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Pioneer has revealed info and pricing on their new internal 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray drive. The BDR-211UBK carries a suggested retail price of $129 and comes bundled with the required Cyberlink software.
The BD/DVD/CD writer supports playback of Ultra HD Blu-ray discs, and writes at up to 16x speed on BD-R media. UHD BDs store up to 156% more data than traditional 50GB Dual Layer Blu-ray Discs.
The BDXL format supports BDXL Blu-ray media (including 128GB Quadruple Layer (QL) and 100GB Triple Layer (TL) Blu-ray Disc).
The drive also features DVD regional playback control and Peak Power Reducer Mode that suppresses power consumption at peak operation.
Minimum system requirements for the BDR-211UBK include Windows10, 7th-gen Intel Core i7/i5 processor, Intel HD Graphics 630, 6GB RAM, and HDCP 2.2/HDMI 2.0a output.
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Movers Woodstock to Moncton Maybe you heard one well known songs “Big City Life” which completely describes just how maybe living is going to be in the new city. A descent prep is necessary, when you are shifting from Woodstock, Ontario to Moncton, New Brunswick. Should you put your old house beside your new place, you could notice the fact that availability of the similar products and services you might have in your current town, will be increased. When you relocate to your new city such as Moncton, you may face much more points of interest to visit, in combination with solutions which may not be available in a current place. But first, let’s make the move easier! As normally, the move usually requires attentive preparing. Remember, to change your current home address in bank or investment company, CRA, cellphone and even government identification cards. On top of that, with the help of our own working experience we noticed the following exciting basic fact – any time people move from Woodstock, ON to Moncton, New Brunswick, sometimes these people face out-of-the-ordinary charges in a new city. Many of the earlier mentioned arrived to reality thanks to potential providers charges including utility bills, internet, hydro, and so on. Moreover, when you move to a new city the majority of service providers will charge the connection charge. Your final location could needs a preparing prior to your move from Woodstock to Moncton. If you moving in to a house / townhouse, note what amount of floors you will have in a new property as well as what’s the distance between an item final spot and unloading place. In situation when it will be an apartment or simply a condo – you need to reserve an elevator before you get there and on the the period of time suggested by your moving coordinator from Woodstock. Often the situation is that men and women using a lift at the same time, which could raise the time essential for unloading. When you will find yourself booking an Woodstock moving services, don’t forget to ask your moving coordinator concerning any sort of treatments you may want to complete prior to the move starts For everyone who desires to move from Woodstock, Ontario to Moncton, New Brunswick Woodstock movers offer an comprehensive full wrapping which often gives you the top cushioning attributes for your items. By the full packaging, we lead to the fact that every large and small items of your things will be properly covered utilizing the combination of packaging materials. Aside from that, expert movers take care of any furniture with a strong particular attention to walls and floor surfaces. 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There are actually plenty of employment options accessible in Moncton, NB, that will create your monetary stability in less then a year. Just a little tip – You should not buy a luxury boat, once you arrive! Build up a marine first! Moncton to Woodstock Movers Switching your current big city live life to some tranquil place can be challenging and actually requires you to prep in the beginning of your move. Localized, non commercial and business Woodstock movers definitely will assist you with all of your shipping, transportation, moving and packing preferences, during your relocate from Moncton, NB to Woodstock, Ontario. Professional moving company Woodstock who supply outstanding moving and packaging solutions from Moncton to Woodstock is tend to, deliver best possible methods for important clientele. 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Shipping Woodstock from/to Moncton, NB If you’re in search of the cheapest option of shipping your belongings from Woodstock to Moncton, there’s an excellent variant to hire movers that utilize Woodstock – Moncton lane. Hercules Moving Company shipping service is the most suitable choice if you require LTL shipping ranging from a single box or a pallet. Vehicle shipping Woodstock from/to Moncton Ensure the safe and secure transferring of your car by employing the professional services of Hercules Movers, which provide a range of tasks and frequently deal with clients who are shipping their vehicle from Woodstock to Moncton. By dealing with our greatly skilled team, you can be certain that your vehicles will arrive at their destination according to schedule. In addition to cars, we also ship lots of other kinds of vehicles, some of which are: boats, RV vehicles, racing cars, motorbikes, farm equipment and many more. 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You and your helpers may tire in the road, and you’ll have to make multiple stops or even to take a break for a night at a motel. Is it better to move with my friends? No, only if you are certain you and your family members can pack, move and unpack your belongings with enough efficiency and professionalism. In case your buddies or family are not ready to devote themselves for several days for the ride from Woodstock to Moncton, or if they are just not physically able to do this job, hiring a professional moving company makes sense. Moving Insurance When moving by yourself, you will have to purchase rental truck insurance and limited coverage for your belongings from your insurance company. Qualified moving companies provide liability coverage for your possessions, that implies you don’t need to pay additionally to be covered against loss and damage to your items. Mover’s basic insurance in Canada is 0,60$ per pound. However, for an additional fee, it is possible for you to upgrade your coverage to one of the mover’s insurance plans, some of which may be: $5 per pound; $10 per pound; Full value protection based on the declared value. Packing for moving out of Woodstock, ON In case you are looking for trained, accurate and uniformed packers, we will provide you with our best packers and movers Woodstock, ON to do delicate packing of any size and type of your impending relocation from Woodstock to Moncton, New Brunswick. Based on your preferences, Hercules can propose you different packing options, including partial packing, fragile only packing, self-packing and full-service packing. If you are too busy to do the packing and unpacking by your own, our movers will deliver the utmost unpacking and installing services at your new home. Not to mention, if you consider DIY packing, a reputable mover may not insure belongings that you’ve packed by yourself. Moving Supplies in Woodstock No efficient long-distance move goes without quality moving supplies and professional equipment, including moving floor runners, furniture pads and a two-wheel moving dolly. Experienced movers Woodstock bring their own equipment for the job and deliver moving supplies, including moving boxes, bubble wrap, shrink wrap, wardrobe boxes, tape, and wood shipping crates straight to your door. Consolidated Move from Woodstock to Moncton You can always save some money by sharing the cost of moving with another customer who is heading to the same destination as your new location. The price of a consolidated move depends on the distance of your move and the weight of your shipment. That can also be estimated by volume (in cubic feet) or by the length of the truck box, which your belongings occupy (in linear feet). Bottom Line Moving yourself doesn’t automatically guarantee saving money. Moreover, numerous benefits take place when hiring a moving company, which are well worth a second look. Unless you’re relocating a one-bedroom apartment within the same house and you don’t have many large or fragile possessions, hiring experienced movers is always a wise idea.
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As the Suicide Squad marketing hype-train starts chugging along, more merchandise tie-ins continue to be revealed. And now, Funko has officially joined along for the ride. Funko has unveiled the many Funko Pop! Vinyl figures that fans are clamoring for – consisting of Task Force X and the Joker. For the major collectors out there, there will be retail variant exclusives for both Harley Quinn and the Joker in specially marked packages you may find in the boxes down below.
Funko has also revealed more tie-in merchandise beyond the popular Pop! Vinyl figures. Also, DC Comics Legion of Collectors will release a box in July through its monthly subscription service that is heavily rumored to feature Enchantress, who was previously spotted behind one of the Funko Pop! Vinyl figure boxes.
It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?
It’s probable that there will be another wave of Suicide Squad-related Funko merchandise, but as of right now, this is what fans can expect to see in retailers near you. Check out the merchandise below.
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Prescribed burning is a vital part of successful land management in grassland and shrubland landscapes. Restoring fire often results in increased vegetation productivity and diversity of species (both plants and wildlife). There is great interest in using prescribed burning to restore pastures that are overrun by invasive plant species, particularly with the rising cost of herbicides. Several factors are important when considering whether prescribed fire will be useful in controlling invasive species.
Successful control of invasive plant species often is determined by the type of plant that is targeted. Generally there are two broad categories used to characterize plants 1) resprouters and 2) non-resprouters. Resprouting plants are those that are capable of growing again from roots when the top is removed. Non-resprouting plants are incapable of growing again after the top is removed and die. Prescribed burning can be a very successful strategy when trying to control non-resprouting plants as it often will kill the plant. Resprouting plants can be much more difficult to control and fire is often used in tandem to other control methods such as grazing, herbicides and mechanical control.
Fire Return Interval
The fire return interval is how often a particular piece of land is burned. For example, if a pasture is burned every three years, then the fire return interval would be three years. Native plants evolved in regions with specific fire return intervals. For grasslands, research suggests that fire return intervals for tallgrass prairie were 3-5 years, 4-7 years for mix-grass prairie and 7-15 years for less productive short grass prairie. In western landscapes, return intervals can be much longer with sagebrush ecosystems burning every 50-100 years. Burning within these suggested return intervals will promote the plants native to that region. Burning more or less frequently may harm native plants and allow exotic and invasive plants to become more abundant.
Season of burn
Many regions have seasons when fire is more common than others. In landscapes where snow covers the vegetation during winter months, fire is limited to summer and fall months. Other regions where winters are mostly snow free, fire is common throughout the year. Plants that evolved with fire seem to be less affected by season of burn than those that evolved without fire. Burning plants when they are actively growing is a good strategy to suppress growth and reproduction of invasive plants. Over several burn cycles, this can greatly reduce the abundance of the target plant in pastures. Also, burning when plants are growing can be safer because fires are often slower and less intense.
Prescribed burning can be used to control invasive species, but a one-size fits all approach will not work and invasive species control must be included in a successful fire prescription.
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If we are to learn anything from the debt negotiations between Greece and its creditors, it’s this; strength wins!
For the Greeks, their situation all along was that of a family that came into easy cash. Yes, it can be a little tempting to blame the other folks with the fat wallets and a willing pen and all too ready to sign their cash over, but debt is ultimately about rights and responsibilities.
We all know the story. Easy cash, easy borrowings and lots and lots of tears when it came to paying back!
At first, we had denial, a sort of “what, us?” when creditors came calling.
Then came defiance “Hey, it’s your problem, you shouldn’t have lent the money in the first place”.
Then the silence!
Followed by the refusal (again)!
Then some more defiance (again), in the case of Greece, it was the election of Syriza.
Then more silence mixed with defiance and a sprinkling of refusal to top things off.
Of course, I am not just talking about the Greek reaction here, I am also referring to the EU politicians that have made a total blunder of things and have made a bad situation much worse for the millions of ordinary Greeks whose economy was put in a stranglehold.
But for the Greeks, the lessons they need to take away from this historic mess is that they are the losers in this game of might.
This is how debt works; in the real world and for families all over the world.
Over the course of the last four years, Irish families have discovered exactly what the Syriza politicians have done in the last few days and it is this:
- Debt – its ability to grow and multiply is extraordinary, especially when late fees and additional charges are factored in.
- It is persistent – it follows the debtor across borders and through time.
- It’s a destroyer of personal wealth – especially when it goes wrong.
- It is a destroyer of personal reputations.
- It can even destroy families.
The history of the Greek people has been put through the reputation shredder. Across the EU family of nations, there have been disputes for and against debt settlement where the rich are refusing to assist the less well off.
If the Greek debt crisis teaches us anything, hopefully it is this; might is right when it comes to debt repayments. When debt goes wrong, the borrower always ends up worse for wear.
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Nestled in the northern part of the island of Borneo, the oil-rich state of Brunei is one of the smallest countries in Asia and also one of the least visited. If you fancy history and amazing architecture (particularly Islamic) with a bit of the tropical vibe thrown in, then Brunei is for you. As a developed country and owing to its small size, it is relatively easy to get around and you can conveniently see the sights of Brunei within a few days. Personally, I found three nights to be enough to see Brunei. Here is my suggested itinerary for a trip to the country:
Table of Contents
Day 1 – Bandar Seri Begawan / Kampong Ayer
Stroll the grounds of the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque and marvel at its ornate marbled exterior. Do this as your first stop in the morning to “whet your appetite” on Brunei. Check out the main dome which is covered in pure gold. Admission is free and you can enter the mosque outside of prayer hours.
From here, it is just a short walk from the Yayasan Complex from where you can buy souvenirs or stock up on groceries if you are ever in need of any. The area is also filled with restaurants and you can stop here for lunch. If you’re not feeling peckish, the area immediately east of Yayasan Complex contains the Teng Yun temple (the oldest in Brunei) and has a number of traditional family-run stores – an interesting place for a short stroll.
It’s a short walk to the Royal Regalia Museum which features a number of objects including gifts the Sultan of Brunei has received over the years as well as equipment used during his coronation and silver jubilee (check out the royal chariot in the entrance hall). Opening hours: Sun-Thu from 9am to 5pm, Fri 9-11.30am & 2.30-5pm, Sat 9.45am-5pm, last entry 4.30pm.
Head over to the Jame Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque. Built in 1994, this is Brunei’s largest mosque and it boasts of 29 golden domes. Surrounded by a landscaped garden as well as fountains, it’s also a noteworthy sight in the evening when the mosque is floodlit. From the city center, you can take Bus #1 and stop right by the gate. Do note the opening hours: 8am-noon, 2-3pm & 5-6pm Mon-Wed & Sat, 10.45am-noon, 2-3pm & 5-6pm Sun, closed Thu & Fri
Take the #1 bus again and head back to Bandar Seri Begawan in the late afternoon. By this time, it won’t be too hot to visit Kampong Ayer (the water village). Point to point rides around Kampong Ayer cost $1 while a one hour boat ride around Kampong Ayer should not cost more than $10. So what will you get to see within that hour? You’ll be shown places such as the floating fire station, floating mosque, floating school and plenty of houses built on stilts. You can also ask the boat man to take you for a glimpse of the Istana Nurul Iman, the residence of the sultan. If you have time, you should also check out the Kampong Ayer Museum which details the history of the area. An overnight stay in one of the houses on stilts is also possible if you wish to spend more time there.
Day 2 – Ulu Temburong National Park
Morning & Afternoon
Head out to Ulu Temburong National Park – a trip which will take you the entire day. The journey is an adventure in itself where from downtown BSB, you’ll take a ride through mangroves on a speedboat to the lodge before being transferred to a longboat. Exploration of the national park generally includes various attractions such as the waterfall with “fish spa” and an exhilarating climb up a rickety set of stairs to the canopy walk for a bird’s eye view of the rainforest.
Most tours start at around 7:30AM from the pier in Bandar Seri Begawan and end at around 5pm.
Tip: Singapore Dollars can also be used in Brunei at a rate of 1:1.
Day 3 – Gadong & Chilling at Empire Hotel
Chill at one of the most resplendent hotels in the world, the Empire Hotel & Country Club – where you should give yourself a treat and stay at least a night. A self-styled 6-star property, you can either have a relaxing time inside the luxurious room or chill outdoors. There’s a decent beach with a lagoon that is good for swimming and kayaking. For sports enthusiasts, the property has actually won a couple of awards for golfing.
Afternoon & Evening
For some last minute shopping, go to The Mall at Gadong – Brunei’s largest shopping center. It’s a mostly modern affair where you can find high street brands. From Empire Hotel, #57/58 bus will take you there.
A short walk from the shopping center is Gadong Night Market. You will find a lot of interesting eats in the outdoor space from 4PM onwards. Make sure to try the pulut panggang (rice stuffed with meat and wrapped in banana leaves), local kueh (small cakes) as well as the grilled seafood.
If you have extra time in Brunei…
Not a must-see but if you find yourself with extra time in Brunei, consider making the 1.5 hour trip to Seria in western Brunei to gain a better understanding of the industry that’s powering the economy of the nation. There is a monument dedicated to the billionth barrel of oil extracted in Brunei and it’s erected in the site of the first oil well discovered in the country.
Travel Tips for Brunei
- Singapore Dollars can also be used in Brunei and the exchange rate is 1:1. Likewise, if you have leftover Brunei Dollars, you can easily use them in Singapore.
- As a rule of thumb, taxi fares from the airport to downtown Bandar Seri Begawan should cost no more than B$25. If you’re heading to Empire Hotel from the airport, the fare should be around B$15.
- Brunei is under Sharia law and all restaurants and eateries are closed from 12 noon to 2pm every Friday. To save yourself from getting hungry during lunch time, you may take an early lunch or buy a takeaway meal.
- I typically shop around when buying travel insurance and using this travel insurance aggregator allows me to compare prices and benefits in one glance.
Where to stay in Brunei
I have stayed in a number of lodging options in Brunei. To experience the best that the country has the offer, do book at least one night at Empire Hotel and Country Club. The property is an attraction in itself. For something closer to the city, the recently renovated Radisson Hotel Brunei is an excellent choice. You can also compare for the best prices for Brunei hotels HERE.
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It’s late winter. Maybe you’ve started your seeds indoors, but it will be several more weeks before those frost-free days when you can get them in the ground. Maybe you’re browsing through those plant catalogs or websites and making plans for some additions to your landscape. There’s more you can do now – some spring garden prep – during this “calm before the storm” to set you up well for a landscape in top shape.
Here’s a list of the Top Ten things I do this time of year to prepare for the busy planting season.
10 Things To Do Now
1. Prune for Structure and Shape. I spend a lot of time – now – walking around my property to observe the overall structure of my trees, plants, and shrubs. This is especially important, for maintaining my trees & shrubs with pruning.
This post-winter/pre-spring period is the perfect time to prune deciduous trees and shrubs for health and beauty. Plants are still in dormancy, so the cuts don’t stimulate new growth.
First thing first: I don’t like to selectively prune out more than one-third of a tree or shrub at one time. In other words, the material I remove overall is one third or less of the plant. Taking more than that – unless I’m removing dead material – could be too stressful for the plant.
Taking time to look at my plants and trees before they’ve leafed out is the best time to check for any inward growth which needs to be cleaned out. Promote outward-growing branches to allow air flow and light to reach the center-most areas of your plant. I also look for crossing or parallel tree branches, which should be removed.
This time of year, I look at my trees and shrubs as art pieces, pruning for form and shape. Pruning is part art as well as part science. If your plant looks good now, without foliage, it will look great once it is in full leaf and bloom.
I’ll admit, I spend a lot of time in my tree canopies this time of year. Climbing up into my trees carries some risk, so I’ll often hire – and strongly recommend – a certified arborist. They have the proper equipment and the knowledge to safely and appropriately prune those tall trees.
I’ve got lots of tips and advice on pruning, and it’s just too much to cover in this episode. If you want to learn where and how to make those cuts, you can listen and read all about pruning on my earlier podcast and post. I’ve also posted some great video information on my YouTube channel.
A word of pruning caution: Some flowering shrubs should not be pruned during this period. Great examples of these are oak leaf hydrangeas, rhododendron, and azaleas – all of which set their flower buds on old wood. If growth from last season or earlier are pruned now, you will also be removing the flower buds and will reduce the shrub’s bloom quantity come summer.
For plants that set buds on old wood (and there are many resources online that can help you discover which these are), it’s best to prune right after they finish flowering. That way, you’re removing growth before the plant has a chance to set those new flower buds for the following season.
For the many flowering shrubs that set their buds on new growth, this time of year is the ideal pruning opportunity.
2. Plant Trees & Shrubs Now. I recommend Fall as the best time to plant or transplant, but this time of year is your next best option. The cooler weather allows plants the most time to spread those roots and get comfortable in their new environment before the stressors of summer heat.
If there is a plant you wanted to move or transplant last season but didn’t get around to it, now is your chance to dig it up and introduce it to a new location.
As always when planting, be sure to water everything in well to remove air pockets, settle the soil around the roots, and keep the soil moist. I’ve written and recorded my fair share on best planting practices. I’ve got some posts here, on joegardener.com, that you can find by searching for “planting” and a great one to get you started is my 5 Steps for Planting post and video, or you can also watch the process on my YouTube channel.
3. Add Mulch. This is the perfect time to get that mulch down. A key benefit to mulch is weed suppression, so setting up that mulch barrier now will save you weeding time during the growing season.
If your beds aren’t planted tightly enough to prevent the sun from reaching the soil or if you have any open areas, a 2” (or deeper) layer of mulch will block the sun from germinating those weed seeds.
Mulch also reduces soil erosion from heavy rain and will insulate soil from summer heat – which helps keep the soil moist and reduces the need for supplemental watering.
This time of year, it’s also much easier to get underneath your plants to spread that mulch. I recommend spreading up to within a couple of inches of the base of the plant. It’s best not to push the mulch up along the trunk, as that can create an easier path for pests and disease.
4. Tackle Structural Projects. Any of those big projects which have been on your mind but you haven’t gotten around to doing them? Now is the time! For example: adding a new walkway, a retaining wall, a water feature, or — in my case — a deer fence.
By tackling that project now, you won’t have to worry about it during the busy growing season. Instead, you’ll have the rest of the year to enjoy the fruits of this season’s labor.
5. Divide Perennials. As temperatures and the soil first start to warm up, perennials like your hostas will begin to emerge. Those perennials (which have matured in previous seasons) can easily be divided to add a lot more plants – for free – to other areas of your landscape.
Use a sharp shovel or spade, and cut down through the center of the plant. Dig up a section, and plant it in another area of your landscape. This time of year is ideal for that, allowing the divisions to take hold before summer.
6. Tune-up Irrigation Systems. Whether it’s your in-ground lawn irrigation or your drip or soaker system, they all need to be checked. Although it may be too cold to turn the water on, watch for that first or second warm weekend when you can test out your system in advance of the planting season.
For in-ground systems, you’ll want to check that the rotors are turning properly, that the flow patterns are correct, that the timer is programmed as it should be, etc. It’s easy to forget that those winter power outages can cause your timer to reset.
Take the time now to check your drip irrigation and soaker hose connections and emitter heads and that the lines are where they need to be. If there was any water in your plastic timer when you experienced a freeze in early winter, it’s better to discover now that those timers may need replacing.
7. Prep Garden Beds. Every March, I clear out and clean up my raised garden beds. I live in Atlanta, so I can grow crops all year round. This time of year, I’m clearing out the remains of my cool season crops and preparing for my warm season varieties.
I take out the old growth and add it to my compost pile. I’ll rake out most of the debris. In other words, I’m getting the beds ready to amend their soil before planting.
8. Amend Your Soil. I love this part. I amend my soil with compost twice each year. The first time is typically in March to plant I’ve taken Step 7 of clearing out and cleaning up. The second time is in fall when I’m clearing out and cleaning up my summer crops to prepare planting for my cool season vegetables. The fun just never ends.
I’m adding compost a few weeks before I will be planting. This allows time for the soil microbes and all the other beneficial organisms to work with the biology already at work in your beds. Those new beneficial organisms have time to reproduce, and you will really see the payoff in your plants.
To amend my soil, I add about one inch of compost to the surface of all my raised beds. I may turn that compost into the existing soil, but I usually just let the compost sit on top.
I have really healthy soil, and there is a lot of good things going on under the surface already. So, I don’t want to disturb that. I can let the microbes work that new compost in on their own.
When I’m improving my soil in fall, I use up all the compost I’ve built up over the spring and summer. I continue to make new compost throughout the winter, and I use that compost now.
If I don’t have enough finished compost on-hand, I will often purchase some bags or a bulk load of certified compost. If you do purchase compost, be sure that what you are buying is reliable and safe to add to your garden. It’s so important to trust your compost source. I’ve learned the hard way that one application of tainted compost can have long-term consequences.
Think of your raised beds like a bank account. Your plants are making soil withdrawals, so you need to be making soil health deposits.
The year you built your raised beds, and you filled them with that good soil you purchased, you probably had a good crop. If you amended your soil for that second year, you probably noticed your garden was even better. By that third year, you were really seeing great results.
That’s because amended soil continues to mature – like fine wine – getting better and better. Notice, I said, “amended soil continues to mature.” Each time you amend the soil with organic material, you build on the soil maturity of the previous season.
9. Attend to Your Compost Bin. You’ve probably just harvested a lot of compost material in Step 7. Take the time now to get organized and ensure you have the proper and efficient compost set-up.
10. Prepare Your Tools. Your garden tools need to be in top condition to help you be successful throughout the season. Clean off the rust, the grime, and the residue from your pruners, the blades on shovels, etc.
Most good pruners are made with the ability to buy and install replacement parts or – at a minimum – sharpen the blade. Pruning with a dull blade is the worst thing you can do to your plants. Rather than a clean cut, which heals quickly and promotes growth, you will end up with a tear or a wound and create the opportunity for disease.
Use some steel wool and some oil to sharpen your shovels, so that they are at the ready for this season.
For those tools with a wooden handle, I recommend a light sanding with fine-grit sandpaper. Run the sandpaper up the handle a bit, and then, rub a little linseed oil into the wood.
I’m a frugal gardener, but I also believe you get what you pay for. Invest in quality tools, and invest the time to care for them properly. They will last you a lifetime.
Don’t forget to clean up that tool shed. Sometimes things don’t always make it back to home base when you are really busy during growing season. This is the time to put everything back in its place.
If you have a peg board or other flat surface where you can hang your tools, I recommend outlining the tool with a marker. The outline provides a visual reminder when the tool hasn’t been put back. You’ll know what’s missing, so you can go and find where you left it.
So, there’s my list of Top Ten things to do for garden preparation. This is not an exhaustive list of all you need to do to prepare, but it is a high-level idea list to get you started.
If you haven’t already done so, you may want to listen to the podcast (linked at the top of the page) where I share a few other personal experiences.
Stay tuned for the next several weeks for my upcoming podcast on raised bed gardening and my comprehensive resource guide on the subject. I’ve been gardening in raised beds for many years now; so I’ll be sharing my experiences, providing advice on what I’ve learned, and offering all the information I can to help you develop bountiful raised beds.
Because I’ve been doing this so long, I know there are some things that I take for granted. I would really love to hear any questions that you would like me to be sure to answer in my raised bed resources. You can email me directly your raised bed garden question. It’s important to me to answer all your questions, so I look forward to hearing from you.
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Heather Marie Schuldt is an author, pro-life advocate, professor, and counselor. She writes both creative fiction and non-fiction. She is the founder of Writers 750, a writing program for creative writers. She received her Masters in Religion from Southern Evangelical Seminary where she learned Christian apologetics and gained philosophical skills in demonstrating that God exists and Christianity is true. She developed the Writers 750 Program which began in 2012.
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This house is community style. Here you will feel the vibes of “Rasclat” as it is also the place where we rent climbing/ boulder equipment, start the coachings and produce and sell our art. Here it is possible to join the meals with everybody instead cooking for yourself (what you also can do). This “Base” is located next to the climbing and boulder spot named “Arico” or “Ortiz”- indeed it`s only a 5 min walk. Often you will find climbing partners hanging around ready for an awesome day on the rocks.
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Mr. McDougall provides consulting services in all areas of human resources, labor relations, public safety communications, and joint powers authority (JPA) operational governance and design. He possesses over 35 years of local government executive experience and has held positions including founding Chief Executive Officer of a JPA, Director of a County operating department and as a County Human Resources Director. Mr. McDougall works with our public sector clients on a variety of issues and projects including:
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Mr. McDougall served as the Director of Public Safety Communications for the County of San Mateo where he successfully managed and implemented various organizational and performance improvement projects through stakeholder and employee engagement. Mr. McDougall was subsequently recruited by the County of Santa Cruz and the cities within to become the founding General Manager and Chief Executive Officer for Santa Cruz Regional 9-1-1 Joint Powers authority (JPA). Under Mr. McDougall’s leadership, a new independent local government agency was created and a regional public safety facility was designed, constructed, financed, equipped and implemented to serve two Counties, several cities, and other public safety agencies in the region.
Mr. McDougall also served 10 years as Director of Personnel and Risk Management for the County of Santa Cruz. In his tenure there, he directed the centralization and consolidation of all human resources and risk management activities under the Personnel Department and oversaw all executive level recruitments including the replacement of the County’s top Administrative Officers (CAO) and Assistant CAOs.
As the County’s Chief Labor Negotiator, Mr. McDougall successfully led elected officials, administrators, and unionized employee groups through a three-year collective bargaining process that achieved labor agreements providing for structural reductions to employee compensation, retiree health benefits, and pension benefits.
Mr. McDougall has experience managing disciplinary and grievance processes and developing labor strategies with executive and elected officials throughout County and City government. He has extensive experience in preparing for negotiations, costing proposals, and negotiating new and successor labor agreements. Mr. McDougall has knowledge of government budgeting and financing processes and has developed expertise in labor and employee relations, concession bargaining, governance, and cost allocation modeling, organizational design and development, organizational and operational performance measurement systems and human resource functions, including recruitment and retention, talent acquisition, classification and compensation, performance management, employee benefits and retirement programs.
Mr. McDougall holds a Bachelors in Management (with Honors) from Saint Mary’s College of California and an Associate Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from the College of San Mateo.
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If you have a jon boat, and spend a lot of time with it, choosing from one of many trolling motors that are available is something you should consider. These things are affordable and come in handy whenever you need to move your jon boat through the water quietly without spooking the fish.
There are so many options out there and it’s not all that easy to tell which trolling motor is the best. We’ve done some investigation into the matter. In order to find the best trolling motor for a jon boat, we’ve had to spend more than 40 hours of research involving interviews with professional fishers who own a jon boat. We’ve learned that a 55lb thrust motor is the most popular choice, and the Minn Kota Endura C2 55 Trolling Motor is the best choice for most people. Some folks who spend a lot of time catching fish on their jon boats prefer a trolling motor with i-Pilot functionality for maximum versatility, like the Minn Kota Terrova 55 Bow Mount Motor.
Every expert we spoke to told us that when selecting the best trolling motor for a jon boat, you don’t need to do the math to choose the right size for your trolling motor, which is difficult for most people. They recommended that you should get the highest thrust one you can afford. That will extend your range when you’re on a large lake and will provide extra power when needed such as fighting wind and current or powering through thick vegetation. Some experts told us they will consider getting a decent deep cycle battery as well as a good battery charger when they are purchasing the trolling motor. They said those two things are very important but most people forget.
Ok, if you’re looking for the best trolling motor for your jon boat, here are several great options that we feel are worth your money.
1. Minn Kota Endura C2 55 Trolling Motor – Editor’s Pick
The Minn Kota Endura C2 55 Trolling Motor is our top pick for the best trolling motor for a jon boat. This motor has a 42″ shaft or a 36” shaft that flexes on impact and is designed not to break. It runs at on a power supply of 12 volts at a fixed speed, and it can run in fresh water at a good speed too. A 10-position bracket that features a quick-release lever lock and reinforced composite material that resists flexing, warping and UV damage.
This transom trolling motor features a power prop that gives you extra strength to help your boat push through even heavy vegetation. It comes with an ergonomic, 6″ telescoping handle and a lever lock bracket that helps you to steer the boat easily and comfortably with a good amount of navigation control even in strong water currents.
The major advantage of the Minn Kota Endura C2 is its quiet operation. It can move a jon boat quietly and smoothly through the water without disrupting the fish. This due to the fact that this trolling motor features the weedless wedge propeller that gives your boat plenty of speed without making too much noise. Large windings and commutators spread out heat and produce cooler operation. The major disadvantage of the Minn Kota Endura C2 is that it doesn’t come with a foot pedal.
2. Minn Kota Terrova Bow Mount Motor 55
If you’re looking for the best bow mount trolling motor for your jon boat, the Minn Kota Terrova Bow Mount Motor 55 is most likely what you’re looking for. Minn Kota redesigned this model to be one of the most advanced bow mount trolling motor on the market. It comes with many great features that will change the way you fish.
I-Pilot is one of the most advanced features that comes with the Minn Kota Terrova Bow Mount Motor 55. I-Pilot is the most popular GPS trolling system. It delivers speed, steering, Spot-Lock, and the ability to record and retrace paths on the water, all at your fingertips. Spot-Lock uses GPS to lock you onto a fishing spot, it is the most accurate GPS anchor we’ve ever seen.
Here are other great features of the Minn Kota Terrova:
- Lift-Assist Design: Terrova’s new Lift-Assist Design takes the work out of stowing, making it effortless every single time, so you can raise the motor by barely lifting a finger.
- Digital Maximizer: for up to five times longer run time on one charge
- Terrova Foot Pedal with new Spot-Lock Button: Whether you steer heel/toe or right/left, Terrova’s foot pedal has you covered. Responsive, precise control from anywhere on the boat with less than one degree of steering resolution. Plus, a new Spot-Lock button lets you hold onto your fishing spot directly from the foot pedal.
To install this trolling motor on your jon boat, you’ll have to build a sturdy deck area at the top of your boat. But if you want the best, that is what you have to do.
3. Newport Vessels 55lb Thrust Electric Trolling Motor
If you’re on the budget, this Newport Vessels 55 trolling motor is a great option to consider. This unit has an affordable price but is constructed with relatively good quality materials, and it’s very easy to install and control. Of course, this model cannot be as good as the Minn Kota trolling motors, but it’s still a decent option for the price.
The Newport Vessels trolling motor features an adjustable 30-inch shaft length and an 8-speed control system (5 forward speeds and 3 reverse speeds). It runs with any 12-volt deep Cycle battery or marine battery.
One of the main reasons the Newport Vessels 55lb thrust trolling motor stands out against the rest of low-cost trolling motors is that it is saltwater resistant. Minn Kota Endura C2 and MotorGuide R3 (below) cannot say the same, none of them can be used in saltwater.
4. MotorGuide R3 12-Volt Freshwater Transom Trolling Motor
The MotorGuide R3 Transom Trolling Motors are known as one of the most powerful and durable trolling motors available. It features aluminum alloy construction with a rugged powder coat finish. Stainless hinge pins provide the ultimate in strength, rigidity and durability. Includes an easy-to-use tilt/stow/deploy mechanism and swing over knobs on the clamp screws, allowing you to lock the motor to the transom. A classic 5 speeds forward/2 speeds reverse controls and reversible motor head create a dependable yet versatile motor.
The key feature of the MotorGuide R3 is the Digital Power Management technology. This technology allows extending battery life up to five times. It features durable cooler-running power electronics that are 50% more efficient. It also allows the motor to capture and store energy that is typically lost as heat. This improved efficiency means longer run time and fewer battery charges.
However, when running this trolling motor tends to make more noise than the Minn Kota Endura C2 and the Minn Kota Terrova do.
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This paper briefly introduces Gitlab CI, including Gitlab Runner, related concepts in Gitlab CI and common configuration of. gitlab-ci.yml.
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Yonni Rude, Operations Manager of Radio One Cleveland, announced today the promotion of Matty Willz to Midday host at WENZ-FM Z107.9.
The promotion is effective immediately, and Willz can now be heard on air Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Willz replaces DJ Angel Baby who will remain with Radio One in a new and exciting role at Radio One Charlotte. Not only can he be found hosting Middays on Cleveland’s Z107.9 but also, he will continue to serve as the local affiliate producer of The Morning Hustle on Z107.9.
“As a personality, Matty Willz has grown so much over the past year,” said Radio One Cleveland Operations Manager, Yonni Rude. “He has earned his place in the starting line-up.”
Matty Willz is also the host of #zSportsMinute – a web-based video series in which he comically delivers trending sports news on Instagram and Facebook. Willz graduated from Ohio Media School in the fall of 2014 and began his journey with Radio One in June 2015.
Willz commented, “I’ve always just tried to stay committed to the process. Instead of worrying about timing and things outside of my control. I just stayed focused on being prepared and doing the best I could do every day. In that, I learned if you put in the work, dreams really do come true!”
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California Zephyr (II)
After not seeing any freight trains the day before, we tried our luck again on the Thompson – Green River section. Landscape was looking too promising. First train that came through was the eastbound California Zephyr. Today it was hauled by a locomotive in phase I livery, commemorating Amtrak’s 40th anniversary in 2011.
With this photo, I tried a new technique of developping the photos by improving clarity and vibrance and making local adjustments.
Some like it hot, and dry
We wanted to make a photo with the Book Cliffs as a background. All we needed was a train coming from Green River to make it work. Unfortunately, we only saw traffic coming from the wrong side. But then, fortunately, this train needed some pushing units on the back of the train.
The landscape doesn’t only look very arid, it most definitely was hot and dry here. Some animals, say snakes, like this environment enough to live in though. I discovered this while patiently waiting and reading a book on a rock, when suddenly I became aware of something sneaking up to me. Needless to say that I couldn’t sit at ease on a rock anymore that day 🙂
To the moon
What does the moon look like? I think we got an idea while hanging around Green River’s Book Cliffs. From a position a bit higher than the previous one, we got another coal train being helped by a pushing unit.
After this photo, it was high time to feed our stomachs and find a new spot, towards Price River Canyon.
Have I seen you before?
After lunch in Green River, we started looking for a new photo ocation and found this one. The place is called Cedar according to the Atlas, but apart from a level crossing there’s nothing to see 🙂
After only a few minutes, we heard the rumble of a train in the distance, and a few more minutes later the same coal train we saw earlier passed us! 2.5 hours have passed, the distance covered was about 40km. Crew change maybe, or waiting for another train?
Third time’s a charm
We had our photo, and after assuring nothing more was coming we continued north. We took our time, booking a room at a motel in the meantime, and looking for a new spot to photograph a train.
Price River Canyon offers some good possibilities for spectacular shots. Our first stop was at Castle Gate. And again, after only a few minutes waiting a train came around the bend. The same train as a few hours before. Really. In all those years of making photos of trains I’ve never accidentally seen the same train more than twice.
Just turn around
Sometimes all you need to do is turn around. A rear helper was definitely necessary to get this heavy train up the hill. What you can’t see on the photo are the mid-train helpers. No need to tell the heavy train was rolling by really slowly. A treat for our eyes and ears!
Taking our time
It was obvious that no real effort from our part was needed to make some more photos of this train. We took our time packing our stuff and continueing the road up the canyon. The road follows the line rather well, so it’s easy to find new locations, even without having been there before. In no time we had passed the hard-working rear and middle helpers and the leading engines… time to position ourselves on the next nice location we saw and just await what we knew was coming.
Following a train is not our usual way of making photos, but we really couldn’t avoid it this time.
Cut and paste
Enjoying the beautiful sunny evening, we drove on through the canyon, following the train. We found it stopped at Colton, on top of the hill. This is where the mid-train helper locomotives were taken out. If you look good, you can see them on the photo, through the heat waves.
The train will continue its trip donw spanish Fork Canyon with 2 engines in front and 1 in the back.
And off we go again
After being recopomposed, the train is slowly gaining speed again. The sun was starting to set, indicating almost the end of us following this coal train. 6 hours, and very relaxed, and lots of photos. This was definitely worth the effort.
Not over yet
After the unvoluntary chase we agreed to call the evening a success. And still it wasn’t over. The coal train had taken so much time climbing up the hill, that another train was following right behind.
Moments like this are a strong contrast to those days where nothing seems to work. I guess you need some of both, although I prefer when things do work out for the good 🙂
Go to the next day
Go to the previous day
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In its statement of Administration policy on HR 2055–which funds military construction–the Administration expressed concern that the Senate had cut $100 million funding for two projects in Bahrain.
The Administration is worried, you see, that such cuts would signal that we do not “stand by its allies.”
The Administration is concerned about the reduction in funding for military construction projects in Bahrain as well as those associated with the relocation of United States Marines to Guam. Deferring or eliminating these projects could signal that the U.S. does not stand by its allies or its agreements such as the realignment of forces from Okinawa to Guam.
Because it’s very important to “stand by” our allies, I guess, when the abuse their own people.
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How to Think Positive About Yourself – 3 Fail Proof Techniques to Kick Self Doubt To the Curb!
Many of us didn’t grow up in families that were conducive to loving ourselves. Even those of you who did grow up in loving environments, we live in a society where self-doubt can easily kick in, just by comparing ourselves to others. In this article, I’ll give you 3 techniques that will show you how to think positive about yourself and kick self-doubt to the curb.
Technique #1 – The Mirror Exercise
Nothing is more powerful than looking yourself in the eye and saying the very thing you don’t believe about yourself. For instance, if you think you’re ugly, and you look in the mirror and say, “You are beautiful”, you’re going to get a lot of negative chatter in your head. But I swear, the mirror exercise works. I got this technique from Louis L. Hay.
The longer you stay in the mirror, the less that negative chatter will kick in. You’ll soon believe what you tell yourself in that mirror! After all, you hypnotized yourself with negative beliefs about yourself when you told yourself you were “bad” or “ugly” or “stupid”.
And it only takes 5 minutes a day. Make your affirmations short and to the point. Here’s how….
Use a Timer
You’ll need a timer for this exercise. You can use a clock, but I like the timer because at the sound of the bell, you know your time is up without having to keep looking at your watch or cell phone and thereby, distracting your concentration on the affirmation.
Set Up a Routine
The more consistent you are, the more you will come to believe in the affirmation. When learning how to love yourself by learning how to think positive about yourself, nothing is more important than consistency. Everyone can find 5 minutes out of their day!
Keep Your Affirmations Short
Keep your affirmations short and to the point. For instance, say something like, “I am smart” or “I am loveable” or “I deserve to be treated with respect. Shorter affirmations are easier to remember. Also, always use positive affirmations, as opposed to negative ones like, “I’m not ugly” or “I’m not stupid”.
Technique #2: Get Off Facebook
Nothing will make you feel worse than going on Facebook, scrolling through other people’s posts, and then feeling like you don’t measure up. Don’t believe the hype. You don’t know what’s really going on in a person’s life. And looks can be deceiving.
Looks Are Deceiving
People post things about themselves to give the appearance that they are doing better than they actually are. For instance, I know someone who posts pictures of themselves in front brand new luxury cars and posts them on Instagram. He doesn’t own those cars at all, nor can he afford them. I know he’s full of crap because I know him. But on Facebook, he looks like a rock star!
He wants people think he’s super successful and popular – which leads me to my next point.
Don’t Be Fooled By “Likes”
The thing about “likes” on Facebook – they can be bought. Yes. They can. And people do. I swear, when I read someone’s post, and I see they have 400 “likes”, if they’re not a celebrity, 9 out of 10 times it means they bought these likes. So, don’t go on facebook. If you have to go on Facebook, then only go on there to check your page. Don’t scroll or look at your friends’ status or your ex-boyfriend or girlfriend’s status.
Try this exercise:
Don’t check your Facebook messages or pages for a week. See how you feel. If you’re feeling a lot better, then you know Facebook is a problem for you. But what’s even better, is that you’ve now discovered that going on Facebook is counter productive to your learning how to think positive about yourself.
Technique #3 – Creative Visualization
You use your imagination all the time – often in a negative way. For years, I would wake up and immediately start visualizing all of the bad things that happened to me in the past. I always ended up having a bad day, and attracting more bad things to me. But then I discovered this program called Manifestation Miracle.
That program taught me how to visualize positive scenarios and how to draw positive things to me like magic. It’s really amazing. Here’s what happened to me after I started using creative visualization:
I Started Losing Weight
I struggled for 7 years in a horrible food relapse and gained 100 pounds. I kept trying to lose the weight, but I kept relapsing. Then I used this particular visualization technique, and I was suddenly able to stay on my food plan. So far, I’ve lost 46 pounds! I stopped struggling. I kept using this creative visualization technique and saw myself being successful in this area of my life.
Learning how to think positive about yourself is key to loving yourself. The time you invest in these techniques will be so worthwhile. Make the decision today that you’re going to start loving yourself. Then do what needs to be done to make it happen.
I’d love to hear your methods for learning how to think positive about yourself. Leave your comments below.
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I first made these Pumpkin Squares last fall when my sister Maureen sent me the recipe and said, “you absolutely have to try these!” She said they were my niece Ally’s favorite. Well, all I can say is that Ally’s got great taste, and now they’re one of my favorites. The cake is incredibly soft and moist, with the wonderful flavors of pumpkin and cinnamon. As soon as I feel fall is in the air, I whip out my half sheet cake pan, and plan a little dinner party just so I can make them, and not eat them all myself!!
I’ve made them several times with cream cheese frosting, but this time I decided to change it up a bit, and I made my homemade Cinnamon Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. I’m a huge cinnamon fan, especially during the fall season. Cinnamon and fall just seem to go hand in hand for me, and it’s just the perfect complement for these pumpkin squares. I love the little flecks of cinnamon in the icing.
I also decided to step up my game in the icing department and try my hand at icing roses. I have seen so many gorgeous cakes with icing roses on Pinterest and other awesome blogs that I just had to give it a go. I’ll be honest, I’m not very talented in the cake decorating department, but with some encouragement from my good friend Hakeem, the pastry chef, and a little help from an online tutorial, I did it! They may not look perfect, but since the cake is, (thanks Ally!) all my guests loved it!
As Natasha says in the online tutorial, use a Wilton 2D tip to pipe the roses and practice first on a baking sheet until you get the hang of it. I thinly iced the sheet cake first, then cut them into squares, and finally piped the roses on top of each square.
Take it from my niece Ally, you don’t want to miss out on making this simple and incredibly delicious fall dessert. It’s sure to impress!
- 4 eggs room temperature
- 1 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 15 ounce can pumpkin
- 2 cups all-purpose flour sifted
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. salt
- Icing Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups unsalted butter 3 sticks, softened
- 5 1/4 cups confectioners sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 2 Tbsp. whipping cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Spray a half sheet cake pan (11x15) with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, oil and pumpkin at medium speed with electric mixer until fluffy.
In medium bowl whisk together flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients at low speed until well combined.
Spread batter into prepared pan.
Bake for 25-30 minutes until toothpick comes out clean when inserted in middle of cake.
Let cool before frosting.
In bowl of stand mixer combine butter, sugar, cinnamon and salt. Beat on low speed until blended, about one minute.
Add the vanilla and cream and increase speed to medium and continue to beat for 4 minutes until smooth and creamy.
Add more cream, if necessary, for good spreading consistency.
Lightly frost the top of the cake.
Cut into small squares and place on serving tray.
Pipe a rose on top of each square.
Cake adapted from Paula Deen. Cinnamon Buttercream by Mary Ann Dwyer.
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Kaito KA101 EZ-weather One-touch NOAA Weather Radio Review
If you’re looking for an affordable emergency radio, one which comes with a wide range of features as well, have a look at the Kaito KA101 EZ-weather One-touch NOAA Weather Radio. Available in stylish red design, this model incorporates all those features which could help you in the moment of emergency.
And as already mentioned, you don’t have to drill a hole in your pocket just for making this particular purchase.
Kaito is a brand famous for producing a series of high-quality emergency radios in the past. The [easyazon_link identifier=”B00BLPPNN2″ locale=”US” tag=”5i20-20″]Kaito KA101 EZ-weather One-touch NOAA Weather Radio[/easyazon_link] is the latest product from this particular manufacturer which is ideal for all those customers who either live in flood-prone areas or those who want to stay well-prepared.[easyazon_image align=”center” height=”500″ identifier=”B00BLPPNN2″ locale=”US” src=”http://thebestemergencyradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/412nZBeBq8L.jpg” tag=”5i20-20″ width=”446″]
When it comes to an emergency radio, it should be extremely lightweight. The reason behind it is when you might have to evacuate in case of natural emergency, you just cannot afford to add tons of weight in their backpack.
For this particular reason, the overall weight of the Kaito KA101 is as low as just 6.4oz. When it makes this unit easy to carry, in case of floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes, it also makes this model a viable purchase for all those outdoor enthusiasts who’re looking for something convenient to carry with them on their trip to the wilderness.
The Kaito KA101 incorporates a sturdy construction which is a must-have for any item in your survival kit. Basically, this radio comes with a water-resistant construction so regardless of the outside conditions, you can use this product without any hesitation.
The Kaito KA101 is a battery-powered radio which runs on 3 AA batteries. Thanks to such a composition, this radio furnish a long-battery-life so once fully charged, you can use this radio for an extended duration of time.
However, one thing which you’ve to keep in mind while making this purchase is that the manufacturer isn’t providing these batteries with this unit. So you’ve to purchase them on your own apart from this particular acquisition.
Apart from using the AA batteries, you can also recharge this unit with the help of a micro USB. A small USB port is designed on one side of this radio which makes it easy to recharge this unit without any kind of batteries.
Easy to Use
As evident from its name, the Kaito KA101 operates with a single touch. This model comes with a large power button in its center, and once you press it, this radio will start working.
For selecting your desired radio station, this product comes with two different buttons: Auto and Scan. Once the former picks up clear signals, it automatically stops, and you’ll have to operate the latter on your own.
For increasing or decreasing the volume, a small wheel is provided at one side of this model which makes it pretty easy to manipulate the voice coming out of this emergency radio. As per the 18-inch telescopic antenna, it is carefully crafted to pick up signals without any kind of distortion.
For any emergency radio, it is imperative that it should be compatible with the NOAA. A short form of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA is basically the nationwide network of all those radio stations which monitor weather information around the clock.
Apart from serving weather forecasts, this network issues hazard warnings such as information about floods, hurricanes, and wildfires.
The Kaito KA101 is fully compatible with the NOAA radio broadcast which means that you’ll always have pertinent information coming out of this radio. However, when this authority serves nationwide weather alerts, the manufacturer has designed a special kind of circuit inside this radio which will pick up those signals which are coming from your nearby radio stations.
In this way, you’ll not only get the most accurate information but at the same time, the Kaito KA101 will also deliver your local weather report.
This is where the Kaito KA101 EZ-weather One-touch NOAA Weather Radio stands tall against its competitors in today’s market. At a time when you’ve to spend a considerable amount of money for purchasing high-quality weather radios, this one can be purchased even within a limited budget.
Despite the low price tag, Kaito has observed highest standards of quality while making this model. The manufacturer believes in the quality of this model, and that’s exactly why they’re offering an impressive 1-year warranty along with the Kaito KA101.
So even if anything happens to this radio within the first year of its purchase, you can always replace it without any hesitation.
- Covered by a 1-year warranty
- Water-resistant construction makes it a long-lasting product
- Extremely easy to use, requires no complex coding or setup
- This radio isn’t compatible with AM/FM frequencies
The Kaito KA101 EZ-weather One-touch NOAA Weather Radio incorporates a water-resistant construction as the manufacturer is offering this product with a 1-year warranty. This model is pretty easy to use as you just have to press the power button before setting your desired radio station with either the AUTO button or with the help of SCAN button.
Moreover, this radio works pretty well to pick up signals from NOAA, and its carefully designed circuit makes sure that you’ll get those weather warnings which are tailor-made for your area.
If you’re looking for a basic weather radio, one that does pretty well when it comes to serving all weather-related information, the [easyazon_link identifier=”B00BLPPNN2″ locale=”US” tag=”5i20-20″]Kaito KA101 EZ-weather One-touch NOAA Weather Radio[/easyazon_link] is one of the best products which you can purchase within this price range. With an 18-inch long antenna and ability to pick up signals from the NOAA at the earnest, this model will always keep you well-prepared to deal with the unexpected.
However, if you want to purchase such kind of weather radio which can be connected with AM and FM frequencies, you might have to spend a bit more as compared to that of this particular emergency radio.
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DRM4 Product Details
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Skin is a mirror of the general state of health. Therefore the condition of the skin is one of the main indicators of what is considered "beauty", and its status can have a critical influence on our psychological and emotional wellbeing. In the absence of pathogenic conditions the appearance of the skin is mainly determined by ageing processes. These will eventually lead over time to a drier, rougher and thinner skin, which has lost fat and is less elastic, with wrinkles and blemishes. The ageing processes are either driven by intrinsic or extrinsic factors. Whereas intrinsic factors are controlled by genes, extrinsic factors, like the environment or lifestyle choices, can lead to premature skin ageing.
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Webinar Follow up Questions & Answers, by Hugh Duffy, National Park Service
It is the first of a series of three on Sustainable Mountain Trails. Each webinar in this series is independent of each other and can be attended individually. Parts 2 and 3 will teach you to apply these principles to a trail network "One Trail at a Time, One Mile at a Time." The course includes Tools and Techniques, Examples, and Case Studies of mountain trail sustainability. These are responses to questions received during the webinar. A recording of this webinar, and Parts 2 and 3 are available through the American Trails Online Store.
Q. Could you explain the 1/4 cross slope concept further?
Some background first. Per the Sketchbook and the Foundations webinar presentation, I recommend that the concept of mountain trail sustainability consider the Trail Project Cycle, from Assessment, through Planning, Design, Implementation and Maintenance. Recommendations in the Sketchbook (Guide to Sustainable Mountain Trails Sketchbook) are based on observations on the ground as well as practical experience with lack of maintenance, funding, etc., the so-called “7 Realities” on page 20 of the Foundations webinar presentation booklet. The Sketchbook also echoes the policies of the American Society of Landscape Architects, as well as the wilderness ethic of minimum intrusion on natural scenes established in the long tradition of federal land management agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service. Per the webinar presentation, the Sketchbook is a “What is ... & ... What can be ...” vignette.
Based upon the premise of getting water off of the trail as soon as possible as the key to minimizing erosion and its associated impacts, if a trail planner would pursue a trail corridor that goes straight uphill (fall line trail), water would have no chance to get off the trail. On the other hand, if a trail planner would recommend a trail that purely follows the contour, that trail would never climb, but logically water would flow across the trail from the uphill location and off the downhill side of the trail, minimizing erosion on the trail.
The 1/4 cross slope concept (recommended profile grades are less than 1/4 of the prevailing topographic cross slope) results in the most optimum range of profile grade versus cross slope for environmental sustainability. This concept fits the “narrow limits” espoused in the Olmsted Report of 1865 to preserve naturally occurring scenery, and to avoid construction markedly inharmonious with that scenery.
The 1/4 profile grade / cross slope concept is likely the paramount criteria influencing sustainability of backcountry mountain trail corridors while minimizing resource impacts. Historic trails literature commonly addresses recommended profile grades, average profile grade, and maximum profile grades. There are also two other popular concepts: “side hill” and “rolling contour” trail construction methods. These concepts are certainly viable techniques and potentially will result in sustainability, but the concepts themselves do not quantify the recommended profile grade relative to the prevailing cross slope. So, with all other factors and criteria being the same, the 1/4 profile grade / cross slope technique would allow steeper profile grades on steeper prevailing cross slopes.
It is prudent to give trail planners some tools to work with for their refinement on the ground. The 1/4 cross slope criteria addresses recommended profile grades (the relative rise of fall of a trail along the trail’s centerline) relative to the prevailing topographic cross slope (the larger topographic condition measured in the vicinity of the trail).
If a trail planner focuses on a desired profile grade without consideration to the prevailing cross slope condition, unacceptable impacts may occur. For instance, if a trail planner locates a trail with a profile grade of 10% on a prevailing cross slope of 20% (based solely upon a theoretical profile grade), then the trail will likely be more difficult to maintain, as well as potentially causing unacceptable resource impacts. A more sustainable approach would be to recommend a trail with a profile grade of 5% on the same 20% prevailing topographic cross slope. Some soil or topographic conditions and / or implementation solutions may be viable and sustainable at different relationships between the profile grade and the prevailing cross slope. The 1/4 cross slope criteria is a guideline only, whose goal is achieving the optimum condition for minimizing resource impacts and allowing for ease of maintenance, while minimizing the need for corridor re-routes.
In addition, the Sketchbook, pages 22 and 23, as well as page 78 explain this concept in additional detail. The Foundations webinar presentation booklet also displays additional graphics on page 14.
Q. What type of uses do you have in mind and would you see most of these principles and processes applying to other types of sustainable trails?
To edit the question slightly, my answer applies to trail use and trail uses, not trail users per se. There are different types of trail users when it comes to hiking use, for example. The design would be for the use, not what would be different types of users of the same trail use type. Inherent in a Recommended Design Solutions Hierarchy for Sustainability, see page 51 of the Sketchbook, would be accommodation of different user types, say of front-country, middle-country and back-country trails.
The concepts of mountain trail sustainability that were organized into the Sketchbook and related documents, focus on hiking, equestrian and mountain bicycle trail uses, with which I have experience. I am convinced that these three types of trail uses can be implemented successfully according to sustainability criteria with minimum environmental impact to resources. If I were to create a matrix of criteria for the different uses (er, which I have done), the primary difference between these three uses would be the inside radius of a switchback. I believe that the other criteria, from an environmental sustainability perspective, are very similar.
Yes, I believe that the principles and processes portrayed in the Sketchbook and related documents would apply to all trail types whose stated goal is to be environmentally sustainable. Criteria have to be established, environmental goals set, projects implemented, and then Lessons Learned summarized and applied to the next project. We all have to start somewhere!
Q. Are you familiar with these concepts being applied in urban settings?
I think you are referring to urban multiple-use / paved pathways. The Sketchbook generally applies to natural surface mountain trails.
Please note that I live in Lakewood, CO, a suburb of Denver. I live in the Green Mountain area, which has two large open space parks with many miles of trails, just 12 miles from downtown Denver. Almost all of the trails in these two parks are natural surface trails. Some trails, however, are paved multiple-use pathways which function as regional spine connections or commuter routes. And there are some mountain bicyclists who commute first on a paved multiple-use pathway, then over Green Mountain on a natural surface trail, then back to a paved multiple-use pathway to their destination, a good reason to live near such a valuable resource.
Please note also, that natural surface trails in urban settings would
have to be more sensitively planned, designed and maintained, based
upon their presumed higher volume of use many times during shoulder
seasons (spring and fall) and inclement weather (muddy trail conditions
or post-snowfall sunny days).
There are several conditions, similar to my location, in Colorado, including in Boulder, Colorado Springs and Fort Collins, and likely across the country.
Seemingly if a landscape architect were involved in a multiple-use pathway project in an urban setting, then yes, the same concepts would be applied in some fashion. Other trail professionals would use their own trail planning process. They may refer to their Tools & Techniques with different terms, but seemingly a plan would be developed according to some type of physical and geographic criteria, a design would be created and then the project would be implemented and eventually maintained.
I always recommend that a written and graphical Site Analysis be developed as part of deliverable packages for management and / or compliance review. An inventory of site features, and their implication for the suitability for a trail corridor via a Site Analysis is one of the unique Tools & Techniques advocated in the Sketchbook process. So yes, the concepts portrayed in the Sketchbook would apply to urban settings.
Q. What are some other good resources for costing trail projects?
That is a perennially great question! To directly answer your question, I would have to say that I have not found any.
There is a chart in the Sketchbook on page 54, for estimated Recommended Daily Requirements Per Mile of Trail Estimating Tool for accomplishments for natural surface trails based upon my experience. I always expect that if folks are seeing better or different production rates; that they could, like all of the Sketchbook Tools & Techniques, customize them for their project at hand. I have anecdotally heard that trail construction can cost $15,000 – $250,000 per mile or higher. The vast majority of my trails have been built by volunteers or day labor or youth corps, hence the basis of my labor estimates. Many agencies have daily rates or crew rates available and could be plugged into equations easily. Daily rates for laborers would likely be approximately $20 / hour average for natural surface trail projects. Assessment, planning and design costs could be extrapolated from the table on page 54 of the Sketchbook.
I periodically get phone calls asking how to do construction estimates for multiple-use pathway projects, for which I direct folks to Google and RS Means.
Q. Do you have any recommendations for monitoring strategies for levels of use on trails, such as trail counters?
No, I do not have recommendations for monitoring strategies for levels of use on trails. I have felt challenged to articulate to the trails community the physical criteria related to environmental sustainability of natural surface mountain trails. And it is a big challenge, and felt that that is where I could best serve the trails community over the years. Monitoring would be the purview of park management, to whom I am a consultant, even in the NPS (I do function this way internally to NPS parks).
My Sketchbook co-author John Giordanengo is a proponent of monitoring during Ecological Restoration activities, please refer to the Sketchbook.
I include a summary of trail monitoring activity recommendations in general form on page 127 of the Sketchbook. What is shown there is an excerpt from NPS Natural Resource Management Reference Manual # 77, 2006. Theoretically, NPS trail managers are aware of the monitoring concept and are implementing some kind of monitoring strategy to help manage their backcountry trail programs. Any actions are up to their unit management.
Q. What triggers the need for re-routing a trail rather than maintaining it? In other words, when do you know that maintenance is simply not going to cut it and that you must give up and essentially “start over”?
This is one of the hardest questions I have ever had to answer myself. It is a giant responsibility to come to such a recommendation, and eventually, to make such a decision. Ultimately, it will be a decision documented in a compliance process, and likely made by your unit manager.
Please consider the Sketchbook hierarchy of Maintenance / Rehabilitation / Armor Strategies as shown on page 126. Per the philosophy of the Sketchbook, some Armor will always be required and a combination of Maintenance (even several times per year) and Rehabilitation are always presumed, not just simply Maintenance Strategies.
From page 136 of the Sketchbook: “Many times, the hardest decision agency managers have to decide is whether or not to continue to use existing corridors, maintain them, rehabilitate them, or abandon them [with ecological restoration of the old corridor] and start over with a new trail design according to sustainability criteria. Once a decision has been made, incremental and patient actions which are part of the overall design plan will result in the most beneficial project regarding natural and cultural resources protection, land management agency goals and stakeholder interests.”
We didn’t talk much in the Foundations webinar about conducting a Trail Sustainability Assessment. I mentioned the term, plus I mentioned it when referring to the Trail Project Cycle Tool. I also mentioned using the New Trail Design Notes Tools “backwards” through the Trail Planning and Trail Sustainability Assessment processes. By this I mean that it is prudent to understand problems and solve them through design, and if trail planners are to do this successfully, they must assess and plan appropriately for their design.
Pages 27 through 32 in the Sketchbook include my recommendations for Tools & Techniques for a Trail Sustainability Assessment process which I will discuss on webinars 2 and 3, and give examples from my experiences. In particular, I believe one must assess trails for sustainability according to appropriate trail sustainability criteria. These are suggested on page 29 of the Sketchbook. Determining if a trail leaves at the appropriate origin, connects appropriate control points (intermediary linkages), and arrives at appropriate destinations; while also traversing appropriate cross slopes at appropriate profile grades, are foundational to a Sustainability Assessment. Having the Sustainability Assessment in written, graphic, photographic, and tabular form will strengthen your presentation.
Page 31 of the Sketchbook says this:
“Prevailing cross slope and trail profile grade readings taken with a clinometer, while also recording additional sustainability notes, will assist the interdisciplinary trail team in assessing trail corridors or surfaces for planned activities. Readings are recommended for each 100-foot station.
"The higher the percentages of unsustainable soils, excessive cross slopes or steep trail profile grades, the more likely it is the corridor should be simply maintained, rehabilitated, armored or relocated to more sustainable sites. If over 50% of a corridor is unsustainable, it is likely that the entire corridor needs to be abandoned, restored, and then a new corridor relocated to better soils or prevailing cross slope locations. Armor improvements (sometimes just minor spot improvements) will almost always be required to keep a trail corridor and travel surface in sustainable condition.”
I wish I had a better answer, but I have made recommendations to abandon, ecologically restore, and then create new corridors for 25 miles of trail— several times.
I would recommend that your team make recommendations based upon each corridor’s uniqueness, on how to proceed, and not go by the 50% number above carte blanche. So, how is the corridor doing, relative to profile grades, prevailing cross slopes, origins, destinations and linkages, etc.? I could picture some scenarios where half of the corridor is unsustainable, you might make a decision to start over, and others where maybe because of resource concerns or topographic constraints, you might continually improve a corridor through Rehabilitation and even Armor solutions even if the corridor is largely unsustainable. I would recommend you convene an interdisciplinary team with trail sustainability experience. And please note, a continuously armored trail corridor or trail segment of a corridor, may be the most environmentally sustainable option.
I mentioned during the webinar, the June 2014 American Trails e-newsletter that referenced a proposal headed to Congress to fund maintenance backlog activities on our nation’s federal trail system to the tune of several hundred million dollars. I don’t know what the outcome of that initiative will be, but I do know that each of us has to double up and recommit ourselves to working hard and ensuring we are doing our absolute best to start now to reduce what will an increasing backlog if we don’t take the correct actions now. If not us, who?
Hence the subtitle of my Foundations webinar presentation: “One Trail at a Time, One Mile at a Time.” I think it would be noteworthy for a trail manager to endeavor to restore to sustainable condition a single 5-mile-long corridor, one mile per year say for 5 years, rather than continue to hamstring future managers, by say, creating 5 miles of unsustainable trail in a single year, just to make some kind of mileage accomplishment.
In a nutshell, I would recommend that you make your best recommendations to management, conduct a transparent compliance process, and follow that with hard work.
And, alas, if you look at the Sketchbook, 2007 edition, on page 19, I recommend starting with the Trail Sustainability Assessment (that was in 2007!). My trail friends have since recommended that an interdisciplinary team start with “Pitfalls to Avoid” as indicated on page 35 from the Foundations webinar presentation booklet, which makes some sense, work through Lessons Learned and conduct More Tools research, then proceed to a Trail Sustainability Assessment, then Plan, then Design. Yikes! They might be right. I might want to edit the Sketchbook. So there might be Lessons Learned and Pitfalls to Avoid that you might tabulate first, even before venturing afield, and include those in your Sustainability Assessment.
Q. What if you have a great viewpoint, but it is very steep and virtually impossible to design a curvilinear alignment to get to it and one switchback won’t get you there? My users want to get there, and we want to accommodate their interests. How would you approach this challenge?
I hear you loud and clear! This is very common challenge in Colorado,
and the Eagle Cliff Case Study that I showed you in the webinar
presentation demonstrates this reality.
Think of the concept of sustainable mountain trails this way: the overwhelming preference would be for a natural surface, curvilinear alignment (rolling contour, side-hill or 1/4 profile to prevailing cross slope conditions) with gentle to moderate profile grades on gentle to moderate prevailing cross slopes— with required spot (a.k.a.: armor) improvements. I strive to achieve a sustainable trail corridor which would be about 85% of its length as natural surface, and 15% would be armor improvements which may include walls, switchbacks, stone paving, imported gravel surfacing, extensive drainage improvements, crowned trail, bridges, etc. So for a mile of trail, there might be 500 to 750 linear feet of atypical trail constructed. < This is reality, and my targeted percentages might be low for some projects. Maybe a project goal would be to achieve only 50% natural surface and 50% of its length as some kind of armoring.
Now take this a step further, to your question. There is a term in Colorado which refers to the concept of “switchback trails” to Colorado’s high peaks (we call them “14ers,” as they are over 14,000 feet in elevation). Eventually— even if you can find a sustainable corridor starting at say 11,000 or 12,000 feet of elevation— you will face the reality of having to navigate rock outcrops, talus slopes, scree and mountain tops (which have resisted glaciers). Hence the term: switchback trails. Trail planners have had to do the best they can with the lower elevation routes, and then plan, design and implement extensive sections— of what is referred to in the Sketchbook— as Ascent Routes. See page 130 of the Sketchbook for Armor Design and page 140 for Colorado Fourteeners Initiative Ascent Route Samples. This also would apply to lower peaks that are challenging topographically.
See also page 121 of the Sketchbook for inspiration for Stone Craftsmanship examples Rocky Mountain National Park. Many times for the 14ers, this results in switchbacks to the top, many times over several hundred feet of vertical climb.
All of this pinpoints the need to thoroughly plan the lower segments of such a route to what would be the Ascent Route origin— a.k.a.: “switchback trail” route— to the desired destination. The next step would be to then consciously design (and get funding and work out the logistics for) the final higher-elevation segments, hopefully in their ultimately best location the first time. Truthfully, five or ten switchbacks don’t sound so bad to me. There are Trail Management Options shown on page 133 of the Sketchbook which you may employ. GIS and GPS technology can help you figure the rise and run you have to navigate, and their geographic relationships.
And I believe that properly planned, designed and implemented switchbacks will not be shortcut as many presume and as often as they presume. I believe trail users are, for the most part, ethical. Some signage or informational brochures are always helpful. I think you are up to the challenge, just by your sincerity in asking the question. Yes, your trail won’t be typical natural surface trail throughout its length, but the alignments you choose and the stone craftsmanship for the upper stretches will likely be an inspiration to your trail users.
Q. You recognized that funding is scarce. We have found that it is easier to find money to construct a new trail, but funding for relocating or maintaining trails seem to be hard to come by. Do you have any ideas for us?
I am going to answer this question similar to how I did on the webinar. I believe if you put all of your ducks in a row, and develop a comprehensive package which would communicate to funding authorities what you intend to do as well as why you intend to do what you plan to do and how— that you have given that effort your best shot. I believe that that comprehensive package would be based upon sustainability and in a “soup to nuts” format, i.e.: assessment, plan, design, maintenance— customized to your project.
I understand that funding new trails might be desirable to a funding authority versus maintenance. But if that would be done— not to sustainability criteria— what have you or they gained?
I recommend that you put together the Comprehensive Trail Sustainability package and stand firm in your commitment, and confidently ask just like any other request you might have in the real world, cookie sales, youth group trips, band trips out of state, or whatever. I think you will be successful.
Q. For a backcountry trail, what type of material might you use to make it more accessible— if you don’t want to pave it?
Paving in the “backcountry” would probably be problematic, I agree. I am aware of projects where remnant paving in the backcountry is being removed at great cost. And I presume you are talking about literally improving a trail for better access for users, but not making it recreation accessible according to the new Guidelines for Outdoor Recreation Facilities on Federal lands. Note that you may have to comply with those guidelines depending upon your specific circumstances.
To improve trails for better access, I commonly recommend a local crushed-gravel mixture, similar to a road base specification from a highway department. This might be something like a standard specification “3/4-inch minus” mix, say xx% passes a 3/4-inch sieve, yy% might pass a 1/2-inch sieve, zz% might pass a 3/8-inch sieve, etc. I always recommend incorporation of some fines, but not a large percentage.
It would be best if a landscape architect collaborated with a civil engineer and a gravel operator to produce and test several mixes and then pick the best and proceed. In the backcountry this recommendation could be a challenge. Maybe geotextile fabrics could be employed to reduce the cross section of your needed gravel and therefore the needed volume. Maybe you could source the materials, have them delivered to your trailhead and then transport them to your location. I don’t know if this feasible for you or not. I am aware of locations where gravels are even sourced in the backcountry and mixed and utilized. It is a small challenge but it has been surmounted in the past.
Q. We have a park with 50+ miles of multiple-use trails. They cross in many places. Would you recommend signing every single intersection with a number and posted trail map? Is there a reference book or article that explains the best process for signing/numbering such a complex trail system?
I have not seen a reference document that would specifically address this question. Suzanne Trapp authored a very good book entitled Signs, Trails and Wayside Exhibits. See the Sketchbook page 151 in the More Tools section. I act like a novice many times when visiting new areas, and I get confused many times. I think, yes, it is prudent to minimally sign trail intersections for way-finding success. I would recommend simplicity, and not necessarily a map as you allude to, at each intersection. Simple trail names, and directional arrows and maybe distances work in many places. There are products advertised in the American Trails Business Directory that are suitable for your solution.
Q. Tom Crimmins ("Management Guidelines for OHV Recreation") suggests the "50% rule" for OHV trail cross slope. "Trail grade should never exceed 50% of the cross slope of the area being crossed." Is this the same concept as the 1/4 [profile versus prevailing topographic] cross slope you suggest? Are OHV designs and hiking designs different in this area of design?
The 1937 NPS CCC-era training document, which I alluded to on the call, is now linked on the NPS Sustainable Trails website. The CCC-era training document starts with an admonition, and that is that document is not a set of standards, and that the technician in the field must make decisions on the ground.
I was trained this way in the old days by previous NPS trail planners, that “there are no rules.” I continue to espouse that philosophy— that there are no rules.
The Sketchbook is written as a motivational document, and it is a guideline only. That philosophy conveys responsibility to the interdisciplinary team to customize recommended Tools & Techniques to their project at hand based upon sound judgment. The Sketchbook and related documents are clearly focused on criteria that influence environmental sustainability of natural surface mountain trails, as recommended by the authors. A simple example is from the Foundations webinar presentation booklet on page 14: “The most sustainable corridor location from any given point would be left or right, 1/4 uphill or 1/4 downhill.” This is accompanied by a graphic. Please refer to this page of the presentation.
There is scientific literature on the web that confirms that trails that climb or descend at less than 1/4 of the prevailing topographic cross slope exhibit less erosion than trails that climb or descend at steeper grade relationships. See also the Minimizing Resource Impacts, 2012 document.
The Sketchbook advocates environmentally sustainable Tools & Techniques that— when customized— work in most situations most of the time for natural surface mountain trails. This is the prudent approach when publishing guidelines for others to contemplate.
I recommend that trail planners assemble their own library of resources and make their own assessment as to applicability of recommended sustainability criteria to their project at hand based upon their project’s requirements and the project’s stated environmental goals.
The Sketchbook, complete with its environmentally sustainable Tools & Techniques can certainly be a resource— and customized for the project at hand— in any trail planners’ More Tools library. The Sketchbook process can be successfully applied to all trail types.
Published June 26, 2014
Permeable Pavers provide stable, low-impact pathway through Rookery Bay Research Reserve.
Responsible equestrians should actively protect trees and other park structures when out on the trail. Equine expert Lora Goerlich gives her take on this topic.
In the context of mountain bike trails, excellence is realized when a trail design merges the desired outcomes and difficulty that a rider seeks with the setting in which the outcomes are realized.
The purpose of this plan is to assess progress to-date and develop a strategy to connect local and regional systems into a statewide trail network reaching to all areas of the Commonwealth.
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With the positive testing, discussions advanced and after noticing the TC600 and a separate Maxi Postmaster mounted on a telescopic mast being developed for another customer, the idea of a dedicated tracked vehicle was proposed. With Autoguide’s knowledge and history of building custom track based machines, the customer decided this would be the best option and commissioned a special custom build.
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The findings suggest new ways to protect bees against viruses and the deadly Varroa mite that have been responsible for the recent dramatic decline in honey bee populations. Since around one third of the human diet globally is dependent on honey bee pollination, we need solutions urgently to help maintain flourishing bee colonies, for our food security and sustainability.
Dr Eyal Maori from the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, and his collaborators in Israel and the USA had been trialling a new type of antiviral therapy for bees when they got a hint that the bees were able to transmit biologically-active RNA molecules between colony members. The scientists today publish the evidence for such a bee-to-bee RNA transfer phenomenon in the journal Cell Reports.
These transmissible RNA molecules are produced by the honey bee’s genes and by disease agents such as viruses. Unlike other RNA in the body, these RNA molecules do not code for protein. Instead, they play a direct role in immunity, gene regulation and other biological mechanisms.
In previous studies, Maori and colleagues fed bees with RNA fragments that included a segment of an RNA virus. They found that similar to how vaccines work, the dietary RNA activated an immune response that prevented disease and death when hives were later exposed to the live virus. Intriguingly, the colony maintained a healthy performance for several months after treatment had finished, suggesting that it was still immune to infection – even though the original treated bees would have died off and been replaced by new generations. This suggested that the immunising RNA fragments were being passed among colony members as well as across generations.
In the study released today, the researchers demonstrated that dietary RNA is taken up from the ingestion system into the bee’s circulatory fluid and spread to the jelly-secreting glands. The dietary RNA is then secreted with the jelly and taken-up by larvae fed on the jelly.
While scientists have previously shown in plants and animals that movement of RNA between cells within an organism is possible, these findings identify a molecular mechanism for transmission of RNA molecules between organisms.
“We found that RNA spreads beyond individual honey bees, being transferred not just between parents and their progeny, but also among individuals in the hive,” says Maori.
Further experiments showed that transmissible RNA was able to activate a mechanism called 'RNA interference' to block the activity of some genes and reduce the production of certain honey bee proteins. Importantly, RNA interference is known to provide defence against viral infection in honey bees and other organisms. In other words, these RNA molecules are likely acting to immunise the bees against infections.
The researchers next analysed the worker and royal jellies and revealed diverse types of naturally occurring RNA, some derived from bee genes and some from pathogens such as fungi and infectious viruses, suggesting that over time the bees had developed – and shared – immunity to these pathogens.
"Our findings demonstrate that bees share ‘transmissible RNA’ among members of the colony, likely as a way of sharing immunity among members and generations in the hive and to enable other bees to adapt to different environmental conditions," says Maori.
In a second study, published last month in the journal Molecular Cell, Maori, working with Professor Eric Miska's lab at the Gurdon Institute, investigated how RNA, which is an unstable molecule, is transferred through the jelly diet. They found that an abundant jelly ingredient, Major Royal Jelly Protein-3 (MRJP-3), binds the RNA to form granules that concentrate and protect it from environmental damage. This is the first identification of RNA granules with functions outside cells and organisms.
Maori added: "Honey bees have evolved a type of ‘glue’ that binds RNA into granules, making it more stable and so able to be shared with other bees. If we can harness this technology, we might be able to use it to develop new ‘vaccines’ that could be used in agricultural settings, in particular to help immunise bees against the devastating losses being suffered by their colonies.
“It is possible that this honey bee protein may even have applications, too, for new vaccines and medicines for humans.”
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Cord Moving and Storage Headquartered in Saint Louis, Mo is once again preparing after receiving from local bakeries for the distribution of the Girl Scout Cookies to local troops. They are sorted, they are skidded and are being loaded on large 53 foot trailers to begin the distribtion starting next week.
Since 1996 Cord Moving and Storage has received, stored and distributed over 150,000 cases per year of Girl Scout Cookies. The entire operations at Cord Moving and Storage is excited but focused on a quick and seamless distribution to those Girl Scouts who have faithfully sold them.
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No honour among politicians
Ken Lambert writes: Re. “‘No sniping, no undermining’ Abbott snipes, undermines” (yesterday). Perhaps we should define political loyalty and dispose of all this mawkish nonsense about betrayals and who ratted on whom.
An honourable position (if honour means anything) for any politician is to give support to a leader based on their performance rather than their personality. Support or loyalty? Support is not necessarily personal loyalty; it is not unconditional; it is not come what may.
For a good example lets look at the Abbott and Bronwyn Bishop story. Bishop did something indefensible; she abused the taxpayer’s funds in a way that showed manifest contempt for her employers.
Abbott defended her for three weeks and then she had to go with terminal results for Abbott on top of his probationary status since near death in February. It was longstanding personal loyalty that supposedly motivated Abbott.
The honourable position was for Abbott to tell Bishop on day one that the facts of the case were indisputable, and her actions were indefensible. Despite their long history as warriors on the same side, he had a duty to protect the taxpayer and his government and she either resigned forthwith or he would have to sack her.
Morrison. Unless he gave Abbott a blood covenant to support him come what may; Morrison was entitled to sit tight when the forces gathered to roll Abbott. Abbott had been put on a probation. Improve your performance or the party room will withdraw support. He manifestly failed to perform for six months (Bishop being a prime example), and the members withdrew their support.
Party loyalty is personified for some but it can’t be for the majority of elected members. Their duty is to put in place a leader who enjoys their majority support. That means the leader performs as a politician and gains approval of and gives confidence to the voters.
Honour in party politics should be about each member honestly supporting a leader who they believe will do the best for their party and hopefully the country.
Richard Middleton writes: Today Tony (Half Time) Abbott claimed he “still had something to contribute to public life” … Go surf into the sunset with some fragment of grace, Tony. Australia is much better off, thanks.
Gentlemen, check your engines
Jeff Ash writes: Re. “Does the VW scandal reveal the auto industry’s biggest dirty secret?” (yesterday). Porsche does produce diesel cars — and has done since the Cayenne was given a diesel motor in 2009. The Panamera (2011) and Macan (2014) also have diesel variants.
Rookie mistake, Crikey.
A pox on Glencore
Jock Webb writes: Re. “Glencore’s date with Bermuda’s Triangle?” (yesterday). I know people who worked for Glencore, so I am biased. They may be a trading company, but they are not a mining company’s steel toed bootlace. I have seen at a distance their management of themetal assets they acquired from X-Strata and their attitude to the communities they work in. Stripping away corporate knowledge, shedding in one case every member of the geo team who wasn’t a brand-new grad. Constant changes in planning. Removing QA oversights. Chaos brought about by greed. They have a lot of interests in Australia, and job losses could be huge as a result of their chicanery. A first-lass pox on the company I say and good luck to those who still work for them.
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News about the job market at home can be pretty dull and depressing and many people may be tempted to look further afield for new and exciting job opportunities. If you’re looking for a job abroad why not check out some of these weird and wonderful jobs from around the world.
One guy in Malaysia has the important responsibility of distinguishing between male and female chicks as they hatch. Mohamad Abdul Hamid says he loves his job, which involves sorting 300 chicks per day, or three chicks every two minutes. However, it isn’t all glamour. One of the downsides to his work is that people don’t always take him seriously and he struggled to secure his wife’s hand in marriage when her parents doubted his credentials: “"They didn’t believe it was a job and that it paid well," said the 30-year-old.
Job Title: Chicken Sexer
Office: Commercial hatchery
Description: Separate the girls from the boys
Certifications/Education: Training in Medan, Indonesia.
Necessary Skills: Speed, Attention to Detail, Precision
Pay: “Four-figure monthly income.”
Read More: http://www.orientexpat.com/forum/3265-unique-job-chicken-sexer/
Clowns are not just for the circus it seems. In parts of the USA they can actually save lives! Miguel Angel Lorea Hoyos works as a clown at a Mexican-style rodeo in the Queens neighborhood of Howard Beach, his job is to distract the 2,000 to 4,000 pound angry bull from going after the cowboy when he is bucked off. A skill Miguel refined in his native home of Mexico, he is often known as “Cowboy’s Pet” by those that work with him. “Yes it is dangerous,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “For me, for the cowboys that will ride today. It is dangerous for all of us. But we will make it out OK.”
Job Title: Rodeo Clown
Office: Rodeo Arena
Description: Protect cowboys from bulls and entertain rodeo audiences during lull periods
Certifications/Education: Rodeo Clown School
Necessary Skills: Speed, Agility, Wits, Humor, Courage
Pay: $40,000 to $90,000 per year or $100 to $500 per show
More information: http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/11/22/odd-jobs-a-mexican-rodeo-clown-in-queens/
This is a job that is not to be laughed at, it can actually be a big earner. Worm pickers in Canada are responsible for collecting worms. Clad in their miner’s hats with headlamps they work through the night to grab as many of the slimy creatures as they can. In some areas professional worm pickers are paid as much as $18 per can for their haul. The worms are then sold on to garden and farms that need the worms to fertilize the land or fisheries in America that use them as bait.
Job Title: Worm Picker
Office: Farm land
Description: Locate worms and place them into a can
Necessary Skills: Keen eye, strong back, nimble fingers
Pay: $18 per can
Read more: http://anhng.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/worm-picking-night-in-canada/
Being paid to play games all day sounds like heaven to some people, but in reality it can constitute sheer, hard graft. In China there are actually people who spend 10-hour shifts in cramped offices playing online games to farm in-game currency that they then sell to other players in exchange for real-world money. Customers, who are typically World of Warcraft enthusiasts, are willing to pay for the virtual gold that can allow them to upgrade their avatar's skill level or can be used to purchase a magical weapon.
Job Title: Gold Farmer
Office: A cramped office in China
Description: Playing online games to acquire in-game currency
Certifications/Education: World of Warcraft expertise
Necessary Skills: Game playing
Pay: $80-$120 a month which can amount to as little as 30c an hour
More Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_farming
Ghoulish tourist attraction the London Bridge Experience made the news in 2009 when they advertised for professional zombies. The role involved employees dressing up as Zombies and surprising visitors to the attraction with their antics. Fifty people were awarded the job and were awarded a pretty impressive salary of £30 000 a year!
Job Title: Professional zombie
Office: London Bridge Experience
Description: Dress like a zombie and scare people
Necessary Skills: Ability to scare
Pay: 30,000 GBP per year
More Information: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/5924506/Pair-land-30000-a-year-zombie-job.html
Yes, you read that correctly... snake milking. Ken Darnell from southeastern Alabama is responsible for extracting poisonous venom from angry snakes. Squeezing the snake’s head above a special collection device, Ken milks the venom before processing it into a freeze-dried powder that he then sells to laboratories, where it's used to develop drugs that can treat blood clots, heart attacks, and high blood pressure, and as antivenin injections.
Job Title: Snake milker
Office: “Out in the middle of glorious nowhere.”
Description: Extract poisonous venom from snakes
Necessary Skills: Precision, Courage
More Information: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125036229
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This Oscar-winning musical set in the Roaring 20s tells of Roxie Hart, who played the media with razzle-dazzle to parlay a murder rap into stardom.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Alternate Genre: 20th Century Period Pieces, Crime Dramas, Dramas, Music & Musicals, Musicals, Police Dramas, Police Movies
Actor(s): Catherine Zeta-Jones , Christine Baranski , Colm Feore , Deirdre Goodwin , Denise Faye , Dominic West , Ekaterina Chtchelkanova , John C. Reilly , Lucy Liu , Mya , Queen Latifah , Renee Zellweger , Richard Gere , Susan Misner , Taye Diggs
Director(s): Rob Marshall
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What Are Underground Utilities?
The term “utility” refers to the services provided by public utility companies, including electricity, natural gas, water, sewage, phone lines, and more.
“Underground utilities” refers to the vast infrastructure of pipes and cables that transport water, gas, and electricity to each building in a community. There are more than 100 billion feet of underground utilities in the U.S., which means there’s over a football field’s length of line per person.
Whenever a property owner plans to dig underground, it’s imperative to locate the underground utilities on the site before digging. The process of identifying and labeling underground public utility mains is known as “utility location.” While private lines are considered the responsibility of the landowner (this may include gas lines, private sewer laterals, sprinkler systems, and certain electric lines), underground utilities are the responsibility of the public utility company and homeowner. They will be able to mark the location of the lines for you, but you or your contractor must call them first.
Color Code for Marking Underground Utility Lines
In the United States, the American Public Works Association (APWA) provides Uniform Color Codes for the temporary marking of underground utilities. These color codes are applied using paint, chalk, stakes and/or flags to indicate the location and route of different underground utilities. Having this standard, uniform color code helps everyone (contractors, excavators, utility companies, municipalities or “any others working on or near underground facilities”) avoid accidents and unneeded damage.
It’s up to the owners of the public lines to mark the locations near a job site according to this standard:
Once your lines have been marked, they are usually only valid for a certain number of days (28 is common). This is due to natural wear and tear that will harm visibility, as well as the fact that erosion and root growth have been known to alter the depth and location of buried lines over time. Be sure to plan digs according to the requirements of your state.
The Dangers of Replacing Underground Utilities
According to the Common Ground Alliance, an underground utility line is damaged once every 6 minutes nationwide because someone decided to dig without knowing the location of their lines. While these mistakes are often caused by large excavation projects, a simple mailbox installation or even a small gardening project can lead to striking utility lines you didn’t realize were there.
Guidelines For Operator’s Facility Field Delineation
Operator markings of facilities include; the appropriate color for their facility type; their company identifier (name, initials, or abbreviation) when other companies are using the same color, the number and width of their facilities and a description of the facility (HP, FO, STL, etc). Use paint, flags, stakes, whiskers or a combination to identify the operator's facility(s) at or near an excavation site.
Marks in the appropriate color are to be approximately 12" to 18" in length and 1" inch in width and separated by approximately 4' to 50' in distance as an example. When marking facilities the operator is to consider the type of facility being located, the terrain of the land, the type of excavation being done and the method to adequately mark its facilities for the excavator.
The following marking illustrations are examples of how an operator may choose to mark their subsurface installations.
Single Facility Marking: Used to mark a single facility, marks are placed over the approximate center of the facility (Figure 1) or over the approximate outside edges with a line connecting the two horizontal lines (in the form of an H) (Figure 2). These examples indicate an operator’s 12” facility. When a facility can be located or toned separately from other facilities of the same type it is marked as a single facility.
Multiple Facility Marking: Used to mark multiple facilities of the same type (e.g. electric), where the separation does not allow for a separate tone for each facility but the number and width of the facilities are known. Marks are placed over the approximate center of the facilities and indicate the number and width of the facilities.
Conduit Marking: Used for any locatable facility being carried inside conduits or ducts. The marks indicating the outer extremities denote the actual located edges of the facilities being represented. An example would be 4 plastic conduits that are 4" in diameter (4/4" PLA), and the marks are 16" apart indicating the actual left and right edges of the facilities.
Corridor Marking: Used to mark multiple facilities of the same type (e.g. electric), in the same trench where the total number of facilities is not readily known (operator has no record on file for the number facilities) and that are bundled or intertwined. Marks are placed over the approximate center of the facilities and indicate the width of the corridor. The width of the corridor is the distance between the actual located outside edges of the combined facilities. This example indicates a 12" corridor (12" CDR).
Changes in direction and lateral connections are to be clearly indicated at the point where the change in direction or connection occurs with an arrow indicating the path of the facility. A radius is indicated with marks describing the arc. When providing offset markings, (paint or stakes), show the direction of the facility and distance to the facility from the markings.
An operator's identifier (name, abbreviation or initials) is to be placed at the beginning and at the end of the proposed work. In addition to the previous, subsequent operators using the same color will mark their company identifier at all points where their facility crosses another operator's facility using the same color. The maximum separation of identifiers is to be reduced to a length that can be reasonably seen by the excavator when the terrain at the excavation site warrants it.
When there is "No Conflict" with the excavation complete one or more of the following:
Operators of a single type of facility (e.g. TELECO) would mark the area "NO" followed by the appropriate company identifier in the matching APWA color code for that facility (e.g. "NO TELECO")
Operators of multiple facilities would mark the area "NO" followed by the appropriate company identifier in the matching APWA color code for that facility with a slash and the abbreviation for the type of facility that there is "No Conflict" (e.g. "NO GASCO/G/D"). The example illustrates that GASCO has no gas distribution facilities at this excavation site. The abbreviation for gas transmission facilities is "/G/T", electric distribution is "/E/D" and electric transmission is "/E/T" these should be used when appropriate.
Place a clear plastic (translucent) flag that states "No Conflict" in lettering matching the APWA color code of the facility that is not in conflict. Include on the flag the operator's identifier, phone number, a place to write the locate ticket number and date. Operators of multiple facilities would indicate on the flag, which facilities were in "No Conflict" with the excavation as in the previous example.
If it can be determined through maps or records that the proposed excavation is obviously not in conflict with their facility (s) the locator or operator of the facility may notify the excavator of "No Conflict" by phone, fax, or email, or through the One Call Center, where electronic positive response is used. Operators of multiple facilities would indicate a "No Conflict" for each facility as in the previous examples.
Place "No Conflict" markings or flags in a location that can be observed by the excavator and/or advise the excavator by phone, fax, or email that there is "No Conflict" with your facilities. When the excavation is delineated by the use of white markings, place "No Conflict" markings or flags in or as near as practicable to the delineated area.
"No Conflict" indicates; that the operator providing the "No Conflict" has no facilities within the scope of the delineation, or when there is no delineation, there are no facilities within the work area as described on the DigAlert.
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- Catering Services
- Own a Jerry’s
Listen to the wise words of Ray Lampe, professional pit master and tailgater:
With fall and football season quickly approaching, it’s time to start thinking about tailgating. However, if you’re professional tailgater and pit master Ray Lampe, aka Dr. BBQ, you never stopped. As a member of the BBQ Hall of Fame and a former judge on Tailgate Warriors with Guy Fieri, Lampe has a lot of experience with tailgating and getting the most out of a day at the stadium. He shared his top tips for first time tailgaters and how to make the experience both enjoyable and delicious.
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- Rapid erection
- Greater unsupported span distances
- Custom made to fit your specifications
- Numerous claddings, colours, and styles
JP Contractors builds complete premises especially for the agricultural, industrial, and utility sectors. Our pre-eng buildings are top quality and designed to meet your specifications. Our only supplier is Steelway
, which has been in business since 1976, manufacturing the highest-quality steel buildings across Canada and around the world! Steelway buildings are completely customized to meet your needs; standard building sizes are a thing of the past. Today’s computer-assisted design allows every design to start as a “blank sheet of paper” without being restricted to a manufacturer’s range of building size. With our knowledgeable staff,
can give you the highest-quality steel buildings – the best-quality buildings.
For more information regarding the designs and versatility of our pre-eng buildings, please click here
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BBC Radio 1 controller Ben Cooper has told Music Week the network is setting the global agenda for the future of radio.
Earlier this month, Music Week revealed how the station now has more viewers than listeners. Radio 1’s weekly audience for visual content via YouTube has passed 14 million – well ahead of the current RAJAR result of 9.3m. The visual audience surpassed radio listeners earlier this year.
“I hope what we can do is use the licence fee as almost seed capital for the industry,” said Cooper. “We can take risks, we can experiment. All those years ago, with the listen, watch, share strategy, we went out there, we decided to make some visual content that enhanced our radio station and some social content and now the world is doing exactly the same as we were doing back then.”
Radio 1 recently won the Music Week Award for radio station of the year in recognition of its innovative strategy.
“We’ve talked at conferences around the world in Europe and North America and Australia,” said Cooper. “We’ve been invited to talk and tell our story all around the world. It’s fantastic that we’ve been able to give that to the radio station - we are still kicking and screaming and innovating. Everyone keeps [talking] about the death of the radio industry. Well, actually, we are here, more loud and important than ever before.”
We’ve been invited to talk and tell our story all around the world
The Music Week Tech Summit last autumn was a key industry event for the network to share its vision. Joe Harland gave a memorable opening keynote for the inaugural edition (tickets are now on sale for this year’s Tech Summit, which takes place on October 8). Harland even recalled the mocking reference to his job title in the Evening Standard, which suggested it amounted to being “head of stairs in a bungalow”.
Nevertheless, it’s a strategy that’s spreading globally, according to Cooper.
“You look at any radio station now, whether that be in Australia or America or Canada or Europe, you can see that pretty much everyone has got a listen, watch, share strategy,” he told Music Week. “We’ll move where the audience goes. We’ve done Twitter and Facebook, we’ve gone to Instagram and now we’re looking at TikTok.”
The radio station itself has overhauled its schedule, including the move to breakfast by Greg James last summer.
“We did all of our changes last year,” said Cooper. “We’ve got a brand new schedule with new programmes, new people in new places and that is working and it’s cutting through.”
Cooper will now be working with newly-appointed BBC pop controller Lorna Clarke, who’s pledged to support the music industry.
To read the full interviews with Cooper and Harland, subscribers can click here.
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New Hampshire Business for Rail Expansion is a statewide nonpartisan business coalition committed to expanding passenger rail from Boston to southern New Hampshire and growing, diversifying and strengthening New Hampshire’s economy.
From your neighborhood coffee shop to a global technology company, we are the forward-thinking business leaders who understand the vital role passenger rail would play to invigorate NH’s economy. We also understand that we cannot wait. We need to take action now.
If you are a business owner or industry leader that would like to join us in this effort, or if you have a media inquiry, please contact E.J. Powers at 603.644.3200 or epowers [at] montagnecom [dot] com.
All other supporters, please sign the petition.
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Additional Exemption Programs
Veteran's Exemptions - Filing deadline - September 30 for the next Grand List
A veteran may file for an assessment exemption off of his home or motor vehicle. The basic exemption amount is $6,000 off of your home or motor vehicle assessment. To qualify the veteran must bring a copy of their original or certified copy of his honorable discharge (DD-214 form - long form) to the Assessor's office for review of dates served to see if qualified to receive such exemption. The honorable discharge (DD-214 form - long form) must then be filed on record with the Town Clerk's office. Upon confirmation of filing, and ownership of a home or motor vehicle as of the October 1st following the date recorded in the Town Clerk's office, the Assessor's office will apply the exemption to the property owned by the Veteran. Please contact this office for more information at 203-854-7816.
Additionally, any veteran who is deemed by the United States Veterans' Administration to have suffered a disability of at least 10%, may file that disability rating slip from the Veterans' Administration with the Assessor's office, as long as their honorable discharge (DD-214) was filed in the Town Clerks office, and receive an additional amount of assessment exemptions. Veterans' Administration - link to website.
Active Duty Serviceman's Motor Vehicle Exemption
A Connecticut resident who is a member of the armed forces of the United States (including a member of the reserves or the Connecticut National Guard) on the assessment date is eligible for the total exemption of one motor vehicle, pursuant to CSGS 12-81(53). The vehicle must be registered in Connecticut. It may be owned or leased by the service member. It may be located in Connecticut or outside of the state. A yearly application must be filed with the Assessor's office by December 31st following the issued tax bill. Click here to print the application.
Additional benefits are available to disabled veterans with certification from the Veterans Administration.
Additionally, non-Connecticut residents whose vehicle is garaged in this state due to military orders, is entitled to an exemption under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA). Application for a motor vehicle or a mobile manufactured home must be made in the form of an affidavit. Print Affidavit for Exemption.
Any qualified residential condominium or residential cooperative unity, as defined by chapter 828 of the Connecticut General Statutes, or single-family residence located on a private road within the fourth taxing district may apply for an exemption from that portion of the mill rate attributable to garbage collection. Garbage exemption applications must be completed on or before the April 15 prior to the fiscal year in which the exemption can be granted. Download application:
The State of Connecticut Tax Freeze Program stopped accepting applications in 1979. For all practical purposes, a freezing of taxes no longer exists. The only exception to this are those people who were on the program prior to 1979 and have continued to maintain their eligibility based upon income ever since. As such, the tax freeze has been overtaken by the State of Connecticut's Circuit Breaker Program.
For further information concerning any of the above exemption programs or services, please contact the tax assessor's office at (203) 854-7816 for additional filing requirements.
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Zero copy technologies such as PF_RING ZC allow applications to read packets in memory without any actor involved, being it the kernel or a memory copy. This is the reason why using ZC you can easily fill up a 10 Gbit line using a single thread and a single network card queue. The drawback of zero copy is that applications must be well behaved as the same packet is shared across multiple applications and thus if one application pollutes the packet memory, this problem affects all the consumers. The same problem happens in case an application crashes and writes in (unexpected) packet memory locations, corrupting other processe’s memory.
You might say “ok but apps should not crash nor misbehave”. This is a fair statement but sometimes this might not be the case. For instance many Bro users use PF_RING to accelerate packet capture by leveraging on PF_RING’s speed and ability to distribute the traffic across multiple consumer queues using the zbalance_ipc clustering application. Unfortunately sometimes Bro workers die unexpectedly and this requires zbalance_ipc to be restarted as a worker might have corrupted the memory of other workers. Even though in practice our “zbalance_ipc restart required” policy is over-safe as Bro is unlikely to corrupt the memory, we cannot risk that a fault on one worker creates problems to all the others.
In order to overcome this problem, there is a simple solution you can use to isolate the various packet consumers so that they can be restarted independently in case of crash. Load the dummy network driver specifying the number of ‘fake’ interfaces, matching the number of application instances you need for load balancing the traffic.
Example for 4 consumers, do:
modprobe dummy numdummies=4 ifconfig dummy0 up ifconfig dummy1 up ifconfig dummy2 up ifconfig dummy3 up
Run zbalance_ipc (make sure you use the latest PF_RING code), specifying the number of consumers application, remapping each queue to a ‘safe’ dummy interface using -r <queue id>:<dummy interface> for each queue. In the example below zbalance_ipc is load balancing the traffic from p2p2 (-i zc:p2p2) across 4 queues/consumers (-n 4) using an IP-based hash function (-m 1) remapping queue 0 to the dummy interface dummy0 and so on.
zbalance_ipc -i zc:p2p2 -n 4 -m 1 -c 2 -r 0:dummy0 -r 1:dummy1 -r 2:dummy2 -r 3:dummy3
You can now run an application on each ‘dummy’ interface.
# ./pfcount -i dummy0 Using PF_RING v.6.3.0 Capturing from dummy0 [86:1E:71:67:FA:40][ifIndex: 56] # Device RX channels: 1 # Polling threads: 1 Dumping statistics on /proc/net/pf_ring/stats/8712-dummy0.387 ========================= Absolute Stats: [1472571 pkts rcvd][0 pkts dropped] Total Pkts=1472571/Dropped=0.0 % 1'472'571 pkts - 123'695'964 bytes ========================= ========================= Absolute Stats: [2947157 pkts rcvd][0 pkts dropped] Total Pkts=2947157/Dropped=0.0 % 2'947'157 pkts - 247'561'188 bytes [2'946'938.92 pkt/sec - 1'980.34 Mbit/sec] ========================= Actual Stats: 1474586 pkts [1'000.07 ms][1'474'476.88 pps/0.99 Gbps] =========================
Now all you have to do is to configure Bro to capture packets from the dummy interfaces instead of reading them directly from zbalance_ipc.
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Located in Fruitvale, our space is a beautiful historic factory building, housing an artist collective, easily accessible by BART with plentiful evening and weekend parking. The sawtooth roofline provides a ton of natural lighting. Floor space is approximately 1300 square feet, supplied with ~50 folding chairs, as well as 5 large work tables on casters. Polished concrete floors and a frosted glass roll up door add to the industrial feel. The space can easily accommodate 50 people seated and up to 75 standing, is wheelchair accessible and has two bathrooms with a small kitchenette. A flat screen TV, and projector with screen and speakers are available for use. Free WiFi. Brewery next door as well as coffee roasters. Food trucks are welcome. Lectures, small classes, and ongoing group meetings are ideal for the space. Photo shoots, dance performances, and fashion shoots welcome.
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Guests may cancel their Booking until 7 days before the event start time and will receive a full refund (including all Fees) of their Booking Price. Guests may cancel their Booking between 7 days and 24 hours before the event start time and receive a 50% refund (excluding Fees) of their Booking Price. Booking cancellations submitted less than 24 hours before the Event start time are not refundable. Learn more
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The space was very clean and big. I was not aware that there would be people constantly walking in and out of the warehouse. Otherwise than that, the space is great and the noise is not too loud.
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How do you choose a bathroom renovation specialist, what should you do before and after employing someone? These are a couple of great questions to consider.
Bathroom renovations before and after
The very first thing you need to do is decide on what you want, get a good plan in your head, or better yet on paper on what you want and need in your bathroom. This can take weeks or months and shouldn’t be hurried. You can get many ideas off the internet so spend time researching and figuring out exactly what you want your bathroom to be. Think of all the bathrooms you have used, especially if you have travelled, what did you like? What did you not like? What did you see that was practical and useful? What looked really good and what didn’t. Enjoy this time and don’t rush it. A great start is to keep major elements where they are. Once you have what you want, you need to look at who can provide it for you. Talk to people who have had their bathroom renovated or newly built and ask questions. Who did they use? Who do they recommend? What would they do differently next time etc. The last thing you want to do is end up on a programme like Cowboy Builders.
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A legal battle between House of Fraser and landlords opposed to its controversial CVA has been settled out of court.
The agreement, terms of which have not been revealed, allows the department store group to proceed with store closures as part of its turnaround efforts.
However, House of Fraser still needs new investment to ensure its survival.
Mark Fry of Begbies Traynor and Charlotte Coates of JLL advised the group of landlords on the CVA and legal challenge.
They said: “We can confirm that our landlord group has reached an agreement in principle with House of Fraser in recognition of our claims.
“The terms of the settlement are confidential but we can confirm that we have agreed to withdraw our legal challenge to the CVA.
“Although we will not have our day in court, we are pleased with the outcome and hope that our landmark legal challenge sends a clear message to any other companies considering a CVA, on the importance of transparency and fair treatment for all creditors throughout a CVA process.
“Landlords are always willing to enter into a proper dialogue with companies and their advisers with the aim of rescuing a business.
“However, the retail CVA process in the UK has become increasingly misused and prejudiced against landlords and needs correcting. CVAs were designed as a means to rescue a business, not simply a tool to shed undesirable leases for the benefit of equity shareholders.
“It remains our belief that applying a 75% arbitrary discount to the value of landlords’ claims is not the market norm and has no basis in law.
“We believe that thanks to our actions, landlords in future CVAs will be in a far stronger position to challenge what we regard as unfair treatment and demand greater transparency from companies and their nominees from the outset.”
The deal removes one obstacle from House of Fraser’s turnaround attempts, but it still needs fresh investment following the apparent decision by Chinese retailer C.banner not to proceed with a deal that would have brought a cash injection of £70m.
Sports Direct tycoon Mike Ashley is unlikely to go ahead with a rescue offer, the Sunday Times reported.
However Edinburgh Woollen Mill boss Philip Day may still come to House of Fraser’s aid. Specialist investor Alteri has also held talks with House of Fraser.
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Dmitriy Salita of Salita Promotions proudly announces the signing of super bantamweight prospect Jesse Angel Hernandez to an exclusive promotional contract.
A 26-year-old southpaw from Fort Worth, Texas, Hernandez (9-1, 7 KOs) first came to Salita’s attention last August 4, at a Salita Promotions event at the MGM Grand Detroit, and live on ShoBox: The New Generation, where he sored an impressive TKO 5 over Russia’s formerly undefeated Vladimir Tikhonov (16-0). Tikhonov, a Salita fighter, was overwhelmed by the strength, heavy hands and fearsome body attack of Hernandez.
It was a display of offensive firepower that promoters look for in a prospect.
Hernandez compiled a 68-6 record as an amateur before turning pro in 2009. Hampered by inactivity for five years, due to managerial issues and a shortage of local gyms, he has rededicated his career since returning in 2014.
Hernandez comes from a boxing family and is one of 16 brothers and sisters. Nine of the boys were boxers and six turned professional, including Jose “El Loco” Hernandez, who scored a draw against former world champion Mickey Bey, and Rodrigo Hernandez, who fought to the only draw with Leo Santa Cruz.
“It’s like a blessing to sign with Salita,” said Hernandez. “I feel like we are very good fit. A company with great potential to make hardworking fighters into championship level athletes. I plan on making a name for myself and eventually win a world title.”
A true force in the ring, Hernandez says as he progresses to bigger fights, his relentless style will become even more effective.
“I was made for 12 rounds or more. I have an advantage that will help me reach my plan of dominating the 122-lb. division and eventually move up and hopefully do the same at higher divisions. I would like to fight anybody who holds a title once I get my opportunity. I want to fight whoever is the best when I get to that level. I fear no one. If you have ranking points or a title, I hope to see you in my future.”
“Jesse has an exciting, aggressive TV-friendly style,” said Dmitriy Salita. “I am confident that with more fights and exposure he will be on his way to being a big name in the super bantamweight division.”
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Bachelor, Nanchang Hangkong University, 2005-2009.
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GRE Issue Essay 151
“Schools should be required to teach the essential interconnectedness of all human beings and thus help eliminate wars, cultural clashes, and other forms of conflict.”
A school is an institution where the young budding minds of a country are trained by imparting education so that they can become capable to make the future of that nation brighter. Although the basic aim of all schools has been to make better human beings still we have seen cultural differences, wars and all other forms of human differences. It may lead us to believe that our education system must be flawed somewhere as it is not able to achieve its aim of interconnecting all humans. We have been taught basic principles of humanity in our schools but still when we all grow up we all forget what we learned in our school. I believe that even if more stress would be made in schools to teach students about interconnectedness in all human beings, it still would not solve the problem of ongoing conflicts which have always been there amongst humans.
We are taught good things in life but the bad we notices our own. Even though we as young students are imbibed with the goodness in life, some of that goodness becomes devilish. Here we have not discussed the circumstances under which the humans are instigated to go against human values. There are so many cultural clashes, so many wars that have happened and are still going on in some parts of the world. This certainly does not mean that all those people who are part of these clashes and wars were never taught the basic principles of humanity but due to some unavoidable circumstances they are forced to do all such inhumanly acts. The very famous incident of 9/11 which shook the whole world is one such example. The people involved certainly had human values. The people behind such an attack were from a community that lays emphasis on being kind and nice to all fellow humans. The people who can sake their religious principles for the feeling of revenge can certainly forget what they were taught about humanity in school.
The students in schools are taught all values related to humanity so that they can practice them in their lives. The duty of a teacher is to teach a student but what the student does of the education imparted to him is entirely upon the student. A student from the same class can become a renowned scientist while the other can end up becoming a terrorist. This certainly does not mean that the efforts on the part of the school should stop to make better citizens out of young children. The endeavor to teach students about humanity certainly helps as at least their brains are integrated towards the right direction. Therefore, schools should adopt various measures to teach students the interconnectedness of all human beings with a hope that wars and cultural clashes would be eliminated but certainly, it would not secure the wars and such clashes.
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Sara A. is the author of the book, “Smart Gal’s Guide thru Divorce: What Lawyers Don’t Tell You.”
Sara has a name for the overwhelming legal process – she calls it “divorce dizziness.” Part of that journey is the “tennis game of divorce,” the continuous back-and-forth of paperwork.
“The more that paperwork goes back and forth, those billable hours add up,” she says. “Write out your list of priorities. Keep them to yourself. Share them with your private family law attorney. We go to the mediation table and release what we can to come to that agreement.”
She says divorce is highly complex, and it’s important to “put on courage.”
“Courage is moving forward step by step,” she says. “Seek wise counsel, become well informed, and put on courage. And know that there’s new life ahead.”
Written by Jen Rice.
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Butter Yellow Vintage Hand Towel
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i don't know why they have it or the rants because there always getting mad at people or banning them for no reason it's weird but you can't do nothing about. so i just keep my mouth closed it's the best thing to do. trust me.
Suggestions, yes. You suggested, that doesn't mean it's getting done. It would be too much work and take more server space for one little convienence that doesn't really matter. Learn to spell or learn not to care.
now that i think about it. Hombre is right it would be to much of work and time to do. for only a few people to use it. besides it's not hard to check it your self. thats what i do i make a few mistakes but i don't care whats the worst thing that would happen some one will make a joke or make fun of you so what.
Wow what a bitchfest. If you can't spell, do something about it yourself. I think most people writing RP's use Word so they can spell check and then copy and paste. If you use and IE based browser you can download this http://www.iespell.com/
I don't think that it's a good idea, I'm on an e-fed and it's really irritating when the Spell Check pops up. And to answer your question the Suggestion forum is there so that quality suggestions can be made. If Nitemare keeps on accepting every suggestion then the site would go down befor you can say the word Suggestion. Same with the Rants, you can rant but not go out of the way. The n00bs are banned 'coz they make n00bish rants.
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Insanity or mental disorder defense is used during criminal trials to plead innocence for the crime committed. The defendant must prove to the court that he was not aware of committing the crime, that during the time he did not know what he was doing.
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Joint press release by Riverwatch, EuroNatur Front 21/42, Macedonian Ecological Society and Eco-sense
++ Day 19 of the Balkan Rivers Tour: protest action against dam construction inside Mavrovo National Park ++ Hydropower projects endanger the last Balkan lynxes ++
Mavrovo, Vienna, Radolfzell, May 6, 2016. On Wednesday, an international alliance of kayakers, anglers, residents and nature conservationists protested against the construction of hydropower plants inside Mavrovo National Park. Not only is Mavrovo one of Europe’s oldest national parks, but also a treasury of European biodiversity.
The protest action was part of the Balkan Rivers Tour directed against the dame craze in the Balkans, which is threatening to destroy the last free flowing rivers of our continent. Inside Mavrovo National Park alone, two big and several smaller hydropower plants are projected to be built. “Hydropower plants stands in stark contrast to the protection of biodiversity and have no place in protected areas such as the Mavrovo National Park!”, says Theresa Schiller, coordinator of the “Save the Blue Heart of Europe” campaign at EuroNatur Foundation.
This assessment receives top-level support: in December 2015, the Bern Convention (one of the most important nature conversation conventions in Europe) called upon the Macedonian government to stop all construction projects inside Mavrovo National Park and conduct a comprehensive environmental assessment. The recommendations were also directed at the international financiers of the hydropower projects, most notably the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). As a consequence, the World Bank has dropped its funding of one of the two projected big hydropower plants. The project “Boskov Most”, funded by the EBRD is, however, still in the pipeline and as such a ticking time bomb. The provided funds were merely frozen for the time being.
In their report, the independent expert group commissioned by the Bern Convention had explicitly pointed out that ”Boskov Most” constitutes a serious threat for the survival of the Balkan lynx. Due to the required infrastructure (roads, power lines, pipelines, etc.), the species’ habitat would be destroyed. “Mavrovo is the reproductive centre of this critically endangered subspecies of the Eurasian lynx”, confirms Daniela Javanovska of the Macedonian Ecological Society (MES). “The message of the Bern Convention’s committee to the Macedonian government and everyone involved in this egregious project could not be any clearer: protected areas are protected for a reason”, says Vesna Ilievska Utevska of the Macedonian environmental NGO Eco-sense.
However, the Macedonian government appears unimpressed. “The implementation of small hydropower projects is proceeding unimpeded”, so Aleksandra Bujaroska of the Macedonian NGO Front 21/42. “We urgently call upon the Macedonian government and banks involved to take the Bern Convention’s recommendations seriously and immediately stop all hydropower projects inside the Mavrovo National Park”, says Theresa Schiller from EuroNatur.
“Intact rivers are essential not only for fauna but also for humans. The Balkans’ pristine river landscapes have the potential to boost sustainable socio-economic development, even so in Mavrovo National Park. It does necessitate however that the rivers remain unharmed! Anglers, kayakers, nature conservationists – we all must join forces to prevent the dam craze here and on the entire Balkan Peninsula”, so Rok Rozman, organiser of the Balkan Rivers Tour.
- The protest was part of the Balkan Rivers Tour: over 35 days, kayakers from various countries are paddling the most stunning and most threatened rivers in the Balkans in order to draw attention to the imminent dam tsunami. Led by former Slovenian Olympic athlete Rok Rozman, the tour started on April 16 on the Sava in Slovenia and will end on May 20 in Tirana/Albania.
- The Balkan Rivers Tour is an activity organized within the framework of the “Save the Blue Heart of Europe” campaign, which was launched by ‘EuroNatur’ and ‘Riverwatch’ in order to protect the Balkan rivers from the imminent destruction due to hydropower development. The Balkan Rivers Tour is a joint initiative by Leeway Collective, EuroNatur, Riverwatch and WWF Adria and is supported by Patagonia, Mava Foundation and Manfred-Hermsen-Stiftung.
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- A French banker has stated that the country is considering a central bank digital currency that allows for easier Euro transactions.
- The European Union has created a new fund for large-scale crypto and AI projects with an estimated €400M value.
- The United States Congress has introduced a bill that may reclassify Facebook’s Libra as a security token.
- The former head of China’s central bank claims that a digital yuan would focus on retail payments first, cross-border payments second.
In a recent speech, France’s First Deputy Governor Denis Beau appears to actively support the use of distributed ledger technology and blockchain payment systems. In particular, he suggests that France is considered a central bank digital currency that would allow euros to move across borders quickly at a minimal cost.
Banque de France has been one of the most outspoken advocates for DLT. In October it began searching for a blockchain analyst to help it design a digital currency implementation program. And it was the first central bank in the world to develop a blockchain registry system, according to Beau.
“As a major provider of critical wholesale clearing and settlement services in euro, [the Eurozone] should be open to experimenting these innovations in order to revisit and possibly improve the conditions under which we make available central bank money as a settlement asset,” Beau said last week.
“We, at the Banque de France, are therefore quite open for experiments in that direction, together with the European Central Bank (ECB) and other central banks of the Eurosystem, in particular with regard to a wholesale CBDC,” he added.
European Investment Fund
The international crypto race is well underway, as noted in a statement from the European Investment Fund. In a partnership with the European Commission, the EIF has created a €100 million fund that will be used to support AI and blockchain developments. While the EU has funded crypto projects previously, those examples focus on research or proof-of-concept groundwork. Newly funded projects would operate on a larger scale. The fund’s final value is estimated to reach €400M.
This is only the beginning. Investing in a portfolio of innovative AI and blockchain companies will help develop a dynamic EU-wide investors community on AI and blockchain. By involving national promotional banks, we can scale up the volume of investments at a national level.
The EC and the EIF’s participation in the market could be a powerful force for setting regulatory and legal precedents, driving a clarity of language and easing the path to regulation on both AI and blockchain in Europe.
Imagine a world where waste is trimmed from supply chains, cutting costs and maximising efficiency, thanks to the transparent nature of blockchain. Or enhancing your natural abilities through AI technology. AI and blockchain can only change lives if they can be commercialised and used. We’re looking forward to making that happen.
Facebook hoped the libra token would make it a major player in the cryptocurrency space. Today, it seems to face more regulatory scrutiny than any other crypto project. A newly-introduced bill called “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019” may classify the Libra as a security token and create a new regulatory structure for digital assets.
Two members of the House Financial Services Committee, Reps. Sylvia Garcia, D-Tex., and Lance Gooden, R-Tex., proposed the “Managed Stablecoins are Securities Act of 2019” on the day of a committee hearing on the role of big data in financial services. Garcia explicitly called out libra in a statement announcing the bill, saying that it and other managed stablecoins “are clearly securities under existing law.”
“Bringing clarity to the regulatory structure of these digital assets protects consumers and ensures proper government oversight going forward,” Garcia said in the statement.
China has a plan to become a global cryptocurrency leader, and it starts with retail payments over cross-border payments. The former head of the People’s Bank of China, Xiaochuan Zhou, told the Caixin Hengqin Forum that China would emphasize retail use of digital yuan payments. While Zhou is no longer leading the central bank, his speech is considered to be a soft signal for how China intends to proceed.
“There are two goals for international digital currencies,” Zhou said. “The first one, which is also what China envisions is to develop digital payment and its use for retail system in the country, while the other goal is to cross-border payment for international financial institutions.”
According to Zhou, these two goals will require different technical designs for the digital yuan, and China might expand its capabilities once it implements the digital payment function in retail.
Zhou said China is a difficult environment to test out the new digital currency, and a country with a smaller population could be better since the cycle for currency circulation is shorter.
That’s the roundup for November 30, 2019. Check in next week for the latest news of cryptocurrency innovation and regulation around the world!
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eCommerce today is a solo sport — it’s boring, search driven and purely transactional, according to Tuli Technologies Founder and CEO David Wilmot and his Co-Founder Meysam Moradpour.
Shopping malls were once a social hub, a place where you could meet friends, eat food and explore new brands.
Well, Wilmot and Moradpour have created “a digital mall” where individuals can buy their favorite items — and experiences — directly from friends, celebrities and influencers that inspire them.
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The state of social commerce is still in its infancy in the U.S. “We need to elevate the current eCommerce experience from a solo sport that’s heavily skewed towards promotions and discounts,” Moradpour says. “It’s really dull, boring and purely transactional and was never intended to be fun. That’s not how people actually shop in real life.
“Shoppers ask friends for recommendations, they browse, discover new brands, read reviews and validate with their social circles. Tuli takes all the fun parts of shopping and turns it into a digital platform. We connect thousands of shoppers, influencers, celebrities and merchants at a touch of a button.
When individuals shop at retail stores today, they seek advice from people they trust on the newest trends. Eighty-three percent of people say they trust recommendations from family, colleagues and friends about products and services, according to surveys. In addition, 71 percent are more likely to purchase based on social media referrals, surveys say.
“That’s what Tuli achieved with social shopping instead of today’s common ‘search, pay and leave’ model,” Wilmot says.
Instead of just making recommendations on social media posts, with Tuli, consumers can make money off their own ‘good taste.’ Tuli’s next update will enable anyone to become an Influencer and receive two-percent credit for future purchases from every sale they recommend.
“We don’t want to make the mistake where only a few big influencers make lots of money,” Moradpour says. “There are many people who say they have a lot of followers, but the real test is how many people will actually trust them enough with recommendations.”
Each post on Tuli includes an automatic shoppable product link, so users can see “real recommendations from real people,” Wilmot says.
If someone is inspired by one of the posts, they simply click on the link and purchase the product immediately.
In addition to Tuli’s social feed, individuals can browse inside eCommerce shops where they can discover and buy from new designers and unknown brands.
Tuli’s founding team is also working with medical researchers “to implement features,” Wilmot says, “that elevate the mental health of its users through inspiration, esteem and belonging.”
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Trump Hires Anti-Marijuana White House Press Secretary
President Trump has a new White House press secretary—one who appears to disagree with him on whether states should be able to legalize marijuana. Kayleigh McEnany, a longtime political commentator and former Republican National Committee spokesperson who is shifting from Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign to the new top administration position, has repeatedly claimed that cannabis legalization “should not be left to the popular vote” in states and should instead be decided by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Please visit Forbes to read the rest of this piece. (Marijuana Moment’s editor provides some content to Forbes via a temporary exclusive publishing license arrangement.) Photo courtesy of Wikimedia. The post Trump Hires Anti-Marijuana White House Press Secretary appeared first on Marijuana Moment.
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Roast is a “fast casual” farm to table restaurant providing delicious gourmet sandwiches, salads and soups. Our menu focuses on locally raised meats and seasonal produce. Meats include beef, pork, turkey and chicken and are accompanied by handcrafted accoutrements with international flavors. Several unique vegetarian and vegan options are also available. Dine in our indoor or outdoor seating. Try the drive thru pick up window for “dine in a dash”, which provides the customer the convenience of pre-ordering on our mobile app. Delivery is available 5pm - 9pm. We offer catering and private dining for small groups.
Roast has a strong sense of community, supporting Sandhill’s Children Center and the local military foundation, Duskin & Stephens. Our guests are supporting local farms and our local economy when eating at Roast AND eating local food is better for you and our environment. We are located at the Shops at Tyler’s Ridge off the airport circle in Southern Pines from 11am - 9pm.
Taste what’s local, taste the difference, taste the ROAST.
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By the second time we worked with Adam on SXSW, we knew he brought something truly unique to the table. His extraordinary combination of curiosity, creativity, and confidence (it helps having been an actual rockstar) make Adam a one-of-a-kind experience creator. Now a devoted husband and father, Adam may have calmed down a little, but he still gets us fired up in meetings.
In his own words
When I was 14 years old I told my mom, I WANT TO BE A ROCK STAR WHEN I GROW UP!!
So I became one.
Achieving that taught me something… you can never be wise enough. As long as you’re alive, there is always more to experience and to learn.
I continue to grow, learn & create every day. The truth is, for all I have done, I am just now getting started.
In my music career, I had a prosperous solo career but also performed with others, wrote songs and produced music videos. I found success with a few different groups, but really lived out my dream with modern rock act vs. the earth in 2010. By rejecting the industry’s status quo, which typically takes everything from the artist, I was able to leverage that record deal and transform the band into an international media brand, that included:
- a men’s clothing line
- women’s clothing line
- a baby’s clothing line
- a seasonal beer
- 3 types of distilled spirits
- a digital media arm
The trademark of that company later became the backbone for my own entertainment company, VTEntertainment, which allowed me to expand into distribution, artist management & brand development.
As of late, I have been consulting companies on creating a logistical and decisive path to success. I’ve accepted the nickname “I am a genie in jeans” and my focus is simple: execution.
I will always be an artist by heart, but having be one professionally for over 25 years has shown me how to help others achieve their wild dreams and that’s what drives me most.
True. Authentic. Uncompromising. Success. In the face of impossible odds.
Nothing more rockstar than that.
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I have a son who will be getting his driver’s learning permit this summer. As a mother, I’m so excited for him to enter this new phase of independence and responsibility. At the same time, it terrifies me! The thought of watching him pull out of the driveway with the ability to push geographical boundaries further than ever before, potentially risk his life and the lives of others, and be held accountable to a whole new set of laws makes my heart stop for just a second. It’s scary and exhilarating all at once.
The whole experience causes me to reflect back to the time when I was embarking on the same journey as a teen. I recall signing up for drivers’ ed with a local company that picked me up at my house for practice driving experience. I was beyond excited to get behind the wheel with the instructor and simultaneously apprehensive about keeping us safe (while being graded along the way!) In fact, I was so nervous, I drove far worse than I would have with just about anyone else! I’m certain it’s because I worried more about what he thought about my driving than I did about the actual driving.
Ironically, it was a loss of control that finally helped me let go and relax a bit. I took a left turn too wide and fast, and it forced us off the road momentarily. I remember feeling shocked, panicked and then alarmed that I couldn’t adequately manage the car (or myself) in the moment. But then something surprised me and filled me with relief. The driving instructor instantly took over!
Turns out, he had a mechanism that allowed him to steer the car and manage the speed to keep us safe and accident-free. He engaged his authority and instantly brought the car back onto the road. Once I knew he was actually in control and we weren’t relying solely on my inexperienced driving skills, I was able to relax and find peace. After relinquishing my white-knuckled wheel grip, I drove much, much better.
In life, God is with us, and He has control too.
It’s an important reminder as we drive through life. We aren’t alone, and God’s providence assures us that we can have peace as He works for our good.
Dictionary.com defines providence as: 1) the foreseeing care and guidance of God over the creatures of the earth. 2) God, especially when conceived as omnisciently directing the universe and the affairs of humankind with wise benevolence.
In essence, God is in complete control at all times, over all things and for our benefit.
Let’s consider who God is and what’s within His capabilities:
- He’s omniscient; He knows everything. (1 John 3:20, Psalm 147:5, Romans 11:33, Hebrews 4:13)
- He’s omnipresent; He’s everywhere at the same time. (Jeremiah 23:23-24, Psalm 139:7-10, Matthew 6:6, Proverbs 15:3, Matthew 18:20)
- He transcends time. (2 Peter 3:8, Psalm 90:4, Ephesians 1:11, 2 Timothy 1:9, Titus 1:2, Ephesians 1:4,
- He is sovereign over all creation. (Colossians 1:16-17, Hebrews 1:3, Psalm 135:6, Daniel 4:35, Job 42:2, Revelation 19:6)
- And the BEST part…He’s not just with us, He’s within us. (Ephesians 2:22, Ephesians 3:16-17, John 14:23, 1 Corinthians 3:16)
I think about all the things in life I’d love to control, but when I review these scriptures, I’m reminded that God’s already got it ALL covered!
So…why am I holding on so tight? What good are my white-knuckled grips doing me? How can I stop wasting so much energy attempting to drive, when God is with me, trying to give me peace?
Trust is directly linked with peace.
You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you. (Isaiah 26:3)
When we know God well enough, we have can have the confidence to fully trust Him. When we trust Him, He lightens our burdens and gives us a peace we simply can’t get on our own. That peace not only calms and strengthens us, it proactively guards us too! And He promises it to us through His Son, Jesus – The Prince of Peace!
As I reminisce about my early drivers’ ed days, my greatest lesson was to relax more with the instructor in the car. I was safe in his presence. He wouldn’t allow us to be harmed, and his greatest desire was to help me learn and grow for my own good and the good of others on the road.
God is our driving instructor for life. We can have peace when we invite Him into our journey. Sure, we may get distracted and swerve. We could be tempted to speed. We may even struggle with an occasional flat tire. But, with God, we can always be certain He will bring us home safely. Our lives, our futures and our hopes are safe with Him. He is FULLY in control…and it should bring us much peace, if only we loosen our grip.
Will you pray with me?
Lord, God, I need you so desperately. Life is hard, chaotic and emotional. Sometimes, it feels out of control. But I know the truth – You are always in control. You are sovereign, and everything alive is under Your authority. Help me to remember that you spoke all of creation into existence. The wind and the seas obey your every command. And, through your Holy Spirit, you graciously allow that very same power to co-habitate with my own soul. You are with me every second of every day, and you can deliver peace through that very same Spirit, if only I remain open to receive all that you have for me. Please, Lord, open my heart and help it to be a reservoir catching the steady stream of peace that flows only from You. I trust You. I’m safe with you. I love you. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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How many hours do you sleep at night? Many people find that when they are ill or stressed, a good night of sleep can do a world of good to help your body heal.
It’s recommended that 7-9 hours of sleep is ideal for a person to feel truly rested. But is it possible that getting too much sleep could be a sign of negative effects in your brain?
The Framingham Heart Study suggests that there may be a connection. This study began in 1948 with 5209 participants from a single town, and is currently in its third generation of participation.
This study was a long-term ongoing cardiovascular study on residents of the town of Framingham, Massachusetts. Though it’s main focus was heart health, research also analyses the participants brain health.
This research suggests that people who sleep more than nine hours a night, and had not done so regularly in the past, had double the risk of developing dementia in the next ten years.
It was also seen that those who slept longer had smaller brain volumes. This increased risk, however, was not seen in people who had always slept nine hours or more.
A change in sleeping pattern, as this Boston University School of Medicine research suggests, is not the cause for dementia but rather a marker for the risk of the dementia. Meaning that a change in sleep patterns will not affect the risk and change the likelihood of developing dementia.
Previous research concluded that too much sleep, and even too little sleep, has a connection with dementia. That study suggested that missing out on deep non-REM sleep may allow Beta-amyloid, a protein found in those who have Alzheimer’s, to access the brain and create plaque around it.
As this protein plaque accumulates, it further inhibits the person’s ability to sleep and creates a negative sleep cycle which has been linked to dementia.
It’s not just sleep that plays a role – education also makes a difference. Participants who did not have a high school degree and who slept for more than 9 hours each night had six times the risk of developing dementia within the next 10 years as compared to participants who slept for less.
Another study also supports this education idea, suggesting that the more time spent in education, the lower the risk of developing dementia. Education during a person’s younger years appears to help them cope with changes in their brain before showing dementia symptoms. Being highly educated also appears to act a protection against dementia during long durations of sleep.
Keeping track of your, or a loved one’s, sleep pattern may be useful in predicting a person’s risk of developing dementia, and may warrant assessment and monitoring for other problems, such as cognition and memory issues.
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Alzheimer’s Training Videos
This training was presented in August 2013 by Alexis Glidewell, MSW, ASW, family consultant and associate clinical social worker at the Redwood Caregiver Resource Center. This is a full recorded training on Alzheimer’s care for those who could not make it to the live training.
Day One is broken up into five 30 minute videos
Day Two is broken up into six 30 minute videos.
You can watch the training here on the website or click on any of the videos to watch it on YouTube.
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Signature Travel Network announced three new hires in their preferred partnership department: Janet Anderson as director, cruise partnerships; Jill Sabila as data analysis manager; and Jordin Greene as vice president, hotel partnerships
The year's theme is "Elevate". In keeping with the mission to serve their members, Signature elevates each of their members to offer the highest level of service and a differentiated travel experience.
Signature Travel Network is not an organization, it is a member-owned community of leading travel agencies and supplier partners in the industry. The Network collectively generates $8 billion in annual sales and has experienced unprecedented growth in the past ten years. This growth is reflective of the commitment to exclusively align with the most esteemed travel agencies and supplier partners, while simultaneously expanding our reach to more than 11,000 travel advisors in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, New Zealand and the Caribbean.
Signature Travel Network® is dedicated to providing the best technology solutions and state-of-the-art marketing to promote your brand. With a robust suite of cruises, hotels and resorts, as well as land privileges second to none, Signature helps you build your sales and retain your clients. We welcome you to join our member-owned community, more than 60-years strong, with an exponential track record of sales growth, integrity and business acumen. Signature Travel Network is reinventing the retail travel landscape.
Signature’s headquarters is in California with a secondary office in New York City.
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London's Festival of Korean Music returns for two live shows and a whole host of incredible broadcasts for its first hybrid gig and digital offering of the best in Korean music.
“A festival that is ‘original, powerful and thrilling like nothing you have ever heard
K-MUSIC LONDON LIVE
International stars ADG7 come to Kings Place for the K-Music opening concert on Friday 30 October - with the explosions of a pop-rock cabaret and the grooves of funk, the group draw on the sacred shamanic and secular ritual music and folk song of the Hwanghaedo region in western North Korea, their music expressing the true meaning of liberation and the Korean people’s hope for reunification.
One of Korea’s leading experimental drummers Soojin Suh performs a unique collaboration with fellow ECM artist Kit Downes to close the Festival on Monday 16 November at PizzaExpress.
K-MUSIC DIGITAL PROGRAMME
In between the live shows, you can enjoy streams from such Korean music greats as Jambinai, Park Jiha, Black String, Jaram Lee, Kyungso Park, Coreyah, LeeNalchi and many more. A fantastic programme of online concerts and talks will be introduced into 5 categories.
Full online programme details will be available from Thursday 1st October through our website. Watch online atyoutube.com/thekccuk this November.
This category includes artists that have performed at previous K-Music festivals, are some of the biggest names in Korean music. This year they include Songlines Award Winners Black String and Jambinai and the sensational singer Heemoon Lee alongside Prelude and NomNom.
In our new series for this year, the artists will discuss their work before presenting some unique collaborations and one-off pieces and this year include Yoon Jeong Heo, Kyungso Park & Soona Park and the renowned pansori artist Jaram Lee. A K-Music Encounters Special features a new collaboration from Jae IlJung, music director of Parasite.
Enjoy a full concert experience. In this series, we broadcast a new performance from gayageum trio Hey String, co-produced with the Seoul Nasam Gugakdang, as well as an outstanding collaboration between Park Jiha, Kyungso Park, Woojae Park, and Soona Park from the Yeowoorak Festival produced by the National Theatre of Korea.
Huge names at home and abroad, working with BBC presenters, Lopa Kothari, Nikki Bedi and Max Reinhardt have specially selected world-renowned groups enjoying growing success. This year’s critic’s choices are Coreyah, Sinnoi and Leenalchi .
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I first met Mike Carpenter at a tiny gas station in the middle of nowhere. Okay, slight exaggeration. I was about 20 minutes from Kamloops and as I drove down the secondary highway I looked over and the Impala was parked at the side of the road. That is a vehicle you recognize when you see it. I knew that there was a crew filming driving scenes but I had no idea they were so close to my home.
I pulled into the gas station that was around the next corner and parked. I asked a young guy with a radio if I could watch and he said sure and showed me how to stay out-of-the-way. The Impala sped down the road and whipped into the gas station. She pulled up to the pumps and ‘Sam’ and ‘Dean’ got out and hurried into the small store. Only it wasn’t the ‘Sam’ and ‘Dean’ viewers are used to seeing each week on their TVs. The two men who climbed out of the Impala were Mike Carpenter and Jessie Blu; stunt doubles for Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles.
I introduced myself and Mike asked if I wanted to get a photo with the two of them and the car. I could never turn down an offer like that. And off they went; back to filming.
While I was standing there watching I realized that most of my knowledge about stunts came from a book I’d read recently; “The True Adventures of The World’s Greatest Stuntman” by Vic Armstrong. Mike seemed like an approachable fellow so I asked him for an interview.
Not only is Mike approachable but he’s a story-teller. It was an absolute pleasure to get to speak with him and, I’ve got to say, I learned a lot. Like many fans of “Supernatural” I’ve developed a real interest in the behind-the-scenes people and Mike was glad to share about his stunt work.
Thanks to the fans at All-Supernatural on LiveJournal for contributing questions! We ran out of time but I think we got around to most of the topics you brought up. (write_light, shattershockred, quickreaver, jennytork, mdfawn, playthefool, cuddyclothes, moon_lover68, bloodlessdreamz, redheadforever, sarahk_1963, peepingdru)
Mike: Hit me!
IMP: Are there any stunts that are made more difficult or easier by the fact that you’re so tall? (Mike is over 6’4″)
Mike: It’s definitely more difficult when it comes to gymnastic-y type stuff. I mean, I’ve got a lot of legs and arms to move around. So from that perspective, definitely, anything you do that is gymnastic-y is tougher for big guys. And it hurts a little more when you hit the ground when you’re big. You don’t see many 6′ 4″ cirque du soleil guys. I’m sure they’re out there but you don’t see too many of them, right?
IMP: And you guys were joking on twitter about the fall mat blowing away?
Mike: Well, I wasn’t joking. That wasn’t a joke. [laughs] It was pretty funny ’cause it was… what we had was a scaffold runway about 8 or 10 feet high and then a candy glass window. I was lined up to the window but I was blind on my landing so it was an educated guessing game on where I was gonna land. But when I went to do the jump the second time this huge gust of wind came up so they stopped right when I was about to go through the window because the lighting balloon blew over. They didn’t have proper light so they stopped.
It was quite funny ’cause I looked down over the deck and I saw the wind pick up one of the pads and that took off too. That would have been, mid-air, to see one of my pads blowing away. I would have had to flair out I guess and hope that I was gonna land on the pads.
IMP: What’s the highest you can fall from?
Mike: Oh God, there’s guys that have done 80 or one hundred footers.
IMP: I was reading Vic Armstrong’s book “The Greatest Stuntman in the World”, and thinking about how things have changed. When Vic started, he just threw himself out of a tree and if he didn’t hurt himself; great! Things have changed a lot since then.
Mike: Things have evolved. I’ve always said, maybe some people have a different philosophy, but ‘I’m a stunt man not a stupid man.’ I wanna work today and I wanna work tomorrow and the next day. For me, I wanna be prepared and safe and look after my body because it’s my tool.
IMP: Have you hurt yourself significantly doing stunt work?
Mike: I have, I wouldn’t say significantly. I think, probably, I’ve hurt myself more playing hockey than I ever have doing stunts. So I think, I have had more bumps and bruises. Light sprains. Nothing that really comes to mind. Nothing too tremendous.
IMP: Is it uncommon these days for people to break bones?
Mike: Oh, it happens. I’ve had stitches, big deal. I broke a bone in my wrist but I didn’t even know until four months later. My brother’s a chiropractor which comes in really handy. I went in and he gave me an x-ray of my wrist ’cause it was bugging me and he said, ‘well, that’s because you broke it.’ Great, didn’t even know I did that. I guess when I go through the list there’s things that I have done but I just try to forget about those things and move forward.
IMP: You’ve been with the “Supernatural” since the beginning. How have dealt with doubling for Jared, he was so young, he bulked up, he’s slimmed down, he got older…
Mike: [Laughs] That was a lot of work, especially a couple of years ago when he just got massive. I saw he was just getting bigger and bigger and I was in the gym, it didn’t end.
IMP: So you have to keep up with that?
Mike: I did to a point. The beauty of it is, when he got huge I could still wear my pads and cheat it like that. So he’s bouncin’ around but now, the weight he’s at, I think we’re pretty close. We’re pretty even. He’s just at a good size where he’s comfortable so that’s been alright; I just maintain. I double for a lot of other actors too so I just try to split the difference.
IMP: So when you’re working a lot with one actor in particular, how much can you change and still work with other actors?
Mike: You can’t. You just hope that there are other actors that are built the same. There seems to be a fair amount of those guys out there which makes it easier. A lot of times the work is based on our shape, or body type, or look. When guys are looking for a body double they’ll match up. They’ll look at guys that can do the work and then they’ll match them up. It’s like ‘Cinderella’; if the shoe fits, you’ve got the job.
IMP: You act as well, right?
Mike: A little bit of acting, yeah.
IMP: Is that something you want to do more of or are you happier doing stunt work?
Mike: It would be fun to do more but then I’ve gotta figure out the magic of the casting room and how to book more jobs. Being in that world has really helped because you build relationships with directors, you build relationships with producers. A lot of it is really trust. Because you go in and do smaller things and then eventually it begins to grow.
But acting is the same thing. It’s a tremendous amount of training and putting in the hours. So, I think if I was really gonna get serious about acting, maybe once “Supernatural” tones down, maybe I would just go at it full bore and focus and really practice and learn the craft. But you know what? I’m still young and strong and I wanna have fun doing stunts. Acting is gonna be my retirement job. [Laughs].
IMP: So is a long term show like “Supernatural” a good job to get?
Mike: Oh… awesome! It’s been a real blessing, to tell you the truth. With a lot of this kind of work, it’s feast or famine. And to know that I’ve got a, somewhat steady, job for 9 months a year for the last 8 seasons has been awesome. You do get times when it’s stressful. Actors deal with that every day; we’re very similar from that sense.
One thing about auditions is that you learn disappointment. Because there’s things, in the last year, I booked an acting job. My agent phoned me and said you’re the director’s first choice and I’ll let you know after the weekend.. I was like, this is good. Usually, the director makes the decision but they have to go through the agency. Then I got a message Monday morning saying no dice on the commercial. Your ego gets bruised and you feel like, what’s wrong with me? What didn’t they like? Then I found out that the commercial just went away in general. So you do learn to deal with rejection.
Being recently single, learning to deal with rejection has been really easy when it comes to dating so I lack a lot of fear! [Laughs] ‘No’ doesn’t bother me nearly as much anymore! [Laughs].
IMP: “Supernatural” fans are really aware of who is behind-the-scenes on the show. Do you find that you get recognized more for your work there?
Mike: You know, I haven’t had that problem. The odd time, a lot of times it’ll be that I build relationships with people and – like I play a lot of hockey – and they might hear that so-and-so works in the movies so they’ll go on Google. One of the guys, I just love the guy; he plays on my line with me. He was like “I was looking at your resume,” and I was like “you know my resume better than I do!”
Knowing that you can give people a little lift from knowing that you were a part of something; we don’t always get to see that. It’s kind of a nice feeling. That’s the rewarding part of the business. I’m gonna do a really stupid stunt; this is gonna suck and it’s gonna hurt and it’s probably not a very wise thing to do but years later people [are still] watching it. There’s something about it that makes it worth it besides just chasing the dollars.
IMP: Do you have any favorite stunts, something you love doing?
Mike: I guess, the stunts that I love the most are doing the things that I enjoy doing the most in my day to day. I’ve said hockey. I’ve had quite a few jobs doing hockey work. I’m always excited to do those, they are hard work but they’re always fun to do. I’m a skier so if I can get a skiing or a snowboarding one I get really excited about those. I think the ones that are really applicable to the things that I love to do in my everyday life.
IMP: Are hockey stunts… stunts? Or is it just playing hockey.
Mike: Well, no because there’s a lot of body checking. There’s choreography that goes into it. Oh, and you know what? Playin’ monsters. I love doin’ stuff like getting’ to play the bad guy.
IMP: The scarecrow!
Mike: Yeah! That was fun; I loved doing that. I’m certainly far from a bad guy in real life so to get the chance to do that, I really enjoy it.
IMP: So the other side of that is are there stunts that you just wouldn’t agree to do?
Mike: Well, yeah. If I got called to go do something like, if someone asked me to ski off a cliff or base jump. ‘Get someone who does that on the weekends, ’cause that’s not what I do.’ Most things I would say yes to, but unless it’s a specialty type stunt then I wouldn’t say no. Even a specialty one I think that I could do. Just certain things you need a specialist and those are the people you bring in for certain gags. Just like someone who is gonna jump a motorcycle 200 feet. You bring in guys that are pros to do that. Most stunt people are very, some of them are world class in certain things but it’s pretty hard to do world class in everything. A lot of stunt people are just very athletic well-rounded people. They’re not gonna be the best fighter in the world, they’re not gonna be the best motorcycle rider in the world, but they’re gonna be very competent at a lot of those things.
IMP: Do you study martial arts as well?
Mike: Yeah, when I was younger I did kick-boxing. And now I just do a little bit of training just to keep fresh with it. I still work on it a bit. Probably not as much as I should. I’m too busy healing from being sore to want to go to the Dojo.
IMP: So what’s the process from the time you are offered a job? Does it come through your representation?
Mike: For stunts? Usually, I don’t get stunt work through an agent. A lot of it is through building relationships with coordinators. Then your resume kind of gets out there in the community. If I’m a stunt co-ordinator and I see [your] resume but I don’t know you. It’s on my desk and you’re the right look and size and everything for a particular character. I might look at the resume you have and look at the name of the coordinator, phone that coordinator and then ask about you. And then from there, it’s like, “Hey. Can you come down and meet me? Let’s talk.” You build relationships.
Sometimes, you might have to rehearse or they’ll test you to see your physicality. It grows from there. Once you’ve worked for certain people and done a good job, usually, you’ll find yourself working more and more. If you maybe haven’t done the best job you might not be getting a call. It’s kind of like that.
IMP: You probably can’t say much about it but you were on “Elysium”, right?
Mike: The assistant, my friend – the AD [Assistant Director] just sent me a message. He’s gonna be doing a new movie. It’s not in Vancouver. But… “Elysium” is probably the best or one of the best film making experiences of my life. It’s gonna be a cool project. Have you seen the trailer? You know the robots? I was the robots. The robots, we had our mo-cap stuff and then instead of wearing a costume they painted a costume on us. So there was me and my friend Keith did a lot of it. There were a lot of us. Keith and I went to Mexico. I got to be the main robot. It was kinda fun.
Jodie Foster. I just loved working with her. I remember showing up on set and I had a big trench coat over my grey suit and she goes “Are you the man in the gray suit. Let me see.” [Laughs] And she was giggling all day long. I felt like a chunk of meat for a day around her, it was pretty funny. She was havin’ fun. She was definitely making me red in the cheeks, for sure. She’s great; she’s a sweetheart. I really liked her.
And Matt Damon. He was a real Prince to work with. I enjoyed it. Even doing that character, I was running lines and doing scenes with him. A lot of times I might feel nervous when I’m doing something with a big star but I didn’t feel intimidated or nervous. That, to me, is a real star; someone that is so confident with where they’re at. I’ve worked with some and it’s not like that. He puts you in a comfort zone. We’re workin’, we’re a team.
IMP: Do you have a stunt on “Supernatural” you’re most proud of? Something that was really cool?
Mike: The one I thought was the dumbest was the car hit.
IMP: … but it looked really cool!
Mike: …it looked good. That was the one I was most proud of because I survived it. The one the other night was pretty cool [Mike going through a candy glass window in “Sacrifice”]. That took a couple of days to film that little sequence. That was a fun one.
IMP: At what point do you take over from an actor?
Mike: Depending on what show, if there’s a big fight. They’ll do a master and they’ll put the doubles in. They’ll do a big wide shot and shoot the whole fight with the doubles. A lot of times they shoot the lead actor over the double’s shoulder so there’s a whole fight on the actor’s face. Or they’ll do body-shots, like ¾ so we’re always hiding our faces. A lot of the close ups they use the actors.
A lot of times on “Supernatural“, the boys [Jared & Jensen] do it because they’ll shoot it in pieces. They might do a fight where there are three moves, four moves, cut move to the next step. Three, four moves, cut. It’s not an elaborate thing where you’ve gotta learn 40 or 50 moves.
We do a lot of that on “Continuum“. The guy I double over there, Victor Webster, he’s a really experienced martial artist. I learn the fights and I’m there. If there is a stunt thrown in it then I’m there for that. But then, mainly, he’ll do his own thing. I’ve worked with the co-ordinator on there, Kimani [Ray Smith]; he’s a really talented fight co-ordinator. He had a dance background but the dancing and the choreography really rolls into fighting. I see with him, with his body, with his movements, from work. He’ll come up with cool little things. The way that he moves his body [from dancing]; he’s in touch with every limb and every joint. He’s actually been great; I’ve learned a lot of cool stuff just working on that show and building the fights.
IMP: So in a regular, say 30 or 40 second fight on “Supernatural” we might be seeing you and Jared switching?
Mike: Yeah, for sure. You just know it. Which is good. Sometimes, even I’ll watch it and I don’t even remember if I did it or not.
IMP: There was one in an episode where one of you ended up with your head in a laundry hamper? Who was that?
Mike: Oh that was me. In the laundry basket. That was pretty funny. I was like, how am I gonna hit that. And then son of a gun, when I hit it I got stuck in the laundry basket. [Laughs] They loved it. The director loved it. I couldn’t do it again if I tried! And that was good ’cause that was a one-taker, I was happy about that. Yeah, they loved it. It was just visually something different. Like, what the hell? He’s stuck in a laundry hamper? I thought I was gonna bounce off it but I got stuck in it [mimes trying to fight his way out]
IMP: Do you guys get involved in the pranks that happen on set?
Mike: I don’t think we’re there enough to be involved. The other day I walked in, I went in to get my wardrobe one day and they gave me way over-sized clothes. I put the jeans on and they were huge. This is awesome; I look like a 12 year old boy going to the skate park. So I took a picture and sent it to Jared and said ‘nice wardrobe.’ He sent back laughter. We’re always just kidding around.
IMP: It seems like a great place to work – is that standard for the industry?
Mike: I think when a show is secure; it’s been around for a while. The nerves and everything goes away. That thing is like a factory now; it’s so dialed. They don’t really have any trouble making their days. Everything is down to a formula. Whereas, some shows, like pilot season; the first couple of episodes of a new series – it’s stressful. Because everyone is flailing and getting used to how the whole thing is gonna work. You scramble. Working on MOW’s [Movie of the Week] I always hated because it’s a battle till the end. It’s never a nice formula or clockwork. Features are great because you’ve got nothing but time on those things. You’ll sit there for 15 hours and they’ll shoot 1/8th of a page [laughs].
On “Supernatural“, everybody just knows they’re jobs so well now. We’re not there all the time, when I show up it’s always a warm welcome.
The road trip I did up to Kamloops was great. I don’t get to hang out much with the teamsters except at Craft Service. To do all the car stuff and get to know all those guys was really cool. We were out for about five days, went all over, Cache Creek, Ashcroft, Kamloops, Hope, all over. That was nice. Usually my interaction is fighting with them over the donuts. [Laughs] We had a great time with them and we really got to appreciate how hard they work. The responsibility.
IMP: What’s next?
Mike: Well, “Godzilla“! Some more “Continuum“. Gonna go meet my body and maybe they need another robot or something! I did the JJ Abrams pilot… was called “Human” but they changed the name to “Almost Human“. It’ll be filming here. I’m gonna make my career out of being a robot, I swear. So if that goes I’ll, hopefully, be really busy.
IMP: and Season 9 on “Supernatural“?
Mike: yup, as much as they’ll have me.
- Jim Beaver (Supernatural) Discusses Buster Keaton’s OUR HOSPITALITY (advanceddungeonsandparenting.com)
- Finally, The Right “Sacrifice” || Supernatural Season Finale (impmag.org)
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Photo credit: Paxton Maroney
A couple of weeks ago I was talking to a publishing company about the 2 books I’m currently writing. I was nervous, excited, and curious all at the same time. I felt pretty good about my correspondence with this company and I was thinking I would hear back from them soon. It has been 10 days and now my self-doubt is starting to creep up on me.
If you have been following me for a while you know I don’t have much patience. When I see something I desire, I go after it and I don’t give up until I have it. But, if you’re new to my spiritual realm, I don’t like to wait and the reason for this is because I truly feel there is nothing to wait for in life. Right? I mean, the Law of Attraction stresses how you don’t need to wait for anything, just match your vibrations.
Nevertheless, my self-doubt comes up sometimes, it’s completely normal to feel this way.
Regardless, I get a choice in how I want to look at this:
1) I could continue to focus on how it’s been 10 days and I haven’t heard back from this publisher…is there something wrong with me? There must be something wrong…what am I doing wrong? Why is everything so hard for me?
(These are the kinds of things I would eventually start telling myself as time goes by and I entertain my self-doubt)
2) I could choose to focus by telling myself something more uplifting…if it doesn’t work out with this publisher, it’s okay. It doesn’t mean I’m not good enough, it just means this is the practice round for the real thing. Everything happens for a reason and I know I’ll have a publisher in the near future. I’m remaining to be open to whatever outcome happens because I know my 2 books are being published and they will help thousands of people around the world.
Self-Doubt Happens, How Do You Choose to Respond?
You always get to choose how you want to respond to any and every situation in life, no matter how bad it is or how amazing it is. And it’s so easy to want to focus on what’s “wrong” with you when in reality there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with you at all. I’ve been selected for a full-featured story by a big publication and I’ve been working my tail off trying to get it to be perfect.
But I’m laughing because nothing in life is perfect. The Universe is perfectly not perfect. That’s what is so beautiful about the Universe (the asymmetry of everything around us and, well, us).
A little mental food for thought the next time you feel like beating yourself up over something. I believe in you!
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These range rules are not to be interpreted by anyone, but the Range Officer. Any infringement or violation by a member or his/her guest will be sufficient cause for suspension or revocation of Membership. These rules are intended for the safety of everyone using the range and the unwritten rules of courtesy and common sense should be remembered and followed at all times.
The club's 40 yard archery range is located behind the dumpster to the left of the 7 yard pistol pit. There is a four target backstop complex with targets for shooting arrows and crossbow bolts equipped with field or broadhead points. Shooting line range markers and arrow holders have been placed to identify distances of 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 yards.
Six (6) station bow hangers are situated to the right of the 20 and 40 yard range marks. These are intended to hold bows while retrieving arrows or waiting your turn at the shooting line. A chart is mounted on each bow hanger to indicate which target to use depending on your bow (traditional, compound or crossbow) and type of arrow point (field or broadhead). PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS.
Note: if you intend to shoot broadhead points, use only the foam target on the left. Broadhead points will permanently damage the other targets.
The shooting of firearms at our archery targets is prohibited and is grounds for suspension of one’s membership privileges.
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1. Everyone must sign in and out of the range at all times. Members shall wear their club badge
when at the range.
2. All firearms must be in a safe and unloaded condition with a chamber safety flag at all times
except when being fired:
- Rifles: Bolts open, action locked open and ammunition removed.
- Handguns: Pistols Slides back, clip removed, and chamber empty.
- Revolvers: (Double Action) Cylinder out, cartridges removed, (Single Action) Loading gate open, hammer at half cock, cartridges removed.
- Shotguns: (Over/Under, Singles, Doubles) Broken open and unloaded (Pumps, Semi-auto) Locked open and unloaded
3. All firearms holstered, cased or in a rifle rack must be unloaded and safe when behind the firing
4. There will be absolutely no handling of firearms on the Firing Line during a Cease Fire.
5. All firing will cease and all firearms will be made safe, as in Rule Number 2, prior to anyone
leaving the firing line and moving toward the targets, and will not resume until the Cease Fire
6. Shooters desiring to go downrange to the targets must ask the Range Officer for a Cease Fire.
7. All firearms, loaded or unloaded, must be pointed downrange or in a safe direction at all times,
unless they are in the long gun rack, holstered or cased as in Rule Number 3.
8. Firing will be directed downrange only in the direction of the target backstop and only from the
immediate firing line.
9. There will be no cross firing at the range at any time.
10. During shooting, everyone must be wearing eye protection and hearing protection when the line
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11. No shotgun shooting at the pistol ranges, except during a club scheduled Match.
12. All plinking targets must be placed approximately two feet above the base of the backstop butts
13. No glass objects of any kind will be permitted as targets at any time!
14. No steel targets or bowling pins permitted, except for use in scheduled matches or as spinners in
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15. No alcoholic beverages or drugs may be consumed or used at the range at any time.
16. Pistol #3, 50 yard, and 100 yard ranges will not be used at the same time that the Trap range is
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17. Hand traps will only be used from the 50 and 100 yard firing line when no one is using the 50
or 100 yard ranges.
18. JUNIOR MEMBERS (and guest under 18) must be accompanied by and under the direct
supervision of a SENIOR MEMBER who is within three (3) feet when handling or shooting a
rifle, shotgun, or handgun. Minimum age to shoot at the range is 10.
19. No firearms capable of firing full automatic are allowed on the range at any time. No arms or
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20. All members and guests must obey the Range Officer's commands while at the range. Range
Officers have the authority to suspend range privileges for that day and must report such
suspension to the Trustees before the next regular club meeting.
21. The Chief Range Officer may appoint any SENIOR MEMBER in good standing to assist. All
Committee Chairmen shall be responsible for appointing a Range Officer while they are using
22. All members are obligated to act in the interest of the Club when observing any violation of
these rule by a member or by non-members who are guests. In the absence of a Range
Officer, members will conduct themselves accordingly, and report such violation in writing
to an Officer or Trustee prior to the next regular Club meeting.
23. Members are permitted to have one guest at a time shooting, unless special provisions have
previously been made with the Board of Trustees. Members are responsible for their guest's
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Monday through Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. or dusk
Sunday 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. or dusk, whichever is the earlier.
No shooting is permitted on Easter Sunday or Christmas Day.
Other restrictions may apply from time to time when deemed necessary and will be posted
in the Newsletter or at the range entrance.
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I don’t know what I want to write about today.
I’m trying out a new schedule, since whatever schedule I had before has been completely dismantled thanks to this fuzzy bouncy thing called a “dog.”
I haven’t quite adjusted yet. I still haven’t figured out how to create space in this new way of living for all the things I want to fill the hours of my day with. If I even can do all the things I wanted to do before Izzie wandered in.
In all the years I’ve been writing — more than I like to say out loud sometimes — I’ve found only one strategy that always gets me writing something, even when I’m not sure what to write about, or don’t feel like writing anything at all.
I just start writing.
Ever since I did this as an exercise in a high school creative writing class, it’s never failed me. And I’m not sure I’ve ever actually spelled out the method on this blog — something I did not realize until I wrote “I don’t know what I want to write about today” at the top of this page.
It’s not complicated. You just. Start. Typing.
It doesn’t matter what comes out. It doesn’t even have to make sense. You don’t even have to spell things correctly. Stream-of-consciousness writing has no end objective other than to force your brain to think of words it tells your fingers to make appear.
Since I started writing all this, I’ve come up with a few new ideas. I went from “I have no idea where this is going to go” to “oh there’s something here, and another something there, and now I have more ideas than I expected to have all week.”
Have I gotten distracted along the way? Yes. It took me an hour to get out what you’ve read so far, between brewing another pot of coffee to feeding the cat to playing with the dog and oh yeah social media, why is it so shiny?
But look at all the words I’ve written.
Even if only 20 people look at some of them, at least I didn’t just give up, shut my computer down, and feel bad about myself for not pushing through the “I don’t wanna” feeling.
You should never sit down in front of a keyboard and worry that something you’re about to write doesn’t matter or will be a waste of effort. A good chunk of everything you write won’t ever go public. This is how writing works. You have to do it in stages. Write. Revise. Repeat.
I wasn’t sure if anything I was going to write when I sat down 90 minutes ago was going to end up published. I doubted myself. But then I shook it off and just started writing things.
I don’t know if it paid off. You’ll be a much better judge of that than I will.
Just write. Just start. Just try. It works.
At least, it does for me.
Meg is the creator of Novelty Revisions, dedicated to helping writers put their ideas into words. She is a staff writer with The Cheat Sheet, a freelance editor and writer, and a 10-time NaNoWriMo winner. Follow Meg on Twitter for tweets about writing, food and nerdy things.
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Terry Stickelmaier Joins Meritec
(Painesville, Ohio – August 26, 2011) Meritec is pleased to announce an expansion of its sales team. Terry Stickelmaier has joined Meritec as the Central / Southwest Sales Manager. Reporting to Steve Jones, VP of Sales and Marketing, Mr. Stickelmaier will act as a catalyst for Meritec to boost its presence in the Medical arena. With 22 years of industry training and experience, the knowledge Stickelmaier will bring to the table is apparent.
“Stickelmaier’s experience, heavily based in Medical, will be a great addition to the growing Meritec Sales force”, says VP, Steve Jones, “His history and knowledge will help to expand Meritec’s strong offerings into the medical markets.” Over his 22 year career Stickelmaier has held various sales positions with companies such as Molex and Hypertronics. Terry cites his core competencies are, “Interfacing with customers, sustaining relationships and helping the customer solve their problems.”
While in discussions with Meritec, Mr. Stickelmaier indicated that his initial focus will be to broaden the Meritec presence in the Medical Marketplace and to integrate Meritec into some of today’s hottest programs. Stickelmaier has worked with many companies in the Medical Fields, such as GE Healthcare, St. Jude and Boston Scientific. While based out of Hartland, Wisconsin, Stickelmaier has already positioned himself directly in the middle of a Medical hotbed.
Stickelmaier noted that he is “excited to bring value to an already great company and to help Meritec broaden its products to the medical market”.
Terry Stickelmaier can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.org or by phone at 440.251.5988
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Once upon a time, before the Klout platform make over, you could easily switch around your influencers. Whomever you considered to be influential or your friends (who can be extremely influential to you anyway), you would place on your list. You would put up 10 of those who you called your “influencers” and those with the highest scores would show up on your profile page. That happened in the old days.
Now, things are a little different. Currently on the public profile, you can choose to either display a public list that you?ve created, or default to the “recent moments interactors”, which populates automatically based off of Klout’s algorithm, which displays users that interact most with your updates on your social media platforms. In order to learn more about how this works, it is all explained in the video below. However, Klout is going to keep updating, tweaking, and testing things out. I will keep you updated as it happens!
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She’s one of the most poised brides-to-be, but even Kate Middleton has pre-wedding jitters.
During a visit to northern England on Monday (April 11), a woman asked if she was feeling nervous about her upcoming April 29 nuptials – to which the soon-to-be princess revealed, “Yes, of course I am.”
And when another couple wished the bride-to-be “all the best,” Kate responded, “Yes, I can’t believe it’s coming very soon now.”
Meanwhile, William has expressed his nervousness, as well. Back in March, he told press, “My knees started going, tapping quite nervously [during rehearsals for the big day]. So it’s quite a daunting prospect, but very exciting. And I’m thoroughly looking forward to it, but there’s still a lot to be done in the last four weeks.”
Meanwhile Kate Middleton is getting sympathy from someone who knows firsthand the pressures of being in the media spotlight, Emma Watson.
The 20-year-old “Harry Potter” star told of the worldwide frenzy surrounding the bride-to-be, “Poor girl, that must be an incredible amount of pressure.I hope she’s enjoying it. Must be intense.”
Kicking off their week with another publicity gig, Prince William and Kate were spotted opening the Darwen Aldridge Community Academy in Darwen, England yesterday (April 11).
The soon-to-be-marrieds were all smiles as they chatted with the public on their final engagement before tying the knot.
According to founder Rod Aldridge, the academy will implement a plan to place enterprise at the heart of secondary education in five schools around the UK.
He explained, “It’s about getting young people to think differently about what’s possible, giving them a choice between work, university and starting a business.”
And though she’s going to be an official British Royal in a matter of weeks, Kate Middleton has thankfully avoided too many comparisons to her soon-to-be-hubby’s late mother Princess Diana.
According to Max Clifford, a prominent PR agent, Miss Middleton bares little resemblance to Diana overall.
“As a PR person, which is what I have been for 45 years, I would say Princess Diana was a one-off. She (Diana) became just about the biggest star in the world.”
“She became far more popular all over the world than the royal family. I think Kate’s going to be far more controlled, she’s going to be far more part of William.”
“Kate the individual I don’t believe will receive a fraction of the coverage that Diana got worldwide and in many ways it’s going to be a lot easier for her because the palace and all those around will have learned from what happened with Diana. They will be very, very guarded to make sure that doesn’t happen again.”
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Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the articles contained in the Academy News are those of the identified authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Academy.
Source: Raymond G. Miller, DDS, Section Chair
The 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) in Las Vegas fulfilled the opportunity to enhance our knowledge through continuing forensic education. It also gave us the chance to reunite with our colleagues from across the nation and the world. Our interactions make us stronger as a section and the knowledge we share makes us better prepared to navigate, with confidence, through our casework. Please continue to enrich us with your studies and experiences to help make all of us better in our practices by submitting abstracts for the 2017 annual meeting.
As a section, we have made an important decision to discontinue the Friday morning tradition of the Thomas Krauss Memorial Bitemark Breakfast. We will continue to honor Dr. Krauss’s memory by naming one of our scientific sessions for him. This session’s theme will focus on abstracts dedicated to bitemark research and case reports. We are also investigating the possibility of dedicating a session to Dr. George Furst. In 1992, Dr. Furst started a Saturday morning session of the Odontology Section of the AAFS, which was primarily for new members of the AAFS to present their first papers. This Saturday morning session became known as “The Furst Word Society.” We do not plan on adding a Saturday morning session; however, either a portion of our scientific session will be dedicated to first-time presenters or a portion will be dedicated to the topic of dental identification. If anyone has any ideas or input, your recommendations are always appreciated.
The officers of the section will also perform a careful and systematic review of our current policies and procedures to make them current and effective for the proper administration and function of our section. These can be found on the Academy’s website (www.aafs.org/wp-content/uploads/MASTER-PPM.pdf), section 7.5.7, for your review, and again any input or suggestions are always welcome.
As Section Secretary, Adam Freeman will chair the Nominating Committee. He, along with the three Past Section Chairs, will nominate and decide on our section’s award winners for 2017. Our section voted to clarify the award criteria and this information can be reviewed in the Policy and Procedure Manual referenced above in section 188.8.131.52. The nominating committee is interested in nominations from members; you may forward your nominations to email@example.com.
An updated list of forensic odontology courses that can be used to apply for section membership will be forwarded to all members and posted on the AAFS website under Other Meetings and Training Opportunities. Most who are reading this will not be in need of introductory coursework; however, it is a great resource for those inquiring about opportunities in forensic odontology. Passing this information along will go a long way in mentoring and developing new members for our section.
I wish all of you a great spring and summer as you work tirelessly on your abstracts and presentations for the 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting in the great city of New Orleans!
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I didn’t know how women and men differ in their views of abortion or how opinions have changed over time. So I ran the numbers using American National Election Study data since 1980.
Here are the strong pro-choice and anti-abortion views by gender:
More people favor always allowing rather than never allowing abortion. Differences by gender are small and not significant, but women are currently just a bit more likely to take both the strongest pro- and anti- positions. The trend over time is slightly favorable to choice.
The graph is noisier if we add a middle view as defined by the ANES (abortion should be legal in cases of rape, incest, or medical risk to the mother):
Making abortion sometimes legal is the most popular position, and men are somewhat more likely than women to adopt it, but again, the gender difference is small.
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Collaborate is not a simple consequence of a statement. It takes courage! To collaborate requires a different attitude that is, go beyond case studies or exchanges of good practices. Business facing the demands of a constant torrent of change, cannot be satisfied in transferring a solution from one company to another, or adapting existing models. To collaborate inside the increasing complexity that companies are facing is a destination that people who embrace inter-disciplinarity and who are not afraid to be wrong, wish (that exemplify the startups).
We know (or we should know) that customers are the final judge of our performance in the markets and to remain in constant contact with them is a step towards innovation and consequently to the success of our organization.
To be in constant contact with our customers means to observe how people experience, emotionally and cognitively, the world around them and from that observation start the path to satisfy their needs.
Inside organizations we found different teams typically seeking to identify significant changes in markets, where companies develop their activity, because these often indicate the need for new business models and new partnerships, where open innovation plays a crucial role. Partnerships between startups and SMEs can be a good example of these possible good partnerships.
Those teams have to collect and absorb large amounts of information, often contradictory in nature giving rise to limited perspective of alternative paths to follow so they can meet the needs of customers. To avoid this “limitation” organizations should be able to redirect its radar and identify a number of little things that usually don’t “jump around”. This only happens when we allow outer looks.
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Governor Lalong who made the announcement at the Government House in Jos, said the patient died before his test result came back positive.
The Governor also lamented over the violation of the inter-state transportation ban, which he said has led to increased cases of Coronavirus in Plateau state. Lalong further revealed that they have redoubled their effort in contact tracing, isolating suspected contacts and treating the infected patients.
“As of today, we have successfully treated and discharged 10 infected persons including the index case who have all been reunited with their families.
“The other 22 infected persons are still undergoing treatment and in stable condition. Sadly, one suspect whose sample was taken died yesterday before his result was returned positive.
“This has exposed the state to more dangers of COVID-19, as virtually all the cases we have recorded, originated from other states and were imported by people who defied our directives and entered the state at all costs. This is indeed sad.”
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What are Aptamers?
Often described as synthetic antibodies, aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules that fold into secondary structures which can bind to target molecules with high affinity and specificity. In 1990, the first aptamer was developed against T4 DNA Polymerase using RNA1. Since then, both aptamer selection methods and subsequent applications have expanded significantly. Aptamers can now be developed using both RNA and DNA, as well as non-natural bases, backbones, and small molecules. Applications include: detection molecules in ELISA-like assays, protein-specific tissue staining, targeted drug delivery, and an FDA-approved treatment for macular degeneration2,3.
Aptamers vs. Antibodies: The Aptamer Advantage
With their robust binding affinities and high specificity for small biomolecules, aptamers have generated great interest as an alternative to antibodies. A comparison between the properties of aptamers and antibodies is summarized below.
|Properties||Higher specificity than antibodies||Higher affinity than aptamers|
|Stability & Storage||Long shelf life at room temperature||Long shelf life when frozen|
|Remains stable after multiple freeze thaws||Degrades after multiple freeze thaws|
|Can be designed to resist enzymes||Cannot be designed to resist enzymes|
|Can be “stored” digitally and re-synthesized at low cost||Hybridoma storage and maintenance required|
|Development & Scalability||3-5 months (selection & sequencing)||6-9 months (immunization & hybridoma development)|
|No animals required||Animals required|
|<1 week to replenish||3-4 weeks to replenish|
|Very low batch-to-batch variability||Low to moderate batch-to-batch variability|
|Target Molecule||Any target may be used||Target limited to immunogenic, non-toxic molecules|
|Poor immunogens or small molecules: no conjugation required to enhance selection||Poor immunogens or small molecules: carrier protein required to enhance immunogenicity|
|Quantity needed for selection: 100 µg protein / 1 mg small molecule||Quantity needed for immunization: 5 mg protein / 5 mg conjugated peptide|
|Modification||Easily conjugated to proteins, peptides, drugs, and other small molecules||Easily conjugated to proteins, peptides, drugs, and other small molecules|
|Can be modified with fluorescent dyes||Can be modified with fluorescent dyes|
|Biotinylation ~$100 / mg||Biotinylation ~$1000 / mg|
|Cost||Individual aptamer selection: starts at $5,500||Monoclonal antibody: starts at $4000|
|“Polyclonal” enriched aptamer pool: $1000||Polyclonal antibody: starts at $1200|
Aptamers are developed using a process known as SELEX (Systemic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment). During SELEX, trillions of random DNA oligos are mixed with the target molecule, and sequences that bind to the target are then collected and amplified. After multiple rounds of selection, the DNA is sequenced and individual sequences are then evaluated for binding. Using SELEX, aptamers can be developed with affinity for a variety of targets, including proteins, peptides, and small molecules.
In general, SELEX is accomplished in 3 phases.
- Selection: DNA sequences that bind to the target are partitioned from sequences that do not. Binding sequences are amplified via PCR and brought forward for additional rounds of SELEX (generally 5-10).
- Sequencing: RayBiotech uses NGS and data analysis to determine which aptamers to evaluate as opposed to randomly selecting individual clones.
- Candidate Evaluation: Aptamers are evaluated for binding and the best aptamer is supplied to the customer
RayBiotech’s custom aptamer service incorporates state-of-the-art techniques into our SELEX process to generate high quality aptamers. Because the selection technique can bias the developing aptamer pool, we will tailor the selection strategy to best suit each customer’s needs. Often this includes using multiple selection techniques within a single project to generate the best aptamers. For example, in many of our selections we will begin with Capillary Electrophoresis SELEX (CE-SELEX) to identify aptamers that bind to all the surfaces of a protein target, enriching the pool of potential binders. This pool of aptamers is then used in a subsequent type of SELEX that more closely resembles the end use assay but does not have as much ability to separate binding from non-binding sequences. Because the pool has already been enriched for binders, we can focus on finding which of those binders work best in your assay.
While we can use a wide variety of techniques and variations of selection, they can be categorized into three general types. These techniques are not a comprehensive list of the types of SELEX that have been developed or in use at RayBiotech, and only represent some of the techniques we commonly use:
- Traditional Selection: A traditional selection technique requires the target of interest to be bound to a solid support. This support can be beads, the walls of a microtiter plate, or gel-like resins. The aptamers then bind to the immobilized target and non-binders are removed. The remaining bound aptamers are collected and carried through to the next round. This type of selection is best suited to larger targets such as peptides and proteins, although other targets can be selected for as well. The benefit of this selection technique is that it offers good separation between binding and non-binding DNA sequences, but at the cost of potentially identifying aptamers against the linker or the support that the target is bound to. Additionally, with smaller targets, this technique may limit the number of surfaces available for aptamer binding.
- Reverse Selection: This is similar to traditional selection except that the aptamer library is bound to the solid support, which is then challenged with the target of interest. Depending on the selection strategy, the bound aptamers can be collected by secondary capture of the target or by releasing the bound aptamers from their solid support. A benefit of reverse selection is that the target of interest is not bound or modified in any way, allowing the aptamer to recognize the target in its native form, making this type of selection ideal for smaller molecules. However, efficiency of separation between binding and non-binding DNA sequences is generally lower than other types of selection, resulting in longer selection times.
- CE Selection: The traditional method requires the target to be bound to a solid support, which potentially alters the target the aptamer is selected against. However, at RayBiotech we use CE to separate binding sequences, permitting the DNA to interact with the free protein in solution. This allows the two molecules to recapitulate natural interactions in serum or other fluids. Additionally, the separation efficiency of CE selection is very high which means fewer rounds of selection are required to enrich the aptamer pool. While traditional SELEX can require 10 rounds of selection or more, CE can effectively identify aptamers in as few as 3 rounds, which helps to reduce the effects of PCR bias on the selection4,5. The use of CE also allows us to monitor the development of the aptamer library throughout the selection process.
In addition to a variety of selection techniques, RayBiotech uses Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) instead of plasmid cloning techniques to identify individual aptamers. We utilize the data gained in NGS to analyze the entire aptamer pool and identify common aptamer sequences, motifs, and other patterns in the library. Using this information allows us to use data analytics to identify better aptamer candidates than those identified by randomly selected clones, increasing the likelihood of success.
After candidate sequences are identified, they are synthesized and assessed for their ability to bind the target of interest. The techniques used may vary based on the target and the final application of the aptamer. As with antibodies, the application can impact the aptamer’s performance and thus multiple techniques maybe used to determine the functionality of the final aptamer.
- Tuerk, Craig, and Larry Gold. “Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment: RNA ligands to bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase.” Science 249.4968 (1990): 505-510.
- Vinores, Stanley A. “Pegaptanib in the treatment of wet, age-related macular degeneration.” International journal of nanomedicine 1.3 (2006): 263.
- Bauer, Michelle, et al. “The Application of aptamers for immunohistochemistry.” Nucleic acid therapeutics 26.3 (2016): 120-126.
- Stuart, Christopher H., et al. “Selection of a Novel Aptamer Against Vitronectin Using Capillary Electrophoresis and Next Generation Sequencing.” Molecular Therapy—Nucleic Acids 5.11 (2016): e386.
- Mosing, Renee K., and Michael T. Bowser. “Isolating aptamers using capillary electrophoresis–SELEX (CE–SELEX).” Nucleic Acid and Peptide Aptamers: Methods and Protocols (2009): 33-43.
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Security is a negative feature.
What I mean by that is that you will never get kudos for implementing a secure system, but you certainly will get a lot of flak for an insecure system, as the recent LinkedIn incident shows. Therefore, security is a distraction for most developers; they’d rather focus on their core business of implementing features.
Where have we heard that before?
Cloud Computing to the Rescue: SecaaS
Cloud computing promises to free businesses from having to buy, install, and maintain their own software and hardware, so they can focus on their core business.
The alternative of using libraries, while infinitely better than rolling our own, is less attractive than the utility model. We’d still have to update the libraries ourselves. Also, with libraries, we depend on a language level API, which segments the market, making it less efficient.
There are some hurdles to tackle before SecaaS will go mainstream. Let’s take a look at one issue close to my heart.
Security as a Service Requires Standards
The utility model of cloud computing requires standards. This is also true for SecaaS.
Each type of security service should have one or at most a few standards, to level the playing field for vendors and to allow for easy switching between offerings of different vendors.
For authorization, I think we already have such a standard: XACML.
We also need a more general standard that applies to all security services, so that we have a simple programming model for integrating different security services into our applications. I believe that standard should be REST.
Update: The market seems to agree with this. Just see the figures in this presentation.
This is one of the reasons why we’re working on a REST profile for XACML. Stay tuned for more information on that.
So what do you think about SecaaS? Let me know in the comments.
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Esri Canada’s Education and Research Group is excited to announce our inaugural Student Story Map Competition! Find out how your students can enter to win one of our top three prizes. Educators have a chance to win a trip to the 2018 Esri Education Summit in San Diego, California in July.
Story maps are a great way to highlight a personal, local, regional or national topic in Canada. If your students have been creating story maps this year, why not submit their work to Esri Canada’s inaugural Student Story Map Competition? Your students can submit an existing story map or a new class project to the competition. Read the official contest rules and judging criteria for more information.
Story maps are a great way to highlight an important topic with images, text, videos and interactive web maps.
Learn more about the competition, and find out how your students can win one of our top three prizes! Educators have a chance to win a trip to the 2018 Esri Education Summit in San Diego, California in July. Entries must be submitted by Thursday, May 24, 2018.
About the AuthorMore Content by Angela Alexander
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“I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?” Nehemiah 6:3
The security guard found and removed a piece of tape that was keeping a door from clicking shut. Later, when he checked the door, he found it had been taped again. He called the police, who arrived and arrested five burglars.
Working at the Watergate building in Washington, DC, the headquarters of a major political party in the US, the young guard had just uncovered the biggest political scandal of his lifetime simply by taking his job seriously—and doing it well.
Nehemiah began rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem—a task he took very seriously. Toward the end of the project, neighboring rivals asked him to meet with them in a nearby village. Under the guise of a friendly invitation was an insidious trap (Nehemiah 6:1–2). Yet Nehemiah’s response shows the depth of his conviction: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?” (v. 3).
Although he certainly possessed some authority, Nehemiah may not have rated very high on the hero scale. He wasn’t a great warrior, not a poet or a prophet, not a king or a sage. He was a cupbearer-turned-contractor. Yet he believed he was doing something vital for God. May we take seriously what He’s given us to do and do it well in His power and provision.
Reflect & Pray
What has God called you to do? Why is it important for you to take it seriously—seeing it as a great work?
Dear God, help me to believe that I’m doing a great work. I trust that You’ve called me to this in this season. Give me the focus to stay the course.
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Being able to take my own outfit photos was the very reason I bought my first Olympus camera. Olympus cameras have a fantastic WIFI phone connection which meant I could use my phone as a remote, focus the picture on myself AND see myself on screen while shooting…
A huge improvement over setting up my clunky old Canon, focussing on a chair stand-in, setting the timer, rushing into place and then checking to see if I’d got the shot (with no cut-off head) afterwards! It was a faff!
This post is a part of paid partnership with Olympus & includes affiliate links.
With the Olympus Share app, you can use your phone as a fully functioning remote, with access to all the manual settings while seeing yourself on camera. It’s brilliant!
Note! There is an absolutely fantastic deal on the Olympus Pen E-PL8 rn (with the non auto-zoom kit lens) which includes a free 45mm lens, worth £279. Add in my 20% discount code STYLO20 and you get it all for £319.99! Runs until July 5th – go, go, go! The free lens offer is also live on the Olympus Pen E-PL9, currently reduced in price, so with STYLO20 comes in at £403.20.
(The differences between the the Pen E-PL8 and Pen E-PL9 is the E-PL9 has 4k video, slightly better image processor, ability to trigger video from the phone app and some new filters and Advanced Photography functions which give you easy access to thinks like shooting double exposures and HDR! )
USING THE REMOTE
Connecting the Wifi
I’ve always found the most reliable way to connect my phone to camera, is to first turn on the camera WIFI by tapping the WIFI icon in the top left of the screen. Then go to your phone Wifi Settings and select the camera in your networks list. It will then ask you for the password, an 8-digit number. Enter this, wait for the blue tick and then open your app. Wait for the blue On at the bottom to appear, then you’re good to go!
Setting your settings
You can read about the settings I use on my Pen here, and it’s worth always checking in on your settings (unless you’re on Auto) when you’re on remote.
Remember to select your focal point!
You can tap the the phone screen to focus – a little green box will appear – if you have it set to the little button with a finger on the square (similar to the one on camera screen, left hand side) – you can tap this to allow you to take a shot, tap the screen to focus, or have those functions turned off entirely. I usually have it set to focus only, unless I’m holding my phone in the shot and it’s easier to trigger the remote (not on timer) with my thumb!
Using the timer
Simply set yourself 6 seconds (or whatever you prefer!) to give yourself time to pop your phone out of sight – remember to make sure you’ve tapped on yourself to be in focus!
Setting up sequential shooting
Tap the settings cog wheel icon when you are in the self-timer section, (see the pic further up on setting the self-timer!) Then you can set up interval shooting. This means you can shoot up to 10 pictures in a row. You can also set the interval time, I have it at a 2 second interval, so you can strike a different pose and speed through outfit post pictures. When you want to use this function, you need to tap into the square at the bottom right, and tap the icon to the right of the self-timer one – the icon that is a self-timer on top of a stack of photos!
Filming video with your remote
Import your images & video to your phone
This is as simple as selecting Import Photos, selecting the ones you want, either individually or as a group, and hitting Import. It’s pretty quick, although videos takes longer.
Shooting Video For For IGTV
If you want to shoot a portrait video for IGTV on your camera for better quality than your phone, then all you have to do is position you camera on the tripod vertically. Once you’ve imported, the best place to edit a vertical video is in the InShot app.
Shooting Pictures & Video For Instagram Stories
I often use images and video I’ve taken on my camera for Stories, as I tend to import direct onto my phone throughout the day so I’ve always got some good quality content to use! If I have a sequence of photos, I’ll sometimes turn them into a GIF-like video on an app called Momento.
Shooting Photos In Different Sized Dimensions
This can be useful if, like me, you like to compose a shot in the dimensions your photo is destined for. Some people prefer cropping their photo after. But in the Super Control Panel, you can change your dimensions, for eg. to 1:1 which is a square, or a longer wider shape, 16:9 which is what I use for my blog post header pictures which appear on my home page. You can find out how to do this and more in my 15 Tips & Tricks for Olympus Pen!
I hope this post has been useful! And if you’re thinking of making a purchase, do shoot me any questions you have – here in comments, or DM me on Instagram @stylonylon.
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A total of 1,461 sandal planks to be used for the construction of the Royal coffin for the Royal funeral of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej were on Tuesday afternoon handed over to Culture Minister Vira Rojpojchanarat by Natural Resources and Environment Minister Surasak Kanjanarat at the Chang Sib Moo office in Nakhon Pathom.
Earlier in the morning, a religious ceremony was held at the office of Kui Buri national park in Kui Buri district of Phrchuab Khiri Khan for the delivery of the sandalwood planks to the office of artisans of the Fine Arts Department in Nakhon Pathom province. The ceremony was presided over by Phrchuab Khiri Khan governor Thawee Narissirikul and attended by several provincial, local administration and park officials.
The planks were then loaded on three beautifully decorated trucks which eventually left the Kui Buri national park office in a motorcade of 21 vehicles.
Another religious ceremony was held at the office of Chang Sib Moo to receive the planks. The planks were then formally handed over to.
Mr Srisawat Boonma, kamnan of Tambon Haad Kham, told reporters that he and several villagers joined the motorcade. He said he was very pleased to be part of the delivery of the sandalwood planks.
Of the 12 sandalwood trees which were cut down, only nine of them were used and processed into wooden planks to be used in the making of the Royal coffin with the rest being kept at the park office.
Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thai PBS)
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Happy hump day, y’all! I was looking forward to this day because I’m off from work for the next six days! I feel like I’m always traveling but I could really use this vacation. We’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow at my parent’s house and I’ll be cooking my favorite mac and cheese recipe. I made it for friendsgiving this year and it was a total hit! Not the healthiest but it’s good to cheat once in a while, PLUS it’s thanksgiving!!
I will be taking a week off from blogging since I’ll be headed to Cancun on Friday with my husband. We had this trip planned since April because I was sad after our honeymoon to Bora Bora and I wanted to travel more LOL. (I’m spoiled). Since then we have been to Miami, Mexico City and Paris so I’m pretty happy 🙂 I originally wanted to go to Tulum but we totally forgot about this trip and everything was booked and super expensive. We still plan on taking a day trip there to explore the cenotes and pyramids. I am so excited for the sunny weather and to be relaxing on the beach.
So anyways, a little about this outfit. Super casual and simple but the top is everything. I feel like this week I have been blogging about all things pink, can you blame me? I love the color of this top, the fact that it’s velvet AND the bell sleeves, super cute! Also, it doesn’t break the bank. I used to shop on Asos a lot but I haven’t recently, I feel so overwhelmed with all of their stuff! If you dig around for a couple of hours you find so many awesome pieces though!
Well I hope you all have a great Thanksgiving celebrating with loved ones. I’ll be posting pics during my trip to Cancun on my instagram as well as instagram stories so follow along!
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Emails sent by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials expose how ICE used social media and information gleaned by for-profit data brokers to track down and arrest an immigrant in Southern California. In the emails, which were disclosed in federal court filings, officials discussed the relationship status of the person, noting that he was “broken hearted,” according to Facebook posts, and confirmed his identity through pictures posted at his father’s birthday party.
ICE ultimately arrested the person after he “checked in” to a Home Depot on Facebook.
The emails are a rare glimpse into the ever-widening surveillance dragnet ICE uses to track down immigrants who are subject to possible deportation. In this case, ICE used Thomson Reuters’s controversial CLEAR database, part of a growing industry of commercial data brokers that contract with government agencies, essentially circumventing barriers that might prevent the government from collecting certain types of information.
The emails were included by the government in response to a motion by a federal public defender whose client was being criminally charged with felony illegal reentry. Because the vast majority of immigrants who are removed from the country are not charged criminally, it’s extremely unusual for ICE to disclose details related to its investigations in such depth.
The client, whom we will call “Sid” to protect him and his family, had been living in the U.S. since he was a year old. He worked as a roofer and was raising a family; his children are American citizens. He had been previously deported to Mexico over a nonviolent felony involving the receipt of stolen goods at an auto shop and had not been identified by local law enforcement since his return to the United States.
“I came back to — I came back to be with my family,” Sid told the judge at his sentencing hearing this past January. “I’m sorry. That’s all.”
According to the court filings, the investigation into Sid began on February 22, 2018, when ICE’s National Criminal Analysis and Targeting Center generated a lead and forwarded it to an ICE office in Los Angeles.
“When you have someone with a fairly common name, Facebook makes it so much easier to be tracked.”
ICE periodically sends datasets of deported individuals to the NCATC to run through the agency’s Data Analysis System to see if they’ve reentered the United States. The system pulls data from other federal agencies, as well as commercial data brokers, to match the names of deported individuals to recent car registrations, utility bills, and mailing addresses, among other records. This data is either openly shared with ICE, as is the case with government agencies like the post office, or collected by data brokers and then sold to ICE, as is the case with many electricity providers or other companies that are prohibited by local laws from sharing data with ICE directly.
After receiving the lead, an officer at the Los Angeles ICE office reached out to the agency’s Pacific Enforcement Response Center for help. PERC supplements the work of ICE field officers by providing intelligence support and placing detainers on immigrants in custody across the U.S. so they can be picked up by ICE.
A few weeks later, on May 4, 2018, an official at PERC wrote back to say that he had found Sid’s Facebook account. Sid was using his legal name on Facebook, although it’s a very common name and not easily distinguishable.
The PERC official explained that he had used Thomson Reuters CLEAR to find Sid’s home address, as well as the address of his parents.
The official then ran the addresses CLEAR provided through Google Maps and compared them to photos that Sid had posted on Facebook of his father’s backyard birthday party. One of the addresses was a match — which meant the Facebook account belonged to the person ICE was looking for.
“When you have someone with a fairly common name, Facebook makes it so much easier to be tracked,” said Sarah St.Vincent, a surveillance expert who runs a clinic for targets of digital abuse at Cornell Tech. “When DHS is trying to compile a dossier on someone, this type of information, like sharing a photo online, which a lot of people consider to be ephemeral, becomes permanent.”
“Happy birthday to my dad,” Sid captioned one of the photographs at the birthday party. “And to a shitload of years more.”
Former Reuters journalists have criticized the news media company’s $20 million contract with ICE for the use of CLEAR, saying that it “associates Reuters good name with government spying.” Thomson Reuters executives have stressed that the news reporting and data collection divisions of the company are wholly separate.
In addition to confirming that the Facebook page belonged to Sid, the PERC official mused on his family life.
“The target may not be together with REDACTED at the moment he wrote on his page a general statement of missing someone and mentioned later how he is broken hearted. The target does have a daughter and what appears to be a son (video of a soccer field following what appears to be a male adolescent).”
The report from PERC also identified driver’s license information for Sid and his parents. Since 2013, California has offered driver’s licenses to undocumented people, but the program has been criticized for not safeguarding that information from ICE. Several recent arrests of undocumented people have stemmed directly from their signing up for driver’s licenses in California.
“When ICE agents are speculating on your relationship status, what kind of power dynamic does that create?”
In a case that was argued in front of the 9th Circuit earlier this year, ICE officers were able to track down an immigrant because of their inclusion in a national driver’s license database after they renewed their license in California in 2015. All ICE needed to find them was a name to run through the NCATC, and the state of California had already provided their home address.
In Sid’s case, ICE officers began to monitor the Facebook profile after it was confirmed to be a match. When Sid “checked in” on Facebook at a Home Depot on May 24, 2018, to buy roofing supplies, ICE officers waited outside the store until Sid was driving out of the parking lot, then stopped and arrested him.
Sid’s prior removal order was immediately reinstated, but he wasn’t deported; instead he was charged with felony illegal reentry. His criminal case is what ultimately shed light on ICE’s tactics, but even their inclusion in the briefing by prosecutors is something that people familiar with such cases consider to be highly unusual.
Several veteran federal public defenders who reviewed the case told The Intercept that clients charged with felony illegal reentry either plead to a lesser charge or have their cases dismissed before a disclosure like this is made.
Over 55 percent of all federal crimes prosecuted in fiscal year 2018 were immigration-related, and the vast majority of those were for misdemeanor illegal entry, according to an August 2019 Bureau of Justice Statistics report. That represents an 87 percent increase in the amount of these types of prosecutions in the first full year of the Trump administration, as part of the policy known as “zero tolerance.” (The U.S. attorney’s office in San Diego even distributes a pamphlet emphasizing how many more prosecutions they’ve filed for previously unenforced statutes like misdemeanor illegal entry.) As a result, federal defenders have seen their caseloads balloon dramatically.
While federal defenders are entitled to discovery production, “federal migrant prosecutions are often seen as just shifting paperwork around,” said Julie Mao, the deputy director of Just Futures Law, a law office that works on issues involving immigration enforcement and surveillance. “There’s a whole windmill system where lives are being destroyed and people are pleading to these cases and defendants are not fighting them because federal defenders often feel like they can’t fight or challenge these cases. Often in these cases, there’s very minimal discovery.”
According to Mao, even in cases in which the government does turn over discovery information, it mostly focuses on proving a person’s identity and immigration history.
“Usually discovery is never about how the individual was located or how the individual was subsequently apprehended,” she said. “When federal defenders have asked for that information, it really cracks open a whole black box about policing either at the local level or federal immigration enforcement.”
In January, Sid was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison after a judge found him guilty of illegal reentry. His case is currently on appeal while he continues to serve his sentence. He will almost certainly be deported again once that sentence is completed.
This spring, the Brennan Center for Justice released a comprehensive report on social media monitoring by the Department of Homeland Security. In its section on ICE, it noted that “while people seeking immigration benefits bear the brunt of this scrutiny, their American friends, relatives, and business associates are sucked into these repositories of information as well.”
Meanwhile, over the summer, the Trump administration expanded “expedited removal” nationwide, making it far easier for ICE to deport someone within a matter of days if the person cannot prove at the time of arrest that they’ve lived in the U.S. for two years. Advocates fear that this expansion, which has been put on hold by a federal judge, would increase ICE’s reliance on social media to track, arrest, and deport both citizens and noncitizens alike, without the opportunity for judicial review.
St.Vincent believes that the use of social media to create dossiers on people, as in Sid’s case, serves to chill free expression for all people in the country, and not just the immigrants who might end up on ICE’s radar.
“If anything you post online can be used against you forever, even if you pose no immediate threat to anyone, then the dragnet that people feared would happen under Trump is already happening,” she told The Intercept. “When ICE agents are speculating on your relationship status, what kind of power dynamic does that create?”
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In this day as well as age, the way your service runs online can make or break you.
Exactly how do most services presently have an existence online?
The reality of the matter is, however, that web sites have substantially evolved over the past years – and the methods of old are no more functional for modern organisation.
Back in the day, it would be enough to have an easy internet site with a web page, services, rates, regarding us, and also get in touch with pages.
A possible consumer would go to your website, scroll around, go to the various web pages as well as consume material as they please.
However, if you are a service spending any kind of money on advertising, you wish to regulate exactly what clients are discovering on your website, present offers at the right time, and also make best use of the revenue you make from each person.
Exactly how does one achieve this?
Using sales funnels.
Go into ClickFunnels
ClickFunnels is the most convenient way making high converting sales and marketing funnels.
It is an one-of-a-kind tool developed specifically to transform prospective customers into buyers.
It actually is an all-in-one solution to produce sales funnels and consists of touchdown web pages, e-mail integration, invoicing, webinars, subscription websites, therefore much more. It’s not surprising that it has quickly end up being a favored device for marketing professionals.
Below is my in-depth ClickFunnels Testimonial, including favorite attributes, prices, pros/cons, as well as contrasts versus rivals.
GetResponse Error 400: Yet First, Exactly What Is a Sales Channel?
Sales funnels (likewise called marketing funnels) are multi-step campaigns that are made to move possible leads via your sales process, and also turn them right into buyers.
Photo a real-life channel. On top, you pour liquid in, which narrows down towards one fixed destination.
In sales, a comparable occasion occurs. On top, site visitors come to your site, yet not all that enter make it out of the other end as buyers.
Several things need to occur from the moment a site visitor enters your channel, to the time they act and successfully finish a purchase.
By breaking down the client’s journey into smaller steps, you can be a lot more accurate concerning just how and when you offer an offer to your audience.
The detailed action in a channel might look something like this:
- Unqualified lead reaches landing page
- Page connects the very first deal (something complimentary to collect an e-mail).
- When email is gathered, main deal is pitched.
- Lead comes to be a paying client.
- Even more e-mail communication providing client value.
- More relationship structure
- Recurring sales.
ClickFunnels also has a visuals that clarifies this in an easy means:.
Exactly what is ClickFunnels?
As discussed earlier, ClickFunnels is the most effective sales funnel software program around today.
The business makes the strong insurance claim of offering you everything you have to market, sell, and deliver your items online – and they most definitely supply.
A common channel will certainly use an opt-in web page (to accumulate e-mail addresses), an e-mail car -responder (to send out emails to your customers), plus an additional sales page with some web content and an order kind, potentially followed by additional material, a membership site, etc
. Formerly, you would certainly need to use various platforms as well as tools to achieve all of these tasks such as:
- Develop a website
- Discover Hosting
- Locate an autoresponder service
- Find membership website software
- Locate split-testing software application … and so on
But ClickFunnels looks after whatever with their platform. You not just save a lots of money by not needing to get various products/services, but you also prevent the technical mess of needing to set every little thing up, and also can focus on what’s actually crucial – growing your business.
ClickFunnels offers a Totally free 14-Day Test, so you reach check out the tool and also really see if it’s right for your service.
* Swiftly Produce Pages Using Design Templates and also Components *.
Before obtaining also far, it’s important to recognize that a channel is a collection of web pages created in a tactical order, with the goal of converting as numerous leads right into customers. And also a web page is simply a collection of various components developed to obtain somebody to take a specific action.
ClickFunnels offers even more than 50 different aspects to help you build the ideal web page. The editor is exceptionally easy to use and also all you need to do is drag as well as drop different components on to the page, and upgrade the text and look to fit your requirements – no coding skills called for!
ClickFunnels likewise makes your life easier by offering you with a lots of cost-free themes.
In fact, ClickFunnels supplies over 37 sorts of web pages for you to blend and match with. These are broken down right into the adhering to 10 classifications:
- Presell Pages: Study Page, Short Article Page, Presell Page, Clickpop Page
- Optin Pages: Press Page, Reverse Press Web Page, Lead Magnet, Promo Code
- Thank You Pages: Thanks Page, Deal Wall Surface, Bridge Web Page, Share Web Page
- Sales Pages: Video Sales Page, Sales Letter Page, Item Release Web Page
- OTO Pages: Upsell Page, Downsell Page
- Order Forms: 2 Action Order Web Page, Conventional Order Page, Video Clip Sales Letter Order Page, Sales Letter Order Web Page, Product Release Order Web Page
- Webinar Pages: Webinar Enrollment Web Page, Webinar Confirmation Web Page, Webinar Program Space, Webinar Replay Area
- Subscription Pages: Gain Access To Web page, Participant’s Location
- Affiliate Pages: Access Web Page, Affiliate Location
- Other Pages: Application Page, Ask Web Page, Shop Front, Web Page, Hero Web Page, Hangout Web Page, Live Demonstration Web Page
The pre-built design templates are fully adjustable, as well as are what most individuals use.
You have the ability to choose a design template, edit or change the aspects with your personal, and also your brand-new page is ready to go.
You can likewise connect any type of channel you create with your own e-mail advertising solution (if you do not make use of the one consisted of in ClickFunnels), as well as utilize the ClickFunnels integrated in invoicing system.
This is also a blast to discuss that ClickFunnels gives really beneficial and also understandable training video clips when you initially sign up. I highly suggest experiencing those because they quickly allow you to use the tool at its full ability, as well as you’ll have much more enjoyable playing around. GetResponse Error 400
* Produce One-Click Membership Sites *.
One of the most effective functions with ClickFunnels is the capability to conveniently create membership websites as well as provide web content to your audience in one location.
Your subscription site will certainly come complete with enrollment pages, subscription access web pages, and content pages which you can easily lock or trickle feed to your consumers inning accordance with acquisitions they made in your channel.
ClickFunnels membership sites permit you to send out emails, conveniently manage your emails, and also construct a community all while removing the tension that’s associated with various other options such as Kajabi, or WordPress systems.
It’s truly handy to not have to buy a separate software or plugin to create subscription websites.
* Email Integration & Actionetics *.
With every channel comes email listing building possibilities.
ClickFunnels sustains e-mail assimilation with all the significant e-mail automation platforms such as:
- Active Campaign
- Constant Contact
- Get Response
- Mad Mimi
- Market Hero
- And others
Nevertheless, ClickFunnels additionally has their own effective automation device called Actionetics.
Although you could create, routine, and also provide emails as with any other e-mail marketing system, Actionetics is so much extra.
I enjoy Actionetics since it not just changes your email advertising however carrier advertising and SMS advertising and marketing software applications also. This takes automation to an entire brand-new degree and assists you interact the ideal message to your clients, specifically when they need it. A video summary of Actionetics will be provided further below.
* Invoicing and Repayment Combination *.
An incredible attribute within ClickFunnels is the capability to collect every one of the invoicing details from your consumers right on your sales web page. Offering is made a lot simpler when consumers do not need to leave your site.
ClickFunnels integrates with major repayment entrances such as PayPal, Red Stripe, as well as InfusionSoft, among others.
While you could begin with the Free 14-Day Test, there are three different rates alternatives with ClickFunnels:
- $ 97/month.
- $ 297/month.
- $ 997 bulk discount strategy (recommended).
I’ll go into detail for each and every of these plans below.
1. ClickFunnels Requirement Plan – $97/month.
The standard strategy consists of every one of the functions you would certainly need within ClickFunnels, however with constraints on the variety of funnels (20) and pages (100) you could have in your account, in addition to the amount of visitors (20K) can view your pages each month.
You also do not receive advanced performance such as ClickFunnels own email marketing and affiliate tracking tools.
2. ClickFunnels Etison Suite – $297/month.
This plan consists of all the bells and also whistles of the conventional strategy, without any restrictions. It also includes 2 extra products generated by ClickFunnels called Actionetics (e-mail marketing) and also Backpack (affiliate management platform).
In Actionetics – you could manage all of your calls that subscribe to your listing, send out e-mail programs, and also create a host of various other automations. GetResponse Error 400
The difference in between the two strategies truly is the restrictions, and also Actionetics/Backpack. If you are a standard user as well as don’t expect to use greater than 20 funnels in your account – the Requirement Strategy should be enough.
However, if you plan to have an associate program or intend to keep your e-mail advertising within ClickFunnels and not use a third party software application, the Etison Collection is for you.
You could constantly begin on the lower plan and upgrade if needed.
3. Funnel Hacks System – $997
For anybody that’s significant concerning their business, the ClickFunnels Funnel Hacks System is the offer of the century.
The $997 Funnel Hacks System contains robust training programs packed with 6-month accessibility to the ClickFunnels Etison Suite.
This is an incredible deal since beyond this program, 6-months of Etison Suite alone would cost you $1782.
Not only are you conserving $785 but you’re obtaining a ton of trainings as well as overviews of assist you obtain the most from ClickFunnels!
ClickFunnels Advantages And Disadvantages
- Producing funnels is really basic, easy, and quick
- All-in-one platform with every little thing your organisation needs to win
- Split testing as well as conversion tracking included
- Email integration with all of the major email autoresponder platforms
- Settlement processing capabilities within ClickFunnels
- ClickFunnels is constantly adapting and upgrading to the moments
- There is always sustain available (whether live or not).
- Unbelievably energetic Facebook Group Community.
- Free 14-Day Trial – allows you to attempt it risk totally free.
- As outstanding as ClickFunnels is, it certainly is not an economical solution and also calls for a constant membership to utilize
- Assistance isn’t really always the fastest and might take from 1 min to 24-HOUR depending upon the issue.
ClickFunnels versus Everyone Else.
Lots of people ask exactly how ClickFunnels as compares to various other touchdown web page contractors such as Leadpages, Unbounce, and also Infusionsoft.
Generally it’s not really a fair contrast because each of these tools succeeds is one location or the various other.
The graph over provides a thorough evaluation – but I’ll highlight several of the major comparisons listed below.
ClickFunnels vs Leadpages
Prior to ClickFunnels, Leadpages was the big pet.
Leadpages is simply a lead capture software program – nothing more. You can produce touchdown pages, lead boxes, gather leads … that’s basically it. In addition, the Leadpages themes are likewise limited on customization.
ClickFunnels is much more flexible – it’s a lot easier to make use of and does so a lot more compared to create lead capture web pages.
Put simply, Leadpages is really just a landing web page contractor, while ClickFunnels is focused around developing very integrated funnels.
ClickFunnels vs Infusionsoft
Infusionsoft is not a touchdown web page or sales web page home builder. It has some of that functionality built it, but that’s not exactly what it’s known for.
At it’s core, Infusionsoft is a CRM system – one that permits you to manage your entire consumer data source. ClickFunnels has this capability with Actionetics, but it’s not almost as advanced as Infusionsoft.
Infusionsoft is also extremely expensive and forces every new client to pay $2000 for a compulsory kickstart mentoring plan just to learn how to make use of the intricate system (which is infamously tough to use).
ClickFunnels Affiliate Program
There are 2 main courses people drop as ClickFunnels customers.
Those that prefer to utilize the device for their organisation – in hopes of someday attain both Comma Club (over $1M in earnings).
And those that want gaining easy earnings as a ClickFunnels Associate and also winning the Dream Automobile Contest (where they pay $500/$1000 to your desire car if you get to 100/200 energetic monthly signups, specifically).
With a tremendous 40% monthly reoccuring payment, ClickFunnels quickly has among the greatest affiliate programs of any kind of platform available.
That’s right – you make money a recurring 40% payment on every associate signup you make via the ClickFunnels Associate Program. However, what does that really equate to?
The fundamental strategy is a $97/month financial investment and also the Etison Suite plan is a $297/month investment. consequently you make $38.80 per basic strategy as well as $118.80 each Etison Collection strategy … each and every month!
Typically, every 100 signups will bring in $4000/month in associate compensations (more or less depending on how many Etison Plan users are in there).
All-time Low Line
ClickFunnels is by far the best system if you are looking to conveniently construct high converting sales funnels.
Because it was constructed from scratch to be the most effective sales channel contractor, it beats out all the competition because respect.
Externally, it could not be the most affordable item out there – but if you use it to its full ability, your organisation will become extra rewarding and you will conserve money from not having to utilize other devices. GetResponse Error 400
If you’ve read this much into my ClickFunnels Testimonial, I suggest you see on your own with a Free 14-Day Test here.
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Covid-19: Protecting People
Many of us are seeing a huge, community-minded response from people concerned about and wanting to help the vulnerable and self-isolating. This is incredible and necessary. However, we know that there are also those trying to take advantage of the situation, and that precautions need to be taken to prevent further spread of the virus. SCVO states that a "It is important to remain calm and not rush to immediate action, as we are aware that from previous international emergencies, the positive desire of individuals and groups to help can often have unintended consequences and result in negative longer-term impacts." Please ensure you and the people you work with are aware of the best practices as advised by trusted sources.
SCDC (Scottish Community Development Centre) are looking to raise awareness of an important new resource on safe delivery of services in communities during the COVID 19 emergency. SCDC has worked with colleagues at Public Health Scotland to produce the advice who technically checked its content with detailed input from Health Protection Scotland. Please click here to see a news item promoting this advice and here for a direct link to the resource.
Please click here to see a copy of the poster promoting safeguarding of adults and providing guidance to the public regarding what to do if they are concerned about an adult.
Argyll & Bute Council
Argyll & Bute Community Support Guide from the Council is aimed at supporting community groups, organisations and local people who are volunteering to provide support to the vulnerable and the elderly. It provides good protocols for everything from delivering groceries to (not) handling cash:
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This book continues the work of the late Robert E. Pounds and William W. Childers in documenting Santa Fe Railway depots. It contains a route-by-route and station-by station look at the depots of the Eastern Lines Grand Division of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway system, using a format developed by John McCall for the listing of stations and the arrangement of accompanying data, that has been used in four previous books on Santa Fe depots.
The Eastern Lines of the Santa Fe covered by this book ran from Chicago on the east end to Boise City, Oklahoma on the far west. Lines also ran from Ottawa, Kansas to Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Superior, Nebraska through Wichita to Wellington, Kansas and from Newton to Arkansas City, Kansas, and Purcell, Oklahoma. The Santa Fe had depots or towers at more than 620 stations in this territory ranging from small one-room wood frame boxes to large masonry edifices with more than 20 rooms.
Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society, hardcover, 208 pages, 568 photographs, and index.
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ATV Safety Institute Launches Inaugural ATV Safety Week Hot
IRVINE, Oct. 10, 2012 – The ATV Safety Institute hosted its first-ever Autumn ATV Safety Week event yesterday near Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, giving national media outlets the opportunity to experience the nationally recognized, hands-on ATV RiderCourseSM and speak with key staff members.
Click to watch a video of the event.
ASI instructors and ASI Executive Vice President Paul Vitrano were on hand with several ATVs, two riding ranges, and a scenic trail located on the green rolling hills of a small farm in Sykesville, Md. Joining national media outlets were a local father and his two daughters, demonstrating a pair of age-specific, youth-model ATVs.
"The ASI looks forward to making this an annual safety-promoting event, and to instituting a yearly Spring ATV Safety Week as well, delivering key safety messages at times of the year when ATV sales and riding traditionally go up," said Vitrano. "ATV Safety Week will further the ASI's primary goal of promoting the safe and responsible use of ATVs, thereby reducing crashes and injuries that result from improper operation by the rider." This is the latest in a number of public awareness initiatives conducted by ASI since 1988.
The ASI launched this week-long campaign as yet another opportunity to spread ASI member company safety messages to existing and potential ATV riders through national and local media outlets. In addition to yesterday’s RiderCourse, the ASI is mounting a multi-faceted, social media outreach that will highlight the importance of taking the ATV RiderCourse, the ASI’s free online eCourse, and the ASI’s Golden Rules of ATV Riding, with links to ATV safety videos, PSAs and collateral, links to ASI’s “Do The Ride Thing” contest submission videos and more.
The ASI looks forward to making this an annual safety-promoting event, and to instituting a yearly Spring ATV Safety Week as well, with the idea of delivering key safety messages at times of the year when ATV sales and riding traditionally go up. This is the latest in a number of public awareness initiatives conducted by the ASI going back to 1988.
"Experiencing the 16 exercises of the ASI RiderCourse under the guidance of highly experienced licensed instructors provides a first-hand perspective about the importance of making your first ride an ASI RiderCourse and to make the right choices when out on the trails," Vitrano said. “It was great to have our guests go from being somewhat apprehensive to having fun on the ATVs, after getting the proper safety instruction. We hope to provide the hands-on experience of the ASI ATV RiderCourse to as many mainstream media as we can to help spread the word about the importance of training."
The Specialty Vehicle Institute of America® promotes the safe and responsible use of all-terrain vehicles through rider training, public awareness campaigns and state legislation. Additionally, the SVIA® works to preserve access to off-road lands and expand riding opportunities. The SVIA is a resource for ATV research, statistics and vehicle standards. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the SVIA develops standards for the equipment, configuration and performance requirements of ATVs.
Based in Irvine, Calif., the SVIA is a not-for-profit industry association sponsored by Arctic Cat, BRP, Honda, Kawasaki, KYMCO, Polaris, Suzuki and Yamaha. Visit the SVIA online at www.svia.org. For safety information or to enroll in the ATV RiderCourseSM nearest you, visit www.atvsafety.org or call (800) 887-2887.
The All-Terrain Vehicle Safety Institute® develops rider training programs and promotes the safe and responsible use of ATVs. The ASI® works to reduce crashes and injuries resulting from improper ATV use. Formed in 1988, the ASI is a not-for-profit division of the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America®. For safety information or to enroll in the ATV RiderCourseSM nearest you, visit www.atvsafety.org or call (800) 887-2887.
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About This Location
It's important to have a primary care doctor that you visit on a yearly basis. The physicians at BJC Medical Group Primary Care at Ladue practice are available to make that yearly checkup a reality. Patients can expect personal attention from the expert providers and staff. They provide preventative services, such as annual wellness exams and immunizations. They can also help manage chronic conditions, acute sicknesses, and any other illnesses that arise in your family. Plus, patients have access to on-site laboratory and convenient parking. Schedule your appointment today!
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Psalm 90:12, “ So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom”
Habakkuk 3:2, “O Lord, I have heard your speech and was afraid; O Lord, revive your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy”
Just like a football coach would rearrange, restrategise and readjust his team, when it is half-time, we must also look at ourselves especially at this season when half of the year is almost gone.The middle of the year is typically a time to TAKE STOCK, readjust, realign or fire-up in whatever one is doing.
In this month of AWESOME MANIFESTATIONS we must effectively deliver. Romans 8:19 is about getting results.
Romans 8:19, “For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God”
One great tool that can help us in our journey towards excellence and effectiveness is ” self-evaluation”.
In Daniel chapter 9 verses 1 and 2, Daniel looked through the books and realized that the period of captivity had lapsed and so began to pray. He did an evaluation of the state of Israel at the time of captivity, so he was better informed on what to pray about.
- SELF EVALUATION is looking inwards with a view to identifying areas of weakness so we can receive strength from the Lord
2 Corinthians 12:9, “ And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me
Whenever and wherever we find out we are falling short of God’s standard, we must ask God for grace in those areas as well as make efforts of self improvement, learning, preparation and adjustments where necessary.
Self-evaluation brings a great opportunity for growth within and without. It improves our quality of life and our relationships. The aim is not to condemn yourself but for you to become self-aware, improve and learn new things about yourself. It will help you to prevent your strength from being your weakness. Needless to say, personal growth is very important in our Christian walk.
Self-assessment helps in clarifying one’s identity, it is the process of examining one’s self in order to evaluate aspects that are important to one’s identity. You and I need to look back on our ways, our actions, our words and ask? Have I been walking in my right identity as a child of God? My words and thoughts have they portrayed my right identity as a dominion Christian or have I portrayed a wrong identity of A FEARFUL PERSON?.
Here are some vital questions you need to ask yourself:
- Who am I ?
- Why am I here?
- Where am I from ?
- What can I do?
- Where am I going to?
Also let us check other areas of our lives and the standard of comparison should be the WORD OF GOD.
- How am I doing as a Mother or Father?
- How am I doing as a Husband or Wife?
Ephesians 5:22-29, “ Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church”
- How am I doing in my love walk?
Ephesians 5:2, And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.”
- How am I doing in my service to God?
- How am I doing in my prayer life?
- How am I doing in studying the Word?
- How am I doing with finances ?
For effective Self evaluation you must be honest with yourself; avoid making excuses for the weaknesses or failures you discover and you must be ready to make a change for the better.
May you have a better you emerging from day to day in Jesus name.
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