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Nazarene Christian Academy - excelling in academics, building character and integrity through an excellent Christian education.
"Educating for Today and for Eternity." 2010, 2011, 2012 TCAF State Baseball Champions, 2010, 2011, 2012 TCAF State Softball Champions, State Girls Volleyball Champions.
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Football, Softball,
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|National Honor Society, National Junior Honor Society, Percussion, Student Council Percussion, National Honor Society,
National Junior Honor Society,
Student Council,
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NCA is starting a new percussion department open to all 5th, 6th grades and all secondary students may elect to take this exciting new class.
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Watford mayor unveils 'key-stepping stone' in affordable housing target
Updated 11:36am Thursday 10th April 2014 in News By Mike Wright, Chief Reporter
New affordable homes have replaced 90 garages on a West Watford estate.
Watford Community Housing Trust unveiled six three-bed houses, six one-bed flats and four two-bed flats in Croxley View.
The new homes have been fitted with solar panels to reduce their electricity bills.
The trust said the majority of the garages had been empty and had become a focal point for nuisance behaviour.
Watford's Elected Mayor Dorothy Thornhill was on hand to officially open the homes on Monday.
She said: "It was a real pleasure to open much needed new social housing. I am delighted Watford's very own Community Housing Trust has made building new homes a priority and I was really impressed by their high standards - as were the new, happy tenants."
Tina Barnard, chief executive of Watford Community Housing Trust, added: "We are really proud to show off these new homes. They mark our first development in Holywell, so they are a key stepping stone towards reaching our target of 500 new homes in Watford by 2017.
"It's wonderful to see that the new tenants are so pleased with the homes we've built."
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Don't get me wrong we do need to see affordable houses been built in a managed way. That said, look at the so called health campus - or as I call it 'the con campus'.
Yes that's right as there is no buildings or services in the scheme for the hospital and that's what I call a con.
Vote her and any councillor who supports the 'con campus' out of office ASAP
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"It is a common sentimentalist assumption to hope that somehow the enemies will start understanding each other and liking each other and eventually they will reconcile and make peace. Throughout history things always work the other way round. Enemies with their hearts full of bitterness and hatred sign a peace contract with clenched teeth and revengeful feelings. Then, in the course of time, eventually there may come a gradual emotional de-escalation."
Monday, August 04, 2014
You don't make Peace with your Friends
Thursday, July 31, 2014
The Deliberate Ambiguity of Occupation
In practice this leaves the Palestinians dispossessed, discriminated against and in the West Bank without recourse to the law when bands of violent, fanatical settlers descend from their hilltop bandit nests to attack Palestinian homes and crops and savagely assault any Palestinians who resist.
The Israeli police stand and watch.
It's time to stop coddling this sleazy little semantics game.
Le Monde diplomatique argues giving them three more years to the 50th Anniversary of the Occupation to once and for all define what they are doing as occupation or not. If its an occupation they are legally required to begin the process of withdrawal, if its not an occupation they are legally required to give full and equal legal citizenship rights to all the population under their control.
They have been allowed to be vague on this subject for almost FIFTY YEARS.
No longer.
Saturday, July 19, 2014
The Iron Dome is a Scam
According to defence experts - plural - its a public relations exercise and it follows that both Israel and Hamas play along with it with because it suits both their interests for Hamas to seem more dangerous and effective than it actually is.
If the Iron Dome is actually stopping NOTHING and if the 10% of sputtering rockets barely better than those you could buy from a roadside stand across the border before the fourth of July, that land randomly and have so far killed only one Israeli bringing supplies to the front line, if those pitiful few are actually the ENTIRETY of what is fired and each one is magnified automatically into multiple attacks....
Then you've got a combination appropriations scam, propaganda psyop and false or at least inflated justification for an attack that has taken hundreds of civilian lives including scores of children.
Sunday, June 01, 2014
The last time someone as paranoid and vindictive as Stephen Harper was thwarted...
Does Stephen Harper strike anyone as someone who responds well to independent oversight or any restrictions on the exercise of his power? Can we really count on Harper placidly accepting such an infuriating limitation on his exercise of power - clearly his number one constant priority?
There is a precedent, for a similar powerful, suspicious, paranoid and dictatorial leader being challenged by the judicial branch and lashing out violently in defiance of constitutional norms. Should Canadians be watchful for our own high court equivalent of the Saturday Night Massacre?
Saturday, May 31, 2014
Reversal of Fortunes
But Paul has the same problem as Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell; in their home sate of Kentucky the Democratic governor enthusiastically cooperated with Obamacare and KYnect (Stop that giggling! It's NOT a funny name!) the Kentucky state health care exchange has been one of the biggest success stories of the Affordable Care Act. McConnell's method of dealing with this unfortunate political reality is to deny that KYnect and Obamacare are the same thing - a position that has resulted in scornful take downs within Kentucky and without. Paul Just tries to dodge the question.
Thousands of people in Kentucky who would have died without the ban on refusal of coverage due to prior medical condition and the medicaid expansion consider the Kentucky KYnect application of Obamacare a lifesaver and attacking it directly is rapidly becoming political suicide in the state - deep in the heart of the firmly Republican south.
The time is rapidly approaching when Republicans will regret so firmly associating a President they hate with a program Americans are coming to love. Which is probably why Republicans of yore were just smart enough not to call social security FDR-Security or Medicare LBJcare.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
On the Value of Scorn
Of late we've been seeing a lot of bigots, kooks and reactionaries trying to adopt the language of victimization.
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
The Real Benghazi Scandal
There were more than a dozen attacks on US embassies and consulates under George W. Bush but despite that the Republican Party voted to slash $300 million from Embassy security over the strenuous objections of Obama and the Democrats.
Benghazi is a scandal. Its a Republican scandal.
Tuesday, May 06, 2014
Former Alberta premier Alison Redford's ill-conceived anti-union project is in shambles tonight, with an agreement to send two bills attacking public sector pensions to a legislative committee where they can die with dignity.
With the car in the ditch, wheels spinning and headlights pointed skyward, the Progressive Conservative government of Premier pro tempore Dave Hancock agreed this afternoon to send the two controversial pension bills to the committee, which is supposed to report back in the fall.
If sanity prevails within the PC caucus and the party remains mired at current levels of unpopularity, it seems likely this will lead to the eventual demise of both Bill 9, the Public Sector Pension Plans Amendment Act, 2014, and Bill 10, the Employment Pension (Private Sector) Plans Amendment Act, 2014.
The agreement by Mr.Hancock's PC government and all three Opposition parties also suggests the repudiation by Mr. Hancock personally of the radical program attacking public service unions and employees that emerged unexpectedly in the second year of the leadership of fired premier Redford, who finally reappeared in the Legislature today.
Saturday, May 03, 2014
This is what a psychopath looks like
Being an unambiguous psychopath, he is doubtless incapable of shame, but hopefully this display of complete lack of human feeling, concern and decency will follow him forever.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
So the state of Oklahoma tortured a man to death last night...
[Clayton] Lockett, 38, received the first dose of the three-drug cocktail at 6:23 p.m.The drugs were midazolam, which causes unconsciousness; vecuronium bromide, which stops respiration; and potassium chloride, which stops the heart. They are administered in that order. The state has said the procedure is meant to involve three doctors with hand-held syringes, injecting the drugs into IV lines in both the inmate's arms.At 6:33 p.m., 10 minutes after the execution began, a doctor said Lockett was unconscious. But three minutes later, Lockett began to nod and mumble and writhe, witnesses said. [...]A spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections [...] confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that Lockett did not die immediately after the lethal injection was administered."The director did say that it appears that a vein [in Lockett's body] blew up or exploded, it collapsed, and the drugs were not getting into the system like they were supposed to," spokesman Jerry Massie said.Massie said that after the new injection was administered, the condemned man "was obviously showing some movement.""After several minutes, five minutes, he was not unconscious," Massie said. "They made a decision to halt the execution, but at 7:06 he suffered a massive heart attack and expired."
Monday, April 28, 2014
Anti-TFW But Pro-Immigration
It's important I think, in the mounting fervor against the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to remember that the workers in it are not the enemy. These are people who are following the rules they were given in an effort to improve their families lives. They have travelled thousands of miles to work hard and live frugally so they can send money home or save it up to someday bring their own families here.
It's all part of the same immigrant tradition as the family histories of most Canadians.
I don't object in the slightest to competing for jobs against fellow citizens; workers who aren't afraid to stand up for themselves or change jobs or organize. But migrant workers too afraid of being deported to do any of those things? Workers who will put up with any abuse, tolerate any working conditions, be unwilling to even take sick days all because they are afraid of failing their families by being sent home?
Creating a class of workers that vulnerable and desperate and exploitable is bad for everybody.
Canada needs more people. All the boomers will retire in waves and to afford the social safety net we want Canada will need more taxpayers than we will create with births alone. We should increase immigration and make it faster and easier.
What we shouldn't do is create a permanently exploitable underclass.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
"Yes, they are disenfranchised. Some of them don't work for us anymore. But in the scheme of things, it doesn't matter." - McDonald's Canada CEO John Betts
Betts spends much of the conference call railing against the CBC's coverage of the controversy — but admits there is truth to the stories.The plan is to wait till the heat dies down and get right back to business as usual. If the TFW doesn't get a stake in the heart from the Canadian public here and now it will come roaring back to life as soon as the public isn't looking. And suspending it just for the food sector doesn't help miners, IT staff, oil riggers.
"Here's the kicker. The kicker is there's an element of truth in each of these stories," Betts said.
"What we've got to do is fix what we have in the restaurants concerning the temporary foreign workers.
"But what we've also learned is that we have other opportunities in the people area that we also need to take care of. Violations of labour law. And those are the kind of things that suddenly become compounded because we have another issue over here, that's very emotional in Canada."
With regard to the company's decision to halt its Temporary Foreign Worker Program, Betts told concerned franchisees that, "In dealing with the government, the smartest move was to pre-empt their move in terms of suspending us."
"I think the relationship we build with the minister here is a politically astute one to be taking. Because they're feeling the heat big time before this story broke and now it's bigger and bigger," he went on.
"They need to see us as partners in this as a brand that can help them make some progress on this and at the same time give us an opportunity to clean ourselves up."
At no point during the recording does the CEO mention hiring Canadians instead of temporary foreign workers or go over the rules of the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
This government is Corporate Canada's eager servant and they are committed to wage suppression as an over-riding ideology before any other priority.
Friday, April 11, 2014
They are incapable of Governing
Are they just deliberately batting foul balls to have something to shout about judicial activism to their mouth breathing base over?
The Conservative government's tough-on-crime agenda has suffered another major blow at the Supreme Court of Canada. The court blocked the government's attempt to stop judges from routinely giving extra credit to offenders for time served in jail before sentencing.The unanimous ruling is even written by one of Harper's own appointees! They were repeatedly warned this would happen and deliberately pissed away MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to pass a law that anyone with even a child's understanding of the charter and existing sentencing law could and did tell them would be overturned by the courts. This is incompetence and wastefulness on a truly breathtaking scale.
The 7-0 ruling continues the losing streak of the Harper government in major cases at the Supreme Court over the past month.
Frankly it disqualifies them for governance.
Saturday, April 05, 2014
With the 'Values' Charter and the nomination of far right strikebreaker and propagandist Pierre Karl Péladeau they abandoned both liberalism and social democracy and it would be a very, very good message to the political elite if such blatant amoral opportunism ended with massive electoral disaster.
And a very bad message if it paid off.
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Protection and the Product Line: Monopoly and Product Quality
AbstractThereare three points made in this paper. The first is that the question concerning choice of a product line by a monopolist is similar in structure to other adverse selection problems -- and can be analyzed in an elementary way by adapting techniques recently developed for such problems. Such an analysis is developed in the first section. The second is that when a foreign monopolist produces a product line, protection will change the composition of the entire product line.The nature of such effects is studied in the second section and this analysis is greatly simplified by the results of the first sectton. In line with empirical work on the subject, quotas are shown to raise the average quality of imports, while the effects of tariffs are ambiguous.The third concerns the possibility of profit shifting protection which is welfare increasing. The welfare consequences of protection are analyzed in the third section, and are shown to depend crucially on the distribution of consumers.
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- Krishna, Kala, 1990. "Protection and the Product Line: Monopoly and Product Quality," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 31(1), pages 87-102, February.
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Avoiding Hashtag Fails
Posted on February 13th 2013
Thinking of using hashtags as part of your social marketing? Before settling on the first hashtag that comes to mind, here are a couple of tips to avoid potentially embarrassing fails.
Read it. Then Read it Again.
Today this doozy showed up in my Twitter feed:
Singer Susan Boyle's PR team wanted to promote an upcoming party for her new album yet depending on how your read the hashtag it looks like they might be promoting an all together different kind of party….Uh!?
Lesson: If you're going to combine multiple words to make up a hashtag, type out the words together and look closely to see if any undesirable words are formed. Susan Album Party looks ok at first but quickly becomes #SusAnalBumParty.
Check For Existing Content
Nowadays it's almost impossible to find a generic hashtag that doesn't have at least some content attached to it and a good practice is to check your hashtags ahead of time. Of course, you can't own a hashtag and it can be co-opted anytime but if you check it out first, you'll be able to see if other brands are using the same tag. Remember to include obvious misspellings in your search. Additionally, you'll want to look carefully through some of the existing content attached to a hashtag and see if there is a cultural meme being discussed or any observable themes.
As an example, yoga wear clothing company, Lululemon, ran a 30 day Instagram photo challenge in September 2012. The contest was titled "What the Focus" and used the hashtag #WTFSEPT.
Now this one might not seem obvious at first, but if you were one of the many people checking out photos tagged #WTFSEPT during September, you were likely seeing pictures of people in yoga poses next to 9/11 memorial photos.
As a brand, this was probably not the ideal experience it wanted to create for its audience. Granted, this was relatively short lived and the Lululemon content soon overwhelmed anything else using the same hashtag but it's probably a good idea to be aware of what can happen and avoid these kinds of situations.
There are lots of tools out there to check hashtags and the easiest way is to do a search on Twitter and Instagram to see what comes up. A few rules of thumb:
- Avoid hashtags with lots of content from many different users
- Avoid hashtags with a high volume of recent activity
- Keep it simple and try not to combine too many words
- Incorporate your brand, slogan, or campaign name
- Make it specific, avoid generic tags ie: #photocontest, #love, etc
Whether you're using hashtags for your own content or aggregating / curating user-generated content, hashtags can be a valuable tool…just make sure to pick them carefully.
This recalls a story from my own Adventures With Hashtags while setting up the #chsocm (church social media) chat back in July 2011. I'd unwittingly chosen a combination of letters that generated a stream of porn -- in Portuguese. Checked with a multi-lingual colleague who had a good laugh while tell me that I'd stumbled upon a slang term for lady parts, so to speak/tweet.
I respectfully disagree with a couple of the points you made.
- Avoid hashtags with lots of content from many different users
- Avoid hashtags with a high volume of recent activity
If you do either of the above, you're setting yourself up for hashtag fail right from the start,
Hashtags with minimal content, few users, and minimal recent activity are exactly the hashtags with no or at best only a small number of searches. Minimal searches translates into minimal clicks and as a result, minimal exposure..
Meanwhile, hashtags seem to really well developed on Twitter especially now, after the Super Bowl commercials, Does anyone think they will eventuallytake off on Google Plus?
A friend I follow on Twitter just had a Hashtag Fail today. She typed #PROstatus but I skimmed and read #PROstatutes instead. (Spelling error intended!)
That's why I try to keep to known hashtags, but I'll definitely follow your advice when creating hashtags for new campaigns.
Or even what the name of your new television program will be. Do you think the producers of this Australian network thought it through?:
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By Jodi Torpey
EVEN WHEN fashion designer Carolyn Parker was jetting to New York with her latest collection, she longed to be in the garden. In those days, cutting expensive fabrics took the place of cutting flowers.
"It was a grueling process to come up with fashion collections five times a year," she says. She closed her design business on a whim in 1989 and began gardening full time. Roses called to her.
"Roses are so phenomenal. They have a very strong presence about them. We can relate to them on a heart-and-soul level. There are never enough roses."
Her garden in Lafayette, Calif., was the inspiration for her first book, The Poetry of Roses, and launched several new careers. "The roses were so gorgeous in spring they inspired me to take photographs." Now Parker is a garden designer, photographer and writer.
Her newest book, R Is for Rose: Reflections From a Passionate Rose Lover, also was inspired by the roses in her garden. While admiring the first blooms on a climbing ROULETII, she was struck with the idea to use roses and her personal stories to create a fragrant new alphabet.
Twenty-six rose species, from ALBA ROSA RUGOSA to ZEPHIRINE DROUHIN, make up Parker's meditation on roses.
"The genus itself is so diverse," she explains. "There are endless shapes and forms. From teeny, tiny little flowers with five petals to big, fat flowers with 50 petals. The bush itself takes many forms, some ramble for hundreds of feet."
Having a favorite rose for Parker is like having a favorite pair of earrings. They're the cherished pair until another pair comes along. She says she loves each rose, even the one that's the most difficult for her to grow.
N stands for NEVADA, a shrub rose with creamy-white blooms. She tried to grow NEVADA three times before it finally started to flourish.
F is for FOETIDA BICOLOR, another of Parker's favorites. This rose gave itself to the gene pool so gardeners could have multicolor roses from yellow to pink.
I is for ICEBERG, a white rose that Parker says should be enjoyed both outdoors and in. "Many people don't like to pick roses because they want to see them in the yard," she says. "But I think we should have fun and bring them inside to celebrate."
Can gardeners in our challenging climate grow rose gardens as beautiful as the ones in Parker's California backyard? After all, we don't get the winter rains that help create a March blooming frenzy.
One Colorado rose-growing expert is Heather Campbell, owner of High Country Roses in northeastern Utah. She comes from a long line of Colorado rose tenders. Her grandparents were founding members of the Pikes Peak Rose Society in Colorado Springs. In 1970 her father, Dr. William Campbell, founded Denver's High Country Rosarium.
"He started experimenting with roses because of his frustration trying to grow them in Colorado," she says. "He started by researching and collecting Old Garden Roses. Eventually he had 500 roses in his yard at First and Ash in Denver."
There are a number of ways our weather extremes discourage rose gardeners, Campbell explains. "We have warm winter weather followed by freezing, then thawing. We lack snow cover. Canes dry out, there's intense sunlight and a lack of humidity."
Like her father, she's found ways to overcome Colorado's challenging conditions. She says the No. 1 method is to select hardy varieties of roses.
"Old Garden Roses are the easiest to grow. Modern Foetida bicolor s blooms last only a day. In Persian, this ancient, spring-blooming rose is called doufrouyeh ( two faces ). (From "R Is for Rose" by Carolyn Parker / Horticulture Books) shrub roses are also hardy, with repeat bloom throughout the summer."
Campbell says roses packaged in plastic bags and purchased at discount stores should be treated as annuals. "These bare root roses are difficult to establish and hard to grow. People who say, 'I can't grow roses' probably tried growing these."
She recommends planting shrub roses because they provide color throughout the summer and fall and don't need as much care as roses in a formal garden. "Shrub roses are a wonderful addition to the landscape. They are just as easy to grow as a lilac bush."
She says that water-wise gardening techniques apply to roses too. Roses love organic material and need mulch to keep the soil at an even temperature.
Roses grown on their own roots, instead of grafted roses, are hardier in cold climates, says Campbell. "I'm very fond of 'Victorian Memory,"' she says. "It's a tall Canadian variety and we just recently found out 'Isabella Skinner' is its true name."
Another of her favorites is Winnipeg Parks, a low-growing Canadian shrub rose that features deep pink blooms from early spring to fall. Campbell says there's no need to provide winter protection for either of these shrub roses because they're hardy in zones 3 and 4.
Another of Campbell's recommendations is a rose-lover's coincidence. Her AUSTRIAN COPPER is the same FOETIDA BICOLOR that Carolyn Parker calls "dazzling."
Parker's sense of style lends itself to arranging roses. With her designer's eye, she creates colorful floral arrangements in unusual containers, such as demitasse cups, cake plates, mayonnaise jars and even a porcelain spoon.
For a springtime party, she likes to harvest long, blooming canes to bring into the house for Advertisement a spectacular display. She arranges the arching canes by placing them in a tall, narrow cylindrical vase. The canes easily fall into place, she says.
"Go to the cupboard and find an old cup or Grandma's bowl and think how a rose would fit into that container." Instead of long-stemmed roses standing tall in a vase, she'd rather see masses of flowers with shorter stems nudged cozily against each other.
Parker encourages gardeners to feel free to make mistakes when arranging roses. "Don't get stressed," she says. "Find another container and use the same flowers. Gradually you'll learn."
See samples of Parker's work at rosesfromatoz.com.
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In her book Carolyn Parker mentions the Celebration of Old Roses held annually in El Cerrito, Calif. Denver holds its own celebration at the Denver Rose Society's Old Garden Rose show June 4. Gardeners are invited to bring roses for display or identification. Many varieties of old and modern roses will be for sale from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Denver Botanic Gardens. For information call 303-420-8709.
Debunking roses' "difficult" reputation
Growing roses isn't as thorny a task as most people think, but rumors about the flowers' temperamental nature have given them a bad reputation.
Mary Kirby, a consulting rosarian and Jefferson County master gardener, buries some of the most common rose rumors.
RUMOR: Roses are too difficult to grow in Colorado.
TRUTH: Selecting the right variety for our climate makes growing easier.
"There are roses recommended for our area that do very well," Kirby explains. Shrub roses are hardy and can grow at higher altitudes. She says hybrid tea roses are fussier, but that ROULETII is an early bloomer with a fair repeat. It s fun to find interesting small containers to show off the sweet, fragrant blooms. Its long, prickly canes are more difficult to handle in a large arrangement. (From R is for Rose by Carolyn Parker / Horticulture Books) problem can be solved by choosing a planting site that gets at least six hours of sun each day.
Hybrid tea roses are grafted and should be planted with the graft (the bump at the base of the plant) 1 or 2 inches beneath ground level. "Protect with extra mulch in winter to hold in moisture. Winter watering is also very important," she says.
Kirby grows many roses, but her favorites include ST. PATRICK Hybrid Tea rose, JOHN DAVIS Canadian Explorer Rose, Griffith Buck's roses and the DORTMUND shrub rose. "That one is almost indestructible."
RUMOR: Roses need a lot of water.
TRUTH: "Roses aren't xeric, but they don't like to be overwatered, either." Roses like a well-drained soil and don't like standing water. They only need about 1 inch of water per week, she says. Use a drip irrigation system or water the ground and not the leaves to prevent disease.
RUMOR: Roses need special soil.
TRUTH: Roses don't need special soil, just a well-prepared soil. "I fill a wheelbarrow two-thirds full with garden soil and add one-third organic compost. I mix it well with a shovel and use that as a planting backfill," Kirby says. She waits to fertilize until the rose blooms and uses an organic fertilizer such as Mile-Hi Rose Food sold by the Denver Rose Society and at area garden centers.
RUMOR: Roses are too much work.
TRUTH: "Roses are as easy to care for as perennials, but I get more pleasure from roses," she says. Because of Colorado's dry climate, we don't have as many problems with rose diseases like black spot. Kirby deals with insect pests as they occur. She doesn't spray for aphids, but will take strong action against pests like the rose midge, which prevents roses from blooming.
"One of the biggest challenges I have with roses is keeping the deer off of them. Deer love rose buds. They also love the tender cane and leaves."
While a fence or other physical barrier is the best way to protect roses from deer, Colorado State University Cooperative Extension recommends blending eggs with water and spraying plants every two or three weeks.
"I was moderately successful with this last summer," she says.
For those intimidated by roses' reputation, Kirby suggests talking with other rose gardeners. "Learning from people who know how to grow roses saves frustration." She recommends contacting local rose societies, visiting the American Rose Society website (ars.org) and reading books like "Growing Roses in Colorado," compiled by the Denver Rose Society.


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Is Hypoinflation Good Policy?
AbstractOne argument against a policy to achieve absolute price stability is that workers resist pay cuts. We examine several Canadian microdata sources and corroborate earlier evidence of pay-cut resistance, particularly recently as inflation has approached zero. We then use data on industrial sectors to estimate that pay-cut resistance reduced employment growth by from 0.6 to 1.5 percent per annum from 1993 to 1995. We also estimate a model of wage settlements, treating pay freezes and pay cuts as censored data, which implies that pay-cut resistance may have increased the annual unemployment rate by as much as 2 percent during the same period. In view of these results, the case for very low inflation targets should be reexamined.
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BERLIN--A neck-and-neck race between Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition and the center-left opposition parties ahead of Germany's vote Sunday increase the likelihood of a grand coalition in Europe's biggest economy, according to the latest poll published Tuesday.
The findings of Berlin-based Forsa institute for Stern weekly magazine and RTL television indicate that only two coalitions would have a workable majority in Germany: First, a so-called grand coalition between Ms Merkel's Christian Democrats, the Bavarian Christian Social Union sister party and the opposition Social Democrats would get a solid majority to run the next government.
Second, a coalition between Ms. Merkel's Christian Democrats, the Bavarian Christian Social Union sister party and the opposition Greens would be possible, though rather unlikely because they disagree on fundamental issues like national security and environment.
Ms Merkel's present coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats secured 44% in combined support, according to the poll. The opposition Social Democrats of chancellor candidate Peer Steinbrueck, the opposition Greens and the opposition Left party also gained 44% in combined support.
The apparent stalemate between the governing and opposition parties comes as Ms. Merkel's coalition partner, the Free Democrats, lost support. They won just 5% support, one percentage point less than last week, increasing uncertainty whether Ms Merkel's partner would be able to pass the 5% threshold to get seats in the lower house of parliament. Merkel's conservative parties got a combined 39%, the Social Democrats 25%, the Left party 10% and the Greens 9% support.
The euro-skeptical party Alternative for Germany remained at 3%, but Forsa said it is hard to predict their actual turnout because voters aren't openly expressing support for this new party.
The chancellor continued to score high in popularity rates, with 53% of those asked supporting her while 26% preferred Mr. Steinbrueck, according to the poll.
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I want to upgrade to the latest version of your theme, version 1.6. Currently, I'm still on version 1.31. I can't find any information on this site which files have been changed compared to the version I'm currently on. I need to know, as an automatic upgrade will not work for me. I have made quite some changes in the source files (www.backonthebloq.com). I'm hoping you'll be able to help me with a smooth transition to the latest version.
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Hi ewald.
Your big challenge is that the music player changed in version 1.4 with the update of the browsers to the html5 audio spec. That was quite a integrated update.
The other updates can easily be fixed, but there's no easy way to update the music.
Thanks for your reply, AJ! Do you have any instructions somewhere on the easiest way to update the theme? On the admin area I don't see an update function. So it looks like I'll have to upload the new theme on my server. I don't see how I can do this, while keeping all current settings and changes I made in the source files.
As for the music player, I assume there will be clear instructions on how to enable it.
Look forward to your help in this.
Thx, Ewald
I really enjoy this theme! I have a quick question:
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Hi ianeric.
Thanks for making contact.
It will be possible to change the layout but will need a recode of the page. Most of the widgets was coded for that width and will need ot be recoded.
Sorry it has taken me a while to get back to this topic – but is the recoding relatively simple? Would it be possible to get instructions? Most of my calendar entries have cut-off titles and I'd really like to expand the center column of the index page to accommodate longer titles.
I only use text widgets on the right and left with HTML so I shouldn't need to recode any widgets (unless the calendar widget would need resizing as well). You can view my site here: http://www.ianeric.com
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Hi, How can I remove the top Chroma frame when viewing the live demo? Thanks
Hi, My client will be selling their own created music mp3s with your theme. Which license do I need? They only have 5 songs for $1 each. Thanks
If you r customer are planning to only have this one website that they are planning to use, then they only need a personal licence.
Hi On my site http://carvelli.com/, twitter widget is not working. It showing old tweets only not the latest one. Please tell where is the problem?
I have exactly the same problem that ianeric told you some days ago. Calendar entries get cut off and I would like to use two columns for calendar. It would be possible that you add this option in the next update? I would be great!
Can you tell me why this recent image is showing up randomly over my album artwork? Here's the link to my site:http://nmercer.com/
If you look at all the album cover artwork, they are all changed to the thumnail pic of a music video I just posted. Can you help me fix this?
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solved. But after an update the theme changed to template (or designed by) 'SiteGround'... no idea how this happened.
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Wow Crazy stuff.
Glad all got sorted.
Love. love, love this theme. Our ONLY hesitation is that it's not responsive. Do you have any plans, and if so when, of making it mobile-friendly?
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Thanks for touching base on the music theme.
We are planning to make the theme responsive, but do not have a definate date as yet.
hi there, ive just puchased your theme, nice work allthough i really hope there is gonne be responsive version. woud be great. just have a small question regarding the footer. It is set to use the album slider but is there a way that area for a commen footer area. normally its a widgetized footer but is there a way to use it as a footer instead of the slider? Hope you understand what i mean. thx Jeff thx
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Thanks for making contact.
The footer banner area can be converted to take widgets.
Your big challenge is the fact that none of the widgets is styled for a dark background and it will need all of the widgets to be restyled individually.
Hi thx for the reply 1 more thing. how do i remove the am and pm? Thx M8
The time format can be set in settings-general of the theme.
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Savir's Corner: An officer and a man of peace
President Peres and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak 370.
(photo credit:Courtesy GPO)
Israel is not the same without Amnon Lipkin-Shahak. Our human landscape
is poorer, more arid, with less humanity, courage and wisdom.It took his
sad passing away for the country to express and understand what a man he was – a
symbol, maybe the most outstanding one, of the beautiful and moral
Israel.But Lipkin-Shahak was much more than a symbol. He was an Israeli
patriot; a courageous fighter; a decorated and respected commander; a winner in
necessary wars, who understood maybe best, the necessity for Israel to translate
its power into an accommodation with the Arabs, especially with the
Palestinians; a charismatic and humane person and personality, who was respected
by all; and a man of family and love.I was privileged to have known
Amnon for 25 years.We worked together on peace at very critical
crossroads for the country. Yet I am not writing this article to recount our
friendship, which meant a lot to me, but to tell about the man, whose
personality and life should be a guiding light for our future.As
President Shimon Peres said in his moving eulogy, Lipkin-Shahak's legacy to all
of us is in the necessity and the possibility to win the biggest of victories –
peace.His legacy emanates from the many important stations of his life:
• The courageous fighter: At a very young age he became a decorated officer –
one of only two men be decorated twice with the Medal of Courage, for the
courageous battle against terrorists in Karama (1968) and Beirut (1973); a red
beret, whose many military operations remain untold.When I visited the
PLO in Tunis with him many years ago, I had the distinct sense that this was not
his first "visit" to the city; in the past in commando battle, in 1994 in the
battle for peace.• The intelligence officer: Lipkin-Shahak was chief of
our illustrious Military Intelligence service for five years.Military
intelligence is about knowing and understanding the enemy. Israel is known to
have one of the best and most effective intelligence services – although we have
sometimes misread our neighbors, as happened twice with Anwar Sadat (in the 1973
war offensive and in the 1977 peace offensive). This is due to the fact that we
probably know much about the Arabs and understand little.Lipkin-Shahak
had both attributes – knowledge and understanding. Once, when I visited him in
his office, he was virtually buried under a pile of intelligence
materials.I asked him: "How can you read and digest so much
information?" Amnon answered: "I read for several hours, then I tell myself that
probably 90 percent of what I just read is irrelevant to reality, and that I
have to rely on my understanding, intuition and experience. He really knew and
understood the neighborhood in which he lived.• The strategist and chief
of staff: Unlike most in our military and defense establishment, who had and
still have a narrow, short-term view of our security, Lipkin- Shahak thought
about our national security for the long-term, and knew the best way to combine
strategy and tactics.For him, long-term security meant a strong Israel,
capable of defending itself and deterring its enemies, and also a country able
to create alliances and new relations with our neighbors. These qualities
convinced Yitzhak Rabin to appoint him chief of staff. Lipkin-Shahak, as I
witnessed firsthand, was the officer, if not the person, closest to Rabin: to
Amnon, Rabin actually listened.• The man of peace: After the Oslo
Agreements, when Rabin and Peres began to involve the military leadership of the
country in the decision-making process and the negotiations, Lipkin-Shahak was
appointed to head our negotiation team on the first implementation of the
accords in Gaza and Jericho. As the one who headed our delegation for the
accords, I was asked to be on his side – at the time he was deputy chief of
staff.After meeting the PLO in fierce, uncompromising battle, he now met
its leadership favoring important political compromise. We spent hundreds of
hours of negotiations in Taba and Cairo. To the PLO leadership he met – Yasser
Arafat, Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), Abu Ala (Ahmed Qurei), Nabil Sha'ath, Jibril
Rajoub, and Muhammad Dahlan – he was the officer who had fought and chased them
in battle and commando operations.Yet after meeting him, despite his
strong positions on security, they not only listened to him but began to respect
him.Lipkin-Shahak's security demands were always clearly and strongly
stated in favor of the need to fight terrorism, necessary deployment of the IDF
and security cooperation. Yet he understood very well that security for Israel
in the long-term was closely linked, if not dependent on, a political settlement
with our neighbors, primarily the Palestinians. Though he perhaps knew best how
to win on the battleground, he also knew that one cannot defeat another people,
or dominate their lives and destinies; and that a political accommodation was
therefore necessary and possible.This became evident when after the
horrendous massacre in Hebron in the beginning of 1994, committed by the insane
Jewish terrorist Baruch Goldstein, Lipkin- Shahak and I were sent secretly,
together with other officers, to meet with Yasser Arafat in Tunis. The PLO
leader in a rage had decided consequently to stop all negotiations, and the
peace process itself. Before flying to Tunis, we met with Rabin and
Peres.We knew Arafat was under heavy pressure and criticism from
Palestinian public opinion for the compromises he made at Oslo with Israel, and
was even held indirectly responsible for the killings of 29 Palestinians during
Muslim prayer at a holy site. Arafat, therefore, through the Americans, demanded
the immediate evacuation of the Jewish quarter in Hebron. We asked our superiors
how we should respond to the Palestinian demand. We were told by Rabin: "At this
time just express our condolences and ask him to return to
negotiations."While we knew that the prime minister had opted for some
evacuation of Jews from the heart of Hebron, we found out later that he was
convinced by Ehud Barak and other officers to abstain from that move, fearing a
strong reaction by the settlers.In Tunis, we met a deeply shaken Arafat
at his headquarters.While receiving us politely, he was clearly in a
rage: "Tell Rabin" he cried out, "that my people are humiliated and angry, that
without the evacuation of the Jewish quarter I will be unable to renew the
negotiations. Does your government want to destroy me?" His peers were
even more adamant.We expressed our condolences and sorrow for the
killing of innocent Palestinians by an Israeli, and left to consult with
Jerusalem by phone, and with the Americans who were also present in Tunis for
talks with Arafat, with Dennis Ross leading the delegation, dispatched by
president Bill Clinton to rescue the peace process. Ross tried to convince us to
find a compromise formula that would reinstate Arafat's clout as a leader, and
allow for the renewal of negotiations. Yet our leaders remained adamant: "There
is nothing you can give Arafat, except for an unarmed international force in
Hebron" is what we heard from Rabin and Peres on the phone.Amnon and I
went on a long walk through the streets of Tunis, to discuss how to present this
to Arafat and convince him to renew negotiations. After a long conversation,
Lipkin-Shahak told me characteristically: "I will always do what is best – tell
him the truth: that he will get nothing from us that can strengthen his hand
with his own people, and that he must face his people as a leader, share a dire
reality with them, and decide according to their long-term interests, to renew
negotiations and the peace process."We returned this time to Arafat's
home, and Lipkin- Shahak asked to see him alone, just the two of
them.The PLO leader asked him to join him in his kitchen, while the two
delegations waited in the living room. I could only hear Amnon saying: "Mr.
Chairman, I speak to you as one general to another, it is time for you to show
leadership." Their conversation lasted for no more than 10 minutes.Amnon
joined us and left Arafat to reflect for a long time. We waited in tense
silence. Aborting the talks could mean the end of the peace process and the
renewal of terrorism for years to come. Then Arafat joined us, and to the
surprise and dismay of his colleagues announced with relative calm that he had
decided to renew the negotiations almost immediately in Cairo, and that he would
speak to his people in a televised address. Lipkin- Shahak had convinced him
that real leadership was about unpopular decisions and loneliness, attributes
very characteristic for Lipkin-Shahak himself throughout his professional
life.This was one of the many times that the quiet, charismatic, tough
and humane Lipkin-Shahak was able to convince the Palestinian leadership of the
value of compromise, based on clearly set limits.In time, although a
very tough negotiator, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak became the one Israeli the
Palestinians grew to respect and trust most – a fierce enemy in battle, a strong
Israeli patriot with rigorous demands on security, and a man who knew best how
to create a common language. I know of no diplomat who has such diplomatic
qualities; an officer and a man of peace.• The politician: It is
precisely the aforementioned qualities that made him unfit for Israeli politics.
I joined him in the effort to create a political center, together with Dalia
Rabin, Yitzhak Mordechai, Dan Meridor and Roni Milo, merging Left and Right in
favor of peace, after the extreme social polarization in the aftermath of
Rabin's assassination.In the Knesset and government, Lipkin-Shahak was
disappointed with the disgusting and dishonest nature of Israeli politics, and
we resigned together from the Knesset in 2001. He had already proclaimed that
"Bibi Netanyahu was dangerous for Israel," although he did not have a much
better opinion of Ehud Barak. People of great ego were hardly his cup of tea. He
was a true believer and servant of the Israeli cause.• The citizen:
While he joined the private sector, for example at El Al, he continued to give
his sagacious advice to the political leadership when asked for, and contributed
to peaceful regional cooperation in his eight-year tenure as chairman of the
board of the Peres Center for Peace.Throughout his career Amnon
Lipkin-Shahak proved to be a unique and admired personality. He was courageous,
physically and mentally, and proved to have military courage and civil courage,
and also personal courage in his confrontation with cancer. He never complained
and rarely spoke about himself, and had a tremendous ability to listen to and
understand others.These are all uncharacteristic qualities for an
Israeli, and yet Lipkin-Shahak in his personality, thought and emotion remains
the quintessential Israeli, the reflection of a beautiful Israeli. A man with
great charisma and charm, people loved and followed Lipkin-Shahak, and I was no
exception.Above all he proved to have tremendous humanity in both his
professional and his personal life. Humanitarian values shaped his actions and
opinions, human consideration fostered his friendships. And more than anything
he loved his family, his children and the love of his life, Tallie, whom he
mentioned with passion at every occasion.At a time when Israel is most
in need of these qualities – courage, strategic foresight, self-confidence,
understanding of and with others, strength, humanity and humility – the man who
personified and symbolized all these is no longer among us. Arrogance,
short-sightedness and self-obsession are on the rise. Yet we owe it to one of
Israel's best leaders and sons to follow his legacy.The writer is
president of the Peres Center for Peace and served as Israel's chief negotiator
for the Oslo Accords.
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An Albany woman gets an unexpected Christmas present Monday. Sandrine Carver was stunned when she was presented with a five hundred dollar gift card to Harvey's Supermarkets.
The gift came from Buffalo Rock's Secret Santa program.
Buffalo Rock gave out $25 gift cars to 28 people this year and Sandrine was picked as the grand prize winner. "I really need this actually. It is amazing. I had no idea what I was coming in her for. That is amazing, a true blessing. Thank you so much," she said.
"She didn't remember what I wrote her name down for. I called her last week. Asked her to meet me here today. Her reaction was pretty good," said Keith Dedge of Buffalo Rock.
Dedge says the 28 gift card winners all had Pepsi products in their shopping carts.
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Oh wow! I've been waiting with bated breath for this!
Why anyone, even a pro, would spend $6000 on a camera body I haven't the slightest.
Nikon has officially launched its new flagship DSLR, the D4s. Offering a number of improvements over its predecessor the D4, the D4s features greater ISO sensitivity in stills and video mode, a new 60p video capture option and some minor design changes.
At the CP+ show in Yokohama, Japan earlier this month, editor Barnaby Britton was able to sit down with the new camera and two of the men responsible for creating it. Click through for a hands-on tour of the D4s and insights from its creators.
Nikon D4
Nikon D610 Digital SLR Camera (24.3MP) 3.2 inch LCD
Nikon D7100 Digital SLR Camera
with 18-105mm VR Lens Kit (24.1MP) 3.2 inch LCD
Nikon D7100 Digital SLR Camera Body (24.1MP) 3.2 inch LCD
Nikon D3300 Digital SLR Camera
with 18-55mm VR II Lens Kit - Black (24.2MP) 3.0 inch LCD
Nikon D610 Digital SLR Camera
with 24-85mm Lens Kit (24.3MP) 3.2 inch LCD