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Luxurious Mediterranean Linen Kippot . Soft and brilliant Spanish linen kippah handmade by local artisans. Each detail is considered in this precious Kippah. You can add embroidery on the panels to personalize your kippah. This is a must for your next jewish event.
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This shirt runs small, the hem on all 6 of these shirts had come unraveled all the way around. The whole shirt is ruined after spending all that money having them embroidered. Never Again!!
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Just the other day your humble correspondent annihilated a huge insect-like monster and dozens of Imperial Stormtroopers on the fiery planet Mustafar. Armed with one blaster each, our team of four battled valiantly, perched over a river of molten lava, then sneaking throughout the many corridors of an enemy ship, and finally into a cargo hold where we encountered none other than Darth Vader, whom we left in a fierce rage after successfully completing our mission and escaping with much-needed intelligence back to our rebel command.
This deep space adventure took place at The VOID, located at St. Mark’s Square within The Grand Canal Shoppes at the Venetian Las Vegas. The VOID is a location-based virtual reality interactive experience that puts the guest INTO the film. There are no spectators here. The attraction, open to the public as of April 27, 2018, promises to be one of the jewels in the Las Vegas crown of must-see attractions.
A global leader of immersive location-based experiences (also in Orlando, Anaheim, London, Dubai, Toronto, Glendale, CA and Lindon, UT) The VOID teamed with ILMxLAB – Lucasfilm’s (as in George Lucas) immersive entertainment division to develop the hyper-reality attraction, Star Wars™: Secrets of the Empire. Talk about a marriage made in (virtual) heaven. The VOID and ILMxLAB could probably make that location possible too.
Physical and virtual worlds intertwine in its collaborators’ newest attraction, as teams of four guests infiltrate an imperial base to steal critical intelligence for the rebellion. To do this they are outfitted as Stormtroopers themselves. They acquire weapons and face enemy attacks. Staying alive has never been this much fun. Believe your eyes because you are actually living, feeling, and even breathing this experience.
The preferred reservation for this “multi-sensory interactive adventure” is online. After picking a date and time, you stroll along St. Mark’s Square in the Venetian with its coffee and ice cream/gelato shops, its elegant restaurants and fashionable clothing and accessory boutiques, until you get to The VOID, situated just across one of the two footbridges that span the interior canal full of passing gondolas.
After checking in, you are escorted to a type of prep-room where you are fastened into high-tech head and body gear (heavy, but worth it for the effects you will encounter). A visored, VR helmet incorporates an Ocular Rift VR headset and an almost jet-pack-like vest with a 20-pound backpack attached (mobile PC). These secure you into another world as you and your team transform into white-clad storm troopers. The mobile PCs allow for a wireless remote VR experience. The vest vibrates for tactile feedback and the VR blasters (think intergalactic submachine gun) spray deadly white bolts of destruction. Guests must be 10 years of age or older.
You will encounter and feel the heat from a monster-filled lava lake, shoot at scores of Stormtroopers (you have a color band so that other rebels can recognize you) and encounter Darth Vader at his most badass. Will you complete the mission? You won’t want to, because that means your VR “trip” is over.
All this food and no way to eat!
Perhaps that galaxy might not be so far, far away after all.
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The McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, in collaboration with the Dutch Cancer Society, Institute of Cancer Policy, Kenya Cancer Association, National Cancer Society Malaysia, and Norwegian Cancer Society hosted a one-day event on 31 October 2016 in conjunction with the UICC World Cancer Congress in Paris. The event brought together 35 representatives from cancer control organisations with an interest in the effective use of law and regulation for cancer control.
Presentations from the day are available here.
Cancer Council Victoria and the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer hosted a lively multi-disciplinary medical and legal panel discussion to consider the range of legal frameworks that impact on the delivery of cancer care in Victoria, including regulation of health professionals, consent laws, and end-of-life law. The law can be complex and there is evidence that it is not always well-understood - or applied. Using case studies to draw out some of the complexities in the law, the discussion illustrated the different ways in which the law impacts on cancer care and experiences and outcomes for cancer patients, their carers and health professionals.
The McCabe Centre hosted a community Q & A panel examining end-of-life choices, including how the law supports people's choices. Expert panellists explained how advance care planning—the process of thinking and talking about what kind of medical care and treatments a person might or might not want when unable to make or communicate their own decisions—can better support decision making at the end of life.
The Norwegian Cancer Society, Danish Cancer Society and McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer ran a workshop on the use of law in preventing and responding to occupational and environmental cancers, and the right to health. Attendees came from Australia, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the UK, and included representatives from other European cancer agencies, trade unions, lawyers and academics.
The event examined legal issues relating to preventing and responding to occupational and environmental cancers, and the legal justiciability of the right to health in national contexts. It was an interactive workshop with presentations, discussions and group work.
The McCabe Centre and Cancer Council Victoria's Clinical Network co-hosted a special end-of-year symposium - Law and cancer: implications for clinical practice - for Clinical Network members and other health and legal professionals. Lawyer and radio personality Bill O'Shea hosted a panel discussion of a case study that incorporated elements of informed consent, medical negligence and end of life law. The McCabe Centre's Dr Deborah Lawson presented findings on informed consent in Victorian cancer care before the panel discussion, which included a medical oncologist, a surgeon, a palliative care physician, a law professor and a QC.
Advance care planning supports better decision-making at end of life for patients, their carers and health professionals. Initiating conversations about this topic can be challenging, and there are several key legal concepts that are important to be across.
Cancer Council Victoria and the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer hosted a free webinar to support health professionals looking to better understand the implications of advance care planning for their practice. More information here .
Organised by UICC and hosted by Cancer Council Australia, the 2014 World Cancer Congress gathered all cancer control professions under one roof, at a crucial time in the global fight against cancer. Held every two years, the World Cancer Congress has become a not-to-be missed event in the global health calendar. The Congress provided participating delegates with even more opportunities to interact with an impressive range of experts from all over the world. The McCabe Centre was involved in Congress sessions on cancer prevention, treatment and care, hosted networking and training events, and had a booth in the Global Village .
The Queensland University of Technology Health Law Research Centre, Dalhousie Health Law Institute and Tsinghua Health Law Research Centre held an International Conference on End of Life: Law, Ethics, Policy and Practice 2014 (ICEL 2014) . This interdisciplinary conference was hosted by the Queensland University of Technology Health Law Research Centre in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from 13-15 August 2014.
McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer and Melbourne Law School launched the book Regulating Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Foods: The Legal Issues co-edited by Professor Tania Voon, Professor Andrew Mitchell and Jonathan Liberman. Click here for further information including purchasing options.
The Gippsland Region Palliative Care Consortium in partnership with the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, are conducting a series of education sessions in the Gippsland region to provide education and training for health professionals to develop knowledge and expertise in advance care planning (ACP) and associated communication skills to better support patients in decision making at the end of life. The education sessions combine clinical insights on conversations about death and dying, with education by legal experts, aimed at familiarising GPs with ACP components that are practical and easily applicable to their practice.
This one day conference brought together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and commentators to explore the use of nudge strategies to incentivise better health. The conference will be of interest to those working or researching in areas involving health and well being, and public health more generally. Please see the flyer for further information.
Plain packaging of tobacco products: Could it happen in South Africa?
The Australian Minister for Health at the time, Ms Nicola Roxon, gave a keynote address at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town to discuss the advent of Australian plain packaging legislation and its aftermath. Please see the flyer for further information.
The theme of the Conference was 'A Smokefree Oceania: getting there together'.
Cancer Council Victoria is facilitated key stakeholder meetings with cancer organisations and other agencies interested in joint advocacy to improve the Victorian Patient Travel Assistance Scheme.
The Making the law work better for people affected by cancer workshop was co-hosted by the McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, Cancer Council Victoria's Strategy and Support Division and the Gippsland Regional Integrated Cancer Services (GRICS).
The 4th International Conference on Advance Care Planning and End of Life Care was held in Melbourne from 9th to 11th May, with sessions on palliative care and improving end of life care for cancer patients, and on the legalities of advance care planning and end of life care. There was also a plenary session on delivering quality end of life care for cancer patients with mental illnes.
The workshop marked the McCabe Centre's first major event with the Norwegian Cancer Society, our Collaborating Centre for Europe, and will brought together cancer control organisations, researchers and advocates from across Europe. It featured focus sessions on tobacco control, obesity, and the legal rights of people with cancer.
Is it the end of the line for the cab rank rule?
The McCabe Centre and Monash University’s Centre for Regulatory Studies hosted an event to examine the bar’s ‘cab rank' rule, and asked: What is the cab rank rule? And to what extent should it apply to barristers representing corporations that do harm, such as the tobacco industry?
Read our blog post on the event: Flagging down a cab or booking a chauffeur-driven limousine? Are we lowering the Bar?
Cancer Council Victoria’s McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, and Strategy and Support Division held an event to look at the laws and policies that impact on Victorians diagnosed with cancer, their families and health professionals.
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2019-04-24T10:18:32Z
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http://www.mccabecentre.org/events/past-events
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James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” is a story that always manages to surprise me because it just works. There is, of course, tremendous style and skill in the execution. But there is nothing ostentatious: no cheap jumps or surprises, no shifts in voice, no postmodern irruptions by the writer. “Sonny’s Blues” is simply an intense story with high stakes. Sonny will either manage to live in this world or, in his great desperation and pain, fall to heroin. This life or death conflict lies naked on the page, so that every word, spoken and narrated, must either point to it or pointedly talk around it, each word advancing the cause of one or the other outcome. Because there is no gimmick to it, because there is honesty and bluntness in the telling of the story, Baldwin is able to rest the world on Sonny’s shoulders. As the story goes on, Baldwin returns again and again to the pronoun “we” and to apocalyptic metaphor. A story about a man convincingly becomes a story about a nation, and a story about human beings. It is not only Sonny’s fate that remains undecided at the end of the story; the apocalyptic “cup of trembling” that sits at the top of Sonny’s piano in the final sentence is meant for all of us.
Eva responds, but doesn’t really respond; that might make her vulnerable. It is typical of most communication in the collection, sensitive negotiations conducted between two hostile parties rather than any sort of genuine exchange. Characters seize on key phrases, remember them exactly, and quote them ad nauseum, as if they were valuable bargaining chips: “Anyway, he told me once that love was not a real thing because it was comprised of too many subsidiary emotions.” Dialogue, for Evans’ characters, is war by other means.
I let out a hushed oath when I read that passage for the first time, as if the characters were sitting right next to me in a crowded restaurant and I was afraid of being overheard. I honestly felt, to my own surprise, scandalized. You know these characters shouldn’t get a pass for their behavior, but you don’t quite blame them for it either. They know a certain pitiless brutality to be an immutable truth of life. Tara, of “Snakes,” puts it nicely: “I felt like somebody ought to stop me from walking out, like there was a rule that you couldn’t leave behind such palatable need.” But, as she well knows, there isn’t. So she does walk out.
Evans’ collection, however, is all about attending to that palatable need. Like Baldwin and Morrison, Evans belongs to the branch of black literary humanism that, simply by recognizing its characters as people, carries with it an implicit social mission. These stories are written with such detail and attention that it sometimes feels like a personal letter, written by one black woman for another, by one loving person for another. It feels necessary. Somebody should tell these women that they are not alone and that they matter.
What makes this collection great is that moral mission, the way that the collection serves as a testament to the value of the individuals whose stories it tells. Race is here, of course. Race cannot help but be here, in every tiny crack and crevice, tainting everything from sunscreen to school pranks. Race cuts and bruises and scars the characters of this collection. But beyond their intricate filigrees of defensiveness, beyond the ways that others insist on seeing them, the characters of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self are people. They want those awfully basic things that can be expressed in simple, declarative thrusts: I want to be loved, I want your love, I want a real family. These primary human dramas are what ultimately drive the stories in the collection, and the need in these stories is so obvious and strong that it levels the heart. Such an insistent demand for love should be heard; it is worthy of being chronicled in books. There isn’t a rule that you can’t leave behind such palatable need, of course. We know this. But the gap between what we know and what we think should be is the place from which great literature often emerges. There isn’t such a rule, but as Danielle Evans persuasively argues, there ought to be.
I tend to like and lean towards creative things made by womenfolk—perhaps it has to do with being handed a Cibo Matto mixtape at a crucial point of adolescence or deciding to major in post-1945 yonic-ceramic-art-history in college (yes! I really did this!); yellow-wallpapered observations are always my default reads. But this year, I found myself reading almost exclusively female writers–and more specifically, their collections of short stories. As Lorrie Moore puts it (best, always best), I have entered “that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity,” and the best way I’ve found to navigate—or at least subsist within—it are these compact little morsels of ladywriting, with beginnings, middles, and ends. I blame the Internet and Saturn’s return.
My favorite discovery this year was Canadian bookseller Deborah Willis, whose debut collection Vanishing and Other Stories really floored me. Willis has this airy, almost giggly writing voice that sounds like a Valley Girl gifted with an Oxford education (example: “What I did understand, later but still way before Claudia did, was that it was impossible. That we could never break free. No matter what we did, we could never separate them from us. Our bodies were built by the lentils and flax they’d fed us. Their bone structure lingered in our faces.”) The title story in her collection is told by a woman whose neurotic author father mysteriously left his attic office one day and just never returned—the narrator is still stunned by it after so many years, this spectral longing, this losing a person due to the fact that they simply do not wish to be found. If you have time to read one more short story this year, consider making that one it.
Willis’ work reminded me a bit, but not too much, of Aimee Bender’s wonderful, casual magical realism, which I am (utterly, blushingly) ashamed to say was a 2010 revelation. Her latest novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake–about people who eat their feelings in every literal way–was one of my favorite long reads this year, but I found myself gravitating more often in quiet moments to her debut story collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, which contains one of the best descriptions of losing love I’ve found. A woman’s lover experiences “reverse evolution,” becoming a monkey, then a salamander-like primitive creature that she must let out to sea. “Sometimes I think he’ll wash up on shore,” she writes. “A naked man with a startled look. Who has been to history and back.” And isn’t that what we all want from past loves? Bewilderment and a sudden return to our stoop. Point: Bender.
The last woman-penned story collection I read was Michele Latiolais’ forthcoming Widow, which is weird and sad and compulsive and continues to stick to my ribs. Latiolais writes about grief in such a raw way—she joins the general pantheon of No-More-Husband literature (high priestess: J-Did), but her style is so unique as to be another genre altogether.
And also! Danielle Evans’ Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, which nails so much in so little space.
There are many ways to measure a year, but the reader is likely to measure it in books. There was the novel that felt as fresh and full of promise as the new year in January, the memoir read on the bus to and from work through the grey days of March, the creased paperback fished from a pocket in the park in May, the stacks of books thumbed through and sandy-paged, passed around at the beach in August, the old favorite read by light coming in the window in October, and the many books in between. And when we each look back at our own years in reading, we are almost sure to find that ours was exactly like no other reader’s.
The end of another year brings the usual frothy and arbitrary accounting of the “best” this and the “most” that. But might it also be an opportunity to look back, reflect, and share? We hope so, and so, for a seventh year, The Millions has reached out to some of our favorite writers, thinkers, and readers to name, from all the books they read this year, the one(s) that meant the most to them, regardless of publication date. Grouped together, these ruminations, cheers, squibs, and essays will be a chronicle of reading and good books from every era. We hope you find in them seeds that will help make your year in reading in 2011 a fruitful one.
As we have in prior years, the names of our 2010 “Year in Reading” contributors will be unveiled one at a time throughout the month as we post their contributions. You can bookmark this post and follow the series from here, or load up the main page for more new Year in Reading posts appearing at the top every day, or you can subscribe to our RSS feed and follow along in your favorite feed reader.
Stephen Dodson, coauthor of Uglier Than a Monkey’s Armpit, proprietor of Languagehat.
Fiona Maazel, author of Last Last Chance.
John Banville, author of The Sea, The Infinities, and many other books.
Al Jaffee, legendary Mad Magazine writer and cartoonist.
Lionel Shriver, author of So Much for That and several other books.
Emma Rathbone, author of The Patterns of Paper Monsters.
Joshua Cohen, author of Witz.
Jonathan Dee, author of The Privileges and several other books.
Jennifer Gilmore, author of Something Red.
Stephen Elliott, editor of The Rumpus and author of The Adderall Diaries.
Dan Kois, author of Facing Future.
Bill Morris, Millions staff writer and author of Motor City.
Mark Sarvas, author of Harry, Revised, proprietor of The Elegant Variation.
Emma Donoghue, author of Room and several other books.
Margaret Atwood, author of Year of the Flood and many other books.
Lynne Tillman, author of American Genius and several other books.
Hamilton Leithauser, of The Walkmen.
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood and other books.
Anthony Doerr, author of Memory Wall and other books.
Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies.
Tom Rachman, author of The Imperfectionists.
Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and several other books.
Philip Lopate, author of Notes on Sontag and several other books.
Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask and other books.
Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge.
Joseph McElroy, author of Women and Men and several other books.
Alexander Theroux, author of Laura Warholic and several other books.
Laura van den Berg, author of What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us.
Emily St. John Mandel, Millions staff writer and author of Last Night In Montreal and The Singer’s Gun.
John Williams, founding editor of The Second Pass.
Edan Lepucki, Millions staff writer, author of If You’re Not Yet Like Me.
Ed Champion, proprietor of edrants.com and The Bat Segundo Show.
Maud Newton, proprietor of maudnewton.com.
Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review.
Tom McCarthy, author of C and Remainder.
Keith Gessen, author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and founding editor of n+1.
Rosecrans Baldwin, author of You Lost Me There and co-founder of The Morning News.
Paul Harding, author of Tinkers.
Sigrid Nunez, author of Salvation City and several other books.
Matt Weiland, editor of The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup and State by State.
Allegra Goodman, author of The Cookbook Collector and several other books.
Adam Levin, author of The Instructions and several other books.
Michael Cunningham, author of By Nightfall, The Hours and several other books.
Sam Anderson, book critic, New York magazine.
Richard Nash, of Cursor and Red Lemonade.
Seth Mnookin, author of Hard News and The Panic Virus.
Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age.
Marisa Silver, author of The God of War and other books.
David Gutowski, of Largehearted Boy.
Emily Colette Wilkinson, Millions staff writer.
Jenny Davidson, author of Invisible Things and other books.
Scott Esposito, proprietor of Conversational Reading and editor of The Quarterly Conversation.
Carolyn Kellogg, LA Times staff writer.
Anne K. Yoder of The Millions.
Marjorie Kehe, book editor at the Christian Science Monitor.
Neal Pollack, author of Stretch: The Unlikely Making Of A Yoga Dude and other books.
Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self.
Allen Barra writes for the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Beast.
Dorothea Lasky, author of Black Life and AWE.
Avi Steinberg, author of Running the Books, The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian.
Stephanie Deutsch, critic and historian.
Lydia Kiesling, Millions staff writer.
Lorraine Adams, author of The Room and the Chair.
Rachel Syme, NPR.com books editor.
Garth Risk Hallberg, Millions staff writer and author of A Field Guide to the North American Family.
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine posted a goodreads review of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. In it, he wrote that he wished books with more than 10% of “teenage girl content” came with an advisory warning. This way, he could avoid them. This was puzzling to me. If a book had a label that said, “Warning! Teenagers Inside!” I would be more likely to pick it up. Doesn’t every reader, male or female, young or old, find that phase of life to be particularly dramatic, moving, screwed up, and beautiful? I loved the teenagers that populated Egan’s latest novel, especially Rhea, who narrates the chapter/story “Ask Me if I Care,” and not only because she’s a freckle-face like I was (am). She’s vulnerable and wise, and also incredibly naive, too. Her desires are painfully strong, and yet she cannot totally understand them.
Teenagers have a real drive to be independent, to discover and define (or defy) their identities. And yet, they’re also powerless. They have their parents’ will to contend with, and their friends’ complicated codes of behavior. They have the secret shames of the body. They long for the purity and ease of childhood even as they fling themselves into the dangers of adulthood. In short, they make for compelling characters.
Books about teenage boys, it seems to me, are often about a rage that is hard to control and understand. Jim Shepard’s Project X is a fine example of the genre. About a Columbine-style act of school violence, and the two eighth grade boys who perpetrate it, the novel is engrossing, compassionate, and oddly mundane in its faithful depiction of contemporary American adolescence. Whenever I think of Go-gurts, I think of this book.
I haven’t yet read Patterns of Paper Monsters by Emma Rathbone, but I want to. Narrated by seventeen year-old Jacob Higgins, who is sent to a juvenile correctional facility for committing a violent crime, the book has been described as sad and funny, and The Daily Beast promises “there’s no sappy uplift here.” At The New Yorker Book Bench blog, Eileen Reynolds writes that Jacob, “may be cut from the same cloth as Holden Caulfield, but he’s a good bit funnier and a lot less mopey than the angsty adolescent male narrators from many coming-of-age books that have followed Catcher in the Rye.” He sounds like a narrator I could fall in love with.
Jane Eyre. According to a footnote in my edition, Charlotte Bronte’s novel about the poor, unloved orphan who falls for that creep Mr. Rochester is probably the first occurrence of a first-person narration by a child in British literature. Perhaps that’s what renders this book so intimate and authentic. Jane is a complex, independent woman, and her storytelling is modern and hyper-conscious. I’ve always loved Jane’s bookishness, her honesty, and her plain looks. It’s her evolution from child to woman that provides us with a panoramic understanding of her character.
Mick Kelly. It’s been a long time since I’ve read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. I have a terrible memory, but this novel’s teenage protagonist is never really far from my mind. Mick dresses like a boy. She feels trapped in her small Southern town. She is composing a symphony in her head called “This Thing I Want, I Know Not What.” That phrase…God, it’s haunted me for years.
Thisbe Casper. Thisbe is the younger of the two teenage daughters in Joe Meno’s most recent novel, The Great Perhaps. She’s a fervent believer in God among a family of nonbelievers, and she also has a crush on her friend Roxie, which fills her with fear and shame. She’s aglow with all kinds of feelings, and I adore her. It’s no surprise that Thisbe was Meno’s favorite character in the book.
Chloe from Charles Baxter’s The Feast of Love. The Feast of Love was on my list of favorite books of the decade, partially because of Chloe’s sections, which are narrated with a raw, kinetic energy. Chloe’s boyfriend is pierced-up Oscar with “the blond hair, the snaggle-toothed smile, the bomb-shelter eyes.” I’m not sure how old Chloe is (if it said in the book, I don’t remember), but she seems about nineteen to me — she’s got that reckless hopefulness in her. At the beginning of her first section, she says of her and Oscar, “We were swoon machines,” and I, the reader, swoon myself. I love that Baxter marries colloquialisms and cliche with striking, unique turns of phrase to get at a teenager’s way of moving through the world.
“Nah,” he said, and I didn’t know whether to feel pissed off or pretty.
This exchange captures so well what it feels like to be that age: wanting approval, and respect, and also wanting to be desired, even if you don’t feel that desire back. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of Evans’s stories, to see how she deepens her exploration of this puzzling and complex demographic. Something tells me she will.
Writing this almost makes me want to write another book about a teenager. Almost — it’s not easy, throwing yourself into that world again. But I could read dozens of books about teenagers. Dozens! And those warning stickers? They’d help.
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2019-04-22T10:42:50Z
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https://themillions.com/books-reviews/before-you-suffocate-your-own-fool-self-1594487693
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North East Ohio BBQ Restaurants? whats good whats not?
Big Bob Gibson's in Monroe, NC: CLOSED!!!
Ribs in a hour and half???
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2019-04-22T03:25:52Z
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Jerusalem Style Silver Plated Fountain, 6 Cups. Dimensions: 8 cups fountain - 8.5"H, Big Cup - 3.25", Small cups - 2" inches.
This traditional Kiddush cup is unique in its presentation as a gift for year-round or ceremonial use . Made of pewter and presented in a gift box, this cup features a detailed artwork that will inspire for years to come!.
Jerusalem Style Pewter Fountain, 8 Cups. Dimensions: 8 cups fountain - 11"H, Big Cup - 4", Small cups - 2" inches.
Bring Beracha to your home with this stylish Kiddush cup. Impress your guests with its simple beauty and contemporary design. For sabbath and all holidays. Makes a great gift!
Enhance your Sabbath and Holidays with this decorative and elegant glass Kiddush cup with plate.
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2019-04-24T14:01:35Z
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Prime members pay an annual membership rate of $119 per year, or $12.99 per month. You can click the "Watch this Deal" button on any deal that's more than 10 minutes away to add it to your "Watching" list.
Last year, the best-selling product on Prime Day in the United Kingdom was the Oral B Smart Series electric toothbrush. Going through the entire sale can be a frustrating task, but we'll help you out with that.
We'll be sifting through the offers on July 16 to highlight the promotions that are worth your while. All deals exclusive to Prime Day will have a blue tag on them letting you know that they'll expire at the end of the 36-hour period.
What do you hope to score out of Prime Day? Track your Prime Day orders with Alexa.
On Sunday 15 July, Amazon will host a so-called unboxing at a secret location in London with a host of exclusive entertainment experiences for all the family.
They include three months free trial for Discovery, Shudder, BFI and MGM video channels, four months AMU (Amazon Music Unlimited) individual plan for 99p and a bounty for every qualifying Prime free trial sign-up.
Another major product category that gets the most attention is smartphones. But even if you miss it, Amazon tends to discount its hardware at least once a month.
Amazon has a few early offers online for Prime subscribers. If you have the money to spend, you might as well score some great deals and stimulate the economy, right? Whole Foods will also be involved in Prime Day this year with deals and offers at all us stores, after being acquired by Amazon a year ago. If you're planning to get a Fire tablet, Fire TV, or an Echo, you may want to check out Amazon.
According to the company, Prime Day 2018 will feature 50% more Spotlight Deals and over "one million deals globally". This is exclusive to Prime members but of course, anyone can take advantage of the offers and discounts. The various Amazon Brands are running deals today as well, including AmazonBasics and various home and clothing brands. The app lets you get "sneak peek" advance notice of deals and sign up for alerts. Taking a page from rival Alibaba, which hosts its Singles Day shopping event in China, Amazon in 2015 created the shopping holiday in mid-summer, one of the slowest times of the year.
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2019-04-21T16:07:00Z
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http://crickick.com/2018/07/04/amazons-july-16-prime-day-will-spill-over-into-second-day.html
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If you’re considering the Simutech Training System or just want more information, we’re happy to help.
Please send us a quick email to [email protected] and someone from our team will get back to you. We look forward to assisting you.
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2019-04-21T08:42:55Z
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Free Spirit of Buddhism, make Life your Art!
~ Ki can be a measurement to know one’s power of good fortune.
~ Ki is effective in Oriental Medicine, also in martial arts.
~ Ki affects each relationship between you and another person.
Words, Image and state of your Heart.
because Ki is in your subconscious.
~ Through Ki work you can imagine the future of the other person.
~ If your Ki is comfortable, light and warm – your future is comfortable, light and warm.
it’s a primal sense that everybody has.
Contact a Tao Sangha Centre near you for more information about this free Workshop.
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2019-04-22T20:23:18Z
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https://taosangha-na.com/learning/power-of-ki-workshop/
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2019-04-25T08:17:58Z
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http://www.miniairconditionerguys.com/ut/mini-air-conditioner-in-brigham-city/
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Disabilities Awareness Day was held recently. Description of the event; Varsity team won first place in Illinois State Science Olympiad held April 10 a the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They will compete in the nationals May 22. Students mentioned include Leah Rivkin, Sean Ye, Elizabeth Lee, Vivian Jou, Michael Gobeli, Shannon He, Amanda Newmark, Emile Motta de Castro, Ari Wolfe, Mel Racenstein, Adam Eggert, Andy Feis, Mick Riordan, Mike Knippen. Junior varsity members include Alexander Chen, Rene Chen, Aiyappa Kodendera, Lauren Newmark, Clara Yam, David Yan, Danny Belknap, Sahar Bhai, Stephanie Chen, Allison Gomez, Jessica Jeon, Jamie Knippen, Josh Park, Solena Rizzato, Don Sirivat, Andrew Wei, Ethan Wirth, Jonah Wolfe, Samantha Yang. Teacher coaches include James Gravagna, Darren Persino, Peter OGden and Shannon Wright.
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2019-04-24T17:14:31Z
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http://history.wilmettelibrary.info/1426865/data
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What Limits the Effectiveness of School-Based Anti-Smoking Programmes?
Backround: It is generally accepted that living in families where there are smokers, children are stressed not only by the harmful physical exposure to second-hand and third-hand tobacco smoke, but also by the negative models of the adult relatives' behaviour, as relatives who smoke can inspire children to imitate this behaviour, influencing attitudes towards, and early experiments with smoking. In this paper, some of the most important results about influence of family smoking on the effects of the anti-smoking educational programme "Non-smoking Is Normal" are described.
Methods: The school-based programme was created by medical and educational specialists and targets children at the first level of primary schools (aged from 6 to 11 years). The data about interesting outcomes of the programme (knowledge, attitudes, behaviour) were collected by anonymous questionnaire, administered twice in each school year: one month before the complex of 5 lectures (pre-tests) and 4-5 months after the last lecture (post-tests). The sample of participants (860-910) was divided into four groups, according to the intervention and family backrounds: (1) programme children from smoking families "P-S"; (2) control children from smoking families "C-S"; (3) programme children from non-smoking families "P-NS"; (4) control children from non-smoking families "C-NS". The differences in the frequency of children's answers were analysed using the tests in statistic Epi Info software, version 6.04a (chi-square, Mantel Haenszel, Yates, Fisher).
Results: In the programme group, the number of children with smoking relatives was significantly higher than in the control group (80.1% vs. 73.0%, p<0.01) as well as of those who reported frequent/daily exposure to secondhand smoke at homes and/or in cars (49.5% vs. 40.0%, p<0.01). Smoking families significantly influenced the children's seeking of smoking friends (40% vs. 17%, p<0.01). The programme has significantly increased the amount of knowledge about health risks of smoking. Both in the programme and control groups of children from non-smoking families, the frequency of critics of adults smoking was significantly higher all the time of the study (p<0.05 and 0.01 resp.); however, the programme influenced children's opinions about smoking (criticism) only partially. Children's actual intentions about their smoking in the future was fully influenced by their smoking household environment: the number of "future no-smokers" has decreased in time and was significantly less frequent among children from smoking families (p<0.01). The frequency of those willing to smoke significantly increased within the period between 3rd and 5th grades, both in the programme and the control groups (p<0.01). An almost linear increase of active experimentations with cigarette smoking in follow-up monitoring was seen, trends of smoking children were steeper in groups from smoking families. The number of experiments with smoking was significantly lower in programme children of non-smoking parents only at the end of the study (p<0.05).
Conclusions: Despite of the effort to initiate parental participation on the primary prevention of smoking, we have confirmed that smoking in families decreased the efficacy of anti-smoking intervention targeted on young children at school age.
Publication information: Article title: What Limits the Effectiveness of School-Based Anti-Smoking Programmes?. Contributors: Hrubá, Drahoslava - Author, Zaloudíková, Iva - Author. Journal title: Central European Journal of Public Health. Volume: 20. Issue: 1 Publication date: March 2012. Page number: 18+. © National Institute of Public Health. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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2019-04-22T16:40:06Z
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https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-2653153111/what-limits-the-effectiveness-of-school-based-anti-smoking
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Inspection range in straight above ground pipeline is typically 50 meters on either side of the MsS probes and can be up to 150 meters in ideal conditions.
Only a 25-mm clearance is needed around the pipe in dry coupling; the clearance is to 12 mm in permanent monitoring.
Operates on pipes from 3/4 to 60 inches in diameter. In monitoring mode MsS probe is made and installed at onsite. Probe is very light (less than 1 kg for 24-inch pipe testing probe).
Software indication of multiple reflections.
Good direction control with 360° continuously covering probe along the circumference of pipe.
Time-controlled gain (TCG) function that increases signal-to-noise ratio of signals reflected from a defect or geometric feature at a long distance.
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2019-04-22T08:23:52Z
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http://gwanalysis.com/specifications.html
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The Spohrs Are Multiplying Welcome To My Restaurant!
She is so cute…and well organized!
I want to come to her restaurant!
Yeah, I kinda love her, too. Thanks for another morning smile.
What a lovely restaurant! I’m digging that tea set — very stylish. Not that Annie would settle for anything less.
So adorable! And I love the tea set!
You should post pictures of Annies room!
OK! I will do that sometime. This is actually my niece’s room. She has all the cool toys.
She looks like she is loving life! SO cute!
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2019-04-24T04:06:24Z
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http://thespohrsaremultiplying.com/photos/welcome-to-my-restaurant/
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This flash originally appeared in SC 5.1, available in print and ebook forms at our store. Subscribe for more great flash delivered directly 2.5 times per year. Read on!
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2019-04-21T22:12:39Z
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https://stormcellarquarterly.com/tag/travel/
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This week’s parasha, parashat Tazria, opens with the laws concerning purification of a woman after childbirth. This is followed by an extensive description of the symptoms and treatment of the ancient disease, צָרָעַת Tzara’at.
Although Tzara’at appears to be a dermatological malady, our rabbis have attributed its manifestation to evil speech (see Tazria 5760-2000 & Tazria 5763-2003).
The Torah lists the various forms of the disease and the areas where the disease may appear, such as on the head and face. Scripture also describes the early symptoms of the disease and its proper diagnosis. Tzara’at may appear as a swelling, a scab, as a bright spot on the skin or in a boil or a burn, as an infection on the hair of the head or beard, or as baldness at the front or back of the head.
Those who are diagnosed with Tzara’at are quarantined and sent out of the entire camp of Israel for seven days. Only after healing, is the infected person permitted to return to camp and undergo a cleansing ritual. The parasha concludes with the rules regarding another form of Tzara’at that afflicts garments.
The discussion of Tzara’at continues in next week’s parasha, parashat Metzorah, with the rituals of cleansing and purification of the afflicted person, and concludes with the regulations regarding the form of Tzara’at that manifests itself in the structure of Jewish homes.
The two parashiot, Tazria and Metzorah are the closest things to a medical treatise that is to be found in the Biblical text.
Although Jews have always played a prominent role in medicine and in the development of healing, the Bible’s attitude toward medicine and healing appears to be somewhat restrained, perhaps even ambivalent.
Despite its great length and breadth, the Bible says little about medical practice. The earliest reference to illness in the Bible, goes back to Genesis 20:17 and the times of Abimelech, the king of Grar. Abimelech was punished, together with his household, with the closing of their bodily orifices, because the king had taken Abram’s wife, Sarai (their names had not yet been changed to Abraham and Sarah), to his palace. Abram prays to G-d for healing, and they are healed.
Other instances of medical-related references include Isaac, who prays opposite his wife, Rebecca, because she is barren. Later, in Genesis 25:22, when Rebecca conceives and experiences terrible labor pains because the children are fighting inside her, she goes to ask G-d what will be her fate. In Numbers 12:63, Moses prays for his sister, Miriam, who is stricken with Tzara’at, by reciting the very beautiful prayer, “Please G-d, heal her please.” In this week’s parasha, it should be noted that the person who is stricken with the Tzara’at disease is only diagnosed by the priest, but is not treated medically. Instead, he is excluded from the camp, and is expected to heal naturally.
In Exodus 15:25, Moses heals the bitter water at Marah, sweetening it by throwing a branch into the water. In the following verse, Exodus 15:26, G-d promises the Jewish people that all the illnesses and diseases with which the Egyptians were stricken, will not afflict the Jewish people, after all, declares the Al-mighty: “I am the L-rd, your Healer.” In Numbers 21:9, Moses is commanded to make a copper serpent, so that all those who are bitten by the snakes will look up at Heaven and be healed. The prophet, Elisha, sweetens the bitter water of Jericho with salt (Kings II, 2:20-22). He also heals the son of the Shunammite, by praying to G-d and reviving the child, by giving what appears to be artificial respiration (Kings II, 4:34). Naaman, the Aramean general, is healed from his Tzara’at by the prophet Elisha, by bathing in the waters of the Jordan (Kings II, 5:14). Isaiah heals king Hezekiah, through the application of a cake of figs (Isaiah 38:21).
There are a number of other subtle references to medicinal applications and healing. In Genesis 50:2, the healers of Egypt embalm the deceased Jacob. In Chronicles 2, 16:2, there is a reference to King Assah, who, when he was ill, instead of seeking G-d, summoned help only from doctors, implying that King Assah was sinful for not praying to G-d.
Ben Sirah is probably the first major Jewish source to pay warm tribute to physicians. While he urges the sick to pray for Divine help, he encourages them strongly to seek medical advice. He concludes that G-d has indeed appointed the physician for this beneficent task.
Many prominent medieval rabbis were also distinguished practicing physicians, among them the poet and philosopher, Rabbi Judah HaLevi, the philosopher and Halachist, Moses Maimonides, as well as Nachmanides.
In his commentary, Mishna Nidarim 4, Maimonides concludes that the mitzvah of healing another person falls under the rubric of restoring a lost object to its proper owner. His conclusion is based on the Talmudic statement found in Sanhedrin 73a that a person who loses his physical well-being needs to be “restored.” All the members of the Sanhedrin, the ancient Supreme Court of Israel, were expected to be knowledgeable in the art of medicine. Rabbi Joseph Karo concludes in The Code that, today, to heal oneself one must not rely on miracles, but rather engage in the common practices of medicine.
The Taz notes that, although true healing comes only through G-d’s mercy, not every person merits that mercy, unless they are engaged as well in the natural medical practices. Based on the verse in Exodus 21:19, רַק שִׁבְתּוֹ יִתֵּן, וְרַפֹּא יְרַפֵּא, the Talmud in Baba Kamma 85a concludes that a person who harms another person must pay the victim’s loss of income and medical expenses. Rabbi Yishmael deduces from the words, וְרַפֹּא יְרַפֵּא, that a physician is permitted to heal.
May healing to all those who are in need come swiftly and completely.
This Shabbat, also known as Shabbat HaChodesh, is the last of the four special Shabbatot that surround the holiday of Purim. On this Shabbat, a thematic Torah portion concerning the new month, Nisan, is read from Exodus 12:1-20. This year, Rosh Chodesh Nisan, which marks the first day of the month of redemption, will take place on Monday evening and Tuesday, March 31st and April 1st, 2014.
Tagged: -The Jewish Attitude Toward Healing and Medicine, 2014, 5774, Abimelech, disease, doctors, illness, Judaism, medical, Miriam, physicians, Rabbi Buchwald, sick, Tazria.
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2019-04-18T10:27:21Z
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https://rabbibuchwald.njop.org/2014/03/24/tazria-5774-2014/
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Leroy Alderman, President, has been an Alaska resident since 1973. Since his arrival, LeRoy has been involved in building custom homes and remodeling throughout Anchorage, Eagle River, Chugiak, and Mat-Su area. He is a licensed, bonded and insured general contractor. Whether building the future or restoring the past, every project is approached with dedication and determination to make our clients dreams their reality.
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2019-04-26T04:18:03Z
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https://www.cer.org/list/member/m2c1-inc-chugiak-123.htm
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We're excited to announce that RxCBD has been accepted into Telluride Venture Accelerators' 2017 program! RxCBD creates, manufactures, and markets industrial hemp CBD-infused products for pets and their people.
This is the 5th year of the program, and building on the success of the past four years, we're especially excited to introduce our largest, most international, and latest stage group of companies yet.
The teams will be on-site in Telluride starting the first week of March and culminating on June 30th with a Demo Day and community showcase. Throughout the program, the teams will have access to our network of almost one hundred mentors and they will get to work directly with some well known experts in their fields to dive deep into many aspects of their business.
On June 9th and 10th the KYHRF is hosting a hempcrete building workshop in Lexington in partnership with NoLi CDC. It is $125 or $100 for HIA members. You can find more information HERE.
The Kentucky Hemp Research Foundation has launched The Friends of Hemp Crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo Generosity. The campaign supports a few educational programs and research projects, one of which is analyzing the thermodynamics in the hemp house. This is breakthrough research for hemp building materials The campaign has hit 20% of it's goal within month. A little over $6,000. They recieved major donations from Hinkle Environmental Services, Hinkle Block and Masonry and G.F. Vaughan Tobacco. The campaign will continue through summer, please donate and share the campaign with friends and family to support educational and research programs! We appreciate everyone's support! Check it out and donate HERE.
The date for the Hemp Technologies Lexington Hempcrete Workshop has changed and will now be held on Thursday, September 7th.
Florida becomes the 33rd state to pass a hemp farming law. Hemp legislation in Florida shook off its opposition and ended up finishing strong with unanimous votes in the Senate and 108-6 in the House. The bill goes to the Governor for signing otherwise it becomes law in 30 days.
The bill is Section 7606 compliant and allows public/private partnerships to research hemp farming with no state funds used. It allows all aspects of farming, processing and market research. It forbids commercialization for two years. Hemp extracts are not prohibited. Tissue culture work that might lead to THC concentrations in excess of 0.3% are prohibited (i.e. no medical marijuana).
The Florida Department of Agriculture (FDACS) must commence rule making in 4 months. University Regents must approve hemp research. Universities must engage in research partnerships.
Denver, Colorado, May 15, 2017 –Therabis has launched a new line of dog treat supplements, to complement its industry-leading hemp wellness food supplement powders. Built on naturally occurring CBD from hemp, the new treat format introduces an easy to administer fast-acting dose of THC-free cannabinoids and will be available in two different formulations.
Building on the success of their Calm and Quiet formula, the Therabis Calm and Quiet Treat Supplement combines the power of whole-plant cannabinoids with L-theanine and chromium to ease dogs’ anxiety and help them maintain a calm demeanor through stressful situations. “Our Calm and Quiet powder has experienced 160% year-over-year growth from owners looking to help their dog with generalized anxiety issues. With the new treat supplement, people can help not only these dogs but otherwise ‘normal’ dogs maintain their calm through extenuating situations that stress them out – like fireworks or visits to the vet,” stated Kurt Forstmann, Director of Therabis.
Therabis treat supplements are now available at https://Therabis.com, and retail locations throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia.
Friends, colleagues, supporters; we would like to inform you of some of the exciting developments taking place behind the scenes at the foundation and with its partners. We would also like to thank everyone who has recently became a member of the foundation as your support advances hemp research and education.
IHRF Executive Director, Tom Dermody, had the opportunity to personally thank Raphael Mechoulam, the father of modern cannabis research, for his contributions to the research field during the ICR conference.
IHRF President, David Bush, Executive Director, Tom Dermody, and CSU-Pueblo University Representative, Brian Vanden Heuvel participated in the first annual, Institute of Cannabis Research Symposium in late April.
The conference included representatives from 19 states and 9 countries. Topics of interest included medincials, consumer safety and industrial applications of cannabis. The keynote address was delivered by non other than Raphael Mechoulam, considered by many the father of modern cannabis research.
IHRF Executive Director, Tom Dermody, considers the conference to be a huge success- "It's fascinating to see what has happened at the ICR in just one year. I'm very excited to see how the IHRF can support further developments based at CSU-Pueblo in the coming year."
IHRF welcomes new Board of Directors and staff in Q2!
compliance agencies in the public and private sectors. In addition, she worked for a national environmental testing laboratory.
Debbie recognizes the positive impact the industrial hemp plant can have on regional and national economic development. She believes responsible growth requires industry and regulatory collaboration to develop quality control guidelines and encourage research. Her company, RxCBD, relies on responsible business practices and strives to be a quality leader in the hemp product space.
Brian is native to the great state of Colorado, born and raised. He has lived in nearly every part of the Denver metro area and has seen tremendous growth, including the paving of some roads!
Brian is a long-time advocate for the cannabis legalization movement. That passion was a catalyst for him to closely research the current insurance needs and concerns for cannabis businesses and eventually dedicate his efforts to proudly serving the hemp and cannabis industry via his company Foundations Insurance & Financial Services, Inc.
Atalo Holdings, Inc. of Winchester, KY, has announced several new CBD offerings for wholesale and white label markets.
The variety is rich with terpenes, which are the markers of aroma, flavor and nutritional value. “When you sample this Full-Spectrum, Kentucky-Grown CBD, you can taste the goodness. Just like a fine Kentucky bourbon, ingredients matter. Or, if you like analogies, just like a Kentucky thoroughbred racehorse, pedigree matters.” Graves said.
In another development, Atalo is now offering a Full Spectrum CBD with 0% THC line, available today for wholesale and white label markets. A spokesperson for Atalo reports that the new Full Spectrum CBD with 0% THC line is the color of honey, flavor neutral and easily mixable. CBD concentrations from 75% to 25% are available through an innovative super-critical CO2 separation process.
Details: Join us at Full Circle Market in Winchester, KY to learn about The State of Hemp in The Hemp State. Hear from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture about how the hemp industry is growing in the state. Brief presentations from: The Hemp Industries Association, KY Chapter President, Chad Rosen; CV Sciences with an update from Josh Hendrix about getting domestic hemp (KY Grown) into PlusCBD Oil; and learn about the Hemp Highway from Dan Isenstein. Food samples will be provided from Laura's Hemp Chocolates and Victory Hemp Foods.
Details: NoLi CDC, KYHIA, and the Kentucky Hemp Research are putting together a hemp building course sponsored by CV Sciences. There will also be an event on Saturday night open to the public at Rockhouse Brewing.
237 kgs of Carmagnola Selezionta arrived in North Carolina on 5/18/2017. After establishing the North Carolina Industrial Hemp Commission with the passing of HB 313 in 2015, The state has received its first industrial hemp seed since the early 1930's if not before.
The foundation seed is supplied by Schiavi Seeds of Lexington Ky and will be grown by Grabtown Farming LLC for White Hat Seed Farm in Hertford, NC. White Hat will in turn sell a portion of harvested seed to growers next year while the remaining will be replanted in 2018 to produce certified C1 seeds.
Fen Rascoe of Grabtown Farming LLC holds the license to grow and said that he's excited to finally get some seed in the ground after two years of regulatory red tape and delays.
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2019-04-26T14:20:00Z
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https://thehia.org/page-18159/4874981
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The domain within your query sequence starts at position 140 and ends at position 189; the E-value for the LRRCT domain shown below is 4.49e-4.
Leucine-rich repeats (LRR, see IPR001611) consist of 2-45 motifs of 20-30 amino acids in length that generally folds into an arc or horseshoe shape [(PUBMED:14747988)]. LRRs occur in proteins ranging from viruses to eukaryotes, and appear to provide a structural framework for the formation of protein-protein interactions [(PUBMED:11751054)]. Proteins containing LRRs include tyrosine kinase receptors, cell-adhesion molecules, virulence factors, and extracellular matrix-binding glycoproteins, and are involved in a variety of biological processes, including signal transduction, cell adhesion, DNA repair, recombination, transcription, RNA processing, disease resistance, apoptosis, and the immune response.
LRRs are often flanked by cysteine-rich domains: an N-terminal LRR domain (IPR000372) and a C-terminal LRR domain. This entry represents the C-terminal LRR domain.
There are 43815 LRRCT domains in 36442 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.
Taxonomic distribution of proteins containing LRRCT domain.
This tree includes only several representative species. The complete taxonomic breakdown of all proteins with LRRCT domain is also avaliable.
Click on the protein counts, or double click on taxonomic names to display all proteins containing LRRCT domain in the selected taxonomic class.
A structural basis of the interactions between leucine-rich repeats and protein ligands.
The leucine-rich repeat is a recently characterized structural motif used in molecular recognition processes as diverse as signal transduction, cell adhesion, cell development, DNA repair and RNA processing. We present here the crystal structure at 2.5 A resolution of the complex between ribonuclease A and ribonuclease inhibitor, a protein built entirely of leucine-rich repeats. The unusual non-globular structure of ribonuclease inhibitor, its solvent-exposed parallel beta-sheet and the conformational flexibility of the structure are used in the interaction; they appear to be the principal reasons for the effectiveness of leucine-rich repeats as protein-binding motifs. The structure can serve as a model for the interactions of other proteins containing leucine-rich repeats with their ligands.
The leucine-rich repeat: a versatile binding motif.
Leucine-rich repeats are short sequence motifs present in a number of proteins with diverse functions and cellular locations. All proteins containing these repeats are thought to be involved in protein-protein interactions. The crystal structure of ribonuclease inhibitor protein has revealed that leucine-rich repeats correspond to beta-alpha structural units. These units are arranged so that they form a parallel beta-sheet with one surface exposed to solvent, so that the protein acquires an unusual, nonglobular shape. These two features may be responsible for the protein-binding functions of proteins containing leucine-rich repeats.
SwissProt sequences and OMIM curated human diseases associated with missense mutations within the LRRCT domain.
This information is based on mapping of SMART genomic protein database to KEGG orthologous groups. Percentage points are related to the number of proteins with LRRCT domain which could be assigned to a KEGG orthologous group, and not all proteins containing LRRCT domain. Please note that proteins can be included in multiple pathways, ie. the numbers above will not always add up to 100%.
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2019-04-21T07:04:35Z
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http://smart.embl.de/smart/do_annotation.pl?DOMAIN=LRRCT&START=140&END=189&E_VALUE=4.49e-4&TYPE=SMART&BLAST=NKFECDCKAKWLYLWLKMTNSTVSDVLCIGPPEYQEKKLNEVTSFDYECT
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Retrieves the list of interconnect attachments contained within the specified region.
Response to the list request, and contains a list of interconnect attachments.
A list of InterconnectAttachment resources.
[Output Only] Type of resource. Always compute#interconnectAttachmentList for lists of interconnect attachments.
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2019-04-21T03:07:01Z
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https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/reference/rest/v1/interconnectAttachments/list
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Included below are homes for sale in Slingerlands. If you would like more information on any of these Slingerlands real estate listings, just click the "Request More Information" button when viewing the details of that property. We can provide you with disclosures, past sales history, dates and prices of homes recently sold nearby, and more.
And, if you haven't already, be sure to register for a free account so that you can receive email alerts whenever new Slingerlands listings come on the market.
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2019-04-18T11:20:57Z
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https://www.romeoteamrealty.com/slingerlands/
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Rockstar Games has detailed a substantial update for Grand Theft Auto 5's GTA Online which will introduce events and challenges into Freemode, the open world free-for-all that acts as the enormous hub for other multiplayer games.
An event can kick off at any time in Freemode and its possible to customise what can and can not happen in your game session. These events and challenges include Penned In – which tasks players with staying inside a rapidly shrinking dome without being caught outside, and Kill List, which tasks players with entering a specific vehicle and surviving waves of enemies.
The update will also bring the Rockstar Editor video creation suite to the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game, alongside Director Mode. The editor launched alongside the PC version of GTA 5 earlier this year and has proven incredibly popular.
Also included are two brand new Adversary Modes: Hunting Pack and Cross The Line. the former makes players "part of a team tasked to deliver a priority vehicle rigged to explode if it drops below a minimum speed, while your opponents race, ram and batter to take it down." (Via Rockstar Newswire) Cross The Line meanwhile is "where heavily-armed squads face off across a neutral zone – with the goal of having all team members strategically penetrate their opponents territory to claim victory."
Here's Rockstar's description of all the new Freemode challenges and events.
Penned In – A vehicular free-for-all to stay inside an ever-shrinking and always-moving dome. If you're caught outside the dome for more than a few seconds you'll blow up and be eliminated from the competition.
Criminal Damage – Rack up the biggest property damage bill you can before time runs out. Equip your biggest weapons and go to town on anything and everything in sight.
Hunt The Beast – Players team up to track and kill the beast – a randomly selected player with superior speed and extra health – before it can collect 10 checkpoints scattered around the world within the time limit. The beast is invisible on the mini-map save for whenever it collects a checkpoint, which will cause it to blip for 10 seconds (and increasing in duration with each checkpoint collected).
Challenges - Longest jump; longest skydive; longest wheelie; most vehicles stolen; most near misses; lowest parachute deploy; longest bail from vehicle; furthest distance low flying; and more.
Moving Target - A vehicle is blipped on the map, the first player to deliver it to the marked destination wins.
Kill List - A vehicle is blipped on the map, once the requisite number of players enter they must take out as many waves of enemies as possible.
Kill List Competitive - Same as above, but multiple vehicles are blipped and players compete against each other to rack up the most kills in the given time limit.
Checkpoints - 120 checkpoints spawn in a quadrant of the map. Players compete to collect the most in the given time limit. This mode comes in two variants: land & sea checkpoints and air checkpoints.
Time Trial - A persistent blip on the map where players can try to beat the Rockstar par time and world record on a route that changes weekly.
Hold the Wheel - A target vehicle is blipped on the map for 5 minutes. Players compete to be the one in the vehicle when the timer expires.
Hot Property - Players compete to control possession of a blipped briefcase. The longer you have it, the more points you earn.
Dead Drop - A briefcase is blipped for players to collect and deliver to a location. Players compete for the chance to deliver the briefcase.
King of the Castle -The first player to a blipped location becomes King, and gain points as long as they remain King. Players compete to kill and become the King.
A trailer was also released, which you can watch below.
Fifa 16 vs PES 2016 comparison: Which football icon will triumph this year?
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2019-04-25T20:14:24Z
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https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gta-online-freemode-events-update-launches-15-september-ps4-xbox-one-pc-ps3-360-1519276
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What information should I hide when posting terminal command returns?
After improper shutdown I am redirected to a CLI environment only and not on the desktop with gui. Solutions?
Adjust laptop brightness/backlight via terminal.
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2019-04-22T22:38:00Z
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http://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/questions/scope:all/sort:activity-desc/tags:cli/page:1/
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"Erno couldnt be with us today. he has his handsome lessons"
today is going to be good day. i can tell. cause its friday. and i brushed my hair before i got to the office today! hurrah!
we didnt work on my mural last night. i was sad, but then i got really sick and it was okay that we were just sitting around. so we will work on it tonight and make it pretty. plus holiday next week so we have a few extra days. huzzah!!
there is another survey that i want to do but it will require some thought so im gunna have to post it later.
the assembly is this weekend so i dont get to clean my house which is NOT a good thing. however, i do get to go to an assembly so i suppose im okay with the whole dirty house thing. although i have no idea what im going to do with my dog. its really too cold to leave her out all day, but she will have an accident if i leave her inside. maybe i can get a neighbor or a friend to come let her out a couple times. i still have absolutely NO idea what ill be wearing this weekend, so im going to have to go through all my closets and try and pick out a couple of outfits that fit, are warm, with layers, and of course are really cute cause...well...i dont wear ugly outfits. maybe in my mending i can find something i havent worn in a while. hmmm pondering.
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2019-04-22T06:01:44Z
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https://bluebirdgirl.livejournal.com/26824.html
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Today I’m sharing this cozy and cute holiday dress from Rosegal. This dress is warm, has gorgeous fluted sleeves, a simple polka dot pattern and is a light burgundy hue. I styled it with faux leather leggings and OTK boots and I’m as comfortable as can be in it! For jewelry, I paired a cluster pearl necklace and double sided pearl earrings with it. My husband commented on how much he loved this dress, so yeah… WINNER!
And, can you believe that in 19 days it’ll be Christmas?! I STILL have some shopping that I hope to complete by the end of this weekend and I’ve been trying to wrap items as they arrive, so I can stay on top of the whole wrapping craziness. Plus, there is that darn Elf on the Shelf and all the everyday stuff. Whew.
*I received clothing from RoseGal in exchange for writing a review on the blog.
My pick from last week’s party is Not Jess Fashion.
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2019-04-21T01:01:41Z
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https://www.curlycraftymom.com/2018/12/thursday-fashion-files-link-up-189-cozy-cute-holiday-dress.html
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Exclusive discount! Buy the Yumblog theme before Feb. 22 to receive a $10 discount on any Beaver Builder license!
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Cooked is a powerful recipe plugin created by our friends at Boxy Studio. Cooked adds a number of great features to Yumblog, including front-end, user-powered recipe submissions, 10 recipe page layouts, recipe search with filters for category, cuisine, cooking method, and more.
Add reviews to your recipes to make them really stand out. With Cooked’s built-in review system, you can easily add reviews from either users or admins and give your visitors more information on your recipes from people who have actually tried them.
Cooked offers a simple rating system, allowing you to showcase your best recipes with ease. With a 5-star scale, you can easily allow users to rate your recipes and then display the best ones using the built-in search functionality!
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Users can easily prepare recipes by tapping the full screen view button, great for iPads and tablets in the kitchen.
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Allow users to upload their own recipes! Even includes a submission approval system to provide a fully curated recipe platform.
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Using Beaver Builder is simple. All you need to do is first select the Page Builder layout for your new page, then click the Page Builder button to open the front-end editor, and then you can easily select a page layout/style. It will then be inserted into your page in real-time!
Instead of not knowing where exactly to start, you can now build a page in a matter of seconds and customize text and images that are dropped into the page, even adding image galleries, parallax sections, and stunning video backgrounds.
OK, so that brings us back to Yumblog. We’ve added integration with Beaver Builder, meaning you can purchase their premium version or install the Lite plugin for free and build amazingly simple, beautiful full-width pages in moments.
Since releasing the first version of Yumblog, we’ve changed very little. This time around, we’re making a few subtle design enhancements to make Yumblog look even better than before.
Q: Will Recipe Schema still work with Yumblog?
A: Yes! While we are not focusing on Recipe Schema due to our integration with Cooked, the plugin will still work well.
Q: Do I have to purchase the Beaver Builder plugin to be able to use custom page layouts within Yumblog?
A: No! We recommend downloading Beaver Builder Lite from the WordPress.org repo. Try it, you’ll like it!
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A: Only if your previous license key has expired. For users who have purchased Yumblog and their license key has expired, you are eligible for a 20% discount at checkout if you simply renew an expired license key for the Yumblog theme. If you need help with that, email us for assistance.
Q: Does Yumblog only work with Beaver Builder?
A: No! Because we have added a simple full-width page template called “Page Builder,” you can use just about any drag-and-drop page layout plugin. A few of our favorites are Conductor, MP Stacks, and VelocityPage.
Q: Where can I learn more about using Yumblog with these new features?
A: We have updated our Yumblog Knowledgebase article to reflect these major updates and integration details. Please read that page for more details.
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2019-04-20T00:32:11Z
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https://upthemes.com/blog/2015/02/build-powerful-user-driven-recipe-website-yumblog-2-0/
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Test Thunderbolt Return Loss at the push of a button.
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Control your Thunderbolt DUT via Tenlira-based uController.
GRL’s Thunderbolt Return Loss Test Software (GRL-TBT-ENA) provides an automated, simple, and efficient way to test return loss of Thunderbolt hosts and devices per the requirements of the Thunderbolt specification with your Keysight E5071C ENA. GRL-TBT-ENA runs on any Windows 7 or Windows 8-based PC or the E5071C ENA.
GRL-TBT-ENA provides full step-by-step test guidance for DUT connection, calibration and test execution for Thunderbolt Host/Device, PortA and PortB testing. Test parameters and pass/fail limits are automatically set up according to the Thunderbolt compliance test Method of Implementation (MOI). GRL-TBT-ENA generates a comprehensive test report, saving test engineer's work load and time.
Automates Thunderbolt Return Loss testing using the Keysight E5071C ENA Series Network Analyzer consistent with the GRL Method of Implementation (MOI).
Automates Host/Device, PortA and PortB testing in single session.
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Simple setup, test execution and reporting in .pdf or .csv format.
Customizable stress testing (requires GRL KayaQ™ General Test Automation Framework license).
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Contact GRL to request a quote and order Thunderbolt Return Loss Test Software for the Keysight E5071C ENA.
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2019-04-22T16:36:24Z
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https://graniteriverlabs.com/tbt-ena/
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I love the way that Google frequently changes its logo and graphical branding in a quite playful way to mark different days in the calendar.
But today, will I get any work done? The Google home page is marking Les Paul's 96th birthday with a Google logo patterned after a guitar. Put your headphones in and strum the strings to make your own sounds. Cool!
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2019-04-25T14:33:00Z
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http://www.mikeschorah.com/2011/06/google-guitar-brilliant-branding-and.html
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Page 3 waves 9-12 has been added!!
Today I created a little thing to help with the customs cause. PROXIES!!!
This is a document of both mastersets and waves 1-3 and some of 4 now waves 1-12!. The rest will be put on the other pages that will be uploaded at another time.
The image above is the first page. Just get some pieces to put them on(I recommend 1.5 x 1.5 wooden circles you can buy in huge amounts cheap) and boom you have a bunch of fancy new proxies to last. To print make sure the size of it printing is original full size of 11 by 8.5 or IT WILL NOT COME OUT RIGHT! so I suggest you don't use google chrome. I am in no ways responsible for ill used ink. Thanks for the time and hope you enjoy my little project.
THE ATHLETIC FATTY COMMANDS YOU!
Last edited by darkchaos452366; April 22nd, 2013 at 08:58 PM.
One suggestion is to put commons on a separate page as people will want to print multiple copies of these but only one of the uniques.
Yes I plan on doing that once I get all the waves done I will start doing commons on other pages.
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2019-04-20T16:31:42Z
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https://www.heroscapers.com/community/showthread.php?p=1800631
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Elijah went through his usual Saturday morning ritual, sitting on the old recliner in the living room, eating a bowl of cereal, and watching cartoons. Afterwards he thought about going for a walk around the neighborhood. It seemed like he had been stuck inside the house forever. He looked out the screen door only to find that there were still reporters hanging around outside and he just didn't feel like dealing with them today.
He turned the page to Genesis chapter one and began to read. It surprised him how little he knew about the events of the creation. Funny how different it was compared to the theory of evolution that he had been studying at school. He was never sure how he felt about evolution. He just figured that God fit in there somehow and learned enough about it to pass the exams.
He had been reading for a while when Becca came bounding down the stairs. Like everyone else, she was hiding out at home and had spent the morning in her room. Elijah said good morning without looking up from the page he was on.
“About the creation,” replied Elijah vaguely.
“Ooh! That was a hot topic at school last year. Several school board members tried to have these stickers like put inside the biology books. The stickers said something about evolution being a theory and should be studied like one. There was a big debate over it. Even an article in the school paper,” Becca said as she sat down beside her brother to look at the open book.
Despite his not looking up, Elijah had indeed been listening. It took a minute for him to digest what Becca had said. Did God use science to create the world instead of supernatural means? Was evolution part of the creation process or did God do it some other way? Either way, he would have to think about it more before he could make up his mind.
Elijah was enjoying the conversation. This was far more enlightening than just hearing science and religion bash each other. He may not have all the answers or proof for or against evolution, but perhaps he didn’t need to. If God thought it was important He would have included it in the vision. Either way, Gram’s definitely right, why we're here and where we’re going is far more important.
“Speaking of church, have either of you thought about where you want to go?” Gram inquired.
Elijah and Becca looked at each other. “I’m not sure yet,” they said in unison.
“Well let’s discuss it over lunch,” Gram replied. She called upstairs for Dad to come down to eat then walked into the kitchen.
“I thought we were going to our old church,” Dad replied, surprised by the question.
“Nah, that's O.K., Gram. I'm good with wherever you guys decide,” Becca replied without looking up from her lunch.
Elijah remembered what Ben said about Becca's fight with Mark Roche at school. He could see a hint of anger on her face. She was still keeping quiet about it. He desperately wanted to tell Becca how much he appreciated her sticking up for him, but he still felt it best to wait for her to bring it up.
“Hold your horses. Elijah still gets his say too,” Gram reprimanded.
“The Methodist church sounds fine, Gram! I haven't really felt strongly about any church in particular,” Elijah answered.
Elijah sat straight up in bed when the alarm went off. He had set it for 8 A.M. and tried going to bed early, but the excitement of going to church kept him from sleeping. Giving up, he finally got out of bed and got back on the “Young Prophet's Society” website. There were plenty of new topics. More than he knew he could read in a single night. He sifted through the titles looking for one to stand out. One post about evolution caught his eye and Elijah read through it. There was lots of talk about “missing links” and assumptions needed for carbon 14 dating, whatever that was. When the screen started to go blurry through his heavy eyelids, he decided to give sleep another chance.
It seemed like he had just fallen asleep when the alarm went off. Despite his physical exhaustion, the exhilaration of going to church prodded him out of bed. He went down stairs still wearing the sweat pants and t-shirt that he had slept in. Gram, as always, was already up and about. She was moving around in the kitchen getting breakfast ready for everyone.
Elijah smiled and sat down at the table. It looked like the whole house was feeling as anxious about church as he was.
Becca was quick to jump in line. She didn’t want to appear vain, but she did want to show off her favorite dress. “Ahh, you look lovely dear. Like an angel,” Gram’s comment made her blush.
Elijah stepped forward to be inspected. “Well now, don’t you clean up nicely? You look very handsome,” Gram continued brightly. Elijah stepped past her to Becca’s side. Elijah had always just thought of Becca as his bossy sister, but for the first time he realized that she was actually a pretty girl. “You look nice, Beck,” he said with actual sincerity.
Next everyone’s attention turned to Dad.
“You too Tommy,” Gram said in her most motherly voice.
“I guess you're old enough that I can take your word for it. Now if you'd just keep your tie straight I wouldn't have to worry about you,” she smiled and adjusted the knot.
“You look swell too, mum,” Dad replied.
As they walked outside to the car Elijah noticed something peculiar. No one was around. Not a single reporter. No one from the neighborhood! He looked down the driveway, but couldn’t see much past the bushes that stood at the end. Had the fervor over the visions passed this quickly? He had been hoping that the crowd would calm down a little so he could go outside without getting swamped by the press, but surely everyone hadn't lost interest already.
“Don't get yourself in an uproar yet! Wait 'til we get to the end of the driveway,” Dad exclaimed looking at him through the rear-view mirror.
As they backed into the street, Elijah turned and saw a line of cars through the rear window that stretched on for several blocks. Hundreds of people had turned up to see where the “prophet” was going to church. Gram mumbled something about looking like a funeral procession, but Elijah thought it was great. The angel had said to share the vision with anyone that would listen and after church he hoped to have a huge crowd ready to hear it.
Before long the procession was pulling into the church parking lot. Elijah had always liked the look of the Methodist church. It was well over one hundred years old. The white wooden clapboard siding was contrasted by the bright red doors, the high stained glass windows, and the tall steeple that held the church bell. Its colonial rectangular shape gave it a feel of the pioneer days, when the members of the congregation did the work by hand, without all of the high tech equipment used today. It was a testament to the faith of those who built it.
They were cutting the time close. The drive had taken longer than expected, due to detour around a crowded intersection, where another grouping of cars had assembled to follow the “prophet” to church. Most of the regular attendees were passing through the door shaking hands with the greeters as they pulled into the parking lot. Once parked and out of the car, they saw Pastor Mike Moore rush down the steps and hurry towards them, his white robes rustling around him.
Elijah had always liked Pastor Mike, as he insisted the kids at church call him. Physically he didn't really stand out in a crowd. He was average height and weight, dark brown hair, and brown eyes. But it wasn't how Pastor Mike looked that made him different; there was just something about him that was fun to be around.
Even though they didn’t come to church often, Pastor Mike always remembered Elijah and Becca’s names. He had a special bond with Becca particularly. Pastor Mike had followed in his father and grandfather's footsteps and entered the clergy. Preaching here was his first assignment after graduating from seminary and Becca had been his first baptism. He said he was nervous having seen so many babies burst into tears when the water touched them, but Becca just looked up at him like a little angel. When she was young he used to refer to her as his little cherub.
Pastor Mike escorted them up the steps to the chapel and through the large red double doors. It took a moment for their eyes to adjust from the bright outside to the darker hall. The morning sunlight was shining through the stained glass windows that lined the chapel walls, illuminating with color the tiny speaks of dust that floated in the air. Gram had always said that the stained glass was her favorite part of coming to church and for the first time Elijah realized why. It gave the whole place a more holy feel.
He smiled and quickly moved behind the podium. “Brothers and Sisters, Please find a seat as best you can. All my Greeter’s, please do the best you can to help accommodate everyone,” Pastor Mike besseched into the microphone. Soon there was standing room only and it appeared there was still quite a crowd outside of the building.
Pastor Mike motioned for someone in the crowd and soon a man in a similar clergy robe stood beside him. Several minutes passed as the pastor instructed and the man nodded back. Then the man turned and started to make his way back through the crowd.
The Abbots had managed to make their way through the crowd to the front pew and were able to squeeze in beside Naomi Moore, Pastor Mike's wife, and their three children, the eldest of which was Jonathan. Although Jonathan and Elijah were in the same grade, they barely knew each other. They only shared one class, Science, and Jonathan sat on the other side of the room. Also, Jonathan had attended a Christian elementary school. After entering the public school system in seventh grade, Jonathan continued to hang around with the kids from the Christian school.
Elijah gave a nervous smile and nod to Jonathan and sat down between Gram and his father. Jonathan smiled and nodded back. Pastor Mike had stepped down from the podium and was walking back towards the front pew. He knelt down in front of Elijah and put his hand on his knee.
“Elijah, I don't mean to put you on the spot, but I was hoping that you might recite your vision to the congregation? That is if it's all right with your dad and grandmother?” Pastor Mike asked looking over at the two of them.
As Pastor Mike rose and returned to the podium a feeling of excitement coursed through Elijah. He knew the Lord would open a door for him to speak here. The best part of it was these people were here to listen to the word of God. It wasn't like talking to reporters or at school where there was a mixture of believers and skeptics. These were believers.
“Well, you've been wishing for a crowd to speak to. Looks like you’re gonna to get your wish, buddy,” Dad said as he peered over his shoulder at the mass of people.
As Pastor Mike approached the stand, the people inside instantly grew quiet.
Even without looking, Elijah was keenly aware that everyone was staring at him as he stood and walked to the stand. Slowly he made his way up the three steps to the podium. Pastor Mike smiled reassuringly and stepped back to allow Elijah access to the microphone. It wasn't until he turned around and looked over the congregation that he realized just how many people were there.
School. It seemed like forever since he was last there. That was his first opportunity to share the vision with a large crowd. At least it seemed like a large crowd then, but it paled in comparison to the huge one before him now. How had he started talking to them? He remembered the feeling he had when the Spirit whispered, “Tell them why you’re here.” The thought of that moment instilled Elijah with confidence. The same feeling swelled in him again. He looked at Gram, smiled, and began to speak.
Time seem to stand still and after what seemed like only a few minutes Elijah had recounted the vision in full. The blood throbbing in his ears died down right after he finished speaking, allowing him to hear the many “Amens” shouted out from the congregation. Seizing the opportunity, Elijah stepped away from the podium to return to his family.
As he began to turn away a voice cried out from the crowd, “What's it all mean?” Several others also shouted similar pleas.
“Is Jesus coming soon?” came a woman's voice from the left.
“What about the rapture?” yelled a man from the back.
“What about the rapture? Does this mean it won't happen?” came the man's voice again.
Elijah paused. “What's a rapture?” he thought. He felt his face start to go red, embarrassed at not knowing. His mind went blank; unsure of how to answer a question he knew nothing about.
There was complete silence throughout the chapel. Elijah could feel every eye boring into him. Even after the vision he didn’t feel much like a “prophet,” and certainly not someone with the ability to heal the sick. And what if he couldn’t heal? What would that mean? Overwhelmed and unsure if he should try to fulfill the request, Elijah prayed.
“Dear Lord, please guide me! I don’t know what to do. You’ve helped me out so far and I need you now more than ever.” Elijah tried to clear his mind, hoping to hear some divine guidance. Still there was only silence. Only seconds had passed, but to Elijah it felt like an eternity. “Should I try to heal this girl? Am I able? Please tell me something, send me a message,” he thought.
Elijah was startled as he felt a hand touch his shoulder. He turned to see Pastor Mike looking at him with a reassuring smile on his face. Pastor Mike gently moved him to the side and stepped to the podium.
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2019-04-20T10:41:47Z
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http://youngprophetssociety.com/chap9.html
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The nature of these forces makes it necessary to have a device in between the substructure (base) and the superstructure which allows for the required movement, while also giving stability and having the capacity to bear the loads placed on the bridge. The device most popularly used, is a bridge bearing which assumes the functionality of a bridge by allowing translation and rotation to occur while supporting the vertical loads.
Thus, a bridge bearing is an element of the superstructure which provides a vital interface between the superstructure and substructure.
The use of PTFE in such bearings has been steadily increasing, although its application does not extend to all variants of bridge and structural bearings.
PTFE has an exceptionally low coefficient of friction and high self-lubricating characteristics, resistance to attack by almost any chemical, and an ability to operate under a wide temperature range.
Furthermore, while unmodified PTFE can be used to a PV value of only 1,000, PTFE filled with glass fibre, graphite, or other inert materials, can be used at PV values up to 10,000 or more. In general, higher PV values can be used with PTFE bearings at low speeds where its coefficient of friction may be as low as 0.05 to 0.1.
Sliding bearings: A system of two plates, one sliding over the other makes one of the simplest types of bearings. These bearings permit translation in longitudinal and transverse directions, unless specifically restrained in any of these directions. No rotation is permitted unless specially provided in the form of articulation and only vertical loads are resisted / transmitted by these bearings.
Generally, plain sliding bearings are provided where span is less than 30m, because the movement capacity of these bearings is usually small.
The bearing is composed of two thick sheets of steel (preferably high-density carbon steel). Between the sheets are one layer of PTFE (with suitable fillers) and one layer of polished stainless steel. The stainless steel is welded to one of the bearing plates while the PTFE is bonded to the other plate. To provide for better bonding, a recess is created on the bearing plate into which the PTFE is fitted.
Their regular maintenance is very important, to keep a tab on friction otherwise the value of horizontal force transmitted to sub-structure will increase tremendously. Therefore, the frequency of lubrication has been prescribed as once in three years.
POT-PTFE Bearings: These consist of a circular non-reinforced rubber-pad (elastomer) fully enclosed in a steel pot. The rubber is prevented from bulging by the pot walls and it acts similar to a fluid under high pressure.
While the bearings were initially created without PTFE, the necessity of horizontal movement in addition to load bearing capacity made it necessary to incorporate PTFE on the piston. The rotation, therefore, is provided by the elastomer due to differential compression and translation by steel and PTFE.
POT bearings offers a much higher degree of movement than standard sliding bearings, although it is tougher to manufacture due to the extended recess needed for the POT as well as the sealing elements needed to contain the elastomer within the POT. These seals must be metallic. The PTFE plate must be recessed into the piston and requires ‘dimples’ into which additional lubricants are placed during time of installation.
Various design codes exist for structural bearings and most of them prescribe similar materials to be used and have similar requirements regarding the grade and strength of the materials. In India the code book for POT-PTFE bearings is the IRC:83 (Part II) while for sliding bearings, there is no system as yet established in India (although the IRC:83 does refer to the sliding arrangement requirements for POT-PTFE bearings, which can be adopted for all sliding bearings as well). Globally, standards such as the BS:5400 and AASHTO exist for sliding bearings and POT bearings.
Ultimately however, the bearing manufacturer undertakes the responsibility to design the bearings based on customer specifications.
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2019-04-18T16:24:41Z
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https://polyfluoroltd.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-ptfe-structural-bearings/
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Hello there, I do think your site could possibly be having web browser compatibility problems. When I look at your site in Safari, it looks fine however when opening in Internet Explorer, it's got some overlapping issues. I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Apart from that, great website!
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2019-04-26T00:30:44Z
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https://estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx/index.php/eaa/comment/view/2355/2461/21714
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GREER, SC-- Dustin Dewayne Anders, 21, of 124 Skyland Circle, died August 24, 2007.
A native of Greenville County, son of Albert Anders of Greer and Curtis Anders and Teresa Redden of Greer, he was a member of Washington Baptist Church.
Also surviving are his wife, Kristen Thomas Anders of the home; a son, Justin Blake Anders of the home; two brothers, Steven Anders and Jamie Anders both of Greer; and two sisters, Tracey Anders and Casey Anders both of Greer.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM Tuesday at Washington Baptist Church, conducted by Dr. Drew Hines. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 7:00-9:00 PM Monday at the Wood Mortuary.
The family is at the home of his brother, Steven Anders, 5 Fairview Road, Taylors.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Dustin Anders Fund c/o Greer State Bank, P. O. Box 1029, Greer, SC 29652.
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2019-04-22T12:36:33Z
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https://www.goupstate.com/news/20070827/dustin-d-anders
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← Strange But True: Underwater River!?!
Hey! Who you calling shorty???
This entry was posted in Ailsa’s Travel Theme, Animals, Photography, San Francisco, Stephen Kelly Photography, Travel Theme and tagged Ailsa's Travel Theme, Dog, Pugs, San Francisco, Stephen Kelly Photography, Where's My Backpack. Bookmark the permalink.
g’day, gypsy! who doesn’t love a pug???
OMG … TINA!!! (my apologies. the Y and the A aren’t even close to each other. blushing!
Haha you’re too funny Stephen.
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2019-04-26T00:00:53Z
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https://stephenkellycreative.wordpress.com/2013/11/16/ailsas-travel-theme-short/
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MiR-124 contributes to M2 polarization of microglia and confers brain inflammatory protection via the C/EBP-α pathway in intracerebral hemorrhage.
Microglia mediated inflammation contributes to intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) induced secondary injury. Activated microglia has dual functions as pro-inflammatory (M1) and anti-inflammatory (M2) factors in brain injury and repair. MiR-124 is a potent anti-inflammatory agent which affects microglia after brain injury. However, the potential of modulating the M1/M2 polarization of microglia after ICH has not been reported. In this experiment, we detected the effect of miR-124 on the M1/M2 polarization state. In addition, the ability miR-124 to subsequently impacted neurological deficit and cerebral water content of ICH mice were studied. Furthermore, the relationship between miR-124 and C/EBP-α target was detected. We found that miR-124 significantly increased in M2-polarized microglia. Transduction of miR-124 mimics decreased proinflammatory cytokine levels. A coculture model of microglia and neuron indicated that M2-polarized microglia protected neuron damage. Furthermore, miR-124 banded to the 3-untranslated region of C/EBP-α and downregulated its protein levels. In vivo, infusion of miR-124 decreased brain levels of C/EBP-α and significantly reduced brain injury in ICH mice. Thus, miR-124 ameliorated ICH-induced inflammatory injury by modulating microglia polarization toward the M2 phenotype via C/EBP-α. MiR-124 regulatory mechanisms also might represent new therapeutic strategy in ICH.
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2019-04-19T19:05:02Z
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https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/papers/28025043
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Question 48 scoring requirement for 2 points, bullet numbers (1) and (2).
Note 1.2 of Q48 supplemental note.
Copy of a bank or company general ledger statement clearly showing an amount that is sufficient to cover all operating costs and capital expenditures for start-up and ongoing operations for 3 years, coupled with an assertion that the funds in such bank or general ledger account is for the purposes of the application only.
A statement confirming the amount of funds or ranges that are committed along with references to the figures set out in the MLS or WCS template.
A statement of the string(s) that are covered by the commitment letter.
A statement that the committed funds are earmarked solely for the purposes of the applied-for string(s), and are not available for any other use.
An explanation of the source of funding (e.g., banking or internal funding arrangements).
Signature from an individual with the authority to commit the funds.
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2019-04-24T05:53:14Z
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http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/advisories/segregation-funds-05dec12-en
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Fishing with a topwater or surface lure is lots of fun. Out of a W kayak, it’s down right exciting, since you are so close to the action. The equipment required is fairly simple and there are many topwater lures to choose from. For the purpose of this short article, we will look at hard baits (also known as “plugs.”) These are lures made of wood or plastic that float on top at rest. When fish attack them, it looks like a giant hole just opens on the water and the bait disappears.
The basic types are: walking, popping, minnow, and prop baits. These lures have been around for years and still consistently catch large numbers of fish. There are variations, but these are the ones most commonly available. All four types can be used in freshwater or saltwater and for a large variety of game fish. Let’s take a look at a few examples.
The equipment you use for topwater water fishing can be any that throws the lure properly. Spinning, casting, or spin-casting gear will all work just fine. Line sizes can range from 8 to 20lb test (depending on the angler’s preference) and good old mono filament line is fine for these lures. The best piece of advice I’ve ever had for fishing topwater lures came from Sam Griffin himself. He told me “give the fish time to read the menu.” In other words, fish them slow for the best results. This is the best way to start out– you can always speed things up later if the fish are ready to order. So, this season, try a topwater water lure and prepare for excitement.
The best example is a Zara Spook. A newer version is the Spit’n Image. The angler provides the action this lure has on the water. This plug looks like it could have been carved from a broom handle, and, indeed, the originals were. Worked properly with a side to side wiggle, fish will blow them right off the surface in their effort to grab them. This bait requires practice to use. The angler must work their rod hand wrist and turn the reel handle in cadence to create the walking motion. It will wear you down at first, but the results of practice time are well worth the effort.
These lures are just plain fun. With a large exaggerated mouth on them they pop and gurgle when the angler pulls their line. Some of the cupped mouths on these baits throw water a few feet in front of the plug as they move. Classic examples are the Chug Bug and the Rebel Pop-R series plugs. To work these lures, you cast out to a likely spot and let the lure settle down. Then “pop it” and hold on for the strike.
These lures are best represented by the classic floating Rapala minnow. The history of this lure could fill a book-suffice it to say it’s every bit as effective today as it was 40 years ago. These lures have a slim profile and resemble a minnow. They have a small clear plastic lip that allows the lure to dive a short distance on retrieve. Their life-like wiggle is very attractive to game fish. To work the bait, throw it out let it sit for a moment. Then begin a slow retrieve, briefly pausing from time to time.
These lures are some of my all time favorites. Propellers are located at the front and/or back ends of these fun lures. Simple to work, they are represented today by the Devils Horse, Tiny Torpedo, or, in handmade excellence, by the Lil Zip from Sam Griffin. They can catch fish just sitting there. The moment they are moved, they get crushed by aggressive game fish. Work them by throwing to a likely area and allowing the bait sit until the water calms down from the splash. Then begin working the bait back in short, soft jerks until you find a pattern the fish like.
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2019-04-22T11:58:48Z
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https://jeffstacklebox.com/blogs/blog/top-water-fishing
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At Long Nab today the passage south included 2 Teal, 43 Oystercatcher, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Whimbrel, 8 Curlew, 46 Redshank, 34 Turnstone, 361 Knot (a record count for Long Nab, the previous best being 174 on 5th August 2013), 9 Sanderling, 14 Dunlin, a Ruff, 10 Puffins and 4 Swifts. Moving north we had 148 Common Scoter, 3 Manx Shearwater, a Shag, an Oystercatcher, 2 Curlew, 110 Sandwich Terns, a Common Tern, a Great Skua and 2 Puffins. From Marine Drive this evening a few more Knot, Oystercatcher, Whimbrel, an Arctic Skua and a juvenile Common Gull all heading south.
A Red Kite was seen over Scalby Mills this evening and a little later over Holbeck, 6 Mediterranean Gulls were in the South Bay area below Holbeck (3 adults, 2 2nd summers and a 2cy) and a Green Sandpiper was on Johnson’s Marsh.
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2019-04-24T04:24:29Z
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http://www.scarboroughbirding.co.uk/2017/07/wednesday-26th-july-2017.html
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Happy Saturday! It was completely unintentional but this week’s work outfits were all black and white.
I wore this heart print dress to work the other day. It has a shorter length so I wore black tights and oxfords to make it look more work appropriate.
The 22cm bag measurements are as follows: 2.5″ width, 5.25″ height, 7.5″ top length, 8.5″ bottom length, and 44″ max strap length (approximately 22″ drop length).
I lined dried the above Ann Taylor sweater and washed it on cold but I found that the material (76% viscose, 24% nylon) shrinks a bit when you wash it. I always line dry my tops but the sweater fit snug after laundering. I had to steam it out after it was dry in order to loosen the fibers and get it close to the original fit.
My exact skirt is old but I noticed that a similar style is back at LOFT Outlet in a houndstooth print!
Get 40% off your purchase at LOFT if you use your LOVELOFT or Ann Taylor credit card. The discount will be reflected at checkout. Update 1/13 5PM ET: Everyone can now get 40% off full-price styles! Since no code is needed use APR441LC for $25 off your full-price promotional purchase of $75+ (click here for the in store bar code). This code excludes Lou & Grey and clearance styles. Clearance styles are now an extra 50% off and some styles are now $15 and under. Refer to all of my LOFT reviews here.
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In case you missed the announcement via email, LOVELOFT cardmembers enjoy an extra 15% off at checkout every Tuesday in January (no code needed)! This offer is combinable with other promotions. Hopefully the current sale will run through Tuesday for extra savings if you’re waiting to purchase in order to maximize your savings. Usually this cardmember discount only falls on the first Tuesday of the month.Valid at LOFT, LOFT Outlet, Ann Taylor and Ann Taylor Factory stores only. Not valid at Lou & Grey. Purchases must be made with an LOVELOFT or Ann Taylor credit card.
Here are some LOFT new arrivals I’ve been eyeing.
New early access styles (these styles are not yet in stores) are also online at LOFT Outlet.
I spotted a new section on the LOFT site on Tuesday for ‘back in stock‘ items. This popular turtleneck poncho sweater (last featured here, review here and here) from the fall is back in regular missy sizes! I took my usual size XXS regular. Update 1/28: It’s also back in a speckled version here!
If you missed out on the white version of this lace dot peplum blouse from last year (refer to last year’s review of size XXS regular and XXSP here and size XS regular here) I noticed that it’s back in stock in the missy sizes at LOFT Outlet.
I noticed that this popular cozy cowl neck sweater from last year (old review here) is back at LOFT Outlet and this version doesn’t contain wool.
This popular sweater vest from 2016 and 2017 is back in regular and petite sizes at LOFT Outlet (old review here).
For size reference I’m 5′ 2.5″, I weigh 108-110 pounds and I’m usually size XS petite in tops and 0/25 petite in pants and jeans if an item runs true to LOFT sizing. If you’re new to my blog I typically share the link to a short video clip below each image (the same video clips I share in my Instagram stories swipe ups). My reviews and outfits are also Pinterest for those of you that prefer a more organized, visual catalog. Check out my other reviews organized by retailer here.
This heart print dress has a generous fit so I made it work by pairing a more substantial cardigan with some structure over it. My usual size is roomy all over if you view the clip here. The dress is also very short measuring 32.25″ total length (the missy sizes should be at least 1″ longer if not more). The other measurements of size XSP are as follows: 14.25″ shoulders, 22.25″ sleeve length, 34.5″ bust (measured pit to pit) and 40.5″ where the flounce hem begins.
I thought this neutral sweater was cute over the dress. I would probably need to size up in the sweater for a looser fit at the hips so that it allows the bottom of the dress more room to flow. I’ll have to try on my other sweaters on over the dress to see if any others would work. However, my favorite wait to wear the dress is to pair it with the black cardigan I showed in the first look.
I’ve been wanting to try this plaid blouse for a while and I finally remember to order it to try. I’ve tried on other split neck blouses before and I’ve always had to size down since I have a smaller chest. The material is thinner and it’s the same material as this plaid ruffle collar utility blouse I reviewed here. Size XXSP fits like size XSP so I found it to fit one size bigger and would recommend sizing down. The top is still a bit loose (the v-neck moves around and I can see a slight peek of my bra) all over on me so I returned it but I really love the size of the plaid print.
Speaking of split neck blouses, I bought this keyhole bell cuff blouse (review here) in size XSP last year and I really wish I had gone down to size XXSP for a better fit.
I thought this pink swiss dot blouse was so cute but it has a very flowy/boxy fit. I am usually size XSP but I went down to size XXSP which measures: 34.5″ bust (pit to pit), 36″ at the start of the piping at the top of the peplum flounce, 19″ sleeve length and 14″ shoulders. I did not love how this year’s version fits me at the chest so I returned it.
You can see the side by side comparison of this new blouse and the older one from last year here and here. Based on my comparison I would saw this year’s version fits at least one size bigger than last year’s version.
I was curious about this sweater but I didn’t love this blue color on me. I’ll have to try it in the grey color another time. It fits true to size for a relaxed fit and the material isn’t itchy since it doesn’t contain wool. Update 1/13: I tried on the grey color in a size XS and the oversized fit from sizing up is a really cute look.
I also ordered this heart zip mirror compact but I was disappointed with the mirror inside since it isn’t very clear. Looking at the little mirror was actually disorienting, the outside was a bit bumpy due to how they put it together and the zipper wasn’t very smooth for the one I received. It was a cute compact but the execution was lacking.
If you caught my previous post I have some more items to review so I’ll be back with more. I also plan to stop by the stores tomorrow so I’ll see if anything else catches my eye.
Thanks so much, Young. You always leave the sweetest comments on my blog!
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2019-04-18T22:48:52Z
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https://www.whatjesswore.com/2019/01/black-white-outfits-for-work-few-new.html
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I heard this poem the other day and it has really resonated with me. It made me think about a past blog post I wrote about Growing Your Own Practice.
I love the first line, it sets the tone for the whole poem.
The only element I would add is the need to think and reflect before jumping in. An enormous part of our job is to think and reflect because we are the decision makers in our schools, and classrooms.
I think this is what leaders do! We jump in, but not without thought or purpose. We plan with the end goal in mind, planning backwards! Teaching becomes very instinctual! Leaders can voice why are how those instincts have come about.
experience moments of insight or clarity.
It really made me think about the people I want to surround myself with. Thinking from an administrators perspective who would I want on my staff, from a parents perspective who do I want in my child’s classroom, or from a teammate perspective. As an educator within my school, my district and profession as a whole; who do I want others to see me as, and who do I want to be!
We could dissect it line by line, but think about growing your own practice and leadership in education as you read it. Let me know your thoughts.
Marge Piercy, “To be of use” from Circles on the Water. Copyright © 1982 by Marge Piercy.
Have you noticed that some readers can give you a routine synopsis of a text they have read, but not be able to explain many details with any depth? Students might confuse a concept or idea the writer presents which keeps them from understanding key themes or layered ideas. They may still struggle understanding some concepts and details even after rereading. What can you do about this?
When rereading a section of text, give students a specific question to read to answer or a definitive type of information to search for that will requiring them to put information together to reveal an inferred or suggested idea.
Another strategy that may be combined with the previous one or stand alone is to read several texts over the same topic. Students should build up a deeper understanding of the topic and start to understand information that may have been confusing to them at first. This has been called creating reading ladders among other names. Students can code the texts with a pencil or mentally noticing information they already know versus new information.
When reading a second or third text on a topic or concept, it is important to help students notice that writers often share the same information as other authors but add more details to it. Students may end up coding a sentence with both a + and a * when a writer broadens a readers understanding in this way. When students read multiple texts about a topic, they should be able to read increasingly more difficult texts because they are becoming familiar with content specific words and gaining background knowledge. Therefore writers will give more in-depth information that should build a students expertise. Students are reading up the ladder in two ways. If you are not increasing the difficulty of text then students will mostly likely not gain much new information they can add to their schema.
Readers need to notice when writers add on to their understanding of a topic or concept as they read more about it. They need to train their brain to notice and note differences which may include contrasting information and more in-depth information so they can add it into their schema. If we do not instill in our students a mindset to read to gain knowledge and figure things out about life, they often do not do this. Striving readers often do not have this mindset. Students may have this mindset in other areas of their life but not for reading. This mindset has to be modeled and noticed and named in students’ own books as they do it.
Another way to help students understand more difficult or abstract concepts is to have them draw a diagram of the elusive concept or idea you noticed comprehension breaking down with. This is something that can be done in conjunction with the other strategies I have talked about.
Students were understanding the basic information about bats the writer shared. Information like bats being nocturnal and mammals or an animal that roosts. Some of this information they could have already acquired from other sources. When it came to the concept of how bats use echolocation to find food, students understanding broke down. To help with this I shared a video, which showed an animated diagram of echolocation taking place. When you read across a topic, it can include videos, podcasts and stand-alone diagrams or infographics.
Then we went back into the text and reread the section on echolocation and looked closely at the diagram the writer included in the text. The video added a layer of depth to the students understanding, so when rereading that section students were able to turn and talk to each other and explain echolocation with me helping them pull out some key words to use.
Students then drew their own diagrams and explained them to each other. I then had students write a description next to their diagram. This really help them understand how echolocation works.
I did not focus on spelling with this part of the lesson. My focus was for students to write show their understanding of echolocation. They were able to verbally talk about their understanding more accurately then writing about it. My lesson objective was for students to use details from the texts to verbalize and write about how bats use echolocation. This group of students was able to understand echolocation with more depth than other previous groups. I aways change one or more aspects of a lesson to make it meet the current groups needs and to improve upon it from previous teachings after careful reflection. I write a new lesson plan each time I teach a book no matter how many times I have taught it. I use the notes I took on the previous one as my guide.
The bat sends a high sound and the sound bounces back to the bat and the bat eats the insect.
As you can see this student mixed up the words bat and insect, but was able to verbally explain echolocation correctly. This was first draft writing. I can build off of the strengths in his reading and writing.
You can even pull out certain sections of other texts that include the concept you want to focus in on with students. Students do not need to read entire texts when you know where and with what concept their meaning was breaking down. As teachers we need to make those instructional decisions of where to focus student thinking. Sunday Cummins inspired me to dig into this type of work through her book : Nurturing Informed Thinking: Reading, Talking, and Writing Across Content Area Sources.
I am teaching a book study for my district using Ellin Keene’s book Engaging Children: Igniting a Drive for Deeper Learning K-8.
One of the class activities was to participate in a Twitter chat. My district holds weekly Twitter chats over the school year. I wanted my class to chat about what they had been learning about engagement from Ellin’s book and how their thinking had changed about engagement or had not. A theme of assessment had already been chosen for the twitter chat of the month in question, but I was able to come up with some questions relating engagement and assessment together.
I want to thank @EllinKeene for jumping in on a few questions.
As I reflect back on the chat and what I have learned from the book myself and my peers taking the class, I have come to a several conclusions. First engagement is something you have to be talking about from the beginning of the year. Secondly, I think you have to ask students to draw on their personal experiences outside of school when first talking about engagement. Once you have established what engagement is and feels like together you can ask students to notice and think about activities they have been engaged in at school.
Then you can discuss times when you have been engaged and lost that engagement, or times when you do not feel the desire to engage in an activity but do so anyway, and end up absorbed in it wanting more. I think acknowledging these feelings happen to all of us is important. Then you can discuss how to reengage yourself into an activity, or how to choose to open yourself up to the possibility of engagement eventually occurring. Now this will obviously look different at different age levels.
You can then talk about choosing to be open to engaging in specific times when you have noticed students’ engagement lagging. Assessment could be one of those times.
I know when students become aware of something, like engagement, they will be more willing to hold themselves accountable. When students become aware of something then they can start to assess themselves and think metacognitively about it.
I think you could create a self-assessment where students keep track of their own engagement all year long. Then they can visualize and verbalize goals and strategies that may help them engage in the areas where engagement has consistently been weak. This is a tool that will look different at each grade level and possibly year to year within your own classroom.
Then, when it comes to engagement during district and state assessments towards the end of the year, you have evidence to fall back on and will have, already had conversations about engagement. This should help students recognize when they start to get restless and their mind wonders. They should be able to bring it back because of that awareness, with a little redirection.
I think another key ingredient for engagement during testing is for students to establish themselves as flexible thinkers. This can be done through modeling and talking about experiences. Being flexible is a mindset. Once they are flexible with their thinking students focus on being problem solvers. Students have to have a desire to figure things out and understand that they will be required to solve problems and look at tasks with an open mind. This needs to be established as an everyday expectation. In our classroom you will be challenged daily and often. You will have to be open to changing your thinking as you learn. And let them know you will be there to help them as they go and that you will be learning together. Let students know that in this classroom we will struggle sometimes and that we will pick ourselves back up and figure it out. Students must aspire to figure tasks out and have a mindset to not give up as they wrangle with it.
Engagement will come and go for our students, so we have to give them the language and tools to notice and chose to engage or reengage when they sense they are losing focus. I think it should be an ongoing and adaptive conversation of modeling and discussion all year long. You need to center discusses around those intrinsic feelings that engaged people feel while immersed in an activity, not the extrinsic rewards they may get after the activity. I want students aware of what it feels like being in the action of deep thinking and engagement. The have to know and be able to verbalize what learning feels while engaged. The know what it feels like when they are not!
Backwards Planning for Writing in Response to Reading.
To help students dig deeper in to their understanding of what they read I have been requiring more of students writing in response to texts. I believe that when students can express text understanding through writing, they can strengthen that understanding as they write.
One strategy I use to set students up to write using fiction books is to think from the writer’s perspective to help deepen their understanding. I teach my students to ask questions like, why did the writer make the character do that or say that? Or, what does the writer want you to think/feel here? If they think about what the writer is attempting to get readers to feel and understand as they read, then it can deeper their thinking and help them make those sometimes-elusive inferences. I want my students to get beyond the generic understandings and ideas to the deeper ones that are more inclusive to text details not clearly stated but implied. It also gives them more than one lumped together sentence to write about.
In the text: Thin Ice by Anne Sibley O’Brien, the main characters are cousins.
Rosa is older and often babysits her younger cousin Manny. On their way home from school one day during the beginning of a spring thaw Rosa is fretting about a story she has to write while Manny is carefree and creating adventures for himself. Rosa wishes her life was more exciting, more like Manny’s. Manny pretends he is a hockey player, darts over a fence and heads for a pond. Rosa yells to him that the ice is to thin to walk out on, as he grabs her notebook to use as a hockey puck. She tries to grab it back and it slips from his hands onto ice. Manny quickly goes after it. He falls through and so does Rosa trying to rescue him.
Readers in my guided reading typically explain the book being about falling through the ice. As Rosa eventually pulls herself out of the ice and helps keep her cousin from going under students start to think about Rosa being a hero. There is a deeper meaning to this story, however. It focuses on Rosa feeling sorry for herself and worrying about what she could write for her story because her life is so boring. She states all she does is babysit. The ending of the book helps clarify this theme when Rosa appears to not be upset about what Manny caused because it gave her something to write about. My striving readers easily overlook this deeper theme that can be built up into explanation of what the writer wants readers to understand about life.
I planned my lesson for this book through backwards planning. I planned what I wanted students written response to focus on and thought about what strategy would help students be able to notice the underlying theme. I want a better written response then simply saying this is a book about a girl saving her cousin when he fell into a pond, which is technically right but readers can figure most of that out from the cover of the book. We need to be able to go much deeper.
I chose to have students focus on Rosa and how she was feeling about her life at this point in time as they read. They would have to be able go deeper than the rescue itself to understand what the writer wants readers to understand about Rosa, beside her being a hero.
After reading the text through one time, I asked students to reread specific sections, underline sentences and words that can help them understand how Rosa was feeling that day. Then annotate the text making notes about the why of what she was feeling and to jot down some of their inferences. They will use their notes to help them write in detail about what Rosa was feeling about her life that day. I prompted with questions like I mentioned above, “what does the writer want readers to think here?” or “why would the writer make that happen?”as students marked their text.
Readers will use their notes to help them make a plan for writing and then as they write I confer with them and help them stick to their plan or lead them back into the book so they can clarify something. This will lead to a much more in-depth understanding of the text then I use to get and a clear purpose for students to keep in mind as they read knowing they will be writing about Rosa.
It often appears that teachers will make a plan for student writing as they are finishing up the text readings. This is not something a recommend doing. This makes your lesson objectives isolated and your writing disconnected from your teaching points. Backwards planning with the end in mind will help striving readers make the connections they need to and not practice strategy instruction in isolation where reading becomes about strategy use along and very general understandings of text. Readers will not end up reading for meaning and building meaning through writing.
If the lesson is not planned to set students up for the type of writing you want, then they will not be able to build on and extend their understanding of the text in a cohesive and manageable way through writing. Your reading and writing objectives for the lesson must be aligned, even in your lower level guided reading groups. As the teacher you will possibly end up providing them with the details you decided you wanted them to write about.
Author Troy FPosted on March 31, 2019 Categories Conferring, Guided Reading, Reading For Meaning, writing to build understandingLeave a comment on Backwards Planning for Writing in Response to Reading.
Charles Goodhart is an economist who came up with this principal: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Simply put when numbers becomes more important than the purpose behind it then numbers can become misleading or stagnant.
Within education we fall into this trap when tracking certain kinds of data. We optimize what we measure for. Or we teach to the measurement tool. For example when we put too much emphasis on tracking students’ words per minute read and lose sight of the purpose for tracking this measure. This leads to kids who are mostly focused on reading fast and forgetting to think and feel as they read.
The purpose for tracking words read per minute is to use it as an indicator that says, hey this kid is not performing at the same level as his peers, let’s stop and figure out what could be causing this. We should not be simply set a goal saying I will read _____ words in one minute and only focusing on rate. Don’t forget the purpose.
Words per minute is one indicator that a student could be struggling with reading. Reading success is not about speed alone.
I cringed when I saw ads on Instagram for a word game. The ad promoted it by saying something like playing this game every day will improve your reading speed and make you smarter. Ugh! That is a very misleading ad and when our teenagers see that ad what message does it send to them!
As a Reading Specialist in my district I come across so many kids who think reading is about word calling and speed, instead of meaning and feeling, along with accuracy and rate. Reading words too quickly can hinder comprehension as much as slow laborious reading does.
In todays word driven by numbers and the competition created by the publicly released test scores, we often stop teaching the micro or atomic habits that need to be instilled in readers. There has been a swing to undervalue anything ephemeral or quantitative that is harder to quantify. We mistakenly begin to think the only factors that matter are the ones we can measure and or attempt to measure on an assessment where conversation does not take place. Or give a grade to, so we can easily have accessible data to look at. Data is only worth looking at when you can identify the purpose behind it, and how it fits into the bigger process of reading.
Sometimes this leads to putting more value on visible reading task that students can put into graphic organizers. Simply identifying the visible aspects of reading instruction is not enough and leads kids to identify reading as something you do without much thinking or feeling.
I implore you to consider how you can apply Goodhart’s law to our data driven educational word. Data can be an essential part of high performing schools when used with purpose, not as a showcase of numbers. It can be satisfying for students and teacher to track things like words per minute and increases in test scores, but we cannot be asking students or districts to have those be their only goals. They also need to be setting smaller goals that can help create habits out of those internal as well as the outwardly visible processes readers use.
In 2017 I conducted an action research study over motivation and student goal setting with a colleague. As I started reading Atomic Habits by James Clear this week, it made me want to revisit this research and reflect on it again.
We looked at different types of goals students were being asked to set. We looked at performance-oriented goals and task-oriented goals. We thought about how a goals focus can impact a student’s commitment to the goal. Schunk & Zimmerman (2008), say according to most goal orientation theorists (e.g., Ames, Dweck, Elliot, & Markiewicz; Midgley and colleagues), the purpose of a performance goal is to gain positive judgements of personal competence, whereas the purpose of learning or task-oriented goal is to actually increase one’s competence. Performance goals are often driven by outside influences and how things appear to be. They go on to say that performance goals work better for already confident learners. Learning goals, or as we chose to call them, task-oriented goals will motivate both confident and unconfident learners. Task oriented goals are more inclined to support intrinsic motivation, which can still be influenced from forces outside of ourselves but are more geared towards helping students become truly engaged for themselves and absorbed in what they are learning or reading about.
In our research we found that the task-oriented goals our students made did have a positive impact on their motivation to read. We believe this ultimately impacted student independent reading stamina and overall reading performance. The data revealed that 14 out of the 15 students who participated grew at least one or more reading level. Most increased multiple levels. Teachers ask students to set reading level goals all the time in educations. We wanted to steer the focus away from the performance goals related to reading levels and focus more on smaller task-oriented goals. We helped students form goals related to the content of their reading and reading choices. They also created goals dealing time spent reading.
I was starting to understand and now more fully understand how we needed to be focusing on goals dealing with the processes of thinking someone must sustain to be a reader. Goals to form habits of thinking based on reading for meaning.
This brings me to Engaging Children: Igniting a Drive for Deeper Learning by Ellin Oliver Keene.
She states, “there is evidence that motivation to read in the elementary and middle school years is related to reading achievement, with more proficient readers being more motivated and less proficient readers being less motivated. I bring this up because that is a factor that influenced our research. I agree with this statement when thinking about how students’ progress through these years of school. When it comes to reading, they are often motivated by the habits their parents helped them form. Habits of enjoying a good story and learning from a good book. Students motivation to read is linked to success because of learned reading behaviors they are introduced to at school. Behaviors that focus students’ goals to be centered around speed and quantity are often stressed over reading to gain knowledge and enjoy a good story while learning something about people and life. Or being able to read a book at a certain level.
These external and internal motivation as Keene describes it is linked to an outside factor. It is often a person you want to be like or a person you want to impress. Both Keene and Clear talk about how engagement or continual meeting of goals will not happen or be sustained with motivation alone. Engagement as Keene talks about and identity work as Clear talks about help drive sustained success or learning.
I came out of our research really thinking about goals and what a student has to be willing to do to make chose goals happen. Setting a goal is the easy part. You simply have to voice it, publicly or not. Then comes the hard part, putting steps into motion to help yourself achieve the goal. Identifying and completing these steps is what trips up children and adults.
In his book James Clear talks about goals and systems. He states that he learned the distinction between goals and systems from Scott Adams. “Goals are about the results you want to achieve, and systems are about the processes that lead to those results.” This shares the beliefs of the researchers mentioned above. He talks about how you have to have the right systems or as I say processes in place for habits to be formed and to continuously keep meeting goals.
After the research was completed, we noticed that even when the students voiced their desire to continue setting task-oriented goals for themselves they were not able to. Goal setting did not become a habit for these students even when they saw some success with it.
In our research we did not help our students internalize the system they needed to continually achieve their goals. The system was not in place long enough for students to grasp the processes of what helping them meet their goals. The system may have been conflicting the system their classroom teachers were putting in place. Also the habits did not have time to form, before we concluded our research. I think when too much emphasize is placed on the goal itself, students do not consciously become aware of the system or processes they went through to achieve their goals or when they do not meet it they become discouraged instead of thinking about what adjustments need to be made. If we are not aware of the processes, then we cannot repeat them to keep the cycle going.
You may meet some goals by pure desire, but those goals are not something you continue to meet without the right system in place. When you think about winning sports organizations it is the systems, they have in place that help them have continued success, not simply setting the goals to win. The term the “Patriot Way” was coined because of the continued winning the New England Patriots team has done over the last almost two decades. It was not used to describe their goal setting savvy ( or cheating ways), but the systems and process their players had to buy into and to describe the identity players who came to the organization adopted. The systems that most legendary coaches put into place include goals, but they will tell you success is driven by habits they instill in players and identities their players take on. I feel that along with achieving mastery over the processes and building a winning system that lead to a cycle of success you have to make adjustments as you go. Winning teams and coaches know how to make with-in the game adjustments as well as out-of-game adjustments. Clear talks about this also when he addresses “bad” habits. I like to think of them as habits you need to shift and adapt to your current situation or students.
I feel we can learn and apply a lot of what Clear says to education. Keene and Clear are on the same wavelength with their thinking. Helping students form habits that set them up to engage in learning are critical.
I want my students to form the habits that lead them to be successful readers and to be successful in life.
My colleague and I were on the right track with our research into motivation. We wanted to help students form reading habits that would help them continue to set and meet reading goals focused on learning, not speed, level and quantity of reading. We knew they needed to be reading to explore the many experiences they may not get the chance to experience outside of a book until they become adults if ever. We want them to be able to learn about life through their reading. The performance-oriented goals will take care of themselves when students master the processes readers go through.
Right now my mind is absorbed with thoughts on how I can adjust my teaching to help my students form habits that set them up for engagement and sustained success by reading for meaning. As a National Board Certified Teacher in Literacy I see parallels with the National Board’s Five Core Propositions and Architecture of Accomplished Teaching and forming habits, motivation, and goal setting.
National Board-Certified Teachers are teachers who go through the process or system above continuously, creating habits of accomplished teaching. Habits all accomplished teachers share. Anyone who has attempted to achieve National Board Certification or achieved understands that the process you go through changes you as a teacher. It build habits that over time lead to the success of your students. You have to understand and commit to the processes of accomplished teaching to achieve National Board Certification. You are asked to renew your certification every five years to make sure that the process has become a habit. At least that is the way I think we have to look at it.
We have to choose the right identity as Clear puts it. We have to view ourselves as an accomplished teacher and understand what the process of accomplished teaching looks like and set goals that fit into that process. Clear states mastery requires patients and that what seems like overnight success is a really the result of lots of hard work and building of habits that merge together to finally break through into some success.
I want to continue to improve my teaching practice and make changes to improve my life. I will try to share some of the adjustments and habits as I work towards improving instruction.
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2019-04-26T15:53:05Z
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https://troyafredde.blog/author/jayhawkrtroy/
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Nothing beats a Tom Collins from the top of Atlanta. A must see for everyone visiting ATL.
More strolling around downtown ATL...checking out Gibney's Pub, Meehan's, and more.
Love that Wednesday is opening night for a play based on an amazing book, John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederancy of Dunces".
Finally, a late dinner in Midtown at my favorite brewery chain, Gordon Biersch. Marzen beer, anyone?
We spent the day walking around downtown Atlanta, CNN Center, Centennial Park, and the Omni. At night, we saw "Cyrus" @ the Midtown Art Cinema and ate at the awesome Metro Cafe Diner. Open 24/7 with karaoke all night long.
The best of Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Still bald..still single..still lovin' it!
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2019-04-23T23:52:53Z
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http://www.coryodonnell.net/2010/08/
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2019-04-18T18:34:50Z
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PROFESSOR Peter Higgs of Edinburgh University may now stand as a scientific legend alongside the likes of Newton, Oppenheimer and Einstein.
But the Noble laureate-in-waiting is far from the only Scottish scientist behind one of the greatest achievements in physics in the last century: the discovery last week of the elusive Higgs boson – the God particle. Although Higgs proposed the theory of the particle nearly 50 years ago, behind the scenes, dozens of physicists from Scotland played a vital role in the experiments which led to the identification of the Higgs boson – a particle which holds the key to explaining how matter attains its mass, and how the universe works at its most fundamental level.
The discovery awaits full endorsement from the scientific community.
Around 50 academics, researchers, technicians and postgraduate students from both Glasgow and Edinburgh universities were part of the Atlas experiment team at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Cern, Switzerland, which announced the breakthrough on Wednesday.
Here we talk to some of those Scottish scientists about their work on the Atlas experiment and their thoughts on the significance of the likely discovery of the Higgs Boson particle.
Robson, 32, is a lecturer in physics at Glasgow University and first started working on the Atlas project when he was a student.
He analyses data from Atlas – an essential part of proving a discovery is bona fide.
Robson said finding the new particle was a "huge milestone". While the world is celebrating the achievement, scientists are a lot more reserved. The discovery is yet to be fully signed-off in scientific terms, and it is Robson's role to make sure it is.
He said: "We have discovered a new particle, but have really still to show that it is a Higgs boson. First of all the challenge is to collect a lot more of these particles, so we can make really precise measurements and see whether the particle does have the properties that the theory predicts – or whether it is actually something a bit more exotic."
Robson said the "scientific quest" had produced huge benefits along the way, including hopefully encouraging more young people into physics. He said: "Along the way to discovering [the Higgs boson] we have had to overcome all sorts of technological hurdles and that is what has the real effect on everyday life. Whether it is detectors with medical or security applications, or touch screens – which were first made at Cern to control the accelerators – all these 'by-products' do have a huge effect on everyday life.
"Students coming in to study physics at university say it's the big science, the particle physics and the astronomy that really excites them. I hope they will see that we are making huge advances in our knowledge in particle physics and it is an exciting time to be doing it."
Martin, 38, is a lecturer in particle physics, involved in experiments at Cern and a former student of Higgs.
She co-leads the team in Edinburgh University which has been involved in analysing the data collected in the Atlas experiment to search for signs of the Higgs boson.
She said: "This is a fantastic moment. So many people have worked on it for so long. There is a phrase – we have only seen further because we were standing on the shoulders of giants – and it really feels like that."
As an undergraduate student Martin was lectured by Higgs and remembers him as being a "tough, no-nonsense" but inspirational teacher.
She said that to her there were as yet no apparent practical consequences as a result the discovery of the Higgs boson particle but pointed out there had been huge benefits as a result of the building of the experiment.
She said: "For scientists it is really exciting to complete this picture in their head, but on the way to building the LHC and running it and operating it, there has been so many technological spin-offs which the public use nowadays.
"The most common one is the world wide web, which everybody uses, but was invented as a tool for physicists at Cern to communicate with each other."
Martin said another recent development was improved solar panels, based on new vacuum technology created to extract air particles in the LHC. She said: "These have been installed on the roof of Geneva airport and they are much more efficient than the solar panels that had been developed up until then."
Doyle, 49, Cern associate from Glasgow University, is in charge of the publications from the Atlas experiment.
He is currently working on submitting the results of the discovery of the Higgs boson to journal Physics Letter B, which will be published at the end of July.
Doyle said scientists from Glasgow University had been involved in the hunt for the Higgs boson particle for around 20 years, with the current team involving 35 people – a relatively large group.
He said: "Within the collaboration there are 3,000 [researchers] at 175 institutes worldwide, so it is an average number of 15 or so in a team.
"Our group is more than double the size of the average group. It is because we have been working on lots of elements and we have led the way in which all the data is analysed and distributed all over the world."
Doyle was at the seminar last Wednesday when the results were announced and said it was unlike any previous scientific event he had attended.
"It was like a rock concert, everyone was queuing up," he said. "Not everyone could fit into the auditorium, as there are thousands of people here. So there were different rooms which were being used around Cern to show it."
Doyle likened the process of searching for the Higgs boson to the space mission which was a test run for Apollo 11's successful moon landing.
He added: "My analogy is that last year was like Apollo 10, where we developed the technologies that we required. Now the eagle has landed."
Clark, 38, is reader in physics at Edinburgh University, another former student of Higgs and a key scientist on the Atlas project at Cern.
He also played a key role in the development of a computer system called Scotgrid, a joint enterprise along with the universities of Glasgow and Durham, which enables vast quantities of data from the experiments to be sent around the world to researchers.
He said: "All the computers around the world are hooked up to the experiment software. We run continually about 120,000 computer programmes across the world to simulate the particles that are produced at the LHC and also to analyse the data."
Clark said it was difficult to predict the future potential of the Higgs boson discovery, but pointed out the implications of great scientific breakthroughs in the past had been similarly unknown.
He said: "It just gives us so much more understanding of the fundamental particle interactions, and how they actually come about.
"To relate that to everyday life is really quite difficult and it could be very far into the future when we find there is something we haven't thought of.
"For example, when the electron was discovered, we didn't think about the whole internet revolution that is completely dependent upon the electron 100 years later.
Of the Higg's boson's significance he said: "I think I would liken [this discovery] to finally understanding the DNA mechanism, in that the scientific achievement is of similar scale."
St Denis, 52, senior lecturer in experimental particle physics at Glasgow University, has been involved in the project since 1991, when he helped to design what would eventually become the Atlas experiment.
He said it was difficult to envisage the application of such scientific theories, but pointed out they often had an impact on everyday life.
He said: "Einstein's theory of relativity is one you might have thought was a bit of an esoteric thing – what could that have to do with my life?
"The answer is in your cellphone and your satnav. Your position locator will not work without it as if you tried to do the calculations without general relativity it wouldn't find you."
St Denis said the discovery of the Higgs boson had triggered discussion and excitement equivalent to the first moon landing.
"The way to describe this is that it is like the Lord of the Rings – one particle shall rule them all," he said.
He said the importance of the Higgs boson discovery was comparable to the work of Sir Isaac Newton, who "made sense out of complete chaos and explained how planets move and at the same time explained how an apple fell. I think that is the level we are at with this."
Although the Higgs boson has been nicknamed the "God particle", because of its fundamental role in answering questions about the creation of the universe, St Denis said its discovery would not impact on anyone's religious beliefs, adding: "It strikes me as a term that was invented to be a little devilish."
Buttar, 49, is group leader of the Atlas project at Glasgow University and a reader in the university's school of physics and astronomy.
He started working on the Atlas project in around 1990, helping to build the experiment and develop a "tracker" at the centre of the Atlas detector to collect data and find the particle.
Buttar said the discovery of the particle which appears to be the Higgs boson could be the "last part of the jigsaw".
"One of the critical things is going to be to start looking at this and to check it is a Higgs," he said.
"The chances are it is a Higgs, but science has got to be more rigorous than that and we have got to go and do the measurements. That is going to take a while." Buttar pointed out that the search for the Higgs boson was not the only purpose of the LHC, which is going to be shut down next year to allow final repairs to be carried out following an accident four years ago.
A fault caused helium to leak into the tunnel that houses the collider, just nine days after it was switched on in September 2008.
Buttar said: "We have found the Higgs – that was definitely the main target – and in the next few years we have got to confirm it is the Higgs and what its properties are.
"The LHC will shut down next year and they are going to do the final repairs – when it comes back on its energy will have doubled.
"That will give us approximately double the reach in terms of looking for new phenomena."
He added: "It is a bit like a telescope – the Higgs is one of the big name items we are after, but there are many, many things going on at the same time."
Professor Peter Higgs, 83, came up with his theory while working as a researcher at Edinburgh University.
An honorary Scot, he was born in Newcastle and graduated with a first-class honours degree in physics from King's College London.
He moved to Edinburgh in 1960 to lecture in mathematical physics – a city which he had grown to love after once hitch-hiking to the Edinburgh Festival.
The scientist hit upon the concept of the Higgs boson while walking in the Cairngorms in 1964 and returned to his lab declaring he had had his "one big idea".
That moment has led to numerous accolades and he is now in line to win the Nobel prize.
But he has spoken of the toll his search to understand the building blocks of the universe has taken, with the stress of his work leading to the breakdown of his marriage to American wife, Jodie, in 1972.
He has previously said: "We split up because I had put my science career above the family. I backed out of a family holiday when we were meant to be going to America. Then I got on a plane and went to a conference."
The notoriously shy professor retired in 1996 and became emeritus professor of physics at Edinburgh University.
He lives in the capital's New Town and doesn't have a television or use a computer – someone else checks his email for him – and rarely answers the phone.
In typically unassuming manner, when asked about his reaction to the discovery which is likely to confirm his life's work, his answer was: "It's very nice to be right sometimes."
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2019-04-22T02:45:26Z
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https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13064545.how-scotland-found-the-god-particle/
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The UK School Trips Directory is one of the most comprehensive in the United Kingdom. We have a wide variety of School Trip and Educational Visit Destinations and Providers to suit all age groups and subjects/activities. From Day Trip Destinations and Residential Locations, to Transport and Workshop Providers, your next UK School Trip is just a few clicks away.
A visit to The Postal Museum supports learning across the curriculum for all key stages, from EYFS, key stages 1 – 5 and SEN groups.
At Mr. Mulligan’s Milton Keynes, students can choose between two equally exciting indoor adventure golf courses. Throughout the school trip, students will develop many skills, such as hand-eye co-ordination and teamwork.
At London Avengers STATION, students can step into the Marvel cinematic universe and experience the props and costumes of all their favourite characters. The unique facilities make this an engaging school trip for students studying both media and science.
Clip 'n Climb Preston offers physically challenging school trips where there is something for students of all abilities. Whether they wish to begin on one of the 24 climbs or dive into the deep end and try the Vertical Dropslide, everyone is catered for.
Gravity Trampoline Parks Edinburgh is great for both primary and secondary school trip trampolining. The excellent facilities can be enjoyed by all ages, ensuring that every student enjoys themselves.
Go Ape offers adventurous school trips, where all students are catered for. Whether they're looking for zip wires, off-road Segways or wish to take part in ground based gorilla games, there's something for everyone.
The Richmond Apart-Hotel offers a luxurious stay, with spacious rooms and an excellent location. The rooms can also be made into apartments with their own facilities, making it perfect for groups of students.
Absolutely Karting offers a fantastic opportunity for children to enjoy a different experience they may not have previously tried developing a range of skills, their confidence and competitive nature.
The Hostel is a stylish Independent Hostel in the beautiful heart of the Yorkshire Dales. We can sleep up to 42 in eleven bedrooms, a nice large dining room, a great second-hand bookshop, a well equipped self-catering kitchen, plus much more.
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2019-04-18T18:54:57Z
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https://www.ukschooltrips.co.uk/directory.html
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The last week before the all-star break, and we are rewarded with some top pitching options going twice before the big game. Chris Sale will have two starts this week to add to his monster strikeout streak, while Sonny Gray is returning from illness to grab another two-start week. There are of course a lot of lower tier guys making two starts, but we have you covered here and will sort through them.
We can start with Chris Sale, he will have a tough matchup against Toronto, and then a matchup against the Cubs. While he is winless in his last four stars, he is going on eight starts with double-digit strikeouts. With what he is doing, any other lefty I would sit against Toronto, but not Sale. Sonny Gray was dealing with an illness, which resulted in a scratched start last week. He will have a bit tougher matchups this week, facing the Yankees and the Indians both on the road. He will face a ton of lefties over the two games, and he has allowed a .251 wOBA to lefties this season, with a low 16% line drive rate. He is a true ace, and you trust your true aces. Francisco Liriano is a borderline tier one play, he has his ups and downs, but has two top matchups this week. Cardinals and Padres both rank in the bottom ten in wRC+ against lefties, and have 25% strikeout rates. If Liriano can keep his walks down, he could post a monster week via the strikeout. Corey Kluber and Dallas Keuchel both draw solid matchups this week, and fire them up as usual.
We will start off with Jon Lester, who will face the Cardinals and the White Sox this week. Both are teams who have struggled against lefties, although Lester has not looked dominant. With these teams you have to start Lester this week, and this will be a good week for him to regroup and build some momentum before the all-star break. Taijuan Walker has figured things out, and he will have two quality opponents to showcase how far he as come. He had a 2.36 ERA in June, and threw six scoreless innings in his first July start. He had a 3.23 FIP, and slightly lowered opposing hitters batted ball stats. Matt Moore is going to have two matchups that are tough this week, and he will remain on my bench until he has gotten his feet under him. He takes on Kansas City and Houston, who both are in the top half of the league against left-handed pitching. There are a few guys I am sitting in this tier, Jose Quintana - Toronto and Wei-Yin Chen - Minnesota. Those are two tough opponents for pitchers who are average at best.
There is a lot of deadweight in this tier, but sifting through some guys here there are a few studs with two-start value. Brett Anderson and Chris Heston will have a couple of easy matchups at home. Heston takes on the Mets and the Phillies, both at home, and he makes for a top option tonight. Anderson will face the Phillies and the Brewers at home. Both guys have over-performed in 2015, and while Heston is sort of a newcomer. He will face the same team he threw the no-hitter against, and will have solid upside in both starts. All three teams rank in the bottom ten in wRC+ against right or left handed pitching. The young lefty for the Angels, Andrew Heaney, will head to Coors, which you can sit, but start him against Seattle. Pretty obvious to sit him in Colorado, especially against those right-handed bats. Outside of those names it is a lot of junk this week.
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2019-04-23T10:50:54Z
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https://fantasybaseballcafe.com/season-long/two-start-pitcher-preview-7-5-15
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I have been working with the Spider'sWeb group since 2012. This is the largest technology blog in Poland based on the WordPress system.
I create HTML / SCSS and JS code. I change every visual change in design into a code.
A very important thing on spidersweb.pl is responsiveness. For more than a year, the website has been visited by more users on mobile devices than on desktop devices.
To create a comfortable responsiveness I use the Zurb Foundation, thanks to which the code is clear and consistent.
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2019-04-19T06:16:11Z
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https://agnieszkapalmowska.myportfolio.com/spidersweb
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Looking for some of the best Pennsylvania attractions you can find well look no further, you can experience the best shopping, golfing, and outdoor recreation Pennsylvania has to offer in Mercer County, PA. Whether you are looking for that weekend getaway, you can find all hotels and getaways here at our Mercer County, PA website. You can also explore some of the unique Pennsylvania's attractions that include, Tara Country Inn, Pymatuning State Park, Grove City Outlets, and Wendell August Forge, to name a few.
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2019-04-26T16:45:15Z
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http://www.websvalue.com/www.mercercountypa.org/
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This premium lifestyle development is now complete by Lighthouse Group.
Lot 11 has spectacular ocean views of Mount Maunganui and the Kaimai's. Just minutes from the beach, Tauranga City Centre and several great schools, it sits in a secluded rural setting overlooking the ocean.
This exclusive north facing section is 4191sqm, with services including power, fibre, water and stormwater at your boundary. Titles have been issued. Strong covenants protect your investment, however there is flexibility for owners to create their own picturesque lifestyle.
The extensive landscaping features thousands of native plants to create a welcome home for wildlife, along with peace and privacy for yourself. There's room enough to plant an avocado tree or several, making it the perfect sanctuary to create your forever home.
This spacious paradise is not to be missed. Lots 4, 8, and 12 are also available for purchase. Enquire now.
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2019-04-22T04:18:11Z
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https://www.pggwre.co.nz/property/tar28037/te-auhi-way-welcome-bay/
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If you are a serious fan of alcoholic beverages, mainly whiskey then it’s easy to take joy in drinking on a glass soon after making whiskey at home. All you require are the appropriate ingredients with a whiskey building kit and also, the greatest possible yeast to do this heady drink right at home.
You will need best suited brewing and distilling apparatus determined by the kind of whisky that you want to prepare at home. You can whisky-yeast.com do scotch whisky or malt whisky without any problems although if you want whisky with loads of character then your whisky will have to pass through the aging process along with you will certainly have to wait a few months or years before you can grab a drink to your friends.
While mild alcohols which includes beer and even wine use milder versions of the saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast, your selected whiskey will need a stronger style of whisky yeast even when it is from the same family of fungi. You can start making whiskey by adding water to your preferred grain particularly wheat, barley or maize after milling them so as to develop a mixture. This mixture will free up enzymes along the lines of amylase that will convert all starch found in the grains into sugar. You can also add these enzymes by paying for them over the internet to be able to provide a stronger mixture.
Once the starch in the mixture has been transformed into sugars along the lines of glucose or fructose, among others then you will need to add your fermenting yeast. You will also need to conduct the sugar fermentation course of action with an airlock fitted on the top of the fermenting vessel. Your fermentation will take a few days based on the strength of the whiskey that you desire and also the temperature of the mixture or mash. Instead of using ordinary yeast that does not have high alcohol tolerance or dies at temperatures above 27 degrees Celsius, you can opt for tougher yeast just like turbo yeast that can provide for strong alcohols even at 38 degrees Celsius.
This form of supercharged turboyeast will also present you with strong alcohol even if you have a weaker mash and as well as can order in small sachets for your new hobby and also even buy it in sacks if you decide to open up your own brewery or distillery. You will not only get a little leeway in fermenting mash temperature but will also get purer alcohol caused by the presence of micro nutrients in turbo yeast. Once your fermentation course of action is complete then you will need to distill the fermented ethanol or alcohol to make whiskey.
You will need to transfer the ethanol into your mini-distillery and even boil it with the intention to let go alcohol vapor since alcohol has a lower boiling point than water. This vapor will now need to be condensed by using a cooling source to convert those vapors back into distilled alcohol. You can now add burnt fruitwood to present that wonderful golden color to your whiskey. You can store your whiskey in oak barrels or casks to give it the required maturity as well as character during the aging procedure before you can drink this heady alcohol with your loved ones.
You can generate whiskey of your choice right at home as well as the even commence to set up your own distillery if you manage to create a work of liquid art. However, you should create sure that you have the very best ingredients and also right instructions along with hardy yeast just like turbo yeast to ensure that you get strong as well as the pure whiskey. You can surely have a good time sipping on a glass after making whiskey at home if you have the greatest guidance as well as materials in your hands.
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2019-04-20T11:16:17Z
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http://getaddspypro.com/take-pleasure-from-drinking-on-a-glass-shortly-after-making-whiskey-at-home/
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The province Noord-Holland believes that they have made cultural heritage available to the greater public with their Street Museum app. Images of times gone-by are visualised at different location in seven regions (Alkmaar and surrounding areas, Amsterdam, Den Helder, Het Gooi region, Hoorn and the Zaanstreek). Old photos, postcards and paintings of and from Noord-Holland are placed over the current situation; sounds like a type of AR! For convenience (and to avoid lengthy download times), the files can be downloaded per region. Simply aim your smartphone’s camera at a historical location to enable the app to recognise it via GPS. Following that, a snapshot from the past is revealed. By aid of Google Maps a map can be prompted to discover more old images.
The Street Museum app is available for both Apple and Android.
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2019-04-24T16:44:43Z
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http://arlab.kabk.nl/media/street-museum-application-noord-holland
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EX-MACC Town favourite Matt Tipton is delighted at his return to the Moss Rose on a loan deal from Bury.
Tipton, a highly popular figure with Silkmen supporters, is expected to add a genuine goal threat, something Brian Hortonés men have lacked in their disappointing start to the season.
The speedy striker left Macc in 2005 after the failed post-season play-offs, but neither he nor the Silkmen have enjoyed an upturn in fortunes since.
David Moss brought Tipton to the club and he proved an instant hit, notching 14 goals in his first full season.
In the relegation-threatened 2003-2004, his 19 strikes proved vital.
Tipton went to try his luck at Mansfield Town but endured an unhappy spell and moved to Bury, where he suffered with injury and found first-team chances hard to come by.
Tipton told the Express: "Iém delighted to be coming back. I played all of the pre-season but Iéve just not been getting a game at Bury since I had a groin injury.
"Brian came in for me and I jumped at the chance to return. I enjoyed my time at Macclesfield and Iém really pleased to be back."
Tipton played half an hour at Grimsby and the Welsh Under-21 international may be the answer to Hortonés goalscoring problems.
He said after the 1-1 draw: "I enjoyed it a lot, it was like Iéd never been away. I had a reserve game for Bury on Wednesday so Iéd had Thursday off.
"I only met up with the lads on the bus down, though Iéd kept in touch with a lot of them anyway.
"I trained with them for the first time on Monday and I look forward to seeing what the manager does.
"Itéll be good to get back onto the Moss Rose again."
Matt is joined at the club by Nottingham Forest striker Spencer Weir-Daley and Oldhamés Rob Scott.
Horton said: "Iém delighted to have Matt back, I saw him play earlier in the week and he had a fantastic game.
"Spencer played against us in the Carling Cup last year. He has real pace and power.
"Rob is a great player and will provide a number of options, as well as experience at the back."
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2019-04-26T04:10:20Z
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https://www.macclesfield-live.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/matts-back-2537359
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pired by the nonna of different areas in Italy.
Today is Friday and thus a perfect reason for a starter.
Start by boiling an entire lemon for 30 mins. In the meanwhile clean 10 baby artichokes ( recipe for 3p). Put the quarters immediately in water mixed with lemon juice. Put the artichokes in the water witch you used to boil the lemon. Boil for approx 10 mins. Drain and cool down.
Put 1 garlic clove, 1 table spoon of fresh thyme leaves and a pinch of salt in the mortar. Grind. Mix with the juice of 1 lemon and a good drizzle of olive oil.
Remove the skin from the boiled lemon. Slice thinly ( you don’t need the inside).
Mix the artichokes with the thyme/garlic/ lemon/ olive oil mixture. Spread the lemon zeste and grinded pistachio nuts. Finish with some good quality honey.
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2019-04-25T19:44:45Z
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https://docvshealthykitchen.blog/2019/04/05/viva-litalia/
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I joke with J that I’m going to start collecting all things blue and white for our the little weekend getaway house that we dream about. It’s a joke for now but the love affair I have with the color combo is real and Ginger Jars are where I really have to remind myself that this little dream getaway doesn’t exist… yet.
Now this blue and white combo is way more glam that what I imagine styling a cottage in, but there was something so old hollywood glamour about this shade of blue velvet that paired perfectly with the wood gold and acrylic nesting tables. Even just looking at it I want to touch it!
I would style a built-in bookshelf with fun ginger jars and white marble busts, books and scattered treasures like this branch. To add dimension I’d keep within the color family but add different prints and materials. Imagine curtains in this fun Kathmandu Porcelain print fabric, a leather wrapped sconce hanging over the table, and a sofa or bench in the ivory tweed. And we can’t forget that pillow. The geometric lines add a fun pop of color which is just enough for the room.
Do you ever dream of having a weekend getaway home? Would it be in the mountains or by a beach?! Casual or fancy?! Near or far?! Let me know if you too have searches set up on Zillow or if I’m just crazy!
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2019-04-20T00:35:25Z
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Black jaguar claw style blade karambit spring assisted folding pocket knife. 8.5 inch overall length.
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When Anthony Davis demanded a trade, it was reasonable to suspect the New Orleans Pelicans would look to grant his wish. However, there was the added factor of the six-time All-Star remaining under contract at least through next season.
The Pelicans reportedly rejected an offer from the New York Knicks that was centered around Kristaps Porzingis, who then was dealt to the Dallas Mavericks, and they aren’t believed to have given much thought to proposals presented by the Los Angeles Lakers.
That’s despite the Lakers increasing their offer to include multiple first-round draft picks, their entire young core, and a willingness to take back Solomon Hill so as to provide the Pelicans with salary relief.
L.A. grew frustrated over the lack of progress, withdrew from talks, and as of Thursday morning still had not had re-engaged with New Orleans.
Have been hearing that some within the Pels' organization want an AD trade now partly to get the PR mess/distraction out of the way, but that owner Gayle Benson and VP Mickey Loomis, who are more focused on the Saints, are unfazed by the noise.
While Davis has missed time due to a volar plate avulsion fracture in his left index finger, he’s since been cleared for a return and wanted to play in the Pelicans’ past two games. He was withheld, under the ruse of avoiding injury ahead of a potential trade.
There have been rumblings the Pelicans may shut Davis down for the remainder of the season, which may not sit well with the 26-year-old. No matter how the saga ultimately concludes, the Pelicans franchise has endured plenty of criticism over their handling of trade talks.
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Christine Waltermyer is the founder and director of The Natural Kitchen Cooking School, offering Chef’s Training Programs, personal chef service and in-home cooking classes in Princeton, NJ and Manhattan. With over a decade of experience in the field of natural cooking, Christine is a masterful chef and teacher specializing in macrobiotic and vegan cuisines. Christine is a regularly featured chef on Ebru TV’s “Daily Connection.” Her personal chef clients include well known celebrities. Christine teaches “Food for Life” cooking classes for The Cancer Project. She has co-taught with legendary natural foods leader, Michio Kushi, at The Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Lenox, Massachusetts. Christine currently leads dynamic cooking classes at Integral Yoga Institute in NYC, Dean’s Natural Food Market in Ocean, NJ; and Whole Foods Market in Princeton, NJ. Christine has been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, including Princeton’s U.S. 1 Magazine and The Asbury Park Press. She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. It is Christine’s passion to empower others with the skills and knowledge to create radiant health. She will be a featured instructor at the 34th annual North American Vegetarian Society’s Vegetarian Summerfest in Johnstown, PA.
Today on It’s All About Food I commented on a recent news program about black foods including black beans. Well I don’t discriminate and love all beans of all colors! I spoke about all the delicious things that can be done with beans. I also talked about the development of Urban Gardens.
Caryn Hartglass: Hello I’m Caryn Hartglass and you’re listening to It’s All About Food. Thank you for joining me this afternoon, it’s May, it’s May 11th, 2011, and I’m sitting back having a lovely cup of organic jasmine green tea, and I’m going to enjoy this hour with you and our special guest today. We’re going to be talking about my favorite subject: healthy, delicious, yummy, vegan, plant-based food.
And we’re going to be speaking with Christine Waltermyer, she’s the founder and director of the Natural Kitchen Cooking School. With over 15 years of experience in the field of natural cooking, Christine is a masterful chef and teacher, specializing in macrobiotic, vegan and raw food cuisines. Christine recently published her first cookbook, Natural Vegan Kitchen. She has appeared on Ebru TV’s Daily Connections as a regularly featured chef. Her personal chef clients have included well-known celebrities, and Christine also teaches food-for-life cooking classes for The Cancer Project. She has co-taught with legendary natural foods leader Michio Kushi at the Kripolu Center for Yoga and Health in Lennox, Massachusetts. Christine has taught dynamic cooking classes at Integral Yoga Institute in New York City, Dean’s Natural Food Market in Ocean City, New Jersey, and Whole Foods Market in Princeton.
Christine has been the subject of numbers newspaper and magazine articles, including Princeton’s U.S. 1 Magazine and the Asbury Park Press. Christine has written for Veg News Magazine. She is a graduate of Millersville University, the Kushi Institute, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. She is a certified wellness coach for the Coach Training Alliance, and she specializes in gluten-free diets for children with special needs. It is Christine’s passion to empower others with the skills and knowledge to create radiant health. Welcome, Christine!
Christine Waltermyer: Hello Caryn, thank you for that great introduction.
Caryn Hartglass: Ha, well, you did it, I just read it.
Christine Waltermyer: You read it well!
Caryn Hartglass: Thank you! And welcome to the show, I have not met you in person but it’s great to read about you, and great to read about why you do what you do, because I feel like we’re kindred spirits in some way, and I always enjoy talking to people with a passion about food, and who want to use food to improve people’s lives, create health, and do it in a yummy, delicious way. Yes, I think that’s what life is all about.
Christine Waltermyer: Yes I agree, and I think that what you’re doing is great as well.
Caryn Hartglass: Yeah, so hats off to both of us!
Caryn Hartglass: I am pouring you a virtual cup of tea here.
Christine Waltermyer: Oh, that sounds great! That jasmine tea, oh my gosh.
Caryn Hartglass: Yeah, I don’t like drinking alone. It’s very good, I was really in the mood for it. Ok, so, let’s get started here. You have a new cookbook, how exciting!
Caryn Hartglass: I don’t know if people realize how much work goes into preparing a cookbook, but I know it takes a lot of work. And, there’s a lot of things too, and one is just testing the recipes to make sure they’re right so that when people reproduce them they get what they are supposed to get.
Caryn Hartglass: I’ve been thinking a bit about the word “natural” lately for a number of reasons, and I just want to know, what does natural mean to you, because you use it in the name of your cookbook, The Natural Vegan Kitchen, and you use it in the Natural Kitchen Cooking School. I’m just going to say a little bit more, we have “natural” food stores and there’s a lot of food products that use the word natural, and it’s not a word that has been officially defined by our government for food products and regulation. What does it mean to you?
Christine Waltermyer: To me, I would say, as close to Mother Nature as possible, so, very whole and unprocessed or minimally processed, as if you had picked it right out of the garden.
Caryn Hartglass: I like that, that’s what it should mean. Amen. You have quite a list of places that you’ve studied at, in food preparation. How did you get started on this path?
Christine Waltermyer: You know, it started with my own health issues. Gosh, I was in my late teens, and I had had surgery twice for benign breast lumps. I had about twenty removed, and probably about that many grew right back, right under the scars, and my surgeon at the time, when I was 22 or so, said, “You know, you can’t keep coming out of surgery. You should really consider getting a double mastectomy.” And I was like, “I don’t think so.” So, that set me on this quest of natural healing and discovering all I could about what I could do through food and diet to heal myself. And, thankfully, I never had to have the surgery, and the rest is history.
Caryn Hartglass: Right, well, I am very happy to hear that. The interesting thing is that, human beings we, when we go outside of the healthful space that we’re supposed to be in, with a lifestyle that’s filled with good nutrition and healthy food and healthy life practices, when we go outside of that, that’s where our DNA kind of kicks in and we all kind of fall apart differently. The poor nutrition, poor lifestyle will affect each of us rather individually, and I think that’s what is challenging to the medical community and to society, because we see different things happening to different people and don’t realize that most of them are just symptoms of the same problem.
Caryn Hartglass: And so yours is rather unique, although there’s certainly a lot of breast cancer and other issues, but I think the root of all of these symptoms is the same—we’re not nourishing ourselves with natural, healthy food.
Caryn Hartglass: Ok, so who were some of the inspirations for you when you did your research?
Christine Waltermyer: Oh gosh, I have to really thank Michio Kushi. Neal Barnard has been fabulous. Recently more the work of Joel Fuhrman, I really like his approach.
Caryn Hartglass: Yeah he’s one of my favorites.
Christine Waltermyer: Yeah, right? So, yeah, I would say those three really stand out. Of course, Christina Pirello is such a role model of a vivacious cooking teacher, and with her shows. Rory Freedman, of course is the, you know, I can’t even name all my heroes. Robin Robertson, I could keep going.
Caryn Hartglass: So you seem to have been influenced a lot by the macrobiotic community?
Caryn Hartglass: Is it just because you fell into that, or was there something that resounded with that sort of diet?
Caryn Hartglass: The amazing thing is that, from whatever angle you come from, a raw food diet or macrobiotic diet, the bottom line is plant foods are the winner.
Caryn Hartglass: And there are so many different cuisines now that, this is happy eating, this is beautiful eating, this is satisfying eating, and there are so many different recipes, and so many different vegan cookbooks coming out.
Caryn Hartglass: Now, what sets yours apart from all the others that are out there?
Christine Waltermyer: I would say the focus on, like you said, the word natural, and whole and unprocessed, because I don’t use white sugar, no white flour, I really like to have a high integrity with my ingredients, so, I would say that’s something that I believe.
Caryn Hartglass: Well, what I like about it, is these are, I think they are relatively simple recipes, and all on the healthy slant, but creative enough or the right blend of ingredients so that these are really satisfying, tasty dishes.
Christine Waltermyer: Great, thanks for saying that!
Caryn Hartglass: Oh yeah, I definitely think so, and there’s some really nice pictures. There’s one recipe in here that’s kind of decadent for me, but good to have from time to time, and that’s the zucchini rice patties. The ingredients are pretty simple and healthy, but it is, they are fried, and I don’t tend to use much oil, but I could use this recipe from time to time for, some sort of, I’m trying to think of what occasion would be best, but they sort of look like crab cakes.
Caryn Hartglass: And really, really fun.
Christine Waltermyer: Yes, and alternatively you can actually bake them. You could maybe just very lightly spray them with a mist of spray oil if you wanted to, and just bake them instead.
Caryn Hartglass: Right, well that’s the amazing thing, what I like about it is, there’s a season where zucchini is everywhere, and for those who get to garden, and they are growing zucchini, there’s this period where they’re just overwhelmed, zucchinis are becoming monsters and you just don’t know what to do with them. They make zucchini bread, and ok, enough already with the zucchini, but this is a great recipe that is a good use for zucchini that I haven’t personally done myself. I really like in this recipe you grate the zucchini, and I haven’t seen zucchini, I’ve done it, and I like what happens to zucchini when its grated, but I don’t see that really ever in restaurants or anywhere. So here’s to grated zucchini! What’s your favorite in this book?
Christine Waltermyer: It changes! Gosh, if I had to pick a favorite, I definitely have a sweet tooth, so I love like the blueberry pear fluff. It’s a nice, light satisfying dessert, it’s really good to use the natural sweetness of the fruit, and yet it gives you that little cozy satisfaction of having something, a treat at the end of the meal.
Caryn Hartglass: Right. Now you have some classic ingredients from the macrobiotic kitchen, like the brown rice syrup and the kuzu starch. I know what kuzu starch is, I may have purchased it from time to time, but I’m not that familiar with it. Is it like other starches, like corn starch and potato starch?
Christine Waltermyer: Exactly, except it’s a little more chunky. It almost looks like little broken up pieces of chalk, so you definitely have to dilute it in the cold water just like other starches, and then add it to your warm, whatever you’re making, a gravy or sauce.
Caryn Hartglass: Great. So tell me, you started the kitchen school, the Natural Kitchen Vegan Kitchen, no, the Natural Kitchen Cooking School. That was pretty ambitious. And this is in New Jersey?
Christine Waltermyer: We have classes in New Jersey, two programs in New Jersey, and then one in Manhattan.
Caryn Hartglass: Excellent. And what do people learn while they go through this school?
Christine Waltermyer: It’s an eight month program. It meets one weekend a month for eight months, and we have different themes each weekend, so we have a grain weekend, we have bean weekend, vegetables, we teach some raw foods, some of the macrobiotic theory of course. We have great guest teachers like Alex Jameson, Fran Costigan, and again Judy Baggs every weekend, so it’s a really comprehensive program as far as plant-based cooking.
Caryn Hartglass: And eight months, that’s a good commitment.
Caryn Hartglass: So I imagine you get people that have a wide range of skills, from beginners to people that have a bit of knowledge about food preparation.
Christine Waltermyer: You’re exactly right, yes.
Caryn Hartglass: Which can make it interesting, when they’re all mixed together in a classroom.
Christine Waltermyer: Right, right. Everything they share, and that you see going on, we have one of our graduates is now teaching at the French Culinary Institute, and other folks just happy to be cooking healthier meals for themselves or their family.
Caryn Hartglass: And is it all vegan?
Christine Waltermyer: It is all vegan, 100%.
Caryn Hartglass: Does anybody ever have any challenges with that when they come to the school, or they know what they’re getting into?
Christine Waltermyer: They know what they’re getting into, and I’d say maybe, probably, not even half of our students are vegan, the other half… But it’s amazing over time, I think people sometimes come in, like we had someone once who was a body builder and she said, “I eat meat, I just want to announce that.” Then years later she suddenly became vegan, and we don’t push it, we present the beauty of the food and the cooking, and why we do it, the connection with the environment, and then if you want to make that jump, it’s great.
Caryn Hartglass: What’s interesting to me I find some people are really naturals in the kitchen, and it doesn’t matter what cuisine they’re familiar with, but, they just know what to do with food, and then other people are really out of place, and are really lost. Do you see that in your school, where, you know there are some that really take to preparing and others don’t have that, I don’t know what to call it, imagination or? It’s rough, because when somebody gets the idea about transitioning to a healthier diet and including more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds in their diet, some people just know what to do. They are used to having spaghetti and meatballs, they leave out the meatballs, and they might add some vegetables, but other people it’s just like a deer in the headlights or something where, What? What do I do now? I don’t know how, how do I not eat meat? How do I not eat cheese? What is there to eat? It’s just amazing the block.
Caryn Hartglass: Now you also do some, do you do some coaching?
Christine Waltermyer: I do, yes, I do wellness coaching as well.
Caryn Hartglass: And is it related to food?
Christine Waltermyer: Yes, yes absolutely, I basically call myself the food coach, so.
Caryn Hartglass: Ok, so I imagine you meet people like this, where they just don’t have an idea of where to begin?
Christine Waltermyer: Yes, and in the chef training program we address that by introducing the five tastes, and we’ll often taste test something and say “Now, what does this need?” And people will sort of jump in and say, “Oh it needs more sour, let’s add a little brown rice vinegar,” or it needs more sweet or salty, so we help to develop that intuition, and with my coaching I do do that as well, making suggestions and drawing forth on their wisdom and making suggestions, so, it’s a process, but it really is magical how that can be developed.
Caryn Hartglass: Now what would you like to see happen with this new cookbook that you just put out?
Christine Waltermyer: Well, I’m just so excited that it’s being reviewed on various blogs, and so far, everyone’s just giving it really great reviews, and I guess I’d just like to see it affect more and more people in a positive way and help them to eat a healthy, balanced, vegan diet.
Caryn Hartglass: That sounds pretty good to me. Ok, let’s see, any other things that you might want to discuss while we’re here?
Caryn Hartglass: Oh you do? What do you have?
Christine Waltermyer: I’m just teasing, you offered me a virtual cup of tea earlier, so.
Caryn Hartglass: Right, ok. There’s always time for tea.
Caryn Hartglass: Let’s see, oh, you had an opportunity to do some work with The Cancer Project?
Caryn Hartglass: With the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine? Can you talk a little about that? I think that’s such a great program.
Christine Waltermyer: It is. I really, I just love working with the cancer project, and Neal Barnard, and the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine. They have, if you go to cancerproject.org, they have an amazing selection of recipes on their website and great resources. What they do is they have about 60 instructors all over the country, and I’m one of them, and we teach a 4, 6, or 8 week program helping people who are either dealing with cancer, or who want to prevent cancer, to learn meals that can support their immune system, and they get to see a cookbook throughout the course. It’s just a great program.
Caryn Hartglass: I really would like to see something like that just explode, either with PCRM, or, and hospitals should provide something like that for every person that comes in with cancer.
Caryn Hartglass: I had my own experience with ovarian cancer, it was quite a scary time. It didn’t make sense that I got it, but I did, and I just decided to use everything I knew to get over to the other side and get well, and I realize that even though I thought I was a healthy vegan, I think that ultimately saved my life to begin with, but I had to take my diet up a few notches, and I’ve just been cramming greens ever since. Green juice and green foods, and you know, some of us need to do a little more than others.
Christine Waltermyer: Yes that’s true, good for you.
Caryn Hartglass: That information doesn’t get out there enough. I see so many women, in particular, who are educated, and have the means, and they think they’re doing things that are healthy, they’re eating their yogurt every day, and they really don’t realize what they really need to do, and then they get breast cancer or something else, and it’s, I’ve heard so many numbers, you probably have heard some of them too, the conservative ones are that 60% of all cancers could be prevented with diet. And it’s probably more.
Christine Waltermyer: Yeah, you think it would be front page news that we can take charge and do something about it, and I think it is getting out there gradually.
Caryn Hartglass: Now, I’m not familiar with Ebru TV’s Daily Connections. Is that on television, is that on the internet?
Christine Waltermyer: They are actually available on the internet at this point. That was something that I did a few years ago, with Ebru TV, and yeah, that was a lot of fun. I loved working with them, and we did quite a few episodes.
Caryn Hartglass: Is there any way that we can access that, or is that something from some time ago? I always like to watch food shows on the internet.
Christine Waltermyer: I know, me too! Actually, we do have a link on our website, naturalkitchenschool.com, there’s a section, I believe it’s under Meet the Director, and Watch Christine on TV, and there’s a link.
Caryn Hartglass: Ok great, well definitely I’m glad you mentioned that, because I seem to have forgot to, that your website is again, what is again?
Christine Waltermyer: Oh sorry, naturalkitchenschool.com.
Caryn Hartglass: Naturalkitchenschool.com. Great. If you’re interested in the cookbook, it’s called the Natural Vegan Kitchen:Recipes from the Natural Kitchen Cooking School. I think that it’s a great book for anyone who is transitioning to a healthier diet because there’s a lot of very interesting, but easy, well-balanced, range of recipes in here, from, like I like to say, soup to dessert.
Christine Waltermyer: Yeah! Well, thank you very much!
Caryn Hartglass: Thank you! I wish you all the best and I just hope you help many, many people that are open and receptive to learning about a healthy, plant-based diet.
Christine Waltermyer: I hope so too, that would make me so happy.
Caryn Hartglass: And it will make them happy! That’s the point!
Caryn Hartglass: Oh well. But they will only know when they try it.
Caryn Hartglass: Ok, here’s to delicious food! Thank you Christine Waltermyer for joining us today on It’s All About Food.
Caryn Hartglass: Have a great day. All right, I think we’ll take a quick little break, and I’ll be right back.
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There we go, so let’s start in with the conversation and talk about my favorite food. No, my favorite, which is food. I love food, as long as it’s natural like we were just talking about with my guest Christine Waltimeyer, and from plants, healthy plant foods. I occasionally turn on the television, it’s not very often, and I catch the 11:00 news and a couple of nights ago, you’ll notice many of the news stations do this now. It’s all entertainment, it’s not really a bulk of news, but they have these little trailers to keep you going through the program. Wait till you hear about this and about this new secret that, and some great food that’s going to do this for you and they go “stay tuned,” and then you finally watch it and it’s basically the trailer they’ve been showing you the whole time plus maybe 30 seconds more of information and it’s usually disappointing.
A couple of nights ago there was a program on Black foods – did anyone catch it? It was crazy. I give the network credit, I think it was CBS, gosh, I don’t even remember, but I give them credit for talking about healthy foods because ultimately they were promoting the black foods, like blackberries and black beans, and they showed some picture of eggplant, which In my book are kind of purple and brown, not really black, and they certainly aren’t black on the inside. But I just thought it was something kind of weird but I guess they run out of topics to be creative about, so they wanted to talk about black food, kind of implying that people don’t naturally like to eat foods that are black and I don’t know. I don’t know anyone that’s every told me, ew, I don’t want to eat it because it’s black. I can think of numerous candies, for example, that are black, like licorice. And licorice, some of the plain licorice are actually more sensible as a candy because they’re not too sweet and are made from natural ingredients.
But there are plenty of black foods. And I have never heard anyone say , when they’re served a blackberry, ew, I don’t want to eat it, it’s black, so I thought it was a really bizarre take. But I want to give them credit for promoting beans, like black beans, because beans, no matter what color they are, are a super food, in my book. But let’s not discriminate. There are white beans, and pink beans, and pink beans, sometimes called kidney beans and the white beans are actually sometimes called navy beans. Certainly there are black beans and there are different kinds of black beans. There are black soy beans, there are white soy beans, there are little black turtle beans. There are a whole host of lentils. Lentils can be brown, they can be green, they can be pink, yellow, orange. Let’s go on and on. There are split peas that are green and yellow. The wonderful thing about beans is not only all the colors but they are really, really inexpensive. They are easy to prepare and super, super nutritious. I’ve heard some discussions from time to time about food combining and how we have to – I talked about this on my “Ask a Vegan” show recently about not eating protein with starch. Like meat with potato. And I certainly agree that not eating meat with potato is a good thing because meat is not really a good thing. But in a bean, or in a lot of plant foods, you’ve got the macro nutrients, protein, carbohydrate, fat all together. So I’m kind of confused when people say you really shouldn’t be combining these foods. Does that mean you’re not supposed to eat plant foods? Because all plant foods have protein, carbohydrate and fat in them and guess what? The body knows how to digest them. Magic! And of course, if there are foods that you don’t feel well eating, then don’t eat them. But I’m not someone that really follows the content of food combining. I like to eat what I want to eat, when I want to eat it and I usually feel pretty good about it because they’re all plant foods.
So let’s get back to beans. There are so many things we can do with beans, and the easiest thing is to buy them in a can. Have them available. They’re ready anytime, and you can make so many things with all the different kinds of beans. Now something that’s certainly been getting a lot of play is hummus, which is made from garbanzo beans. You can make it yourself by just blending up garbanzo beans in a blender adding lemon juice, a little sesame tahini, and then you could add olive oil, you don’t have to, you could add salt, you don’t’ have to. The great thing about it is I always try to stay away from oil and salt so I can make my own and I don’t have to put the salt and the oil in it. It’s much better that way. I find that hummus you get in the store, most of them have preservatives in them, like sodium benzoate, for example and I don’t need that in my food, do you? Sure, it’s convenient, but do we need those things in our food? If it’s not in there, and there are some brands that don’t contain sodium benzoate or other preservatives. There are a handful of them. What happens? Well, they don’t’ stay in your refrigerator for very long – they go bad. So what do you need to do? You need to eat the food that you buy when you buy it. This idea of having food last for a week or two week so a year, or whatever, there’s a price. So I encourage avoiding preservatives in food and certainly avoiding salt. The best way to do that unfortunately is to make things yourself and I prefer actually to go one step further and to buy my beans in bulk. They’re a lot less expensive that way, they stay forever, you can store them in pretty little jars if you don’t have room in the cupboards. You can have them out on a shelf or on the counter and they’re just there waiting for any time. And those are the kinds of foods that will last forever, until you’re ready to prepare them. and it just requires a little planning, not a lot of time, just planning. So you plan the night before or the morning before. You can soak them for about 8 hours in a pot covered with water. You don’t have to do anything just let it sit there and then when you’re ready, you pour off the water, you rinse them, you add new water, and you cook them. And again, you’re not doing anything. They’re just sitting in a pot. When they’re all done, that’s when you can get creative. You can just eat them simple, plain, sprinkle them on salad, you can mash them and add seasonings, you can make a pate or a spread for sandwiches. There are so many different things, and then, when you start making iterations by the different kinds of beans that you can use because I mentioned you can make hummus with garbanzo beans and sesame tahini and a little lemon juice. Well, you can do the same thing with another bean and then you’ve got theme and variation here. You can do it with a white bean and let’s say you don’t have tahini, well you can use almond butter, you can use peanut butter, you can use any nut butter. Gives it a little extra flavor with the fat that’s in the nut butter. And then instead of lemon juice, well, why not lime juice? Everything makes it just a little bit more interesting. You can certainly make these similar kinds of pates with pink beans or red beans. They all worked. They’re all good. There are lots of recipes for them and you can find them in books, you can find them on the internet, you can email me at info@realmeals.org.
I’ll get you going. There are just so many wonderful things you can do with beans. And I’m always pushing salads, green, green, green. A lot of people say they’re not satisfied with salad and I have two responses to this. One is, if it’s not satisfying, eat more. The great thing about a salad that’s just mostly green, leafy vegetables is there are hardly any calories and it’s packed with immune boosting nutrients. Eat more. But if the green leaves aren’t going to do it for you, that’s where the beans come in. You can sprinkle a third of a cup, a half a cup of any kind of bean, or make it a mix. And that makes the salad more substantial, more satisfying, and beans give you that feeling, that satiated feeling. They’re really super.
And lately, I go back and forth in terms of what I feel like eating when I’m having breakfast. Sometimes I get up and I don’t want to eat anything and you know what? If you’re not hungry, don’t eat. But if you’re going off to work and you know you’re going to have hunger at around 10:00 or something and you don’t have access to food, you to have to plan and have something nutritious for when you know you’re going to get hungry. But sometimes I go for the traditional cereal type food like oatmeal with fresh fruit but a lot of times I want something savory. I get away from the need for sweet foods. And so if I’ve made a big pot of soup that’s loaded with lots of different beans or vegetables sometimes I’ll have soup for breakfast. Why not? It’s really, really satisfying. Can’t say enough about beans.
So what can you make? You can make bean soup with lots of different vegetables. You can make bean burgers. Yes you can. All it takes is a bean, like a black bean, could be a red bean, could be a pink bean. It’s up to you to add the vegetables and spices. You might need a little flour or a little grain in there to hold it together, but there’s a whole variety of different patties of burgers you can make. It all depends on the herbs and spices you use. There’s a world of variety out there. It’s not boring.
Of course, I talked about the pates. And then you can even use beans for some desserts. Have you been to some of these Asian bakeries where they have these, what are they called? They’re like a pastry with a sweet-bean filling. So beans are the all-purpose, beautiful food, easy, inexpensive. No matter where you go in the world, you’re always going to find beans and I’ve been discovering beans I’ve never known or seen before when you go into different ethnic stores. There are different varieties that don’t seem to make it into the mainstream supermarkets. It depends on the culture. And that can make it all that more interesting.
I got a question here about good recipes for rice. The listener wants to make a healthy Spanish, yellow rice. That sounds pretty good. There are again, the whole grains just like the beans, there are so many of them. Variety is tremendous. So starting with rice, we go with all those colors again. there’s white rice, three’s brown rice, there’s short grain brown rice, there’s medium grain brown rice, there’s long grain brown rice, there’s Basmati rice and Jasmine rice, there’s black rice, there’s red rice. Do you get my drift? There are so many different kinds. And that’s just rice. Let’s talk about barley or rye or millet or quinoa. And there’s black quinoa and red quinoa and white quinoa. There’s certainly a different grain for every day of the week and you probably don’t have to repeat for a very long time.
But let’s say you want to jazz it up. Traditionally when people made rice in American, the United States. I guess in the 50s and 60s a lot of times a chicken broth bouillon, this kind of powdery chicken bouillon was used in the water to flavor the rice and it was usually loaded with a lot of salt. Probably some artificial flavoring, some preservatives and it gave the rice a nice yellow flavor, a nice yellow complexion, and certainly had a lot of salt in it. I don’t recommend that. But it could be nice to flavor the water that you’re cooking your grain in and you can do that many, many ways. You can certainly use a vegetable bouillon and I prefer the kind that are salt free or have minimal salt. Because if you haven’t gotten my message yet. I am anti salt. There’s plenty of sodium in our plant foods that we eat, we don’t need to add it in a shaker.
So the grain, in the water that you’re cooking the grain in, you can season it with a bouillon or you can add some fresh garlic. You can add onion to the water. Celery is great. A stalk of celery or cut up. I like to put celery in my potatoes, too. Celery has a lot of minerals in it and it has a salty, naturally salty flavor. And that can help bring out the flavor of the rice, or the grain. It’s these aromatic kinds of vegetables, onions, carrots, celery, that are great to add to cooking water when you’re preparing something like a soup or a grain. Then there is my favorite herb, spice. It’s not an herb, it’s a spice. Turmeric. Is there a correct way to pronounce it? I say Turmeric. Some people say Turmeric.
It’s a root. I’ve seen it grow in Costa Rica. It’s really ugly and gnarly. But when you go to a market, they’ve ground it up and it’s a beautiful orange powder. It has so many great properties. It’s really a healthy spice. It’s used a lot externally on the skin for a variety of remedies and it’s also very healthy to ingest. It has great immune system properties and anti-cancer fighting properties. The great thing about it is the color. You can certainly add a teaspoon or more of the turmeric to the cooking water and that will make your rice a nice yellow and it gives a nice flavor. I also like to use turmeric when I’m making a tofu dish, like a scramble tofu and I want it to look like eggs. Mashing up the tofu while it’s in the frying pan and being sautéed with other vegetables, I’ll sprinkle in the in the turmeric and it turns everything a nice yellow. The advantage is you get a great color but this spice is really, really good for you. It’s good to add on everything but you have to be careful because it can get bitter. So you don’t want too much, you want to add a little at a time. Test the color, test the flavor and see how it feels to you. Because it can get, like I said, a little bitter.
And then once the rice is prepared and I don’t know, some people are challenged with rice and I’m not sure why. It’s very simple. I take a cup of grain, rice, or other grain. I put it in a sauce pan. I add two cups of cold water, mix it up, cover it, turn the heat on to medium. I wait for it to boil, when I see it’s boiling, I turn the heat down low. Let it simmer, make sure it’s covered and I don’t look at it for a while. I might check on it occasionally but I don’t touch and then the rice will absorb all the water and it’s done. No big deal. It’s really, really easy. And it works with all grains. Although the ratio might be a little more water or less water to the grain depending on the grain. It’s pretty much like that.
Then when it’s done you can have your vegetables sautéed, onions are great, finely chopped onions, sautéed. I always use water. You might to use a little oil, but again, I like to stay away from the oils. You can dry sauté it, too. Once the vegetable heats up it will let go of some of its moisture so there is something for it to cook in in the pan. And then when the rice is cooked you can simply toss it with the other vegetables.
There are a lot of different recipes for Spanish rice and it depends on exactly what you’re interested in. you can make it spicy if you’d like. You can add a can of chopped tomatoes or fresh tomatoes can go in it. Some hot Chile if you like that. There are so many varieties. So many different ways to do it. Use your imagination.
I love food. It’s always a pleasure. Every day to open the cabinet and it’s almost like the cutting board is a blank canvas and every day I get to create some new artwork.
Back to things I hear in the news. Last night there was a special little program about binging and people apparently a lot of people, have the problem with binging where they may eat healthy for a few days and then somehow they can seem to resists an entire bag of potato chips or consuming an entire gallon or whatever it is of ice cream. This can have all kinds of problematic effects certainly on your weight and on your health. I’m always trying to help people move to the bright side of the happy world of plant-based foods. It does take time. It takes a bit of training. But once you’ve educated yourself and made a decision about the foods you are going to eat and the foods you aren’t going to eat, all of a sudden, all those foods that aren’t healthy for you, they don’t exist anymore. It does take a certain amount of discipline, a certain amount of focus. For me clearly I didn’t want to eat a lot of different foods because they were animal based. Once I made the connection between the exploitation of animals and food, I didn’t want to support that and I didn’t’ want to eat them. Plain and simple. So when there were animal foods, either meat-based foods or dairy-based foods, cheese foods that had always been appealing to me at one point in my life and I didn’t want to eat them anymore, I needed to make that conversion in the connecting I had with that food. At one point when it was a comfort food, it was a food that was connected with happy times and family and holidays and traditions and just good flavors. I had to convert those thoughts to no, no, no, that food is related to pain. That food is related to suffering. That food is related to exploitation. That food is related to poor health. That food is related to poor cancer and disease. That food is related to harming the environment. It can happen very quickly. It can take a focus amount of effort, but it does work. To the point where those things that you don’t want to eat are no longer appealing. You don’t want to eat them.
I have been doing it so long that actually the smells of some of these foods have become very offensive. I was at an event recently and was sitting next to someone that had eggs and bacon. I find the smell of any kind of pork really, really terrible. Whereas when I was very young I used to eat that food, and I thought it was good. But now I associate it with pain and suffering. Pain and suffering doesn’t smell good to me. Any change that we want to make in our lives becomes work. Some sort of work. But no pain, no gain. I think there’s a lot of benefit to doing things that you believe in, doing things that are going to promote your own health and wellness.
Another thing in the news that I wanted to talk about, and I think this is going to get lots of press, there’s going to be a lot more discussion of this over time, and that’s urban gardens. We talk about the possibility of some traumatic event, could be a terrorist attack, could be a horrific weather event like an earthquake or tornado or a flood or a drought. Could be some sort of political event, could be an economic crash. And then here we are, all of us in the city and we can’t get food. People are starting to think about it, but I don’t like to think about it just because of some big event or something negative that’s going to happen. The reality is we all need to get back to producing food and not depend on, at least some of it, from these big businesses, these giant businesses that are making poor quality foods, destroying our crop lands, using a lot of toxic chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides. We need to get back to growing some of our foods and I love what’s going on in some of the urban environments where people are finding little nooks and crannies: parks, old lots. There was an article in the San Francisco Chronicle talking about urban farming going on in Oakland. Oakland’s a pretty interesting place. There is a wide range of populations there. There are some poor communities, some entrepreneurial stuff going on there. But there are more people that are doing urban farming and now the government has to get involved because they have to figure out how to regulate this. The rules generally say that you can grow your own food for your own purpose, but if you want to sell it to others or make other products from the food that you’re growing that’s going to need regulation. It’s going to be curious to see what comes out of it because the need is going to make itself very apparently whereas number one we should be growing a lot of our food, but number two, especially in this economy where people are finding themselves out of work or looking for work, growing their own food certainly could reduce their basic need cost for providing their families with food. It could also be a way to bring in a little income. The laws are going to have to change; it’s really going to be interesting.
So if you have access to a garden or a small plot, I really would like to see the movement where we gather together as communities and grow food together in a neighborhood. Even in an urban environment where we all tend to ignore each other this could be a great opportunity. Get to know your neighbor, get to know your community, and literally break bread together where we share in the growing of food and in the harvest. I think that’s something to look forward to. I’m looking forward to it.
Meanwhile, I’m just growing my own sprouts here at home and growing whatever herbs I can on my terrace. And there you have it.
You’ve been listening to “It’s all about Food.” I’m Caryn Hartglass. Please join me next week. I’ll be speaking at length with Ronnie Cummins from the Organic Consumer Association and we will be talking about lots of food related topics, especially with organic food. Thanks for listening.
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2019-04-19T22:13:58Z
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https://responsibleeatingandliving.com/interview-natural-vegan-kitchen-with-christine-waltermyer/
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Luis Suarez is set to make his return after suspension against Manchester United in the Capital One Cup next Wednesday. At the fourth FWA Live sponsored by Barclays in Liverpool the panel - Michael Owen (former Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle United, Manchester United, Stoke City and England striker, now a BT Sport pundit), Alan Stubbs (Everton’s Under-21 coach), Andy Dunn (FWA chairman), Chris Bascombe (Daily Telegraph), Paul Joyce (Daily Express) and Jonathan Northcroft (Sunday Times) spoke about the Uruguay striker and much more. FWA executive secretary Paul McCarthy was the MC.
MO: I watched a lot of Liverpool in pre-season and they looked good, very efficient, Lucas was sat in front of the back-four, they looked solid with so much interchange in forward positions. Daniel Sturridge is scoring goals and while we don’t want to get too carried away, I said in the BT Sport predictions Liverpool would finish fourth and got a lot of stick. I stand by that, I like what I’m seeing and I think they’ll have a good season.
CB: The Champions League is so huge these days, it’s a monster and there’s almost an open-top bus tour for finishing fourth. But Liverpool are still far away from winning the title. Rather than measure Liverpool by position I’d do it by points. If they get 70 this season they’ll have done well and it may be enough to finish fourth.
AD: The advantage Liverpool have is they face only 30-odd more games that really matter in the Barclays Premier League. With no Europe that’s all they need to concentrate on and with Suarez to come back there is no reason why they can’t aim higher than fourth.
PJ: Inevitably when the January window comes round there will be some interest [in Suarez]. He’ll give his all when he comes back, but I can see this situation playing up again. It’ll be interesting to see whether his contract is renegotiated.
PM: It was renegotiated last summer, should it be renegotiated again?
AS: We had Liverpool’s most charismatic player [Steven Gerrard] saying how important Suarez is to the team for them to achieve something. That says it all.
JN: Fans are caught in two minds over Suarez. They are tired of the sagas he’s put them through, but on the pitch he has never been anything other than a brilliant 100 per cent player. If he performs as he did before people will forgive him. The great thing for Liverpool is that Suarez is coming back into a winning team, not as a saviour. He’ll have to fight for a place, maybe even playing wide to fit more into the team pattern. Perhaps unexpectedly Liverpool are in a much stronger position than you would have thought throughout the summer.
AD: The reception Suarez and Wayne Rooney have been getting is amazing. Here we have two players at two clubs...institutions...and both Suarez and Rooney said they didn’t want to be there. Rooney’s said it twice over the past two years. Fans have changed. I can remember the times when they would have been run out of town. The players should be grateful because they have been given a lot of indulgences by the fans.
PM: Would you bring him back against Manchester United in the Capital One Cup?
JN: Yes. He’ll be motivated by playing for a winning team. He’s a natural competitor. I interviewed him last season [the interview was published on the day of the Ivanovic biting incident] and asked him what his favourite part was. He said the start because he was playing two games a week. It gave an insight into his mentality.
The panel moved on to Suarez’s summer transfer to Arsenal that fell through.
MO: I think Arsenal are lacking everywhere. Defensively they have a good record, but they don’t convince. If they get to the latter stages of the Champions League I wouldn’t be too sure about their defence. Midfield looks OK, not the strikers...over the years they’ve had Ian Wright, Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Robin van Persie, some of the best in the world. Giroud is scoring a few goals, but it was significant they tried to buy Suarez. They’re off it, for me, by a good few players.
PJ: In the corporate world, if you are given a budget and a target to achieve by the end of your financial year and you don’t achieve it because you decided not to spend that budget then you have failed. Wenger is not the finance director, he’s the football manager and why he tries to protect their finances I don’t understand. If your objective has been to make the top four every year while repaying for the stadium then he’s achieved it.
PM: ...Chelsea under Jose Mourinho?
CB: They played a very effective kind of counter-attacking football. Wenger completely changed so much in our game and everyone tried to follow. We’ll look back at Wenger and think he was a visionary, but at the moment he is struggling with the modern dynamics of the game.
AD: The Suarez bid was so out of character. Someone had obviously told him if you bid £40 million and one pound then you can have him...you’ll get him. It’s unusual that he would just take someone’s word for it and it struck me he took his eye off the ball. If the agent tells you you can have him for that amount you’d want to double-check. You’d want to see the actual clause for starters. It wasn’t a Wenger-type thing to do given all the preparation that goes into his bids. It made me wonder if he was thinking it is his last season. He’s made a bid here on the strength of someone having a word in his shell-like.
AS: My understanding was he [Fellani] took a cut on some of his wages he was due from Manchester United to make sure the deal went through. So putting a transfer request in saved them a little bit of money. The way the transfer deadline goes...everyone looks at it...it got to a stage where we knew the Bale thing was going to happen...that was the big one...underlying from that there wasn’t really an awful lot going on...probably come seven o’clock in the night at Everton the word from the training ground was that no one was going to go...Fellaini was staying ...Bainesey was never really an option...the club had dug its heels in ...Bainesey had obviously said he’d like to go...and then come nine o’clock suddenly we started to get linked with Lukaku and then the Fellaini thing was starting with negotiations with United...by the time it [the transfer window] had finished we’d bought three in [Gareth Barry, Romelu Lukaku and James McCarthy] and they are great additions to the squad.
AD: With Wayne Rooney, even if he had put a transfer request in United would just turn round and say: “no.” If Rooney had put in a transfer request and United had said no, he would have looked even worse. You can write a transfer request in blood, but you still don’t have to leave. He had a decision to make: if he does put a request in and it is then refused, it would be the end with the fans. The fans then know...if they hadn’t heard from Rooney they can think maybe he doesn’t want to go. We all knew he wanted to go.
PJ: He had a similar situation when United said “oh, you’re a star...here’s X-amount more” and he got himself a new contract. Was there an element of that again?
AD: I don’t think that was the case this time.
JN: Two years ago he did get a new deal out of it. What’s different this time is that he was told right from the start the club didn’t even want to negotiate a new contract. The message was for him to get his head down and prove himself again. It put him in a strange position – he did want to leave, but two things changed the way he felt. He was worried what Ferguson said would turn the fans against him, but it’s obvious they still support him. He also worried whether Ferguson still being there...would he still be interfering? When Mourinho came said “put a transfer request in” that was just Mourinho being naughty.
PM: Do we admire the stance of Manchester United and Liverpool because in the past the trend was, generally, players got the moves they wanted. Big clubs now are taking a stance against big players.
MO: The first time he [Rooney] wanted to go he won the battle, basically, and got an extra zero [on his contract]. This time it’s been different. He wants to play all the time, Robin van Persie came in and stole his thunder...he’s not the first name on the team-sheet and more...Ferguson left him out of the Real Madrid game...a new manager came in and made noises that van Persie was his number one. All of a sudden he’s thinking “I don’t want to be second fiddle. I need to be playing.” He wants to be loved and play all the time. The Suarez situation was a better example of of a club saying “no, you are not going anywhere.” You have to bear in mind their backgrounds, who they are and where they are from. Liverpool fans love Suarez and yes, he’ll appreciate the affection, but he doesn’t have the sort of bond with them like a Steven Gerrard or a Jamie Carragher. Suarez is from South America, he’s played in Holland and whoever had paid the fee to Ajax he’d have gone. He didn’t come to Liverpool because he adored the club. When people say they showed him loyalty so just show it back...bear in mind he wanted to reach the top of his career. I understand where he’s coming from.
MO: Players always get the raw end of the deal. Fans support [their club] through thick and thin...if I wasn’t a footballer I’d have been supporting Everton...if anyone did anything to harm my club and wanted to leave I’d say “no way.” If you work for a company and a rival offers you more money, to have better career prospects, no one would bat an eyelid if you moved. Most people have done this. Why is it wrong for a footballer? Because football fans expect everyone else to feel the same way [about their club]. Most footballers just want to reach the top of their profession like anyone else. Fans can’t understand that because they are so indebted to the badge on the shirt. This is unfair in many ways.
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2019-04-24T08:34:30Z
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http://footballwriters.co.uk/features/luis-suarez-will-be-highly-motivated-coming-back-into-a-winning-liverpool-team/
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Swindon Town U18's Boss Alan McLoughlin says that he and his players are relishing the chance to pit their wits against Nottingham Forest this weekend.
After beating Newport County and Northampton Town in the opening two rounds of the FA Youth Cup, the young reds are preparing to host Forest in the Third Round at The Energy Check County Ground tomorrow.
"They are a very good side, a Category Two team and they've got far better resources than us in terms of staffing, facilities and probably the amount of contact time they have with their players as well," McLoughlin told swindontownfc.co.uk.
"We'll embrace it, we'll take it in our stride and we've earned the right to be here.
"Nottingham Forest are a very competent, well-drilled team with some exceptional players but we'll just do our best.
"As long as the players do their best then I'll be happy.
"I know what to expect from the players, I know what they need to execute on the day and we've talked things through.
"It has been a bit of a disappointing week for us in terms of our preparation because we had to go and play Southend U23's on Tuesday, and then the first-team needed five of my players for training on Thursday.
"My plans to go through some team shape only happened this morning and it is not ideal preparation to only have one training session.
"We crack on and we look forward to the game tomorrow.
"It is such a memorable occasion and the boys will remember playing Nottingham Forest here at The Energy Check County Ground.
"We look forward to it, we embrace it and hopefully we'll give a good account of ourselves."
And Macca believes that the fact his side have already played at SN1 twice this season will only stand them in good stead on Saturday.
"I think it will," he added.
"They are familiar with the environment and the first-team are away so I'm hoping that fans will want to come out and support their young players.
"We work very hard and we do a good job throughout the whole Academy.
"This doesn't just represent the U18's on Saturday - it represents the whole Academy."
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2019-04-20T13:18:45Z
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Stephen Belichick, Brian Belichick and Amanda Belichick.
Debby Clarke Belichick is the co-owner of The Art of Tile & Stone store located in Wellesley. She is best known for being the ex-wife of Bill Belichick, the head coach for the American Football team, New England Patriots. The ex-couple has three children together who have followed in the footsteps of their father.
Debby Clarke Belichick was born Debby Clarke in 1955 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. There are no details about her childhood and educational background in the media. Clarke belongs to white ethnicity and her nationality is white-American.
Clarke spent most of her early days growing up in her hometown Nashville along with her parents and siblings.
Debby Clarke Belichick is a businesswoman who is the co-founder of The Art of Tile & Stone store in Wellesley. The store has various designs of stones available and maintains a chic art gallery.
Similarly, her ex-husband Bill Belichick who was born William Stephen Belichick is professionally an American Football players and Football coach who is the head coach for New England Patriots. In his career as a coach, he has been associated with various NFL Teams like Denver Broncos and Detroit Lions.
The businesswoman Debby Clarke Belichick's net worth is not estimated as of yet. Her main source of earning is from her Art of Tile & Stone store where she sells various designs of stones. Whereas her former spouse Bill Belichick has an estimated net worth of $35 million which he earned from his career as a football coach. By being the coach for New England Patriots he earned a salary of $7.5 million in 2012 and 2016.
Debby Clarke Belichick was formerly married to American Football coach Bill Belichick and they had tied the knot in 1977. They were high school sweethearts and together used to run social work activities to raise funds for the betterment of the homeless. The couple separated their ways finally in 2006 after she found him cheating on her with football team Giants' receptionist Sharon Shenocca.
However, according to his team Patriots, their divorce had already happened in 2004. After their split, he was also seen with a woman named Linda Holliday in the Super Bowl XLVII. Clarke and Belichick have three children together two sons and a daughter. Both of their sons Stephen Belichick and Brian Belichick are associated with New Patriots as an assistant coach and a front office scouting assistant respectively.
Their daughter Amanda Belichick is a lacrosse player and is the head women's lacrosse coach at Holy Cross College. She was also an assistant coach for the University of Massachusetts. After their split, both the couple started living their separate lives and Bil Belichick started a relationship with Linda Holliday while Clarke hasn't been rumored to be dating anyone yet.
He continued his football coach career and earned great fame and wealth from it. Since she lives quite a private life away from the media nothing can be said about her current life.
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2019-04-25T01:44:58Z
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How much do you know about Presidents’ Day? Because Presidents’ Day is kind of a strange holiday, of which a lot of people only have a vague understanding. Seriously, what is Presidents’ Day, even? What exactly are we celebrating?
Presidents’ Day falls on the third Monday in February in the United States. It is also known as Washington’s Birthday, after George Washington, the first president of the United States. The day is meant to celebrate George Washington and all the presidents of the U.S. It became a federal holiday in 1879.
While there was an attempt in 1968 to officially call the third Monday in February Presidents’ Day, it failed. It eventually came to pass that in 1971. Still many states choose to call this day Presidents’ Day instead of Washington’s Birthday. Some states also celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday at this time as well.
Without further ado, let’s now look at some interesting facts about Presidents’ Day.
1. It was created to honor George Washington’s birthday, but other presidents have stolen his thunder. The holiday was created to honor the first U.S. president, George Washington. According to History.com, Washington’s birthday was how the holiday began, following his death in 1799, and was celebrated each year on Feb. 22. It was then celebrated widely in 1832 on the centennial of his birth, and then in 1848 when construction first started on the Washington Monument.
However, with other presidents having birthdays in February (including Abe Lincoln, on Feb. 12), and the passing of the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971 (more on that later), the holiday became recognized as a day to honor multiple past presidents and celebrate patriotism in a general sense. Poor George.
In fact, Alabama celebrates Washington’s birthday and Thomas Jefferson’s birthday on Presidents’ Day, even though Jefferson was born in April.
3. It was almost changed back to individual birthdays in the 2000s. Because the origins of Presidents’ Day started to become lost in the shuffle, honored more presidents than just Washington, sort of screwed over Lincoln, and morphed into a commercialized cluster of chaos, an attempt to restore Washington’s and Lincoln’s individual birthdays as holidays was made in the 2000s. Unfortunately, it didn’t gain much traction. However, the federal government still recognizes Presidents’ Day as a celebration of Washington, and is listed as such on official calendars.
4. It was changed in the ’60s to give more people three-day weekends. Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1968 (later taken into effect by Nixon in 1971), which was a proposed measure to move several federal holidays to certain Mondays. The act would then create a series of three-day weekends for employees, and cut down on work absenteeism. And because the third Monday in February fell between the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln, this shift would create a way to celebrate both birthdays on the same day.
5. Even though it is a federal holiday, each state is free to call it what they choose and how to celebrate.
6. Some spell it President’s Day and some spell it Presidents’ Day. Presidents’ Day refers to more than one president while President’s Day refers to one President. The difference in spelling may be because some celebrate George Washington alone on this day and others celebrate George and Abraham Lincoln, while some may be celebrating all presidents.
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2019-04-25T04:55:01Z
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https://interestingfacts.tv/holiday-facts/interesting-facts-about-presidents-day-holiday-washingtons-birthday/
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I’m children’s author Laura Purdie Salas! I write books for thoughtful and bold readers, and I’m happy you’re here! My various books include science, poetry, verse, information, and imagination. Here are some of my books, which I wrote and a variety of wonderfully talented artists illustrated them. I have three new books: Snowman – Cold = Puddle: Spring Equations; In the Middle of the Night: Poems from a Wide Awake House; and Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons! (If you hover the cursor over a picture, it will pause it. For many of the slides, if you click on one, it will lead to more info on my site.) Feel free to explore the links in the menu above and the sidebar to the right to learn more about me and my writing life. Thanks!
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2019-04-23T12:18:21Z
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https://laurasalas.com/
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The MP Diagnostics MULTISURE ® HCV Antibody Assay is a rapid screening test, developed to detect antibodies specific to HCV core, NS3, NS4 and NS5 antigens, similar to a confirmatory Immunoblot. The test can detect the structural and non-structural proteins and the test result pattern can offer information such as the possible phase of the Hepatitis C infection. The MP Diagnostics MULTISURE ® HCV Antibody Assay can serve as an alternative test whereby a detection algorithm requires two test methods to be performed on a reactive sample.
The MP Diagnostics HCV BLOT 3.0 is a qualitative enzyme immunoassay for the in vitro detection of antibodies to HCV in human serum or plasma. It is intended for use as a more specific supplemental test on specimens found repeatedly reactive using specific procedures such as ELISA.
The MP Diagnostics ASSURE HCV Rapid Test (Whole Blood/Serum/Plasma) is a rapid test to qualitatively detect the presence of antibody to HCV in whole blood, serum or plasma specimen. The test utilizes a combination of recombinant antigens to selectively detect elevated levels of HCV antibodies in whole blood, serum or plasma.
The MP Diagnostics ASSURE HCV Test Strip (Serum/Plasma) is a rapid test to qualitatively detect the presence of antibody to HCV in serum or plasma specimen. The test utilizes a combination of recombinant antigens to selectively detect elevated levels of HCV antibodies in serum or plasma.
The MP Diagnostics (MPD) HCV BLOT 3.0 is a qualitative enzyme immunoassay for the in vitro detection of antibodies to HCV in human serum or plasma. This kit is supplied for research use only. It is not intended for use as in the diagnosis or prognosis of disease. In particular, the test cannot be used to evaluate blood specimens for the purpose of donor screening, or as a confirmatory diagnostic.
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2019-04-22T10:24:32Z
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https://www.mpbio.com/diagnostics/infectious-disease/instrument/disease_screened_slr:hepatitis_c_virus_hcv
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Our company design ultra durable and stylish Drum Chair .this chair has padded seat. The offered chair is made by our deft professionals using premium quality raw materials with the help of leading edge techniques. This chair is tested by quality controllers on several parameters to make sure its optimum quality. As the name signifies, this chair is specially used for sitting purpose in industries. In addition to this, our customers can avail the provided Drum Chair at reasonable prices.
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2019-04-23T14:28:13Z
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http://m.kartikartandcrafts.com/drum-chair-4209440.html
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Police were called to investigate a fraud and bad check that occurred at Standard Concrete in which a customer purchased merchandise offered for sale by writing checks on a closed account. The investigation is on-going.
Police were called to investigate a fraud incident that took place over the internet. The investigation in on-going.
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2019-04-22T02:47:58Z
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https://york.crimewatchpa.com/5325?page=259
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It wasn’t much, but cut the first wood today. Laid out the forward-most Frame A 1×4’s on some kraft paper and cut them out. Went fairly well. Kind of a neat feeling to have "started" on the "big boat" as my son says 🙂 I’ll stick some pictures up probably tomorrow.
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2019-04-24T12:18:32Z
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https://www.craftacraft.com/2007/06/03/cutting_wood/
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Professional cleaning of your Driveway!
Let us come and improve the curb appeal of your home in just a few hours.
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For ease of maintenance and to keep the concrete protected, it is recommended that you seal your concrete surfaces.
* Cleaning and Power washing only - One day process. $350 instead of $475 - That's $125 off!
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- Check your calendar for a couple of available dates.
Please remove everything from the Driveway prior to our arrival.
We recommend that you have all surrounding vegetation trimmed a few inches back from edges.
You will have to avoid using the driveway for 3-5 (cleaning only) or 48- hours (if sealing).
Turn off sprinklers for up to 3 days (if sealing).
* Stains & dirt embedded in the concrete or trapped under an existing sealer/coating may remain as they are and will not be removed.
* Stain removal is NOT included. Removal of embedded stains is a different process and can be discussed and priced if/as needed.
* Cracks, holes, patches, and other flaws will remain visible. Repairs of these can be discussed and priced if/as needed.
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2019-04-18T17:06:28Z
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http://tileandstonepro.com/deals_m.htm
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 9, 2013) - Entelo today announced the launch of Entelo Inside, a groundbreaking new solution that leverages Entelo's real-time social data, advanced search technology and predictive analytics engine to enable employers to tap into an often underutilized source of candidates: the people who have previously applied to their companies.
At a time when candidates learn new skills and develop their expertise faster than ever, the information organizations maintain in their applicant tracking systems (ATS) and candidate relationship management (CRM) systems about previous applicants can quickly become outdated. Such older data represents missed opportunities for talent acquisition, as the employer may not realize the perfect candidate is right in front of them. Entelo Inside was developed to address this issue by integrating directly with an employer's ATS and CRM technology to help ensure that high-quality candidates are not passed over simply because the individual's data within the company's databases is not current.
Entelo Inside works across CRM and ATS platforms, ensuring data from the company's list of previous applicants is matched with robust Entelo profiles built from real-time social data. Delivered through a proprietary interface, Entelo Inside allows for a multitude of advanced searches to be run and enables previous applicants to be stack-ordered by various metrics that correlate with expertise and experience. In addition, the solution identifies and provides early indicators, using Entelo's proprietary algorithm, that a previous applicant may be considering a job change, helping employers gain the upper hand in recruiting top talent.
"In today's competitive hiring environment, employers need the insight to identify the best candidates and engage with them before their competitors do," said Jon Bischke, founder and CEO of Entelo. "Entelo Inside gives our clients a significant advantage by providing up-to-date, relevant information about their qualified previous applicants, helping them utilize this under-tapped source of hire. Within days of deploying Entelo Inside, employers can gain tremendous insights based on their own rich data and candidate pools and maximize their recruitment technology investments by engaging with the candidates who are a great fit for their open positions."
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2019-04-23T21:27:20Z
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http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/introducing-entelo-inside-helping-employers-leverage-previous-applicants-find-next-great-1839396.htm
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"In a continent of mindless growth, it is the thinking man's city."
That's how Times Magazine described Chandigarh in a recent issue, including the 'The City Beautiful' in the list of Asia's 15 best urban retreats. It was yet another distinction for the city of Jawaharlal Nehru's dreams and Le Corbusier's vision.
My family's association with this beloved city dates long back. My paternal grandparents, originally post-partition refugees from the Multan area of Pakistan, were amongst the first to move to the newly incepted city in the mid-1950's. My father, the eldest of their four children was just three years old at that time and others had not taken birth yet. I've spent 24 years of my life in this city and still yearn to stay as long as possible.
Once dubbed as the 'city for the senior and retired citizens', it has come a long way. However, its basic serene and pleasant tenor still persists and that adds to its aesthetic beauty. However, it has expanded in area and population just like any other city. While the size of the original city's residential part has more than doubled, its municipal boundaries extend much further. Moreover, taking into account the satellite towns which have developed around it, the combined area is many times the original planned city. An interesting fact to mention here is that Chandigarh's satellite towns of Panchkula(Haryana) and Mohali(Punjab) have been elevated as full-fledged districts of their respective states.
Chandigarh is divided into 'egalitarian' units called sectors, each representing theoretically a self-sufficient entity with space for living, working and leisure. Over the time, the profile of these sectors has also changed immensely. For example, Sector 26, originally known for the 'grain market' and educational institutions, today boasts of the best and most expensive restaurants in the city. Then there are the three southernmost sectors 48, 49 and 50 (not the part of original two phased plan) which were once nothing but barren or agricultural land, today are the most densely populated areas of the city, thanks to the burgeoning cooperative housing societies.
However, the original city created under the first phase has retained its essence all these years. For example, the gardens situated in the column of Sectors 1, 3, 10, 16 and 23 (and beyond, collectively called the Leisure Valley), known as the 'lungs of the city' have been conserved despite the increasing population pressure. I and even my father have resided in this part of the city all our life.
Chandigarh originally consisted of 24 sectors, Sector 1 to 25. If you are confused by this anomaly let me clarify that there is no Sector 13 in the city. Here is an indicative plan of this part of the city, the city's 'historic core'.
P.S. Sector 1 houses the Secretariat, Legislature, the High Court of Panjab and Haryana (these edifices are collectively known as the Capitol), Rock Garden and Sukhna Lake. Capitol has been called as the 'head' of the city by Le Corbusier. Continuing with this biological analogy, he has called the City Centre (Sector 17 Plaza) as the city's 'heart' while the work areas, i.e. Panjab University (Sector 14) and the Industrial Area (located at a distance, south-east of the city parallel to Sectors 19, 20 and beyond) have been called the two 'limbs'.
Although Le Corbusier chose to leave out the unlucky number 13 from the city plan but he still retained it in an interesting manner. Let me share this anecdote with you. If you add the numbers of two adjacent sectors in a column, you will get a sum that is either 13 or its multiple.
P.S. The basic layout has been changed to accommodate the exception (of Sectors 1 and 12).
With time, new sectors were added to the city and the city expanded southeastwards towards the Industrial Area and southwards beyond the National Highway 21 (known as Dakshin Marg, i.e. South Avenue locally) under the second phase (Sectors 26-47) and beyond that too (Sectors 48-56).
However, along with this growth in area, the city has also seen growth in the living standards of its citizens. The city has the highest per capita income in India. While certain surveys claim that it's citizens are the 'most brand conscious', other statistics put the city amongst highest in telephone density and per capita vehicular ownership.
As Times Magazine notes, "Today, the city is threatened by its very success, as Indians have been lured here in droves by its relatively high living standards and high percentage of greenery. An old vision of modernity is being replaced by the latest model: IT companies, theme parks, health hubs, golf courses and too many luxury cars."
Within last two years, the city dwellers have also started experiencing traffic jams, something which hitherto seemed alien to us. However, so many things are still the same. You can instantly plan a dinner at a restaurant at the other end of the city and you'll be back home with an overflowing belly within just an hour and a half or so.
If you happen to have the dinner at Sector 17 Plaza, by the time you come out of the restaurant, you'll be surprised to experience the silence of a graveyard in the place which is a sorts of mini-Connaught Place of Chandigarh. The night falls really early here and as such, irrespective of the newly opened multiplexes on the city outskirts and the Night Food Street, there is not much of a 'night life'. For some it may be appalling but for me that's the beauty of my city.
Other(clockwise from top-left corner)- Rock Garden (Sector 1), Night Food Street (newly opened - Sector 14), Sukhna Lake (Sector 1), Legislative Assembly (Sector 1), Zakir Hussain Rose Garden (Sector 16), Matka Chowk (most artistic roundabout of the city - at intersection of roads dividing Sectors 9, 10, 16 and 17), Gandhi Bhawan (Panjab University - Sector 14) and City Centre(Sector 17 Plaza).
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2019-04-20T02:12:31Z
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http://www.vipulgrover.com/2009/06/chandigarh-unabridged.html
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In this day workshop we will explore the basics of Hypopressives. A practice to strengthen the core , pelvic floor and improve posture.
This will involve learning breathing techniques to develop strength, tone and movement of the core, diaphragm and pelvic floor. We will go on to integrate these breathing techniques into movements and postures. These together will provide a foundation to build into the sequence of hypopressives.
I have been teaching Hypopressives in one to one sessions. The practice usually is learned during 6 to 8 one hour sessions weekly. This is ideal as the person can work at their own pace. However to make it more accessible to all we will be in a small group and work the course of the day. I am excited in offering you this day workshop and hope that you are able to join us.
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2019-04-20T06:53:59Z
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https://www.heartoflivingyoga.com/events/2019/2/10/core-pelvic-floor-and-posture-an-introduction-to-hypopressives
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth resorts to public channels to get a Wikipedia entry changed...and succeeds.
After writing an open (and, of course, extremely eloquent) letter that was published in the New Yorker, Philip Roth got his wish: Wikipedia has changed its entry on his novel The Human Stain to indicate the proper source for its protagonist Coleman Silk. Rather than listing the late New Yorker critic Anatole Broyard as the inspiration, the entry will now indicate that Princeton professor Melvin Tumin, also deceased, was the one who spoke the key sentences from which the novel grew.
Roth's original request to Wikipedia was denied, even though he was the author of the work, because the site administrator claimed it needed "secondary sources." Because Wikipedia is an open-source site that, theoretically, anyone can edit, all Roth needed to do was have an assistant (one presumes he has at least one) go in and make the change. However, with enough street cred, which the Pulitzer Prize winner obviously has, not only can you write a letter and get it published in a major magazine and expect results, you can have that same letter referenced in the Wikipedia entry itself.
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2019-04-25T22:38:02Z
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https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/philip-roths-squeaky-wheel-gets-the-wikipedia-grease
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation today released the official promotional video for the WBSC Women’s Baseball World Cup 2018, which will be staged in the U.S. for the first time, at USSSA Space Coast Complex in Viera, Florida, from 22-31 August.
Within hours of its release, the “To Crown the Queens of Baseball” World Cup video showcasing the best action, drama and celebration in women’s baseball was watched over 50,000 times and liked and shared over 2,000 times across WBSC social media channels.
Twelve nations across five continents will be competing in the VIII Women’s Baseball World Cup 2018 in Viera: Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Hong Kong, Japan (5x Defending World Champions), Korea, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, USA and Venezuela.
Over the next weeks, the WBSC will be unveiling promotional videos for the upcoming U-15 Baseball World Cup and U-23 Baseball World Cup.
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2019-04-21T22:21:23Z
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http://www.wbsc.org/official-promo-video-unveiled-for-wbsc-womens-baseball-world-cup-2018/
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It's not enough to have the facts. You have to tell the story. Balancing both is the challenge of any nonfiction manuscript, and it doesn't just happen. Research has to be vetted. Stories have to be compelling and accurate. Together, facts and narrative must capture the hearts and imaginations of young readers. Sometimes, you just can't do it alone. You need a trusted reader. An experienced guide. A helping hand.
You'll gather with other dedicated writers, talking the talk, discussing your questions, and learning the subtleties of what makes a good manuscript a great book. You can enjoy all this, along with the quiet tranquility of your own cabin and the kind of farmhouse hospitality that makes you feel right at home.
During the workshop, your full manuscript will be read and critiqued by one of our faculty, you'll have time to discuss your goals and vision for the story, and you'll leave with a revision plan that will clarify and polish the text. We'll also give you support as you prepare your pitch, query, and synopsis to ensure the manuscript is given full consideration by agents and editors. Get the help you need to tell the facts and the story. Join us for the Whole Nonfiction Narrative Workshop.
To find out more, contact Jo Lloyd at 570-253-1192, e-mail Jo at jo.lloyd@highlightsfoundation.org, or visit www.highlightsfoundation.org to request an application.
To view more 2012 Founders Workshops, which take place near Honesdale, Pennsylvania, please visit www.highlightsfoundation.org.
Please feel free to share this information with others who might have an interest or to include the information in blog posts or through other social networking forums.
The Highlights Foundation is a public, not-for-profit 501©3 organization. We dedicate our efforts to connecting, nurturing, and inspiring children's book writers and illustrators.
For links to other blog posts about children's nonfiction check out the list at The Swimmer Writer blog.
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2019-04-20T06:15:56Z
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http://blog.wendieold.com/2012/01/nonfiction-monday-craft-of-nonfiction.html
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From Connections: Just what do you mean Connections?
Connections: Member to Member was first published as an insert in the February 1998 issue of The Journal. It was the brainchild of Mark Farmer, its founder and original publisher.
I believe Mark's idea was to create a publication that would be helpful and informative to those of us with a Church of God background, yet light and noncontroversial in nature. Mark has moved on to other ventures, but his vision for Connections is what we continue to strive for.
In keeping with Mark's original intent, I'd like to see Connections develop into a publication that would truly connect us. Just like a family, we need a place to come together, to laugh, to remember, to hug and to share what's happening in our own families. But, just as in families, let's not take ourselves too seriously.
Yes, we do sell advertising space, but I see Connections as more than that. Prayer requests and certain other announcements of a serious nature will continue to be printed free of charge in the classifieds section. I'd like to encourage each of you to please share your thoughts, snapshots, poems or stories of bygone eras so that as space permits we can all enjoy them.
The idea behind Connections is to offer an addition to The Journal that deals specifically with drawing people together, whether it be through the listing of prayer requests, locating old friends, swapping sermon tapes, advertising Feast sites, offering booklets or simply providing an avenue for a little fun.
Working with Connections continues to be a learning experience for me, and I appreciate Dixon Cartwright's abundant patience that he continues to exhibit as I muddle through each month. There's no doubt that the most enjoyable part of working with Connections is meeting and getting to know so many people. I look forward to hearing from many more of you in the future.
Traditionally, as the fall holy days approach, our lives seem to become increasingly more hectic each passing day. Instead of letting things spiral out of control, why don't we decide now to slow down and really enjoy the meaning of God's Feast days?
As we enter the fall holy-day season I'd like to wish for each of you a time of peace and spiritual rejuvenation. Have a good one.
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2019-04-22T17:14:29Z
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http://www.thejournal.org/articles/issue31/darlene.html
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Real life: the final frontier.
These are the fails of the lolcow Chris-Chan. His continuing Love Quest: to explore strange new Attraction Locations, to seek out new gal-pals, and new sweethearts; to boldly go where no high-functioning autistic virgin has gone before.
Ladies, set Tasers to stun.
"Captain's Log" was, for a while Chris's usual opening to a video blog, first appearing in his 24 September 2008 video. It comes from popular sci-fi franchise Star Trek. In a typical episode, the captain, commander or other senior crew member would make an entry to log what has happened in the situation prior to the beginning of the episode. Most Star Trek Captain's Log entries are noticeably void of tard rage.
Sometimes, Chris gave an incorrect date (though the date is technically always incorrect since he says "Stardate" and gives a Gregorian Calendar date), or failed to provide a date at all. An example of Chris giving an incorrect date would be many of the entries made in July 2009. The CWCki has organized the Captain's Log entries by the date they were uploaded.
In many Captain's Logs from 2017, Chris instead gives the day's date in MM/DD/YYYY format as a string of eight digits, possibly in an effort to sound more technical or scientific. For example, CLog 06142017 has Chris pronouncing "Stardate zero-six-one-four-two-zero-one-seven". Surprisingly, Chris rarely stumbles over such long strings of numbers, though he does say them in a stilted manner and sometimes has trouble remembering them.
Interestingly enough, Chris is not a Trekker/ie and has never seen any Star Trek media.. His usage of the phrase most likely comes from other shows that reference it, such as Family Guy and Futurama. He may have encountered the phrase from the Star Trek game he purchased as a result of the Sonic the Hedgehog Watch & Win Sweepstakes competition, but knowing his gaming habits, he probably never played it.
In his later videos, Chris began to stop including it, and he had completely ceased to use it by 2011. However, the opening made a glorious return on 18 July 2016 with Update 20160718, only to be quickly and unceremoniously abandoned for nearly a year. Starting in April 2017 with Live Game Stream - C-Log 04142017, Chris has begun consistently referring to his YouTube livestreams as Captain's Logs again, though he typically abbreviates it as "C-Log" or "CLog" in the video titles. Of special note is Live Game Stream - C-Log 04192017 - The Shirt, wherein Chris wears his classic shirt and Sonichu Medallion and introduces the video as a Captain's Log. It seems that Chris is capitalizing on nostalgia for his older days to bait his own trolls into giving him money.
More recently, he has taken to opening his videos with "Hello everybody, this is Christine Chandler coming to you live from home once again," even if said video was not recorded live.
Generally, a Captain's Log video is one in which Chris addresses his fanbase, a sort of video blog where he asks his True and Loyal fanbase to be his personal army or to express his hatred about some troll.
This is in contrast to other styles of Chris videos, such as those where he addresses a specific individual (often expecting people to know he's posted a video about them, such as Michael Snyder of The GAMe PLACe) or his music videos.
Occasionally, a video is dead serious, and therefore not worthy of a Captain's Log introduction.
In November 2009, Chris began maintaining an irregular text blog on the CWCipedia, featuring updates on the progress of his comic and his quest to turn Sonichu into the heart of a multimedia empire. He also dubbed this a "Captain's Log" and marked the successive entries with "Stardates". It could be found halfway down the right column of the site's front page (and also at Template:Captain's Log, and he maintained an archive of his updates.
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2019-04-23T09:07:05Z
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https://sonichu.com/cwcki/Captain%27s_Log
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I’ve been avoiding this topic but I write today to ask for your prayers because in one week from today Sarah will have surgery to remove kidney stones from her right kidney.
We found out she had them because she began having a urinary tract infection that came back after antibiotics. Our pediatrician sent us to a specialist and she had an ultrasound and a cat scan done which showed three stones. One is 2 cm, one is 1.5 cm and the other one is –I can’t remember–but smaller. The doctors are intrigued by her because these stones are larger than they typically see for a child her age (5 and a half).
Like most people, I get nervous about medical situations. I was very upset when we learned that she needed surgery and that the doctors couldn’t tell us right away why she made the stones or what we can do to prevent this from happening again.
She has had no pain. no pain!
modern medicine and specialist doctors means they can be removed and everything will be done in an up-to-date and professional way.
Although there is a chance she will need to have open surgery to remove the stones, at this point the plan is that it will be done robotically which means 4 tiny incisions and probably no stitches. They say she can probably go home the same day as the procedure.
Ultrasound and blood work was normal, and the infection at the time of the diagnosis was very minimal. She takes a preventative dose of antibiotics every day to keep the UTI away.
although she does have a slight amount of “grit” in her urine, her 24 hour urine test was also unremarkable (according to the doctor).
all the doctors have been calm and unconcerned about this, which settles my emotions because THEY are the experts….and I am the over-reacting mother.
in the grand scheme of things…..kidney stones?? not a big deal. She appears perfectly healthy, in fact, she’s brighter and happier than she’s ever been (she loves going to school) and she’s so smart!
She enjoyed her experience at the hospital and looks forward to going back. (so weird) LOL She especially loved the button that you could push to get a nurse to come and do things for you.
I don’t really want to talk about this, but I did want to let my friends know what was going on because it’s on my mind, and usually the fears that I put out into the light tend to lessen in the sharing.
I had to chuckle at Sarah ‘enjoying’ the hospital and looking forward to going back. That’s such a blessing and a sweet way that God is looking after you…that you know Sarah is not afraid. I totally understand your apprehension. It’s normal! I would be worried if you weren’t apprehensive about it. It sounds as if your doctors are confident, and you have the Lord on your side, most of all.
I will be praying for you and your sweet youngest!
I love you, too, Shanda. Big hugs back to you!
My daughter has had seven surgeries and that is her favorite part – all the attention! For what it’s worth, I remember reading somewhere that removing dairy products was good for kidney stones. Worth a try anyway! I will keep Sarah in my prayers.
Oh shanda, I am praying for you and little Sarah! So glad you’re sharing so we can pray, and looking at the positives. Dear Father,thankyou for caring about all the details of our lives. Please be with Shanda. Surround her with Your Presence, peace,and comfort. Remind her what a big God we have. Help the drs as they operate. Give them wisdom. Just let everything turn out for the best. Thankyou for never leaving us or forsaking us. Amen.
Know you are loved and trust that God will give you great grace in the midst of your fears which are normal and every mother would feel the same as you. I will gladly bear this burden for you in prayer on your behalf.
I am here if you need me..text, call, ect.
For the choir director; on a stringed instrument. A Psalm of David.
A tower of strength [a]against the enemy.
Oh, I can imagine what your mommy heart is experiencing, but Father God is right there, and He will not leave her, even when those doors close and you can’t walk beside her holding her hand! She is healthy and will do fine. Soon it will be over and you will be wondering what you were so anxious about! Isn’t it good to know we have that rock and refuge! Praying for you and Sarah!
Praying for Peace that passeth all understanding thru all this!!
I understand! I am that kind of mom. I am praying!
Praying for you and Sarah. A mother’s heart yearns over her children.
Praying for you through this!!
I will pray and keep praying, both for Sarah and for you dear mama. Isn’t it good to know our Father has such tenderness towards us, and cares just as deeply for His children.
Praying for you, and her! When my daughter was going thru a surgery when she was little, I was way worse than her! to her it was a adventure and she loved being the center of attention! May God give you the peace that passes all understanding!! and may you have a peace and calmness when the day arrives!
Shanda – I just saw this and want you to know I will also be praying for Sarah and you as the day approaches and finally the surgery. Praying the surgery can be done robotically and that she’ll be able to go home with you the same day. She’s such a cutie! Praying for peace for you dear Momma!
Catching up on my blog backup! Love to you, Shanda. You are such a wonderful, tenderhearted mama. I’m so sorry that Sarah has to go through this. I so relate to your feelings of anxiety about it. I pray for continued peace to rest on you, and that you feel Jesus walking you through this in a very real way. I also ask in Jesus’ name that Sarah not have to go through this surgery ever again, and that her body would stop making these stones. Also asking for wisdom for you to know the best way to help her. Take care of yourself too!!
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2019-04-19T21:26:07Z
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https://goodtobehome.co/2016/01/06/one-week-from-today/
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Iowa Auto Glass will work to earn your trust in auto glass replacement. Get your broken windshield fixed before the IA highway patrol comes after you. You don’t need to worry about finding a firm close to Redfield.
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2019-04-18T12:15:44Z
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http://iowaautoglass.com/redfield/
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Day 3: Don’t Leaf yet, I just got started!
Here is Day 3 of BB’s 30 Day Leaf Challenge. I hope to find more interesting leaves for the future, with more cool colors as fall blooms before our eyes.
Neocolor II + ink on top and Cotman travel watercolor palette + ink below. I’m going to try and find some reddish or yellowish leaves……not really seeing any yet. I probably need to open my eyes more. We could all notice the things in front of us a little more. Art is a wonderful blessing that way. I hope to roll out a small art quilt for you this weekend. It’s coming together!
< Draw A Bird Day recap, September style!
Gorgeous! Autumn is such a time of riches.
Boy, what a great way to say it. Thank you, Michael.
Your leaves are beautiful and so realistic. Lovely shadows and contours.
I feel I can really improve them, but I’m enjoying the journey. Staring at a leaf is a mesmerizing experience. We walk over them every day, and how many do we really see? It’s been quite a project.
The leaves on the ground around here are mostly brown too. A friend told me it’s because we had all those weeks without much rain. Hopefully now that we’ve had a few wet days the colors will come.
Thanks, Kerfe. Oddly, I went out back last night and found several very colorful leaves! You don’t really see them in the trees – mostly green or brown on the ground, but I was amazed at how those yellows, oranges and reds really stood out.
They came to your silent call.
I’m not leafing. Loving your play on words funny girl! Happy Friday ! Dance in the leaves.
Thank you, Catherine! It is a really fun project!
Wow! those look so real!! well done!
Thank you so much, Sue! I’ve actually been surprised – these aren’t that hard to do. I’ve always loved trees and leaves, which makes it fun.
Awww….Thank you, Tom! I just need a little crown! Ooh, a crown of leaves! 😀 So sweet, thanks!
Thank you, Teresa! Yeah, I may be ready for a change by then. Who knows, though, look how long I’ve been doing roses lol.
Going where the spirit leads is a good way to do it! There are days when I can only draw portraits, or only squirrels, or… 🙂 I find that I can’t make myself do art that I don’t feel that day.
You go girl…Your leaves are awesome. Don’t rake the leaves, draw them!
Glad you are in love :-).
I think these are great! Will you do something with these daily leaves once the challenge is done?
Thanks, Kari! They are all in my art journal, but you raise a great question. I’m thinking about taking leaves to my art quilts, so from that perspective….who knows, maybe I’ll do one of my leaf paintings on fabric. I’ve not been able to get lots of detail on fabric, but you never know….. What would you do if you had a leaf collection? Have you tried drawing any?
I was thinking to create a collage? Frame them? They are so pretty they should be displayed.
Awww. Kari, you’re so sweet. Thank you. That’s a really good idea. A leaf collage would look so natural, too!
Wow, thanks Ann! 😀 Oh, I hope my little quilt will be ready. Wait til you see how small it is and how much time it took. Lord, have mercy. lol. Mostly it is the decisions that take the most time!
Fantastic – check out those shadows and crispness of the dry leaves!
Thanks, Mary! I’m having a blast with these. Have you ever worked with leaves?
To a certain extent within a landscape scene in my paintings and did piece that was just of a tree (under About, see tree challenge), but not macro. I definitely like what you’ve done here and will enjoy the whole series during this month.
Your trees are gorgeous, Mary! I know I’ve admired some of them in the recent past. I’m glad you’re enjoying my leaves – a much easier subject!
So deliciously fun! Love the curl up of your leaves, they are perfect. Oh, and isn’t it strange that here the dead leaves are what we find before the beautiful colored leaves, and not the other way around?! The two chestnut trees in the yard have been delivering me deep lovely deep red leaves… along with some yellow and green. They are a delight to collect and my art table has been feeling up with so many leaves!
Thanks!! I was amazed last night when I actually looked in my own backyard (vs. going to a trail at the park), how many gorgeous colors I actually found among all the brown ones! When I laid them out on the kitchen counter, it was quite a collection!! I know what you mean!!
I love how Fall comes into the studio, and brightens up our homes!
Thank you so much, Jill! It does sound just like a country song lol! I really am loving these leaves. I may be more amazed by leaves than flowers, and that’s saying something!
Your leaves are beautiful, so natural and lifelike. Mine are very laboured and taking me forever to do…..I need a lesson in painting. Heading over to YouTube later to get some tips!
Karen, just try and get the essence down would be my suggestion. In pen or pencil first, and then for me, I go in wet in wet with the color, which really allows watercolor to do what it does best. It’s the perfect medium to capture the texture and color of leaves if you just let it flow. Go easy on the paint. I’ve been using mostly pan paints, which helps, but you could use tube paint and just go very light. I sometimes have to let the first layer dry and go back in to get the color intensity, but I do work hard at staying loose and free and trying not to be too detailed. I do think that drawing and painting flowers for many many days last summer helped a lot with this exercise. You could really hate flowers if you tried to get every petal. So I decided to get the essence of that flower, and those paintings were much more successful. My two cents. If you find any great YouTube’s, I’d be thrilled to hear about them!
Hi Karen – I just saw your horse chestnut leaf and will go over and make a comment under that post.
Great images again Laura. Can’t wait to see the yellow and red ones.
Thanks, Denis! I hope you and your dog are doing ok; I’ve been thinking about you both.
Love the title!! you can make the leaves whatever color you want. go to TOWN! jes sayin…. make puddles of three fall colors you love, add a smallish puddle of dark blue in it….to see the glory of how it works with oranges… and mingle them on the page in the leaf shape. paint a portion of the leaf in one, switch to another WITHOUT rinsing your brush, and watch the two colors mingle on the page. Do it again without rinsing a third time. add a touch of blue here and there. voila!
Rachel, thank you! You make a great point. I think I’m trying to paint the actual leaf because it’s a new subject for me, but if I were making an art quilt or making a painting to sell (ha!), I would definitely make the colors as interesting as I possibly could! I’ve since found some colorful leaves and I’ve learned that painting the yellows and reds of fall is quite challenging! What colors do you typically use when painting fall foliage?
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2019-04-18T22:46:15Z
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https://createarteveryday.com/2015/09/18/day-3-dont-leaf-yet-i-just-got-started/
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2019-04-19T14:17:09Z
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https://www.motorcycle.com/specs/suzuki/touring-scooter/2017/burgman/650-executive.html
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So there's been a lot of blathering on by the talking heads lately about which candicate, Sen. Obama or Sen. McCain, has more "experience" to be president. The argument goes that because McCain is as old as god and he was a POW he now has the experience to be president, while Obama, being just a young pup, doesn't know what he's doing (I know, I know -- it doesn't make any sense to me either).
I've got news for you folks: no one ever has just the right experience to be president except someone who has already been president.
I was reading a story on the McClatchy site today that said the Russia-Georgia conflict "is a reminder that Obama is a first-term U.S. senator with no diplomatic background, while McCain may have a longer resume, but also more of a taste for military action."
This gives rise to my question: exactly what "diplomatic background" does McCain have that Obama does not? Being tortured as a POW? Being hornswoggled by Ahmed Chalabi into invading Iraq when there was actually no reason to? I'm not sure the former qualifies as "diplomacy" and I think the latter would actually be a blemish on McCain's resume. So this is the meat of the argument. No matter how many years of public service someone might have, nor what branch of government they might have been in, they simply don't have the kind of "diplomatic experience" that a President will need to deal with other world leaders. No job can prepare a person for that except actually, you know, being president.
Keep this in mind the next time you hear McCain talk about his "experience." And also keep in mind that he will be 72 years old this month, and airline pilots have to retire at 60.
Categories: Democrats, Election Coverage, Republicans, worst. president. ever.
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2019-04-25T04:23:01Z
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https://www.in-my-opinion.net/2008/08/presidential-experience.html
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Montreal’s rally for International Darfur Day brought attention to the inaction of the international community and common misconceptions about the controversy and violence in the region on Sunday.
Held on the future site of Concordia University’s John Molson School of Business Building, hundreds of Montrealers partook in the rally, pressing for what organizers called “effective [United Nations] intervention” in the war-ravaged region of western Sudan.
The rally expressed worries over a possible dramatic escalation of the conflict if the UN does not deploy peacekeepers to Darfur.
The 7,000 African Union peacekeepers that are currently stationed in Darfur are expected to leave the region once their mandate has expired on September 30.
The UN Security Council has assumed the role of peacekeeper and signed a resolution on Aug. 31, 2006, to send a force of 20,000 blue helmets to the region.
The Sudanese government in Khartoum has since refused entry for the international force on grounds that it violates their sovereignty.
The Rally for Darfur is one of several other similar events held in other major cities coinciding with what organizers call Darfur Day.
“The idea is to gather as many people from all kind of backgrounds to tell the people in Darfur that we are in solidarity with them,” said Anne Sainte-Marie of Amnesty International.
Speakers urged action from the Canadian government and people as well.
“As students, we should demand that the Canadian government do something to end the atrocities in Darfur,” said Emily Bennett of McGill Stand Canada.
Fighting between the Sudanese government’s proxy militia and rebels has continued despite the Darfur Peace Agreement signed between the two parties in May 2006.
Estimates of direct and indirect casualties from the conflict that began in February 2003 ranged from 300,000 to as many as 400,000 people with as many as 2.5 million people internally displaced.
Organizers stress that if Darfur can be left unnoticed as Rwanda was a decade ago, we still lack awareness.
According to McGill professor Khalid Medani, focusing on the conflict in Darfur as simply genocide can obscure the real problems in the region.
Invited to speak at the Rally for Darfur, Professor Medani told the Tribune that the fighting is part of a wider political and economic problem.
He went on to explain the problems with this conception.
When violence escalated in February 2003, Khartoum was negotiating a deal with the Southern Sudanese, who demanded greater political autonomy and control over their economic resources, a concession they did not grant to the Darfurians.
Speaking to the crowd at the rally last Sunday, Medani reminded the audience that the majority of Sudanese are opposed to the regime in Khartoum and that the crisis in Darfur is part of a wider problem of political disenfranchisement and excessive economic centralization.
The effort of finding a solution is made more difficult when countries like Russia and especially China (which holds 75 per cent ownership over the oil in Sudan) threaten to veto any resolutions for direct UN intervention in Darfur.
Medani says that the conflict thus broaches another issue, the absence of democracy in the UN, which hampers its ability to mobilize and act as they should in violent crises such as in Sudan.
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2019-04-25T02:24:34Z
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http://www.mcgilltribune.com/news/city-rally-marks-international-darfur-day/
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Masters Degrees Pay | harlan.
A Master’s degree, in different subjects, commands admiration for you in your surrounding. It also opens up innumerable opportunities for the master’s degree holders in comparison to those who have associate and the bachelor degrees. According to the current surveys in America, only a few Americans complete their master’s degrees in any subject. There is an ample room for the potential candidates holding master’s degrees in different professions than the Bachelor of Arts and Science. A master’s degree study refers to postgraduate academic programmes. It particularly comprises 1 or 2 year course work plus dissertation of specified length. A master’s degree particularly requires hard work and attentiveness from the master’s students but the advantages of these degrees are enormous. The citizens having done their bachelor degrees desire to have master’s degrees as well owing to their manifold advantages.
The pay scale beside master’s degrees is certainly far better than the bachelor or associate degrees. There are a figure of master’s degree programmes and the pay scales diverge according to the range of professions available after master degrees. The accepted master’s degree programmes are Master’s in education, Master’s in curriculum design, Master’s in Business Administration, Master’s in Computer Science, Master’s in Library Science (MLS) etc.
Master’s degree in Education can be obtained with a large number of specialties such as Distance learning, Adult education, Curriculum and Technology and Special Education etc. These specialties in Education make sure for one’s access to an abundance of jobs like classroom teacher, masters student counselor, school administrator etc. The precise pay scale for any job in master’s education or in any other masters department is hard to define. But according to the survey reports of the US Labors Statistics, the average salaries for the Master degree holders in education may be around $74,190 per annum. Such an attractive income package, which absolutely makes confident prosperous life style, can only be had if someone has a master’s degree in Education.
The Special Education particularly corresponds with the teaching special techniques and the ways of imparting master’s education to students as well as adults with chronic physical disabilities. The Master’s degree in Special Education has brilliant financial prospects for the master degree holders. There are a lot of career opportunities in the field of Special Education. The Special Education may be a demanding career but it is also exceedingly rewarding. The incomes and salaries for the Special Education teachers with master’s degrees holders in the different fields related to Special Education ranged from $66,240 to $71,370 according to the US Labor Statistics Bureau in the previous years.
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2019-04-22T14:36:09Z
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http://will-harlan.com/masters-degrees-pay/
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Antibiotic resistance is a grave concern for the Australian healthcare system. Antibiotics, designed to prevent infections, have saved millions of lives since they were introduced in the 1940s. However inappropriate use of these drugs has led to antibiotic resistance.
As a result many antibiotics may no longer be effective against the bacteria they once killed.
According to Medicine Insight data 2017, the use of antibiotics has significantly increased in the past few years.
Between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2016, the total number of antibiotic prescriptions issued were 378,979, of which 42,790 (11%) were for urinary tract infections (UTIs), mainly prescribed for asymptomatic UTI’s in older adults residing in aged care facilities.
In a recent study conducted, it was also revealed that 11.3% of residents were on antibiotics, but only 4.5% had a suspected or confirmed infection.
One in five antibiotics were written for residents who had no signs and, symptoms of infection in the week before starting the course (AURA 2016).
Only one-third of these prescriptions were appropriate. Similarly, common cold and, flu is caused by viruses and cannot be treated by antibiotics. Several clinical studies have shown that antibiotics do not improve the symptoms of a cold or the flu (Department of Health 2017).
For our residents in aged care facilities, it is vital to determine the need for urinalysis and/or culture.
There is a possibility that a urinalysis may detect asymptomatic bacteriuria.
Is urine odour or cloudy urine an indication of an infection or to test urine? No.
This can be due to poor hydration, compromised personal hygiene, side effects of certain medications and poor infection control measures (Duong 2015).
A urinalysis should only be performed when there is a clinical indication. To avoid inappropriate usage of antibiotics explore other alternatives to immediate antibiotics. Infection control most importantly, effective hand hygiene is the key to prevent such infections.
Timely identification, adequate hydration, optimal personal hygiene, symptom management, awareness, and education are some of the other important ways to reduce testing and prescribing antibiotics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017).
Encouraging rest, using sore throat lozenges, a saline nasal spray for congestion are some of the ways to treat common cold symptoms.
Get a flu shot to prevent flu (NPS Medicine Wise 2017). Antibiotics aren’t always the answer. Antibiotics can only treat bacterial infections not viral infections (The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis 2015). Hence, choose wisely when it comes to tests and treatments. Use antibiotics only when needed and, if needed, use them correctly to avoid further complications such as antibiotic resistance.
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (2016) AURA, First Australian Report on Antimicrobial Use and Resistance In Human Health www.safetyandquality.gov.au Accessed March 2019.
Department of Health (2017) Antimicrobial stewardship www.amr.gov.au/what-you-can-do/aged-care/antibiotic-stewardship Accessed March 2019.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017). Antibiotic Prescribing and use in Hospitals and long-term care https://www.cdc.gov/features/getsmart/ Accessed March 2019.
The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis (2015) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378521/ Accessed February 2019.
NPS Medicine Wise (2017) https://www.nps.org.au/medical-info/consumer-info/antibiotics-explained?c=what-is-antibiotic-resistance-383ab578 Accessed February 2019.
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2019-04-23T16:33:31Z
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https://anmj.org.au/choose-wisely/
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A 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom, villa close to the town of Orba and a short drive to fabulous beaches.
This lovely villa has been built with high quality materials and style in mind. It comprises a spacious entrance hallway that leads into a very nice lounge/dining room with pellet burner, fitted kitchen with door out to a terrace that wraps around the back of the house.
There are two double bedrooms both with fitted wardrobes, one with en suite shower room and another shower room.
Downstairs there is another double bedroom with fitted wardrobes, shower room, kitchen/lounge/dining room and a very large laundry room.
This level has access onto the pool terrace with plenty of room round for sun loungers and a naya to sit and enjoy eating Alfresco.A few steps lead up to another terrace with room for a small table and chairs.
The swimming pool has an electrically operated solar cover that keeps the water warm so that you can enjoy swimming in April and even October. It also benefits from an automatic chlorination system so no need to worry when you go away.
The property also benefits from hot and cold air conditioning, gas central heating and a pellet burner.
There is plenty of under build storage beneath the property and to the front there is a driveway to park your car.
The vendors think - "We love the fabulous views and the beautiful Orba valley"
We think - " This well maintained property has great proportions and early viewing is recommended."
The charming village of Orba is located in the province of Alicante and belongs to the city of Denia which is only 18kms away and has a 15km stretch of coastline. To the north are the villages of Tormos and Pego and to the south Mulrla and Alcalali. To the east is the village of Benidoleig and to the west Vall d' Ebo and Vall d' Laguart.All with plenty of shops and amenities including some lovely bars and restaurants.
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2019-04-23T16:16:50Z
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https://www.costaselect.com/nl/koop/orba/5aa6574b4d865203a556b0f1
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Next to water, tea is the most consumed beverage in the world. Legend spins a tale 5,000 years old, of a Chinese emperor whose pot of boiling water was filled with leaves from the blowing wind, and we have been drinking tea ever since. According to the US Tea Association, 158 million Americans drink tea on any given day.
Culturally, tea has been part of ceremony, morning routine, and afternoon social gatherings. Drinking iced tea on a hot day is incredibly refreshing. A cup of hot tea on a cold morning is energizing, and the same cup on a winters night can be cozy, relaxing. The honey on top of that tea is also medicinal. Don’t we all have memories of our mother or grandmother handing us a steaming cup of hot tea with lemon and honey for a sore throat or upset stomach?
Tea is one of the most studied foods for cancer prevention and has been shown to be protective against lung, renal, ovarian, and liver cancers, as well as overall immune system enhancement.
Tea is also known to have cardio protective protperties as well as benefits to bone health.
Not all tea is created equal. It has been recently repsorted that many store bought teas contain contaminants such as the carcinogen lead and pesticide residue. Further, pharmaceutical residue present in water supplies is showing up in crops. Add to that, many teas are adulterated with “flavorings” which is just another word for chemicals.
Be sure to purchase teas labeled organic or biodynamic.
Make your own tea from dried herbs.
Most tea from camellia sinesis grown in India, China and Indonesia, but a lot of tea is grown in the US, mostly in warmer climates like those of southern and southwestern states. With a sunny spot in the backyard or a greenhouse, you can grow your own!
The secret to harvesting tea is to harvest the top, young spring buds and leaves. The way you prepare the leaves will determine the type of tea.
The leaves that you harvest from your tea plant are tea. To get different flavors out of those leaves, you must prepare them differently. The directions for making green and white tea are the same. For white, however, use only the buds and not the leaves.
Green tea. Spread out your harvested leaves and buds and leave them in a shady spot for a few hours. Steam them on the stove top for about a minute or roast them in a hot, dry skillet for a couple of minutes for a different flavor. Dry the leaves on a baking sheet in the oven at 250 degrees for about 20 minutes. You can store the dried leaves in an airtight container, or brew right away.
Oolong tea. To make Oolong tea, let the leaves and buds wilt in the sun for a half hour to an hour. After that, leave them in the shade or inside for up to ten hours, with regular mixing. You may dry them in the oven at 250 degrees for 20 minutes. You can also treat Oolong tea in the traditional manner, which is to skip this step. Instead, roll the leaves into thin strips or small balls. They will unfurl as you brew them, but they won’t store as long as if you dry the leaves in the oven.
Black tea. After you pick the leaves and buds, roll them between your fingers and hands until they turn a darker color. Spread the leaves out on a flat surface in a cool place and leave them to dry for two to three days. Dry and store the leaves as you would for green or Oolong tea.
You can add dried jasmine flowers from the garden for jasmine tea, or a few drops of organic bergamot oil to make earl grey.
Everyday is Earth Dayon the Natural Path, so add healthy, organic, and homegrown tea to your diet, and check out some of our favorite tea recipes!
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2019-04-19T12:21:17Z
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https://naturalpath.net/blog/8155/
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Argo Group Gold Cup 2015 – Keith Swinton’s Black Swan Racing from Australia and Chris Steele’s 36 Below Racing from New Zealand have advanced to the Quarterfinal Round at the 67th annual edition.
The two crews led the Repechage Round yesterday and then held on today through a long day of racing to advance to the next round. Swinton won the repechage with a 6-1 record while Steele was second at 5-2. Racing was interrupted for nearly four hours as the wind died from the west and filled in from the northwest.
The two crews join six others that qualified after initial round robin racing at the $100,000 match racing regatta. With the multiple rounds robin complete the event moves into its ladder-style knockout phase. The quarterfinals, semifinals and final are all first-to-three points.
Headlining the quarterfinals is Taylor Canfield’s US One team from the U.S. Virgin Islands. Canfield’s crew is the only one to go undefeated through the rounds robin. That earned the crew the right to choose their opponent and they’ll square off against Steele’s 36 Below Racing. Canfield won the Argo Group Gold Cup in 2012 and has placed third each of the past two seasons. He chose to race Steele because the Kiwi is the number eight seed in the quarterfinals.
Other quarterfinal matches pit Phil Robertson’s WAKA Racing against Adam Minoprio’s BlackMatch in a battle of Kiwi teams. “The winner picks up the tab Sunday night,” said Minoprio.
Eric Monnin’s Swiss Match Race Team races Björn Hansen’s Nautiska Racing from Sweden. “People have a tough time telling Swedish and Swiss apart, so we’re going to help them out,” said Hansen.
The remaining match pits Ian Williams’ GAC Pindar against Swinton’s Black Swan Racing. “Ian’s a master at starting, but it’s easy to put pressure on him when he loses a few races,” said Swinton.
Notable for not advancing were the two America’s Cup crews, Dean Barker’s SoftBank Team Japan and Francesco Bruni’s Artemis Racing. Both skippers are accomplished match racers and have enjoyed past success at the Argo Group Gold Cup. But they’ve spent more time in the past few years racing foiling catamarans, a far different craft than the International One-Design sloop featured in the Gold Cup.
Barker and Bruni both spoke of the difficulty of coming into a world championship match race regatta with new crews and little practice.
“It’s a big ask to come to a regatta like this with a new group and expect to do well,” said Barker, who’ll be skippering SoftBank Team Japan at the America’s Cup World Series next week. “I felt like we were sailing better at the end of the regatta, but we had a few races go against us when we were leading. The positive is that we got to sail together as a group and build our communications going into next week.
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2019-04-20T15:16:58Z
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http://yachtboatnews.com/argo-group-gold-cup-2015-3/
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Guarding against your own false accusations against yourself is very important. At the same time, please add the practice of being gentle with yourself. By this I mean, try to foster a sense of quiet within, an acceptance of yourself within. Try to respond inwardly to yourself as you would toward someone whom you love deeply. In other words, allow yourself to be imperfect and when you are, please guard against a harsh inner voice that condemns. You have been wounded and so you need that sense of self-acceptance in all aspects of your life right now.
The next time you make an error, be aware of how you are talking to yourself internally. Check to see if you are using the inner-whip against yourself and then stop this immediately. Instead, please turn to this: I am wounded inside. I do not need another wound, especially one that is inflicted from within. It is time to be gentle with myself.
And one more thing, please be sure to say this silently about yourself.
Enjoy seeing the personhood in all.
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2019-04-21T10:23:01Z
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https://internationalforgiveness.wordpress.com/category/blog/homework-to-help/
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Does the sound of one of today’s most popular SUV’s with a combined 58 miles per gallon sound appealing? Play to win the Nissan Qashqai Ntec+ 1.2 DIG-T 115. With a confident ride and impressive specification you will struggle to find fault with what is a true all rounder.
The prize comes with £1,000 of options of the winners choice. The winning vehicle is taxed but insurance is the responsibility of the winner to organise prior to collection..
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2019-04-23T04:43:39Z
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This HURT! It was a long 20 miles back to the car!
The picture does not do justice to how wet we were!
No idea how I hurt myself - it didn't hurt - I had to be told I was bleeding.
Holy blisters! Luckily none of them hurt, just make my feet look disgusting.
This was the one time I forgot my Garmin... luckily I had my phone, but it's WEIRD running without my Garmin!
And that wraps up July. Plugging along, plugging along.... I've actually biked over 1100 miles so far this year, by far the most bike mileage I've ever done (In 2014, I was just under 700 miles for the year).
It's hard to believe there's less than 2 months to go. I'm not sure if that excites me or terrifies me... one more month of hard work and then taper!
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2019-04-21T22:37:41Z
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http://jengottatri.blogspot.com/2015/08/just-plugging-along.html
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2019-04-21T06:55:53Z
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An Afternoon Visiting The Floating Villages Of Cambodia.
Dan and I visited Kampong Plouk, one of Cambodia’s Floating Villages, for a few hours one afternoon after doing some temple exploring in Angkor and the BEST lunch at The Hut! Unknown to us (although we did specifically request to visit the Floating Village), it was dry season and the experience on the Floating Village was certainly different than we imagined, in more ways than one…. In any case, it was quite interesting to visit the village. I can only imagine what it would look like not during the dry season!
Getting tickets for a boat ride through the Floating Village.
By way of a bit of background, Cambodia is home to a number of “floating villages,” or villages built along rivers or lakes, where all the buildings are either on very tall stilts or float (like a house boat). As a sad twist, I later learned that most of the residents are ethnically Vietnamese people who live in Cambodia but cannot legally work in Cambodia. I really wish that I had known more about the Floating Villages prior to visiting, and done something to help out while I was there.
Our tour started by boarding a really old wooden boat; honestly, I thought that it may sink… Spoiler alert, it did not, but it was touch and go getting out of the dock. We ran into several other boats (literally) but the boat was surprisingly fine. After we maneuvered out of the dock, the old motor was started up and we were off!
Trying to get out of the port.
The Floating Village was quite interesting, although I think that it would have been much cooler to visit when the water was at its full height. For your reference, during wet season, the river comes up nearly to the bottom of the houses, fully covering the stilts! Its crazy to think that these wooden stilts hold these houses up the entire wet season.
Cool Khmer building – we were told that it is a school.
A really interesting way of life.
A floating restaurant on Tonle Sap.
The entire afternoon was very interesting and eyeopening, and it was even more so know after reading about the Floating Villages. I would definitely recommend an afternoon visit to the Floating Villages if you have time, but know that its not going to be a rosy, fun afternoon.
We visited Kampong Plouk with Happy Angkor Tours, who also took us to visit Angkor. The Floating Villages were a bonus trip one afternoon after touring Angkor.
Happy Angkor Tour: The tour company that we used to tour Angkor Wat and the Floating Village over 2 days. Our guide was Samath and our driver was Mr. Srom. We paid $163 total for the 2 days guided tour of Angkor and the Floating Village, pick up and drop off at our hotel, and the tour (including water and cold wash clothes after each temple). Totally worth the money.
Taking a boat ride through the Floating Villages is not expensive; the most expensive cost is getting from Siem Reap to the Floating Villages (about an hour). Many companies and tour guides will combine a trip to the Floating Villages with a morning tour of Angkor.
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2019-04-23T16:54:07Z
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https://wareontheglobe.com/2018/10/09/an-afternoon-visiting-the-floating-villages-of-cambodia/
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The project offers a critical reassessment of the Megastructure, the terminal phase of modernism's movement before its eclipse by postmodernism. This phase begins with the formation of Team 10 in 1953 and ends with Reyner Banham's memorialization of the movement in Megastructure: Urban Futures of the Recent Past (1976). More than recounting the movement's rise and fall, however, this project investigates key ideas that motivated architectural thinking at the time and casts them in a new light. One of these concepts concerns the Team 10 idea of a flexible matrix, while another relates to the paradoxical logic of systems. These ideas tell a different story about some of the more familiar paradigms of the day that resonates with current debate.
Sarah Deyong is an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University, where she teaches design studio and courses in history, theory, and criticism. In 2008, she completed her PhD at Princeton University on the Megastructure movement, under the supervision of Beatriz Colomina, Mark Wigley, Sarah Whiting, and Spyros Papapetros. Essays she has published include "The Rise and Fall of the Megastructure" in the MoMA catalogue, "The Changing of the Modern Avant-Garde," in an edited collection by Terence Riley, and "Planetary Habitat" in the Journal of Architecture. Forthcoming articles include "Urban Acupuncture and the Paradoxical Logic of Systems" in a Praxis issue devoted to eco-logics, and a chapter on "High Tech" in a survey of contemporary architecture, edited by Elie Haddad and David Rifkind.
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2019-04-23T02:06:53Z
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http://grahamfoundation.org/grantees/226-rethinking-modernism-megastructure-195376
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2019-04-26T09:46:10Z
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All Axis Research & Development LLC of Claremont, N.H., creates prototypes for clients in the electronics, aerospace, glass and industrial printing industries. It also manages larger runs and creates fixtures for the parts it designs.
Because it is regularly producing prototypes, the company handles a variety of materials and parts. On some of its smaller jobs, with quantities under 10, All Axis found itself performing a lot of setups and programming as it handles engineering and proves out products. It needed efficiency to handle those runs, along with the capacity and flexibility to handle the unique challenges of each prototype. All Axis also needed advanced machinery that could perform roughing on tough materials, such as 4140 heat-treated steels and 45 HRc parts.
With the company running its existing equipment nonstop, All Axis needed to invest in infrastructure. It required something extremely rigid with fast spindle speeds that would not only work well for many years but also retain its value. All Axis acquired a Makino PS95 vertical machining center based on the machine’s performance, accuracy and overall reputation.
With the PS95, All Axis has been able to reduce its cycle times by up to 50 percent over previous vertical machining centers. In fact, the company is achieving the highest metal-removal rates on the PS95, compared to its other machines. The machine’s rigid design and rapid Z-axis movements have led to faster milling, drilling and plunging, and pecking operations can now be completed in one clean Z-axis plunge.
All Axis is able to use more advanced tooling—drilling through six inches of aluminum with a quarter-inch drill in just seconds instead of minutes. It can handle tight-tolerance holes and slots at plus or minus 0.0002 inch with great repeatability.
The company is completing prototypes on time, on budget and with exacting tolerances. This effort has resulted in more orders as the company now bids on jobs that it once had to pass on.
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2019-04-20T16:34:22Z
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https://www.makino.com/resources/content-library/case-study/archive/all-axis-r-d-invests-in-advanced-vertical-machining-center-to-grow-its-business-/639
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The Ashley Brooke Book Club is here to inspire fun and thoughtful conversations about what we are reading, highlight women storytellers, and cross another great read off your ‘to be read’ list. We’re here for books that make you feel like you’ve had a night out with your girlfriends without ever leaving your couch.
In addition to being a “member”, you’ll be in line for author exclusives, giveaways (yes, free books and more!), and member discussion. Plus, you’ll be the first to know about each month’s title selection!
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2019-04-18T18:23:01Z
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https://ashleybrookedesigns.com/book-club/
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A dog can bark for many reasons — to defend his territory, signal a stranger, get attention, say hello, express discomfort or frustration, and more. Understanding why a dog barks is key to getting him to stop. Sometimes, as in the case of compulsive barking, a veterinarian might recommend drugs. But, for the most part, there is no quick fix, and training, behavior modification, and environmental changes are the solutions.
Barking is one of several types of vocal communication tools employed by dogs. You may appreciate your dog’s barking when he or she signals that someone is at your door — or when he needs something (like food or a trip to the loo). However, dogs sometimes bark excessively or at inappropriate times.
Because barking serves many purposes, it’s critical for owners to determine why their dogs are doing it before attempting to address a barking problem. In fact, sometimes the barking is perfectly appropriate (as when alerting that stranger's approach) and/or a learned behavior. Does the dog use barking to get what he or she wants? For example, dogs that get attention for barking often learn to bark for food, play, and walks, as well. Therefore, training a dog to be quiet on command can be an important tool so that you can teach your dog a different behavior (such as “sit” or “down”) for getting what he or she wants.
Dogs of certain breeds may be predisposed to barking (appropriately, if annoyingly) more than others. Owners should be advised (hopefully before bringing one into a household) that certain types of dogs can be more difficult to train to quiescence than others.
Everyone knows what barking sounds like. Excessive barking, however, can be subjective. After all, some of us have a lower tolerance for this behavior. In any case, all dog owners should understand that attempting to resolve any dog’s barking problem includes having a veterinarian examine the dog to rule out medical causes of the unwanted behavior.
Indeed, identifying the cause of the barking behavior is crucial to its resolution.
In alarm barking, dogs bark at any noise or sight regardless of the context. When barking, these dogs usually have stiff bodies and move or pounce forward 1 or 2 inches with each bark. These dogs might bark at sights or sounds anywhere, not just when defending familiar areas.
In socially facilitated barking, dogs bark excessively when they hear other dogs barking.
In frustration-induced barking, dogs bark excessively when they’re in frustrating situations, such as when their activity or movement is restricted.
In separation-anxiety barking, dogs bark excessively when left alone or when their caretakers are gone. This barking is usually accompanied by at least one other sign of separation anxiety, such as pacing, destruction, elimination, or depression.
Any breed of dog may be affected, but it is most prevalent among hunting and other working breeds of dogs. In these breeds, the ability and willingness to engage in what is obviously an enjoyable behavior bodes poorly for complete remission of symptoms.
Medical causes of barking should be ruled out before embarking on any behavioral modification or drug therapy to diminish barking behavior.
It takes time to teach dogs to bark less, so owners shouldn’t expect a quick fix or that a dog will ever stop barking completely. Working with a board-certified veterinary behaviorist or a certified applied animal behaviorist or hiring a certified professional dog trainer is always recommended.
The veterinary behaviorist/certified trainer will help owners identify a dog’s type of barking. These are some of the most common solutions professionals will offer by way of reducing unwanted barking behavior.
To manage territorial or alarm barking, blocking a dog’s view of areas that he or she guards can be helpful. Blocking windows that a dog uses and erecting a solid barrier or fence around the dog’s outdoor area are critical. In addition, owners shouldn’t allow dogs to greet people at the front door, yard gate, or property line. Instead, training dogs to go to another location (e.g., a crate or mat) and remain quiet until you invite him or her to greet someone appropriately is an ideal alternative.
To manage attention-seeking barking, an owner must consistently not reward the dog for barking. Dog owners often unknowingly reinforce attention-seeking barking by looking at, touching, scolding, or talking to their pets; to dogs, all of these human behaviors are rewards. When a dog starts to bark for attention, owners should stare at the ceiling, turn away from the dog, or leave the room. As soon as the dog stops barking, owners should ask him or her to sit, and then give the dog what he or she wants (e.g., attention, play, treats). To be successful, owners should try to never reward a dog for barking.
It might help to teach a dog an alternative behavior. For example, if you don’t want a dog to bark when he or she needs to go out or come in, install a doggie door or teach your dog to ring a hanging bell by touching it with his or her nose or paw. If a dog barks when he or she wants to play, teach your dog to bring a toy. If the dog barks when you’re talking on the telephone or working on the computer, give the dog a tasty chew toy to occupy him or her before the barking starts.
In addition, teaching a dog to be silent on command can help strengthen the connection between quiet behavior and attention or rewards. Regularly giving a dog attention (e.g., praise, petting, a treat) when he or she isn’t barking is an excellent approach.
On walks, an owner should distract his dog with special treats (e.g., bits of chicken, cheese, or hot dogs) before the dog begins to bark at passersby. Some dogs do best if they are asked to sit as people or dogs pass. Other dogs prefer to keep moving. Praising and rewarding the dog with treats anytime he or she chooses not to bark is helpful. Putting a head halter on the dog when he or she is likely to bark may decrease the likelihood of barking. For safety, use a head halter only when the dog is supervised. Guidance from a veterinary professional about the use of a head halter is recommended.
To manage compulsive barking, try changing how you confine your dog. If a dog is alone for a long time, increasing his or her exercise, mental stimulation, and/or social interaction can reduce the impulse to bark. It is also recommended that owners seek guidance from a certified applied animal behaviorist or veterinary behaviorist for this problem.
To manage socially facilitated barking, keeping dogs indoors when other dogs are barking and also playing music to drown out the sound of other dogs (or distracting dogs with treats or play when other dogs are barking) is often effective.
To manage frustration-induced barking, teaching a dog to control his or her impulses through obedience training helps a great deal. Teaching a dog to wait, sit, and stay, and rewarding him or her with fun activities such as walks or play with other dogs is helpful. This condition, too, might require the help of a veterinary behaviorist.
To manage separation-anxiety barking, your dog must be treated for separation anxiety. Please contact your veterinarian for this.
Anti-bark collars deliver an unpleasant deterrent (e.g., a loud or ultrasonic noise, a spray of citronella, and sometimes a brief electric shock) when a dog barks. Anti-bark collars are punishment devices and are not recommended as a first choice for managing a barking problem. This is especially true for barking that is motivated by fear, anxiety, or compulsion. Before using any anti-bark device, seek the advice and guidance of your veterinarian, a board-certified veterinary behaviorist, a certified applied animal behaviorist, or a qualified certified professional dog trainer.
Do not use a muzzle to keep your dog quiet for long periods of time or when you’re not supervising him or her. Dogs can’t eat, drink, or pant to cool themselves while wearing muzzles, so making your dog wear one for extended periods of time without supervision is dangerous.
Prevention may be undertaken through pre-purchase counseling. Prospective dog owners with a low tolerance for barking behavior should be advised against adopting/purchasing breeds that have an affinity for barking or breeds that require a lot of exercise, unless the owner is prepared to provide frequent walks and other forms of activity.
Recognizing and avoiding situations that trigger barking and providing alternate behaviors that are more appropriate can also aid in the prevention of barking.
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2019-04-23T18:22:46Z
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http://www.vetstreet.com/care/dog-barking
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Fantastic clip RD!!! Enjoyed that immensely. As a Brit I think it's fair to say that Lomu has given us our fair share of heartache but no hard feelings eh? What a player, what a guy. A true hero of the sport. Can't wait for part 2! It would be interesting to see if anyone ever managed to put in a decent tackle on this guy - seems like it would be impossible.
yeah awesome video... its amazing to hear how big he was as a 14 year old... hearing that he was probably as big as most normal rugby players at the age of 10! what a beast.. and a fantastic player.
damn, i'm getting goose bumps throughout the whole video!
did he ever score against sa?
like other guy had said in other comment I would really enjoy to see jonah lomu receiving a big hit!!although i suppose that was impossible!!
One of the best ever tackles I saw on him was in the 95 WC final by Japie Mulder. Took him around the thighs and hit him into touch. There was also one in the same game by Os du Randt and Joost van der Westhuizen. Brought him down very quick.
Awesome clip. What a legend of the game. Changed the sport forever.
nice clip RD!! BRILLIANT infact.
the swiss ball balance excercise he does is pretty impressive but most top athletes will be able to do that. i saw tennis player andrew murray doing something similar. it's tough but not that tough.
I just want to thank you, RD, for yet another wonderful clip. This clip is very inspirational.
Thanks again. Keep it up !!
That was a very enjoyable video, and I'm very much looking forward to the second part. My favourite tackle on Lomu has to be George Gregan in 2000. Jonah weighed 118 Kg and GG weighed 76 Kg, pulled him down one on one on the sideline, got up and stripped the ball. Inspirational stuff.
I was fascinated by the whole swiss ball training.
I first heard that Annika Sorenstam can do the same (with shoes and barefoot), and was amazed.
It's one thing for a golfer to be able to do that -- coordination and body control are paramount.
However, it's totally another to see a guy with the size and strength of Lomu to be able to do the same.
Would be great if US television brought back some of their old 1970s, "Battle of the Stars", where they would have athletes from different disciplines compete against each other. I'd love to see Lomu in something like that.
Jesus, I would hate to be a winger or fullback going up against a beast like Lomu. When there's nearly no way to stop the man, that's pretty mentally defeating.
That being said, I could watch this video all day. I'd feel a little bad for the backs sent to bring him down, but the man is simply amazing.
RD- Great video, documentary's on the legends are always awesome to watch.
I worship Lomu like a god and this just made my day, thanks so much RD.
So watching this made me think....is there a winger in the past or present that is as good a Lomu?????????
there are no wingers that combine jonahs talents full stop. alesana tuilagi is a big guy, but hes not quick and agile, it takes him ages to get going and he doesnt see the space as well as lomu. caucau could be considered, as he is pretty beefy and fast as well, although he relys on his speed rather than strength, plus hes not actually super strong hes just a freak. so ye caucau is the only play who is similar in that he can go through or run round you, but id say jonah is the king!
LOL great vid ....but i found it qite funny when the old guys tummy started to rumble at 4:02...and yes he is a bloody monster!...especially at 14!
Habana scored as many as Jonah in the RWC...still tho with Jonah on the field people were just so much more aware of his presence. An absolute machine. True Legend, thanks RD alot!
the thing about comparing Cau Cau with Jonah is that Cau Cau never really lived up to his expectations, don't get me worng he's one of the best. But when u look at the fact he's been banned form internation duty for smoking weed, he goes down in my estimations. Jonah all the way.
is the second part of this documentary about what happend to the rest of his career? i dont know too much about it, i know he neeeded a kidney replacement, thats about it.
prob my fav clip now is there anyway chance of getting inside the lions den?
As a french, i haven't see much documentary about big Jonah, so keep it coming guys !
I heard his wife was waiting for a baby, maybe a futur beast winger ?
Saw a Super 12 (as it was then known) game where the Auckland Blues played the Otago Highlanders in the late 90's where Jonah marked up against his opposite winger, "The Samoan Smasher" aka "The Chiropractor", Brian Lima.
Jonah was making one of his trademark runs on the left side of the field when Brian lined him front on and absolutely crunched him and put Jonah on his backside....HARD.
I've been trying to find out which game so I can track down the clip and post it up on youtube or RD.
Me & My Friends remember that moment as we were watching that game because until that time and since, I've never ever seen Jonah tackled FRONT-ON and get demolished.
Brian was also half his size which was also the amazing thin whereas Gregan being even smaller than Brian tended to either side tackle or use Jonahs momentum to bring him down.
Still....So far, there's been no one else before and now who is the perfect blend of size, acceleration and speed.
The DVD this is from that was given out at that charity match (I was there!) was in turn actually directly copied from Jonah's own DVD which was an extended version of this. There were some great special features as well including some of his teammates and coaches favourite tries (Including a pearler against Wellington where he scored from 60 metres out, not deviating more than 5 metres from the sideline, swatting away defenders like Umaga and a fat prop like they weren't there). Well worth the purchase.
Also, Richard Turner, the old captain for North Harbour in New Zealand, absolutely smashed Jonah in one game, head on. He was down hurt for awhile and both he and Eric Rush (Who he was opposing) acknowledge it was one of the biggest hits he'd recieved.
Jonah was and is amazing. To quote Steve Mayhew, the All Blacks team doctor and his for so many years, because of his kidney illness, Jonah effectively played most of his career with a medical handbrake on. Imagine if he was 100%...the mind boggles.
i heard his kidneys packed in because he waS doing reatine before they knew what it did to you..
It would be fantastic if someone could subtitle it to spanish, don't you think?
Estaría bueno que alguien lo subtitulara al español, no les parece?
all blacks vs samoa in napier 1996. brian lima smashes jonah lomu.it was the first hit he ever got. wrong guy to run it to. they dont call lima the chiroprator for nothing. cant seem to find that footage anywhere tho. that game had some big hits.
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2019-04-21T16:49:42Z
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http://rugbydump.blogspot.com/2008/09/jonah-lomu-documentary-part-one.html
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