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Here is a testimonial from Connection's Operations Director, Gary Whitehead.
"We have always received a good level of service from Pendle Engineering. The timing and quality of their communication allows us the appropriate time to feedback delivery dates to both our warehouse and production facilities. Pendle Engineering work well as a team, changing their approach to fit the unique needs and culture of Connection rather than trying to force a rigid process onto our organisation. Their staff are well trained with broad skill sets that mean they can adapt and react to our changing purchasing profile. They also value our relationship with them, and where issues do arise they are fully aware of the impact these may have on customers, and take all steps to avoid these.
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WINCHESTER — Last August, Mariah Stebbins spent a week flying an F/A-18 Hornet military fighter jet. She withstood powerful G-forces in a centrifuge, and was crowned Top Gun — last man standing — in a fierce aerial dog-fight contest.
It's all part of her training as a future U.S. Air Force pilot. But for now, her military career is on hold. At 13, she isn't even in high school yet.
It's all part of her training as a future U.S. Air Force pilot. But for now, her military career is on hold. At 13, she isn't even in high school yet.
"But, after that, I really want to join," she said.
Stebbins, who lives in Winchester, did it all at a week-long Aviation Challenge camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. An affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, it's the official NASA Visitor Information Center for the renowned Marshall Space Flight Center.
The hands-on, educational program is designed specifically for young people interested in military aviation, and is structured military-style. Mariah was one of only three girls among the nearly 50 participants in her group. She wore a military battle dress uniform, slept in a same-sex barracks resembling a military bay on a space station, and dined in a mess hall while there.
Every day, she worked with a 15-member team. Besides flying a state-of-the-art simulated combat fighter jet, she trained intensively in simulated emergency helicopter crashes and zip-lined into a lake for simulated parachute water landings. She practiced land and water survival skills, and undertook a Navy SEALS special operations search-and-rescue mission.
"I really liked the survival training, and to be able to be in all the different simulators," she said. "Right before graduation, we did a mission at night. We had to do an army crawl through the woods without being caught."
Now in 8th grade, she's a straight-A student at the Winchester School, where she plays on the soccer team. Her father and stepmother, Mike and Angela Stebbins, own a used car sales and service dealership adjacent to the family home, which Mike built. They're also a military family.
For more than a dozen years, Angela Stebbins has served with the N.H. Air National Guard, and is assigned to Pease Air National Guard Base in Portsmouth. Until recently, she worked in public relations, writing for the base newspaper and quarterly magazine. After completing an accelerated training program in Texas, she's now a dental assistant at the base. Like her peers, she's on duty one weekend per month, and two weeks per year. She plans to continue until she meets the 20-year service requirement for retirement.
Mariah wants to follow in her footsteps, except as a full-time Air Force combat pilot.
"She's seen everything the military has done for our family, and the opportunity it presents for her down the road," said Angela Stebbins. "She has what it takes."
A military career requires attention to detail and determination," she said. "When Mariah puts her mind to something she doesn't give up, she doesn't quit. She's very reliable and trustworthy, and shows excellence in all that she does. And, she has a passion for flying."
Mariah may have her stepmother's proclivity for the military, but it was her father who inspired her love of flying, by chance. Several years ago, she rode along with him wide-eyed when he took an introductory flying lesson at Dillant-Hopkins Airport. He's since taken one or two more. Not long after, her older brother Dylan, who now lives in Massachusetts, applied to the aviation camp program, but soon backed out.
She wanted to go in his place, but was only in 4th grade. Too young, she had to wait. A year later, she attended a basic level session, and returned in August 2014 for the more intensive mid-level program, where she won "Top Gun" above all participants.
To cover expenses, she applied for a scholarship from the Military Child Education Coalition, a global nonprofit group that provides educational opportunities to children in military families. Not only did the group award her a grant to the aviation program, including expenses, it gave her a second scholarship to the center's robotics camp the following week.
"It was really different going from aviation to robotics," she said. "We built and programmed robots and competed in tasks. Robotics was fun, but I liked aviation much more. It was just different."
No one's prouder than her dad.
"I'm a little jealous," he joked. "I think it's great. She really does a lot of things. I can't imagine when I was her age flying on an airplane by myself to Alabama for a couple of weeks. She loved it."
Several months ago, she joined the Monadnock Civil Air Patrol, now faithfully attends weekly meetings, and recently earned her first promotion from cadet to airman. She's also working towards her private pilot's license at Dillant-Hopkins Airport. Already, she's taken a glider flight and has flown a small plane.
Things just fell into line, says Angela Stebbins.
"First she discovered her interest in flying," she said. "Then she got the scholarship to the aviation program. Then the Civil Air Patrol, which had been inactive for a long time, suddenly started up again. It all just came together.
"We try to balance things as much as we can," she said. "We want her to enjoy childhood, but we also want to set her up on a good path for the future."
But, flying's not Mariah's only passion. She's also a competitive race car driver.
Every Saturday from April through September, she drives the No. 10 car in the Young Gun division, ages 12 to 15, at Monadnock Speedway. She's part of the RAD team (Race Against Drugs), a group of young volunteers who promote a healthy drug-free lifestyle for youth through racing, and raise awareness of drug abuse and prevention in the Monadnock Region. RAD is an offshoot of the National Center for Prevention and Research Solutions program in Florida.
She hasn't finished in the top three spots yet, but really enjoys the sport, and advocacy work.
"There are quite a few girls involved," she said. "I'll probably do it through high school as much as I can."
Mariah starts high school next year. Today, she and her family are touring the Milton Hershey School, a private residential high school in Pennsylvania, founded by the chocolate magnate. Her stepmother thinks she'd love what it offers. Mariah isn't so sure. She thinks she'd rather stay close to home and family, and go to Keene High School, she says.
No matter what her choice, Elizabeth Lounder, her homeroom teacher at Winchester School, believes that she'll excel.
"Mariah is very mature for her age," she said. "She's very quiet and unassuming. If it weren't for us bragging about what she did last summer, no one would ever know.
"She never tries to impress anyone. She's just quietly pursuing what she wants to do," she said. "She brings a lot of grace and maturity to whatever she does. If this is what she's doing at this age, I can't wait to see her future."
One thing Mariah's certain about is returning to the aviation camp in Alabama. She hopes to get another scholarship within a couple of years for the advanced and final program. She wants to be an Air Force pilot.
About that, she's absolutely clear.
"It's something I already know a lot about," she said. "It's what I really want to do."

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President Obama's approval rating has dropped to 41 percent, a majority of Americans disapprove of his handling of foreign policy issues, he has lost support from the Hispanic community and Americans actually think his administration is less competent than the Bush White House post-Hurricane Katrina, according to a new survey from the Wall Street Journal and NBC News.
In short, the poll is nothing but bad news for the president.
The survey would appear to be so bad, in fact, that NBC News' Chuck Todd said Tuesday that the poll basically means the public has declared the Obama presidency to be over.
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… Hello Autumn! Autumn has to be my favourite season of the year – the colours, the fashion, the weather – all divine. Spring is gorgeous, but I get hay fever, which impacts my ability to enjoy Spring, so Autumn wins by default. This summer, I am well and truly over the heat. I travelled to the US in June 2013, which gave me some bonus heat, and then to the Middle East in October, which taught me what heat truly is – so I'm ready for the cold weather to set in. Obviously I'm in Australia, so it's not exactly an extremely cold, snowy winter in store, but it's a nice change from the heat.
So, in preparation for the arrival of Autumn, I'm maximising my summer nail polish, and will embrace autumn shades as soon as possible. This week, I'm wearing OPI's 'Charged Up Cherry' which is fluro-toned pink polish. It's definitely not for everybody, and it polarises people in my life. Either people love it, or absolutely hate it; I'm in the middle about it. It's the first time I've put it on this summer, it's just a bit too fluro for me to love enough for regular use.
Autumn colours, on the other hand, are impossible not to love! I really need to reshuffle my nail polish storage to make autumn shades easier to access. I was gifted a purple shade of polish last week for my birthday, which I'm very excited to try out. I've also busted out my OPI 'Malaga Wine' (I actually couldn't resist, I have it on my toes already), and will continue my hunt for the perfect nude shade. I'm interested in a more grey-toned nude this season, as well as adding the perfect black to my collection.
Autumn and winter fashion is starting to enter the stores, which is making the current heat quite unbearable. Is it too much to ask for the weather to be a balmy 15 degrees on the 1st of March, with a bit of a sharp, cold breeze? I have scarves and jackets to wear!
No recommendations in this blog post, consider it my ode to Autumn.
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Landscaping with ornamental grasses - particularly native American grasses - can lend a host of favorable attributes to your yard. In addition to adding color, texture, and contrast, ornamental grasses also provide shelter for wildlife and, if the right varieties are used, can offer a beautiful way to screen for privacy between your property and the next.
Not to be confused with sedges (sedges have three-sided blades while grass blades are rounded), ornamental grass is quickly becoming one of the most favored landscape accents on the market. Grasses are grown around the world, the largest of which is bamboo.
Each area of the globe has its own native grasses, but not until recently have ornamental varieties been cultivated for use in the landscape. Traditionally, as a provider of all the cereals consumed by both animals and humans, grasses have been grown for food only.
Native American grasses include:
As a rule of thumb, native American grasses require much less water for optimum growth than many ornamental grasses that hail originally from European countries.
Ornamental sedges, unlike native American grasses, require lots of water to properly thrive. Native to bogs and moors, these plants require a wet to moist growing medium to do well. With more than a thousand species, some ornamental sedges include variegate Japanese (carex Morrowii "gilt"), New Zealand hair (carex "Frosted Curls"), leather leaf (carex buchananii), and Bowles golden (carex elata "Bowles Golden").
Both ornamental sedges and grasses can make a big, beautiful difference in your landscape. Because of the incredible variety, it pays to do some online research and plan your yard accordingly. Visit local nurseries and find out more about the amazing versatility and beauty of ornamental grasses and sedges, including which are available locally. Everyone, including your neighbors, will be glad you took the time to make these wonderful and easy-to-grow plants a vital part of your landscaping plans.
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Macomb Twp - Town vs. County Stats
Avg Price in Macomb Twp: $346,200 / County Avg $297,600
Avg Taxes in Macomb Twp: $2,000 / County Avg $2,900
Avg Sq. Ft. in Macomb Twp: 2,207 / County Avg 2,005
Avg Price per/ft2 in Macomb Twp: $157 / County Avg $148
Avg Walkscore in Macomb Twp: 15 / County Avg 30
Avg Year Built in Macomb Twp: 2004 / County Avg 1979
Avg Days on Website in Macomb Twp: 68 / County Avg 68
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With the building boom in the late 1990's Macomb Township became Michigan's fastest growing major municipality. Most homes found here are 20 years young or less. The township itself offers a state of the art recreation facility, beautiful new city offices, weekly summer concerts in the park and numerous shopping. Home to Blue Ribbon Schools and the Macomb Intermediate School district (school for children with special needs) education is a priority making it a great place to raise your family. This place has a home for everyone.
Schools Districts in Macomb Twp: Chippewa Valley - New Haven - L'ance Cruese - Utica
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There are still tickets available for tonight's concert at the State Farm Center for Green Day! University of Illinois (U of I) students have a student discount for the concert, and you should take advantage of it! It starts today at 7:30PM, so hurry up and get your tickets!
This new couples painting is great for date night or bring your special little person! The price includes any of Pizza Antica's fantastic pizza's from the menu. Antica is located in Downtown Champaign and this event takes place Thursday, March 30th, from 6PM-9PM.
Saturday is jam packed with event. And here are the details for Breakfast with the babies (baby goats that is)!
Join us on Saturday, April 1, from 9:00am – 12 noon for our third "Breakfast with the Babies" event of the season. This open house event series will continue every Saturday through 4/29.
Stop by the barn to meet the "kids". We have 110+ baby goats born in March, with more on the way. Please note signs on the pens that specify which goats can be pet or not (as the newborns shouldn't be pet by guests until they're a little older). And don't forget to step next door and visit with the does.
Step inside our dining room to enjoy some fresh breakfast on the farm. We'll have savory and sweet breakfast options, delicious goats' milk cocoa and fresh coffee. Cash and credit cards accpeted. Price: $4 – $7 per breakfast item.
Show your support of local, sustainable farms by picking out a few items through our on-site store, The Real Stand. We'll have cheese and gelatoes that are made by the Praire Fruits Farm team. We also feature products from local farms such as Bane Family that produces meats & eggs. T-shirts, sweatshirts and home goods available too.
Our address is: 4410 N Lincoln Ave, Champaign, IL 61822
We recommend taking N. Market Street to Olympian Drive towards Lincoln Ave. This section of Olympian Drive just opened (not updated on Google Maps yet). See our site for directions: http://
NOTE: There is construction taking place on Lincoln Ave south of our farm that has resulted in road closures.
We have about 30 parking spaces on our farm. We also have an overflow lot that can hold an additional 60+ cars. A staffer will be on hand helping guests find parking spots. Please consider carpooling and coming early, as parking is limited.
We ask that our guests leave their pets at home. As our farm is a working farm, outside dogs or pets will disrupt our herd and working dogs. Outside pets are not welcome.
Also on Saturday, WorldFest at the Spurlock Museum!
A whole afternoon of performances! During WorldFest, the Museum celebrates the wonderful variety of performance arts practiced around the world and offers hands-on activities for everyone.
Suggested donation: $5.
Performer descriptions:
• Marilyn Kinsella, multicultural storytelling
• Jasmine Field Orchestra, Chinese traditional and fusion music
• The Koto Club, traditional Japanese music
• Matt Jacklin and ONU World Percussion, African Gyil music
Also on Saturday! The Chinese Carnival, and this event takes place on the Main Quad!
Feeling lucky? Come visit us at our carnival games where you can play and have a chance to take home juicy prizes! There will ALSO be various Chinese cultural activities such as kite flying, calligraphy, and other games and puzzles for yourself and your friends. Bring your friends and come challenge your mind and body against theirs in an afternoon of fun at our Chinese Carnival!
You will also have the opportunity to try our specially prepared traditional Chinese foods! We will be selling fried rice cake(炸年糕),savory Chinese crepes(煎饼果子), green onion pancake(葱油饼), rice glue ball(赤豆元宵), hot spicy soup(麻辣烫), sugar coated fruit(冰糖葫芦), and white fungus soup with lotus(银耳莲子羹) throughout the event. Come join us on the quad for some new food experiences!
To keep you guys entertained, there will also be live performances throughout the day to accompany the food and games. Here is a schedule of our performance for the day:
4:15 – 4:45 Traditonl Chinese Music performed by the Jasmine Field Orchestra
4:30 – 5:00 1st Tea Ceremony
5:00 – 5:45 Kung Fu Performance presented by the Illini Wushu Club
6:00 – 7:00 Singing performance by the Voice of Champaign contestants
6:30 – 7:00 2nd Tea Ceremony
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WARNING: I feel a rant coming on!
Don't get me wrong, I love my cell phone. I'm on it all the time checking Facebook, reading email and taking awesome pictures of my dogs. In fact, I'm using it to write my blog right now! But I know when to put the phone down. I always turn it off in the movie theater and I leave it in my purse when spending time with friends, family and yes, even my dog. I feel that those who are willing to spend some face time with me deserve my undivided attention. In the past 24 hours I've seen three separate people who obviously think differently.
- Yesterday I saw a woman walking her dog. She was too busy talking on her cell phone to notice that the dog had stopped to poop. The woman dragged the poor squatting dog about 6 feet before she realized what was going on. Instead of apologizing, she scolded her dog. And I'm sure that if I hadn't been right there, she wouldn't have picked up the poop either.
- This morning a woman was throwing a ball into the surf for her dog. Here, dogs are allowed to play off leash as long as both dog and owner are in the water. However, this woman was too engrossed in her phone conversation to realize that her dog had ran behind her and up into the dunes to chase a dog being walked on leash. And apparently Chatty Cathy couldn't hear the other woman screaming as she tried to drag her not-so-friendly dog off the beach. Fortunately, I was paying attention and was able to step in before a dog fight ensued. And yes, I had Ms. Cathy hang up so I could write her a ticket.
- This afternoon a man brought his black lab to the dog park. The dog was so excited that I could hear him barking long before the car pulled into the lot. As soon as the pair walked through the gate the man turned his back to the dog and put his cell phone to his ear. He completely ignored the tennis ball in his other hand, and sternly shushed the dog for barking to remind him. The dejected look on the dog's face nearly broke my heart.
OK, rant is over. Please return to your regularly scheduled program. -- K


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Should kids help pay for college?
Three in four rich parents think so, according to a survey released on Wednesday by asset manager Legg Mason. (H/t the Wall Street Journal.)
The study's researchers surveyed more than 1,000 parents with $250,000 in investable assets.
A majority of wealthy parents say that their children should pay for a small part of college expenses, and nearly one-third say their children should pay for up to half of college expenses. One in 12 rich parents think that kids should pay for most of college, and one in 50 believe that children should pay for all of it.
Nearly two in three rich parents that believe their children should help pay for their education said they wanted to make sure their children would work hard and make the most of college. One in three of them said they want to teach their children responsibility.
The average cost of attending a private four-year college is $38,589 per year, which includes tuition, fees and room and board, according to CollegeBoard. To attend a public four-year college in your home state costs $17,131, including tuition, fees and room and board.
As the cost of college grows faster than the rate of inflation, many families are relying on financial aid to pay for school.
Six in 10 college students take out loans to help pay for college, and college costs are the reason most cited by college students that consider dropping out, according to a poll by the Associated Press.
The nation's outstanding student loan debt is now more than $1 trillion, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and paying back student loans is about to get a lot more difficult. If Congress doesn't act soon, the interest rate on new subsidized student loans from the federal government, called Stafford loans, is set to double to 6.8 percent on July 1.
The issue of paying for college is politically charged and at the center of debates about economic opportunity and income inequality.


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Collecting customer reviews online helps you improve your brand reputation and monitor your level of customer satisfaction, but it's harder than it sounds. Creating a profile on a review website isn't usually enough to make the reviews start pouring in.
Creating a plan for sourcing and encouraging reviews from your customers is essential for generating enough reviews to give your company a trustworthy reputation. If you don't have a plan in place, you might not collect enough reviews to earn your potential customers' trust. Even businesses that serve small numbers of customers can collect enough reviews to make a difference.
You can collect customer reviews for free by following the guidelines we've outlined below. Each task takes less than 10 minutes to complete.
4 Ways to Get Customer Reviews for Free
1. Create a survey with Google Forms
Use Google Forms or your preferred email marketing tool to create a quick survey about your customers' experience with your company. You can add several different types of questions to Google Forms, including scales (answers on a scale of 1-5, 1-10, etc.), multiple choice, check boxes, star ratings, written short and long form answers, and more. For the purposes of collecting reviews, make sure to get a straightforward star rating from your customers.
Tip: You can edit the color scheme and add images like your company logo to Google Forms to keep your survey within brand guidelines and build brand recognition.
Related: Mailchimp vs Aweber: Which Is Better For Business?
2. Collect reviews from your website
Install a form or interactive star rating or sliding scale on your website to allow visitors to review your company quickly and easily. While some people don't want to spend time leaving a detailed review, they might be more likely to take a moment just to click a star rating or choose a number on a scale.
By collecting and posting reviews right on your website, you turn your website into a conversion machine and show others how much your current customers value working with you.
3. Ask for reviews on Facebook
Facebook has a nice review widget that can help you easily get reviews from customers that visit your Facebook page. Facebook prominently displays their review widget on business pages to make it easy for visitors to see how others view the company at a glance. That's why it's in your best interest to have reviews there for your potential customers to see and learn from.
Positive reviews that people can see as soon as they come to your Facebook page will help sway customers in your direction and build your reputation online.
Related: Are You Monitoring Your Company Mentions Online?
4. Ask when you talk to customers
If you talk to customers on the phone, via email, live chat, social media, or through contact forms, make sure to ask them to leave a review at the end of the interaction. It's an often overlooked way to get customer reviews for free without being spammy.
You can make it short and sweet – "We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to review us on Facebook!" – but asking at all increases their odds of leaving a review. If you can do it electronically and include a link, that's even better.


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Nokia today announced that the company had partnered with Samsung to bring its maps and location platform services to Tizen-powered wearables and Android smartphones. It marks a significant step forward for HERE, moving on from its exclusivity period on Windows-based platforms, though only those with Samsung hardware will be able to enjoy the Android editions of HERE services (for the time being). The two companies have also entered into a licensing agreement to provide consumers mapping services for free.
On the Samsung Gear S, HERE powers an app called Navigator, offering turn-by-turn walk navigation, offline support and public transit routing. This isn't simply a mere companion app to compliment the Android offering, but is a complete stand-alone experience, offering consumers the option to store mapping data locally on said hardware. If you'd like to get more out of HERE services, it's possible to pair the wearable solution with the HERE beta available for Samsung Galaxy smartphones.
HERE beta will cost Samsung consumers absolutely nothing to download and will be available when the Samsung Gear S hits the market. "We believe that maps and location-related functionality are essential for any operating system. HERE aims to deliver fresh maps, platform services and location cloud experiences to as many people and businesses as possible, independent of the device and operating system they are using," said Sean Fernback, Senior Vice President Everyday Mobility, HERE. "Partnering with Samsung for the Tizen OS, and providing maps and location services for the first time with the new Samsung Gear is another huge step for us in that direction."
Nokia has also bundled together Glympse support into the mapping solution available for both Samsung Tizen smartwatches and Android smartphones. This functionality enables consumers to share their location with others from within the experience, perfect for letting others know when you're on the way and heading to the designated meet point. Overall, it's a neat announcement for those affected. Are you looking forward to use HERE services on your Samsung devices?


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Midwesterners know the name, Roy Leonard, well. For more than 30 years he dominated the airwaves on Saturday mornings with ratings on WGN that were higher than the next four stations combined.
His weekday shows were also top rated as he interviewed celebrities, authors, politicians, musicians and sports figures, who made a stop at the WGN studios a must.
Starting in 1985 he became host of WGN-TV's "Family Classics" after the sudden passing of Frazier Thomas. He hosted many WGN-TV Specials and was Film and Theatre critic on the nightly news.
Roys' career started in New England. After attending Emerson College and a stint in The United States Air Force and Armed Forces Radio, he found a job and his life's companion in the small town of Framingham, just outside of Boston.
While working at the local radio station, he was approached by the casting director of the local theatre group to appear in their next show. Not only did Roy appear in that and future shows, but he married the casting director, Sheila Marie Finn in the Fall of 1953.
The Leonards began to raise a family and Roy got his first job in a major market, Boston. It was here that he honed his skills in news reporting and developed interviewing techniques on both Channels 5 & 7 and daily radio shows on WHDH, WNAC, and the Yankee Network.
In 1967 WGN, Chicago, came calling and the Leonard family, which by then included Sheila and six sons, moved to the Midwest where Roy soon became a top radio and TV personality. His love of theatre prompted an annual London Theatre Tour, where listeners were offered a week of sightseeing, theatre and shopping.
This led to New York Theatre weekends, trips to the Shaw & Stratford Festivals in Ontario, excursions to France, Norway, The Netherlands, Hong Kong, Thailand and The Soviet Union, where Roy broadcast his morning radio show from Moscow.
Leonard retired from daily broadcast duties at the end of 1998 but continued Family Classics and occasional radio and TV commercials. His sons all live in and around Chicago and eight grandchildren see their grandparents regularly.
In the Fall of 2010, Sheila suffered a severe fall and slowly developed Parkinson's Disease and Dementia. She went into Hospice Care at the Mather Life Center in Evanston early in 2012 and passed away on March 13th.
Roy lives in The Mather, an upscale Continuing Care Retirement Community and keeps his web site up to date by sharing with long time fans as well as new readers, his thoughts on current world and local happenings. And in a special series called, 'Till Death Do Us Part, he details his struggle with an ailing spouse and offers suggestions that might help those in a similar situation.


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Here's a summary of today's events:
• Hundreds of protesters have breached the barricades outside the presidential palace in Cairo, as the constitutional crisis continues to deepen. Large anti-government protests are expected to increase in an attempt to persuade President Mohamed Morsi to postpone Saturday's referendum on a new constitution. Supporters of Morsi have also gathered in Cairo to back the president and the referendum.
• Egyptian security officials say masked gunmen attacked opposition protesters camped out at Cairo's Tahrir Square overnight. The attack is likely to stoke tensions hours before the rival rallies.
• The International Monetary Fund has agreed to delay a $4.8bn loan deal to Egypt by a month after the government scrapped widespread tax increases it imposed hours before as part of the deal. Finance minister Mumtaz al-Said said: "Of course the delay will have some economic impact but we are discussing necessary measures (to address that) during the coming period."
• Divisions are emerging in Egypt's new opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front, on whether to boycott the referendum or campaign for a no vote. A final decision on the opposition's approach is due on Wednesday - just three days before the vote is due, but a no campaign has been launched.
• Morsi's supporters captured, detained and beat dozens of his political opponents last week and pressured them to confess that they had accepted money to use violence against him, the New York Times reports. It says the abuses are hurting the credibility of Morsi and his allies in the runup to the referendum.
• Human rights groups have condemned Morsi for reintroducing martial law. Amnesty International said the measure sets a dangerous precedent, given the way the army cracked down on protest while it was in power. Human Rights Watch said Morsi should be ending not expanding military trials.
• The US is expected to announce formal recognition for the newly-formed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Force, at a Friends of Syria conference on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Kurdish National Council [KNC] has agreed to join the opposition coalition after securing guarantees about its representation in the bloc.
• The US has toned down its rhetoric on Syria's chemical weapons. The US defence secretary, Leon Panetta, said: "At this point the intelligence has really kind of levelled off. We haven't seen anything new indicating any aggressive steps to move forward in that way."
• The number of Syrian refugees has increased to more than half a million people, according to the the UN's refugee agency. The number of Syrians registered as refugee, or in the process of being registered, now stands at 509,559, it said.
• Britain's military chiefs have drawn up contingency plans to provide Syrian rebels with maritime, and possibly air, power in response to a request from David Cameron. However, they said the UK would act only if the US did so and made it clear that British chiefs of staff are seriously worried about the consequences of intervening in the Syrian crisis.
• Syria has dismissed as "psychological warfare" speculation that the Assad regime is about to fall. Deputy foreign minister Faisal Miqdad also told the BBC that the regime was strong and would survive. But the BBC's Jeremy Bowen witnessed organised and strengthened rebel forces in the north-west Damascus suburb of Douma. Reporting from the "nerve racking" area, Bowen said "It is very difficult to see how the Assad regime can roll back people who are this determined and have taken so much ground and are holding it right in the capital city."
MoD wary of Syria involvement
David Cameron's urge "to do something" in Syria is resisted by his defence staff, writes Nick Hopkins.
The fact that General Sir David Richards, chief of defence staff, has been drawing up contingency plans to provide Syrian rebels with maritime and possible air support should not be seen as an appetite within the Ministry of Defence to get involved.
The military might well do; it might have to. But it doesn't want to, at all, and for months military sources in Whitehall have been expressing deep unease about the situation to anyone who will listen.
Their concern is that David Cameron isn't one of them. Buoyed by the success of the very limited campaign in Libya, and horrified by the plight of refugees he met on the Syrian-Jordan border last month, the prime minister has got a slight case of what some in Whitehall call "foreign fever". Cameron wants "to do something", they say, though he is not exactly sure what that something should be ...
Nothing has changed the military's reluctance to get involved in the Syrian crisis. Officers insist there must be clear and united political will over what to do before troops are committed – and they want a robust and well thought-out exit strategy. Neither exists at the moment. The only scenario that would prompt the military into immediate action is the use of chemical weapons by Assad, or the prospect that some of them might end up in the wrong hands if his regime can longer protect them. At that point the UK would undoubtedly contribute to special forces operations to secure those weapons, following a US lead.
Until then Richards will have to continue his slightly awkward tap dance in front of the prime minister. Offering some ideas, without committing to any of them, and cautioning that involving even a small number of British troops to a fourth campaign in a decade, at a time of restructuring and redundancy of the armed forces, in a region where the UK is not regarded as an honest broker, might be more trouble than it is worth.
Baricades breached
Hundreds of protesters have breached the barricade outside the presidential palace in Cairo, according to reports.
Morsi 'driven by panic'
Morsi's reaction to protests has been driven by panic, according to Issandr el-Amrani, founder of the Arabist blog.
Speaking to a European Council for Foreign Relations seminar in London, Amrani said Morsi's attempt to ram through the constitution showed his confidence in winning the vote, but also his "insecurity".
It is very unlikely that the referendum will be postponed, but large parts of the state are rebelling against it, he added.
Amrani said:
The polarisation that has been created in the last two weeks, will be lasting and will be major factor in Egyptian politics for months, if not years to come. Especially when both sides are appealing to the military ... to back its position.
Amrani added that Morsi regarded the opposition as undemocratic and elitist. He has turned instead to forming alliances with hardline Salafists.
Egypt's no campaign
While the opposition National Salvation Front decides on whether to boycott the referendum, a no campaign has been launched, writes the prominent blogger Zeinobia on Egypt Chronicles.
Despite that political forces and powers are trying to force Morsi to delay the referendum or even to cancel it , the youth of different political powers are working on the ground all over Egypt. From April 6 Youth to Constitution Party to Strong Egypt Party the youth are doing their best with their simple sources to educate the people on why they have to say "NO" for the constitution.
Syria and chemical weapons
The US has toned down its rhetoric on Syria's chemical weapons.
Last week, US officials said there was evidence that Syrian forces had begun preparing sarin for possible use in bombs, AP reports.
It quotes US defence secretary Leon Panetta as saying: "At this point the intelligence has really kind of levelled off. We haven't seen anything new indicating any aggressive steps to move forward in that way."
Asked whether he believed President Bashar al-Assad was heeding western warnings against using chemical weapons, Panetta said: "I like to believe he's got the message. We've made it pretty clear. Others have as well."
He noted that the Assad regime is coming under increasing pressure from rebel forces.
"Our concern is that if they feel like the regime is threatened with collapse, they might resort to these kinds of weapons," he said.
Aaron Stein, non-proliferation programme manager at the Istanbul thinktank the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies, points out that evidence that Assad is preparing to use weapons is sketchy.
Writing on his blog, he says:
Satellite photography could show the movement of shells and containers at Syrian chemical munitions bases, but the evidence of mixing or filling shells is harder to obtain. It is also entirely possible that the source of the report was a coordinated leak designed to reinforce American/NATO red lines. In either case, satellite photos or airborne detection do not indicate intent. It is still premature to conclude that Assad is on the precipice of using his chemical weapons.
Presidential barricades
Egypt's republican guards have been fortifying the 10ft concrete walls they built over the weekend around the presidential palace, but the barriers continue to be a focus for protest.
Roads leading to the palace will be blocked with barbed wire and controlled by Central Security Forces and Republican Guards ahead of anti-Morsi marches scheduled to converge on the palace at 5pm on Tuesday. Pro-Morsi supporters will be demonstrating in front of the al-Rashdan and Raba'a El-Adaweya mosques near the palace at the same time.
Egypt's IMF loan
The International Monetary Fund has agreed to delay a $4.8bn loan deal to Egypt by a month after the government scrapped widespread taxes it imposed hours before as part of the deal.
The IMF had been expected to approve the deal, which is predicated on a sharp cut in Egypt's deficit, this month.
But finance minister Mumtaz al-Said confirmed the delay to Reuters. He said: "Of course the delay will have some economic impact but we are discussing necessary measures (to address that) during the coming period. I am optimistic ... everything will be well, God willing."
He said the delay would give time to explain an economic reform package after media criticism prompted the government to postpone measures that were part of the programme.
Egypt's prime minister,Hisham Kandil, is reported to have confirmed the delay.
Opposition splits and Morsi's 'omnishambles'
Egypt's new opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front, appears split on whether to boycott Saturday's referendum or campaign for a no vote, says Abdel-Rahman Hussein in Cairo.
A final decision on the opposition's approach is due on Wednesday - just three days before the vote is due.
Abdu said:
They are split. I think they are more inclined to campaign for a no vote - although there is very little time. The speculation is that the main figures [in the coalition] Mohamed ElBaradei and Amr Moussa are more inclined to mobilise for a no vote. But they would much rather it be postponed. Those inclined towards a boycott are the movements that are more pro-street and leftist.
He said the opposition would much rather the vote was postponed.
They feel that in current climate, with all the violence that occurred and the deep division and polarisation, to have the referendum now is not the way to go. That's the point of today's protest - to pressure Morsi to postpone the referendum ... but I don't expect this referendum to be postponed. Morsi is very headstrong about this.
Pro- and anti-Morsi protests today are due to start at 4pm local time (2pm GMT) in a similar area of Cairo.
The area near the ministry of defence is heavily policed and Morsi's opponents have agreed to shift the start of the march further down the road to avoid the prospect of clashes, Abdu explained. The anti-Morsi protesters will then be heading towards the presidential palace.
There should be no confrontation. I'm hoping that restraint is the name of day and there are no orders from [the Muslim Brotherhood's] Freedom and Justice Party to march anywhere in the direction of opposition protesters, with tragic results like last Wednesday.
It looks as if most of the judges will agree to oversee the referendum after concerns about their security have been met, Abdu said. Morsi's widely-criticised decision to grant the army the power of arrest and detention ahead of the vote may have been made to satisfy the judges' security concerns, he said.
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Everything that has happened since the Morsi decree can only be described, as in the favoured British parlance, as an 'omnishambles'. You have midnight decrees, and 2am suspensions of tax hikes that were only released hours before. The whole thing has made a mockery of the democratic process. On paper Morsi has powers that only a despot can dream of. He has used and abused these powers in an erratic and unilateral manner which has bought us to this mess. What we are seeing now is a result of one of the most botched transition periods imaginable: a roadmap that was set by the military junta and aided and abetted by the Muslim Brotherhood, which left us open to all these legal wranglings and mess after mess.
Kurds agree to join Syrian opposition bloc
A Kurdish opposition group, the Kurdish National Council [KNC] has agreed to join the new Syrian opposition coalition after securing guarantees about its representation in the bloc.
An update from Ausama Monajed, a spokesman for the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces, said the KNC's leader Faisal Yusuf had accepted an offer to join the bloc.
The coalition has agreed that 15% of the organisation can be Kurds. It also agreed to appoint a Kurd as another deputy leader. The group already has two deputy leaders Riad Seif, who proposed the new initiative, and Suhair Atassi, a female activist.
The US is due to recognise the coalition as the sole representatives of the Syrian people at the Friends of Syria conference in Morocco on Wednesday.
Attack in Tahrir Square
Egyptian security officials say masked gunmen have attacked opposition protesters camped out at Cairo's Tahrir Square.
AP says nine people were injured.
The officials say it's unclear who was behind the pre-dawn attack Tuesday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.
The attack is likely to stoke tensions hours before rival mass rallies by opponents and supporters of President Mohammed Morsi over the country's new constitution.
Ahram Online said 16 were injured.
According to physician Hassanein Abu El-Hasan, who works in a makeshift clinic in the square, the injuries included pellet bullet wounds in the arms and feet. One protester was also hit in the head.
Late last night, Sasa Petricic, a journalist with CBC, said he saw anti-Morsi protesters throw petrol bombs at a group approaching the sit-in.
Syrian refuguees
More than half a million Syrian refugees are now registered or awaiting registration in the region, the UN's refugee agency has announced.
In a statement it said: "According to UNHCR's latest figures for Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and North Africa, 509,559 Syrians are either already registered (425,160) or in the process of being registered."
The number of registered Syrian refugees region-wide rose by about 3,200 per day in November, and close to 1,000 Syrians crossed in to Jordan during the past two nights alone, it said.
Lebanon is now host to 154,387 registered Syrian refugees who have fled the 20-month-old conflict, Jordan has 142,664, Turkey 136,319, Iraq 65,449 and North Africa 11,740, the statement added.
In addition, large numbers of Syrians have crossed into neighbouring countries but have not yet come forward to register for refugee status and assistance, it said. They include about 100,000 in Jordan, 70,000 each in both Turkey and Egypt and tens of thousands in Lebanon, it said, citing government estimates.
Referendum threat
The official overseeing Saturday's referendum on the new constitution has threatened to resign for a second time.
Zaghloul El-Balshi said he would step down if more violence erupts before or during the polling, Ahram Online reports.
Following last week's violence between anti-government protesters and Morsi's supporters outside the presidential palace el-Bashi suggested he had resigned hours after being appointed.
"I will not participate in a referendum that spilled Egyptian blood," he said in a TV interview.
Mohamed ElBaradei
Mohamed ElBaradei, one of the leaders of the new opposition coalition the National Front, said voting on a "sham constitution" was illegitimate.
But in an interview with BBC's Newsnight programme he said the opposition had still not decided whether to boycott the referendum or try to mobilise a "no" vote.
He said more time was needed to reach a consensus on a new constitution. In some ways the new constitution is worse than the one under Mubarak, ElBaradei said.
ElBaradei was challenged by CNN's Christiane Amanpour over why he refused to take part in dialogue with Morsi after urging the president to call for talks.
ElBaradei said Morsi's call for dialogue was not genuine or based on a level playing field.
Michael Collins Dunn, editor of the Middle East Journal, urges the opposition to negotiate with Morsi and take part in Saturday's vote.
It's true Morsi showed no signs of being willing to yield on the critical question of the referendum, but the refusal to sit down with him sounds as if the liberals are in fact doing what Morsi accuses them of doing: refusing to accept that Morsi won the election, if only narrowly. The fact that the liberal opposition are planning to boycott the referendum also strikes me as self-defeating: the referendum was likely to pass anyway, but this will guarantee fewer "no" votes. What does that achieve? I feel Morsi has been far too imperious in his attempt to ram the Constitution through, but by refusing to negotiate the liberals may be handing him an inevitable victory.
Welcome to Middle East Live.
Here's a roundup of the latest developments and analysis:
• Opponents and supporters of President Mohamed Morsi plan to hold rival demonstrations in Cairo ahead of Saturday's referendum on a new constitution which the president refuses to delay. Leftists, liberals and other opposition groups have called for marches to the presidential palace in the afternoon to protest against the hastily-drafted constitution. Islamists, who dominated the body that drew up the constitution, have urged their followers to turn out "in millions" in a show of support for the president and for the referendum.
• Morsi has given Egypt's armed forces the power of arrest and detention until the result of Saturday's referendum on a draft constitution is announced. Opposition forces are still considering whether to boycott the referendum or mobilise for a "no" vote if it is not postponed.
• Morsi's supporters captured, detained and beat dozens of his political opponents last week and pressured them to confess that they had accepted money to use violence against him, the New York Times reports. It says the abuses are hurting the credibility of Morsi and his allies in the runup to the referendum.
• Human rights groups have condemned Morsi for reintroducing martial law. Amnesty International said the measure sets a dangerous precedent, given the way the army cracked down on protest while it was in power. Human Rights Watch said Morsi should be ending not expanding military trials.
• Morsi has temporarily suspended tax rises announced on Sunday on more than 50 goods, including fuel, electricity, steel, cigarettes and alcohol. The increases came as part of economic reforms being introduced ahead of the 19 December deadline for International Monetary Fund approval of a $4.8bn loan.
• Throughout this crisis Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood have antagonised most sections of Egypt's society, argues Ellis Goldberg, Middle East specialist at University of Washington. Writing in Foreign Policy he says:
The simple and sad reality for the Brotherhood is that a great many Egyptians distrust, dislike, or fear them and worry that, having come to control the legislature and central executive, they plan to take over the courts as well as staff many of the lower levels of the government. President Morsi has been unable to allay this distrust, fear, and dislike and over the last week he and his allies have, through words and actions, intensified it.
• Britain's military chiefs have drawn up contingency plans to provide Syrian rebels with maritime, and possibly air, power in response to a request from David Cameron, senior defence sources said on Monday night. However, they said the UK would act only if the US did so and made it clear that British chiefs of staffs are seriously worried about the consequences of intervening in the Syrian crisis.
• Rebels say they expect greater military help from Gulf Arab states after they announced a new command structure and as fighting continued in southern Damascus near the international airport. Speaking to Reuters, Abu Moaz al-Agha, a leader and spokesman of the powerful Gathering of Ansar al Islam, said: "What we need now is the heavy weapons and we expect to get them after the formation of this [new military command]. The anti-armour and anti-aircraft weapons are what we are expecting," he told Reuters by Skype from Turkey before heading to the Gulf.
• Syria has dismissed as "psychological warfare" speculation that the Assad regime is about to fall. Deputy foreign minister Faisal Miqdad also told the BBC that the regime was strong and would survive. But the BBC's Jeremy Bowen witnessed organised and strengthened rebel forces in the north-west Damascus suburb of Douma. Reporting from the "nerve racking" area, Bowen said:
It is very difficult to see how the Assad regime can roll back people who are this determined and have taken so much ground and are holding it right in the capital city.
• US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has pulled out of Wednesday's Friends of Syria meeting in Morocco due to a stomach illness. She was expected to announce formal US recognition for the newly formed National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces during the meeting. Deputy secretary of state Bill Burns will attend the event in Clinton's place.
• Rebels led by radical Islamist groups, including the Al-Nusra Front, have seized a strategic army base in Aleppo, activists said. The Sheik Suleiman base was the last major military base west of Aleppo remaining under army control. The US is about to declare the Al-Nusra Front a "foreign terrorist organisation", AFP reports.


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Ex-model sues police over harassment
A FORMER swimsuit model is suing the Queensland Police Service for $200,000 in damages, claiming she was repeatedly harassed by a traffic policeman and wrongfully arrested.
Gold Coast mum Renee Eaves, 34, is claiming a former Brisbane constable intercepted her 15 to 20 times between 2004 and 2006 and was known to regularly park outside the Brisbane unit she lived in at the time.
In a statement of claim lodged in the Brisbane District Court, the former Miss Bikini World said the officer often pulled her over for minor traffic infringements and once fined her for being a car passenger with a twisted seatbelt.
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I've spent the last few days experimenting with APIC-EM and the path trace capabilities. My lab environment is currently leveraging VIRL (Virtual Internet Routing LAB). Since it wasn't obvious how to integrate APIC-EM with the lab platform, I wanted to share my configuration.
TL;DR–When building the topology, click the background and view the properties for the Topology. Change the Management Network to "Shared flat network". This will put the all of the devices 'Mgmt-intf' vrf on the 'flat' (172.16.1.0/24 by default) network when the topology is built.
When I started this process, I really didn't realize how easy it could be. I actually tried to leverage a manual connection to L2 External (FLAT) to do the management in-band for the topology. This is certainly possible, but there is a much easier way. As most VIRL users have noticed, there is a management IP address that gets assigned to each device. There is a simple configuration change that will allow that address to be one from the 'FLAT' pool and connected externally to the 'L2 External (FLAT)' network.
My configuration
- APIC-EM built with IP address 172.16.1.2/24 (172.16.1.2-49 are unassigned and part of the FLAT pool of addresses. They are also 'directly connected' to the management interfaces of the VIRL nodes when the topology is built.
- L2 External (FLAT) is configured in VIRL as per this article – Connecting VIRL to the Outside World (note this is only for the config, I am not using the L2 External FLAT node in my topology for APIC-EM.
- Topology built using the "Shared flat network" for management (above screenshot)
- Configuration -> Build Initial Configuration to build the node and topology configuration
- Start the project simulation
- SNMP configuration manually added to the nodes (172.16.1.2 is the IP of AMIC-EM)
snmp-server engineID remote 172.16.1.2 vrf Mgmt-intf BBBBBBBBBB
snmp-server community cisco RO
At this point, I can successfully run a discovery from APIC-EM. The IP range for the discovery is 172.16.1.50-172.16.1.253 (assuming the default was used for the 'FLAT' pool). It is worth noting that VIRL enables telnet by default and a username and password of 'cisco' (so isolating your lab is an important from a security perspective). After a short delay the Node inventory will be populated in APIC-EM.
- Adding the SNMP config is manual (there might be a way to automate it)
- The Image for CSR1000v 16.3.1-build2 seems to have a problem where all instances have the same virtual SN. This causes only one node to appear in the APIC-EM node database. I used IOSv for my demonstration, but it is also possible to use a different CSR1000v image.
- If APIC-EM doesn't reside on 172.16.1.0/24, it is also important to add a default route to the nodes in the Mgmt-intf vrf.
ip route vrf Mgmt-intf 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.1.1 (assuming this to be the gw)
This is a straightforward process that can be applied to integrating APIC-EM into a VIRL configuration. The integration should work equally as well with other network management platforms.
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What has happened to business etiquette?
Has the Internet so deteriorated normal etiquette that has now gotten in to business also? There are some very basic rules that everyone should follow, and it just doesn't seem to be happening any more.
There are two key ones that are annoying me the most right now.
If I send in an application for a writing job, at least take the time to drop me a note saying you got my app, or a rejection letter would suffice. I have applied to several blogs that I never hear so much as the word "boo" from them.
Did they get my app? Did I suck? Let me at least know something so you don't leave me hanging! And considering I hold off on applying to other jobs when I have a certain number of apps out, so as to not get too many acceptances at once (HA!), and get bogged down with too much work.
It's just plain rude to not at lease say SOMETHING!
When making the initial greeting with a business contact, I always address the person as "Mr." or "Ms." so-and-so. Until there is a certain level of familiarity, or I am given permission to use their first name, I will continue this practice. It is proper business procedure.
So, imagine my dismay when I get emails from people that just start out "Sean,…"
Excuse me? Do I know you? No, I don't. And out of proper respect, I am Mr. Aune until I tell you otherwise, which will usually be within one to two emails. It has nothing to do with respecting me as a person, but respecting how business is done, and has been done for years upon years. I don't particularly care for "Mr. Aune", but I expect it as a standard business practice, but I can't remember when someone actually did it. Between my day job and writing, I get a ton of emails each day, a lot of them being initial contacts, and no one does this any more.
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For my son's birthday, I made him a snack pack with 4 popcorn seasonings. I shared the Crazy Herb seasoning recipe that I sent my father for Father's Day. So for this More Herbs, Less Salt Day, I will be sharing recipes for Garlic & Chive Seasoning, Spicy Indian Seasoning and Turkish Seasoning. These are very simple to make. All you have to do is combine all the ingredients listed and then put them in a jar to include in your gift bag or box. I also included directions on how to use these seasonings in a dressing or dip.
Garlic & Chive Seasoning
6 Tbsp. dried chives
5 Tbsp. dried chopped garlic
3 Tbsp. dried dill
1 Tbsp. salt
1 tsp. ground pepper
Spicy Indian Seasoning
3 Tbsp. ground coriander
3 Tbsp. ground cumin
2 Tbsp. tumeric
2 Tbsp. crushed red pepper
1 Tbsp. ginger
1 Tbsp. salt
1 tsp. ground fennel seed
1 tsp. ground pepper
Turkish Seasoning
5 Tbsp. paprika
3 Tbsp. dried mint
2 Tbsp. cinnamon
2 Tbsp. garlic powder
1 Tbsp. cumin
1 Tbsp. salt
2 tsp. ground pepper
1 tsp. ground cloves
To make a dressing, take 2 tablespoons of the seasoning and mix with 1/2 cup of olive oil, 1/3 cup vinegar and 2 tablespoons of water. To make a dip, combine 2 tablespoons of the seasoning with 3/4 cup plain Greek yogurt, 1/4 cup sour cream and 2 tablespoons of olive oil.


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Since I posted my last photo shoot of my girlfriend, people have be spamming me with messages like "Oh my god, nice pictures. How did you do?" and such things, so I decided make a little "Behind the scenes" of the shoot.
I've shot just about 3-4 photoshoots before this. However, this is the first photo shoot indoors, so it was completely new to me. I have tried a little back and forth with the light - and as you can see it ended out preeetty well, haha!
My light setup:
Sorry for the bad quality. Taking with an iPhone 4.
All I did was that I took two lamps and placed them on each side of the model, and then I used my speedlight and my 20-35mm lense. After 3 hours we had shot about 200 pictures, and when we opened up the images on the computer, we were surprised of how many good shots we had. I started editing the pictures which resulted in:


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Empire Fulton Ferry
Empire Fulton Ferry
Whether you're coming or going, laying out on our lush lawns, visiting Jane's Carousel or being a shutterbug, this go-to location, nestled between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, is not to be missed.
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About Empire Fulton Ferry
Relax at Empire Fulton Ferry, a green oasis set against a scenic cityscape that just begs to be photographed. Located between the historic Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, Empire Fulton Ferry features the beautifully restored Jane's Carousel, a gift of Jane and David Walentas. From its graceful lawns and boardwalk, Empire Fulton Ferry offers beautiful views of the harbor and Lower Manhattan skyline.
Bordering the park area are Empire Stores and Tobacco Warehouse, the new home of St. Ann's Warehouse. These two Civil War-era buildings played an integral part in the great shipping activities that once dominated this portion of the Brooklyn waterfront. Empire Stores will also host BHS DUMBO, the second location of the Brooklyn Historical Society.
The Tobacco Warehouse's historic brick walls also house the Max Family Garden. This charming, triangular garden with meandering paths, welcoming seating areas, and neatly framed views invites visitors to sit and catch their breath in its peaceful interior.


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Magnus Öström
Swedish drummer Magnus Öström had revolutionised the jazz world since 1993 with e.s.t. - the Esbjörn Svensson Trio, and was then dealt a stroke of fate six years ago when his close friend, the pianist Esbjörn Svensson, was killed in an accident.
It took two years for Öström to find his way back to music after that tragic event, and to bring out his first own album: "Thread of Life". It is a work of mourning, adorned with melancholy, that seeks its own path, falling back on art-rock and electronic elements and a closer link to sounds than melodies. The record was well-received internationally, Öström won the 2012 Echo Jazz Award for Best International Drummer, and BBC Radio 3 said of his post-e.s.t. oeuvre, "What an utterly beautiful and compelling album this is...The playing is immaculate, the compositions truly inspired, the arrangements magical."
On Öström's follow-up, "Searching For Jupiter", his loss is still palpable in heavy, yearning tracks like "Mary Jane Doesn't Live Here Anymore" or "Hour Of The Wolf", but Öström has taken some decisive steps forward: He now has a strong and tight band together with guitarist Andreas Hourdakis, bassist Thobias Karlsson and pianist Daniel Karlsson. They have rigorously pursued a jazz rock and progressive rock leaning.


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When the region's Metrorail system shut down for a whole day on March 16, many predicted a traffic nightmare. While such a scenario unfolded for some, traffic for others wasn't that much different than a typical Wednesday.
Metro announced the all-day closure of its rail system late in the day on March 15. Almost immediately, the media, the public, and elected officials began speculating about what would happen on area roads. On a normal weekday, Metrorail carries about 700,000 trips, 70% of which are made by commuters. How would all of those people get to and from work?
TPB traffic experts recently performed a preliminary analysis showing that congestion at the regional scale was actually slightly lower on the day of the shutdown compared to a typical Wednesday. "The regional Travel Time Index, the ratio of actual travel time to free-flow travel times, was very close to typical conditions," the analysis said. But traffic conditions varied greatly depending on where and when you were traveling.
Where and when was the worst traffic?
The worst traffic occurred inside the Capital Beltway during the morning commute. According to the analysis, travel times on roads in the District of Columbia, Arlington, and Alexandria between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. were an average of 12% higher on the day of the shutdown than on a typical Wednesday. Elsewhere in the region, traffic at that hour was about the same as normal.
Freeways in the inbound direction were especially hard hit. The analysis found that travel times on key freeways heading into the downtown core were as much as three times longer than normal between 7:00 and 8:00. Northbound I-395 in Northern Virginia saw a 125%-increase in travel times, jumping from 28 minutes on a typical Wednesday to 64 on the day of the shutdown. Northbound I-295 in the District saw a 218%-increase, jumping from an 18-minute trip normally to nearly an hour on March 16.
Outside the Beltway, though, things weren't nearly as bad. In fact, many routes saw improved traffic on the day of the shutdown. On I-66, the trip from VA-286 to the Beltway, which on a normal Wednesday takes 22 minutes, took just 15 on the day of the shutdown.
And the evening commute was, by comparison, a cinch in all parts of the region. In the regional core, congestion was about 3% lower than usual, as it was in the rest of the region. And nearly every freeway both inside and outside the Beltway showed drops in outbound travel times.
Why the differences depending on geography and time?
It's not totally clear why traffic was so much worse in the regional core than outside the Beltway, though the fact that Metro largely serves downtown employment centers probably had a lot to do with it. Since the majority of commuters who normally use Metro are traveling to jobs in the core, it would make sense that the major routes entering downtown saw the worst congestion. But it could also be that more commuters who live outside the Beltway already drive to work and were unaffected by the shutdown. Or that commuters living outside the Beltway, those who would have faced the longest drives into downtown, simply opted not to go into the office that day, instead taking advantage of unscheduled leave or unscheduled telework.
It's even less clear why congestion was so much lower during the afternoon commute than the morning. It's possible that after experiencing congestion in the morning, drivers adjusted when they left at the end of the day or made other driving trips like school or childcare drop-offs. Another possible explanation is that people decided not to make certain discretionary trips, like shopping or going to the gym, given the unusual and uncertain travel conditions.
More analysis to come. Stay tuned!
The TPB's traffic analysts are still looking into other pieces of the Metro shutdown story. In particular, they want to know how people adjusted their travel on the day of the shutdown, whether by changing their travel time or route, choosing a different travel mode, or avoiding traveling altogether by taking advantage of unscheduled leave or telework. That analysis is expected in the coming weeks, so stay tuned!
Read the full technical analysis of traffic impacts of the March 16 Metro shutdown


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Healthy Eating for Diabetes
Price 14.99
Format Paperback
Published 14th April 2016
Size 219 x 209 x 10
Pages 144
Diabetes UK estimates that more than 1 in 17 people in the UK have diabetes, and by 2025 there will be 5 million people diagnosed. It causes strokes, heart attacks and kidney failure and it is a frightening disease that should be given more attention. Here Antony Worral Thompson and Azmina Govindji impart up-to-date information on how to cope with your diabetes and how to change your eating habits to keep you happy and healthy. They have worked together to create 100 really delicious and healthy recipes, from breakfast ideas to nourishing main meals that can be eaten by the whole family.
Author Information
Antony Worrall Thompson is one of the UK's best-loved chefs. Some of his best-selling books include The GI Diet, The GL Diet Made Simple and The Sweet Life, which have also been translated into eight languages. He is the owner of five restaurants. See www.awtonline.co.uk. Azmina Govindji RD is a nutritionist and registered dietitian. She was resident nutritionist on ITV's This Morning and has regularly appeared on BBC1's The One Show and Channel 5's The Wright Stuff. She spent 8 years as Chief Dietitian to Diabetes UK. www.govindjinutrition.com


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About Sweet Charmagne as written by her and a little by me :-)
Happy Holidays to my soon to be relatives in the Philippines!
Here is where my Babygirl will have some tidbits about herself and her thoughts and possibly share some cool information about herself.
I can tell you this about my Babygirl. She is the owner of my heart and rightfully so because she is loving, faithful, witty, compassionate, of good morals and always a positive faith based opinion :-)
Her beauty of character, of heart and of body are unmatched by any woman I have ever encountered and consider her a true Gift from God to me. Now that the Author has shared his bias about his one Love he can leave the rest to the Lady :-)
She has a fantastic sense of style and a true gift when it comes to her Artistic talents, drop by the Jewelry Page and see the great works she does for her Clients with many types of Pearls and Swarovsky Crystals :-)
What can I say about her here that would even come close to describing the wonderful Lady that the Lord has put in my life and my Heart?
I can tell you this, she is such a compassionate person that upon finding out about my Mother's fight with Cancer, she made many gorgeous pieces of Jewelry for Mom and Mom's Sisters plus a Sister in law.
Her love and compassion for myself and my Family doesn't go without notice, she truly is my Gift from God and I thank the Lord daily for bringing her into my heart , my life and soon into my arms forever :-)
As Written by Charmagne
It's my turn to say something for myself.... I am
Charmagne Manansala who lives in General Santos
City Philippines, tuna capital of the Philippines.
The 1st daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Manansala. I have
two sisters by the name of Michelle and Mary Grace.
A businesswoman who has been seperated for almost
11yrs. and I raised my only son Jap. He was my
strength and my everything... Jap was born a
special child, he was a cerebral palsy child, but
he died last sept 26, 2007 i know God took him for
a reason.... when my son died I was so down. That's
why i made my time very busy to forget about my
son's death....
My two sisters worried about me, they know how down
I am when my son died that's why they convinced me
to register at Cherry Blossoms and they made my
Aunt an example. She met an Irish man at CB and as
we can see they are happy for each other.. My
sister Grace signed my application and put my
pictures at CB. But i'm still busy when they signed
me in that's why it took me a month or so to check
and reply to my e-mail by myself...
I met a lot of guys at cb and some are rude and i
almost wanted to quit looking for a real man who
can respect and love me for what i am...But when i
met Troy Berg he was different, he is respectful,
nice, loving, always makes me laugh and most of all
he is a God fearing person... Troy Berg is from
Dallas Texas, divorced, computer programmer, has
two nice well raised kids named Bryant and Bryce.
As I was getting to know Troy better i fell in love
with his kindness and more. He's not hard to love,
for me he is the man that those girls are dreaming
of. He loves his mother and his kids so much and if
my son Jap were still with me i know he would love
my son too with no second thought of it. I can't
explain my feelings, I love him, his Mom and the
kids. In my heart I consider them my second family
even though
Troy and I are 9,000 miles away...
to be continued.....


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May is national Preeclampsia Awareness Month, and so we here at New Britain OB/GYN felt it was important to provide you all with this list of preeclampsia facts. Some of these are pretty well known; others may come as a shock to some of you.
- Preeclampsia can be a serious and even life-threatening condition for both mother and baby.
- High blood pressure can be one of the major symptoms of preeclampsia .
- The presence of protein in the urine is another indicator of possible preeclampsia.
- Women with preeclampsia are at a greater risk for health problems in the future.
- Preeclampsia effects one in every twelve (12) pregnancies.
- Preeclampsia and other hypertensive pregnancy disorders are the
- Preeclampsia can cause strokes, seizures, organ failure and premature birth.
- Women are at a higher risk for preeclampsia developing during the second half of their pregnancy.
- Having said that, preeclampsia can happen up to six weeks after pregnancy.
- Swelling of the face, especially around the eyes, can be a sign of preeclampsia.
- Swelling of the feet is common during pregnancy and so is probably not a sign of preeclampsia, but swelling in the hands may be.
- Weight gain of more than five (5) lbs in a week should be monitored by your physician as this is a possible sign of preeclampsia.
- Persistent headaches that don't go away even after taking pain medication is another symptom.
- Visual changes like seeing spots or flashes, blurry vision, blindness (even partial blindness) could also be symptoms.
- Nausea and vomiting after the "morning sickness" phase of pregnancy has passed could indicate preeclampsia
- Pain in the upper right belly may be a symptom of preeclampsia. It can sometimes feel like digestive trouble, but should be mentioned to your doctor.
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing – we know, we know – as your pregnancy develops it may begin to feel like there's just no room for your lungs anymore and breathing can seem almost impossible, but this type of shortness of breath will feel different and can sometimes leave you gasping or panting for air.
- Preeclampsia increases your risk for both heart disease and stroke.
- Some women with preeclampsia will have multiple symptoms.
- Some women with preeclampsia will have no symptoms.
Although researchers don't yet know the exact cause of preeclampsia, it is a highly active area of research and new discoveries are being made all the time! If you or someone you love has suffered from or is currently suffering with preeclampsia, it's important to remember that there is plenty of help available. Current sufferers should make sure that they keep all of their appointments with their OB/GYN and any other physicians. Past sufferers need to inform all current doctors that they have a history of preeclampsia in order to receive the best possible care.Share


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Last call for the DERT survey 2017, and the SDU Longsword Tournament0
January 11, 2017 by tommy
After like a million sword dancers took time out from their busy lives to enrich the DERT Committee with their …
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Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers do West Street, and now have a six man dance (and kit)0
November 11, 2016 by tommy
Time for a little longsword now with an update from the Handsworth Traditional Sword Dancers. They're on tour on the …
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It's DART across the pond starting tonight, good luck to all teams taking part this year.0
November 11, 2016 by tommy
Some of you may have seen the Star Wars themed promos for the Dancing America Rapper Tournament plastered all over …
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It's been a while crocodile. Apologies profuse, but here now is the news.0
November 4, 2016 by tommy
Having a baby does tend to skew other things in your life. I'm not saying that it was me that …
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Join the Newcastle Kingsmen at the COAL event in Newcastle Saturday 30th April.0
April 29, 2016 by tommy
Marking the 30th anniversary of the end of the British miners' strike, COAL takes a nostalgic look at the hard …
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The N.E. Rapper Championship and an apology.0
April 27, 2016 by tommy
Apologies, but due to a heavily pregnant partner (at the time) and the impending birth of the SDU Web Officer's …
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Survey feedback reminder, Tower Ravens, festivals, new teams, Scouts, and some artwork.0
April 21, 2016 by tommy
The mercifully short but certainly sweet survey about the SDU closes today at 5pm, we've had 24 responses so far, not …
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A new but mercifully short SDU survey now live, please help with your feedback and opinions0
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The Banks of Green Willow – a tribute to Daisy Caroline Dakin and the Demonstration Team0
March 19, 2016 by tommy
'I feel quite fit and in condition now and am making myself still more so by teaching and doing a …
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Advance notice of the 2016 Longsword Tournament; Saturday 8th October in Goathland.0
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As the Copper River exits the narrow channel at the Childs Glacier, it spreads out and meanders slowly around sand bars, and islands rife with narrow channels and backwater coves. Floating slowly in the sunshine leaning back against the inflated side tubes we studied the glacier capped mountains above the east shore. We lost track counting black bear that were spotted along the hillside there were so many. Ripe wild berries lured bears who gorged on the abundant sweet juicy fruits. This area is lush with waterfowl and wildlife, and is a birders dream.
Hot, dirty, sweaty and rough from five days on the river we made our last camp early in the day on one of the isolated islands in the middle of the river. There were numerous small clear blue pools on the island and each of us sought our own private place to bathe. It felt so good to be somewhat clean again. Our final evening was a congenial gathering summarizing our findings for a written report of the Copper River trip on Proposed Copper River Trail to be submitted to a long list of important entities including; the Alaska Department of Transportation, Cordova District Ranger, Eyak Corp., Tatitlek Corp., TRAAK Board, the governor at this time Tony Knowles, Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Senators Stevens and Murkowski, city of Valdez, Copper River Watershed Project, Chitina Native Corp., River Management Society, Alaska State Parks History and Archeology, and others. It was a heady idea, we did the research and now it was up to the powers that be.
The morning of day six continued our good fortune with wonderful weather, we floated a short distance to our take out location at Flagg Point, and waited for the charter bus to haul all of us and gear back to the ferry terminal in Cordova to Valdez and the drive back to Glennallen. This was the year that we arranged in advance to have artwork shipped to the Reluctant Fisherman Inn at Cordova, where we stayed several additional days for an exhibit and further research in the Orca Inlet and surrounding region. But, that is the subject for another story…….later.
Gail Niebrugge, Alaska artist