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When: 20 Nov - 23 Nov 2013
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Gloucester Quays Victorian Christmas Market
Gloucester Quays Victorian Christmas Market returns after a record-breaking event in 2013, which saw over 150,000 people turn out to shop, eat, drink, be entertained and soak up the traditional festive atmosphere at what has rapidly become one of the biggest seasonal market events in the country.
Visitors will be able to browse around 150 stalls selling artisan crafts, fine food and drink and unique Christmas gifts, while a huge cast of larger than life Victorian characters enthrall, entertain and amuse with their riotous antics.
Soak up the atmosphere of the Quays and historic Victorian Docks while being entertained by brass bands, choirs, street performers, steam, engines, a beautiful traditional carousel and lots more.
Quite simply the best Christmas market that the region has to offer. Glad tidings of great joy we bring!
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The Gloucester Quays Outlet is located close to the Historic Docks at Gloucester Quays Outlet, St Ann Way, Gloucester, GL1 5SH. This is a new postcode which some satellite navigation systems may not have recorded yet. If you are unable to locate the above postcode on your satellite navigation device please use GL1 5SF. If your GPS satellite navigation or map directs you towards Llanthony Bridge please do not drive across the bridge. This is now closed to all except buses, taxis, pedestrians, cyclists and emergency vehicles. Drivers crossing the bridge will be issued a £60 fine by Gloucester City Council. We have an award winning car park with 1,400 spaces, please note that charges apply and there is also a height restriction of 2.1 metres at the Gloucester Quays Outlet car park.
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We were told several days ago that a pressure tank without the replacement type bladder is best. Person said they can leak and rust the tank... Is that true in your experiences??? We want a bigger tank than the present 6 gallon replaceable bladder type... like a 19 gallon one Because our pump comes on every toliet flush... Duh>>>> I just thought a replacement bladder type pressure tank would be less to go into a landfill |
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- Posted by aliceinwonderland_id (My Page) on Fri, Apr 5, 13 at 10:03
Are you certain you mean bladderless vs bladder and not attached vs replaceable bladder? I would not recommend a bladderless tank - it requires more attention on the part of the homeowner. Forgetting to periodically add air will result in short-cycling your pump, wearing it out sooner. While a replaceable bladder is theoretically a great idea, replacement is not an easy job on most tanks and beyond many DIYer's ability. A good bladder tank should last many, many years and may be recycled at the end of its life. |
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I meant to say one like we HAD till today...One that you can supposedly replace the bladder... Thanks Jean |
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Bus driver do you mean units like I've seen with no bladders at all ??? I believe they are galvnized Or do you mean pressure tank units that have non replaceable bladders? just curious thanks Jean |
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"I have three tanks with integral (non-replaceable) bladder --". Put emphasis on the WITH and it will be clear. |
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A GIRLFRIEND split with me recently because I could not last long enough when we had sex and she wasn't satisfied.
Part of the problem may be that I am Asian but prefer blonde girls – and in my country of Malaysia you seldom find a blonde girl. Maybe that is why I cannot perform well sexually, as I am not happy having an Asian partner.


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September 30, 2008, 7:03 AM
By Luke Dittrich
Andrew Rae
The Merus founders can get pitch requests from a dozen entrepreneurs a week, and the few meetings they choose to set up usually take place in a glass-walled conference room, around a shellacked, Swedish-looking table made from blond- and burgundy-colored wood. A little shelf at one end of the room contains bottles of water; a few abstract, African-looking sculptures; and a vase of fresh, exotic flowers. The fancy conference room belongs not to Merus but to Regis, a wealth-management company. The decisions of Ullah, Dempsey, and Hsing to leave their jobs--decisions made with the knowledge that they were sacrificing combined stock options running well into the seven figures--were spurred in part by Regis's guarantee of a $5 million investment and a deal on office space. Unlike some other Xooglers investing in ex-Google start-ups--people like Aydin Senkut, Google's former international sales manager, who organizes occasional Xoogler get-togethers and cashed out of Google with tens of millions--the Merus guys are not stratospherically wealthy, at least not by Silicon Valley standards. They've got money--the name Merus, which means "pure" in Latin, was inspired by a favorite cabernet from Hsing's wine collection--but they still need to work for a living. (Senkut owns a Lamborghini; Ullah drives a Volvo wagon.) Rather, the value of their stints at Google is not how much money they left with but whom they worked alongside. Their particular jobs required them to get to know people from every area of the company. Those contacts, and the knowledge base that came with it, is what they hope they can now spin into gold.
In the borrowed conference room this afternoon, Elad Gil sits behind a black ThinkPad laptop, queuing up a PowerPoint slide that is being projected at the far end of the room. Gil and Othman Laraki, who's sitting next to him, are both newly minted Xooglers and have come to present details on a company they've dreamed up. When they were at Google, Gil played a prominent role in the development of the company's mobile infrastructure and Laraki worked on collaborations with the Mozilla Firefox browser. The slide onscreen charts the various stages they see their start-up growing through over the next year and a half, if they receive the low seven figures in funding they're looking for.
Ullah and Dempsey used to work with a guy named David Friedberg in Google's corporate-development office. He left Google a year before they did, and his departure added fire to their plans for Merus.
"We had a hypothesis that these were the kinds of things that were going to happen," Ullah says. "You know: Very smart guy--he likes Google, but he has this idea that doesn't fit the franchise."
Had Merus existed when Friedberg was looking for seed capital, the firm likely would have been happy to provide it to him. As it was, Ullah invested $50,000 of his own money in Friedberg's company, WeatherBill.
On a recent afternoon at his office, Friedberg, twenty-eight, wearing jeans, a black T-shirt, and a zip-up jacket that looks like a Members Only but isn't, explains how he got the idea for WeatherBill: He used to live in San Francisco's Embarcadero district, down by the water, near a bike-rental place called the Bike Hut. He'd drive by the Bike Hut all the time, and he started to notice that whenever it rained a lot, they'd just pull in the bikes, lower the shutters, and close shop--nobody wants to rent a bike on a rainy day.
"I thought, Well, that's such a shitty business," Friedberg recalls. "Every week, the guy's gonna make--or lose--money based on how much it rains."
And then Friedberg started to notice all sorts of other businesses with similar problems: Movie theaters full on rainy days, empty on sunny ones. The bar down the street, with its big outdoor patio, just the opposite. So he did some research.
The Department of Commerce estimates unpredictable weather has the potential to negatively affect up to $4 trillion worth of business in the U. S. every year, or about one third of the entire GDP. Sixty percent of weather-related financial losses are due to relatively small weather events, and there's often nothing businesses can do to protect themselves. "It's this huge problem that no one does anything about," says Friedberg. So he, together with fellow former Googler Siraj Khaliq, founded WeatherBill.
The company crunches large amounts of historical and forecasting data with proprietary algorithms in order to determine the best-guess probability that virtually any weather-related scenario will take place, and then sells risk-hedging contracts based on those probabilities. For example, a ski resort in Vermont might be able to buy a contract from WeatherBill for, say, $80,000 that would pay out $1 million (up to $10 million) for every degree above freezing that the average temperature strays during the upcoming ski season. WeatherBill sells its own risk to reinsurers, which theoretically means it could survive the sort of cataclysmic Katrina-level payouts that a bad string of weather events might bring. In fact, Friedberg himself is bullish on global warming and its resulting tempests. "Extreme weather is kind of ridiculously going off the charts right now. Stuff that used to be 10 percent likely is now 30 percent likely. The good thing for us is that it means people are more cognizant of [these extremes], and we get more customers. It's the fact that citrus farmers got frozen out and wiped out [last year] that we got the calls [this year]."
Near where I'm meeting with Friedberg, an intern from Berkeley is working on a WeatherBill white paper that identifies the Third World countries whose economies are most dependent on weather. Meanwhile, a WeatherBill sales manager is trying to get in touch with a minor league ball club, the Charleston RiverDogs, that stands to lose at least $50,000 if its big Fourth of July event is rained out. Meanwhile, automatically, revenue pours in from Priceline, which is currently offering a Sunshine Guarantee that offers full reimbursements to any customers whose Priceline-booked vacations are affected by a prespecified amount of rain. Priceline is covering all of its risks with WeatherBill, purchasing individually tailored contracts for every vacation package. Friedberg shows me, on his laptop screen, the latest batch. Since a high contract price indicates a high probability of rain, it's a good bet there will soon be a lot of wet, happy vacationers in Vancouver.
The firm has invested almost $13 million so far: $5 million in Airline Intelligence Systems, which uses proprietary algorithms to improve airline flight scheduling and routing efficiency; $1 million in DeviceVM, creator of Splashtop, a product that enables a PC to sprint from powered off to functional in seconds; $550,000 in TheStoreBook, which gives small, unwired businesses the means to advertise daily specials online; $3.5 million in Debix, which helps protect its customers from identity theft; $2 million in Adroll, which connects small networks of complementary Web sites and allows them to leverage their combined size to sell advertising space; and $350,000 in Chai Labs, which they won't say much about at all.
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By Aurora Flores TAC Legislative Staff
SB 1505 by Sen. Carlos Uresti (D-San Antonio), which is identical to HB 889 by Rep. Tryon Lewis (R-Odessa) and relates to the valuation of oil and gas properties, is on its way to the governor. If signed into law, this legislation will replace the revenue-estimating comptroller's forecast with a market-based methodology to more accurately value properties.
Uresti and Lewis both introduced legislation this session to correct the inherent undervaluation of oil and gas and utilize market-based methodology. The legislators conducted weeks of workgroup meetings with industry, appraisal and county representation. County officials also testified in the House Ways & Means and the Senate Finance committees, after which the bills were voted favorably from committee and continued through the legislative process. While SB 1505 does not meet all of the counties' concerns, the legislation is a definite improvement over the present statute.
Counties with oil/gas properties should write the governor and respectfully request that he sign the bill in order to fairly value these properties for ad valorem tax purposes. His address is:
The Honorable Rick Perry Governor of Texas PO Box 12428 Austin, TX 78711
Bill Background In 1993, the Tax Code (Sec 23.175), was amended to require that the formula for the valuation of oil and gas properties include the average price of oil and gas for the past year, causing appraisal values to lag behind recent market results and allowing for severe changes in annual appraisals.
In 2007, HB 2982, (80R), altered section 23.175 of the Tax Code to add a forward looking component, the Comptroller of Public Accounts' (CPA) estimate of the price of oil and gas for the upcoming year. The change requires appraisers to use forecasted and average historical prices published by the CPA for determining future product values when appraising oil and gas properties — whether prices are going up or down.
At that time, the explanation given was that the bill's changes would level the wide variations caused by the use of the past year's prices with no significant effect on local or state revenues. After the bill became law, the CPA determined that HB 2982 (80R) required the use of the state severance tax revenue estimate methodology. In 2008 and 2009, the CPA's conservative estimates severely underestimated the actual price of crude oil resulting in a shift of the tax burden to other property owners and a loss of revenue to the state and local governments. The CPA determined that legislative changes would be necessary to change the formula enacted from the 80th Session.
During the interim, both the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Ways & Means studied the undervaluation issue and heard from all interested parties. In the interim report, Senate Finance recommended that the Legislature eliminate the requirement that the forecasts be based on revenue estimating methodology to enable the CPA's office to better focus on incorporating market value methodology to its estimates.
Current Bill Language During the past three years, the CPA produced an estimated forecast that has averaged approximately 35 percent below the actual market price. This resulted in the undervaluation of those properties and forced counties to either shift this tax burden to other taxpayers by increasing the tax rate or reduce their budgets and services.
The CPA office and the revenue estimating methodology have been removed from the bill language. The enrolled legislation will use the price estimated for the coming year in the EIA (US Energy Information Administration) Annual Energy Outlook at the full value to determine the price adjustment for the first year. This "price adjustment" will be calculated by the chief appraiser, using the forecasted price for current calendar year and dividing by the estimated price for oil for the previous calendar year. The escalation rate for future years is based on the Producer Price Index. Escalation of the price is capped after year six.
From analyses by Texas Association of Counties and appraisal experts, an immediate benefit to counties with oil-producing properties is expected if this bill becomes law. For counties with gas-producing properties, a benefit is expected when the market recovers from its present depressed condition.
TAC staff will continue to monitor the progress of SB 1505 as it makes its way to the governor's desk for his approval. For more information on this article, please contact Aurora Flores at or (800) 456-0519.


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8 "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." | 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." |
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Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Monthly Wallpaper - January 2013 - 2012: The Year in Film
As 2012 comes to a close, it is time to look back on the year in film, and what better way then with the Movie Dearest calendar wallpaper for next month!
Several of 2012's most talked about movies make up the collage, so you can spend all of January 2013 gazing at the likes of Abe, Bilbo, Cosette, Erik & Paul, Hitch, Hushpuppy, James, Merida, Magic Mike and Richard Parker. What a way to start off a new year!
Just click on the picture above to enlarge it to its 1024 x 768 size, then right click your mouse and select "Set as Background", and you're all set. If you want, you can also save it to your computer and set it up from there, or modify the size in your own photo-editing program if needed.
Calendar Wallpaper,
James Bond,
Keep the Lights On,
Les Miserables,
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January 2013 - 2012: The Year in Film:
The Avengers
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Keep the Lights On
Life of Pi
Magic Mike
Les Misérables
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
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Actors Al Pacino, Robert Loggia, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Don Rickles & Kevin Pollak
Director Brian De Palma & Martin Scorsese
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Scarface (Dir. Brian De Palma, 1983): In the spring of 1980, the port at Mariel Harbour was opened, and thousands set sail for the United States. They came in search of the American Dream. One of them found it on the sun-washed avenues of Miami... wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams. He was Tony Montana. The world will remember him by another name - Scarface!
Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana, one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film, in this gripping crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title.
Casino (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1995): Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice...
Carlito's Way (Dir. Brian De Palma, 1993): Al Pacino is an ex-druglord fighting to escape his violent, treacherous past in his crime-action tour de force from acclaimed director Brian DePalma.
Sprung from prison on a legal technicality by his cocaine-addled attorney (Sean Penn), former drug kingpin Carlito Brigante (Pacino) stuns the local underworld when he vows to go straight. Taking a job managing a glitzy, low-life nightclub, he tracks down his onetime girlfriend (Penelope Ann Miller) and rekindles their romance, promising he's changed for good. But Carlito's dream of going legitimate is undermined at every turn by murderous former cronies and even deadlier young thugs out to make a name for themselves. Ultimately, however, his most dangerous enemy is himself. Despite good intentions, Carlito's misguided loyalties and an outmoded code of "honour" will plunge him into a savage life-or-death battle against the relentless forces that refuse to let him go.


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Over the last couple of months I have been working in a new role here at Vertical Leap. Having been here for just over two years now and after working on numerous campaigns across many different sectors. The new role I took on involved dealing with sites that have either had a Google penalty applied to them, or had been hit by one of the Google algorithms such as Penguin or Panda.
Changing my type of daily work from more generic SEO tasks to dealing with these specific types of campaigns has been a bit of a baptism of fire for me. I have moved away from the day-to-day tasks of working on a SEO campaign and managing the various aspects of a campaign, to spending my working day deep in spreadsheets reviewing thousands of backlinks to customers' sites and much more.
This got me thinking about the role in general and what I have turned into. Today I finally realised that I have become very similar to a much loved Channel 4 TV personality; none other than Phil Harding from Time Team!
How did I reach this conclusion? Well, he normally spends his working day in a muddy trench in a farmer's field, digging down through layers and layers of soil to discover whether there are some ancient ruins (or something at least of interest) under all the mud. As he digs his way down, he sometimes finds items from different periods in history, whether that be Victorian, Roman or anything in-between.
What is the similarity to me you ask? Well, as I dig my way through spreadsheets of backlinks to customers' websites on older sites, it's effectively an archaeological dig that I am doing. In my trench (spreadsheet) I can see all the different types of links built – and boy do I see some things that hurt my eyes!
I should add that much of this is stuff we have not built as an agency. As SEO has evolved over the years and Google has gradually changed its guidelines on linking tactics, methods have adapted to stay in compliance. However, in many cases, customers or their previous SEOs have neglected to clean-up the links that were non-compliant to the guidelines as they have changed over time. Perhaps we can now say that reciprocal links pages are like stone-age forts and low quality SEO directories are perhaps Roman sewage systems? Either way, it is an interesting voyage in to the history of a website and that is effectively SEO archaeology that I am unearthing through the review process.
Once I finished thinking about who I was in terms of my SEO TV personality (albeit rather tenuously), I started to think about who else on my team has a TV personality to match their role or their SEO style. I am not going to be popular for this, but who cares, I'm going on holiday for a couple of weeks soon!
We work in two person teams here at Vertical Leap. As I work on penalties and algorithms, I also have a colleague that works alongside me on this. Emily works on sites that have been specifically hit by Google Panda. How am I going to make a tenuous link on this you wonder?
Well, it is quite easy really. Panda issues stem from the quality of a site, covering aspects such as usability, content quality, design and navigation. So, on that basis, I have decided that Emily is Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. She spends much of her day reviewing customers sites and doing some serious makeover work on them. Where good old Lawrence might take exception with someones curtains or wallpaper, Emily will take exception to weak and thin content. Where Lawrence wants to remove some clutter from the hallway, Emily will be looking for duplicate content. Where Lawrence, with his rather flamboyant style, decides a room needs more prominent features, Emily will be looking for pages on a site that need to more engaging or helpful content.
So, who else can I pick on? There are nearly 50 of us in this office…
Let's talk about David Colgate, who sits on the same pod as me. He is a bit more of an interesting television beast, so I found this a little harder to figure out. But now, after much thought, I think I have nailed it. By day, Dave is actually Neil Buchannan from Art Attack
and by night David becomes Dame Edna Everage – or even Dave Edna Everage!
How did I arrive at this conclusion? Well, quite a few people in the SEO community will have seen Daves talents. If you are an attendee of BrightonSEO, you may have stumbled across his amazing Sketchnotes, which is the Art Attack connection. Then, if you are wondering about Dame/Dave Edna Everage, you will have needed to have attended SotonDigital last year, where David presented in a skirt!!
If you don't trust me on this, a simple Google search for "Dave Colgate skirt" yields the evidence you require!!
Some might say this blog post was a lame attempt at some ego-baiting just for SEO purposes. Others will see how the role of SEO is a varied one. I am stopping here on this one as I reckon I have months and months of great content ideas for future blog posts on the rest of our growing team!
P.S. If you are one of the celebrities mentioned above, please feel free to link to this blog, but just keep the anchor text branded please!


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Life by the Numbers, Devlin's companion book to the PBS series of the same name, is heavily illustrated and soothingly low on equations. But as he says, wanting mathematics without abstract notation "is rather like saying that Shakespeare would be much easier to understand if it were written in simpler language."
The Language of Mathematics is Devlin's second iteration of the approach he used in Mathematics: The Science of Patterns. It covers all the same ground (and uses many of the same words) as the latter, but with fewer glossy pictures, sidebars, and references. Devlin has also added chapters on statistics and on mathematical patterns in nature. --Mary Ellen Curtin


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This article appeared in the Winter 2013 issue of LINKS.
THE CONSENSUS number-one golf resort in the country, Bandon Dunes is at the top of just about every golfer's bucket list. But is it as good as it's cracked upto be? I decided to see for myself and talked a few golf buddies into joining meon a four-day, three-night excursion.
Naturally, I encountered problems before my first flight pulled away from the gate.When thunderstorms wrought havoc with departures and arrivals in the Southeast, I missed my connecting flight from Portland, Oregon, to North Bend. That meant renting a car and driving four-plus hours in the hope of catching some of our first round, a 3:30 tee time on the original course, Bandon Dunes. I made it for the last six holes.
The fact that the golf shop charged me to play added to my day-one disappointment but that would be the last and only time I was irritated on the trip. Afterward, we ate at nearby McKee's Pub, where I had to try the vaunted Grandma's Meatloaf. It was a little spicy for my tastes but the prices were very reasonable and the tavern ambience pitch perfect.
Our accommodations at the Grove Cottages were a bit pricey at $1,800 a night, but the woodsy setting couldn't be more charming and each of the four bedrooms has a king bed and full bath. That said, next time I'd go for the least expensive option—$205 a night at The Lodge in-season (May 1–October 28)—because I spent so little time in the room.
Our first full day was our only 36-holer, an 8:10 tee time on Pine Valley-esque Bandon Trails, then 2 p.m. on toprated Pacific Dunes, where our $230 green fee for round two was cut in half (third rounds are free—if you're still able to stand). Since we were all in our 50s with the attendant physical ailments, we wondered if we'd manage walking more than 18 holes a day, but we did just fine.
The end to this perfect day was playing poker and smoking cigars in the Bunker Bar, which is located downstairs at the Lodge. Make no mistake: Bandon Dunes is one giant man cave. There is absolutely nothing for non-golfers to do. The next day we combined the two newest courses, open, fast-running Old Macdonald and the gorgeous new 13-hole par-three layout, Bandon Preserve. Building a short course was a brilliant idea for aging Boomers to get in more golf without actually having to walk another 18.
Caddies aren't mandatory but they'rewell worth it, even at $100 a bag (that includes tip). You typically get the same one for the whole stay so you develop a rapport and he (or she) gets to know your game, which is abig help.
We finished our trip with a return to the resort's namesake layout, with its seven holes on the ocean. As on all the courses, the grass was a bit thin resulting in tight lies, but it's a small price to pay for the only true links golf experience in the States.
Travel disruptions notwithstanding, it's not often in life that your expectations are actually exceeded. Is it possible to have something on your bucket list twice?


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Theater Review: Have we lost our French heritage?Jim Lowe / Staff photo
Abby Paige attempts to make her mothers tourtiere in Piecework: When We Were French.MONTPELIER There was a time, not so long ago, that the French language was heard regularly around central Vermont. Abby Paige celebrates that heritage in her entertaining and revealing one-woman show, Piecework: When We Were French, part of Lost Nation Theaters Winterfest 2013.
Opening and closing the show as the housekeeper at the rectory of St. Josephs felt just so authentic for those of us who grew up in Montpelier when it was half Catholic (French and Irish, with a smattering of Italian and Spanish). Paiges banter as the veteran housekeeper aroused so many memories of the areas ethnic-laden past most authentically.
Created in 2009 for Burlingtons Lake Champlain 400 festival and first presented by Lost Nation, this 70-minute series of vignettes celebrates Vermonts deep French heritage with both sadness and humor. Thursdays performance at City Hall Arts Center, though not hugely different from 2010, proved more cohesive and compelling.
In short the show is celebratory, entertaining and deeply touching.
Paige, a veteran actress, uses her own life as a jumping-off point. Burlington-bred in a French-Canadian family she had virtually lost touch with her French heritage, unable to speak the language save for some high school efforts. She decided to do something about it this show.
The vignettes range from the aforementioned housekeeper to a teen girl to a schoolteacher to a woman valiantly attempting to make her mothers tourtiere, a delicious French-Canadian meat pie. Interspersed, adding authenticity, were bits of recordings from Paiges many interviews with French-Canadians.
The teen girl proved most entertaining as well as illuminating as she explained her feelings about her somewhat illusive French heritage. Her priceless descriptions of family trips to Quebec painted a beautiful and authentic picture of the joys of rural French-Canadian life. And it was funny.
Not so funny was the discrimination the French settlers found when moving to Vermont for the innocent reason of supporting their families. This was effectively related by a schoolteacher who also showed how the French arrived earlier than the English and were not truly colonizers.
All this sounds as if this one-woman show was academic, but it was anything but. It was an affectionate portrait of a now-dying culture that was once a huge part of Vermont life. And it was also terribly funny.
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My grandson's birthday party is this weekend, and I asked my DIL if she was planning to buy his cake, or if she expected me to make it again this year. In true fashion for my DIL, she said, "Oh, I think it would be easier for you to make it." (Last year they told me they were going to buy it, then, at the last minute, said they needed me to make it). So, I'm making it again.
Grandson wants a vanilla cake. His other Grandma has just been diagnosed with Celiac's disease, and one of the guests is allergic to peanuts, and they avoid all nuts, so almond flour is out. I know there are delicious flourless chocolate cakes out there, but since he's asked for a vanilla cake, which I've never heard of, the chocolate cake is out. DIL said I don't have to worry about gluten free, as her mother wouldn't want me to make one. She doesn't like gluten free products. But, I doubt she's had a gluten free cake from scratch, either. But, I don't make cakes very often, and have never worked with gluten free flour, so this cake could reinforce her experience of not liking gluten free products! Any recipes or ideas? I don't have time to order anything ffrom King Arthur, but I did call around, and one store has Bob's Red Mill GF flour. Here's a recipe from King Arthur Flour's website for yellow cake, which could probably pass as a vanilla cake to a 5 year old. It got mixed reviews. Gluten-Free Yellow Cake This cake's fabulous texture will make any cake lover smile. Double the ingredients for a classic two-layer birthday cake. Note: you must use a stand mixer or electric hand mixer to prepare the batter for this cake; mixing by hand doesn't do a thorough enough job.
1 1/2 cups King Arthur Gluten-Free Multi-Purpose Flour or brown rice flour blend*
I don't know enough to know if it's a good recipe or not, other than I trust King Arthur Flour. Sally |
Here is a link that might be useful: King Arthur Flour yellow cake recipe
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There's only one good answer to your question.....2 cakes....one vanilla with flour and the other flourless chocolate without nuts. Linda c |
There are any number of gluten-free mixes available these days - even our Wal-Mart has a whole isle of GF mixes and food items - so take a look at a health food store or "special foods" sections at stores. If you can locate some coconut flour (check Gluten-Free foods section or Bob's Red Mill items), there are lots of cake recipes you can make with it. I use a lot of coconut flour because it's not only GF, but also low-carb. You will find a lot of GF recipes at the link below using coconut flour. I'd also suggest the book "Cooking with Coconut Flour" by Bruce Fife, N.D. for your future GF baking ideas. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Coconut Flour Recipes
That would be good, except DIL is allergic to coconut. I may just go ahead and do what Linda suggested. I don't want to make something no one would like, and the flourless chocolate cakes look quite good. I plan to go to one of our fancy grocery stores tonight. I'll see what they have in the way of gluten free flours and mixes. Thanks for the help, as always. You all come through for me every time. Sally |
There is Williams Sonoma Cup4Cup, developed by Lena Kwak and Thomas Keller (French Laundry). You are supposed to be able to use it just as you would any ordinary flour (except you can't make yeast breads with it). Also, I've bought Betty Crocker's gluten-free cake mix and didn't find it to be noticeably different from regular cake mix. |
- Posted by lpinkmountain (My Page) on Fri, May 18, 12 at 19:17
Boston creme pie. It's got cake, it's got chocolate, and it's got pudding, which is gluten free! |
It would be a crying shame to compromise the birthday boy's wishes on his birthday just because someone else has diet issues! I made a deal with some people at the picnic last year: You can't eat it? DON'T! And I won't shove it down your throat. Nobody goes out of their way to make sure that the offerings are ALL to MY tastes! Sometimes you pass on things by choice or need but this politically correct world has conditioned us to feel guilty that some of us can eat peanuts and flour products. I suggested that at the potlucks we go to that the celiacs bring celiac-friendly foods, the nut allergic bring their stuff and so on. Pretty simple really. And if they get sick, they have themselves to blame but there's always other options for them too but I shouldn't be compelled to worry about everyone else's problems nor them required to worry about mine. (I like peanut butter cookies, make great ones and like to share them!) So I say make the boy's vanilla cake (one of my favorites) and have fruit for the others. Simple solution. Any complaints tell them they'll get to pick the cake on their birthday. Wish the lad a happy birthday! :) |
Here's my go to Gluten free cake recipe. You can add extra vanilla or some vanilla bean to it for more vanilla flavor. Ingredients: Directions: 2. Mix the white rice flour, tapioca flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder and xanthan gum together and set aside. 3. Mix the eggs, sugar, and mayonnaise until fluffy. Add the flour mixture, milk and vanilla and mix well. Spread batter into the prepared pans. 4. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 25 minutes. Cakes are done when they spring back when lightly touched or when a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Let cool completely then frost, if desired. Hope that helps. I usually flavor it with orange or lemon zest - but it would be good with vanilla bean. Bonnie |
Thanks again, everyone, for your input. I appreciate the recipe, too. I almost bought xanthum gum last night when I was at the store, since that recipe I saw called for it, but passed on it due to the price, $10.99. I went ahead and bought the Bob Red Mills AP gluten free flour, but didn't notice until it was too late that according to it's directions, xanthum gum is pretty much a requirement when using gluten free. I see that Bonnie's recipe calls for xanthum gum, too. I'll see if I can find a smaller or cheaper package of xanthum gum somewhere for future use, but for now, I'm going to not worry about it any more. I'm going to make my grandson's cake tonight after work, and if I feel up to it, make a flourless chocolate cake, too. My DIL's mother didn't request a special cake, I just wanted to be able to include her. It was something I wanted to do for her, not because she was being demanding - quite the opposite. She's a very sweet lady. Cynic, do you have a go to recipe for vanilla cake, since it's one of your favorites? Or, is yellow cake the same thing as vanilla cake? Sally |
I have made this white cake for years.....but not FOR years if you get what I mean....what I mean was that it was an old favorite when I baked birthday cakes more often. ICE CREAM CAKE Here's what I have for a flourless chocolate cake.....came from this forum many years ago... It is kind of like a cake textured hot fudge sauce served in slices. VERY rich |
Thanks, Linda. I've copied and pasted your cake recipes. I really appreciate your help. Sally |
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[O1] Initiation of antithyroid drug therapy for the treatment of GD in children
Methimazole should be used in virtually every child who is treated with antithyroid drug therapy. 1/++0
Technical remarks: MMI comes in 5 or 10mg tablets and can be given once daily, even in patients with severe hyperthyroidism. Although many practitioners give MMI in divided doses, data in adults do not support a need for such and show that compliance with once-daily MMI therapy is superior to multiple daily doses of PTU (83% vs. 53%) (196). The MMI dose typically used is 0.2–0.5 mg/kg daily, with a range from 0.1–1.0 mg/kg daily (197–204). One approach is to prescribe the following whole tablet or quarter to half-tablet doses: infants, 1.25 mg/day; 1–5 years, 2.5–5.0 mg/day; 5–10 years, 5– 10 mg/day; and 10–18 years, 10–20 mg/day. With severe clinical or biochemical hyperthyroidism, doses that are 50%– 100% higher than the above can be used.
When thyroid hormone levels normalize, MMI doses can be reduced by 50% or more to maintain a euthyroid state (205). Alternatively, some physicians elect not to reduce the MMI dose and add levothyroxine to make the patient euthyroid, a practice referred to as "block and replace." However, because meta-analyses suggest a higher prevalence of adverse events using block-and-replace regimens than dose titration (81,84,206), and there may be dose-related complications associated with MMI (207), we suggest that this practice in general be avoided.
Pediatric patients and their caretakers should be informed of side effects of antithyroid drugs and the necessity of stopping the medication immediately and informing their physician if they develop pruritic rash, jaundice, acolic stools or dark urine, arthralgias, abdominal pain, nausea, fatigue, fever, or pharyngitis. 1/+00 - RECOMMENDATION 53
Prior to initiating antithyroid drug therapy, we suggest that pediatric patients have, as a baseline, complete blood cell count, including white blood cell count with differential, and a liver profile including bilirubin, transaminases, and alkaline phosphatase. 2/+00
PTU is associated with an unacceptable risk of hepatotoxicity in children, with a risk of liver failure of 1 in 2000–4000 children taking the medication (208–210). PTU can cause fulminant hepatic necrosis that may be fatal; liver transplantation has been necessary in some patients taking PTU (91). It is for this reason that the FDA recently issued a safety alert regarding the use of PTU, noting that 32 (22 adult and 10 pediatric) cases of serious liver injury have been associated with PTU use (92,93).
Because PTU-induced liver injury is of rapid onset and can be rapidly progressive, biochemical monitoring of liver function tests and transaminase levels is not expected to be useful in managing the hepatotoxicity risk in a PTU-treated patient (210). However, when neither prompt surgery nor 131I therapy are options, and ATD therapy is necessary in a patient who has developed a minor toxic reaction to MMI, a short course of PTU use can be considered. When surgery is the planned therapy and MMI cannot be administered, if the patient is not too thyrotoxic (and the hyperthyroidism is due to GD), the hyperthyroid state can be controlled before surgery with beta blockade and SSKI (50mg iodide/ drop) 3–7 drops (0.15–0.35 mL) by mouth, given three times a day for 10 days before surgery). Alternatively, if the surgery cannot be performed within a few weeks, a short course of PTU may be administered with the child closely monitored.
Technical remarks: It is advisable to provide information concerning side effects of ATDs to the patient in writing. This information can be found on the UpToDate Web site (99). See Technical remarks following Recommendation 15 for a discussion regarding the utility of obtaining complete blood count and liver profile before initiating methimazole therapy.
[O2] Symptomatic management of Graves' hyperthyroidism in children
Beta adrenergic blockade is recommended for children experiencing symptoms of hyperthyroidism, especially those with heart rates in excess of 100 beats per minute. 1/+00
In children in whom the diagnosis of Graves' hyperthyroidism is strongly suspected or confirmed, and who are showing significant symptoms, including, but not limited to, tachycardia, muscle weakness, tremor, or neuropsychological changes, treatment with atenolol, propranolol, or metoprolol leads to a decrease in heart rate and symptoms of GD. In those with reactive airway disease, cardioselective beta-blockers can be used (211), with the patient monitored for exacerbation of asthma.
[O3] Monitoring of children taking methimazole
After initiation of MMI therapy, thyroid function tests (estimated free T4, total T3, TSH) are obtained monthly at first, and then every 2–4 months. Depending on the severity of hyperthyroidism, it can take several months for elevated thyroid hormone levels to fall into the normal range on ATDs.
Antithyroid medication should be stopped immediately, and white blood counts measured in children who develop fever, arthralgias, mouth sores, pharyngitis, or malaise. 1/+00
Although MMI has a better overall safety profile than PTU, MMI is associated with minor adverse events that may affect up to 20% of children (212). MMI-related adverse events include allergic reactions, rashes, myalgias, and arthralgias (188,213,214), as well as hypothyroidism from overtreatment. Side effects to MMI usually occur within the first 6 months of starting therapy, but adverse events can occur later. In children, the risks of cholestasis and hepatocellular injury appear to be much less than that observed in adults.
Agranulocytosis has been reported in about 0.3% of adult patients taking MMI or PTU (81,207,215). Data on the prevalence of agranulocytosis in children are unavailable, but it is estimated to be very low. In adults, agranulocytosis is dose dependent with MMI, and rarely occurs at low doses (207,215). When agranulocytosis develops, 95% of the time it occurs in the first 100 days of therapy (207,215). The overall rate of side effects to ATDs (both major and minor) in children has been reported to be 6%–35% (214,216).
Technical remarks: While routine monitoring of white blood counts may occasionally detect early agranulocytosis, it is not recommended because of the rarity of the condition and its sudden onset, which is generally symptomatic. It is for this reason that measuring white cell counts during febrile illnesses and at the onset of pharyngitis has become the standard approach to monitoring.
[O4] Monitoring of children taking propylthiouracil
When propylthiouracil is used in children, the medication should be stopped immediately and liver function and hepatocellular integrity assessed in children who experience anorexia, pruritis, rash, jaundice, light-colored stool or dark urine, joint pain, right upper quadrant pain or abdominal bloating, nausea, or malaise. 1/+00
Technical remarks: PTU should be discontinued if transaminase levels (obtained in symptomatic patients or found incidentally) reach 2–3 times the upper limit of normal and fail to improve within a week with repeat testing. After discontinuing the drug, liver function tests (i.e., bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, and transaminases) should be monitored weekly until there is evidence of resolution. If there is no evidence of resolution, referral to a gastroenterologist or hepatologist is warranted.
[O5] Management of allergic reactions in children taking methimazole
Persistent minor cutaneous reactions to methimazole therapy in children should be managed by concurrent antihistamine treatment or cessation of the medication and changing to therapy with radioactive iodine or surgery. In the case of a serious allergic reaction to an antithyroid medication, prescribing the other antithyroid drug is not recommended. 1/+00
If children develop serious allergic reactions to MMI, radioactive iodine or surgery should be considered because the risks of PTU are viewed to be greater than the risks of radioactive iodine or surgery. PTU may be considered for short-term therapy in this setting to control hyperthyroidism in preparation for surgery.
[O6] Duration of methimazole therapy in children with GD
If methimazole is chosen as the first-line treatment for GD in children, it should be administered for 1–2 years and then discontinued, or the dose reduced, to assess whether the patient is in remission. 1/++0
The issue of how long ATDs should be used in children before considering either radioactive iodine or surgery is a topic of controversy and warrants further study. Prospective studies in adults show that if remission does not occur after 12–18 months of therapy, there is little chance of remission occurring with prolonged therapy (217). In children, when ATDs are used for 1–2 years, remission rates are generally 20%–30%, with remission defined as being euthyroid for 1 year after cessation of therapy (187,199,214,218,219). Retrospective studies have suggested that the chance of remission after 2 years of ATDs is low if the thyroid gland is large (more than 2.5 times normal size for age), the child is young (<12 years) (214,219) or not caucasian, serum TRAb levels are above normal on therapy, or FT4 estimates are substantially elevated at diagnosis (>4 ng/dL; 50 pmol/L) (214). One prospective study suggested that likelihood of remission could best be predicted by the initial response to antithyroid medication, with achievement of euthyroid state within 3 months, suggesting higher likelihood. Younger children and those with high initial thyroid hormone levels were also found to be less likely to achieve remission within 2 years in the prospective study (214).
Remission rates in children treated with ATDs for longer than 2 years have been reported. Although two decades ago it was suggested that 25% of children with GD go into remission with every 2 years of continued treatment (220), other studies of larger cohorts of pediatric patients with GD treated with ATDs for extended periods have not revealed similar remission rates (213,216,221). Of 120 pediatric patients treated with ATDs at one center, after 1 year of therapy with ATDs, 25% were in remission; after 2 years, 26%; after 4 years, 37%; and after 4–10 years, 15%. Importantly, 30% of the children who went into remission eventually relapsed (213). In another large cohort of 184 medically treated children, after 1 year of therapy with ATDs, 10% were in remission; after 2 years, 14%; after 3 years, 20%; and after 4 years, 23% (221).
Data also suggest that there are age-related differences in responsiveness to ATDs. In one study that compared outcomes of 32 prepubertal and 68 pubertal children, remission occurred in only 17% of prepubertal children treated 5.9 + 2.8 years, compared with 30% of pubertal individuals treated 2.8 + 1.1 years (219). In another report, the course of GD was compared in 7 prepubertal, 21 pubertal, and 12 postpubertal children (216). Remission was achieved in 10 patients (28%) with similar rates among the three groups, whereas the time to remission tended to be longer in the small proportion of prepubertal children (median age, 6 years) (216).
Persistence of GD in children is correlated with the persistence of TRAbs. A recent study found that TRAb levels normalized after 24 months in only 18% of pediatric patients on ATDs (204). There were no data showing that there was normalization of TRAb levels when patients were on ATDs for a longer time. Therefore, it appears that TRAb levels persist longer in children than in adults (204). Whereas monitoring of TRAb levels while on ATDs has been shown to be useful in adult patients for predicting the likelihood of remission or relapse of GD after stopping the medication (222), this approach has yet to be validated in children.
Pediatric patients with GD who are not in remission following 1–2 years of methimazole therapy should be considered for treatment with radioactive iodine or thyroidectomy. 1/+00
If after stopping MMI after 1 or 2 years' remission is not achieved, 131I or surgery should be considered, depending on the age of the child. Alternatively, practitioners can continue MMI for extended periods, as long as adverse drug effects do not occur and the hyperthyroid state is controlled. This approach can be used as a bridge to 131I therapy or surgery at a later age if remission does not occur. In selected situations where it might not be suitable or possible to proceed with 131I or surgery, low-dose MMI can be continued, although the likelihood of remission is not great.


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As a wholly owned subsidiary by PLN, ICON + initially focused on serving the needs of telecommunications networks PLN. Along with the industry's needs with a telecommunications network availability and reliability levels that are consistent, the company saw new opportunities to expand its business is to commercialize excess electricity capacity fiber-optic telecommunications network owned by PLN in Java and Bali.
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We would like to thank the following companies for supplying and supporting us with our test system hardware and equipment: Intel, ASUS, MSI, Western Digital and Corsair.
A little out of my normal area, the products to compare the TS-1079 Pro are really nonexistent here. Fortunately we'll be running the TS-1079 Pro and our 10 Seagate 1TB drives in a number of RAID modes including JBOD, 0, 5, 6 and 10 to see what kind of performance we're able to get out of the setup.
As always, we'll be using the Intel NASPT software to see the kind of performance we're able to get over our Gigabit network. There's not much more that needs to be said; you can get a bit of a run down on NASPT below or you can get straight into the benchmarks on the next page.
Let's get started!
Intel NASPT
The Intel NAS Performance Toolkit (NASPT) is a file system exerciser and analysis tool designed to enable direct measurement of home network attached storage (NAS) performance. Designed to emulate the behavior of an actual application, NASPT uses a set of real world workload traces gathered from typical digital home applications. Traces of high definition video playback and recording, office productivity applications, video rendering/content creation and more provide a broad range of different application behaviors.
With version 1.71 we are able to test with Windows 7 64-bit, but to keep the results accurate you must limit your system RAM to 2GB or less. With only a single 2GB stick of memory installed you can test with Windows 7 64-bit. Also, a new test was added, Office Productivity, but several tests were removed by default like 3 Source HD Video Playback and Backup / Restore.


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CAMFT Announces a New Member Benefit!
CAMFT has long recognized a need among our members for professional, comprehensive, and affordable websites for their practices. In addition to being listed on TherapistFinder.com, we encourage our members to create and maintain their own private website for the purpose of advertising and discussing their practice. To help meet our members' needs, CAMFT has partnered with TherapySites.com to provide a special offer for high quality websites and online marketing services made just for therapists. This new member benefit entitles CAMFT members to receive one month of free service (a $59 value).
Are you looking to get your practice found on the web? In a matter of minutes, you can have a professionally designed website for your practice! Don't want to pay extra for Search Engine Optimization, web-hosting, custom email, credit card processing and client management tools? It's all included at TherapySites for one low monthly fee.
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Oh the irony.
I have been feeling a little guilty that I just haven't had time to work on my next TheSociallyConsciousBlog article. Things have gotten so busy lately. I was looking around our TSCB website bank, searching for inspiration and riddled with guilt when I decided to randomly click on a link. Low and behold I should land on Sparked.com – the "easy, social, online volunteering for busy people."
I think it's a sign.
Of course I'm not the only one who is busy. 73% of Americans (and about the same for Canadians) don't volunteer and cite lack of time as the major reason. Sparked makes it easy for skilled professionals to help nonprofits get valuable work done, in a time frame that fits in with the demands of a full-time job. Sparked is labeled as the world's first micro-volunteering network.
What is micro-volunteering you ask?
Well one of Sparked's co-founders, Ben Rigby defines it using four characteristics.
Micro-volunteering is:
1. Convenient – It's volunteering that fits into your schedule. It is typically done (although not always) via the Internet using a computer or smart phone.
2. Bite-sized – Tasks are broken into the small parts, so that you can complete the task in whatever time you have available.
3. Crowd-sourced – The nonprofit that needs help asks a group of volunteers for assistance. Micro-volunteers who have time, interest and the skills and are likely unknown to the nonprofit, do the work.
4. Network-managed – The time demands of the nonprofit staffer are reduced by giving much of the project management and quality review as possible to the network of micro-volunteers.
Check out the following video about Sparked and how it works. There are some astonishing facts in there!
Eager to start building myself an Empire State Building, I signed up. (You'll have to watch the video to find out what I mean!)
I was asked about my skills and the causes that I am interested in so that I am matched with the challenges most suitable. Now when I log in at Sparked.com, my challenges are there waiting for me, thus saving me from having to search each time.
There are currently 3031 challenges on Sparked so you can be guaranteed that there is something that you will be able to help with and will be interested in. The challenges on my list include doing research for environmental organizations, critiquing an organizations website, helping an organization brainstorm blog article topics, helping to identify funding opportunities or aiding them in coming up with a new slogan. Through the tools built by The Extraordinaries, the group behind Sparked.com, nearly 300,000 people have micro-volunteered their time for nonprofits all over the world.
Need to read the benefits?
It's great for volunteers because volunteer tasks are designed to be small and speedy, you can fit volunteering in at the bus stop, over lunch or even while cheering on your kids at soccer.
It's digital volunteering!
Non-profit organizations can save money by having willing and able people help with the work. They can put the money they would be investing into activities that can be done by many micro-volunteers into other things that can help to drive their missions forward. Plus they expand their talent pool of knowledgeable and skilled contributors who can help them get the job done efficiently and effectively.
For businesses they have a corporate experience called "Sparked Enterprise" to help companies around the world engage their employees and have impact. More than 90% of Fortune 500 companies have employee volunteer programs.
Skilled employees are of course incredibly busy and most employees would be willing to participate in company service days once or twice a year, but not every week. And for millennial employees that have grown up on text messages, video games, and Twitter, the experience of cleaning up a park isn't all that attractive. Get your company involved and you have more than Saturday night to talk about around the water cooler.
This is an innovative initiative that is getting attention. Since 2009 they have received accolades in the form of numerous awards including:
- 2010 Rolex Young Laureates Award for Enterprise
- 2009 Ashoka Changemakers Award
- 2009 United Nations World Summit Youth Award
- 2009 FACT Social Justice Award
- 2009 Huffington Post Philanthropy Game Changer Award
Non-profits all around the world are using Sparked to get lots of their little jobs done. If you are a part of a non-profit that could use some help, consider signing up! It's free and you'll access plenty of talent professionals who want to help.
So if you think you can watch one less YouTube video or spend a little less time creeping the Facebook page of that hottie at your office, consider signing up on Sparked. You'll feel great about helping out some great organizations and those videos will still be on YouTube when you're done!
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Dying Moon
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Redirected from Izayoi Tenbu
Dying Moon (十六夜天舞 Izayoi Tenbu?, "Sixteenth Night Heaven Dance"[1]) is the extension to the mystic arte Final Fury used by Anise Tatlin.
[show]Arte Description and History
After performing Final Fury, Anise and Tokunaga will leap into the air and spiral downward onto the enemy, before glowing and carrying the enemy upwards again with a vicious uppercut. Before giving the final uppercut, Tokunaga's face appears as a cut-in instead of Anise's.
The move reappears again in Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 as Anise's only mystic arte. However, it is actually a combination of Satsugeki Bukouken and the arte itself.
Mothership Titles
Tales of the Abyss - Anise Tatlin (Dying Moon)
Escort Titles
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 - Anise Tatlin
Tales of VS. - Anise Tatlin
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 - Anise Tatlin
In-Game Descriptions and Battle Quotes
Tales of the Abyss
Japanese Quote: "続けていくよ~、十六夜天舞!"
Romanization: Tsuzukete iku yo~ Izayoi Tenbu!
English Incantation: "Not done yet! Dying Moon!"[2]
- ↑ Tales Series Translation FAQ by KusanagiLord02 GameFAQs (2006-11-05) Retrieved on 2008-07-24.
- ↑ Namco Tales of Forums - Tales of Incantations Tales Forums Retrieved on 2009-04-26.


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Opera Conference
Opera's second life: beyond the European context
12 to 14 June 2014
The global nature of today's opera world is as well established as its European ancestry. Originating in seventeenth-century Italy, opera quickly migrated to more distant lands as part of the European colonial project. Iconic figures such as Fitzcarraldo epitomize the passion with which this art form has been pursued at the farthest frontiers of European expansion. The aims of this conference are two-fold: (1) to explore the processes by which Western opera was disseminated and cultivated outside the main European centres; and (2) to examine offshoot traditions of opera from non-European countries. In doing so, we hope to interrogate and problematize notions of 'centre' and 'periphery' which still tacitly obtain in much discourse about opera, and to explore transnational operatic exchanges of all kinds.
Conference participants are invited to explore some of the following themes, although proposals
on other topics are also welcomed:
- Operatic activities in colonial societies
- Opera and post-colonial identities
- Cultural boomerangs: outside influences on the European mainstream
- Homogenisation and diversity in global opera production today
- Fusions and fissions in contemporary opera composition
- Australian opera history
- Opera at Europe's peripheries: from Iceland to Istanbul
- Opera touring companies: missionaries or multi-national outposts?
- The outsider's take: reimagining early opera from beyond Europe
Keynote Speakers
Simon Williams (UC Santa Barbara), Michael Halliwell (Sydney)
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to David Larkin (email@example.com) by Friday 20 September 2013. Notices of acceptance from the program committee will be sent by the middle of October 2013. Those selected for the program will be asked for firm commitments to attend by February 2014.
Program Committee
Michael Halliwell (Sydney), David Larkin (Sydney), Michael Ewans (Newcastle, NSW), Benjamin Walton (Cambridge)
Conference Location
The conference will take place at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, a faculty of the University of Sydney. Located in the heart of Sydney's CBD, beside the Botanic Gardens and within a few minutes' walk of Circular Quay and the city's famous Opera House, the Conservatorium's idyllic situation is matched by the calibre of its facilities.


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I'm not a coffee drinker, but I managed to collect a lot of NEW coffee packets from hotels I've stayed at.
Is it ok to sprinkle the unbrewed/new coffee grinds on my lawn as fertilizer/organic matter? Or do these coffee grinds have to be brewed first, and then spread the used coffee grinds on my lawn? thanks. |
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Coffee grounds seem to add to the soil helping to create sort of a compost. We had a spot in our yard that had coffee grounds added to it almost everyday for many years. Around it and on top of the pile it grew the best St. Augustine grass you ever saw and had many earthworms in it as well. Brewed or not? I doubt it makes much difference after a rain or two. |
That's an awful expensive fertilizer you're putting on a lawn. And if you're scattering the grounds at this time its rather wasteful cuz the grass isn't growing in the cold cold ground. Better to give it to a compost pile where the nitrogen will help break down the contents. Coffe grounds, like tea, gives to soil a bit of nitrogen which can help green up a lawn. But, really, with what little coffee is drank, its sole effectiveness is miniscule, like giving an elephant a thimbleful of what he likes. |
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I agree that you have only a miniscule effect. Coffee is one of the weakest protein sources. But I would still use it directly on the lawn now. You're not feeding the grass with it. You're feeding the soil microbes. If you compost it then you are feeding the compost microbes. |
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We're not the first to observe this: plug an Android tablet into a charge (or even better, a wireless charger or dock) and it becomes a pretty splendid digital photo frame, like the one you gave your Grandma three Christmases ago that's still in the box. Cloud.TV, the developer behind the excellent HD Widgets, would like to offer you a more powerful alternative. Meet Dayframe, a connected and continuously-updating photo frame app.
Earlier this week at a Google+ event, the company announced several important additions to Hangouts for Android. The updated version 2.0 comes with SMS support as well as location sharing, the ability to display animated GIF files, as well as the previously discovered in a teardown statuses and moods. AndroidPolice covered the rumor on October 7th following my initial Google+ report on October 4th.
The coveted update may take a while to reach you, considering it hasn't even started officially rolling yet.
You know what games don't have enough of these days? Censored cartoon nudity. Everyone knows it's true. Particularly in the running games category. Sure, we've got secret agents, gingers escaping death, and Pixar heroines, yet all of them are decidedly clothed. Streaker! attempts to remedy this problematic conundrum. In this adventure, you're the other man fleeing the scene from a sordid affair. Did we mention this probably isn't for kids?


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Quoted Text Don't go beyond your blood type's nutritional capabilities: If you are a type A and over consume animal products, the malabsorption that results from the incomplete breakdown of animal protein will serve as a very tempting source of amino acids for the intestinal bacteria. In gratitude for this free meal they will synthesize huge amounts of polyamines. If you are type O, watch the grain lectins; they will increase the production of polyamines by the cells of the intestines, pancreas and liver.
Quoted Text How to minimize internal polyamine production:Use natural food sources that inhibit ornithene de-carboxlase (ODC) the enzyme required for their synthesis:Foods than inhibit ODC include:· Walnuts· Curcumin (found in tumeric)· Green tea· Pomegranites· Guava· Broccoli leaves· Plantain· Black currant fruit· Bilberry· Elderberry· Grapes· Onion· Garlic· Dill· Tarragon· ChivesA handful of walnuts thrown into a salad twice daily does a pretty decent job of inhibiting excess ODC activity. Other ideas:Use natural, food derived carotenoids Unlike synthetic beta carotene, food derived carotenoids still look promising as anti-cancer agents. Two common carotenoids found in many yellow and red vegetables, xanthophylls and canthaxanthin, reduce polyamine levels in the oral cavity and GI tract. Watch the Vitamin E which seems to upregulate polyamine metabolism, probably by its direct effects on ODC. Interestingly, the ability of vitamin E to increase levels of polyamines may account for its more positive effects in Alzheimer's disease. Much of the nerve damage in Alzheimer's results from oxidative stress, or the generation of free-radicals in the brain. Vitamin E may help reverse this effect by raising brain polyamine levels to allow the nerve cells to survive the neurodegenerative process. Be wary of 'liver protective' herbs: Many herbs known for their protective effect on the liver, such as Milk Thistle or Schizandra, are in fact bioactive because they raise polyamines in the organ. In a case of liver disease , their might be rationale, in a malignancy or cancer prevention program, they are not.Avoid supplemental doses of the amino acids ornithine, cysteine and methionine. Ornithine and methionine are precursors of polyamines. Ornithine is the direct precursor to putrescine; methionine and cysteine are intermediates in the synthesis of polyamines. Several supplement studies have shown these amino acids promote growth hormone and insulin, perhaps through increased polyamine secretion. Naturopaths have known for many years that it was unwise to supplement cancer patients with methionine. One study even went so far as to suggest that the relatively low methionine levels in some phytochemicals such as soy, which may limit the synthesis of polyamines necessary for tumor growth In rats treated for twelve weeks with the chemical carcinogen azoxymethane (AOM), the administration of the methionine-supplemented diet stimulated the turnover rate of intestinal cells, indicating enhanced cell proliferation. Furthermore, a 2-fold increase in the number of tumors was observed in the colon. These effects were accompanied by the increased formation of the polyamines spermidine and spermine. The experimental data suggests that methionine promotes intestinal carcinogenesis. Insure adequate levels of dietary zinc Dietary zinc deficiency caused significantly higher plasma levels of the polyamines spermidine and spermine than in controls with adequate zinc levels. Conversely, copper, a nutrient often inimical to zinc, in high concentrations, has been shown to increase the levels of polyamines.
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Quoted from lkpetrolino Right now most of my fruit consumption is meyer lemon, apple and grapefruit and strawberries and blueberriesMy diet is probably 70% Veggies, 20% Protien, 5% fruit and 5% added fats like olive oil and avocado


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Aperture wider than Jordans quim!
Yeah so it was sunny and the only C41 120 i had knocking about in the fridge were a couple of rolls of Lomo RS so i decided to load it in my Bronica and test out some shallow depth and leave the aperture wide open to get some buttery bokeh. In conclusion it appears i need to practise a little of with the waist level finder and maybe veer away from such a shallow depth.
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Once installed the Kraken control software opens and exposes the four windows of the control panel. Here you can keep an eye on the internal coolant temperature and the core temperatures of the CPU below it. On the right you have access to a tachometer for both the fan speed at the top as well as the pump speed below it.
The graph tab allows you to see the fans speed over time with the top graph, and with the bottom graph you get a look at the CPU temperatures.
For setting the fan curve you have three options. First is to use the Extreme profile with a very aggressive fan curve. The second choice is to use the Silent profile I have shown here. The third is to select Custom and set the curve points wherever they fit best for your needs.
Setting up the lighting is simple. First check the box to make it active, select a color with the RGB scales, and verify that color with the block just below them. There are also effects you can add like thermally changing the lights, setting the color fade as it heats up, as in which colors, and you can set up a strobe on the lighting as well.
The last tab allows you to change the temperature scale, start the app minimized, allow it to auto-start with the OS, or enable the statistics. While you can select a language for this software, the last section offered covers the notifications and where they are to beep for a warning.