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When you look back on how you have developed you can always see the pieces of the people that got you there. No two people have influenced my career more than Vince (VXD) and Anthony (DELI). Vince let me hang out in the office and in that office Anthony taught me technical analysis. They both taught me about the business and more importantly how to be a trader. You can read their bio’s here. In many ways they are complete opposite, which was good for me. I got to see how to approach trading from a different perspective but with the same foundation. The way to be a successful trader never changes. The videos are a little longer but worth it. Two very passionate and knowledgeable traders. Between the two they have more than 30 years of experience. I am lucky to have had them in the beginning and now. So sit back and enjoy. By the way, you may recognize Vince from the opening shot of Too Big to Fail or almost every stock photo from the S&P500 pit. He is also one of the people that was there the night of the bridge incident but that is a video for another time. We would really appreciate your feedback, if you like, hate, or think we are full of crap. Please leave a comment, a voice mail (312) 725-9121, email info @ traderhabits (dot) com or twitter, stocktwits, youtube and facebook. Subscribe to Traderhabits by email or to newsletter.
Question 1 : If one tyre of a car suddenly gets stolen…. and after sometime u find the tyre without the screws how will u make ur journey complete? Question 2 : How will you measure height of building when you are at the top of the building?And if you have stone with you. Question 3 : Can u make 120 with 5 zeros? Question 4 : There are 9 coins. 8 are of 1 gm and 1 is of 2 grams. How will you find out theheavier coin in minimum number of weighing and how many weighing it will need? Question 5 : A fathers age is reverse of sons age. One year back fathers age was twice of sons age. What is the fathers current age? Question 6 : 500 men are arranged in an array of 10 rows and 50 columns according to their heights. Tallest among each row of all are asked to come out. And the shortest among them is A. Similarly after resuming them to their original positions, the shortest among each column are asked to come out. And the tallest among them is B. Now who is taller A or B ? Question 7 : A rich man died. In his will, he has divided his gold coins among his 5 sons, 5 daughters and a manager. According to his will: First give one coin to manager. 1/5th of the remaining to the elder son. Now give one coin to the manager and 1/5th of the remaining to second son and so on….. After giving coins to 5th son, divided the remaining coins among five daughters equally. All should get full coins. Find the minimum number of coins he has? Question 8 : If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15. What is the angle between the hour and the minute hands? ( The answer to this is not zero!) Question 9 : A train leaves City X for City Y at 15 mph. At the very same time, a train leaves City Y for City X at 20 mph on the same track. At the same moment, a bird leaves the City X train station and flies towards the City Y train station at 25 mph. When the bird reaches the train from City Y, it immediately reverses direction. It then continues to fly at the same speed towards the train from City X, when it reverses its direction again, and so forth. The bird continues to do this until the trains collide. How far would the bird have traveled in the meantime?
ROYAL Ascot is likely to be next on the agenda for Night Of Thunder following his shock Qipco 2000 Guineas success at Newmarket. Richard Hannon’s charge was sent off a 40-1 chance for the first Classic of the season but proved half a length too good for hot favourite Kingman in the one-mile heat, despite hanging across the track in the closing stages under Kieren Fallon. The field split into two groups and while Hannon admits the situation was not ideal, he believes it had little bearing on his charge reversing a four-and-a-half-length beating at the hands of Kingman in the Greenham Stakes last month. “It is a shame when they’ve split,” he said. “I think there was a difference of opinion as those drawn on the far side stayed on the far side and this side stayed this side. “I think our horse probably did win fair and square. He started on the far side and finished on this side so effectively he ran on both sides. “I didn’t think he would turn it [the Newbury form] round, I thought he could get closer. We were very disappointed at Newbury. Hughesie [Richard Hughes] was down, he came himself to see the horse and thought he’d win because he’s always loved the horse. “If he’d got beaten a length or something, he would improve for it, but he got a four-and-a-half-length thrashing from Kingman. That leaves you going home thinking perhaps none of our Guineas horses are that good. To the horse’s credit, he has come on a lot for his trial as all of ours do. Our horses just need it and I don’t think there was anything flukey about his race and he’s obviously improved massively.” Night Of Thunder does hold an entry in the Investec Derby and while he is a son of Dubawi, he is out of a Galileo mare which offers some hope of seeing out a mile and a half at Epsom. However, Hannon feels the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot is a more likely target. “If you look at his last furlong, he’s obviously got a smart turn of foot. Will he stay a mile and a half with that sort of turn of foot? You would have to say unlikely but there is only one Derby and the best way to find out is to put him in there and find out. I’ll speak to [racing manager] Bruce Raymond and [owner] Saeed Manana and I’d say the St James’s Palace would be the most likely option.” Hannon also fielded the fourth-placed Shifting Power and seventh, Toormore at Headquarters, with the former pleasing his handler in being beaten three lengths on what was only his fourth outing. He said: “I was delighted with Shifting Power. He could be a very good horse over a mile and a quarter. He’s lightly raced up until now and I actually didn’t get too fancy with the entries for him so we might have to stump up a bit of money to supplement him to some of the nice races. “Frankie [Dettori] got off him and thought he might be a French Derby horse. If he’s going to go in that, he’ll have to be supplemented. “There are races for him at Royal Ascot and he’ll be a nice horse to follow throughout the year.” Hannon admitted he was disappointed with Toormore’s effort though, with last year’s champion juvenile finishing four and a quarter lengths behind the winner after claiming the Craven Stakes on his reappearance last month. “Toormore was disappointing for me. I knew at halfway he wasn’t going to win – he obviously just ran a bit flat,” concluded Hannon.
Sansaku: The Hum If Hollywood wrote the script, Dow would have panicked and looked like a blind and naked fool running in circles. He’d probably stub a toe or fall in a cactus before he came to his senses. It’s not what Dow did. He was sitting in the very center of a beautiful living cathedral. Maybe because of his distorted eyes which saw in shades instead of detail, it looked all the more magnificent in the way the empty space of a Chinese landscape painting expands to include imagination. If Moses heard, “Take your shoes off, you’re on holy ground.” Dow didn’t need to be told. His were already off. He could swear his feet were talking. “Finally, free.” They seemed to have a consciousness all of their own. He remembered how he felt as a young child. Dow would be learning a lot from them in the days to come. He’d be learning a lot from a number of things he had once thought impossible. He wasn’t in a hurry because he had nowhere to go. You could also say he had finally arrived and didn’t want to leave. Dow set up a fire ring not far from the plunge pool and slowly began to explore. He had found a slight overhang to protect him from the weather and a perfect spot to sleep. No monk had ever been granted a better cell. It had the feeling of a time machine. Because of the towering walls and the narrowness of the canyon floor, the place was mostly bathed in shadow, although a liquid light flowed golden through the canyon. Dow thought he could see into this slowly moving light and accidentally hypnotized himself. There was that damn dream-being and it was smiling in a way Dow didn’t like. That’s when everything shifted. Dow said, “Who are you?” He held the question in his mind and the image seemed to notice. It was very weird and Dow knew it. But he chose to relate and said, “What do you want with me?” And then he heard it speak, “You’re the one who called. What do you want with me?” The Moai are the massive stone sculptures on Easter Island and the canyon was full of gigantic ones. Just downstream from where he was camped, the wash turned a curve and kept on curving. It almost formed a circle before it curved away in the opposite direction. Right in the center of the circle was a Moai. Dow couldn’t focus clearly, but studied it from a number of angles and found his favorite spot. Normal vision puts everything into human scale and acts as the glue to hold normal reality together. It’s why things can happen at night that can’t happen during the day. Dow was using those other senses. Dahl had taken Em to this very spot and they were camped where Dow now camped. They spent hours and days in the presence of the magnificent monument. Em had found a piece of alabaster and carefully carved a totem. When she finished, she planted it deep in the sand like a seed. She took comfort in knowing it was there. That’s when she had the dream. She found herself holding the totem and remembered she had buried it. This brought her to lucidity and she looked up to see the sacred stone temple. The rock was vibrating with a very low frequency and she could feel it in her bones. It made a low humming sound and when she woke she could still feel and hear it. Slightly tipping her head and being very quiet on the inside, she could tune her body to amplify the mysterious hum. But it went away when the sun touched the rimrock. Later that day she heard it again and when she tilted her head to tune into the sound, Dahl noticed and said, “You’ve heard it, haven’t you?”
It's a true privilege of the MCM PM role that on a regular basis, you get to make someone's day/week/month when you share the news that they've qualified for the MCM certification. Every time, it takes me back to when I got the news that I first achieved the cert (April 17, 2009, Cube 5727, Microsoft Schiphol Office, Netherlands). It simply never gets old. 🙂 So without further ado, here are a number of folks who recently joined our ranks by achieving the SharePoint 2010 MCM certification: - Aleksandar Draskovic (R12) is a consultant at PlanB. GmbH based in Germany. He has been involved in various complex multinational projects as a technical architect. - Brendan Griffin (R12) is a Senior Premier Field Engineer specialising in SharePoint, he is based in the UK. - Brendan Law (R12) is a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) for Microsoft based in Melbourne, Australia. Between the SharePoint RAPs (Risk Assessment Program) and delivering Workshops, Brendan is working on elevating the brand of PFE so that more people are aware of the awesome stuff we do. - Daniel Ispanovits (R12) is a Senior Premier Field Engineer for Micorosoft based in Wallisellen, Switzerland. - Erwin van Hunen (R12) is a Senior Solution Architect working for Knowit Reaktor Stockholm in Sweden. - John Powell (R12) is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services in the Washington DC area and his motto is, "I'd rather be scripting." - Joseph Saad (R12) is a SharePoint architect working for Navantis, based in Canada. He focuses on delivering SharePoint Solutions. - Jussi Roine (R11) is a Chief Architect at Onsight Helsinki based in Helsinki, Finland. He specializes in complex SharePoint implementations and troubleshooting on the Microsoft stack. - Paolo Pialorsi (R11) is an independent consultant based in Italy and working in EMEA. He is focused on SharePoint development and customization. Paolo is also an author for Microsoft Press, and in the last years he wrote some books about LINQ as well as the book "Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer Reference". - Pawel Krolak (R11) is Senior Premier Field Engineer in Microsoft Services. He is based in Warsaw and works mainly in Poland and Central Europe. Pawel delivers proactive services, deals with complex technical cases and trains SharePoint IT Professionals and Developers. Awesome work, and congratulations!
It gives me great pleasure to announce the start of BeeWalk 2013. We have been blessed with the most beautiful day here in Stirling and I have finally seen my first bees of 2013- honeybees feeding on heather! Long may it continue. The BeeWalk season officially runs from March 1st to October 31st. I hope you all have received the e-newsletter that I posted out today. It contains links to new quizzes, the updated guidelines, tips for bumblebee identification and the new BeeWalk Training schedule! If you have not, then it might mean that you are not yet registered. I’m looking forward to getting back out beewalking, unfortunatly I’ve been working on all the nice days so far and the rest of the month is looking rather cold and wet. I’ve not seen a single bee this year so far that’s great to hear. The weather has certainly taken a turn for the worse. The month started off on a promising note but it has been frequently icy over the last couple of weeks. Certainly north of the border anyway. The forecast looks poor for the rest of this week as well. I am struggling to get out to even set up a new transect! That was the plan for today but it is snowing in Edinburgh! Brrrr! I doubt weather will be good enough for surveying any time soon. Don’t worry if you miss March, let’s hope for an improvement come April,
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While I was in Canberra I ducked into the gallery to watch question time. I got to see Julia and the 3 ringed circus in action, and was present when Mr Shorten made his rather silly “Economic white Australia policy” speech. Here was my impressions. Tony Abbott was walking around like he had 3 testicles not 2. It was fairly obvious from his demeanour, and that of his party they have the whip hand at the moment. Activity on the opposition benches seemed purposeful, and smooth. The government benches looked a little different, much less confident, and fully aware they were under siege. The front bench looked ok, but Swan was all fluff and no substance and most of the rest of the bench were variously slouching, distracted or morose. As for Julia, only one word to sum her up, brittle. She looked extremely uncomfortable, but trying to radiate a sense of calm and control, but nowhere near pulling it off. While I was in the gallery 2 people were ejected for disrupting proceedings, one went fairly quick, the other made a bit of a spectacle of himself. At that stage the speaker of the house warned the gallery it would be cleared if there continued to be disruptions. Then came the most pathetic, schoolyard bully boy bullshit I’ve seen for a long time. The ALP side of the house swiveled their collective heads and tried to stare down/intimidate the gallery. It was ridiculous, it came close to me standing up and telling them to pull their heads in and stop being so childish. It reminded me of nothing more than this silly old clip from the movie “Beetlejuice”. (the scene at 00:34 sums the look up) The sight of the government of Australia acting like a bunch of kids was disappointing, not surprising, given the 3 ring circus it has become, but sad all the same. Also sad was the amount of too-ing and fro-ing between the government and opposition benches and Mr Winsors seat, with multiple notes being passed to the “most important man in Australia”, sad.
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Google has revealed the extent to which world governments request controversial or contrary sites be excluded from search results, using its Transparency Record to highlight potential censorship. The newly updated section details Google’s response to complaints such as YouTube videos allegedly promoting terrorism, with takedown-requests from the US more than doubling in the July to December 2011 period from the previous six months. Although Google complied with some of the requests, it did not accede to all. In the final tally for that six month period, the search giant agreed to act or partially-act on as many as 93-percent of complaints (for the US) or as few as zero (for Russia, Hungary and Turkey), depending on local laws for defamation, hate speech and the like. “We received a request from the Passport Canada office to remove a YouTube video of a Canadian citizen urinating on his passport and flushing it down the toilet. We did not comply with this request” Google “This is the fifth data set that we’ve released. And just like every other time before, we’ve been asked to take down political speech” Dorothy Chou, Senior Policy Analyst at Google, says of the newly-released data. “It’s alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect—Western democracies not typically associated with censorship.” In total, over the last six months of released data, Google complied with on average 65-percent of court orders and 47-percent of “more informal requests.”
Dawn Bryant of Saiyan Island writes the Japanese government is funding the new Dragon Ball Z movie. Toei Animation, the company behind the movie, has received 50 million yen from them. i wonder if we will get crazy promos for the movie... that would be hot!! Better be coming to theaters. A DBZ movie in theaters would be awesome. 30 minutes of actual fighting and another hour for powering up. :p it would be a great idea to make the movie international. it will be a good investment since alot of kids are familiar with DBZ, not mentioning the audience it had in the 90's which are all grown up but still wants to view it in the big screen. FilmWatch is a community of awesome people posting and discussing the latest movie news. It’s part of NewsBoiler, a network of social news sites covering today’s pop culture.
Lowcountry AIDS Services Plans an Exciting Event for a Great Cause CHARLESTON, SC (FOX 24 NEWS NOW) — A special event is being held for a great cause thanks to the Lowcountry AIDS Services. Jason Kirk, director of development and marketing, shares what people can expect. Patti O’Furniture, camp queen of the Carolinas, will be hosting this year’s Lowcountry AIDS Services Gay Bingo. This year’s theme is ‘Best of Broadway” and will function as both a fundraiser, as well as an event to bring awareness, tolerance and advocacy for the Lowcountry community. The event will take place August 10. VIP tickets and tables are sold out, but general admission is still available. The location is set at Memminger Auditorium in Charleston. Bingo starts at 6:30 p.m. and it is suggested to arrive early. Wondering what to expect at the event? There will be 3 bars, a photo booth, an outdoor patio, food trucks and frozen adult treats. For more information about the event and Lowcountry AIDS Services, visit the Lowcountry AIDS Services website.
United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division OPINION AND ORDER WILLIAMS S. DUFFEY, Jr., District Judge. This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff's Motion for Attorney's Fees pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act ("EAJA"), 28 U.S.C. § 2412 (the "Motion") . On October 20, 2014, the Court issued an order reversing and remanding the Commissioner's decision under sentence four of 42 U.S.C. § 405(g) for further proceedings . Judgment was entered on October 20, 2014 . On November 24, 2014, Plaintiff, through her counsel, filed the Motion seeking an attorney's fee award. The EAJA provides that a court "shall" award costs and attorney's fees to a party who prevails against the United States in a non-tort civil action, unless the court finds that the position of the United States was substantially justified or that special circumstances make an award unjust. 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(1)(A). A party who obtains a sentence-four remand reversing the Commissioner's denial of benefits is a prevailing party for purposes of the EAJA. Shalala v. Schaefer , 509 U.S. 292, 302 (1993). Plaintiff seeks an award of attorney's fees in the amount of $6, 985.04. The Commission has not opposed the attorney's fees claimed . A. Reasonableness of Hours Expended The EAJA provides for recovery of "reasonable attorney's fees." 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(2)(A). Plaintiff bears the burden of showing that the hours requested are reasonable. See Hensley v. Eckerhart , 461 U.S. 424, 434 (1983). Reasonable hours are billable hours. See Perkins v. Mobile Hous. Bd. , 847 F.2d 735, 738 (11th Cir. 1988). The Court, having reviewed the thirty-three (33) hours expended to provide legal services in this case, finds them to be reasonable. B. EAJA Hourly Rate The EAJA provides that "attorney fees shall not be awarded in excess of $125 per hour unless the court determines that an increase in the cost of living [from March 1996] justifies a higher fee." 28 U.S.C. 2412(d)(2)(A)(ii); United States v. Aisenberg , 358 F.3d 1327, 1342 (11th Cir. 2004). In this case, the parties agree that a cost of living increase justifies a higher fee proportional to the increase in the Consumer Price Index ("CPI"), a monthly calculation of the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services. See United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Price Index, http://www.bls.gov/cpi/. Here, Plaintiff claims an hourly rate, CPI adjusted for each month in which services were performed, ranging from $190.33 to 191.10 per hours. Applying these hourly rates to the 36.67 hours of legal services performed in this matter, the Court concludes that attorney's fees in the amount of $6, 985.04 are reasonable and are based on a reasonable hourly rate. C. Payment of EAJA Fees The Supreme Court recently held in Astrue v. Ratliff that the prevailing party, not the prevailing party's counsel, is eligible to recover attorney fees under the EAJA as part of the party's litigation expenses. Astrue v. Ratliff , 560 U.S. 586, 591-93 (2010) (citing 28 U.S.C. § 2412(d)(1), (d)(2)(A)); see also Panola Land Buying Ass'n v. Clark , 844 F.2d 1506, 1509-11 (11th Cir. 1988) (awarding EAJA fees to the prevailing plaintiff, not its counsel, in accordance with the specific language of the EAJA). The Eleventh Circuit in Reeves v. Astrue has held that the plaintiff, not the plaintiff's attorney, is the "prevailing party" within the meaning of the EAJA. Reeves v. Astrue , 526 F.3d 732, 736 (11th Cir. 2008). The Reeves court stated that the EAJA statute "plainly contemplates that the prevailing party will look to the opposing party for costs incurred, while attorneys and other service providers must look to the [prevailing] party for compensation for their services." Id. The Supreme Court in Ratliff acknowledged that until 2006, the government "frequently paid EAJA fees in social security cases directly to attorneys"; however, since 2006, the government has continued the direct payment practice "only in cases where the plaintiff does not owe a debt to the government and assigns the right to receive the fees to the attorney." Ratliff, 130 S.Ct. at 2528-29 (internal quotation marks omitted). In light of Ratliff, the Court determines that the award of EAJA fees is required to be made to Plaintiff as the prevailing party and that the award shall be in the form of a check payable to Plaintiff, as ...
Two things close to my heart were reported in the Malay Mail today. One is, yet again, on KTMB and second on the match fixing international football. Both really were not news to me or most of us but extend and severity of them that made me sad. Since I am on the train almost everyday the first news was something that I am living with everyday. The service was really a disservice most of the time. I thought after the nice experience during the first few weeks of Ramadan things were improving but I was brought back to the ground by the incidences since then. I honestly believe now KTMB do not have the capacity to improve at all. They could put the blame on anybody or everybody but the fact is their service is stink. I deduce that there are only two types of commuters on the train with me everyday. The first are those who do not have any choice and second those who really love the train no matter what. Probably now I am in between.
Well I pushed through and got the rest of the pillows done. I added a little button detail to a couple of them. the blue pillow in the center is the one that will get the granny squares added around it's middle once I get them done. I st ll have to do something with the seat cover, but I'm happy for now. I don't sew a lot and am determined to do more this year, so that I can get comfortable with sewing on my machine. It seems that no matter how many times I measure I still make mistakes, but with these pillows it was easy to add if I cut too short or put in a tuck if I cut too long. I only ripped out one seam when I attached the fabric on the wrong side. Anyway I'm glad they are done and now my next project is another apron for one of my gd's.
This year’s MCM event in London featured several game companies, all showing off their major new and upcoming releases. We didn’t get time to try everything out, but here’s a look at some of the games that stood out during the weekend. At the NIS America Booth - Rodea the Sky Soldier At the NISA booth, we had the chance to try out the upcoming release from NIS America, Rodea the Sky Solider, before its European & American release later this year. Developed by Prope and designed by Yuji Naka, the former head of Sonic Team, many saw Rodea as a ‘spiritual successor’ to NiGHTS into dreams considering the game’s focus on flying and the designer’s pedigree. I started with the Wii U version, which had been one of the two versions of the game on display at the time (the other being the 3DS version). Along the game’s delayed development, it was ported to the Wii U before its Japanese release early this year, even though it was originally developed for the Wii. Unfortunately, it seems that this porting may have allowed for higher resolutions on the Wii U, it appears to still be using lower quality textures and models for what you would generally expect for a Wii U game. The controls at first seemed a bit stiff, as you can only fly in a straight line, or move slightly in an arc, rather than being able to fly around freely, as you might expect. To naviagte the levels and obstacles takes a bit of getting used to, and I found myself having to stop moving in order to line up my path correctly before flying in a particular direction. - Danganronpa: Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls One of the other games on show from NISA was the latest installment in the popular Danganronpa series, Danganronpa: Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls for the PS Vita. Unlike the last two games in the series, which were primarily visual novel based games, this spin off is mainly a third person shooter, where you play as Komaru, the sister of Matoko (the protagonist in Danganronpa 1 & 2). The demo that was on show was in japanese, so I didn’t really get to understand much of the dialog or story events that happened, but the main gist of the game is that you’re in a city which has been overrun with robot Monokumas attacking everyone. Komaru has her ‘hacking gun’ (which looks a lot like a modified megaphone) that she can use to take aim and subdue the monokuma enemies. At the Rice Digital / PQube booth With not long to go before Stein’s;Gate comes to PS3 and Vita in the UK, the Rice Digital booth had a dedicated section opposite their main store area, where you could try out the game before its release. At the Deep Silver Booth - Mighty No.9 Announced to be partering with Deep Silver back in April, Mighty Number 9 from Keiji Inafune, Comcept and Inti Creates made a somewhat suprising appearance as part of Deep Silver’s booth, nestled between Saint’s Row: Gat out of Hell and Farming Simulator. The version of the game they had on show was quite similar to the beta demo that had been supplied to some backers of the original kickstarter campaign.
good thing i know about the sales then... anthropologie had huge sales on apparel and home accessories when i stopped in last week, and i walked out with four new pieces. this could have been dangerous, but some of the sale prices were almost 80 percent off, so i walked out with only $127 in purchases. with the sale still going on, here's a sample of what you can find: edme & esyllte cafe awning skirt: marked down from $88 to $39.95. this striped linen skirt is perfect to dress up a day at work in sunny south florida. daughters of the liberation jeans: marked down from $88 to $19.95. i have no idea why these light chocolate and bluish-grey jeans were marked down so much. designer jeans never seem to fit me since i don't have model-length legs, but these low-cut jeans have a great fit and are so light, soft & summery that i can stand to wear them in even in the heat. elevenses seersucker cropped jacket: marked down from $128 to $39.95. i think this may have been my best purchase. i love the sailor-style collar and it works with my new jeans and shimmery sandals for a beachy night at the square grouper, or with a white pencil skirt and navy pumps while working in the summer. after hearing about my fab finds, my mom and sister rushed out too. my mom bought an embroidered coral tank for $29.95 and my sister really made out with her ashy navy & lace top by velvet for $19.95, and a super-girly striped apron at half-off for only $14.95. she even had the chance to model it for me tonight...yum! make sure you stop by before the goods are gone! and while you're there, check out the new summer dresses - so cute you won't mind paying full price.
Ferro Corp. has adjusted its financial guidance and says it now expects a loss of approximately $0.14 to $0.17 per share related to its solar pastes business. The change in guidance is primarily the result of deterioration in the company's forecast for its solar pastes and metal powders businesses, as well as other factors. ‘The market for conductive pastes used in the manufacture of solar cells has been particularly challenging for much of 2011 and 2012 as the solar industry struggles with overcapacity and rapidly falling prices for solar power panels,’ explains James Kirsch, president, chairman and CEO of Ferro. ‘While we have made some progress in our efforts to develop new customers, the pace at which we have been able to achieve new product qualifications at the larger solar cell manufacturers has been insufficient to generate the sales volume needed to contribute adequate value to our shareholders,’ he continues. ‘We are now exploring strategic options for our solar pastes business in an effort to eliminate its drag on our earnings and cashflow,’ Kirsch adds.
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Supporters of UKIP gathered at the Cross Roads Hotel in Weedon on Saturday to mark the launch of the election campaign of its Daventry branch. The event was attended by several councillors affiliated with the party, as well as branch chairman Peter Conquest and prospective parliamentary Daventry candidate Michael Gerard. Ian Dexter, who made headlines last year with his strategy for winning over Labour voters for the party, was also present. Mr Gerard said: “It is a privilege to be standing as UKIP’s candidate for Daventry, and for a party that has common sense politics at its heart and allows me to put local interests before party loyalty. “MPs in every other main party can only ever ‘toe the party line’ yet any elected UKIP MP will be able to vote truly with his constituents’ interests in mind.” Mr Conquest underlined the party’s main policies, which include exiting the European Union, reducing overseas aid and scrapping HS2. He said: “[We] are Britain’s party of hope. Other parties can only offer more cuts, more austerity. Cllr Adam Collyer added: “It was great to see our campaign get off to such a flying start. Finally the Tories have some real opposition in Daventry!”. Ian Dexter added: “Michael Gerard makes a strong appeal to all voters – the country desperately needs change and a realistic alternative to the old failed parties.” Other speakers included Cllr Sean Connors and Northamptonshire South parliamentary candidate, Tim Wilson. Campaigning began in earnest two weeks ago and a second awareness stall is due to be held on Saturday, March 21 in Daventry. Mr Gerard will be standing for parliament against confirmed candidates Abigail Campbell (Labour), Chris Heaton Harris (Conservative) and Steve Whiffen (Greens).
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BETHESDA, Md., May 10, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Paul Ryan's Wisconsin congressional seat is now in play. Washington, D.C. law professor Victor Williams informs on the outcome if he even hedges on his January pledge to endorse Donald Trump. In response to a direct question from the Today Show's Matt Lauer, on January 13, asking if the Speaker would support Donald Trump as the GOP nominee, Ryan solemnly pledged: "Yes, I will. I'll support whoever our nominee is." Ryan deliberately "blindsided" our party's presumptive nominee with his recent reluctance. "Paul Davis Ryan can be easily replaced – as the Cleveland Convention ceremonial chair and as Wisconsin's first district congressman," Williams asserted. Contrast Paul Ryan's Reluctance with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's Immediate Endorsement. Chris Christie is the Model of a Loyal 2016 Republican. "Where is Speaker Ryan's honor? Does a solemn, public pledge mean nothing? And what about honoring the millions of Republican voters, in state after state, who chose Trump? Williams contrasts Paul Ryan's reluctance with the honorable conduct of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. As a former competitor, Christie not only immediately endorsed Trump but then actively campaigned for him. Now Governor Christie has stepped-up to the arduous task of serving as Team Trump's Transition Chair. "Chris Christie is the model 2016 Republican," Williams said. Williams Remains Trump's Last GOP Competitor to Resolve the New Jersey Cruz Ballot Eligibility Litigation. But Williams is Already Planning a HUGE Trump Endorsement. Victor Williams is the law professor who launched an anti-Cruz "write-in" campaign for the nomination establishing "competitor candidate standing" to legally challenge the Canadian-born Ted Cruz's ballot eligibility. Williams is playing out the resulting litigation (Williams v. Cruz) in a New Jersey appellate court in attempt to bring final resolution to the "natural born Citizen" controversy, and to remind that the Vice-President nominee must also be eligible. Thus Victor Williams -- an early Trump supporter -- will remain a formal, legal candidate during the litigation's progress. Even as Trump's last GOP competitor, however, Williams is actively planning how best to celebrate his own formal endorsement of the presumptive nominee. Paul Ryan Should Remember Eric Cantor Ryan needs a loud wake-up call before Thursday. On May 7, Williams endorsed the Wisconsin representative's primary opponent Paul Nehlen. The law professor has stopped accepting donations for his own presidential campaign, as it winds down, and has instead asked his supporters to contribute to the Nehlen campaign. William Kristol, the Weekly Standard, and the National Review Could Help Ryan Move Back to Wisconsin. Anyway, the Busted, Irrelevant Journals Need a New Business Plan: "3 Ideologues and a Truck." Professor Williams' campaign website counsels on the outcome if the Speaker fails to fully and unequivocally endorse Trump during the planned Thursday meeting. It bears note that Donald Trump won Ryan's hometown of Janesville. No surprise as Donald Trump in on track to win the largest total of presidential primary votes in the history of Abraham Lincoln's Grand Old Party. Victor Williams is a Washington, D.C. attorney, long-time law professor, and prolific scholar and 2014 founder of www.disruptivejustice.org. Professor Victor Williams To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ryan----endorse-trump-on-thursday-says-professor-victor-williams-300265773.html SOURCE Professor Victor Williams
A program that helps with the cost of transportation has received a boost from the Red Deer and District Community Foundation. Jean Stinson, president of the Red Deer Action Group Society, said Tuesday that the $3,380 grant helps run the Subsidy Ride Program, and will help low-income and other disadvantaged people. Currently in its ninth year, the program is a transportation cost reimbursement program for low income residents of Red Deer and surrounding areas. Anyone wishing to apply to the program need only submit proof of income and travel receipts (bus passes/tickets, taxi or gas) to receive 25 per cent reimbursement up to $150 in a calendar year. Receipts are accepted for travel anywhere in Alberta. The income ceiling is $24,000 per year for a single individual. Stinson said use of the program is steady, and there are a variety of clients, such as people on AISH, seniors, people in transition, and even some people who have no income or “people who fall through the cracks,” Stinson said. “It makes a big difference when you don’t have any money.” The subsidy helps some people for example who might have to leave the city and use Greyhound or Red Arrow for a medical appointment in Calgary or Edmonton. It also helps those who use taxis or Transit to get around the city, to college for example or even a social event. The Red Deer Action Group Society fundraises for the Subsidy Ride Program. The budget runs between $5,000 and $10,000 annually, Stinson said. The society is located at 202 4805 48 St. in Red Deer. The Red Deer and District Community Foundation, which is locally governed and privately funded, is the only local charity focused on creating and building permanent endowments that serve the Central Alberta community. It caters to all sectors from arts and culture to the environment, seniors, community development and education.
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1. Non-final decisions. Should I ever find myself deified and empowered to pass judgement from high atop Olympus, the cardinal sin that would earn my condemnation would be indecisiveness. If you’ve got the charter to lead, then by God, lead. Make a decision. Do something. Or just keep deferring any kind of actual decision until the diminishing number of hours available in which to act precludes all but one possible course of action. 2. Partisan politics. When Party A goes to the wall screaming about what Party B is doing, I mostly tune it out. I know my mind and no amount of rending of Congressional garments for the cameras will change that. When Party A spends the day screaming about something that Party B is doing and it’s exactly the kind of procedural jackassery Party A did when they were in the majority, well lord, I don’t know why anyone would ever think we could have a functioning legislative branch. I’m sick to death of politicians and people in general who only find something objectionable when it’s done by someone else, but perfectly fine when they do it. 3. Lack of marketable skills. My particular skill set is pretty closely tailored to work on the inside. There just is’t a lot of call for someone who can slam together a 150 slide powerpoint briefing, plan a party for 55 of your closest friends without breaking federal law, or estimate how much ice or water you might need after a hurricane (and know how to order and ship it). I’ve been on the inside so long now I wouldn’t even know how to apply for a gig outside. Of course there’s too much now tied up in retirement and benefits to really consider a wholesale change – especially when the jobs that sound even remotely interesting would lead directly from professional bliss to personal bankruptcy. I’m feeling just a little bit trapped and that makes me fantastically edgy. 1. “Emergencies”. We’ve been over this before, but it bears repeating. The way people throw around the work “emergency” in the contemporary office is basically laughable. No one is bleeding. No one is about to start bleeding. The word you’re probably looking for most often is “embarrassing” as in you’re about to be embarrassed due to something you did, were supposed to do, forgot about doing. Alternately, you might be about to get blasted because of poor decision making skills. In any case, those things might represent a legitimate personal emergency to you, but to the rest of us it’s really just a shrug and a so what. Let’s try to leave the talk of “emergencies” to the times when there really are barbarians at the gate or brass hitting the floor, ok? 2. County taxes. The proposed Cecil County budget for FY18 includes increases in both the real property and income taxes. It’s made all the more noxious because it was proposed by a Republican county executive who ran less than a year ago on a platform of fiscal accountability and no tax increases. I know, lying politician isn’t exactly breaking news. Still, though, I’m left to wonder why at some point it isn’t perfectly acceptable to say that we have X number of dollars to spend against Y number of services and when there’s no additional revenue for new or existing services, some things need to be cut. The politicians first response is always to borrow or tax their way into all the revenue they need instead of being required to live by an actual budget in which they can’t always purchase all the goods and services they’d like to have. In the end the bastards always end up with their hand just a little deeper in our pocket. I suppose that’s just what you get when every level of government desperately wants to buy the love and affection of the voters and seeks ways to be all things to all people. 3. Keeping my head in the game. I’m probably expending at least as much energy just trying to keep my head in the game as I am actually doing any productive work. That doesn’t feel like something that’s going to be sustainable over the long term. It’s easier some days than others, but for the most part by the time mid-afternoon rolls around I’m dumping every bit of available effort into just staying awake and some delusory productive activities. Believe me when I tell you that you don’t want to read some of the written products that fly off my desk after 2PM. Unless I absolutely can’t avoid it, I hold them as drafts and then clean them up the next morning when I’m still relatively fresh. It’s a hell of a way to run a railroad. You could fill an entire sheet of paper with what annoys Jeff this week. I know this because I have just such a piece of paper in front of me while I’m typing this. Look at any three lines on that page and you’ll find three things that sent my blood pressure soaring into new and probably dangerous heights. The state of my cardio-vascular system, though, isn’t the point. Instead of reading you the full list this week, I’ll offer commentary on just one – the one that is the most troubling, and pernicious. As Spiderman tells us, with great power comes great responsibility. That’s true enough, but what Spidey almost never talks directly about is how frequently people with that power abrogate their responsibility. When that happens you have power making decisions based on optics rather than effectiveness… and once you have people more worried about how something looks in the photo op than how well it works in reality, you’ve lost any shred of credibility. Sure, you have the power to make those decisions. No one is going to stop you. They may not say anything, because everyone is terrified of telling truth to power, but they’ll judge you for it for the rest of your days. Sure, you can make people do stupid things, you can make them smile and take it, but you can never, ever make them like you or respect you as a human being. The One Network that Rules Them All. When I got back to the office on Monday my computer didn’t work. Well, it worked, but the network didn’t. After 30 hours we stretched a Ethernet cable halfway to Baltimore so I could at least check email, but so far the official response has been “we have a help ticket in.” If you want an employee to be productive it feels like the minimum they should do is make sure you have basic office equipment that works. But alas, that seems to be a bridge too far. National security. Apparently the cell phone storage area at the office presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States. The solution to this was to move the unlocked cabinet that contains 20-30 personally owned cell phones at any given time out into an open hallway. Perhaps we have served national security, but it feels like all we’ve really done is encourage property theft in the process. Call me crazy, but leaving an $800 phone unsecured in a building where people steal pie from the fridge feels just a little bit stupid. Net result, instead of being able to check my phone periodically during the day when I’m on my way to to meetings or go take a whiz, I’ll now be adopting a smoker’s schedule and schlepping out to my car once an hour. If only there were an easier way to be compliant and not try to pretend your employees live in 1983. Sigh. Blaming others for bad personal decisions. Two douchebags were cornered in a cheap motel room by the police earlier this week in my adopted home town. Then they decided that being on the run from felony charges in another state wasn’t the only bad decision they wanted to make. One after another they raised their very realistic looking BB guns and very quickly paid the price for that level of stupidity. There are a couple of lessons here: 1) If you’re planning on making a last stand, try to have something with a bit more kick than a kid’s toy and 2) If you’re wanted on a felony warrant and the tactical unit shows up, all of your options from that point forward are bad for you… but some are worse than others. Now to the people who say it should have been ended peacefully, that they should have starved them out, all I can say that the only people to blame for these deaths are the ones that ended up getting killed. They committed a violent crime, they fled the jurisdiction, and when the police caught up with them they threatened the officers. I’m sure they were someone’s son and daughter, after all someone loves even the most useless of human beings, but as for me, well, sometimes I think it’s nice when the gene pool cleans itself a bit. When you’re sitting in a meeting with the great, good, and mighty, and one of them asks “Who approved that,” the correct answer is never “I did.” It results in a collection of blank stares, curled lips, angsty glances, and general twitchiness among the host assembled. Yes, Virginia, I had the audacity to make a decision or two all on my own. I do it more often than they want to know, because it’s the only possible way to keep everything anywhere even close to on schedule. If we want to fall into the mode where the shading and font of every slide needs executive approval, you might as well fire my ass right now. Some decisions need made on the spot and unless someone directs me not to, I’m going to make them. I’m going to do it not so much based on any written authority, but based on the fact that I’ve got half a damned brain in my head and I’m reasonably good at what I do. If you feel that I need that kind of hand holding at every decision point, I’m serious, you really should replace me with someone more competent. Look, I’m not vetoing bills and sending them back to the Hill. I’m not negotiating treaties with hostile powers. I’m not offering to cut entire weapons systems out of our portfolio. I’m deciding what slide template looks best when projected on a 50-foot screen and how many reserved seats we’re going to need. It’s the operative definition of nug work. It’s the sort of thing that should be well below the notice of those wielding profound executive authority. I didn’t want to be the point man on this team, but someone gave me a task and told me to get it done. I’ll do exactly that, but it would be one hell of a lot easier if we could stop tripping all over ourselves. Believe me when I say if I hit a snag, or when the decisions needed are truly above my pay grade, I’ll be the very first to go screaming for help. I’m not a decider. At one time, when I was young and ambitious, I thought that’s what I wanted. It was the career goal I chased for a while. In my analysis of the game, though, the return on investment just didn’t make it worth the effort. What can I say, I like it when my phone doesn’t ring at 7PM on a Friday because someone, somewhere did something stupid. The problems start when someone at echelons higher than reality decides that because they have my phone number, I should be empowered to speak on behalf of the entire organization. While it’s flattering for someone to think I have that kind of power and influence, a quick reality check will show that my parameters wherein independent thought is authorized are fairly limited. More importantly, I respect those boundaries – largely because by keeping myself between them I can generally avoid having my ass handed to me. Once on the other side of them, however, it’s only a few slippery steps to getting yourself pummeled. I’m happy to take you call. I’ll do my best to explain the official position of the organization. If you disagree I’m more than pleased to pass your concern on upwards through the chain of command. Eventually it will arrive in the office of someone who is empowered to make a decision. I’m not saying they will and if they do I’m in no way guaranteeing that it will be the decision you wanted. It’s important to note, however that I’m not now nor will I ever be that person… and I’m more than ok with that. I have a very simple rule here at Fortress Jeff: When bad things happen as a result of piss poor decision making, the buck stops with me. I get the credit for the good stuff so it’s only fair that I take the blame when my decisions go awry. When I was 20 years old and walked into the cave-like bar in the basement of the Hotel Gunter, I knew damned well and good I was under the legal drinking age. I also knew they’d serve me. When the local constabulary arrived asking to see everyone’s papers, I wasn’t the victim of a totalitarian police state. I was the victim of being a stupid 20 year old making my own bad decisions. Four years later, when my beloved Jeep was broken into. The slash and grab cost me a few hundred dollars of CDs and an ashtray full of change. Yes, I blame the criminal for breaking into a locked vehicle, but I share the burden of blame because I left an easy target sitting in plain sight. If there hadn’t been something of obvious value in clear view I wonder if he’d have passed on to the next target of opportunity. If nothing else, social media has shown me that we live in a world where people think we should just all love one another and there are butterflies and peppermint sticks at every turn. The reality is that we live in a world where bad things happen and where there are natural consequences that accompany every action. When you play stupid games, there’s a strong probability that you will win stupid prizes. No amount of wishing it different will change that. I’m not here to shame any victims or absolve the fault of any criminals, but I am here to say that we’re all responsible for our own behaviors and actions. Bad things happen to good people all the time. The very best thing we can do as individuals is to understand the important relationship between action and consequence and the do our best to mitigate our personal risk factors. One awfully easy way of reducing the number of bad things that could happen to you is to give it some thought before you walk down a dark alley alone, or leave your computer laying on the back seat of your car, or drink until you’re blind drunk. People with bad intentions are out there already and they may do horrible things anyway, but it damned well doesn’t mean we should make ourselves an easy mark because we think we’ll be untouched by other people’s bad decisions and immune to the consequences of our own.
Just like the Catholic Church, academia asks PhD students to present themselves for confirmation after a certain amount of membership time has passed. Unlike the Catholics, academics don’t do the smells and bells thing, or demand that you take on a new name. Instead, after about a year of Research Degree study, you will be asked to show that you have ‘the right stuff’ to continue in your studies. Confirmation can take various forms depending on your discipline and university rules. It might be called ‘program approval’ – or some other obscure managerial name, but it’s a significant milestone anyway. Some students will have to write a substantial piece of the literature review and a thorough outline of methods; others will have pilot studies or artifacts to present. Despite these differences, most students will have to do some sort of public presentation after which they will be judged by a panel of academics as good enough to continue – or not. It’s at this point, in the Australian system at least, that you can be asked to leave – or be downgraded to Masters, so it’s not the easiest time for many students. @thetokenlefty (who is doing confirmation one week from now) summed up the feeling perfectly this week when he told me that he is ‘shitting bricks’ at the thought of it. So I thought I would write this top five for him – and any others who have yet to pass through the confirmation process. 1) It’s about the questions (except when it isn’t) A confirmation presentation is basically a chance for you to demonstrate you have research questions and have some idea of how you might answer them. You probably have more than one question – that’s ok, but try, if you can, to know your ‘hierarchy of concerns’. What is the most important question to answer? Do your questions depend on each other, ie: is there one that has to be answered before the others? For a minority of students, such as those in creative arts and design, the questions are not really known in advance. In project based disciplines research questions tend to arise out of and follow the work. Your job is to show that this process is happening – probably by talking through some of the preliminary work you have done and what questions it has raised so far. Instead of demonstrating a hierarchy of concern you could talk about the fruitful directions you intend to continue to explore 2) Show the audience why the research is interesting Constructing good research questions is a subtle art, so the academics wont be expecting the questions to be phrased perfectly. However your questions should be should be big enough and complex enough that a thesis is the ‘answer’. Spend your time convincing the audience that the questions you have are interesting and worth asking – and that you are the right person to answer them. For the creative project based types the emphasis will be on demonstrating reflection on the practice and what it means, not just a recitation of what you have done. 3) Skip lightly through the literature The temptation at this moment is to retreat into showing the ‘teacher’ (your panel) that you have been a good student by telling them everything you have read over the last year. Let’s face it – this is going to be pretty boring for everyone. What the academics will be looking for is how well you use the literature – not whether you have a complete collection of it. Think of yourself as a curator – not an archivist. The panel will want to know: 1) can you identify ‘good’ from ‘mediocre’ work and 2) can you talk about it properly. Focus on the key writers, practitioners or studies and know this material well – mention the rest during question time if it comes up. This way you appear effortlessly erudite rather than anxious and defensive. 4) Ask for help At the same time that you need to present a ‘doable’ project with interesting questions and good reasons for carrying it out, too much confidence can be your undoing. It’s natural at this stage to have gaps and unknown areas. Some academics might take an overly confident presentation as a sign that you have failed to see these gaps and will get worried. Or they might just think you are a young whipper snapper who needs to be taken down a peg or two. Either way you need to reassure them that you are thinking deeply, so throw them a bone. As you go through your work, highlight one or two areas you are unsure about and ask for help and ideas. 5) Keep calm and carry on Remember that the academics sitting on your panel have done a PhD too. They are not expecting a finished piece of research – just promising beginnings. Best of luck @tokenlefty – but you wont need it! Anyone else got advice on confirmation they would like to share?
HARTFORD — What started as a dog bite case ended up with Hartford police taking several items of evidence of suspected methamphetamine production. Police responded to an address in the 100 block of Second Street, the scene of a reported dog bite, but while there, an officer noted a pickup truck outside a residence. Inside the truck, the officer found lithium batteries, a bag containing suspected methamphetamine, and 10 hypodermic syringes, along with a piece of mail addressed to the resident of the home where the truck was parked. Police spotted the items in the truck on Tuesday. They obtained a search warrant Wednesday for the house. Inside the house, police found loose aluminum foil, a roll of air line tubing, a digital scale, lighter fuel, a bag of residue of suspected pseudoephedrine, coffee filters, syringes, pipes and samples of two liquids in two containers. The resident of the home, Kevin S. Tindall, 53, was arrested on an outstanding warrant for retail theft. No charges have been filed in connection with the suspected drug manufacturing. Information on the dog bite case was not available.
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Sarah K. Kirchberger is an assistant professor of Sinology at the Asia-Africa-Institute (AAI), University of Hamburg, Germany. After studying Sinology, Political Science and Archaeology at Hamburg, Taipei and Trier as a scholar of the German National Academic Foundation (1994-2003), she received a PhD in Sinology in 2004. During 2007 to 2010, Kirchberger served as an analyst with naval shipbuilder Blohm + Voss where she was charged with observing naval developments around the world, working in close cooperation with technical and military experts. Originally a specialist in Chinese domestic politics and comparative government, her first monograph was an analysis of informal rules in Chinese and Taiwanese politics (in German, 2004). She has published various book chapters and articles on topics such as China’s political system, CCP party history, Chinese domestic politics, foreign policy, and naval modernization. Sarah Kirchberger’s recent book Assessing China’s Naval Power: Technological Innovation, Economic Constraints, and Strategic Implications (Springer, Berlin & Heidelberg 2015, 318pp. ISBN 978-3-662-47126-5) combines the perspective of practical work experience in the naval shipbuilding industry with academic research in the fields of Modern China Studies and Asia Pacific Security Studies. It analyses China’s quest for naval power comparatively from a wide variety of angles and includes an in-depth analysis of China’s current naval capability profile.
New excavation of Soviet graves in Estonia to come? Russia has sent a request to Estonia to provide all materials of the recent excavation, including video evidence, as the remains of one soldier were reportedly not found. The Estonian Defence Ministry has ruled out the possibility of finding more remains. The Ministry's spokesman said there must have been confusion at the time of burial due to the war. The monument was dismantled in late April and moved to a military cemetery in the suburbs of the Estonian capital. This caused mass riots in Tallinn and some other Estonian cities.
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Soil Morphology – Judging The field observable attributes of the soil within the various soil horizons and the description of the kind and arrangement of the horizons.[cite num=”1″] Students of Agronomy, Soils, and Environmental Sciences (SASES) is the undergraduate student program of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). Participation in the SASES National Soil Judging Contest (USA) requires qualification at the Regional level. Region IV (Arkansas, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma) Collegiate Soil Judging is an experiential event to practice application and develop skills associated with scholarly learning. - Horizons and Layers - Boundary Distinctness - Clay Percentage and Textural Class - Coarse Fragments - Redoximorphic Features - Hydraulic Conductivity - Effective Soil Depth - Water Retention Difference - Soil Wetness Class Back to Soils - Buol, S. W., Southard, R. J., Graham, R. C., & McDaniel, P. A. (2003). Soil Genesis and Classification, 6th Edition. Ames Iowa: Iowa State Press, A Blackwell Pub. Co. p. 494. ISBN 9780813807690.
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson Ouch. I can relate to the time and expense aspects. And then there's the pain. Lots and lots of pain. The upside: world-class drugs. The difficulty for me: I can't take the world-class drugs. I'd make a lousy junkie, apparently; all opiate-derived meds nauseate me.So I take ibuprofen and use a lot of ice. And I swear a lot. I have the same problem with opiates. Apparently it's an allergy. Try the synthetics (Tramadol?), and warn any anesthesiologists - some of the drugs they use have similar makeup and can cause major nausea after surgery.If they're really good, they'll throw an anti-emetic patch on your neck before putting you under. Make sure they do if you're prone to motion sickness, as studies have been done that show positive effects on post-surgery nausea in motion-sickness-prone patients when anti-emetics are applied before anesthesia. Kathleen, I missed this comment earlier somehow - that is good info. Thanks. Post a Comment
SUPER GALA CONCERTCharles Gounod: FAUST, opera concert performance Gounod’s Faust, opera based on the legend of the man who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, is the first integral opera that Ville Matvejeff together with the Opera orchestra of the Ivan pl. Zajc Croatian National Theatre records for the Real Sound and the Universal Music, the world-known discography brand. Following the recording, we will be able to see the performance of Faust with the top-class soloists. The international soloist cast, such as has not been seen on the Rijeka Opera posters before, features baritone Lucio Gallo, bass Carlo Colombara, tenor Aljaž Farasin, mezzo sopranos Diana Haller and Ivana Srbljan, as well as soprano Marjukka Tepponen, who thrilled the Rijeka audience as a sensational Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, proclaimed by votes of the public as the best performance of the season. Opera Orchestra and Chorus of the Ivan pl. Zajc Croatian National Theatre Partner of the project
a. On 10 February 2010, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Board accepted Iraq as an EITI Candidate country. The first EITI report was published in December 2011. On 12 December 2012, Iraq was announced as an EITI compliant country. b. As part of the continuous implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Iraq, reconciliation would need to include the following: – revenues and payments reported by Iraqi governmental entities, international crude oil buying companies, and international oil field developing extractive companies operating in Central and Southern Iraq (excluding KRG) – oil production and oil export quantities reported by Iraqi governmental entities, national and international oil companies operating in Central and Southern Iraq (excluding KRG), in addition to third party verification companies – oil and gas quantities for local consumption reported by Iraqi governmental entities, national gas companies, national oil companies, electricity generation directorates and refineries – mining production quantities reported by Iraqi governmental entities and national mining companies – Net revenue from sale of oil products to the local market as reported by Ministry of Finance and Oil Products Distribution Company. c. This report summarizes the results of these reconciliation processes, in addition to, information pertaining to the Oil and Gas Sector and the Extractive Industries in Iraq. It does not include reconciliation of data related to the extractive industries (including oil & gas) in Kurdistan Region. This data was requested from the Kurdistan Regional Government but it was not provided, however, IEITI Stakeholder Council has requested the inclusion of information about the extractive industry in KRG based on publicly available information. Chapter 6 of the report was dedicated for that purpose and all information included in that chapter was based on information obtained through searches made on public websites and resources with references included as footnotes. Accordingly, the information included in that chapter were not subject to the data collection and reconciliation processes adopted for purposes of this report. IEITI Stakeholder Council assumes no responsibility for the information contained in Chapter 6. d. The report covers Iraq’s crude oil export sales as reported by Iraqi Oil Marketing Company (SOMO), which formed most of Iraq’s federal budget and foreign exchange earnings for 2013. It covers as well all payments made and revenues received with regard to crude oil exports during the financial year 2013, which amounted to USD 80 billion, and had resulted from crude oil sales to 42 international crude oil buyers. In addition, the report covers the reconciliation of the internal service payments made by the Government of Iraq as reported by the national oil companies and the Ministry of Oil. e. Oil and gas production and the related cost recovery, signature bonuses, remuneration fees and corporate taxes were also covered in this report for year 2013. Total crude oil production during 2013 amounted to 1,087.5million barrels produced from all operating oil fields in Iraq except for the Kurdistan Region as we were not provided with the required information by KRG. Exported crude oil quantities amounted to 872.6 million barrel and crude oil quantities supplied to refineries and electricity generation directorates amounted to 219 million barrel and 33.8 million barrel respectively. f. According to OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) 2015 Annual Statistical Bulletin and Ministry of Planning, Crude Oil Export Sales represents 37.7% of GDP (market prices) for year 2014, with a proven crude oil reserves of 143,069 million barrel, ranked third in the world. g. Based on the U.S. Energy Information Administration – Country Analysis Brief of Iraq, The Iraqi government has set ambitious oil production targets. The government is currently renegotiating field production targets set in Technical Service Contracts (TSCs) previously signed with international oil companies (IOCs). Based on some of the target revisions that have already been announced, the Energy Intelligence Group estimates that Iraq is now aiming for crude oil output of 7.0 million barrel per day by 2020, yet this target had been amended several times and being negotiated as to the date of this report h. The Ministry of Oil in Baghdad oversees oil and natural gas development and production in all but the Kurdish territory through its operating entities, the North Oil Company (NOC) and the Midland Oil Company (MDOC) in the north and central regions, and the South Oil Company (SOC) and the Missan Oil Company (MOC) in southern regions. In the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, the KRG, with its Ministry of Natural Resources, oversees oil and gas development and production. International oil companies (IOCs) are very active in Iraq, including the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. IOCs operate under technical service contracts (TSCs) in Iraq, which are signed with the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad, and under production-sharing agreements (PSAs) in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region signed with the KRG. i. Reconciliation of net revenue from sale of oil products to the local market was performed between the amounts reported by the Ministry of Finance and the Oil Products Distribution Company. j. Reconciliation differences disclosed in this report are mainly attributed to timing differences in recording transactions by the different entities. In addition, some of these differences are attributed to adopting a cash basis of accounting instead of accrual basis of accounting. k. The Stakeholder Counsel of the Iraqi Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (IEITI) has reviewed and provided a commentary regarding the draft report of year 2013. On 10 December 2015, the Stakeholder Counsel held a meeting during which the draft report was presented, discussed and approved. l. The table below shows a total difference of USD 1,849 million between the data as reported by SOMO and the buyers. This difference represents the total summation of several differences between buyers and SOMO. These differences were explained during the course of the reconciliation process. Please refer to section 3.6 for further details. Amount Reported by SOMO Amount: USD 80,803,522,851 Reported by Buyers: USD 78,954,497,408 Differences explained Without reporting from counterparty: USD 1,849,025,443.67 To continue reading please download the whole report as PDF file
Our Family Staycation at F1 Hotel Manila in BGC F1 Hotel Manila or formerly known as Best Western Premier F1 accommodated me and my family for an overnight stay last weekend. It was our first time here. We didn’t have a hard time getting to the hotel from Cavite because it’s location is just within The Fort and I am quite familiar with the place. F1 Hotel Manila Mother’s Day Promo This coming Mother’s Day, F1 Hotel Manila offers an exciting promo exclusively for all the moms. For once, let’s make this special day memorable and stress free for the special woman in our lives. They deserve to be given proper care and attention just like they did to us when we were in their womb up until we become older and have a family of our own. This coming May 12, 2013, F1 Hotel Manila shall be providing “Freebies for Mommies” where moms can get the following freebies: - Free Buffet Lunch or Dinner: When moms dine at F All Day Dining Restaurant with four (4) more paying companions based on published rate, moms are entitled to eat for free. For those who are planning to have lunch, this will be a great way to start mommy’s special day and for those who opt for dinner, then you will end her momentous night with a blast. - Free Manicure or Pedicure: In partnership with Fame Salon, F1 Hotel Manila’s in-house beauty hub will be giving mothers a free manicure or pedicure service making moms more vibrant and colorful on her special day. Moms will simply present their claim stubs to the said salon located at the 2nd floor of the hotel to avail their selected service. - Free Massage: Moms will be given a SPA voucher which entitles her for a 1 hour in room Shiatsu and Swedish massage which she can use when she is booked at F1 Hotel Manila. Mommies can still get pampered from the first hotel at the Fort even if Mother’s Day is already over as the voucher is valid for three (3) months. In regards to this promo, me and my family had the chance to experience what it feels like to be in this hotel last weekend like what I have said earlier. We were given a Fort Suite room to stay. The rate per night of this room is Php 8,820.00 and has a maximum capacity of 2 Adults and 2 Kids. The rate is inclusive of breakfast, applicable taxes and service charge. The room is around 42 to 43sqm, and so far, this is the largest room that my family and I have ever stayed among the hotels that we have spent the evening through. The room has an electronic “Don’t Disturb” and “Make-Up” button. You also need the magnetic card to use the elevator and open the room, which is one of the safety features of the hotel. Our room has 2 air-conditioning units (1 at the Living Room and 1 at the Bedroom). It also has 2 cable ready LCD TV which makes me and my son watch our favorite TV stations at the same time. My husband and I was thrilled to see that they have a broadband internet connection. Also, both of us liked the long office table. We tried the speedtest with the internet connection and we were happy that it was fast. The room also has 3 cabinets for clothes, where my son and I can fit in perfectly hahaha. The room also includes stuff like: bathrobe, coffee/tea maker, ,minibar, hair dryer, ironing facilities, safety deposit box, toiletries like shampoo and conditioner, soap, toothbrush and toothpaste, and even lotion. The Fort Suite also has a couch that can be transformed into a bed which was discovered by co-blogger Azrael. Oh Yes, no need to ask for an extra bed. - The Reception area - The Gym - The Spa- They recommended us to try their signature massage. You can choose where to have your massage, it can be done in your own room or in the Spa room at the 3M floor. I chose to do it at their spa room. After my massage, I thought for a name for their signature massage, I call it as the “No Drama let’s get into Business” massage. It is because compared to the last whole body massage that I have tried, this one is a lot better considering that it is even cheaper (for P998). No need for special oils, aroma-therapeutic rooms or soothing sounds, the F1 Hotel’s massage will give you the service that you need. - The F Cafe– we had our lunch and breakfast at this restaurant. It is located on the 3rd floor of the hotel. The area is spacious and I like the set-up of the buffet table.The flow of guests going to the buffet table to their own tables is very smooth. - The Canary Lounge - The 3 Pools LUNCH– The buffet lunch ranges from Filipino, Japanese and Italian foods. There are also various desserts and salads. I loved the Tempura, while my husband enjoyed the various types of makis and also the pizza. The little boy had fresh fruits and carrot cake. From June 1 to June 30, F1 Hotel Manila will showcase different Filipino dishes from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Another exciting promo you shouldn’t miss. DINNER– We had our dinner beside the pool at the Canary Lounge. It was a sumptuous barbeque party! Unfortunately, I didn’t have a decent picture of the foods that we ate because of the smoke from the grilling section. I enjoyed the grilled Liempo which was very tender, the Chicken Barbeque on stick which has soft and juicy meat became my husband’s favorite and my son liked the grilled sausage. Here is another promo, every weekend for the whole month of May, you can enjoy a mouthwatering Barbeque set for lunch and dinner at F1 Hotel. They offer 4 kinds of barbeque sets, you can choose which kind to pig out. BREAKFAST– In every accommodation they offer free breakfast. The breakfast buffet is open as early as 6am up to 10am. I had the chance to see what it’s like as early as 6am since I woke up first before my 2 boys. The food includes some Filipino favorites like Adobo, Beef Tapa, Tortang Talong, scrambled eggs, Daing na Bagus to American breakfast like sausage, bacon, cereals, various breads, waffles and pancakes. They also offer noodle dishes that you can request to be cooked. The coffee was addicting and I actually had 2 cups LOL. I was lucky to be one of the mommy bloggers to be chosen to stay at this Hotel with my family. They have made my Mother’s day extra special and unforgettable. You know how important it is for moms to have a relaxing time once in a while but you also know that we are happier if our family is with us experiencing the good things that life has to offer. The joy that I saw on my son’s face as well as on my husband’s is priceless. Thank you so much F1 Hotel Manila! F1 Hotel Manila is located at 32nd Street, Bonifacio Global City.
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Located in the trendy suburb of Glebe in Sydney is this cool café. It has a sleek, modern interior and is also quite big, with tables by the windows or the side wall. There is also a small courtyard at the back with more tables. The first thing I saw walking into the café was the counter with a big coffee machine. Surrounding it were other coffee related equipment such as filters, which showed how committed to coffee this place was. The barista uses a horn system to notify the serving staff when the coffee was ready, so customers can enjoy their coffee at the right temperature. The staff was very open, friendly and attentive. Their enthusiasm showed their commitment to the customers and their products. They were always smiling I ordered a macchiato. The coffee had nice intense flavours, which were nicely balanced, with a smoky yet fragrant flavours. Jono ordered an avocado shake. He liked this drink, as it was not overly sweet, with a milky flavour from the use of condensed milk in the drink. Porky Pigs Hotteok – Traditional Korean honey jam pancake with bacon, poached egg, spicy guacamole, rocket & mango habanero mayo $15 Jono found the whole dish too sweet – the pancakes were already sweet themselves, the jam filling made them sweeter, and even the mayo was leaning to the sweet side. He thought that maybe he should have used the lime to make it less sweet. The bacon did help in reducing the sweetness somewhat. The poached eggs, though, were perfect. I thought this dish had too much going on. I would have loved to have eaten the pancakes with the jam filling by itself as a sweet snack. It reminded me of Korean red bean pancakes. The addition of bacon added some saltiness to the dish, while the mayo added some spiciness and the lime added a touch of sourness. They actually detracted me from the real star of the dish which should have been the pancakes. Kevin’s Balls – filled with roasted pork belly, tofu, kim chi, sweet potato, encrusted with shin ramyun $10 This dish is named after the owner, and four small balls were served in a small cup. One bite of this dish took me back to high school days, where I would make shin ramen in the middle of the night to keep me sustained as I studied for the HSC. The spiciness of the shin ramen that I remembered were all captured by this dish, and the kim chi added a depth of flavour to this dish. The portion of pork belly in the balls was also very generous. The crunchiness of the outside contrasted well with the soft texture of the pork belly and tofu. Jono thought the dish was well presented, but a little hard to eat. He thought that putting the balls on the plate would have made it easier for people to eat, as the balls tended to fall apart when you put a fork into them. Overall, Brewristas is a neat little café with very innovative food that you would not find in normal cafes. The coffee here is their specialty. Address: 73 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, Sydney Phone: Not available Opening hours: 8am to 2pm, 6pm to 10pm, Mon to Thurs; 8am to 2pm, 6pm to 11pm, Fri; 9am to 11:30p, Sat; 9am to 9pm, Sun Accepts MasterCard and Visa only, not American Express
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António Costa's government accelerated the reimbursements to the institution headed by Lagarde. A currency devaluation of IMF's international currency paid one billion euros of Portugal's 2017 loan. Two plus two don’t always add up to four. And Portugal’s debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a good example of how the logic behind markets can influence math. So lets see: the Portuguese State returned ten billion euros of IMF’s loan in 2017. But the Portuguese debt towards this creditor fell over 11 billion euros last year. Come again? Yes, you read that correctly. In the end of December of 2016, Portugal owed IMF around 17,300 million euros. Meanwhile, it wrote off a total of 10,013 million euros in several tranches performed throughout 2017. Apparently, the country should have reached the end of last year owing around 7,300 million euros to the institution. But no: on December 31 of 2017, Portugal’s debt was just a little over 6,200 million euros. Portugal payed ten billion euros to IMF in 2017 Debt did not just vanish into thin air. But how can we explain this difference in over one billion euros? The justification is actually simple and concerns IMF’s international currency, the Special Drawing Rights (SDR). This currency is calculated based on the five most important world coins: dollar, euro, yen, pound sterling and yuan, each with different degrees of importance. What happened was that the Fund’s coin suffered a sharp depreciation against the euro in 2017 and that significantly decreased the cost of Portugal’s loan to IMF. On December 31 of 2016, each SDR was worth 1.2859 euros. After one year, it devalued to 1,18747, which equals a 7.6% depreciation. All in all, each SDR was ten cents of an euro cheaper — meaning that with one euro, you could buy more SDR. Even so, although the Portuguese debt in SDR did not suffer any fall aside from the one from the early reimbursements made in 2017 of 8,232 million SFR (10,013 million euros) — which is the denomination that matters for calculating the risk premium and also for IMF’s missions to Lisbon –, that amount in euros had the steepest fall according to the SDR depreciation: an extra one billion euros.
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"Hype" may be a bit strong of a word, but basically, all the praise and attention the layout was getting (from here, hi-games, keybr, that DDvorak site, etc.), and how it was supposed to be so much more comfortable and elegant to type on than QWERTY, and how it was superior even to Dvorak, and how it had so many "finger rolls," and heck, even a Slashdot story. This all lead me to believe switching to Colemak was going to be some kind of transcendent experience--that every word would flow sweetly from my fingers like honey and I'd immediately refuse to ever go back to QWERTY because Colemak was just OMG so much better. What I actually experienced was a layout that was better thought-out than QWERTY, but that still had considerable awkwardness about it. Common trigraphs like YOU, THE, AND, AST, ION, and ING were all rather awkward to type. The right pinky finger was hammered (seriously, QWERTY got it wrong by putting A on the left pinky--why compound that by also putting O on the right pinky? We're talking the 3rd and 4th most common letters on the two weakest fingers, here! There's more to keyboard optimization than minimizing same-finger!) Saying one should spend a whole year with something they're unimpressed with after 40 hours sounds like a common trick I've seen employed by fans of certain book, movie, and television series. The argument is, dissenters don't appreciate the series simply because haven't spent as much time with it as the fans have. The end goal is either to dismiss all dissenters (thus increasing the series's positive mindshare), or to get the dissenter to invest as much time into the series as the fan has (thus increasing that series's total mindshare). Most recently, all the tween girls are using this argument with the Twilight series. "Don't judge the series by the first book/movie! You have to read all four books several times to really get it." Yeah, right--let's all go through the motions of being fans of something we're not fans of. eye roll (Incidentally, I tried guitar for a week and was poor at it. People served me up heaping pitchers full of that "you can't know after a week" Kool-aid and I, in my youthful naivete, drank it: I went on to practice it for over a year, often several hours a day. The end result? I could (poorly) play parts of a few songs and a couple of box scales. Technically, I was little better than I was after a week. To this day I'm unable to reliably play the A-E-D-E open chord progression. One week was more than enough to prove to me that I didn't have the fingers/touch/coordination/dexterity/whatever to be any good at the instrument, but I thought maybe the people telling me the grass was blue and the skies were green knew something I didn't. Pfft.) Personally, I think 40 hours is WAY more than enough time to develop a reasonable opinion about something as simple as a keyboard layout, especially one that's only 17 keys different from one you already know! Heck, even a few minutes can tell you a lot. Simply type some example passages as if on the new layout, but still using the old layout. Then, go back and type the character sequences that resulted, using the layout you know. That'll give you a pretty good idea of what the new layout would feel like were you proficient with it. I like to start with the "man from Nantucket" limerick, since it's particularly awkward to type on QWERTY (and that's saying something). Anyway, I'm not trying to rip on Colemak, here; I'm just trying to explain (and defend) my experience with it. I have more respect for the layout than is coming through in this post: If I saw no merit in the layout, I wouldn't be here. (Although, perhaps like vVv, I think the whole ZXCV thing is a bit smoke and mirrors. But then, I grew up old-school, when copy was CTRL+INS, cut was SHIFT+DEL, and paste was SHIFT+INS, and we liked it that way, because we selected text with the arrow keys, dammit! Personally, I still do it that way; trying to select text with a mouse in Windows is like trying to herd cats across a frozen pond, especially when scrolling is involved!)
Structure — Function of LH-RH Analogs and Design Applications to other Peptide Systems It is probable that more synthetic analogs of LH-RH have been made than any other peptide. This considerable research effort, carried out by many groups over a 12 year period since the initial sequencing of the LH-RH decapeptide by Matsuo et al. (1971), has been aimed at the development of increasingly more active competitive antagonists. In the process, the research has provided a tremendous stimulus for improvement of rapid peptide synthesis techniques and general strategies for the speedy development of improved analogs of other peptides. Events leading to the discovery of weak LH-RH antagonists followed by their steady improvement have been frequently reviewed (see for instance, Coy et al. (1981) and Schally et al. (1981). Of tremendous importance to this process was the discovery of the LH-RH superagonist series which was based on the presence of D-amino acids, particularly those with large, aromatic side-chains in place of glycine in position 6 (Monahan et al., 1976; Coy et al., 1976). The increased rigidity and stabilization of the preferred receptor binding conformation produced by D-amino acids has been further utilized in many other positions of the antagonist sequences. The D-amino acid substitution strategy has also become perhaps the prime design approach in many other peptide systems and has yielded many impressive results of late. KeywordsConsiderable Research Effort Steady Improvement Peptide System European Peptide Symposium American Peptide Symposium Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF. - Coy, D.H., Mezo, I., Pedroza, E., Nekola, M.V., Vilchez-Martinez, J.A., Piyachaturawat, P., Schally, A.V., Seprodi, J., and Teplan, I., 1979, LH-RH antagonists with potent antiovulatory activity, in “Peptides: Proceedings of the Sixth American Peptide Symposium”, E. Gross and J. Meienhofer, eds., p. 775, Pierce, Rockford, Illinois.Google Scholar - Coy, D.H., Nekola, M.V., Erchegyi, J., Coy, E.J., and Schally, A.V., 1981, Contraceptive effects of recent potent LH-RH antagonist analogs, in: “LH-RH Peptides as Female and Male Contraceptives”, G.I. Zatuchni, J.D. Shelton, and J.J. Sciarra, eds., p. 37, Harper and Row, NY..Google Scholar - Coy, D.H., Sueiras-Diaz, J., Murphy, W.A., and Lance, V., 1983, Structure-activity studies on glucagon - a position 4 analog with superagonist properties, in “Peptides. Proceedings of the Eighth American Peptide Symposium”, V. Hruby and J. Meienhofer, eds., in press, Pierce, Rockford, Illinois.Google Scholar - Coy, D.H., Vilchez-Martinez, J.A., and Schally, A.V., 1977, Structure function studies on LH-RH, in “Peptides 1976. Proceeding of the Fourteenth European Peptide Symposium”, A. Loffet, ed., p. 463, Editions de l’ Universite de Brusselles, Brussells.Google Scholar - Lance, V.A., Murphy, W.A., Sueiras-Diaz, J.A., and Coy, D.H., 1983, Super-active analogues of growth hormone-releasing factor containing N-terminal D-amino acids, Nature, submitted.Google Scholar - Schally, A.V., Arimura, A., and Coy, D.H., 1980, Recent approaches to fertility control based on derivatives of LH—RH, in “Vitamins and Hormones”, P.L. Munson, J. Diczfalusy, J. Glover, and R.E. Olson, eds., p. 257, Academic Press, NY.Google Scholar - Veber, D.F., 1981, Design of a highly active cyclic hexapeptide analog of somatostatin, in “Peptides: Proceedings of the Seventh American Peptide Symposium”, D.H. Rich and E. Gross, eds., p. 685, Pierce, Rockford, IllinoisGoogle Scholar
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It’s not possible to make a tin whistle out of a chunk of gold. A gold whistle: yes, but a tin whistle: no. All things are their source. Since you know that you are consciousness and not the body, then consciousness is your source, and you and your source are the same thing. Therefore, if you want to know your source, study your consciousness. I continue to stumble over the “you” in all I read: “You” are “your” source; “Your” consciousness; “You” are the witness; etc. This is teaching by duality, (implying a “you” and “another” that is not you) and this “you” concept is a huge solid block to “my” complete understanding and experiencing what “I” am. This is what Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj meant when he said that “I am” is a teaching tool, and eventually even that “I am” must be rejected, because in reality, there is no “I”. I cannot truthfully say “God is within me”, because that implies a separate “me” in a relationship with a separate “God”. Since “I” and “my source” are one and the same thing, any statement about a relationship between the two is duality, and is false. You find the door when you begin to ask “Who am I?”, but you don’t open the door until you realize neither “I” nor “the door” exist. Notes to myself while pondering various authors.
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The View of a Lonely Traveler Visiting Barcelona I’ve been waiting for it to hit me. Barcelona, the incredible city I’ve run off to to hide from all the boring parts of life that have been slowly becoming more and more necessary. Obviously sangria and tapas beat tax codes and angry e-mails from landlords every time, right? Fucking yes. The decision to come here was so easy that it just never hit me; the excitement, the hugeness of what was about to happen. It only became a problem when the people who I told about the trip were more excited than I was. Partly this was deliberate; not wanting to rub my amazing luck into their faces. But it was also just because the closer I got to leaving, the less real Barcelona seemed, even when constantly listening to the stories (everyone has stories and will tell you all of them), and fanatically reading Lonely Planet guidebooks. I thought maybe it would hit me on the drive to the airport, a last minute rush of excitement, anything. It didn’t. It didn’t hit me when I went through customs, not on either of my eleven-hour flights, not as I sat in a sweaty daze waiting for my bag to appear on the conveyor belt. When I finally got into my taxi, I rode into town with a lovely middle-aged Spanish man who made uncomfortably frequent eye contact with me while singing It’s Raining Men along with the radio. He was creepy in a nice way and everything was so confusing. When he dropped me off at what was supposedly my new apartment, I felt sad to see him go. Being alone in Barcelona, standing, looking, maybe freaking out a tiny bit, I realised that no amount of looking at maps that my parents shoved in my face, no amount of imagining or dreaming can prepare for you for a big, bustling, pulsing city. So fucking alive. Hearing the stories, looking at the pictures, it just isn’t the same. It felt hot, but also breezy. Busy but also relaxed. Full and empty. Dirty but clean. Long straight roads and winding alleyways. It’s an impossible place to explain because it’s such a mix of originality and clichés. There’s live music everywhere in the streets at night, markets full of colour and enough choice to make your brain explode. It smells like spice, sweat, occasionally pee. There are too many adjectives, superlatives and adverbs I could use, but also not enough to really describe anything. I could eat an entire thesaurus and still not be able to shit out enough words to explain this place. I can’t explain it to anyone because I can’t even explain it to myself. Even when I know exactly where I’m going, I still feel a little bit lost. Having so much to take in and discover, that’s what’s exciting about Barcelona, and what makes any pre-trip excitement a mere shadow of what you’ll feel once you’re here. Barcelona never hit me because there is no way to imagine it until you are in it, and even then it’s so big and full that it’s hard to believe where you are. It never hits anyone, it just introduces itself with a series of tiny bitch slaps – the good, kinky sex kind of slap that hurts for the right reasons. That’s why you’ve just got to fucking get here. Drop your briefcases, your Bic pens, burn your textbooks and give your shitty retail job the finger. Nothing in life is as important as walking down Las Ramblas with minimal ideas about where the fuck you are going, or picking tapas off a menu without really knowing what you’re spending your money on. You think you can “quench a thirst” by following a few whimsical travel Instagrams and watching Vicky Cristina Barcelona, but how is that meant to work when you don’t even really understand what you’re thirsty for? Sell your shitty car for parts, borrow your Dad’s old tramping pack, tell yourself that you’re better at speaking Spanish than you really are. Just say yes. Get on a plane. Get here. And if you’re scared, the city won’t look after you. But I know a few people who will. 7 August 2018 Weekend Trips For Study Abroad Students In Ba... 6 August 2018 Stoke Travel’s Guide To Making Love In A He... 2 August 2018 What Not To Do In Barcelona - 5 Things you sh... 1 August 2018 Stoke Travel’s Proven Hangover Cures 1 August 2018 A Chat With The Band - Talking Cheese With Sh...
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If Paid Web Content Is Dead, Are Newspapers? Page 1 of 2 The Internet is awash with opinions and predictions about the death of the newspaper -- one of the favorite metaphors is the leaking lifeboat, where the only serious question is how long it will continue to float. This is to be expected. It's been generally understood for some time that the Internet has taken a wrecking ball to the newspaper's business model, but in the five months since we started thinking in terms of trillions of dollars for things like TARP and stimulus, what had been a gradual (if inevitable) process has assumed a screaming urgency. The sharp decline in advertising budgets has hastened demise of already-teetering papers. The symptoms are everywhere: newsroom layoffs and contract buyouts; dropping home delivery or the print edition on certain days of the week, or all seven; or -- in the case of papers like the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Tucson Citizen and the Rocky Mountain News -- a parent company placing a hard deadline to find a buyer or shut down production. So in the recent weeks, some of the sharper minds in the industry have penned essays and columns and blogs to address print's existential crisis. The most common thread in the debate revives the question of pay vs. free content on the Internet, which is always sure to provoke a hostile response from the die-hard Net set. For them, that issue was laid to rest in September 2007, when the New York Times killed its Times Select program, where its columns lived behind a pay firewall. (The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times still charge for some of their content, but, the reasoning goes, they can get away with it because they write for a well-heeled business audience, and many of their readers simply turn around and bill the subscription to their employer.) But the spare economics of advertising on the Web -- particularly in down times like we're in today -- have mounted a solid case that the current newspaper model is unsustainable. Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, recently took a moment to muse publicly on the future of his own paper and the print industry. He gets at the heart of the issue with the observation that "revenues from the Web are not yet sufficient to support a great newsgathering operation." This is key. With print advertising and circulations in steep decline, if newspapers don't figure out some way to increase their revenues online, they are doomed to either fold or decimate their newsroom staffs to a fraction of current sizes. Many have already done so. For Keller, all options are on the table. That includes some form of paid content. "A lot of people in the news business, myself included, don't buy as a matter of theology that information 'wants to be free,'" he wrote. "Really good information, often extracted from reluctant sources, truth-tests, organized and explained -- that stuff wants to be paid for. So far, it gets paid for mainly by advertisers, but a lively, deadly serious discussion continues within the Times about ways to get consumers to pay for what we make." Various models have been proffered, and each has been roundly challenged by the anti-print crowd who seem to relish in beating up on the hapless newspaper executives who remain witlessly committed to their dead-tree business. [cob:Pull_Quote]Old-line journalism heavyweights Stephen Brill and Walter Isaacson each gave the debate fresh life with recent appeals for a micropayment model. Times media columnist David Carr similarly ruminated about the notion of an iTunes-like business model for journalism, though one wonders from the wistful tone of his piece if he might be more convinced that the holes in the lifeboat are too big to patch. The basic idea is that to access a newspaper's content on the Web, you'd have to foot the bill -- somehow. That could either be paying pennies per article, a quarter for a day pass, a dollar or two for monthly access, etc. Oh, ho! Just you try it, you dinosaurs. The bloggers have turned out in force to point out that the micropayments idea is not a new one, and that the early years of the Web filled a sizable graveyard with failed paid-content schemes. [cob:Special_Report]It didn't work then, the argument goes, so what makes you think it will work now? Content is supposed to be free! "We ought to cheer the notion that publications will try to start charging for content online," wrote Valleywag's Owen Thomas. "Writers at ad-supported publications will pay the fees and deliver crisp summaries and analysis for free. Outlets which charge will end up reduced to the business of trade publications, which only manage to extract money from people who need the information for their job." So under that logic, the Times and other papers would become trades if they started charging, and sites like those found in the Gawker family would become the mainstream media? That seems a little far-fetched, but it's clear enough that trying to reintroduce a pay model would be swimming upstream in an online world where the culture of free is so deeply ingrained. Page 2: Problems with micropayments
We are all feeling a little worried and sad over here because my sister’s pooch jumped out of her car the other night, ran across a busy intersection and hasn’t been seen since. We have shared it all over the place on Facebook. My sister and her family put up flyers in the area where this happened. They talked to people. They’ve contacted animal control. No dice so far. And so we try to think of more things to try, and we wait, and we hope. My daughter asked me what happens if they don’t find sweet little Rey. I explained that the best case (the one I’d like to imagine) is that someone else found her who fell in love with her right away and decided to take care of her forever. I’ve tried holding very positive outcomes in my mind, just in case that makes a difference. I picture little Rey being taken to Animal Control (who knows she is missing). I picture someone reading her tag and calling my sister. I picture her arriving home safe if a little scared. I picture them together. I picture other things too, though, when I don’t work at it. I picture her lost and scared. I picture her hiding from the very busy and loud part of town where she decided to have an adventure. I picture her being uncertain of what to do because she is young. And when I picture these things, I consciously will her to come out of hiding, to seek help, to use those amazing puppy eyes to get some help from a kindhearted human. And in that moment of wishing the best for her, I can’t help but think of how we all feel when we are lost. We think we are totally alone. We’ve maybe made a decision that turned out to be pretty terrible in retrospect. We’ve taken a risk that didn’t pan out and now we’re adrift in unfamiliar territory. We feel the loss of what we thought would happen. We feel regret or remorse. We may tell ourselves we’re incompetent or foolish. We hide. We quiet our fear and loneliness any way we can find. We tell people we’re fine but so busy we can’t see them right now. And maybe we even want to reach out and make a change or ask for help, but we’re not sure who to trust or what to do. If that’s you, if you’re feeling a little adrift, know that I am picturing you right now. I am surrounding you with love and compassion. I am consciously willing you to come out of hiding, to seek help, to find your kindhearted human friends, to know that being lost is temporary and that the way home is always inside of you. The things you learn while you are lost can all be taken home with you, made part of you, in the safety of your heart. I’m here if you need me.
Pineappleope.com sent several reporters to the Far East equipped with one iFlip. The several reporters came back with this EXCLUSIVE footage… these are some moves you won’t find anywhere else in the universe. -She looks in pain! – She looks tremendous… What a figure -she not dancing so much as jus…. shaking lol
The Milk and Human Kindness: Making Cheese by Suzanne Lupien of Scio, OR A look at milk quality, cow health, sanitation, basic equipment and method for: Raw milk yogurt, homemade cheese starter culture, tomme (French farmer’s cheese) Brining cheese and making brine, basic principles of cheese-making, simulating a small cheese cave atmosphere Daily life on a small diversified farm is filled with a seemingly endless string of important tasks and lessons, and as soon as one completes one strata of skill building and understanding, the next strata fans out before one’s eyes. All the steps relating to Home Dairying, from basic cow and calf care to the delicious golden pat of butter on the supper table go through stages of comprehension. Basic skills learned and then refined over the course of one’s life, deepening one’s sensitivity, skill and gratitude and set firmly on the foundation of the essentials. The essentials being the fixed necessities in doing ones job correctly and sensibly – good craftsmanship. The artistry must come later as one’s experience expands; then one can adjust a process slightly here and there, to make something one’s own. Determining what these essentials are can be a bit confusing so I will take extra care here to list and explain and to show the meaning, the purpose of every step in each process. Going beyond the “what” to include the “why”, giving more depth to the “how”. One thing we do already know is that we typically have more to do in a day than we have time for. So the methods I have developed are not unnecessarily complicated – they are all held within the context of the hardworking farmer’s life. Sensible, attainable skills are the aim here – not cutting corners, just heading for the direct route. The chorus of this song is orderliness and cleanliness, inside and out. Examine your methods closely and make improvements when needed. In short, do everything you can to set the stage for clean healthy living for your cow and clean healthful dairy products to nourish your family. Obviously we cannot expect to make a good cheese with dirty milk from an unhealthy cow so let’s begin at the beginning and cover the spectrum. Cow health, cow comfort, cow cleanliness – these things are intertwined. A minimum of confinement, basically during milking time and during bad winter storms is how I would choose to care for my cow; physical freedom, out on good pasturage – enough to eat and to choose from so she can cream the grass, shelter from the blazing sun, from wind and storms, fresh clean water always available, clean deep straw bed and free access to shade and salt. Now that it’s winter let’s make sure that our producing cows get plenty of good hay – up to a bale and a half per day, of the small 40 lb square bale type. In summer I do all I can to make as much excellent hay as possible, fine meadow grass hay with good color and fragrance. Satisfying my cow’s appetite and taste buds is just as rewarding as putting my favorite dish before honored guests. Extras like chopped apples, pumpkins, corn cobs, corn stalks, cabbages, carrots, etc. let her know how much you love her and are thinking of her. Well made leaf hay – green harvested and air dried branches of oak, raspberry, ash, and sugar maple leaves are a phenomenal source of deep rooted minerals which cows so relish. Trauger Groh tells us that cows are really woodland animals not strictly grass-eaters. Stay away from cherry branches and anything else in your particular area which may be toxic, and be aware that all leaves are potentially toxic in the wilted stage. Feed only very fresh, or properly dried. Take care to know which species are good, dry them well in mid-summer and bunch them and hang them in the barn for treats on stormy nights. After I take in a mowing of hay I can go back and harvest saplings sprouting around the edges of my fields, pushing the edges back to the old stone walls and put up this enticing and nutritious fodder for winter. When the cows hear me rustling in the branch bundles on a snowy night they are filled with eagerness. Makeshift milking arrangements might do in a pinch, but generally they’re difficult to keep clean and downright time-consuming. You can adapt just about any structure to make a workable milking area. Whatever it is it’s best if it’s light and airy – not drafty – and dry, and allows for smooth movement in and out. Being an old fashioned New Englander I love the traditional wooden cow house arrangement with lots of windows that open, white washed wood walls, wooden stanchion floor and smooth, individual mangers. Clean sawdust bedding. If your cow is covered in mud or manure clean her up before milking. You will find that a well-drained, well maintained cow path to the stanchion and a clean deep bedded lounging area save loads of time preparing your cow for milking. And the more generous you can be with bedding, the better the compost will be also. So let’s say your cow is in for milking, head in her stanchion, standing on a clean floor covered with a thick layer of soft pine sawdust, enjoying her hay. You’ve given her a quick brushing when you put her in and you’ve gone to get the milk pail from the kitchen. Wherever you like to strain your milk, be it the kitchen table, counter or sink, see to it that it’s clear and clean, and the glass jars or metal cans into which you will strain the milk are perfectly clean and rinsed with very hot or boiling water and all set up with the filtering arrangement on top before you head out to milk. Although your pail was perfectly clean and dry when you put it away last night after milking, it still needs a boiling water rinse before you use it again. A second pail with clean warm water and a clean cloth for udder washing is also necessary and this one doesn’t have to be stainless steel nor does it have to be sterilized. Keep it nice and clean, though. Here we go, one sanitized milking pail, one udder scrubbing pail with warm water and a clean wash rag, and another clean wash rag for drying the udder. I do not use iodine solutions or soap, just a nice clean warm wet rag gently cleaning the udder and a clean dry one for wiping the udder dry, gently and thoroughly. This milking preparation is a ritual I very much enjoy and I think the cow does as well, getting in the mood to give you her beautiful golden milk. English dairymaids of the last century sanitized their milking stools as well as their pails for every milking and it’s a really good idea . . . but I don’t do it. But I do make it a rule not to pat a chicken or a dog or pick up a manure fork before, during or after milking. I come to the barn with clean hands and a clean pail. I clean the cow’s udder. My hands are dry when I milk. I take the milk directly to be strained. No minutes wasted – a beeline to straining and putting the milk to cool, if I’m not going to use it immediately for yogurt or cheese-making. Bacteria proliferate in milk so very fast. So the quicker it is strained and chilled, the better. Reach for your pail by the handle, not the rim (just the same as you do taking up your tea cup in polite company). Position your stool, sit down, set your pail down on the cow’s head side of your place for cleanliness sake and go ahead and squirt a dash of milk from all four teats to open them up and blow out any speck of something that may be lurking in the recesses. Do keep your hands dry as you milk and take this precious time to observe her, listen to her, and sing to her. The rhythm of the milking suggests and supports the singing. Careful and thorough milking every time ensures a healthy udder. When you’ve gotten every drop, take a few minutes to massage the udder and then go again. It’s an excellent way to stimulate the circulation and release every drop of milk. Thank her, and go strain your milk. Back in the kitchen you’ve got, let’s say, two gallons of strained warm milk and twenty minutes available. Warm milk is a boon for making every sort of dairy product except butter as much time is saved by not having to heat milk. And valuable cream is often lost in the process of heating up well-chilled milk, in the neck curve of the milk can and also in the difficulty of re-incorporating blobs of cream into warming milk. A lot of stirring is needed as the temperature rises. With the two gallons let’s start by going through this simple raw milk yogurt method: You will need the milk in a boiling water sanitized stainless steel cooking pot or pail. Fresh active culture yogurt (new untouched container) from the store or thermophilic yogurt starter powder from a dairy supply company, boiling water sanitized wide-mouth quart jars and a sanitized ladle and whisk. By boiling water sanitized I mean a liberal dowsing of boiling water inside, and well around the rim of all milk holding containers, and a full immersion for smaller articles like jar lids, ladles, whisks, knives, bamboo mats, cheesecloth, wooden boards, hoops and followers, etc., whatever is called for. Knowing how to effectively generate and handle boiling water safely takes some thought and attention. Think it through! Large flat bottomed colanders are handy, and certain stacking arrangements minimize splashing. Keep the children out of harm’s way. Pouring boiling water into glass containers can result in a cracked and broken jar now and again. I do use canning jars for yogurt but for just about everything else I prefer stainless steel to make it easier and safer, and less costly in the long run. Take your freshly sanitized whisk and whisk the yogurt into a purely liquefied state. We don’t want any lumps. Line up your clean glass jars along the edge of the counter or table, as soon as they are cool enough to handle. Set the clean lids in a row, upside down behind each jar out of reach of the inevitable drips and splashes. Pour 1-2 Tbsp yogurt into each jar and fill them up with warm milk. Screw on the lids, gently invert each jar twice to mix the yogurt with the milk and set the jars close together in a warm 70-80 degree F. spot like the right hand warming shelf of your cook stove, or if need be, bed them down on a couple of thick bath towels, as close together as they’ll go, and wrap them up like a package with the ends of the towels, adding extra towels over the top or a coat, or a blanket. Remember this is raw milk yogurt (my personal preference) as the milk retains all its glorious healthy raw enzymes. It does, however, make a softer, milder yogurt, and it can take up to 24 hours to set if the ambient temperature falls below 70 degrees. If you prefer very sour firm yogurt then you simply need to warm the milk to 110-120 degrees F. before you begin filling jars. That will yield a strictly thermophilic yogurt as the mesophilic bacteria die off at that higher temperature. The maximum temperature for mesophilic bacteria is somewhere around 105 degrees F. so champion of raw milk as I am, I make only dairy products that do not require any higher temperatures than the cow’s body temperature – 101-102 degrees F. Yogurt making is the perfect introduction into the world of cultured dairy products and cheese-making. You are handling milk properly, becoming proficient at sanitizing pots and utensils, and learning the principles of culturing milk. Doing these things regularly, perfecting your methods, sets you up for cheese-making very well. Cheese-making involves the addition of a few more steps beyond the culturing. Next we will turn our attention to establishing a starter culture for cheese-making. I expect all the cheeses I will teach you through this column will be mesophilic in nature, so the starter you learn to make now will do for all cheeses in the future. We will also look at what we will need in terms of time, equipment, milk and understanding, to prepare for our first cheese together – Tomme – a French farmer’s cheese which is rather soft, unpressed wheel which we will age for a minimum of 60 days and which could age for 1/2 a year. Generally speaking we will, from now on, focus on raw milk cheeses for a few reasons: a) to protect the goodness of our high quality raw milk; b) to keep our processes relatively simple, and; c) to save two most precious resources – time and money. Time will be saved by making basic, versatile easy keeping cheeses in the range from camembert to cheddar for example, and not fussing about with more complicated and time consuming activities like braiding mozzarella. I’m not knocking mozzarella, but I am stressing solid, practical, useful and in a way, simple cheeses. Far too many folks start in with cheese-making by buying expensive equipment, choose cheese recipes which require various specialty starter bacteria which are very expensive and often the making process is somewhat mysterious and difficult to comprehend. Ultimately the cheese you make, and continue to make will be one that fits into the rhythm of your day, fits into the type and amount of milk your farm produces, and whatever aging process it requires is a natural fit in your farm atmosphere and facilities. This tomme we’re going to make is barely heated at all which makes it easy to produce, you do not need a cheese press, just a gallon can full of water for a little pressure, you learn to handle cheesecloth and turn your cheese in order to learn about smooth, well made surfaces. And the slightly moist cave-like atmosphere is easy to contrive with a cracked flue tile from your local masonry supply store. All you will need to order from a cheese supply company are cheesecloth, rennet, and a dairy thermometer. Everything else can be fashioned at home, or found locally. Rennet is quite costly, but a little bit goes a long way, cheesecloth isn’t cheap either, genuine fine weave cheesecloth goes for $6.00 a yard or better and it does require some attentive care. By the way, when your bottle of rennet arrives, wrap it in tin foil and put it in the fridge. Exposure to light deteriorates rennet. But it keeps very well as long as it’s chilled. The starter we are going to make involves nearly the same method as the yogurt making with the exceptions that we’ll sterilized the jars in a total immersion boiling water bath for a full five minutes, and that we will not be inoculating the milk with anything, we are simply going to culture clean, warm, fresh milk. As you learn to consistently and correctly propagate batches of starter using it in your cheese-making, you will notice the great depth of flavor in your cheeses. The living esters in good grass fed milk number in the dozens and you simply end up with more flavor than can be found in cheeses made from the commercial starters which typically contain only one or two species of bacteria. Commercial starters, especially direct-set starters are also very expensive. Another important benefit of propagating your own starter from your cow’s milk is that it demonstrates each time what the milk quality is, and how clean your methods are. To establish your own starter is somewhat trickier than inoculating the starter milk with a culture of any sort and it doesn’t always work the first time, or even the second, so allow for that. Once established that jar of sweet smelling solid milk will be your mother culture from which you can propagate indefinitely. Your insurance policy will be cubes of frozen starter stored in your freezer. Practice starter making for a week or two before you set out to make cheese, and you’ll be better off than if you push your luck, having gallons of milk waiting for the big day only to discover that your starter failed. You can use your homemade yogurt as starter provided you’ve scalded your glass jar and that the jar of yogurt hasn’t been dipped into with an un-sanitized spoon. Here’s how to make your starter without an added inoculant. Just milk: - Boil two pint jars and lids for a full five minutes. Leave them in the covered pot of boiling water just off the heat while you go milk. To minimize glass breakage in the boiling, set the jars horizontally a top their lid rings. - Take extra care to keep the milk especially clean during milking. If bits of dirt or hair have fallen into the milk pail wait till the next milking to make starter. - Bring your warm clean milk back to the kitchen and strain it through a milk filter directly into the jars. The fewer chances for contamination the better, so eliminating the actual strainer object and any intermediate containers is important. What I do is fish the hot jars out of the water bath by sticking a wooden spoon up into the jar and lifting it out upside down. Then I toss a good wooden clothespin into the hot water bath, go get a milk filter, fold it twice, open it up and clip it onto the rim of the jar with the sanitized clothespin and pour the milk through. Immediately. You always want to strain your milk as soon as possible after milking, this time is especially critical. Any bit of bacteria or dust or such like and your starter will be contaminated. This starter making is the definitive test for your milk quality. Any imperfections in your milk handling may not be showing up in your fluid milk usage. One significant difference is that you’re cooling down your milk for fluid consumption immediately, which vastly minimized the proliferation of any existing bacteria. But with the culturing process the milk is kept warm for up to 48 hours. So any contaminant will have a field day. Do your best to keep everything clean, and keep enough space clear to work, well away from other projects. Banish the cat from the counter once and for all, and be sure to put away that open bag of flour well before you start. No bread making before or during starter making or cheese-making. Have the kitchen floor swept before you get equipment out to prepare for any dairy activity, do up the breakfast dishes and scrub the sink. Clean and orderly, please. And yes it’s nice to have cheese equipment that only gets used for cheese-making, but it’s a luxury, and it’s not necessary as long as you keep everything scrupulously clean. And just know that despite our best efforts it doesn’t go right every single time. I always feel that the emotion I experience at those inevitable failure moments is a gift to show myself how very much it means to me to get it right. Make batch after batch of starter to practice. Back to our jars of milk: Get the lids on as fast as you can and set the jars somewhere warm, 70-75 degrees with little or no temperature variation over the course of a 24 hour period. Too cool and it won’t culture, too warm and it will cook and separate, or “whey off.” It seems that this needed temperature range is difficult for people to come up with. I don’t know where I’d be without my cook stove! You can certainly rig something up like a little box or a ski hat over your jars on top of the hot water heater, or maybe dangle a light bulb down into a crock, just be careful of fire danger, and figure out your set-up in advance of making the culture. Set something up with an indoor thermometer and check it over a span of time. Another advantage of the wood cook stove is that the starter jars are right there at eye level and every time you add a stick of wood, or pour a cup of coffee you can study the progressing whitening of the milk (good) and check for bubbles or gas (bad). Milk looks almost blue when fresh, after the cream has risen and as your starter coagulates and acidifies it will begin to look whiter, and when perfectly coagulated it will be purely white and opaque and solid, or at least very thick. If you fill the jar just to the shoulder level then when you tip the jar slightly, checking for coagulation, you can see it. Starter that is pure and good will smell sweet and show no bubbles anywhere. Chances are if there are bubbles, you can see them by examining the jar. So if it passes the visual test, carefully open the jar, smell the starter and look at it from the top, checking for bubbles around the rim. It should smell sweet, possibly faintly like yogurt and have a very enticing dairy smell. Milky. So far so good. Now chill it. As soon as the starter has coagulated in its warm place it needs to be chilled. The first starter, made this way with no inoculant takes twice as long to set as the subsequent batches which you will inoculate with a spoonful of this mother culture. It may take up to 48 hours to set. 36 hours would be better, and 24 hours better still. If it’s left too long in the warm atmosphere it will tend to “whey off” and begin to lose its strength. It can still be used, but in the spirit of meeting a standard, we want it consistently at its full strength, just when it’s at the stage of thick cream to just solid. In getting your cheese-making system down reliably you will see that as many ways as you can be uniform in your procedures, the fewer mysterious variables there will be to endanger your cheese, and to cloud your understanding of cause and effect, the better. Observation, clear thinking and good notes go very far in good consistent cheese-making results. Two more important factors in starter making and cheese-making are: - How far along your cow is in her lactation - Whether she’s out on lush spring grass or on dry hay She had better not be eating silage or haylage or you can forget about making cheese! Those fermented feeds are all well and good for fresh milk production but make cheese-making impossible, due to the inevitable gassing. Back to the issue of fresh grass vs. dry hay, there are a couple of points worth mentioning. It’s been my experience that spring grass complicates cheese-making and the June wave of pollen, especially pine pollen, suspends cheese-making on my farm. No doubt the milk could be pasteurized prior to cheese-making and come out all right, but that doesn’t interest me. I just stop for a couple of weeks until the gassing stops. In France, as regards traditional raw milk cheese-making the time for making camembert for example, an especially delicate high moisture cheese, was October-May. This would have been related to the lush grass vs. dry hay question no doubt, and also possibly aimed at later lactation milk, with a much higher percentage of milk solids than spring freshened cows milk would have. The winter camembert might give way to a harder, drier cheese on those little French farms, like a tomme, the first cheese we’re going to make together, talk about seasonal changes in forage and depth of understanding! Read Patrick Rance’s story about the French cheese connoisseur who knew, while enjoying his favorite camembert, which field the cows had grazed at the time the cheese was made! It is well known to me that diverse meadow species have a great deal more to contribute to a cheese in either form of fresh grass or dry hay, than single species forages like alfalfa. When making or buying hay I would choose well made meadow grass full of flowers and wild plants over bright green single species hay. When the ad states “from fertilized fields” it generally means it’s been chemically treated, rather than spread with manure or compost, truly fertilized. As to where your cow is in her lactation, there will be a difference between very fresh, just calved, to the later end, between 6-9 months. Unusually late lactation, 12 months or later, and lots of cows somatic cell count goes up, giving the milk a salty taste, and producing poor quality cheese, experiencing problems like poor coagulation. At the freshening time it does take awhile for milk to normalize, and in my experience starter is very hard to establish during that time as well, although it can be propagated with some degree of reliability with the help of active culture yogurt from a shop or commercial starter or ice cube starter you’ve made from other milk and have stored in the freezer. However, the keeping quality of frozen starter is limited to one month or less. When my cow is just fresh I generally don’t make cheese for that initial month, preferring to make butter mostly. And I love bright orange butter from the tail end of the colostrum period – five days or so. I keep the calf in with the cow full time for at least six weeks when occasionally a hefty bull calf will be nicking his mothers teats in his exuberance. Then I might restrict his access to a couple of brief feedings per day, supplement his ration with a bit of 16% grain, good hay, etc., but generally my calves stay with their dams for a solid 10 weeks, full time. Anyway, the basic point is that early lactation milk is low in milk solids, late lactation milk is high. Higher milk solids make more cheese, and easier cheese-making. Once your starter is chilled, sanitize a soup spoon, holding it by the very tip of the handle and pouring boiling water over it, take the lid off the jar and carefully spoon the thickened cream top off the starter into a little jar. This action does three things. First it gives you another look at the starter, looking for bubbles in the cream layer or under it, second, it removes the cream from the desired starter where it would otherwise be lost in the cheese-making as it would tend to rise to the surface of the milk and eventually be lost, and third, you’ve got an extra bonus to look forward to at meal time, sour cream for your baked potato! After removing the cream, stir the starter smooth with your spoon, cover the jar up and return it to the refrigerator. Lick the spoon, get a good idea what that starter tastes like, and remember it for the future. Taste memory is an important skill in cheese-making. This starter will keep fresh in the refrigerator for three days. Subsequent starter will be propagated from this mother culture by going through the aforementioned steps of sanitation, and adding 1 1/2 tsp to a pint jar, 1 Tbsp to a quart, inverting it a few times as for yogurt making to incorporate the starter into the fresh milk and going on to the incubation step. So you will either make your next starter before the initial one goes over the hill, or better yet put some in the freezer for safe keeping. The way to do that is to sanitize an ice cube tray with boiling water and pour your lovely fresh starter into it, freeze right away, then bang the cubes out into a brand new plastic bag and put back in the freezer. See to it that the open tray of starter doesn’t languish in the freezer and that nothing comes in contact with the exposed starter while it’s freezing up. It’s very handy to have these cubes as a back up, and many cheese-makers prefer to use them regularly for their cheese-making. One standard cube is 1 oz. I prefer to use the starter fresh from the jar and keep a system going of nearly continuous propagation during my typical cheese making season, October-June, always fresh, always plenty. Extra starter goes into the pancake batter. Or to culture an entire quart of cream for sour cream or as a special treat for the hens. Or stir it up and drink it like yogurt or kefir. After a couple of weeks of yogurt and starter making you will surely get your method down, be achieving consistent results, and are now ready to make cheese. Let’s go over our equipment list for making tomme, the basic un-cooked to lightly cooked, un-pressed to lightly pressed, French farmer’s cheese. After that we’ll look at basic cheese theory. No science, just common sense. We’ll use five gallons of milk as the model, and the amount can be adjusted up or down to suit, but consider my suggestion that smaller batches made more often teach us more and put less milk and time at risk during the beginning learning stages. I recommend keeping the milk amount on the low side until some level of proficiency has been realized. And on that note I want to mention that this French farmers’ cheese can be made with less than full fat milk, so in conjunction with learning the cheese method, you’ll get some valuable butter at the same time. That takes a lot of the pressure away and allows you to LEARN. The tomme also takes a minimum of time and equipment. - 1 five-gallon stainless steel stock pot - 1 dairy thermometer - 1 long handled perforated stainless steel spoon - 1 long handled stainless steel ladle (restaurant type utensils are best) 1-2 bamboo mats (sushi mats) - 1 6-8” wide x 5” tall seamless stainless steel pipe, or stove pipe or other cheese hoop of similar size (can be plastic) - 1 round 1” thick disk of hardwood which will fit closely but easily down inside the hoop for a follower. A gap of 1?2” around the inside ring is about right - 1-2 smooth hardwood boards, square, a few inches larger in circumference than your hoop - 1 yard high quality cheesecloth from a cheese-maker’s supply. Not the rough open weave store kind - 1 gallon can or jar full of water with a tight fitting lid to act as a light press - 1 long thin blade like an old fashioned ham slicer to cut the curd vertically - A curd “harp” to cut the curd horizontally. Stainless steel cheese harps can be very expensive and I prefer to make mine out of a well-chosen forked hardwood branch, one with as much of a U-shape as possible rather than a Y-shape. Cut to length, peel the bark, shave down any excess bulk or bumps. Drill 3/8” holes every 3/4” or so up the sides, counter sink the holes along the outside to make it easier to wash, and string it with fishing line. To my mind a wooden one is much nicer and gentler than a stainless steel one, the sound is quiet and mellow, it feels soft in the hand, and when you wash it you can rap it sharply on the edge of the sink to dislodge any bit of curd lodged somewhere. And you can make it yourself! - A box of kosher salt for brining - A two-gallon (or larger) stoneware crock for brining your cheese Substitutions for standard equipment: - An enamel jelly kettle, or canner or even a tinned cook pot will suffice. Or use your milk pail, in place of the five gallon stainless steel pot. - Stainless steel cooking utensils can be replaced by hand carved hardwood spoons. - Bamboo mats can be replaced by sewn smooth strips of hardwood or reeds. Sew in at least three places with strong cotton string: - Regular galvanized stove pipe thimbles can be cut to size for cheese hoops. Smooth any rough edges and take extreme care to keep seams clean. - Plastic bucket or tub with lid for the brine, instead of a stoneware crock. The basic principles of cheese-making: - To develop the appropriate type and level of acidity needed for the particular cheese being made, by means of the addition of starter at the right time, temperature and amount, to your milk. - To set the curd using the minimal amount of rennet to make a firm set in order to then be able to release the water content of the set cleanly and with a minimum of loss, at the correct time and the correct cutting size, so the curd will separate from the whey at the correct rate for the particular cheese. - To further control and regulate the whey/curd separation, generally requiring some heating, or cooking, and stirring, until the desired moisture content, acidity and texture are reached for the particular cheese for the specific stage in its making. - To separate the curds from the whey, in accordance with the necessary method for the particular cheese by means of draining off the whey for example, or dipping the curd from the whey, and gathering it into a cloth for pressing, or to be held in a cloth for a needed additional stage in the process, as in the case of cheddaring, or simply ladled into a perforated metal form as in the case of camembert. - To complete the curd development and shaping of the cheese, specific to the particular recipe or method which might include cutting the curd in small pieces by hand with a knife, and salting with dry salt, or pressing while still warm wrapped in cheesecloth, in a form or hung in a cloth for draining for a few basic examples. - Taking your cheese in its completed form and creating and maintaining the correct aging temperature and atmosphere, following its needs such as daily turning, rubbing, salting, etc. and tending as it reaches maturity. - Recognizing the indicators of degree of ripeness, as well as the possible spectrum of ripeness for that particular cheese, by means of smelling, touching, seeing, taking a core sample as the case may be. French Farmers Cheese – The Tomme A relatively low acid, high moisture, un-pressed or lightly pressed, full fat or partially skimmed softish medium-aged cheese, with a natural mold rind. Here is a miniaturized sample of cheese making record. Keeping records is very important and instructive. Enlarge it to allow for detailed written observations for reference. Step I: Sanitize cheese pot, thermometer and slotted spoon, pour in your five gallons of milk, heat to 86.5 degrees stirring often. Remove from heat. Step II: Add two ounces starter and stir until fully incorporated. Allow milk to come to a complete standstill (up to two minutes). Step III: Add rennet – 3/4 tsp diluted in 1/8 cup cold water in sanitized cup, (see notes on renneting below); do not disturb milk after renneting! No more dancing in the kitchen! Cover cheese pot with sanitized lid or fresh waxed paper. Step IV: After 20 minutes examine curd surface – it should look different than milk – have lost it’s sheen, and look dull and solid, take your thin curd knife and cut a neat cross, just an inch or so deep, stick your clean finger into the middle and bring it out in a lifting position, if it comes out clean, meaning if the curd is nice and firm, then it is ready to cut, the knife cut itself should retain its crisp, cut appearance, if not ready wait five or 10 more minutes, then cut in 1/2″ knives which means 1/2 inch cubes: Begin by gently reaching all the way to the bottom of the pot with your long knife which needs to be long enough to get there without the knife’s handle brushing through the top of the curd and bruising it, try to be as concise and as uniform in your slicing as possible. When the slicing is complete in both vertical directions gently lower your hoop down into the curd at as wide an angle as the pot width allows: Then arc it around in the pot gently and firmly until the job is done, lift the harp out. The freshly cut curd must now rest for five minutes. The curd cubes are extremely fragile at this time and need five minutes to release a bit of whey, and strengthen up around the edges. Five minutes is just the right amount of time to wash the harp and the knife and put them away. Put another kettle of water on the stove to boil and have at the ready and sanitize your slotted spoon, which you are about to need to stir the curd. I like to stir the curd with my right hand; in fact I never use a spoon! I like to stay in touch with how the curd is changing, progressing. After the five minute rest, put the curd back on the heat, medium heat, and begin stirring. The object of stirring is to both warm the curd evenly and keep the newly cut cubes from sticking together in clumps which is their tendency. You will notice more and more whey separating in the pot, and the curd pieces becoming firmer and smaller. But because of the very minimal amount of cooking in this method, the curd pieces never get very firm at all. By the end of the relatively short cooking time the whey will more or less be covering the curd and at that point remove it from the heat and “pitch” the curd (letting it settle), let it settle for 20 minutes to a half an hour. It will still release some whey, but it will also begin to mat together at the bottom of the pot. While it’s pitching, get yourself ready for the next step: the draining of the curd, and the gathering up of the curd in the cheesecloth and immediately hooping. What you will need for draining and hooping: Set it all up in the sink for a generous dowsing of boiling water. Put it all together propped up on a cookie sheet, a heavy wire rack or something else cleanable, which you have also dowsed with boiling water and set at a slight angle. We’ll look at constructing a simple drain table in the next article. You will also need to sanitize your brine crock or tub at this time as you will be pouring your whey directly from the cheese pot into your crock to be mixed with salt later and used as brine tomorrow. Your draining set up will look something like this: You can depend on the whey dripping everywhere so do this first draining in the sink area counter with most of the whey being caught in a sanitized pail in the sink. Take your sanitized cheesecloth and add it to the cheese pot, to swim in the whey. Pick up your pot and pour off as much of the whey as you can, pinching the cheese cloth to the edge of the pot rim with any available finger. Then open your cheesecloth and lay it over your hoop, wrinkle free. Let it arc down to the bottom of the hoop, lightly suspended. I like to fold the corners back on themselves so the cloth stays clean, take as much care and attention as possible in the handling, folding, and cleaning of this valuable cloth. Every time I find myself wrapping curd in cheesecloth my mind goes back to watching the priest prepare for communion. Gather the curd mass up in your hands, right away while it’s still warm, and set it in the cloth. Pull each corner out carefully to make sure there are no wrinkles underneath, and carefully and firmly fold each corner up over the top of the curd, first one side, then its opposite. Do not worry if the curd is mounded up high over the top of the hoop; just carefully and firmly contain it. Place the follower on top and push down on it for 15 seconds or so to push out some whey and settle the curd down in the hoop. Keep the follower as level as possible because you want a level cheese, and you are now going to put the can of water on top for a little pressure. This first pressing will carry on for a 1/2 hour during which time it is well to be available to straighten out the can on top, so it remains vertical and centered. After the 1/2 hour is up you will remove the can, pull the bottomless hoop up and off your cheese, setting it down again beside. Slide your left hand gently under the cheese and hold it. Quickly put the hoop back on the bamboo mat, and then, the tricky part! Continue to hold the cheese in your left hand, fold the cheesecloth back from the sides of the cheese, turn the cheese over onto your right hand ever so carefully, at which point the cheesecloth is covering the back of your left hand. Turn your left hand over and above your hoop, thus depositing the cloth back over the hoop, with as few wrinkles as possible. Now with both hands set the cheese right back in the hoop, lower it down carefully, making sure it doesn’t get cut on the rim of the hoop. Now pull each corner of the cloth taut to make sure there are no wrinkles underneath and refold over the top. Restore your follower and water can to their positions and leave the cheese to drain for 1/2 hour to an hour. You saw what a lovely firm and smooth skin your cheese got on the underside from the careful handling of the cloth and the pressing. Another contributor to such a nicely knit together surface is the warmth of the curd. This makes a big difference. In an hour you will flip your cheese again, it will be easier this time, and just place the follower on top without the water can. Leave it here for the rest of the day. NOTES ON RENNET AND RENNETING Renneting amounts do not vary recipe to recipe, with the exception of a slow overnight setting procedure common to goat cheese, nor does the milk temperature vary for renneting time. It’s nearly always best at 86.5 degrees. Rennet is very sensitive to heat. Always dilute in cool or cold water. It is very intense and needs to be diluted to be evenly incorporated in milk. The stirring in of the rennet is very important. You want the milk to come to an absolute standstill as soon as possible so centrifugal stirring doesn’t work. Gentle and thorough up and down stirring for 10 seconds is best. AGING YOUR TOMME SIMULATING A MOIST CHEESECAVE ENVIRONMENT Tomme requires a fairly moist environment in order to promote surface mold growth and prevent drying out and cracking which would ruin the cheese. In lieu of an actual cave, a very good substitute is to take a rectangular ceramic chimney flue tile, set it on its horizontal side with a couple of wooden slats underneath for circulation, in a root cellar or cool storage room where the temperature can be more or less maintained if only seasonally, between 40 and 55 degrees F. Regulating the moisture by means of dampening the flue tile is very easy to do, just take an old terrycloth dish towel, drape it over the top and drizzle water over it now and again, every three or four days maybe. Stretch cling film over the back opening, and set your cheese on a clean board which you’ve cut to slide into the tile with ease. Then loosely drape a sheet of cling film over the front, allowing for some air circulation which is vital to all cheese. If too much moisture is present in your “cave” you will notice little tufts of black mold, almost like hair growth, it’s called cat’s fur, not harmful, just wipe it off and let a little more air into the picture and back off a bit on the watering. Turn your cheese about once a week onto a new board. Rough boards actually work better than smooth boards in a way, as the cheese doesn’t stick to them so readily, but they’re no fun to wash. Remember to choose a hardwood variety that doesn’t impart a flavor, maple and ash are best. No oak or walnut. After two or three weeks molds will be thriving on the surface. We want them to grow. Don’t let them worry you! Cheese will often undergo a full blooming of blue mold, which will pass, go on to a white mold with cocoa colored flecks, then go completely cocoa, powdery, lovely. That’s my favorite for appearance and what develops in flavor and ripening because of its presence. After a couple of months you can wrap your cheese in wax paper or butcher paper, not too tightly and continue to store it that way. Just check it regularly to see that you’re not trapping moisture in the wrap. I’d only do this if I was running out of storage space in the “cave,” you can get lots of cracked tiles for free and stack them up, just make sure whatever surface is carrying the weight can handle it! Surface mold ripened cheeses ripen from the outside in; they will soften around the edges first. By pressing firmly with your finger occasionally you can keep track of the degree of ripening. It’s probable that your first tome measuring 2-4” in depth, will take at least three months to ripen. You will note that surface mold ripened cheese have necessarily a disc-like shape, that’s because you want a high percentage of surface area. MAKING BRINE & BRINING CHEESE Wash, rinse and sanitize your crock or tub with lots of boiling water. Measure the whey you’ve just saved from cheese-making, probably 3-4 gallons and pour it into your brine container after you have found a place to keep your brine. The best temperature to keep your brine is 48-55 degrees F. more or less. At a higher temperature than 55 degrees F. undesirable mold growth will form on the surface of the brine. That would be unacceptable. You want a clean brine, so you will need a cover for your brine tank also. I would put my brine tank near the “cave” set up and establish a little table surface where you can set the cheeses on the way into and the way out of the brining. Making brine from fresh, strained whey is best, although it can be made with water in place of the whey. But since water contains no calcium your fist brining will leave your cheese very slimy on the surface because the water will steal calcium from the cheese. You see the brine and the cheese need to balance each other; they both need to contain more or less equal percentages of calcium. So having a goodly amount of whey from today’s cheese-making go ahead and pour it into your clean container, through a cheesecloth pinned over the top to catch the curd bits and add about 4 1?2 lb. kosher or pickling salt to four gallons. The amount is not that critical, plus different cheese makers go for different percentages. Basically anything from an 18% solution favored by Dutch cheese makers I know, to a 22% solution. Stir it well, let it rest, cover it up and tomorrow morning stir it again before brining your very first tomme. The cheese to be brined should be at the same temperature as the brine before introducing them to each other so you’ll want to bring your first wheel in its cloth and on its plank down to the brine/aging room before nightfall so it’s cooled down sufficiently to match the brine temperature by morning. Length of time in the brine The general rule is four hours per lb. of cheese for cheeses over 3” thick. If your cheese is thinner than 3” go for three hours per side. Remove your cheese from the cloth, slide it into the brine, it will bob up to the surface. Salt the top surface with dry salt as this will enable salt up- take to be even which is what we want. If you don’t salt the top it will go without salt as it wants to float just at or above the liquid level. Also, the cheese will be taking up salt which will need to be replaced on an ongoing basis. After three hours, turn the cheese, salt the other side and take it out after three hours, shaking off the excess liquid gently, and place on your aging plank and inaugurate your cave! I had to invent a way to remind myself I had a cheese brining – a post it note on the cellar door, something to remind oneself. The brine will be good indefinitely if well kept. After reading all this and seeing how much is involved, don’t you see and feel how we are just born to care, every step of the way? In the next issue I will cover the following topics: making a drain table, keeping dairy utensils clean and free from milk stone, calf care, French coagulation formula, cheese presses, making Swaledale cheese (Yorkshire Dales Farmer’s hard cheese), and making sweet cream butter. Blessings on you, your cow, and your cheese!
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King Vikram was back with the corpse Betal lying on his shoulders. Betal started narrating another story to Vikram. Many years ago, in the village of Kishannagar there lived a strong and kind king- Rajendra. His queen Prema and the King were married for very long but they did not have a child. The King was very kind and just to his people. After many years the King and the queen were blessed with a baby girl. They named her Sona. Sona, being the only child, was loved immensely by her parents. She was given the freedom to choose what she wants. Not only was she sharp in studies, she was also proficient at bow and arrow and with the sword. Sona grew up fast and soon reached her marriageable age. Her parents wanted her to get married to a suitable suitor but Sona refused. She said, ‘Father, I will marry that man who is more skilled than me and shall defeat me in a bow arrow and sword competition.’ The King thought it was fair enough and so he made an announcement in his kingdom. Many suitors came thinking that it is a girl they have to fight. They will easily defeat a girl. But Sona proved each of them wrong. She easily defeated everyone and they had to go back home disappointed. Among the crowd was a young man named Uday. He came everyday to watch Sona fight. He observed her and soon learnt all the techniques and strategies that Sona used for her fights. He then presented himself to the King. When he fought Sona, and very cleverly and easily defeated her. The King then asked Uday from where he had learnt such skilled fighting technique. To this Uday told the king the truth that he had observed Sona and so learnt how to defeat her. Sona immediately replied, ‘You have defeated me, but I cannot marry you.’ To which Uday replied, ‘Yes, you should not marry me.’ The King and the queen were surprised at their decision. ‘Oh Vikram, now you tell me, why did she say that Uday cannot marry her even after he defeated her? If you do not speak even if you know the answer, you are not a king of Justice’, said Betal. Vikram replied, ‘Uday had learnt all the strategies by observing Sona fight. This makes Sona a guru or Uday’s teacher. In Hindu culture, a teacher cannot marry a student. Sona realized that Uday was first her student and then a suitor. Uday also thought in the same manner and thus decided not to marry Sona.’ So Vikram had broken his silence with the reply and Betal flew back to the old tree while Vikram once again ran behind him with his sword. For other interesting stories for kids, browse though our huge collection of short stories here : http://mocomi.com/fun/stories/
In my late teens and early twenties I worked in a whole load of short term office jobs, and during this time I found one of the office-chatter subjects I ended up talking about most often was the amount of addresses I had had in my life so far. At one point it was nearing the same number as years I’d been alive. My new colleagues would often be kinda surprised and ask how on earth I’d managed it, and the answer was just that my family moved a lot (comparatively to others around me) which is a habit I seem to have kept up with as an adult. I just can’t seem to stay put for more than a couple of years at a time! Of course, the downside to moving all the time is finding people to hang out with. Forming new friendships was a thousand times easier when I was younger, both because of my age and because I was spending 8 hours a day in an actual workplace with people. Socialising with your new colleagues is the perfect way to get to know a place and settle into a new area, even if you’re never going to be each other’s new besties. But what if, as is my situation now, you work from home? How can you make new friends as an adult if you never really leave the house, for whatever reason? Well, as with a lot of these sorts of dilemmas, the logical answer is to turn to the internet. With so much of my life lived online already, online solutions to chat with and meet people seemed like a good start. I have a great circle of ‘online’ friends, as well as mutuals who I enjoy getting to know and chatting with over on places like Twitter and Instagram. This circle has taken me a little while to build up, as I’m turning into a bit of an introvert in my old age too, but my online pals are scattered across the UK and the rest of the world – so whilst I love that they’re in my life, however large or small a part they play, none are really able to pop round for a coffee. So I started to think about how I could meet people online who a lot more local to me. One fun way has been – as I’m a blogger – chatting to local bloggers through facebook groups and insta hashtags. Even though this might seem blogger specific, you can do the same with any hobby or interest. Plus, having the shared hobby means there’s no real danger of running out of things to talk about too! Another option is using what are traditionally seen as ‘dating’ sites, as so many of them these days are geared towards making non-romantic friendships too. Aside from the big names in the dating world, there are some more specialist and localised sites that are worth looking at too: - Vina – billed as Tinder for female friends, a global app which now covers the whole of the UK - county-specific sites – these cover much of the UK such as the Cambridgeshire dating site, Surrey dating or Norfolk dating - Meetup – you propose a group activity (whether it be a night out, a coffee or a country walk) and others on the site with the same interests RSVP and come along. Great for meeting pals in a low pressure group setting - city specific sites – these hyper local sites cover most major UK cities and towns such as Glasgow dating and Aberdeen dating. If none of those above appeal to you, have a search around online as honestly, there are loads. If you know of any great places online for meeting new people and making new friends then do let us know in the comments so we can add to the list!
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Travel dates :: April 24 – 28, 2016 We left Flagstaff, Arizona on April 24 caravanning with @UpInTheAirstream north to Lone Rock Beach Primitive campground for four nights of beach camping! Honestly if we didn’t have our friends with us, I’m not sure we would have been brave enough to camp on the beach. I had some reviews of people getting stuck in the sand on the beach (and others who raved about the spot) and we are usually pretty cautious with our trailer and camper – so might have skipped it all together if we didn’t have company joining us. I’m so glad we didn’t skip it – this place is incredible. Lone Rock Beach Primitive campground is part of Glen Canyon National Parks Recreational Area. Camping is just $14 and it’s completely primitive – no hook-ups, a few vault toilets, no assigned spots, just a beautiful beach on Wahweap Bay. It’s technically in Utah – but seriously right across the Arizona border, so the biggest challenge you might find is figuring out what TIME it is – since Arizona doesn’t honor daylight savings time, but Utah does. 🙂 As soon as you cross from Arizona to Utah, you’ll take a right onto the Lone Rock Beach road. It’s about a mile in and you’ll pay your $14 at the National Park station. Then you get to pick which road you want to take down to the beach – for us, there was only one obvious route without huge ruts or holes. We let @UpInTheAirstream lead the way and we found a sweet spot to park both our trailers on some harder gravel with beautiful views of the lake. We arrived Sunday afternoon and lots of people were packing up to head home from the weekend and we found it rather quiet the first night we were there. You can clearly see the dark rock areas in the photo above. These are the areas you probably want to park on. At least have your tow vehicle or your motorhome wheels on the harder gravel areas to give you some traction when you go to leave. We have 4-wheel drive and didn’t have any issues – but we also were intentional about where we drove and parked on an area with more gravel. But we had heard lots of horror stories of people getting stuck here. I think the combination of a BIG rig, parking on soft sand and not having 4-wheel drive will get you stuck pretty easily here. In fact, the guys had to help a young lady in a sedan up to her frame in sand – she ended up having to be towed out. I’m not trying to scare you away – it wasn’t that bad – you just need to be intentional and aware when you go to pick your spot. Really it’s worth it if you can be brave and find a spot fit for your rig. The kids ran up and down the beach for hours. They played football, they built forts, they created sand castles and despite some pretty constant and swift winds, we couldn’t keep them inside. Too much fun. I imagine this place on a summer day would be complete bliss – sunshine, water, sand – if only the weather had been warmer the kids could have also swam in the lake. I also imagine this place is PACKED and a bit rowdy in the summer – so be prepared for crowds if the weather is more favorable. My view from inside the Airstream. The CGear Sand-Free Multimat came in super handy here with the sand. This amazing mat allows sand to fall through it, but it CANNOT come back up through! Worth every penny – especially for us because we have the kids running in and out! I love beaches because the kids never seem to get tired of digging and playing in the sand. This was my view MOST of the time we were there. The wind blew sand up – and the kids were caked in sand every night – but with huge smiles on their face – so that’s what is important, right?! I’m not normally an early riser but a couple days I couldn’t help but wake up with the sunrise streaming through the Airstream windows. Incredible sunsets here – do NOT miss them, if you can help it. I got up around 5 a.m. a couple days and photographed the sunrises. I sat outside the Airstream and it was so quiet you could hear birds wings flapping as they flew overhead. It was one of the most magical places we’ve camped. So you’ll have to put up with a bunch of photos. . . since I took so many . . . . I loved having @UpInTheAirstream as our neighbor in this beautiful setting! Another day, another sunset My view when I’d get up early and work. It was easy to get up early here! When the clouds cleared and the sun appeared – the lake turned a deep blue/green color, it was incredible. And the sun fed our solar panels helping keep the battery at a decent level, but we also ran the generator in the morning and the evenings to keep things at full capacity. We had arrived with a full tank of water and an empty black tank – so we had no issues here for the four days we were camping. While camping here we went on the Lower Antelope Canyon Tour, went river rafting on the Colorado River, visited Horseshoe Bend, completed the Junior Ranger badge at the Glen Canyon Dam and more. I’ll share about these adventures in another post very soon. And on our last day here Hadley broke her upper arm. They had created a fort in the sand and she jumped into it – landing haphazardly on her elbow and breaking her humerus near the growth plate in her elbow. Of all the places we have been – breaking an arm on a soft beach was the last thing on my mind! I wrote more about Hadley breaking her arm here – thankfully the Page Arizona hospital had amazing care and it was only a short 20 minute drive away. Have you been to Lone Rock Beach Primitive campground before?
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NEW YORK: Wendell Pierce made his first public appearance after getting arrested last week in Atlanta for allegedly hitting a female Bernie sander supporter during a debate over presidential race. Hillary Clinton supporter Pierce was seen at Italia Independent x Ghostbusters launch in New York on Friday. “He wanted to fly under the radar. He refused photos because he didn’t have a ‘shape-up’ for his haircut. He kept saying, ‘Not now. Next time.’ He was super quiet,” said a source. The Wire actor was arrested Saturday over the allegations of battery at an Atlanta hotel. He became enraged after an apparent heated political debate with Bernie Sanders supporters. According to the police report, “Pierce and his girlfriend met a woman named Maggie Baca and two of her friends in the hotel when both groups of parties began a conversation about politics which got Mr. Pierce upset.” “Mrs. Baca stated that Mr. Pierce began to push her and at this point her and her friends began to walk to their room,” the report said. “Mrs. Baca stated that Mr. Pierce followed them to their room and stuck his arm in the door and tried to enter the room.” “Baca accused Pierce of hitting her in the head and grabbing her hoodie as she and her friends allegedly attempted to push him from getting into the room,” the report went on to say. Pierce addressed the incident on twitter stating, “I regret that what started as a civil political discussion escalated to the level that it did.” “Although what has been reported thus far differs in important respected from what actually occurred, I have confidence that the judicial process will work as it should,” Pierce tweeted.
More than a week after KONY 2012: Part II - Beyond Famous hit YouTube, the video, which was also created by Invisible Children, has racked up about 1.7 million views. That's less than 2% of the traffic that KONY 2012 got in its first five days. Part II's performance shows that the success of the initial video will be hard, if not impossible, to repeat. "The first campaign was an anomaly," says Matt Fiorentino, director of marketing at Visible Measures, a video measurement firm. "We've never seen anything like it before." Fiorentino adds that 1.7 million views is still very good for a video, particularly one with a social good message. "Compared to a regular campaign, it's pretty good," he says. "Whatever they put out is going to be very visible." Both KONY 2012 and its successor were designed to raise awareness about Joseph Kony, a Ugandan warlord behind the Lord's Resistance Army, a guerrilla force dedicated to overthrowing the Ugandan government. The videos aim to have Kony arrested for war crimes by the end of 2012. Invisible Children is also planning a worldwide rally on April 20 called "Cover the Night." Released on March 5, KONY 2012 is now up to around 180 million views, according to Visible Measures. The success has drawn critics, including a group called Visible Children that took issue with Invisible Children's overhead costs. Invisible Children also drew unwanted attention a couple of weeks after the video hit when the group's director and co-founder, Jason Russell, was detained by police in San Diego for charges of public drunkenness and lewd behavior. With all that back story, there was a lot of curiosity about the KONY 2012 sequel, but Fiorentino says there was probably nothing Invisible Children could have done to garner another video with comparable views, except maybe to wait longer before it released the sequel. Says Fiorentino: "They needed to give the audience time to breathe." Representatives from Invisible Children could not be reached for comment.
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Now that we’ve all had a solid week to get settled into the New Year – whew! – it’s about that time to shift into full-swing. Award Season 2010 is officially upon us and as the days march on, our inbox seems to be overflowing with invites to everything from celebrity, gifting suites to red carpet arrivals and pre- and post-award show celebrations. None of it would be any fun if we didn’t share the experience with you, so be sure to stay tuned – and check in, often. Monday, January 11 TV: Sandra “Pepa” Denton begins her search for love on her new reality series, “Let’s Talk About Pep.” All we’ll say is that the Grammy-winning rapper is single and ready to mingle…so are her three girlfriends. Brothers, beware! Tune in to VH1 at 10:30pm ET/PT. TV: Emmy-nominated television director, Millicent Shelton, helms tonight’s episode of “Men of a Certain Age,” starring Andre Braugher and LisaGay Hamilton, airing at 10/9c on TNT. Event: In Los Angeles? If so, be sure to stop by the Congo Room, at 9pm, as soul singer, N’dambi – and her ber-fabulous ‘fro – takes the stage to perform songs from her latest album, “Pink Elephant.” Birthday Wishes: Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige, celebrates her 39th birthday. Tuesday, January 12 TV: After an unceremonious cancellation by NBC, “Southland” returns to television–this time on TNT–with Regina King back on her game as Detective Lydia Adams. Tonight’s premiere episode is scheduled to air, commercial-free, at 10/9c. DVD Releases: In case you missed it on HBO last fall, you can catch “By the People”–out on DVD today–to experience this behind-the-scenes take on President Obama‘s spirited journey to the White House. Tyler Perry’s “I Can Do Bad All By Myself” and “The Hurt Locker” are also out on DVD today. TV: “NCIS” star Rocky Carroll sits on the couch with the ladies of “The View” for their first, full week of new episodes (check your local listings). TV: Actor Aldis Hodge stars as Alex “the Hacker” on the TNT crime drama, “Leverage.” Tune in at 10/9c. Birthday Wishes: Creator and executive-producer of both “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice,” Shonda Rhimes, celebrates her 40th birthday. Thursday, January 14 TV: Nicole Richie sits in as a guest judge on the season premiere of “Project Runway,” on Lifetime (check your local listings). Our favorite, Hollywood socialite is definitely keeping busy. Along with her fashion line, Winter Kate, and jewelry line, House of Harlow, the mom of two is in talks to star in, and executive-produce, her own sitcom for ABC. Birthday Wishes: Rapper-turned-actor (and resident “NCIS: Los Angeles” hottie), LL Cool J is 42 today. Friday, January 15: Movies: We’re always game for a dose of Denzel, who’s back on the big screen today in the title role for the post-apocalyptic tale, “Book of Eli,” directed by the Hughes Brothers. Birthday Wishes: “Southland’s” Regina King will blow out 39 candles and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have celebrated his 81st birthday on this day. Saturday, January 16: Event: Gabrielle Union is back as hostess of the third annual BET Honors, which will celebrate the accomplishments of Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, Sean “Diddy” Combs as well as educator, Ruth Simmons, and renowned neurosurgeon, Keith Black. The show, which tapes at Washington, DC’s Warner Theater, will air on BET on February 1. Birthday Wishes: Multi-talented producer/director/choreographer, Debbie Allen, turns 60 today. And on a somber, sobering note, late R&B princess, Aaliyah, would have celebrated her 31st birthday. Sunday, January 17 Event: The Golden Globes, Hollywood’s first, big “industry” bash of the season, will be presented live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel on NBC at 8pm ET/5pm PT. We’re all pulling for Mo’Nique, Gabourey Sidibe, Morgan Freeman and Chiwetel Ejiofor – fingers crossed, tight! Live this week as though it’s on purpose…and remember, January 18 is about more than simply having a break from the office. It’s a national holiday, one which we fought for, to honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. You may like Get The Essence Newsletter and Special Offers delivered to your inbox!
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Before bring your pet in for a general anaesthetic We ask you to starve your pet for 12 hours before the procedure. This usually means not feeding him after 8pm the previous night. This is necessary because a full stomach may make your pet more likely to vomit during the initial and final stages of anaesthesia. Also, when your pet is anaesthetised they are unable to swallow so could inhale bits of food. These could then block the airway or cause a lung infection. Water does not need to be withheld, so they can have a drink until they need to leave your house. Caring for your pet after the anaesthetic After collecting your pet, it is best to keep them somewhere familiar, quiet and warm so you can check on their progress without disturbing them. Usually you can offer a light meal after a few hours but do not be too worried if their appetite is not back to normal immediately. Dogs should be restricted to the house and garden for 3 days and cats should be restricted to the house and supplied with a litter tray for 3 days while they recover from the anaesthetic. Please follow any specific instructions you have been given and do not hesitate to call the surgery if you have any concerns. What is general anaesthesia? It is defined as "a state of unconsciousness produced by anaesthetic agents, with absence of pain sensation over the entire body and a greater or lesser degree of muscular relaxation." What is an anaesthetic? Anaesthetics are drugs, which we give either by injection or the animal breathes in. What happens during anaesthesia? Before your pet is anaesthetised, the vet will examine your pet and choose the most suitable anaesthetic protocol, according to your pet's age and general health. Most anaesthetic procedures usually consist of four different stages. - Pre-anaesthetic medication phase: Drugs are given now to reduce the patient's anxiety, we may also give pain-killing drugs. - Introduction of anaesthesia i.e. induction phase: We inject an anaesthetic agent into the vein on the foreleg. This makes your pet anaesthetised and they pass into the next stage of the anaesthetic procedure, called the maintenance phase. - Maintenance phase: We maintain your pet's anaesthetic by passing a tube into their trachea (windpipe). We connect the tube to an anaesthetic machine which supplies your pet with a mixture of oxygen and anaesthetic gases. During this phase your pet is constantly monitored by a member of our nursing team. - Recovery phase: Your pet will usually start to recover from anaesthesia very soon after the anaesthetic gases are stopped. Your pet is maintained on oxygen until they can maintain themselves. Your pet is monitored carefully during the recovery phase until they are completely awake. Safety of veterinary anaesthetics All anaesthetic procedures carry a small risk; this risk is especially low in healthy animals. The vet may decide to perform a number of tests to reduce this risk. However certain groups of animals are at increased risk, these are the very elderly or very young, animals with pre-existing illnesses and all rabbits and small pets. All pets are examined by a vet prior to their anaesthetic. This is done to minimise any potential risks from the anaesthetic or the surgery. As a result of this examination the vet may decide to test a blood or urine sample. These tests are designed to identify additional health problems which can increase the risks of anaesthetics, such as kidney and liver problems, anaemia or diabetes mellitus. With this information the vet is then able to pick the anaesthetic best suited to your pet's age, condition and any underlying disease.
The Serene Family Dental team partners with every patient we treat to help them achieve and maintain their optimal level of oral health. Unfortunately, we can’t always avoid every dental health concern, and there are some situations where the best option for any patient is to remove a tooth and preserve the best overall health. If you need to learn more about tooth extractions or any of the other restorative dentistry services we provide, contact the Serene Family Dental team for answers to your questions or to schedule a consultation appointment in our McKinney dental office. When are tooth Extractions Recommended? There are many situations where our team may need to remove one or more teeth, including: Severe decay or damage that makes it impossible to save the tooth with other restoration options like dental crowns. Impacted teeth that are unable to erupt from the gums on their own may need to be extracted and replaced. Baby teeth that do not fall out on their own, blocking the developing adult tooth below. To prepare teeth for orthodontics or advanced partial or full denture restorations one or more teeth may be removed. Wisdom teeth, third molars, are commonly extracted because they lead to numerous oral health concerns like crowding and impaction. How are Teeth Extractions Performed? Every patient is different, and we’ll need to address your unique situation to provide an exact plan to remove your tooth. However, most patients either have teeth “pulled” or surgically extracted. Pulling teeth requires the tooth be fully erupted from the gums. Then, we use a clasping tool to shift the tooth back and forth until it breaks free from the socket. Surgical removal simply means that we need to cut away tissue to expose the tooth or allow us access to the supportive structures of teeth prior to removal. Caring for Your Smile Following Tooth Extraction After your tooth is removed, you will experience some discomfort and bleeding for the first 48 hours. Following these first two days, your pain should begin to diminish, and all bleeding should be stopped. If you continue to experience severe or worsening pain, your extraction site is still bleeding after two days, or you notice warning signs of infection, please call our office right away. During the treatment planning process, we will provide you and/or a trusted family member or friend with specific at-home care instructions to help you make a fast, painless recovery. Some things to keep in mind include: Take all medications and pain relievers as directed throughout your recovery to ensure comfort and prevent complications. Keep clean gauze over the extraction site until bleeding has completely stopped. Avoid eating hard foods for several days following treatment. We recommend liquids and very soft foods only for the first few days, and patients can gradually add foods as they feel comfortable. Avoid chewing near the extraction site until your smile is fully healed. Use ice packs to relieve pain, avoid swelling, and slow bleeding. We recommend using ice packs at intervals of 20 minutes on and 20 minutes off. Brush and floss healthy teeth as usual but do your best to avoid the extraction site while cleaning. We may provide you with an antimicrobial mouth rinse to use as you heal.
Over the weekend at the Rome International Film Festival, the queen of monochrome (and severe buns) graced the red carpet for the premiere of Her and ditched her go-to black for an intricate white creation from Balenciaga’s spring 2014 collection. Mara looked light and airy in a strapless, form-fitting lace dress, which she wore with a sheer, cocoonlike cape. She then continued her white theme with strappy B Brian Atwood sandals, and only added contrast to her look with dark red lips that matched the carpet. She swept her hair into a tight half-’do and, despite the fact that she wasn’t wearing black, channeled some serious Loki vibes. It must be a mix of the dark hair, gaunt expression, and captivating flourish of that translucent cape.
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Hull 1-7 Spurs - Mauricio's reaction 21 May 2017\|Tottenham Hotspur Mauricio Pochettino and the players were determined to finish the season in style after such a grand finale at White Hart Lane last weekend - how they’ve delivered. We waved goodbye to our famous old stadium with a 2-1 victory against Manchester United and waved goodbye to the 2016-17 Premier League campaign with a 6-1 win at Leicester on Thursday night and 7-1 win at Hull on Sunday. Two games, 13 goals, our record away win of all-time - and a second-successive Golden Boot for the league’s top goalscorer Harry Kane. Harry’s quickfire double in the first half put us in control at the KCOM Stadium and also put Harry in control of the Golden Boot. He completed his fifth hat-trick of the season in the second half to become only the third Spur ever to score five trebles in a single season and only the second player to score more than three Premier League hat-tricks in a season behind Alan Shearer, who hit five in 1995-96. Dele Alli added the third, Victor Wanyama nodded home the fourth, Ben Davies hit a rocket for the sixth (his first Premier League goal for us) and Toby Alderweireld completed the rout. Our first second place since 1962-63 was already secured and with it, a Club best in every Premier League category - most wins (26), fewest defeats (4), most goals (86), fewest conceded (26), best goal difference (plus-60) and most points (86). The only disappointment was to concede a goal in the second half which meant Hugo Lloris missed out on the Premier League’s Golden Glove for clean sheets. “I’m so proud, the way we finished the season was fantastic,” said Mauricio. “I’m very happy for Harry, disappointed for Hugo but I think to be second in the table, fighting all the way on 86 points, it was amazing. “It’s not only the results but the football we played was very good and now it’s a big challenge for next season. Our dream and our challenge is to be better this season. Now is a moment to take to decisions, to try to improve and try to provide the team with all the tools to try to win, that’s the challenge for us.” Harry Kane has won the Golden Boot for the second-successive season - what more can you say about him? Mauricio: “It’s amazing, unbelievable, fantastic and a big achievement for him. We are all very happy. He deserves it. He’s a great player and it’s a very good thing for him. He’s one of the best strikers in the world and I’m very happy for him.” You went over to our fans again at the end of the game, any final message for them? Mauricio: “I want to say thank you because they’ve been fantastic all season, away and at White Hart Lane. I’m very proud of our fans and I’d like to say a big thanks and to say as well that we will work very hard to improve the team and try to challenge again next season.”
Desmond and Ben I started blogging about my cats about five years ago, when I convinced my then fiancé (now husband) that we needed to adopt two adorable tuxedo kittens. Ben and Desmond came home in October of 2011, when they were eight weeks old. In 2013, Jack came along, and we thought our family was finally complete. But when Desmond passed away suddenly from heart failure a year later, we were devastated. A few weeks later, I met a family looking for homes for a litter of kittens their cat had birthed. Hugo, the only tuxedo kitten in the bunch, came home with me that day. Since then, the TuxedoTrio has grown their own little fan base on the internet. We started blogging and posting their photos on Instagram, and have since expanded to other social media networks, where we’ve made thousands of virtual friends over the past few years. Ben is your typical alpha-male, the leader of the pack. He’ll be the first to greet you if you ever come over for a visit. He’s a big, beefy boy, and might look a little intimidating to some, but he’s a giant teddy bear once you get to know him. He is also the only cat I have ever met who loves to play in water and will come running when he hears someone turn on the shower. Jack is, and forever will be, my baby, no matter how old he is. He is probably the most cuddly of the three, always sleeping under the covers with me at night, with his head on my pillow. Jack will also play fetch with his toys for as long as you are willing to throw them for him. If he really trusts you, he’ll let you give him a belly rub. Hugo will be two years old this March, but he still acts like a kitten, destroying anything and everything he can get his cute little paws on. He’s also the most vocal of the boys, always chirping and singing kitty songs to the birds outside the window. He loves to jump and climb, and you can often find him on top of a shelf I put above our bedroom door. He likes to sit up there and watch over everything. Because we live with three cats in a Boston apartment, you might think that litter odor would be a problem for us. Fortunately, that’s not the case at all. World’s Best Cat Litter™ absorbs and clumps better than any other litter I have tried. The smell after the cats use the box is basically non-existent. Best part? It’s totally septic safe and 100% flushable! (Read more about that here. You should never flush clay litter–that stuff is definitely not septic safe and it’s terrible for the environment. It can also clog your pipes or damage your septic tanks. Also note that the state of California discourages flushing cat feces.) Since it’s easy to scoop and clumps perfectly, and we usually just scoop it right into the toilet and flush it away. We love World’s Best Cat Litter™! Finding a natural product that is environmentally friendly was important to us. There are several companies that claim to be made from all-natural products, but none of them compete. World’s Best Cat Litter™ is made from whole-kernel corn that is grown in the U.S., and it doesn’t contain chemicals or any of that silica dust that clay litters have. We first started using the Original Series formula back in 2011, but we’ve since graduated to the Multiple Cat Clumping formula, which we find works better with several felines who are in and out of the box several times a day. For those of you that like a scented litter, World’s Best Cat Litter™ also has Lavender Scented and Forest Scented formulas! You can learn more about what makes World’s Best Cat Litter™ so different by clicking here. If you haven’t tried it yet, what are you waiting for? The TuxedoTrio gives it six paws up!
India and Israel today entered into an agreement to set up a centre of excellence to boost the dairy sector in Haryan at an investment of Rs 15 crore. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) on this was signed today between the Haryana Government and Israel's international development agency MASHAV. This centre of excellence is aimed at training Haryana farmers about Israel's technology on raising the productivity of dairy sector in India, the world's largest milk producer. The MoU is part of the joint agreement on agriculture co-operation signed between the two countries. Already, 9 such centre of excellence are operational in India and 19 others are being set up to promote fruits and vegetables. This is the first time Israel is partnering with India in dairy sector. "Haryana is aiming to enhance its per capita availability of milk with the help of Israeli techniques. I hope with this collaboration Haryana would emerge as the top milk producing state in the country..," State Agriculture Minister O P Dhankar told reporters after signing of the agreement here. Haryana is currently at third position in milk production in the country after Gujarat and Punjab. A feasibility study for the proposed centre has already been conducted by Israeli experts. It would be established in the already existing State Cattle Breeding Project at Hisar. "Field of agriculture is one of the main fields of cooperation between India and Israel..In Haryana we have our flagship centre of excellence in horticulture and we hope same will be the case in dairy sector..," Israel's Deputy Chief of Mission Yahel Vilan said. The major objective of the proposed centre would be to establish a model dairy farm with Israel's cost-effective and innovative dairy technologies accustomed to local conditions for achieving an intensive dairy production system of global standards. "Being a model demonstration unit for the farmers in the country, the centre would help to motivate livestock owners and entrepreneurs to adopt newer, economically beneficial technologies," Dhankar added. The centre would be 100 per cent sponsored by the Indian government, through Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna (RKVY). It will have customised modern dairy sheds for 110 cows with a potential of expending it to 300 cows, calves barnes, feed centre, milking parlour, mini dairy plant and waste water treatment plant. According to the agreement, the centre would import frozen semen and also directly transferable sexed frozen embryos from Israel. It would also have a mini dairy plant for on-site production of value added products to enhance economic returns, which would be an integral part of the project. Faced with a large shortage of dairy items after the European Union's decision not to export to it, Russia is expected to open the doors to Indian imports. A team of Russia’s phytosanitary watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, had visited India between October 27 and November 8 and inspected dairy plants (including those making cheese) interested in exporting their products to Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The delegation inspected facilities that supply corresponding raw materials and other organisations involved in the production and control of the corresponding regulated goods produced at the inspected plants. According to trade sources, the team showed satisfaction over the manufacturing practices adopted by Indian dairy plants. “We are still awaiting reports from the Russian authority (Rosselkhoznadzor) for the inspection carried out on Indian plants in November. They were very positive towards India,” said Santosh Sarangi, chairman of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda). Indian producers indirectly export milk products to Russia through various European countries. That route is closing now as EU nations are now not exporting to Russia due to sanctions imposed by the Western world. Trade sources say Sergey Dankvert, head of Rosselkhoznadzor, and Apeda Chairman Sarangi have agreed to complete the Russian requirements to adhere to quarantine and other certification issues in two months ending December. Russia’s annual dairy product import requirements are estimated at above 5,000 million tonnes. The country used to purchase around half of its dry milk and cheese requirements from the constituents of former Soviet Republic and Finland. Russia has imposed a one-year ban targeting all meat, fish, dairy, fruit and vegetables from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Norway and Australia, in retaliation at western economic sanctions over Moscow's role in the Ukraine crisis. Data compiled by the European Commission show European Union dairy exports to Russia were worth 2.3 billion euros ($3 billion) in 2013. Cheese accounted for almost half. “This offers a huge opportunity for Indian dairy exporters. If opened, India can get a huge benefit of the supply shortage faced by Russia,” said Ajay Sahai, Director General of the Federation of Indian Export Organisation (FIEO). Meanwhile, the EU has offered huge incentives to compensate the losses suffered due to the ban on dairy imports from Russia. The European Commission has announced that it will open private storage aid for butter, skimmed milk powder (SMP) and certain types of cheese in order to alleviate the impact of Russian restrictions on imports of EU dairy products and to limit the negative effects on the internal market. India now has indisputably the world's biggest dairy industry — at least in terms of milk production; last year India produced close to 100 million tonnes of milk, 15 per cent more than the US and three times as much as the much-heralded new growth champion, China. The dairy sector in India has shown remarkable development in the past decade. India's export of dairy products stood at 159,228.52 tonnes to the world for Rs 3,318.53 crore during the year 2013-14. India’s major dairy product export destinations include Bangladesh, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Yemen and Pakistan. Dairy exports during the current financial year are set to touch a new high, with shipments of skimmed milk powder (SMP) doubling over last year. A drought in New Zealand early last year had fuelled demand for Indian SMP, mainly from the developing markets. Till February-end this fiscal, SMP shipments stood at 1.22 lakh tonnes, nearly twice the 63,762 tonnes exported during the same time a year ago, official sources said. However, shipments have now slowed down, with Indian SMP turning unviable in the export market due to the recent decline in global prices and the rupee appreciating against the dollar. The Amul story “The domestic market is better now, as prices have moved up. We are getting a price of ?280-290 a kg in the local market, against export realisations of about ?260 a kg,” said RS Sodhi, Managing Director of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which owns the Amul brand. GCMMF has seen a five-fold rise in its SMP shipments in the current financial year, with exports of 20,000 tonnes in the current financial year, the highest so far, Sodhi said. In the last financial year, Amul shipped out about 4,000 tonnes, after the Government opened up SMP exports in June 2012. GCMMF, which initially targeted an export turnover of ?350 crore for the current year, expects to close this fiscal with revenue of ?500 crore from overseas, Sodhi added. RS Khanna, an expert in the sector, feels the value of Indian dairy exports for the current financial year could touch ?5,000 crore. This has been driven by a strong growth in shipments of SMP and improved prices. Besides, demand from traditional markets, such as Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Indian shipments also got a boost from the product contamination scare faced by Fonterra, the world’s largest exporter. According to APEDA, exports of dairy products during April-December stood at ?2,618.72 crore, up 162 per cent over ?996.86 crore a year ago. “The party is over for the Indian SMP exports. The surplus stocks that were built up in the past couple of years have been exhausted and the domestic prices are attractive,” said Sandeep Agarwal, Director at SMC Foods, which exported about 1,000 tonnes in the current year. Russia would commence the import of egg powder from India about a month from now (or perhaps sooner), owing to the increase in the demand for it. Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia’s agricultural watchdog, confirmed the development. India, the world’s third largest producer of eggs, currently exports table eggs, egg white powder and egg yolk powder to about 30 countries, and had been in talks with the government of Russia to facilitate their export. However, Russia’s strict animal health norms became a stumbling block for the export of egg powder (which is used by Russian food manufacturers as an ingredient in confectionery, semi-finished meat products and mayonnaise) by India. Indian products cheaper Indian egg powder is comparatively cheaper than the product made in Russia - where the rising costs of poultry feed are having an adverse impact on its economy - or imported from countries like Argentina. The Russian media has, in fact, criticised the decision to open the market to Indian imports, stating that the local makers wouldn’t be able to compete with Indian prices and could be wiped out. Nevertheless, Rosselkhoznador has decided to go ahead with it. Indian poultry body confident A K Sharma, a Poultry Federation of India member, stated that India could export high-quality egg powder to Russia, but to do so consistently, they would have to maintain the price line. “We are confident about exporting our products to any country in the world, as they are of a high quality. We would not only fetch the best price, but also be able to contribute significantly to the growth of the Indian economy,” he added. The National Seminar on Enhancing Productivity and Food Safety of the Dairy Sector is slated to take place at New Delhi’s India International Centre on March 13, 2014. It would be organised by the National Productivity Council (NPC). The objectives of the one-day seminar are as follows: Evaluating productivity and food safety issues confronting the industry to make its products internationally acceptable, and developing sustainable response strategies; Reflecting upon the immediate concerns and the imminent challenges faced by the dairy processing sector; Enabling the Indian dairy processing industry to set its productivity norms quality agenda and internalise them to promote safety and quality, and Generating policy inputs for the government to formulate proactive strategies to enhance competitiveness of the sector The deliberations at the seminar would cover the following topics: Role of the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) in ensuring food safety and quality of Indian food products; Technological bottlenecks to maintain the quality to ensure food safety; Issues impeding the implementation of quality standards in dairy processing sector; Consequences of stringent food safety and quality standards for international trade; Understanding traceability and its implementation in Indian conditions; Role of regulatory and accreditation bodies in building consumer confidence in Indian dairy products in the international market; Issues and challenges for export of Indian dairy products; Strategies to become globally competitive, and International regulatory requirements and challenges for the Indian dairy processing sector The following people would participate in it: Senior level functionaries of Central/state animal husbandry, dairying and fisheries department, the Ministries of Agriculture and Food Processing Industries; the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB); the National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India; the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI); dairy plants, milk unions and state dairy federations; the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA); the Quality Council of India (QCI); the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI); the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD); the Export Promotion Council; quality standards certification agencies; the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) institutions; state agricultural universities; dairy science colleges; equipment and machinery manufacturers; testing laboratory financial institutions; cattle feed manufacturers and dairy farmers’ associations. The dairy sector is likely witness positive growth next fiscal, increase in market size and milk production and strong rise in exports, according to India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra). Ind-Ra assigned a positive outlook to the dairy sector for FY'15. There is likely to be reasonable growth in the sector's market size and milk production and strong growth in dairy products exports, Ind-Ra said in a report here. India's milk sector is regarded as one of the world's fastest growing market and the agency expects it to expand by 16.3 per cent in FY'15. The positive outlook also stems from increasing the government's initiatives on improving rural income. The agency also assigned a stable outlook to the dairy cooperatives (DCs) for FY'15 due to their stable financial performance although with some liquidity issues. On the back of likely favourable monsoons and strengthening farmer base of the cooperative model, National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) expects 5.47 per cent year-on- year growth in milk production in FY'15. Export opportunities, it said, have opened up as milk production is higher than domestic demand. Milk surplus and low production cost coupled with rupee depreciation augur well for exports. How about mixing your staple buffalo milk with milk from cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats and camels to get the right amount of nutrients? Experts at Progressive Punjab Agriculture Summit being organized at Chappar Chiri pointed out the need for value addition to milk, eggs and meat. For example, buffalo milk contains more calcium (58%), more protein (40%), and less cholesterol (43%) as compared to cow milk. There are higher mineral and vitamin content of goat and sheep milk than in cow milk; there is effectiveness of camel milk in diabetes management. Vice-chancellor V K Taneja of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University, Ludhiana, tried to convince dairy farmers that certain compounds present in camel milk proteins have insulin-like effect and camel milk supplementation reduces insulin requirement in type-1 diabetic patients. "Substantial research studies and advanced compositional identification of a large number of bioactive compounds in milk from these rare species for beneficial effects on human health are required to be studied scientifically," he said. For proper processing of these high value dairy products, there is need for development of low cost and energy efficient indigenous machines - mozzarella cheese ball making, low cost indigenous machine development for small scale production of traditional dairy products like paneer, pinni and improved packaging of indigenous dairy products to improve shelf life and quality parameters. Experts said that the state government takes steps for adopting an extension model in animal husbandry. This would include introduction of contract farming which involves providing services and inputs and collecting produce has demonstrated its strength and should be replicated in all parts of the state and country, group of villages should be adopted for transfer of knowledge, technologies, inputs and services for optimum exploitation of resources and helping in creation of self-help groups, especially women groups. It’s a problem of plenty for companies in the milk and milk products segment. As export of skimmed milk powder is losing sheen, they now have excess supply. As a result, private milk powder exporters have cut capacity, and milk procurement for dairies is rising. However, higher costs of fodder and animal feed are weighing heavy, and some dairy majors are considering a rise in milk prices. While the Centre lifted the ban on exporting skimmed milk powder (SMP) in June, low prices in the global market are acting as a deterrent for exporters. Experts say the industry has skimmed milk powder inventory of about 1,50,000 tonnes. Speaking to Business Standard, a senior official at MILKFED Punjab, the cooperative milk producers’ federation in Punjab, said, “International export prices are not conducive to exports. The prevailing rate is Rs 135-140 per kg($ 2.7 a kg). This is quite low, compared with the input cost of Rs 160-170 per kg. He added, “Yet, we are not able to export the material at a stretch.” MILKFED processes about 9,00,000 litres of its popular brand Verka a day. In August, Verka’s price was raised by Re 1 a litre in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Several dairies such as Mother Dairy and Amul, have seen a 15-25 per cent rise in milk procurement, as private SMP companies are operating below their capacity levels to clear inventories. Also, an increase of about 20 per cent in fodder costs in the last few months, owing to a drought-like situation in various parts of the country, and the rising animal feed cost are exerting pressure on milk producers. Mother Dairy, a prominent company in the National Capital Region (NCR), is reviewing the situation. A Mother Dairy spokesperson said, “ In NCR, which accounts for a significant portion of our sales, we have not carried out a price increase for the last twelve months. We have been absorbing various cost pushes. We will review the situation and take a decision soon.” The company had last revised prices on September 11, 2011. Experts said on an average, last year, milk federations and private companies increased milk prices by Rs 5-6 a litre. The increase in prices led to farmers undertaking dairy farming, making it a remunerative business. As a result, every milk federation is recording a rise of 15-25 per cent in procurement. However, farmers feel “they should be paid at least Rs 3-4 per litre more, owing to high fodder and feed costs,” said Progressive Dairy Farmers Association President Daljit Singh Sadarpura. Amul, the largest company in the segment, is, however, in a comfortable position. “The domestic market is better than the export market (for us). We command brand premium. In the last one week, export prices have risen six to seven per cent ($3000 last week, compared with $3,200 now). However, it still has a long way to go. I am optimistic about exports in the coming months,” said R S Sodhi, managing director, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, which markets the Amul brand of products. Amul is considered India’s largest SMP exporter. Sodhi said despite the rise in milk procurement, the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation didn’t plan to raise milk prices. It had last raised prices in April. He added the availability of fodder had improved, owing to good rains in Gujarat last week. A senior official of the Karnataka Milk Federation agreed. “Last year, there was scarcity of milk, and SMP prices in February 2011 stood at Rs 200 a kg. Due to the paucity of milk, several federations like those in Bihar, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh bought SMP…Now, SMP prices have come down drastically compared to last year. We have about 10,000 tonnes of SMP in our inventory. We floated the tender for sale thrice, but could not get attractive price. So, we cancelled it. With a ban on export, inventories piled up and every player wished to generate cash revenue by selling SMP. Even private players have stopped accepting milk, which has resulted in an increase of 15-25 per cent in milk procurement by state cooperatives and federations.” In Karnataka, milk cooperatives increased price by Rs 3 a litre across all categories in January. They don’t have any immediate plan to raise prices this year, said a senior official of the Karnataka Milk Federation. Sangam Dairy run by the milk producers’ cooperative in Guntur, has sought the Government’s permission to export its value-added products to the Gulf countries. The dairy, which registered a turnover of Rs 320 crore in 2011-12, said it is planning to come out with an ice cream product this year. The co-operative has appointed a consultant to help it prepare a plan for this expansion in business, Dhulipalla Narendra Kumar, Chairman of the cooperative dairy, said. Addressing reporters here on Wednesday, he said the co-operative had formed groups with some farmers and supplied them quality animals from Haryana. “These animals would give them additional yields. We will bear the cost and deduct from the monthly payments,” he said. The dairy has 600 milk co-operative societies with a combined capacity of three lakh litres day. On Monday, N. Chandrababu Naidu, former Chief Minister and Telugu Desam Party President, has launched ‘Sangam Extra Life’ in 200 ml Tetra Pak pouches. The dairy built a production capacity of 40,000 litres a day for this initiative. Currently restricted to Guntur, Hyderabad and a few other districts, the dairy is hoping to expand its presence across the State. “With the new value-added products and expanded reach, we are targeting to achieve a turnover of Rs 600 crore in the next three years,” Narendra said. Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal, Chief Minister today inaugurated Rs. 8 crore Milk Powder Plant having capacity of 5 metric tonne at Duttnagar in Shimla district. This will benefit more than 50,000 milk producers of Shimla, Kullu and Mandi district and will play significant role to bring white revolution in Himachal Pradesh. Reiterating his Government’s resolve for balanced and speedy development of all areas of the State, Prof. Prem Kumar Dhumal said that Rampur area and adjoining areas were producing milk but were not getting remunerative prices so far. He said that keeping in view this, the present State Government had started work on this plant in the year 2009 and completed in a record time by taking up its construction work on war footing. He had a dig on those who become benefactor of people of the area but had not done anything for them. He said that during Congress regime procurement price of milk had been increased Rs. 2 only whereas the present State Government during last four years had increased upto Rs. 7 per litre. Chief Minister said that Rs. 300 crore ambitious Doodh Ganga Scheme aimed at strengthening the economy of the milk producers in the State and added that for purchase of milch cattle and milk related activities subsidy upto 33 percent was being given to those interested in it. Prof. Dhumal said that emphasis had also been given to strengthen the infrastructure in the State. He said that all villages were being connected by road. Referring to Rampur area, he said that Rs. 60.50 crore were being spent on construction of roads and bridges in the area. He said that out of 48 panchayats 44 had been provided facility of roads besides 109 villages out of 136. He said that remaining panchayats and villages in the areas would also be provided this facility soon. Chief Minister said that to benefit the farmers of the State, Government had started various schemes like Rs. 353 crore Pandit Deen Dayal Kisan Baagwan Samridhi Yojna, Rs. 300 crore Doodha Ganga Scheme, Rs. 321 crore, Crop Diversification and Organic Farming Scheme, Rs. 85 crore Apple Replantation Scheme. Prof. Dhumal said that Government had made sincere efforts to ensure better health care facilities at their door steps of the people and counted various schemes such as Atal Swashya Sewa Yojna, Matri Shakti Sewa Yojna, Mukhyamantri Vidyarthi Swasthya Yojna. He said that every ration card holder of the State were being provided ration on subsidized rates for which a provision of Rs. 130 crore had been made during this year. Chief Minister announced starting of classes in ITI Kharahan and deployment of Naib Tehsildar or Tehsildar for one week in a month at Taklech so that people of the area do not face any difficulty in getting their revenue and administrative works done. Prof. Dhumal was presented a bank draft of Rs. 31,000 towards Chief Minister Relief Fund by Shri Chander Shekhar Vaidya on behalf of offices and officials of Milk Federation. Chief Minister also performed foundation stone laying ceremony of Rs. 3.26 crore Bagwani Lift Irrigation Scheme at Rattanpur Gaura. Shri Narender Bragta, Horticulture Minister thanked the Chief Minister for safeguarding the interests of fruit growers and farmers in the State. He also thanked for installing Anti Hail Gun at Kharapattar. Shri Sher Singh Chauhan, Chairman, Agriculture and Rural Development Bank and President, District Shimla BJP, Shri Mohan Joshi, Chairman, Milk Fed., Shri Brij Lal, Chairman, Kailash Federation, Shri Bhupender Tarel, President, BJP Mandal also spoke on the occasion. Shri Raj Kumar, Pradhan, local Gram Panchyat proposed vote of thanks. Shri Kishori Lal, MLA, Shri Gian Chandel, Chairman, APMC, Shri Sandeepani Bhardwaj, Member, National Kisan Morcha BJP Executive Committee, Smt. Veena Sharma, Member, BJP Executive Committee and other prominent persons were present on the occasion. If soya milk does not suit your tastebuds, you may soon have an alternative to satiate your craving for milk. Scientists at Junagadh Agricultural University (JAU) have developed peanut milk that may soon be available in the market. Although the commercially viable process for peanut milk has been developed, the consumers would have to wait a bit long. "We have developed the process and technology has been transferred to a Junagadh-based entrepreneur to bring it out in the market,'' vice-chancellor, JAU, Dr N C Patel said. According to an associate with education extension unit of the university professor Virendra Bhatt, peanut milk is expected to be with acceptable in the market as a chocolate and vanilla flavored beverage. A jeweller-based in Junagadh Shailesh Patel is the entrepreneur who has decided to launch peanut milk, peanut paneer, peanut buttermilk, peanut ice-cream and peanut sweets in a phased manner. "In the first phase, we will launch flavored peanut milk under Dugdhamrut brand. We are hopeful of entering the market within a month. The research and development work is on to ensure that it becomes popular among the people of the state. Since there is no cholesterol in peanut milk, it is bound to find acceptance among a large number of consumers," Patel said. Another factor that goes in favor of peanut milk is that unlike soya milk, there is no bean odor in it. Patel claimed, "Many people do not like the flavor of soya milk, but peanut milk with its high protein constituent will be an option for them." He has recently sent samples of peanut milk for testing at Food Testing Laboratory at JAU. Aiming to introduce the beverage in 200ml pouches in the market, he plans to get the health conscious consumers to take to his product as an option to the animal and soya milk.
Technical Director Professor Sabine Flitsch will present Bio-Shape’s company profile and latest research at the IBioIC Annual Conference 25-26/01/2018. Bio-Shape is a start-up company and has been in operation since 2016. It was founded by four academic scientists from Manchester and Liverpool Universities. Building on a combined expertise of >70 years of academic research, culminating in the commercialisation of biocatalysts and cutting edge synthetic and analytical tools to support biotechnology industries. Bio-Shape specialises in applying mass spectrometry based methods to analyse large and complex biomolecules such as protein-based biopharmaceuticals to look at: structure, disorder, conformation, conformational change and aggregation with specific expertise in ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM-MS). Hydrogen deuterium exchange with mass spectrometry (HDX MS) is used for higher order structural studies, mapping binding sites and discovery and development of protein drugs. Our research interests lie in the development of an IM-MS platform to unambiguously assign carbohydrate linkage details to polysaccharides from complex mixtures.[1-2] Development of our array-based mass spectrometry platform for glycan binding studies and characterisation of glycan binding proteins and glycoproteins is also a target. A series of newly developed biocatalysts are available to purchase via Prozomix Limited www.prozomix.com and we continue to expand this collection of novel glycoenzymes. The collection includes enzymes for: sugar nucleotide syntheses, α-2,3 sialyltransferases, α-2,6 sialyltransferases, CMP-sialic acid synthases and exo-alpha-sialidases. Activities including: fucosyltransferases, galactosyltransferases, fucosidases and glycosyltransferases are expected by 2018. Gray C. J et al. BBA – General subjects, 2016. DOI: 10.1016/J.BBAGEN.2016.02.003 Both, P et al. Nature Chemistry. 2014, 6(1); 65–74. DOI:10.1038/NCHEM.1817 Gray, C. J et al. Analytical Chemistry, 2017, 89(8), 4444-4451. DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b04122
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Afternoon: Sedalia Police Crime Reports For Monday November 30, 2015 Sedalia police receive information on child abuse and drug activity According to a Sedalia Police report the Sedalia Police received information from a Sedalia citizen on a situation involving a child and drug activity in another county. The police report states the Missouri Child Abuse Hotline, and the County involved was called on the case. Man robbed Sunday Evening on James Road Around 5:30pm Sunday evening Sedalia Police were dispatched to a residence on James Road to investigate a robbery. Upon arrival the victim told the officers he was sitting in his kitchen when two-men with their faces covered entered his house, and assaulted him. The suspects then stole the man’s wallet with identification cards and around $150 in cash. At news time the suspects had not been located. Sisters arrested after fight with each other early Sunday morning At 2:38 Sunday morning Sedalia Police r5esponded to a reported disturbance at a house in the 800 block of East 6th. Upon arrival officers found two females identified as sisters fighting in the living room of the home. The suspects identified as 25-year-old Anesha Nicole Sims and 25-year-old Alicia Marie Sims of the residence were arrested and transported to the Pettis County Jail. Both women were placed on 24-hour hold pending charges of Domestic Assault 3rd degree. Alicia Sims was also being charged with resisting arrest. Traffic stop lands a Green Ridge man in jail Sunday night Just before 11pm Sunday night Sedalia Police stopped a vehicle on South Limit for improper registration. A check on the driver 36-year-old Jason C. Miles of Green ridge revealed he was revoked. Miles was arrested and taken to the Pettis County Jail, and placed on 24-hour hold pending formal charges. Theft Complaints and found items filed with the Sedalia Police A victim in the 1300 block of East Broadway reported the theft of a stereo, power amp, and speakers from his unlocked truck. Value of the stolen items was placed at $1200. At 10:54pm Saturday night a victim in the 100 block of South Stewart reported the theft of a handgun. According to the victim the Hi Point model C-9 handgun with 8 or 9 bullets in it was valued at $175. The truck was reportedly unlocked at the time of the theft. A wallet with various articles including a Social Security Card was found in the 700 block of west 3rd Friday evening. It was placed in found property according to the police report.

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