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On Oct. 27, students and faculty at Kittrell Job Corps Center were among the 2 million people nationwide participating simultaneously in Make A Difference Day activities.
Activities at the center took place Oct. 22-27, which included the remolding of a home for a needy family through Rebuilding Hope; beautifying the lawn and garden at the Area Christians Together in Service Soup Kitchen; and mentoring Head start kids at Franklin-Vance-Warren Opportunity and Vance County Learning Center. They also collected community donations and organized the food pantry.
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Make a Difference Day takes place the fourth Saturday of each October. Created by USA Weekend Magazine in 1992, it has grown into the largest community service effort in the nation.
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The third Bloomberg Dealmakers will convene the biggest players in private equity and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to look at deal flow, leveraged buyouts (LBO) and initial public offering (IPO) activity, as the U.S. presidential election approaches. The Summit will be held Thursday, October 25, at The Pershing Square Signature Center in New York City.
Speakers will provide their perspective on the industry from a sector-specific view, exploring healthcare, technology and sports. The Summit will also look at the climate for distressed investing and explore what impact regulatory changes have had on investment opportunities.
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"Private equity and M&A activity are 30 percent lower this year than projected, and many factors are impacting this dip," said Robert Bierman, head of Bloomberg LINK. "At this critical time, those attending the Summit will hear from key industry players, who will offer their insight on how to succeed in this environment and opportunities for investment."
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Jacqueline Laurita is New Jersey's much-needed "peacemaking" Housewife. Read on for more about the former cosmetologist who knows that she lives a very fortunate life.
1. Jacqueline was born on April 26, 1970.
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3. Though she has had several miscarriages and pregnancy scares, she is mother to three children: sons Christopher (born in 2002) and Nicholas (born in 2009), both from her current marriage to Chris Laurita, and daughter Ashlee Holmes (born in 1990), from her first marriage.
4. Jacqueline often finds herself in the middle of conflicts with her sister-in-laws, Caroline and Dina Manzo.
5. Before giving up her career to become a full-time mom, she worked as a cosmetologist in Las Vegas.
6. Her husband Chris owns a wholesale clothing business.
7. She enjoys cooking, working out, going to the spa, and spending time with her girlfriends.
8. Jacqueline is no longer friends with Danielle Staub. After her daughter Ashlee pulled Danielle's hair in Season 1. Danielle responded by filing a lawsuit against Jacqueline's daughter. Very mature on both counts.
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Carlsberg subsidiary Baltic Beverages Holding Aktiebolag has bought out the final few independent Baltika shareholders increasing its stake in the company from 96.88% to 100%.
Baltika will now be fully integrated into the Carlsberg Group and the facilities of the Russian company will be used to meet the regional needs of the Group.
The Russian company has 11 breweries in 9 Russian regions and one in Azerbaijan.
In February Carlsberg said it intended to gradually buy out Baltika in full, having estimated then its expenses to increase the stake to 100% at $1.15bn. This was followed in May by an offer of a voluntary buyout at 1,550 roubles a share, which resulted in the stake increase to 96.88%. After that, the process of compulsory buy-out was initiated.
Baltika has a 37.4% share in the Russian market, according to the data from Nielsen consumer research. The Russian company is the leading exporter of Russian beer, selling the drink to more than 75 countries.
Carlsberg, that owns such brands as Tuborg and Holsten, increased its consolidated net profit 63% year on year in 2Q 2012 – to €450mn. At that moment the company attributed better financials to improvement in the Russian market.


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James Franco: Sean Penn wanted more gay sex in Harvey Milk film 2
10:57 PM — Hollywood star Sean Penn urged the writers of the Harvey Milk biopic Milk to include more gay sex scenes, says co-star James Franco. Penn plays Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected official, in the film.
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6:58 PM — An LGBT civil rights group has urged the new President of the United States to tackle inequalities faced by people living with HIV and AIDS.
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5:52 PM — Today saw a moment of healing for the Democratic party when US President-elect Barack Obama formally nominated Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State.
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Requip contains the active ingredient ropinirole, which is used to control tremors associated with Parkinson's Disease (PD) and Restless Leg Syndrome. However, drugs like Requip (and Mirapex) have been associated with pathological gambling and other compulsive behaviors-- the benefits of these medications may come at a very high price tag for some patients.
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Even though most users of Requip have never experienced compulsive behaviors before starting the drug, many victims have developed addictions during its use. Fortunately, the behavior subsides once the drug is discontinued but for many victims, financial damage is irreparable.
Parkinson's patients prescribed Requip have experienced a gamut of behavioral changes, from simply buying lottery tickets to pathological gambling. Other patients have developed serious OCD (obsessive compulsive disorders) as well as aggressive sexual impulses, overeating, medication abuse, and personality changes. Most victims have no idea of any behavioral changes and as a result, they can suffer long periods of debilitating and destructive behavior, all the while completely unaware that the drug was causing the problem and that it would cease if they discontinued taking it.
(In 2006, a retired doctor filed a $14 million lawsuit against the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, the world's second largest pharmaceutical company, and several casinos, alleging Requip turned him into a compulsive gambler.)
Requip belongs to a group of drugs known as dopamine agonists, which work by activating dopamine receptors, mimicking the effect of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Like Mirapex, it is designed to increase the production of dopamine. PD causes sufferers to gradually lose dopamine. Thus, they actually develop an aversion to the type of impulsive behavior associated with excess dopamine. When Mirapex, Requip, or another dopamine agonist is introduced, the behavioral changes in those adversely affected can be both quick and dramatic. Dopamine also affects brain processes that control emotional responses and a person's ability to experience pleasure and pain; therefore it is thought to play a role in addictive behavior.
In July, 2006 the Mayo Clinic published a study in the Archives of Neurology that identified 11 Parkinson's patients who developed a gambling habit while taking Mirapex or Requip between 2002 and 2004. After the study was released, 14 additional Mayo patients were diagnosed with the problem. The Mayo Clinic further analyzed findings in 5 prior studies and confirmed that commonly prescribed dopamine agonists have been associated with pathological gambling.
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When I thought about this week's theme, instantly the O'Jays and Patti Labelle came to mind, but after doing some research I also found out that Teddy Pendagrass, Delfonics, and the Stylistics were also a product of the Philadelphia Soul Movement. So I decided that I will cheat somewhat and turn my attention to the Philly Neo-Soul movement, and the queen of that movement is none other than Jill Scott.
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Next in line is Musiq Soulchild, and this is one of my favorite songs from him. Maybe because I fell in love with bestfriend as well, but it worked out for the best.
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Last but not least is Vivian Green. I loved her first album, her second album wasn't that great, but I'm sure you remember this gem of a song.
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All three definitely have Philly sounds that I love. Vivian & Jill got pipes for days and Musiq… well how can you not like Musiq?
yh im feeling musiq, so much..and i love joll. definatley feeling the music right here
too bad u couldnt mix them videos u piced some classic funky cuts
Um yea that's cheating! But since you're the mother of this meme we'll have to allow it. LOL! I'll be doing a massive post next week on other Philly neosoul (outside of the usual suspects) that ya'll need to be checking out.
Jill is great and I remember Ms Vivian…great choices. Happy OSF!
Gurrrrllll, you got it…I am laid down at your spot today! Three gems; I love it!
I am loving your posts! I thought about posting Vivian, but decided on Teddy P. and Musiq, that is the ish! I love it!
Forgot to say that I agree with you re: Vivian's albums. The sophmore jinx was definitely in effect here. I enjoyed seeing her live though.
The Philly Neo-Soul is definitely a viable contender in this theme. I loved that Vivian Green song, and I love Musiq. I liked his first album the best but I do love the song "Teachme".
And Jill Scott…no words even need to be said!
Let's take a long walk! This is one of my favorite songs by Jill…her voice is just too soothing and it puts me in a good vibe!
As always…great choices this week, Mrs. G. SjP
Great choices Mrs. Grapevine
I bypass OSF for the week, but I definitely dig your picks MrsG. I love Vivian's song; that song takes me back to……2003! Whatever happened to Vivian wit' her cute self?
Musiq Soulchild's cut was good! He broke it down on the dynamics of relationships


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Help for newbie in oz
I've been bitten by the bug and am keen to get a WFO in my backyard.
There seems to be plenty of info around how to build the slab and the oven itself, (thanks to this forum amongst others) but I'm having trouble with respect to getting some good info on building the base.
If I were to build the base out of cinder blocks for example - do I need to fill every cavity with cement and rebar or just every third or fourth?
I've little experience in laying bricks/blocks but have seen you can get some spacers to assist in getting all the gaps between each course identical, are there any more tips anyone can share for a novice?
I've built a small wall with hebel many years ago and found this easy to work with and cut - are hebel products strong enough to build a base out of?
Any all advice appreciated
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You could use Hebel, but it is expensive. Standard concrete blocks are cheaper and have better availability. If you mortar the first course of blocks and get them positioned and level, then you can use a masonry adhesive like Selleys liquid nails-landscape, for the rest. Filling every second void with concrete and rebar should be sufficient. If you use 6" blocks rather than 8" you will save a lot of time and effort because there's way less to fill.
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You 'dry stack' the blocks - no mortar - then fill. Its a good idea to fill the corners (end blocks) then every second one. Makes it very strong and stable. I actually used polyurethane construction adhesive (PL500) between the blocks, like mortar, but only real thin. Once that sets up, the blocks won't move during the pour.
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Like mingy said Can't get easier.....stack the bock up like leggo and fill every
2nd core. Strong simple ....cheap
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Dry stack is the way to go, I did fill every other core although some were back to back fills since I used some 1/2 blocks and wanted to ensure they would not float. My dry stack is documented in my Picassa log. Good Luck
By the way all you Aussies, visited your country last year, lovely country, mostly Sydney and Blue Mountain areas. Need to come back and see other parts.......
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Thanks very much for all the replies and have had a look at your builds (from the links in signatures).
I think the dry stack is very well suited to my skill level, but is the first course also dry stacked? (that is no cement between the slab and the first row of blocks?)
It might sound silly trying to save a few inches but I live on a small inner city block and plan to put the oven in the back corner - can I build right up to the edge of the slab or is it absolutely essential that slab be larger that the outside of the base?
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If your slab is level you could dry stack. If it has irregularities you would want to set the block in mortar (first course only) to get it level. In regard to the size - if you are planning on covering the block with brick, you will need the extra 4 inches. If you plan on a simple render on the block you can get away with it.
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Thanks Les - answers my question on both counts.
I hope the slab will be spot on level but if not will set the first course with concrete.
I hadn't thought about giving it a brick veneer but as the back will essentially be on the boundary and not seen, building to the edge of the slab/boundary on that side would be preferable, not only to save on valuable space but prevent rubbish and pests from gathering.
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"but as the back will essentially be on the boundary and not seen"
Be careful, most councils require you to build 1.5m inside any boundary fence. If you end up with a neighbour dispute (smoke issues?) they would be within their rights to demand you demolish it.
Mine is right up against the boundary fence and I look after my neighbours with pizza and bread passed over the fence, but this is not necessarily a guarantee.
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Here is an easy way to make 100% sure your first course is level:
Use shims or whatever you have to to make sure the first row of blocks is level. This should be pretty quick and painless.
There is this stuff called 'non-shrink grout'. I don't know what they call it where you are. It is sold in 20kg or so bags and is about 8000psi strength (about 2x concrete). You can mix that stuff from the consistency of milk to almost dry. So mix up a batch which is pretty liquid. Pour enough of it into the first row of blocks so it fills in the bottom. You might have to plug the gaps in the bottom, depending on consistency, so it doesn't leak out. Let it set up, which will be a couple hours, and voila your first row will never move again.
You can do a lot of very cool things with grout.
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Theo from Little Ceasars - DEMO
Hi All Perthites...
Just to let you know that Theo of Little Ceasars will be doing a woodfired pizza baking demo at Kitchen Warehouse, Osborne Park tomorrow - Sat, 10 April. I think it runs 10:00 - 12:00 but this needs to be checked.
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Hey Rossco,
If your going along, let me know how it went. Theo is coming down to my neck of the woods soon to do a demo at Kitchen Warehouse in Cockburn. I'm working all weekend so will not be able to get up that way :( .
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Hi Scott - yes, I will try and get along there tomorrow so I can let you know if it is worthwile attending. Have a few other things to do tomorrow so can't guarantee I will make it over there though.
Too bad you have to work ... just think of the money you are making and all should be OK!!!
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Yes, I was in KW yesterday during my lunch break and noticed that they had plenty of pizza gear on special. One thing you may be interested in getting is the bargain price tomato pureeer. At $39 (down from $69). Couldn't believe my eyes and nearly bought one for doing a very quick batch of sauce when don't want to set up the KA attachment. Pizza stones kits were down to $9 which is also good value... shop till you drop on Monday!!!
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I attended this morning and was quite impressed with the demo. It started with a dough making session (in a KA) and then proceeded with a shaping and ROLLING PIN activity. I was standing at the front so was made to ball and shape some dough. I cringed when the rolling pin was thrust into my hand and told to deal with the defenceless ball.
Anyway, the demo went on to "cook" some pre-baked pizzas from ceasars to the delight of attendees. I didn't actually try any but they looked a bit dry - an assertion supported by the fairly low dough hydration he had made. Someone in the audience said a similar thing. But, this guy knows what he is doing and definitely creates raphor with his audience. By all accounts he makes a mean pizza and he has a strong following, and the really nice thing is that he is prepared to share his knowledge with others. This is unusual for someone who has a commercial interest in maintaining secrecy.
So, overall a great experience and an enjoyable morning at Kitchen Warehouse. They had 50% off Circulon pans and I ended up struggling out of the shop with 2 new pans to add to my collection. Lifetime warranty and commercial grade so they should last a while!
I definitely recommend a visit to see Theo in action if he heads down to your neck of the woods.
PS - please excuse the poor quality pics - they were taken with the notoriously inferior camera on the iPhone.
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Interesting article,,, thanks for sharing
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Thanks for sharing the article.
It's great to see the food's others are cooking in the wood oven. It's pretty easy for me to get stuck in a rut on what to cook in the oven and this helps keep the options alive!
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I love hackathon: teaming up with other programmers, trying out new things, building and shipping side-project in the sleepless and caffeine-filled weekend. It's fun and I used to do it once every couple of months.
But approaching my 30s, I have a different thought.
See, here's my typical hackathon now. The first 5-8 hours were good. Excitement set in. I found somebody to team up with, worked on couple of ideas and started building stuff. Hours later, I started to feel tired and I somehow couldn't get this new thing to work. "Not a big deal", I told yourself and drank a Red Bull. I kept munching on the chips on the table and felt I was on the right path to get this to work. I eventually solved it, only after another couple of hours. By that time, fatique set in and I really felt like going home and have a good night sleep. But I didn't want to let your fellow hackers down, and I really needed to ship this. So I drank a couple more Red Bulls and kept going...
The whole weekend turned out to be more painful than fun. I felt horrible (especially if I didn't manage to finish). And what's worse? It took days to recover.
Hence, I would like to make a modest proposal -- a healthier hackathon!
Wouldn't that be great? Hackathon like this would rejuvenating instead of draining the energy. It would be the perfect weekend retreat.
But, I don't think this would become a reality. Hackathon has been around for ages and it's unlikely to change. Besides, most people think hackers are superhuman and they shouldn't need to sleep.
And for me? I guess I'm too old for this shit.
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Wallpaper. is a band with a radical new pop-soul sound and sensibility that's the antipodean opposite of "wallpaper" music (in the classic Muzak sense). Wallpaper.'s major label debut on Epic Records is a uncompromising declaration of intent.
"Wallpaper. represents the eccentric everyman," says group frontman Ricky Reed, "a blue collar pop band for the other 99%, a twerking class hero who might ACTUALLY show up at your house party - THAT IS WALLPAPER.!"
Direct no-nonsense party music on the surface, Wallpaper., comprised of Arjun Singh and Tom Peyton on drums, Derek Taylor on percussion and Novena Carmel vocals, follows the trajectory of intoxication through the fuck-ups and the hangovers and the adventures and manages to even pinpoint the divine light that strikes for a split-second in the damnedest of places. In the heartbeat of the songs, Wallpaper.'s provocative party anthems open up to celebrate core human values, especially friendship, necessary for emotional survival.
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Where the dynamic of "Drunken Hearts," is built around "a love song between two train-wrecks," "The Underdog" champions the long shot, the one you take because you don't take opportunity for granted. Ricky, whose "parents are not from money or involved in the entertainment industry," has been making music since he was 16 and strongly identifies with the underdog. It takes a strong work ethic to make it look as easy as Wallpaper. does. "I don't write a lot of songs," he confesses, "but I put a lot of work into all the songs I write. I'm not wasting anybody's time listening to my songs."
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Born in Berkeley, California, Ricky became obsessed with music at a young age. His mother, a bookkeeper, exposed him to a variety of sounds from the smooth California pop of Steely Dan to the funky sounds of Motown and Sly & the Family Stone. Sly's daughter, Novena Carmel, is one of the vocalists in Wallpaper.
"I took on West Coast rap when that hit," Ricky remembers. "I was a young kid listening to Dre and Snoop." But what really flicked young Ricky's switch was post-Nirvana mainstream punk like Green Day, Rancid and Operation Ivy. "It came directly hand-fed through the radio. I was the right age and it hit me." From there, he got into (then) contemporary rock and British bands. "Digging deeper and deeper and then my mom put me onto early Yes. I got into prog rock, ELP, King Crimson, all that insane stuff. That led me to new music and the avant garde, Steve Reich, Boulez, classical music. I had a prog rock band. And then I decided I want to make some simple silly songs."
The result was Wallpaper.'s debut, 2009's T REX EP, a collection of two and 1/2 minute satiric pop songs. Influenced by Zapp & Roger and other 70s funk band, Ricky had incorporated Auto-Tune pitch correction into his recordings as a kind of satiric emotional distancing device. Wallpaper.'s debut album, Doodoo Face (also released in 2009), found Ricky reaching into deeper grooves for inspiration. "I started introducing R&B from my childhood into the songs so I could play at house parties and have fun."
By 2010, Ricky, unsure about the fate of Wallpaper., was honing his musical and songwriting skills doing commercial work. Looking back over the fledgling Wallpaper. catalog, he could feel a "real pop potential in these songs," but wasn't sure how to tap that. During the holidays, he found himself alone in a studio for a ten day stretch. ""I had this weird epiphany," he recalls. "I should just do whatever I want." Giving himself permission to work in a new way opened up a "creative renaissance" that produced #STUPiDFACEDD, a pulse-of-the-culture track that nailed a contemporary ethos as accurately as the Beastie Boys had Fought For The Right To Party a quarter century earlier. The track, and its 21st century Satyricon video, proved pivotal in the Wallpaper. saga. Songwriter and record executive Evan Bogart signed Wallpaper. to Boardwalk Records and helped shepherd #STUPiDFACEDD to the good people at MTV's "Jersey Shore."
MTV's next move was to collaborate with Wallpaper. on an animated video for BEST FUCKING SONG EVERR, a song celebrating friendship and loyalty in a storyline featuring the band members.
One evening in December 2011, Ricky Reed sat down at a grand piano in the auditorium of the Sony Building in Los Angeles and sang "#STUPiDFACEDD Reprise," a lounge jazz version of Wallpaper.'s signature song, for a small audience that included LA Reid and Tricky Stewart. The evening ended with Wallpaper. signing with Epic Records (a joint venture with Boardwalk Music Group).
During the recording of the new Wallpaper. album, Ricky's been dividing his time between his beloved Bay Area and the City of Angels. In the middle of 2012, in the same Echo Park studio that birthed #STUPiDFACEDD, Ricky reached a new creative apotheosis. "Caffeinated and drinking by myself, there's a magic fuzzy place that I really like," he admits candidly proffering a glimpse into his creative process, "but I was going way too hard into it and feeling crazy and alone and in a room with no windows." From which sprang "Puke My Brains Out," a glorious confrontation with the absolute that's gnarly, profound and funny. ""It was born out of frustration with where I was at. A new journey began and it ends up being the strongest material I've ever done. I holed up in the studio in October and rewrote almost the whole album from scratch."
Ricky and points proudly to one of Wallpaper.'s manifestos, "Puke My Brains Out," which is "not really a party jam or fully ironic. It's a general sense of feeling overwhelmed and needing to expel all the noise that's in your brain. It's about information overload really." A lyric video for the song, directed and animated in "90s early internet hell graphics by Ricky Reed," is currently racking up views on YouTube.
Ricky's genius is the ability to compress all that information--verbal, rhythmic, melodic, technological, psychological, emotional, mental, physical, spiritual--into pop hooks that strike direct and true and stick to the brain.
For this latest batch of Wallpaper. material, Ricky Reed has "taken all that influence of punk and all that stuff I grew up listening to and all that attitude with the bass and understanding funk and pocket and weight and wrapping into one thing with hooks. If 'FUCKING BEST SONG EVERR' is your last reference point, you have no idea where I'm at right now." The new Wallpaper. album is the way to find out.
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David and Leilani Long recently got married in our lakeside gardens and were kind enough to send us a few of the absolutely beautiful pictures! A personal favorite of mine would be this one of their Converse high-tops! They were both so laid back and just fun to be around. This has to be the most adorable picture of Chuck Taylor's I have seen to date. Congratulations guys! Weddings at Lookout Point Lakeside Inn are always a delight!
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Although every stay will let you enjoy a scrumptious 3 course breakfast by the fire, we are excited to offer our guests two more extraordinary values!
-January and February Specials here at the inn! Stay 3 nights, Sunday-Thursday and you get to go home with a set of our luxurious microfiber sheets! How completely splendid? The pampering from our bed & breakfast will follow you all the way home!
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Minister of sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi has assured that in a matter of weeks, the lingering sponsorship crisis between the Nigeria Premier League and telecommunications giants, Globacom and MTN will soon be a thing of the past.
This assurance was given yesterday by the sports minister when the board members of the NPL led by Chief Victor Rumson Baribote paid him a courtesy visit in his office.
The minister said he is aware of the challenges being faced by the present board of the NPL but expressed happiness that his call for peace in the sector was harkened to by all the aggrieved parties.
He expressed hope that all outstanding issues in the country's football would be resolved amicably adding that without peace, there would not be any progress.
Abdulahi said the Nigeria Premier League is one of the top most issues for him as the minister of sports because if properly managed the league would be the reservoir of players for the national teams and would not lack sponsors.
His words: "It is very difficult to accept that we have inadvertently allowed or created conditions that motivate these young talented Nigerian to want to go out in search of what they consider to be greener pastures when they could have had better condition here.
"I have looked at that I have realized that one of the things we need to do is to create a conducive conditions for these talented players to play and live here comfortably.
"I also know that you have been struggling with the issue of sponsorship of the league, getting to pay indemnities for matches to hold week in week out. I know it is the most difficult challenge that you are facing. And I know that if the league were developed to the level we should, we shouldn't have difficulties getting people to invest and put their money in the league.
"The sponsorship issue has been a source of concern for all of us. What I can tell you is that we are very close to resolving the matter. We have had several meetings with all the interested parties. I don't think there is any logjam at the moment. Even if there was any, it is no longer there. All we just need is to get the details right. There is nothing like logjam. I can assure you that if not before the end of this season, before the commencement of next season, the issue of sponsorship would have been sorted out".
Speaking, NPL chairman Baribote thanked the minister for playing a key role in restoring peace in Nigerian football.
The NPL chairman, who called Abdullahi 'the messiah' of Nigerian football, pledged his loyalty and that of his board members to the minister of sports.
He said the appointment of Abdullahi as the substantive minister of sports is a step in the right direction as he expatiated that having over seen the ministry in supervisory capacity, he is the right person to lead Nigerian sports.
Baribote said the NPL will always support the transformation agenda of the minister just as he said the league board too will continue to look up to the minister for support.


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HP ProBook 4515s
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Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon HD 3200
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Price: 500 euro
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Will HP's pro machine do the business? The HP ProBook 4515s (£369 inc. VAT) strikes an effective balance between power and mobility and proves a success despite minor flaws. Overall, the ProBook 4515s is a feature-packed and highly usable laptop. Its mixed performance and low-quality build mean that it's not ideal for intensive use, but for an affordable, fully-featured business laptop, it's a great choice.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/23/2009
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ATI Radeon HD 3200: Onboard (shared Memory) graphics chip (on RS780M chipset) based on the HD 2400 graphics core. It also features the UVD video engine to decode HD videos. Beware: Under Windows XP the HD 3200 may have no 2D accelleration because of a driver problem.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
AMD Turion X2 Ultra: The AMD Turion X2 Ultra is part of the Puma platform and a mixture of the old K9 core (form the Turion 64 X2) and some parts of the K10 architecture (memorycontroller, hypertransport, crossbar switch from the Phenom). Because of the increased L2 cache ("Ultra" CPUs) and the improved memory controller, the performance increased a bit. Still a similar clocked Core 2 Duo is noticably faster.
ZM-86: Mixture out of two K8 based cores and K10 uncores (e.g. memory controller). Offers improved power saving functions compared to older Turion CPUs but still not as good and fast as a Core 2 Duo. The ZM-86 is the fastest CPU of the ZM series and a middle class CPU in 2008.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.6": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays. However nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.6 kg: This notebook is lighter than the average of all notebooks. It is too heavy for sub-notebooks. 14 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
HP: The Hewlett-Packard Company, founded 1935, commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in California, United States. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, including electronic test equipment and systems, medical electronic equipment, solid state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis. HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006, making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales. In 2007 the revenue was $104 billion, making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
60%: Such a bad rating is rare. There exist hardly any notebooks, which are rated worse.
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With snow on the ground it means only one thing…baseball season is upon us. Welcome back everyone for another year of my College Baseball Daily Blog. For those of you who might have forgotten or at least tried to forget me this is Ray Ricker I am in my sixth season as Associate Head Baseball at Division 2 Post University in Waterbury, Connecticut. We are in an all wood bat conference the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (C.A.C.C.) we have typically been a very strong in the conference and region. I say typically because last year was our first slip up since I have been here, for all the coaches out there who go through a down year only one thing has been on the coaching staff, returning players, and incoming players mind is erase the taste out of our mouths from last year's mistakes. Since the first day of fall practice this has been a hard working bunch. We saw increase in size and strength in the weight room, extra swings in the cage, and more importantly a dedication in the classroom. I feel that there is a direct correlation between doing well in the classroom and how it affects you on the field. We had a very strong showing with our team grade point average and gave us hope coming into the spring season that we are back on track to where we need to be. Continue reading CBD Journal with Post University's Ray Ricker (Jan. 24th)
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CBD Journal with Post University's Ray Ricker (April 3rd)
WOW… hello everyone. I want to start out this blog by apologizing to my loyal following of readers such as my mom, players, and various baseball people who still doubt that I can put a solid sentence structure together. This has been quite the year and it's not even half way through yet ! I wish I could sit here and tell you how everything has been going our way and we are cruising through victories, but that has not been happening. Continue reading CBD Journal with Post University's Ray Ricker (April 3rd)
CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (Feb. 15th)
Happy Valentine's Day everyone even though it is a day late! Hope you spent it with somebody special in your life. I wanted to start out my blog this week by thanking the special people in my life that put up with my crazy life as a college baseball coach, my parents and my beautiful girlfriend Anna for putting up with the long hours, knowing that a recruiting trip, phone call at dinner from a recruit, or a bad loss can affect how much or how little I sleep. Valentine's Day is a special time mainly because the D1 official start date is three days away and I can look forward to seeing college baseball on ESPN instead of soccer or basketball. Continue reading CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (Feb. 15th)
CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (Feb. 7th)
Hello everyone! Now that the final whistle of the Super Bowl sounded it's officially BASEBALL SEASON! As a very disgruntled Miami Dolphin fan living in Patriot, Jet, and Giant land this season couldn't have ended any sooner, but it was a very well-played game. Continue reading CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (Feb. 7th)
CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (November 22nd)
Hello everyone! It's been a while. I'm back blogging for my second year. I guess people were shocked that I could put together a coherent sentence, so here I am back at it. For those of you who did not read my blog last season (I'm sure that's the majority of people) let me introduce myself. My name is Ray Ricker and this is my 5th season as the Associate Head Baseball Coach at DII Post University in Connecticut, which plays in an ALL wood bat conference (C.A.C.C.) I have managed for the past three summers in the N.E.C.B.L. I coach the hitters, catchers, and handle the recruiting at Post University. I love coaching college baseball, and am very fortunate I get to do a job that I love and couldn't think about doing anything else. Continue reading CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (November 22nd)
CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (Post University/Mystic Schooners)
It's been a long summer on the bus traveling all around the New England Collegiate League and my summer club the Mystic Schooners. This was my third year in the N.E.C.B.L. running a team as the past two seasons I was with the New Bedford Bay Sox, this make my summers a little different most assistant coaches. I really enjoying the recruiting aspect of coaching, going from showcase to showcase or field to field to try to find the next player to help your program take the next step. Coaching in the N.E.C.B.L. gives me the ability to run an all-star team composed of the top players in the country and get them to gel over the summer and hone their skills with a wood bat over the course of 42 games and hours on the bus. You really get to know these guys and admire how hard they work on an every day basis. Continue reading CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (Post University/Mystic Schooners)
CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (Post University/Mystic Schooners)
Hello everyone. Welcome back to my blog. After a couple of days off from Post Baseball it was that time again, time to get back on the bus. I am entering my 3rd year in the New England Collegiate League which is widely regarded as one of the top 3 summer leagues in the country. This is my second season as Manager in the league. I really enjoy the opportunity to coach and teach some of the best players in the country. Watching the Major League Baseball Draft gets a lot more interesting not only because of the players that I have coached getting selected in the draft but also seeing what players might not be coming to your summer club. While at Post during the season I am calling and receiving emails from coaches all over the country and have the chance to select my team for the summer. This summer I am the Manager for the Mystic Schooners, my first question was what in the world is a schooner? It is a boat, I'll save everyone the google search. Continue reading CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (Post University/Mystic Schooners)
CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (May 10th)
Well it' that time of the year again for our team. Its time for the second season. This is the season that we have prepared for day in and day out since the fall. This is the time that you dream of the stakes are raised and everything you do matters. Playoff baseball, there is nothing like it and we have the opportunity to play Chestnut Hill College at home for our schools first ever playoff game we have hosted. Continue reading CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (May 10th)
CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (May 3rd)
This season has never really caught a rhythm with all of the rainouts and cancellations of games but we are right at the finish line of the regular season. It seems as a short while ago I was writing about our indoor practices and a season full of optimism. Good thing for us we have had a pretty successful year on the diamond and it makes you not want to stop playing for a very long time. We have one game left in the regular season versus a very good UMass-Lowell team who we played earlier in the week and lost on a dramatic walk off homerun. Continue reading CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (May 3rd)
CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (April 19th)
Hello everyone. Sorry I have been a little erratic with the blog but it has been a crazy time. It seems as if every other game we are getting rained out. We have played many games since then and are doing a good job of staying in close ball games. Currently we are 19-11 and we sit in third place in the CACC at 9-5 with 6 games coming up in the next two weeks. This stretch is what we have been waiting for as many teams in our league are making their playoff push. Continue reading CBD Journal with Ray Ricker (April 19th)


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Thomas Jesty (born 1991?) is a treble and Head Quirister at the Winchester College Chapel Choir and BBC Young Chorister of the Year 2004. Both he and Harry Sever (the 2003 winner) had solos on the December 2004 album "Hear My Prayer". They also took part in the United Kingdom's biggest fundraising concert in aid of the victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
Jesty plays the violin and the piano and enjoys juggling. His first and only film appearance is as a choir boy in Batman Begins.


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This easy 1.7-mile hike takes the hiker through a hardwood forest of maple and oak with beautiful views of the lake. There is a resting bench about midway. This trail leads to site of 1832 Glenora Plantation, home of many Washington, D.C. aristocrat parties.
Directions: From Fredericksburg, VA, Lake Anna State Park is adjacent to Route 601 off Route 208, 25 miles southwest of Fredericksburg and 55 miles northwest of Richmond. From park entrance, follow signs to Visitor Center. Old Pond Trail begins behind the Visitor Center.
Elevation: 350 feet
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PIBBS Director, Dr. Ite Laird-Offringa
Welcome to our PIBBS web site! My goal as PIBBS director is to bring top-notch PhD students to USC, and to see them succeed fabulously as young scientists. As their publication records attest, our students lay a strong foundation for their future careers, whether that be in an academic setting, in biotech, or any other field related to science.
For those of you who are repeat visitors to the site, you may notice some changes. These are due to improvements we are making to better serve our students. Whereas we previously had two interdisciplinary PhD programs into which most of our students entered, we have now expanded that to four interdisciplinary PhD programs that capitalize on research strengths at USC. The new programs will replace the two existing programs beginning in the summer of 2014. The programs are, in alphabetical order:
Cancer Biology & Genomics (CBG), which capitalizes on the presence of our Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and its clinical and basic scientists, and strength in all areas of cancer research including epigenetics and epidemiology.
Development, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine (DSR), which benefits from our Center for Regenerative Medicine and strength in stem cell research, tissue engineering and regeneration.
Medical Biology (MEDB), a highly translational program that takes advantage of our outstanding clinical and basic scientists who investigate human organ systems in health and disease and are developing strategies translate this knowledge to medical treatments.
Molecular Structure and Signaling (MSS), a program that builds on faculty expertise in structural biology of proteins, lipids and nucleotides and the signaling mechanisms in which these molecules play a role.
Faculty membership of these programs is driven by their research interests and crosses disciplines and departments. After their PIBBS rotation year, students join a laboratory of their choosing and the PhD program that best fits their research topic. While most students will join one of these 4 programs, some of our students join other programs, such as Pharmaceutical Sciences, Preventive Medicine (including Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Kinesiology and others. Flexibility and matching the program to each student's research focus drives the choice of PhD program. As students join their new labs, they partner with their new mentor to put together an Individual Development Program (IDP) with short and long term goals, to maximize their success.
Another exciting change is our new core curriculum, which ensures that all of our students have strong active knowledge in Applied Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Applied Biostatistics and, given the importance of the human genome, Human Genetics and Genomics. Very importantly, we have added an interactive scientific writing class in the spring semester in which students will learn (among others) how to write a fellowship grant application. To solidify this skill, the qualifying exams of the new PhD programs have been adapted: the written component is an NIH fellowship application based on the student's research topic. The proposal will be scored by a panel, and defended during the oral exam. Not only will this be an invaluable training experience, we anticipate that many students will submit these grants, and if funded it will add a very valuable dimension to students' CVs.
I strongly encourage you to visit our faculty web pages, where you can learn about the fabulous research opportunities for our students. We have a very wide variety of topics focusing on the biomedical and biological sciences in the broadest sense of those words.
In PIBBS we foster outstanding science, collegiality and collaboration; in modern science, the most powerful research is done by interdisciplinary teams of scientists with diverse expertise, who join together to focus on a particular research question.
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posted this on December 12, 2013, 12:13
Instant Tutoring is a privilege, not a right for both Community Tutors and Professional Teachers on italki. All teachers and tutors who have completed more than 5 sessions will automatically qualify for Instant Tutoring and can immediately offer Instant Tutoring to all students on italki. New Teachers need to complete at least 5 sessions before they are allowed to offer Instant Tutoring (Learn More).
The Instant Tutoring privilege can be taken away from teachers who do not adhere to the basic Instant Tutoring Rule:
Immediately respond and accept ALL Instant Tutoring requests
Students want a great Instant Tutoring experience so when they make an Instant Tutoring request with you, they expect an immediate response from the teacher. To ensure that our students have a positive Instant Tutoring experience, we have instituted the following Instant Tutoring Rules and Policies for our teachers.
Teacher Action (or Inaction)
The teacher simply ignores the request(s) during the 10 minute request period.
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italki also has the right to suspect and even disable Instant Tutoring privileges for teachers who violate the italki Terms of Service, abuse the italki Community Guidelines, or violate our Teacher Code of Conduct.
I think instant tutoring is a great idea. I think it will really benefit teachers and students. If one of my regular students cancels their lesson, is there a way for me to offer instant tutoring during that time? I tried today, but it told me that I couldn't tutor because I had upcoming sessions. Thanks!
This has good potential, especially for students who don't need much lesson planning. I'll give it a try.
Implement e-mail notifications, please
This is another leap for italki but I suggest an e-mail notification for instant tutoring request. I was online the whole day and when I refreshed my page, I found a missed lesson notification. Has anyone experienced the same thing? Thanks.
I don't know if I would give it a try. This system is not flexible enough. Besides, it does not take into consideration the motives why someone would prefer Instant Tutoring over a regular Session. For example, if I need proofreading for an essay before the deadline, I would probably need instant tutoring. Another thing: it is impossible to be available 24/7. Sooner or later, every teacher will have a timeout. ( Are they supposed to be available during the night?) I would suggest another approach: a badge in the availability schedule, indicating immediate availability if required.
I like it very much! But maybe because I didn't hear the alarm or my internet is slow, make me to miss a lesson. The time is too short and urgent. But I still feel very glad for instant tutoring.
I worry my internet. At least any teachers would not want to miss their instant tutoring lessons, I hope whether the preparation time could be delayed a little.
Yeah, these concerns being voiced are the same as I have. I have done one session (as a teacher), but it was quite by chance that I happened to flip back to the iTalki tab on Safari and saw the session. I know that adding notifications can be quite a big job in terms of programming -- so why not just force a pop-up window, which is relatively easy to do I think. One site I know uses a pop-up as a time-out warning. It forces the browser to go back to that tab. Without some system like this that allows teachers to do stuff with iTalki running in the background, they are less likely to stay available to teach, and students are likely to lose faith in teachers here if they keep getting ignored.
Note that another problem you have is that unless you are actively using the iTalki tab, the system automatically switches to NOT AVAILABLE after a fairly short time. I'm guessing this is what you've done to prevent teachers not noticing -- but a pop-up or some other real-time ping notification would allow more teachers to be on, all the time. Who's kidding who, I would love to do more instant tutoring. But until it can be left running in the background, I don't switch it on very often.
On another site where I advertise, I've given my cell phone number and I get a text message when a student makes a request, and another, ten minutes before a class (this timing can be adjusted by me). Maybe italki could look into this as another way to notify the teacher.
Best regards,
What if you will receive two instant tutoring? should I accept the two? and the other one will wait?
Thanks for all this great feedback, and thanks for helping students on Instant Tutoring! If you have other questions, comments, or suggestions, please send them to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Wow your friends with these fun easy dog tricks. Can your dog master all ten of them? Make him the coolest canine on the block with just a little dog training.
Shake Hands
Start by having your dog sit. Say, "Shake hands," and take his paw with your hand. Hold his paw and say, "Good dog!" Let go of his paw. Do this a few times every day.
After a while, say, "Shake hands," but don't take his paw. See if he raises his paw by himself. If not, keep showing him what to do by saying, "Shake hands," and taking his paw with your hand. Your dog is not slow; he is just learning!
High Five
Start by having your dog shake. If your dog does not shake, just touch the back of her paw and say shake. Once your dog starts to offer her paw, turn your hand up so your hand is facing your dog. Start saying "high five" while holding your hand up. When yoour dog hits your hand with her paw, quickly say good dog and reward with a treat. When your dog starts to hit your hand with her paw, start to slightly raise your hand higher and higher. Keep raising your hand until you can stand and your dog jumps up to high five your hand. Reward your dog as soon as she does. Hold your right hand in the air again and say the command "high five" but do not reach for your dog's paw. Hopefully he will place his paw against your hand. Allow him the opportunity to do it on his own before you reach for his paw. If he does it on his own, reward him immediately with treats or praise.
They should first know how to shake before teaching this
Choose a game that your dog loves to play, like catch with a ball, or hide and seek with a toy. Then get him excited by saying, "Let's play! Want to play?" and show him the ball or toy. Jump and act silly so he barks and then say, "Good dog, speak!" Then play the game as his reward for learning "Speak".
You can't make a dog bark, but you can get him happy and excited so he wants to bark. After a while, your dog will bark when you say, "Speak."Caution! If you have a dog that already causes trouble because of his barking, you might not want to encourage this behavior. If you decide it's ok to teach it, be sure to teach 'quiet', too, but do it at some other time.
Play Dead
Have your dog lie down on his tummy. As you gently roll him over on his side, say, "Take a nap." While he is lying on his side, keeping his head on the floor, say, "Take a nap." Don't give him a treat. Encourage him to stay there for a couple of seconds. Then say, "Ok" or "Wake up!", let him stand up, and give him his reward.
You can use the treat to lure your dog into a lying down position. Don't give your a dog a reward while he is lying down. Give him a treat after he has completed the trick.
Beg Say Please
Have your dog sit, facing you. Hold his favorite treat just above his head and tell him, "Say please." Your dog will probably lift his front feet off the ground to reach the treat. As soon as the feet are lifted, even a little bit, give him the treat.
This is a hard trick for most dogs. Wait a little longer each time before giving the treat, but be careful not to let your dog fall over on his back. You are helping your dog develop his balance. Be kind and only do this a couple of times.
Here's an easy one: Every time your dog licks your face, say, "Give me a kiss. Good boy! Give me a kiss." If he isn't a licker, put a little peanut butter on your cheek and say, "Give me a kiss." When he licks it off say, "Give me a kiss," again.
Tricks like this work because you put words with something your dog does. Pretty soon your dog hears "Give me a kiss," and thinks about licking your face. Then you give him a hug, rub his ears and say, "Good boy!" Dogs love that.
If your dog doesn't fetch naturally, have an adult cut a slit in a tennis ball (a smaller, rubber ball if that is too big). Put some treats inside the tennis ball. Show your dog that there are treats in there, and give her one. Then, throw the ball. In the beginning, run with her and get the ball; then give her the treat. Soon you will be able to throw the ball and she will go get it (because she wants the treat!).
After your dog has figured out what he has to do to get a treat, start throwing the ball two times in a row without giving him the treat. What you are trying to do is give him the treats less and less often so someday he won't need the treats in the ball to fetch it.
Take a Bow
(Method 1) When you see your dog take a big stretch, with his head down low, say, "Take a bow." Every time he wakes up and stretches, say, "Take a bow." Someday you will say, "Take a bow." and your dog will take a big stretch, but it will look like he is bowing. As soon as he is finished, give him the treat.
Tip(method 1)
Tricks like this work because you put words with something your dog does. It may take some dogs longer than others to figure this one out. Some dogs learn it in a week and some take years…yes, years! But one day you will say, "Take a bow," and maybe, just maybe, your dog will take a bow.
(Method 2) With your dog in a stand position, take a treat and hold it near the floor, under his nose. As your dog reaches down to get it (he may try to lie down), slip your hand under his belly to hold his rear end up. Hold him in that position and say, "Take a bow." Keep the treat right by his nose, but don't feed him. Stay there for just a second, release him, and then feed the treat.
TIP (method 2)
If you feed your dog the treat while he is in the bowing position, in the future he won't bow until he sees the treat in your hand. If he learns that the treat comes later, he'll be willing to perform for you without it right there all the time.
Wave Goodbye
Your dog should know how to shake hands before learning this trick. Face your dog and hold out your hand as if you are going to shake. When your dog lifts her paw to shake, don't grab it, just pull back your hand, and say "Wave". Then give your dog a treat.
At first your dog may not lift her paw very high. But once she realizes that you're going to give her a treat if she holds it up there, she'll get it. You may have to tease her a little with your hand so she thinks you are going to shake with her. Waving your hand a little may help to get her paw into a waving motion as well.
Go to Bed
"Go to bed" means go to the bed AND lie down. You should only need to say "Go to bed". Put a bed, blanket, or towel 6-10 feet away from you. With your dog beside you say "Go to bed!" and then together go to the bed. Have your dog lie down on the bed, give her a treat, and praise. Repeat many times. Later on, try sending your dog by herself. At first, make sure that someone is waiting at the bed with a treat. Later, your dog will do it herself, and you will walk over to her while she is lying down and reward her.


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that's awesome. near wave rage!
Is that Sunny again? Dam near ripped his arm off.
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If robo-shredder's chips are made of sand from that beach, technically he's a local. Plus the dude looks like a goof wearing that baseball cap. So drop-ins are allowed.
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Rub inside of the breast meat and all of the outer skin with a mixture of garlic salt, sage and freshly ground black pepper.
Place a quartered, seeded red apple, a quartered, medium yellow onion, 2 celery stalks halved and 1 carrot halved into the cavity. It will enhance the flavor overall.
Tie the legs with kitchen twine. Once that is done the turkey must sit at room temperature for 25 minutes.
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees and cook your turkey at this temperature, breast side down, for one hour.
Remove the bird from the oven and baste it with a melted stick of butter mixed with 1 teaspoon ground sage and salt and pepper.
Flip it over in the roasting pan so that you now have it breast side up.
Lower the heat in your oven to 375 degrees and cook the turkey until a thermometer registers 175 degrees when inserted in the thickest part of the thigh.
Make sure to baste the turkey every hour with the pan juices. Cover it with foil of it is getting too dark.
This turkey was 15 pounds and it cooked for four hours. Tent it at the last hour.
Remove the turkey
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