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Theresa May has been forced into a U-turn on key counter-extremism proposals designed to ban "hate preachers" from university campuses, the Observer understands.
The most contentious measures in an original draft of the rules published last year, including the demand that universities obtain advance notice of the content of presentations, have been cut out in the wake of a barrage of criticism from figures such as the former MI5 chief Baroness Manningham-Buller.
The U-turn comes as the architect of the government's original Prevent counter-radicalisation strategy, which prioritised building contacts within minority communities, including among borderline extremist groups, said that ministers were failing to stop the spread of extremism.
Hazel Blears, the former Labour Home Office minister who signed off the Prevent programme, conceived after the London bombings 10 years ago, , which killed 52 people and injured more than 750, said: "What happened was that the Prevent programme was scaled back and the public appetite for doing this kind of work wanes as you get further away from an event."
The Home Office wants to push through new rules on external speakers at universities before the end of July, when parliament goes into recess. Ministers hope to have the rules in place by September for the new academic year, it is believed.
The home secretary said earlier this year that she would be seeking a tougher stance from universities on the threat of student radicalisation in the wake of the revelation that Mohammed Emwazi – so-called Jihadi John – attended Westminster University. Last week, rules came into force under which the rest of the public sector, including schools, local authorities, the police, prisons and probation services, were given a legal duty to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism.
However, in a bid to gain the support of MPs, peers and vice-chancellors, the original plans for universities, published before the general election, including a demand that they should have 14 days' notice of speakers on campus and be given advance notice of the content of events "including an outline of the topics to be discussed and sight of any presentations, footage to be broadcast", have been written out of recent drafts of the guidance. The central tenet of the guidance will instead be on universities being able to show they have gone through due process in agreeing to controversial speakers talking on a campus and mitigated the risks to students, for example through chairing events responsibly and monitoring the marketing of them.
The Observer understands, however, that there is an ongoing debate within government over how ministers can respect both universities' statutory duty to protect freedom of speech and the Home Office's desire to clamp down on the radicalisation of young adults.
One point of debate is how universities are expected to prevent the dissemination of extreme views that could "lead to terrorism", which has been mooted as a duty that will face the higher education sector. There is disagreement between the Home Office and vice-chancellors over the extent to which universities will be asked to "manage risks".
One source said: "The latest efforts have not got the balance right. There is a danger that we end up with guidance that is overly cautious. What needs to be avoided is guidance where the presumption is that if there is any risk at all that someone should not be allowed to speak. But there will always be risk because we are dealing with people."
Prof Michael Gunn, vice-chancellor of Staffordshire University, and chair of the million+ higher education thinktank, said he had been reassured by Home Office officials that they would seek a proportionate set of rules recognising the unique role of universities. He said: "We start from the principle that we have a duty to ensure freedom of speech – and that is a statutory duty – as well as the duty to prevent someone being drawn into terrorism.
"Similarly, a lot of universities would say that debating those who hold views that are extreme that is the best way to challenge them."
A spokesman for Universities UK, the body which represents the higher education sector, said: "Universities already do a significant amount of work in this area and Universities UK's priority will be to ensure that there is an appropriate and proportionate balance between securing freedom of expression and academic freedom and preventing terrorism."
A Home Office spokesman said the timing of when parliament will debate and approve the further guidance was subject to parliamentary timescales. She said: "The issue of how universities and colleges balance the Prevent duty with the importance of academic freedom is an extremely important one.
"Further guidance for higher and further education institutions on managing external speakers will be published following parliamentary approval of the specific advice on this matter.
"The duty will commence for universities and colleges once the guidance has been published."


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The Airport has made a commitment to CO2-neutral growth. The objective is that, taking 2005 as the reference year, emissions will on a long-term basis be kept at least constant. Until 2020, the 55,000-tonne mark of carbon dioxide (CO2) may not be exceeded. If the RECS certificates, with which the Airport obtains its eco-hydro electricity, were also taken into consideration, the CO2 emission would be decreased by almost 30 percent by 2020.
In the past, the annual CO2 emission was also considerably reduced by technical innovations and the efficient use of energy. This included the construction of a combined heating and power unit, energy-efficient heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, the installation of roof solar systems in the Cargo Center and the new FedEx sorting centre, plus sourcing regenerative or emission-free hydro-electricity (RECS certificates), all of which led to a considerable improvement of the carbon balance. Since 1998, more than 135,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide have been saved.
To continue with this reduction of absolute carbon dioxide emissions until 2020, further investments are planned for energy efficiency projects. This includes the installation of LED technology in Terminal 1, another photovoltaic system on the roof of the UPS building and a modern heating, ventilation and air conditioning system in Terminal 1. A climate protection management system, which will monitor the effects of the individual reduction measures and identify further CO2-saving potential, will also be set up.

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it is valentine's day; there are places teeming with love right now. but there are places that are unforgiving, crammed with people drifting in mid-air, completing somersaults in their very own circus, taming no one.
someone fascinating said i am too much of a writer; it's like saying the ocean has too much water. thus, i lose important people because of this. but this i quote: "if you have a minute why don't we go talk about it somewhere only we know. This could be the end of everything, so why don't we go, somewhere only we know?"
Who knows, if we go to that place that has no name nor landmarks surrounding it, we might just as well be on the same page, in the same planet, on the same crest of wave, way back, way before we started losing almost everything—snatches of songs, medallion memories, gift-wrapped words—piece by piece.


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"LG and MetroPCS have come together to offer consumers the first no annual contract Android smartphone at an exceptional value," said Tim O'Brien, vice president of consumer and trade marketing for LG Mobile Phones. "LG Optimus M is an easy-to-use handset with the capabilities of the latest Android technology and features to enhance the consumers' experience."
Perfect timing for the holidays if MetroPCS is your carrier of choice. Full press release is available after the break folks. [MetroPCS via PhoneScoop]
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I like this way to explain myself through images, like I did in the last post, so I took some more phone-photos this week..
- Max and I are thinking about going on vacation in Portugal. We needed some infos and ideas to organise our trip so I fetched this guide at the library. The plan is to fly all the way to Lisbon and then visit the surroundings. My aunt went last summer, she told me a lot of promising stuff, I really am looking forward to it!
- I go to study at the library ever day now, I can concentrate better this way and, as you can see, my messiness isn't shy XD
- Do you see something strange too? WTF moment at the library: as I was reading I noticed everyone was looking up in the air. I thought that they were just thinking or something but when I raised my head, out of reflex, I saw that door.. I blinked and looked away, without paying attention. After a second I looked up again with this face --> o_O realising there was something definitely strange..
- New notebook converted to agenda! ..and before I knew it I began to use it somehow like a diary.. I don't know why but I just started writing more than necessary. I also took an old box of markers out of the drawer to make everything more colourful. The cover definitely needs to be embellished though..
- It was Max's b.day last week. I spend a whole afternoon cooking and preparing. I tell you everything was totally worth it <3
- while shopping in Torre with a friend I saw this cute t-shirt decorated with a cut-out owl. DIY?? 8D
If you like illustration you have to take a look at this super cute site: They draw and cook. An original way to collect recipes. There also is a travelling version of the site: They draw and travel.
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Pregnancy, breast cancer, and heart disease are women's health issues frequently discussed among health experts. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) added binge drinking as another health concern for women. Binge drinking could potentially damage a woman's overall health, and could add risks to all of the women's health issues mentioned above.While statistics have shown that binge drinking has actually decreased among high school boys, it has remained steady for high school girls; effecting young growing bodies that will be nourishing the next generation of children. Not only may the girls be harming the mind and bodies of their children, but may be harming their own quality of life and life expectancy.
CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden urges that this women's health issue needs greater recognition. He stated that nearly 23,000 females die each year from drinking excessive amounts of alcohol. Some may disregard youthful binge drinking as a rite of passage, yet experts caution that an unrecognized or undeterred drinking habit may cause addiction, lifelong damage to the body, or death.
A Study of Female Binge Drinking
Each month nearly 14 million females binge drink three times or more. The CDC analyzed the drinking behavior of girls from the ages of high school through adulthood by using the 2011 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey and 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Their analysis revealed the following characteristics of females who are most likely to engage in binge drinking (having four or more drinks at one time):
- One in five high school girls engage in frequent binge-drinking
- One in eight young women engage in frequent binge-drinking
- Females from high school age through age 34
- White and Hispanic ethnicity
- Household income of $75,000 or more
Female Health Risks from Binge Drinking
The female body is given the gift of growing another human within her body and nourishing it until it is born into the world. Those who engage in binge drinking while that fetus is developing are passing the alcohol and its damaging effects on to their baby who are at risk of suffering from fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and sudden infant death syndrome.
Studies show that females who binge drink also increase their risk for the following long-term problems:
- Unplanned pregnancy
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Heart disease
- Breast cancer
Awareness of the severity of female binge drinking may help not only the lives of millions of females, but the lives of millions of babies.
The Task of Changing Drinking Behavior
Experts agree that trying to change America's drinking behavior is a difficult task. Binge drinking accounts for 90 percent of the alcohol consumption by young adults and 50 percent of the consumption of adults. The CDC recommends that doctors should inform women of the specific harm to their bodies they are risking by engaging in binge drinking. With knowledge, responsibility can prosper.


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Let's get one thing straight. Vijay Mallya isn't winging into Mumbai or Delhi in the near future. Like Tracy Chapman sang: The police come late if they come at all, Mallya can make all those pleasant conciliatory sounds about wanting to respect the Indian judiciary but come on, it's a Catch 22. If he applies for his passport to the Indian Embassy at London in person he is on Indian territory and can be apprehended. Much as an embassy or High Commission can give refuge it can also detain and hold. So don't hold your breath and expect Mallya to fall into that obvious trap.
As for respecting the judiciary, it makes a good sound bite but does not add up to a whistle in the wind.
The Indian diplomat who suggested Mallya trot down to the embassy and ask for an Emergency Certificate was obviously kidding. Can you see the liquor baron actually doing that? Not this week-end anyway with all the Premier league matches going on and Mallya probably holding awesome seat tickets.
"Any Indian citizen who is outside India and who does not have a valid travel document for any reason, only has to approach the nearest Indian embassy or high commission and apply for an emergency certificate," external affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said in his weekly media briefing.
"Emergency Certificate is specifically meant to provide a travel document to an Indian citizen to return to India. This facility is available to Mallya should he wish to apply for it."
Take away the fun of these back and forth between governments and individuals and you realise neither is serious. If the government was serious they would not have let Mallya catch a Jet Airways flight as a commercial passenger. He could have been held on a dozen charges at departure even if they were cooked up. Indian labour faces such rejection in the dozens every day at every airport besides facing what can only be called an inquisition. So let's not kid ourselves.
Like with Lalit Modi and Win Chadha before him, the government lets you go then sets the chase to music.
They never even tried to get Win back. Except for one foray by a VP Singh emissary(allegedly) that all would be forgiven if Chadha would please involve Rajiv Gandhi in the Bofors scandal which compelled Win to call security to throw the man out.
As for Modi, that is laughable. That is laughable in extremis. The pitch is dead, a million wickets have fallen but Modi bats on regardless.
How did this new chapter start in the Mallya innings? Mallya in an e-mail to his lawyer has expressed his willingness to return to India and respect the country's judicial system. Probably this letter was also drafted by his lawyer.
Dispatched only an hour before the hearing on 9 September, Mallya sent the e-mail to his defence counsel Ajay Bhargava asking him to file a plea seeking exemption from personal appearance before a Mumbai court hearing a case of alleged violation of foreign exchange rules on his behalf.
"I request you to kindly appear before the learned judge on the said date on my behalf and file an exemption application requesting the judge to kindly dispense with my personal presence on the said date of hearing (September 9)," Mallya wrote in the mail.
"I request you (defence counsel) to also kindly convey to the learned judge that I have the utmost respect for his authority and towards the judicial systems of the country, in general," Mallya wrote.
Heartbreaking stuff.
But it's no big deal. All he is doing is keeping his nose clean on legal points of reference. None of which means he is coming home.
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In today's world, Ethernet cable and jacks are installed in commercial buildings for network connectivity almost as much as electrical wires and sockets are installed for electricity. Therefore, it is important to know how to install and connect an Ethernet cable jack in a wall. The following steps describe how this can be done.
1Turn off all electricity to electrical circuits that you will be working in close proximity to.
2Review the networking key map in order to determine a location for your Ethernet cable jack. A popular place for this to be located is on the opposite side of a stud from where an electrical socket is located.
3Using a measuring tape and a stud finder mark the location where the Ethernet outlet will be located.
4Using a torpedo level, place the wall plate mounting bracket on the wall and trace the inner part of the bracket on the wall.
5Cut a square hole in the wall using a drywall saw and the traced lines from the previous step. Be sure not to cut too big of a hole. If you cut the hole too small you can always go back and cut a little more out using a drywall saw.
6Install the wall plate mounting bracket into the wall according to manufacturing directions.
7If necessary drill at least a 1" diameter hole in the top of the wall directly above where your Ethernet outlet will be located.
8Run a fish tape from the top of the wall to the hole for the Ethernet outlet.
9Attach a very durable, but small in diameter, rope to the end of the fish tape and pull the fish tape out of the wall while pulling the rope into and out of the top of the wall. Ensure that the rope is long enough to have a foot of extra rope above the top of the wall and at least a foot of rope out of the Ethernet outlet hole.
10Attach the rope above the wall to the Ethernet cable coming from the main panel box. Ensure that the cable is the correct one for this particular outlet. It is recommended that a combination of a good knot and electrical tape is used to attach the rope to the cable. Pulling the cable down to the outlet opening can be especially difficult if there is insulation in the wall where you are pulling the cable.
11Once the cable has been pulled through the outlet opening with about a foot of extra cable, use a wire stripper to remove approximately 2" of the cable jacket at the end of the cable. Do not nick any of the small wires that are part of the cable when using the wire strippers to remove the cable jacket.
12Untwist the wires just enough so that the wires can be installed on the RJ45 female jack. Do not twist the wires any more than necessary due to the potential for interference on the wires if the cables are untwisted too far.
13Place the wires by hand into the color coded notches on the jack. The wires should be installed into the jack with the ends of the wires going out towards the sides of the jack. The wires will be installed using an A or B type color code. Both color codes are sufficient but should be used uniformly throughout the building.
14Using a punch down tool fully seat the wires to the RJ45 jack. Trim off any excess wire from the jack
15Install the jack into the wall plate and screw the wall plate to the wall plate mounting bracket. Push any excess cable back in the wall.
16Test the connection using a cable tester.
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exercised distance intervals, 50min total running, and got the Interval Runner badge.
That was:
5 min warm up walk
10 min run
1 min walk
10 min run
2 min walk
10 min run
3 min walk
10 min run
4 min walk
10 min run
5 min walk to cool down.
And I felt absolutely great. Tried my new heart rate monitor and I think I can get used to it and it is useful.
Checked the distance in my jogmap account and it was over 9.1 km total.
Yeah :-)
Here I post about my knitting, my dogs, my garden and other things that keep me busy. Hundgestrickt is a word that I invented combining the German words for "dog" and for "knit" making it similar to "handgestrickt" for handknit (think of "houndknit") as that's what this blog is mostly about :-)
Sunday, 22 April 2012
My Way to 10 K - Intervals
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Getting Here
Public Transport
You can catch the train to Central station, and take the walkway to Wickham Terrace. Silverton Place is across the road.
Spring Hill Bus Loop. This is a free service operating on a continuous circuit between the CBD and Spring Hill precincts. Popular stops include Brisbane Private Hospital and Central Station. Please follow this link for more information about this free service.
For more Public Transport info & plan your trip: Brisbane Translink
On street: There is limited metered parking available on Wickham Terrace or Astor Terrace (the street behind Silverton Place).
We have parking vouchers available for the secure carpark located at 28 Astor Terrace. These vouchers can be collected from our reception desk at the end of your appointment. Our reception team can provide more information on using the vouchers at the time of your appointment.
Patients requiring wheelchair access:
For patients with disabilities, there are two disabled car parks out the front of the building, on Wickham Terrace.
Otherwise, we suggest the Wickham Terrace car park, as all the other car parks involve flights of stairs. Alternatively, you may catch the train to central station, which is directly opposite Silverton Place and has a wheelchair lift.
Secure parking:
- Astor Terrace: Enter via Cousins Lane off Astor Terrace. From Astor Tce Carpark you're able to cut through to Silverton Place and Wickham Terrace.
- 28 Astor Terrace: Turn into Portman Lane off Astor Terrace (near BOQ).
- Novo Hotel Parking: Enter via Cousins Lane off Astor Terrace.
- United Services Club, Upper Edward St: On Upper Edward Street at the end of Astor Terrace, diagonally to the left of the lights.
- Brisbane City Council car park: Located on Wickham Terrace. Access via Turbot Street or Creek Street (exit only from Wickham Terrace).
- $15 for up to 3 hours
- $20 for up to 4 hours
- $25 for up to 5 hours
- Normal advertised rate after 5 hours
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Shoe & Wardrobe Storage Drawers - Large
We've tried and tested a fair few of these interlocking stackable shoe storage drawers in the past and rejected them all on quality and usability.
It's taken us a while but we decided to design our own, incorporating our classic STORE clear plastic men's shoe storage box into the sliding stackable drawer design.
We're delighted with the result which makes for an ideal storage drawer to pop in the bottom of a wardrobe, on a shelf under the stairs or in a cloakroom to organise your shoes and (as shown above) can also be used for clothing too.
Easily stacked (to make best use of space) into a robust yet stylish drawer tower, these modular storage units can be configured to suit your specific space requirements and shoe collection.
The clear plastic drawers make for easy identification of the contents without the need to rummage around in the bottom of the wardrobe unstacking shoe boxes to find those smart brown work shoes.
Each unit comes with a sturdy removable clear plastic handled shoe storage box and white drawer frame ready for stacking in your chosen configuration to create a bespoke shoe storage unit to declutter and re-organise your space.
External Dimensions: 17.5cm high x 29.5cm wide x 37.5cm deep
Internal Dimensions: 14.5cm high x 21.5cm wide x 31cm deep
Each plastic storage box has an 11 litre capacity
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High Protein Foods. 6 Powerful Examples
Protein is necessary for the maintenance of bodily functions at various stages of your life. As the major component of all cells, bone and muscle tissue, protein is vital for bodily growth, development and immunity functions. The Recommended Dietary Allowance for protein is 56 grams daily for men and 46 grams daily for women. In order to lose weight with high protein foods, it is recommended that you take at least 120 grams of protein each day.
High protein foods are becoming more and more popular in modern-day diets. In fact, research has found that protein is able to satisfy hunger better than carbohydrates or fats. Studies have found that less hunger, more satisfaction and weight loss result from reducing fat to 20% of the total diet calories, increasing proteins to 30% and carbs to 50%. Study participants were found to have eaten 441 calories a day while following the high-protein diet and regulating their own calorie intake. High protein diets in combination with exercise have also been found to enhance fat and weight loss, while improving blood fat levels. High protein diets are also recommended as enabling dieters to better control their appetites, as well as how many calories they consume.
High protein foods are thought to enable dieters to maintain lean tissue while burning fat for fuel, without having to be bothered by being hungry all the time. It still isn't understood how exactly these foods work in reducing your appetite. However, it is believed that this may be because high-protein diets cause the brain to receive lower levels of hormones responsible for stimulating your appetite. This may also be attributed to eating reduced amounts of carbs, as well as the specific effect of proteins on your brain chemistry and hunger hormones.
Who Should Avoid This Diet?
Eating high quantities of proteins poses no danger to your health unless you suffer from kidney disease. If you wish to increase your intake of proteins, you should do so slowly over the course of a week. Your safest bet when it comes to dealing with high protein foods would be to first consult your health practitioner before largely increasing your dietary intake.
List of Foods That Are High In Proteins
- Fish
- Seeds
- Nuts
- Oils
- Olives
- Avocado
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Adding High Protein Foods to Your Diet
If you wish to lose weight with high protein foods, be sure to include lean and low-fat sources of protein in your meals so as to control your calorific intake. It is also recommended that you combine the proteins with "smart" carbs such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Go for protein sources that are rich in nutrients and low in fat and calories such as beans, meat, low-fat dairy and soy. A good way to add these foods to your daily diet is by snacking on fat-free mozzarella cheese or hard boiled eggs. You could also have a whole cup of milk with your breakfast cereal, and thereafter some smoked salmon or lean sausages as a great way to start your day.


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Before admitting students, you can customise the student admission form to meet your institution's policies and requirements. Apart from the default fields available on the student admission form, you can add custom fields to record any additional details about the student.
- At the top of your dashboard, click the Menu> Administration > Settings > Add Admission Additional Details to open the Add additional details page.
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In the Name field, enter the name of the custom field that will appear on the student admission form.
Select the status of the field name:
Active – A custom detail field with this status will be available in the student admission form and can be used to record additional details about the applicant.
Inactive – A custom detail field with this status will not be available in the student admission form.
Select the Is mandatory checkbox to set this field as a mandatory field that must be filled by the student.
In the Input method field, select the field input method from the following options:
Text Box – Enter brief text information.
Text Area – Enter detailed text information.
Select Box – Select an option from a drop-down list.
Check Box – Select one or more items from a set of options.
Click the Create button.
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Lesson of the Week--The Big Picture
By Perry Gartner and Phil Simborg
This week's Lesson of the Week is about a most important approach to making the right checker play than it is about a specific play. But let's take a look at a specific play.
The score is 11away/11away, and Red gets and opening roll of 3-2. He moves 24/21 13/11. White rolls 6-5 and runs a checker. Now, Red rolls 6-3 and he has two very obvious choices: he can make his 5 point or make his opponent's bar point.
Which play do you think is right?
It turns out that the two plays are very close. There are obvious advantages of both plays. The XGRoller+ prefers making the opponent's bar by .001, but an extensive rollout shows that play is better by .015…still pretty close.
Now, what if we change the score to Red is 4 away and White is 2 away? What play do you think is right then, and do you think it is close. And what if we change the score to Red 2 away and White 4 away? Again, what play would be right and would it be close.
In the case of Red being 4 away, we have a score where Red would like to turn the cube fairly quickly and that would make gammons extremely valuable to him…in fact, he would be on what we call "Gammon-Go." Winning a gammon wins the match for Red, and gammons have a value of 1.0 (twice as much as a money game and most Normal Match Scores).
At that score, the right play is to make the 5 point. Red wants to make an offense play that would lead to more gammons. As you can see from the evaluation below, it would be a 16% blunder to make the bar, and you can also see that by making the bar would yield about 50% fewer gammons.
Red on Gammon-Go
When Red is 2-away, his position is reversed. He knows White will turn the cube as soon as he has reasonable gammon chances, and with the cube turned he is not concerned about winning gammons, but with saving gammons. He is on "Gammon-Save." In this situation, making his opponent's bar point, giving him an "anchor" and reducing the number of blots on the board is safer.
If you look at the eval for Red at this score, you will see that making the 5 point would be 7% error and he would get gammoned about 50% more that way.
Red on Gammon-Save
As you can also see, the win percentage doesn't change more than about 1 percent with either play…it's the gammon chances that become critical. At 11away/11away the value of gammons is about .5 with the cube on 2; at 2away/4away it is either 1.0 for the trailer and 0 for the leader with the cube on 2.
The obvious lesson here is that even very early in the game, the score can have make a huge difference in your checker play strategy as well as your cube strategy. By the way, this same thinking affects the first roll moves, but in most cases the affect is not as dramatic as it is in the above example.
And this leads us to THE BIG LESSON of the week. And the big lesson is this: there is more to checker play than just looking at the dice and the board and trying to figure out what play is best. You must consider the "big picture" or strategic items first, and that includes the score, position of the cube and cube strategy, value of gammons, and the game plan given the big picture items and the position of the checkers and the roll at that time.
In our lessons, we teach a methodology to making checker plays that incorporates all of these factors, and we add rules of thumb, basic principles of play, counting tactics and shortcuts, and reasoning strategies to make the process more accurate.


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- The Mastermind y lo contrario is a collaborative livre d'artiste project with sections that can be removed and hung, sections that are made inaccessible with nickel-plated bolts, and a key/guide that describes the various kinds of marks and interventions on the pages. The substrate for most of the work is the original manuscript, The Mastermind, by David Unger.
Themes from the novel are mixed with commentary on psychological issues connected with the traits of a "mastermind" and how that relates to larger issues in life.The work I made during my residency at The MacDowell Colony was a continuation of the project "Observations, errors, and corrections" where I used my surroundings as material for commenting on human experience. After making observations through writing and drawings, I reworked each section correcting anything I consider an "error".
Click on image to see work.The work I made during my residency through the Edward Albee Foundation grew out of my frustration with the condition of the floor - a surface that was made up of cracked linoleum and cement. I had thought I would be able to make large drawings on the floor but the surface was too deteriorated and uneven. I decided I would use the floor's condition as the basis for the work I would produce.
Click on image to see the work.I made these drawings on pages from a 1918 scientific journal that a friend sent me. The obsessive handwriting and detailed charts seemed to insist that things could be explained and controlled. I decided to look behind the procedural descriptions, taking words and phrases out of context to describe things that defy control, accentuating the humorous, absurd, and craziness of the human condition.
Click image to see series.This project was based on a series of medical procedures where I became both the observer and the object of actions out of my control. As the observer, I saw myself split into three separate parts: the rational, curious, thinking person; the sensory, tactile, physical being; and the feeling emotional, reactive being. These paintings depict these three viewpoints, using marks that mimic those experiences.
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When is a story, not a story?
January 31, 2017
The answer is simple….. When it is not the right one to be told.
I only discovered this at the weekend, when staying at the fabulous Gladstone Library in Howarden. As usual our writing group had arranged a weekend away for us to have some time and space to focus on our writing; as individuals and as a group. Sadly, we were a depleted group, as life sometimes just gets in the way, and some of our members were unable to attend. Normally, non attendance is my forte, as I can be a bit 'flaky'; but not this time.
Last year had been a tough one for me, and as such, my writing had really taken a back seat. So much so, I was becoming embarrassed to call myself a children's author.
I had 'blagged' my way through various meetings promising to write xx amount of words, but in reality I had done very little. In 6 months, I had probably written about 2,000 words; 4 chapters. That's it. There is only one word for my attempt. Shabby.
Then came Gladstone, and as I sat in the beautiful room, surrounded by books, an open fire and looking out over the frosty gardens, I had my 'Aha' moment!
The real reason for the struggle to write the story, is because it was the wrong story! I had no idea how it was going to work, or where it was going. I like to begin with the end in mind, (thank you Steven Covey for that nugget), and quite frankly, had no clue; I was blindly writing and hoping things would fall into place.
Once I realised this, I felt the pressure of having to write, fall away. It's strange, once I had given myself 'permission' to accept it was going nowhere, a new plot with new characters came to me within minutes.
I now have my plot outline, characters and first chapter written, but more importantly, I have rediscovered my mojo.
Writing is like anything in life. If it doesn't feel right and you're dragging your heels; it probably isn't right.
I now have a better story, and I can't wait to write it.


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Here is a recipe that I know was a huge hit. This cracker is addicting like crack not that I would know but the combination of peppercorn, horseradish, and sweet makes for a snack you can't put down. I can't take all the credit by any means on the core of the recipe, that would go to the guys over at Chef Steps They developed this cracker they called the "Bird Feed". I took the technique and added my flavors, to change the dynamics of the appetizer. You could easily start the meal off with one of these little crackers or end a meal pairing nicely with sorbet or possibly chocolate. It would have been a little better for eloise if it didn't have sugar but she still at about 10 of them. This is definitely one to keep in the recipe file. The recipe is fairly easy just need to have the ingredients. This cracker has a great contrast between sweet, crunchy, salty, spicy, tangy. Really you have to try this cracker to understand the depth of flavor achieved here. That's all I can say. I made a whole sheet tray for dinner a week ago and it didn't last through dinner. Absolutely delicious. Here is the recipe hope you enjoy it
Cracker Dough
150 g Almond Flour
90 g Butter, room temperature
120 g Confectioners' sugar
4 g Salt
1 Egg
20 g oil Olive (olive, garlic, vegetable, etc.. anything you want)
100 g Isomalt granulated
1 piece of fresh horesradish peeled
4 tbsp of sesame seeds
1/3 cup of pink peppercorns crushed
Meyer Lemon Sauce
1 1/2 cups of meyer lemon juice
1/4 cup water
1/2 cup of sugar
2 tsp of agar
Micro cilantro
Preheat Oven to 275
In a stand mixer add almond flour, butter, salt, and powdered sugar. Mix well and then add egg and oil to make a smooth dough. Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Meanwhile line a sheet pan with silpat and take out an off set spatula. After 20-30 minutes take out the batter and using the off set spatula try to spread as evenly as possible. Then take a microplane and grate the horseradish all over the thin batter. Next add the crushed pink peppercorns and sesame seeds. Finish with a dusting of the granulated isomalt (I used a small fine strainer) and sprinkle of salt. Place in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Rotate the pan halfway through the cooking process for even baking. Take out and let it cool for at least 5 minutes. Set aside in a air tight container.
For the lemon gel
Place all the ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil. Turn down to a simmer and cook stirring consistently for 7 minutes. Then pour into a shallow baking pan. Place in the refrigerator for 3 hours or until set and firm. Then take a knife and cut up the solid lemon gel and place all of it in a blender. Puree until smooth and thick about 20 seconds. Place in a squirt bottle in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
To finish,
Simply take your almond peppercorn cracker and place on a serving tray. Then dot the cracker with lemon gel and place micro cilantro on top. Serve and enjoy!


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CRIMINAL MINDS star, A. J. Cook, will be a guest on ArtistsOnDemandRadio on Sunday, June 13 at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone. A. J., who portrays Agent Jennifer Jereau on MINDS, will talk about the most recent season, as well as her other upcoming projects, during the one hour program.
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Grantee Application Review (2 to 6 months)
After your application is received, our staff may contact you with clarifying questions.
Those applications which best fit the Sprott mandate to alleviate homelessness and hunger will be presented to the Board for approval. (Board meetings occur four times per year.)
Once a Board decision is made, you will be informed in writing, with the grant amount, duration and terms.
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We will contact you to schedule an initial site visit.
The second site visit is impromptu, conducted to ensure integrity of programs before grants are made.
If all is in order after site visit two, the grant will be awarded.
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Downtown Living: Take a Sneak Peek Inside Alta Fillmore
November 16, 2016 by Lauren Potter
Downtown Phoenix dwellers have a new option to choose from when it comes to luxury residential housing. After breaking ground in September 2015, Alta Fillmore opened phase one of its two-phase development on November 7.
Located at 601 W. Fillmore Street, just steps away from popular restaurants like Cibo and The Vig, the 230-unit development offers one, two, and three-bedroom options with prices starting at $1,242.
Before you tour through the space yourself, take a sneak peek inside to learn what the community has to offer.
Spacious, Functional Floor Plans
You won't find awkward angled corners or small unusable spaces at Alta Fillmore. The one, two, and three-bedroom units — ranging from 686 to 1,525 square feet — have functional floor plans that maximize livable space. Spacious bedrooms, sizable walk-in closets, over-sized quartz kitchen islands and compact private patios are featured in all units. Plus, new tenants get a free Tuft & Needle mattress.
Community Spaces Galore
There's no shortage of shared community space (or TV screens) at Alta Fillmore. The ground level features numerous community areas that are available to residents 24/7, including a club room with 13-foot TV screen, demonstration kitchen, computer hub with iMac desktop computers and printer, lounge areas and more. Ample USB ports and charging stations are also located throughout the shared spaces.
Pool Party Paradise
There's a huge pool at Alta Fillmore that's just begging to be the home of your next pool party. With three gas barbecue grills, a spa, cabanas and tons of seating options, the community pool will no doubt be the coolest place to spend the summer months. Oh, and there's also a giant pink flamingo floaty.
Coffee Shop and Bodega
At the heart of an urban lifestyle is convenience, and Alta Fillmore decided to make grabbing a morning coffee or an evening beer or bite super convenient for residents and neighbors. The latest project of DeSoto Central Market owner Shawn Connelly, Alta Fillmore's coffee shop and bodega will be called Urbo and feature patio seating on Fillmore Street. It's slated to open in December.
Rooftop Lounge
Alta Fillmore's rooftop lounge deserves its own mention. The cozy community space located on the east side of the development features a lovely view of Downtown Phoenix, as well as tables and seating, a gas grill, kitchen area and — most important of all — twinkly hanging lights.
For more information on Alta Fillmore or to schedule a tour, visit www.altafillmore.com.


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Vesele Vanoce Christmas Card Czech
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Vesele Vanoce. Christmas message. Lettering composition with phrase on Czech language. Warm wishes for happy holidays. Best for greeting card, promotion. English translation: Merry Christmas. * -- EPS Easily edited file. You can easily edit colors and the sizes.
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text: The world is full of men who are happy not saying very much about anything. High on the list of the things such men prefer not to say much about is their underwear. This is a pity, since men's underwear can be surprisingly interesting. Alan Greenspan long ago identified sales of men's underwear as a reliable guide to economic wellbeing – and, yes, sales are currently down. Sadly, UK statistics on underwear sales are not detailed enough to confirm the current impression that British men nevertheless seem to be buying more long johns these days than they did in the past. If that impression is correct, then the trend is one to be encouraged. Long johns may seem like the garment that only your grandad wore, but there's nothing necessarily wrong with that, and the arrival of cold weather is a bracing seasonal reminder of exactly why he did so. Long johns are extremely warm and comfortable, except in the overheated buildings of which we should all disapprove. Outdoors, though, long johns come into their own. They provide excellent insulation in winter and even a measure of protection against catching colds, yet long johns remain locked in the cultural closet. Who even admits to possessing a pair of them, much less to wearing them? A short and unscientific survey among Guardian men suggests that over half possess a pair of long johns, even though few seem at ease about admitting it. Men should stop being furtive about their long johns. And too many just don't know what they are missing.


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Donna and I are regularly being asked for recommendations, and are suggesting materials to people in conversations or within our responses to ministry requests. After doing this for decades on a one-to-one basis, we finally thought that it would be far more efficient to simply list our most often recommended resources for our website readers. This not only provides a very handy resource page for our visitors in order to be a blessing to them…but it also saves us some time, as we can simply send them a link to this page. 🙂
Everything that we suggest in this section under each category is either something we ourselves own (in either the current or a previous edition), or that which we have confidence in because we have some knowledge about the material and/or person who produces it. In each case, we will clearly articulate what level of recommendation we are actually making, so that there is no confusion in the matter.
Logic, Apologetics, and Evangelism (click to view): This first page of the new "Recommendations" section will reveal the study materials that we have in our own home, and have used to both strengthen our reasoning skills AND to encourage our own faith…while sharing Christianity with others. Our own children have enjoyed many of these same materials too, and thus, this page suggests resources for your entire family.
[More to come: Please be patient…we are still working on this section of the website.]


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The Gospel of John Part 17 - Gospel of John Week 17
March 29, 2013
Speaker: Jon Thompson
Scripture: John 19
Description: Exegeting John 19
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Series Title: Gospel of John
Series Description: Matthew wrote, "Jesus is King - worship Him." Mark wrote, "Jesus is the Servant who serves all of us - follow Him." Luke wrote, "This is the only person ever without sin - lets be like Him." But John says, "Jesus is God with skin on - believe in Him." Hear John's heart, see his passion, feel his devotion, sense the urgency he as for us, for you, for the world in his day and our day.
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Dear Theater Arts Friends,
In honor of Serena Seacat, our recently retired district theater director, we, her former students, have established a theater arts scholarship fund to celebrate graduating seniors who have demonstrated talent, commitment, and leadership in the theatrical arts during their high school career.
To help initiate this fund we hosted a flagship theatrical event on May 11th including scenes from 16 classic musicals. Over 100 students aged 9 to 29 utilized Serena's training by directing, producing, designing, choreographing, and performing in an extravaganza of spirited musical numbers. This extraordinary event, along with generous donations from supportive businesses and families, raised over $7,000.
At East Hampton High School's Scholarship Awards ceremony this year, Serena presented two deserving graduates with tuition grants on behalf of the Serena Seacat Theater Arts Scholarship Fund. This is only beginning.
With your help, in 2014 we hope to:
- Double our scholarships, awarding two $2,000 grants.
- Engage young people to produce, design, direct, choreograph and perform a high-caliber performance as a replacement for those programs which have been cut and as an opportunity for intensive arts experience.
- Improve the quality of the theater education in East Hampton's upper-level public schools by organizing creative workshops, master-classes, and exposing students to professionals in this field.
Our goal is to provide opportunities for students to become more involved, thereby improving their creativity, professionalism, responsibility, self-confidence, and communication skills; empowering them with tools for their lifetimes.
Your generous tax-deductible donation will ensure future grants in Serena's honor. This program has a significant impact on the lives of students who have devoted their time and talent to enhancing the arts in our community.
We sincerely thank you for your support in this meaningful and important endeavor.
Respectfully yours,
The Committee for the Serena Seacat Theater Arts Scholarship Fund


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The next steps in the development of technology – and how it will influence the way we interact with our domestic appliances as a result – have been projected with the publication of the results of a questionnaire from a leading American research foundation.
The Pew Research Center asked more than 1,600 entrepreneurs and leading lights in technology a single question: 'As billions of devices, artefacts and accessories are networked, will the Internet of Things have widespread and beneficial effects on the everyday lives of the public by 2025?'.
After answering 'yes' to the broad question, many of the projections went beyond the current wearable technology trend, to predict that the next big development was likely to be tech devices and controls which could be embedded in the human body.
In the home, one major trend identified was the use of technology to create sensors which could test for and notify owners of problems and defects in their domestic appliances.
However, Pew also found that scepticism about the usefulness of devices such as programmable fridges could hold back their adoption, with many people viewing such technology as 'only for geeks'.
One respondent also said: "I'd love to have my refrigerator text me when I was low on something, but if I had a car accident, would my beer consumption (fridge stats, grocery loyalty cards) be used against me?"
Project director Lee Rainie predicted that the widespread adoption of connected devices would happen in the next decade.
"People will see real elements of convenience and productivity as a result of these technologies," he said. "They will look back on 2014 and realize we were doing things much more slowly and inefficiently."
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Tonight, if you have been elected 2007's Chief Party Planner, your home may soon be filled with the following things: happy revelers, champagne and beer, hors d'ouevres, noise makers, confetti, streamers and ridiculous paper hats no one would never wear except on New Year's Eve. Music will blare, the silver ball will drop on TV, people will smooch at midnight, and at the end of it all your home will look like it's been hit by a cyclone.
You will go to bed and try to forget about the mess until tomorrow. When the lights are low, ice pack firmly planted on head, you'll wonder what it would be like to have a party room -- a place to put everyone, a place where the wreckage and the ruckus could be contained.
A party room, perhaps, like the one for sale at 1248 S.W. Hessler Drive, near Oregon Health & Science University for $2.1 million. The updated 1950s midcentury modern home has five bedrooms and three baths in 5,334 square feet, and sits on three-quarters of an acre. It's listed with Suzanne Goddyn and Rene Susak of Windermere/Cronin & Caplan Realty Group.
The floor was made from pieces of blackboards salvaged from various old schools in Portland. A custom, curved Formica top with a metallic finish adds shine to the 1950s original wood bar. Next to the party room is a small, fully remodeled kitchen with butcher-block countertops, industrial tile flooring and vertical-grain custom cabinetry, bypassing the need to troop up and down stairs with a full tray.
Why? Perhaps the first clue is the vintage sign, one of several hanging near the bathroom door, that says "Gentlemen's Toilet." The original red wallpaper has a vaudeville theme. An antique speaker phone hangs near a corner. The floors and sink are marble.
The Suhys, who live in the Hollywood Hills with their two children, had planned to move to Portland. Jeffrey Suhy co-owns a Los Angeles design company, Robot and Sons, which worked with contractors in Oregon to remodel the entire house.
Business obligations have put the family's plans to move to Oregon on hold, despite Jeffrey Suhy's regrets about losing the Southwest Portland property.
"Living in L.A., you are in a constant compressed state. It's constant chaos. If it's not outside your door, it's down the street," Suhy said. "That place (on Hessler Drive) feels incredibly serene and open. It has to be the greatest lot in any city I've ever seen."
Suhy said he anticipated having great parties in that house.
"It was for me, my wife and family, our dream house. When I'm ready to move up there again, my worry is that I won't be able to find a home like this, with that kind of vibe."
Suzanne Goddyn and Rene Susak, Windermere/Cronin & Caplan Realty Group, 733 N.W. 20th Ave.; 503-497-5016; www.susakandgoddyn.com


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Palestinian farmers wither in tough climate
Deprived of water and cut off from key markets, farmers across the occupied territory can only look on with a mix of anger and envy as Israeli settlers copiously irrigate their own plantations and export at will.
The pressure to keep farming is strong, not least because Palestinian farmers believe that Israel and Jewish settlers will expropriate their farmland if they leave it uncultivated.
But with restrictions on water use and land, what farmers produce often fails to match the lower cost or higher quality of what Israel supplies to the Palestinian stores.
Palestinian agriculture represented just six percent of gross domestic product in 2010 from 13.7 percent in 1994, the World Bank said. The Palestinian statistics bureau said where the sector employed 22 percent of the workforce in 1994, now it employs just 12.7 percent.
"Palestinian farmers are fighting a daily, losing battle against Israeli restrictions on land and water," Palestinian Minister of Agriculture Walid Assaf told Reuters.
In a report issued this month, a United Nations agency said the impact of the Israeli occupation on the productive base of the Palestinian economy, and especially its once-flourishing agriculture, "has been devastating."
"The economy has lost access to 40 per cent of West Bank land, 82 percent of its ground water, and more than two thirds of its grazing land," said the U.N. trade and development agency, UNCTAD.
Under agreements signed in 1994, Israel controls more than 80 percent of West Bank water resources by occupying the areas where the water is most plentiful. International aid groups say it is much more generous in distributing the water to its own citizens than the Palestinians, who claim not just the territory, but also the underground aquifers, for themselves.
Human rights organization Amnesty International says Palestinians on average use 70 liters of water a day while Israelis and Jewish settlers consume an average 300 liters a day.
The differential is even more stark in settler communities in the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea, where, according to the Israeli rights group B'Tselem, residents used some 1,312 liters a day in 2008, mainly for agriculture.
This was almost 18 times more than the amount of water made available to Palestinians, the group said in a 2011 report. It said the monthly cost of water for Palestinians was three times more than that paid by settlers.
The direct result of this is easily visible.
While fruit orchards in the farming town of Beit Ummar, north of the city of Hebron, are parched as they rely only on scarce rainfall, a settler farm across the way is lined with black pipes for regular hosing, allowing for faster growth. Lush green, the rows of fruit trees were all picked months ago.
"These plums will sell for 1 shekel ($0.25) a kilo, almost for free! The Israeli plums have already been on the market for one month," said Um Hussein, a 75-year-old woman picking dusty fruit off her tree in an orchard adjacent to a Jewish settlement.
"We can barely afford drinking water, let alone water the trees," says farmer Nafez Khalaylah.
Palestinian farmers in most West Bank areas cannot drill new wells without Israeli permission – something European Union diplomats say hardly ever happens.
Israel says it is already giving Palestinians more water than was agreed in the 1994 interim Oslo peace accords. They say a definitive division of resources can only be decided in a final peace deal – something that has proved elusive in years of mutual recrimination and missed chances.
Israeli agriculture experts say the Palestinians could do much more with their land if they adopted modern farming methods including using "drip technology" and modern fertilizers, but again Palestinians counter that it comes down to ample water supplies and unrestricted access to imports.
The locals certainly receive little help or encouragement from the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited self-rule in the West Bank. It allocates a mere one percent of its budget to farming, despite the sector's importance. In a speech aimed at ending recent protests against tax hikes, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad this week promised to do more for the sector.
Farmers also say they are denied access to some of the West Bank's most fertile land, especially in so-called Area C, which includes the Jordan Valley and is controlled by the Israelis.
Rights group Peace Now says Israel has declared 25,000 acres or 16 percent of the West Bank as "state land" since 1967 and annexed it to settlements. Other areas are still under scrutiny.
In August, the Israeli authority which administers the West Bank, COGAT, ordered a group of farmers near Jericho, close to the Dead Sea, to tear up over 35,000 date palm trees, and leave the land.
COGAT told Reuters the trees had been planted illegally because they were on land where ownership is still to be established. It said in a written statement that the farmers had also been illegally siphoning water from Israeli sources.
Palestinian farmers and officials say the land is owned by the Islamic waqf, a kind of religious trust, which the farmers have been renting for years. They say Israel is threatened by the success of their crop, the sweet, fat Medjoul date, one of the world's most expensive varieties.
Jewish settlements nearby grow Medjoul dates too. Several neighboring Islamic countries are now boycotting their produce.
Palestinian farmers also say Israel restricts the entry of West Bank produce to key markets, namely Jerusalem, once the commercial center for Palestinians. All produce destined to Israel or for export must through Israeli checkpoints and subject to lengthy checks and procedures, significantly increasing production costs and decreasing profitability.
Palestinians imported $72.2 million worth of fruit and vegetables from Israel in 2010, while their own farmers exported just $2.92 million of their produce and often labored to sell it at home, official local statistics show.
At a wholesale outlet, farmer Mohammad Awad sits surrounded by stacks of plums and 10 tons of Beit Ummar grapes – once much sought after, but now unsold and starting to ferment.
Awad says their only potential market is in the north of the West Bank, where plums and grapes are not grown. But the stalls there are filled with more aesthetic-looking, albeit more expensive Israeli grapes, for 5 shekels ($1.4) a kilo.
"These grapes will end up being sold to a winery for a half shekel ($0.17) a kilo," Awad says, taking a deep drag of his cigarette. "I've been telling farmers not to pick their fruit, there is no market for them," he says.
Once dubbed Palestine's fruit basket, now farmers leave some of their crop to rot in the sun-baked orchards, unwilling to sell it at a loss.
With the sector beset by so many problems, it is little wonder that many farmers are throwing in the towel.
Nafez Khalaylah recalls how 20 years ago, hundreds of farmers would leave their homes every day at five in the morning and walk towards their orchards.
"Now I work all day and I do not see one single farmer, or one single cheerful person," he says.
The owner of 80 trees, he is barely able to make ends meet. Last year, plums sold for 2 shekels ($0.5) a kilo against some 4 shekels in the 1980s. "Maybe next year, we won't be able to sell them at all," he says ruefully.
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Combine your visit with an overnight stay at the Aeroseum!
When you visit the Aeroseum, we can offer a simple overnight stay in our grounds at a reasonable price.
NOTE Entrance fee to Aeroseum is due at check-in, i.e. accommodation only is not possible. Entrance fee is only paid for the first night.
This is hostel accommodation at a basic standard
You stay in a barrack hut at dormitory standard. The huts are located in the Aeroseum grounds. The accommodation is very basic.
Each hut has 8 small 2-bed rooms (in old military style) which can be increased to hold 4 beds, wardrobe and chair. Bedcovers and pillows are available, but remember to bring your own sheets. In the communal kitchen/mess room there is a hot plate, microwave oven, refrigerator, table and chairs. Also a corner sofa and TV!
Pets are not allowed in the hostel, and also sleeping bags are not permitted.
Cleaning is NOT included, there is basic cleaning equipment available in the mess room. Please leave the rooms clean and tidy after you, for everyone's comfort.
Price SEK 200 per bed (2-4 beds) per night
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Contains a bedroom with two beds and a mini-kitchen for 2 people, including a shower and toilet.
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The camper van or caravan parking place is marked out. Electricity can be made available by pre-booking.
There is no possibility of sewage disposal in the area. Access to the shower / toilet is available in the adjoining hostel.
There is a water drain in an adjacent building.
Price SEK 150 per night plus SEK 30 for the vehicle (must be booked in advance)
Tent camping
It is also possible to pitch a tent in the grounds. Tent guests have access to a shower and toilet in the adjacent building.
Price SEK 100 per night per tent
Checking in
All checking in takes place at the Aeroseum entry kiosk between 11:00 and 17:00 every weekday between 1 June and 31 August.
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Checking out and key return, etc. is to take place no later than 13:00 on the departure day.
Between 18:00 and 10:30 the entrance boom is locked closed.
The code to unlock the boom will be provided on arrival. To ensure everyone's safety, it is important that after passing the boom it is locked again.
Note that entry to the Aeroseum must always be paid for when checking in, i.e. it is not possible to only purchase accommodation in the Aeroseum site.
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Children between 4 and 16 SEK 60
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Hi, I am trying to display the contents of tables present in a library. The contents of tables will have the following details
1. Count of records
2. File name
3. Last change date
4. Last change time
There can be around 3000 files in this library. I have used Load all subfile
Is it advisable to use a loadall subfile ?
And how to search for a particular file in a subfile? for eg: The user enters a table name in the search field for which he wants to see the above details. He enters EMPLOYEE which is present in the 500TH position. how to make the RRN to point that field/row?
Find sfl row
rrnp= 1
rrnp Chain MySubfile
dow not %eof and MyField <> SearchFld
rrnp = 1
rrnp Chain MySubfile
In the subfile control record add the
Note RRRP must always be a valid value ( 1 or the desired row)
Is it advisable to do a load all subfile?
No one is going to (or should have to) scroll through 3000 records. I would display a page at a time and then let the user scroll if they want to or enter a "search" or "Position To" value to display the data they really want to see.
I agree with Mr. Browne.


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Posted by Issa and Published on Mar 14, 2012
What is Conversion?
Conversion, also called Zero Derivation, is the functional shift of a word from one part of speech to another without any change in form (i.e. adding affixes or omitting letters).
What are the types of Conversion?
Most cases of conversion are from noun to verb and from verb to noun. Conversion from adjective to verb is also common, but it has a lower ratio.
1. Noun to Verb
- access
- film
- practice
- name
- shape
- fuel
- hammer
- dot
- break
- host
- rule
- telephone
- and ship
2. Adjective to Verb
- goofproof
- brown
- black
- slow
3. Verb to Noun
- fear
- feel
- hope
- attack
- alert
- laugh
- visit
- increase
- call
- command
- cover
- start
- turn
- rise
4. Preposition to Adverb/Noun/Verb
- up
- out
- outside
- inside
5. Onomatopoeic expression to Verb
- buzz
- beep
- woo
- moo
- screech
How to Use Conversion?
Say each sentence out loud. The italicized words are examples of commonly used "converted" words.
Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Gary showed no sign of pain or remorse.
Bush once said, "Families is where our nation takes hope, where wings take dream."
You'd have domestic production falling, whole cities blacked out, whole industries threatened.
I get distracted whenever mobile phones begin to buzz and beep.


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What do Louis Armstrong, an exploding burrito and neonatal health care have in common?
What do Louis Armstrong, an exploding burrito and neonatal health care have in common?
All three star in a four-minute, national award-winning video made by Stroudsburg High School's Future Business Leaders of America.
It all begins with a high schooler named Aaron tossing a frozen burrito in the microwave. As the burrito cooks, Aaron sits down at his computer and watches an animated version of Armstrong pop up and sing about the March of Dimes.
As soon as Armstrong's song ends, the burrito explodes and hits Aaron in the back of the head, knocking him out.
In a dream, Armstrong escorts Aaron to a neonatal intensive care unit to show why the March of Dimes is important, explaining that one in eight infants is born premature and two-thirds, or roughly 6,000, need care each week.
Then it's off to a bowling alley, where Aaron learns about different ways, including a bowl-a-thon, to raise money for the organization.
The video, "The March of Dimes: And All That Jazz," won first place in the Digital Video Production event at The Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda 2007 National Leadership Conference. The conference took place from June 26 to July 2.
Mike Carerra, entering his junior year, and graduating seniors Jamie Diecidue and Brian Lee used their collective talents to create the video.
"We had a choice between the March of Dimes and Red Cross and we just thought the March of Dimes was more interesting," said Lee, director and writer of the short. He also wrote the necessary paperwork for permission to bring a camera into the neonatal intensive care unit at Lehigh Valley Hospital and the bowling alley.
Lee, 18, of Stroudsburg, joined the FBLA as a freshman, attracted by the competitions and end of year trip. This year was the first time he went to the national level, having competed the last three years on the state level.
He also got Carerra and Diecidue to join the FBLA.
Diecidue, 18, of Stroudsburg, joined his junior year when Lee mentioned that it was a good program to list on a college application.
And Lee talked Carerra into joining because Carerra has animation experience.
Carerra, 16, of Stroudsburg, starred in the video as Aaron, the young man who is educated about the March of Dimes, and he also designed and animated Louis Armstrong using Adobe Flash.
Diecidue said that the team spent the equivalent of about six weekends creating the video. He located the sound and music files and made sure to obtain the necessary copyrights to make sure that everything was legal.
He said that he wanted to do the March of Dimes because of the lack of awareness.
"Only a few hospitals have the facilities to support premature babies," he said. "There isn't enough awareness in our community."
The students spent a week in Chicago with six other students from their high school who also made it to the national level. Emma Benintende, Neil Chiragdin and Heather Pacella placed second in the Business Plan Event and Carol Fouad, Jessica Huynh and Ranee Shah placed eighth in the Partnership with Business event.
In addition to sightseeing and having fun in Chicago, the students were required to showcase and defend their video in front of a panel of judges.
While the Digital Video Production event is new this year to the FBLA conference, winning the event was not easy, said Pat Rufe, FBLA advisor and business education teacher at Stroudsburg High School.
Top teams from all over the country competed. Yet the students' love for the craft and creativeness paid off.
"They worked really well together," Rufe said. "You saw this when they were presenting. Each part was delivered by a different person."
The students did not merely suggest fundraisers in their video; they took it seriously.
They planned and executed a bowling fundraiser of their own, raising $500 for the March of Dimes.


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Tsumago-shuku is one of sixty-nine post towns on the Nakasendō Road in the Kiso Valley which is located in Nagano Prefecture. Connecting Kyoto with Edo (present day Tokyo), this road features many historically important sites, traditional houses, and serene settings.
Photographs depicting what life was like for older generations and other items can be found on display around town. This quiet village in the mountains offers numerous places to explore and walking along the road surrounded by wooden buildings and storehouses gives you a feeling that you've traveled back in time.
Hiking the Nakasendō Trail
The area is accessible by train and bus, but you can also travel along the route via a hiking course. You can also purchase a traveler's staff and receive wood-branded seals at checkpoints and post towns along the way. A baggage transportation service is offered from March 20 to November 30. The service is offered through the Tsumago-shuku Sightseeing Information Center (0264-57-3123), Koshinzuka Hotel (0264-57-3029), and Magome-shuku Sightseeing Information Center (0573-69-2336). Stop off at the post towns to rest and rejuvenate yourself.
Local Cuisine
You'll find many souvenir shops along the way selling locally made goods and tasty treats including gohei mochi (pounded rice that has been flattened and molded into an oval shape, stuck on a skewer, coated with sauce such as miso, and then grilled.) Nagano Prefecture is known for its buckwheat, so you can enjoy fresh, hand cut buckwheat noodles as well. Sweet amazake (contains little to no alcohol) and nihonshu (sake) can also be found along the route.
Explore History
The Tsumago-shuku Sightseeing Information Center offers a variety of information and pamphlets for you to take with you.
Nagiso Museum's Wakihonjin-Okuya with the traditional fire pit and gardens has preserved the atmosphere of traditional Japanese housing. Feel calm settle over you as you witness the sunlight streaming in above the fire pit and the garden and pond filled with multi-colored carp.
Where to Stay
The area has been preserved through the Protection of Cultural Properties Project, but you will still find people living in the town. You can even stay at one of the residences or Japanese style inns in the town. Please understand that because these accommodations are in older buildings, rooms with private bathrooms are not available, although some places offer private shower stalls. If you access the respective homepages from the following website, you will find that many of the websites offer English: http://www.tumago.jp/stay/index.html.
One point of access to the Tsumago-shuku Area is from Nagiso Station. The bus fare is 300 yen one way. Lockers are available at the Tsumago-shuku bus stop. They require one 100 yen coin, but you will get your money back once you remove your things from the locker.
Bus Information is available in English.
Tsumago Tourist Information Center 0264-57-3123


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The Engineered Garments' Fall/Winter 2012 collection prominently features denim. EG has crafted a few of their signature shirt silhouettes in lightweight indigo denim. As a result; these pieces have a bit more substance and character than your typical chambray. The tonal stitching and charcoal mother-of-pearl buttons add just the right amount of subtlety to make this piece a great foundation to any outfit.
19th Century BD Shirt in Indigo Denim Shirting
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A blank page is no empty space. It is brimming with potential... it is a masterpiece in waiting -- yours
// A. A. Patawaran
Ah, there is something about making something with ones own hands, that is very relaxing and therapeutic. Especially simple things. Like a booklet that came together from a piece of cardboard from who-knows-what, a watercolor painting of a feather, and paper given to you by your grandmother years ago.
supplies: piece of cardboard, paper, stylus, ruler, scissors, stapler, artwork or something to embellish the cover
Take the cardboard you'll be using as your booklet cover and mark the center. Run a stylus along the ruler to make the cardboard easier to bend.
Cut out pages that are slightly smaller than your booklet cover. Each piece of paper will be folded in half, so if you want twenty pages you would cut ten pieces of paper.
Lay the pages on the cover and staple into place along the center.
Now enjoy your little book: give it to someone special or keep it for yourself. A book that you have made will become more a part of you than one you could buy. Fill it with thoughts, designs, dreams, sketches. Make it your own.


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MSPs seek clarification on use of evidence in cases of wildlife crime
Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee writes to Crown Office requesting clarification on admissibility of evidence
MSPs have requested clarification from the Crown Office over the admissibility of evidence in cases of alleged wildlife crime.
The Crown Office faced criticism from RSPB Scotland over its decision to drop a case involving against a gamekeeper accused of setting an illegal trap. The charity released video footage which was due to be used in the trial, but the case was discontinued.
The Crown Office said the video evidence was not admissible because it was filmed for the purposes of gathering evidence.
- MSPs to consider deposit return scheme as part of investigation into waste sector
- Fergus Ewing announces new inshore fisheries management trials after damage to Loch Carron
Pointing to similar high profile cases, where video evidence of alleged offences was available but not utilised, the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee has written to the Crown Office to request clarification on which pieces of legislation cover the admissibility of evidence, and particularly of video and CCTV evidence, and whether there is guidance which is applied by the Crown Office in reaching a decision.
Convener of the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee Graeme Dey MSP said: "These days, there's clearly an argument for the use of video, CCTV, or even social media to be considered when a crime against any animal is alleged to have been committed.
"And, as it's often the case that poaching or killing of wildlife occurs in some of the most remote areas in Scotland, these crimes can sometimes go under the radar because there is no one around to act as a witness.
"In light of recent events, we've asked the Crown Office for information on the admissibility of evidence, including video and CCTV, whether there is any clear guidance on this, and how they interpret whether evidence is admissible or not."
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Scottish Natural Heritage finds majority of cases in areas where land is intensively managed for driven grouse shooting
With UK air quality standards in breach of European law, High Courts orders Government forced to publish plans


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- An analyst for BMO Capital lowered his iPhone shipment targets for Apple Inc.'s AAPL, -4.62% December quarter, citing "supply constraints." In a note to clients on Thursday morning, BMO analyst Keith Bachman lowered his iPhone shipment target by 4 million units to 46 million. He said he expects Apple to offer a "very conservative" forecast for the quarter when it reports its results for the September period next Thursday, because of tight supply of the iPhone 5. He kept his rating at outperform, but lowered his price target on the stock to $730 from $750. "We think most of investor concerns are not focused on either the September or the December Qs. Rather, we think investors are focused on the (calendar year) 2013 growth potential of Apple following the recent product launches," he wrote.
Apple's iPhone shipment target lowered by BMO
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