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Abandoned cart emails
With Abandoned Cart emails, you can:
- Recover lost sales and generate more revenue
- Automatically contact customers to complete their purchase
- Fully customise the email templates
- Include a discount code to entice buyers to come back
Customising Abandoned Cart Emails
- From your iZettle E-commerce dashboard, click on Settings > Emails.
- Here you will see two options: Abandoned Cart Initial and Follow-Up. The Initial email is the first email we will automatically send your customer, depending on the email delay you set. Your Follow-Up email is the second, and last, email a customer will receive.
- You're done! All customers who abandon their cart after entering their email address during checkout will receive a follow-up email as set by you. You can change the frequency or text in your emails at any time by coming back to this page.
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Confederation Centre of the Arts Young Company auditions
We invite young performers from across the country, between the ages of 16 – 30, to audition to be a part of this incredible group of young professionals. Come join us and learn from experienced theatre professionals, and show the country what you've got!
Programme Criteria:
All applicants must be full-time students between the ages of 16 and 30, eligible to work in Canada and intending to return to education in autumn 2018. Additional requirements may apply.
The audition process:
Open auditions will be held in the following locations:
– Toronto, ON: St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts (Stage Door) – March 5, 2018, 10:00 a.m.
– Montréal, QC: National Theatre School/École National du Théâtre – March 7, 2018, 1:00 p.m.,
Room 248/251
– Charlottetown, PE: Confederation Centre of the Arts (Studio 2) – March 11, 2018, 12:00 p.m.
Click here to read more about audition process and video requirements.

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How to Remove Wood Stain From a Slate Tile
Slate is a metamorphic stone made from layers of compressed mud. It can have many different colors and textures and is frequently cut into tiles and counters. Because slate has an extremely low absorption rate, it is frequently installed in high-traffic areas because any stains it acquires typically remain on the surface of the stone. In contrast, spills can more easily penetrate softer stone. Therefore, spills like wood stain can frequently be removed from slate without damage to the tile.
Apply a stone cleaner to the wood stain on the slate and use a scrub brush to work at the surface. This will help remove any loose particles and any dust or dirt that may be on top of the stain.
Mix together a 50-50 ratio of hydrogen peroxide to water and apply it to the stain on the slate. Let it soak into the stain; the mixture should begin to lighten and remove the stain from the slate. After a few minutes, use the scrub brush to help loosen the stain and work the hydrogen peroxide mixture in.
Soak a paper towel in the hydrogen peroxide mixture and apply it to any sections of the stain that have not lightened or been removed. Leave the paper towel in place for 15 minutes, then rinse.
Spray stone cleaner over the slate and wash away any remaining stain and hydrogen peroxide mixture. Let the tiles dry.
Things Needed
- Stone cleaner
- Scrub brush
- Hydrogen peroxide
- Paper towels
- Apply a coat of mineral oil to the slate after the stain is removed to help seal it and disguise any remaining marks.
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Articles in Flower Farming, Green Weddings and Floral Design
SLOW FLOWERS ANNOUNCES 144 New Members from 40 states and 4 Canadian provinces
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SEATTLE, WA (July 21, 2020) – Debra Prinzing, Slow Flowers founder and creative director, announced 144 new members have joined Slow Flowers Society during the first half of 2020. ... Read full article
You Know Slow Food. But Have You Heard About Slow Flowers?
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You've likely heard of slow food and maybe even slow fashion, but what, you may be wondering, are slow flowers? ... Read full article
Your Story. Your Values. Your Flowers: The Nine Top Benefits of Joining Slow Flowers
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We love connecting with members across the U.S. and Canada who describe their association with the Slow Flowers Movement as an important one, especially when it comes to highlighting the What, How and especially the "WHY" of their own brand.... Read full article
Houzz.com: 35 Thanksgiving Centerpieces and Tabletop Floral Ideas
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Thanksgiving is a time of year when the floral palette warms to earthy tones and we see the landscape as our inspiration. Here is a beautiful and highly personal collection of tabletop decor and centerpieces designed by farmers and floral designers.... Read full article
American Floral Story
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Meet Debra Prinzing, founder of the Slow Flowers movement that promotes a sustainable, farm-to-vase approach to fresh flowers.... Read full article
Debra Prinzing on Team Flower Podcast
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In this episode, we are diving into the Slow Flowers Movement - what it is and what it is becoming. Debra is sharing the story behind her passion and the farmers who sparked the Slow Flowers flame in her. ... Read full article
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Debra Prinzing's SLOWFLOWERS.COM, a free online directory to American flowers, famers, designers and retailers, reveals new look and functionality... Read full article
Better Blooms for Mom
On Mother's Day, 750 million cut flowers are imported. Enter the Slow Flowers movement.... Read full article
This Mother's Day, florists and farms say consider buying US-grown flowers
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The options to buy U.S.-grown flowers are growing. Slow Flowers, run by Debra Prinzing, is a nationwide online directory for florists to find U.S.-grown flowers.... Read full article
Slow Flowers' founder Debra Prinzing wins AHS Great American Gardeners Award
The American Horticultural Society (AHS) is proud to announce the recipients of the Society's 2108 Great American Gardeners Award.... Read full article


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Tips on Avoiding Weight Gain While Dating
How to Avoid Gaining Weight While Dating
Being in a relationship is so exciting that spending so much time together can cause your healthy lifestyle to fly out the window. You may even adopt some of your partner's unhealthy habits. That can add up to some extra pounds on the scale, so here are some tips to prevent weight gain while dating.
- Remember that eating an extra 500 calories a day will make you gain a pound in one week, so be conscious of how much you're eating. Just because your guy has three slices of pizza, that doesn't mean you should too. Guys need more calories, so remember to eat appropriate sized portions, even when dining together.
- You don't have to eat just because your partner is. Guys tend to inhale their meal, and then an hour later they're eating again. It can be tempting to join in if food is in front of you, but don't nosh unless you're truly hungry.
- Keep up with your regular exercise schedule. When you're in a relationship, you don't want to sacrifice the things that are important to your own well-being, so make time for your 20 to 60 minutes of exercise a day. Get up early before work or steal away during lunchtime so you don't feel like it's taking away from time spent with your loved one.
- Or better yet, exercise together. Meet at the gym after work, play tennis or racquetball, take salsa dance lessons or a Vinyasa yoga class, or join a dodgeball team.
- Spend more time being active together instead of sitting on the couch. You don't have to be really athletic, but you can tour a museum, take a walk in the park, hike in the woods, or go for a bike ride.
- Sign up for a healthy cooking class together so you can both learn new ways to make delicious dishes that are full of nutrients but not full of saturated fat, cholesterol, and empty calories.


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Cannabidiol, or CBD, is one of the most common of the 113 cannabinoids found in the Cannabis plant. Unlike tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, CBD is a non-psychoactive, and does not provide the 'high' that is most attributed to Cannabis use.
There have been very few research studies involving CBD due to the current Schedule 1 classification, though the FDA recently approved GW Pharmaceutical's CBD-based drug, Epidiolex, as a treatment for two rare and severe forms of seizure (Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome and Dravet Syndrome). We expect more research studies using CBD after the passing of the 2018 Federal Farm Bill. Many people have used CBD to help treat insomnia, pain, inflammation, anxiety, and depression, among other ailments. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released a report detailing its findings on CBD, and can be found here. Healing Ventures makes no claim to specific health benefits and we would advise you to consult your physician for any medical questions.
47 states currently allow residents to purchase CBD (Nebraska, South Dakota, and Idaho do not allow any Cannabis products), though with the passage of the 2018 Federal Farm Bill, interstate commerce of hemp-derived CBD is no longer illegal as a result of hemp-derived CBD being removed from the Controlled Substances Act. While CBD still technically remains a Schedule 1 drug even after the passage of the Federal Farm Bill, the DEA and FDA are likely to address the matter in early-2019 to align with the Federal Farm Bill. Each state has different cannabis laws, so we would advise you to check your individual state's laws (https://norml.org/states) for further detail.
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Thanks to those who supported the recent e-safety evening.
Please find below links and useful addresses relating to e-safety.
Websites used in School:
These sites are used regularly in school. Some are paid for by subscription and individual logins have been set up by your teacher. All these sites are fully secure, and will not allow your child to pass on any personal information to anyone outside the school community.
Information Websites for Parents
This list is kept short, because all these sites have many links to other sites:
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- to whomever may gaf, this last half-year for me has been about travelling, visiting family, hosting family, more travelling, and plentiful hair bleaching. but alas, fun time has run out and it's back to contemplating future employment. why i can't attain $$$$$$$$ on the merit of my personal magnetism and apropos usage of nicholas cage reaction images is a continued mystery.
- is there even any point to me trying to finish the 29402 memes from yore? is there a point. maybe i'll wait to sign up for the next zeitgeist social platform bound to emerge after the rightful prophesied downfall and death of tumblr.
- should i even add any substance to this post? why don't i just link my obligatory fandom list i.e. list of potential topics so the five people reading this post can holler.
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JAZZ.FM91 World Music Festival – Cuba
August 6, 2013 @ 8:30 pm$3 – $99.50
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This five-part festival will take place at Hugh's Room – one of Canada's premier live music venues.
FIRST STOP – CUBA on Tuesday, August 6, 2013
David Buchbiners' "Oddessa Havana" featuring Hilario Duran
Award-winning trumpeter and composer David Buchbinder teams up with JUNO-winning pianist and composer Hilario Durán and a crew of Canada's top jazz and world musicians to present this exciting Jewish-Cuban fusion. Working with award-winning producer (and band member) Roberto Occhipinti, the ensemble has captured the fresh, fiery and innovative sound that ignites audiences at every performance. The sound is unique and compelling…about as far from Desi Arnaz meets Fiddler On The Roof as you can get!
SECOND STOP – VENEZUELA on Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Eric St. Laurent & Eliana Cuevas
This double-bill features a set by Eric St. Laurent Trio who perform instrumental music based on Central and South American rhythms. Eliana Cuevas, a native of Venezuela, will perform songs from her most recent CD with George Koller on bass, Mark Kelso on drums and her husband Jeremy Ledbetter on keys.
THIRD STOP – SOUTH AFRICA on Thursday, August 8, 2013
Bruce Cassidy's "Tribute to Hugh Masekela"
Bruce spent over ten years in South Africa and became good friends with Hugh Masekela. He has formed a nine-piece band to pay tribute to one of Africa's best-loved musicians.
FOURTH STOP – FRANCE on Friday, August 9, 2013
Lyne Tremblay and Amy McConnell's "From Paris with Love"
Songs made famous by Edith Piaf, Joesphine Baker, Django Rheinhardt and more…as performed by Lyne Tremblay and Amy McConnell, with Drew Jurecka (violin), Jesse Barksdale (guitar) and more!
FIFTH STOP – INDIA on Saturday, August 10, 2013
"Music for Snake Charming"
Rez Abbasi is coming up from New York City and will perform with his trio that features Rich Brown on bass and Anthony Michelli on drums. Rez will play music from his various albums…and the evening will also feature a surprise guest appearance!


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Bad credit can happen to the best of us. One change in your current situation can take a toll on your finances and leave you with a less than desirable credit score. There are many ways in which this can have negative results on your life and your situation. If you have bad credit then you will have a more difficult time obtaining more credit, you can find that you are required to pay security deposits that you would not have been asked for in the past, and you will have a more difficult time doing such things as obtaining a bad credit mortgage refinance on your home.
There may come a time when obtaining a mortgage refinance on your home will become a must. It is not the best idea to refinance your home when you have bad credit. Sometimes things are out of our control and we have to do things that may not be the best choice, but we do them out of necessity. If you find yourself in the position of needing to pull money out of your home through a mortgage refinance, then there are some things that you will want to consider that will help you out on your quest even if you suffer from bad credit:
When you decide that you need to refinance your home, you will want to choose the mortgage refinancing institution that you go to carefully. You will not want to waste time going to many different places and hearing the same negative things, which will be quite common when you have bad credit. If you find yourself suffering from a bad rating, then you will want to go to a broker instead of a bank.
When you go to a bank, they will be the lending institution. You will have a very high chance of being turned down and if you are not turned down then you may find yourself paying unreasonable interest rates. For a mortgage refinance you will want to turn to a broker. They work with several mortgage refinancing companies and will be more likely to find one of them to work with you. They will generally charge more initially for their services, but can save you a lot of frustration and money in the long run.
After you have refinanced your home you will be able to work on your financial situation and pull up your score. After your situation improves you will be able to go back and get a lower interest rate which will lower your monthly payments.


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When it comes down to it, maintaining a healthy work-life balance is really all about maintaining an appropriate level of happiness. Because that's the goal of the end day, finding the right level of work that still allows you to enjoy life.
Some people actually enjoy sacrificing a bit of their personal life in pursuit of their career. And some would prefer to get out on the town on Friday nights.
Well, these places in Arkansas have an objectively strong work-life balance. They are places where people have jobs, can live comfortably, and then enjoy things like family and friends.
We took a look at data from the most recent American Community Survey from the Census Department to identify which of the 100 biggest places in Connecticut have mastered the art of not bringing work home with them and living a balanced lifestyle.
After getting home early to take the kids to a baseball game, we were left with this set of ten places in the Nutmeg State that have the best work-life balance:
Read on to see how we identified the towns that have prioritized their lives to maximize their happiness.
There are certain characteristics that all people that have achieved work-life balance — happiness and satisfaction.
They get to spend an adequate amount of time on the job above and then spend the rest of the time doing things that make them happy.
With that in mind, we identified this set of criteria from the American Community Survey:
Basically, if you don't waste time getting to and from work, work less, and have a family, you're on the road to work-life balance.
It's also important that a place offers things to do and that people that want to work can actually work. For that reason, we included the raw count of things to do for a city based on Yelp data, the unemployment rate, and people living above the poverty line.
We then ranked each place from one to 66 for each criteria, with one being the best in any given category.
Finally, we took the average rank across all criteria, with the place posting the lowest overall score earning the title "Place with the Best Work-Life Balance in Connecticut".
Read on to learn the specifics of the ten places in the Nutmeg State that are at home relaxing right now.
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Clelland Lodge
With a community presence for over two decades, Fresh Hope Care's Clelland Lodge in North Nowra has a well established reputation for excellence, and is an integral part of the wider community.
Situated in a tranquil bushland location with accessible landscaped gardens and a wheelchair friendly native walking path, Clelland Lodge provides an environment of inspiration and stimulation. Local shops are within walking distance and a bus stop is positioned at the entrance, providing easy access to the shopping centre and essential services in Nowra.
Clelland Lodge provides accommodation for over 120 residents, in 'state of the art' single rooms with private ensuites. We provide for a full range of options with specific rooms equipped for people requiring permanent, respite or dementia care.
Our full range of care enables Clelland Lodge to offer ageing in place, so residents are able to remain here as their lives and needs change.
- Low level care needs
- Intermediate level care needs
- High level care needs.
In addition to our standard services, we are also able to offer specialised dementia care to 20 residents, in our secure unit that has access to a specially designed dementia garden. Healthy meals that are cooked onsite; laundry, housekeeping and personal care services are just some of the benefits we provide. The trained, caring staff ensure that our homely environments are friendly, safe and fun, with an award winning activities program, offering something for everyone. Some of the services offered at Clelland Lodge include:
- Chaplaincy support
- Church services
- Hairdresser
- Healthcare professionals visiting regularly
- Library services
- Planned social and recreational activities including art and craft, cooking, bus trips to local clubs and shopping centres, gardening and exercise groups and visits by local school children and volunteers.
Our respect of different interests, customs, beliefs and backgrounds for all residents, means everybody is welcome.
Nursing home features
- Large home (123 beds)
- 24/7 Registered nursing
- Commonwealth subsidy (ACFI)
- Couples accommodation
- Facility has pets
- Secure garden
- Single rooms with ensuites
- Chapel/Church (dedicated room)
- Facility owned transport
- Hairdressing salon
Types of care
- Residential aged care
- Booked respite beds
- Non-dedicated respite
- Palliative care
- Secure dementia beds
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Heavy smoke reported in belly of Logan plane
787 fire believed to be electrical, fire officials say
The National Transportation Safety Board is sending investigators to Boston to investigate an incident involving a 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
Heavy smoke was reported in the cargo area of a plane that had just arrived from Japan at Logan Airport on Monday morning.
A mechanic spotted the smoke coming from the cargo area of a Japan Airlines Boeing 787 after it had arrived at Logan at about 10 a.m., according to Boston fire.
Images: Smoke reported in Japan Air plane
The fire, which happened while the aircraft was parked on the tarmac at Terminal E, is believed to be electrical, according to Boston fire.
The smoke was spotted in an area where batteries used to power auxiliary avionics are housed. That system is activated after the aircraft's main power is shut down.
No passengers or crews were on board at the time.
One Massport firefighter was injured during the incident, but the extent of the injuries was not immediately known, according to Richard Walsh of Massport.
The aircraft had arrived from Japan at 10:06 a.m. with 184 passengers and crew on board, and was scheduled to return to Tokyo at noon. That flight, Japan Air flight 7, has been canceled.
The FAA and the NTSB are investigating the incident.
The 787 has had three reported problems with the plane's electrical system since it went into service last year, according to KING.com.
The failure of electrical generators was reported on planes belong to Qatar Airways and United Airlines.
In December, United flight 1146 from Houston to Newark diverted to New Orleans after pilots declared an emergency with 174 passengers on board, fearing a possible fire in the high voltage rear electrical bay, KING.com reported.
In that incident, there was no fire and Boeing was investigating whether a faulty sensor was the problem.
The aircraft involved in Monday's Logan incident was added to Japan Airlines' fleet in December 2012.


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I had the opportunity to attend the annual Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) conference this February in Austin, TX. I came away from the conference re-energized and excited to move forward in two different spaces:
- Blended learning
- Learning Analytics (more on this in a future post!)
As the Institute continues to explore our role in online and blended learning, this year's ELI contained two fantastic sessions, one from Northwestern College and one from the University of Central Florida, on approaches to blended learning. I especially feel good about the conference take aways, things I can apply here at PSU immediately upon return. Both of these presenters provided just that.
University of Central Florida
UCF was well represented at ELI this year, with a wide variety of interesting presentations from UCF personnel. One specific presentation contained a wealth of resources designed to help faculty get started with blended learning. Kudos to UCF for making the resources all Creative Commons licensed, allowing other institutions to leverage them.
The primary resource is the Blended Learning Toolkit. It would take too long to review each section of the site, but I'd like to point out a couple very good resources.
- Working through the BlendKit – This is a professional development course offered to UCF faculty, but it's designed so anyone can take advantage of it. You can complete the course on your own in its entirety, or pick-and-choose elements of the course to complete for your own development.
- Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository – This is a vast collection of resources, submitted by a wide variety of people, into a large wiki repository. The level of detail is fantastic, as each entry typically has both a synopsis and description of a pedagogical strategy, but also links to resources, examples and citations.
Northwest College
Northwest College presented on a blended learning program they implemented to help faculty take face-to-face courses, and migrate them to a blended model. I specifically enjoyed this presentation because it both applies to efforts taking place in the Institute around online learning and the presenters provided a set of fantastic resources for others to use. The entire project has a website full of resources. A few resources that I find particularly useful:
- Radio James – This is an online objective builder tool, allowing faculty to build objectives in an interactive format, following Bloom's taxonomy.
- Top Ten Tech Tools – A great list, short and articulate.
- Workshop Documents – samples of documents the Northwest team used in their 2-week faculty workshop series to help faculty redesign their course. I particularly link the checklist.
The two primary 'hub' websites for both of these initiatives are flooded with resources. I highly recommend exploring the sites if you're working with faculty, or if you are a faculty member, designing a blended or online course.


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Violence in Iraq has become an everyday occurrence: yesterday a suicide bomber killed more than 30 people and wounded dozens in a cafe north-east of Baghdad, while a car bomb in the suburb of Saidiya killed seven Shia pilgrims and a policeman. Elsewhere in the city, gunmen wounded six pilgrims on their way to the holy city of Kerbala to mark the end of 40 days of mourning over the death of the prophet Muhammad's grandson. More than 1.5 million went to Imam Hussein's shrine despite a spate of suicide bombings and shootings blamed on Sunni extremists, which claimed some 140 lives on Tuesday alone.
"The clergy should issue a fatwa to call people to stay in their homes and just recite the holy Qur'an because of this situation," said Mohammed Nasra, 31, who walked for four days to reach Kerbala. "The Shia are being targeted ... and this is an opportunity to kill a large number of them." Under Saddam Hussein, Shia Muslims were not allowed to make the pilgrimage.
Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, a powerful Shia leader, joined pilgrims south of Baghdad and vowed that they would not be deterred. "Even Saddam, with all his institutions and strength, was not able to stand in the way of these masses," he told Furat TV.


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Traditionally, this blend of herbs is used to help reduce swelling, stimulate circulation, draw out infection, heal scars and as a skin restorative. This sensitive skin version is known to help heal eczema and other sensitive skin issues.
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Searches for/repairs incorrectly identified MP3s in iTunes library.
When Apple introduced iTunes 4.9, they also introduced a rather annoying bug where a valid MP3 occasionally gets identified as a "QuickTime Movie." The problem comes when you try to sync to your iPod, because iTunes refuses to copy the songs over. iTunes MP3 Rescue to the, um, rescue!
When you launch the program, it will search your iTunes library for MP3 files that are incorrectly identified and repair them. Simple as that.
There's actually a good chance that Apple has fixed the bug in iTunes 5.0, but I'm providing this in case they haven't.
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Oregonians to Zinke at Cascade-Siskiyou: Keep Monument 'As Is'
PORTLAND, Ore. – Over the weekend, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke visited the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, one of about two dozen national monuments whose status and borders his agency are reviewing.
Zinke met with stakeholders in the region, including state Rep. Pam Marsh of Ashland.
Marsh, a Democrat, says she wants Zinke to keep three things in mind when considering the monument's status.
First, it's the only national monument designated to protect an area's rich biological diversity. Second, she says, it has a lot of local support. And last is the economic piece.
"We really see this as being a part of our economic future here in southern Oregon," Marsh explains. "We are a region that's been dependent on resource extraction in the past. For many reasons, timber's gone away, and we're building a new, strong economy that's based in large part on tourism."
In a letter to Zinke last week, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum threatened to sue the Trump administration if it attempts to shrink the monument's size or revoke its status.
President Barack Obama expanded Cascade-Siskiyou by nearly 50,000 acres before leaving office.
The Interior Department decision is expected in late August.
Cascade-Siskiyou's monument status gives it higher priority for management and protection from resource extraction.
Jack Williams, a senior scientist with Trout Unlimited, says that's especially important for a region recognized around the world for its unique variety of animals and plants.
"It's kind of a biological crossroads between a number of different eco-regional units, such as the Cascades and the Siskiyous, and the Great Basin areas," he states.
Marsh adds this monument shouldn't be seen as a litmus test for timber policy in Oregon, saying that's a policy to be debated on the thousands of acres that exist outside the monument.
"This monument is really about the unique features that it presents to the landscape, and the importance here of really maintaining the extraordinary biological diversity that's on the ground," she stresses.
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In this article, we will go over the sign of steering rack and pinion. What to look for in a bad steering rack and how to check a power steering rack for wear.
Many cars today use what is called steering rack and pinion setup. It is the system that connects your steering wheel to the front wheels of the car.
One of the most common symptoms of a bad power steering rack is that the steering feels loose and has excessive play.
When the power steering rack and pinion wear out you may notice other symptoms such as:
- Loose steering
- Steering wheel shakes
- Clunking noise
- Wheels don't return to center
- Excess slack
- Looseness in the steering wheel
- Vehicle unstable on highway
Common Problems
Excessive Steering Play / Loose Steering
- If your steering rack and pinion wear out the steering will feel loose. You will also notice that the car wanders at high speed and it is hard to keep it in the lane. Also, every road imperfection causes your car to easily move left to right instead of staying in a straight line. You may also notice that steering is harder at lower speeds. On top of all these symptoms, you will also notice that the wheels don't return to a straight position after making a turn.
Numb Spot
- Often you may hear the term numb spot. This refers to the play you have in your steering wheel when you move it. The steering wheel moves but the front wheel doesn't move.
Uneven tire wear
- While uneven tire wear can be often caused by bad alignment or wear of other steering components, a bad steering rack can also be the cause for unusual tire wear. Check your tires. Do you see more wear on one side?
Power Steering Leak
- A bad steering rack may develop power steering fluid leaks from the O-rings and boots. It is possible that your power steering rack is bad. Note that other components can cause power steering leaks such as power steering pump, reservoir or lines.
Noise when turning
- Clunking noise or thudding when taking a corner or turning the steering wheel is another symptom of bad steering and rack system. You may also notice grinding noise when steering due to metal contact of the steering rack or lack of lubrification. Typically you may hear a thump as you turn for example when getting out or into the driveway. As a steering rack wears out components starts to get loose. That's why you will hear clunking or thudding noise when you turn the wheel.
How to test steering rack and pinion
You may be wondering how to tell if rack and pinion is bad and needs replacing.
There is an easy way to check for signs of the bad steering rack. Check for an excessive play of the steering wheel. If the following examples, you can see how much play should be on a good steering rack (New car with 4750 miles) vs. a bad steering rack (high mileage car).
In one case we had a bad steering rack. The amount of free steering wheel play varies by manufacturer. Call your dealer and ask how much play is allowed for your specific make and model.
Before you jump to the conclusion that the steering rack is the problem, make sure to check inner and outer tie rods for excessive play. Worn tie rods also cause similar symptoms.
Misdiagnosis of a bad steering rack
Symptoms that are similar to that of a bad power steering rack can also be caused by other components:
Tie rods / Struts / Ball Joint
- Tie rods may be the cause of excessive play on your steering wheel. Tie rods are directly connected to the power steering rack. They wear quite frequently and need to be replaced around the 75,000-100,000 mile range. Cars have inner tie rods and outer tie rods. Check both of them for excessive wear. Often you will find that the outer tie rods have become worn. It is common for owners to think that they have a bad steering rack when in reality the tie rods are the problem.
Bad Alignment
- Poor alignment can cause problems such as vehicle pulling to one side or steering not returning to the center. Get an alignment done. Many auto repair shops that offer alignment service perform free alignment checks.
Power Steering Pump
- If you are having problems with the steering wheel not returning to the center, the problem could be a bad power steering pump. Generally, a power steering pump is not generating enough pressure. This can get tricky to diagnose because poor alignment or worn steering components will exhibit similar symptoms. To test if the power steering pump is the problem you can connect a pressure gauge in-line between the power steering pump and steering rack. This will allow you to check the pressure that is generated by the power steering pump.
- If the pressure is within specs as recommended by your manufacturer, then the Power Steering (PS) pump is good. Power steering pump pressure can range from 200 to 1000 PSI. Replace the power steering pump if it doesn't generate the required pressure. Other suspension components such as strut supports or worn ball joints can have similar symptoms including that feeling of loose steering.
If you suspect that the steering rack is going bad, check the steering and suspension components that we mention in this article. You want to rule out the less expensive parts first such as tie rods before you replace the steering rack.
Steering rack failure can cause catastrophic accidents. Your auto insurance company may or may not cover your car if you get in an accident because you neglected a problem. It is important to get a second opinion from a certified auto mechanic before you start throwing new parts at the car.
Even if you plan on fixing your car yourself, always get a second opinion. Stop at your local garage and have the mechanic take your car for a quick drive. A good mechanic should be able to tell you right away what is wrong with your car.
Some newer car utilizes electrical power steering instead of hydraulic power steering setup.


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Storhornet Hiking Trail
Hike up Oppdal's most visited mountain for views of Trollheimen and more
Essential info
- Destination: Oppdal
- Season: June-September
- Difficulty: Demanding
- Distance: 11 kilometers (out‑and‑back)
- Elevation Gain: 930 meters
- Duration: 3-4 hours
About Storhornet
Storhornet is Oppdal's most visited mountain and while winter is undoubtedly the high season (see ski touring on Storhornet), Storhornet makes for a fine hike in the warmer months as well. From the top you'll find extensive views of Trollheimen.
At the top sits a small stone cabin and Storhornet is the only mountaintop in Trollheimen with such a structure. Between 2,500 and 3,000 adventurers visit every year. The cabin is a handy shelter on colder days and in good weather you can lean against the sun-warmed stone walls and enjoy the view.
Getting there
The trail starts at the parking lot by Breen gård, "Breen farm". Follow road 70 west from Oppdal for nearly 11 km until you come to Festa. Turn right where the signs direct you towards Gjevilvassdalen. After passing the supermarket, continue to the left. Cross the bridge over the Festa river and keep to the right at the junction. After approximately 800 meters you'll find Breen gård on the right-hand side of the road. There's a small fee for parking.
Trail description
From the parking lot at Breen gård, head north up Breeslivegen road before joining the trail. The trail ascends the mountain gradually, through a birch wood parallel to Breesbekken stream.
Once you're over the treeline you'll find nice views over Oppdal. The terrain becomes mossy and is easy to cross. As you get closer to the top, it will become more stony underfoot. Upon reaching the top you'll discover panoramic views over Trollheimen, Sunndalsfjella, Snøhetta, and Oppdal.
Return along the same trail.
- Parking (paid)
Where to stay
Oppdal has a range of accommodation options available, including cabins, hotels, and Airbnbs.
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By Tim Bishop
WHEELING—Bob Perron, executive director of the diocesan Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry, said his office recently conducted a survey that shows its Video Catechism for Teens (VCat) program is a big hit with Catholic youth not only in the Mountain State, but also across the country.
VCat is a series of videos produced to teach youth about the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the beauty of the Catholic faith done in new and relevant ways. Perron said the videos use cultural analogies, creativity and humor and always try to answer the question, why should a teenager care about this? He said the videos always drive home a point articulated by the Catechism. A discussion guide for catechetical leaders, teachers and youth ministers, as well as a family discussion guide accompany each of the online videos.
Perron said the results of a recent survey show that over the last 20 months, more than 500,000 films have been watched nationally. Perron said that is more than 25,000 views per month or 833 per day. He added that 49,000 videos have been viewed in West Virginia alone, reaching more than 80 people per day.
"The idea behind the project was—especially in a diocese that is geographically spread out—to find ways in small parishes to be able to have an impact," Perron said, "so we thought the video Catechism was a great way to help those parishes. It is one more tool they have to evangelize their young people. We knew it would have a much larger impact because anyone with a computer can enjoy what we are doing. We had no idea it was going to be such a big hit. I can't think of any other youth sites that are getting that many hits. It is truly something we should be very proud of as a diocese."
In the survey, Perron said that parish leaders responded that they use the VCat videos as a teaching tool in their PSR and confirmation classes on a regular basis. "I have used the videos in the classroom and plan to use more next school year and for our confirmation classes and youth group. The students like them and listen to the message and the discussion questions are great," said Colleen Driscoll, Catechetical teacher at All Saints Parish in Bridgeport. Beth Brumley from Holy Trinity Parish in Nitro said, "we use them as our youth group focus, especially when we have one that goes great with the readings or liturgical season."
There are still two years left in the VCat program. Perron said he is very excited about the next two years. "Stay tuned," he said. "When we are finished, we will have covered the entire four sections of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and young people will have a reference that I think will be valuable for years to come. I see several million hits in the future."
The complete VCat series is available online at www.vcat.org.


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New credit card users: Read the fine print
Anyone who is or has been credit invisible understands the initial feeling of satisfaction that comes when you've qualified for and received your first credit card. It feels good, and it should! But you also have to temper it with some caution.
"Be sure to check your card agreement for fees and other restrictions."
Whether you're fresh out of a college or a hard-working professional who's just opened the creditor's envelope and activated the chip-equipped plastic inside, here's how to read the plethora of small-print language that's also included:
Fees and interest in the Schumer Box
Named for the still-serving U.S. Senator who lobbied for card companies to be upfront about major fees, the Schumer Box is in bold type atop the credit card agreement. Per NerdWallet, it contains: the annual percentage rate (for interest collected on purchases), transfer and foreign transaction APRs, the penalty APR and a note to visit the Federal Reserve's website for credit card tips.
There's more, just below Sen. Schumer's namesake: Annual and/or monthly fees, cash advance and foreign transaction fees (in addition to aforementioned APR), penalties for late payments or breaking your credit limit and potentially a returned-payment fee.
Scan the terms and conditions
This part of the credit card agreement is where the type gets darn near microscopic, but you have to read it closely. CreditCards.com noted that limits to bonus or cash-rewards programs are often found here, as well as other restrictions. However, these stipulations can also include details on warranty programs and fraud protections - which you definitely want - so it's not all legalese-cloaked doom and gloom.


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Paige is an Executive in our private client department, having joined Cozens-Hardy LLP in 2012. Paige is a Fellow of the Institute of Paralegals and also an Affiliate STEP member currently working towards achieving TEP status.
With a passion for private client law, Paige always makes clients her priority; she has a very personable approach and likes to make her clients feel relaxed and at ease when dealing with their personal affairs.
Paige specialises in drafting simple and complex Wills, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Court of Protection and probate applications; she also advises on later life planning.
Paige is a committee member for NewGen, a group that promotes professional women in Norwich and Norfolk. Outside of work, Paige enjoys being OPEN Youth Trust's Business Ambassador and getting involved in the local community.
Paige is proud to have been shortlisted in the category of Paralegal of the Year in the National Paralegal Awards 2019.


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Welcome to my website!
I am currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science at NYUAD's Social Science Division.
My main research interests include historical political economy, political development, and the incidence of political violence under democracy (particularly in Colombia).
I received my Ph.D. from Yale University, and my M.A. and B.A. from the University of Los Andes. You can view my CV here.


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Explore America's Campgrounds
Remington released its model 58 shotgun in 1956. It was the first first gas operated, autoloading shotgun featuring the recoil-action created by John Browning. The shotgun was discontinued in 1963. Pre-owned model 58 shotguns are often available in 12, 16, and 20 gauges. The magazine tube has a maximum capacity of three shells. The Model 58 contains Remington's "Power-Matic" system that curtails recoil. Around 270,000 were produced.
Always perform maintenance on an unloaded firearm.
Unload the shotgun and clear the breach. Make certain no cartridges are in the gun.
Engage the safety above the trigger. Slide the safety latch over the red bar printed on the firearm.. When the safety is engaged the red band should be obscured.
Unscrew the magazine cap. Slide the foreend from the upper receiver.
Push out the trigger-plate pins located above the trigger guard. Lift the assembly and pull it off the upper receiver.
Pull out the operating handle located directly inside the bolt housing.
Press down the shell latch in the upper receiver. Pull the breech and bolt assembly toward the front of the firearm until it comes free. Be sure the breech and bolt are attached to each other when you pull them from the receiver.
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My Mom, My Hero
Who is your hero? That is the easiest question. I would say that my mom is the one person that helped make me who I am today. She was a stay at home mom from the time my little brother was born, until he graduated. She was the first one up every morning and the last one to sleep every night.
She made sure that we were up every morning and were never late for school. One of her favorite sayings is "A place for everything and a thing for every place." I honestly think I heard this in my sleep she said it to me so many times. And forget telling her if I couldn't find something because I didn't want to hear it. And forget about staying up late on a school night because you would hear her other favorite sayings, "Early to bed, Early to rise. Makes a person Healthy, Wealthy and Wise."
She was always home when we got home from school to help with our homework. (Snack would be there too.) Dinner was never late. She swore by her schedule and even though I hate admitting it, It worked. We were never late and always early. You learned not to question what mom says because you would hear "I told you so." My mom was the one that I could always count on and I knew she would never let me down even if I let her down. I could always count on her and knew she would be there to dry my tears. I hated fighting with my mom even though I started a lot of them because I thought I knew better than her. Boy was I wrong!
She never put herself first, it was always the family. She never took nights off even when she was sick. She was always a mom first and even now she is the same way everyone comes first. She made being a mom and wife seem easy. Being a mom is nowhere near easy, but she never let it show. I moved of my parents house three times and moved back in twice. And even if I never showed how much I appreciated my parents, if it wasn't for them and their unconditional love, I wouldn't be the person or mother that I am today.
I am now 28 years old and my mom is my Best Friend. She is the one that I can talk to about anything. The one that I can laugh with and cry with. Just hearing her voice comforts me. I strive everyday to be half of the mother that she was with my children. It's funny how things you learn and see when you are a child stay with you. I use the same saying with my kids and repeat my self 1,000 times sure enough to say, "If you would have listened to me in the first place we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Now can you answer the question, "Who is your hero??" Leave your answers in the comments below.


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Perhaps the highlight of Germany's extraordinary devastation of Brazil on Tuesday night came a few minutes before the end, when the Germans started to pass the ball back and forth in an almost sheepish fashion. Just for a moment it became clear that several of their players had real qualms about scoring yet again – as if seized with the notionally British virtue of what the Germans themselves call das Fairplay.
Here was a team so excellent (albeit placed in the flattering context of Brazil's total self-immolation) that it could start giving itself airs and graces – worried that an eighth goal would somehow just be a bit vulgar.
From an English point of view this is really annoying. No doubt everyone had long been looking forward with pleasure to our usual World Cup fiasco, and in this we cannot for a moment say that we were let down. Being beaten by Uruguay (a country with a population twice that of Essex) will be something we can all savour for many years to come. Job done. But there is something about the Germans' supremacy, their sheer noblesse oblige, which has now rather spoilt these traditional enjoyments.
The vexed and peculiar English-German relationship has of course been through many more serious phases than those involving a few specialised young men running back and forth under arc-lights in tropical America. But setting aside the usual stuff about world wars, there is something today peculiarly awkward and tense about how we see Germany.
It is perhaps the only other European country that most British people (I must at this point switch from England to Britain) seriously respect. We might find France entertaining or we might feel sorry for Spain, but modern Germany represents a parallel reality to our own that demands a response from us – much as the US does. We laugh at the obligingly Clouseau-like President Hollande, we keep forgetting the name of the oddly young new Italian prime minister, but everybody knows Angela Merkel.
As the two big, exporting, broadly Protestant northern powers in Europe, Britain and Germany have always been entangled and have always been great trading rivals, when we have not been military rivals. Since German unification in 1871, the periods of total estrangement between the two countries have in fact been relatively brief. Outside the run-ups to the world wars (the naval arms race before 1914 and Hitler's pre-1939 annexations) and the wars themselves, the rivalry has generally been of a serious but productive kind, the two countries culturally and economically intertwined – not least through the great entrepôt of Hamburg.
In a way, it is helpful that so few British tourists visit Germany. Our views of Spain, Italy and France are so imbued with enjoyment of the dozy old, rotting town squares of yesteryear and picturesque ways of bottling fruit that we often avert our eyes from the enormous factories and grubby ports that actually define their economies – just as we so often tend, weirdly, to think of England as being more defined by, say, the Cotswolds rather than Middlesbrough.
The word "Germany" may sometimes prompt images of picturesque castles and oompah bands, but these in practice give way to visions of the endless grimness of the Ruhr, of vehicle production lines, of white goods, and of Frankfurt and Berlin's technocratic skyscrapers. For most people, Germany equals its economy.
I have always felt that Britain and Germany are like dysfunctional twins, with a mass of shared values but quite different life experiences. It has always been Britain that has (in its own estimation) been the "good twin" whereas Germany is the "bad twin", or even the "evil twin". The World Cup gives us a chilling new possibility: could Germany now be "the twin that has done well for himself", while Britain has become "the twin that took the poor life decisions"?
A fascinating strand in Britain's increasing disenchantment with the European Union stems from this. We are constantly buffeted by our political leaders into a view that Britain has no choice in the face of the icy wind of globalisation – that we need to accept deteriorating conditions for workers, 24-hour-a-day shopping, an intrusive security state, centralised government and massive inequalities of wealth, as though these are things that we can no more object to than to the weather. And yet here is Germany, just across the North Sea, with an economy getting on for 50 per cent larger than our own, which by almost any measure effortlessly contradicts these assertions.
I spent last week in Potsdam, and watched the Germany-Algeria game in a bar with tables spilling onto the street; it had superb beer, blankets thoughtfully supplied by the owners and legions of guzzling fans who were thrilled with Germany's victory but could not have been less blindly chauvinist or more polite. The whole experience of wandering around Potsdam and Berlin was oddly humiliating, even more so than when I was last there a couple of years ago.
I am not suggesting that Germany is some kind of Shangri-La: it is undoubtedly in many ways a racist, confused and unequal place, like many European countries. But it was impossible not to notice that by virtually any measure it was not just more prosperous, but simply more intelligently run and happy than Britain. At every turn, the evidence heaped up that here was a country that focused on public service, efficiency, localism and had a vision of how society should function.
The trip was particularly galling as I took along my 18-year-old son to infuse him with a bit of German history and culture. This all went pear-shaped when it became clear that while he could tolerate my enthusiasm for Frederick the Great, what really stunned him was modern Germany itself: the dynamism; the clean, beautiful parks; the shops sensibly shut on Sunday so that the families who owned them could have a day off; the great fleets of public transport that make Berlin look as if it is from some cheery civilisation in Dan Dare; the general air of fitness (which I resented); the cycle lanes everywhere.
Dealing with his incredulity over the differences was deeply awkward. The area around Berlin bristled with the results of confident, substantial decisions. Take one extraordinary example: the entirely rebuilt Prussian palace at Potsdam, which is now the home of the province of Brandenburg's government, the entity which – as I had to explain to my disbelieving son – efficiently, responsively and locally runs most of its citizens' day-to-day concerns. That one building implied an idea of how to make a country work that put me at a total loss.
This is the uneasy context in which we have to view those leaping, dodging, intent, cooperatively passing German footballers. As is traditional, I have to make clear that we can learn nothing from football; but watching them the other night, I could not help being reminded of how I had felt wandering around eastern Germany last week, just as watching the glazed, floundering and unhappy England team reminded me of life closer to home.
Germany is no flower garden – there are lots of things wrong – but it does seem to suggest that Britain's world of fawned-on Russian criminals, contempt for public service, Ukip, grotesque over-centralisation, Scottish separatists, public utilities from hell and "investment vehicle" football clubs is not some unstoppable globalised future, but is simply the only future that our politicians – themselves so reminiscent of our late lamented England team – can come up with.
Simon Winder is the author of 'Germania: a Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern' (Picador)


text: SAVE With their late patriarch Francis Magalona dubbed as the country's "Master Rapper," the Magalonas are known as a royal family of entertainers. Francis and wife Pia had eight children, many of whom had also joined showbiz. Over the last couple of years, however, the Magalona siblings have been dabbling in business. Among their ventures is concept restaurant Milky 'n Sunny, co-owned by Pia and her two children—Elmo and Mrs. Maxene Mananquil. Milky 'n Sunny operates in two locations. One is at Legaspi Village in Makati. The other sits at the newly built Ignacia Place in Quezon City. The original idea behind Milky 'n Sunny: An all-day breakfast place—hence, the name. When the Magalonas opened their first branch in 2010, they received praise for their generous servings of classic favorites (rice and egg meals, waffles, and french toasts, to name a few) as well as their unique takes on them (one bite of the Maxene Pancake Wrap and you'll understand). But over the years, and at the suggestion of customers, they've expanded their menu to include non-breakfast items such as soups, salads, bar chow, and pastas. Now they like to think of themselves as your neighborhood go-to for all kinds of comfort food. The planning Maxene, Elmo, and Pia unveiled the QC branch of Milky n' Sunny to some select members of the media last April. Apparently, the launch of the second branch has been a long time coming. "Thankfully nakahanap kami ng spot here because I really love Quezon City! This is where I work. And I used to live in Katipunan, so I'm happy that we got to open here," an excited Maxene told us. Added Elmo, one of the biggest considerations in opening a Milky 'n Sunny branch is accessibility. "I'm one of those people who enjoy comfort food. But sometimes we only get that when we're at home or far away from work," he observed. "We chose this location (in QC) because it's near the two big networks in show business. In Makati, it's beside all these buildings with offices. So it's a really good spot (for) people (who) want to find food." If everything goes well, Elmo said they'll consider implementing a 24-hour service starting with their QC branch. The ropes of business Is working with family an issue? It can be to some, as it inevitably blurs personal or professional lines. Yet, the two Magalona siblings insist there has been no drama when it comes to running Milky 'n Sunny. "We just give out ideas. Siyempre we're trying to vie for what we're supposed to serve people," revealed Elmo. "And if we think it's not deserving to be on the menu, we don't really push each other." It also helps that there's a clear division of labor among them. Maxene and Elmo help promote the restaurant while their mom, their tita, and other partners handle the admin work. Business tips While none of them have an actual background in food or business, the siblings have learned a great deal in both. "Be smart about your future and your investments. When you want to open a business make sure it's something that you really relate to and that you believe in," advised Maxene. "I love eating and I love breakfast food. Translate everything that you love into a business, and you will never have to work a day in your life!" Elmo's biggest takeaway is convincing customers to come back. "Most people would just be like, 'Oh, there's a new restaurant! Why don't we try this?' And then later on they'd not want to try it again," he admitted. Elmo and the rest of the team address this by doing things the ol' fashioned way: making delicious food. For more information, follow @milkynsunny on Facebook and Instagram ALSO READ: In Focus: Celebs And Their Best Moments With Their Moms Photographs by Vyn Radovan and Instagram.com/maxenemagalona


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What do you think of these two gorgeous gals? I'm still fond of Mini my Finnish filly but Poppy and Penny look like girls who enjoy a bit of turbo-charged excitement.
(Photos by Pete and Jan Jones www.lancashire-heeler.co.uk)
At last, a girl after my own heart, one who obviously adores collars as much as I do. Her name is Mini and she is from Finland. Her owner Anna Ritta got lots of mosquito bites making it for her but I certainly think it was worth it. Do you think I could tempt her over to look at my collar collection?
Here I am helping to weed the garden in preparation for an open day. We are supporting Patch (a very fetching little lady) and her owner Sophie who are walking to Lands End from John O'Groats.
They are raising money for The Dogs Trust.
Follow their progress on
Patch's blog
Below is a Virtual Tour of the garden (in case you couldn't visit). Shame, I hear you saying, that I or Silver had to sneak into each picture.
That's all, folks!
My twitter followers will know that she came home from helping out the other day at Collarways with a massive
tuggy toy
BUT IT WASN'T FOR ME. Apparently it's because Silver (GSD) loves to play after we've been fed. But that is just when she's trying to cook their supper so she thinks she can do two things at once by stirring sauces on the Aga whilst dangling the toy over one arm.
I think it's a recipe for disaster. It seems to me that either Silver's going to get tugged head first into the simmering oven, or she's going to go flying across the kitchen, spoon in hand. My bet's on Silver winning the tug-of-war. As you can see, I'm keeping well out of it, though I am carefully positioned to take advantage of any spills.
It seems that I have been retired from agility - shame that really as, unbeknown to her, I was thinking about making a bit more of an effort as I am actually quite fond of her and she obviously enjoyed it. Anyway, it turns out that, now I've been diagnosed with Primary Lens Luxation (PPL), it's perhaps not that sensible for me to do anything which might raise the pressure in my eyes.
Here we are about to set off on our last ever agility round a couple of weeks ago (we were placed 8th).
And this was last winter - do you like my bottom?
(Photo by David King www.dk-capture.com)
I still enjoy a bit of Agility Lite at home AND I'm better than Silver (GSD) especially on the see-saw though she did manage to show off one day by jumping over Diamond (pot-bellied pig) who was grazing in the middle of the course. Well it is easy to mistake Diamond for part of the tunnel - black and rotund!
I did say I was going to introduce you to my other (very) big sister, Diamond the Vietnamese Pot-bellied Pig, but I think she's going to be quite cross that I'm showing you a picture of her having a shower and I may well have to keep out of her way for the next few days.
I will tell you all about her another time but I couldn't resist using this photo to tell you about the
Pooch Pampering Day
this Saturday (18th April) at Collarways - you didn't think you'd get to see ME in the bath, did you? Anyway, I hardly need more than a quick brush but I do hope to see lots of you there at the Collarways shop smelling delicious and flashing newly manicured nails.
Perhaps I'd better take a bottle of
Shimmering Mist
back for Diamond as an appeasement present - she could certainly do with "a little bit of bling" and, even better, it "repels dirt and dust".
Thought you might like to hear about my big sister, Silver. She's a German Shepherd and is three years older than me.
It was quite tricky at first getting her to play gently with me as her paws were nearly as big as me.
She's also a bit of a gullumphing lass and apparently she should have been called Joyce (after Joyce Grenfell) as she's got that jolly-hockey-sticks, clumsy, big-boned way of moving around.
However, if we have a tuggy or a toy such as the
Vibram Ball on a Rope
to share then she's very patient with me and even lets me pull her along - yes she does.
I'll tell you about my other (very) big sister, Diamond the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, another time - bet you can't wait.
After all the talk about healthy eating
(see 'Working Weekend' 4th March and 'Lack of Treats' 12th March)
she's now muttering about an exercise regime, though thankfully I think it's for her rather than me as I am, of course, at the peak of fitness.
And to prove it, you only have to look at this video of me jumping over my friend Shadow. I can tell you that after all that leaping I was jolly glad to have a lie down on my
Eco Nap.
Honestly, that was a bit of a swizz on Saturday at the 'Natural Feeding Open Day'
see 'Working Weekend 4th March
. I got short-changed again at breakfast and it wasn't even an agility day
(see Snakes and Ladders 21st Feb)
She said it was because no doubt I was going to be scoffing lots of samples later on and she didn't want me losing my trim figure. She, on the other hand, had her usual bowl of porridge and honey and then still tucked into the chocolate digestives during the break - 's not fair.
Anyway, Rebecca the lovely lady representative from Natures Menu, took pity on me and sneaked me quite a few of their banquet nuggets and then also presented me with a packet of beef treats for being such a good boy. I was just about to make sure that they really were '95% pure meat' when the packet was whipped away,
"Oh, thank you SO much, Turbo will really enjoy earning those at his next agility class."
Excuse me, I thought I'd already earned them by posing for the paparazzi sent along by the local paper and doing endless bows and begs to amuse everybody.
Still, at least I didn't have to wear a coat though it did take us absolutely ages to leave as she couldn't decide which collar or harness I should have on - the utility room at home resembles a tack room what with mine and Silver's accoutrements collection. In the end she settled on the
Moo Cow Step-in Harness
as it didn't clash with what she was wearing and she seemed to think that people would make the connection between cows and the fact that I'm a cattle dog - pathetic.
Hmmm, I've just been told that I'm to earn my keep this Saturday at the 'Natural Feeding' Open Day. I'm going to have to stand around in the Collarways' showroom looking a right twerp, sorry, "a picture of vitality and good health", whilst she goes on about how she's a BARFer and that I'm only fed as "nature intended" on raw bones and food.
Then I expect I'm going to have to prance around showing off my muscular physique whilst she tells anybody who'll listen that right from a puppy I had to gnaw and chew my way through raw venison backs, lamb and chicken bones and even bison ribs which is what has given me my rippling muscles and gleaming tartar-free teeth. She's even got this embarrassing video clip of me as a pup tackling a bit of venison which I bet she adds to this post (done). She also tends to go on and on about how wonderful she thinks the Nature's Menu range of raw minced vegetables and meat is for supplementing the raw bones - it's the closest I ever get to a fast food feast.
Anyway it might not be so bad if enough of you fans turn up to see me and I get lots of pats, and you sneak me some of the Nature's Menu samples which are really meant for the visitors. I'm also going to be modelling my favourite collars and harnesses (10% off everything on the day). So that you don't miss me, you'd better check out the 'Open Days' section of the Collarways site at http://tinyurl/collarways for times and special offers. Look forward to giving you a lick.
Well, I REALLY enjoyed the Turbo Tour walk last Sunday (see my profile if you don't know about Turbo Tours). Whilst all the humans were twittering on about how gorgeous the New Forest was looking and what simply splendid weather it was for a long walk, I'd spotted /whiffed that young Millie the gorgeous Golden Retriever might well be susceptible to a little bit of male attention. "Oh no, she can't be in season," her owner kept on saying to everybody who commented that Millie seemed to be flirting quite a lot but I suspected otherwise. Unfortunately so did Charlie the black lab and Wilson the Weimaraner even though we've all been "done". However with a bit of ducking and weaving I soon assumed pole position trotting along after Millie as she led us all a merry dance. All harmless fun and I did manage one sneaky sniff (
), well at least that's one advantage of short legs .
I did used to have quite a thing for Sophie the Dobermann and I must say that she was looking particularly fetching in her
new pink harness
on Sunday (
) but for some reason she seems to have run out of that wonderful perfume she used to wear occasionally.
I've got a feeling it's something to do with that nasty antiseptic smell she was covered in a couple of years ago. Millie's owner was being given lots of advice by all the humans so I suspect that that's the last time she's going to be such fun to walk alongside.
Well, I've just been given a smaller than usual breakfast (1/3 of a raw chicken wing instead of a whole half) which means it must be Agility Class this afternoon. She seems to think that if I'm slightly peckish I might try harder - as if I'm THAT desperate for a miniscule piece of dried liver!
Now, unlike all those irritatingly keen Collies, us Heelers have a slightly more nonchalant attitude to negotiating an agility course so, actually, I'm not particularly excited at the prospect of toddling in and out of poles, scrambling up A-frames and rushing (sort of) down a line of jumps. The tunnels aren't too bad as there's always the opportunity for a quick rest in the middle. It's quite amusing peeking out to see where she's got to on the course before she realises I'm not with her.
Last week she had to really concentrate as Amy (our jolly teacher) had them all working out where the hidden 'snakes' were in the course. And we had to do some strange exercise involving stepping along a ladder laid on the ground. It was supposed to teach us to pick up our paws and develop 'rear leg awareness'. Well that was fine for Rufus as Tollers have fine elegant legs but for me it was like having to do a dozen mini jumps in short succession. I pity the miniature Dachshund in the next class...
Just spotted her rummaging in the freezer so, with any luck, she's getting out a bag of yummy turkey leftovers so perhaps I might deign to kick in the turbo-charger occasionally this afternoon.
Looking back on my last post
(Coat Testing 18th Feb)
, I don't just have to stand around in icy puddles you know, I also have to run as fast as my little legs can go just to prove that the harness won't come off. Honestly, it was really hard work and all I got was a measly piece of cheese though it was a piece of local Dorset Blue Vinney.
Photograph by David King who brings his Weimaraner, Wilson, on my Turbo Tours (www.dk-capture.com)
Right, let's get to grips with this blogging lark. I'm going to assume right from the beginning that anybody reading this is going to be fantastically interested in absolutely everything I get up to which, being a Lancashire Heeler, can involve such diverse activities as sofa-testing to rat-hunting to "heeling" my owner's Vietnamese pot-bellied pig away from the Aga. At the moment I'm looking forward to this Sunday and our monthly social dog walk in the New Forest which my owner kindly organises for not just me, but also my big sister Silver (a German Shepherd) and about a dozen of our 4-legged friends. These walks are, of course, known as 'Turbo Tours' and the only downside can be when I have to mix work with pleasure by testing out coats for Collarways.
You see that really fancy
stretchy red number
I'm modelling in the posh shot at the top of this blog? Well, I had to wear that same coat first of all back in
November on a Turbo Tour just so that it could be checked out for ease of movement and washability (I, of course, only had to do the movement bit). Actually, don't tell anybody but I was quite glad I'd got it on after negotiating that freezing puddle. Not long afterwards I found a great bit of pony poo to roll in but it all came out in the wash - shame.
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I was carrying a lunch and more camera equipment than usual (I had the 500mm lens on the camera, but I wasn't sure I'd want to carry it around my neck the whole day, so I had the case and the 17-85 lens), so I had my big backpack. I'd stopped at a little bridge over an arm of the lake to take off my heavy shirt, rest a bit, and take a few pictures of birds when I heard a jogger approaching. Just to make my day extra-surreal, it was my boss!
There were lots of birds around. Either the warblers and the white-throated sparrows were shadowing me all day, or there are many hundreds of both species in the park. I also encountered something I didn't know existed: a flock of towhees. Well, a group, at least, about 6 of them. Do towhees migrate?
The real high point of the day, though, was about halfway around the lake. There's a short detour off the path that goes to a little arm of the lake where there are a couple of plastic chairs, and I went there to eat my lunch. Other people using this area are jerks, leaving litter around, so I was picking some of it up and putting it in my lunch bag, when some critters swam up. At first I thought they were muskrats, but when I looked closer I realized that they were otters! Being otters, they were insanely cute, and they made funny noises too. If I believed in such things, I would take it as a clear sign that I was doing the right thing to clean up the trash. After a moment, I recovered from the shock and picked up the camera, and I actually got off my duff and pulled the memory card from my camera, so here behind the cut is a picture.
ETA: oops, I hit post before I mentioned that by the time I got back to the car, it was too late for me to actually get to the beginning of the lecture, plus my back was really sweaty from wearing the backpack and I figured it would be pretty rude for me to come in late and smelly. So I hope ya'll enjoyed it. (If I hadn't wasted 20 minutes driving to the other side of Danville and back, I could've made it. Argh.)


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Thousands of new homes and jobs proposed in new Waveney local plan
PUBLISHED: 11:34 13 March 2019 | UPDATED: 11:34 13 March 2019
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More than 9,000 new homes and 5,000 new jobs are being proposed as a local plan looks set to be adopted.
Following an independent examination by a Government-appointed inspector, the new Waveney Local Plan proposes the development of 9,235 new homes and sufficient land to facilitate the creation of 5,000 new jobs over the period to 2036.
It sets out the level of growth which needs to be planned, where that growth should be and how it should be delivered.
The inspection, which is the final stage before adoption, found the Local Plan to be sound subject to some amendments.
David Ritchie, Waveney's cabinet member for planning and rural affairs said: "The new Local Plan for Waveney has been in development since 2016 and has been through three rounds of public consultation.
"Policies within the Plan will help in the determination of future planning applications and ensure new development is properly planned and of the highest possible quality."
Waveney District Council approved a final draft of the plan in March last year, which was then open to the public for final comments.
These comments were considered by an independent planning inspector when the plan was submitted to the Government on June 22.
A public hearing was held in October and on March 1, 2019, the Inspector published his report concluding the Local Plan was 'sound' subject to a number of amendments.
These amendments primarily relate to the detailed wording of policies.
The plans for 9,235 new homes in the district and 5,000 new jobs will continue to apply to the area following the creation of East Suffolk Council, until such time as the new council decides to review it.
The council will be asked to adopt the Local Plan next Wednesday, March 20.
More details on the new Local Plan can be found at www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/new-waveney-local-plan
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Over 500 beautiful people, including athletes, celebrities, and a bunch of twenty-somethings, rocked the red carpet at the Mellwood Arts Center Friday night at the first Maxim Fillies and Stallions party.
The guest list included the "Most Interesting Man in the World" Jonathan Goldsmith of Dos Equis fame, Super Bowl MVP Aaron Rodgers, ESPN's Erin Andrews, celebrity chef Bobby Flay, Wildcat basketball alumni DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall, party animal (and Olympic skier) Bode Miller, Nick Lachey and country superstar Travis Tritt, among others.
Female "jockeys" in argyle sweaters and short skirts danced on cubes, swinging their riding crops to the rhythm.
Revelers enjoyed cocktails with a Derby flair by Evan Williams, Lunazul Tequila and Red Bull.
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Day 3 of the Expat Explore leg of the tour was a trip to Prague via Nuremberg for a lunch stop. (A.M)
As much as I'd love to share more about Nuremburg, I must be honest and tell you that I really was just so excited to get to Prague. For some bizarre reason I felt like this was the official start of the tour.
I can go into a lot of history (which I must tell you is very interesting, because while on tour with Expat Explore, you get a lot of info on a country as you head into a new city and this really helps a lot!) but I won't share too much, other than that after WWI, Prague was the capital of Czechoslovakia. Following a few other historic events, like WWII and also the Velvet Revolution (basically the end of Stalinist rule in the region), Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolved and became the Czech Republic and Slovakia. (T.L)
Fortunately when we arrived late in the afternoon, there was still time for a us to catch a quick guided tour of the city before dinner. This proved to be extremely helpful before we were left to our devices the next day and able to explore the city in greater depth. Aside from familiarising ourselves with the area we were also able to narrow down the key things to focus on during our free day and work out how much time we needed at each place. Based on our own experience and the info we absorbed from the tour guide, we've compiled our own "Top 5 things to do in Prague". (A.M)
1. Old Town Square
As with many town squares in Europe, this is the heart of the city. It seems like there is a constant buzz in this square which not only houses many restaurants and cafes but other historic sites as well. (T.L)
A portion of the Old Town Hall, which was built in 1338, is still standing in the Old Town Square. Unfortunately most of this building was destroyed during the Prague uprising in the 1940's. Going through Europe it's actually insane when you realise how much history has vanished due to to conflicts over the years. In a sense I supposed the same could be said about Africa sadly. (A.M)
The Church of Mother of God before Týn, which has been the main church of this part of the country since the 14th century with towers of 80 metres.(T.L)
2. The Medieval Astronomical Clock
The Medieval Astronomical Clock is located on the Old Town Hall. The clock was first installed in 1410, which makes it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world and it still works with all its original parts! (T.L)
I'd be lying if I said I figured it out, but it is possible to not only tell the time from the clock dial, but also what day it is and its position in the week, month and year. The clock also tracks Central European, Babylonian and Sidereal time in case you have some peeps in Babylon that you need to keep tabs on. (A.M)
Everyone arrives here waiting for the amazing show that happens at the top of the hour. They sit around and wait and wait to see a 2 minute animation show that takes place with the four figures that flank the clock (T.M).
Word of advise: Manage your expectations with regards to the "animation show". As far as 600yr old installations go, it's damn spectacular but it's no Tomorrowland experience. During the summer months however they do have a video mapping projection show on the clock featuring some of the key events in Czech history which does upgrade the show immensely. (A.M)
3. Charles Bridge
We had to get to Charles Bridge and I do think this has got to be the most beautiful bridge I have ever seen! This bridge crosses the Vlatva river in Prague and is protected by 3 bridge towers. There are many statues on the bridge too, but they are all replicas as the originals are in safekeeping. This bridge isn't long, but with everything to see on it, including a lovely orchestra playing, it takes a while to cross over!(T.L)
Apparently construction of the bridge started in 1357 and the very first stone was laid by King Charles IV himself, whom the bridge is named after. As with most of the architecture in Prague it has withstood some pretty horrid times from countless wars, floods and heavy traffic wear and tear. (A.M)
4. The Prague Castle
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the castle is the largest, ancient castle in the world and occupies an area of 70 000 square metres! It hosts the Saint Vitus Cathedral, a cathedral with a tower that gives you magnificent views of Prague. (T.L)
Make sure you you give yourself some time because you'll want to take in all of the views and if it's busy you may have to wait a while to get that ideal spot to snap your perfect shot. One of the things that will take some time (and a few euros) is climbing up the cathedral tower. (A.M)
Please do read the notices before you decide to start climbing… We didn't (we learn through our mistakes!) and only found out halfway that there are 280 steps to the top! However, the views are worth it.
So who would've thought that we would see an Eiffel Tower in Prague? I'm sure nobody would, but this structure not the Eiffel Tower, it's the Petrin Lookout Tower, which strongly resembles the Eiffel Tower, just much shorter. We decided not to do the hike up to the tower, but we still needed a picture. (T.L)
5. Traditional Prague Folklore Dinner
We couldn't leave without experiencing a dinner party Czech style and when the Czechs throw a party, they do it big and loud. As if the bottomless beer and wine wasn't enough, the meat just kept flowing and flowing as well. Heaven I tell you (A.M)
Besides the delicious food, the evening also allowed for us to get to know our fellow 'tour members' even better. I enjoyed this huge city that had the warmth of a small town. Quaint, cute, warm and just all round pleasant is how I would describe Prague and I would love to return for their Christmas Markets one day.(T.L)
A lot of people have asked me why I love Europe and the old buildings, etc. The answer is pretty simple, I really do love being in places that look so very different to where I'm from. I love looking out of a window and seeing things I don't know and need to find out more about. I love walking on streets I don't know and even the idea of getting lost doesn't faze me.
3 thoughts on "Eurotrip: 5 must do's in Prague"
Jarda October 30, 2016 at 10:23 pm
Czech beer (and beer spa e.g. http://vinohradskydum.cz/beer-spa-wellness/?lang=en ) should not be missed. Beer is the best thing Czech Republic has to offer 🙂


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Monday, August 20, 2012
Sue: "Classic with a Twist"
My style is 'classic with a twist'. The twist being the addition of a "statement piece" - be it retro clothing, a funky accessory or the way I do my hair that brings an element of originality and fun to my outfit. I think it's a mistake to take clothes too seriously. You gotta have some fun!
My style influence is so integral to my life. I was most influenced by my Mom. She was always "put together" and created beautiful clothes for herself when money didn't allow for shopping -- many of which are my favourite "statement pieces" to this day.
Sue is a model, on-camera host, script-writer and voice-over artist. For more information, check out her site here.
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Lost Weekend V: Saturday- day 3 pt. 1
Withwhat seems like has become tradition at LW, we start Saturday off with an animatedfeature:
Sponsored by HORSE & HARE: Hand Carved Art + Design
Brazil, 2013. Language: Portuguese. Rated PG.
A little boy goes on an adventurous quest in search of his father.
"It's both the best children's animated film this year since "Inside Out" - you might call it "Outside In" - and, unexpectedly, a more stirring depiction of the deadening modern megalopolis than most heal-the-world documentaries. " – Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times
Nominated: Best Animated Feature | 2015 Academy Awards
Next is a film that was sponsored by ITMODcast! Not only that but we hosted a pie eating contest before the film, inspired by a scene in the film that see's Salma Hayak eating a large dragon's heart(yes)!
Advance Screening
Sponsored by In The Mouth of Dorkness Podcast
Italy | France | UK, 2015. Language: English | Russian. Rated R
Once upon a time there were three neighboring kingdoms each with a magnificent castle, from which ruled kings and queens, princes and princesses. One king was a fornicating libertine, another captivated by a strange animal, while one of the queens was obsessed by her wish for a child. Sorcerers and fairies, fearsome monsters, ogres and old washerwomen, acrobats and courtesans are the protagonists of this loose interpretation of the celebrated tales of Giambattista Basile.
"It is a masterpiece of black-comic bad taste and a positive carnival of transgression. The secret is the deadpan seriousness with which everything is treated." – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Nominated: Palme d'Or | 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Winner: Best Costume Design + Production Design | 2015 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
And the last film before the break
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USA | Canada | Spain| Italy, 2014. Language: English. Unrated.
The life and career of the renowned stage magician turned scientific skeptic of the paranormal, James Randi.
Winner: Best Documentary | Newport Beach Film Festival + Napa Valley Film Festival + Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Of course there's the second half of Friday's programming so stay tuned for that!
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