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Vocabulary: Furniture
1. Look at the pictures of rooms in a house, can you name the different objects in each room?
One object is not in the pictures, which one is it?
|chest of drawers
1) ……………….
2) ……………….
3) ……………….
4) …………….
5) Wardrobe
6) …………….
7) ……………..
8) ……………..
9) ……………..
Living room
10) ………………..
11) ………………..
12) ………………..
The extra word is for this..
2. Look again at the words for furniture
- Find three pieces of furniture you can put things on. bookcase, etc.
- Find three pieces of furniture you can put things in.
- Two objects you can only find in a bathroom.
- Three objects you can sit on.
- An object that you can also find in a car.
- Two or more objects that you can sleep on or in.
3. What are these objects?
Reading: At home in the jungle
1.- Read while listening to the text below.
Look carefully at the photo, what can you see? Where do you think this hotel is?
In the middle of the Amazon rainforest, amongst the monkeys, snakes and tropical birds there is a very unusual place. Twenty metres up in the trees sits the Amazon Towers Hotel. The biggest treetop hotel in the world.
The hotel has got 268 rooms, or "tree houses", with beds, tables, chairs, a bathroom with a shower and balconies with amazing views of the Amazon rainforest. The tallest tree house, the Tarzan house, is 22 metres high on a living mahogany tree.
The hotel has also got a restaurant, a theatre and even a swimming pool high up in one of the trees.
The treetop hotel isn't the only incredible thing to see in this part of Brazil, The Amazon river is very near and visitors to the hotel can see the "meeting of the waters". Two of the most powerful rivers in the Amazon, the Rio Negro and the Rio Solimoes meet here.
The almost black water of the Rio Negro is darker than the brown water of the Rio Solimoes and you can see both rivers side by side. The Rio Negro is also home to the amazine pink dolphin, one of the rarest animals in the world.
Visitors can also see local tribes in the Amazon and discover the ancient culture and traditions of the Amazonian people.
At the end of a busy day you can return to the hotel in the trees, it's not far, but it is a long way up to bed! (that's a joke)
The Amazon rainforest covers over (more than) five and a half million kilometres! OMG!
A Cool Life (Find about an unusual house in Australia)
2.- Comprehension Questions. Answer them on your notebook.
1.- Which animals live near the hotel?
2.- How many metres up in the trees is the hotel?
3.- How many rooms has the hotel got?
4.- What is the "Meeting of the Waters"?
5.- What unusual creature lives in the Rio Negro?
6.- What else can you visit near the hotel?
3.- Work with a partner. Answer the questions:
a) Do you like the idea of a treetop hotel?
b) When was the last time you stayed in a hotel? Was it comfortable?
c) What do you like about staying in hotels?
Example: I like the idea of a treetop hotel because it's an unusual experience….
GRAMMAR Part I
1.- Watch the video in Edpuzzle on COMPARATIVES and SUPERLATIVES.
2.- Now, practice in class. Complete and copy the chart on your notebook.
3.- Speaking in small groups: Play the card game given by the teacher. You have to compare two things and give reasons. If you do that you'll keep the cards. The more cards you can keep, the better. The student who gets more cards wins.
GRAMMAR Part II
4.- Watch the video in Edpuzzle on MUST/MUSTN'T and SHOULD/SHOULDN'T.
5.- Now practice. Click on the picture. They are linked to online practice:
1.- Look at the photo of a kitchen. How many household appliances can you name? Write them on your notebook.
2.- Listen to Helen and her dad and check your ideas in Exercise 1.
3.- Listen again. Are these sentences true or false? Correct the false sentences.
a) Helen forgot to do her homework.
b) She thinks that housework is more important than school.
c) She washes the dishes by hand.
d) Helen's friend, Laura, doesn't do any housework.
e) Helen's sister only walks the dog.
f) Helen's dad gives Helen her pocket money before she tidies her room.
Remember HOMEWORK and HOUSEWORK are uncountable nouns, so you can NOT put them into the PLURAL!!!
4.- Listen to the song:
5.- Now complete the lyrics:
"What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger)"
You know the bed feels __________
Sleeping here alone
You know I dream in colour
And do the things I want
You think you got the ________ of me
Think you've had the last laugh
Bet you think that everything good is gone
Think you left me broken down
Think that I'd come running back
Baby you don't know me, cause you're dead wrong
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little ___________
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even ___________
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm ____________
You heard that I was starting over with someone new
They told you I was moving on over you
You didn't think that I'd come back
I'd come back _____________
You tried to break me, but you see
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm ___________ when I'm alone
Thanks to you I got a new thing ____________
Thanks to you I'm not the broken-hearted
Thanks to you I'm finally thinking about me
You know in the end the day you left was just my beginning
In the end…
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
(When I'm alone)
(lyrics source A-Z lyrics web site)
6.- Classify the comparatives/superlatives found in the lyrics :
COMPARATIVES :____________________________________________________________ What type is it?
SUPERLATIVES : ____________________________________________________________ What type is it?
MARCH 8th, WOMEN'S DAY
Meet Jessica Watson!
Could you imagine living on a bus? How about a boat? Well, Australian Jessica Watson has lived on both! It was while she was living on the boat that Jessica decided she wanted to become the youngest person to sail, solo and unassisted, around the world. With an infectious smile and a fiery passion for life, Jessica Watson has inspired thousands of young people across the globe. Australia's ex-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called her an extraordinary young Australian and the country's "newest hero".
What a Winner!
Jessica has won the following awards:
Spirit of Sport
Young Performer of the Year
Adventurer of the Year
Young Australian of the Year
Jane Tate trophy
Order of Australia Medal
Ella's Pink Lady
This was the name Jessica gave to her boat, a 10.23 metre long Sparkman & Stephens. Before she had even begun her circumnavigation, disaster struck in the form of a collision with a 63 000 tonne bulk carrier ship. Luckily, Jessica was unhurt and Ella's Pink Lady suffered only a broken mast.
Around the World in 210 Days
The following is a timeline of Jessica's circumnavigation of Earth.
October 18, 2009 – Departed Sydney Harbour
November 19, 2009 – Crossed the equator
Christmas 2009 – Furthest point from land
January 13, 2010 – Cape Horn, Chile
January 25, 2010 – Halfway point
February 15, 2010 – Crossed Prime Meridian
February 24, 2010 – Cape Agulhas, S.Africa
April 10, 2010 – Australian Waters
April 12, 2010 – Cape Leeuwin, W.Australia
May 3, 2010 – South East Cape, Tasmania
May 15, 2010 – Arrive Sydney Harbour
1.- Now answer these comprehension questions orally in class:
a) Where is Jessica Watson from?
b) Which two unusual places did Jessica live on?
c) How is Jessica's boat called?
d) What happened to Ella's boat after a collision with a 63 000 tonne bulk carrier ship?
e) How long did it take her to travel around the world?
2.- Now we are going to create an ACROSTIC POEM with the first name or second name of ONE INSPIRING WOMAN.
-Make groups of 3/4
-Take a pencil and a blank sheet of paper.
-Read the Acrostic Poem given by the teacher as an example: JESSICA WATSON.
Just amazing!
Every day an adventure
So brave
Sailing the oceans alone
And never giving up!
-Now, start your writing and be ready to read them aloud in class!
FYI: The best poems will be included in the English page of our yearly school magazine. Good luck!
1.- Look at the photo of a houseboat. Why do you think people choose to live on houseboats like these?
2.- Read the text on Houseboats published on the Encyclopaedia Britannica (online version).
Houseboat, in its simplest form, a cabin of one or two rooms built on a flat-bottomed scow, drawing only from 12 to 24 inches (roughly 30 to 60 cm) of water and usually with a platform or porch at either end.
Houseboats are found in great numbers on small rivers or streams—especially where there is good fishing—on the shallow waters of inland lakes, and in harbours along coastal regions. When used as summer homes, houseboats have developed into quite elaborate craft, having four or more rooms, with a broad porch or veranda on top protected by awnings. The hull construction still retains the characteristics of a flat-bottomed scow, having great stability. In this form the boats have no motive power and have to be towed from place to place when it is desired to change their position.
With the introduction of the internal-combustion engine, powered houseboats were developed and became popular because they could be moved from place to place easily. They combined the roominess and comfort of the houseboat with the convenience of the cabin cruiser. They are for the most part screw-driven and range in length from 45 feet (14 metres) to 100 feet (30 metres) or more. Being of shallow draft, they have living quarters in the superstructure, with large windows giving plenty of light and ventilation. These types of houseboats typically have broad decks, making them ideal summer homes. In the United States many of these power houseboats are used in northern waters during the summer months and taken south to Florida or the Gulf Coast during the winter months.
3.- Answer the comprehension questions on your notebook:
a) Where can you find a houseboat?
b) How many rooms do houseboats have?
c) What length do houseboats have?
d) Can you name any of the parts of a houseboat?
e) Which season is associated with houseboat life style?
3.- Find out about a "travelling" house: MOVING HOUSE video.
CULTURE part II: March 17th, St.Patrick's Day
1.- Josh and his dad are talking about housework. Listen and complete the conversation with the words in the box.
|I tell
Dad: Josh, dinner's nearly ready!
Josh: Great! 1__SHALL__ I lay the table?
Dad: Thanks! Could 2_________ take the dog for a walk after dinner as well?
Josh: Sorry, Dad, I can't! I've got a lot of homework to do.
Dad: You always say that!
Josh: It's true! Anyways, it's Hayley's turn. Shall 3________ her?
Dad: That's ok, I'll do it.
Josh: OK. After supper I'll 4____________ the plates in the dishwasher, but then I need to finish an essay.
Dad: OK. And 5__________ you go and tell Hayley it's dinnertime, please? She's watching TV I think.
2.- Listen again and practice the conversation in pairs. Then, exchange roles.
FLIPGRID to DESCRIBE your HOUSE/FLAT!
1.- Describe your house while using the new online tool: FLIPGRID.
- Enter the code the teacher will give you.
2. Find the 2nd of ESO theme: DESCRIBE YOUR HOUSE. Read the description of the theme. You have the instructions there.
3. Prepare the text you need before recording the video.
4. Record a 1'30" video and upload it on Flipgrid.
5. Give a like to your classmates' videos.
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It is safe to say that ensuring maximum cut protection should be high up on your priority list now that the EN388:2016 standards are in place. But, with so much choice out there on the market, you might just be struggling to decide on which pair of cut resistant gloves to invest in.
However, there is no need to worry. The following blog post will cover everything you need to know to ensure you choose the correct type of gloves depending on your particular circumstances. So, without any further ado – here's our complete guide to cut resistant gloves!
How to Choose the Correct Gloves in Cut Protection
When it comes to choosing the correct pair of cut resistant gloves, there is a process which you can follow which involves three steps – identify the task, the hazard, and the risk of injury. If you are able to recognise each of these beforehand, you'll be well on your way to enhanced cut protection.
Depending on the type of work you are undertaking, you'll need to take into account how much dexterity and flexibility you'll need to conduct the task appropriately and safely. While there are too many tasks and working environments to cover, the following section will give you an idea of which gloves you'll need to use. The types of work can be divided into the following:
- Light Duty
- Medium Duty
- Heavy Duty
In terms of glove coatings, there are many different materials used. Selecting the correct type of gloves will depend on the conditions involved in the work you are undertaking. For example, dry conditions would usually use PU, Latex or Nitrile, whereas Leather would be more appropriate in conditions in which heat is involved.
It is important to identify the level of control you have over the hazard when it comes to preventing injuries. Hazard factors can be broken down into five separate categories which are as follows:
Cut protection should always be one of the first things to consider when carrying out tasks. However, should you find yourself working with chemicals, this should always take priority as the leading hazard.
If you need protection against any heat and cold hazards, you will need to assess your particular needs as you will only have limited options when it comes to the range of gloves you have to choose from.
Risk of Injury
The likelihood of you getting injured can be ranked from 1-6, with 1 being the least likely to cause injury, and 6 being the highest. See the table below for more information:
In order to assess the likelihood of an injury being caused, you'll need to carry out a risk assessment which involves performing a Hazard x Risk calculation. In doing so, this will enable you to select the type of glove which will offer the appropriate level of cut resistance.
Using the two tables outlined in this blog post will allow you to calculate the required level of cut protection you need – using the value of Newton's in order to determine the correct performance level.
You should always go one cut performance level up if you are unsure of the required level of cut protection. That way, you can rest assured that you'll be covered in terms of achieving enhanced protection from cuts. To determine the most appropriate level according to EN 388:2016 standards, simply refer to the levels above.
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Insurance Policy Review
Insurance Policy Review Service
Many people feel that once they purchase insurance it can be locked away until needed. That's really not true. As you move through life your need for insurance changes. The right coverage when raising a family or building a business may be very different from your need in retirement or as part of your estate plan.
Insurance companies are continually changing their offerings. Premiums go up and down, new riders become available and in some cases people who were previously declined or highly rated may now be viewed more favorably. That's why we offer a Policy Review Service for life, disability and long term care insurance.
Here's how it works –
There is no charge for the initial consultation. Based on your situation we can determine how to work together. As insurance brokers we can help evaluate and purchase the desired coverage or if a more comprehensive capital needs analysis is appropriate we can work with you on a fee basis.
For existing insurance --
Contact us to discuss your current coverage. Depending on the kind of coverage we can determine what information is needed to review your policies.
In some cases an in force ledger from your insurance company may be required. Your insurer can produce the in force ledger which could take a few weeks to be processed. Once the report is produced we can schedule a meeting to discuss your coverage.
For Trustees and fiduciary relationships additional analysis from The Insurance Advisor is also available.
If you –
- Are satisfied with your existing coverage we suggest you make no changes and have it reviewed every 3-5 years.
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Contact us before you purchase a new policy. We can provide you with independent research on the proposed policy as well as possible alternatives to compare.
We will need a sales illustration with detailed expense pages for any proposed coverage. To save time, you can obtain this information from your insurance agent. We can then arrange a meeting with you to discuss your proposed insurance.
Once you determine the amount of coverage desired and preferred insurer you can work with us in our role as insurance brokers, or your insurance advisor, or both to get the policy issued. For Trustees and fiduciary relationships additional analysis from the insurance advisor is also available.
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We are well into erosion control season as construction on roads and building picks up during the drier months. Quadel Industries ships our wattle net by the pallet which is 54,000 linear feet per pallet.
We use 2000′ rolls and stack 9 per row 3 high for a total of 27 rolls per pallet. We like to stick with 2000′ rolls as they are more manageable and allow the best use of the pallet with out over loading or sticking out on the sides.
This allows for maximum use of trailer space on our freight carriers so that we can keep shipping costs down for our customers.
We also place a layer of cardboard between each row so they stack nicely and then we shrink wrap the whole pallet to ensure they stay secure during transportation to our customers all over the country.


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Hi! I've fallen a little behind in my weekly review posts, but I'm ready to get back on the bandwagon. So let's get started.
Sunday, Feb. 3: Not a very productive day, as it was Superbowl Sunday and we met friends late in the afternoon to watch the game at the Tilted Kilt. We didn't really have a favorite in the game (ours is a Steelers household), but part of the fun of the Superbowl is getting together with friends and watching the commercials, right? By the way, the "farmer" commercial was by far my favorite.
Monday, Feb. 4: Fairly productive day, even though I took a half-day off from work to go to a much awaited doctor appointment. Nothing of any relevance to report.
Tuesday, Feb. 5: Spent the day at home sick, partially related to the doc appointment on the previous day. Not cool.
Wednesday, Feb 6: Pretty productive day. We also found out that a good friend of several years passed away suddenly. Most of the evening was spent in shock and reaching out to mutual friends.
Thursday, Feb. 7: Another productive day, including several high school related activities in the evening for Sarah. She's already planning her schedule for next year! Time really does fly by too quickly.
Friday, Feb. 8: Average day with nothing major to report. I was really exhausted in the evening, and fell asleep on the couch at 8:30. I woke up at 9:30 and went right to bed.
Saturday, Feb. 9: Pretty busy day. I was up early to have my annual mammogram, and then did a bit of shopping at Staples and Walgreens. After that, I went home to pick up the rest of the family and we did some more shopping for guinea pig supplies and a stop at Bath and Body Works, and lunch at Panera. (A half bacon turkey bravo sandwich and broccoli cheese soup is my staple there!) I finished off the night by going to a girls get-together with a friend. That was much fun!
I've been thinking of my friends in the Northeast who are buried in snow. I love the white stuff and pray daily that we get some, but I don't think even I want THAT much! :)
I hope you all had a great week. Did you do anything fun and exciting?


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What Does A Computer Systems Analyst Do? You're also known as a systems architect. That means you take a hard, detailed look into a company's computer system and see what you can do to make it operate in a more organized and efficient way.
Your job will entail:
- Meeting with the company consultants to determine the role of the IT system
- Researching different technologies to find ones that will make the company's operations more efficient
- Figuring out the finances of the IT endeavors and if they even make monetary sense to do
- Determining how to make the existing computer systems work better
- Figuring out how much memory, storage, and computing power is needed
- Preparing documents detailing proper installation to give to the IT team
- Choosing, configuring, and overseeing the installation of new hardware for the computer systems
- Making sure all systems are working properly
- Training the company on how to properly use the new system
Specialties include: Software Quality Assurance Analyst and Programmer Analyst.
How To Become a Computer Systems Analyst
Employers prefer their candidates to have a bachelor's degree. In some instances, a master's degree is preferred.
To get started in the career of a computer systems analyst, you must:
- Get your high school diploma or GED.
- Get a bachelor's degree in a computer- related field.
- Take courses in business, project management, marketing, and management information systems.
- Complete an internship.
- Consider minoring in a particular area such as healthcare or business.
- Gain work experience.
- Complete continuing education. Technology is constantly changing, and you have to keep up with it.
- Think about getting an advanced degree to widen your employment options.
Salary and Job Outlook
When you're first starting out as a computer systems analyst, you'll earn just over $53K per year. After 3-5 years of work experience, your salary will average $88K. And, once you're established professionally, you will be bringing in over $139K per year. You'll most likely work more than the traditional 40-hour work week.
Through 2026, employment growth will be 9 percent. There will be over 54K new positions opening, with many falling in the healthcare industry. If you have a background in business, then you'll be more marketable in this competitive field.


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April 4, 2018
This one-day event will take place in several local theaters.
March 23, 2018
Due to the Vice President's visit to Atlanta today, please plan to allow extra time for getting to the High.
March 15, 2018
See what Atlanta Ballet has planned for our 18|19 Season and subscribe, so you don't miss a moment!
March 9, 2018
Learn about the special dye process for these amazing designs by Kate Venables.
February 23, 2018
Learn how she broke color barriers by becoming the first African American prima ballerina.
February 16, 2018
Learn about the lasting impact of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater on the world of dance!
February 12, 2018
Alvin Ailey is known for popularizing modern dance while creating a company focused on the inclusion of dancers of all races and backgrounds.
Learn about how he prepares for long rehearsals and his latest role as Basilio in Don Quixote!
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by Bri Castellini
I think as liberals, especially liberals who are well-educated about discourse and rhetoric and identity who could be considered the "intellectual elite", we often get the idea into our heads that if we just won the argument, those who disagree with us will finally come around. I can cite endless clips from comedy and straightforward news programs alike where a liberal reporter or correspondent interviews people on the street with simple questions designed to make them think about their preconceived notions differently. Like most viewers of these programs, I held my breath waiting for just one interview subject to notice how absurd they're being. Spoiler alert: it never, ever works. And so we all feel superior and smug and work on new thought experiments to try again. But in watching the endless and yet also far too brief Supreme Court hearings these past few weeks, I remembered that that's not how it works. It's not that these powerful men don't believe Dr. Ford. Even if the FBI investigation had been allowed to run its full course, the decision makers wouldn't be any more or less convinced. It's not about belief. They just don't care.
People who voted for Trump were not unaware of his history, or his hateful rhetoric, or the disgusting way he speaks to and about women. They didn't care. There are lots of other reasons they voted for him, but it comes down to the fact that they cared about someone with enough boxes checked in favor of their beliefs being in power. And yet during the election liberals pretended that if we could just show those voters what an awful man he was, we could swing them back to reality. But it wasn't that we just hadn't showed them the right news clip or the right audio clip or the right densely-cited thesis on all the ways Donald Trump being in power is the most toxic thing we could do to ourselves. They. Don't. Care.
And that's terrifying. And makes me, clutching my degrees and my 6 years in competitive public speaking, feel absolutely powerless and unprepared. How do you combat hate if not with logic? How do you convince the hearts and minds of half the voting public that Russia influencing our elections and perpetuating hate crimes at the Mexican border are not "better than having a Democrat in the presidency" without a well reasoned argument?
One of the most interesting and alternatively most upsetting articles I've ever read and then kept bookmarked for occasions such as these is the one about Derek Black, a boy raised in white supremacy who over the course of several years was convinced that maybe people of other colors and backgrounds weren't so bad after all. That article details how a group of Black's college peers took him under their wing to slowly but surely get him to a place where he wasn't just convinced that white people weren't inherently better, but he cared that they weren't. That's the interesting part. The upsetting part is that obviously that's not a replicable strategy for half the voting public. And it's all well and good to feel like changing one person's mind is something we should all strive for, that means nothing when half the voting public elected a man who in public stated an alleged child molestor was better for public office than a Democrat.
I don't have a nuanced take on all this. I don't have a solution. I do think it's worth us all recognizing that the better argument doesn't win. Power does. And I don't know how to change that. I don't know how to look someone who doesn't care about rape culture in the eyes and say anything that will change his (of course it's a "his") mind. I Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People. I don't know how to do anything but argue and present arguments and do research and present thought experiments with obvious answers that apparently don't mean anything.
For whatever it's worth, the image on this post is one I took when I attended a McCain/Palin rally with a press pass for my High School newspaper. Palin mentioned "Joe The Plumber" 11 more times than she did the economy. What a thing to be nostalgic for.


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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Tour of Grady Gammage Auditorium
This historic venue on the Arizona State University campus opened in 1964 and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The 3000-seat auditorium was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and named for Grady Gammage, President of ASU from 1933-1959. In 1985 the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Nobody likes to get stuck on an airplane with a group of strangers. However, when someone on a plane shares a photo to social media of an adorable dog, people tend to pay attention.
A Twitter user by the name of @EliteTweetThief shared a photo of a dog looking over an airplane seat. He asked for people to caption the photo, and the results were hilarious.
Source: @EliteTweetThief/Twitter
In a day and age when there is so much negativity online, it's nice to see something like this that brings people together for a good collective laugh.
For starters, @RidiculousDak captioned it, "Tell your baby to stop crying before I bite it."
Source: @RidiculousDak/Twitter
As if that wasn't funny enough, @Efe4real tweeted, "Kick my seat one more time."
Source: @Efe4real/Twitter
At this point, we are rolling on the floor laughing hysterically. Along comes @_daniella_XX and shares, "When your teacher separates you from your friends who are fooling at the back seat."
These hysterical captions went on and on, so we know there is a whole community online having a blast with it.
Source: @_daniella_xx/Twitter
Let's toss in one more for good measure. Thanks to @astoldbyansavoy shared, "Hey you got any games on ya phone?"
Dogs are good for the soul and laughter rocks!


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Big 12 Media Days Q&A: Oklahoma State's Mike Gundy.
The Big 12 Conference held its media days for football on Monday and Tuesday in Dallas. During the sessions each of the Big 12 coaches spoke to the media about the upcoming season. In this RandHSports.com Q&A, we feature the comments of Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy.
COACH GUNDY: As always, we're very excited about the season. Our players have had a good summer. Coaches are just finishing up vacation, and attitude's really good. I'm excited about our conference, the teams, and I think it's going to be really challenging for all of us.
So it should be a lot of fun. Looking forward to the start here in a couple of weeks.


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By Bonded Hawk - January 31st, 2019, 5:24 pm - Posts: 23
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Like the subject says, I have lost the pen clicker thingy that is used to keep the trap doors closed. I have the larger black dowhatsit though. Is there a known substitute for the pen clicker?


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AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Book Festival has announced the first 15 authors who will appear at the 2019 event on Oct. 26 and 27.
"We're kicking off our 2019 festival season with a list of exciting names that represent the breadth and diversity of what people will find at our annual festival," said Lois Kim, executive director of the Texas Book Festival.
With a mission to connect authors and readers through unique experiences that celebrate literacy, ideas and imagination, the first round of 2019 festival authors features a diverse variety of topics, genres and writers, including celebrated poets, illustrators and bestselling authors of both fiction and nonfiction.
The lineup includes:
- Aarti Namdev Shahani – Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares
- Alexander McCall-Smith – The Land of Long Lost Friends
- Attica Locke – Heaven, My Home
- Ben Mezrich – Bitcoin Billionaires
- Hafsah Faizal – We Hunt the Flame
- Jericho Brown – The Tradition
- John Hodgman – Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Room
- Kristen Arnett – Mostly Dead Things
- Kwame Alexander – The Undefeated
- Marie Arana – Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American History
- Oscar Cásares – Where We Come From
- Saeed Jones – How We Fight for Our Lives
- Cassy Joy Garcia – Cook Once, Eat All Week
- Susan Choi – Trust Exercise
- William McRaven – Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
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Eat, pray and chill at Endless Horizons
Once you drive through the gates, you immediately slip into a state of calm.
Greeted by the therapeutic sounds of the Indian Ocean while a glorious sunset may be enjoyed from the pool deck, it is easy to feel as if you've arrived at some fancy resort.
After undergoing a four-month renovation, where changes were made to their rooms, restaurant and pool deck, the hotel's transformation is strikingly beautiful.
They plan on adding a cigar lounge and wine cellar later this year.
The hotel is quaint and charming, making it the perfect getaway for those who want to escape from everyday stress.
The hotel has free wi-fi, conference facilities, an in-house restaurant and a private gym.
There are 12 rooms, some with sea views and others facing the lush suburb of Durban North, and corporate and leisure travellers can expect the finest service.
After quenching my thirst with a refreshing iced tea, I was escorted to my sea-facing de luxe room that overlooked the hotel's flagship infinity pool and viewing deck.
The oriental-themed room was spacious. It came alive with splashes of olive green, white and gold.
Most unusual for the 5-star establishment was the lack of basic amenities like a selection of fine teas and a Nespresso machine.
Breakfast the following morning was enjoyed outside with the Durban sun really showing off. That said, there are vervet monkeys who lurk around the property and have a tendency to surprise you at meal times.
The continental spread included fresh fruit, nuts and cheeses that are laid out in cute little clear glasses. But it was the hot breakfast menu that saw me break my healthy routine. It also caters for all types of eaters, including fussy vegetarians such as myself.
I indulged in a breakfast chapati filled with masala mushrooms, chilli and cheddar cheese and finished off with some mayo and coriander.
Other options include the breakfast strata (goat cheese, zucchini, spring onion and poached eggs), the endless (eggs, bacon, sausage and sweet potato hash brown) and seasonal fruit smoothies. Wouldn't have minded a few pastries, though.
The staff are passionate about what they do and most helpful, especially when it comes to capturing those picture-perfect moments.
For those who want to explore the city, there's plenty of adventure to be found. You can visit the Umhlanga Pier and Crocodile Creek.
Further south, travellers can visit uShaka Marine World or enjoy a few museum tours. And the hotel has a shuttle service that you can use.
Overall, it was a wonderful stay with endless memories to boot.
Endless Horizons Boutique Hotel can be found at 108 Umhlanga Rocks Drive, Durban North.
Call 031 564 0360 or visit endlesshorizons.co.za


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Without question, this was the best run so far this year! Way out past Baan Pong resort, so I just popped over for the run and headed home. Legs were still a bit stiff from Saturday, so I struggled to get going, but trotted along with Greasy across the dam at the start. Good to see some long time returners visiting for the holidays.
At the end of the dam, of course there was a circle check. Brownie scuttled off to the right, towards the dreaded hill the hare took us up not long back. I went left, and followed Greasy to the powder. The circle hidden from view of the road, but we'd driven in this way, and I hadn't seen any powder. I followed Greasy to the left, and then he led the way towards the lake. Greasy was nailing them one after another, while everyone else went wrong.
I kept it steady, not out of choice, but out of stiff legs. Another check, and this one took a bit longer, even though it had to be away from the lake. A great trail was a real temptation, so I went further than I should have done. When it was called to the right, I went much further trying to find a way across, but eventually stumbled on a circle check, not long before Brownie got there. Graven & Brownie followed me as we went onto smaller trails, passing several opportunities for checks before we cut back down to the main trail.
Around the corner we went to the right of a lake, and then a circle check. I looked over my shoulder and everyone else turned around as though it was a false trail. I was the only one climbing the hill to check until Scooby joined me, but there were too many options. Finally some of the FRBs came back and started to help, but sadly Turkish didn't come back – he went 300m++ past the circle to find powder and then started calling ONON as though he was saving our life! He lured the pack to short cut and we headed back to the A bucket – at least I stayed quiet when I missed a bit of the trail…2nd Jan - CH3 - Sloppy Rod,


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St Albans MP Anne Main accuses Myanmar of the "ethnic cleaning" of Rohingya Muslims
PUBLISHED: 15:08 04 October 2017 | UPDATED: 11:18 05 October 2017
St Albans MP Anne Main has accused the Myanmar military of the "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims, following her trip to refugee camps in southern Bangladesh.
She led the Conservatives Friends of Bangladesh to camps in the region at the end of September.
Around a million Rohingya people previously lived in Myanmar - also known as Burma.
But the government refuses to acknowledge they are citizens, and since August around 450,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh after being persecuted by the Myanmar authorities.
Mrs Main said: "Anyone visiting the region can see for themselves what is happening. It's ethnic cleansing.
"The Rohingya are being driven from their homes and villages in what can only be described as the ritual oppression and destruction of a people.
"The scale of the crisis is breathtaking. It is truly harrowing to see the conditions that these people are living in. We spoke to many refugees during our time there whose stories were unimaginable.
"We were told of young Rohingya boys being castrated to prevent the population expanding and of women being forced to watch the brutal murder of their sons and husbands at the hands of the Burmese military.
"Babies have no energy to cry, and it's difficult for the people working there."
"It feels like a concentration camp with people still in it."
There are apparently 13,000 unaccompanied children, and 80,000 pregnant women in the camps.
While her group was there a mudslide struck, destroying what little shelter there was.
The conditions are so bad in the camps, Mrs Main reckons it would not take much for a massive outbreak of diseases.
The Bangladeshi are very supportive of the refugees, she added, but have their own people to look after.
She praised the British aid effort, but said more help is needed, and global leaders cannot stand by.
"Pressure needs to be put on Myanmar, until the world can go in and see the reality.
"We are among the few people to have been able to go in the camps, and it's our duty to talk about it."
She has already spoken to the Foreign Office, and has promised to raise the issue in Parliament.
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Last weekend's New York Times Sunday Book Review features sci-fi and fantasy new releases reviewed by Charles Yu. He seems to have spotted an overarching theme:
"So much of this work feels as if it is post-something, pervaded by a sense of living and writing in an era that comes after, of fiction being produced by novelists who can't help feeling that it's getting late or, in some cases, that it's too late."
Several of these titles sound very interesting and it's a pleasure to read insightful reviews that are not overly critical even when you get the sense that the reviewer didn't particularly enjoy the book. Have you read any of these books? Let me know in the comments below!


text: If you live in India you need to find a way to co-exist with flies. You cannot avoid 'em. But flies gross me out. And bugs the hell out of me, especially when I sit down to eat. Today was no different. There was this one fly that was obsessed with doing the tango on my dining table. But then the fella didn't take into account my tenacious mum — who has numerous fly-thwarting ideas in her kitty. She plucked a small twig of mint from her teeny-tiny herb garden and plonked it on the table. Bingo! The obnoxious fly hasn't returned. "Mint is the mantra," mum advises, "Drop a few mint leaves into a bowl of water and place it on the table and see the flies and other insects flee," she says. Or you can make a beautiful bouquet out of mint and stick it in the vase instead of regular flowers. That too works 🙂


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The Phrasal Lexicon
(Becker, 1975) at Theoretical Issues in NLP (an ACL workshop)
This paper is rather tongue-in-cheek, and it's a real delight to read. It argues that phrases, not just words, represent free-standing concepts. We manipulate words and phrases to assemble new meanings. It has just enough of a point to it that it doesn't deserve publication in SIGBOVIK, and there's a twist ending that I won't give away.
Becker starts off by saying that we, unlike physicists, deal with a messy set of problems. When we make simplifying assumptions about our sentences, they now behave nothing like reality. This brings us to the first idea:
Any theory (or partial theory) of the English Language that is expounded in the English Language must account for (or at least apply to) the text of its own exposition.
Stray thought: Has anyone read the Wikipedia article on foreshadowing? It's stunningly terse.
Anyway, his criterion is used to wipe the slate of theoretical linguistics clean. It (no doubt) generalizes to other languages besides English. He further attacks theoretical linguists for having lost ground to computational methods. (That feels like he's just begging for enemies at this workshop.)
Now to the meat of the paper. He presents six categories that phrases can take on, avoiding the dismissive "That's just an idiom":
- Polywords: multi-word phrases that are locked in. "to blow up" == "to explode". "for good" == "forever"
- Phrasal constraints: slightly less locked in. You can have something "by pure coincidence" or "by sheer coincidence".
- Deictic locutions: Tools for altering the flow of conversation, like "for that matter" or "by the way".
- Sentence builders: essentially templatic sentences. [A] gave [B] a (long) song and dance about [topic].
- Situational utterances: Complete sentences that are largely phatic, and often socially expected. "You're too kind" and "How can I ever repay you?" qualify.
- Verbatim texts: more-or-less memorized quotes. "Better late than never" or "I've got ninety-nine problems, but [subject] ain't one."
He posits that memorization and mimicry are how we get around problems, and the use of phrases is merely one such example. In this way, the paper nicely connects the look at multi-agent generation of language and the importance of phrase-based MT.
The bottom line:
- (Look at that, another phrase.) Becker nicely gives his own bottom line.
Elegance and truth are inversely related.


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Remember this photo of armed troops on a "training exercise" in the residential streets of suburban Crookston, MN?
It's not just Crookston, MN. The U.S. military is also conducting "training exercises" in urban America as well.
Scott Hiaasen reports for The Miami Herald that in the early morning hours last Tuesday (May 8, 2012) in Coconut Grove, Miami, residents were jolted from their beds by the thunderous "whump whump" sound of military choppers that dropped rappelling soldiers onto the rooftop of an abandoned hotel.
Coconut Grove is a 9-miles drive from Miami.
From her third-floor balcony, Muir then watched the soldiers fire off flares and smoke bombs before searching floor by floor through the darkened Grand Bay Hotel, their paths marked by flashlights and the pop-pop-pop of gunshots. "The show of force was so overwhelming," she said.
The maneuvers were part of a "realistic urban training" exercise for about 100 military personnel, and organized by the U.S. Special Operations Command, said Maj. Michael Burns, a U.S. Army spokesman. The exercise also included three military helicopters, and the use of simulated explosions and gunfire to mimic real-life military scenarios.
"They have to train in a realistic environment," Burns said. "We didn't use any real bullets," he added reassuringly.
Miami police assisted in overseeing the exercises — but they were instructed to keep quiet about the exercises until late Monday, for security reasons. The police also blocked off roads around the Grand Bay during the exercise, Muir said.
"It was the federal government's call on what was being done. We were courteously advised," said Miami commissioner Marc Sarnoff, whose district includes Coconut Grove.
Miami Police Maj. Delrish Moss said that a news release about the training was sent out around 5 p.m. Monday, but it went largely unnoticed.
The explosions, however, did not. A handful of alarmed Grove residents called the police and City Hall to ask about the armed choppers flying over their homes.
Muir, for one, would not have minded a heads up beforehand. "I thought it was kind of rude, to tell you the truth," she said. "One neighbor was swearing, he was so annoyed."
A reader "MoveOut" of the Miami Herald news article commented that "They did something similar a few months ago in the Brickell/Roads area. Actually it was very frightening because we were woken up in the middle of the night by black (unidentifiable) helicopters going between the buildings at low altitude and very high speed."
Hope and Change, baby!


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Bound With These Titles
On Order
The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder
Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth. The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.
Author Notes
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. When he was four years old, his father died. Years later, with financial help from his maternal relatives who recognized his literary talent, Hawthorne was able to enroll in Bowdoin College.
Among his classmates were the important literary and political figures Horatio Bridge, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Franklin Pierce. These friends supplied Hawthorne with employment during the early years after graduation while Hawthorne was still establishing himself as a legitimate author.
Hawthorne's first novel, Fanshawe, which he self-published in 1828, wasn't quite the success that he had hoped it would be. Not willing to give up, he began writing stories for Twice-Told Tales. These stories established Hawthorne as a leading writer.
In 1842, Hawthorne moved to Concord, Massachusetts, where he wrote a number of tales, including "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "Young Goodman Brown," that were later published as Mosses from an Old Manse. The overall theme of Hawthorne's novels was a deep concern with ethical problems of sin, punishment, and atonement. No one novel demonstrated that more vividly than The Scarlet Letter. This tale about the adulterous Puritan Hester Prynne is regarded as Hawthorne's best work and is a classic of American literature. Other famous novels written by Hawthorne include The House of Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance.
In 1852, Hawthorne wrote a campaign biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce. After Pierce was elected as President of the United States, he rewarded Hawthorne with the Consulship at Liverpool, England. Hawthorne died in his sleep on May 19, 1864, while on a trip with Franklin Pierce.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 9 Up-Hawthorne's classic story of shame, secrets, and Puritan societal standards in colonial America opens with the rarely read, arcane preface. The pace picks up as the novel opens with Hester Prynne and her out-of-wedlock daughter, Pearl, publicly denounced. As Pearl grows into an exceptional girl, Hester gradually finds herself viewed with less public hostility, but two men, Reverend Dimmesdale and Hester's disguised, long-missing husband, Roger Chillingsworth, are both conspiring to satisfy their own, often dark, choices. All of ther action revolves around Hester's refusal to name her child's father. Robert Bethune's narration is well tuned to the period characters, the book's classic stature, and the language demands of the 19th-century text. This recording is a good choice for high school libraries where English instructors can use excerpts to draw students into a plot that still has relevance. Struggling students may want to listen to the entire recording to manage the less familiar writing style. Public libraries will also find it useful for adult patrons rounding out their classics.-Barbara Wysocki, retired from Cora J. Belden Library, Rocky Hill, CT (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Guardian Review
Having been dragged reluctantly to yet another school performance of The Crucible , I resolved to brush up my knowledge of fundamentalist Puritanism in 17th-century Massachusetts by reading a little more on the subject: Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England by Elizabeth Reis, for instance. Both this and the Arthur Miller, however, are tricky to get hold of in audio. The best I could do - and fortunately it's a Naxos edition with atmospheric music, so it's worth getting - is an abridged version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic. Hawthorne owes his place on the American school literature syllabus alongside Twain, Faulkner and Sinclair Lewis, to this harrowing story about Hester Prynne, unfaithful wife, sentenced under the laws of the Pilgrim Fathers of Boston to wear the letter A for adultery on the front of her dress for the rest of her life. If highly stylised melodrama isn't to your taste, forget it. Hawthorne does tend to lay it on with a trowel, from the opening scene where Hester, clutching the baby that has caused her downfall, is led from the jailhouse through a mass of onlookers, to the climax when the identity of the child's father is finally revealed. How? Well, he admits it, but the real proof of the pudding is that he too has a scarlet A stamped on his chest - not on his shirt, but actually into his flesh. It takes a skilful reader to persuade you to suspend your disbelief at some of Hawthorne's more fantastical flights of imagination. Katinka Wolf managed to keep me not just listening but well and truly hooked. Caption: article-audio14.1 Having been dragged reluctantly to yet another school performance of The Crucible , I resolved to brush up my knowledge of fundamentalist Puritanism in 17th-century Massachusetts by reading a little more on the subject: Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England by Elizabeth Reis, for instance. Both this and the Arthur Miller, however, are tricky to get hold of in audio. - Sue Arnold.
Booklist Review
Barry Moser's illustrations of classic literature have themselves become classic. The moody, intricate woodcuts seem to suit all his subjects, from Moby Dick to the works of Lewis Carroll. These latest two releases join Huckleberry Finn and several others in the library of facsimiles of limited editions originally published by Moser's own Pennyroyal Press. Little is lost in the translation; the artwork is integrated effectively into the overall design of these handsome, well-made volumes. Moser's expressive portraits are especially effective in The Scarlet Letter: in our first look at Arthur Dimmesdale, for example, a terrifying shadow crosses one side of his handsome, suppliant face. In the Washington Irving collection, a kindly faced Rip and the wild-eyed animals of Sleepy Hollow are paired with the ever-popular tales, providing an appropriate outlet for Moser's underlying humor. DGR.
Chapter 1 The Prison-Door A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments, and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes. The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accordance with this rule, it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel. Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than anything else in the New World. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era. Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pigweed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison. But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him. This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally over-shadowed it,-or whether, as there is fair authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Anne Hutchinson, as she entered the prison-door,-we shall not take upon us to determine. Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow. Chapter 2 The Market-Place The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand. It could have betokened nothing short of the anticipated execution of some noted culprit, on whom the sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment. But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn. It might be that a sluggish bond-servant, or an undutiful child, whom his parents had given over to the civil authority, was to be corrected at the whipping-post. It might be, that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle and vagrant Indian, whom the white man's fire-water had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest. It might be, too, that a witch, like old Mistress Hibbins, the bitter-tempered widow of the magistrate, was to die upon the gallows. In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanor on the part of the spectators; as befitted a people amongst whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for from such by-standers, at the scaffold. On the other hand, a penalty, which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself. It was a circumstance to be noted, on the summer morning when our story begins its course, that the women, of whom there were several in the crowd, appeared to take a peculiar interest in whatever penal infliction might be expected to ensue. The age had not so much refinement, that any sense of impropriety restrained the wearers of petticoat and farthingale from stepping forth into the public ways, and wedging their not unsubstantial persons, if occasion were, into the throng nearest to the scaffold at an execution. Morally, as well as materially, there was a coarser fibre in those wives and maidens of old English birth and breeding, than in their fair descendants, separated from them by a series of six or seven generations; for, throughout that chain of ancestry, every successive mother has transmitted to her child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not a character of less force and solidity, than her own. The women who were now standing about the prison-door stood within less than half a century of the period when the man-like Elizabeth1 had been the not altogether unsuitable representative of the sex. They were her countrywomen; and the beef and ale of their native land, with a moral diet not a whit more refined, entered largely into their composition. The bright morning sun, therefore, shone on broad shoulders and well-developed busts, and on round and ruddy cheeks, that had ripened in the far-off island, and had hardly yet grown paler or thinner in the atmosphere of New England. There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone. "Goodwives," said a hard-featured dame of fifty, "I'll tell ye a piece of my mind. It would be greatly for the public behoof, if we women, being of mature age and church-members in good repute, should have the handling of such malefactresses as this Hester Prynne. What think ye, gossips? If the hussy stood up for judgment before us five, that are now here in a knot together, would she come off with such a sentence as the worshipful magistrates have awarded? Marry, I trow not!" "People say," said another, "that the Reverend Master Dimmesdale, her godly pastor, takes it very grievously to heart that such a scandal should have come upon his congregation." "The magistrates are God-fearing gentlemen, but merciful overmuch,--that is a truth," added a third autumnal matron. "At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead. Madam Hester would have winced at that, I warrant me. But she,-the naughty baggage,-little will she care what they put upon the bodice of her gown! Why, look you, she may cover it with a brooch, or such like heathenish adornment, and so walk the streets as brave as ever!" "Ah, but," interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, "let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart." "What do we talk of marks and brands, whether on the bodice of her gown, or the flesh of her forehead?" cried another female, the ugliest as well as the most pitiless of these self-constituted judges. "This woman has brought shame upon us all, and ought to die. Is there not law for it? Truly, there is, both in the Scripture and the statute-book. Then let the magistrates, who have made it of no effect, thank themselves if their own wives and daughters go astray!" "Mercy on us, goodwife," exclaimed a man in the crowd, "is there no virtue in woman, save what springs from a wholesome fear of the gallows? That is the hardest word yet! Hush, now, gossips! for the lock is turning in the prison-door, and here comes Mistress Prynne herself." The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand. This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender. Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward; until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air, as if by her own free will. She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison. When the young woman-the mother of this child-stood fully revealed before the crowd, it seemed to be her first impulse to clasp the infant closely to her bosom; not so much by an impulse of motherly affection, as that she might thereby conceal a certain token, which was wrought or fastened into her dress. In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm, and, with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbors. On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold-thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony. The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped. It may be true, that, to a sensitive observer, there was something exquisitely painful in it. Her attire, which, indeed, she had wrought for the occasion, in prison, and had modelled much after her own fancy, seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity. But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer,-so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time,-was that Scarlet Letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated5 upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself. "She hath good skill at her needle, that's certain," remarked one of her female spectators; "but did ever a woman, before this brazen hussy, contrive such a way of showing it! Why, gossips, what is it but to laugh in the faces of our godly magistrates, and make a pride out of what they, worthy gentlemen, meant for a punishment?" "It were well," muttered the most iron-visaged of the old dames, "if we stripped Madam Hester's rich gown off her dainty shoulders; and as for the red letter, which she hath stitched so curiously, I'll bestow a rag of mine own rheumatic flannel, to make a fitter one!" "Oh, peace, neighbors, peace!" whispered their youngest companion; "do not let her hear you! Not a stitch in that embroidered letter, but she has felt it in her heart." The grim beadle now made a gesture with his staff. "Make way, good people, make way, in the King's name!" cried he. "Open a passage; and, I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel, from this time till an hour past meridian. A blessing on the righteous Colony of the Massachusetts, where iniquity is dragged out into the sunshine! Come along, Madam Hester, and show your scarlet letter in the market-place!" 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If RV Camper bathroom you want a small remodel, or just with a little makeover, here are some great bathroom remodeling suggestions that will enhance the bedroom or boring style. Last but most importantly, because you are bathing in a small room often cleaning and cleaning it is completely unnecessary. Remodeling just a little bathroom can be a big challenge.
As you get older and wetter, you start looking for various techniques to improve your RV and get it in a modern way without the need to buy a whole new vehicle. Since your RV is not a stationary thing, any decoration should be fixed and flexible to prevent discomfort. Once you get an RV you know you have a place to live no matter what. You do not have to buy a new RV to create a comfortable holiday space!
Finally, buy a small carpet to put in your wet bathtub when the bathroom is not in use. Finally, buy a small carpet to put in your wet bathtub when not in use. You may be dirty and there is no useful shower available.
Due to age and weather, you start looking for various techniques to fix RVs and get them modernized without having to get a whole new vehicle. Since an RV is a small space, this is a project that can really be done in a few weeks! Developing fresh RV can be done by utilizing some fresh colors and fresh plants. So you need to renovate your RV Camper bathroom, if you need an idea for that look at the pictures below:
How do you see the above? Beautiful, elegant and looks very nice is not it? Hopefully with bedroom articles with black furniture this can inspire you to have a comfortable and pleasant bedroom.


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Córdoba - city of universities
We finally found some sleep when suddenly a Police Officer flashed his light into my eyes. In the middle of the night they have stopped the bus to search for drugs with the only tourists in the bus. So we had to get up and show him the content of our small backpacks. The other 17 passengers could snooze along while we had been searched.
Michael was pretty angry about this obvious search and I had my hand full in controlling his anger and explaining the Police Officer in Spanish what we have in our backpacks. When we had to follow him outside to show him our big backs we found four more Police Officers already crouching over our bags. After questioning us they seemed to lose interest in the search and asked us if we consume drugs. I stated due to our profession as Scuba Dive Instructors our lungs are very important for us and "no fumemos nada".
After this little episode we couldn't sleep anymore and after 21 hours we arrived in Córdoba. Carrying our heavy bags for over 20 minutes we came out of our lethargy and arrived at the Mate Hostel. Due to the economical price we decided for a private room. Once in a while it's nice to sleep without snoring people around you.
It was sizzling outside so we changed into shorts and hit the road again. Córdoba is the second largest city of Argentina and has seven Universities and countless churches. In the pedestrian zone it was packed with people so we were wondering if no one had to work. Than we realized all those young people and remembered the statement in our travel guide about the numbers of universities.
In the Cathedral at the Plaza San Martin we found some shelter from the crowd. This magical place with its Spanish Baroque Façade and the neoclassical portico was fantastic. Especially with the light falling through the colorful windows.
We captured a lot of churches with its different architectural styles and walked around town to diverse parks. The Museum Palacio Dioniso was unfortunately closed and after flat feet we returned to our hostel.
Since we have another long bus ride ahead of us, we decided to have an early night. Let's check out Mendoza and its wineries.
Accommodation: Mate Hostel, Alvear Av., Córdoba
Price: AR$ 90 p.P., double room, shared bathroom, breakfast included
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Don't let just anyone into your computer, but if you want Teky's help, please follow this procedure:
- Connect with Teky via Support Ticket, email, text, or phone to get a "Join Code"
- If you are running ESET antimalware (recommended by Teky), then pause protection for 10 minutes*
- Go to http://remote.teky.ca/ with any browser
- Enter the code that Teky gave you (often your first name, last name, or company name) ... the join code is NOT case sensitive
- If you entered a valid join code, the arrow to the right should become lit ... click on it now
- You must allow the resulting program to download and run on your computer ... accept any requests of that nature**
- Watch as your Teky takes over your screen to solve your computer issues
* Ten minutes should be long enough for you to initiate the remote session. Simply right-click the "e" icon in your System Tray, left-click "Pause protection", and left-click "OK" (10 minutes should already be selected).
** On a Mac, you must go into "System Preferences | Security&Privacy" in order to trust the TekyRemote app.


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6 Q's About the News
Read the article and answer the news questions below.
Watch the video above and read the article "Tracking Sea Turtles as They Swim for Their Lives" to answer the questions below.
HOW are scientists now tracking the journey of some baby sea turtles on their first swims out to sea?
WHAT is a nano-tag?
WHERE did scientists attach them to 11 hatchlings?
HOW far did the turtles swim to reach the open ocean?
HOW many survived?
WHY did these scientists track the hatchlings?
WHERE did they test hatchling behavior before this, and WHAT did they discover?
WHAT conclusions does the paragraph about the experiment with loggerhead hatchlings in a Florida pool suggest about turtle behavior?
For Higher-Order Thinking
WHEN have you ever closely observed an animal's behavior? WHAT did you notice, and WHAT conclusions did you draw?
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Victoria Rose provides a relaxing and elegant atmosphere for lunch or afternoon tea. Using fresh seasonal ingredients our specialties include delicious quiches, sandwiches, soups and salads. Remember also, our outstanding High Tea and desserts which include our world famous buttertarts. These selections are prepared or baked on the premises using old and much loved, family recipes. In addition, our Tea menu features over 30 varieties of tea, all served in china teapots. Our hours of operation are Monday to Saturday from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.
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A credit report includes information such as where you live, whether you pay your bills on time and if you have any arrests on your record. Your three-digit credit score is a three-digit number generated by a mathematical algorithm using information in your credit report. Your credit score determines your credit worthiness. Lenders use credit scores when qualifying you for a loan as well as establishing the terms of the loan. There are several types of credit scores available to lenders, including the popular FICO score and the TransRisk score created by Credit Karma. Though these scores are similar, there are some basic differences between the two.
The Difference
The greatest difference between the TransRisk credit score and the FICO credit score is that the vast majority of mortgage lenders use FICO when determining whether you are a high or low risk to default on your mortgage loan. That makes this the most important credit score for consumers seeking mortgage financing to buy a house. The lower this score, the less likely you are to obtain a mortgage loan or one a favorable interest rate.
Fair Isaac
Fair Isaac Corporation is the company behind the FICO score. It compiles this three-digit score, which can range from 300 on the low end to 850 on the high, by analyzing the credit reports maintained on you by the big-three credit bureaus, TransUnion, Equifax and Experian. Missed or late payments will lower your FICO score, as will a large amount of credit-card debt. Your score might also fall if you have too many open credit-card accounts. And it will definitely fall if you've declared bankruptcy or went through a foreclosure in the last seven to 10 years. In general, lenders consider a FICO score of 740 or higher as a good one. If your score is in that range, you'll likely qualify for lower interest rates.
Your TransRisk score is the credit score compiled by Credit Karma from the information provided by just one of the national credit bureaus, TransUnion. It is known as an educational score because most mortgage lenders do not use it when making credit decisions. The difference between your TransRisk score and your FICO credit score is sometimes significant, but the TransRisk score also ranges from a low of 300 to a high of 850.
Improving your Scores
It's not as important to worry about individual credit scores as it is to concentrate on your overall credit health. If your FICO score is a high 780 and your TransRisk score is 750, it's a sign that you've done a good job managing your credit. If you'd like to improve your scores, though, you can do so by establishing a new history of paying all of your bills on time. Paying down as much of your credit-card debt as possible will also help boost your scores.
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For our wedding, I looked for any possible ways I could DIY different aspects.
Place cards seemed like an obvious project to take on and again, just like the bottles I was very pleased that such an easy task was so effective.
I used a chalk pen to write the names on and tied some hessian string through the hole. I think they'd make cute christmas tree decorations.
I'm pleased to say that nearly everyone took their tags away with them – and lots of guests wore them (?!) on the day.


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Every weekend, Windows Central streams an Xbox One game or two on Twitch for 1-2 hours and gives out free games to the cool people who join us during the stream. It's like a live podcast, only you also get to watch a game while chatting with our awesome readers and viewers!
Tonight we streamed Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek from Artifex Mundi. Enigmatis is a hidden object puzzle adventure game already popular on Windows Phone and other platforms. Read on for quick impressions, contest winners, and the full video replay!
Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek
After the success of Artifex Mundi's previous Xbox One releases, Nightmares from the Deep and Clockwork Tales, the Polish developer returns with Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek (the first in a series of Enigmatis adventures).
As the game begins, our heroine wakes up in the middle of a town that has been struck by a massive storm. Everything is in disarray, including her memory. Soon she realizes that she has come to Maple Creek to search for a missing girl. But dark forces don't want that girl to be found…
Like most Artifex Mundi titles, Enigmatis is a hidden object puzzle adventure game. Players will navigate a variety of well-illustrated environments, interacting with various objects to solve puzzles and move the story along. Our heroine is a detective, so she'll also collect and arrange evidence to figure out key elements of her investigation.
At various intervals throughout the game, players will engage in hidden objects puzzles as well. You know how these work: you'll have to find all of the objects from a list amidst a crowded scene. Enigmatis also features a fairly involving story to keep players engaged between puzzle and hidden object sequences.
Join us for a visit to a small town filled with danger, mystery, and ghosts as we play Enigmatis!
- See Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek on Xbox.com
- See Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek on Steam
The Contest
We streamed Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek for ~70 minutes tonight. During that time, we gave out a total of 15 Enigmatis game codes:
- 10 for Xbox One
- 5 for Steam
See winners at the end of this article.
How to watch Twitch livestreams
What's the best way to experience Twitch? The Twitch website on your PC or Mac web browser. If you don't have or prefer not to use a computer, you can get the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, or Xbox 360 Twitch apps and watch from the comfort of your couch. Android and iOS both have official and unofficial Twitch apps to choose from as well.
On Windows Phone, you'll have to grab an unofficial app. There are several to choose from, each with different strengths and weaknesses. Only one app lets you search directly for our channel, though. If you use the others you'll have to find and follow us from a web browser first. Read the roundup to learn more!
Future streams
Want to know what's next for Windows Central's Twitch programming? We stream a different game every Saturday (and sometimes Sunday). The stream always starts at the same time: 9pm Eastern (8pm Central, 6pm Pacific, 1am GMT). Over the next few weeks, we'll be streaming the following (schedule not finalized):
- Monday, April 11: Dark Souls III preview stream – Win an Xbox gift card!
- April 16, 23: To be announced
- Saturday, April 30: Arslan: The Warriors of Legend from Koei Tecmo – A $60 value!
We hope you'll tune in as often as you can! Set a recurring alarm on your phone so you'll always know when it's time for the stream to start.
These winners get to play detective now!
Xbox One
- Kenzibit
- Oblivion_275
- Dakrkplayer2
- Tlitd31
- Melcsimaci88
- Sirmykey
- Ban01tgaz
- Unmaskedbandit
- Kluckmyduck
- Sssspringerhd
- Brownmeister2
- 8bit_ghost
- Mase123987
- Bria5544
- NoTymeForGames
Tonight's prizes provided by Artifex Mundi. Thanks also to our Twitch stream moderators for keeping the peace and giving away the prizes!
Update 4: Trump gives blessing to TikTok sale to Microsoft
TikTok may soon be owned by Microsoft. The company is reportedly in talks to buy out the U.S. portion of TikTok amid a rumored Trump administration order for TikTok owner Bytedance to divest. On Monday, President Trump says he does not oppose the sale so long as it is done by September 15.
Windows 10 build 20185 makes your DNS settings easier to access
Microsoft shipped a new Windows 10 build for Insiders in the Dev channel today. This build comes in at 20185, and includes several feature updates and fixes to check out.
ASUS gears up for Xbox Series X with first HDMI 2.1 gaming monitors
Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 are slated to support the HDMI 2.1 standard, which will bring higher bandwidth for handling 4K at up to 120Hz. Right on cue, ASUS has announced a new series of 4K, HDMI 2.1 certified monitors to take advantage of the bump in specs.
These tools will let you stream to Twitch from any console
While you can easily stream PC games to Twitch using free software, sharing gameplay from a console requires some extra hardware. This guide will provide the best options to make your content shine.


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I moved my red claw crayfish into her own tank today and during the transfer I picked her up by pinching her body and she was really soft. The sides of her body actually gave in very easily when I pinched her. Her last molt was over three weeks ago and she did not eat it.
She appears healthy, eat almost anything I give her but I know she should be hard. Is this a lack of calcium? She eats my MTS, she cleared out everyone in her last tank. Weird thing is she rarely eats the snail, just the shell.


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Ok. You would think that in 7 days since my last post, I would have something interesting, inspirational, motivating, political, educational, motherly, wife(ly) to say..but I got nothing.
We almost managed for both school aged children to make it this week all 4 school days (no school on Monday), but Maddison screwed that up at 4am Friday w/fever, sore neck, and sore throat. Enough of this stuff, she has been fighting a cold for 2 weeks now, so I took her to the doc. Yep, strep throat. So 10 days of meds. She is taking a nap now. AND she is missing a very good friends birthday party this afternoon. She is really, really mad at me for not letting her go. Oh, the drama
Last year at this time I was tan. This year I am not. Not even a little pink. Is the sun ever going to shine? Oh and they say more snow to come. Like winter storm warning kind of snow. Really??? Postitive note to this: Brent worked on our boat this morning, putting a new floor in it. Yep, did you know we own a boat? Yep, but took it out only twice last year. Had a few problems...Hey Lindsay, remember O, Max and Tess and sand and no sign of the rest of our families????? This year I am going to make ourselves use it more, even if it is an inconvience sometimes!
Postitive notes: Brent got off work early on Friday. Owen is doing a lot better potty training. He actually told me 2 times yesterday that he had to go. I managed to get a majoritiy of my house cleaned Thursday. Brent and I were able to go eat Mexican and go to the CC BB game in abilene last night for a quick date! Boys and Girls both won. AND maybe, just maybe found me some kitchen curtains FINALLY. THANK YOU CLAY GOURMET. Oh-still no pics on my sofa table yet, but hoping to work on that this weekend. Also I think I might have found some patio chair cushions at Target yesterday. Picked up one to try, but haven't been able to get outside to try it on. But thinking it just might work.
It has been brought to my attention that G-Man doesn't have any video posted on here. Well...I haven't found anything that wouldn't embarass him too bad. I have a ton of video from soccer this fall, but I'M yelling in all of them, so then I would be embarrassed thus not putting them on. SO I will be on the lookout for a good G-Man video. Until then, you are going to have to watch owen dancing. Yes its winter time and yes he does just have a diaper on. And yes he was mad at me for taking him away from the wonder pets tv show that was playing in the other room.-Kristi, Jill, Lanelle this one's for you...
Owen dancing to Hillbilly Bone
Saturday, February 20, 2010
3 comments:
- Lindsay said...
Oh yes I remember the 3 little kids and the sand and the lake and the NO BOAT! ;) I am sad too that there is no sunny Mexico tan going on this year, does that mean I can hit the tanning bed just to make myself feel better? :)
- February 21, 2010 at 2:02 PM
Oh, Erica - I just LOVE that video of Owen!! Thanks for sharing!! Keep bringing on the videos of ALL OF YOU!!
- February 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM
- Unknown said...
Too Cute!! Love it!! All the videos are so funny and cute to watch!!
- February 22, 2010 at 11:58 AM
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Diesel in freefall as electric vehicle demand rockets
The rapid decline of diesel registrations is showing no signs of slowdown in Europe while demand for electric cars is fast rising.
SUVs help to bolster European new car market
European new car registrations remained stable for the second month running in May, with SUVs offsetting the drops posted by the traditional segments.
Switch to WLTP helps European new car market hit nine-year high
The European new car market continued its strong performance in July as registrations reached their highest monthly volume since July 2009, helped by the imminent switch … Read More »
Biggest ever EU car market growth recorded despite UK and diesel uncertainty
With 8.66m cars registered between January and June 2018, the European car market recorded its best H1 performance of the century, according to figures from Jato … Read More »
European car market shows signs of slowdown
European car registrations saw slight growth in May although volumes hit their highest level in over a decade.
EU new car market puts in best performance since 2008
European new car registrations rose 9.0% to 1.34 million cars in April, marking the best performance for the month since 2008.
EU car sales at record high but diesel continues fall
The European car market has posted its highest Q1 performance since 2000, despite car registrations falling in March, but diesel registrations were hard hit again.
WLTP disparity could be greater than expected, warns JATO
The transition to the WLTP cycle is to bring greater-than-expected impacts on purchase and ownership costs across Europe, latest research from JATO Dynamics indicates.
Diesel continues decline in European new car registrations
New car diesel demand in Europe continued to fall in February despite an overall rise in new car registrations.
New car CO2 emissions in Europe rise for first time in decade
Average CO2 emissions from new cars in Europe increased by 0.3g/km in 2017; the first rise in 10 years.
EU car registrations rise as diesel decline continues
European car registrations increased 7.1% in January but drivers continued to turn away from diesels.
AFVs take-up soars as diesel records lowest market share in a decade
AFVs (alternative fuel vehicles) recorded a 5.5% share of the European new car market in October, following a 9.9% decline in diesel registrations.
Average CO2 emissions for Europe down 1.2% in 2016
New car average CO2 emissions decreased by 1.2% in 2016 but marking the smallest annual percentage improvement for the last 10 years.
JATO to use TecAlliance SMR data in Whole Life Cost solution
JATO Dynamics has signed an agreement with TecAlliance to use its service maintenance and repair (SMR) forecast data in its Whole Life Cost solution.