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Red Wings' Datsyuk will sit for at least three weeks
DETROIT — Most people expected the Red Wings to acquire a defenseman at the trade deadline if they did anything.
But then general manager Ken Holland started getting worrisome news on Pavel Datsyuk and Darren Helm, causing him to trade for center David Legwand from Nashville instead.
While talking about the trade for Legwand, Holland announced that the Wings will shut Datsyuk (left knee) down for the next three to four weeks.
"This thing with Pav really has come down within the last 24 hours," Holland said
Holland and coach Mike Babcock met with Datsyuk on Saturday.
"Pav was very frustrated at his inability to play the game the way he knows he can and the way he wants to play the game," Holland said. "We talked on Saturday about him possibly playing Tuesday in New Jersey and going to see a doctor today.
"I reached out to Pav again on Sunday and we met again on Monday. I think it became pretty obvious to Mike Babcock, (trainer) Piet Van Zant and to myself that Pav was frustrated and all we were gonna do is have an athlete that was, in our opinion, gonna get emotionally burned out.
"When you can't do something that you know you can do at a level, it just grinds on you and grinds on you and grinds on you. So we made a decision that he wasn't going to go to New Jersey.
Holland said Datsyuk on Wedesday morning saw another doctor, who mostly shared the opinion of the previous doctors who had examined Datsyuk.
"A little more of an aggressive thinking on trying to rehab, so we're gonna go with that little more aggressive line of thinking," Holland said. "And if it doesn't work, then obviously we can have a conversation in the offseason or six weeks from now about maybe having some type of surgery.
"Right now we're hoping that this plan of attack is gonna allow us to wake up in three weeks — three or four weeks — and have Pav practicing and thinking about getting back in our lineup."
Datsyuk played in the Winter Classic and then not again until the two games in Florida before the Olympic break. He then captained Team Russia during the Olympics.
Holland said when Datsyuk didn't play, he was doing hard off-ice workouts, which they plan to restrict this time around. Holland said Datsyuk would be reevaluated in three weeks, but there was no guarantee he'd be ready to play.
As for Helm, he left Tuesday night's game in New Jersey at the second intermission and did not return.
"He had a headache and went to see the doctor today, and I haven't got any news," Holland said. "When you have a player who has been pulled for (headaches), thereâ's a protocol. I'm hoping we get news that Helmer is back in three to four days."

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The sunrise is on the Randall's Island footbridge,
which is green and shining, like liberty's torch,
and they have put scaffolding over a stretch of sidewalk where no buildings are.
It is an awning of an invisible bodega, covering my pathway home with shade.
The flies are buzzing over dog shit,
and the air begins to buzz with sirens,
whistles and a taxi cab sitting on his horn.
This is my road, and the sunshine and the
terrible smell of Spanish Harlem summer sidewalk
and the dirt and train tracks spinning towards the Bronx
and the buses rolling slowly into their depot garage to be washed,
these are all mine.
They are mine, because I have cried here,
on this stretch of sidewalk,
and I have talked here--to my mother,
my sisters, my friends, my brother,
my enemies, inconsequential acquaintances,
and my imaginary conversation partners who will never
hear the arguments I constructed in the clouds above the
Metro North tracks and the trees that grow beside them.
This sidewalk is mine because I have walked here,
mostly every day,
for months,
and my feet are shaped differently because they have met this concrete,
and the concrete has the impressions of my running shoes etched into his surface.
And I have walked here in winter, when I was counting down the steps towards home,
I have walked here in autumn, enjoying the breezes rolling off the river,
I have walked here in spring, soaking up the warm outdoors, and in summer,
counting the beads of sweat that roll down and pool in the small of my back and bra.
It seems impossible that this walk,
this stretch of sidewalk will ever stop being a part of me.
It is mine, I belong to it.
I have glared at taxis speeding around the corner here,
I have watched with wonder at the man with his boombox,
marching up and down with his girlfriend,
as they shout with pagan gusto on Sunday mornings.
The window there, with its mirrored surface is my mirror,
I flip my hair and watch my reflection flip hers,
some days I note how serious and jowly I look,
sometimes the window tells me I look nice,
(and then I flip my hair, for the benefit of no one but the neighborhood cat
and the abuela with her pit bull)
I belong to the surprise view of the glittering river,
and the back door entrance to the bus depot,
and the projects across the tracks,
and the hospital residency dorm room windows with their lights on late at night.
I belong to each and every one of them,
and please don't take them from me yet.


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Here… We… Go!
It's 6:15 AM, and most of the Mega DO is eating breakfast in the Terminal E President's Club before their 7 AM departure to PHX aboard CO 1905. There's not much to say about last night's first Frequent Traveler Awards that hasn't already been said on FlyerTalk or at the awards site itself, other than that it was an unqualified success and that the after-party ran a little bit late for a 5 AM (in coach), 5:30 (in Randy, Tommy, and "Marty" class) or 5:45 AM (in first) wakeup call.
Check in throughout the day for coverage of the ride in each class, along with reports from US Airways in Phoenix and the Boeing assembly line at Paine Field. The last day of SMD 2010 will no doubt be the longest!
Shower, breakfast and a beer at the Lufthansa Welcome Lounge
As we boarded the flight out of JFK last night we were treated to a bit of good and bad news. The flight time would be only 6:20 across to Frankfurt. Less sleep, but an early arrival so more lounge time once we did arrive. Win some, lose some.
The flight was reasonably pleasant and included a couple attempts (mostly unsuccessful) by Tommy to convince folks on board that Fernet Branca is not the devil's elixir. I am decidedly in the not convinced camp but that didn't stop me from joining the group in a toast or two.
Upon arrival we headed down to the Welcome Lounge in Frankfurt airport. With a few dozen showers and a pretty nice breakfast spread, the lounge is a great place to finish up a flight and to start your day in Frankfurt. Keeping with my personal time-honored tradition for fighting jetlag, I poured myself a beer from the tap and headed down to the shower room for a refreshing soak.
Back upstairs for another beer, some bacon & eggs and a fresh pretzel and I'm ready to go out and have a great StarMegaDo day!


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We take a mixture of formal and informal pictures with a sprinkling of fun shots. Usually, the photography starts with arrivals at the venue, then on to the wedding ceremony, the reception, speeches and evening party. The ultimate package though is having two photographers covering the whole of the day. The lady photographer commencing at Bride's house to capture all the bustle, fun and excitement of bridal preparations. The main photographer starting at Groom's house, then on to the arrivals at the ceremony and continuing to the reception, speeches, evening party, first dance and finishing off with a sunset or moonlight picture. A recent popular addition this year is having a mini studio at the evening party for fun shots.
We then produce high-resolution files on a USB stick. A full copyright licence is supplied so you can print as many photographs as you like for yourselves, family and friends.
Wedding prices: We have two packages.
The main difference is the number of photographers. The first has one photographer, the second has two.
The first package includes the following:-
* At least 400 high-resolution pictures on a USB stick with full copyright.
* Album with 120 pictures.
* All day coverage includes Speeches, First Dance, Sunset or Moonlight picture.
* Evening party mini-studio for fun shots.
The one photographer package – £2280.
The second package includes the following:-
* At least 600 high-resolution pictures on a USB stick with full copyright.
* Album with 160 pictures.
* All day coverage with two photographers, the lady photographer starting at Brides house and continuing to take informal pictures during the day.
* Speeches, First Dance, Sunset or Moonlight picture.
* Evening party mini-studio for fun shots.
The two photographer package – £3040.
A £500 booking fee secures your date. This comes off the package price.
Century is completely booked for the months of May – October 2019. Dates for 2020 and 2021 are now being reserved.
If your wedding date is between May and October in 2020 and 2021 please contact us for availability because these are the months that get booked up first. Especially if it is a Bank Holiday weekend. If you discover your venue is booked for the Saturday we are finding that more and more brides are choosing a Friday or a Sunday wedding. Even a Monday wedding if it is a Bank Holiday.
The whole of Lancashire, Yorkshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Cheshire are covered.


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Coaching and training a group of people with a chronic disease like Parkinson's is very different from what you might be used to. A big part of our mission here is to prepare you the best we can, so your early classes are not only successful, but as stress free as possible 🙂
I asked Coach Kathy to join me to discuss her thoughts on some class strategies you can incorporate into your classes.
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Electrolysis Storage Plant
Welcome to a short and simplified Introduction to the Electrolysis Storage plant.
Facts to know :
Hydrogen Storage :
Water Electrolysis :
Polymer electrolyte Membrane "PEM" :
Dioxin description :
Intermittent Energy Production such as Wind and Solar :
Electric Grid and why it destabilize with Intermittent Energy Sources
Power Storage Facility :
Hydro Power :
Hydrogenation :
Methanol from CO2 :
Power Supply :
Alternating Current :
To start we have to explain first that Water Electrolysis is NOT only producing Hydrogen H2, it is also producing pure Oxygen O2. This Fact is never took into account in any Calculation by presenting this Technology as a Power Storage System for Renewable Energy.
But pure Oxygen or even Ozon is a Side Product that should not just be seen as Waste just because we have 20% in our Atmosphere.
Then Oxygen in a Gas Mixture such as Air, isn't as strong in oxidizing as its pure Gas. A lot of Materials directly start to burn in pure Oxygen even at Room Temperature.
When we burn Garbage or even Coal/Oil/Gas it can be used as an additive for an Hot Exhaust after Burn System to eliminate Pollutant.
We also have to understand that Renewable Energy Sources, for Example in Germany, already produces more Energy in Peak Times that actually is used, but there is no big enough Storage for saving that overproduced Energy. The most comon way to store Power in Peak Times are Storage Lakes where Water is pumped from a lower Altitude to a High Altitude and then released again when the Power Production is low. It is nothing more than a Hydro Power Plant. This seems to be the most efficient way since roughly over 80% of the invested Power can be re-harvested again.
But an Electrolysis Storage has way bigger advantages since it can be built anywhere with way smaller Area need then a Storage Lake and the Hydrogen and the Oxygen can be used in various different applications. At the Moment it's only seen as Methane Production Plant.
Using the Plant to Produce :
Hydrogen : it is Rocket Fuel, Reaction Partner for Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Methane, Methanol and Formic Acid.
Oxygen : it is also Rocket Fuel, Reaction Partner to Produce Solid Rocket Fuel, but more important it is PURE directly after the Electrolysis and with that can be used as an Additive for Garbage Power Plants to get rid of Dioxins in an Additive Hot Exhaust Oxidation.
It is true that the Production of Methane, the Compression for Storage and the Burning of it to regain the Energy is only at 30-40% Efficiency, so way worse than the 80+% of an Hydro Power Storage, but producing Methanol instead of Methane would already get rid of the Compression Step, making the Procedure already 10-20% more effective. Methanol is not only the Answer to the Storage Problem, it is also the Answer to fuel the Cars on the Planet. Methanol can be used in all Gasoline Motors. The Infrastructure to transport a Liquid Fuel is already existing in every Country. Besides it would be nonsense to rebuild all Cars on the Planet as Electro Cars... The Amount of Energy required would be as high as the last 30 years of producing Cars and would cause way more Pollution by harvesting Lithium and creating the whole new Infrastructure for them.
So the only Question here is :
Is it more economical to just throw the overproduced Energy Peaks away and even Pay for this "Waste Energy" or use it to Power an Electrolysis Plant, that Produces Energy Storage, Fuel for Cars, the Solution for Dioxin Free Garbage Burn and the Raw Material for more complex Hydrocarbons such as Ethylene and Propylene Oxide which again are Raw Materials for all our Plastic we use on the Planet.
This is the Future for Intermittent Renewable Energy if combined with other Technologies, it is the Solution for the Garbage Problem we have by closing the Cycle of Waste and Chemical Products. No extreme Recycling needed, no Toxic Garbage Dumps and no Garbage Working conditions.
The separated Plants on the Picture should not be seen as separated, instead it's a Production Site with all the Departments on it.
In the Future we don't need to save Energy and with that we are able to close such Cycles and use the "Convection Power Plant" to get rid of the Entropy to hold the Energy Depot on our Planet stable.


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Strontium Launches HAWK Solid State Drives
Strontium Technology launched a new series of high performance solid-state drives (SSD) called HAWK solid-state drives. These are based on Sandforce's SF2281 controller and SK hynix flash. Salient features of the HAWK SSD's are :
- 2.5" Drive
- SandForce SF-2281
- MLC NAND Flash for Fast Performance
- Available Capacities: 120GB and 240GB
- Sequential Performance (256KB, MAX): Read: 510 MB/s, Write: 470 MB/s
- Random Performance (4KB, MAX): Read: 50,000 IOPS, Write: 38,000 IOPS
- Supports SATA I/ II/ III Interface
- TRIM Support (O/S Support Required)
- Power Consumption: 0.82W (Active), 0.26W (Idle)
- Mean Time between Failures (MBTF): 1.2M
- 3 years hassle-free Strontium Limited Warranty.
The HAWK SSD will be available with Strontium's authorised distributors and channel partners at Rs. 6999/- and Rs. 12999/- respectively. In India, you can shop online at www.homeshop18.com website.


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I've been getting a lot of questions on my Tumblr...a lot of random things and a lot of not so randoms, like what sorta boots do you like for fall? To answer that question here are some fall boots I like and want.
1) Hunter Boots
2) All Saints
5) All Saints
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Provide medical care in primary care, emergency department coverage, acute care and extended care services.
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
• Reside in and have as his/her primary residence, Lac La Biche
• Establish and maintain a full time community based practice within the community
• Provision of extended hours (including evenings & weekends) of comprehensive care within the
base community
• Provide hospital and call support as per call schedules, including full time participation in
the Emergency Department and other call
schedules as required
• Contribute to and participate in teaching programs and activities; interest in leadership
• Contribute to and participate in other administrative responsibilities as assigned.The
successful candidate is recruited for the community of Lac La Biche. Once chosen, the successful
candidate may choose to operate their business by joining an existing practice or opening their own
practice. This is the candidate's independent business decision and will not be managed through the
process.There is a Primary Care Network in the community.
Lac La Biche County is an area blessed with natural beauty in the form of an abundance of lakes, old growth forests, wildlife and excellent outdoor recreational opportunities. It is a community steeped in cultural diversity and history with European settlement dating back over 200 years to the fur trade. Main industries include oil and gas, forestry, tourism and agriculture. Further, the Hamlet of Lac La Biche serves as a business hub to the area and it is a growing and thriving community.
Current population including catchment is 10,994 and is situated 225 kms northeast of Edmonton. Lac La Biche County has seen an unprecedented period of growth in recent years and this trend is expected to continue well into the foreseeable future.
Recreational ACTIVITIES
Bring the family, the boat, tent, fishing gear, bikes...
Families enjoy the Alberta beaches in Lac La Biche and have easy access to 150 lakes, many with beach-side camping, cabin facilities and white sand beaches. Hit the waves for some fast paced water sports, cruise the trails for biking and hiking splendor or just kick back and relax for an evening around a warm campfire.
Sir Winston Churchill Provincial is located a short driving distance from Lac La Biche. This beautiful island campground is open to be explored throughout the summer or winter.
But it's not all about the trails, trees and waves - the Lac La Biche Region also offers visitors the chance to explore some of Western Canada's oldest history built on generations of multicultural influence. Lac La Biche, Plamondon and the surrounding Lac La Biche County are steeped with interesting history, scenic beauty and rich cultural diversity. And don't forget your sense of adventure.
The Bold Center is a great family recreational facility and offers the chance to embrace healthy and active lifestyles that include an exceptional gym with fitness classes, sport activities and a walking track.
Lac La Biche has three school divisions with K-12. There are Northern Lights Public Schools, Conseil Scolaire Centre-Est (East Central Francophone Education) and Lakeland Catholic Schools.
For post-secondary education, Portage College main campus is located in Lac La Biche. This campus includes a housing complex for students.
For more information, please go to http://www.laclabichecounty.com
Hospital Name: William J. Cadzow Lac La Biche Healthcare Centre
No. of Inpatient Beds: 23
No. of Long Term Care Beds: 40
Hospital Statistics:
Deliveries: 153
%C Section: 23.6%
Emergency Room Visits: 13,113
Endoscopies: 534
OR Procedures: 70
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) (desired)
• Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) (desired)
• CCFP (desired)
• CCFP-EM (desired)
• Geriatrics (desired)
Candidate must have independent Emergency Room & Acute Care Hospital Experience in a rural setting
within the past 1-2 years
Preference will be given to applicants who do not require or have
completed the CPSA Preliminary Clinical Assessment.
Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.All physicians who wish to practice in
Alberta must hold a valid license with the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta. For more
information on obtaining this license and the eligibility requirements,
please visit College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta www.cpsa.ab.ca
Fee-for- Service
Physicians are remunerated for being on call in the Emergency Room.
The rate is $23.84 an hour and is paid for a total of 14 hours on weekdays from 5 pm to 7am and 24 hours a day on weekends and statutory holidays. Frequency of on call shifts vary by community.
A Flat Fee is paid to physicians who practice & reside this community of $0 per year provided his/her annual income for insured services is greater than $50,000. (Residency conditions apply, including living in the eligible community for nine of the previous twelve months ending on the payment date.) The Variable Fee Premium paid is an additional 0% for insured services provided in this community.
Rural, Remote, Northern Program (RRNP) - Please note, payments through the RRNP are capped at $60,000 per physician per year.
Medical Liability Reimbursement - reimburses physicians for their medical liability protection costs less a $1,000 deductible.
Continuing Medical Education - reimburses physicians for eligible continuing medical education costs. Each eligible physician receives a $2,656 annual allotment which can be carried forward for up to three years.
Parental Leave Program - provides $1,063 per week for up to 17 weeks to physician parents of a newborn or newly adopted child.
Business Cost Program - addresses escalating practice costs in community based practices. This fee modifier is added automatically to select office visits and consultations. This program applies across the province and all physicians who provide visit services in an office based setting will receive an additional $2.75 with the exception of Calgary and Airdrie where the fee modifier is $3.25 on select office visits and consultations.
For further information, please contact: Gail Hachey, Physician Resource Planner - North Zone at firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
This position is in partnership with Alberta Health Services and Covenant Health
The CPSA Letter of Eligibility is required with your application. Only candidates
selected for an interview will be contacted. Position will remain open until suitable candidate is found.


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Primary sources are the evidence of history. They are the first-hand accounts of an event or period of time created by participants or observers. There are many kinds of primary sources including texts (letters, diaries, government reports, newspaper accounts, autobiographies), images (photographs, paintings, advertisements, posters), artifacts (buildings, clothing, sculpture, coins) and audio/visual (songs, oral history interviews, documentaries).
Secondary sources interpret or summarize an event or time period. They provide analysis of a topic by those who have studied and written about it. Examples of secondary sources are scholarly articles, books, and documentaries. There are also tertiary sources consisting of reference resources such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks. These can provide background and definition.
The tabs above this box link to pages with information on how to find specific types of primary and secondary sources. See below for examples that distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.
Topic: French colonialism in Indochina (1887-1954)
Primary sources: Tuck, Patrick J. N., and University of Liverpool. Department of History. French Catholic Missionaries and the Politics of Imperialism in Vietnam, 1857-1914 : A Documentary Survey. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1987. Print. (book containing contemporary sources)
"The Defence of a French Stronghold in Indo-China." The Times (London, England), Friday, Jan 29, 1954; pg. 14; Issue 52842. (Newspaper article about the battle at Dien Bien Phu)
Secondary sources: McLeod, Mark W. The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874. New York: Praeger, 1991. Print. Holland/Terrell Libraries Stacks DS556.8 .M39 1991 (book)
Garner, Reuben. "The French In Indochina: Some Impressions Of The Colonial Inspectors, 1867-1913." Southeast Asia: An International Quarterly 3.3 (1974): 831-840. Historical Abstracts. Web. (journal article)
Tertiary source: "French Imperialism in Southeast Asia." World History Encyclopedia. Vol. 15: Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011. 586-587. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. (encyclopedia entry)
Topic: Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec. 29, 1890)
Primary sources: Gonzalez, Mario, and Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. The Politics of Hallowed Ground : Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty. Urbana: U of Illinois, 1999. Print. (book; includes diaries and chronicles, written testimony, and Senate hearing)
Royer, D. F. 1890. Letter and list [manuscript]: 1890. Available through: American Indian Histories and Cultures (digital collection) Adam Matthew, Marlborough, http://www.aihc.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/Ayer_MS_3176 [Accessed June 28, 2016]. (letter by U.S. Indian agent at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota, appointed in Oct., 1890, and relieved of his duties following the Battle of Wounded Knee, Dec. 29, 1890.)
Secondary sources: Rhine, Gary., et al., Left Hand Bull, Kifaru Productions, and Eagle Heart Productions. Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations. San Francisco, CA: Kifaru Productions, 1992. Native American Relations Video. (documentary)
Grua, D. W. "In Memory Of The Chief Big Foot Massacre": The Wounded Knee Survivors And The Politics Of Memory." Western Historical Quarterly 46.1 (2015): 31-51. America: History & Life. Web. (journal article)
Tertiary source: Ostler, Jeffrey. "Wounded Knee." Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Ed. Dinah L. Shelton. Vol. 3. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 1166-1168. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web.


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Anthony Deiter is a storyteller and artist, employing painting, sculpture, 3-D digital animation and other computer technologies to communicate the story of North America's Aboriginal people through references to his own history. Join Anthony on Monday, February 26 at 7pm in the East Room for 'Who I am' – A First Nation's Introspective Journey and Story.
Anthony comes from the Plains Cree Nation of Saskatchewan, Canada. He will present 'Who I am' using archival photos, documentary archives, photography and artwork as a book and a legacy of his people.
This event and is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Kevin Bubriski: bubriskik[at]greenmtn.edu.


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USDA Children's Nutrition Research Center Celebrates 30th AnniversaryBy Alfredo Flores
October 31, 2008
HOUSTON, Texas, October 31—Officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital marked 30 years of cooperative children's nutrition research during a ceremony here today.
Officials from the organizations renewed a long-term agreement at the Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) here to conduct cooperative research on obesity and other issues affecting the health of children in the United States. The Agricultural Research Service (ARS), an intramural scientific research agency of USDA, and Baylor College of Medicine manage CNRC through an agreement that has allowed the center to operate as a cooperatively run research institution.
"Research at CNRC has enabled healthcare providers and policy advisors to make dietary recommendations that improve the health of children in the United States and around the world," said Caird Rexroad, ARS associate administrator for national programs.
Also speaking at the anniversary celebration were USDA Undersecretary for Research, Education and EconomicsGale Buchanan, ARS Human Nutrition National Program Leader David Klurfeld, CNRC Director Dennis Bier, CNRC Director Emeritus Buford Nichols, Houston Mayor Bill White, and other scientists at the center.
"The CNRC has helped define the nutrient needs of children, from newborns through adolescents, since its inception three decades ago," Rexroad said. "Its countless research findings through the years have greatly improved the health of today's children, and will continue to do so for generations to come."
CNRC is one of six federally funded human nutrition research centers in the United States and the first multi-disciplinary center to focus exclusively on scientific investigations into the role of maternal, infant and child nutrition in optimal health, development, and growth. Approximately 65 research scientists and 200 support staff work at the facility. CNRC researchers have published more than 3,000 peer-reviewed scientific papers since the center's inception in 1978.
The center includes world-class research instrumentation, including a large, live-in metabolic unit, an energy metabolism laboratory, analytical core laboratories, a body composition laboratory, and an eating behavior observation laboratory.
In recent years, CNRC researchers have helped develop and field-test an innovative program to help prevent obesity among 8- to 10-year-old African-American girls, helped track and understand the factors that contribute to obesity in the nation's Hispanic children and youth, and developed an interactive body-mass index (BMI) computer tool to help parents keep their growing children's weight on track.
They've also helped develop guidelines to help parents determine what's best to feed their infants and toddlers, have shown that serving large portions of energy-dense foods at meals equates to substantial extra calories consumed by U.S. preschoolers, and have shown that mothers who drink milk at mealtimes are more likely to serve their young daughters milk with meals, resulting in a positive impact on the girls' milk consumption, calcium intake and bone health.


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Christmas oven gloves featuring the delightful Skating Santa print designed by Rachel Ellen Designs. These whimsical double oven gloves have a quilted appearance complete with a handy hanging hook.
Material: Outer: 100% cotton. British Standard approved thermal inner.
Style: Blue Skating Santa Christmas Double Oven Glove
Also available in oatmeal.
Many more kitchen accessories available in this print including aprons, table cloths & tea towels. View the whole Skating Santa Range.


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Springer, 12, skips her party but orca's survival celebrated
Jul 17 2012
The guest of honour failed to turn up for her party in Telegraph Cove on northern Vancouver Island this weekend.
But it did not spoil the celebration because all the guests know she is healthy and out in the ocean taking part in whale activities, said organizer Mary Borrowman.
The party was to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Springer's homecoming, which saw the orphaned, sickly killer whale, a member of the threatened northern residents, brought up from Puget Sound and reunited with members of her pod as they swam through Johnstone Strait.
"We went out to see if we could find the young lady on Saturday, but there were no orcas that day," Borrowman said.
"But we know she has been seen this year. She's alive and well."
Springer is now 12 and some were hoping this could be the year that she would turn up with a calf of her own, but that has not yet happened, Borrowman said.
"She's at the right age now, but we have heard positively that she is not travelling with a baby," she said.
Springer, although doing well, has remained smaller than other whales her age, Borrowman said.
The Telegraph Cove celebration, which followed similar events in Seattle and the Vancouver Aquarium, brought together many of the team of U.S and Canadian government agencies, scientists, First Nations and community groups involved in the rescue a decade ago.
The dramatic rescue in 2002, which saw Springer captured in Puget Sound, treated in Washington state and transported to northern Vancouver Island by jet catamaran, remains the only time such as successful operation has taken place.


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Don McKay Interviews Nick Thran
In anticipation of Nick Thran's readings this week at Swirsky's in Corner Brook (March 31, 8 pm) and at The Ship in St. John's (April 3, 8 pm), WANL member and poet, Don McKay posed several questions, in various modes, to the Trillium award-winning poet and author of Mayor Snow (2015), Earworm (2011), and Every Inadequate Name (2006).
DM: Is there essential reading for a poet in 2016? Would you like to list some titles? Others to avoid?
NT: It's hard to remove that word "essential" from its presence in the world of advertising. Even in book advertising it comes across as a bit manipulative. The list of books that are essential to me won't, or can't, be exactly the same as anyone else's list. That said it is great when a book of poems or a particularly lyric book of prose that has snuck into a more public conversation about important aspects of western culture or western society at large reads as "essential" to its historical moment as has been advertised. I'd put very recent books like Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Karen Solie's The Road in is Not the Same Road Out, Ta-nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts on a list like that. But then I might also recommend a book like Larry Levis's The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems, without believing that every poet must read it, as much as the book might be a sort of company that I, in my own temperament, need.
DM: You've recently inhabited Al Purdy's A-frame in Ameliasburg, along with your family, —a residency documented (if that's the word) in your new book. Can you comment on the value of this and other such-like experiences?
NT: These days I've become really interested in site-specific triangulations of reportage, literary criticism, and personal commentary. A kind of social, occasional writing, of which that sequence from Mayor Snow might be included, wherein I ideally balance a living subject other than myself with the books I am reading during or in response to my time with the subject, while situating myself somewhere within the environment that those two other elements create. I suppose in some ways this could be an overly-elaborate way of talking about any creative act – but I think, for me, in order to negotiate that slippery space between integration and solipsism, I need to make these three categories as explicit as possible. So an extremely particular experience like travelling with the poet Sue Sinclair and our six-month old baby to live for three months in a cabin once occupied by a poet whose work has both influenced me and repelled me in equal measure – that kind of thing inspires me to write. I took the particularity of the occasion, took Purdy's ghostly presence, his poems, his letters, my own developing ideas about fatherhood and domesticity, my interactions with my child, and ran (or rather, read) with those things. I also wrote a long essay about the experience that I hope to publish some time in the future.
DM: Supplementary to 2.: is the connection to a poet of an earlier generation an important link, for yourself or for poets generally?
NT: Sure, the present is always bound up with the past. I think that as people and as writers we repeat our themes, our mistakes, even our ideals. All writers, even the ones who appeared to us as Gods when we first got the writing itch, are mortal beings. All written work by previous generations is there to be refuted, to be argued with, to be embraced, to make a crystalline sense one minute and be totally opaque the next.
Because Canada is a sparsely populated country full of curators, professors, and provincial and federal arts council employees who work to foster connections between different generations of writers, many times poets of a younger generation get to meet our heroes in person; go for hikes in the mountains, drink dark beer. That connection is important to me as well. I am a social animal.
DM: Some of the poems in Mayor Snow are written in a relation of some sort to pre-existing texts (e.g. "Elpenor for Yusef," "Corrupt Cento" or "Severs Talking"). Care to comment on the importance of such practices?
NT: I think I've been commenting on this already over the course of my last two answers. In those three particular poems you mention, there was a clear point where my poem broke from its source text and became my own work or my own effort. But the gesture towards the other work remains, I hope. I try to keep the gesture up front because that seems like an honest admission: all of this writing is in relation to other writing. And the poems are always in some way about the struggle of trying to relate, and their aim is the strange ecstasy that happens when a relationship is established. That weird Google translation that is "SEVERs Talking," for instance, doesn't happen unless I go to French school for ten months and get to a point where I can foolishly try to write a book report about a book that is without plot.
DM: W.H. Auden: Poetry makes nothing happen. Martin Heidegger: Poets are the shepherds of being. Charles Simic: Poetry attracts me because it makes trouble for thinkers.
Either (A) write a short (no more than 250 pages) but brilliant Ph.D thesis—equivalent juggling these notions, or
(B) add another notion of your own.
NT: I've always been attracted to Auden's notion, insomuch as I understand "nothing" as the most private of private moments, something like an abstract 'I am,' free from any utilitarian use or individual motive. That "nothing" is the cloud John Ashbery's poems ride, or it is Basho at the pond. And I suppose that could possibly be tied together with Heidegger's notion of a fundamental ontology, too (though the philosophy is admittedly fuzzy to me). Of course there's a lot of religious freight tied to the occupation of shepherd, and the idea of the poet as some kind of metaphysical or moral hero is one that I instinctively resist. But then there is something to that physical, seemingly fundamental quality a line or two from a poem takes on when it cycles through the body over a number of years: either as a kind of directive or simply as a thing that sometimes pops into your head when you're on the bus or walking down the street: "We lie / down in the sandwiches. / The world is strange. / Look in our eyes and see."(William Matthews). "Think assailable thoughts, or be lonely." (Jane Hirshfield). "Cannot account for what you're about / to do. We should be held and forgiven." (Ken Babstock). "We sleep side by side with eternity, and never touch." (Sue Sinclair)— these are a few that come to mind as I type this. When I think about how much these kinds of lines shepherd me some days – I guess I'm willing to bray like a sheep in the fields for a little while. Sure.
As for the Simic quote: poetry or no, aren't all thinkers already in trouble?
DM: "Of all the sports invented by Homo sapiens basketball is the most poetic"—Anon. T. or F.? Discuss.
LeBron or Steph? Other?
NT: I'm going to answer these two questions together, because the other weekend I watched a basketball game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors that is one of the more "poetic" things that I've ever seen. Steph Curry, who hit twelve three-pointers (including a game-winner, casually, from 38 feet out) defied or outright transcended every rule or obstacle in front of him, be it the height and speed of his opponents, be it received notions of the distances one is logically supposed to be able to shoot the ball from with some sort of accuracy, be it the idea that one's ankle SHOULD NOT remain intact after Russell Westbrook, leaping, lands awkwardly upon it in the third quarter.
Later that evening I watched a Youtube video that condensed all twelve of Curry's three-pointers in succession. I watched it about a half-dozen times, the same amount of times that I'm likely to first read a poem that has floored me, or listen to a song that has struck a chord.
Anybody wanting a good source of the poetics of basketball should read "The Heresy of Zone Defence," an essay from art critic Dave Hickey's collection Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy, as well as Yusef Komunyakaa's poem "Slam, Dunk & Hook." A sample from Hickey's essay, which basically describes Curry's performance:
"[It] has always seemed to me that the trick of civilization lies in recognizing the moment when a rule ceases to liberate and begins to govern—and this brings us back to the glory of hoops. Because among all the arts of disputation our culture provides, basketball has been supreme in recognizing this moment of portending government and in deflecting it, by changing the rules when they threaten to make the game less beautiful and less visible, when the game stops liberating and begins to educate."
So, most "poetic" of all the sports? True. Steph or Lebron? Has to be Steph.
DM: On April 5, 2016, at 7:45 a.m, at the Ches Penney YMCA in St. John's N.L. a local poet possessed of the best three pointer of any Canadian poet born before 1943, will be ready to challenge you to a rousing game of HORSE. Accept?
NT: At 5:40pm on April 4th I will be boarding a plane from St. John's Newfoundland to Calgary, Alberta. Keep working on your game.


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USD 410 board discusses sports complex agreement
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USD 410 school board members had more questions than answers as they deferred action on a long-term agreement with the city for use of the Hillsboro Sports Complex.
"As we put this together a long time ago, it was a gentleman's agreement," superintendent Max Heinrichs said. "The only thing that's really changed is that we are going to put this annual fee in for the sum of $1,000 for memorial field, $1,000 for softball, and $2,250 for tennis courts effective as of July 1."
The contract, Heinrichs said, would span seven years. Board member Rod Koons questioned the length of the contract.
"I don't' understand why they'd want a seven-year-agreement," Koons said. "To me that seems weird that it wouldn't be a one-year revolve or a two-year revolve."
Henrichs said when he ran it by city administrator Larry Paine, he said the city was going to approve it as well, but "if you'd rather go with something other than seven years that's understandable, too."
Another issue brought up was who is responsible for the upkeep of the facilities since they were being rented.
"That's all on them," Heinrichs said.
"Hence forth why you don't see much happen," Koons said. "There, I said it."
The board discussed the features they felt needed to be upgraded, which included parking lots and bleachers, to which Heinrichs said he would talk to Paine about the possibility of walking around the facilities to see what needed work.
The contract was tabled for the next board meeting Dec. 12.
In other business:
- The board approved a new credit card user agreement to better suit faculty who use it. "We had people using the card that the old language didn't allow to use," Heinrichs said, "so we changed that."
- The board approved Heinrichs to receive bids for an activity bus. "I want to make sure you understand we will own this bus for 18 to 20 years," Heinrichs said. "It's like our gymnasium. It's how people see us."
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Roses for Ophelia wrote:....wrong side of the Atlantic AGAIN. Seriously, if i ever was on the cool side of the Atlantic, i would be bothering every. single. one. of you awesome people.
But....if the US people are interested, Les Mis is going to be touring here um....soon. Does anyone want to try for a meetup at the Papermill Playhouse in NJ for opening night...or another night?
(and yes, if we have barricade day meetups, there should be a US parralel meet-up)
I would love to! I know that Tori is touring in '11 now almost for sure (she promised us!) (Hammie: OH NO, HERE WE GO), so my Barricade Day festivities may be up in the air. (DON'T SAY ANYTHING HAM! )
I would totally be down for seeing Les Miz on the East Coast. If anyone wants to see it on the West Coast, my offer for letting folks crash with me is still open.


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Do not take loans from Standard Chartered Bank
This is a follow-up on my earlier post. Can you believe that Customer Service Manager of Standard Chartered Bank called to convince me that what they had done was legal and as per their contract. I cannot imagine that intelligent hot shot bank executives who must have studied at all the top schools can come up with such a scam. If this is true, I would recommend to all of you out there who are planning to take a loan from Standard Chartered Bank or thinking of opening a bank account with them, don't do so as you might be debited with charges that you never thought you had to pay. And if you can't afford to pay their illogical charges, you will the additional expense of going to the Doctor to get medicines High Blood Pressure and hyper tension. My response to the customer service manager's illogical argument is given below.


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The wait is over, guys! Google were so determined to announce their newest lineup of Nexus devices that they have delivered their promise on time even though the Sandy Hurricane is still a major threat. Among the flagship smartphone Nexus 4 and the 32 GB versions of the Nexus 7, the announcement of the Nexus 10 was the thing that grabbed our attention.
The Google Nexus 10 is Google's flagship tablet. It offers a beautiful screen whose resolution is the highest one ever found on a tablet: 2560 x 1600 pixels, which results in a pixel density of 300ppi. That also makes it the sharpest tablet screen we've ever seen. The device will also run on Google's latest installment of Android, the all-new 4.2 Jellybean, which was also announced today. It brings several improvements, but probably the most important feature is the multi-user interface, which allows setting up a big number of user on the same device, much like today's and yesterday's Windows OS'.
Also, let's not forget the stereo speakers and the powerful battery that is supposed to ensure 9 hours of video playback.
We quite like the Google Nexus 10. But, will it be as successful as the Nexus 7 currently is? We are eagerly waiting to find out.


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All sorts of images to imagine, sort of like looking at the clouds and seeing pictures. So fun. Love you, Mom
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What an amazing place. I wonder what made the rocks appear so fluid, so molded. The picture does draw you into the landscape. LOVE it.
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OK, now is the part where I try and tell you what I'm talking about.
There are lots of books about death, and I've read a lot of books about death. After a while, they start to seem the same. The characters always go through the same motions, act the same way, deal with the same issues, and after a while I get sick of it, and it seems fake.
I don't know, maybe these people draw from their own experiences, but when I read these kinds of books it doesn't seem like they do. I think a lot of writers end up falling into the same old stereotypes and ways of presenting things because that's what they know, and that's what they've read all the time. I know I've done it. When I was in middle school, I started a bunch of stories centred around popularity and yup, there were those typical Mean Girls and Best Friend Group of Three that pop up in YA ALL THE TIME. I wrote that stuff because that's what I read and that's what I knew.
But it wasn't real. Popularity in real life, at least I find (or at least in my school), is absolutely NOTHING like it is in books.
I think in order to avoid falling back into the regular stereotypical fluff, we have to draw from our own experiences, but in a way that you put all or almost all of yourself into what you write.
Sometimes when I do things like go to a funeral, or spend time with my family, or even go bike riding, or anything in real life I'll be taking notes in my head of what I'm experiencing and what I feel like at that moment. I try to remember every detail. And I don't dramatize or anything, I just bring to focus what I'm thinking at those moments, what I'm experiencing. (These kinds of thoughts are also usually present in journals and diary entries). One thing I always find is that I'm noticing and experiencing things a lot different than characters in books usually do.
But what I'm experiencing is real, and the books are not. I know fiction books are just that: fiction. But that's not an excuse to not write things that aren't real and clear and truth.
Here I shall insert a John Green quote that I've used before:
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.
Fiction is an attempt to reveal the truth. If us as writers are trying to reveal the truth, then why are we so quick to fall back into the old stereotypes and clichés and why are we as readers so willing to accept them?
I know pouring yourself into your writing is hard, REALLY hard. Walter Wellesley Smith got it right when he said, "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." Opening veins is painful and difficult but also, I think, necessary in a way in order to reveal the truth.


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While we are a home for families of all cultures and faiths, we follow a Christian ethos at Elkanah House. We believe that the foundation of a child's education must be in timeless values that carry them spiritually through life. Religious instruction is not integrated into our curriculum, but we share Christian teachings in our assemblies and home classes in the mornings. We believe that the primary way that we live through Christ is to love one another, so we promote the values of acceptance, kindness and tolerance.
At Elkanah House, we are committed to embracing the principles of sustainable development. Leading by example, we have water-wise gardens, award-winning environmentally friendly buildings and, throughout their schooling, your children will take part in various environmental initiatives. Our flagship projects include recycling, paper-reduction, beach cleanups, vegetable gardens, conservation projects and integrating environmental sustainability into our curriculum. We are the only school in South Africa to have collected 1 million kilograms of recyclable waste and we have reduced our consumption of paper by over fifty percent in two years.
Our recycling project extends as an outreach initiative in our neighbouring suburb, Dunoon. We have partnered with Inkwenkwezi Secondary School, Beyond Education and Partners for Possibility to support the Recycle Swop Shop, whereby residents and students of Du Noon drop off recycling or help to sort it, and in return are given tokens which they use to buy basic items from the swop shop.
Our recycling programme is driven by many community volunteers. To join or find out more about our recycling programme, contact email@example.com.
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"We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
At Elkanah House, we truly endorse the philosophy of School at the Centre of Community. We inculcate it into our educational philosophy and school life by offering students many opportunities to engage in impactful community projects. Whether collaborating with sister schools in impoverished areas, working with older citizens in retirement homes, revamping animal shelters or assisting abandoned-children homes, our social outreach programme transforms not only the communities we work with, but also the hearts and minds of our Elkanah House students who develop a deep social conscience that also has led to the establishment of several of their own social entrepreneurship ventures.
Our Encore programme is another Elkanah House community-builder that brings over 300 senior citizens together with weekly excursions, activities and events that ensure that young and old members of our community collaborate and are cared for.
Parents are always invited at Elkanah House. We believe that you play a vital role in your child's education and we work in partnership with you so that you too have a sense of belonging to the Elkanah House family.
"Remember what it felt like to be excluded, so that you can build a community where everyone is included." Lisa Friedman
I am able to be myself, balancing my academics with my interest in drama. Elkanah House is like a family who truly care for each other and the environment.


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Hey everyone! I have decided to start a new series to publish on my blog. It's called- 'The Diaries of Seemingly Insignificant Things'.
Within this series, I talk about the lives and stories of myriad everyday objects, thus rendering their insignificance non-existent.
I feel that these voiceless, lifeless things around us would have very interesting perspectives and are definitely worth sharing.
'If only walls could speak', they say; well, what if they actually can? That, I found to be a very intriguing concept and perspective thus leading me to 'The Diaries'.
The first of the stories is about this paper. It begins with the paper at a factory somewhere narrating its story.
Read on and find out what it has to say.
I was white, as white as it gets. Spotless. Smooth. Soft. And boy, was I fit! My grains were all tight together making for one hell of an attractive texture. But the best part was my length. never had I seen that kind of length, not even from the other rolls around me who kept talking about how they'd grow out to be all long and smooth. Well, maybe they did but I, on the other hand, had grown out to be a dream.
Oh yes, the humans all around at the factory kept talking about how their 'supercalendar' and 'bladecoater' were unbelievably efficient and how that hateful pressing machine's consistency at churning out rolls like me was amazing. But I knew better. It had absolutely nothing to do with any of these new fangled contraptions men were so inexplicably fond of, nothing to do with all those horrid, hurtful chemicals. No. It was all in my genes.
Coming from an elite plantation of fine Chestnut, I was cut out of one of the finest fellows on the estate. I was brought over to this mill- all pulpy and dirty but a fine specimen nevertheless. Initially, the lignin (glue holding our fibre together) removal was quite traumatic but I got over it- I couldn't falter there, I was meant for bigger things.
And after a whole lot of processes, painful ones I might add, I finally reached the bladecoater. And here I was, post all the processes.
I was sitting pretty on this table looking at the other rolls around me- quite a few of them were riff-raff from wild trees who, very evidently, were outright toilet paper material.
There were others too, from good enough plantations but looked like I alone made it out of mine. Oh well, as long as I made it out, i suppose.
I was silently chuckling at this roll who was wailing after getting assigned to the toilet paper department when this other roll said, 'Hey! How are you holding up?'
I gave him a quick head-to-toe (technically, we don't have those but you pick up all kinds of stuff from these humans); he seemed OK. 'I'm great. Why wouldn't I be?' And after a pause, I added- 'Where do you think they'll send you?'
The roll gave a weak shudder and said ruefully, 'I really don't want to think about it. Anything but toilet paper is fine with me. Change the topic. What kind are you from?'
Although I sympathized with him, I couldn't help but rub in- 'You have no idea how excited I am about my future! I'm quite sure I'll end up as a novel!' Before he could start moaning again, I quickly answered his question- 'Chestnut and in all modesty, of the best kind.'
At this, he fell into a complete slump. He muttered something about how he had stuff to do and dragged his sorry self away.
'Ha!', I said to myself. 'What a mess! He was so abso-' BEEEEEEEP, blared the factory speakers. It was time for the decision.
I was going to become a novel. Maybe Ludlum's latest. Or this amazing reprint of some great literary work, Shakespeare perhaps? I would go down in history as being the paper that bore the great man's words in the latest reprint. I deserved nothing less, being the fine specimen I was.
I glanced at the others around me- a nervous lot of quivering and scared papers. Ha! Mere peasants- helpless against fate! I wasn't. I wouldn't accept anything lesser than a novel. I'd revolt, in whatever way I can. I won't let myself get cut nor would I let them move me. I would- I broke off.
'Why on Earth am I tensed?', I asked myself. 'Nothing but the best will happen'. With this, I resumed waiting for the announcement, pretending I didn't notice the tension rapidly building up inside.
Novel. Novel. Novel. Novel. Novel. Novel. Novel. 'Notebook!'
That wasn't for me, right? I'm not notebook material. That's for the peasants.
This big, hairy man walked up to me. 'Notebook'. No. Impossible. 'Notebook'.
I'm elite. This is a dream.


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Hey there! Thanks for checking out my blog and articles! I loved to write out on the trail with my partner and now during my post-hike depression I can be all nostalgic with writing about the trail! I first discovered long distance hiking on my 2015 thru-hike of the South West Coast Path. This instilled such a passion for this activity and the community surrounding it. I worked and saved up until my partner and I could start the Appalachian Trail in 2017. We finished after 165 days and a lifetime of memories. We hiked the trail r for CHaD Kids - an amazing children's hospital located right along the trail that I fully encourage everyone to support. I am now back in Montreal working as a freelance writer and dreaming of getting back on a trail as soon as I can.
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Without realizing she had dialed the wrong number, she now leaned against the window of her City apartment and waited for the call to be answered. Her plan was to call the guy she had met the other day and invite him to hang out. The sun was starting to set and the city was starting to awaken for a night of revelry. It was something she planned to take part of to shake off the doldrums she had been feeling.
Presently she heard the phone pick-up on the other end and spoke before the other person could. "I know you're not doing anything – least I'm pretty sure you're not – so come on over. Okay? See you soon," she talked fast, gave her address, and when done she quickly hung up the phone. She couldn't believe she did that. What if someone else had answered his phone? What if he thought she was out of her mind for calling like that without letting him get a word in edgewise? There wasn't anything to do now but wait and see what happened.
You claim it's not in the cards
But fate is pulling you miles away
And out of reach from me
But you're here in my heart
So who can stop me if I decide
That you're my destiny?
Imagine his own surprise when his cellphone rang and the ID had said it was her. They hadn't seen each other in a few weeks. He still remembered how she walked out after the incident, shaking her head in disbelief. Now she was calling? He had answered it and waited while she rambled off her words and then hung up. She had to have dialed the wrong number, he thought, that call couldn't have been for him. Then again, perhaps he was meant to receive the call? Either way she would be looking for someone to arrive. After a brief consideration he grabbed his keys and left for her place.
It's up to you
And it's up to me
No one can say what we get to be
So why don't we rewrite the stars?
Maybe the world could be ours
She stood on her balcony looking down at the traffic below. She had a good view of her block and the next one over so she would be able to see when he arrived. If he arrived, she reminded herself. It had been thirty minutes since the phone call and he hadn't arrived. Right when she was about to give up on the idea there was a knock on her door. Picture her surprise when she opened the door.
On the other side of the door was't whom she was expecting and it took a moment for her to find words again. "What…what are you doing here?"
"I got your call," he said even while stepping forward. She moved from the door and let him in, caught between confusion and disbelief. She opened her mouth to speak, but he cut her off and headed to her balcony. "You called the wrong number. I know. It's the only reason you'd call me after what happened. But you were expecting someone. We both know how you get."
Having him here stirred up mixed feelings and memories she wasn't wanting to confront. "You can't just answer a call that's not for you," she said, following after him. "You should have said something. Said yourself that I called the wrong number. Why didn't you st—" She never got to finish. As soon as she had passed the threshold of the balcony door he grabbed her and locked their lips together. Her resistance was slight but he didn't let her go until he felt it ebb away.
He broke the kiss and looked down at her, feeling her fingers resting at the side of his face. He said softly, "You talk too much."
He wasn't the one she meant to call. She had been avoiding him for a reason. Yet here he was . . .
You know I want you
It's not a secret I try to hide
But I can't have you
We're bound to break and
My hands are tied
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Product Dimensions
(L x W x H)
18in x 9in x 24in (460 x 225 x 600mm)
12lbs. (6kg)
Shipping Dimensions
30lbs. (14kg)
|Exact "to-scale" construction throughout.
|Primary components cast in urethane to allow for maximum detail and durability.
|Exterior detail including; derrick-type structure, primary process piping, air/steam piping, flame arrestor, knock-out drum, liquid separator tank, and molecular seal.
|Durable PVC baseplate with provision for tabletop mounting, and mounting on related DAC display rack products.
|Packaging for shipment via UPS or motor freight.
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Drawn Again
There aren't many things that transport me back to my childhood more than the fact that FA have reinstated the draw for the FA Cup to its rightful place, on Monday lunchtimes. Of course, times have changed since I was a child. In the days of my youth, the FA Cup draw was treated like some sort of masonic ritual that we could peek at through a metaphorical key-hole. If you weren't lucky enough to hear it live on the radio, you'd have to wait until the evening news on the television or even wait for the following morning's papers to find who'd you'd drawn in the next round. These days, with rolling news channels, the internet and other forms of saturation coverage, the mystique has been lessened slightly, but that's not to say that it doesn't still exist. In offices the length and breadth of the country, designated football geeks will have been assigned by their peers or their bosses to check the draw and report back. The more organised ones will send a group email to everyone that cares. In others, though, hearsay will reign supreme as Chinese whispers sweep the building - "Chelsea have drawn Arsenal, Manchester United and Spurs? How did this happen?".
So, what have the Gods Of The Plastic Tubs And Multi-Coloured Ping Pong Balls granted us this time around? Well... it's not bad, as these things go. The remaining "big three" have all been drawn at home, but two of them have tricky matches, and there are at least a couple of others that at least warrant our further inspection. The two potentially tricky matches are, of course, for Arsenal and Manchester United. Arsenal take on Bolton at Ashburton Grove. Bolton's improvement this season cannot be understated, and the match also provides an opportunity for Nicolas Anelka to return to North London and show Arsene Wenger exactly what he's missing out on. Also... Bolton have beaten Arsenal this season in the Premiership, and dumped Arsenal out of last year's FA Cup. Manchester United's reward for their somewhat fortuitous win against Aston Villa is another home match, this time against Portsmouth. Now, United did brush Pompey aside in the Premiership earlier this season, but Portsmouth are brimming with confidence and, in the likes of David James, Sol Campbell and Kanu, they can hardly be said to be lacking in experienced big game players. It's also worth reminding that Harry Redknapp was in charge of West Ham United when they knocked Manchester United out at Old Trafford in 2001.
The other cup favourites have got off a little more lightly. Chelsea entertain Nottingham Forest, though Forest might fancy their chances of causing a major shock if Chelsea still have no central defenders (though this looks unlikely), especially with Kris Commons, the best attacker in the bottom two divisions, still in sparkling form. Should they get past Cardiff in their replay, Spurs will be at home to Southend or Barnsley. Southend took them to extra-time in the League Cup, but Barnsley are their more likely opponents. The last time that The Tykes went to White Hart Lane in the Fourth Round of the FA Cup was in 1981, but their opponents weren't Spurs, but their once-mighty non-league neighbours, Enfield. More of that story should they end up back there this year. Newcastle have to get past Burnley for the right to play Reading or Burnley, and there's yet another all-Premiership match at Upton Park, where West Ham United play Watford.
The large number of all-Premiership matches means that the Football League will have at least six representatives in the last sixteen. Should Wolves force their way past Oldham Athletic in their replay, they will have a home Black Country derby against West Bromwich Albion. Wolves and West Brom have a particularly intense rivalry - should they get to face each other, it will be one of the ties of the round. Other League clubs looking at the distinct possibility of a place in the last sixteen include Derby County (who I would say should see off Bristol Rovers, were it not for that Rovers knocked Derby out a couple of years ago, while Derby were still a Premiership club), Ipswich, who are likely to face Swansea City, and Crystal Palace or Preston North End, who play each other at Selhurst Park.
Well, until the replays come around next week, that's about it for the FA Cup or now. In case you're wondering about the massive Christmas Quiz, answers and results later this week (one or two of you are massive slackers and have requested a few extra days to finalise your results - which I know means spending hours and hours looking at random football grounds on Google Image Search). Tomorrow... Cardiff City - neanderthals or mis-understood?


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Roadrunners To Celebrate Craig Cunningham Night On October 27
By: Tucson Roadrunners
October 13, 2017 9:08 AM
TUCSON, AZ – The Tucson Roadrunners, proud American Hockey League affiliate of the Arizona Coyotes, are set to celebrate "Craig Cunningham Night" on Friday, October 27 at Tucson Arena.
To start the evening fans will receive a Craig Cunningham bobblehead, presented by Carondelet St. Mary's Hospital, while supplies last.
Prior to the 7:05 PM puck drop against the Iowa Wild, affiliate of the National Hockey League's Minnesota Wild, the Roadrunners will honor the first-ever franchise captain with a ceremony in which Cunningham's #14 will be raised into the rafters.
Tickets for the evening's festivities, as well as all 33 remaining home Roadrunners games can be purchased HERE.


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Congress Legalizes everything Bush Does
This post was written by marc on August 6, 2007
Posted Under: Letters to the Editor
Posted Under: Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
Every time Bush breaks the law Congress legalizes what he does. When Bush illegally tapped our phones Congress passed a law suspending the 4th Amendment. When Bush set up secret prison torture camps Congress legalized secret prison torture camps. I just wish Bush would start smoking Pot and visit a Hooker so Congress would legalize Marijuana and Prostitution.


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One day while browsing through my Facebook newsfeed, I saw a photograph of a young mother in a delivery room holding her newborn baby to her chest. The caption read, "My beautiful baby with her ugly baby mama." I am paraphrasing, of course, to avoid the profanities included in this short caption. My first thought was, "I wonder if he, the father who posted the picture, found the mother ugly when he was in bed with her?"
We live in a society that trivializes sex: nowadays, it is all about self-gratification. For many men, having multiple sexual partners shows how manly they are. They talk with pride about their many conquests, as if they were collecting trophies. They don't care about the kind of women they are dealing with; these guys only care that they feel good with that person. After some time together, they start to discover the real character of their partners, then they are ready to walk out. Often this happened after the ladies get pregnant. That's one of the main reasons of fatherlessness: men who turn their back on their children because they can't get along with the mothers.
For this reason, we must redefine the expression "I am the man." Being the man is not the ability to conquer multiple women, but to get and keep the right lady. Choosing the right woman is not a matter of feelings only, but also reason. As a man, you must have an ideal woman in your mind that is not based on physical appearance but her character.
Looks are deceiving, superficial, and temporary. A beautiful face will wrinkle as age increases. An attractive shape will change during and after pregnancy. We can also add skin diseases and accidents that can happen. We need to look at deeper things and find more meaningful and lasting criteria in choosing the partner to have a family with. Here are four qualities you need to consider in a woman.
The woman sets the mood of the family. When she is sad, the whole household is miserable. When she is angry, the kids are anxious, and the man is irritable. When she is happy, it's sunshine all day and night. The effect of her smile is not affected by age. Pick a woman who is pleasant and doesn't get irritated easily. Such a partner will be able to challenge, inspire, encourage, and empower you. You will anticipate coming home after your hard day at work to relax and have family time.
Few people in our day and age are goal-oriented. Fortunately, it's a skill that can be learned and developed. It's crucial that the both of you discuss your individual goals and plans for the short and long term right from the start of the relationship; it's best to do so within the first three dates. Talking about children and parenting is also a must.
It's important to be with a woman who is sensitive to the needs of others, not just hers, and the sufferings of those around her. This is crucial because we are living in the "I" generation. People are becoming more and more selfish and self-centered. Altruism and generosity are virtues that are rapidly disappearing in our society.
No relationship can last without forgiveness. We all make mistakes; often we knowingly hurt our loved one's feelings. It's unfortunate but true. Therefore, it's important that the woman you are interested in has a spirit of forgiveness. Some women will hold grudges for months even years against someone else for the most trivial things you can think of. This will create an atmosphere of insecurity in the household and prevent intimacy. So, if a woman is constantly getting into fights, arguments, or talking about revenge on others, consider this a red flag even though she is always nice to you.
With these in mind go search for the woman of your dreams.
Extract from the book "From Man to Dad" by Serge Destin
Serge Destin


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How to cook a delicious cafe
Today on the blog article for lovers of coffee – instant coffee lovers. I understand that real coffee may not be instant, but I also know that many, many instant beverage loved and enjoyed. So it's best not to argue whose coffee is better, and just accept as a given.
Do you know how many coffee recipes exist? It turns out that very much.
Today you will learn how to prepare tasty coffee in a variety of ways.
Iced coffee
This coffee is ideal in hot weather, because it can serve cold.
The recipe made 1 serving tasty drink.
You will need:
Ice cream (vanilla, coffee, chocolate) – 50 grams
sugar or sugar syrup – to taste
cinnamon – to taste.
Heat up a porcelain mug with a volume of 250 ml.
Stir one teaspoon of instant coffee in hot water. Water should be 25 ml. Then Continue reading
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How to choose and properly prepare good coffee. How to make coffee. The coffee-based cocktails
Coffee – how to choose and properly prepare good coffee
How to choose coffee.
Today the market offers us a huge selection of all sorts of coffees and different degrees of Amarok. And now we'll look at how to choose the best
quality product.
1 First of all, when choosing coffee, you need to pay attention to its aroma. Many coffee packaging is equipped with a special valve, through which, when you tap the package, you can smell the aroma of the coffee. The aroma should be strong and pleasant.
2 When choosing a coffee note on the date of roasting on the shelf life. GOST coffee can have a shelf life up to 18 months, but he will no longer be fresh. If the package contains a shelf life of 3 months – this coffee has the status of the freshly roasted.
3 Next, pay attention to the grain. Grain should be smooth without any defects.
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A Cup of coffee for many has become a prerequisite morning awakening. Without bitter taste and invigorating aroma day may simply not be saladita.
Gourmets say that coffee has a soul, and in its preparation is important to preserve it. the "Soul" of coffee is the aroma, taste and aftertaste. To "kill" drink, you should follow certain rules.
Store grain in a dry and cool place, protected from foreign odors.
There is a special kind of coffee, which from long storage has a light specific odor of smoke. However, the conventional coffee has a short shelf life. For example, ground coffee quickly loses its smell, so brew it better. To recommend roasting beans directly before brewing.
Some prefer fine grinding, because it helps the flavor to unfold fully. The importance of the utensils, which prepare the drink. Turks can be of different sizes but always have the same shape: narrow top, wide bottom and a long handle. The best coffee Continue reading


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