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Hello Friends & Welcome to the New Site!
Come on in! This is our Happy Hive! A fun, happy place where we just forget about the outside world and create our own reality, projects and good times! As all of you know, quilting is my love but applique, traditional quilting and all things hand stitching are my true passions in life! I will never forget when I saw for the first time a Baltimore Album quilt hanging at a quilt show that my first quilting teacher took a group of us too. I literally stopped in my tracks and I said, "Oh how I want to make one of those one day!" That quilt took my breath away! Well it was many years later that I finally was brave enough to try applique. When I did, I was hooked! My first class was a whimsical, little chicken with Pearl Pereira. I was so excited I completed it that day! Then I went home and dug out a pattern that I had been saving. One that I "thought" was too hard...one of those ones you take out and dream and pet! It wasn't hard after all!! With the prepared edge method, it was easy, simple and a whole lot of fun! When I was making this quilt called "Robert's Floral Garden," I started experimenting with all different kinds of embroidery threads and then seed beads for embellishment! Ahhh another love was born! Embellishing!! I was telling everyone I knew!
Robert's Floral Garden took me 2 years to make and those sure were happy years! I would take my blocks with me everywhere. I started reading every book I could get my hands on about embroidery stitches and beading. I truly had found what made me happy! Then, while I was on the computer one night googling applique, The Elly Sienkiewicz Applique Academy came up. I read all about it and decided to go. When I went I had only 5 of the blocks done of my quilt. The ladies there were so nice and supportive. They encouraged me to get up during show and share. (Goodness I am not good at all in getting up in front of people but I am working on getting better!) Everyone was so supportive that I was inspired to come home and get the rest of the quilt done in time for show and share the next year! I did and after that, I decided it was time! Armed with several of Elly Sienkiewicz's books, I began my journey making my first Baltimore Album quilt. I can proudly say it is one of my happiest achievements. Not because I am proud of myself but because I have been able to reach so many people and encourage them to applique, embroider and bead and to keep this amazing tradition that I am so passionate about alive. Many of these blocks came from Elly's books but several of them were designed by me and have a lot of meaning.
With applique you can be as simple or as complex as you want. You don't have to match up points precisely and you can use leaves and flowers to cover up a mistake! There are so many methods out there, it is just a matter of finding what is right for you and taking from as many teachers as you can! I find that I sometimes use several methods in one pattern. It is always great to have as many skills as you can in your "applique arsenal" when tackling a project!
Now, I can't believe that I have the great honor of getting to teach at the Kathy Dunigan Academy of Applique. I still sometimes find myself asking, "Really? I get to go back and do this again this year! Fantastic they want me back?! Oh wow!! I am so excited! Thank the Lord!" Teaching for me has never gotten old. I love it! I taught traditional quilting for many years at my shop before I closed it, went on line only and moved to Virginia, a life-long dream of mine. Teaching was one of the things that I missed the most.
As for me personally, many of you know I moved back from my beloved state of Virginia to take care of my Mother who is battling Alzheimers. We make the best of it and call on the Lord all the time. I am fortunate I can be with her and make sure she is taken care of properly and I have the support of dear friends as well. But one of the biggest sources of happiness for both Mom and I come from our little chihuahua, Grace who is the center of our world. She keeps my Mom and I smiling and laughing. For that I am eternally grateful! Dog is God spelled backwards for a reason....it is a source of unconditional love and support that is for sure!
In closing, I wanted to write my own little history and thank you for reading it. The lady that was helping me with the PR was very kind and glowing in what she said and I am thankful. She told me that I needed on how I write about myself and getting myself out there. Well I am sure that is true but I like to be more humble about it. I want to be approachable. I want you to feel and know I am here for you! Just as I want all of you to know applique, embroidery and embellishing is easy!! You make it as simple or as complex as you want....find Your method...do what you like to do! In the immortal words of Elly Sienkiewicz who I love and admire so dearly, "Your way is the right way!"
Happy Stitching!
Melissa Simross
Honeybee Fabrics was founded in 2006 by Melissa Simross, a lady who has quilted for 23 years and applique´ing for 15. Applique´, embroidery & teaching are Melissa's true passions in life as well as the love of Baltimore Album quilts which she learned during the 9 years she attended The Applique´ Academy in Williamsburg, VA. She loves all of the symbolism and beauty that these old quilts have and loves to design her own patterns as well.
Melissa currently teaches classes at the Kathy Dunigan Academy of Applique in Dallas, Texas held each year in February. Her work has been published in Elly Sienkiewicz's book, Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts and also hung at the 2010 Houston Quilt Convention, in the Netherlands and other exhibitions. Melissa's work was also published in Elly Sienkiewiczs' Spoken Without A Word – 30th Anniversary Revised Edition. Before this, she has also designed and done work for Jan Vaine for her book, The Art of Elegant Hand Embroidery, Embellishment and Applique´.
Here at Honeybee Fabrics, it is important to Melissa that you feel this is your home away from home…your safe place to get away and be inspired! Her goal is for this to be your go-to site for all your applique´ needs. To be able to fill up your sewing basket with the latest, the essentials, to restock on necessary items and also the luxury items that make your valuable time spent stitching extra special. She also carries new and exciting items that are coming out on the market as well! You can find out every week what is available through the newsletter, The Weekly Buzz. I hope you will sign up today and stay tuned!
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13 Apr Create a Focus Keyword Strategy for Your Small Business Blog
Blogging for your small business is a great way to drive traffic and hopefully leads to your website. But in order to get your blog noticed by search engines and consequently ideal potential leads you need to make sure that you optimize your blog posts.
There are many factors involved in optimizing your small business blog. Ask yourself the following:
- Are my posts scannable?
- What is the quality of my content?
- Do I have call to actions?
- Am I posting consistently?
- Am I using headers effectively?
- What is my focus keyword strategy?
Let's focus on finding the proper keywords for your post and creating a focus keyword strategy for your small business.
Why Choose Focus Keywords?
Google loves fresh quality content from an active website. It just eats it up like a well made, hand crafted sandwich. In addition to new consistent content a well crafted keyword strategy will help you rank higher in the search engine and increase visibility with potential clients.
- Focus keywords help your social media strategies as more platforms are using keywords to increase your search exposure.
- Finding your focus keywords is significant when creating Search Engine Optimized content.
- Developing an effective keyword strategy can help you increase traffic organically which is beneficially since 94% of users click on organic search results rather than paid ads.
How to Choose Focus Keywords.
Put yourself in the shoes of your ideal customer. (If you know your customer well enough you will know what type of shoes they are wearing.) Think of 4-5 keywords that are relevant to your business that is not the brand name of your small business. Choose words that describe the bottom line of your product or service.
Long Tail vs. Short Tail Keywords.
There are two types of keywords called short tail and a long tail. Sounds like to species of animals, doesn't it? But since we are focusing on the blogging beast let's focus on long tail keywords.
Short tail keywords are more general like "marketing" or "business". These words have high search volumes (many people are searching these words) and as a result, are highly competitive.
How do you know the competitiveness of a keyword or phrase you've chosen? You can use tools like Google Keyword Tool, Wordstream or Wordtracker.
Lastly, try to find a balance between keywords that are relevant to your business and are realistic to rank for.
If you are looking for more resources on inbound marketing we have some free ones you can check out.
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Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein may have bitten off more than he can chew, when he decided to find work for Robert Mueller.
In recent days, after almost two years of investigating with nothing to show for their efforts, Rosenstein has become a touch ornery.
He recently implied that his critics should be careful about the things they say, because it could come back to bite them.
Congressman Ron DeSantis (R-FL) didn't find Rosenstein's comments helpful, and he's starting to wonder if the Assistant Attorney General actually understands the Constitution that he has been charged to defend? DeSantis argues that Rosenstein has "botched" the investigation, and that Mueller doesn't seem to have any reason to need to speak with President Trump because he hasn't found any evidence that any crime or malfeasance was committed.
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Neil Cavuto: Anyway, the DOJ inspector general is looking into possible FBI misconduct and was supposed to testify next week on Capitol Hill.
Now, that hearing is delayed to make sure the investigation is complete and unimpeded, all this as the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, you might remember, continues to come under fire for his handling of the whole Mueller probe and how he reacted to all of that.
Critics claim he's botching it. He says the critics are piling on and they better be careful.
Florida Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis is a member of the House Judiciary Committee.
Congressman, I wonder if Rod Rosenstein was talking about you or guys like you when he talked about this pressure. What was it?
Rep. Ron DeSantis: I just think Rod Rosenstein has a peculiar view of the Constitution and rule of law.
He seems to think we have the Congress, we have the president, the courts, and then the Justice Department is superior to all of them, and that the rule of law is basically whatever some arbitrary decision is made by him or Mueller or other people in the department.
That is not the way this operates. They are a statutorily created department. They get their funding from Congress. And we, the American people and their elected representatives, have a right to conduct oversight over their activity.
So, he has stonewalled our investigations for months and months. And, yes, I do think he has botched this whole Mueller thing. I don't think there was a basis to appoint Mueller, but he certainly has not reined him in. He has let this thing go far beyond the original mandate.
Oh, but it's not just Congressman DeSantis who is questioning Rosenstein's (and the rest of the investigative team) judgement.
Even former members of Team Clinton can't understand what is happening in the Department of Justice, and they wonder when it became problematic to question what the investigators were doing?
Former Clinton confidante Mark Penn argues that the entire Russia investigation has spun out of control, and that Rosenstein, Mueller, and everyone else involved in this debacle are completely out of their depth.
Penn was on Fox News' Tucker Carlson show where he reminded everyone that these special counsel investigations are usually a big mistake.
PENN: Well, remember, Tucker, I spent a year working with President Clinton against Ken Starr and that effort…
I just find that that was child's play to what's going on here. And I think Mueller has some questions about what the president was thinking when he fired Comey. Well, I certainly have some questions about what he was thinking when first he went to apply for the FBI job in the first place with Rosenstein. And then, turns around the next day, didn't he already have a plan when he turned around.
Boy, when he put that team together, and there wasn't a single Trump donor, what was he thinking then?
And when he looked at these dossiers and discovered that there was no foundation there, how did he deal with that? How does he justify these kinds of really stormtrooper tactics, I think is perhaps not an exaggeration, when you go guns drawn to political consultants, wiretapped all over the place over payments to porn stars?
This thing has gotten out of control. And while he wants to question the president, it seems that no one could really question either Mueller or Comey or Rosenstein, and that is precisely the problem.
No matter how you slice it, the entire Russia investigation has been a complete disaster.
There never was any evidence that any crime had been committed, there still isn't any evidence, and there will likely never be any evidence of such a crime. And yet, here we are almost two years since the investigations were kicked off… and the government is still undermining the 2016 election and they still have nothing to show for their efforts.
This is a complete and utter mess.
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Multiple Teams · Carlmont Girls Divers Results at the CCS Diving Championships
Congratulations to Mackenzie Young, Emma Scott, Melina Dimick and Kathryn Nguyen who participated in the Central Coast Section Diving Championship on Friday, May 3 at the Santa Clara International Swim Center. There were 59 total divers who participated in the competition. Kathryn Nguyen finished in 37th place, Emma Scott finished 23rd, Melina Dimick finished 18th


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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Spring Photography Workshop in the Great Smoky Mountains
I spent a weekend at a photography workshop in the Smoky Mountains. As usual, I came back with hundreds of photos and have narrowed them down to 25.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Springtime in Tennessee!
It's springtime here and the wildflowers are up and the birds are everywhere. Enjoy the latest additions to the gallery.
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Marcum LLP to Sponsor Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference
New York City, NY – Marcum LLP, a top national accounting and advisory firm, will be a gold sponsor of the Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference being held in New York City from September 8-10 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel.
The conference will feature investment presentations by more than 150 companies in the fields of healthcare, technology, natural resources and growth. Institutional investors, venture capitalists, private investors, industry executives and private equity firms will also have the opportunity for one-on-one meetings with presenting company management. Four-star General Michael Hayden (Ret.), former Director of the CIA and NSA, will deliver the keynote address.
"The Rodman & Renshaw Annual Global Investment Conference is an important forum for capital investment in promising young companies that are bringing exciting new products and technologies to market," said David C. Bukzin, Partner-in-Charge of Marcum's New York City office and of the Firm's SEC Practice group. "Marcum's SEC Services Practice is very pleased to support this conference and the next generation of growth companies in our capital markets." On May 30, Mr. Bukzin's practice group presented the 2nd Annual Marcum MicroCap Conference, featuring investor presentations from more than 120 companies.
Marcum is a registered Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) firm. Marcum's Assurance Division provides the most up-to-date service and guidance on SEC accounting and reporting issues. Services include Financial Statement Audits in accordance with PCAOB standards; Tax Compliance and Advisory Services; Due Diligence; Agreed-Upon Procedures and Other Attest Work; Internal Audit Services; Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance Services and Software; Technical Accounting Assistance; and IPO Assistance.
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Contador aims his pistol at the Ardennes
Alberto Contador (Astana) is aiming his pistol at the Ardennes classics.
Alberto Contador (Astana) hopes to keep steam-rolling right into the Ardennes classics.
Hot off his overall victory at the five-day Vuelta a Castilla y León, Contador will now set his sights on Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
The hilly classics — on paper at least — are ideal for Contador's characteristics, but he has only raced twice in Flèche and Liège. In 2006, he was 45th at Flèche and 81st at Liège, while in 2007, he was 54th in Flèche and 26th in Liège.
With the form he's on now — and assuming he can get there as volcanic ash continues to create travel chaos across Europe — he certainly should be counted among the favorites.
The Spanish all-rounder blitzed to his third stage-race victory in four starts Sunday, winning the five-day Vuelta a Castilla y León for a record third time.
The "pistolero del Pinto" was especially pleased to win Saturday's race against the clock. After a pair of second places, it was his first time-trial win of the season to confirm that his one-two punch of climbing ability and time trialing remains firmly intact as he looks ahead to new challenges in the coming months.
"The results in the first part of the season have been incredible," Contador said. "I've felt good in both the mountains and the time trial. I've been right in the heat of the battle and have won enough victories to give me tranquility going into the rest of the season. And it's good for the team, too."
Unlike most major GC players who prefer to slowly build toward their most important goals at the Giro d'Italia or the Tour de France, Contador has come into the 2010 season with guns a-blazin'. He has won a stage and the overall in each of the stage races he's won so far, at the Volta ao Algarve in February, Paris-Nice in March and Castilla y León in April.
His lone hiccup was in late March at the two-day, three-stage Critérium International, where he finished 15th overall. Contador said heavy spring pollen clipped his wings on a climbing finish ideal for his punchy style. But he bounced back to finish second in the time trial, behind an on-form David Millar (Garmin-Transitions).
With such strong early season form, Contador tweaked his schedule, replacing the weeklong Volta a Catalunya with Critérium International and deciding against defending his title at the even more demanding Vuelta al País Vasco because he feared he was getting too strong, too soon.
"Every day I am more convinced that changing the calendar was the right thing to do," he said. "The legs have responded and the team has been incredible. Each day we are working together more and more."
Those close to Contador say he's not even close to peaking yet and will be even stronger for the Tour de France, the top goal of the season in July.
"Alberto still has margin to improve before the Tour. He's not yet in top shape," Astana teammate Oscar Pereiro told VeloNews. "It's true he's come into the season with a lot of motivation, but he's one of those riders who can be at a high level for a very long period of time. He can recover well and he likes to win. He doesn't like to race to use it for preparation."
Contador laughed when someone suggested his haul of victories is reminiscent of Eddy Merckx, but admitted that he wants to perform well when he lines up for a race.
"I like to be at a high level wherever I race and be up in the GC," Contador said. "I ought to go to (the Ardennes) thinking about gaining experience, because I don't know them very well and there are others who know them a lot better than me."
Contador seems unbeatable when it comes to stage races, winning four grand tours in a row.
The one-day classics remain the lone gap in his otherwise sterling résumé.


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Christmas Salsa Mix (Red & Green)
You don't have to wait for Christmas to enjoy this salsa. It's a term we use out west when we combine red and green chiles, we also call this our Salsa Santa Fe. This is a super simple (and delicious) salsa – just add chopped tomatoes and onions or a can of chopped tomatoes, let it sit for 15 minutes and it's ready to go. Ingredients: chiles, dried garlic, dried onion, spices, salt.
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Look What You've Done: Mel's Pallet Coffee Table... April 24 2014, 0 Comments
A few weeks ago, a nice young lady from Quebec named Mel bought four of our 4 inch cast iron Vintage swivel casters. Through various messages on our Etsy store, she said that her intent was to use them to spice up a hand-crafted coffee table made from reused and upcycled shipping pallets, and I made her promise to send me pictures of the finished product when she was done.
She did not disappoint! Here are a few shots she sent me of what she came up with...
Love love love the Anchor Brewing theme! Love it so much! Those wonderful people out in San Francisco make some of the most delicious beer you'll find anywhere.
Here it is from a wider angle. You can tell she put a lot of time and effort into this project, and it looks great. She even added multiple shelves and smaller flat surfaces so she'd have many different places to misplace her remote. Ha!
Here you can see exactly how the casters make this a truly unique piece. I've seen a ton of poorly-made pallet coffee tables with casters someone picked up from the Home Depot (gross!) and they just don't give you that Vintage-Industrial feel that something with a spoked wheel hub and non-shiny finish on the swivel fork does. Mel went above and beyond, and you can tell she's going to get many a compliment on her coffee table during her next dinner party. Assuming she does dinner parties, of course.
Many thanks to Mel for sharing her work with us! I couldn't be more proud to have my product displayed so wonderfully on such a unique piece of furniture. Working with DIY enthusiasts is the best part of doing what I do.


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As we previously reported, Camila Cabello, Pitbull and JBalvin are shooting a music video in Miami on Friday. Fans lucky enough to be in proximity caught the trio in action, as well as a teaser of the song. It's reportedly titled "Hey Mama," and features Camila singing the chorus in Spanish. Listen below:
came to see her SLAAAAY✨✨✨✨ @camilacabello97 pic.twitter.com/e1I5gKH2Zh
— Daniela (@Danielammmm) February 17, 2017
From Cuba to the world @camilacabello97 #HeyMama pic.twitter.com/wYA5XROl9e
— Camila Cabello Arg. (@CCabelloArg) February 17, 2017
#NEW: Another video of @Pitbull and @CamilaCabello97 filming the #HeyMama video today! (2.17.17) pic.twitter.com/b2Sf1LQRjh
— Pitbull Updates .com (@pitbull_updates) February 17, 2017
CAMILA'S SPANISH VERSE OH MY GOD pic.twitter.com/EdTRkrqkSX
— kelly (@loveonlycabello) February 17, 2017
QUE HINO pic.twitter.com/9D2fG9KF13
—  (@trustcabllo) February 17, 2017
Camila Cabello is making sure her first solo venture goes off without a hitch. With the lead single slated to drop this spring, it won't be long before the world hears what the 19-year-old sounds like without the cushion from Fifth Harmony. A day after news broke that Camila has plans to link up with OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder on a song, another superstar artist is thrown into the mix: Mr. Worldwide!
According to a casting call from Miami Casting Talent (one of the most amateur-looking casting calls I've ever seen), Camila is shooting a music video with Pitbull and JBalvin on Friday in Miami.
The details:
Miami – Music Video.
Pitbull – J Balvin – Camila Cabello from Fifth Harmony.
Extras needed $125.
Shoots Friday, Feb 17.
All day shoot.
Hispanic, AfroCuban looks, Mixed Ethnicities, etc.
Looking for boys ages 9-12 that can play stick-ball.
Boys 10-12 playing soccer.
Two girls in Cuban school type uniform ages 10-12.
Older lady, 60+ that can fit the role as a Santera, smoking cigar.
Older man, as food vendor, 50+.
Overweight lady as street vendor, 40+.
Hot, **** model type girls, ages 18-29.
Males ages 20's.
Young guys that can ride bikes, own bicycles.
Dog, medium kind, friendly.
Regular part extras, makes and females ages 18-30 or so.
Booking by pics asap, need pics and phone number.
The shade:
@CamilaCabelloEU @pitbull_updates we know she is not but unfortunately a lot of people had no clue who she was when mentioned her name alone
— Miami Talent Casting (@MiamiTalentCast) February 15, 2017
Pitbull certainly knows how to ride up the charts, so Camila aligning herself with him in that sense is smart. But extremely unoriginal.
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Florence Welch stopped her gig in Aberdeen on Sunday December 9, to break up a fight in the crowd.
The incident occurred during Florence And The Machine's gig at Aberdeen's Exhibition and Conference Centre, in Scotland. Welch was performing her band's hit "Shake It Out," when the singer noticed several members of the audience pushing and fighting at the front of the stage.
She stopped the song and uttered, "Excuse me, all of you – stop it." She then spotted that a young girl was crying and said, "Is she going to be OK? Are you alright my love?"
Welch then climbed down off the stage, despite not having any shoes on, and comforted the girl by giving her a huge hug, which drew screams of delight from those in the vicinity.
Once she returned to the microphone she told the crowd, "Everyone who's friends, kiss and make up and be good to each other." She then went on to start the song again as if nothing had happened, with the thousands in attendance then chanting her name repeatedly.
Later in the show, Welch stated, "I can't sing this song while there is a fight going on in front of me. It doesn't matter who is right or wrong, just sort it out and be friends. I feel like a teacher."
A video of the ordeal has since been released on Youtube and you can watch it unfold below. Are you impressed by Florence's actions? Or should she have just let the ordeal progress without interruption?


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Japan Racing JR19 wheels now available! Whether you are running a 195, 205, 225, 245, or 275 section width 15 inch tire, one of the JR19 sizes will work well for your Exocet without the need to run wheel spacers. Also clears the popular Wilwood calipers like the ones used in FM's Little Big Brake Kit!
We are ordering these by the pallet load from the manufacturer, but if we do not have a color/size in stock we can drop ship. First order lands early July – reserve your set today!
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Turn Leftovers into Soup
Soup is a great frugal, potentially delicious meal that can successfully be made from leftovers. It's a great way to "waste-not-want-not" because potentially you can get a free meal for your efforts.
But I'm not talking about just dumping stuff in a pot willy-nilly. There's a method here for making really great soup from ingredients you've become accustomed to tossing out in the past.
Use wisdom when making soup from leftovers. While soup is a great way to disguise certain food items, generally, if your family didn't like it the first time, chances are slim they will like it better in soup. You can make a good soup from what you have, provided what you have is still fresh and something you liked the first time.
A great starting point is Thursday Night Soup, which got its name from the fact that traditionally workers were paid on Friday, so by Thursday night, you'd be using up whatever you had.
Read through this recipe and you will get a basic idea of the parts of soup: fat, onion, liquid, seasonings, fillings.
- 3 medium onions, chopped
- 3 tablespoons oil
- 1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste
- 4 cups water
- 4 beef bouillon cubes
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 small bay leaf
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 to 2 cups leftovers, cooked or raw (see below for explanation)
- 1 to 2 cups liquid
- condiments to taste
- In a kettle over medium heat, sauté the onion in the oil until lightly browned, about 10 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste. Reduce heat and cook 1 minute, stirring. Add water, bouillon, salt, pepper, bay leaf, thyme, and sugar. Cook 5 minutes, uncovered.
- Add up to 2 cups solid leftovers—carrots, celery, potatoes, peas, snap beans. These may be raw or cooked. If raw, mince or slice very thin, and cook 5 to 10 minutes or until tender before adding. If cooked, simmer about 5 minutes before serving. Cooked fish or meats may be added: beef, hamburger, chicken, turkey, and veal are good. Cube before adding and cook 5 minutes before serving.
- Frozen vegetables, meats or fish may also be added. Cooked dishes may be added—for instance, rice dishes, stews, pasta leftovers, creamed vegetables, and mashed potatoes. Raw spaghetti, noodles, and rice work well, but these will require simmering 12 to 15 minutes, covered.
- Add up to 2 cups liquid: milk, cream, buttermilk; any leftover soup that isn't "cabbagy"; the cooking water of vegetables, tomato juice, gravy, wine, etc.
- Taste and season: add more salt, pepper, sugar, paprika, wine, Worcestershire sauce, or those herbs that go so well with tomato-flavored soups—oregano, basil, and rosemary—1/4 teaspoon each (dried) is sufficient. Cook 5 minutes after the final seasonings have gone in, then serve.
While the possibilities are endless, here are some suggestions:
Chicken Noodle Soup is a great follow-up after a night of baked chicken. Bake a few extra breasts and save the drippings. Any cooked vegetables left over can be added as well, or use the recipe that follows.
Chili Bean Soup. Only one or two portions of chili left? Add a quart of beef, vegetable or chicken broth and a can of hominy or corn and simmer together. Serve with tortilla chips, salsa, and grated cheese.
Corn Chowder. Leftover gravy, corn, and mashed potatoes? Whisk together the potatoes and gravy with chicken broth. Stir in corn and simmer until hot. Season with dried dill weed and salt and pepper at the end.
Beef Stroganoff Soup. Leftover beef stew? Thin with beef broth and bring to almost a boil. Stir in egg noodles. Cook until noodles are tender. Add a little cream or milk at the end. Simple Chicken Soup 1/2 onion, finely diced 2 ribs celery, finely diced 2 carrots, finely diced 1 tablespoon butter (or vegetable oil) 3 cups chicken broth 1 tablespoon white miso* 1 cup chopped leftover chicken 1 cup leftover cooked rice Salt and pepper Sauté onion, carrots, and celery in butter (or oil) until soft. Add the broth and miso, stirring to combine, and bring to a boil. Reduce to simmer and cook about 15 minutes. Add the chicken, rice and season to taste. Simmer until chicken and rice are heated through. Servings: 4.
*Look for white miso in the ethnic foods aisle of your supermarket. Many major stores have caught on to the demand for this Japanese soybean product that looks a lot like paste and adds a kind of sweet, amazing flavor to soup. It's fine to omit if you cannot find it.
- 2 pounds (or so) bony chicken pieces (wings, back, neck, the carcass)
- 2 celery ribs with leaves, cut into chunks
- 2 medium carrots, cut into chunks
- 2 medium onions, quartered
- 2 bay leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 8 to 10 whole peppercorns
- 2 quarts cold water
- Place all ingredients in a large pot. Slowly bring to a boil; reduce heat. Skim foam. Cover and simmer for 2 hours. Set aside until cool enough to handle.
- Remove meat from bones. Discard bones; save meat for another use.
- Strain broth, discarding vegetables and seasonings. Refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight. Skim fat from surface.
- Freeze if you won't be using this within a few days. Yield: about 6 cups.
Find yourself throwing out bits and pieces of meals? A few kernels of corn, a spoonful of beans? Here's a way to put those leftovers to use.
Place a container in the freezer, and add your food scraps until it's full. Then use them in Thursday Night Soup or just dump the contents into a pot; add some broth and seasoning; heat through.
There you have it, a cheap and tasty meal from food that might otherwise have gone to waste.


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Waste Tyres
- Waste tyres - Worldwide, over 1.2 billion used tyres are thrown away annually and at least four billion or so have accumulated in landfills and stockpiles. Such vast volumes of waste tyres not only pose a risk to human health and the environment but represent a significant waste of a potentially valuable carbon-rich resource. In landfills, waste tyres are not readily biodegradable and risk leaching toxic chemicals into the surrounding environment and stockpiled tyres pose a serious fire risk, as tyre fires are long burning and emit hazardous fumes. Although waste tyres are a complex and technically challenging waste stream, their composition and its high calorific value – a typical tyre has a carbon content of ~ 81.2 wt% [i]and a hydrogen content of ~ 7.2% - means they are of considerable interest for resource recovery. Yet, despite considerable research and numerous technological developments, there are few ideal processes for the cost-effective recycling of waste tyres, and recycling rates are low.
- What we making, some examples: 'green steel', silicon carbide (SiC) nanofibre/particle composites (with e-waste glass), activated carbon, carbon black. SiC/Si3N4 nanocomposites
What is 'green steel'?
Professor Veena Sahajwalla's breakthrough 'green steelmaking' process leverages high temperature reactions in electric arc furnace steelmaking to transform waste tyres and plastics into high quality steel. By focusing on the evolution of carbon properties at high-temperature conditions, Prof. Sahajwalla completely overturned how the properties of carbon-bearing materials are understood, and bridged the gap between both pure and applied research and research and industrial application. 'Green steelmaking' simultaneously absorbs one of the world's most problematic wastes and improves furnace efficiency, thereby reducing costs and power usage while delivering meaningful environmental gains. The commercialisation of the process, in Australia and overseas, has demonstrated the multiple benefits of going beyond conventional recycling processes by considering the composition and behaviour of waste streams at their molecular level. Professor Sahajwalla has subsequently opened up numerous new pathways for the transformation of complex and problematic waste streams into practical, commercially viable 'green materials' for production. She is currently pursuing highly original research to develop an atomic, molecular and micro-level understanding of various waste streams -- and is investigating the behaviour of those wastes at high temperatures – with promising results. This paradigm shift in the science of waste reprocessing overcomes the limitations of traditional recycling processes that rely on the costly, technically challenging separation of materials into single streams for reprocessing back into their original form, often with a loss of quality and integrity.
[i] Yeshui Zhang, Paul T. Williams, Carbon nanotubes and hydrogen production from the pyrolysis catalysis and or catalytic-steam reforming of waste tyres, Journal of Analytic and Applied Pyrolysis, 122 (2016), 490-501, pg 490


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|Cox, Jan, 1938-
|Jan M. Cox collection
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|The collection consists of numerous typescripts from 1968 to 1975, interviews, newspaper accounts, Koray articles, news releases, book review commentary and other associated material to Cox's life, beliefs, and professional goals.
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Jan Cox, an authority on fifteenth and sixteenth century Eastern philosophy, has gained considerable attention in the intellectual and popular communities with his application of these views to modern psychological techniques. His basic theme, espoused in Magnus Machina (1971), is that "civilization as a whole will only evolve through the concentrated, personal efforts and struggles of individual men working to become more knowledgeable of themselves objectively, and thusly extend their everyday awareness, concern and compassion for their mortal brothers." He has published numerous articles and books and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Georgia in 1970.
Arranged in chronological order.
Jan M. Cox collection, 1968-1976. MS 1190. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.


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After a grueling month of nation-wide auditions, 12 young performers have been selected to proceed to the Finals for the 2013 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards. The 12 talented musicians vying for the title of Young Performer of the Year are;
Stefan Cassomenos – Piano (VIC, 28)
Grace Clifford – Violin (NSW, 14)
Anna Da Silva Chen – Violin (NSW, 16)
Anne-Marie Johnson – Violin (VIC, 21 )
Andrew Kawai – Oboe (VIC, 14)
Sarah Kim – Cello (VIC, 23)
Hoang Pham – Piano (VIC, 27)
Alex Raineri – Piano (QLD, 20)
Jonathon Ramsay – Euphonium (NSW, 19)
Robbin Reza – Piano (NSW, 18)
Brijette Tubb – Flute (QLD, 24)
Harry Ward – Violin (NSW, 17)
The Finals will take place in Melbourne, in three stages, over nine days from October 4 – 12. There will be four recitals concerts that will take place in the Iwaki auditorium at the ABC Southbank Centre on October 4 and 5 with three performers playing a full recital program in each concert.
After the recitals concerts on October 4 & 5, six finalists will be selected to proceed to the next stage of the finals – the chamber music round. In the chamber music round, the six finalists will collaborate with musicians from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to prepare and perform a chamber music work. These works will be performed in two concerts on Wednesday October 9 in the Iwaki Auditorium with three performers featuring in each concert.
After the chamber music concerts on October 9, three finalists will be selected to proceed to the next and last stage of the finals – the concerto round. The three finalists selected will perform their nominated concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Seaman in the Melbourne Town Hall on Saturday October 12.
All concerts in each stage of the finals will be open to the public and broadcast live on ABC Classic FM.
For more details regarding the concert and broadcast times please visit our YPA page.


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LANSING, MI - Recent polls show a tie race between President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney in Michigan. MLive checked in with three Michigan-based pollsters to talk about it.
Eric Foster is president of Foster McCollum White & Associates, which works in conjunction with a Democratic political consulting firm, Baydoun Consulting. Steve Mitchell is a Republican pollster who heads Mitchell Research and Communications. Bernie Porn is president of EPIC-MRA.
Foster: Obama by 2 percentage points. "There's an opening. The door for Mitt isn't closed but ... (he) hasn't diversified his messaging."
Mitchell: Too early to say. "It's going to be a very close race. For the first time since 1988, a Republican could win here. My sense is (Obama's) got problems. What's worse is he's got to spend a ton in Michigan. That gives him more problems."
Porn: Obama. "He's leading in states that would give him 332 electoral votes. He still is well positioned. But in most of those states, as in Michigan, he is not above 50 percent. It is entirely possible it will be a 51-49 win for Romney. Undecideds don't got to the polls or go to the challenger historically."
Foster: "The campaign is greatly organized and has a lot of dollars and resources. But something in the mechanics is off this year. ... They've still got plenty of time to address it and fix it. ... They need to do it now, not wait until September. Michigan is core to the Midwest strategy. Michigan along with Wisconsin, Illinois and Pennsylvania are mandatory wins. ... It's not about Romney. It's not about what they're doing. It's about what the president isn't communicating and what the campaign isn't communicating back to the voters. They've got to make a plain commonsense argument about why President Obama is still the best choice for America. ... The president and his team have to come up with core message of: Why us?
Mitchell: "Obama cannot run on his record. If he runs on his record he gets defeated." He cited the president's signature health care law and the unemployment rate. "The only way he can win is to try to demonize his opponent Mitt Romney and say he will be a worse opponent than him."
Porn: He said Obama and his allies must respond to negative ads, especially if Romney solidifies a positive perception among independents. He mentioned Obama's support for and Romney's opposition to bailout loans for General Motors and Chrysler. "The Obama campaign can score points among independents by noting that if Romney had his way, there'd be a lot less jobs in Michigan and we'd be in trouble. ... The Obama campaign has to make it a choice election and compare their record with Romney's. They need to run a campaign like George W. Bush did against Kerry in 2004. They did it very early. When Republicans were at their convention, everyone was wearing flip flops around. They can be a very powerful message against Romney as well. If it is a referendum only on Obama, Obama loses. He needs to make it a choice election."
Foster: "We found 29 percent of evangelical Christian respondents would vote for President Obama. ... (That is) because Mitt Romney hasn't diversified his messaging. He's stuck in Dick DeVos (territory) - he only wants to weigh in on the economy. Now what he's starting to look like is: Do you know anything else?"
Mitchell: He said Romney has a 2 percentage point edge among likely voters outside Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties. "He should be doing better outstate. It is obvious now why he chose outstate areas to visit on his bus tour. He needs to shore up support in those areas. ... One of the reasons Romney is doing well is because the economy is not doing well. ... This will be a referendum on where the economy is."
Porn: He said Romney's line about being the first president to have been born in Michigan has appeal. Romney would be served well by making it an up-or-down judgment on Obama's first term, he said.
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If you're planning to kick back with the Rockettes this holiday season at
New York City's Radio City Music Hall look forward to a more interactive
show. To be featured in the Christmas Spectacular, Black Logic, a visual
effects, 2D/3D animation and live-action production house, has created a 3D
animated sequence to interact with the Rockettes. A happy "Man in the Moon"
character, based on Georges Melies' A TRIP TO THE MOON, smiles, winks and
blushes as the Rockettes salute him with their famous chorus-line kick. Mr.
Moon also blows snowflakes at the audience as the band plays "Let it Snow,
Let it Snow, Let it Snow." Black Logic's Gavin Guerra worked on the five
month project that was produced by Batwin and Robin of New York. To sync up
the effects with the Rockettes, Guerra supervised a motion-capture session
with Los Angeles-based Elektrashock to create the animated sequence to his
satisfaction. "I've lived in New York 30 years but I'd never seen the
Christmas Spectacular," said Guerra. "Now I've seen it several times, I
must say it's a real thrill to hear the audience reaction when the
animation sequence begins. One rarely gets that kind of response when you
work in advertising. In an instant, the audience validated five months of


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This guide provides you with local information so you can contact relevant services in your area.
Download the Regional Guide for Barwon (PDF 431KB)
Skills and Job Centres
Skills and Job Centres are your first port of call if you are looking to enter the workforce, start training, or re-skill.
Your local Skills and Job Centre
Westfield Geelong
Level 1, Shop 2254-2255
(03) 5225 0770
Retraining or upskilling
TAFE and other training organisations
If you're thinking about a training course, take a look at the variety of courses available at the Victorian Skills Gateway. At the website you can find available courses by name, occupation, provider and/or your location. You can also call 131 823 for more information.
Looking for a job
Jobs Victoria
Jobs Victoria links jobseekers with employers looking for staff. If you're eligible, a Jobs Victoria Partner can provide you with tailored support including CV development and interview skills, work experience, skills training, jobs placement and mentoring.
Find your local Jobs Victoria Partner
Find job searching tips on our Get Job Ready page
jobactive Employment Services
jobactive links private and community organisations and services across Victoria. It can help you with range of job-search needs.
For details on jobactive in your area call 13 62 68 or visit www.jobsearch.gov.au
Online job-search and professional networking
SEEK is a leader in online employment and training services in Australia. SEEK's goal is to connect people with careers, related learning and business opportunities.
LinkedIn is a business-orientated social-networking site. It connects you with contacts and helps you exchange knowledge, ideas and opportunities with a broad network of professionals. Employers and recruiters use LinkedIn to find suitable candidates for many different roles.
Financial advice
Centrelink offers a free and confidential Financial Information Service that can help you prepare for retrenchment, including:
- Financial options
- Financial planning principles
- Taxation and social security implications
- Superannuation
- Investment choices.
Centrelink provides direct assistance to families through a range of payments and services to help with health, social and welfare expenses.
Visit www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/job-seekers or call Centrelink Families: Ph: 13 61 50 (Monday to Friday 8am – 8pm).
Centrelink Customer Service Centres in Barwon
55 Dennis Street
Colac 3250
1st Floor, Corio Shopping Centre
Cnr Bacchus Marsh & Purnell Roads
Corio 3214
12-14 Little Ryrie Street
Geelong 3214
Financial counselling
Financial counselling can help you make decisions about your finances and plan for the future. The following websites contain useful information and pathways to financial advice.
Local council and personal support services
There are a range of community groups and welfare organisations in your local area that can assist you with services such as:
- Emergency financial relief
- Housing assistance
- Counselling.
Contact your local council to find services in your area
Colac-Otway Shire Council
2-6 Rae Street
Colac 3250
(03) 5232 9400
Greater Geelong City Council
City Hall, 30 Gheringhap Street
Geelong 3220
(03) 5272 5272
Borough of Queenscliffe
50 Learmonth Street
Queenscliffe 3225
(03) 5258 1377
Surf Coast Shire Council
1 Merrijig Drive
Torqyat 3228
(03) 5261 0600
Emotional support
A restructure, retrenchment or unexpected income loss can cause financial and emotional hardship for business owners, managers, workers and their families.
Talking to someone is an important first step if you or someone you know is experiencing problems.
Lifeline is a free confidential telephone helpline that offers support regarding mental health and wellbeing. Call 13 11 14.
Beyond Blue provides information and referral services for those who may be experiencing depression, anxiety or substance abuse. Call 1300 224 636.
Other services
Trade unions may be able to provide you with support and advice through this transition period. The Victorian Trades Hall Council has a list of unions here: www.vicunions.org.au
Redundancy InfoLink is your starting point for helpful information and assistance after notification of redundancy.


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Villa Siroco consists of 3 floors and can accommodate 4 to 8 persons. On the upper floor there is a double bedroom with en-suite bathroom with bath. The balcony of the bedroom is large and offer panoramic view to the swimming pool and further more to the sea. On the middle floor there is a living – dining room, a sofa that transforms into bed and a full cooking facilities kitchen. This floor is connected via an internal staircase with the two other floors. On the lower floor there is a double bedroom with en-suite bathroom with shower and automatic washing machine. This bedroom has also a sofa-bed and a independent non-step entrance from the court-yard.
Outside of the villas there is plenty of space divided into three levels with natural stones. A private, infinity type swimming pool with Jacuzzi. Also there is parking and space for children activities.
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Ceramic kit. Paint at home, and then bring back the ceramic to be fired at the studio. Once fired, all items are sealed & shiny. They are also dishwasher/microwave safe. Call ahead so we can have your order filled and ready when you are on your way to the studio for pick up. Includes choice of up to 6 colors for the ceramics. Brushes included, but will need to be returned to the studio when bringing your items in for firing. Paint all ceramic colors with 3 coats of paint, letting the paint dry to a chalky finish between coats. Return pick-up time after firing is 7 business days. Pick-up anytime during normal business hours. No shipping available.
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So, my April was so-so.
I was pretty good on the diet front, not good at all with exercise – LAME – one day? Pfft.
I think this is because I have not been paying enough attention to my chart, and I had some depression issues again – thank gad the sun is coming back. I am going to rethink my anti-vitamin-D-pill thing and order some vegan ones if I get in a bind again, or just continue going to the tanning place.
ANYWAY, I have been feeling grand.
This month on my chart is:
D – diet – this time meaning 80/10/10 and not just "raw" – raw for me is easy-peasy. So, now I am just doing it gung-ho, my only other food included being nori, just at first. I love nori and yes, it does look delicious to me seeing it on a beach, and yes I could make a meal of it – sometimes I will eat a whole package on its own. I'm also going to do what I did when I initially went raw and that is to stick to it 100% for 30 days and see how I feel (I felt so awesome that I knew it would be for life). I took a "before" picture, too, so I can show my progress physically!
W – writing – this meaning in my blog or in my journals. Mostly I want to write in this here bloggo (I hate the word blog but it's a funny sounding word at least).
F – this meaning writing FICTION. I stopped setting a time frame for myself – this was becoming too daunting and I always wanted to do other things and would get distracted. Now I just plonk myself in front of the page and write with no real agenda. If I write for 5 minutes, it counts. If I want to write more (and I usually do), then yay! It all adds up.
E – exercise. Of some sort, every day. Exercise is never a waste of time – in fact, I LOVE to exercise. Sometimes I forget this and if I push myself to just start (same with writing) I often want to keep going.
Something awesome I noticed yesterday was this:
About 12 years ago when I lived on Vancouver Island, I decided I wanted to see if I could become a runner. This was one thing I said I would "never" be able to do, and the quote "You must do the thing you think you cannot do" would repeat itself in my head, and so I decided that because I had a lot of time on my hands, that I would start running. There were a lot of gorgeous parks and forests, so it was quite lovely to go out and have this goal. I also had seen my reflection in bad thrift store lighting and was appalled at my appearance, therefore starting me into health + fitness madness.
So I started walk/jogging and could not go for very long with the jogs or runs. I wasn't eating very well of course, and limiting my calories, still eating fish and bread and whatever else – lots of chocolate chip rice cakes. Eventually I got bored with it and went back to my sedentary hobbies. I didn't seem to improve much, either. I could go a minute or so and would be so out of breath – this had happened since childhood and I would do everything I could to get out of running track or anything sporty. I thought I had asthma and had an inhaler that I used once – I thought it would allow me to run or exert myself more – it did sweet fuckall.
So yesterday I decided to take my dog out and go for a jog. I used to go out walking quite a bit last year when I lived near some beautiful trails. This was one reason I went so much – now I don't live near anything but big expensive homes, so to go somewhere pretty I have to drive first.
ANYWAY, I took my pooch out and started to jog – and I just kept going, and going, and going. And even if I got a bit winded, I took a break. I only needed to break for a few seconds and could go more.
I realized that there was a huge difference even from last summer, when I was still eating heavier raw foods. I have been far more outdoorsy and sporty since I went raw, but lowering the fat in my diet has been an even more amazing aspect. Last month I was eating salt and heavier foods again, but I have recommitted to the low-fat approach. I just feel better on it. I feel more energized and clear and SO creative. I want to feel that way, always. I also want to be lean, and eating salt and too many nuts makes me bloated! Yuck. (I have been so bloated I thought about taking an April Fool's photo because I looked pregnant).
Watching Freelee and Kristina on youtube really makes me motivated. So does Durianrider, listening to Doug Graham, and all sorts of raw foodists. I am constantly inspired.
And so my little chart is going to be the pinpoint for my goals – so far it's kind of been off to the side of my desk, but I am going to make it more of a focal point of my day – something I do before bed. I am also making myself go to bed earlier – it's tough because my body rebels – as I am falling asleep, I realize it, then wake up 😦
Another thing I've been doing is starting my morning thinking about things I love about my life – positive things – this is what I do WHILE I am still waking up (my grumpiest time of day) – also I have made it a point to stop complaining. A few years ago I read a book called A Complaint Free World that really impacted me – it's pretty hard to go a whole day without complaining, let me tell you! (Try it). But I have been pretty successful, and something I noticed about when I was doing these things before, is that I was a LOT happier.
It's much easier to make goals in spring. I say let's make our yearly resolutions in April or May, when we feel renewed! If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, I think you'll be more likely to succeed with "New Spring Resolutions" instead of new years' ones. Just a tip 🙂
If you like my chart, you can download my blank one here!


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Thu, 30 July 2015
This month is all about the trends that are shaping the future of our work as content marketers, and in Episode 133 of the Content Marketing Podcast, we talk about the rise of the mobile content consumer and what it means for us content marketers. To learn more about content marketing, visit our website at resonancecontent.com.
Direct download: 20150730-CMP-133-WhatMobileAudienceWant_FINAL.mp3
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The Chilean newspaper Las Últimas Noticiashas highlighted the descent into the Atacama Trench as one of the five greatest scientific advances of this year.
On Tuesday April 10, the first activity "ExploSub: Science and Technology for Submarine Exploration" took place at the Marine Biology Station of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Concepción. In September 2017, the Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO) won competitive funding in the 21st National Contest for Projects for the Appreciation and Dissemination of Science held by the Explora project of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), which made it possible to carry out ExploSub, a project aiming at bringing marine sciences closer to the school community.
In the article "South America Record Setter: a Journey Down to the Atacama Trench ", the prestigious international publication Marine Technology Reporter covered the achievements of the Millennium Institute of Oceanography (IMO) in the Atacamex scientific expedition, during which IMO scietists managed to make the lander "Audacia" (Spanish for audacity), an autonomous unmanned free-fall vehicle, reach a depth of 8,081 meters, which represents a historic milestone for oceanography. For further information, please visit the following link: https://www.marinetechnologynews.com/magazine
Channel 24 Hours TV series "Researchers: from Atom to Cosmos" will feature several centers of excellence for scientific research in order to make known to the public the top-level research projects carried out in Chile and the advances made through them. This successful TV series is launching its third season on Wednesday April 18 at 16:30, featuring technology, knowledge and research centers. Through its 30 episodes, this new season will present an overview on Chilean scientific research and its contributions to Chile's development by making known the work done in centers of excellence for scientific research.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Volume 288, Pages 138-160
doi:10.1016/j.gca.2020.08.006November, 2020
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
doi:10.1029/2020JG005704October, 2020
Journal of Plankton Research | Volume 42, Pages 514-529
doi:10.1093/plankt/fbaa036October, 2020
Frontiers in Marine Science | Volume 7, Pages 1-17
doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.561597September, 2020
Water | Pages 1-18
doi:10.3390/w12092387August, 2020


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|Saturday, October 31, 2020
About Us
Great picture of the fast growing division of Kota Samarahan has been cherries with the existence of The Summer Shopping Mall. It is the first Shopping Mall open in the area which was developed by Tetap Majumas Sdn Bhd.
The three-storey landmark building covering 800,000 square feet build on the mixed development of residential, commercial and education hub of Kota Samarahan looking forward to cater over 300,000 population of the area.
With "Everything Under One Roof" concept, the mall is an integrated development comprising over 335 retail lots with a wide range of trade mix including fashion & lifestyle retails, food & beverages, entertainment and Servay Hypermarket and Parkwell Departmental store as the anchor tenants.
The three floor retail is introducing 'first' to the region Fashion Brand Name such as Kitschen, Shibuya, Hari-Hari and XES Shoes Store making their debut in the greater Kuching area. Not forgetting the region largest Lotus Five Star Cineplex with 12 comfortable hall consist of 9 elegant Cinema hall, two 3D Movie Hall and one classy theatre room.
The adjacent Summer Lagoon Water Theme Park is on schedule to be open later in this year. And for future development, the hotel and service apartment block will be complete the beautiful picture of the whole building.
Developed by Core System Technologies Copyright © 2010 The Summer Shopping Mall. All rights reserved.


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Discover how to get on the property ladder as a first-time buyer
Without first-time buyers, there is barely any market movement.
First-time buyers are essential to the property market and yet in a recovering recession, how could anyone make the decision to the biggest financial commitments you can ever make. Good advice and informative tips are always essential.
Here is the latest tips from the experts on the web.
Consider getting a Homebuyer's Report rather than a full survey. A basic survey is a requirement of the mortgage lender and will confirm the property is broadly worth what you have offered, often its claimed that it just a drive-by. A Homebuyer's Report is more comprehensive and should highlight any areas of concern. Extra money spent on a more comprehensive survey is money well spent as the cost putting a structural defect right could cost a large sum.
It's good to seek advice from a qualified market mortgage adviser to see whether it's feasible for you to enter the market in its current climate. Avoid advisers that are tied to one product.
Before you start property hunting, you will need to know what spending power you have. This should be a realistic figure and at least agreed in principle with your mortgage lender. Estate agents will take you far more seriously as a first time buyer if you have a letter with an agreed mortgage amount that they are prepared to lend. Credit checks and detailed documentation will follow before any offer is accepted, so be prepared.
First time buyers should accept that their first house may be a house they are in for many years to come. Unless the market rises or their earning status changes dramatically the facts are you may be in the property for a good few years. So you will need to purchase with this in mind, in other words, can you live in the property?
One thing that has really made it hard for first time buyers are the lenders tightening their criteria, and as a result there is real pressure on borrowers to have larger deposits when applying for a mortgage. With this in mind, don't over stretch yourself even though rates are currently low. There is a good reason why lenders are making it difficult to borrow. To some degree it's there to protect you.
Its never an easy time in this climate as a first time buyer, but with a good understanding of the basic principles and with the ability to know where to turn to for good advice, you can discover that entering the property market isn't impossible.


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Making use of the web to search out a contractor you can have confidence in together with your dollars… and your house
The title of this report raises an helpful and appropriate query. In a earth dominated by the net, it is really crucial to know just how much we can have confidence in what we locate on the net. The web could be a device for acquiring extremely helpful details and expert services. But when you flip that coin over, you'll be able to also find yourself falling into money-pit variety traps which will depart you wishing you experienced thrown your notebook from the garbage and seemed in the phonebook as a substitute.
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An organization web site can certainly be used to decide NOT to rent another person. You see, any person can place up a internet site that looks nice. But there are some notify tale indications of a company that could't be trusted. For instance, if you'll find no buyer evaluations, you need to run and run rapid. It either signifies the corporate won't benefit consumer input, or no good evaluations exists that they will flaunt. Also, if your site is an excessive amount of hype, depart. You don't require them to beat you through the head with their product sales communication. A beneficial web page seeks to present helpful details first. The gross sales message need to acquire a back seat. In any other case you are able to bet they will likely be pushy. And by pushy, we suggest these are heading to make an effort to dig deep into your wallet fast.
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World-Wide-Web two.0 is the place it's at in 2012. Obtaining a worthwhile contractor on the internet involves a lot more than plainly Googling an organization site and generating a phone get in touch with or shooting an email. In this day time and age of communal advertising, several world-wide-web avenues exist for you personally to take a look at a company. For instance, what the heck is currently being claimed on Twitter in regards to the basis restore business? How many individuals are following their account? This could possibly be a fantastic image into how valuable they actually are. The same goes for his or her quantity of Fb likes. And did you verify them out on a web site like Yelp to generate sure individuals give them positive testimonials?
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Buzz growing behind Krewella debut "Get Wet'
Jahan Yousaf of Chicago's Krewella says that due to a busy schedule and an aversion to pressure she's "not even paying attention to the charts at all."
But she's certainly been happy with the texts and tweets from friends, family, fans and management telling her how the electro-pop trio is doing these days.
Krewella's debut album, "Get Wet," debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 last month, and at No. 1 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. The group's had some club hits already in "Alive" and "Live For the Night," and it's made guest appearances on tracks by Adventure Club and Nicky Romero.
Krewella has also been tapped to remix songs by Skrillex, Zedd and Fall Out Boy, among others, and appearances at key festivals such as Ultra Music, Electric Daisy, Stereosonic and Spring Awakening scored the group the International Dance Music Award for Best Breakthrough Artist.
Yousaf's measure of success has been a bit different, however.
"We're starting to see more and more people at ever single show, progressively, and more and more people singing the lyrics to tour album," notes Yousaf, who started Krewella in 2007 with her sister Yasmine and Kris "Rain Man" Trindl. "Two months ago, when our (singles) were released, we saw maybe five kinds in the front rows singing them. Now there's a lot more.
"That's how we know something good is happening."
Krewella and dance music were "kind of a hobby," when the elder Yousaf and Trindl became acquainted in Chicago's heavy metal scene. "I met him at a house party; he was in his room programming a beat to this funky dance song," remembers Yousaf, whose father is a UPS sales rep and mother is a graphic designer, with older sisters who are in fashion. "He gave me a few drinks and asked me to write a few lyrics over it, and within one night we had a hook and a song.
"From there we started meeting a couple times a week and write songs together, just for fun. We weren't thinking about it as a career anything. It was just like a fun hobby. It still feels that way, really. We try to keep from getting stressed out about anything."
The duo wound up recruiting Jahan's younger sister, and in 2009 they started posting their songs on MySpace; the Krewella name had "popped into" the elder Yousaf's head around the time she and Trindl started writing together. The response was encouraging, but the trio kept soldiering away to refine their sound, holing up in Trindl's grandmother's basement until releasing their first official singles, including "Life of the Party" and "Strobelights," in 2011.
"Everything has developed and gotten stronger, so I'm glad we waited like we did," Yousaf says. But she laughs as she considers the irony of a career in dance music. "I'm not a dancer - never will be a dancer," she explains. "You'll never see us doing synchronized dancing or anything like that. We're true rockers at heart. You'll find us at a metal club before we're in a dance club.
"But we like all kinds of music and writing in all kinds of style. I think you can hear really metal inspired instrumentation and really pop-punk inspired lyrics in Krewella. It really is a mash of different genres, which is why I think people are liking it."
Krewella's beat will go on through North America into mid-November, winding up at home in Chicago's Argon Ballroom on the 16th. From there the trio heads for Australia as part of the Stereosonic festival tour, with a Dec. 27 appearance at Dallas' Lights All Night event on Dec. 27. A second album is also on the horizon; with nearly 100 demos prepared for "Get Wet" and more coming all the time, Krewella is ready to hit the studio again at the start of 2014, according to Yousaf, which she hopes will mean more music sooner rather than later.
"I really want to keep up with one album a year," she says. "We're always thinking about our live show, too - how do we push it even more and evolve, let the stage production formulate and turn into something else? We're not the kind of people who like to coast, you know? We want to work and keep doing new things."


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(Corrects to show speculators cut, not raised, net long U.S. dollar bets; corrects value of the dollar's net long position)
NEW YORK, July 14 (Reuters) - Speculators this week slashed net long bets on the U.S. dollar to their lowest since mid-May last year, according to calculations by Reuters and Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released on Friday.
The value of the dollar's net long position fell to $62.5 million in the week ended July 11, from a net long position of $135 million the previous week.
The Reuters calculation for the aggregate U.S. dollar position is derived from net positions of International Monetary Market speculators in the yen, euro, British pound, Swiss franc and Canadian and Australian dollars.
Japanese yen net shorts, meanwhile, grew to their largest since mid-March, with 112,125 contracts, CFTC data showed. (Reporting by Saqib Iqbal Ahmed; editing by Diane Craft)
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Picture: Woodstock (1970) Directed by Michael Wadleigh Shown: Jimi Hendrix This is a PR photo. WENN does not claim any Copyright or License in the...
Legendary rocker Jimi Hendrix once filled in for Engelbert Humperdinck's unwell guitarist - but hid behind the stage curtains so the audience wouldn't realise who was playing.
The late PURPLE HAZE star was touring Britain with Humperdinck in the 1960s when the unnamed musician fell ill just before show time.
And, while Hendrix's unparallelled musical prowess saved the day, his identity couldn't be revealed for fear of distracting the audience away from Humperdinck's performance.
Indian Humperdinck - real name ARNOLD GEORGE DORSEY - says, "That was my first UK tour and Cat Stevens was also on the bill.
"Jimi was an incredible performer, he had loads of energy and used to play his guitar with his teeth.
"He saved my bacon once when my guitarist fell ill just before the show was due to start. 'Don't worry,' he said, 'I'll play for you.'
"I told him he couldn't just walk on stage with me - he was much too big a star.
"So he played behind the curtain. It sounded as though I had three guitarists instead of one that night."
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Pharmaceutical Grade Xenon
What is Xenon?
- Xenon, a Greek word meaning "rare," is one of six noble gases
- Xenon (symbol: Xe) has been used in the Medical Community for diagnostic and treatment purposes for more than 60 years as an anesthetic
Landmark Discovery that Xenon is a potent N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) antagonist with neuroprotective properties – Franks, Nature, 1998
Xenon's multiple mechanisms of action and synergy with therapeutic hypothermia, or targeted temperature management, have been demonstrated to protect against neurologic injury in preclinical models.³
- Anti-Excitotoxicity – Anti-NMDA properties prevent excessive entry of calcium, a precursor to cell death early following several forms of acute neurological injury
- Anti-Neuroapoptosis – Reduces expression of genes associated with programmed cell death (apoptosis) & increases anti-apoptotic proteins after neuronal injury
- Cytotoprotective – Upregulates the reparative & restorative responses to oxygen deprivation even under normoxic conditions
- Synergy with therapeutic hyperthermia, or cooling
- Cardioprotective properties have been demonstrated in preclinical trials
- Others
- Clinical Evidence – Results from a Phase II Superiority Study published in JAMA in March 2016 showed statistically significantly less brain damage and directionally positive survival outcomes (though the study was not statistically powered to show such differences in this secondary endpoint) between a xenon plus cooling group versus a cooling-alone group.
- Less Brain Damage: an MRI neuroimaging technique (Diffusion Tensor Imaging) to visualize location, orientation, & anisotropy (differences in diffusion) of brain's white matter tracts revealed the following:
- Over 50% less damage in the Xenon group was observed in context to those patients who survived or expired:
- Fiber density (microintegrity), P = 0.006, of the white matter in the brain; and,
- Nerve fiber protective covering in the brain (demyelination), P = 0.04
- Overall, 41.7% of voxels of white matter tracts measured had less damage
- Treatment effect size of xenon on the MRI biomarker was more than 50% of the difference in the measure observed between survivors and those who died
- This MRI biomarker exhibited the best independent predictive value for mortality during the 6-month follow-up period
- Over 50% less damage in the Xenon group was observed in context to those patients who survived or expired:
- Improved Survival: The Phase II Study (N=110) was not statistically powered to show survival. However, a directionally positive absolute improvement in survival of 7.3% was observed in the intention-to-treat population, P = 0.053
- A post-hoc analysis of patients with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) within 30 minutes, ~90% of all patients in the Study, revealed a statistically significant absolute improvement in survival of 12.3% (relative differences higher). This will serve as the basis for the patient inclusion criteria in the planned Phase III Study.
- Less Brain Damage: an MRI neuroimaging technique (Diffusion Tensor Imaging) to visualize location, orientation, & anisotropy (differences in diffusion) of brain's white matter tracts revealed the following:
- Non-toxic: no accumulation (elimination by exhalation); not metabolized
Cardiac Arrest Program
Cardiac arrest (CA): abrupt loss of heart function, related to electrical system. Often precipitated by heart attack, related to blood flow blockage.
- 3rd leading cause of death (~1 CA/min in US)
- ~570,000/yr in US, with 2/3 originating out-of-hospital Only
- <10% of CA patients survive to discharge
- 75% of deaths occur from brain injury
- 75% of survivors return to work
Pharmacological Therapy:
- Therapeutic hypothermia is becoming the standard of care (AHA guidelines)
- No treatment approved for neuroprotection post-CA


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Life is good here in France, but some things have a habit of gnawing away in the background, ready to hit the nostalgia button just when we least expect it. We meet local cricket fans who have set up their own clubs...
If the prospect of a fast approaching summer conjures up fond memories of long, hot days played out to a soundtrack of leather on willow, then you're clearly suffering from 'Cricket Withdrawal'. Fortunately you can now do something about it right here in France, by going to watch a match, or better still, joining a club – and if you can't find one within easy reach, then you might even consider setting one up.
The same thought occurred to a small but enthusiastic group of players who founded a club in Angoulême in 2005.Four years later it moved a little further north to its present home in the small market town of Mansle, which offered a ground surrounded by trees within the eastern bend of a racecourse, and next to the neatly landscaped municipal campsite on the banks of the River Charente. As Club President Joe Larter explains: "We're still the only club in Charente, with players from various backgrounds, all sharing a common love for cricket. Our team is a mix of English and Pakistani expats, along with French-born younger players of British, Irish, Australian or Pakistani extraction. With the help of the Mansle Council and our Senateur Mme. Bonnefoy, we've installed a good quality artificial pitch, erected nets and we hold regular training sessions. Now we have a growing group of youngsters in the 10-15 age group – and since cricket is a game enjoyed by both sexes, we welcome girls and women, who can play at all levels alongside the men and boys."
The club can provide all equipment. And, if you're stuck for something to do on a Sunday afternoon, why not head to Mansle to watch a cricket match yourself? "We play in the South-West Champion-ship with teams from the Dordogne and Bordeaux regions, participate in the Siddalls 35 Overs and ACCSO T20 Cups, and host visiting teams from England. Some years ago we won the Northern Pool of our league. We've also been cup finalists. Last year we had 17 licensed players, and hope to do better this season." The license, an obligatory requirement in France for all sports, costs 50€ for adults (less for youngsters) and includes insurance.
Joe is also delighted to see the social side of the club continuing to develop: "This year we plan to hold several fund-raising events, including a barbecue, an open-day and six-a-side tournament. We're also looking to improve facilities at the ground – not just for visiting teams, but also for spectators, who are always more than welcome at our home matches. We even have a local shirt sponsor – the Colibri Bar/Tabac
in Mansle!"
The club is always on the lookout for new players, the lifeblood of any sport: "We're a friendly, family-oriented club, so why don't your readers get in touch and come along to one of our net sessions? They can also get involved at other levels - umpire, scorer, trainer… in cricket there's something for everyone."
Find out more about Cricket
Cricket Club de Mansle Charente
Captain: Garry Clulee 05 55 03 79 23
Facebook: Mansle Cricket Club (En) and Cricket Club de Mansle Charente (Fr).
There are at present no clubs in Vienne, or Haute-Vienne – the Cricket Club de Mansle can help you start one.
Other clubs in South West France
Ile de Ré Cricket Club (17) - www.iledere-cricketclub.com
St. Aulaye CC (24) - www.st-aulaye-cricket.org
Eymet CC (24) - www.eymetcricket.com
La Roche sur Yon CC (85 ) - www.lrsycc.org/fr
Maillé CC (85) - www.maillecricketclub.yolasite.com
Association des Cricket Clubs du Sud Ouest (ACCSO) - www.cricket-sw-france.org
The Association Française du Cricket website contains listings of clubs throughout France, established teams and much more: www.francecricket.com
© All rights reserved. Published in Living Magazine, April 2014.


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I am looking for some insight on a set of leaf springs I have.I have owned a few sets of C4ZA-5556-S leaf springs and they have always been 3 main leafs and the 4th small one with the engineering number, for a total of 4 leafs.The set in question are the same C4ZA-5556-S with a date of 137, but they have a 5th leaf (the second longest one was added in the pack) the one added is the one with the square end.My questions are: Do these look factory?, Did Ford offer a tow package option for a 65FB K code or Shelby where they would have possibly added a leaf with a tow package??Did the Competition R models have the same 4 leaf pack as the standard Shelbys and K codes? or could the R models have had an added leaf as std equipment thank you in advance


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Lights Out: Bloomberg Bans E-Cigarettes in Last Days as Mayor
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed his final bills into law on Monday, one day before his last in office.
The new laws will require an annual report on poverty in the city, a new database built to track money spent on Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts, measures to bolster emergency preparedness and other measures to reduce toxic emissions from vehicles that deliver trade waste. Bloomberg will also sign a bill that lumps e-cigarettes into the Smoke Free Air Act, meaning the devices are banned everywhere smoking is banned.
The e-cigarette legislation is easily the most controversial bill on the mayor's last slate. The New York City Council recently voted to restrict the devices, but the decision came among a heated debate over whether such a restriction was necessary.
Little is known about how e-cigarettes affect the health of those who use them and anyone who might inhale second-hand vapor. Those against the law feel that it is an example of government overregulation and that criminalizing e-cigarette use in most public spaces will take away the reason many smokers switched to "vaping," as e-cigarette use is known.
Proponents of the legislation believe preliminary science is on their side and that it is better to regulate the devices now than to wait until the side effects are established. It took years to determine how smoking affected a person's health, and they don't want to fight another product already engrained in American culture.
This restriction is the outgoing mayor's last leg in his fight against tobacco products and their descendants. His effort began in 2003 when he signed into a law a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants. Eight years later, expanded that to parks and beaches, and last month he raised the city's tobacco-purchasing age to 21.
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