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I drink-and live-what has destroyed some men.
I am 54 years old and have loved Millay’s poetry since my earyly 20’s. If one has ever had a crazy lover and wished there was a form of “love insurance”, here it is in this sonnet.
Sometimes a poem can come out of its ghostly cracks and frighten one with such force and intimacy that one might think it were written not by any poet for the mere sake of poetry, but by some secreted self destined to strip the soul bare–my heart has just stopped for a moment on this one. I feel every ounce of this, I drink the poison mentioned, I am there fully in the contracted spasm of muscle. It is impeccable. A sonnet to rival any Shakespeare could ever have written. Take it out of love and put it in any context and you will see your dream of a stalwart life. | 2019-04-24T23:06:12 | https://www.americanpoems.com/poets/ednamillay/sonnet-01-thou-art-not-lovelier-than-lilacs-no/ |
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Laylah is British and has traveled since she was a baby. Here she is in Kyrgyzstan in 2007 and 2008.
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Intel said the patches for the CPU vulnerability, due next week, would bring a negligible performance hit to the average user. Claiming that the patches can make PCs "immune" from the vulnerabilities is a first, though.
(Editor's Note: Intel has now provided a list of the affected processors, as well as when it first learned of the problem.) Intel said Thursday that by next week, the company expects to have patched 90 percent of its processors that it released within the last five years, making PCs and servers "immune" from both the Spectre and Meltdown exploits, the company said.
Intel's announcement was the latest update in an ongoing fight to patch microprocessors against a pair of vulnerabilities released this week. The company said that it had already released updates "for the majority" of its chips released in the last five years, and would hit the 90 percent mark next week. The updates are being released as firmware updates and software patches.
Right now, there are two areas of concern for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, which we've described in more detail in a separate FAQ. First, there's the security concerns: both vulnerabilities allow an attacker to peer into privileged data that normally is concealed. There's also a worry that any patches will slow down PCs as a result, though Intel has maintained that the average user will be only slightly affected.
What this means: At this point, we know that major chip and operating system vendors are aware of the problem and working to release fixes. The first should probably arrive as part of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday, or earlier. What’s unclear is how many different types of software and CPU architectures the patches will affect, and the amount of performance (if any) that PCs will suffer as a result. It’s a very complicated issue, so we’ve created an Intel CPU kernel bug FAQ that breaks down all the info we know in clear, easy-to-read language to help you wrap your head around it.
If you think both Spectre and Meltdown were new to Intel -- no, they're not. In a FAQ published Thursday, Intel said it was aware of the problem in June 2017. "In this case, the security researchers presented their findings in confidence, and we and other companies worked together to verify their results, develop and validate firmware and operating system updates for impacted technologies, and make them widely available as rapidly as possible," the company said.
During a conference call Wednesday afternoon, Intel shed more light on the CPU kernel vulnerability, now being referred to as a “side channel analysis exploit.” Expect to see patches roll out to address the flaw over the next several weeks, Intel executives said. The performance impact of the patches is expected to be at frustrating levels—somewhere between 0 and 30 percent, though “average” PC users are expected to see little impact.
To the question of which Intel microprocessors are affected: it's pretty much all of them. Here's the complete list, as published by Intel.
Intel, whose processors were the focus of an initial report from The Register, said that both ARM and AMD, as well as several operating system vendors, have been notified of the vulnerability. The flaw was first discovered by Google’s Project Zero security team, says Intel, which Google confirmed. Two names, Spectre and Meltdown, are also being used to identify the vulnerabilities.
Intel said that it would issue its own microcode updates to address the issue, and over time some of these fixes will be rolled into hardware. At press time, Microsoft declined to comment on how it would proceed, though it is expected to release its own patches soon. Google, too, issued its own report on which of its products could be affected: These include Chrome and Android phones, though the latter will depend on how quickly phone makers roll out updates.
What is a side-channel analysis exploit?
According to Intel, the exploit is a way for an attacker to observe the content of privileged memory, exploiting a CPU technique called speculative execution to circumvent expected privilege levels. That can give an attacker access to data it normally wouldn’t, though Intel has said that the data won’t be deleted or modified.
In fact, Intel and the researchers identified three variants, known as a “bounds check bypass,” “branch target injection,” and a “rogue data load,” all of which used slightly different methods of attack. In each case, operating-system updates mitigated the problem.
Steve Smith, one of the engineering leads at Intel who reported the company’s findings, added that no attacks using the vulnerability has been discovered in the wild. He also denied reports that the vulnerability was a flaw, or that it was specific to Intel. “The processor is in fact operating as we designed it,” Smith told investors during the conference call.
The discovery led to hardware makers around the world responding to the vulnerability in a “responsible manner,” Smith said.
The companies had planned to make the disclosure next week when the patches became available. Intel said it was commenting in advance because of what it called “current inaccurate media reports,” though nothing in its statement denied those reports. The company released a statement to the media, then followed up with a conference call.
Intel maintained that the vulnerability is tied to other architectures beyond its own, naming AMD—which denied that its chips are affected—as well as ARM Holdings, the architecture at the heart of most smartphone processors—as additional companies whose products are “susceptible” to these exploits, along with several operating system vendors.
For its part, AMD denied that its processors were affected, stating that there was a “near zero risk to AMD processors” at this time. The company also outlined its responses to the three variants of the vulnerability in a graphic.
Intel sought to explain why it hadn’t yet revealed the vulnerability, claiming it was close to having done so before the news broke. “Intel is committed to the industry best practice of responsible disclosure of potential security issues, which is why Intel and other vendors had planned to disclose this issue next week when more software and firmware updates will be available,” Intel said.
Google also reported that its Chrome browser is affected, though there’s a two-step cure: first, make sure that your browser is updated up to version 63. Second, an optional feature called Site Isolation can be enabled to provide mitigation by isolating websites into separate address spaces. This optional flag, which can be turned on at chrome://flags/#enable-site-per-process, turns on Site Isolation. Finally, Chrome 64, which will be released on Jan. 23, will protect users against the side-channel exploit, Google said.
Mozilla said is adjusting its timing within Firefox to mitigate the effects of the two vulnerabilities.
The performance issue: will a patch slow your PC down?
But with a patch, is the cure worse than the disease? According to The Register, which originally reported the story, PC users could be “looking at a ballpark figure of five to 30 percent slow down, depending on the task and the processor model” if a patch is applied.
Intel seems to feel that the typical end user won’t suffer any ill effects. “Contrary to some reports, any performance impacts are workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time,” Intel said in its statement.
Intel went a bit further on its call, but again without any of the real clarity customers may have hoped for. “It depends on the workload specifically in use,” Smith said.
Intel doesn’t differentiate between client PCs and datacenter servers when looking at the effects of the bug, executives said. Instead, those applications which exist primarily in the user space could see an impact of between 0 and 2 percent, executives said. But synthetic workloads, which lean heavily on the interaction between the application and the operating system, could suffer up to a 30 percent performance hit.
More evidence suggests that PC users won’t feel any significant effects from a patch. As our earlier report indicated, tests on several popular games using a patched version of Linux—not Windows—didn’t indicate any frame-rate drops outside a margin of error. The games tested included Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Dawn of War III, F1 2017, and The Talos Principle on a Linux 4.15-rc6 machine with a Core i7-8700K and Radeon Vega 64.
None of those ran on Microsoft’s DirectX technology though, which integrates deeply with the Windows operating system.
Check back with PCWorld for upcoming reports, and see our updated FAQ for a summary of the latest findings.
This story was updated at 3:36 PM on Jan. 4 with additional details from Intel on which processors are affected. | 2019-04-26T08:49:56 | https://www.pcworld.com/article/3245508/components-processors/intel-responds-to-the-cpu-kernel-bug.amp.html |
Brisbane is no longer shunned from the organic food world with the city’s first organic food expo launching this month.
Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide have annual festivals and expos showcasing the organic produce of the country, however Brisbane had been left behind in the health food scene, until now. The Wray Organic Expo will showcase local and nationally sourced organic produce from around Australia and the two day event will see attendees taking part in live cooking demonstrations, dining at the on-sight organic cafe and attending mini-seminars held by representatives of over thirty companies who know the ins-and-outs of the organic food. Founder of Wray Organic markets and cafes Deborah Wray has created this event for everyone, whether they are health-conscious or just wanting the learn more about what organic foods are available locally. Wray has collected the best certified organic companies from around Australia and brought them to Brisbane so residents can develop a deeper understanding of the market leading products, their creators and distributors and why these products are beneficial to our health. According to Wray affordability is a big concern when it comes to getting into the business of organic produce. The stigma of organic equals expensive is something Wray is overcoming in her several stores and cafes across Brisbane and the Gold Coast. The Green Living Show & New Zealand Organic Expo 2012 is the expo where the organic and environmental sectors display a wide range of organic and eco-friendly products and services for the benefit of visitors.
This is the consumer and trade show’s second year and it features a variety of exhibitors. Event organiser, Tina Raines, said the show is a great platform for consumers, trade, industry and organisations to come together under the sustainability and environmental umbrella. BioGro New Zealand recognises the benefits and importance of being part of these consumer and trade fairs to promote its range of services and to inform visitors of the quality products that are currently available in the market. For the second year, BioGro invited True Blue Organics to display on their stand, our range of skin care products to show the public the variety of Health and Beauty products that carry BioGro organic certification.
Last year I attended the event myself and found it useful to be able to talk and discuss our products directly with interested customers.
Even though I am a little late in putting this up, it was something that I definitely wanted to share with people. When you go to organic food trade shows, the things that primarily catch your attention are the products. And that is exactly what happened at the recent Natural Products Expo East 2012 in Baltimore. I was pretty floored when I saw the Skee-Ball set-up that Zak Normandin, founder of Little Duck Organics, and his team put together. Aside from the fact that it showed tremendous imagination and creativity, it was obvious that A TON of work went into building this booth and no detail was spared, including the amazing flashing lights sign. To go the extra effort like this is just more confirmation that Little Duck Organics is a true rising star in the organic food world. I’m a regular person who decided to take his physical and mental health into his own hands. The organic market is growing at an exponential rate in the United Arab Emirates, and a new Middle East Natural & Organic Products Expo 2009 (MENOPE) is about to take place in Dubai to showcase new goods, reports GreenPlanet blog. Taking place next week the same dates when the COP15 climate event starts, the 7-9 December event will showcase certified organic and natural products markets under single roof. With backing from the UAE Ministry of Health and the UAE Ministry of Environment & Water, both bodies recognize the economics and conservation benefits of organic and health products.
The rising interest in organic food products across the world, the UAE is and the Middle East region as a whole is also going through a quick transition phase, report conference organizers, adding that in the UAE, including the largest market of the GCC, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the market for organic food products and the affinity for organic farming are growing at an exponential phase. Excellent infrastructural facilities, including transportation, makes Dubai an ideal venue for global natural, organic and herbal product companies to get a good head start in reaching out to the Middle East market, organizers add. Karina€™s interests intersect in the worlds of the environment, technology, activism and Middle East politics.
We are proud and honored to be one of the few included in Living Maxwell’s Expo East’s Top 5 Organic Food Products of Natural Products Expo East 2015!! At SoTru, we source the finest whole superfoods on the planet, then unlock the plants full nutritional potency using the ancient art of fermentation, creating the most easily digestible and bioavailable products possible for your optimal health and vitality. Gold Coast Ingredients had the pleasure of exhibiting with OTA – the Organic Trade Association at the 2016 Seoul Food and Hotel Expo in Seoul, Korea from May 10 -12. Gold Coast was represented by our International Sales Representative, Erik Sgro, who accompanied OTA.
At the Seoul Food and Hotel Show, we also connected with our Distributor in Korea, Minong Korea Co., LTD.
It is a free event where those interested in a sustainable lifestyle or products for their business can come along and see the great line-up of natural, eco and organic products already available as well as preview new products and services.
Blogging for some of the most influential media outlets in the "green" world, such as TreeHugger, and The Huffington Post, Karin founded Green Prophet to share the enormous potential of new clean technologies, and environmental awareness emanating from the Middle East region. Together they showcased many of our Organic Flavors, Organic Masking Agents and Organic Sweetness Enhancers.
The BioGro staff set up a great display on our behalf and the feedback from them is that there was a great deal of interest in our range.
The experience was fantastic and we look forward to working with the association as we explore future trade shows in other countries.
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West River Academy offers students of all ages and all grade levels in every state in the United States and in every country of the world the opportunity to be enrolled in an accredited, private school. Learn more about each of our programs below. | 2019-04-19T18:55:38 | https://www.westriveracademy.com/enrollment/ |
“Budapest en 100 Palabras” (Budapest in 100 Words) is a literary contest that invites participants to create stories of a maximum of 100 words, whose subjects relate to life in the city of Budapest, Hungary. An expert jury selects twelve stories as finalists. All these stories are mass disseminated through different public spaces and media formats. | 2019-04-24T14:52:30 | http://plagio.cl/en/project/budapest-en-100-palabras/ |
This rice puffing machine is suitable for corn, rice, millet, and other grains, there are particles through this machine can do rice pass, rice cakes, corn cakes and so on.
1. Larger production: one can be expanded 10kg of rice, southwest waxy corn 9 kg, the north 7 kg, more than ordinary type at least 1 kg.
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David Hepworth's blog: My absolute favourite clip in the whole of You Tube.
My absolute favourite clip in the whole of You Tube.
I think this is my favourite clip in the whole of You Tube.
It's George Harrison watching a clip of the Beatles doing "This Boy", the B-side of "I Want To Hold Your Hand", on a regional TV show in 1963.
He's watching it in the year 1976. He's thirty-three. He's gone up to Granada in Manchester to plug his new album "Thirty Three and A Third".
Tony Wilson, who can be seen in the background, brings him into the edit suite and gets the editor to load the old reels into the Steenbeck editing machine so that George can look at this clip, which he has never seen. It's like he's looking back into the far-distant past. Thirteen years earlier.
Mark Cooper and I had lunch today. We were talking about the mid-70s, when the Beatles were all still around and only in their thirties. At the time nobody realised their reputation was only at the beginning of its ascent. That's when this clip was shot.
Think about the things that would have been inconceivable to the people in that clip. The internet, You Tube and John Lennon's murder for a start.
Miming of course. I think it was "Scene At 6-30," a Granada show. The wider backdrop was some sort of collage, perhaps with a camera motif. I vaguely recall "Beatax" being part of it.
I also have the vaguest of recollections that Ken Dodd popped up at the beginning or the end.
The whole thing is probably somewhere on YouTube.
Other than that, as the jargonauts have it: Good Find!
You know what? I think it's just become mine too.
Keith, you're perfectly free to have your own opinion and you could well be right.
Mark Cooper and I were simply talking about the fact that throughout the 70s it felt as though the stock of the Beatles didn't rise. For instance, were the Beatles on the cover of Rolling Stone or NME during the 70s? I'm sure they must have been but I can't believe it was anything like as often as they're on the cover of magazines nowadays. The four members were all getting on with their solo careers and music seemed far too preoccupied with disco, progressive, punk and the rest of it to refer back to them. The former Beatles weren't desperately keen to talk about it all because they felt they could put it behind them.
It was only when John Lennon died in 1980 that the Great Revision began. It was only then that people thought "hang on, that was something really special and now it's gone for ever." | 2019-04-23T10:34:13 | http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.com/2016/09/my-absolute-favourite-clip-in-whole-of.html |
Okay first let me just say… squash in curry? Mind blowing. I’m really happy I’ve found a good way to make curry; my curries always sucked before since I don’t use canned coconut milk. So I’d be bummed. But this way makes me a happy happy hamster and it’s so quick!!
Boil or microwave the kabocha squash in water for 5-6 minutes until soft. Strain the squash. Spray a large pan with nonstick spray. Add the squash, frozen shrimp, frozen peas, unsweetened almond milk, nutritional yeast, curry powder, and black pepper. Stir and let it thicken as it cooks down for 4-6 minutes on a medium/high heat, then serve! Too easy.
This entry was posted in Dinner, Recipe and tagged curry, dinner, kabocha, lunch, meal, nutritional yeast, peas, savory, shrimp. | 2019-04-20T14:37:56 | http://www.thecoconutdiaries.net/creamy-shrimp-and-kabocha-curry/ |
DRNApred is a server providing sequence based prediction of DNA- and RNA-binding residues.
Yan J, Kurgan LA, 2017. DRNApred, fast sequence-based method that accurately predicts and discriminates DNA- and RNA-binding residues. Nucleic Acids Research, 45(10): e84.
TEST dataset - Dataset used to evaluate and compare DRNApred with the other existing methods. Test dataset shares low (<30%) pairwise sequence similarity with the Training dataset.
Native DNA-binding human proteins - a list of Uniprot ID of the native DNA-binding proteins in Human.
Native RNA-binding human proteins - a list of Uniprot ID of the native RNA-binding proteins in Human.
DRNApred accepts either single or multiple protein sequences and the input is limited to 100 protein sequences at a time. The user should submit the protein sequence(s) in FASTA format. | 2019-04-23T03:58:00 | http://biomine.cs.vcu.edu/servers/DRNApred/ |
Lance Stephenson finally admitted that trash talking LeBron James was a bad idea, but he never said it wasn’t smart to try getting romantic with the Miami Heat star.
In the fourth quarter of Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals, Stephenson dug into his bag of tricks to try irritating LeBron. He ended up blowing into the MVP’s ear as some sort of distraction. LeBron tried to look away like he wasn’t bothered by it, but then he gave a chuckle and shook his head. How could he not?
He really is a master pest. | 2019-04-20T01:10:29 | https://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/lance-stephenson-blows-lebron-james-ear-video/230858 |
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For help, please consult our help documentation and/or contact our support team. | 2019-04-26T04:09:22 | https://calendar.springshare.com/event/4686328 |
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I just finished Demaree’s more “sophisticated” scrapbook layout.. turned out really pretty and soft.. she likes it too..
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If you are thin and are seeking for natural breast enhancement, trying putting on some weight. As you may know, breasts consist of fatty connective tissue. If you put on just a few extra pounds, this may result in your breast becoming larger. However, do not fall into the trap of gaining weight rapidly and lots of it. It is a health hazard and before you know it you will be overweight. Start with moderate calorie increase for a week or two and see if it works for you. If you do not like the changes, you can always return to your previous diet.
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Opting for v is always a safer option than going through expensive and potentially dangerous surgery, which does not always provide results we were striving for. The nature is full of remedies, and it would be a shame not to use them to get the desired results. | 2019-04-20T20:40:53 | http://activeofficeblog.com/natural-breast-enhancement-without-nip-tuck/ |
In one way, the fledgling digital mobile TV market might turn out to be a little like the early days of terrestrial TV, when three over-the-air national networks competed for viewers.
Competitors MediaFLO and Modeo have a third potential competitor in Hiwire, a subsidiary of Aloha Partners, the largest buyer of spectrum in the FCC's UHF-TV 700MHz auctions in 2001 and 2003. Through acquisitions of other buyers, Aloha is the largest owner of 700MHz spectrum, with 166 licenses in markets with more than 120 million people, including the entire states of California, Nevada and Hawaii and most of Arizona, Arkansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
Aloha-owned spectrum is already cleared in markets with a population of 56 million, and the company counts on the digital TV transition law so it can begin using the rest of its spectrum by Feb. 17, 2009.
Aloha's original mission was to launch low-cost wireless high-speed Internet access to the 33 percent of rural America lacking broadband service and to the 20 percent of urban small businesses that have only one broadband alternative.
Since then, the company has broadened its focus to include mobile TV service and has teamed up with SES Americom, which aggregates content for cable and satellite TV companies and for wireless telecom companies. SES would retransmit aggregated content to Hiwire's terrestrial network.
That network would deliver live TV service to tuners embedded in cellular phones. Broadcasts to PDAs and to portable media players (PMPs) are also possible.
Hiwire plans to launch commercial service in 2006 in only one market, Las Vegas, where Qualcomm's MediaFLO subsidiary is already running tests. Hiwire said it has secured $100 million for a build-out estimated to cost $500 million.
Hiwire claims it can offer up to twice the number of video channels as its competitors because it owns licenses for two UHF channels per market, providing 12MHz of spectrum, whereas MediaFLO and Modeo own less. Modeo owns 5MHz in the 1.67-1.675MHz weather-balloon band, and MediaFLO owns 6MHz in the 700MHz UHF band in their markets (see TWICE, April 24, p. 38). MediaFLO promises up to 20 video channels and up to 10 audio channels per market, and Modeo promises 10 to 12 video and 24 audio channels.
Hiwire's markets include all of the top 10 markets, 84 percent of the population in the top 40 markets, and 80 percent of the population in the top 100 markets.
Hiwire also claims advantages that come with the use of an open standard, DVB-H, which is being deployed in Europe and by Modeo in the United States. MediaFLO's technology, on the other hand, is proprietary, although all three are based on Orthoganal Frequency Division Multiplexing, which sends a program over multiple channels simultaneously.
A third Hiwire advantage, which it shares with MediaFLO, is the use of the 700MHz band, the company said. Transmissions in that spectrum travel significantly farther and penetrate foliage and buildings significantly better than higher band transmissions, the company said. In addition, transmissions can be delivered from only two or three high-power 50-kilowatt towers per major metro area because high-power towers are permitted in the UHF TV band. Besides improved reception in buildings and in moving vehicles, the spectrum affords nationwide build-out costs that are 50 percent to 75 percent less expensive than they would be in higher bands, the company said.
Modeo's planned service, in contrast, must use multiple 2-kilowatt towers per market because higher band spectrum is used.
25+ video channels per market. Number of audio channels unavailable.
DVB-H (Digital video broadcast-handheld), also used by competitor Modeo in 1.67-1.675GHz spectrum. Third competitor, Qualcomm's MediaFLO subsidiary, uses proprietary technology in 700MHz UHF-TV band.
Company parent Aloha Partners owns two 6MHz UHF-TV channels in the 700MHz band, covering all of the top 10 markets, 84% of the population in the top 40 markets, 80% of the top 100 markets, and 60% of the U.S. Aloha Partners is the largest licensee of 700 MHz spectrum in the U.S.
Spectrum cleared in markets with 56 million population. All analog TV stations must relinquish their spectrum by Feb. 17, 2009, under the DTV transition law.
Las Vegas to be only commercial market launched in 2006. Company claims it has secured $100 million for a buildout estimated to cost $500 million. Company initially focused on delivering wireless broadband Internet access for public-safety users via CDMA 1x EV-DO technology. A pilot test with Lucent Technologies was scheduled to start in the spring in Phoenix. | 2019-04-26T08:43:32 | https://www.twice.com/news/hiwire-becomes-third-company-plan-mobile-tv-service-23514 |
Research that calls into question claims that palm oil is environmentally damaging compared with other vegetable oils will boost the government’s efforts to defend one of the country’s major commodities from negative campaigning.
The study was published in June by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), a Switzerland-based global conservationist foundation. According to the research, oil palm is the world’s most efficient oil-producing plant as it requires much less land than comparable plants.
“The study found that it [oil palm] only needs 0.26 hectares of land to produce 1 ton of palm oil,” said Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution in a joint press briefing with the foundation in Jakarta recently.
In the study, the IUCN found that the production of 1 ton of rapeseed oil required 1.25 hectares, while 1 ton of sunflower oil and 1 ton of soybean oil need 1.43 hectares and 2 hectares, respectively.
IUCN researcher Erik Meijaard, who led the study, said the evidence in his findings proved that oil palm would play a major role in fulfilling the increasing global demand for vegetable oil, which is projected to reach 310 million tons in 2050.
In the meantime, he said, current global vegetable oil production only amounted to 165 million tons.
“I think countries around the world need to be careful in banning the use of palm oil because if we do, we will need more land in other areas to fulfill the increasing demand for oil in the future,” he said.
He added that the increasing need for land would cause further harm to the world’s ecosystem and biodiversity.
The study also argued that oil palm had helped Indonesia and other producer countries in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The goals were ending poverty, providing clean water, creating economic activity, producing and consuming responsibly, as well as limiting climate change and promoting stable governance, he said.
Darmin said the study could become a scientific tool to counter black campaigns against palm oil.
Similarly, Indonesia Palm Oil Organization (Gapki) chairman Joko Supriyono said the study would hopefully create an understanding among those who denounced palm oil as the main source of deforestation in the world.
“With this scientific study, we hope that we can continue our efforts to negotiate with the EU [European Union] about this matter,” he said.
In its revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED) II last year, the European Parliament decided to phase out crude palm oil (CPO) from the sources of biofuels and bioliquids starting in 2021, saying that the crop played a major role in causing deforestation and threatening the world’s biodiversity.
The directive caused uproar among the main palm oil producers, including Indonesia, as it was deemed “discriminatory” and could hurt CPO exports, given that the EU was one of the world’s biggest palm oil consumers in 2016 according to the European Palm Oil Alliance (EPOA).
Although the EU initially planned to start putting RED II into effect in every EU member country in February, it had yet to make it official for undisclosed reasons.
“There has been speculation that the postponed implementation of RED II is a result of new developments surrounding palm oil,” said Mahendra Siregar, executive director of the Council of Palm Oil Producer Countries (CPOPC).
He, however, said that should the EU officially implement the directive, the council would challenge it at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
While his study favored palm oil, Meijaard said he did not deny the fact that the crop definitely played a role in deforestation as the EU had claimed. In order to lessen its impact on the ecosystem and biodiversity, he suggested that governments, including Indonesia, comprehensively map oil palm cultivation.
“Governments should also create a comprehensive map on what mix of crops should be planted to fulfill the increasing demand for vegetable oil,” he said. | 2019-04-24T13:56:23 | http://ibai.or.id/news/item/419-government-pins-hope-on-international-study-favoring-palm-oil.html |
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Spitfire is a 1934 drama film based on the play Trigger by Lula Vollmer. It was directed by John Cromwell and starred Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young and Ralph Bellamy.
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War. The Spitfire continued to be used into the 1950s both as a front line fighter and in secondary roles.
56mm softie wheels that roll over anything. I have these on one of my cruiser boards now.
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"A Note on Bycatch Associated with Deepwater Trapping of Chaceon in the" by Harriet Perry, Richard Waller et al.
Bycatch associated with deepwater trapping of Chaceon is reported for outer shelf and slope waters of the northcentral Gulf of Mexico. Bycatch was dominated by the isopod, Bathynomus giganteus. Other crustacean megafauna consisted of the majid crab, Rochinia crassa, and the portunid crabs, Benthochascon schmitti and Bathynectes longispina. Finfish bycatch included hagfish, Eptatretus springeri, deepwater shark, Centrophorus uyato and hake, Urophycis cirrata.
Perry, H., R. Waller, C. Trigg, J. McBee, R. Erdman and N. Blake. 1995. A Note on Bycatch Associated with Deepwater Trapping of Chaceon in the Northcentral Gulf of Mexico. Gulf Research Reports 9 (2): 139-142. | 2019-04-23T20:38:51 | https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol9/iss2/10/ |
Take it from those who've done it--going public will change your business.
Companies that go public reach a milestone few other businesses do, but that's only the beginning of a difficult journey. When Internet search engine Google announced its initial public stock offering was right around the corner, some heralded it as the second coming of the tech IPO market. But as has been widely reported, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin weren't exactly eager to take the public plunge, worried it would transform the company's business culture and stifle its flexibility.
Legitimate concerns, to be sure. As any public entity can attest, making the leap from privately owned business to publicly held company can test an organization on many different levels. While an IPO offers undeniable benefits, including access to capital, liquidity and personal wealth for the owners, it also creates additional responsibilities for the company. To begin with, producing the requisite financial statements is expensive and time-consuming, especially in recent years with passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The new standards, aimed at placing more stringent controls on corporate accounting practices, are particularly burdensome for small public companies. What's more, the pressure for short-term performance results is immense.
And there's little patience for short-term setbacks, as Douglas G. Borror, chair and CEO of Dominion Homes, can confirm. After raising $25 million in an IPO in 1994, Borror, 49, had high hopes for the home-building company his father had founded in 1952. But seven interest rate hikes in a five-month period dampened demand for new homes, plunging the company's stock to $3 a share. "Our business slowed down, so we didn't hit the numbers we had hoped to hit in our IPO," says Borror, whose company builds single-family homes in central Ohio and Kentucky. "Our stock went to $5 and later sank as low as $3. There was about a four-year period where it never got above $6."
Because its share price took such a sustained hit, the $563 million company had to rule out using its stock as currency to acquire other companies, one of the things that makes an IPO attractive in the first place. "We realized that avenue of growth was not available," says Borror.
In many ways, though, it was more difficult for Borror to deal with his personal disappointment than with the Wall Street backlash and financial fallout. "Any good management team wants to hit the numbers, and anytime you don't, it's tough personally," Borror says. "Wall Street sees people not hit numbers every day, and they adjust them upward and downward. You have to learn not to take it personally."
Kintera had a much easier time adjusting to public life after staging a $40.25 million IPO in December 2003. And for good reason: The San Diego company, launched by Harry Gruber, 52; his brother Allen, 49; and Dennis Berman, 53, to help nonprofits use the Internet to raise money and reach their goals, was the top-performing IPO in the months after its public debut. "We knew we were doing the right thing and [that] it was going to be an exciting time," says Gruber, president and CEO. "But it's a big world, and to come out No. 1 was definitely a surprise."
Leveraging its strong financial position, the company was able to accomplish its main IPO objectives, which included greater market awareness and growth by acquisition. A third goal was doubling the size of its sales force to accelerate revenue growth, another area in which Kintera has made significant progress. "It's been exactly what we wanted," Gruber says of the public offering.
Since 1986, Gruber has started five other companies that have gone public. And while Kintera had just $8 million in revenue for 2003, creating the necessary buzz to go public wasn't as difficult as you might think. "It's a much more mature market," he says. "People know much better what they're looking for."
Gruber understands the importance of staying focused in the face of all the distractions thrown at a newly public company, such as fluctuations in the daily stock price and investor inquiries. "These things could detract from your business if you don't realize that's where the noise is, and your business is your employees, your customers and your technology."
In its own bid to ignore some of the noise of Wall Street, Google has announced it doesn't intend to project quarterly earnings. "A management team distracted by a series of short-term targets is as pointless as a dieter stepping on a scale every half-hour," the company writes in an open letter attached to its SEC filing. Nonetheless, investors' short-term expectations are bound to be high. | 2019-04-24T06:04:15 | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/72638 |
Stewardship is not a program or a fundraising effort or a capital campaign. It is about a life of Christian discipleship and there are astonishing implications for our relationships and daily lives. We can experience life-shaping changes of mind and heart when we commit ourselves to the Lord. We may ask ourselves, “What does Stewardship mean in my life?” Our gratitude for God’s many gifts can be expressed through our prayer, worship, offerings and action. Christian stewardship is actively returning to God a portion of the many gifts – our time in prayer, our talent and our treasure – that we have been given.
Making an intentional, planned and proportionate gift in the areas of time in prayer, talent and treasure.
Here are some links for your further consideration of how you can give first fruits back to God in the areas of time, talent and treasure.
Click on Msgr. McGread's picture (above) to hear his message about stewardship.
The late Msgr. Thomas McGread is often called the “Father of Stewardship.” He was instrumental in the drafting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ pastoral letter, Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response. Watch the video (click on the photo above) to hear Msgr. McGread explain the spirituality of stewardship and the amazing story of how stewardship forever changed Msgr. McGread’s parish — St. Francis of Assisi in Wichita — expanded to the entire diocese of Wichita and has now impacted other parishes across the country.
Many of you had some great questions about our first Stewardship Renewal process that took place October 2017. Father Peter and the Stewardship Council worked together to help address those questions. Please CLICK HERE for an update & FAQ sheet on our 1st annual Stewardship Renewal. | 2019-04-26T05:42:45 | https://www.littletoncatholic.org/77 |
Allow me to explain with an extraordinarily abbreviated history of the last century of American constitutional jurisprudence, followed by an illustration drawn from a case the Supreme Court decided this week.
From roughly the 1890s through the 1930s, liberals criticized the Supreme Court on the ground that the conservative majority used the broadly worded text of the Constitution as a pretext for imposing its values on the nation and the states by striking down progressive legislation regulating child labor, worker hours, and the economy more broadly. Then the Court reversed itself. The post-New Deal Court gave Congress and state legislatures substantial leeway.
Soon, however, other issues made their way onto the Court’s agenda. By the middle of the twentieth century, the justices were once again being criticized for substituting their values for those of elected officials. This time, however, it was conservatives doing the complaining. They criticized Warren Court and early Burger Court constitutional rulings requiring racial desegregation, rights for criminal defendants, legal abortion, and more.
Although the issues and ideological valence had shifted, the core argument had not. Liberals in the first third of the twentieth century and conservatives in the second half of the twentieth century both complained about judicial activism—a somewhat ill-defined know-it-when-I-see-it term for judges, in the guise of construing the Constitution, substituting their values and policy choices for those of elected officials.
At some point right around the beginning of the Reagan administration, however, legal conservatives began to supplement their charges of judicial activism with another complaint: Liberal court rulings, they argued, were illegitimate because not grounded in the original intent of the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution. By making original intent their constitutional touchstone, conservatives could continue to criticize liberal rulings, but, in addition, as Republican presidents appointed a growing proportion of the federal judiciary, they could now defend conservative decisions striking down liberal laws without opening themselves up to charges of judicial activism. The problem, in this view, was not judicial activism per se, but the wrong sort of judicial activism. The Court had no business invalidating abortion laws, conservatives now argued, but it could and should strike down gun control laws based on the framers’ intent.
Original intent was subject to withering criticism. How can we reliably discern what the fractious framers thought even about the issues they thought about, much less about the kinds of questions they could barely anticipate—like whether the police must obtain a warrant based on probable cause before attaching a GPS tracking device to a car? And what to do about the embarrassment that sometimes we do know what the framers intended but cannot stomach it? By the time President Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork to a Supreme Court seat, that question was most acute with respect to the desegregation ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which conservatives had come to accept (or at least to realize that they could no longer publicly denounce).
Bork’s answer was of a piece with a general shift that has been ongoing now for three decades and was evident in my debate with Professor Barnett: Self-styled originalists abandoned original intent in favor of what came to be known as “original public meaning.” In this view, even if the vast majority of people who proposed and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment did not intend or expect that it would invalidate de jure racial segregation, that result is required by the meaning of the amendment’s language.
Yet once one allows that a constitutional provision can have profoundly unexpected implications, it is hard to see how originalism differs from its supposed rival, living Constitutionalism. And indeed, not long ago Yale Law Professor Jack Balkin wrote a book provocatively titled Living Originalism, in which he argued—without intended irony—that public-meaning originalism and living Constitutionalism are merely opposite sides of the same coin. If so, however, then originalism would seem to invite the old critique of judicial activism.
To be sure, some originalists have tried to keep the likes of Professor Balkin out of their club, but it is hardly clear that their own versions of originalism are any more determinate than his.
Consider Professor Barnett. He is a libertarian who generally (albeit not always) sees libertarianism in the original meaning of the Constitution. Yet that looks more like projection than history or lexicography. As I pointed out in our debate, and as scholars have explored in depth, the original meaning of freedom of speech (in the First Amendment) and the limitations on the power of eminent domain (in the Fifth Amendment) were much narrower than their contemporary meanings, because libertarianism as we know it today developed after the Founding period, which was better characterized by what we would now call civic republicanism. And if one wants to say that the People who ratified the Constitution and Bill of Rights only gave effect to very broad principles, which can be given libertarian content regardless of the framers’ and ratifiers’ subjective intentions and expectations, then one has joined Balkin in admitting that the originalism emperor has no clothes.
Accordingly, during Monday’s debate I argued that public-meaning-originalism is mostly not worth arguing about.
Mostly, but not entirely. As I wrote in a 2012 essay in the Harvard Law Review, Professor Barnett and like-minded scholars “make originalism respectable by answering objections leveled at ‘expectations-based originalism’—but judges, elected officials, and the public misuse the credibility that these scholars lend to originalism more broadly by relying on evidence about the framers’ and ratifiers’ expected applications in considering concrete cases.” Justice Gorsuch’s solo dissent from Monday’s ruling in Sveen v. Melin provides a brand new illustration of this kind of bait and switch.
The Court, in an opinion by Justice Kagan joined by all of her colleagues except for Justice Gorsuch, held that retroactive application of the Minnesota law was permitted by the Contracts Clause. She noted first that the Contracts Clause protects people’s expectations but that the Minnesota law did too, by switching to a default that likely reflects the wishes of most divorcing couples. Moreover, her opinion explained that given how easily an insured can reinstate an ex-spouse as the beneficiary, the law did not “substantially impair any contractual relationship,” and thus, satisfied the test announced in prior Contracts Clause cases.
In his dissent, Justice Gorsuch took issue with the substantial-impairment test on the ground that it “seems hard to square with the Constitution’s original public meaning.” Yet despite invoking original public meaning, his historical analysis relied on the old discredited form of intentions-and-expectations originalism. Justice Gorsuch cited a statement made by James Madison at the Constitutional Convention as well as the response Madison gave in public debate to the charge by Antifederalists that the Contracts Clause would forbid valuable legislation; on the contrary, Madison claimed, it would give valuable protection to liberty and property. Notably, Justice Gorsuch did not say anything specifically about what any of the words of the Contracts Clause meant in 1789; his argument was entirely about what the framers and ratifiers intended and expected.
Admittedly Justice Gorsuch also made a linguistic argument, but it was not a distinctively historical one. He observed that the Contracts Clause on its face forbids any impairment of contracts, not just substantial impairments. That’s not a bad point, although its logic has disturbing implications. After all, the First Amendment says Congress can pass “no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech,” but modern cases quite appropriately treat that provision as establishing only a very strong presumption against certain kinds of laws infringing free speech, not an absolute rule.
Whatever the merits of the textual argument offered by Justice Gorsuch, note, crucially, that nothing about it relies on any distinctively original meaning. It is as true today as it was in 1789 that the phrase “any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts” by its terms appears to apply to all impairments rather than only to substantial impairments. Justice Gorsuch might have as accurately said that the substantial-impairment test is hard to square with the text of the Contracts Clause as with its original public meaning.
That elision points to one further bit of legerdemain employed by originalists. There has been virtually no relevant “semantic drift”—that is, changes in the meaning of words and phrases—since the Founding. Reading The Federalist Papers or the Constitution is nothing like reading Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English. Yet self-styled originalists often write as though a vast linguistic gulf separates us from the Founding generation.
If there are virtually no practical differences between the Constitution’s original public meaning and its contemporary meaning, why bother resisting original public meaning? Once again, we should do so to prevent the originalist bait and switch. When originalists with power—which is to say originalist judges and justices—go looking for the original public meaning of the Constitution, they typically retrieve the framers’ and ratifiers’ intentions and expectations.
I have no doubt that public-meaning originalists like Professor Barnett think that was a very bad argument. Yet despite Professor Barnett’s innocent intentions, his arguments have been and will continue to be misused for pernicious ends. Ironically, the practical meaning of original-public-meaning originalism is intentions-and-expectations-based originalism. | 2019-04-20T23:14:08 | https://verdict.justia.com/2018/06/13/originalism-the-contracts-clause-and-the-sveen-case |
Resource Paper | If you think legalizing marijuana won't affect you... Think Again.
Although studies are beginning to show that some ingredients in marijuana are likely to be helpful for people with certain conditions, the findings have yet to nail down the specifics about the dose, the frequency, the best form to take (such as getting the active compounds from edible products or smoking it), the risks from frequent use, and whether marijuana works as well as or better than other available treatments, Budney said.
Usage Doubles & Addiction Doubles: Over this 12-year period, the estimated number of U.S. adults who had used marijuana in the previous 12 months grew from 4.1 percent in 2001 to 9.5 percent in 2013. Marijuana-use disorders, which include problems with drug addiction and dependence, also rose, increasing from 1.5 percent of the adult population in 2001 to 2.9 percent in 2013, the study showed.
College students smoke more pot than cigarettes: The survey found that 5.9 percent of college students said they had smoked pot 20 or more times in the past month. For comparison, 5.2 percent of students reported they had smoked cigarettes 20 or more times in the past month, according to the study.
Teen Brain: The researchers found that teens who had smoked marijuana — even once — had smaller brain volume in the amygdala compared with teens who never tried pot.
1g. What is a medical marijuana doctor?
1h. Is marijuana about medicine or money? | 2019-04-19T03:14:41 | http://rethinkpot.org/tags/resource-paper |
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(*) Note that Advance Matchday Ticket prices are only available to holders of 'The Blues Card', introduced for the 2009/10 season. This is issued free to Season Ticket Holders and can be purchased for �by non-Season Ticket holders. FREE Season Tickets for Under 11's are only available if purchased with a full paying adult Season Ticket.
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The Resort’s Gift Shop, Café and Lounge provide guests with the opportunity to take home that perfect memory, satisfy cravings and share a cocktail with friends and family.
The Honor’s Haven gift shop features a variety of delightful products and gift items, including health & beauty aids, clothing, books, natural products and souvenirs.
From a cup of Seattle’s Best coffee and fresh baked muffins to organic juices and invigorating energy drinks / smoothies, the Café at Honor’s Haven offers a generous selection of light fare for that early morning, mid-afternoon or late night snack.
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This month marks a significant anniversary for Argaum in moving to its current home in time for the opening of the 1958-59 season. The club had been nomadic for its first 70 years playing at Plympton and Estover until an opportunity came about when the Hitchins family purchased land on the outskirts of Plymouth in the mid 1950s. Land was made available for the building of a clubhouse and pitches and in 1956-57 planning permission was obtained from the Plympton Planning Authority, submissions being made by long-standing club member Reg Gurling.
A loan was obtained from the RFU and a building fund established which was generously contributed to by former players. The current members chipped in with the building work throughout the summer of 1957 ably lead by Tom Hitchins, Norman White, Colin Whiting and two matelots in charge of the concrete mixer; Leading Seaman Lofty Burston and his assistant Petty Officer (scrum half) Dodger Long. A foundation stone, donated by former player Bill Westlake was laid in June 1957 in a ceremony attended by Lord Mayor and former Argaum player Leslie Paul.
Work continued throughout the following season with Sundays being earmarked for working parties and the clubhouse was officially opened for use on September 3rd 1958. The ceremony was attended by former England international forward and Devon RFU president Herb Stanbury who declared "This will prove a great fillip for and will be a major addition to, rugby in the district." Mr G.S. Thompson, chairman of Plympton Rural District Council, broke the club's flag above Bickleigh Down for the first time whilst congratulations were also added by Plymouth City Mayor G.J. Wingett. The club, as now being on the border of the two local authorities.
The new facility had 3 changing rooms, an extensive clubroom with bar facilities, a referee's room, a plunge bath with showers, a kitchen and cloakrooms. At the time of opening only one pitch had been brought into use at the playing fields and this was reserved for the recently formed colts XV on the account of them not having transport. The senior teams continued to play at Plymbridge and travel back to the clubhouse after matches. It was to be another couple of seasons before all four pitches were available at Bickleigh Down. Further extensions to the clubhouse were added in time for the clubs 75th anniversary a couple of years later.
More photos of the clubhouse build. | 2019-04-24T00:36:05 | http://www.argaum.org.uk/news/celebrating-sixty-years-at-bickleigh-down-2351517.html |
On its surface, the prestige drama Beautiful Boy (which arrived in theaters to stronger-than-expected box-office returns this weekend) seems like a boilerplate “two hander.” That’s Hollywood parlance for a star vehicle spotlighting the dramatic machinations of a duo of actors — in this case, Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carell, respectively portraying a methamphetamine-addicted teenager suffering through the wash-rinse-repeat cycle of withdrawal, recovery, and relapse, and his long-suffering journalist father. The film, directed by Belgium’s Felix Van Groeningen, is based on memoirs by real-life father and son David and Nic Sheff.
Last year, the 22-year-old actor appeared in two best picture Academy Awards-nominated movies, turning in a supporting performance as a high-school cool-guy in Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut Lady Bird and starring as co-lead in the coming-of-age romance Call Me By Your Name, racking up a raft of critics awards and a best actor Oscar nomination for the latter film to become the youngest actor nominated in the category since 1939. In the process, Chalamet turned almost overnight into moviedom’s foremost 20-something heartthrob, with throngs of young women turning up to bum-rush him at Academy screenings of Call Me By Your Name (in which he plays a 17-year-old American vacationing in Italy who falls in love with a graduate student played by Armie Hammer), compelling the film’s distributor Sony Pictures Classics to hire additional security guards to tamp down the Beatlemania-like fervor surrounding Chalamet at those events.
Thanks to Chalamet’s sensitive-dude gravitas — and the fact that he’s blessed with a kind of androgynous man-child beauty and great, swoopy hair — the actor’s career to date can conjure fair comparisons to that of early Leonardo DiCaprio. Pre-dating his breakthrough in James Cameron’s 1997 Titanic, Leo delivered stirring performances in a string of exquisite dramas including What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (for which he landed his first Oscar nomination) and The Basketball Diaries (in which he plays a teenage drug addict) and also portrayed a gay character — the poet Arthur Rimbaud — in director Agnieszka Holland’s Total Eclipse.
Born and raised in Manhattan, a graduate of the Upper West Side’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Chalamet cultivated his dramatic chops on off-Broadway plays, landing a recurring role in the Showtime spy-thriller Homeland in 2012 (as the vice president’s cocky son) and made his film debut two years later in Jason Reitman’s critically lambasted dramedy Men, Women & Children. According to people who have worked with the actor on the promotional circuit, he is unfailingly polite, remembering names, maintaining direct eye contact, and making a point to shake hands with fans — especially the borderline hysterical teenage females who have become Chalamet’s primary constituency.
Whether Chalamet can hope to claim an Oscar at this nascent stage in his career, however, is an unresolved question. While historically, the Academy has lavished awards on twenty-something actresses — Jennifer Lawrence and Brie Larson being two recent examples — the best actor and supporting actor categories have been the almost exclusive province of middle-aged or older men. Last year, Darkest Hour star Gary Oldman beat out Chalamet for the statuette and you’d have to go all the way back to 1994 to find another best supporting actor nominee younger than 28 (and that would be none other than DiCaprio, then 19, in Gilbert Grape).
According to a hit-making movie producer who arranged a “general meeting” (a kind of meet-and-greet job interview without any specific job being offered) with Chalamet last year, the actor’s absence of macho swagger, his innate sensitivity, and his apparent emotional availability are his primary selling points.
Chalamet has also made excellent choices so far in terms of choosing scripts and the filmmakers with whom he has worked — one notable asterisk on that resume being Woody Allen, who directed Chalamet in the Amazon Studios’ romantic-comedy A Rainy Day in New York. In light of continuing allegations of sexual abuse by Allen’s adopted daughter, Amazon has indefinitely shelved the film and Chalamet publicly disavowed the director, donating his salary from Rainy Day to several charities in January.
Up next, the Oscar nominee is set to portray King Henry V in The King, an epic historical drama directed by David Michôd that wrapped production in England and Hungary in August; and Chalamet will reunite with Gerwig, delivering another supporting performance in her adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel Little Women (scheduled for an awards season bow circa Christmas, 2019).
In addition to having reportedly signed on to reprise his role as Elio in director Luca Guadagnino’s planned sequel to Call Me By Your Name, Chalamet is on deck to appear in what is shaping up to be his most commercial (and least awards-y) movie project to date: Dune, a big budget reboot of the visionary science-fiction novel directed by Blade Runner: 2049 filmmaker Denis Villeneuve. Set on a desert planet in deep space in the distant future, the film — currently in pre-production — will reportedly feature Chalamet portraying the brooding scion of a noble family leading a rebellion to restore their reign. | 2019-04-20T12:44:41 | https://www.vulture.com/2018/10/timothe-chalamet-is-the-perfect-movie-star-for-2018.html |
I've made a point in this blog to be honest, even when it makes me uncomfortable or I know it may make someone reading it uncomfortable. Life isn't always comfortable, so I suppose this makes sense. That being said, in this post I'm going to discuss my period. Anyone who feels weird about that can stop reading now!
I'm on birth control that allows me the joy of only having my period 4 times each year. I've always limited my physical activity during the week of my period (except in high school when sports teams dictated my activity schedule). I've been really good about exercising 5-6 times per week for awhile now, and I didn't want to break that pattern this week especially since I didn't work out like I wanted to in NY. I also knew I'd have to take yesterday off from exercise since I had to be at work from 7:30-6. Tuesday I went to the gym and did a short elliptical warm up followed by a really good, long strength session. Wednesday I really wanted to just go to the mountain. It's good cardio without having to run/simulate running on a machine. I drove to the mountain, got out of my car, and heard thunder followed by lightning in the distance.
I made the smart choice and got back in my car. I debated just going home, but knew I'd feel guilty later. I went to the gym and decided to try the treadmill again. I've used them in the past and never really felt comfortable on them. I was proud of myself for giving it another shot. I know it's important to do different activities for exercise so your body doesn't get used to any one thing. I started slow and read an ebook on my phone for my warm up. I kept steadily increasing both the incline and speed as I got more comfortable, but I never felt comfortable enough to let go with my hands! I got the machine up to its highest incline. I can tell that I hike a mountain once a week because it barely phased me. When I finished I didn't feel like I'd worked as hard as when I do the mountain or another cardio machine, but I was glad I did something and tried something different. I also felt weird for a few minutes after getting off, is that normal? I'm hoping today to get to the mountain but the forecast isn't promising. I brought both sets of sneakers, just in case I can get there!
We typically eat a lot of beans and Latin inspired dishes, and when I planned our menu this week I tried to avoid that to mix it up. This made me realize two things: I love beans, and although tofu is growing on me I don't want to eat it every day. Tuesday night we had salads. I made BBQ tempeh and sauteed squash (from our garden!!) and corn to go on top. It wasn't my best batch of tempeh. I just read a blog post that suggested steaming it first (the way you'd steam a vegetable) before you saute it with sauce. I'm definitely going to try that next time I make tempeh.
Wednesday night we made Asian dishes. I had a tofu stir fry with no grains, and Carly made shrimp fried rice. For both of us I chopped onion, red cabbage, portabellas, broccoli, snow peas, scallions, and kimchi. We each made a double batch because we knew we'd be getting home at dinner time last night. Mine was excellent! When I first started trying to lose weight I made Asian stir fries at least twice a week. I think we got burned out on them then because we don't make them as much anymore, but I'm definitely going to keep them in the rotation.
I'm a good sous chef!
Our free time has definitely been dominated by Olympics. I have mixed feelings about them being almost over. I'm sad that I have to wait four years but glad to not feel the pressure of watching them constantly so I don't miss anything! I love sports and get so inspired by watching people push through life's obstacles to achieve great things. I wish there was an adult rec sports league around here but I haven't been successful in finding one. I'd love to play basketball or soccer or even kickball once a week. Maybe in the future if we move to or closer to a city! | 2019-04-18T13:16:14 | http://girlinhalf.blogspot.com/2012/08/honesty.html |
Oyetunji, T.A., Thomas, A., Moon, T.D., Fisher, M.A., Wong, E., Short, B.L., Qureshi, F. (2013). The impact of ethnic population dynamics on neonatal ECMO outcomes: a single urban institutional study. Journal of Surgical Research, 181(2), 199-203. | 2019-04-19T18:45:44 | https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/smhs_peds_facpubs/233/ |
If you’re a fan of jailbreaking your devices because you love customizing your iOS devices, you might be pleased to learn that Chinese team TaiG has recently announced the availability of its iOS 8.3 jailbreak. This is an untethered jailbreak so if you aren’t a fan of tethered jailbreaks then this might be it for you.
For those unfamiliar between the differences, a tethered jailbreak basically means that if you should restart your phone, you will need to have it connected to your computer and use a special software. An untethered jailbreak basically has none of these limitations, making it more ideal for day-to-day use.
That being said, TaiG has warned that some jailbreak tweaks aren’t compatible with iOS 8.3 yet as Jay Freeman (also known as Saurik and also the person behind the Cydia repository) has yet to update the Cydia Substrate/Mobile Substrate. The jailbreak is also only available on Windows computers so OS X users will have to wait for their release.
If this is a jailbreak that you have been waiting for, hit up TaiG’s website for the details. In the meantime if you do plan on jailbreaking, we should warn you to backup all your data on your phone/tablet before proceeding lest something goes wrong.
Filed in Apple >Cellphones >Tablets. Read more about iOS 8, iPad, iPhone and Jailbreak. | 2019-04-18T20:24:45 | https://www.ubergizmo.com/2015/06/taig-ios-8-3-jailbreak/ |
La Paz, Bolivia: Editorial 3600, October 2018.
Gabriola Island BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2002.
Winner of the National Federation of Press Women 2000 Book Award for general nonfiction.
Winner of the New Mexico Press Women 2000 Communications Award for general nonfiction.
Gabriola Island BC, Canada: New Society Publishers/Sustainablility Classics Series, 2007.
Gabriola BC, Canada: New Society Publishers, 2005.
Winner of the National Federation of Press Women 2006 Book Award for general nonfiction.
Winner of the New Mexico Press Women 2006 Communications Award for general nonfiction.
Finalist for 2007 New Mexico Book Awards in nonfiction.
Sucre, Bolivia: AGB Press, 2014.
New York: William Morrow, 1987. | 2019-04-23T07:53:57 | http://chellisglendinning.org/books.html |
Earned the Cheers to Independent U.S. Craft Breweries (Level 2) badge! Earned the Middle of the Road (Level 42) badge! Earned the I Believe in IPA! (Level 25) badge! Earned the Land of the Free (Level 17) badge!
Colin R. is drinking a 888 Mandarin Saison by Temple Brewing Co.
Colin R. is drinking a Misty Miyagi Hazy IPA by Deep Creek Brewing Co.
Earned the Brewery Pioneer (Level 17) badge! Earned the Haze for Days badge!
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Colin R. is drinking a Jet Lag IPA by Nomad Brewing Co. | 2019-04-24T23:11:56 | https://untappd.com/user/Madbats |
This ancestral, labor intensive practice uses an underground, rock-lined oven for agave plant roasting. Learn the steps — courtesy of Jesús García of Mission Garden — and get your hands dirty and give it a try! Don’t miss Live Demonstration: Agave Roasting & Fiber Crafts and the Agave Roasting Live Demonstration at Mission Garden this year!
1. Cut flowering stalk of selected agaves when they are 1 to 5 feet tall so that sugars will accumulate in the hearts.
2. Harvest agaves by removing the entire plants from the soil.
3. Cut off the leaves, leaving the center hearts, or piñas.
4. Set a fire in the roasting pit and burn for several hours to create a bed of coals and heat the rocks lining the pit until they turn white.
5. When the flames subside, place the agave hearts in the pit, on top of the coals.
6. Cover the roasting pit and use dirt to seal it completely and trap the heat. Leave for at least 24 hours before uncovering.
7. Remove the roasted hearts, which should have darkened to a caramelized color.
8. Separate the sections of the base of the leaves, slice into pieces, and enjoy by chewing the sweetness and discarding the fibers. | 2019-04-22T00:21:30 | https://www.agaveheritagefestival.com/blog/2019/4/11/agave-roasting-tutorial |
Kommt als Doppel-CD inkl. dem legendären "Live at the Marquee 1983" Auftritt auf der Bonus-CD!
Formed in 1973, Twisted Sister combined the theatricality of the glam rock movement with the sharp edge of groups like David Bowie and Alice Cooper to conjure its one-of-a-kind sound.
Twisted Sister made its Atlantic Records debut in 1983 with You Can’t Stop Rock ’N’ Roll and has been certified gold. The album was a turning point for the Long Island quintet and helped set the stage for their rise to fame over the coming years.
Rhino revisits Twisted Sister’s early days with a newly remastered version of that album, which has been expanded with a rare live performance recorded in London months before the studio album was released. | 2019-04-20T00:12:05 | https://www.nuclearblast.de/en/products/tontraeger/cd/2cd/twisted-sister-you-can-t-stop-rock-n-roll-live-at-the-marquee.html |
Having a clean car park can speak volumes about your business and improve safety for you visitors when parking. Car parks and parking areas with debris can be hazardous, furthermore having undefined parking bay lines can cause confusion to those parking their vehicles.
We can remove surface debris using our large road sweeper prior to jetting the parking area. We use high powered jets of water at a very high temperature which means our Rotajet machine can clean large car parks quickly and efficiently.
We offer our car park sweeping and cleaning service on large and small sites throughout Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
We Road Sweep and Clean Car Parks and Parking Areas the Nottingham & Derby area. | 2019-04-21T23:02:59 | http://www.rotajet.com/car-park-cleaning-nottingham-and-derby/ |
Of course every client is different. Our team needs to get familiar with your business, markets, customers & competitors.
A comprehensive digital marketing plan is crafted utilizing the relevant services for the client genre & budget.
Interpreting the endless amount of available data has become an art requiring experience, education & great insight.
Return of Investment improves with intelligent manipulation of campaigns over time. The Internet is vast. Success rewards committed clients.
Ever notice the shaded boxes on Google, Yahoo and Bing discreetly labeled “Sponsored Listings”? Well, every time a word or phrase is searched, people compete in an auction to be ranked higher in the search results for that word or phrase. For instance, you type in the word, “widget”. The first shaded listing represents the company that is willing to pay the most per click for the word “widget”. And if that company is paying $1 per click and you are willing to pay $1.01, you will outrank that competitor. The cost per click depends on the competitiveness of the keyword.
For instance, a securities fraud attorney may be willing to pay $100 per click for 100 clicks costing $10,000, as long as he routinely converts 1 out of 100 of those clicks into a case that will net him at least $10,001. The return of investment is a positive calculation. The strategies to implement a good Pay Per Click Advertising campaign are custom-built for each business. This type of Internet Advertising can be expensive, but instant results can be achieved by anyone willing to spend.
Navigating the pay-per-click market has become an exercise in many disciplines. It requires expertise in many areas, including design, mathematics, analytics and statistics, as well as a keen sense for the client genre. Our team is led by experienced pay-per-click professionals with advanced education (PhD/Analytics, PhD/Mathematics) and vendor certification (Google Certified) who have proven success helping clients maximize their return of investment.
The search engine has replaced the yellow pages in the modern day search for products and services. Every business needs to represented in order to give potential customers the information they will be able to get from any competitor online. While that process alone is important, getting listed in the Google directory is simply not enough. With common search terms routinely returning millions of results, it is highly unlikely that merely building and submitting a site to the major search engines will have any real effect. Most users do not navigate past the first page of search results. And while it may be impractical or simply cost prohibitive to challenge well positioned listings, there are numerous strategies to be employed that all companies could benefit from. Simply put, there is a lot of traffic out there and a good strategy can capitalize on inquiring eyes, your customers.
Doing nothing will return nothing, so even a basic plan should be implemented when possible. Services include link exchanging, xml site maps, meta tags, content creation and optimization, robot files and other best SEO practices. From optimizing your site’s content and code, to trading links with relevant sites, to creating unique content that Google covets, our search engine optimization experience will help get you off the ground and up in the cloud.
Our world communicates differently than in the past. People have the ability to tell thousands of others what they feel in a moment’s notice. And they do. Statistics show that 85% of all customers have either been comfortable enough to buy from a company based on name recognition or have been referred by a friend. There is no better place these days to reach friends of friends than through social media. Your company needs to be represented in the social media world and the more interaction they can provide, the better their results will be.
Whether it’s providing information, promoting events or products, administering customer support or just supplying quirky games or contests, companies are giving their customers what they are looking for in the place they spend the most time. Equivox helps companies establish more robust social media presence through a mix of content creation, marketing strategies, design and development.
If your company uses it’s web site to sell products online and you are not utilizing product data feeds, then, well, you are simply selling yourself short. Statistics show online retailers increase their sales by over 25% though product data feeds! WOW 25%! Essentially, you can only reach so many eyes through individual marketing efforts. By making your product data available through data feeds, you can have your products listed in the Shopping directories of the busiest shopping sites on the Internet, including Google, Amazon, Ebay, Shopper.com, Shopzilla and more.
Getting your products in these directories help you sell in your sleep by getting you out in front of millions of eyes that are already shopping. These customers are already one step closer to buying your product, but are savvy enough to compare them through the data feeds at the major shopping search engines. So you have more targeted, qualified buyers and hence, higher conversions on the click-thrus. It is an imperative supplement for what has come to be known as the modern day ‘E-Retailer’, or companies that rely heavily on selling their products online.
Simply put, Internet Marketing is a game of numbers and percentages. More traffic and higher conversion rates means more money. And even the best companies need help getting to ‘more’ and ‘higher’. The Internet has turned into a frontier for smart individuals who simply get traffic for others and earn commission. These affiliate marketers have become adept at initiating their own marketing plans in an effort to simply refer business. They have learned that anyone can optimize web pages, send email solicitations, place products for sale across multiple sites and pay for clicks. Whatever makes sense for a particular product, they have learned to do it. And most companies can benefit from their own army of affiliate marketers to help reach customers they wouldn’t have access to previously.
So why not employ a multitude of individual Internet Marketing experts to generate sales? It is really a no-brainer. No company can reach everyone. In fact, some very successful Internet companies are built primarily on the efforts of affiliate marketers. These parent companies will even create and deploy entire commission and marketing technology platforms in order to support their affiliates. Whatever can be done to help them sell the product, should be done if the return of investment calculation is positive. Equivox has specific experience in creating and deploying enterprise level affiliate marketing platforms for businesses.
It seems that we are bombarded with email spam all day long. With the type of stigma email marketing has earned, it’s effectiveness has steadily declined since it’s infancy. The logic that you get better conversions from customers looking for you as opposed to you soliciting them is hard to fight. It is also hard to justify sending out emails to a large number of potential customers if you know that 99.9% of them will delete them.
But Email marketing is still extremely effective when it is used as a communication tool to reach your loyal customer base. Maintaining a mailing list of customers who do wish to be notified of your products & services is of the utmost importance when establishing an Internet presence. They already know who you are, have agreed to be informed, & perhaps they will go back to your email offers whenever they do need you because you have reminded them & they remember. This is a great way to get repeat business from your loyal customers.
Bulk link trading used to be a staple in SEO indexing strategy, as the more links that pointed back to your site, the more important Google thought it was. With Google’s Panda update in 2001, the rules changed so that links back to the client site created in an organic fashion are more relevant. No longer can SEO firms simply buy links in bulk across the Internet. Agencies were forced to “undo” all their link placement, as their networks for distributing such bulk links were now detrimental to the client site ranking.
The strategy thus became to create & distribute unique, relevant, coherent content. Blogging exploded as a way to do so, & while writing content went a long way towards building organic rank, the goal is always more traffic. More traffic means more opportunities for organic sharing of client content.
Industry-standard Content Distribution Services (CDS) have emerged to fill this niche. These services will publish your blog/article content across their partner web sites. This puts your content in front of truly interested readers so it is read, shared, posted, linked to or otherwise mentioned in a way that creates an organic link back to the client site. This shows Google the client site is a trusted source because other people are distributing it based on it’s content. | 2019-04-21T18:48:22 | https://www.equivox.com/digital-marketing-services |
We Stand With Our Brother!!!
Sanjay Hold The Banner Of The Lord High. Let Us All Hold The Banner Of The Lord High. When It Is Heavy, Let Us Support And Help Each Other In Yeshua!
VOTV addresses world-changing events as seen through the lenses of the Bible. The right of Israel to exist and the salvation of the Jewish people, the evil exploitation of young children, the effects abortion has on both women & men & to speak for and support the persecuted church. | 2019-04-19T14:16:14 | http://votv.org.uk/the-lord-is-the-banner-of-his-people/ |
Professional quality developer cream from L'Oréal supplied in a large, sturdy heavy-use pack. Rich and creamy formula for consistent and uniform results you can rely on. Supplied in a 1 litre bottle, 30 vol. | 2019-04-21T16:11:19 | https://www.salon-services.com/ie/loreal-february-2019/l%27or%C3%A9al-professionnel-oxydant-developer-9%25-30-vol-1-litre/101921.html |
Last weekend we ventured to our first barefoot park (Barfuβpfad). The park was located in Bad Sobernheim, which is about an hour drive from our house. It was such a unique experience with lots of sensory and balance challenges for all.
When we first arrived, we parked in a parking lot of what appeared to be an abandoned building. We assumed we were lost (as usual) but our friend had arrived earlier and instructed us to follow the path to the park. There are white feet spray-painted onto the path to guide you were to go. There is a small fee to enter ( 4 euros per adult and kids under 3 are free). There is an outdoor locker area near the entrance. You can pay a euro to have a locker with key or you can leave your shoes on a shelf free of charge. There are absolutely no shoes allowed in the park.
Ok on to the good stuff. The first “obstacle” on the path was a muddy walking path.
Notice O’s yellow shirt. Well that shirt didn’t last. O stepped onto the ramp to enter the muddy water area and slipped straight into the water getting completely soaked. It was a bit cold that morning so the cold water was definitely a shock for him. After some screaming, we made it to the other side of the mud pit and luckily we were prepared with a change of clothes for the kiddo. It was a rough start but after that first slippery mess it was all smooth sailing.
There were tons of balance obstacles like these moving planks. You can also see a balance board in the back.
Don’t worry we made it safely through this one and there was no mud. The park also did a great job of alternating between high sensory and low sensory items. For example after walking through the water hole that had large, hard river rocks, the next part of the path was soft grass.
Here’s some wooden poles set up at different angles followed by soft sand as the contrast.
As mentioned before it was a cool morning, so that cool sand felt amazing on your feet after walking over those harder surfaces. It really was a work out for the feet and calves both from a sensation standpoint and an actual muscular workout.
There were some more challenging areas in the park such as this river crossing.
However, the park was set up so that you could always bypass something if it was too much. There is a bridge just past this river crossing area, which is where we made our crossing with the toddlers. All this talk of river crossing immediately makes me think of Oregon Trail (the computer game). Do you wish to ford the river? Don’t worry no oxen were harmed in the crossing of this river.
The trail through the park is just over 2 miles in length. There was always a different obstacle coming up so the kiddos never got bored along the way. There was also a playground toward the end of the route.
The final obstacle was a long rope bridge or a boat that you pulled across using a pulley system. We opted for the rope bridge.
There are benches and picnic tables throughout the park if you want to stop and have lunch or a snack. You can bring your own food in with you. There is a nice food area at the end, including beer and wine for sale. There was plenty of seating in this area overlooking the river.
Overall, we had a great time at the barefoot park. We are sure we will be visiting here again! | 2019-04-18T17:20:59 | https://littleboysbigworld.com/2017/08/ |
The judge in the legal case where Arthur J Gallagher is suing an ex-employee and MGA over the alleged misuse of confidential information has ruled on the remaining parts of a court order that lawyers had been unable to agree with.
Last month Gallagher won a court order to destroy confidential files it claimed ex-employee Alex Skriptchenkov had obtained unlawfully and then used at the MGA Portsoken he went to work for, but there were still a number of aspects within the court order that needed to be resolved.
One of the main points of contention was the type of document that should be excluded from being deleted because they fell within a regulatory boundary or were for specific business purposes.
In giving her judgement today Justice Slade said that where a document was deemed to fall into the excluded category, a brief summary of its content would still need to be provided to Gallagher, to help decide if the document was confidential or not.
Robert Weekes acting for Portsoken, Skriptchenkov and four other defendants, had proposed that no information on the excluded documents should be passed to Gallagher, to prevent the broker from looking at Portsoken’s own confidential documents.
But Paul Nicholls, representing Gallagher, argued that this would prevent Gallagher from being able to dispute Portsoken’s decision and meant that the MGA would be able to keep documents which could have been deemed as confidential.
Siding in part with Gallagher, Justice Slade said Gallagher needed to know the content of the files so that they would be in a position to object.
She also ruled on the search terms that the computer expert would use to identify documents after lawyers for both sides agreed over narrowed and more specific wording.
The trial has been set for October after Justice Slade yesterday denied Gallagher the option of a speedy trial because of the amount of work the defendants will need to do to comply with the court order in the run-up to a trial. | 2019-04-22T14:36:37 | https://www.insurancetimes.co.uk/gallagher/portsoken-judge-rules-on-remaining-parts-of-court-order/1417786.article |
"Be with those who are true ...." كُونُواْ مَعَ ٱلصَّـٰدِقِينَ: [Lectire]: by Sheikh Suhaib Webb - "The Life of Muhammad s.a.a.w." & "Remembering our Beloved"
[Lectire]: by Sheikh Suhaib Webb - "The Life of Muhammad s.a.a.w." & "Remembering our Beloved" | 2019-04-26T00:09:48 | http://with-the-truthful.blogspot.com/2009/12/lectire-by-sheikh-suhaib-webb-life-of.html |
Before they came in with the first child it seemed as if all of the air had been sucked out of the room and we were all holding our breath...waiting...finally...for our child. I wasn't sure what to feel. Nervous energy. I had Macy to be aware of also... What would it be like to finally meet this child that I loved so much? How could I love someone so much that I had never met? I am sure that is a feeling that expecting parents have all of the time!
I will NEVER forget....never....the expression on the faces of our new friends...Josh & Teri, Russell & Lisa, Joel & Shauna... You see this was their first child. They had been unable to conceive. I feel the tears burning in my eyes as I write this right now... how awesome it was to see the barren womb filled with full arms that day. Even though we were about to experience a life-changing moment ourselves - the faces of these families in particular will be forever etched into my memories. Their tears, their love, their trembling, their smiles,...holding on to this little baby as if they will never, never, never let go.
It reminds me of the awesome verse from the Bible: Psalm 113:9 "He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children."
It was honestly one of the most incredible moments that I have been honored to be a part of. I don't think my words can even possibly do it justice.
But then I saw her. A little, tiny, thing. I immediately approached the nanny with open arms. I took her and just looked at her. And she looked at me. And she looked at Brad. Such a blank expression. You could tell she didn't really know what she thought. There was a vacancy I saw in her eyes that I can only now describe as a relational void. She didn't know how to connect with anyone. Life was just life. She was just existing. Not LIVING.
Our guides quickly motioned for us to return to our couch to make room for the next family to receive their child. We sat down quietly. I quickly whipped out 2 little plastic cups I had brought for this moment and she immediately began clicking them together and chewing on them! Victory! Brad and I just gently touched her as if she would break. But then comes Big Sister! Macy throws a little sheep on top of Mia's head and pulls it off quickly...and just as I am about to reprimand Macy for being too rough...out comes this most delightful sound I have ever heard. Mia giggles. She really laughs! I don't know how much she was played with up until this point - but her and Macy formed a bond that day that I will NEVER forget.
The second thing we learned is that she had been waiting patiently for 8 long months to EAT! I was eating a chicken leg that night in our room and everytime I opened my mouth and took a bite - she would open her mouth. And she has been opening it ever since! Everyone that knows Mia - knows this one thing- the girl LOVES to eat...ALL of the time!
Words can not describe what this day means to us. Macy and Mia both are incredible...really incredible gifts from God to us. I am just so thankful to God for His goodness. | 2019-04-22T20:45:33 | http://thejourneytomiagrace.blogspot.com/2008/05/moment.html |
These last 8 months have been pretty eventful: two TEDGlobal events (TEDGlobal>London and TEDGlobal>Geneva), one TED event in Vancouver, four TEDx events in various cities around the world, one YPOLab event in Dubai, many executive coaching events, over one hundred speakers all over the world and a baby boy baking.
Just a few days before I embark on my maternity leave, I feel grateful to have been working with and learning from so many wonderful people. Strong minds, visionaries, change makers, explorers, innovators, people who strive to make a difference in their communities and the global community we all live in. From scientists and social activists to billionaire entrepreneurs and the first Syrian refugee on a TEDx stage (more on that as soon as the talk is released), there is nothing more satisfying than seeing these speakers rock on stage.
Preparing their talks is a collaborative process; one that requires commitment and making sure that what comes out on stage will be the most impactful version of their story. Speakers allow me to become a part of that story and deep dive in their fields of interest. And every single time I feel more fulfilled as a person. The bond formed is a strong one, and very often results to friendships that last much more than the standing ovations they receive.
Before I immerse myself into the new story of motherhood, I wanted to say a big heartfelt THANK YOU to all the amazing people that trusted me with their stories and their talks these past months.
See you after the summer! | 2019-04-25T06:02:30 | https://biliouri.com/blog/2016/4/7/8-months |
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(IGCSE) is a qualification based on individual subjects of study, which means that one receives an "IGCSE" qualification for each subject one takes. For this reason, schools worldwide have different expectations about how many IGCSEs students should take. Typical "core" curricula for IGCSE candidates include a First Language, Second Language, Mathematics and one or more subjects in the Sciences. IGCSE candidates then choose a number of additional courses ranging from Social Sciences to Creative Arts.
IGCSE as HOME SCHOOLING IGCSE is predominantly exam-based, meaning they are not actual certified "courses", but rather exams that test knowledge in individual subjects in the same way as Advanced Placement exams and SAT Subject Tests. For this reason, it is also a viable option for many home-schooling educators or in Adult education, when one is seeking a qualification but has no time to attend full-time school classes.
IGCSE at PRS HELP ACADEMY At PRS HELP ACADEMY, we focus on Students to complete Core Subjects (English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology) with Home Schooling class-room set-up for both the flexibility of Time and Comfortability for Students who are working due to underprivileged circumstances. | 2019-04-23T00:41:24 | https://prshelpacademy.neocities.org/Admin/Modern/index.html |
THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH BALLADEERS GENERAL MEETING is held annually on the last Saturday of Tamworth Country Music Festival in January.
If you are a FULL MEMBER wanting voting information or an ASSOCIATE MEMBER wishing to attend, please follow this link for more information on AGENDA / NOMINATION / PROXY and also the venue/time etc.
2020 PDF link will be here late 2019 contains Agenda, Nomination Form and Proxy Form. | 2019-04-21T22:00:45 | http://bushballadeers.com.au/committee.htm |
Atul Kochhar, renowned 2 Michelin Starred chef, and one of Britannia’s food heroes, has a restaurant called Sindhu on board Britannia, a P&O Cruise ship. The cuisine is traditional Indian cuisine with contemporary twists with a more upmarket fine dining feel.
We tried the restaurant one evening and even as we walked towards the restaurant, we could smell amazing aromas wafting through the air of different spices.
We were served an Onion bhaji as a pre-starter, which served in a cute bowl. It was lovely and crisp on the exterior and warm and soft and flavoursome on the inside. Perfect way to start the meal.
For starters the majority of us ordered Shammi Kebabs, which are Spiced Lamb Cakes served with a Mint and Tamarind Chutney. These were delightful, so full of flavour and marinated really well. It was apparent that they had been prepared, marinated and cooked for a long time. The texture was brilliant – literally melt in your mouth.
Amit went for Khasta Murgh for his starters choice. This was a Chicken Tikka Pie with Wild Berry Compote. So unusual yet fantastic!
For mains the other ladies went for Murgh Biryani, which is Indian Style Baked Chicken and Rice served in a Traditional Handi. To their surprise and delight it arrived with the dough lid still on, which was removed at our table. This is the proper traditional way of cooking Biryani.
My choice was the Kong Kari, which is a Native Lobster Fricassee with Rice Pancakes, Asparagus and Atul’s Signature Malabar Sauce. This was a stunning dish and I loved all the different flavour sensations.
For dessert we all went for Kulfi, which is Indian Ice cream. This was served in a trio of Mango, Chocolate and Malai, and presented beautifully.
The entire meal was fabulous and has left me wanting to visit the Sindhu restaurant in Marlow.
The food was delicious, of high standards and exactly the kind of amazing dishes with modern fusion that you would expect from Atul Kochhar.
Oooh I want to visit the Marlow restaurant too! Time for a little excursion? | 2019-04-26T10:05:31 | https://www.binnysfoodandtravel.com/2016/10/01/sindhu-indian-food-by-atul-kochar-on-board-britannia/ |
As a company that works as hard as Her Campus does, we also create opportunities to celebrate and have fun. That’s where our Culture Committee comes in! We do anything and everything to create the kind of working environment that makes people excited to come to the office each day.
In the name of fun, the Culture Committee brainstorms, plans and implements events and initiatives both big and small. Our biggest events of the year include our annual Holiday and Her Campus Birthday parties, but we also arrange happy hours, employee recognitions, holiday celebrations, office lunches and other activities that make Her Campus feel like more than your typical 9-to-5 job.
To us, Her Campus’ greatest resource is our people; our company prides itself on hiring intelligent, creative and passionate individuals, and we feel it’s important to recognize and celebrate people for their strong work. Plus, the Culture Committee knows that with such an amazing group of individuals in our midst, we all need to spend time intentionally engaging with each other because the best ideas are generated through collaboration! | 2019-04-19T04:52:10 | https://www.hercampusmedia.com/blog/2019/3/25/spotlight-her-campus-medias-culture-committee |
Glorify God by creating an environment that promotes Christian growth.
Michigan Christian Youth Camp exists to glorify God by positively impacting the lives of youth, adults, and families in the state of Michigan. We engage the whole being through Physical, Mental, Social, and Spiritual activities leading to a closer relationship with God, using His creation as our backdrop.
· We believe in the divine authority of the Bible alone.
· We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
· We believe in the deity and humanity of Jesus Christ in one person.
· We believe that all mankind is lost eternally without Jesus Christ.
· We believe that baptism is essential as a part of Godʼs plan of salvation.
· We believe that the only way to Heaven is through Jesus Christ.
· We believe in the return of Jesus Christ. | 2019-04-25T17:58:05 | http://www.mcyc.org/mission.html |
Your Roofing Company has developed capabilities beyond its core of Roofing, ceilings and partitioning which serve to further enhance its positioning within the marketplace. These include projects aligned to national infrastructure roll-out, projects implemented nationally and beyond Winooski, VT 800-552-1620 borders, and long term projects that require significant project management capability.
Your Roofing Company has developed capabilities beyond its core of Roofing, ceilings and partitioning which serve to further enhance its positioning within the marketplace. These include projects aligned to national infrastructure roll-out, projects implemented nationally and beyond in Winooski, VT's borders, and long term projects that require significant project management capability. In addition, the company has earned a strong reputation in the fields of timber frame construction, asbestos removal, specialist roof construction, heritage projects and turnkey office refurbishments.
Your Roofing Company has recently been involved in upgrade and refurbishment projects around in Winooski, VT where the company replaced asbestos roofs with fibre cement roof covering, and installed new ceilings.
Industrial revamps typically include stripping asbestos sheets, refurbishing and repainting structural steelwork, supply and fitment of environmentally friendly insulation and the fitting of new roof covering. Your Roofing Company is currently involved in a number of such projects for a diverse group of large property owners. The company has recently completed factory in in Winooski, VT and a production facility.
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It is particularly tonic and refreshing and helps eliminate depression and fight stress, nerves and headache. Grapefruit essential oil helps the body in cases of oil and stretch marks in the fight against acne, cellulite and relaxation of muscles.
Relaxes the nervous system and gives a feeling of relaxation after a tiring day. Rosemary essential oil heals headaches and migraines. It’s amazing tonic for hair. It also helps in the prevention and treatment of dandruff.
Alluring and tropical … Leave your worries behind when you smell this exotic coconut. It is said to increase confidence in our life and relaxes the nervous system.
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Many so-called "animal rights" groups actually work against responsible breeders, and responsible pet owners. They sound good, but if you read the fine print you'll find some shocking surprises!
The links below will educate you on some of the major issues. Especially read the NAIA Trust information to learn about a new measure in California that will criminalize all legitimate and responsible dog breeding, while allowing backyard breeders (who don't follow laws) to thrive. Many will even start up or grow in response to increased demand for dogs if this disastrous legislation goes through.
NAIA Trust, promoting the welfare of animals, strengthening the human-animal bond and safeguarding the rights of responsible animal owners, enthusiasts and professionals through education, legislation and the courts. Pet-Law.com, defending the freedom to own pets.
NJDogLaw, a Yahoo! group discussing the law as it pertains to breeders in New Jersey.
Watch this video to learn more about the Humane Society of the United States. Too many people still believe that HSUS is a great organization, but this video gives good reasons why it is not.
ll images on this site copyright © 2014 by Marion S. Banta, all rights reserved. Images may only be used with written permission. | 2019-04-20T06:57:27 | https://parrishill.com/Donations.html |
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REACH was born in 2010 as a joint initiative of two International NGOs (IMPACT Initiatives and ACTED) and the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT). REACH’s purpose is to promote and facilitate the development of information products that enhance the humanitarian community’s decision making and planning capacity for emergency, reconstruction and development contexts. REACH facilitates information management for aid actors through three complementary services: (a) need and situation assessments facilitated by REACH teams; (b) situation analysis using satellite imagery; (c) provision of related database and (web)-mapping facilities and expertise.
IMPACT Initiatives is a humanitarian NGO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation manages several initiatives, including the REACH Initiative. The IMPACT team comprises specialists in data collection, management and analysis and GIS. IMPACT was launched at the initiative of ACTED, an international NGO whose headquarter is based in Paris and is present in thirty countries. The two organizations have a strong complementarity formalized in a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to benefit from ACTED’s operational support on its fields of intervention.
We are currently looking for a REACH Assessment Officer to support our REACH team inAfghanistan.
REACH has been present in Afghanistan since mid-2016, providing a growing evidence base for humanitarian response planning through sectoral, multi-sectoral and area-based assessments as well as information management services. In 2018, REACH coordinated the Whole of Afghanistan Assessment, the main data source of the 2019 Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO), covering all 34 provinces, including hard-to-reach districts, in coordination with every Cluster.
With bases in all regions of Afghanistan, REACH is looking to build on its experience and established relations to further increase it geographic and sectoral coverage in 2019 and to provide the humanitarian community with relevant and reliable information to strengthen strategic programming and needs-based targeting.
IMPACT is seeking an experience candidate, who has previously designed and implemented quantitative assessments – ideally in a humanitarian setting. The candidate should be comfortable representing IMPACT in cluster and multi-sector meetings and be able to coordinate and liaise with a range of external partners on technical issues. Previous experience developing GIS products and conducting geo-spatial analysis would be considered an asset.
Under the supervision of the Country Focal Point in Afghanistan and of IMPACT’s HQ in Geneva, the REACH Assessment Officer is responsible for the management and implementation of REACH assessments, including their preparation, implementation and follow-up. S/he is also responsible for related logistics, partner coordination, reporting and finance requirements and will be required to provide input to the strategic development of REACH in country.
In his/her mission, the REACH Assessment Officer will be hosted by ACTED and will fall under the responsibility of ACTED’s Country Director and his/her delegates. S/he and will fully abide to ACTED’s Security, HR, Administration and Logistics rules and regulations.
Other tasks falling within REACH’s functions as requested by supervisors.
The REACH Assessment Officer is responsible for designing the methodology and tools associated with each assessment, according to REACH requirements and principles. He/she will manage the planning, implementation, and follow-up of all REACH and projects specific assessment activities conducted in country. In operations in which REACH is a project component of a wider ACTED intervention, the REACH Assessment Officer is required to contribute to the preparation and follow up of the Project Management Framework and ensure that activities are properly coordinated and implemented as per the Project Cycle Management. The REACH Assessment Officer shall manage logistics, financial, administration and HR processes directly related to REACH and liaise accordingly with the relevant ACTED counterpart. He/she is directly responsible for the implementation of proper ACTED FLAT procedures in all REACH interventions.
The REACH Assessment Officer is responsible for contributing to the implementation of assessment projects, providing support to the development of assessment, database and GIS tools with the REACH team. This will specifically include, with the GIS/DB team, designing of data collection tools (household surveys, focus groups, and more); development or review of databases; contributing to GIS data collection procedures and mapping thereof through ARC GIS and other ESRI products in particular; and analysis of spatial and other information to contribute to reports and the like.
The REACH Assessment Officer shall provide technical support to the relevant ACTED department in terms of the preparation of new project proposals, development of programme strategies, implementation of project activities, and any other required REACH input to ACTED projects for added-value.
The REACH Assessment Officer is responsible for the timely and accurate preparation of narrative and financial reports related to REACH activities in country through close liaison with the Project Development and Finance departments. The REACH Assessment Officer shall liaise with other REACH Officers in the region and throughout IMPACT Initiatives’ and ACTED’s networks to provide and receive support in the expansion of REACH globally.
The REACH Assessment Officer is responsible for consolidating all analyses and conclusions from each assessment into REACH products such as factsheets, reports and briefs using standard formats. He/she will liaise with Geneva and Regional GIS/DB Specialists in order to represent data in interactive web map or static map format, as relevant.
The REACH Assessment Officer is responsible for following the designated timeline of reports to be submitted to project partners and donors. He/she must ensure the writing of timely and accurate assessment reports and factsheets, ensuring the quality and accuracy of technical information provided as well as the confidentiality and protection of collected information. He/she will ensure that assessment reports contribute to aid coordination and planning and add to the general base of field knowledge in the country for all organizations working in the areas.
He/she will also manage the drafting of narrative reports and contribute to the development of financial reports through regular budgetary follow-up. The REACH Assessment Officer will also store, organize and disseminate assessments, project documents and best practices among ACTED and IPs. He/she will coordinate timely and accurate reporting to IMPACT Headquarter.
The REACH Assessment Officer is responsible for day-to-day management of project and field staff both directly and remotely. He/she is expected to guide and direct REACH staff and prepare and follow up work plans with each staff member that directly reports to him/her. The REACH Assessment Officer will be required to take the lead in the recruitment of REACH assessment staff in coordination with the ACTED HR Officer. This will include the preparation of ToRs, observation of recruitment procedures by planning recruitment needs in advance, and undertake interviews.
The REACH Assessment Officer will ensure that all field teams are comprehensively briefed on the objective, expected outputs and that the overall implementation strategy of any given activity is clearly understood. He/she will ensure that project/field staff are given training and complete all the necessary documentation in line with program requirements set by REACH.
Representation of ACTED/REACH in cluster and multi-sector meetings/ technical working groups in country and follow up on technical issues identified in cluster meetings in other parts of the country. This specifically will include liaising with external partners to identify potential for data sets to be integrated into existing databases and mapped to support the coordination of the broader humanitarian community.
The REACH Assessment Officer will further represent ACTED/REACH vis-a-vis current and potential donors and communicate relevant information to the ACTED Project Development Manager and Country Director. He/she will participate in inter-NGO meetings and those of UN agencies and any other relevant inter-governmental institutions at the national or provincial level.
More generally, the REACH Assessment Officer is expected to contribute to the creation of a positive image and overall credibility of the organization, notably through the application of ACTED’s mandate, ethics, values and stand-point with regard to other actors.
The REACH Assessment Officer will maintain the strictest confidentiality on all data collected and related processes. He/she will actively take measures to prevent the unauthorized sharing of any information and data belonging to IMPACT and its partners, or collected during his/her assignment with IMPACT.
An indication of where you first found this vacancy: IMPACT website / Reliefweb / CAGI / Coordination Sud / Georezo / Universities’ career website / personal contact / other. | 2019-04-25T10:31:15 | https://humanitarianweb.org/reach-assessment-officer-afghanistan/ |
Our primary objective is to provide meaningful training experiences through a flexible training schedule provided at reasonable cost. There are very few limits on days training can be conducted. On any given day we can, and have, done a class from one to sixteen individuals, but would prefer to accomodate a minimum of 8 individuals. Fees are based on the number of participants enrolled.
Years of training data show that the representative participant has found class sizes below 8 inordinately expensive. Most flight schools, corporate, and government organizations do not have a problem enrolling this number of people. These larger groups can be scheduled at their convenience.
We recognize that the variable aspect of pricing may seem a little confusing, that it is the only way we can minimize the cost for individuals, small, and large groups while covering the basic costs of conducting the training. Unlike some facilities offering aviation physiological training and chamber flights in the United States, our programs are not subsidized by any federal or state entity. Discounts are available for those interested in multiple training dates over short or long-term arrangements. | 2019-04-25T19:43:41 | https://poly.engineering.asu.edu/aviation/hac/training/ |
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Conflicting model-based prescriptions for strategy are viewed from the perspective of the extended general theory of rational decisions. The conflicts are re-cast as general meta-rational arguments and this perspective yields diagnostics for evaluating strategy-models. There follows a quite radical re-formulation of the prescriptive dimensions of strategic-management, such that the general theory of rational decisions is seen as the latent prescriptive theory of strategy. In "Strategy as Rationality" the strategic-entity (individual, group, organization, network, etc.) is cast as a plurally-rational agent, with rationality informing strategy and vice-versa. Meta-rational and meta-ethical arguments then project this new framework into the ethical domain, with the stra tegic-enti ty now cast as a moral-agent. The extended framework of "Strategy as Moral Philosophy" carries with it further implications for prescription in strategic management, whilst is also complements an emerging re-integration, at the systemic level, of Economics with Ethics. The new conceptual framework is then applied to: (i) the strategic mystery of corporate investment decisions with sunk costs, involving the set of backward-looking rationalities, (ii) competitor-analysis and strategic-intelligence, involving a view of other strategic entities as plurally-rational agents, and (iii) capital-budgeting methodologies. The latter application prescribes modification and confinement of some traditional decision-rules for strategic investments. | 2019-04-26T00:58:56 | https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/4504 |
Hypotonic: The hypotonic solution has low osmotic pressure, which means that extra cellular fluids is lower osmolality than the fluids inside the cell. So the water flows from the lower solute concentration to higher concentration. By that, hypotonic solution absorbs to the bloodstream faster.
Hypotonic drink often consists of 1-3% carbohydrate (~4g carbs per 100ml). They are good for quickly replace of sweat loss, but because of the low content of carbs, they might not be the best during for marathon or other long sessions which requires more energy.
Isotonic: Whereas hypotonic has a lower concentration than blood, the isotonic solution has the same concentration of water outside of the cell than inside of the cell. They absorb in the body about as long as water.
Isotonic drinks contain about 6-8% carbohydrates (4-8g per 100ml), which makes it good for hydration and boots for carbs. They are recommended to use during the marathon or long and hard training session.
Hypertonic: The hypertonic solution contains more fluids outside of the cell than the inside of the cell. Hypertonic drinks take more time to absorb than water, so energy release to bloodstream takes more time.
Hypertonic solutions contain a lot of calories, as their carbs concentration is high, around +10% (more than 8g carbs per 100ml). They are good after the training session to replace muscle glycogen stores or during ultra distances where fluid and energy intake are higher.
What about the stomach cramps and absorption problems?
If you have a sensitive stomach I would recommend staying away hypertonic products. Hypotonic products are often most sensible from the stomach, but they don’t provide as much energy than isotonic. If you still find isotonic products too strong for you, try to use only hypotonic, you just might take the bigger amount of them. Some product makes regular gels and isotonic gels. Try them separately so you can recognize if any problems appear. There are also, regular gels with caffeine on the market, which give that little extra boost without being too strong for the stomach.
Buy sport drinks tablets or concentrated drinks so you can make suitable strength for yourself.
Test, test, and test. It’s the only way to find out which is good for you.
Seuraava VO₂max and vVO₂max, do they matter? | 2019-04-26T14:06:37 | https://tuusasports.com/2018/10/14/isotonic-hypotonic-or-hypertonic/ |
function of a full-scale aircraft during a contest.
Modelers love to experiment and modify. Scratch-built airplanes often feature small improvements that weren’t in the drawings. Even RTF aircraft get custom upgrades. We need to think carefully about what the side effects might be when we tinker with a design or flying technique.
An example would be the current fad of CL quadcopters. I’m told that it started in reaction to local Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) that restricted outdoor RC model operations while VIPs were traveling. A few hipster modelers noticed that CL flying wasn’t prohibited, but could be done with discretion in the affected areas.
Retro is hot these days, and mashups between supposedly incompatible genres is a big fad. This small group of aero-hipsters decided to convert some FPV multirotors to CL as a workaround to avoid interruptions of their sport flying.
Sure enough, there were unintended consequences. First, they found out that CL flying is way more fun than they expected. Then they learned that flying CL while wearing FPV goggles causes industrial-strength dizziness. No real surprise there.
Now the fad is spreading, as trendy drone pilots nationwide bring bellcrank-equipped multirotors and airsick bags to local CL circles. Rotorcraft have always been a rare sight at CL meets. CL Stunt, Speed, and Combat pilots don’t know what to make of this new trend.
My advice? Relax. It’ll all blow over, when April Fools’ Day is past. | 2019-04-21T14:19:58 | http://www.modelaviationdigital.com/modelaviation/april_2017?pg=92 |
Last week, we kicked off our “DDCoffeeJoy” Instagram photo and video sweepstakes*, challenging our fans to share their DDCoffeeJoy for a chance to win coffee for a year. This week, we have a whole new theme and new chances to win!
This week, our second theme is “From Where I Stand (Holiday Edition).” Share how you enjoy DD through the Holiday season from your own point of view! For the chance to win, post your photo or video on Instagram using the hashtag #DDCoffeeJoySweepstakes. Weekly prizes include a month’s supply of coffee, and a grand prize of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee for a year.
For inspiration, check out the #FromWhereIStand and #DDCoffeeJoySweepstakes hashtags on Instagram. Happy posting! | 2019-04-23T08:25:07 | https://news.dunkindonuts.com/blog/blog_custom-20161212 |
Read [Prologue], [Chapter I], [Chapter II], [Chapter III], [Chapter IV] and [Chapter V].
Alethea shivered, moving nearer to the hot coals of the fireplace. The nighttime chill grew icy as the famine continued to ravage the mountain. She made no comment as the dinner servings decreased over the week, knowing they were faring better than most as the chieftain’s family.
A servant brought in a platter with four steaming mugs. The scent of fragrant herbal tea wafted through the room. She gathered around the tabletop with her father, mother and Rafa.
The ceramic cup warmed her frozen fingers. They drank in silence, listening to the wind howling outside.
The family tradition of gathering for tea in the evening was neglected when the curse took Abigail. Her father’s endless council meetings and her own courtship with Kaede continued to rob them of their time together. Alethea breathed in and tried to savor this rare moment, this pause in their headlong, frantic haste to salvage their normal lives. She relished the familiar scene wrapping around her, while simultaneously experiencing the nostalgic pang of Abigail’s absence.
She set her mug down and slipped her fingers beneath the table. “Horseback riding,” she explained, feeling her face flush.
“Who is dead,” Ziva said bluntly.
Alethea felt a strange swell of indignation over how they spoke of Kaede. She wanted to defend his character but suppressed the impulse. She trusted him, not only because he was unexpectedly kind and helpful, but also because he loved Abigail. She could not reveal that reality. Again, Alethea felt the burden of secrecy weigh heavily on her.
“What do you think of him, Lethe?” Rafa asked. With a start, she realized he had been studying her from across the table.
“He seems to have developed a deeper interest than that,” Demarion interjected, raising a brow at her.
Her insistence garnered skeptical looks from all three of them.
A thick silence fell over them. Alethea could hear the blood thrumming faintly in her ears as she took in their heated words, lined with edges of veiled accusation. Father and Mother rarely disagreed in open, but she surmised this was not their first conflict on the matter. She looked across at Rafa, catching a pained look on his face, but he buried it quickly when he noticed her gaze. Alethea felt a sudden stab of loneliness.
Perhaps they have always hidden things from me, and from each other. How would I know? Locked away in a cabin, books were her teachers more than flesh-and-blood, and her experiences were only vicariously lived through the stories of others.
“Nothing.” He paused, turning to look each of them squarely in the eye, and ended with his gaze fixed on his wife. “I wanted to end the famine. I did not know what to do, and I acted on instinct. I lost a daughter already to this—this curse,” he broke off, his voice quaking slightly, before continuing, “and I could not live with more blood on my hands.
His words struck something deep inside her, and Alethea felt her breath tremble. She felt a swift and sharp longing to pour out the whole truth, to confide in them as her father had just done. But she thought of Kaede, of Abigail, of the clan conflict, and she suppressed the confession.
Another hard lesson—sometimes duty demanded discretion, over and against unbridled honesty.
“We are family. We bear the burdens together,” she said softly.
She meant the words with sincerity, though she felt a keen ache from what she left unspoken. Yet some burdens cannot be shared.
Demarion and Ziva both smiled at her, the former with affection and pride, the latter with a hint of sadness. Rafa, though, appeared distant and lost in other thoughts.
Alethea bit her lip and tried to mask the surprise and pang of betrayal she felt. Why would Rafa ask her that, so abruptly and openly before their family? The two of them had not discussed her relationship with Kaede at all; why did he assume she felt comfortable addressing it in front of her father and mother?
That was all she ever allowed herself to think around Kaede. Certainly, he was handsome and strong and good-humored, but she could not follow such a dangerous strand of thought to a forbidden conclusion. Any final outcome, to her mind, was intolerable, but one where they broke the curse on Abigail and the Adamaris, and where Kaede would become her brother-in-law.
“I am not sure he is deserving of even that,” he murmured, not to anyone in particular.
Alethea felt his comment directed against Kaede, but she suffered a blow from it too. Though she made amends for snapping at him after the meeting with Sparrow clan, Rafa still remained more withdrawn than before. She reasoned that her courtship, his added responsibilities in the family and clan, and the strain of Abigail’s condition explained their recent distance.
Rafa was not one to hold a grudge. Yet, he was also more private than she previously believed. He had never once suggested he had any special attachment to Abigail, and even after the curse took effect, he confessed nothing of his feelings to Alethea. She felt a trace of bewilderment and anxiety. The thought of not truly understanding him as she always thought sparked a sudden sense of fear.
Father’s expression darkened at the name and Rafa tensed. Even with the threat of the curse looming over their family her entire life, Alethea rarely heard them speak of her. She felt a sense of anticipation drum inside her veins. Her plans with Kaede were based on rough knowledge and vague stories from her father. Perhaps, this was an unlooked for opportunity to gather information on the mysterious woman.
“Have our scouts found any signs of Phoenixes on the mountain?” she inquired.
“No,” Demarion sighed, his shoulders falling.
Rafa cast an odd look at her, and she felt afraid for a moment, wondering if her plans were clearly etched across her face. But he looked away again, with no sign of suspicion in his expression.
Apprehension gripped her ribcage with cold fingers, but an unexpectedly morbid curiosity dampened her fear.
She watched her father’s features shift from irate to unreadable. A long pause followed, and Ziva threw a meaningful sideways glance at him.
Demarion blew out a breath and began. “When I was a boy, the Phoenix clan was already falling into turmoil, creating factions and using their spells against each other. Our people kept a distance from their conflicts, though Dragons and Sparrows both suffered collateral damage. Sela and I struck up an accidental but fast friendship. I hid it from my family, of course. She was a Phoenix, my father was Chief—” he trailed off, as if the reverie snatched him from present reality.
Alethea felt his tale begin to weave the scene around them. It was at once compelling and uncomfortable, especially as she noticed an eerie parallel with Abi and Kaede’s story.
She almost felt a twinge of sympathy for Sela, but the image of Abi’s lifeless form wrung the empathy out of her.
“But how can she hate you for that?” Alethea stared at him.
Another silence came over them as Demarion’s story settled into their minds. Alethea contemplated the Phoenix’s life—her clan destroyed, love spurned, and nothing but a dark and lonely future stretched before her.
She felt the horror and sadness of it wash over her, but her heart hardened over what Sela did to their family. Did she need to thrust her tragedy onto another, particularly someone innocent like Abi?
“I am sorry for her, yet I despise her still.” The words fell out of her with quiet certainty.
But can she offer any? Alethea had spent her time agonizing over the harrowing trek up the Adamaris, but that faded into the background now as she thought of her final destination. She was gambling their fates upon Sela’s capacity for compassion.
It was a poor wager, but what choice did she have? | 2019-04-24T18:43:33 | https://penandfire.com/2016/12/30/beneath-the-dragon-skies-chapter-vi/ |
Here is a question that I get asked often.
Q. My allergies have really been bothering me lately. I noticed that goldenrod is in bloom and wondered if that was the culprit. It's a pretty plant but do we need to try to keep it from blooming?
A. Allergies are bad this year but goldenrod is not the problem. Goldenrod has heavy pollen that doesn't blow around and cause allergies. It is simply a beautiful wildflower and excellent for attracting beneficial insects including the pollinators. The bad plant and the culprit in this case is ragweed, both common ragweed and giant ragweed. Its white flowers do have some positive attributes but probably more negatives. | 2019-04-20T01:25:52 | https://www.dirtdoctor.com/garden/Ragweed-or-Goldenrod-Which-is-the-Allergen-Newsletter_vq12676.htm |
About three years ago, my husband and I decided to pack all of our belongings, sell everything that didn’t fit into our truck, and head to Nashville for a fresh start with our four-year-old daughter. We had been stuck in a pit of darkness for so long that we could no longer see the light. I had been suffering SO badly with depression and anxiety that I never thought my life would get better, so a change was not only what we felt God wanted for our family, but what we felt was desperately needed for my mental health.
Being a Christian mother, depression felt like a very taboo thing. I had a loving husband, a healthy kid and a relationship with Jesus Christ, so why do I feel depressed? I was told that I wasn’t praying enough; I wasn’t trusting enough. I was told many, many things that made me feel that I was less than and that I was absolutely unworthy. I started to doubt my value as a mother, a wife and a daughter of the King.
I ached for some clarity and stability in my life that I wasn’t able to find on my own. I remember one morning locking myself in the closet and crying that ugly cry; thinking that my life is worth more than my feelings. I didn’t want my life to be full of fear, full of sadness and wondering where I belonged. I wanted more and needed more in my life.
Now, let me preface this all by saying that mental health has a lot of factors and I am not a doctor or therapist. My best piece of advice is to seek professionals to help you work through what you are going through.
But how do you light the fire within your soul when you can’t even find a match? How do you step outside of the darkness? As a mom, you know that the days are long, the nights are longer, and the emotional toll it takes on your body is unreal. But there is hope in Jesus and there is hope in community.
I tried it all and the BEST thing that I found to help light that match in my soul were other women who would hold it with me.
I took a chance and signed up for MOPS, hoping to find some hope for my aching soul and some sense of belonging. I poured my heart out. I attended the meetings. I shared my story, my fears, my depression, my darkness, my everything. I bore it all and took a chance on a group of God-loving women, and truly realized that love really is the catapult that can jumpstart your journey.
I realized that the more I shared my story, the more I realized that there were SO many of us on the same journey. Sometimes it takes others being the hands and feet of Jesus for you to truly see your worth and value through their eyes. You are a good mother despite your feelings. There is beauty all around you. There is a light in you that is DYING to come out.
Once I realized that I wasn’t alone on this journey, I could surrender daringly. I surrendered all of my fears and realized that God and my mom friends had me, and it was going to be OK. I could breathe freely knowing that I was exactly where I was meant to be. I could begin to live expectantly by knowing that good things were ahead and that this was NOT the end of my story.
Today, I have two best friends who are like sisters to me. They have shouldered my pain and have shown me that I am worthy and that God will use this journey for good. I still have my days, but now they are just bad days not bad years. I have a community of mothers who pour into me and surround each other whenever a need arises. None of that would be possible without MOPS.
It is not always easy to remember, but you and I are meant for more. And it is true what they say, “Small things do matter.” Creating those friendships matter and will help get you through some of your darkest days. They did for me.
Fallon Poston is a stay at home mom who calls Nashville, Tennessee home where she lives with her husband and two daughters. She is a mom with a mission and loves all things llamas, sushi, Crocs, Jesus and fitness (not necessarily in that order). Her life goals are being real and honest with her imperfections and struggles as well as empowering other women and moms to love themselves and Jesus. You can find her for real @fitwithfallon and www.beautycounter.com/fallonposton on Instagram. | 2019-04-22T18:52:42 | https://blog.mops.org/bad-days-not-bad-years/ |
Calling it a “stroke of God’s providence,” Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone celebrated the opening Mass of the 28th Annual Northern California Catholic Charismatic Convention on the weekend of Pentecost.
In his May 22 homily, the archbishop drew on the Acts of the Apostles and the martyrdoms of St. Peter and St. Paul. He quoted Pope Francis on the “horrendous” martyrdoms of Christians in the Middle East and elsewhere as well as what the pontiff has termed the “white glove” martyrdoms of being ostracized and shut out for upholding Christian beliefs.
“Every individual Christian is called to repeat the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus in their individual lives,” Archbishop Cordileone told the gathering of about 500 people at the Santa Clara Convention Center for the May 22-25 gathering, traditionally held on the Memorial Day weekend. “This pattern of the suffering, death and resurrection of the Lord is repeated in the life of the church” in every era, he said.
The archbishop received a standing ovation, said Deacon Ernie Von Emster. His anticipated appearance filled the auditorium, which is quite unusual for the first Mass of the annual charismatic conference, said St. Veronica parishioner Norma Guerrero, who noted the first Mass of the convention on Friday evening frequently has poor attendance as participants from the dioceses of Stockton, Monterey, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Sacramento and the Archdiocese of San Francisco slowly make their way to the weekend event.
The Holy Spirit has guided the church from its birth on the first Pentecost Sunday when a rushing wind and tongues of fire entered the locked room where the disciples were waiting for the Spirit the Lord had promised would come after his ascension to heaven, Archbishop Cordileone said in his homily.
“There was so much political turmoil and they were afraid, so they were huddled together in that upper room. Then under the power of the Holy Spirit they were emboldened to go forth courageously to a hostile world and proclaim the Gospel with great courage, with great determination and tenacity,” Archbishop Cordileone said.
Today, as always, we need the guidance and gifts of the Holy Spirit, said Archbishop Cordileone, noting Pope Francis said two things are needed for the seed of the Word to produce the kingdom of God: the Holy Spirit and Christian witness. | 2019-04-25T10:23:39 | https://catholic-sf.org/blog/archbishop-celebrates-mass-with-charismatics-on-pentecost-weekend-1 |
Held at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 62 King St. East, Harrow, ON. Tickets are $25/person. The event features local wineries and eateries with live entertainment! | 2019-04-24T18:00:55 | https://www.sprucewoodshores.com/events/2013/2/23/the-harrow-rotary-club-wine-and-cheese-hospitality-night |
Microsoft is not the company that comes to mind when you think about great design. Apple, perhaps, but not Microsoft.
But that may be changing, which we discovered when we looked back over 30 years of hardware designs from Microsoft. Although it took Redmond quite a while to get up to speed, its designs are starting to look pretty cool.
Even though Microsoft’s hardware group wasn’t formed until 1982, the first hardware from Microsoft was introduced in 1980.
The Z80 SoftCard was a co-processor card for the Apple II computer. With it, an Apple II could run software written for the CP/M OS, which, at the time, had a big library of software. Titles like WordStar and dBase were suddenly available to Apple II users.
The movie War Games premiered in 1983 as did Microsoft’s first mouse. “Microsoft, the people who set the standard for software, have done it again with the Microsoft Mouse,” read the ad for the Microsoft Mouse.
Looking at the first Microsoft Mouse today, we doubt many of you will feel that it was an example of great design. But put it against the first Apple mouse, and suddenly it doesn’t look so bad.
Although it was not the first ergonomic keyboard, it was the first that was widely available and reasonably priced. In 1994, Microsoft unleashed the Natural Keyboard onto the world, and wrists everywhere breathed a sigh of relief.
Two years later, in 1996, Microsoft took another big step in hardware design and added the scroll wheel to its mouse. It’s safe to say that the computer mouse has not been the same since, whether it has “Microsoft” stamped on it or not.
Picture from U.S. Patent 5,912,661.
Still focused more on functionality than great looks, Microsoft released the first commercial optical mouse at the end of the century. This made the input devices not just more accurate, but made them easier to clean, as well.
Some people feel the original Xbox still is much better looking than the later 360 versions, and many of us as Pingdom would agree with that. The big and bold “X” featured heavily in all promotional material, and the design of the unit itself was rather striking.
The follow-up to the Xbox from 2001 came in 2005 (isn’t it time Microsoft releases a new one?) It has iterated numerous times since then, with different models and designs.
The Zune digital media player was introduced in 2006, and the whole line was killed off in 2011. We think the first models may not have been that inspiring in terms of the design, but later models, like the Zune HD, matched the competition well in that department.
But why there was a Zune in chocolate brown color we never understood.
Some of the design concepts it came up with look pretty cool. We just wish more of them made it into the market as shipping products. Not that it would have done much to improve the mostly miserable Windows Vista experience much.
Strictly speaking, this is not Microsoft hardware design, but we included it anyway because it shows what could have been.
The first LifeCam was introduced in 2006 and it wasn’t much to look at. However, the current models are quite stunning, like the LifeCam studio you can see above. Clever use of different materials for feeling, look, and functionality, as well as striking lines and shapes. Who knew a webcam could look so good?
The Courier was a Booklet that Microsoft started to develop but later cancelled. It would have featured dual-touchscreens in a fold-up fashion as well as dual cameras. Considering that it was supposedly in development 2008-2010, it would be interesting to find out what effect, if any, the introduction of Apple’s iPad in early 2010 had on the Courier project.
The Kin was another ill-fated hardware project from Microsoft, which, like the Courier, had some pretty exciting design aspects to it. In contrast to the Courier, the Kin actually made it to market, but it was pulled after about two months due to poor sales.
The functionality of the Kinect may seem like magic but the design? Perhaps not so much.
In recent years, Microsoft seems to have started to combine cool looks with practicality and usability. The Arc Touch Mouse is a great example of this. It not only looks fantastic, it also has some very innovative and clever solutions when it comes to functionality.
The pinnacle of Microsoft design may not be any piece of hardware it has ever put together, but the latest software it will introduce later this year: the Metro interface in Windows 8.
You may have noticed that we didn’t put a year next to Metro above, and that’s deliberate. At least some of the guidelines in Metro really saw the light of day in Microsoft’s Media Center as well as the Zune many years ago. Then in 2010 Windows Phone arrived, with Metro, but we think it’ll be with Windows 8, coming later this year, that Metro will be seen and used for the first time by most users.
Best Microsoft design yet to come?
Even though Microsoft has created some stunning hardware designs it is as a software company it is best known.
There’s probably more Microsoft hardware, which we missed to include in this list.
What hardware can you think of that Microsoft has designed – cool looking or not – that we should have included?
The second marketed integrated mouse shipped as a part of a computer and intended for personal computer navigation came with the Xerox 8010 Star Information System in 1981. | 2019-04-20T14:55:47 | https://royal.pingdom.com/microsoft-hardware-design-cool/ |
Even with final month’s tip alterations impacting the particular executive condominium market place, a Lakeville web page with Jurong Gulf provides utilized strong fascination using 12 prices for bids as well as a excessive top bid regarding $381. seventy eight per square base per plot relation (psf ppr) at a Koh Brothers-Heeton Houses collaboration. This became at the top end in the assortment forecast by simply residence professionals when the web page was launched with late July. As well as the top bid has been simply 0. 45 percent in the following highest offer you regarding $380. ’08 psf ppr by way of a three way partnership among City Improvements along with TID.
Almost all market place watchers announced the results as a manifestation regarding developers’ self-confidence that require regarding ECs would stay strong. Even so, many indicated to a broader space between your top along with most competitive prices for bids from yesterday’s sore balanced with the prior Lakeville land sore final This summer. This will indicate a more impressive divergence with developers’ accept this specific public-private housing crossbreed.
“While the very best few prices for bids were far more upbeat, the end 1 / 2 the particular prices for bids were generally cautious along with under anticipations, inches mentioned Jones Lang LaSalle nation’s home Ong Teck Hui. Perhaps many developers were simply having an opportunity to attempt many bottom-fishing from yesterday’s sore to the web page with Westwood Path. Placed next to the particular Pot Area Expressway, the particular 520, 945 square base land parcel can be contrary the particular Cleantech Park.
Successful Dec 10, a 40 percent mortgage arranging relation cap has been launched with housing loans for all purchasing EC items specifically coming from developers. Likewise, the long run venture on the Lakeville Path plot is definitely the first recently where by second-timer candidates (that can be, HDB upgraders) will have to spend the particular Real estate Table a resell garnishment up to $50, 000, paperwork SLP Global executive home Nicholas Mak.
The actual 12 prices for bids from yesterday’s sore were less than the particular 04 that your far more selection plot with Yuan Ching Highway next to Jurong State Clb fetched final This summer. The actual $419 psf ppr receiving bid with the web page in addition arranged a fresh excessive regarding EC land. R’ST Investigation home Ong Kah Seng explained to BT he had trimmed their conjecture at the top bid to the Westwood Path web page to $340-380 psf ppr next final month’s tip alterations, coming from $360-390 psf ppr in the beginning.
While called, Francis Koh, taking care of home along with class CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER regarding Koh Inlaws Group, mentioned: “We diminished our own land bid a little. In case accorded the site, all of us intend to make a venture using with regards to 480 items. inches While released following year, the particular venture are going to be “priced to sell”. “Lakeville will continue an extremely common choice regarding HDB upgraders : rapidly recent actions. In line with a wholesome living topic, all of us intend to promote a riding a bicycle neighborhood a toronto injury lawyer cycle vehicle amenities as well as a riding a bicycle track inside the improvement, inches mentioned Mr Koh.
Analysts estimation how the top bid demonstrates a breakeven price of around $750 psf, along with supposing a 10 percent revenue perimeter, the objective value could possibly be about $820-830 psf. JLL’s Mr Ong known that at the final EC sore with This summer 2013, the minimum bid to the 3 web sites (Yuan Ching Highway, Punggol Key along with Punggol Drive) has been $295 psf ppr, as the selection of underside to top prices for bids has been quite filter, from 04 to up to 29 percent.
Mar1March 1, 2014 • By donameche90 • This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-23T02:32:07 | https://donameche90.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/lakeville-living-in-the-future/ |
Who has been to New York City and wandered around in Manhattan can relate to such view. Nothing special, if to think of all this concrete, glass and steel, but then again no place like that anywhere in the world. Another day in the Big Apple.
I consider this one of the best photos I have taken while my stay in US. This is a great shot, so clean and symmetric and then again confusing and so artificial next to its location, the nature. Well, yeah the highways pass just through and so does the cargo. So nature gets mixed with artificial.
With this post a new and kind of random series will begin. It is to celebrate the 5th year anniversary of visiting the States. So in next three months there will be bits and pieces here and there, which were taken exactly five years ago on the same date when the post is published. Hopefully these photos will show some of the vastness of the States.
He was looking for home and I think he has found one by now.
In Northern-America it is very common to have parades to celebrate different holidays or traditions. They are always pretty fun to watch,but then again a bit pointless, but hey, we gotta enjoy our lives right? Here is a glimpse of one the Canadian way.
After the trip to the States.
Mait Malmsten is an Estonian actor. He has had many roles in the theatre, movies and on TV. He rose to the sight in 1995 when he played a young school-boy in TV series "Boys of Wikman". That is where I remember him. The last appearance on the movie he had last year playing in "Kertu". All what has been between those to pieces is lots and lots of wonderful acting and MC-ing, as he is a great person to run a show.
Iceland with a cherry on top!
I took photos at a lovely wedding. Got a ride back home with nice people and two other passengers. One of them was really drunk and singing a line from the song over and over again: "Light so blinded." Inspired by.
The ever so fancy, but quite dull downtown. Note the lack of green and that what you can see doesn't look very much alive. Buildings that belong somewhere in between. Posturinn is where you can send parcels home.
I want to wake up, In that city that doesn't sleep.
My little town blues, They are melting away.
I gotta make a brand new start of it, in old New York.
- Frank Sinatra "New York, New York"
East York is a former municipality within the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was a semi-autonomous borough within the overall municipality of Metropolitan Toronto until 1998, when it was amalgamated into the new "megacity" of Toronto in 1998. Before the amalgamation, it was Canada's only borough.
It is separated by the Don River from the former City of Toronto. Traditional East York is southeast of the river, and the neighbourhoods ofLeaside, Bennington Heights and densely populated Thorncliffe Park are northwest of the river. The heart of East York is filled with middle-class and working-class homes, with extensive high-rise developments along peripheral major streets and in Crescent Town and Thorncliffe Park.
New month, new series. On Sunday's from now on will be dedicated to portraits of men and boys. Known or unknown, you will get to know a little about them all.
This boy was one of the nicest club visitors in all those years when I did nightclub photography. He was always wearing cool hip-hop t-shirts and hoodies and always in a good mood. I saw him more than once and it was always a positive encounter.
Another series of people. This time I was inspired by the Kool and the Gang lyrics of "Get Down On It". So get your back up off the wall!
- Kool and the Gang lyrics of "Get Down On It"
Rubber can be very beautiful and not at all a smelly and unpleasant material.
For a long time I have wanted to post the photos of a wonderful Habitat 67, which is a model community and housing complex in Montreal, Canada, designed by Israeli–Canadian architect Moshe Safdie. I visited it not on a nice time, as the cruel Canadian winter is pretty tough in the end of February.
If you do not know anything about the Habotat, then you should know that it was originally conceived as the architects master's thesis in architecture at McGill University and then built as a pavilion for Expo 67, the World's Fair held from April to October 1967. It is located at 2600 Avenue Pierre-Dupuy on the Marc-Drouin Quay next to the Saint Lawrence River and therefore not very easy to visit. I think we saw nobody at that moment checking out the wonderful building.
Check out a cool panorama of Habitat HERE. | 2019-04-19T03:05:49 | http://kerly.blogspot.com/2014/09/ |
Knowing your audience is key for any type of interaction. You need to be alert, and aware of who you are speaking to at all times to avoid a communication disconnect.
Communication disconnects are one of the largest sources of frustration in the office.
Are you two even speaking the same language? If you are having communication issues, there are a few things that you might want to check out.
Are they a right brain person or a left brain person?
This is one of the most common communication disconnects in the ad industry.
Creatives and account executives speak two entirely different languages.
Stereotypically, both types are easy to spot after you have spent a few years in the industry.
Execs: This group is clean-cut and usually dressed to the nines, especially if they have a meeting with a client. They are fashionable, yet somewhat conservative in their dress. They speak professionally, and tend to CC anyone that could possibly be applicable in their emails. Execs are detail-oriented and generally analytical. They are personable, have great presentation skills, and a fantastic golf handicap.
Creatives: This group is a bit different in their style. They generally dress in their own personal fashion preferences, some of which may not be understandable to anyone but themselves. Many creatives show their expression through their clothing, hairstyle, or tattoos. Creatives tend to be a bit more laid back in personality, but don’t let that fool you, they are extremely detail-oriented. Creatives take great pride in their projects and strive for excellence. Although some creatives are extremely personable, many love to hole up in their little “creative cave” and construct things in a mad scientist-esque manner.
There are certainly exceptions to these general stereotypes. I have seen many mixtures and variations of these two groups. This is why it is absolutely essential that you pay attention to who you are talking to. | 2019-04-24T20:28:04 | https://littlebrittanyb.com/2013/06/03/wheres-the-disconnect/ |
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Brendan Sokler attended WWN&EVOLVE Pro Wrestling present EVOLVE 99 out in Brooklyn. Well what is WWN? Is that the same thing as WWE? Short answer is no. WWN Is the World Wrestling Network a network of independent professional wrestling promotions under one umbrella with EVOLVE being the flagship promotion of that network. While EVOLVE is not WWE they do have a relationship. Over their 99 shows so far you can see many current WWE superstars having graced an EVOLVE ring including: Daniel Bryan, Cedric Alexander, Drew Gulak, and so many more.
Speaking of Evolve 99 we caught up with a wrestler with a ceiling that is SO High...How high? Yehi. Fred Yehi to be exact coming off a difficult battle with Timothy Thatcher. Yehi is one of the hottest prospect on the independent scene and we have an exclusive scoop with him here at FanBolt! | 2019-04-21T18:27:41 | https://www.footprint.tv/media/317690 |
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It’s time for another creative challenge from the wonderful Tinkerlab!
This time the simple request was to make something creative from a paper bag.
There are so many different things that can be done with a humble brown paper bag, from story puppets to animal masks, but I needed to find an idea that was age appropriate for Cakie to try independently, and with more of an emphasis on art, learning and technique.
So we came up with the idea to have our first go at simple weaving, using the bag as a framework.
I found a pile of old artwork that the girls had completed (for once being a hoarder paid off!) and decided to use these as the materials to weave through the bag. They could add variety in colour, style and texture as well as being a great way to upcycle and showcase old work.
I cut slits into it from top to bottom on each side, 4 slits on the longer sides and 3 on the short ends.
I cut the artwork into long strips, all roughly the same width and length. Most were on A4 size paper so I made them the length of A4, and was able to cut 4 pieces of equal size widthwise.
It was definitely tricky to learn the skill but she did it and was very proud of herself. The thickness of the artwork pieces and the nice wide slits made it just manageable for this 3 year old!
I love how some of the pieces have collage materials such as feathers and stickers on them, adding some real interest and variety to the finished weaving.
I asked Cakie what she wanted to do with the bag. Do you want to display it? Hang it up? Turn it into a hot air balloon?
No, I want it to be my treasure bag!
So, she ran around and filled it with all her special things, starting with her pirate treasure box and her very special sleeping blankie. By the end of the morning it was SO full that she could barely lift it without beginning to rip it! It is now residing in her bedroom with her special possessions at close hand all of the time.
Now take some time to look through the wonderful array of ideas that have been linked up from the following creative blogs! Never again will you look at a paper bag in the same light!
Do you have a post about using a paper bag in a creative or playful way? Feel free to join in the challenge! Link up your idea below and then hop over to Tinkerlab to check the details of entry.
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That is great idea! I love the collage strips you have chosen for weaving:)) Have been wanting to try paper weaving with Putti for a long time now, thanks for the remainder.
Thanks Roopa! Look forward to seeing what you create!
Oh how very lovely!! It looks gorgeous and what a great way to introduce weaving to young children. I want Red Ted to have a go!! ASAP!
Thank you! And I should have said THANK YOU very much for giving me the paper bag in the first place!
This is a great idea. I absolutely love doing the weaving with a paper bag. Thanks for the step by step pictures on how to do this. I will absolutely try this with my preschoolers. Fun!
I am pinning this!!! We haven’t tried weaving, and I think this is the perfect activity to introduce it.
Very creative! End result is beautiful.
Love it. Weaving is so much fun and great for fine motor skills.the sl All you need to do to adapt for older children is make more slits in the bag and paper strips smaller in width. | 2019-04-25T01:55:11 | https://theimaginationtree.com/easy-paper-bag-weaving/ |
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The world is going mobile. According to Google, more searches were carried out through mobile phones than computers in 10 countries. | 2019-04-26T05:46:43 | http://www.technewsandtrends.com/category/internet/page/5/ |
The ground station converts tensile forces from the sheets to the electric power fed out online. A conventional electric winch used on fish trawlers and cranes will usually work the same way. The solution is also relatively similar components of a nacelle in a traditional wind turbine but where the hub is replaced with a reel for the line. Some elements stand out in this winch. The main thing is that it must be able to operate at high speed to withdraw the kite. | 2019-04-21T16:27:52 | http://kitemill.com/page/51/Ground_station |
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Zine Dream annual small press art fair at the TRANZAC is happening on Sunday Aug. 21 from 12 to 5 pm, registration for half tables ($10) and full tables ($20) is now open, space is limited and running out quick! Contact Jesjit@gmail.com and visit http://www.zinedream.com for more info!
Folks, doing something a bit different this year. This Spring/Summer’s reading series will be held AFTER the book fair. We want to promote it heavily at the fair and it will be posted in this Saturday’s National Post feature article on SPoT.
The reading will be held at Parts and Labour, in Parkdale, a great venue and there will be door prizes. Admission is FREE.
There will be a 15 minute viewing of the award-winning documentary of Goran Simic, called When You Die As A Cat, as well as a Q&A after the reading with our own Sang Kim.
Don’t miss this great event. Invite your friends! | 2019-04-23T22:25:35 | https://smallpressoftoronto.wordpress.com/ |
economy starts with a strong middle class.
Relations, was in Peachland to highlight Budget 2019, Investing in the Middle Class, the Government's plan to create more good well-paying jobs, support our cities, put homeownership within reach of more Canadians, help working people get the training they need to succeed, support seniors, and lay the foundation for national pharmacare.
Support municipalities' local infrastructure priorities by proposing a one-time top-up of $2.2 billion through the federal Gas Tax Fund that will double the Government's commitment to municipalities in 2018-19, and make sure communities have the funds they need to pay for crucial repairs and other important local projects.
Help Canadians with the cost of prescription drugs by taking steps towards a national pharmacare plan, starting with creating a new Canadian Drug Agency that could lower Canadians' drug costs by as much as $3 billion per year, developing a national formulary for prescription drugs, and a national strategy for high-cost drugs for rare diseases.
Give all Canadians access to high-speed internet so all Canadian homes and businesses have access to 50 Mbps high-speed internet no matter where they live – including people and businesses in rural, remote and northern communities.
Lower Canadians' energy costs by partnering with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities to increase energy efficiency in residential, commercial and multi-use buildings, and by introducing a new incentive for buying electric battery or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles with a manufacturer's suggested retail price under $45,000.
"This country is only as strong as the strength of communities of which it is comprised. Nearly four years ago, Canadians chose a plan to invest in the middle class and communities. Those investments are paying off. Budget 2019 is the next step in the Government's plan to support communities by keeping Canada's economy growing, and make life more affordable for Canadians."
"The announcement of a significant increase in the Gas Tax Fund is exciting news for Peachland. As with many smaller communities, we struggle with the cost of infrastructure related projects. An increase in funding will address much needed infrastructure projects that may otherwise be delayed."
Under the Government's plan, hard-working Canadians have created over 900,000 new jobs, most of them full-time, driving the unemployment rate to its lowest levels in more than 40 years. This includes especially strong employment gains by women.
More than nine million Canadians are benefitting from the Government's middle class tax cut, which gives them more money to save or spend on the things they need.
An enhanced Canada Pension Plan, which will raise the maximum CPP retirement benefit by up to 50 per cent over time, is giving today's and future Canadian workers greater income security when they retire.
Historic investments in infrastructure, including the National Housing Strategy, which is helping more Canadians find a safe and affordable place to call home. | 2019-04-24T06:03:10 | https://www.medindia.net/health-press-release/Budget-2019-Building-a-Better-Canada-410174-1.htm |
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Hope you had a nice holiday, Tim! Happy New Year. I hope it's a good and productive one. | 2019-04-22T00:15:00 | http://www.rootcrownarts.com/2012/12/1252012.html |
Remember my DIY decorations here and here? Here they are again, hanging prettily from my tree... well, from my bunch of sticks!
I hope you are all having a super awesome festive season wherever you are. Wishing you health and happiness these holidays. | 2019-04-23T03:54:40 | https://www.mahanidelborrello.com/blog/2012/12/25/merry-bright |
Given the year that Jay-Z and Beyoncé have had, is it any wonder the duo is amongst the highest nominated artists for this year's MTV VMAs? The pair, who just released a surprise album last month (complete with a film clip that was filmed in the Louvre Paris of all places and subsequently inspired a temporary official tour), are up for eight awards at this year's ceremony including video of the year, best hip-hop song and best collaboration.
Cardi B came out on top for this year's nominations, securing herself a whopping 10 nods across best video, best song and artist of the year. Other top contenders include Drake (who recently broke a record held by The Beatles), Childish Gambino, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande and Camila Cabello.
Voting for the awards is open now and will close on August 10. The 2018 MTV VMAs will be held on August 20 at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
Now, see who is up for an Emmy this year. | 2019-04-25T10:13:27 | http://www.buro247.me/culture/music/cardi-b-jay-z-and-beyonc-lead-the-2018-mtv-vma-nom.html |
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I have a Retribution pally, leveled to somewhere between 48 and 52, I think. Definitely fun to play, and a beast in certain areas of the game.
In PvP, I used to really hate facing pallies - there always seemed to be some crazy Blood Elf pally owning everyone that wasn't a rogue - and I don't think I ever really got the hang of PvPing with my guy.
Pallies, although a bit of an advance class, are great for starting players unsure of themselves - lots of forgiving abilities. Getting a spirit steed at level 20 helps the pocket book as well. Probably a ton easier to level nowadays, due to changing class quests that were incredibly difficult/impossible to solo, especially in a PvP realm. | 2019-04-21T19:08:29 | http://www.midnitetease.com/serendipity/archives/457-World-of-Warcraft-Trial-Account-Trials-The-Paladin.html |
quick, prompt, and ready mean able to respond right away. quick is used when the response is immediate and often when the ability is part of a person's nature. He has quick reflexes. prompt is used when the ability to respond right away is the product of training and discipline. The store gives prompt service. ready is used when the response comes easy or is smooth. He always had a ready answer to every question.
They had a quick drink at the bar. She took a quick shower. She gave him a quick kiss. You're back already? That was quick! We made a quick decision, but it turned out to be a good one. He got a quick reply to his inquiry. His quick thinking allowed him to escape trouble. Her friends admired her quick wit. He walked with quick steps. She has quick, agile hands.
a scheme to get rich quick I got used to living with a roommate pretty quick. I can't run any quicker.
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quickly adverb I ate quickly.
2 : someone's innermost feelings She was hurt to the quick by the remark.
: in a quick manner : fast Come quick!
What made you want to look up quick? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible). | 2019-04-22T18:47:56 | https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quick |
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Bill was a Trustee of the Frederic Remington Art Museum, as well as a member of the museum’s International Advisory Board at the time of his death, April 18, 2013. He was generous with his time, talent and resources. To our surprise, Bill left the museum half of his IRA, amounting to over $223,000. This gift has benefited the museum’s endowment, which will sustain the museum over time. Additionally, he left an endowment with the Central New York Community Foundation, which will generate an annual gift to the museum in perpetuity. Bill also donated his Remington book collection for resale in the museum shop.
Bill, like Frederic Remington loved both horses and canoeing. Bill’s connections with the Remington Museum began decades ago, when he would deliberately drive through Ogdensburg on his way between his family’s Michigan horse farm and Albany Medical Center so he could visit the Remington art that he loved. In recent years, it was a joy to look at Remington’s art with Bill, to hear his characterizations of each Remington horse. We can’t think of a better way to honor Bill’s memory than to name the museum’s legacy society after him.
Bill set an inspiring example. The good news is that you can be a part of the William R. Clark Legacy Society in your own way. All you need to do is make arrangements in your will, or name the museum as a beneficiary with your investment firm, retirement account, or life insurance policy and let us know that you’ve done it. Arranging a planned gift of original art by Frederic Remington will also add your name to the William R. Clark Legacy Society’s rolls.
For two years, ending December, 2015, new members of the William R. Clark Legacy Society will be known as Charter Members, and will receive special recognition and enjoy special events. There are three members so far. Won’t you join us? | 2019-04-24T17:02:49 | https://fredericremington.org/about-william-r-clark-p1443.php |
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’Twas a nice day for a bike ride.
The fall colors had made a stunning surprise appearance, contrary to all predictions that the drought promised to keep them all but muted, and, given that the sunshine was warm, I thought there there couldn’t be a better time to take a tour of St. Paul by Nice Ride bike.
To the uninitiated – not that there could be many of you, if you are paying the slightest bit of attention – Nice Ride is a bike sharing system. You first pay for a daily, monthly, or yearly subscription, and then check out a bike at one station, ride to a different station, and check it back in.
The catch: you only have half an hour to ride between stations before you begin to incur “trip fees”, which for very good reason, grow arithmetically (not exponentially! – just another split hair to help quash the cultural overloading of the term “exponential growth”, used when more often than not what is actually happening is some kind of polynomial or geometric growth. End nerd.). This keeps bikes available in the system, and discourages people from hoarding them at the office.
The system is designed for short trips, in both the placement of the stations, and in the bikes themselves. Stations generally come in clusters that are centered inside a commercial area, or contain common pathways to and from a school.
You certainly would not want to ride a Nice RIde bike all day long over every pothole-pocked road of the city, but they are plenty comfortable for a five minute jaunt from, say, one side of downtown to the other.
If you are an annual subscriber like me, you have your own-RFID based key that can be stuck into a slot in the dock of any bike. This saves much time mucking around with credit cards at the kiosks every time you want to take a ride.
For my tour, I checked out my first bike at the station near Kellogg and Robert, and about 4.5 hours later, I arrived back at that same station, having visited all 46 St. Paul stations along the way.
My routing was ad hoc, and probably not completely optimal, but followed the general idea of tackling the West Side first, then working west along Grand Avenue, and coming back east along University Avenue, down the middle of the LRT tracks whenever appropriate.
I loosely based my strategy around minimizing traversals of the bluffs along the Mississippi, and trying to travel on the spine of the ridge that runs roughly north and south along Snelling Avenue.
I did the whole tour on the same bike. On several occasions at nearly full stations, having gotten into a groove of slamming the bike into the closest open dock to the “legend” end of the station, running over and taking the picture, and running back, I took off on the wrong bike!
Each time I did this, I knew it immediately due to the seat being too low or ridiculously high, but at one station in particular, when I turned back around to get the correct bike, more than one had my exact seat setting, oh no! – but then, looking closely, I was able to pick mine out by the absence of cobwebs on the handlebars.
By no means should this imply that the system has been underutilized – indeed, I think it’s been highly popular – on the contrary, the spiders are wildly efficient in some areas of the city, especially closer to the river! | 2019-04-19T00:16:26 | http://eccentricaspects.com/2012/10/a-nice-tour-of-saint-paul |
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Written by Bob Cassling, with contributions from Tom M.
McCollum Ford Ranch was located in eastern Washington state, near the Idaho border. Dishman is a suburb of Spokane.
McCollum-Crawford Motors was located on a 10 acre lot in Dishman. As Tommy was an avid horseman and thoroughbred racer (racing against the local Chevrolet dealer’s horses), it was only natural that the dealership shared this land with his horses. This led to an informal name change to McCollum Ford Ranch, which stood for many years.
During the 1960's, McCollum Ford Ranch was the primary Shelby dealer for the Eastern Washington region. It looks like McCollum started selling Shelbys in 1967. No record of the earlier cars could be found.
This penny is an interesting promotional item. Keep it for good luck and you will never go broke.
This newspaper ad appeared in the Spokane paper in 1969. The dealership sold seventeen 1968 Shelbys during the model year. Six of these cars were delivered to McCollum in late November 1968. Most cars sold were big blocks and about half of the cars are accounted for in the 1997 Shelby American World Registry. Four cars appear in the advertisement above.
I have actually identified the cars in the above advertisement by their individual serial numbers! The advertisment says "GT500" but after carefully studying the list of cars delivered to McCollum and the dates of their deliveries, there is little doubt, the cars are actually GT500KRs. The horse power ratings and retail prices also support this theory. The serial numbers have been added above.
Bob's car was originally sent to McCollum Ford. It was one of only two GT500 KR convertibles (the other appears in the ad above). Six GT500 KRs were delivered to the dealership on the same day.
Bob noticed his antenna was mounted on the front fender. This is not unusual, although it was intended to be on the rear quarter panel. Antennas were in the trunk during shipping. This prevented them from getting broken off. The dealership was responsible for mounting the antenna. I suspect we will find several of the other McCollum cars also have front mounted antennas.
Tom's car is # 2380. As you can see, it also sports the front mount antenna. This Highland Green GT500 KR was shipped to McCollum in June of 1968 and now resides in California.
One of the other more interesting cars to come from McCollum Ford was serial number 1975. It was later restored for actor, Bruce Willis.
McCollum continued to sell Shelbys through the 1969/70 model year.
Tom sent along a picture of his 1969 Mach 1. It has a 390 engine, a 4 speed transmission, a white interior and a factory AM/FM radio. It was sold new at McCollum in June of 1969.
Today the dealership has been renamed Gus Johnson Ford. Gus Johnson has served as president since 1992 and officially purchased the dealership in 1999. The dealership remains at its original 8300 E Sprague address. They still are selling high performance Mustangs to the Washington state area. So if you ever in Spokane, stop by and visit. | 2019-04-25T07:55:23 | http://www.thecoralsnake.com/McCollum |
subscription service, and Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, havae entered into a non-exclusive agreement that will enable Rhapsody subscribers in the United States to burn more than 40,000 individual tracks from UMG's digital catalog of titles.
Starting October 28, music fans that subscribe to Rhapsody's "All Access" plan can quickly and conveniently burn tracks on-demand for 99 cents each. Using Rhapsody's CD burning software, subscribers can create CDs that can be played in any standard CD player.
"Since we first launched Rhapsody, our subscribers have asked for greater flexibility to burn their favorite music," said Sean Ryan, CEO for Listen.com. "Today's agreement helps us address that demand by enabling subscribers to burn tens of thousands of tracks from UMG's chart-topping artists. It's an important step forward in giving our subscribers more freedom to enjoy digital music away from their PC."
"Universal Music Group is committed to giving consumers more choice in how they access UMG's catalog of music," said Larry Kenswil, president, Universal Music Group eLabs. "Rhapsody gives music fans a legitimate and engaging outlet for enjoying and exploring the music they love, while respecting artists' rights." | 2019-04-20T14:27:54 | https://celebrityaccess.com/caarchive/listen-com-expands-agreement-with-universal-music-group/ |
System Shock is arguably one of gaming's most important sci-fi series and the world just got a glimpse of the next entry in the series. During the Unity keynote at GDC, Warren Spector and developer Otherside Entertainment showcased about 30 seconds of "pre-alpha engine" footage, including a snapshot of the terrifying a.i. construct SHODAN herself.
For more on System Shock, check out this deep dive on how one company brought the franchise back from the grave. | 2019-04-23T04:30:12 | https://www.takeitgame.com/item/215138_shodan-makes-her-terrifying-return-in-the-teaser-for-system-shock-3 |
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