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If you want to be able to teach creative classes and to be qualified as a 200RYT yoga teacher, you should join this 200-hour teacher training. This training will take place at Flowing Waters Retreat located in a beautiful mountainous setting. Upon completion of this training, it is expected that you are already able to teach creative classes of yoga and recognized by the Yoga Alliance as one of the certified yoga teachers.
The accommodation for this retreat will be the Namaste House. Namaste House is a gorgeous and comfortable dwelling for this teacher training and retreat group who are "unplugging" in the beauty of nature. Namaste House is located on the creek with 3 huge outdoor decks for outdoor gatherings. Inside, large dual pane windows enhance 5 lovely bedrooms and open to the sound of the creek in the summer.
The interior has gorgeous bird's nest knotted pine paneling and wall to wall carpeting. It is equipped with three full bathrooms (3 showers plus a luxury claw foot tub) that have natural mineral water flowing through the house for soaking as well as a private 6 person sauna.
Namaste House offers 9 single beds divided among 4 bedrooms, 1 double room, 1 queen bedroom loft, and a lovely creek side camping platform. It will be a meditative, creative, and inspirational retreat with flowing creek waters through 10 acres of forest that brings joy and healing in the power and beauty of Mount Shasta.
Along with endless hiking out the back door of the Namaste House, you will venture to Mount Shasta and Heart Lake for yoga, hiking, and meditation. You may also have the opportunity to join in on an authentic Indian sweat lodge and venture into redwood territory.
This teacher training will be carried out at Flowing Waters Retreat, California, USA. This retreat center is located directly across the street from Stewart Mineral Springs. Stewart Mineral Springs is a very special place, as it tucked away in a mountainous retreat center, 20 minutes from the sacred and beautiful Mount Shasta.
Food is prepared daily and consists of 2 large meals with locally grown and mostly vegetarian foods. A high energy breakfast in the morning, and a late lunch early dinner are prepared daily. These meal times are chosen to improve energy levels and yield digestive time before doing your daily yoga practices.
6 mineral spring passes to take a sauna and soak in the beautiful waters of the springs will be included. However, massages and mineral baths are available for an additional cost. The bath house at Stewart Mineral Springs is clothing optional.
Please arrive at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport (MFR) where Zenality Yoga Salon will pick you up and transfer you to the retreat.
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Original paper
The genus Microporellus (Basidiomycota, Polyporales) in the Neotropics
Motato-Vásquez, Viviana; Gugliotta, Adriana de Mello
Nova Hedwigia Band 103 Heft 1-2 (2016), p. 225 - 238
published: Aug 1, 2016
DOI: 10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2016/0347
ArtNo. ESP050010301016, Price: 29.00 €
The genus Microporellus is characterized by species with pileate basidiomata, either sessile or stipitate, dimitic hyphal system, mostly with dextrinoid skeletal hyphae, and subglobose basidiospores, commonly lacrymoid to elongated-lacrymoid. Although there are records of at least ten species of the genus in the Neotropics, there is no comprehensive taxonomic revision of them. In this study the types of all Microporellus species recorded for the Neotropics, as well as new collections, were studied and compared morphologically, confirming the occurrence of five Microporellus species for this region. Type specimens of Microporellus amazonicus and M. iguazuensis are proposed as taxonomic synonyms based on morphological comparison. An identification key, morphological comments, illustrations, and a table with the most important characteristics to distinguish the species are presented. In addition, taxa with doubtful occurrence in the Neotropics are discussed.
xylophilous fungi • neotropical mycodiversity • taxonomy • polyporaceae

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GULFPORT — Gulfport residents will see a hike in monthly utility bills if the city council adopts the 2011 budget Mayor George Schloegel's administration proposes.
The administration also wants to eliminate 65 positions Oct. 1, absorb public works and utility billing services previously handled through a contract with Southwest Water Co. and furlough employees for one week.
These cost-cutting measures would save an estimated $5.2 million and give the city a balanced budget for the first time since 2007. Revenue would exceed expenses by almost $376,000 in the general fund.
Council President Ricky Dombrowski tells The Sun Herald that he sees no way around the rate increases. Without them, he says the city water and sewer fund would be in the red.


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STRETCHING AGAIN! You guys seemed to really like the post-workout stretch routine I recently posted, so I thought i'd follow up with another one! This..
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There are as many paths towards fully living a simple life as there are people with their feet on the ground. Walking barefoot certainly increases a connection with the environment, but there are multiple ways to heal your mind, body and soul.
Getting closer to natural, one becomes more aware of surroundings and emotions, one develops a tolerance and acceptance for the weather that is neither good or bad – it just is, real food becomes commonplace and home cooked meals are enjoyed with heart and genuinely appreciated. Our journey to a simple life has been a decade-long process, heading straight into the pleasures of a life lived on our own terms. There are times to be selfish, there are times to share, most of all there are times to laugh, love and be merry. Who wouldn't want that?
Need inspiration? Here are 7 articles to set you on the path of simplicity – a simple life will improve your health, raise self-confidence and allow you to become the thoughtful and humble person that is ready to emerge, the you that is ready to take flight!
A Thoughtful Guide to Gaining Self-Confidence by Joshua Becker at Becoming Minimalist
Redirect your life and focus on the positives, celebrate the fact that you are unlike anyone else and embrace it for all that it is worth! Self-confidence is something that needs nurturing from time to time, we must not let our past predict our future. Learn (or relearn) to be grateful and know that your life is worth it.
The end of busy by Leo Babauta at Zenhabits
Busy-ness is certainly overrated these days. Take a break from your daily routines, slow down your schedule, stop answering the phone, make your emails short, just don't miss the point. It isn't necessary to rush wherever we are going, only to just sit and wait.
Freedom by Francine Jay at Miss Minimalist
Letting go of so many senseless items in our home has been so important in our recent lives and it is true that reducing the amount you own can allow you to achieve a certain kind of freedom. "Too much stuff can enslave us in myriad ways. Physically, it can take over our homes, crowding us and our children out of precious living space. It can also drastically reduce our mobility, creating an inertia that discourages us from moving and embracing promising new opportunities." Be responsible for less and get ready to live more!
Keeping Life Simple by Lee Coello at Becoming Unencumbered
Learn to act and live in the now, it gives you more time to develop yourself into a truly remarkable human being. It is good to remember that worrying and stress have direct negative impacts on your health, realizing the need to reduce those will set you down the road of happier days filled with love and light.
The Power of the Pause by Courtney Carver at Be More With Less
Relax. Watch the clouds pass by and unplug your electronic fix. Don't be afraid to slow down, you won't miss out on anything, in fact you just may observe more.
Being Fully Present – Training our Thoughts for Simple by Lorilee Lippencott at Loving Simple Living
Start in the home and live day to day. Celebrate everyday parties, spontaneity and learn to listen to the person speaking to you – look them directly in the eyes. Be physically and mentally present so that the entire family can truly enjoy spending time together. Health for one, health for all.
13 Books you must read in 2013 to create a healthy new you! by Cheryl Magyar at handcraftedtravellers
Reading keeps our minds young and flexible, there is so much to learn each and every day. Why is magnesium so important to our health? What are traditional foods and why should we soak grains and nuts? The answers are out there in spoken and written form. For us on the homestead words are gold, new ideas propel us forward and let us know that the direction we have chosen is indeed the way in which we would like to live, simply and naturally.
True, living a simple life often means living without mountains of stuff, but focusing less on objects and more on experiences makes living a simple life exciting and enjoyable through and through.
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File Handling
We will discuss files and file handling in this lesson. The topic is going to be a sequel of the subjects like bit, bytes, character, numbers etc.
In the previous lessons, we have talked about strings, which are actually character arrays. While typing a letter or a document in word processor, we actually deal with big collection of words like sentences, not with bits and bytes. These combinations of characters, words, sentences and paragraph are called as files.
The files in the computer are classified under different categories. Primarily, there are two types of files i.e.
Text file Handling
Let's see what are the basic steps needed for file handling. Suppose we have a file on the disk and want to open it. Then read from or write into the file before finally closing it. The basic steps of file handling are:
We have been using cin and cout a lot in the programs. We know that these are the doors by which data can enter and come out. cin is used to enter the data and cout is used to display the data on the screen.
Technically, these are known as streams in C++. This is how 'C++ language' handles files. For this purpose, the header file to be used is <fstream.h> (i.e. file stream). Whenever using files in the program, we will include this header file as
#include <fstream.h>
These streams are used the way we have been employing cin and cout but we can do more with these streams.
While handling files, one can have three options. Firstly, we will only read the file. It means the file is used as input for the program. We need to have a stream for input file i.e. ifstream (input file stream).
Similarly, if we want to write in some file, ofstream (output file stream) can be used. Sometimes we may need to read and write in the same file. One way is to read from a file, manipulate it and write it in another file, delete the original file and renaming the new file with the deleted file name. We can read, write and manipulate the same file using fstream.h.
Let's us see how can we use these files in our programs. First, we have to include the fstream.h in our programs. Then we need to declare file streams. cin and cout are predefined streams which needed not to be declared. We can declare file stream as:
ifstream inFile; // object for
reading from a file
The variables inFile and outFile are used as 'handle to refer' files. These are like internal variables, used to handle the files that are on the disk. We will use inFile as declared above to read a file. Any meaningful and self-explanatory name can be used. To deal with a payroll system, payrollDataFile can be used as a file stream variable i.e.
ifstream payrollDataFile;.
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Suleiman Hashimu, who trekked from Lagos to Abuja to celebrate the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 general elections, is to embark on another trek for the president.
Hashimu, however, told the News Agency of Nigeria that this time around, he would not use his legs but vehicles in touring the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
He said he wants to showcase the achievement of the president so far.
It would be recalled that Hashimu arrived in Abuja on April 20 to celebrate President Buhari's victory in the 2015 general elections after trekking three weeks from Lagos, covering over 700 kilometres.


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If the teaser below is any indication, it does look like this show's slick and ballsy.
HOUSE OF LIES is SHOWTIME's new half-hour comedy series from the hit tell-all book House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Tell You the Time by Martin Kihn. It's a scathing look at a self-loathing management consultant from a top-tier firm. Oscar(R) and Emmy(R) nominee Don Cheadle (Iron Man 2) stars as Marty, a highly-successful, cutthroat consultant who is never above using any means (or anyone) necessary to get his way with and for his clients. Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) plays a razor-sharp, Ivy-League graduate who works on Marty's team, along with Emmy(R) winner Ben Schwartz (Parks & Recreation) and Josh Lawson (Romantically Challenged); Dawn Olivieri (Vampire Diaries, Heroes) is Marty's acerbic ex-wife; Emmy(R) winner Glynn Turman (In Treatment) is his psychoanalyst father; and Donis Leonard Jr. (The Fresh Beat Band) rounds out the cast as Marty's young son. Created by Matthew Carnahan, HOUSE OF LIES is executive produced by Jessika Borsiczky, Matthew Carnahan.
The show is on Showtime (cable) and begins January 8th.


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If you have written 500 or 1000 hubs will your traffic decrease to a small amount if you have to quit writing altogether?
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No. That is an amazing amount of hubs. If they are good content and good quality and of interest to users, the money should keep on rolling in.
You can help the HubPages community highlight top quality content by ranking this answer up or down.
Assuming the hubs are good ones with topics that have lasting power, bringing in lots of views, then, yeah, the traffic should stay high.
You can help ensure that not by writing more, but simply going through your already written hubs and keeping them fresh with new content. SEs like that. Some suggestions are:
- do some editing of stale writing
- update any facts or events that may have changed
- answer unanswered comments and try to encourage new comments
- change photos, make sure they had descriptive text
- look for broken links or update links with better ones and see if you can't improve the anchor text.
There are a lot of hubs here on these topics. Good luck!
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Operators of intensive pig and poultry units will need to optimise the diets of their animals in order to minimise nutrient pollution under the integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) regime, according to new EU guidance.1 A mandatory shift away from conventional manure spreading methods will also be required.
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, - (PressExposure) April 28, 2009 -- Before you can understand the benefits of outsourcing, you've got to first understand what it is. Outsourcing is the practice of hiring an outside company to handle work loads that would normally be handled in house. For instance, many companies do not process their own payroll; instead they opt for a payroll service to tackle this task. A very simple concept, really; but one that should be walked into with care and eyes wide open. In reality, outsourcing is an effective way to build a business. However, outsourcing too much work or the wrong tasks can hurt a company's growth in the long run.
The benefits of outsourcing reach farther than just providing a cost effective work mode to growing companies. Outsourcing, especially for a small business, frees up capital to invest in revenue producing tasks such as marketing. Most people, however, seem to stop at this point. They see outsourcing as a way to save money only. This could be a mistake because it may lead the company to hiring sub-standard workers to handle the task at hand, simply because their bid was the lowest. Remember the old saying "You get what you pay for"? Sound familiar? Well it's true even when it comes to outsourcing.
While it still fits into the save money mode, the fact that outsourcing work saves on hiring and training new employees is a huge benefit. The average cost to hire and train a new employee is $4,000. Hiring a new person costs time as well, because a manager or trainer must take time away from other tasks at hand to ensure the new hire is up to speed and understands all of their duties. Outsourcing, especially if the same company is used time and time again, allows managers to work on their own tasks without having to worry that the outsourced work is completed to company standards.
Outsourcing has grown by leaps and bounds with the advancement of the internet. Business owners have other tasks at hand other than having to learn about internet marketing and proper SEO practices. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and is a way of writing so search engines pick up your site. This work then is outsourced to professional companies such as Start Ranking Now who specialize in this type of service.
Why would a company outsource their marketing work? Because in order for their website to start ranking now, SEO needs to be in place throughout the pages of their site. Without proper SEO the search engines don't even know you are there. Now what good does that do you in the effort to increase web traffic?
So here's the dilemma: how can you start ranking now when you don't know the first thing about internet marketing and SEO? Look to a professional company such as Start Ranking Now and outsource your internet marketing efforts. This way your company is in the capable hands of a professional and you are free to maintain the day to day operations of your business.


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Bike ride has a smooth beginning
There have been many hard, frustrating times on our trip. One was when I was literately stuck while trying to stand up with a heavy scuba tank on my back. Another was in Malaysia, when I was throwing up in the middle of the night with extreme stomach pain. Today we had another.
Wanaka is on the South Island of New Zealand just over an hour from Queenstown. Locals say it's how Queenstown was 20 years ago. Wanaka (rhymes with Monika) seemed like it would be the perfect place in New Zealand. It's a small town (then again, all towns in NZ are small), with a view of the beautiful Lake Wanaka. The lake is blue. Really, really, blue. It looks like a wonderful place for a family bike ride, so we rented bikes for a leisurely ride around the lake.
After going a mile or so, I fell over into a splinter mania which got in my feet, hands, and stuck to my handlebars. In the process, I bruised the sides of my knees. In an attempt to deal with the splinters stuck in the handlebars, I put my mom's socks on my hands. Nice, right?
Things go downhill quickly
After several miles of riding, we took a turn off our easy ride onto a hardcore mountain biking trail. Steep, narrow paths never equal fun times. Imagine a three foot wide trail with people coming both directions speeding around sharp turns. On one side of the treacherous path is rock wall, on the other is a drop off right into the frigid lake. That's what it looked like.
I was in front, then Mom, then Delaney, then Dad. We were moving slowly, letting people pass us. After a while, our pack of four felt like we were missing someone: Dad. He wasn't there. We stopped on the trail and waited for him. When he finally caught up, he was covered in blood and dirt. He had flipped over the front of his handlebars when his back tire hit a large rock. He had contusions on his shoulder, elbow, hands and shins. Luckily his backpack broke some of the fall when he landed on his collarbone. He washed the wounds with some of the fresh water in the lake. Then, we kept on riding until we found a place to escape the mountain trail.
We followed the escape path through a field and reached a fence with wooden steps leading to a paved road that would take us back to town. Finally off of the gnarly mountain track, I was starving and completely out of energy. We had sandwiches in the pack, but wanted to keep going to find some shade to eat in. Riding some more, we came to a sliver of shade. I devoured my sandwich but was still not energized. Since we were somewhat close to being back, we pushed on.
The bloody ending
Walking our bikes across an EMPTY street, I collapsed. My bike fell on me and I bruised my knees and cut them up. Two Kiwis stopped, offering to give us "plasters" (band-aids) and a ride. But we were close to the bike rental place and kept on. Legs locked, so I wouldn't bend my knees, I continued
walking hobbling with my bike. Mom said I looked like a zombie with a full diaper. We walked through a playground and I was just waiting for a kid to run to her mom screaming that the zombie apocalypse had come early. One hour later than expected, covered in dirt and blood, we finished the 10 MILE trail.
We rewarded ourselves with ice cream, which is unbelievably expensive in New Zealand and Australia, at at least $4 for one scoop. I poopy-diaper walked back to the motel, put on some band-aids and watched terrible 90's fashion shows.
Who would have thought that riding a bike in New Zealand would be more dangerous than crossing Vietnam's crazy busy streets?


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I would like to specify custom Headers at the root level, for the request, i.e. all resources will share the same headers. However, it doesn't seem to be supported? Seems like have to repeat for each resource?
In RAML 1.0 you can do this.
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I have run a company for 30 years and when you have hard times you make hard decisions. My company tried to hang on for a long time before I finally decided it was time to downsize. I had to lay off folks I cared about. I had to downsize offices or completely close them. Did I like it? NO. But I had to do it to survive and save my company. Am I a greedy SOB like Newt portrays me? I pray not. I supported many families over the years; trained folks with new skills; paid by taxes and raised a family.
As a result of trying to keep from laying off people I wound up with a Loss Carry Forward to a couple of Million Dollars. Is this another way of saying I got a credit from the Government? That other taxpayers paid for my survival mode?
Have you ever owned a small or mid-sized company? If not, then you have no idea of how complicated economics can get. Life is not a bowl of cherries. It's hard work, hard times and hard decisions you make over a lifetime.
The ad can run but it has a lot of inuendos in it. I suspect that is why Kennedy didn't run it.
During the 1990's the Wall Street Journal was full of articles regarding the controversial actions of such raiders. The pensions had grown so much due to the successful stock market and economy, that raiders targeted firms with these pensions.
There were hostile takeovers with leveraged funds. Once the take over was completed, the raiders took the pension funds and paid off the loan. Stripped the companies of all assets for their own pockets, and left everyone else the loser.
That is definitely not what you were doing. Big difference between rightsizing your company due to tough economic times and what corporate raiders do.
You have twenty years on me. I've been running my business for ten.
Prior to that I worked in the telecom and financial businesses. In each I managed through recessions and mergers. I had one afternoon where I had to call in a department, one by one, and lay them off. And it was the department I started with out of college. I laid off half a dozen guys I knew better than members of my family. It was horrible.
But Mitt was the worst kind of turn around guy. He did not show up to "help.". He showed up with his consultant buddies, and tore and ripped until the company was completely squeezed. Now some places survive that. Most don't.
As a governor he was more interested in running for President he was gone most of the time.
Hate doesn't begin to describe what I feel for this empty suit rich kid.


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Thanks to the development of user-friendly content management systems such as WordPress, managing textual content has become a lot easier and fun than ever before. In fact, even a technophobe can add content just by understanding the basics of adding text in the WordPress back-end. The ease that this CMS provides has made it one of the most preferred publishing platforms among writers.
But sadly, handling media files in WordPress can give you some serious headache. Of course, the WordPress Media Library allows to add as many images as you want to enhance the look and feel of your site; but the images aren't added to supplement the content. Put it simply, not much attention is paid to make media elements useful just like their textual counterparts.
Images are an indispensable part of almost every website that helps easily capture viewers' attention towards a piece of content. In fact, using titles and text for images make them search engine optimized. But, it's pretty easy to forget about adding titles and alternate text for the image files in your WordPress site, especially when you have too many images to upload in the WordPress Media Library.
Wouldn't it be better if you could automatically add the media titles in your WordPress install? Reading this post will help you accomplish such an objective in the most efficient manner possible. But, prior to that let us first have a brief overview of how media titles are handled by WordPress.
How WordPress Takes Care Of Media Titles ?
WordPress assigns a filename as the title of all the media files (that are uploaded using the media uploader) automatically. And, the CMS leaves the alternate text field blank, so as to be filled by the users. Moreover, the title of the WordPress media files is only used internally, rather than being used as the parameter of the title in the image tag.
How You Can Format the WordPress Media Files Automatically?
There is an excellent plugin called as Format Media Titles that can help auto-format the media files in your WordPress site. Here are three things that can be formatted in your media titles using this plugin:
1. This plugin can help you in getting rid of hypens, as well as, underscores from your the name of your website's media files.
For instance, let's say, you've a media file named as 'vegetable-basket.jpeg', in that case vegetable basket will be added to the title field of your image. That's because, the Format Media Titles plugin will remove the hyphen between the name of your media file. However, you can even remove plus characters, period, etc. from the name of your media file.
2. The plugin can help in capitalizing the words in the image title field in any way you want, using the plenty of different options made available by the Format Media Titles plugin.
3. Lastly, you can choose to add the media title you have formatted to either the alt text, image caption field or description corresponding to the Misc. Options section.
Note: It is advised that you should add the formatted media title to the "alternate text field" under the Misc. options area. Not to mention, even if you forget to add your media title for your alternate text field, the plugin will automatically make the desired changes.
Format media titles plugin
You can install the plugin from the official WordPress plugins directory.
And then activate it from your website's admin dashboard.
After completing the activation process, you just need to browse Settings from the dashboard menu and click on the "Format Media Titles" page for configuring the plugin.
So now whenever, you will add any new image to the Media Library, the Formatted Media Titles plugin will automatically format the name of that particular file used in the title. And most importantly, it will make the file name easy-to-read and SEO friendly.
Summing Up!
Are you having problem in formatting your media files in your WordPress install? Well, then you can take a sigh of relief as the Format Media Titles plugin can help make the task of making edits to your media files and formatting it a breeze. Hope that the post will help you in understanding as to how you can add titles of media files on your website automatically.


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Published: Monday 2nd March 2015 by The News Editor
David Cameron's failed net migration target should be dropped as it would be impossible to reach without "severely" damaging the UK economy, a former Conservative home secretary has said.
The Prime Minister pledged in 2010 to reduce net migration to the UK to the tens of thousands but new official figures showed it increased to 298,000 in the year to September.
But Ken Clarke suggested globalisation had made the target impossible, while Baroness Warsi, an ex-Tory party chairwoman, said it was "unrealistic".
Mr Clarke told the Times: "I am afraid that the net migration target has proved to be a mistake. It has been defended to me as almost returning to the figures to those when I was home secretary. This is true, but we weren't in a globalised economy then to the extent we are now.
"We will have to drop the target. It would not be possible to achieve it without damaging our economy quite severely."
Lady Warsi, who quit her government role last August over its response to the then-crisis in Gaza, told the paper: "If you set yourself unrealistic targets you are setting yourself up to fail, and, in the long term, turn the whole thing into a bigger issue by fuelling the perception that the Government can't get a grip."
Yesterday, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said her party would focus on illegal immigration and short-term student visas in an effort to bring net migration down.
And current Home Secretary Theresa May restated the Tories' pledge to bring immigration down, suggesting EU migration and coalition partners the Liberal Democrats had contributed to the target being missed.
Meanwhile, new Home Office figures, obtained by the Daily Express under a Freedom of information request, suggest £265m was spent in 2013-14 housing refugees with asylum applications pending.
The paper said £1.2bn had been spent in total since 2010, while asylum applications were up from 25,898 in that year to 29,875 in 2013. Of those the number of claims granted totalled 6,542 in 2013.
Mr Cameron's official spokesman told a regular Westminster media briefing: "You won't be surprised to know that he takes a different view from Ken on this one. It won't be the first time that he and Ken haven't had exactly the same views."
The spokesman said the Prime Minister's views on the need to reduce annual net migration below 100,000 had not changed since a speech in November, when he said that it remained an "ambition", even if it was not possible to achieve it during this Parliament.
The PM said in November: "The ambition remains the right one, but it's clear it's going to take more time, more work and more difficult long-term decisions in order to get there."
The spokesman confirmed that this remained the PM's view, adding: "He thinks the UK would be a better and stronger country with net migration in the tens of thousands. Those are the reasons he has given before and they haven't changed."
Labour immigration spokesman David Hanson said: "The Government's immigration policy goes from chaos to failure and back to chaos.
"Not only has David Cameron broken his own 'no ifs, no buts' promise on reducing net migration – which now stands at over 50,000 more than when he came to office – it's now clear that fellow Conservative Cabinet ministers don't think David Cameron and Theresa May's immigration policy is working either.
"Labour has long argued that immigration is important but it needs to be controlled and managed so the system is fair. That's why Labour has a plan for sensible reform.
"Stronger border controls with 1,000 more staff, stronger enforcement to stop employers exploiting cheap migrant labour to undercut wages and jobs, and new rules to make sure people contribute first and can't claim benefits until they have lived here for two years.
"What is clear today is that the Prime Minister has badly handled immigration. He's hurting UK prospects and his rhetoric isn't even now believed by his own side."
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P&L Technology to Offer Web Conference on Boosting Powerpoint Presentations
P&L Technology is offering a live and interactive web conference, Punch Up Your Presentations With Microsoft Powerpoint.
P&L Technology Opens new Lincoln Office
P&L Technology Opens new Lincoln Office...
P&L Technology Team Hires Scott Wilson
P&L Technology Inc. has announced that Scott Wilson joined its staff in the position of director of technical operations. He will be responsible for service delivery to all clients currently managed under the company's affianceSuite service program
Nine Lives Media Names P&L Technology, Inc. to the MSPmentor 501 Global Edition North America Edition
P&L Technology, Inc. has landed on Nine Lives Media's sixth-annual MSPmentor 501, a global list honoring the world's top 501 managed service providers (MSPs).
Jeff Huey Joins P&L Technology Team
P&L Technology, Inc. has announced that Jeff Huey joined its staff in the position of senior systems engineer. He will be responsible for managing the direct field services team in Omaha and Lincoln, and handling onsite management for clients.
P&L Technology, Inc. Named to Tech 200 List for 2012
P&L Technology, Inc., an Omaha and Lincoln based IT service-company, has landed on the 2012 Tech 200 list published annually by information company Lead411. P&L Technology Inc., which has been in business since 2004, ranked 119 on the list. Other notable companies that have been recognized include Hubspot and Lifelock.
P&L Technology Named Designated Provider of Microsoft Office 365 Training Programs
Local IT service provider P&L Technology, Inc. has been named to the Microsoft Office 365 Cloud Champions Club. As a member, P&L Technology has achieved a status held by less than one percent of Microsoft partners around the world. They are experts in transitioning clients to this emerging technology, and can provide specialized proprietary Microsoft training.
P&L Technology Named to Inc. Magazine's Prestigious 500/5000 List
For the second consecutive year, P&L Technology Inc. has been named as part of Inc. magazine's 500/5000 list which identifies the fastest-growing companies in America. The comprehensive list looks at America's independent entrepreneurs and is based on percentage revenue growth comparing years 2008 to 2011.
P&L Technology Offering Microsoft Office 365 Guided Demo and Workshop
Join P&L Technology for a guided demonstration of the new productivity features in Microsoft Office 365.
This 90 minute hands-on demo is designed to let business people experience the entire Microsoft Office 365 productivity platform in the context of a typical business situation including:
- Staying on top of your email inbox - Exploring the unique features of Outlook 2010 to manage an increasingly demanding inbox
- Communicate in Real Time - Participate and Share Content in a Microsoft Lync Call
- Create Content Collaboratively - CoAuthor documents in Microsoft Sharepoint
- Gain Business Insights - Surface data easily through SharePoint Online
- Schedule and Run Meetings with Ease - Use Lync Meetings to share content with people inside and outside the organization.
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P&L Technology Team Member Earns Promotion
P&L Technology, Inc. has announced that Kyle Swanda was promoted to the position of vice president of ENTERPRISEselect. He will be involved in network design, engineering, deployment and operations for this client sector. Prior to taking on this new role, Swanda was the service desk and network operations manager, providing support systems for accounts
Nine Lives Media Names P&L Technology, Inc. to the MSPmentor 200 North America Edition
New Report Lists North America's Top 200 Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
P&L Technology Team Member Earns Promotion
P&L Technology, Inc. has announced that Steve Heller has been promoted to manager of business development for the newly launched EnterpriseSelect division, which addresses the needs of mid-sized organizations. He is now responsible for meeting with IT decision makers to understand client plans and initiatives. In addition, he will work with them to develop strategies to accomplish technology goals. Prior to taking this new role, Heller had been responsible for account management in P&L Technology's small business affianceSuite division for the Omaha market.
P&L Technology Team Member Earns Promotion
P&L Technology, Inc. has announced that Jeff Newton was promoted to the position of network operations manager. He is now responsible for the company's field and remote service teams serving over 150 clients in their AffianceSuite division.
Steve Heller of P&L Technology Named to 40 Under 40
Steve Heller of P&L Technology has been recognized as one of the Midlands Business Journal's 2011 40 Under 40 recipients. He has been honored as one of 40 young, local professionals who have accomplished significant business milestones or made a notable difference in our community.
P&L Technology Adds to Management and Technology Team
P&L Technology, Inc. has announced that Ed Bruening has joined its company management team as Vice President of Customer Experience. In addition, P&L has hired Bryce Drake as a Support Administrator.


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The Classical Risk Equation
What we had drilled into us when I worked in Internal Audit and when I was preparing for the CISA exam was the following
RISK is the
PROBABILITY that a
THREAT will exploit a
VULNERABILITY to cause harm to an
R = f(T, V, A)
Why do you think they are called "TVAs"?
More sensibly the risk is the sum over all the various ..
This isn't just me sounding off. Richard Bejtlich says much the same thing and defends it from various sources. I can't do better that he has.
Audit Frequency
In one of the forums I subscribe to the question came up "How often should one carry out an internal audit?" There were variations on this to do with external audits as well. Lets suppose you aren't one of the relicrant types that take the attitude that audits aren't necessary or that an audit - or a risk analysis for that mater - needs to be done just the once.
How often? Yearly? Ever Six Months? Every Month?
Maybe. maybe not.
If you are one of a certain set of classes of organizations there are rules that mandate when you get audited. For example, if you process credit cards then the PCI:DSS rules apply to you.
If you are a bank, you should check for Basel II and FFIEC regulations.
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Scholarship offers haven't come for Houston Lamar defensive end Tracy Robertson, but with his frame and bloodlines, it should be much longer.
Measuring in at more than 6-foot-4 and 230 pounds at the Rivals.com Junior Day in Houston, Texas a few weekends ago, Robertson certainly looked the part of a Division I prospect. That's why schools such as Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Houston, and Texas A&M are all showing interest.
Robertson isn't naming favorites, but admits things are picking up.
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"Well it's been slow right now, but I've been getting a lot of letters," Robertson said. "I called and talked to a coach from Baylor. They want me to come up on a visit after I take my SAT in March."
Robertson's football ability is certainly not in question. He racked up more than seven sacks as a junior and more than 60 tackles. That earned him second-team all-district honors at Lamar.
He's also got talent running in the family. His first cousin is former Texas Longhorn linebacker Derrick Johnson. He's also related to Oklahoma junior defensive end John Williams.
Neither Johnson nor Williams have given him any advice about recruiting. He also doesn't have any favorites yet.
"No, I'm pretty open to everyone," Robertson said. "I've been just getting a ton of mail."
There aren't any definite plans for future visits. Regardless, things should pick up soon with Robertson's on-the-field play.
"I pull my team around me," Robertson said. "My team seems my energy. I'm a pass rusher and you could classify me there. I can also play the run though too."


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Thierry Henry To Speak On Sport, Tech And Investing At Disrupt London
We are excited to announce one of the most important speakers who'll be appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt London conference on December 7-8, 2015. He'll be joining global startups, influential speakers, VIP guests and more. And who is he, you ask?
He'll be talking about how technology and digital media is changing the sports industry and the fan bases, why he backed London startup Grabyo and what sports, music and fashion talent can bring to social platforms. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we will be joined by none other than Thierry Henry.
World Cup Winner, European Championship Winner, World Club Cup Winner, Champions League Winner, Spanish Sextuple Winner, English Double Winner, the Greatest goal scorer in the history of his country and also Club. He is the first player to ever win back to back European Golden Boots and the first player to ever win Domestic Golden Boots three years in succession. This coupled with winning two consecutive English Player of the year Awards, five French Player of the Year Awards (all feats never to have been achieved before) are just a few accolades in his impressive résumé.
He was Arsenal Football Club's top goal scorer every season for seven straight seasons and became their greatest ever goal scorer in the history of the club. He was also the top goal scorer in the English Premier League in four different seasons. Then at FC Barcelona, he won the Spanish League, Spanish Cup and the Champions League ("The Treble"). This was quickly followed by the Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and the World Club Cup making an unprecedented six trophies in one year. At the New York Red Bulls, he became captain of the team in 2010 and won the Shield in 2013.
Off the pitch he has been a true statesman for the game and was appointed by FIFA (the world governing body of football) as their official Ambassador against racism. He retired as a Professional Footballer in December 2014 and has joined Sky TV as an expert football pundit and global ambassador.
Thierry Henry has been nominated as World Player of the Year on two successive occasions, voted the Greatest Footballer Ever to have played in the English Premiership and was recently honoured with entry into the All Time Hall of Fame.
Held on December 7 and 8, (and preceded by a weekend Hackathon), Disrupt is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year.
We'll start each day with panels and one-on-one discussions featuring TechCrunch writers and editors, special guest speakers, leading venture capitalists and entrepreneurs addressing the issues of the day. In the afternoon, we host the Startup Battlefield competition which culminates in six finalists taking the stage at the end of the event for a shot at winning the Disrupt Cup, and taking away a £30,000 check.
Apply here for the chance to buy 2-for-1 tickets to Disrupt at a discounted rate. Your last and final chance to purchase these limited supply tickets is coming up soon.
You can grab Startup Alley tickets here, where you can showcase your startup.
And if you are interested in learning more about sponsorship opportunities, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
In addition to onstage panel sessions and fireside chats, Disrupt will also feature Startup Battlefield and Startup Alley to London.
Startup Battlefield competitors pitch their companies live and onstage to innovators, investors and influencers in the tech community. TechCrunch identifies emerging companies to demo and compete for a prize of £30,000 (€42,000) and the coveted Disrupt Cup, won previously by Mint.com, Yammer, Fitbit, and Dropbox, among others.
The Startup Battlefield will select around 30 brand new startups to launch on stage in front of a panel of top VCs and other founders, coverage on TechCrunch and the winner gets the €40,000 prize. Startup Alley offers another way for early-stage companies to gain exposure with a setup that encourages both exhibiting and networking, and provides high visibility. Applications for Startup Battlefield are open now. Roughly 100 startups comprise Startup Alley with around 50 new companies demoing on Monday and 50 demoing on Tuesday.
Additional speakers and agenda details will be announced between now and the show. Stay tuned!
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REUTERS - Players will undergo blood tests next season as part of UEFA's new anti-doping detection regime in all competitions run by European soccer's governing body.
Until now UEFA has only conducted blood tests at international tournaments - Euro 2008 and 2012. From this month the detection regime is to be extended to the Champions League and Europa League.
Checks will be made in and out of competition and players may be asked at doping controls to give urine samples, blood samples or both.
However, UEFA said on its website (www.uefa.com) that out-of-competition checks would only be carried out if players or teams had not informed testers where they would be when required to be tested.
The new rules follow a UEFA anti-doping panel meeting held late last year.
At the meeting, chairman Dr Jacques Lienard said: "We cannot say that football is free of doping. It is important UEFA remains vigilant in its fight against doping and all products that are associated with doping".
The panel was told Euro 2012 was drug-free after comprehensive pre-tournament testing of all 16 teams followed by a full in-competition programme.
Players preparing for the European Women's Under-17 Championship were last week given a stark warning against drug-taking.
UEFA anti-doping assistant Richard Grisdale said: "If you make a mistake or don't know the rules and you test positive, you will be banned. You will suffer. Your team can suffer."
He added that doping was "cheating the team you're playing against and cheating your team mates".
Grisdale said: "You are responsible for everything in your body. If you test positive, you cannot blame somebody else. Take responsibility for the medicines you take, any supplements, what you eat, what you drink."
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Xavier vs. Arizona - 3/26/15 NCAA Tournament Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Xavier Musketeers (23-13) at Arizona Wildcats (33-3)
College Basketball: Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 10:17 pm (Staples Center)
The Line: Arizona Wildcats -11 -- Over/Under: 136 See the Latest Odds
The Xavier Musketeers and Arizona Wildcats play Thursday night in the NCAA Tournament.
The The Xavier Musketeers have won five of their last six and are coming off a win over Georgia State. On the season, Xavier is averaging 73.7 points on 47.6 percent shooting and is allowing 67.3 points on 43.7 percent shooting. Matt Stainbrook is averaging 12.1 points and 6.9 rebounds while Trevon Bluiett is averaging 11.3 points and 4.3 rebounds. Myles Davis is the third double-digit scorer and Jalen Reynolds is grabbing 6.1 rebounds. The The Xavier Musketeers have six players averaging at least 8.5 points, and they're shooting 72.9 percent from the line and 35.6 percent from deep. Defensively, Xavier is allowing 34.6 percent shooting from deep and has given up 67 or less points in seven of its last 10 games.
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The Arizona Wildcats haven't loss since early February and are coming off a win over Ohio State. On the season, Arizona is averaging 76.8 points on 48.9 percent shooting and is allowing 59 points on 39.4 percent shooting. Stanley Johnson is averaging 14 points and 6.6 rebounds while Brandon Ashley is averaging 12.2 points and 5.3 rebounds. Rondae Hollis-Jefferson is grabbing 6.9 rebounds and T.J. McConnell is dishing 6.3 assists. The Arizona Wildcats have four double-digit scorers, and they're shooting 70.8 percent from the line and 36.2 percent from deep. Defensively, Arizona is allowing 33 percent shooting from deep and has given up 64 or less points in eight of its last 10 games.
The Musketeers are 19-5-2 ATS in their last 26 NCAA Tournament games and 4-1-1 ATS in their last 6 games following a S.U. win. The Wildcats are 14-4 ATS in their last 18 games following a S.U. win and 20-8 ATS in their last 28 games overall.
I don't expect Xavier to shoot the way it did against Georgia State. However, Stainbrook is a huge advantage the Muskateers have, and he'll do enough to make this game compeitive. I'll gladly take the double-digit cushion.


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new to mags and completly lost
I think I'm fairly competent and have found I can fix/work on most basic guns. (spyders, tippmanns, ion, cocker)
I'm new to mags but they seem fairly simple. I picked up a classic mag locally on craigslist and the guy showed me it fired, but it did seem to leak about everywhere possible. The body was beat and overall I knew it would need some work. It was dirt cheap and since it did fire I figured a rebuild kit would get it running and I could start a new project.
Picked up a parts kit, lv 10 kit, body, rail, and got to work. I rebuilt it, replaced all o-rings, lubed it, and followed the lv guide to start to tune it for lv 10 and when I put air in it……NOTHING!
I pull the trigger and nothing happens. I broke it down made sure I put everything back together correctly and tried again with the same result.
If I hold down the trigger (which has pressure) it will make a small "puff of air" sound. Im not sure where to go from here.
Got the new piston and put everything together with the lv7. got it going great @ 280ish fps. Put in the 1.5 carrier and the lv 10 bolt and it worked great. I used the lv7 spring and it was too rough so i went with the mid size spring.
Thanks to everyone here for their help! The community really stepped up and helped out.
screw your velocity nut in. the lvl 10 requires more pressure i believe.
I have a manual pm me address ill mail it off free if you'd like I have no use for it
ok so i took out the shims put air in it and it started leaking and still dead trigger. Took off air, turned up velocity, put air in it and it shot air out the back like an automatic. Not constant but "puff..puff..puff" and high pressure air, until i cut the air......
*should also note i bought the lv10 used and only have the 0-1.5 carriers
Put the 1.5 carrier in... Does it leak? If not its possible you need a larger carrier and the one in there is small enough to cause the lvl10 to activate. What's your tank output pressure?
Your rod on the sear might not be reaching trigger, try adjust forward. I had same thing, gave the rod couple of turns, shot fine
Did you carbon wrap your body? Is it between the rail & the body?
Tried that, whats the risk of it sticking out too far?
No the carbon wrap does not interfere with the rail. It stops just before rail
What type of on/off do you have also reg output pressure
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Meet the New Guard – Same as the Old Guard?
In the dream that is my reality, I am Galatea with a difference. I am an alabaster veined maiden, caught in cold sad stone for seemingly endless years and brought, by stages, to warm life by a passionate synergy of heart, mind, flesh and yearning.
Ovid claimed of the mythic Greek beauty, "Her face was life itself." Michelangelo believed that every block of marble contained within it a completed work that sought release through the ministrations of a master craftsman with vision, patience and sensitivity to the material worked by his hands.
The story of Pygmalion, king of Cyprus and ardent sculptor, and his love for the ideal of womanhood he released from its marble prison was told and retold throughout ancient times and continues to endure even in this often shallow, virtual age. The liberated creation of pure love was nameless in the earliest tales, her significance not determined by a proper noun but by the power of what she symbolized: the transformational might of melding art and life.
In the reality that is my dream, I am both Galatea and Pygmalion. I am a force that creates and a force born of creation. I am a collaborative work molded with my own hands, those of my intimates and of history. I am a blending of past, present and the transitions between them. And that is what makes me both the unique being that is Darklady, as well as part of a larger work in progress constantly emerging from beneath the hands of as many masters as are enflamed with a passionate synergy of heart, mind, flesh and yearning: the BDSM leather/fetish community.
Clearly, our history, legends and archetypes as a self-identified community don't trace back as far as those of the ancient Greeks, yet we benefit from the passionate visions brought to life by men and women who walked on the leather frontier and whose mere existences made them political art in a time before a quick trip to the mall revealed all the latest in trendy uptown girl kinky leopard print slave collar fashion wear, black fingernail polish and cleverly colored "pervert" bumper stickers and jacket patches. Before the Internet with its selection of real and imagined fetish imagery, text, chat rooms and hot bi bondage babes. Before munches and leather conferences, and tattoo parlors with shiny, alternative lifestyle rich piercing rooms.
So often, as individuals — and nearly always as collective groups – we live life glancing nervously behind us in our hand mirrors. My experience with fellow kinky people is that many of us, no matter how otherwise pragmatic or skeptical, are deliciously attracted to some degree of formality, ritual and/or ceremony. The very words we use to describe our explorations reek of layered meanings: Sir, Master, slave, Mistress, Goddess, Daddy, boy, girl, pet, slut, surrender, conquest, worship, serve… Each of these words creates powerful images and generates visceral reactions within us, in part because we associate them with aspects of our personal lives as well as our shared human histories. What we now call the BDSM leather/fetish community has, as part of the act of melding art and life, embraced these ancient words of power and imbued them with meanings unique to its members' needs. In order for living cultures, languages and individuals to survive and thrive, they must be able to grow and adapt.
Those of us who have pushed our boundaries know that growth can be traumatic at times. In fact, it's often trauma that inspires growth. Nay, requires it. What is commonly referred to as the Old Guard, for instance, came to life during the 1940s and '50s, years spent in war and recovery from war. A time of men in uniform returning home and influencing the sexual mores and developing traditions of a new phenomenon: the gay male leather culture. These men came together in leather brotherhood during an era popularly associated with the alleged wholesomeness of heterosexual marriage and joy of a high holy nuclear family complete with gelatin desserts and suburban tract housing.
What resulted from these bold, clandestine meeting was some of the earliest rituals and social mores for the developing self-identified leather community. A system of tight knit and dedicated clubs were organized, providing mentorship for inexperienced. Because of this intense connectivity and strongly regimented approach to the leather lifestyle, the Old Guard is often seen now as having been uniquely exclusive. This tendency for cohesion served its members well during the early days of AIDS, when care giving became an issue. It also made it difficult to continue mentoring those men entering the Scene, causing many newbies to seek previously unavailable methods for self-educating, including books, magazines and fetish videos.
This trauma to the developing community helped what is now referred to as the New Guard philosophy emerge. More and more information began to come from print media and, as today, the Internet. An increasingly diverse social, sexual and cultural population began identifying as being kinky – some even with complex and still largely unchronicled histories. This New Guard brought with it a myriad of approaches to both BDSM technique and lifestyle. With increased ease in exchanging information, the look and feel of BDSM has changed considerably from the Old Guard days of uniforms and sometimes heavy discipline.
With the melding of populations came a blending of styles. Gay, straight, bisexual, transsexual, male, female, transgendered, undefined and indefinable, multi-racial and even multi-partnered – the "pansexual" New Guard, although exclusive in its own ways and not without its faults, embraces a wide variety of play styles ranging from traditional Old Guard discipline to Gorean lifestyle Dominance/submission to cross-dressing and gender play to soft bondage, foot worship and sensual spanking. Its members tend to be more "out" in their behavior, including wearing visible signs of their interests such as body and facial piercings, tattoos, fetish wear, and even once richly symbolic items such as collars and leashes.
There are valuable elements of Old Guard culture that many feel are being lost to the New Guard generation – as well as those who will come afterwards. Most notably, signs of respect and general Scene etiquette. For instance, what were originally meant as titles of honor, such as "Sir," can often be heard used casually as names or mere nouns, watering down their earlier power. Many younger players are unfamiliar with how to behave at play parties, how to interact with unfamiliar Doms or subs, and many other finer points of BDSM manners and tradition. On the other hand, the New Guard has sped up pre-play communication and negotiation, as well as placing additional emphasis on play safety.
Neither Ovid nor any of Galatea's other narrators bothered to explain with what ease or difficulty she adjusted to her altered life, but experience suggests that, like all who see the world with new eyes, at least occasional awkwardness and error was her lot. The process of transformation is traumatic because it is boundary expanding. Just as some tales of the Old Guard are largely romanticized reminiscences of a "better time" that never truly existed, there will come a day when, as with Pygmalion's release of his idealized passion made flesh, the New Guard will also gain its mythic elements.
Fortunately, there are still articulate, active and educating voices to speak for and spread the best ways of both grand traditions. The fortunate philosophical offspring of this beautiful blending have the potential to place BDSM on its pedestal with the pomp, ceremony and gracious good manners that provide it structure, guidance, and class — as well as allow it to walk among the people.
The following books are highly recommended for reading to gain a richer understanding of the beliefs and practices of the Old Guard leather community. (Special thanks to Luke Owens for his assistance.):
Beneath the Skins by Ivo Dominguez, Jr.
Leathermen's Handbook 1 and 2 by Larry Townsend
Learning the Ropes by Race Bannon
The Kiss of the Whip by Jim Prezwalski
Leathersex by Joseph Bean
The Q Letters by Sir John
Ties That Bind by Guy Baldwin
The Only Reason I Mention This by Daddy Bob Allen
The Wings of Icarus by Daddy Allen
Leatherfolk, edited by Mark Thompson
Sir! More Sir! The Joy of S&M by Master Jackson


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In 1982 I met Taff.
Two days later we decided to "do something silly" and agreed we would get married (maybe I will blog that some other time).
His mother reacted with enthusiasm, asking why he had "kept me so quiet". His father was just quietly there in the background. If he was surprised or concerned he didn't mention it to me.
He was often quietly in the background. But his humour and intelligence were a huge influence on the whole family. He was a real gentleman, and his sons and grandsons learnt so much from him.
Over the next few years I learnt the family traditions. The men would have a "Glenfiddich" (meaning a coffee with whisky in it) after dinner. There were two special cups and they floated the cream on the back of a teaspoon.
There were lots of other things he liked to do. He liked "a small glass of sauvignon blanc", a cheese platter, shark fin soup. He loved it when there was someone else who would share these pleasures with him. He liked to have a cup of tea and read the paper or a book. And he loved to play golf.
Seven years later our first son was born, followed by three more over the next 12 years. And so a whole bucket of new traditions was born. Da pushing the latest baby in the stroller to the bakery in the morning. Digging 'taters' with Da in the garden was a popular toddler pursuit. And there was the annual Boxing Day water fight with the neighbours.
It is hard to have a strong relationship with a grandparent that lives 3000km away. But my boys all did. Photos, phone calls, visits and a strong sense of tradition. Every time we visited the same things happened. And Da was "one of the boys". He chased, tickled, bounced and giggled. He was often in trouble for winding the kids up after bath time when he was supposed to be letting us settle them down. His huge grin showed he didn't really care what Mam and I thought should happen, he was having fun with the boys.
He taught my husband how to love your wife, no matter what. I am so grateful for that. He taught him how to be a wonderful father and my boys have reaped the benefit of those lessons.
We have to say goodbye to him and we are all finding it very hard. But if this is the cost of having that relationship we would all do it again, without a doubt.
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She Finished in Two and a Half Years!
From Hearsay, the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law Alumni Magazine 2008, 2009 Graduating Class, page 19
This past Friday, our daughter, Charlotte turned in her last paper in her long two and a half year paper chase at the UALR William H Bowen School of Law, an achievement that could not go unacknowleged by her Mom at The Wide Awake Cafe.
Over the weekend Charlotte and her boyfriend, Adam and sister, Kate and brother-in-law, Mike packed up her belongings at the Barrister Court Law School Apartments and put them in a U-Haul to move her west where she will be studying for the Oklahoma Bar. It was a cold weekend. But there were warm hearts all around rejoicing over Charlotte's determined perseverance in achieving academic excellence in her legal education.
I took this photo of Charlotte when I visited her in her first year at law school.
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The kiln is a microcosm of me
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Esoteric, I know. Perhaps far-fetched. Somewhat existential? I'm not sure.
But I had a bit of an epiphany this morning, and I thought I'd share it.
This week, I'm firing the few pieces of ceramics that weren't dry enough to fire in December. Some of my students made items that were very thick and heavy, and the objects needed more time to dry completely before firing. (Otherwise I can guarantee breakage.) So the students agreed they could wait until we started school again.
After I had the kiln partly loaded, two students found bowls they had made but wrapped in plastic - so that these bowls needed additional drying time. These two items are what I fired today.
Now, firing a kiln is somewhat counter-intuitive. The smaller the load, the quicker the firing. Weird, isn't it? I always forget this, and think that a large load of items will hold the heat and therefore fire more quickly - although cool down more slowly. No, the emptier the kiln, the faster the firing. Today's firing of two items only took 3.5 hours to reach 1855 F. And that's taking the heat up as slowly as I normally do - one number on each dial every half hour.
Think about this. The smaller the kiln load, the quicker the firing. The more efficient use of energy. The smaller amount of fuel. The speedier it goes.
See the analogy?
I'm the kiln. The smaller I am, the less fuel I need. Because my smaller body will use the fuel more efficiently. And will utilize the food more efficiently. That smaller body needs less energy to do the same amount of work. And, it's speedier. Faster.
I started thinking about how a smaller body - my currently smaller body, although not as small as I'd like - is using fewer resources: less food, less fabric to clothe it, less gasoline to drive around. My smaller body is not only energy-efficient, it is better for the environment! For the whole world!
It was just one of those revelations. The kind of thinking that will spur me on to do better, lose more, stay in shape, and continue to become more and more energy efficient.
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Such a great blog! Your analogy is right on target.
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Good thinking and great analogy. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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LOVE your blog !
So as we loose weight we actually become" Greener"!
Healthy, less processed food is also good for the earth.
This is a great motivator.
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Good thinking. The environment and your beautiful body will thank you for it.
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