO discussing ideas. We believe this break down the walls in the general office setting and allow ideas to flow more creatively. This also allows us to establish relationships where we can easily learn from one another. There is still going to be someone superior or someone with more experience but at the end of the day, it is a flat structure. Everybody is accessible and this builds a strong bond among team members. We all learn from each other and also get involved in each other’s work. While this might sound counterproductive, the result is that it allows for an understanding as well as creates an avenue to see things from different perspectives. Work experience is not a necessary hiring requirement. What is needed is the zeal and interest to learn. We’re friends outside of work and are passionately committed to our work so much that team members come in during the weekends and public holidays at their own free will to work on pending tasks. Our team members are also allowed to work from home on selected days for an effective work-life balance. This has proven to be effective in increasing the productivity levels of our team members.
Who and what inspires you?
I like winning. I like to succeed. I like to over-impress. I strive for perfection with the back knowledge that perfection is unachievable. What this means is that there is always a better way to do things and this keeps me working to be better every time. I enjoy victories, I enjoy seeing clients satisfied as it gives me satisfaction as well.
Who inspires me?
I have a couple of mentors who I look to for inspiration. Personally, My Uncle, Mr. Solanke who is also in the advertising industry- has been an inspiration to me all along, right from when I started until now, my dad as well has shown me the best ways to doing businesses.
In terms of founders, I look to Brian Chesky, founder of Airbnb. I like his business model. I like his backstory and what his company stands for today. I aspire to be on that level. It’s a blend of everything.
Top 3 inspirational books you’ve ever read?
I think my number one would be the art of thinking clearly by Rolf Dobelli. My second is Good to Great by James Collins and the third is You only have to be right once by Randall Lane.
What are the top three websites/ Blog you can’t imagine your day without?
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What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?
There’s no “best advice”. I have received so many good advice which has helped me at different points in my entrepreneurial journey.
If you had one piece of advice for someone just starting a business in Nigeria, what will it be?
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Q&A with OSHA's Patrick Kapust | Citation Solutions
Fall Protection – General Requirements (1926.501) is OSHA’s most frequently cited standard for fiscal year 2019. This marks the ninth consecutive year it has stood atop the agency’s “Top 10” list.
Speaking in September at the National Safety Council 2019 Congress & Expo in San Diego, Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs, talked about another thing that hasn’t changed: The agency’s willingness to assist employers with curbing violations involving fall protection and other standards.
“These are common violations that we’re finding – they’ve been in place for a lot of years,” Kapust said. “The answers are out there, and employers shouldn’t feel like these are very complex issues. If you don’t know the answers, we encourage you to contact OSHA.”
Here, Safety+Health unveils finalized Top 10 data for FY 2019 (which ended Sept. 30), the penalty box of the year’s largest fines and an exclusive interview with Kapust.
Most cited violations, fiscal year 2019
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Based on OSHA Information System data from Oct. 1, 2018, to Sept. 30. Data current as of Nov. 1.
Top 10 "serious" violations, fiscal year 2019
OSHA defines a “serious” violation as “one in which there is a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result, and the employer knew or should have known of the hazard.”
Top 10 "willful" violations, fiscal year 2019
OSHA defines a “willful” violation as one “committed with an intentional disregard of or plain indifference to the requirements of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and requirements.”
Tables based on OSHA Information System data from Oct. 1, 2018, to Sept. 30. Data current as of Nov. 1.
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Visio guru to contribute series of articles consisting of Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Visio topics in D-Tools monthly newsletter
CONCORD, CA - MARCH 18, 2008 - D -Tools, Inc., the worldwide leader in system integration software, today announced that Chris Roth, founder of the Visio Guy website and worldwide Visio resource, will be contributing a series of articles for the D -Tools monthly newsletter. The articles will address Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Visio users and revolve around fundamentals and best practices. The first article will be featured in the D -Tools March newsletter, which comes out Wednesday March 19th.
Chris Roth worked at the Visio Corporation for 8 years as a developer and a technology evangelist. Chris has been consulting with D -Tools since 1999, where he was an original member of the Visio team and created some of the early versions of the D -Tools rack shapes, schematic shapes, Mid -Atlantic shapes, and Cinema Tech home theater chairs. Additionally, in 2006 he assisted in the facilitation of the D -Tools SI5 development effort, developing more sophisticated versions of the schematic shapes, as well as tools for creating the next generation of Visio content for D -Tools new version of software.
In September of 2006, he launched his own Visio website, Visio Guy, (http://www.visguy.com) which is packed with helpful articles and downloads for the Visio community. In the coming months, he'll be writing articles and creating demos to help D -Tools customers get the most out of the drawing capabilities of Visio, as well as introduce D -Tools to his Visio Guy audience.
In addition, Roth has been a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 2002, and is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. (Microsoft® Office Visio 2007, Application Development) D -Tools users can also find him on -line answering questions in the D -Tools Visio newsgroup forum, as well as in the numerous Microsoft Visio newsgroups.
"We are extremely pleased to team up with Chris and we look forward to his contributions to our newsletter," said Adam Stone, President, of D -Tools. "Chris was instrumental in helping us launch our Visio -based solution to the market and has continued to work with us over the years. Chris is a world -renowned Visio expert and we are proud to be able to work with him to help our customers get the most out of their D -Tools software investment."
Chris Roth, founder of www.Visguy.com
About D -Tools, Inc.
D -Tools, founded in 1998 and based in Concord, California, is a worldwide leader in accessible, highly accurate system design and documentation software. The company's flagship product, System Integrator™ (SI), is a total design solution that utilizes Autodesk® AutoCAD and Microsoft® Visio for comprehensive system design, documentation and project management. D -Tools SI allows commercial integrators to streamline their business processes to increase overall revenues while reducing the time and costs associated with the installation and integration of low -voltage systems. Over 2,000 leading companies use D -Tools software to reduce time and costs and streamline the system integration process. D -Tools is the recipient of the Consumer Electronics Association's Mark of Excellence Award (2004, 2005, 2006), National Systems Contractors Association and Sound and Video Contractor's Innovations in Technology for Business Productivity Award (2004, 2005) and CE Pro's High Impact Award for Design Software.
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The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday declared the state constitution guarantees women the right to an abortion, effectively blocking a law that bans a second trimester procedure.
The long anticipated ruling stems from a 2015 lawsuit and is expected to ignite interest in amending the constitution. By finding a right to abortion in the state constitution, the decision protects abortion rights for Kansas women even if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
The court said the Kansas Constitution's Bill of Rights "affords protection of the right of personal autonomy, which includes the ability to control one's own body, to assert bodily integrity, and to exercise self-determination. This right allows a woman to make her own decisions regarding her body, health, family formation, and family life — decisions that can include whether to continue a pregnancy."
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly praised the 6-1 ruling while Republican leaders blasted the decision, raising the possibility of putting a constitutional amendment before the general public.
Justice Caleb Stegall, an appointee of abortion opponent and former Gov. Sam Brownback, dissented from the majority opinion.
"Today," Stegall said, "we hoist our sail and navigate the ship-of-state out of its firm anchorage in the harbor-of-commongood and onto the uncertain waters of the sea-of-fundamental-values. Today we issue the most significant and far-reaching decision this court has ever made."
Abortion providers filed the lawsuit in 2015, after the Legislature enacted a ban on dilation and evacuation, a procedure used for 95 percent of patients who terminate a pregnancy in the second trimester. Abortion rights supporters say the procedure offers the safest medical care, while opponents called it barbaric and inhumane.
A Shawnee County District Court judge issued a temporary injunction, a court order that blocks enforcement of a law that is likely to be unconstitutional. The Kansas Court of Appeals split on the issue, placing the question before Kansas Supreme Court justices.
The high court heard oral arguments in March 2017. Friday's ruling upholds the injunction and sends the case back to the district court for trial.
The high court decision is based on language in the state constitution — a document that predates the federal amendment that provided a basis for Roe v. Wade — that declares "all men are possessed of equal and inalienable natural rights," including "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
"The framers made clear the list was not intended to be exhaustive — rather, the listed rights are among the inalienable natural rights recognized by the provision," the high court said.
The majority opinion draws on debates during the drafting of the state constitution, as well as early court rulings that solidified personal rights.
In his dissent, Stegall draws on the works of Lewis Carroll, whose "Through the Looking Glass" features Alice in Wonderland and an invitation to believe "as many as six impossible things before breakfast." The majority opinion, Stegall said, is a "follow-the-white-rabbit experience."
Margaret Atwood's "Handmaid's Tale" also makes a cameo, with Stegall accusing the majority of portraying Kansas as a dystopia of oppression where the Legislature has commandeered the bodies and lives of unwilling women.
"Abortion restrictions are framed as lingering vestiges of a discredited and bankrupt patriarchy, fit only for history's slag heap," Stegall said.
The opinion overlooks the "inconvenient fact," Stegall said, that a majority of the 41 women serving in the Kansas Legislature voted in favor of the bill.
"Abortion has become the judicially preferred policy tail wagging the structure of government dog," Stegall said. "... Constitutional structure is the very thing securing and guaranteeing the full range of human liberty. History and reason suggest that those who, in the name of liberty, tear down that edifice will wind up out in the political elements, unsheltered and exposed to the cold wind of every arbitrary power."
The majority confronts Stegall's argument, saying "the overriding difference between the opinions is the degree of importance and substance that each attaches to individual liberty."
"The majority holds that individuals enjoy constitutional protection against unwarranted government intrusion in their personal business," the court said, "whereas the dissent leaves the individual nearly naked and defenseless, especially in the realm of individual sovereignty."
Those in the majority are Chief Justice Lawton Nuss, Justice Marla Luckert, Justice Carol Beier, Justice Eric Rosen and Justice Lee Johnson. Justice Dan Biles wrote a concurring opinion.
The ruling notes the heavy task now placed on the district court.
"Not only must it grapple with one of the most divisive issues of our time, it must also take into account advances in science that have blurred the sharp trimester-based lines used in Roe's strict scrutiny analysis," the high court said. "And it must do this with a deep awareness that the outcome of this case could generate a profound and personal consequence for many women. But we have great confidence in the trial court's ability to meet this challenge." | <urn:uuid:93754479-9208-41c5-a5a9-0e42f3c0031f> | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | https://www.hdnews.net/news/20190426/kansas-supreme-court-says-state-constitution-guarantees-abortion-rights/2 | 2019-10-23T11:14:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987833089.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023094558-20191023122058-00325.warc.gz | en | 0.941731 | 1,047 |
Last week President Obama held a meeting with some well known black bloggers at the White House. I can only assume he was trying to get the bloggers to help him get his message out. You know, Democrats are Good and Republicans are Bad. Sounds like it might have been a good idea in theory but once again the White House fell short. My mama thinks that I’m too hard on Obama and that my generation doesn’t know real racism.
Side Note: I want to make a martial arts movie with my mom fighting Christian Ninjas from the Religious Right. It can be a cartoon because my mother doesn’t really know martial arts. I want to call it “The Dueling Bibles.”
Mama will be happy to know that this fiasco was not Obama’s fault. He has a lot of incompetent people surrounding him. Unfortunately they all look good on paper because they have Ivy League degrees (aka Smart Folks). But Mr. Ed looked smart when he put on glasses too.
If you are wondering what the problem is, that means you don’t know much about blogging. And that’s okay because this is what we in America call “A Teachable Moment (no beers or salty nuts included).”
There are many types of Bloggers (examples of some are) –
Now which of these blog types definitely shouldn’t have received an invitation to the White House to discuss politics?
*jeopardy theme music*
That’s correct – Celebrity Gossip
People are struggling financially, we are fighting war after war and politicians are on the take from corporations. And the White House invites bloggers that write about the sex lives of entertainers?! I know it’s exciting to get bloggers that have huge followings. But that shouldn’t be the determining factor for real dialogue. To let you know - I have nothing against celebrity gossip blogs. I believe there is enough room for all of us. I work my side of the street and they work their side. But too many bloggers were left off that list. Bloggers that would have asked the tough questions and not be a rubberstamp for the president. And I’m not saying that people that were invited were going to be rubberstamps. But Obama needs to answer some questions before folks take marching orders.
Apparently nothing constructive came out of the meeting because all you keep hearing was how messy it was.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Year : 2014 | Volume
: 27 | Issue : 3 | Page : 300--301
Recent 2015 changes to the UK foundation training application: A deterrent to medical student research?
Michael M Modell, Thomas Snell, Smruti Varothayasingham, Stephen D Robinson
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Audrey Emerton Building, Eastern Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 5BE, United Kingdom
Michael M Modell
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Audrey Emerton Building, Eastern Road, Brighton, East Sussex, BN2 5BE
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The United Kingdom Foundation Programme is the training programme for the first years of postgraduate medicine. The UK Foundation Programme Office, responsible for organising and overseeing applications across the UK, operates the Foundation Programme Application System (FPAS), facilitating the allocation of final year medical students to foundation posts in the UK Foundation Programme. This merit-based application assigns a maximum score of 100 points to each student, composed of up to 43 points for undergraduate academic achievement, 50 points for the Situational Judgement Test and the remaining seven points available for extra-curricular academic achievements.
In recent years, in the interest of fairness, the UK Foundation Programme Office has refined its criteria for rewarding extra-curricular educational achievement. This has rendered academic prizes students win and conference presentations they give ineligible to receive points for the 2014 and 2015 applications, respectively. Only students who have had the opportunity to pursue additional degrees or successfully publish within academic journals are able to earn points awarded for educational achievement. While there is an undeniable fairness issue to support these changes, we perceive they may deter medical students from pursuing academic prizes and presentations, which in turn may negatively impact student interest, exposure and experience within academic medicine.
Worldwide, medical student publishing rates have increased greatly over the past 30 years, with career progression often reported as the primary motivation for publication and presentation within the UK. Regardless of such trends, only a small proportion of medical students (approximately 14%) have published work at the time of graduation.
The General Medical Council's 'Tomorrow's Doctors' states that a doctor should be able to "formulate simple, relevant research questions in biomedical science, psychosocial science or population science and design appropriate studies or experiments to address the questions", hence these skills are important to develop during undergraduate training. Presentations also promote communication, partnership and teamwork skills that are essential and in line with Good Medical Practice.
With career progression in mind as a key source of motivation, it seems that removing the incentive in the FPAS could be perceived negatively. However, students should bear in mind that these educational achievements will benefit their careers in the long-term. Student exposure to academic research at an undergraduate level is often limited to research projects, the medical curriculum or as part of an intercalated or previous degree. Given limitations regarding allocated timeframes and the depth of projects, it is often difficult to have the rigorous methodology required for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Presentations provide students a more accessible opportunity to gain recognition for their work, network with clinicians from around the world, and obtain public-speaking experience at national and international conferences. This is a more achievable goal for most medical students than publication, and a goal that can be pursued independently, promote initiative and allows students to pursue their own research interests in a more self-directed fashion. Publications, in contrast, require more involved support structures, financing and guidance from tutors within the medical school.
Many medical schools do not provide students the opportunity to engage in research as a compulsory component of the medical degree. Conversely, many schools encourage research skills. Brighton and Sussex Medical School, for example, requires students to present research from year two of the curriculum, and undergo an individual research project in year four, with presentations and publications encouraged. Students from medical schools that do not include research as a compulsory element may be disadvantaged in their scores from the UK Foundation Programme used in winning residency postings. Additionally, six year medical degrees, with compulsory intercalation present an unfair advantage over other schools that must impose a cap on the number of students entitled to intercalate.
Students with additional degrees are more likely to have these achievements, having had increased exposure and time to pursue these endeavours. Those without these qualifications are therefore at a disadvantage, and with the recent increase in tuition fees to ͳ9000 per annum, financial implications may deter students from spending an additional year to avoid further debt, regardless of the opportunities available.
These recent changes to the FPAS criteria for academic achievement were implemented in the interest of ensuring the application process remains fair and consistent for all students. However, the quality and extent of a person's contribution to a publication can also vary substantially. While the number of conferences is considerable, this is significantly dwarfed by the number of journals to which students may submit their research. However, presentations still allows the pursuit of academic achievement and motivates students to undertake research.
We propose that instead of the recent changes to remove posters and presentations from the FPAS, a more robust screening mechanism for verifying presentations and posters should be developed. One possible solution could be to include a dropdown list of pre-approved conferences that students can select, and require concurrent medical school approval to prevent abuse to this system.
Furthermore, medical educators in the UK should encourage students to undertake research at an early stage and present at high quality conferences, which have been pre-approved and publicised within a widely accessible database. Key stakeholders of the FPAS, including the General Medical Council, British Medical Association, National Health System employers, foundation and medical school representatives, could approve such a list of organisations.
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I wanted to make a carrot cake inspired by Indian carrot halva for Easter this year. I wanted it to have coconut instead of walnuts and feature cardamom and rosewater. We are spending Easter with my mum on Maui, where I grew up and she still lives. I knew that my mother likes cardamom and I was pleased to discover that she had never had rosewater before and she LOVES it. The smell of roses remind her of her own mother. For the photo shoot, my mother provided Lokelani Roses (Maui’s official flower) from her back yard, and her adorable orange tabby cat Dewey (named for the Dewey Decimal system, because my mother is a librarian).
I started with a carrot cake recipe from The The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook by Elana Amsterdam. I used coconut instead of walnuts and switched the cinnamon and nutmeg out for cardemom. I made it in muffin tins because my mother does not own any cake tins (she is a very healthy sort of lady). The carrot muffins were delicious in a VERY healthy sort of way. They were more salty than sweet and quite dense. We took them on a hike in the Waikamoi cloud forest and they were totally fortifying. Side note, if you are ever visiting Maui, arrange for a guided hike through the Waikamoi cloud forest. It is free and the area is not open to the public without a guide. I cannot believe how much I learned about Hawaiian plants, geology and history in three hours…and I grew up on the island! There is a portion of the forest which has been managed so that it is only growing the trees and plants that were on the island before human contact. It is beautiful and totally different from what grows on the islands now. Many of the plants and birds there are totally unique to the island and very close to extinction. Here is a photo of some young Koa trees happily co-exisitng with some lichen.
Okay, so back to carrot cake. As much as I had appreciated the healthy carrot muffins on the hike, I am, in general not a healthy muffin lover, so, I tweaked the carrot muffin recipe A LOT. I threw in some coconut flour for fluffiness, used less salt, increased the eggs and agave and soaked the raisins in rosewater. These turned out very well indeed, especially when topped with a thick slathering of coconut rosewater icing. For the icing, I tried the creamy coconut icing (also from The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook by Elana Amsterdam) and about half way through the process I remembered that I had tried this recipe years ago when I was searching for a vegan icing for our wedding grooms cake. The grooms cake is the extra little cake on the side. We have enough family and friends who are allergic to dairy (including my mother) that it was important that the grooms cake be totally vegan. This coconut icing recipe had not gone well the first time I tried it, but this time I persevered and made it work. Wow is it ever good with some rosewater added in. Even Dewey liked it.
COCONUT ROSEWATER ICING
Adapted from The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook by Elana Amsterdam
- 1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
- 1 cup agave nectar
- a pinch of sea salt
- 4 tablespoons arrowroot powder
- 1 Tablespoon water
- 1 and 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted over low heat
- 1/4 to 1/2 cup of rosewater (depending on how floral you want it)
- In a medium saucepan, bring the coconut milk, agave nectar and salt to a boil, whisking occasionally.
- Decrease the heat and simmer for 10 to 10 minutes, whisking occasionally.
- In a small bowl dissolve the arrowroot powder in the water. It will make a fun paste (like cornstarch).
- Raise the heat on the saucepan to medium high and add the arrowroot paste to the hot mixture whisking constantly until the sauce thickens (this happens fast!).
- Remove the pan from the heat and use a hand mixer to gradually mix the coconut oil in. It is supposed to emulsify and get smooth. To be honest it does not like to do this for me. I always have some oil that refuses to mix in.
- Put the mixture in the freezer for 30-35 minutes until it begins to solidify and turns opaque (but is not frozen into a solid block).
- Use a handheld mixer to whip the mixture until it is thick and fluffy. Gradually add the rosewater and continue whipping. If your icing curdles do not panic! Just gently reheat until it is all melted and combined, freeze it for another 30 minutes and try whipping it again.
- Store in a sealed container in your fridge until you are ready to use the icing.
CARROT CARDAMOM MUFFINS ( GLUTEN-FREE)
- 1 and 1/2 cups almond flour
- 2 Tablespoons coconut flour
- 1/2 teaspoons sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 Tablespoons cardamom
- 2 Tb cup coconut oil
- 1/3 cup agave nectar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 and 1/2 cups grated carrot
- 3 tablespoons rosewater
- 1/2 cup raisins
- ½ cup shredded coconut
- 1 recipe of coconut rosewater icing (above)
- preheat the oven to 325 degrees and line 9 muffin tins with paper baking cups.
- In a small bowl soak the raisins in the rosewater.
- In a large bowl, combine the almond flour, coconut flour, salt, baking soda and cardamom.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the coconut oil, agave nectar and eggs.
- Stir the oil, agave and egg mixture into the dry ingredients until just combined.
- Fold in the grated carrots, rosewater, raisins and coconut.
- Divide the batter evenly between the 9 muffin tins and bake them until a cake tester or toothpick inserted in to the center of the muffin comes out clean (25-30 minutes).
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There are 40 species in the family Callicebus, the titi monkeys, with 28 species. There are 5 species of saki monkeys (Pithecia), 5 species of bearded saki monkeys (Chiropotes), and 2 species of uakaris (Cacajao). (Wilson and Reeder, 2005), commonly known as titi monkeys, sakis, and uakaris. The most diverse genus in this family is
Titis, sakis, and uakaris are found in the rainforests of South America, including the Amazon and Orinoco river basins and the Atlantic coastal forest of southeastern Brazil. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
Titis and sakis are highly arboreal and found in a wide variety of forests, including highland and lowland forests, dry forests, varzea, savanna forests, liana forests, swamps, inundated forests, and forests along river and lake edges. Chiropotes and Cacajao species are restricted to fewer forest types, including terra firme and higher elevation moist and savanna forests. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
Titis, sakis, and uakaris are small to medium-sized monkeys. Titis (Callicebus) are the smallest and uakaris (Cacajao) are the largest. The four pitheciine genera are distinct in appearance, but all share a common dental morphology marked by large, laterally splayed canine teeth separated from the incisors by a diastema. The incisors are also angled forward and the molars have low, crenulated occlusal surfaces. This dental morphology is an adaptation to eating hard, heavily protected fruits. Uakaris (Cacajao) and bearded sakis (Chiropotes) are sexually dimorphic and several saki monkey species (Pithecia) are sexually dichromatic. Pelage color varies from light and thin, in uakaris to dark and woolly in bearded sakis. Uakaris (Cacajao) are the most unusual looking pitheciines, with largely naked faces and heads and short tails, they sometimes have a nearly bald appearance as well. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
Head and body length is 230 to 460 mm in Callicebus, 300 to 705 mm in Pithecia, 327 to 511 mm in Chiropotes, and 300 to 579 mm in g.Cacajao. Tail length is 260 to 560 mm in <<g.Callicebus, 255 to 545 mm in Pithecia, 300 to 507 mm in Chiropotes, and 125 to 210 mm in Cacajao. Callicebus species weigh up to 2 kg, Pithecia species weigh 0.7 to 1.7 kg, Chiropotes species weigh 2 to 4 kg, and Cacajao species weight from 2.7 to 3.5 kg. (Nowak, 1991)
Mating systems in titis, sakis, and uakaris are variable. Titi monkeys (Callicebus) live in small groups made up of a monogamous pair and their offspring. All other genera live in multi-male, multi-female groups of various sizes and mating is promiscuous. Saki monkey females (Pithecia) often have help from subadult females in raising their young. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
The reproductive biology of pitheciids is variable. Most species reproduce seasonally and give birth to single offspring, although Pithecia albicans is reported to reproduce throughout the year. Gestation lengths are reported from 150 to 180 days and lactation from 3 to 6 months in titis (Callicebus) or up to 2 years in uakaris Cacajao. Titis are born at approximately 70 grams. Interbirth intervals range from once yearly in titis (Callicebus) to every 2 years in uakaris (Cacajao). Bearded sakis (Chiropotes) become sexually mature at 4 years old and titis (Callicebus) at 3 to 4 years old. Independence is reported at 10 to 13 months in Chiropotes. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
In Pithecia, Chiropotes, and Cacajao species, males do not generally care for their young. Although Pithecia fathers may groom their young and females may have help from subadult females. Callicebus is unusual among New World primates in that males provide the majority of care for young, only returning them to their mothers to nurse. Young are typically carried ventrally for their first few months, after which they are transferred to being carried on the back and begin to locomote on their own away from caregivers. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
Titis (Callicebus), the smallest of the pitheciids, have lived more than 25 years in captivity. Uakaris (Cacajao) have lived more than 31 years in captivity and sakis (Pithecia) up to 35 years. Bearded sakis (Chiropotes) are estimated to live more than 18 years in the wild. (Nowak, 1991)
Titis, sakis, and uakaris are all diurnal and social monkeys. All are highly arboreal, only rarely coming to the ground. All species use mainly quadrupedal locomotion in the trees, but uakaris (Cacajao) sometimes also employ leaps and bipedal suspension. Sakis and bearded sakis (Pithecia and Chiropotes) have relatively smaller ranges than do the other genera, from 1 to 4.5 km. Uakaris range up to 5 km in a day. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
All pitheciid species live in small groups. Titis live in family groups made up of a mated pair and and their offspring. Other genera live in multi-male, multi-female groups of various sizes, from 10 to 30 in Chiropotes to groups of up to 100 in Cacajao. Territories are defended but there can also be extensive overlap in home ranges of adjacent groups. Territories are most often defended with vocalizations. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
Titis, sakis, and uakaris use vocalizations extensively to communicate with conspecifics and defend territorial boundaries. Titi pairs are the most territorial and males emit loud vocalizations to advertise territorial boundaries. Male and female duets are also used to communicate territorial boundaries. Grooming is very important in reinforcing social bonds. In titis (Callicebus) individuals sit together with their tails entwined and may spend up to 10% of their time grooming each other. Chiropotes and Cacajao species exhibit a tail-wagging behavior that shows excitement. Red uakaris, Cacajao calvus, have one of the widest ranges of facial expressions in primates. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
Titis, sakis, and uakaris are all specialized for eating large, hard fruits, often to get at the seeds within. Titis (Callicebus) eat more fruit pulp than other genera. Sakis and uakaris eat mainly large, indehiscent fruits with few large seeds, such as brazil nuts. Pitheciid species also supplement their diet with leaves and insects. (Grafton, 2004; Nowak, 1991)
Titis, sakis, and uakaris may be preyed on by large diurnal raptors, who hunt above forest canopies.
Titis, sakis, and uakaris may help disperse the seeds of some of the fruits they eat.
Titis, sakis, and uakaris are hunted for meat and captured for the pet trade. They are important members of native forest ecosystems and can be important in drawing ecotourism interest in an area. (Groves, 2001; Nowak, 1991)
There are no known adverse effects of titis, sakis, and uakaris on humans. (Nowak, 1991)
Two species of titi monkeys (Callicebus) are critically endangered, C. barbarabrownae and C. coimbrai, both are known only from small forest fragments. Brown bearded sakis, Chiropotes satanus, are endangered as a result of forest fragmentation. All members of are on CITES Appendix II. (International Union for the Conservation of Nature, 2007)
Fossil primates from Miocene and middle Miocene deposits have been aligned with pitheciid genera. (Grafton, 2004)
Tanya Dewey (author), Animal Diversity Web.
living in the southern part of the New World. In other words, Central and South America.
uses sound to communicate
young are born in a relatively underdeveloped state; they are unable to feed or care for themselves or locomote independently for a period of time after birth/hatching. In birds, naked and helpless after hatching.
Referring to an animal that lives in trees; tree-climbing.
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
helpers provide assistance in raising young that are not their own
to jointly display, usually with sounds in a highly coordinated fashion, at the same time as one other individual of the same species, often a mate
humans benefit economically by promoting tourism that focuses on the appreciation of natural areas or animals. Ecotourism implies that there are existing programs that profit from the appreciation of natural areas or animals.
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
A substance that provides both nutrients and energy to a living thing.
forest biomes are dominated by trees, otherwise forest biomes can vary widely in amount of precipitation and seasonality.
an animal that mainly eats fruit
an animal that mainly eats seeds
An animal that eats mainly plants or parts of plants.
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
Having one mate at a time.
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
the business of buying and selling animals for people to keep in their homes as pets.
the kind of polygamy in which a female pairs with several males, each of which also pairs with several different females.
rainforests, both temperate and tropical, are dominated by trees often forming a closed canopy with little light reaching the ground. Epiphytes and climbing plants are also abundant. Precipitation is typically not limiting, but may be somewhat seasonal.
Referring to something living or located adjacent to a waterbody (usually, but not always, a river or stream).
breeding is confined to a particular season
remains in the same area
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
associates with others of its species; forms social groups.
a wetland area that may be permanently or intermittently covered in water, often dominated by woody vegetation.
uses touch to communicate
Living on the ground.
defends an area within the home range, occupied by a single animals or group of animals of the same species and held through overt defense, display, or advertisement
the region of the earth that surrounds the equator, from 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.
uses sight to communicate
reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.
breeding takes place throughout the year
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Biofeedback therapy was proposed in the 1960s. Biofeedback therapy is one of the complementary and alternative medical treatments.
It uses various methods to measure your body’s processes, helps to become aware of them, and learn to gain conscious control of them.
Usually, biofeedback therapy uses some sort of device to make the subject aware of his own responses to stimulus.
Biofeedback therapy is a noninvasive procedure, so it is certainly preferred over many other monitoring procedures.
Benefits of biofeedback therapy:
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Electromyogram feedback – This therapy uses electrodes to measure muscle tension and also used to treat stress related illness. It is used especially to teach how to relax the muscles involved in neck pain, headaches, backaches and grinding your teeth.
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It has been a long and Bloody road for our protagonist, the silent Thief. But the end is near, and there is only one thing left to do – Finish the game. I’ve taken down a number more bosses since our last visit to the Game, so lets take a look. AND REMEMBER ALL THE SPOILERS AHEAD
Immediately after defeating Oceiros, I discovered the Illusory wall that led me to the untended graves, and through that short stint, down to the next boss. The trip to him wasn’t hard, and after the first time exploring the area, I never had to take out 2-3 small mobs and that was it to get back to him and start the fight. Thankfully, I didn’t have to do that too many times.
The Champion form of Gundyr is much like the original form, though being such later in the game he hits harder and more often. He’s got more HP and more resistances. Thankfully, I had my trusty bleed blade, and if its bleeds – well. You know.
He starts off with his huge swings, which take up a huge portion of the fighting arena. I would run in and duck behind him, sticking to his ankles like glue and stabbing him whenever he stopped flailing his glaive long enough for me to feel comfortable. I’d keep circling him, close to his left side so that when his weapon was swung out wide, he would completely miss me because his haft flew over my head. Continue stabbing.
I did have to watch out for three attacks though. The first was his epic stomp, which would damage me even though I was hanging out behind him or between his legs, and often give the big guy exactly the time it took to turn around and get a good swing or two into my chest, which wasn’t pretty for my frail, youthful figure. The second was the jump that would take him out of my threat range and then allowed him to come back in to fight me. Getting back between his legs was always more challenging than I’d like. The final one is his kick when I am wandering around his legs. If he can connect with it, it deals enough stamina damage to completely stun me out of a block.
Each hit would do just a smidgen of damage, some 70 or so to the Champion, but every 5th hit would do massive amounts of bleed damage. (15% + extra). It took about 2 good bleeding hits to get him to the next stage – 10 hits overall, and I could tick off 2 most times that I could get off any.
When he got down to about 50%, he powers up and gets very irritated, and this is the part that gave me a bit of a problem because I was simply getting slammed over and over with little chance to heal or attack. eventually, though, through perseverance and time, I was able to bleed him out. It wasn’t a simple fight, but it also wasn’t one that I really felt challenged with, either. just enough work to learn his move set, and then, like Oceiros and the Boreal dancer, it was just getting the timing right.
Once I finished off the Champion, I didn’t really know where to go. I kind of wandered around for a bit before I found the very obvious place to go, and went into the barracks. I made my way, finally to where a new boss stood guarding the way.
Standing on a thin Bridge, with the remains of what seem to be dragons floating behind him, the Dragonslayer Armor was a massive, monstrous roadblock in my path.
Something to note about this fight is that we are on a huge bridge with some massive stone barriers preventing you from rolling or being shoved off of the bridge. Over the course of the fight, the Dragonslayer armor will destroy these precious, life saving structures, allowing you to roll, or be flung, off the bridge. Not that it ever happened.
This guy was just hard enough that I still enjoyed fighting him, but it took a long time. His hits are massive, dealing damage well in excess of 30% of my health. He also has both lighting attacks and fire attacks, making your gear choice an actual choice. He has a huge repitorie of attacks, but the ones that concerned me the most, and that ended my life more often than not, were the Shield Slam, which would often catch me in its area of effect when he crashed it into the ground, and the two handed glaive slash that sent a blade of air soaring into my chest. His Lightning Slam, where he charges up his glaive would often give me a chance to drink and replenish my stamina bar, so it didn’t really bother me. Many, many times I was so close in on his hips that his high swings, reminiscent of Gundyr, would simply miss me and I’d be able to keep stabbing him.
However, this proved problematic, as suits of animate armor do. not. bleed. This meant that I had to pull out my Black Blade and take him down the old fashioned way: With single attacks. He was fairly easy to kit around, and when I got down to low health I would carefully run around behind the well in the center and take a drink, if I couldn’t get him to lightning slam. When I finally felt I had a hold on what he did, he triggered his second phase, where it looks like blood comes spouting onto the bridge when its actually fire from the dragons around you. While I was trying to keep him in place and not let him jump into me with that massive hit of his in the first two phases, in the final phase I was constantly trying to drag him back and fourth over the raised well area in order to stay one step ahead of the dragons breath. It took more than a little while, because he hits so hard that a single mistake is massively punishing, but I took him out.
Grabbing his soul, I headed into the Grand Archives, where after defeating the guardians within, and some really cool NPC’s, I entered the chambers of King Lothric of Lothris, though he’s actually the prince.
Prince Lothric and Prince Lorian, The Twin Princes
These guys were a massive problem for me.
When the fight starts, Lothric talks and sends out his older brother, Lorian, to deal with you. Lorian is huge, has lost the power in most of his legs, and does wide sweeping attacks and huge downswing attacks. This boss has a counter to my favorite tactic of getting behind them and stabbing their calves because his brother, Lothric, will teleport Lorian around the room, often behind you, and take you by surprise the first 30 times you have to fight him. but if that was all he did that’d be fine. I can get to his right, and I can often simply block through, roll under or walk into a blind spot and not be hit. When he does the short teleport, you keep your lock on him, and can often roll right into him and then get behind him to stab him. Every once in a while, though, he’ll be teleported away and you lose your lock on. This is the key to find a place that is either far away or right underneath him, because he is charging up a huge holy flame burst. Whats most infuriating about this burst is that it tracks to some degree, and does so much damage that it often kills outright. Learning when to time the roll to the side in order not to eat the flames to the face is really tricky when you’ve no lock on and often can’t spend the time spinning to try and see where he is because then you die. Once you’ve gotten all of these down and bled him out because, like all good monsters, he bleeds, the real fun begins, though, as we’ll mention later. What was really irritating about this fight was my complete inability to adapt to what he was doing so often. I couldn’t tell the difference between a number of attacks that should determine if I block, roll or strafe to get the most damage in. Additionally, there were multiple times where I was drinking from the flask and his blow would come right out and above my head. While an excellent save for making sure you have enough HP to finish the fight, its was infuriating because I couldn’t repeat it while I was attacking. It would be great, but nope…
Lothric resurrects his elder brother, mounts his back and starts hucking spells at you, teleporting the two of them around more often, and empowering Lorian to really beat your face. This fight was one that really goes my way, once I get to the final portion because of the natural inclination of my playstyle to get behind the target and stab it a bunch. You can kill the elder brother a thousand times and it won’t matter, but when you take out Lothric, riding on his back, is when the fight ends. Thankfully because I am a close in fighter and using the little dagger, it hits and bleeds them both out at about the same rate, so as long as I kept getting attacks in on the back. It took me many more iterations of fighting Lorian than it did fighting them combined because its the same fight for me – stab in the back. The big issue I had with the second phase were those stupid soul bolts that he summons at the start of the conjoined phase. They home in on you and you have to block them somehow, or roll out of the way, and the big guy is always teleported right on top of you and you can’t just stand there and wait, as he’ll plow you into the ground. The breakthrough there came when I realize that the pillars in the room stop the soul masses, and then at the start of the duo phase, I just rolled right behind one of the pillars.
I’ll save the next boss for their own post, cause I’ve yet to finish him!
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14 Benefits of Charting Your Fertility
a blog by Marc Sklar, January 8, 2014
There are only a few days each menstrual cycle that you can get pregnant. Charting your fertility signs can help you find those days so that you can maximize your intercourse timing to increase your chances of conception each cycle. It can also help you make sense of your entire cycle. Even if you do not get pregnant in a given cycle, what you learn from charting your fertility signs that cycle will help you increase your chances in future cycles.
Your fertility signs are directly related to the hormonal changes your body experiences throughout your cycle. Recognizing and understanding the role of these signs can offer you the information you need to help you achieve pregnancy, understand your own fertility pattern, and make informed choices at every stage of your Trying To Conceive (TTC) journey.
Charting your fertility signs offers a way to visually make sense of these signs and unravel the mystery of your fertility. Many people are astonished at just how much they can learn by taking a few minutes a day to observe and record their fertility signs. Many more are delighted to discover that charting their fertility signs is all that is needed to time intercourse and achieve pregnancy. Others find that they can identify fertility issues early and decide on a course of action early. It can be an enlightening and empowering experience.
Observing and recording your fertility signs takes just a couple of minutes a day, but allows you to see the following:
- Determine if and when you ovulate: This is a logical first step and is probably the first thing you will want to know if it is taking you longer than expected to conceive. While this is not the only information you need, knowing whether or not you ovulate will help you learn if you should consider seeking medical attention. If you do ovulate, knowing when you ovulate will help you better time intercourse and to know if you are timing intercourse well.
- Determine the start and length of your fertile phase. Knowing when your fertile phase begins and how long it is will help you better time intercourse and know how often and when to have intercourse to maximize your chances of conception.
- Determine the end of your fertile phase. While the end of your fertile phase is not as critical to pregnancy achievement as its start, it does provide clues about your cycle and lets you know when you can stop having scheduled intercourse. It also lets you know when you enter your post-ovulatory, or luteal phase of your cycle which also offers clues about your fertility.
- Determine the length of your luteal phase: Knowing the length of your luteal phase will let you know if your luteal phase is sufficiently long to sustain a pregnancy.
- Plan and predict your cycles. While your cycles may vary slightly (or greatly) and we know that they can vary a great deal from woman to woman, charting your fertility signs will help you predict when you are most fertile, when ovulation is likely to occur and when your period is expected. Each cycle charted will give you an increased awareness and better ability to predict what is likely in future cycles. With this awareness you can improve your intercourse timing. You will have advanced warning of the beginning of your fertile phase and will know when to expect ovulation. If you are aware of your own typical cycle you can also know early if you conceived in a particular cycle.
- Determine the length of your cycles.Knowing your usual cycle length or the range of your cycle length if it varies can help you know when you are most likely to be fertile, if you are likely to be pregnant and when you can test for pregnancy on an early pregnancy test. This information is also useful for your doctor and is something you are likely to be asked should you seek medical attention.
- Time intercourse or fertility treatments to maximize the chances of conception. Knowing your unique fertility pattern will help you time intercourse increasingly well as you gain greater awareness of your fertility. When you know when you are fertile and when you ovulate, intercourse timing can be maximized for conception purposes.
- Bring clear, clean and accurate data to your doctor. Whether your doctor has suggested that you chart your fertility signs, or if it becomes evident that you need to seek medical attention after you have charted for a few cycles, your doctor will appreciate your charting efforts. The more data you have, the better able your doctor will be to evaluate, analyze and make sense of your charts with you. Having several cycles charted can help you and your doctor decide on the best course of treatment if treatment is necessary.
- See if you timed intercourse well. Many people find the time after ovulation to be the most stressful. They are waiting and hoping to have conceived. Once your fertile time has passed and ovulation has been confirmed by your fertility signs, you can examine your chart to see if conception was possible in any particular cycle. Though your chances are only about 20% in any given cycle, you will know if you have reason to be hopeful. If you do not conceive for several cycles, in spite of well- timed intercourse, you will know that there may be factors that require medical attention.
- Know early if conception occurred. Your chart offers clues that can tell you that you may have conceived.
- Know when conception occurred to better estimate your due date. Once pregnancy is confirmed, doctors typically estimate your due date based on your Last Menstrual Period (LMP). This estimation assumes a typical cycle length and ovulation date that may not apply to you. If you know when ovulation occurred, then you can more accurately determine your baby’s due date.
- Time when to take an early pregnancy test. If you know when your period is really “late” then you can decide when you can reliably take a pregnancy test. This can help to avoid the disappointment of seeing negative pregnancy tests and the anxiety of ambiguous results and early false-negatives caused by testing too early.
- Gain awareness of your hormonal profile and your body. Charting your fertility signs eliminates the mystery that may have surrounded your fertility. It is really no mystery at all when you are aware. Each sign is tied to processes that are governed by the hormones that are running through your body. Recognizing these signs and knowing what they mean is eye-opening and enlightening.
- Take control of your Trying to Conceive experience. Charting your fertility signs and learning what they mean and how they are related to your fertility is something you can do to take control of your trying to conceive experience. This is something proactive that you can do to dramatically increase your chances of conception every cycle. You are informed and in control. There is nothing to lose by doing it and everything to gain.
Charting your fertility signs is something that you can do to increase your chances of conception, understand your own fertility pattern and put you in control of your trying to conceive experience. If you have decided to chart your own fertility signs, read on for more about how they relate to your hormones and how best to observe and record them. | <urn:uuid:85b3c3d7-37ff-4355-93a7-00108ec08042> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | https://www.fertilityauthority.com/blog/marc-sklar/2014/1/08/14-benefits-charting-your-fertility | 2018-05-21T13:37:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864186.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20180521122245-20180521142245-00374.warc.gz | en | 0.949748 | 1,454 |
City of Hope Provost Steven T. Rosen, M.D., honored by Israel Cancer Research FundNovember 18, 2015
Researcher/physician will receive organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award
DUARTE, Calif. — Steven T. Rosen, M.D., provost and chief scientific officer for City of Hope, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) on Nov. 18 at a Chicago gala attended by hundreds of supporters of cancer research. The award recognizes Rosen’s longstanding commitment to advancing science and medicine and providing extraordinary patient care.
Rosen sets the scientific direction of City of Hope, shaping the research and educational vision for the independent biomedical research institution and cancer treatment center. Working closely and collaboratively with City of Hope's scientists, clinicians and administrative leaders, he develops strategies that help the organization quickly turn breakthrough discoveries into practical benefit for cancer patients around the world.
“This Lifetime Achievement Award is a remarkable honor, especially coming from the ICRF, an organization that advances scientific understanding of cancer and supports innovations that are transforming lives,” said Rosen, who serves as director of City of Hope’s comprehensive cancer center, Beckman Research Institute and Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences. He also holds the Irell & Manella Cancer Center Director's Distinguished Chair. “I am extremely proud, and humbled, to be the recipient of such an honor."
Chicago couple Bruce and Jacki Barron, longtime ICRF supporters, who will also be honored at the Tower of Hope Gala, will present Rosen with the award. Jacki Barron is one of Rosen’s former Northwestern patients who was treated for breast cancer, and she credits him with helping her beat cancer.
Jennifer Flink, executive director of the ICRF’s Chicago office, said the organization is pleased to recognize Rosen, a nationally known researcher and cancer specialist, for his 36 years in the cancer field.
“We admire his devotion to providing patients with the most innovative cancer treatments, as well as his compassion and kindness,” she said. “This award allows us to honor not just his expertise and accomplishments, but also the humanity with which he approaches patients and other physicians.”
Prior to joining City of Hope in 2014 as its first provost and chief scientific officer, Rosen served for 24 years as director of Northwestern University’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chicago, where he was widely recognized for elevating the center to national prominence. It received continuous National Cancer Institute (NCI) funding beginning in 1993 and built nationally recognized programs in laboratory sciences, clinical investigations, translational research and cancer prevention and control. Rosen also was Northwestern’s Genevieve Teuton Professor of Medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, providing care for hundreds of patients with blood cancers and overseeing a basic science laboratory and clinical research team credited with improving the treatment of patients with blood cancers.
The author of more than 400 original reports, editorials, books and book chapters, Rosen’s research has been funded by the NCI, American Cancer Society, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of America and Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. He’s also served as an adviser for several of these organizations and on the external advisory boards of more than a dozen NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers.
Recognized as one of the “Best Doctors in America,” Rosen is a recipient of the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Man of Distinction Award from the ICRF. He earned his bachelor's degree and medical degree with distinction from Northwestern University, and is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.
The ICRF, the largest organization in North America devoted solely to supporting cancer research in Israel, has funded cancer research breakthroughs in gene therapy, bone marrow transplant techniques, molecular process and drug therapies.
About City of Hope
City of Hope is an independent research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. Designated as a comprehensive cancer center, the highest recognition bestowed by the National Cancer Institute, City of Hope is also a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, with research and treatment protocols that advance care throughout the nation. City of Hope’s main hospital is located in Duarte, California, just northeast of Los Angeles, with community clinics in southern California. It is ranked as one of "America's Best Hospitals" in cancer by U.S. News & World Report. Founded in 1913, City of Hope is a pioneer in the fields of bone marrow transplantation and genetics. For more information, visit www.cityofhope.org or follow City of Hope on | <urn:uuid:c664cc93-be1f-40f0-ba30-f82bbc7f6269> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | https://www.cityofhope.org/news/provost-steven-rosen-honored-by-israel-cancer-research-fund | 2018-08-19T09:52:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221215075.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20180819090604-20180819110604-00247.warc.gz | en | 0.94035 | 980 |
To add to what Dave has said, you should expect to get syntax errors every day, probably many times a day while you are coding - we all do regardless of how much experience we have! Sometimes, we misspell a variable, or a keyword; sometimes we forget to close a string or a code block. Sometimes the cat walks over your keyboard and types something really weird. Sometimes we just forget how many parameters a method call needs.
We all make mistakes.
And because we all do it, we all have to fix syntax errors - and it's a lot quicker to learn how and fix them yourself than to wait for someone else to fix them for you! So invest a little time in learning how to read error messages, and how to interpret your code as written in the light of what the compiler is telling you is wrong - it really is trying to be helpful!
So read this: How to Write Code to Solve a Problem, A Beginner's Guide Part 2: Syntax Errors
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A technical lead supervises a team as it develops a new software product. These computer engineers may manage multiple projects at once in some cases, and can work with teams of varying sizes. On an especially large project, there may be a senior technical lead who acts as the head supervisor, assisted by junior staff members. People usually need degrees and experience to work in this field.
When a software company starts to plan for a new project or release, the technical lead is involved in this process. A series of meetings may be necessary to discuss the goals, assemble a team, and create a timeline. Once the project is approved, the technical lead starts supervising the staff. This individual may create the underlying architecture, and assigns tasks to different members of the team to make sure the project goes smoothly. As a supervisor, it may be necessary to periodically check up on workers, inspect their products, and offer direction to keep them on track.
Newer employees may benefit from mentoring as they work on aspects of the project and develop skills. Part of the technical lead's job is to make sure employees receive adequate guidance as they work, which can involve offering instruction, referring them to texts, and teaming them with experienced programmers. To keep the group cohesive and functional, technical leads may organize social activities, team-building exercises, and other events. These tasks may involve coordination with human resources and other departments.
As the work progresses, technical leads perform testing. This can be extensive, and may involve outside software testers as it nears completion and the lead wants to make sure the product is as ready for release as it can be. Testing can include examining the code, attempting to trick or break the software in some way, and asking groups to use the software in a normal way to look for glitches and usability problems. Results of the software evaluation may be made available to other employees at the company so they can gauge progress and confirm that the team is attentively addressing any issues that arise in development.
Requirements to take on technical lead positions can vary. Some software companies require a degree and a certain amount of experience, and may prefer to recruit from within because their personnel are familiar with internal policies and working styles. Job listings typically provide information about requirements, which may include knowledge of specific programming languages and experience in leading positions on large projects.
One of our editors will review your suggestion and make changes if warranted. Note that depending on the number of suggestions we receive, this can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Thank you for helping to improve wiseGEEK! | <urn:uuid:f0502aa4-802b-46bc-92a6-50e814898d26> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-a-technical-lead-do.htm | 2017-03-27T00:58:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189316.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00426-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957559 | 531 |
Lake Cliff Condominiums are located at 250 Ledgerwood in Hot Springs. There are 20 units here that were built in 1979, and they are situated along a ridge overlooking the main channel of Lake Hamilton. The buildings are very attractive with a stone and cedar facade, lined with several towering shade trees and mature landscaping. The community has a pool and a gate-guarded entrance. The units are very spacious, offering 2 levels with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths and each unit has a "real" wood-burning fireplace, a large private patio, a covered boat slip and a two-car carport. The cost for a unit here is around $375,000 - $400,000, and the Property Owners' Association "POA" fees are around $275/month. You will absolutely love the location, the setting and the panoramic lake views found here. | <urn:uuid:218f28da-77f2-4d4e-a608-5b24ae78f949> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.bestofhotsprings.com/Lake_Cliff_in_Hot_Springs/page_2053181.html | 2015-07-02T03:37:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095373.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00261-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9754 | 179 |
The is composed of distinct courses or workshops which develop leadership skills to their full potential. Each course fosters principle-focused leadership through the use of research, best practices, behavioral models and support.
The Academy of Leadership embraces a three-fold philosophy:
- Leadership can and must be taught
- Everyone possesses leadership potential
- There are excellent examples of leadership within EWI
This philosophy is the foundation for the entire Academy of Leadership program, including all speakers, activities and information presented at each course.
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Born: November 29, 1957
Saxophonist Nat Birchall has always been something of an enigma, a sublimely soulful saxophonist hidden from view in the Northern hills of England. His debut album Sixth Sense (1999) first announced him to the jazz world as an urgent tenor saxophonist with a feel for pulsing modal hard-bop. But it was his cult hit and now highly sought after soulful slice of spiritual jazz Akhenaten (released on trumpeter Matthew Halsall’s label, Gondwana Records, in 2009) that suggested that the spirit of Coltrane was alive and well in Northern England. Acclaimed by the critics (MOJO for one hailing its ‘spacial sunship beauty’ and ‘lyrical heat haze hypnotism’) Akhenaten together with Halsall’s own releases ‘Sending My Love’ and ‘Colour Yes’ helped create the unique sound that the Independent On Sunday described as ‘rain soaked spiritual jazz from Manchester”....
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- Live In Larissa by Bruce Lindsay
- World Without Form by Bruce Lindsay
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A blend of adventure and mysticism make for the unique allure of Ladakh, also known as India’s Little Tibet, which is among the world’s highest inhabited plateaus. Situated at more than 3,000 metres above sea level, it lies more than 600 kilometres north of New Delhi in the Jammu and Kashmir state. Also popular as Moonland for its outlandish landscape of vast barren mountains, the bluest of skies and beautiful lakes that change colour during the day.
The many distinctive features of Ladakh are its uplands, craggy, barren cliffs and plateaus. Governed by a climate that provides about 50 mm of rainfall each year, Ladakh is cold and dry. A visitor, therefore, will be faced with a long and bitter winter of frozen landscape but yet very beautiful, and a short, hot summer when the precious glaciers melt. The Ladakhi festival, which is organized on a large scale is a regular tourist event, which is held in Leh every year. It showcases the traditional dances, sporting skills and handicrafts with a lot of pomp and fan fare, and should not be missed. Ladakh offers excellent opportunities for adventure tourism.
You can go river rafting in the highest location for the sport in the world along the 26-kilometers stretch from Phey to Nimo along the mighty Indus River. Ladakh’s high altitude and mountains make it an ideal spot for paragliding, mountaineering, trekking and even skiing. Besides the astoundingly beautiful landscapes and the alluring wide open cold deserts, the other most fascinating feature of Ladakh | <urn:uuid:a73e26fe-d1f9-498e-b753-ce504eea395c> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | http://www.mountaintrails.in/destinations/himachal/ | 2018-12-16T19:00:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827963.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20181216165437-20181216191437-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.945538 | 333 |
Man who plotted to kill Justin Bieber moved to prison
Dana Martin now behind bars at New Mexico State Penitentiary
The New Mexico inmate who admitted to hiring hit men to murder and castrate singer Justin Bieber is now behind bars in maximum security prison.
Dana Martin was moved to New Mexico State Penitentiary outside Santa Fe from another prison in Las Cruces in March.
The convicted killer lives in a small cell in the Level 6 part of the prison.
"Basically this entire facility is a 24-hour lockdown," said Deputy Warden Derek Williams.
Martin, who is serving two life sentences for the murder and rape of a 15-year-old girl, was placed in solitary confinement in the prison after targeting Bieber.
Officials recorded Martin on prison telephone in November of last year telling an alleged hit man where to find the pop star, and how to strangle him with Martin's signature paisley scarf.
"Tie it really tight, and that cuts off all the oxygen, and then tie it in the back again, really tight," Martin said.
After watching an Action 7 News report, Martin then sent a letter outlining new plans to plant an explosive on the singer's stage.
Williams said now all of Martin's mail is read before it's sent out.
"We can track, control, even reduce it if necessary," he said.
Martin, like all prisoners in Level 6 for disciplinary reasons, only receives the bare essentials in his cell: hygiene products and bedding.
When he wants to exercise, there's a recreational cage that Martin can use five times a week. Officials said inmates are brought into these cages one by one so they're never in contact with another inmate.
Back behind bars, guards check red spray paint around anything metal in the cell. If the spray paint is scratched, it's an indication the inmate has a weapon.
"(It indicates) if he's trying to sharpen it against something," said Rolando Valencia, a captain and unit manager.
Though if Martin keeps to himself and has a record of good behavior, we're told he can get books, a TV, and an MP3 player to pass the time. | <urn:uuid:4c71972c-36a7-49d9-a023-c9f61dfc2e13> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www.koat.com/article/man-who-plotted-to-kill-justin-bieber-moved-to-prison-1/5046704 | 2017-08-19T16:59:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886105700.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170819162833-20170819182833-00694.warc.gz | en | 0.961669 | 448 |
Pip joint replacement and joint fusion
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My hand is pain free even after a hard day’s work, something that has not happened in the last ten years.
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The comprehensive history of the Kruger National Park, "Neem Uit Die Verlede" ("Taken from the past") is due to be reprinted this year, and is expected to hit the shelves in South Africa before Christmas. This weighty book is the work of Dr Uys de Villiers ("Tol") Pienaar, who worked in Kruger for 32 years. He rose from the position of junior ranger in 1955 to become park warden of Kruger from 1978 to 1987, before becoming chief director of Sanparks. During his time in Kruger he established the reference museum in Skukuza and started cataloguing much of the park's animal diversity. He was also very involved in the chemical capture and immobilisation of animals, and authored numerous scientific papers on various subjects.
History Of Kruger To Be Reprinted
Originally published by the parks board, his history of Kruger has been out of print for some time. It is now being republished by Protea Boekhuis, who have been updating the text and will be publishing the book with a new contemporary cover. A translation of the book into English is also in the pipeline, although that is only likely to be published next year at the earliest. | <urn:uuid:51f6301c-3911-4915-a945-51db4e77094b> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://www.krugerpark.co.za/krugerpark-times-3-4-kruger-history-22129.html | 2018-05-22T23:26:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864999.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522225116-20180523005116-00614.warc.gz | en | 0.969173 | 255 |
Probably the biggest religion story of the past couple weeks has been the saga of Daniel Hauser, the 13-year-old boy from northern Minnesota who is dying of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Yes, he’s dying, unless he gets chemo. With chemo, there’s a 90% survival rate. Without chemo, less than 10%.
After one round of chemo this Spring, Hauser refused to go back. At some point he and his mother — and possibly other members of his family — “converted” to Nemenhah, an online Native American “religion” that advotes homeopathic recipes of roots and herbs to treat illness. Daniel claimed to be a Nemenhah shaman, then it turned out that Nemenhahites (?) age 13 or older are automatically shamans. The Hausers are in no sense Indian.
When Daniel refused chemo, his doctor took him to court. Daniel defended himself with a first-person statement that I’m highly doubtful that he wrote himself. When the judge ordered Daniel to resume chemo, he and his mother fled to California, seduced by a sleazy lawyer to promptly ditched them. They were then flown back by a Hollywood movie producer, and yesterday, Daniel showed up for chemo at a hospital in Minneapolis.
Lots of people have been writing about this as a freedom of religion case, and it may be.
My friend, Carla, has written about the parental privacy aspects of the situation:
Because raising children is not something we do for ourselves. We
raise children to be part of the world, to be active, involved
participants in the lives of other people. Daniel Hauser doesn’t belong
to his mother. He belongs to a family, to a community, to God.
Carla’s on to something here. It seems to me that this is a case of a naive and easily manipulated mom, and a bedraggled father, who dragged their son into a hellish public nightmare because of their conspiracy-theory mistrust of Western medicine.
This is why we live in a society, surrounded by other human beings, so that when one of us loses our way, there’s a whole posse of people around to ensure that we don’t take others down with us. Thank GOD for a sensible physician and judge for overriding in unsensible parent.
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ATLANTA - Fear. Joy. Mystery.
If 11-month-old Durante Cochran could talk, the story of what happened to him Wednesday night might make sense. Right now, it remains a mystery.
The toddler was last seen around 9:00 Wednesday night. His 6-year-old brother Stanley gave him a bottle. "I put the bottle on the table," he told 11Alive News. And then he, his little brother, and their grandmother fell asleep on the couch in the front room of a house on Beecher Street.
When he woke up two hours later, Durante was gone. His bottle was gone. The front door was open.
"I don't know who got him!" a tearful Stanley said.
And the frantic search began. It lasted all night long. Just before 9:00 am, Chris Smith said he was beginning work in the neighborhood when he heard the baby crying. He immediately joined the search for the 11-month-old.
“I was a nervous wreck and I’m still a nervous wreck,” Valarie Victom said. Police said she was staying at an abandoned house nearby and had joined the search for the baby. “I reached out and grabbed him.”
PREVIOUS | SAFE! Missing toddler found in wooded area
The toddler was in a wooded area near the home. He'd been missing for nearly twelve hours. But, evidence suggests he wasn't there all night.
So, where was he?
The joy at finding the 11-month-old toddler became quickly clouded by confusion.
"It's sort of unbelievable that he would have walked or crawled to that area, a block and a half away," Atlanta Police Major Adam Lee said Thursday afternoon. "We have some theories, but I can't discuss those right now."
Major Lee said search crews, including the Alpha Team Search dogs, found no sign of the toddler during the night. Again, Major Lee said it's hard to believe. "Based on their historic work," he said. "Those dogs are very good at what they do."
Another piece of evidence that's hard to fit into the narrative if the boy just wandered away: the searchers were covered in mosquito bites. Durante didn't have a single one.
There were five adults in the house at the time of his disappearance. His mother was not at home. She was questioned by police and arrested, but not in connection with Durante's disappearance. She had a failure to appear warrant out on previous charges of child neglect. Another adult in the home at the time was also arrested for probation violations.
There were five children in the home. They are all now in state custody. They were living in a home without electricity. A home police called "not in good condition".
Police knew the home well. They'd been there more than 120 times in the past two years. According to call logs, the codes were most often for drunk and disorderly, fights, and rowdy children.
Police were at the home the same day Durante disappeared. They were responding to a call about a drunk and disorderly fight.
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This weekend the Australian Grand Prix would have been the season opening for Formula One, however due to the corona virus there won’t a Grand prix at all. The first Grand Prix? Probably the Dutch Grand Prix. The hectic of Liberty Media and the bad communication brought me back to the days that Eddie Jordan, Gian Carlo Minardi, Guy Ligier, Ken Tyrrell, Lord Hesketh and all time favourite Peter Sauber were active in the Formula One with their own team. Full of passion for the sport, dedicated for life. Taking the risk teams today won’t take at all.
It is not a secret that I’m not a fan of today’s Formula One which seems everything needs to be sterile and there is no space for unpopular quotes everything has to be equal and correct. I miss as well by many team owners the passion, the Passion people like Peter Sauber and Eddie Jordan had in those days. Stable teams just doing their thing with Eddie Jordan be the extraordinary and Peter Sauber the relaxed one.
I miss the teams as Minardi, Jordan, Sauber, and Ligier though even the older once I never experienced live teams as Hesketh, Shadow and Theodore. All driven by passion, and fuelled with the same love for auto sport. The PR and be correct seems to be the most important thing these day in the Formula One.
There is one team principal I really miss in today’s Formula One, probably he would not be able to make the difference but still, and that is Peter Sauber. If you dive into his racing records you will find out he did a decent job in hill climbs himself. Be fair, who did not read the stories of the Sauber-Mercedes C9!? Everything between his own career as driver up to his own Formula One team breaths one thing, passion… Passion and more passion. It seems rare these days. Perhaps I don’t see it any more, and my perception of passion is outdated or the old school approach.
Peter Sauber is also one of the few that saw the talent in new drivers. He was the only one who saw the talent Kimi Raikkonen had. With almost no experience in the lower Formula classes he dared to put Kimi in his car. And see what happened. The same can be said of Gian Carlo Minardi who always kept an eye on the talent. Esteban Tuero and Fernando Alonso.
Perhaps Peter Sauber steps even higher on the ranks of a team owner with a pure passion for auto sport. In 2005, he sold his Sauber F1 Team to BMW. To retire from the sport and just enjoy his life. When the financial crisis hit worldwide in 2007 and 2008 even the Formula One was near collapsing due the fact that factory teams were to leave the Formula One.
So did BMW, they spent too much money and had to cut in their spending’s. It was the moment Peter Sauber came back to the Formula One to save his team. What he did was unseen before and showed the true passion. I don’t see Toto Wolf doing this, do you?
There is another reason to be honest why I miss Peter Sauber. Besides his amazing personality, he shares the same passion as I do for cigars. He was one of the few who knew how to smoke a cigar and why you should smoke a cigar instead of cigarettes. A great example is Paul Stoddart he smoked cigarettes and was stressed out at some point. Peter Sauber smoked cigars and was most of the time relaxed. It’s all about the way you approach life.
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'The Voice's' Christina Milian Gives Advice to New Artists, Dishes on Next Album (Video)
The NBC show's social media correspondent shares the wisdom she has learned after more than a decade in the entertainment business with THR.
Don’t let the baby face fool you. After more than a decade in the music industry, Christina Milian brings a good deal of experience to her role as the The Voice's social media correspondent for NBC.
The singer and actress dropped by the THR Covers Lounge recently and shared her sage advice for the show’s performers and anyone struggling to break in to the business.
“I’ve been in the music industry, I’ve been in the acting field for a very long time,” the 30-year-old says. “I’ve had my ups and downs and I still believe and I will not give up.”
“Maybe not everything is meant to be,” she goes on to say. “But I do believe that maybe mistakes are lessons learned or it’s just an experience for you to grow through, so that you can get to a better place.”
Eleven years after her self-titled debut album, Milian has signed on to rapper Lil Wayne’s record label, Young Money Entertainment. And she’s currently in the studio working on her fourth album, which she says will range from dance music to R&B-pop.
“I think this is going to be the most exciting, most meaningful album I’ve ever made,” Milian says.
Find out what else Milian has to say about breaking into the music business and her upcoming album in the video above.
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I booked an EBC trek with Sanjib as he came highly recommended of Tripadvisor and other forums. The guys were fantastic, they have excellent knowledge of the area and provided a wealth of advice/information about the trek, safety during trek, things to do after the trek. I was initially a little disappointed on the day of the trek that Sanjib was not our guide as I had this trek booked way in advance but I quickly got over. Sarjon (Sanjib’s brother) was a young man with a wealth of knowledge and easy-going attitude and experienced guide who provided assistance when required.
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At a children’s birthday party today and the Grandmother of the child, who was not elderly, was talking about her time as a teacher in the school system. She repeatedly made comments such as “I worked with all the problem kids” “I worked with the kids with all the problems” “I worked with the kids with all the behaviour problems” “some of them were really bad. It was the young one’s. The young one’s were really bad, had really bad behaviour problems.” For a peaceful person, I was not feeling peaceful. Here is my “child with all the problems” sitting near her, eating peacefully, being wonderful. She would have no clue. She starts to loudly talk about how inappropriate it is that their teacher came to the party (she has come to all the parties).
The difference in their attitudes is profound, and my husband, ever the bold jokester, says “how many parties were you invited to?” She said “none.” I laughed because it was the most obvious thing in the world. My child has the teacher who used to be a Resource Classroom Teacher. He has the teacher who comes to the parties and loves and cares about her kids. She values connection over obedience (although obedience is still definitely on her agenda). This ex-teacher clearly resented the children she worked with. She saw them as having a problem, as being a problem. I do not understand how you support growth from that perspective. My heart just crushed for all the poor children she has come into contact with over the years. We trust these people with our children, the most precious part of our lives. We have to have blind trust. Then you have a child who requires individual support, this fear that someone is going to mistreat your child becomes incredibly intensified.
I think many people take solace in the myth that people who do that job are saints and would never mistreat our children. I am here to tell you that is a misconception. Working with children does not mean people LOVE children. I know this from inside the field and listening to that retired teacher today reminded me of why I work for myself now. The way we look at children, and especially children with accommodation needs, but any child that is a little different, a little loud, a little inconvenient, one with unique needs, it makes me sick to my stomach. This needs to change. We need to stop calling it burnout and call it for what it is….. an unfulfilled god complex.
These people thought they could come in and bully the accommodation needs out of these kids and when their bullying did not cure them of their medical condition, instead of trying a new strategy, they bullied them more, figured they weren’t tough enough. It’s disgusting. A bunch of people roaming around on power trips, trying to control children. This needs to be unacceptable. Unions should not be able to protect these people. That women probably has a pension while the kids she worked with likely need major therapy as a result of her influence on their lives. The worst part is, people like this often make the parents feel like they are doing something wrong when they are not tough enough with their kids. It’s not good enough that they torture the child all day at school, they want the parents to continue the torture at home. | <urn:uuid:776859f6-df84-4d2c-999a-fa305a38f99e> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://politico.my.id/the-problem-responsive-parenting.html | 2023-11-30T05:23:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130031610-20231130061610-00197.warc.gz | en | 0.989441 | 702 |
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imo is a Hypocritical propaganda organization that lays blanket statements on not eating meat, and then euthanizes thousands of animals within 24 hours of arriving to its shelter. Really? I thought you were out to SAVE animals and PROTECT them Peta?
Fundamentally, I agree that certain farms and practices are unethical, but laying a blanket statement on not eating meat or using animal products is foolish. Rather than hash out all my arguments right now, I’ve connected some links here below
there PETA goes Comparing animals and humans again. here are some arguments. chicken eggs full of protein… and hens lay an egg a day.
More Reading: https://www.petakillsanimals.com/
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Budget brides are getting more and more creative in their choices for Wedding Decor. Besides Mason jars, metal sap buckets are extremely popular to hold flowers or pomanders. Some brides are opting for clusters of tree branches to decorate their wedding which can look really stunning for Hanging Wedding Decorations if the branches are spray painted white or silver and then sprinkled with glitter. Again, check with your venue on the use of glitter. Some venues absolutely forbid it! Paper parasols lining the wedding are another different, quick and fun way to decorate as well as paper lanterns, either lying along the aisle or hanging off of each chair along the ends of the aisles. Small paper lanterns for this purpose can be picked up inexpensively at the dollar store.
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Global Oil and Gas Drill Bits Market to Reach US$8.4 Billion by the Year 2027
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Oil and Gas Drill Bits estimated at US$6.2 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$8.4 Billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 4.4% over the period 2020-2027.Roller Cone Cutter Bits, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to grow at a 4.2% CAGR to reach US$5.2 Billion by the end of the analysis period. After an early analysis of the business implications of the pandemic and its induced economic crisis, growth in the Fixed Cutter Bits segment is readjusted to a revised 4.8% CAGR for the next 7-year period. This segment currently accounts for a 36.9% share of the global Oil and Gas Drill Bits market.
The U.S. Accounts for Over 26.9% of Global Market Size in 2020, While China is Forecast to Grow at a 7.8% CAGR for the Period of 2020-2027
The Oil and Gas Drill Bits market in the U.S. is estimated at US$1.7 Billion in the year 2020. The country currently accounts for a 26.94% share in the global market. China, the world second largest economy, is forecast to reach an estimated market size of US$1.8 Billion in the year 2027 trailing a CAGR of 7.8% through 2027. Among the other noteworthy geographic markets are Japan and Canada, each forecast to grow at 1.5% and 3.3% respectively over the 2020-2027 period. Within Europe, Germany is forecast to grow at approximately 2.3% CAGR while Rest of European market (as defined in the study) will reach US$1.8 Billion by the year 2027.We bring years of research experience to this 5th edition of our report. The 176-page report presents concise insights into how the pandemic has impacted production and the buy side for 2020 and 2021. A short-term phased recovery by key geography is also addressed.
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What is peak oil peak oil our the phd thesis of fredrik robelius showed that peak oil is expected to occur between 2008 and 2018 chris skrebowski. Peak oil: one-sentence problem-solving it’s as if the whole world were conspiring to bury the tattered remains of the ‘peak oil’ thesis peak oil. It’s as if the whole world were conspiring to bury the tattered remains of the “peak oil” thesis, so popular a few years ago as recently as 2009.
Peak oil: apocalyptic environmentalism and libertarian political culture [matthew schneider-mayerson] on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers in recent. I’m often asked about peak oil theory, (or “hubbert’s peak“) and whether this is valid let me start with a little background, courtesy of the hive mind at. What’s the latest on peak oil with gigantic new discoveries in the us and soon all over the world the peak oil thesis is now delayed by at least a hundred. The best argument is that peak oil is an ideological notion, not a meaningful social/political/economic concept as john-charles hewitt pointed out in his answer. | <urn:uuid:2cfb3f59-85e7-4e65-9067-8d10d327e002> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://ljessayddxu.modelbook.us/the-peak-oil-thesis.html | 2018-08-17T11:14:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221212040.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20180817104238-20180817124238-00098.warc.gz | en | 0.954385 | 792 |
Recently, I had the privilege of hiring a Student Ministries Pastor at our church. This was a first for me, but I quickly realized something. It was also a very positive experience because I had wonderful support. My Lead Pastor and Administrative Pastor both took time to walk me through the entire process, and more important….allowed me to handle most of it on my own. They made me feel supported, but not micro-managed….AWESOME!
Next, I began looking at how to assimilate a new-hire. Below are four key must-dos that I discovered while browsing this topic on generic corporate America sites…applying them to the Church. I thought I’d share them with you.
Equip – There isn’t much worse than showing up the first day on the job and having to ask for the things you need in order to do your job. Ensure this person has the bare basics; phone, computer, keys, workspace, passwords, etc. Other important information and materials like employee phone/email directory, expected office hours, dress code, and how to handle days off and vacation. Knowledge brings confidence!
Announce – No matter what the position…everyone wants to be noticed! Communicate this person and their positive attributes to current staff, making their role and responsibilities clear to all.
Lead – Spend time getting them acclimated for the first week. Greet them when they first arrive each day. Ask them if they need anything or have any new questions. Physically walk them around the work environment so they know where everything is. This is also a great way to introduce them to individual employees on a more personal basis.
Recognize – Make a warm and positive welcome. This is different from the ‘announce.’ Take them to lunch or coffee. Give them an office-warming gift; some kind of wall art, a desk accessory, name plate, etc. Appreciating them before they’ve proven they deserve it is a great moral boost for a new hire! It should encourage them to start off with a strong work ethic.
Whether you are adding a team member to a small, country church or a mega-church….these actions hold equal significance. Simply expecting them to handle the these things on their own is neglect.
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Fun. Modern. Clean. That pretty much sums up the Los Angeles headquarters of Foodstirs, the baking startup created by actress Sarah Michelle Gellar along with her longtime friends Galit Laibow and Greg Fleishman. It also accurately describes as well as the brand's mission to bring kids and their parents together in the kitchen.
"We’re trying to disrupt the baking industry with clean and tasty products that are easy to do and accessible," Laibow says of the company's DIY baking kits. "We’re also all young parents, so we really wanted [the office] to reflect our brand.”
That it does. Between the pop of bright colors and quirky design elements, the space, which was completed last February and also features a full kitchen, intentionally breaks all the rules of a traditional office — and for good reason.
With a startup like Foodstirs, the need to turn around ideas or bake up a new recipe quickly is essential. So the design concept not only needed to maximize every inch of the space, but also allow the team to constantly be on their toes creatively.
When it came time to bring the team's vision to life, Laibow knew right away that they needed to call on Jenn Feldman, the California-based interior designer who also put together the young entrepreneur's residential home.
"It was always coming back to us how the space could be mobile and entrepreneurial as well as look like a reflection of their packaging with these juicy colors," Feldman says.
Rather than sitting at desks all day, for example, the cozy seating area next to the upstairs conference room allows the Foodstirs team to collaborate and brainstorm in a relaxed setting.
"We kind of saw that and were like, 'That’s going to kind of set the tone,'" says Laibow, who on most days you'll find curled up with a laptop on the vibrant sofa, while Gellar sits nearby in the ivory chair.
Another element that helped bring further bake-spiration to the office: colorful decals. Like the one above the pink couch, powerful sayings, taken from Foodstirs' own slogans, are weaved throughout the office.
"Instead of putting art on the wall, the art was their slogans," Feldman says.
The conference rooms aren't your typical meeting spaces either. When they aren't holed up in the comfy seating area, you'll find Gellar, Laibow as well as Fleishman in the upstairs meeting room, complete with a white marble dining table and gold-legged side chairs.
"We don’t have formal offices with closed doors because we want to be very accessible," Laibow says. "I think that leads to creativity as well as collaboration."
But don't let the pristine white walls fool you. Next to those chalkboard storage doors are two oversized dry erase boards, which on any given day could be filled with a myriad of ideas the team has in store.
The more formal meetings, however, are held in the downstairs conference room, where the entire team will get together to review design, content, products and other upcoming initiatives.
Yet even this space manages to feel anything but stuffy, with a funky black-and-white rug by and light fixture from Globe Electric. Safe to assume there is no such thing as a boring meeting at Foodstirs.
Bottom line: don't be afraid to think outside the box when it comes to designing your own work space.
"I think the fallacy about modern day work is that it has to be at a desk or you’re not doing your work," Feldman says. "It should be whatever inspires you and the rules are yours to make and the rules are yours to break in that way."
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Ways To Sell Your Rental Property
1. Wait until your tenant’s lease expires and sell the property
This is the best option if you can afford it. It costs more because you’re not receiving rent, but gives you the greatest chance to quicker sell at a higher sales price. You can sell the property to investors and homeowners alike so you’re not limiting yourself. Without the tenant, you also have the luxury of fixing up or refreshing the property to make it look its best and when unoccupied, it can always be kept show-ready and you won’t run the chance of having a tell-all tenant wanting to tell prospective buyers everything they don’t like about the house.
2. Sell Your House And Your Tenant
This option is the cheapest, but has the most difficulty. You will need the cooperation of your tenant to sell your house with the tenant still living in it. You can’t sell it to someone who wants to buy a house to immediately move into because they must uphold the tenant’s lease. You have to sell it to someone who either doesn’t mind waiting for the lease to expire, or to sell it to an investor who’s looking for an income property. If you sell it to an investor, then DO NOT UPGRADE anything. You can get a higher price freshening up things like paint, carpet, roofing shingles, etc., but do not upgrade anything. Don’t upgrade appliances, just make sure they look clean and are working properly. Don’t upgrade the kitchen, bathroom or anything expensive. Upgrades make your house cost more and investors do not want to pay that extra cost when looking for a rental property. For example, when I’m looking for a rental property, I know the highest price I’m willing to pay before I ever set foot on the property. When looking for a house, the first thing I do is scout around the neighborhood to determine how many rental properties are nearby then I find out how much can I expect to collect in rent for that area. Once I know the rental amount, I take that figure and plug it into a spreadsheet to see what my income and costs will be and then calculate the maximum I should pay for a house to produce my desired return on investment. A simple way you can determine what investors will pay for a rent house in your area, use a multiplier of 80 to 110 times monthly rent. I usually shoot for a multiplier between 90 and 100 for houses I don’t have to finance, and use a multiplier of 80 or less for houses I have to finance. This formula creates a high / low range where you can expect most rental investor offers to fall into. If I can rent a property to a tenant for $1000/month I will probably want to pay somewhere between $80,000 – $110,000 for it. Unfortunately, this is probably a higher offer than you can expect from most investors. I tend to look for houses that rent easier, would attract a better renter and are located in areas where rental properties are not common and where there’s still appreciation and to get that, I’m willing to pay a little more. Yes, there are areas in Dallas, Texas where properties still appreciate. Most investors will shoot for a lower price. But either way, all investors base their offers on the income the property produces so you can see how upgrading to Viking appliances and granite countertops would be a poor decision on your part if you were going to sell it to an investor.
3. Sell the property to the tenant
This option is a shot in the dark because most renters rent because they either can’t afford to buy or they simply don’t want to. If you’re not in a hurry to cash in on the sale of your home, you may consider owner-financing but odds are if your tenant can’t find a bank willing to loan them money, there’s probably a good reason for it. Be prepared to take back the house when they fail to keep up with the payments. Selling the property to my tenant with owner-financing is not a strategy I’d do personally, especially as a second mortgage given today’s default rate.
Getting Your Rental Property Show-Ready
First of all, keeping the house show ready and having strangers entering the house at various hours each day is a lot of trouble to ask of your tenant. The yard has to be kept pristine and the house should always be neat and clutter free. Lots of homeowners fail to live up to show-ready standards with their own home so imagine how hard it will be to motivate your tenant when he knows that his tenant days may be coming to an end when the house sells, not to mention the tremendous invasion of privacy your tenant can expect for the months that follow. Be sure to communicate everything with your tenant and introduce them to your real estate agent so everyone knows what to expect. If the tenant is naturally sloppy, you can expect the house to not show well and you may want to just wait until the lease expires.
Make Your Tenant Your Partner
If your tenant has something to gain from the sale, he may be more inclined to promote the sale rather than detract from it. Either way, it’s a lot to ask of a tenant and the tenant should receive some form of compensation for helping to sell your house. Maybe offer a discount of rent while the house is on the market and if they do a really good job, you may consider giving them some money to hire a mover. Make sure they pick and hire the mover so you’re not liable for anything. If they’re on board with the sale, then you may also be able to do some cosmetic work on the inside of the house with their participation and agreement to maintain it. Either way, I’d do external repairs to enhance curb appeal because renters don’t usually tear up external repairs.
Are You Really Losing Money Leaving The House Unrented During The Sale?
The answer is probably not. Having a renter makes the house primarily appeal to landlords and they’ll only look at it if it’s priced according to a ROI based on rents. Anyone wanting to live in the house will not be interested in dealing with a renter, even if it’s on a month-to-month lease. By doing this, you basically reduce the pool of potential buyers significantly. A reduction in potential buyers also reduces the potential for a higher sales price. The amount of rent you’ll receive while the house is on the market could be much less than the overall drop in the sales price. At the end of the day, you’ll either breakeven in rent-vs-price drop or lose money depending on the market, condition of the house and cooperation of the tenant.
Will Having A Tenant Make It More Valuable To An Investor?
It wouldn’t make your property more valuable for me unless you could demonstrate that they were a great tenant and your reasons for selling were external to the property at hand. When I look at a home with a tenant, I usually assume that the tenant is probably the reason the landlord is wanting to sell. I don’t know how well the landlord screened their tenant and I don’t know how faithful that tenant is at paying rent. Also, I don’t know if there is any baggage I may be inheriting depending on the seller’s property management style versus mine. Was the owner a softie and his tenant habitually walked all over him and expects to do the same with me? He’s in for a shock, but I’m also in for a few problems as we set boundaries. It’s in your best interest to show your tenant’s lease, rental application and a copy of every rent check to the prospective landlord. The more paperwork you can show the better your chances of getting a better price. It’s important to show the landlord buyer that you are a capable landlord who picked a good tenant and that you’re not over your head wanting to get bailed out of a horrible situation that they will be inheriting. Being bailed out comes at a price and that price is usually a lowball offer.
Where To Go For Advice
The best source for landlords looking for advice is www.mrlandlord.com. Their landlord Q&A message board is a great source of information. I’ve been a faithful contributor and viewer of that board for a few years and it’s filled with advice from other landlords willing to share their successes and failures with other landlords. | <urn:uuid:3eae85b0-79bd-4693-acf8-1ed6e19e0947> | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | https://www.agentharvest.com/blog/the-risks-of-selling-a-rental-property-with-a-tenant/ | 2021-08-02T02:44:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154302.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20210802012641-20210802042641-00399.warc.gz | en | 0.947336 | 1,808 |
I’ve been writing a lot about middle school and friendships. Two of the flashes from these series are coming out this fall — “Butterfly” in Third Point Press and “Body Like Paper” in New South Journal. I’m excited to see these two come out! “Butterfly” is based on my own experiences in middle school, and “Body Like Paper” on my daughter’s, at the same middle school. So we’ve got the late 70s with charm necklaces and roach clips, and the present with Facetime and ballet. Social dynamics the same. | <urn:uuid:669c9c6a-db83-4f5c-af7f-1dd2f47eafdc> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://lorisambolbrody.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/surfers-and-upcoming-publications/ | 2018-04-25T16:20:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947931.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20180425154752-20180425174752-00037.warc.gz | en | 0.935088 | 135 |
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The application of information theory and animal communications to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence - Dr. Laurance R. Doyle Colloquium
All animals communicate, and their communication systems may be
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In Gelia City, magic is music: a constant ever-changing melody known as the Strains. Hereditary ability to use the Strains divides the city into two classes: the wealthy Highmost, who can access the full potential of the Strains, and the Common tradesmen, who are limited to mundane spells, known as beggar magic.
With the help of the Strains, Common teen Leilani rescues and befriends a gifted Highmost girl, Zebedy. The girls’ friendship opens Leilani’s eyes to the world of the Highmost. She’s intrigued by Zeb’s close relationship with the Strains, and longs to know them as she does. Zeb, in turn, comes to depend on Leilani’s strength and intelligence, making them an inseparable team, ready to take on anything with the Strains at their back.
As their unlikely friendship strengthens and endures, Zeb draws Leilani further into the Highmosts’ intrigues. Beneath the polished, academic facade of the Highmost manors lurks a threat to the Strains. An unknown force consumes their music, leaving only heart-rending silence behind.
Leilani and Zeb will do anything to save their beloved Strains, but as the silence grows, they face danger their previously sheltered lives could never prepare them for. Whoever is behind the death of the Strains is willing to kill to keep their secret safe. To preserve the Strains, the girls may have to sacrifice their friendship, or even their lives.
GUEST REVIEWER: LAURA DEL
Beggar Magic is one of the most refreshing pieces of fiction that I have read in a while. The book follows Leilani Weaver on her journey to living her dreams and becoming something that is beyond her “Common” status. Leilani’s life changes for the better, and for the worst, when she meets Zebedy, a “Highmost” girl who is so special that she can actually hear every word the “Strains”—the magical begins that help the people in Gelia—say. When they meet, you think that they are just two girls from different classes who will never see each other again. However, as they get to know one another they become best friends, and soon Zebedy is asking Leilani to be her assistant as she goes on to do her fellowship in one of the Highmost manors, which is where the higher classes learn their trades. But everything is not what it seems, and as the saying goes, “all that glitters is not gold,” and in this case, it is especially true.
This book is filled with suspense, tear jerking moments and even a little bit of romance. It is magical as well as being beautifully written. The book keeps you on your toes almost to the very end, and even though everything seems to resolve itself, there is enough room for a sequel, if the author chooses to do so. (Side note: I really hope that is the case, because I just loved it.) Beggar Magic is one of those books that you can read over and over again, and never get bored. I commend the author, and hope to see more soon.
So it is 5 out of 5 stars for Beggar Magic, and when it comes out on December 9th, you’ll be beggin’ for more! ~ Laura Del
An addictive personality, she jumped from one fandom to another, being at times completely obsessed with various books, movies, or television series (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and Star Trek all took their turns), but she has grown to be what she considers a well-rounded connoisseur of geek culture.
Married to her high school crush who is now a US Marine, she has moved multiple times in her adult life but believes that home is wherever her husband, two daughters, and pets are.
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Psalm 32:7-11 (NIV)
7 You are my hiding place;
you will protect me from trouble
and surround me with songs of deliverance.
8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
9 Do not be like the horse or the mule,
which have no understanding
but must be controlled by bit and bridle
or they will not come to you.
10 Many are the woes of the wicked,
but the Lord’s unfailing love
surrounds the one who trusts in him.
11 Rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous;
sing, all you who are upright in heart!
HIDING PLACE ~
Within the shelter of God, is peace. There is guidance throughout the word (Bible) that we can learn from, hope for and know that is true. God's love is real and he wants our complete heart. As we learn to trust another human, we can also learn to trust God who guides our lives. I believe in prayer and I believe that our actions speak louder than words. I find my hiding place in God.
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
We are to guard our heart and watch our words. Thinking before we speak is very important in life. Taking time to study, pray and lean toward God, changes us. Each day is a gift of God and if we could only see all the things we do have in life. There are people who know us in our strongest moments in life and even in the most heartbreaking times. There are real friends and God connects lives for a purpose. Throughout the words on this page, please know that you are prayed for by me. I pray daily for those who read my blog, your family and friends.
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Hot gadgets paired with the perfect accessories and “noobie-friendly” support make gifts they’ll use and love
November 15, 2008 (Greenwood, Ind.)—Consumers can save time on gift buying, and returning, this holiday season by choosing all-inclusive bundles featuring some of the season’s hottest gadgets and gear. Noobie Bundles include popular technology gifts, like digital cameras, iPods and GPS navigators that come with all the noobie-friendly accessories and support recipients will need to enjoy their gifts right out of the box. Shoppers can learn more about the bundles and get free shipping at http://www.noobie.com/bundles.
“Product manuals have so much detail and information that it’s often impossible to find the instructions you need to get started now,” said Patric Welch, owner and founder of Noobie. “That’s why Noobie Bundles come with simple, step-by-step guides to doing the basics with your new gift.”
Quick Start Guides that come with Noobie Bundles will help eliminate frustration and prevent post-holiday gift returns because a product was “too confusing.”
“When you give technology gadgets as a gift, the real value to the recipient is in how they are able to use it to enhance their everyday life,” said Welch. “You want them to enjoy the gift right away without a lot of hassle.”
In addition to Quick Start Guides, Noobie Bundles also include up to one hour of free telephone support with a Noobie Coach. Gift recipients can use this time to get one-on-one help with their new gadget or explore more advanced features and set-up options.
“When you receive a new digital camera, you want to point and shoot before precious moments pass,” said Welch. “Next, and equally important, you want to quickly and easily share those images by posting, printing or e-mailing them. You’re not going to get that kind of help from a camera manufacturer or a big box retailer.”
About Noobie: Noobie was founded in 2006 by Patric Welch to help consumers and businesses choose and use technologies to enhance work and life. The company specializes in educating and coaching “noobies,” people who are inexperienced with a particular technology. Help and advice is available for everything from household electronics, computers and entertainment systems to emerging technologies and gadgets. The Web site, http://www.noobie.com, offers informative articles, insightful blog entries, entertaining audio and video podcasts and online coaching. Consumers in the Indianapolis area also have access to educational classes and hands-on consulting. | <urn:uuid:d7ddfc08-41cd-4249-9cad-8d7582a11958> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.noobie.com/2008/11/15/technology-bundles-provide-trouble-free-gift-giving/ | 2014-12-21T10:39:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770860.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00007-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933692 | 578 |
Arrow Furniture Hits the Mark with Cost-Cutting In-Store LED Lamps from GE Lighting, Saving $23,000 Annually
EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio — November 29, 2012— (NYSE:GE) —
With four fine furniture stores in Toronto and more than 40 years of experience, family owned Arrow Furniture is dedicated to shopping the world over to bring customers the best traditional and contemporary furnishings. To ensure that dining room sets, area rugs, office décor and accents for every room in the house are beautifully but economically lit, the retailer recently selected energy-efficient LED lamps
from GE Lighting to replace halogen bulbs in its stores. After all four installations are finished early next year, Arrow will stand to save $23,000 annually as the result of using 232,000 fewer kilowatt hours (kWhs) of electricity to illuminate its locations.
“We looked at different types of energy-saving lighting including LED options for about three years,” said Israel Adud, operations manager for Arrow Furniture. “Many products were offered to us by many vendors, but none of the bulbs were sufficient to light the merchandise on the floor.
“Of course it’s great to save money, but if I can’t sell furniture, I don’t care how much less I’m paying.”
Toronto-based distributor Mercor Lighting introduced Adud to new LED retail lighting from GE Lighting. GE’s energy smart® LED Retail PAR38 lamp
consumes just 17 watts of electricity compared to the 90 watts used by Arrow Furniture’s old halogen bulbs. More important, the lamps’ light output, color consistency and uniformity met Adud’s exacting standards for in-store illumination.
“After looking into GE’s vast LED repertoire we found the new Retail PAR38 lamp best served the requirements set out by Arrow Furniture,” explained Eric Tordjman of Mercor Lighting. “When sampling product at the store level, the crisp, white light emphasized the true color of merchandise better than competing lamps our customer had previously evaluated.”
With assistance from Mercor, Arrow Furniture has already retrofit 345 GE ecomagination℠ LED PAR38 lamps at one of its Greater Toronto Area (GTA) stores. Installations at a second same-size location, as well as two larger stores housing 550 fixtures each, are to be completed by spring 2013.
GE’s LED retail lighting solution emphasized the true color of merchandise better than competing lamps according to store management.
“Mercor came to us with a great solution,” Adud said. “The overall response has been very positive. The new LED lighting gave our store a fresh look that we’re excited to continue with at our other locations.”
Arrow Furniture’s smaller stores will each reduce their annual electricity use by 44,746 kWhs thanks to the new lighting, a nearly $4,500 savings based on 12 hours of operation a day and $.10 kWh rate. The company’s larger stores, meanwhile, will save approximately 71,000 kWhs and $7,100 each after retrofitting of all in-store lamps.
Totaling its four GTA locations, Arrow Furniture’s switch to energy-efficient LED lighting soon will yield a $23,000 annual cost benefit.
Mercor Lighting also helped qualify Arrow Furniture to receive a $20 return from the Canadian Lighting Rebate Office for every LED lamp installed. As part of its turnkey solution, Mercor applies rebate incentive programs from all power utility service providers across Canada (http://www.bchydrorebates.com/
“Including combined utility savings and rebates, the cost of our complete lighting update will be recouped in about two years,” noted Adud. “To provide our customers with a brighter shopping experience while spending less is a win-win proposition, certainly.”
For more information about the GE Lighting products used in this project, visit www.gelighting.com
. To learn more about GE’s commitment to innovative solutions to today’s environmental challenges while driving economic growth, visit www.ecomagination.com
About Arrow Furniture
With a strong family heritage of hard work and honest value, Arrow Furniture is dedicated to delivering the best to its customers. Since 1969, the company’s commitment has been to make each customer's home look its best and now, Arrow Furniture is proud to celebrate more than 40 years of serving the Greater Toronto Area. Visit www.arrowfurniture.com
to learn more.
About Mercor Lighting
Mercor Lighting's reputation for service and cost competitiveness has made it Canada's leading independent supplier of lighting. Mercor supplies a wide range of fixtures, consumables and lighting design services. Learn more about project management consulting, energy-saving retrofits and effective retail-store lighting at www.mercor-lighting.com
About GE Lighting
GE Lighting invents with the vigor of its founder Thomas Edison to develop energy-efficient solutions that change the way people light their world in commercial, industrial, municipal and residential settings. The business about 15,000 people in more than 100 countries, and sells products under the Reveal®
and Energy Smart®
consumer brands, and Evolve™, GTx™, Immersion™, Infusion™, Lumination™ and Tetra®
commercial brands, all trademarks of GE. General Electric (NYSE: GE) works on things that matter to build a world that works better. For more information, visit www.gelighting.com
50 Years of LED Innovation
Oct. 9, 1962, GE scientist Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., invented the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode (LED). In the 50 years since, GE has been on the forefront of LED innovation. The company has released inspired LED products for both residential and commercial settings, from the first ENERGY STAR®-qualified A19-shaped LED bulb to LED street lighting that illuminates cityscapes the world over. | <urn:uuid:531db615-bb4c-4823-88ac-5c70ea5d8418> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://pressroom.gelighting.com/news/arrow-furniture-hits-the-mark-241225 | 2017-08-24T08:51:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886133447.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170824082227-20170824102227-00647.warc.gz | en | 0.925092 | 1,295 |
Most people understand that cryptocurrencies like BTC can be traded for dollars, euros, yen, and a wide variety of nation-state issued currencies. However, they may not realize that virtual items like in-game gold from popular role-playing games (RPGs) like Runescape, Guild Wars, and World of Warcraft have been sold for bitcoins since 2012.
Trading Gold Farming Profits for Bitcoin
Virtual items and in-game gold from some of the world’s most popular RPGs have been in high demand over the last decade. Global trade captures over $50 billion a year according to recent estimates. Selling virtual items and ‘gold farming’ is the act of playing a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) for hours in order to gather an in-game currency or items. In developing nations, there many businesses that cater to these sales and people have full-time positions as gold farmers. Some of the money that funds the in-game gold farming industry stems from cryptocurrency sales and these markets have been intertwined for the last seven years.
Gold farming and cryptocurrencies have been in the headlines in recent months because some Venezuelans have been selling in-game currencies for crypto in order to survive. Only recently the price of Runescape Dragon Bones plummeted when Venezuelans lost electricity but saw a 10 percent spike on March 12. There have been many reports of citizens from the region gold farming all types of games to escape poverty. On June 10, 2018, a Venezuelan doing an AMA on Reddit explained that it’s an ordinary occurrence for people to sell in-game currencies for digital currencies.
“It’s normal, yes, Venezuelans farm Runescape gold, World of Warcraft gold, and then exchange for crypto or USD/local currency,” they responded when asked if gold farming was prevalent in the region. “Some people do the same thing to other games like Guild Wars or Tibia.”
In October last year Amazon gave away a discounted Runescape signup and more than two-thirds of the registrants stemmed from Venezuela. 29-year-old Efrain Peña explained to Bloomberg in December 2017 that he played the game to support his wife and child. “We’ve never made this much before,” Peña described.
Serving Gold Farmers With Crypto Since 2012
Many people don’t realize that there are lots of marketplaces online that buy and sell Runescape gold RS3, OSRS, WOW gold, and many other types of in-game items for digital currencies. For instance, you can sell OSRS, RS3, and Runescape gold for BTC at the marketplace Piegp.com. There’s also Food4rs, Boglagold, Wowhead, Papusgold, Gran Mercado, and many more exchanges that deal with in-game gold trades. Exchanges like these have existed for years and gamers have been selling virtual MMO items for cryptocurrencies since 2012.
Back then people used to sell World of Warcraft items like WOW gold on a bitcoin marketplace called Bitmet.net. In February of that year, a user on Bitmet.net was selling 10,000 WOW for 1 BTC and people were purchasing the in-game gold. Of course, with today’s BTC prices no one would ever do that as 10,000 WOW gold is only worth $0.30 cents today. And even back then those 10,000 WOW were still pretty expensive as the exchange rate for 1 BTC at the time was only $5.60 making one WOW worth $0.06. It goes to show that gold farming and in-game currencies for the web’s top MMOs and RPGs have always had a strong relationship with cryptocurrencies since the early days and these markets are still thriving today.
What do you think about the relationship between in-game gold farming and bitcoin over the last seven years? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.
Disclaimer: Readers should do their own due diligence before taking any actions related to the mentioned in-game gold companies or any affiliates or services. Bitcoin.com and the author are not responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services mentioned in this article. This editorial is for informational purposes only.
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Scandinavian Hunks is a 5 reel online slot game with 15 paylines and developed by Play ‘n Go Software Company. The theme is centred around handsome Scandinavian Hunks set against the backdrop of the icy Scandinavian climate. Scandinavian Hunks is the equivalent of the popular Scandinavian Babes. This themed online slot game can be played for free or real money and is available for mobile devices. This is definitely a game for the ladies.
Symbols and Bonus Features
The Scandinavian Hunks make up the higher paying symbols while the playing cards symbols, 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace make up the lower paying symbols. These men are displayed in various states of dress or undress depending on which part of the game is being played. The hunk with the spiky haircut has the largest payout of 2500 coins if 5 appear on the payline and 500 coins for 4. The next payout is the hunk with dark hair and shoulder pads and he is worth 500 coins for 5. The other hunks have lower payouts.
The wild symbol is one of the hunks and he will substitute for all of the other symbols except the bonus symbol to create a winning combination. Scandinavian Hunks has a free spins round which is activated by the wild symbol stacked on reels 1 and 5. The free spins round is activated when 3 or more of the hunks appear on the reels. The wild symbols will remain on the reels during the free spins round which gives players the chance to win in this round.
The next feature is the pick ‘em game which is activated when 3 of the bonus symbols appear on the reels and players will have to select one of the Scandinavian Hunks for a dance video and the chance to win a cash prize. After the dance, the other 2 hunks will reveal what could have been won.
Betting Range and Jackpot
Coin values range from 0.01 up to the maximum of 0.25 with a possible jackpot of 2500 coins. Scandinavian Hunks does not have a progressive jackpot, but with the bonus features offered players are given the chance to win with the gamble feature, free spins and the pick ‘em bonus round.
Scandinavian Hunks has an autoplay feature which is activated by pressing the autoplay button and allows the reels to spin automatically after players have chosen their coin value and bets per payline. This feature can be deactivated at any time during the game at online slots casino.
Scandinavian Hunks is a fun game which will appeal to the ladies and the bonus features are a great way to earn some extra wins.
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With the end of the financial year in Australia approaching, everyone’s summer just got a whole lot brighter, and sexier than ever. Australian underwear and swimwear brand AussieBum is having an end-of-year sale. Over 150 looks from the brand are currently discounted, including their underwear, swimwear, and some singlets. But like all the best things, this sale won’t last forever. For six days, you have the opportunity to save tons so you can wear little. This is an opportunity you can’t pass up.
The AussieBum end-of-year sale includes a lot of the brands stunner basics, such as the Wonderjock Collection and the Classic Collection of brightly-colored briefs. Almost all of the sale items are under $20, and you normally can’t find underwear this good for such a hot price. The fact that swimwear is included in this sale is also a huge plus. Stock up on all things sexy in your wardrobe with this sale, and still make rent this month.
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Anthony wants to keep it classic. Traditional elm wood or, in a pinch, a chip board veneer. It looks just like the real thing. But Lewis wants Ho Chi Minh fanfare. He wants to be in his Navy uniform, he says, his brass buttons gleaming, drifting in a bath of embalming fluid.
“That would be an enormous expense,” Millie says.
“Think about your grandchildren,” Anthony says.
Jillian has dementia. She says, “In a short time we will begin our in-flight beverage service. Flight attendants will be passing through the cabin.”
“What about you, Earl?” Millie says.
“Not elm wood. Not Ho Chi Minh. Not this.”
He gestures towards the front of the church. The squat urn perches like a cheap vase at a flea market, partially obscured by a cloud of strong, choking incense. The black-clad guests crane their necks to see it. Up front, the altar boys shuffle self-consciously from one foot to another. They remind Earl of the talent shows they used to have every year at his son’s middle school, where the students stepped from side to side and lip-synched Diana Ross into round hairbrushes.
“Agreed,” Millie says. “Let’s blow this joint.”
“If we leave now we can make the three-thirty at First Unitarian,” Earl says.
“But I wanted to hear the dirge,” Anthony says plaintively.
Millie stands first and grabs her flowered handbag. Jillian is next, followed by Lewis, then Earl, then Anthony. The ushers stand back politely to let them through.
“Cause of death?” Lewis says.
“Cancer,” says Earl.
“That’s the bad one.” Lewis shakes his head.
“Pour in the Flavor Packet and reduce to a simmer,” Jillian says. “Stir! Stir! Stir!”
* * *
They meet every Sunday at the curved drop-off driveway in front of Caring Condos. Earl sets the itinerary. Millie writes out the sympathy cards. Lewis makes sure that everyone remembers to send their mourning clothes to the laundry service on Monday mornings. Anthony drives and keeps his big Cadillac filled with gas and bags of Werther’s Mints: regular for himself and Earl, diabetic for Jillian and Lewis.
At First Unitarian Lewis makes Earl explain his marital troubles. He is the only one with a living spouse. They are trying to downsize and simplify and they cannot agree on what to throw away. Margaret thinks he has too many pewter figurines. Earl does a tally. He has only fifteen: a set of five Colonial foot soldiers, five Scots Hussars, two dragons, a knight, a witch, and a wizard skeleton. They all have red crystal eyes and a hand-buffeted satin finish. He tells Margaret to get rid of her locked-room paperback mysteries instead, and she throws him out.
“I just don’t get how you can read twenty when you’ve already read one,” Earl says, exasperated. “It’s always a secret mechanism in the window.”
“But is it always the same mechanism?” Anthony says.
Jillian says, “Im Frühlingsfest, als ich ein Kind war. Sie müssen sich nicht darum kümmern. Manchmal gibt es Fenstern und manchmal gibt es Finsternis.”
“Basically,” Earl says. “Either a self-closing spring load or something hinky with the latch.”
“You know, remarriage in our time of life is not uncommon,” Millie suggests.
“Nothing is off limits to you,” booms Lewis.
“We are here today to honor and pay tribute,” the minister begins.
* * *
It is a long service and Earl fidgets. His hand itches. He stares at Lewis’s head in the pew in front of him, at Lewis’s hair, the trimmed gray thatch around his temples, and back down to his own hands. He picks at the follicle that is caught in the skin of his palm. He is close to saying he will not do haircuts anymore.
At Caring Condos everyone has to volunteer a skill. So Margaret teaches bridge on Mondays, Jillian teaches German classes on Thursday afternoons, and on Wednesday mornings Millie leads a walking group down the path around the artificial lake that ripples gently in a great shining oval behind the condos, its surface astir with skating waterbugs. On Thursdays Earl gives haircuts in the card room, in the corner right next to the giant water cooler crammed with lemons.
But now, somehow, after fifty years of running a barbershop, Earl is starting to be troubled by hair. By the same heads that change under his hands, the same memorable slopes of the same men’s skulls, the thin patches of locks, the way the hair comes away in his fingers so that Earl feels he is wasting it when he washes it, that he should somehow put it back. It is as if the men are melting under his hands. Sometimes a stray tough follicle gets stuck vertically in the pads of his fingertips or his palms, right in between the curved grooves of the skin, and Earl has to pick it out with tweezers. It isn’t just the hair. Bits of the men are stuck in his hands, he thinks.
* * *
The next Sunday Earl waits with Millie and Jillian at the circular driveway, surrounded by huge planters filled with jaunty crocuses. He has a batch of obits in his hand. They are going to start with a sumptuous Catholic service to get the juices flowing, break for lunch, and head over to a humble Presbyterian visitation. Then they have a choice: an intimate beachside ash-scattering in the evening, or a jaunty military sendoff in the soldier’s corner of the municipal cemetery.
Anthony is late. Millie and Jillian peer down the driveway, their beaded necklaces swinging. Suddenly the glass sliding door parts behind them and Anthony emerges in a vapor of air-conditioning, dressed in his regular khakis and Hawaiian shirt. He shakes his head.
“Last night,” Anthony says, quietly. “Heart failure.”
Jillian chokes out a sob. Millie rubs her back in the circular fashion that calms her: first one direction, then the other. Earl is surprised. He had thought, secretly, that Anthony would go first. There had been a dogged vitality about Lewis. Just two nights before, around midnight, Earl was on his way to get Margaret a diet soda from the machine when he saw Lewis coming out of Millie’s condo, wearing one of her short, flowered robes, whistling and carrying an ice bucket.
They try to explain his wishes to Lewis’s son, a broad-shouldered, graying lawyer who has Lewis’s booming voice, who sounds like his dead father’s ventriloquist.
“That’s impossible,” he says. “He was just pulling your leg.”
“He explained it to us,” Millie insists.
“There’s nothing about it in the will.”
“He thought he had time,” Earl says. “We all did.”
“He doesn’t even like Ho Chi Minh,” the son said. “He was initially a supporter of the Viet Minh but he strongly objected to the violence of the land reform movement.”
In the end they have to settle for pictures of Vladimir Lenin and Ho Chi Minh on the table with all the other framed photographs at the wake. The Lenin picture, printed from a history website, is grainy and taken from the foot of the sarcophagus. You can just see his red beard and eyebrows, the strands caressed together by the moving fluids. Millie cannot find a good public picture of Ho Chi Minh’s tomb so they print one of the façade of the Hanoi mausoleum during the changing of the guards, the white-uniformed militia stepping smartly forward towards the lens. The guests pick up the photographs, squint distastefully, set them down again. They mill about and drink coffee and eat grapes off of tiny paper plates. They tell stories about him. Earl is surprised by all the varieties of genetic resemblance: a middle-aged woman with Lewis’s alert hazel eyes, a kicking grandchild with the beginnings of Lewis’s rugged frame.
At the burial as dirt is being thrown onto the coffin Earl scratches his palm and realizes that Lewis’s hair is still stuck in his skin. The dead man is going underground and a bit of him remains in Earl’s hand, a bit of follicle wedged into the wrinkled curved groove of his palm, like a future he is reading.
* * *
Earl begins to worry that he, too, will leave fragments of his body behind, embedded in the skin of the people he loves. He will be underground and his own follicles and cuticles will nest in the palms of his survivors, his skin cells cling to the bodies of the bereaved. Bits of his unburied self will be flung around the earth, like rainfall. He tries to explain this to Margaret, first in slow, halting German, then in English.
“Guten Tag,” Margaret says, her eyes fixed on Jillian in the front of the room. “All you’re going to leave behind is a bunch of pewter kitsch.”
Earl scratches his palm. “You could sell them,” he suggests. “Call up some collectors. Make some money.”
“Maybe I should have a water burial,” Margaret says. She pats her hair, which Earl washes and dries, with her long, manicured hand. “A reversal of the axiom. Fear death by water.”
“Now you’re talking,” Earl says. “A water sermon.”
“Noch einmal, bitte,” Jillian sings.
“Guten Morgen, Guten Tag,” they call out simultaneously. Their voices, so loud and willful together, die out suddenly like embers scattering from a bonfire. Earl feels Millie’s eyes boring into the back of his shirt.
Afterwards, when Margaret is serving herself from the lemon water, Earl feels the soft pressure of Millie’s shoulder pad against his upper arm. She slips a pewter figurine into his hand, coquettishly. Earl looks down. It is a horse rearing back on his hind legs, his mane streaming out behind him, his small mouth parted in a silent, perpetual neigh. It is washed in a smooth satin finish and the eyes are made of glinting ruby to match the other figurines in Earl’s display cabinet. He closes his hand, feels the hard spikes of the mane press into his palm.
“I saw this and thought of you,” she says.
“It’s lovely,” Earl says truthfully.
He cannot put it in the cabinet without angering Margaret, so what can he do? He seeks out several hiding places in the condo: in his sock drawer, underneath the box where they keep their tax files, high atop the counter over the sink, where Margaret cannot reach. For now, he decides to keep it in his pocket. He takes it out at intervals, turns it over in his palm. It is the perfect antidote to the itching follicle, its sleek, spiky surface pressing into his skin with just the gentlest hint of pain.
* * *
The next Sunday they catch a ten-thirty at Largo Presbyterian. Later they will agree that this was one of the best. Bright but tasteful wreaths of flowers stand at intervals along the front. Family pictures and sports memorabilia adorn the table in front of the coffin. The pews are packed with friends of the dead. The eulogist roasts the dead man a little, tells jokes about how the cause of death was the Cardinals’ loss this season. The audience laughs appreciatively. He reminds them, serious now, that Stu would have wanted them to celebrate, to see old friends, that the counterpoint to death is life. Millie snatches at a tear in her eye. Earl feels heartened. The preacher does a brief, robust sermon about what the dead leave behind. The choir sings, and all the people rollick and sway. Then they stream out onto the great lawn in front, the adults stopping to greet each other and hug, the children chasing each other in circles, their braids and cowlicks unraveling.
Earl follows Anthony out of the church, with Millie and Jillian close behind. Anthony is talking to a little girl in a high-waisted black dress and pink plastic glasses.
“I’m five and a half,” the girl says. “But my cousin is six and a half.”
“No way!” Anthony says. “Why, you’re almost grown.”
She beams up at them and Earl sees that she is missing a front tooth. Her father, a tall, dark-haired man in a navy suit, glances at them. He is standing in a little circle of mourners, his hair slicked back from his forehead, crescents under his eyes.
“I’m five and a half and I can already count to a thousand,” the girl says. “But no one can count to infinity.”
“And why is that?” Jillian says.
“Infinity is forever,” the girl says. “No one can count to it.”
“You don’t say,” Anthony says. “Aren’t you a smart girl?”
“I’m only five and a half but I know there are imaginary numbers,” the girl says. “An imaginary number is a number that doesn’t exist.”
Just behind the girl the father is still watching them, warily, his eyes moving in a semicircle from face to face. Earl scratches at the follicle in his palm and drops the figurine. The little girl springs to his feet and holds it up, triumphantly, to the light.
“It’s a unicorn!” she screeches.
“When I die I want them to get my eyes,” Jillian says, with sudden, terrible lucidity. She bends down conspiratorially towards the child. “They’ll take my corneas out and graft them onto someone else’s corneas. I have good eyes.”
The child takes one look at Jillian’s hovering, dark pupils, her bright vacant grin, and starts to wail, her fist closing tightly over the shining figurine. Other guests turn to see the commotion. Instantly her father is behind her, his protective hands resting on her shoulders, drawing her away.
“Come here, Judy,” he says to the wailing child.
“We’re so sorry,” Earl begins.
“Please accept our condolences,” says Anthony.
“He was a good man,” offers Jillian.
They are quiet on the ride home. Anthony drives, his eyes fixed on the road. Millie keeps her face turned to the window. Jillian smiles innocently into the silence. Earl picks at the follicle. It itches more than ever, spiking into his palm with the rough texture of a pine needle.
Anthony pulls up into the circle to let them out.
“Sunday, then?” he says into the rearview mirror.
“Sunday,” they agree.
Back in the condo Margaret is napping in the bedroom. He looks in at her huddled form, listens for the labored sound of her breathing. There is a long pause in between the inhales and exhales, a pause that tugs his wife ever further towards an infinite stillness. He retreats into the living room with its gentle air conditioning and open blinds, its glass display cabinet of figurines, its view of the shining lake.
Hers will be the water: early-morning sunbeams, the rustling open of a newspaper, the scrape of a deck chair, the long-legged herons wading along the shorelines. A moment in the middle of a breath.
He wants his to be quiet, on a mild sunny morning, just after breakfast, maybe. He wants to sit at the table across from Margaret first and drink instant coffee from the plain unmarked Caring Condos stoneware that feels so cool and solid in his hands. He wants the T.V. to be mute. He wants to lie down on the couch with his good blue polo on. He wants it to happen there, with the artificial lake licking at his doorstep, while he looks outside and sees those paper-winged mayflies that hatch in the morning and die at twilight. Watched over, as with the gods, by those shining legions of ruby eyes.
© Barbara Barrow
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Meet Daniela, an absolute magician with spray tans.
Born in Colima, located on the Pacific coast of Mexico, Daniela always thought of herself as part mermaid, something that makes her a perfect fit for Glamifornia.
She received her certification as a Spray Tan Artist and soon became dedicated to providing an everyday glow for all of her clients.
In high demand for weddings, photo shoots, and more, she’s now tanning customers at Glamifornia Style Lounge.
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Skyterra’s Culinary Team brings a unique blend of services to the “table”, making each guest’s stay memorable and leaving them craving more. Our Executive Chef and Registered Dietitian work synergistically to deliver fresh, healthy, delicious and nourishing meals that meet each guest’s dietary needs and preferences.
Skyterra believes in the importance of community to achieve sustainable, whole body health. At our culinary center, this is no different! Guests are welcomed by staff members at meal services and eat in a family style setting in our new 3,200 sq ft culinary center, around a large table. Seasonal menus are displayed with nutrition facts and ingredients prior to each hand-crafted meal.
During the day, guests can see the chef creating every menu item through the open kitchen layout. Want to learn more about delicious and nutritious foods while staying at Skyterra? Guests can also experience our culinary demo kitchen. Our chef and dietitian lead interactive culinary demonstrations and workshops throughout the week to enhance nutrition knowledge, culinary skills and easy recipe development for at home.
Meet Our Team
Casey Maness, Executive Chef, started cooking in the kitchen with her family at a young age. Falling in love with the local food scene of the Carolinas, she enhanced her skills and knowledge on providing locally grown and seasonal foods to individuals in the area. At Skyterra, she has created long lasting memories for guests through her meals. From her homemade soups to dressings or beautifully plated main courses, Casey delivers nothing but flavorful, honest and healthy food.
Eleni Ottalagana, RDN, LD began her nutrition journey as a child, learning about herbal remedies and how to cook fresh, whole foods with her family. Throughout the years, her passion for healing with foods and culinary arts grew immensely. She paved her own path within her dietetics education through her dual major of EcoGastronomy. Through this, she studied under chefs and learned further about culinary nutrition and sustainability in Italy. She proceeded to finish her degree and began working as a Registered Dietitian at Austin UltraHealth. There, she utilized nutrition therapy methods and functional medicine protocols to counsel individuals with autoimmune conditions, GI issues, allergies, food sensitivities and weight management problems. Eleni ensures that individuals receive whole body care through healing foods and other nutrition-related modalities.
Here at Skyterra, Casey and Eleni collaborate, working side-by-side on a daily basis to ensure the healthiest meals to guests. The culinary center provides so much more than just food. It is an area for the Skyterra community, healing, and part of the journey to long-lasting health here at Skyterra. | <urn:uuid:93571e32-fe8c-43ba-b8d2-510bb36d9b96> | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | https://www.skyterrawellness.com/wellness/nutrition/new-culinary-center-goes-beyond-providing-healthy-meals/ | 2019-06-24T21:34:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999740.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20190624211359-20190624233359-00310.warc.gz | en | 0.95231 | 559 |
This story was originally published by TribTalk, written by Kim Alexander on October 9, 2018. The story can be found here. Photo by Tiffany Szerpicki.
Today’s Texas economy is doing great—and education, well, not so much.
In 2017, the economy of Texas was the second-largest in the U.S. and ranked first for current economic climate thanks to strong employment.
Strong economies—from the rolling plains to the high-rises—depend on a qualified workforce.
Society has developed, adopted and scaled an incredible range of technological innovation that has transformed our world. However, economists predict that continuing advances in technology will reward education and the skills necessary to maintain steady employment.
Selecting from among more than 28,000 U.S. public high schools and 1,044 Texas school districts, U.S. News & World Report included 601 Texas schools in the 2018 Best High School rankings. Of those 601 Texas schools, 62 percent earned a bronze rating, 26 percent were awarded silver, while 12 percent achieved gold!
But national school rankings, like national football rankings, can bring false reassurance.
Within a dozen years, the Texas labor force will need 60 percent of all 25- to 34-year-olds — almost 2 million — to hold industry-recognized certificates and college degrees. Today, only 34 percent of this group is so equipped, and technology will be replacing one-fifth of the low-skilled workers.
Lagging education and skill levels have a negative impact even with innovations in technology and increased business investments. Whether it is correlation or causation, employment rates, higher earnings and overall well-being are associated with college education. We want this for our children… and their children… all children in Texas.
So, what’s the solution?
Much of tomorrow’s workforce must include prepared Hispanic (the majority among the state’s school-age children) and first-generation college students — and from the untapped potential of 700 Texas rural schools.
Trends show that over the past two decades, rural Texans have fallen behind in income, assets and health care. Rural students are less likely to have postsecondary degrees or industry-recognized certificates. However, that can be improved with better access to broadband Internet, online certifications and distributed college degree programs.
It won’t be easy! Many first-generation college students have restricted mobility, low expectations and weak academic preparation—compounded by grinding generational poverty. Early practices like providing structured support systems, fostering higher aspirations, offering early college high school and rewarding “grit” can help overcome these disadvantages.
As a small rural school, Roscoe Collegiate ISD began in 2006 to address these emerging issues by increasing access and preparation from pre-K through postsecondary education and by encouraging persistence and degree completion by rural students. The curriculum highlights a collaborative, sustainable and replicable model through postsecondary preparation, access, persistence and degree completion.
It is working. Over the past decade, the model has integrated STEM project-based learning, dual credit college courses, and student-centered research, culminating with 90 percent of the graduating seniors earning postsecondary degrees and industry-recognized certificates. And they are doing it from their home community while incurring little to no debt.
If schools, colleges and policymakers fail to consider the risks and opportunities ahead, they will fail to engage a large pool of potential students who will—skilled or unskilled—become Texas’ workforce. Such a failure would prolong inequality, reduce lifetime earnings and short-circuit the economy.
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Local doctors perform first spinal disc surgery of its kind in the U.S.
A first-of-its-kind surgery in the United States was recently performed by two Vail-Summit Orthopaedics surgeons at Summit Medical Center in Frisco.
Dr. Ernest Braxton and Dr. Jonathan Schoeff completed the trans-umbilical (belly button) implantation of lumbar artificial disc, allowing the patient to heal without any scarring on the belly. The method patent holder for natural orifice surgery to the spine is Raymond Cloutier, who Dr. Braxton said confirmed that Vail-Summit Orthopaedics had in fact performed the first of these procedures in the United States.
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Train wrote the 2011 song "Brand New Book" for the TV show The Biggest Loser - part of the song was used in the opening credits.
The Oasis song "Live Forever" was written in response to "I Hate Myself And I Want To Die" by Nirvana. "Kids don't need to hear that nonsense," said Noel Gallagher.
Adele isn't a ghost when she sings, "Hello from the other side" - it means the "other side of becoming an adult."
In The Band song "The Weight," Nazareth ("Went down to Nazareth") refers to a town in Pennsylvania where the Martin Guitar company was located.
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I want to ask here if possible. I have a problem my monitor goes dark screen after installing driver adrenaline v 18.8.1 and then I do mod bios sapphire pulse rx 570.
When I restart it becomes dark screen. I hope I get solution for this problem.
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Killer tricks and killer mutants.
Anybody else smell bacon!?
Clickplay Time 1
Do you prefer your brain scrambled or fried?
This game is very WELL DONE. LOL?
Special delivery: Cold Viking steel!
Burrito Bison Revenge
Bison go SMASH.
American Racing 2
Drop the hammer, burn some rubber.
Bowman 2 Mature Content
I don't really like. its a bit ok though just not my sort of thing
i liked it
kinda easy...in a way
I wish it would let you jump. But it's still cool.
It's just weird.
good music, bad game.
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Hi all! So I took the cards from the last post and modified them for a different look. Since Pantone has named Tangerine Tango the "IT" color of 2012 (Click HERE to read the article!), of course I had to create with this color! Hope you enjoy!
Ingredients: (All SU!)
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Office of Planning, Environment, & Realty (HEP)
This information is archived data thru 2001. For current data, visit the Demographic Information tab on http://hepgis.fhwa.dot.gov
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Counties with more than 5% loss: Brooke, Cabell, Gilmer, Hancock, Harrison, Kanawha, Logan, McDowell Marion, Marshall, Mingo, Ohio, Wetzel and Wyoming.
Counties with less than 5% loss: Fayette, Lewis, Mercer, Summers, Tucker, Tyler, and Webster.
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We needed an Ariel Atom this week. Logistically, I mean (spiritually, we need one all the time).
Normally, as a circuit is often involved in such things, the car appears at the allotted time and place aboard a truck. But as our dalliance with it is longer this time, and mostly road based, I delivered myself to Somerset; partly to save Ariel the bother and partly to spend more time with the 245 – the non-supercharged and therefore entry-level version of its spartan track-smasher.
The firm’s HQ is situated slap-bang in West Country heaven, a stone’s throw from the kind of villages that you usually only encounter on the lids of shortbread biscuit tins.
There’s nothing quaint about Ariel’s facility, though. Not for it the stereotypical disarray of the cottage car industry, either – in conspicuously well-ordered redbrick buildings, the Atoms are hand-assembled on vigorously swept tiled floors, and could hardly look cooler or more cutting edge if they were Apple-branded moon buggies.
Tom, Ariel’s general manager and all-round good egg admits that in fact most of the workforce are beavering elsewhere on the new bike – very recently revealed, and set for its public debut at Goodwood this weekend. | <urn:uuid:379324b0-4464-4151-ac75-fec51bf21f97> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://www.autocar.co.uk/opinion/goodwood-festival-speed/warming-goodwood-festival-speed-ariel | 2019-01-16T00:42:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583656530.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20190115225438-20190116011438-00617.warc.gz | en | 0.959495 | 280 |
The Vacant Lot
By Wayne Brown
To us preteens of the early sixties small-town-Mississippi, it was just a vacant lot. Kids are that way; they ultimately relegate things to their simpliest form. But the lot had an owner as vacant lots generally do. The owner was one of the oldest residents of our modest neighborhood, W.D. “Dewey” Logan. And from our perspective as kids, his track record with us was one of gruffness and very little patience with a crowd of kids. We attempted to put as much distance between him and us at all times unless necessity dictated otherwise. Sometimes, it did.
In those young years, we searched for heroes both in the many westerns served up at the local theater and in the various professional sports. Professional football delivered a few idols in the form of Bart Starr, Raymond Berry, Jim Brown and several others. Of course, baseball trading cards were very hot at the time and all of our baseball heroes were there in our shoe boxes, ready for trading. We had chewed a lot of bad bubble gum to get those cards…they had value! Names like Whitey Ford, Warren Spahn, Nellie Fox, Bobby Richardson, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Yogi Berra dominated our talk like the game dominated our summer days. In the winter we played football and lived out our fantasies as our favorite pro-players. That was fun, but in the summers, we got down to the real business of emulating the great stars of the great game of baseball. Hence, our keen interest in vacant lots.
In our young minds, Dewey Logan must have been a rich man for he owned more land than any one of our parents. He took care of it too. Every week of the summer, he walked behind a push mower and cut every blade of grass neatly. No doubt, his was one of the best manicured vacant lots in town. The vacant portion of the lot measured probably an acre or so. That’s a lot of mowing! Even at a distance, we could easily see that old Dewey did not have a dry thread in his shirt or shorts as he made lap after lap on his weekly clips with his 20’’ lawnmower. Actually, he never really finished mowing, he just started over.
The sheer beauty of the vacant lot caused us to close our distance with Mr. Logan. At first, we would sneak into the lot to play out our football games during the hours that he was out on his mail carrier duties. At times, as many as a dozen of us demonstrated our athletic prowess on the manicured grasses of this vacant lot. Gosh, we were good but too far from the pro-scouting circuit to gain any notice of our talents. But we could dream and dream we did.
The date was never recorded in history or in my mental lists of important dates, but at some point and time during those youthful days, a decision was made by the core members of the neighborhood association of fine athletes to build a baseball field. Not just any field mind you, but one like the pros of that time played on; one with a grass infield. It would be a field on which we would proudly engage competing teams from other neighborhoods. Of course, no such teams existed that we knew of but we dreamed that they would especially if we built the field for such competition. So, the project was launched, tools and materials were gathered. Now, the final decision, find a location. Actually, there was no decision to be made; there was only one location…the vacant lot.
A handful of little boys set to work one summer morning laying out a baseball field vision and more than ready to make it a reality. We wanted a grass infield so we carefully laid out all the base lanes and the infield area. On the base lanes, we would remove the grass to expose the dirt surface below. Although this represented a large amount of work for some little boys equipped only with hoes and rakes, the task was diminished by the enormity of our vision. The faster we worked, the sooner we played. It was that simple. We were a natural team with a common vision.
By the late afternoon, our progress was quite measurable. I was working steadily to expose the infield base paths near what was to be second base. My hoe was taking a toll on the grass covering the area. The ground was almost fully exposed between first and second base. The progress was measurable and motivated us that much more toward our goal. Soon our vision of a baseball field would be a reality.
I felt his presence long before his long shadow cast itself across the path of my hoe. Without turning, I knew that I was about to have a close encounter with gruff, old, Mr. Logan. My first impulse was to drop the hoe and run but fear seemed to weld my feet in place. I could never remember being this close to this man who currently seemed like a giant looming over me. I slowly turned to face him feeling very alone in that vacant lot. As my eyes met his, the definitions of the words “ownership” and “trespassing” were becoming quite clear in my mind. His hands rested on his hips and he glared at me from under his long-billed, sweat stained cap. “What’s going on here?” he snapped as his eyes surveyed my handy work with the hoe. “We’re building a baseball field?” I answered sheepishly. Actually, it came out more like a question than an answer. He stood there looking at our handy work, glaring at the torn grass, the exposed dirt that made up the early stages of our vision. Then slowly, he dropped his hands from his hips, lowered his head, turned and walked away. As he did, I could hear low utterances that were undecipherable. He was headed back toward his house. Probably, he was going for a shotgun, I imagined. Maybe, he would call our parents. Whatever it was, the outcome could not be good for us. Then, just as he neared the edge of the lot, he stopped beside the lawnmower that he had left at that spot. He reached down, gave the rope a pull to start the engine, and headed off on his weekly grass clipping chore.
My friends had been frozen in fear as well. We slowly regained our senses and went back to work knowing that at any moment our destiny would become apparent. The old man was only taking a bit of time to design a fate for us that would fit our crime. The clock ticked off the afternoon. He mowed. We dug. As the sun began to set, we realized that he was ignoring us and was fully focused on what seemed his favorite pastime…manicuring his grass. Confused but feeling more at ease, we hoed and raked a bit faster with our focus now more on the goal than on the old man and his corporal punishment.
Within a few days, we had realized our goal. We were actually playing baseball on what we considered to be one of the more professional-looking baseball fields in the area. That said, we did not dwell on the beauty but quickly tested the functionality of the new field by playing hours of baseball. We played with the satisfaction of knowing that we had created this marvelous field. Now, our full attention could be focused on playing the game, and play we did.
I learned a lot in that vacant lot many, many years ago. For a long time, I thought that the importance of it was my knowledge of the game of baseball. I had learned the rules and honed my skills of the game in that spot. In later years, I would come to know that far more had transpired in that lot than the game itself. As I look back on it, I realize that the gruff old man who owned that vacant lot had made it possible for that small group of neighborhood boys to experience the game. He could have stopped us; ran us off; turned us in; any number of things. But he did not. By turning his head and letting us torture his beloved grass, he facilitated our vision. Seeing his beautiful grass attacked with hoe and rake must have been very painful for him, yet, he let us build our dream. Perhaps, he loved the game as much as we did. I like to think so. Thanks, Mr. Logan. WB
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Last week, Broadlake had the pleasure of attending this one-day event at the Aviva Stadium.
The event took place on March 14th and brought together over 30 speakers and over 900 marketing professionals attendees in a full day to explore the crossover and continued innovations in marketing, digital, design and media.
3XE Digital is a conference that delivers.
3XE Digital plays host to a diverse array of highly skilled speakers, both domestic and international who deliver laser targeted presentations on their particular niche area of expertise. Expert workshops provide attendees with an opportunity to go deeper and explore how the topics discussed can be directly applied to your business and line of work. It’s refreshing to attend a conference that treats its professional audience as experts rather than providing introductory, high-level overviews that we could find on a youtube summary video. (Yes Web Summit, we’re throwing shade at you) Now, without further adieu, here is a selection of the insights we found most striking at the conference.
SMEs win by being faster, more innovative and flexible than their bigger competitors.
They have the ability to create the right cultures and work environments to attract great talent. The Entrepreneurs behind them are often fearless in their endeavours, never content sitting still and always looking to improve. Through our efforts helping Irish entrepreneurs grow their businesses we are lucky to meet hundreds of these companies every year. These are some tips around common success factors I believe exist across the best SMEs.
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xperience the Power of 'Phyto-concentrates'
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In 1993, FAO started to develop a programme named AQUASTAT, which is an information system on water use for agriculture and rural development. Its aim is to collect information at country and sub-country level and to make it available, in a standard format, to users interested in global, regional and national perspectives. In 1994-95, the 53 African countries were surveyed, which resulted in FAO Water Report 7 `Irrigation in Africa in figures'. In 1996, the 29 country members of FAO's Regional Office for the Near East were surveyed, which resulted in FAO Water Report 9 `Irrigation in the Near East region in figures'. The present survey concentrates on the 15 countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU)1.
The purpose of the survey is twofold:
· To provide a clear picture of the situation of rural water resources management on a country basis, with emphasis on irrigation and drainage, and featuring major characteristics, trends, constraints and perspectives;
· To help support continental and regional analyses by providing systematic, up-to-date and reliable information on water for agriculture and rural development, and to serve as a tool for large-scale planning and forecasting.
In order to obtain information that was as reliable as possible, the survey was developed and carried out for each country as follows:
1. Review of literature and existing information on the country and the region.
2. Data collection by means of a detailed questionnaire.
3. Data processing and critical analysis of the information, with the assistance of the AQUASTAT data processing software and selection of the most reliable information.
4. Preparation of a country profile.
Lastly, regional and sub-regional tables and maps and a general summary were prepared. Cross-checking of the information took place wherever possible.
Each country profile describes the situation regarding water resources and use in the country, with special attention to the water resources, irrigation and drainage subsectors. Its aim is to emphasize the particularities of each country, as well as the problems encountered in rural water management and irrigation. It also summarizes the trends of irrigation in the countries, as described in the available literature. It was a deliberate choice to try and standardize the country profiles as much as possible. All profiles follow the same pattern, organized in six sections:
- geography and population;
- climate and water resources;
- irrigation and drainage development;
- institutional environment;
- trends in water resources management;
- main sources of information.
Standardized tables are used for all country profiles. Where information was not available, this is indicated by a dash (-). As most of the available data relate to a limited number of years only, the most recent reliable data are used in the tables, with an indication of the year to which they refer.
The main sources of information were:
- national water resources and irrigation master plans;
- national yearbooks, statistics and reports;
- reports from FAO or other organizations;
- international surveys;
- results from surveys made by national or international research centres.
In total, 70 variables were selected and these are presented in the tables attached to each country profile. They are grouped into categories corresponding to the profile sections. A detailed definition of each variable is given below.
In most cases, a critical analysis of the information was necessary to ensure consistency between the different data collected for a given country. Where several sources gave different or contradictory figures, preference was always given to information collected at national or sub-national level and, unless proved incorrect, to official rather than unofficial sources. In the case of shared water resources, a comparison between countries was made to ensure consistency at river basin level.
Nevertheless, the accuracy and reliability of the information vary greatly between regions, countries and categories of information, as does the year in which the information was gathered. These considerations are discussed in the country profiles.
The main variables presented in the tables in the country profiles are listed in the order in which they appear in the tables and are defined as follows:
Area of the country: (ha) The total area of the country, including area under inland water bodies. Data in this category are obtained from the United Nations Statistical Office.
Cultivable area: (ha) Area of land potentially fit for cultivation. This term may or may not include part or all of the forests and rangeland (see note on cultivable land and agricultural land in the next section).
Cultivated area: (ha) Area under temporary (annual) and permanent crops. This refers to the physical area actually cultivated and does not include land which is temporarily fallow (see note on arable versus cultivated land in the next section).
Annual crops: (ha) Physical area under temporary (annual) crops.
Permanent crops: (ha) Area cultivated with crops that occupy the land for long periods and that do not need to be replanted after each harvest. This does not include woodland and forests.
Total population: (inhabitants) The figures are the UN estimates for 1996.
Rural population: (%) The figures are the UN estimates for 1996.
Economically active population engaged in agriculture: (%) The figures for the total economically active population engaged in agriculture are extracted from the FAO statistics database for 1996, and are based on assessments made by the International Labour Organization (ILO). The gender-desegregated figures have been found in various national sources.
Water supply coverage: (%) The percentage of urban and rural population with access to safe drinking water (criteria may vary between countries).
Average precipitation: (mm/year and km3/year) Double average over space and time of water falling on the country in a year.
Internal renewable water resources: (km3/year) Average annual flow of rivers and recharge of groundwater generated from endogenous precipitation.
Total (actual) renewable water resources: (km3/year) The sum of internal renewable water resources and incoming flow originating outside the country, taking into consideration the quantity of flows reserved to upstream and downstream countries through formal or informal agreements or treaties. This gives the maximum theoretical amount of water actually available for the country (see note on the computation of water resources in the next section).
Dependency ratio: (%) That part of the total renewable water resources originating outside the country.
Total dam capacity: (106 m3) The total cumulative capacity of all dams.
Water withdrawal: (106 m3/year) Gross amount of water extracted from the resources for a given use. It includes conveyance losses, consumptive use and return flow (see note on water withdrawal in the next section).
Agricultural water withdrawal: (106 m3/year) Annual quantity of water withdrawn for agricultural purposes including irrigation and livestock watering (see note on agricultural water withdrawal in the next section).
Domestic water withdrawal: (106 m3/year) Annual quantity of water withdrawn for domestic purposes. It is usually computed as the total amount of water withdrawn by public distribution networks, and normally includes the withdrawal by those industries connected to public networks.
Industrial water withdrawal: (106 m3/year) Annual quantity of water withdrawn for industrial purposes. It usually refers to self-supplied industries not connected to any distribution network (see note on industrial water withdrawal in the next section).
Total water withdrawal: (106 m3/year) Annual quantity of water withdrawn for agricultural, domestic and industrial purposes. It does not include other withdrawals (see below).
Other water withdrawal: (106 m3/year) This includes all other sectors: energy, mining, recreation, navigation, fisheries and environment. These sectors usually have a very low consumption rate.
Produced wastewater: (106 m3/year) Annual quantity of wastewater produced in the country. This does not include agricultural drainage water.
Treated wastewater: (106 m3/year) Annual quantity of wastewater which is treated.
Re-used treated wastewater: (106 m3/year) Annual quantity of treated wastewater which is re-used.
Agricultural drainage water: (106 m3/year) That part of the irrigation water withdrawal which returns to the river system or is collected by a drainage network.
Desalinated water: (106 m3/year) Installed capacity of desalination plants.
Irrigation potential: (ha) Area of land suitable for irrigation development, taking into account land and water resources. It includes land already under irrigation. The definition may vary among countries (see note on irrigation potential in the next section).
Full or partial control irrigation: equipped area: (ha) Irrigation schemes carried out and managed either by government, private estates or farmers, and where a full or partial control of the water is achieved. Gardening is included in this category.
Surface irrigation: (ha) Part of the full or partial control area under surface irrigation: furrow, border, basin, and flooded irrigation of rice.
Sprinkler irrigation: (ha) Part of the full or partial control area irrigated by aspersion (sprinkler).
Micro-irrigation: (ha) Part of the full or partial control area irrigated by micro-irrigation.
Percentage of area irrigated from groundwater: (%) Part of the full or partial control area irrigated from wells (shallow wells and deep tube-wells) or springs.
Percentage of area irrigated from surface water: (%) Part of the full or partial control area irrigated from rivers or lakes (reservoirs, pumping or diversion).
Percentage of area irrigated from non-conventional sources: (%) Part of the full or partial control area irrigated from non-conventional sources of water such as (un)treated wastewater, desalinated water or agricultural drainage water.
Percentage of equipped area actually irrigated: (%) Part of the full or partial control area which is actually irrigated. Often, the whole area equipped is not irrigated for various reasons, such as lack of water, absence of farmers, damage, organizational problems, and so forth. It concerns the actual physical areas. Irrigated land that is cultivated twice a year is counted once.
Spate irrigation area: (ha) Area of land equipped for spate irrigation.
Equipped wetlands and inland valley bottoms: (ha) Part of cultivated wetlands and inland valley bottoms which have been equipped with water control structures (intake, canals, etc.). Developed mangroves are included in this category.
Total irrigation: Area equipped to provide water to the crops. It includes areas equipped for full and partial control irrigation, spate irrigation areas, and equipped wetland and inland valley bottoms. It does not include flood recession cropping areas. In the text it is also referred to as irrigated area or area under irrigation.
Power irrigated area as percentage of irrigated area: (%) Part of the irrigated area where pumps are used for water supply. It does not include areas where water is pumped with human- or animal-driven water lifting devices.
Full or partial control irrigation schemes: (ha) Areas of large, medium and small schemes, following the criteria used by the country, with the criteria given.
Total number of households in irrigation: Total number of households living directly on earnings from full or partial control irrigation schemes.
Total irrigated grain production: (t) The total quantity of cereals harvested annually in the irrigated area.
Harvested crops under irrigation: (ha) Total harvested irrigated area for the crop for the given year. Areas under double cropping should be counted twice. For permanent crops data generally refer to the total planted area.
Drained area: (ha) The area equipped with subsurface or surface (open) drains. It can be broken down into drained areas in full or partial control irrigated areas; drained areas in equipped wetland and inland valley bottoms; and other drained areas, which are equipped for drainage but not irrigation. Flood recession cropping areas are not considered as being drained.
Area salinized by irrigation: (ha) Total irrigated area affected by salinization as a result of irrigation. This does not include naturally saline areas.
Notwithstanding the detailed description of each variable, some problems persist due to the fact that the available literature does not always indicate clearly which definition has been used in computing the figures. The most frequent problems encountered in computing the figures are listed below. In addition, a number of terms used in the country profiles, though not in the tables, are also explained below.
Arable versus cultivated land: The official definition of arable land is `land under temporary crops, temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow'. In this study, `land cultivated with annual crops' has been preferred to `arable land' and refers to the physical area actually cultivated with temporary crops, excluding the temporarily fallow land. However, the way multiple cropping and intercropping are accounted for is not always clearly explained in the literature.
Cultivable land: The notion of cultivable land in arid areas is closely linked to the capacity to provide water to the crops. Assumptions made in assessing cultivable land vary from country to country. In this survey, national figures have been used where available, despite possible large discrepancies in computation methods.
Agricultural land: In most of the countries of the FSU, there is no clear distinction between agricultural land, cultivable land or cultivated land. The definition varies from country to country and is explained in the country profiles.
Irrigation potential: Assumptions made in assessing irrigation potential vary from country to country. In most cases it is computed on the basis of available land and water resources, but economic and environmental considerations may also have been taken into account. Some countries include the possible use of non-conventional sources of water for irrigation. Except in a few cases, no consideration is given to the possible double counting of shared water resources. Wetland and floodplains are usually, but not systematically, included in irrigation potential.
Water withdrawal: This term includes all the water used for agricultural, domestic and industrial purposes. The possible use of agricultural drainage water, desalinated water and (un)treated wastewater is included. These three sources of water are also referred to as non-conventional sources of water.
Agricultural water withdrawal: Methods for computing agricultural water withdrawal vary from country to country. The figure was reviewed for each country on the basis of crop water requirements and irrigated areas, and comments are given in the country profiles to explain the figure where necessary. In some countries, rural domestic water withdrawal is included in agricultural water withdrawal.
Livestock water withdrawal: By default, livestock water withdrawal is accounted for in agricultural water withdrawal. However, some countries include it in domestic water withdrawal.
Industrial water withdrawal: In many countries of the FSU, both hydropower water use and water used for nuclear power plant cooling are included in industrial water withdrawal, although this is rather water use than water withdrawal in view of the very low consumption rates involved. Where separate figures for these items were given, they have been included in other water withdrawal instead of industrial water withdrawal.
Return flow: That part of the agricultural, domestic and industrial water withdrawal which flows back to the river system or is collected by a drainage network.
Computation of water resources: The following terms have been used in the computation of water resources: Internal renewable water resources is the average annual flow of rivers and recharge of groundwater generated from endogenous precipitation. A critical review of the data was made to ensure that double counting of surface water and groundwater was avoided. Total natural renewable water resources is the sum of internal renewable water resources and natural incoming flow originating outside the country. Special rules were used to take the flow of border rivers into account. Natural incoming flow is the average annual amount of water which would flow into the country in natural conditions, i.e., without human influence. This figure is not time dependent. Total actual renewable water resources is the sum of internal renewable water resources and incoming flow originating outside the country, taking into account the quantity of flow reserved to upstream and downstream countries through formal or informal agreements or treaties and the reduction of flow due to upstream withdrawal. It corresponds to the maximum theoretical amount of water actually available for a country at a given moment. The figure may vary with time. Manageable water resources, or development potential, refers to that part of the resources which is considered to be available for development under specific economic conditions. This figure considers factors such as the dependability of the flow, floods, extractable groundwater, minimum flow required for non-consumptive uses, etc.
Safe yield of groundwater: The definition varies from country to country and is explained in the country profiles. It may or may not include fossil water.
Kareze or Qanat: Unlined tunnel in the hillside, bringing water by free flow from underground aquifers to the surface.
Phytomelioration: In Central Asia, agricultural drainage water is diverted from the collector-drainage network to ponds, where crops are grown to concentrate the salts present in the water and thus filter the water. The main crops grown in such ponds are the common reed (Phragmites communis), narrow leafed reedmace (Typha angustifolia) and great bulrush (Scirpus lacustris). The crop harvest is re-used as raw material for construction. This method is also called biological treatment of water.
Total water managed area versus total irrigation: Total water managed area is the sum of total irrigation (see definition above), flood recession cropping areas and other cultivated wetland and inland valley bottoms. It does not include water harvesting areas. Flood recession cropping areas (area along rivers where cultivation occurs in the areas exposed as the flood recedes) and other cultivated wetland and inland valley bottoms (wetland and inland valley bottoms not equipped with water control structures but used for cropping) are not reported present in the countries of the FSU. Total water managed area thus corresponds to total irrigation in these countries.
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NEWPORT CITY – Quick action by Newport City Police averted a potential disaster Saturday evening.
During a telephone interview Sunday morning, Sgt. Seth DiSanto said police received an anonymous 911 call from someone who observed three individuals making a pipe bomb Saturday.
Police found the vehicle in question on Coventry Street. The alleged suspects, identified by DiSanto as Jonathan Glover, Nathaniel Chaffee and Cody MacFarlane, would not consent to police searching the vehicle.
Border Patrol Agents responded with a trained dog that alerted on the front driver side bumper area of the vehicle, DiSanto said.
“When the dog started scratching at the car, it fell out,” said DiSanto of the pipe bomb. “The Border Patrol Agent advised us what he'd located.”
Police evacuated three individuals from their home. The other homes in the nearby area were vacant.
The Newport City Fire Department, the state police bomb squad (with members from the Derby and St. Johnsbury barracks), and the Newport Ambulance Service responded to the scene, which began to unfold just before 6 p.m.
The fire department blocked off Coventry Street by the South Bay Fishing Access and by Pleasant Street Extension from just after 6 p.m. until about 10:30 p.m.
The state police bomb squad used some “type of charge” to make the device safe, said DiSanto. He said city police collected the device as evidence. “They didn’t blow it up, because I still have it in one piece,” he said.
The public was in danger, DiSanto said. Police charged the individuals with possession of destructive device.
“These guys were driving around with a pipe bomb in their car,” he said. “Had it gone off at any point and time, obviously the people inside the vehicle were going to be seriously injured.”
DiSanto doesn’t know what the blast radius would have been and doubts the individuals knew either. “They told us they learned how to do this by watching YouTube,” said DiSanto. “I would say they didn’t have a frigging clue what they were doing.”
Police have no information to believe the individuals built more than one device or were planning to use the bomb in a terrorist fashion.
“At one point, one of them made a comment that they were going to go to a sandpit and see what happened,” said DiSanto.
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A long line of applying database FixPaks has ended with
number 11, the last FixPak V7, and a brand new line has begun with
DB2 V8. Currently, a total of six FixPaks have been released for DB2 V8. Consequently,
support for DB2 V7 has come to an end. This event triggered many DBAs to begin the
process of database migration to DB2 V8.
IBM promotional brochures stressed V8 superiority, with its
brand new self-managing
and resource tuning (SMART)
database technology. Much was promised, including easy configuration, tuning
and management with database-enhanced automation. However, before we can check it
out, we have to upgrade our existing V7 databases.
This article is the first in a series demonstrating the migration
procedure on the SUN Solaris operating system and a single node DB2 V7
In the second article, I will provide practical solutions
for important migration issues.
This article covers:
Configuration Backup and Data Backup
DB2 V7 to DB2 V8
The Reasons for Migration
There are several
reasons why we should migrate to DB2 version 8. These are:
a.) IBM's latest dessupport
Listing 1: IBM withdraw support announcement
IBM withdraws support effective September 30, 2004, for the following products:
DB2(R) Content Management Product number
DB2 Universal Database(R) (UDB) V7.2 products
DB2 UDB Personal Edition 5648-D45
DB2 UDB Workgroup Edition 5648-D46
DB2 UDB Workgroup Unlimited Edition 5648-D46
DB2 UDB Enterprise Edition 5648-D48
DB2 UDB Enterprise -- Extended Edition 5648-D50
b.) The concern that
arises from previously announced APARs (Authorized Program Analysis Report, a named issue with an IBM
program, opened after the customer or IBM support personnel discover a problem
with the database software code) or HIPER APARs ( HIgh Impact PERvasive APARs, critical
DB2 bugs of which all customers should be aware.) such as:
c.) Some of the brand
new database enhancements:
backup to system with different code page
null and default values compression
flush of database package cache
index splitting with Index Type 2
data evaluation via lock deferral
table support (RCT)
recovery supports a local time
database check utility (INSPECT)
sequences support in partitioned database environment
of DB2 V8 Clients
IBM has provided client backward-compatibility with numerous
restrictions. An official documentation describes this situation in the
following way: "Due to significant communication protocol changes, you
should be aware of some restrictions and limitations when accessing DB2 V7 servers
from DB2 V8 clients."
These restrictions will not prevent the version 8 client from
accessing the version 8 DB2 database, but will prevent usage of LOB, UDT and DATALINK data types,
usage of authentification type SERVER_ENCRYPT, disable password changing,
disable ATTACH command, two-phase commit, the SQL statements greater than 32 KB
in size, .
Preparing for the Migration
DB2 V7 database instance, used in this article, was running on the SUN Solaris
8 operating system, under instance owner db2inst1, hosting only one DB2
database "ARTIST" and having only one database partition.
migration, some minimum technical prerequisites must be satisfied.
tablespace should have enough free space for double extension. This is very
important, because running out of free space could interrupt the migration
procedure and leave the database in an unusable state.
temporary tablespace should have enough space for future expansion. A
temporary tablespace was used during migration as intermediate storage for
catalog tables, and a sort space for the index transformation.
The number of
the log files and the log space should cover full change on the largest
database object. According IBM, migration is fully recoverable, causing full
transaction logging through the log buffer mechanism and the database log
files. That is the reason why the database log configuration parameters should
be extended. IBM recommends doubling the size for regular production
parameters. After migration, database parameters have to be reset to those
values used before migration.
- approx. 635 MB for DB2 V8 binary installation under
- approx. 2GB for a temporary logging area under under
/tmp/install directory. A DB2 installation is delivered in compressed format on
the product CD-ROM. To install DB2, you need to copy the installation image to
the temporary directory, uncompress it and perform the installation.
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By ANDY SEVILLA
The San Marcos City Council will consider a measure allowing city police more discretionary authority over crimes not yet committed.
An ordinance before the council at its Feb. 17 meeting will define and restrict the possession of graffiti implements, providing penalties for violations.
San Marcos Police Chief Howard Williams said the ordinance is timed to work with the council’s graffiti eradication program. The program included the purchase of a $32,000 soda-blaster that uses baking soda and/or high pressure air and water to eliminate graffiti.
“The council has made it pretty clear to us that they want (graffiti) gone,” Williams said.
The ordinance would make it illegal to carry indelible markers or aerosol paint containers on school or public property after hours. It also prohibits carrying said tools within 10 feet of bridges and public infrastructure at all times. If a person is caught violating the restrictions, police officers would have to determine if an unlawful act was about to occur.
“What we want is the ability to step in and prevent damage before it happens,” Williams said. “It gives us an opportunity to stop graffiti before it happens.”
Williams said property affixed with graffiti invites more crimes, such as littering and vandalism. His argument is amplified by the “broken windows” theory developed by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling.
“If public authorities worry about order, it affects the way people behave,” Wilson said in a Los Angeles Times report.
The same report identifies New York City as the most famous example of the “broken windows” theory.
“New York City saw a 50 percent reduction in crime in the 1990s after then-Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and then-Police Commissioner William J. Bratton cracked down on squeegee-wielding panhandlers and the like,” the report said.
However, experts disagree about the evidence.
“An array of social scientists examined the (New York) City’s crime statistics, and many of them concluded that factors like the booming economy and decline of crack cocaine were actually responsible for the dramatic improvement,” the Los Angeles Times report said.
The ordinance stipulates that police can’t ticket suspects until first asking the individual why she is present within 10 feet of a bridge or public infrastructure with restricted materials. The legislation adds that the officer must “reasonably believe” that an offense has occurred and a “defense” is not present.
The ordinance defines an “affirmative defense” as a finding that the apparent offender “uses the graffiti implement in their employment or in connection with a school, civic, or religious activity or has written permission from the director or owner of the premises to engage in an authorized activity utilizing the (graffiti) implements.”
The ordinance also allows for parental punishment after children between ages 10 and 17 have committed a first offense.
“This isn’t an effort to get people in trouble,” Williams said. “We’re only interested in holding people responsible for graffiti and parents responsible for juvenile graffiti.”
Offenses under this ordinance are Class C Misdemeanors carrying fines not to exceed $500. The ordinance provides that a fine for a first offense can’t be less than $50, while a fine for a second offense can’t be less than $100.
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Tuesday, September 10, 6:30pm-7:30pm
The Conference House
298 Satterlee Street, 718.984.6046
By Public Transport: S59 Bus or S78 Bus
Wednesday, September 18, 7pm-8pm
Greenbelt Nature Center
700 Rockland Avenue, 718.351.3450
By Public Transport: S54 Bus or S61 Bus
Saturday, September 21, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Great Kills Library
56 Giffords Lane, 718.984.6670
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Monday, September 30, 6:30pm-7:30pm
7430 Amboy Road; 718.984.0945
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Tuesday, October 1, 6:30pm-7:30pm
132 Canal Street, 718.727.0427
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Monday, October 7, 6:30pm-7:30pm
St. George Library
5 Central Avenue, 718.442.8560
By Public Transport: Ferry Bound Buses
Thursday, October 10, 6:30pm-7:30pm
The Noble Maritime Collection
1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D
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Tuesday, October 15, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Staten Island LGBT Community Center
25 Victory Blvd., 718.808.1360
By Public Transport: Ferry Bound Buses to Victory & Bay Street.
Staten Island Arts Grant Categories for the October 25th deadline
• DCA Premier—Individual artists, art groups and nonprofit organizations that have never received a Staten Island Arts project grant may submit requests from $750 to $3,000.
• DCA Art Fund—Individual artists, art groups and nonprofit organizations WITHOUT a 501c3 or conduit that have previously received a Staten Island Arts project grant may submit requests from $750 to $5,000
• NYSCA Original Work—For individual artists of all disciplines to create new work. Four grants of $2,500 will be awarded.
• NYSCA Encore—Individual artists, art groups, and nonprofit organizations WITH a 501c3 or conduit that has previously received a Staten Island Arts project grant may submit requests from $500 to $5,000.
*Note: Returning grantees may submit applications to both the DCA Art Fund and the NYSCA Encore grants, as long as they demonstrate they are for separate projects or programs.
If you have any questions, please call Gena Mimozo Staten Island Arts Grants Administrator at 718.447.3329 x1003 | <urn:uuid:71d6ace3-5035-4536-8614-583efbee0661> | CC-MAIN-2016-36 | http://statenislandarts.org/nyscadca-grant-workshop-schedule/ | 2016-08-24T10:12:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982292151.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195812-00130-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897854 | 687 |
The simple formula is just the first-order expansion of the more complicated one about $v = 0$, the latter being exact for the Doppler effect of motion purely along the line of sight. The $v$ here refers to the peculiar motion of the galaxy.
Be aware that for all but the very nearest galaxies, the observed redshift comes almost entirely from the expansion of the universe, not from relative motion in the special-relativistic sense. Thus converting from redshift to velocity using either of the formulas mentioned, though a very common practice, can be misleading. For a thorough albeit technical discussion of subtleties related to this point, there is a paper by Davis and Lineweaver.
Edit: Since I have lately been using NED a lot, I came across this page in their documentation. Point 1 in particular notes that "no relativistic correction is applied" and so you may see "velocities in excess of the speed of light." (It also says $v = z/c$, but I hope that's just a typo.) There are two important points here. The first is that you can safely assume the values reported are redshift times the speed of light, possibly with a correction to a certain reference frame. The second is that even NASA is under the misconception that redshift of distant galaxies has something to do with Doppler shift, when this is just fundamentally false. The quantity $zc$ is really just a way of putting units to redshift, nothing more. | <urn:uuid:826268c4-e088-45dd-83bb-3cb9509379e9> | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/30720/ned-velocity-to-redshift-conversion | 2016-06-28T16:50:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783396949.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154956-00000-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941243 | 311 |
Congratulations to the Seattle/Northwest Chapter (NWCVF) of The Voice Foundation. Under the mentorship of President, Al Merati, MD, this active group just had their 30th meeting called Carryover to the Community, Monday, February 2 at 7:00pm in PST
A panel of experts including a voice teacher, an acting teacher, and a speech-language pathologist discussed challenges and successes in helping clients and students apply what they learn in therapy and lessons to everyday voice use in performance and conversation.
The NWVH Chapter continues to succeed – they have five meetings every year, all well attended and with a great mix of topics. The meetings all occur on the first Monday of every even numbered month (except August) and are all in Eagleson Hall on the corner of 42nd and 15th with the exception of the Master Class, which has been held in Music Hall on main campus. Contact us at TVF firstname.lastname@example.org for more information on this active chapter.
Al Merati, MD
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Theological Vocabulary Thursday
The Free Offer of the Gospel
By Ron F. Hale, Minister of Missions, West Jackson Baptist Church. Jackson, TN
Does God have a universal saving will that desires the salvation of all people who will believe, or was our Lord’s atonement only sufficient for some?
Should the Gospel be preached to all indiscriminately with the purpose of calling everyone to repentance and faith?
Is God’s love and saving desire equal or unequal? Does God extend effectual (saving) grace to one group and a common grace to the other?
Is salvation sure and certain of all whom God gave to Christ before the foundation of the world and is in no way conditioned on a sinner responding to the preaching of the gospel?
Is the gospel invitation just a modern method instituted by Evangelist Charles Finney in the 19th century and has no biblical support?
These are questions that relate to the “free offer” or “well meant offer” of the Gospel. The aim of this article is give some definition to the term, share different perspectives, add some personal views, and ask more questions.
One definition of the term is:
The bona fide (“in good faith”) offer of salvation to all who hear the gospel and will repent of their sins and trust in Christ for forgiveness. Some non-Calvinists do not think that Calvinists can freely offer the gospel to all persons since they believe in a definite atonement of Christ for the elect alone. Calvinists respond that the extent of the atonement does not come into play in the preaching of the gospel, for the call is to sinners to repent and trust in Christ; the evangelist need not preach that “Jesus died for you.” The only group that denies the free offer to all sinners indiscriminately is hyper-Calvinism (Shawn D. Wright, “Glossary of Some Important Theological Terms,” in Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue, Nashville: B&H, 2008, 281).
Our Baptist Faith and Message 2000, does address this topic in the following statement:
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord (emphasis added; available at http://www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp).
In thirty-five years of preaching the Gospel, I can honestly say that I’ve never struggled with the questions that I mentioned in the opening statements. As stated in the Baptist Faith and Message, the Gospel of our Lord is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour! Yet, it seems that some Christians and Christian groups have struggled with these questions in history.
The teachings of the Protestant Reformed Churches of America (PRCA) on this subject are:
The well-meant offer teaches that God's grace is universal. The Protestant Reformed Churches maintain that God's grace is particular, specifically now in the preaching of the gospel. The truth that God's grace is particular is essential for a confession of the sovereignty of grace. If God's grace in the preaching is for everybody, it is not sovereign grace. And the truth that God's grace in the preaching of the gospel is particular, sovereign grace is the very heart of the Reformed faith...
It is indisputable that the Protestant Reformed Churches' rejection of a well-meant offer and a conditional promise is not and never was motivated by hyper-Calvinism, that is, by a refusal to preach the gospel to every creature, a refusal to call every hearer to repentance and faith, and a refusal to proclaim to everyone the promise that whoever believes shall be saved. This was simply not the issue. Rather, the issue in the doctrine of a well-meant offer of the gospel is this: does God love and have a gracious attitude toward everyone who hears the preaching, and does He in the preaching desire to save everyone? As Hoeksema never wearied of asking, "What grace does the reprobate receive in the preaching?” (emphasis is original; Reformed Free Publishing Association website, “Doctrines We Believe, Well-meant Offer” available at http://www.rfpa.org/catalog/well-meant-offer.php).
The PRCA refuse to see themselves as hyper-Calvinists, while resisting the belief that the gospel is meant to be offered to everyone!
In fighting hyper-Calvinism among English Baptists of the 19th Century, Charles H. Spurgeon indicates his fervor toward offering the gospel to all in the following quote:
Brethren, the command to believe in Christ must be the sinner’s warrant, if you consider the nature of our commission. How runs it? “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” It ought to run, according to the other [Hyper Calvinist] plan, “preach the gospel to every regenerate person, to every convinced sinner, to every sensible soul.” But it is not so; it is to “every creature.” But unless the warrant be a something in which every creature can take a share, there is no such thing as consistently preaching it to every creature. (Spurgeon’s sermon on 1 John 3:23: “The Warrant of Faith.”)
There seems to be a growing number of Southern Baptists that believe the public invitation is based on defective theology and 19th century gospel gimmicks. I would ask if the rise or resurgence in the belief of a “limited atonement” fuels the opposition to the public invitation or altar call. Dr. David L. Allen does a masterful job in his chapter entitled The Atonement: Limited or Universal? (Whosoever Will: A Biblical-Theological Critique of Five-Point Calvinism) in pointing out that limited atonement creates serious problems for God’s universal saving will; it provides an insufficient ground for evangelism by undercutting the well-meant offer; it undermines the bold proclamation of the gospel in preaching; and it contributes to a rejection of valid methods of evangelism such as the use of the evangelistic altar calls (p.107).
Dr. Allen asks a powerful and pertinent question: When is the atonement applied to the sinner (p.65)? He gives three possibilities:
I contend with Dr. Allen that the atonement is applied when the sinner exercises faith in Christ. This reality gives me a sense of peace and freedom as I look into the eyes of a crowd or congregation and know the Holy Spirit is going to work and woo as His Gospel is preached. It still gives me chill bumps to know that God has called me to this high and holy calling.
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Gabor Pozsgai was born in a small town in Hungary, in November 1977.
He has been interested in all living things and creepy-crawlies since his early childhood. So much so, he became an insect ecologist...
However, pure observation of the objects of his passion was not sufficiently satisfying for him. He also wanted to document them. And so, he became a photographer..
He got his first Russian made Smena camera in the age of ten. His father and other members of the family were keen photographers as well and with their encouragement and advice he managed to learn quickly. Unfortunately, only the significant change in his economical situation, when moved to the UK, allowed him to fulfil his rather expensive passion.
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"We agree that there is a business case," Metzger told Seeker. "You can recover the capital investment and deliver the spacecraft at a cost savings and make a profit."
While the exact locations of the spacecraft network are being worked out, this is the bare bones of the proposal: Deep in space on a mission in a few decades' time, a mining spacecraft would head out to an asteroid and extract water from it (along with other materials and precious metals). Once its mission is complete, the mining spacecraft would come back to the Earth-moon system with the water on board.
A propellant depot somewhere near Earth would then accept the water. It would break down the water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen gas, which are both excellent rocket fuels. And this is the genius of the plan - space launch companies don't need launch fuel into space; the fuel is already there, waiting in the depot to refuel any spacecraft that requires it.
Now comes the space tug. Once a satellite is launched, the space tug nabs the satellite and brings it up to the propellant depot to pick up a load of fuel. Then the tug zooms up to geosynchronous orbit, where it releases the satellite to do its mission.
RELATED: Mining Asteroids: Not Mankind's Silver Bullet
With such a network in place, argues Sercel, we could greatly reduce the costs associated with our current method of sending satellites to high orbits and accessing deep space. Currently, if we want to break free of Earth's orbit, the only option we have is to launch a mission with everything we need on board -- all the fuel, the electronics, and in the future astronauts. With this space tug infrastructure, we at least don't need to launch huge quantities of fuel out of Earth's gravitational well. | <urn:uuid:b0999ea9-c987-406d-9775-9ded35fceed6> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | https://www.seeker.com/space-tug-asteroid-mining-lower-cost-satellite-launches-2056243672.html | 2017-12-11T13:03:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948513512.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20171211125234-20171211145234-00747.warc.gz | en | 0.958196 | 366 |
Origins of Measures of Journal Impact: Historical Contingencies and their Effect on Current Use
Archambault, É. et V. Larivière, (2007) Origins of Measures of Journal Impact: Historical Contingencies and their Effect on Current Use, Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), Madrid, Spain, pp. 45-51.
This paper examines the genesis of journal impact measures and how their evolution culminated in the journal impact factor (JIF) produced by the Institute for Scientific Information. The paper shows how the form of the JIF, which is the result of historically contingent choices rather than a carefully chosen and tested set of features, affected its subsequent use, misuse, and manipulation by researchers, journal editors, and bibliometricians.
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ROUGHLY 51 MILLION AMERICAN SENIORS LIVE IN POVERTY. HALF OF ALL PEOPLE ON MEDICARE HAVE IMCOME OF LESS THAN $26,000 PER YEAR. PENSIONS ARE A THING OF THE PAST AND SOCIAL SECURITY JUST DOESN’T PROVIDE ENOUGH MONEY TO LIVE ON.
FOR MOST, THEIR HOMES ARE THEIR MOST VALUED ASSETS BUT WHEN IT NEEDS REPAIRS IN ORDER TO SELL IT AT ITS BEST PRICE, FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE SELLING THEIR HOME FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR TO WHOLESALERS SEEKING TO TAKE THE PROFIT.
DON'T GIVE YOUR HOME AWAY. YOU DESERVE AS Money AS YOU CAN GET WHEN YOU SELL.
PARTNER WITH THE AN INVESTOR AND let them renovate your home at no cost to you. IT'S A NATURAL FIT...
AND IT CREATES A WIN-WIN SOLUTION THAT CAN LEAVE YOU WITH MORE MONEY WHEN YOU HOME SELLS.
My name is Tye Glover and I created the Invest Out Partnering system because too many homeowners are being taken advantage of when it comes time to sell our homes, simply because we may not have an option of making improvements ourselves.That was exactly my situation when it came time for me to sell. In 2011 I went through a divorce and was being forced to sell my 1890s Victorian for cash to an investor. Why cash? Because the home needed a lot of work, I didn’t have the money to do that renovation and it can be difficult for home buyers to get financing when the home doesn’t qualify for FHA loans.
I, like many homeowners today, needed as much money from my home as possible but I knew I was at a disadvantage simply because all of the power was being held by the investor, wholesalers, and lenders. As a homeowner, I felt like had no voice or negotiating power. It wasn’t until I looked at the prospects of selling my home from a completely different perspective, that I began to recognize and embrace my true power.
My home itself
The two things investors want most are a steady supply of good homes, and strong profits. I began to understand that if homeowners were to work directly with investors, there would be no need for those investors to:
… which means the homeowners and investors both make strong profits by removing the middle men. By Partnering with an investor, you can also have the most impactful improvements done to your home to dramatically improve its value.
If you try to sell your home for cash to a wholesaler, including any number of the new companies offering home purchase services like Home Lite, Zillow, Home Investors, etc., then they’ll:
Why not remove step 1 and work directly with that investor so that when the home does sell, you still get the money offered in step 1 plus a negotiated share of the increased value, without having to put any money out of your own pocket for that increased profit.
It’s your home and you deserve as much money as you can get when it sells.
InvestOut Connects the
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3 years, 3 months ago DevOps
Hello readers! After a long time I am back with a new topic. Today I am going to discuss about cPanel bandwidth problem. The websites on your server may use heavy traffic but cPanel bandwidth counter always show that they are using a low bandwidth. Then you can understand that cPanel can't count bandwidth correctly. Actually we get this issue when we try to use Nginx/Varnish as a web-proxy in front of Apache. I have also got this problem about 3 months ago and was thinking that it may be a known bug of cPanel as I have seen many SysAdmin who are getting this issue when I have searched on Google for a solution. I thought that it might be fixed in the upcoming release of cPanel. When I update my cPanel to 11.46.1 (build 4), still I was getting this issue. Then I have gone in a deep research and discovered the issue.Continue Reading
When you install CentOS on your server then your default SSH port is 22. It’s default, I mean, all servers with CentOS operating system normally have port 22 opened. Any hacker may flood this port or try to connect via this port and can do any harm to the server. So the better practice is to change the port. Though it can’t do much for you, but I believe that it’s quite impossible to find out a SSH port for a hacker where the appropriate range is too long to guess the correct port. Here I will guide only to change the SSH port to another non-privileged port. Let’s start.Continue Reading
If you are using a VPS and you have cPanel installed on it, then you may need to update or change WHM Nameserver IPs for various reasons. If you simply try to change it, you will find that they are not changing accurately. For this, you have to do it manually I mean you may do it by command.Continue Reading
3 years, 8 months ago Ubuntu
Recently I have tried to install my Grameenphone new 3G Modem in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I have tried again and again to install it, and at last I have become successful. Today I am writing this article to share the process. Let's start.Continue Reading
3 years, 10 months ago Tutorials
Today's post is written for those who are familiar to Wordpress already and there thoughts are Wordpress based mainly. But if you unfamiliar to Wordpress, you may go through the post as I believe it will be helpful for you in future when you may be a Wordpress developer. | <urn:uuid:cba6073c-2bf1-4202-ac88-fb6446748299> | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | https://en.maateen.me/?page=4 | 2018-04-23T20:53:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946199.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423203935-20180423223935-00298.warc.gz | en | 0.951022 | 544 |
Echo 4th Generation Wall Mount Wall Bracket Shelf
Note: This is for the large Echo 4th Gen not the DOT.
Ornate, stylish wall mount/bracket designed for the Echo 4th generation. Allows the echo to be mounted in a pronounced fashion that can add as a feature on your wall. Attaches to the device using a bolt (provided) that fixes into the dedicated thread on the bottom of the device. This makes the wall mount overly sturdy and strong on the wall which can prevent it from being knocked off. This method of mounting allows the blue ring light on the device to reflect and bounce off of the wall when mounted to produce a back glow effect. Great for freeing up surface space in areas like your kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and more. Useful for managing your entertainment setup and keeping things tidy.
Attaches to the wall with two screws, raw plugs and a bolt. All of which are included in the kit. Echo 4th generation NOT included.
See pictures for details.
We have an extended range of other wall mounts for this device in various other colours.
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WWF NATIONAL, PROGRAMME AND COUNTRY OFFICES ACROSS THE NETWORK WORK ON PUTTING THE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE IN CONSERVATION.
Our offices across the network engage in diverse work in their regions through different programmes, projects and initiatives that link the sustainable use of natural resources and the livelihoods and well-being of the communities dependent on them.
WWF Colombia works with community stakeholders to build and strengthen local governance and the management of natural resources to ensure that both ecosystems and people’s livelihoods are protected.
WWF Chile supports indigenous and local communities for the sustainable use of natural resources in their territories, helping develop local governance and community-led conservation strategies.
WWF India’s field projects work with local communities and government agencies to develop and put in place forest-based or alternative sustainable livelihood models that effectively demonstrate how conservation practices can be mainstreamed into livelihood enhancement, particularly for those living in and around Protected Areas, where access to and use of natural resources is restricted.
WWF Nepal works to ensure livelihood security for communities that live in and around protected areas and other priority sites, as well as to help reduce pressure on the natural resources they depend on. The office’s projects aim to promote good governance, ecotourism and the creation of green jobs.
© David Lawson / WWF-UK
Africa & Madagascar
WWF Madagascar and West Indian Ocean Programme Office develops initiatives to mainstream links between poverty and conservation into its work and to enhance sustainability through building partnerships and strengthening capacity of local stakeholders. Projects include environmental education, civil society capacity building and engagement as well as work on health and population issues in and around conservation zones.
AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA
WWF Australia works with local people, governments and businesses to improve livelihoods and support sustainable resource management. The work of the office includes enhancing climate change resilience and disaster risk reduction in coastal communities and work with indigenous peoples to deliver sustainability and conservation.
WWF South Pacific works on sustainable livelihoods, green economy, food security and water quality. The office focuses on climate change adaptation and resilience for people and economies as well as promoting green tourism.
North America and Europe
WWF United Kingdom supports the work of offices around the world with regard to the sustainable management of the natural resources, building local capacity and helping develop small-scale businesses for long-term sustainability.
Our European Policy Office works to hold the European Union to its commitments on development cooperation policies that affect environment and sustainable development, as well as monitors the implementation of EU development cooperation policies.
WWF Netherlands works with offices in Africa, Asia and Latin America on supporting their efforts for creating viable economic opportunities for the local communities to reduce their vulnerability, and on developing a fair payment system for ecosystem services, benefiting the environment and reducing poverty.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Carlos Dunlap went through his first training camp practice with the Chiefs on Thursday, then the two-time Pro Bowl defensive end made it perfectly clear both why he signed with Kansas City and his goals for this season.
The why: The Chiefs are giving the 33-year-old veteran an opportunity to play every down, rather than as a third-down pass-rushing specialist, which is the role Dunlap had been increasingly relegated to the past couple of years.
The goals: Dunlap is aiming for at least eight sacks, which would push him well over 100 for his career, along with making a run to the Super Bowl after having lost his first six playoff games with Cincinnati and Seattle.
“Great opportunity with a great organization,” said Dunlap, who signed an incentive-laden contract last week that could be worth up to $8 million this season. “What they've done the last few years, playing against them on the other side of the ball — I wanted to add my specialty to it. We felt like we had mutual interest.”
There were a few other teams in the running, Dunlap said, “but I liked what I heard from the Chiefs.”
The Chiefs like what he brings to the locker room.
Dunlap has been a paragon of consistency since entering the league as the Bengals' second-round pick in 2010.
He's had at least six sacks every season but one, including 8 1/2 last season with the Seahawks, and appeared in at least 14 regular-season games each of the past 10 seasons. And while sack totals have only been official since 1982, his 96 sacks rank just outside of the top 50, which is the threshold he would pass with his goal of eight this season.
It's not just what Dunlap brings in terms of productivity that made him so attractive, though. He's been around the league long enough to build a vast bank of knowledge that he can impart on some of the Chiefs' younger players.
Tops on the list is George Karlaftis, one of their two first-round picks in this year's draft.
“He's going to add a lot of value just from a teaching standpoint, just for us young guys,” Karlaftis said. “Aside from all the wonderful things he'll do on the field, just teaching us and spreading the wealth of knowledge he has will be big.”
The Chiefs had just 31 sacks last season, better than just three other NFL teams, and their inability to pressure Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow was a big reason for their second-half collapse in the AFC championship game.
Karlaftis is expected to help solve those pass-rush woes, but it's a lot to expect of a rookie to do it alone. And while the Chiefs hope for more from Frank Clark, whose 4 1/2 sacks last season were a bitter disappointment, there still existed plenty of room for a proven disruptive force such as Dunlap coming off the edge.
“We established communication with Carlos back in March, I guess, when he got released,” Chiefs general manager Brett Veach said, “and we were happy to get that done, and we think he's going to be a valuable asset to our rotation.”
The Chiefs have had some success bringing in older pass rushers.
Terrell Suggs played well down the stretch during the 2019 season, appearing in three playoff games and helping the Chiefs win their first Super Bowl title in 50 years. Then last year, Melvin Ingram arrived in a midseason trade and had two sacks in three playoff games while helping Kansas City reach its fourth consecutive AFC title game.
Unlike those two players, the Chiefs expect Dunlap to help them beginning with their Week 1 game in Arizona.
“He's done it for a long time,” Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said, “and the system he was in Cincinnati for all those years was conducive to him. ... He knows how to get to the quarterback, and sometimes that's innate. I always say 70 percent of pass rushing is want-to and he has that.”
Notes: OT Prince Tega Wanogho was a full participant in Thursday's practice after beginning camp on the PUP list. CB Rashad Fenton (shoulder) and OT Lucas Niang (knee) remain on the list. ... WR Daurice Fountain missed the workout with a groin injury. ... WR Gary Jennings is in the concussion protocol after slamming into one of the garage doors of the indoor practice facility while trying to make a catch in Wednesday's workout. ... The Chiefs are off Friday before resuming camp this weekend.
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We all want to live in a home that looks and feels modern and comfortable, but when times are tough financially, spending a large amount of money on upgrades and modernization can seem an impossible luxury.
However, the point is, your home is the biggest asset you are ever likely to have, so it makes sense to protect and enhance its value. You might be surprised at just how much you can do without having to pay a fortune.
A splash of paint can go a long way
The simplest yet most effective upgrade you can offer to your home is a fresh lick of paint. It can make things look like new, and will also make everyone in the household feel there is an atmosphere of new beginnings and fresh starts. Ideal if you’ve been through some tough times in life.
Anyone can learn to paint a room, and the whole thing can be done for less than $150. If you are painting several rooms the same color, go for the largest size available, ideally a 5-gallon drum. That might sound huge, but when you buy that size it is far more cost-effective.
Getting artistic with the paint does not necessarily mean getting out the brushes. A can of spray paint can bring new life to old furniture such as chairs and cabinets. For an even more unique look, you might even consider removing knobs and handles and painting them a different color to create a real talking point.
Add some shutters
It does not have to cost the earth to add a touch of class to your home, and the right window accessories are a perfect way to do exactly that. To give your home a modern, airy feel, consider investing in some plantation shutters for your windows.
These are a great alternative to traditional curtains, as they are far more hardwearing and easy to keep clean. They also bring additional benefits in that they help keep out noise and drafts.
The shutters are easy to install, and typically take no longer than an hour, even if you are a DIY novice. Some handy videos are available that give a step-by-step guide to installation.
Upgrade your dishwasher
Did you know a new dishwasher could save you more than $30 per year in electricity, plus hundreds of gallons of water? That is how energy-efficient modern appliances can be. They also make your kitchen look great and are more enjoyable to use.
Don’t have a dishwasher at all? Then it’s time to get one. You use on average 40% more water washing up by hand, not to mention all those hours spent standing at the sink.
A dishwasher is very simple to install, and you can do it yourself, so no extra costs there.
Smarten up the bathroom
There is no hiding a scruffy or dirty bathroom, How does yours look, and what does it say to guests about you and your family?
There are some simple things you can do for just a few dollars that will make all the difference in the world. By just tidying and cleaning the tile grouting and replacing some worn out faucets, toothbrush holders and the like, you can soon have your bathroom looking like new.
Don’t forget the floors
No matter what upgrades you make, the look of your home will never be perfect if you have floor coverings that are stained or damaged. Before you start searching for a replacement carpet, though, ask yourself when it was last given a proper clean? A carpet shampooer is a great investment and can really give an old carpet a new lease of life.
If the carpet really has reached the end of its life, it pays to shop around when looking for a replacement. Don’t assume the large companies are going to be cheaper, particularly when they offer free installation. In fact, this is often not the case, so check out all the options, particularly small independent suppliers, before you commit.
Solid wood floors look great and negate the need for a carpet, but can be very expensive. If a wood finish is for you, give serious consideration to laminate over hardwood. Some good quality laminate flooring looks very similar to wood but is a fraction of the cost of the real thing.
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