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I don't know if my significant others have ever "understood" it, but they have accepted it.
I think the major differences with horses is that it's a hobby that changes your lifestyle.
I don't know if it's possible to explain, other than saying that this is simply part of who you are. It's not an addition to your life but it is your life.
I think ways to make it work are to try to leave the horse stuff at the stable. Don't come home complaining about a ride, or have a car full of hay, plod around in your tall boots and breeches. Leave the horse stuff at the horse. Outside of the horse be a "normal" person.
Saying all that I don't know if I could make it work long term with someone who wasn't pretty "open" to horsey stuff. Part of my life plans are to buy a small property, have animals etc. I value animals, outdoors, open spaces, the quiet, genuine country type people - these aren't things I'd be willing to give up. I grew up as a city kid, and I know even if I liked some of the people from the city a lot of them just wouldn't have the same goals or ideals as me.

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The director of sun care for Energizer Personal Care says that sun care is among the sales leaders in seasonal categories.
Grocery Headquarters: Why is the sun care category important to retailers?
Beth St. Raymond: In the U.S., sun care is estimated to be a $1.2 billion category per year and in food/drug/mass, excluding Walmart, it is No. 1 in dollar sales among seasonal categories and third among all personal care categories in-season. Additionally, sun care is an important category in driving trips and building the seasonal market basket for retailers.
While the sun care category is clearly a vital component of any retailer's seasonal offerings, there is still significant opportunity for growth. Currently it is estimated that only 38% of households purchase sun care on an annual basis and only purchase these products two to three times per year. By addressing both household penetration and usage retailers can drive significant category growth.
What do you feel is keeping the household penetration and buying rates low in this category?
Our Energizer Personal Care sun care insights team conducts ongoing research to probe into consumer/shopper attitudes and behaviors as it relates to sun protection products. Based on our research, we have found the main reason for not using/purchasing sun protection products is the lack of understanding about the importance of using sun protection.
For example, our research shows that consumers are not purchasing or entering the category due to the following barriers:
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- They feel they have no reason to use sun protection; or
- They do not participate in sun activities.
Some of the other key consumer insights include the fact that men are less likely than women to use sunscreen and consumers with self-described olive, brown or black skin tones are more likely than others to say they do not need to use sunscreen. Also, lower-income consumers are less likely to use sun care and households without children are likely to report not using sun protection products at all.
What about current users?
Among those consumers that do use sun screen, we have found that they feel they understand key elements of the category, but when probed further they do not accurately understand areas such as UVA/UVB, sun protection factors and usage, such as when to apply and how much to apply. It is important that consumers understand these critical elements so they get the proper protection from the sun's UV rays.
How do you feel the FDA Monograph will impact the category and retail?
The final FDA Monograph focuses on testing and labeling. At Energizer Personal Care, we are ahead of the game and have led the industry by already adopting many of the labeling practices announced by the FDA. Assuming the proposed SPF cap does not go into effect, the primary impact on the category is that consumers/shoppers will need to get accustomed to the new labeling, which will ultimately help minimize shopper confusion. We also see this ruling as an opportunity for retailers and manufacturers to partner together to address category education in order to drive household penetration and buying rates for the category.
What do you feel are the key areas for retailers to focus on to drive continued growth in the sun care category?
Given the category dynamics and relatively low rate of household penetration, sun care has a significant opportunity to grow in the future and help drive trips and market basket for retailers. To drive growth, we are focusing on simplifying the category for shoppers by driving in store visibility for the category, developing shopper centric shelving strategies and partnering with retailers to drive category education in and out of the store.
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A man is recovering at UK Hospital after a shooting near a police station.
It happened around 3 p.m. Thursday near the intersection of Centre Parkway and Appian Way in Lexington.
Police say it started as a fight between two people. One of those people pulled out a gun and shot the other man, before running away.
Several officers, just starting their shifts at the east sector station on Centre Parkway, were able to catch the suspect nearby. They say he admitted to the shooting.
"It's just crazy given that there's a police station, the school and kids are getting ready to come out of school. It really makes me wonder about this neighborhood. It's usually safe, but at this point I'm not so sure about it," said Hilda Jongwe, who lives across the street from the shooting.
Police expect the man who was shot in the shoulder to recover. The shooter's been charged with assault.


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Need Clarification on TOS8
Need Clarification on TOS8
Sep 27 2012, 02:05
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8. All members that put forth a statement concerning subjective sound quality, must -- to the best of their ability -- provide objective support for their claims. Acceptable means of support are double blind listening tests (ABX or ABC/HR) demonstrating that the member can discern a difference perceptually, together with a test sample to allow others to reproduce their findings. Graphs, non-blind listening tests, waveform difference comparisons, and so on, are not acceptable means of providing support.
I've read some of the linked discussion on TOS8 as well.
All of it covers objective vs subjective.
What IMHO needs clarification is the first phrase:
" All members that put forth a statement concerning subjective sound quality... "
Can a mod or admin clarify - in an official way - "put forth a statement" ?
For example, if I were to post "Joe Blow, the editor of AudiophileGuys magazine, says that the new Megabuck 9000 amplifier sounds better than any other amplifier", technically that would violate TOS8 - even though that Joe said that, is a fact that is easily substantiated by a reference to AudiophileGuys magazine web site. The statement is what someone said, not actually making a claim about audio.
Clearly, that is not the intent of TOS8. Rather it seems to me that the intent is with regards statements like "flac files always sound better than 320k MP3s" which would then need the substantiation required by TOS8.
Okay, then here is where the clarification is needed.
If I were to state in a post " In my setup, using ASIO output seems to sound better than WASAPI output. " - is that a violation of TOS8 ?
The discussion that TOS8 links to, suggests that TOS8 is designed to prevent statements of sound quality "fact" - as opposed to statements of personal observations. In other words, "ASIO always sounds better than WASAPI" is a TOS8 violation, while " In my setup, using ASIO output seems to sound better than WASAPI output " is just reporting an observation - and NOT an assertion of audio fact.
Am I correct, and is that how you would differentiate ?
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Sep 28 2012, 19:36
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I think we all understand what the rule is meant to say, so, if the wording is not adequate enough, maybe we can improve it.
Main target of TOS#8: Someone says there is an audible difference when none is expected.
- The subject: It doesn't really matter if the subject is the one claiming it, or just linking to someone else. The rule applies nevertheless, since it is a requirement for a claim to provide methods to be verified. Of course, if the user just links to a third party subject to start a talk about it, the subject becomes the link content creator. The user would only be explicitely asked for DBT if he uses the link as a proof and there isn't one that complies with the TOS.
- The verb: "I think", "I like", "I preffer", "I know", "I heard", "It is obvious". There is no exception to the rule, but depending on the type of claim and the context of the claim, it might not be enforced. It doesn't matter if the user just thinks it or is fully convinced about it.
Hydrogenaudio posts are expected to be objective and verifiable. Opinions, if being about something opposed to the knowledge of the forums, are just as succeptible to be TOS'ed.
(Note: preferences are not seen as violating the TOS, if a difference is expected, and the preference does not imply sounding better than the one expected to sound better).
- The object: The object is the claim, and the claim is that an audible difference exists. It does not matter how this difference is described ( it is better, it has better quality, A is poor compared to B, it misses the high spectra,... ).
Said that, it is quite important for us that the subject makes clear what the object is (there is a clear difference between saying "it is better" and "it misses the high spectra"), since that can give a clue to what the user is experiencing (beliefs, faulty software, wrong tools), and/or what is causing it to happen (EQing, clipping, faulty speakers, wrong impedance).
The wording could be seen this way:
- The "puts forth a statement" means that the person writes the sentence to make a point (i.e. to be the main topic, or being the reasoning behing the main topic).
- "subjective sound quality" is any wording that says, implicitely or explicitely that there is an audible difference between two experiences, and that one is better than the other.
So, going back to the rule's reason of existence: We want the forums to contain objective information and provide methods to differentiate between experiences that can become knowledge and experiences that are flawed.
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Sep 29 2012, 11:17
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- "subjective sound quality" is any wording that says, implicitely or explicitely that there is an audible difference between two experiences, and that one is better than the other.
The problem, IMHO, is that while TOS#8 captures these cases, which I think it was intended to, a statement of subjective sound quality is not only any phrase saying wording A sounds different to B, but also any phrase saying A sounds just as good as B, or merely any wording that says A sounds good.
I think my hi-fi sounds pretty good is a statement of subjective sound quality. (Would anyone deny it is?)
A claim to transparency is a claim to subjective sound quality. It is a very strong claim even with a by and large transparent reservation; anyone who would claim that they can quadruple your storage even over .zipping and without you noticing you were missing anything, is making a claim they might in some jurisdictions be fined for using in marketing, unless they can offer evidence for the truth value. Here we switch the burden of proof. For good reason, I might add, but there is nothing in the actual term of service that says a claim to difference and a claim to I achieved something equally good as should be treated different.
The easy and quick fix to the TOS#8 wording, is to put a differences after quality. It clarifies what users commit to, and it clarifies to some degree why it is there. Two improvements in one word, and ... is there anything that would go missing?
(For nitpickers who would say that no difference is just as much a difference (that would my fellow math guys I guess): deliberately putting the word there should be taken to mean that the likely interpretation is not the one where it would be redundant. Or if all else fails: concerning --> of.)
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Sofia,(Bulgarian:), Bulgaria, the nation's capital and largest city. It lies in the upper Iskur River valley in western Bulgaria, just south of the Balkan Mountains. Sofia is the nation's leading commercial, industrial, and transportation center. It is also Bulgaria's main cultural and educational center.
Although most of Sofia has been built during the 20th century, the city has a few notable historic structures. Among these are the churches of St. George (4th-century Roman) and St. Sofia (6th-century Byzantine) and the Banya Bashi Mosque (16th-century Turkish). Alexander Nevski Cathedral (20th century) was built in memory of the Russian troops killed in the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turks (1876–78).
Major institutions include the National Library, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Opera, and the national museums of art, history, and archeology. The University of Sofia is Bulgaria's main institution of higher learning.
Sofia was a Thracian settlement when it was occupied by the Romans late in the first century A.D. It was soon raised to city status by Emperor Trajan. The city was destroyed by the Huns in the fifth century but was rebuilt by the Byzantines. Sofia was part of the first Bulgarian kingdom from 808 until 1018, when it reverted to Byzantine rule. The Bulgarians regained control in 1186. The city was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in the 1380's and for nearly 500 years was an administrative center for their Balkan possessions. When Bulgaria was made a principality in 1878, Sofia became its capital. The city has grown greatly since World War II.
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For the first time in more than a half-century, Cubans who want to travel overseas will only need to show a passport and a visa from the country they want to visit -- and won't have to get Cuban government approval to leave.
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Here are some design ideas on die cut business cards that you might find inspiration from in designing your business card.
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My Store is a little bit of everything all in one spot.
Geneva Mooneyham opened the store on North Jackson less than six month ago and has seen her inventory turn over and over as people come in to look around.
"When someone comes in for the first time we don't always know them," she explained. "Maybe they buy something or maybe they don't. When they come back we usually recognize them. We've made a lot of friends since we opened."
And they've sold a lot, too.
My Store is known for antique and used furniture and in the short time it has been open they have developed a reputation for offering something unexpected.
"I've got a black walnut bed that was made in 1892 and a lot of nice tables that have been in a lot of nice kitchens," said Mooneyham. "I've just sold a mantle and the customers will be coming back this week to pick it up. It is real nice."
Mooneyham said they have quickly learned what people in this area like and she always asks what her customers are looking for.
"We go to a lot of estate sales and auctions," she explained. "We also have people bring their furniture by and see if we want to buy it."
But My Store is much more than furniture.
"We have appliances, new and second-hand clothing, children's and baby clothes, tables and chairs, books, videos and lot glassware and nick-nacks," Mooneyham said. "We had a lot people come in Christmas looking for things and we have had several people come in to buy birthday presents this week."
And My Store also has stuff for the guys.
"I was in the auto repair business for years and I look for tools and shop equipment," said Joe Mooneyham. "We've got an old wood heater and even a commercial deep fryer, but it's the hand tools that I am proudest of."
The Mooneyhams said they look hard for items at rock-bottom prices that they know they can turn around and sell quickly.
"We tell people to come in and look around," said Geneva Mooneyham, "and if they don't find what they want to come back in a week or two and they might just find it at my store."
Local Focus is a regular business feature of the Chickasaw Journal. Locally owned businesses wanting to be included in Local Focus should call the Chickasaw Journal at 456-3771.


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Thank you for choosing to buy locally from a Record Store!You can explore 3 ways to buy:
- Find and visit a Local Record Store and get phone number and directions (call first, there is no guarantee which products may be in stock locally)
- Purchase now from a local store that sells online
- Purchase digitally now from recordstoreday.com (which serves local record stores)
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Is Survived ByArtist: Touche Amore
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FLEET FEET Sports is a running, swimming and fitness specialty store. We provide information, opportunity and inspiration to the community. FLEET FEET is staffed entirely by runners and triathletes. Don't worry if you are not a runner or triathlete. Our supportive and knowledgeable staff does a great job for walkers, medical referrals and people who work on their feet. Have a special problem? Come to us for your shoes.
Runners World Magazine
This link sends you off to the website of America's premiere running magazine. Check out their tips of the day, frequent quizzes, and outstanding running coverage.
The Dead Runners Society
The Dead Runners Society is a discussion group for people who like to talk about running. The group is informal and social and they try to encourage each other in our running programs. They talk about everything related to running, from meditation to marathons. There are currently about 1,800 members and they are growing all the time.
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Tennessee Road Race Records
Did you know that Memphis' Mary Anne Wehrum holds the 45 Year Old Women's Tennessee Record in the 15k at 69:03? And the next year, she bettered her time by 38 seconds for the only sub-60:00 15K among women over 35! These and other Tennessee running records can be found on this comprehensive page.
Mid-South Race Calendar
A Complete Listing of Biathlons, Triathlons, Running, Swimming, Multi-sport and Cycling Events for the Mid-South and Southeastern US.
New York Road Runners Club & New York Marathon
The official site of the NYRRC and the New York Marathon. The Marathon page contains all the info you should need for the November 1st race. And the NYRRC pages include links to running clubs around the country...great if your looking for races or others to run with out of town.
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What on earth are you going to do with all those extra race shirts stacking up in the back of your closet? The folks at Italy's RunThePlanet.com have a novel idea, the "Run the Planet T-Shirt Trading Company."
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SILVER CITY >> The Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument will be free to visit this Saturday, as part of National Public Lands Day.
Cooler weather is here, monsoon rains have cleared, area rivers are gradually receding, and flood debris has been cleared from the road to the Gila Visitor Center and it is now accessible and reopened last Friday and is open daily from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
In addition, in recognition of this fee-free day, Western National Parks Association will offer a 15 percent same-day discount on all products at the Park Store.
• Lower and Upper Scorpion Campgrounds
• Upper Forks Campground
• Woody's and T.J. Corrals
Doc Campbell's Post in Gila Hot Springs remains open for business. The Grapevine Campground and Lower Forks camping area remain closed.
Visitors are reminded that flood/flashflood potential still exist as even a small amount of rainfall adds to the current high water levels in all water carrying areas. It is strongly advised to contact the local Ranger District office prior to visiting the Forest for updated information.
For more information, call The Gila Visitor Center between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. daily at: 575-536-9461 or visit nps.gov/gicl.


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Garrad Hassan Improves Its Wind Farm Design Software
NAW Staff, Monday 26 March 2007 - 10:51:52
Garrad Hassan, a San Diego-headquartered provider of products and services for the wind industry, has made several improvements to its GH WindFarmer 3.5, the company's wind farm design software.
According to the company, new features of the program include an advanced noise impact assessment, a wake model for large offshore wind farms and new procedures to help users process wind data. The program also includes a link to GH Bladed, which provides wind turbine manufacturers with a tool that analyzes the fatigue loading of each turbine for the conditions on a particular site. The link tool has been verified and certified by Germanischer Lloyd, the company adds.
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Christopher Dorner has captured the attention of police departments, media outlets, and stunned citizens across the country and around the world. Just as I'm sure many of you did, I couldn't help but scratch my head and ask, "Why? What could drive a man to murder random people as an act of retribution for losing his job?"
The answer came soon enough in the form of a manifesto from Dorner, which the LAPD quickly requested that media outlets censor. In the manifesto, Dorner describes a terrible situation within the LAPD—one of lies, corruption, and racism. Let me be clear that none of this justified Dorner's murdering of any individuals, but let us not simply take the mainstream media's half baked news story regarding recent events.
Christopher Dorner reveals himself to be an incredibly principled person who seeks equality and justice for all. Although it has become quite clear that Dorner has taken justice too far, we must recognize the need for drastic change in our country. The event which pushed the former officer over the edge occurred back in 2009.
While arresting a mentally ill man, Dorner claims that a fellow officer kicked and punched the handcuffed suspect. Upon reporting the incident, Dorner's claims were immediately overturned and he was ultimately fired for being an alleged "bully" to fellow officers. The most astounding part was how the LAPD allowed a panel comprised of some of the accused officer's close friends make the call to fire Officer Dorner.
Dorner's manifesto continued to reveal more injustices committed by the LAPD, such as rampant racism, excessive force cover-ups, and a department shrouded in secrecy and lies. Most appalling was the revelation that some of the officers involved in the Rodney King beating have made their way into the upper echelons of the department, including captains on the force. Yes, that is correct: the officers responsible for the world's most infamous example of excessive force and racism were promoted.
In addition to that, Christopher Dorner found himself accused of bullying his fellow trainees when in fact he was the only one who defended his peer from an onslaught of anti-Semitic harassment. If that wasn't enough, Dorner found himself in a van full of officers when he got into a scuffle with two of them who were using derogatory terms. The incident led to reports filed by all officers present—the result was that only one officer's story matched with Dorner's, while six others claimed that they did not see anything happen.
I highly recommend that anyone read Dorner's manifesto for some insight into his side of the story. While we must all acknowledge that the actions Dorner ultimately took cannot be justified, we must see the urgent need for drastic social change and police department transparency and accountability.
Let us not let those whom Dorner killed die in vain, but rather prevent anyone from being pushed over the edge in such a manner. Dorner's story is a tragic one – a story of a principled, honest officer looking to keep things fair, just, and equal in a gang of uniformed thugs, liars, and bullies. It seems all too likely that the oppressive situation within his own department led to Dorner snapping and going out in a blaze of retribution.


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November 30, 2015
New University of Washington head football coach Steve Sarkisian has lost his receivers coach, a little more than a week after Aaron Roderick accepted the job.
In a surprise announcement Monday, Sarkisian said Roderick will
not be joining the Huskies' coaching staff due to family-related
reasons. Roderick accepted a job coaching Washington receivers on
Jan. 17.
A University of Utah statement says Roderick cited personal
reasons for his decision to return to Utah, where he will coach the
Utes receivers, a position he has held since 2005.
The release says Roderick's wife, Laurel, will resume her duties
as Utah's assistant soccer coach.
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Towel Warming Drawer Offers "Home Spa" Luxury
When the air is nippy, and the house is cold, it's tough getting out of bed in the morning. A hot shower does wonders to warm you up, but then you have to get out, grab a boring old room-temperature towel, and hurry up to dry off before you get cold.
Well, that is a thing of the past if you pamper yourself with a towel warming drawer. You can hop out of the shower and warp a fluffy warm towel around your body. Sounds nice, eh?
This "Home Spa Towel Warming Drawer" from Jacuzzi can heat four towels up to 120 degrees in 15 minutes. Available in two sizes (the 24″ model warms two towels at a time while the 42″ drawer can do four), the unit need not take up much space in your bathroom. It can install in a standard-sized cabinet.


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A Point Pleasant man is being held in Somerset County Jail on $75,000 bail after he was arrested Monday on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.
Gregory Wisniewski, 68, was arrested after police executed a search warrant at his home on Monday, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey D. Soriano said.
Wisniewski was arrested after an investigation by the Somerset County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, Soriano said. Detectives from the prosecutor's office and the Somerset County Sheriff's Department serve on the task force. ...


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Arriva has payment withheld because Leicester patient transport service misses targets
Posted: December 17, 2012|
Health bosses have withheld payment of £4,434 from the company responsible for ferrying patients to and from hospital.
Officials said they had kept back the cash because of the poor performance of Arriva, which failed to meet all its performance targets in October.
The company, which took over the service from East Midlands Ambulance Service in July, winning a £31.3 million, five-year contract in Leicestershire and Rutland, has been told it will get the money if it meets its targets for at least three months.
Simon Freeman, managing director of Leicester City clinical commissioning group, which manages the contract, said: "Improvements in performance are being seen.
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"However, performance is still not at the levels set in the contract and in October contract penalties were triggered for under-performance."
Arriva failed to get enough patients to hospitals within an hour of the appointment time or to collect them from outpatient appointments within an hour of the requested time.
It failed to collect enough patients being discharged from hospital within two hours of the requested time.
Journeys for patients living more than 35 miles from hospital took too long and there was concern about the number of people who tried to ring the service but then abandoned the call.
Mr Freeman said: "Arriva's remedial action plan is on track and performance is forecast to be recovered by the end of December."
Arriva has faced a barrage of criticism since taking over the service – and was told to improve by the health watchdog, Care Quality Commission.
Its inspectors found patients were often picked up late, there was no proper plan for cleaning ambulances and that new staff were allowed to start work before Criminal Records Bureau checks were completed.
Agnes Greensmith, of Rowlatts Hill, Leicester, waited nearly four hours for transport home from Leicester Royal Infirmary in October.
The 93-year-old, who suffers from chronic conditions including diabetes and angina, said: "I hope this will give the company the incentive to improve.
"I am supposed to be going back to the hospital but I am putting it off because of the risk I will have to sit there waiting for hours to get home."
Ron Jenkins, of Wymeswold, who missed an appointment at Loughborough Hospital because his lift from Arriva failed to turn up on time in October, said he was pleased action had been taken.
The 75-year-old said: "The contract should be taken away from Arriva altogether.
"The company should concentrate on buses and leave ambulance services to others.
"I wrote and complained and have still not even received an acknowledgement."
Zuffar Haq, of Leicester Mercury Patients' Panel, said: "I have been asking for some time what sanctions might be imposed on Arriva.
"I am glad these have now been applied and I hope it will focus the minds of Arriva on providing a better service."
Arriva declined to comment.


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Kelly Aldous
A long term Bed-Down user Kelly was thrilled to win some Bed-Down bales at Poplar Park Horse Trials in March 2012.
I am 24years old, and was born on June 12th, which makes me a Gemini. I was born in Norwich, Norfolk, and grew up in Old Catton and moved to Taverham when I was 6years old.
I went to Lodge Lane first School, before moving to Taverham First School, then Taverham Middle School, and then Taverham High. I followed on my education at Hellesdon/Taverham Sixth Form where I studied for my A levels. I toyed with the idea of becoming a vet, but I ALWAYS knew I wanted to work with horses.
I learnt to ride at Bure Valley Riding School in Buxton, Norfolk, when I was 5. I had weekly lessons, and by the time I reached 9, I managed to persuade the riding school to let me help out at weekends. By the age of 11 I had my first pony on loan, called Ziggy Stardust, Owned by Mrs Penny Sage, who as an owner gave me my real first taste for competing and I have many happy memories and red rosettes from local competitions with Ziggy. I finally got my own pony aged 13, a 14h2 palomino mare called Carrie. At 15 I joined the North Norfolk Pony Club, and the Carousel Riding Club. I loved competing in all the teams, especially the eventing teams. It was here where it all began!
I finally finished my education and heading straight to Burnham Market Equestrian Centre to work as a working pupil for Emily and Alec Lochore, preparing myself for the JRN Championships, for which I had qualified. I then spent the winter months in Ireland, working for Steven and Trevor Smith. (Irish Event Riders). Once returning from Ireland I started training with Nini and Piggy French, and when they both moved away from Norfolk, I moved to their yard and based myself with their mother, Kate, for two years. Kate taught me so so much and I will forever be grateful, she has so much knowledge. I then moved to Leicestershire to work for Piggy as a working pupil, where again I learnt so much. I now run my own event team in Stamford, Lincs. I am very aware that there is not a lot of money to be made in eventing, however, it is my job and I can honestly say that I absolutely love it. Not many people can say they love their job, and without the support of my owners it would not be possible therefore I do consider myself very lucky. That said you do have to work hard, I just love it, every hour is worth it!
My Horses
Hearnesbrook Derby Day – owned by Mrs Phyll Buxton from Kimberley Hall, Norfolk. Phyll bred Derby, he is by her connermara pony stallion Hearnesbrook Halley and out of a TB flat race mare Historical Fact. Derby is a 12yr old Advanced horse and our greatest achievement is coming 9th in the CCI** at Osberton in Oct 2011, (our spotlight moment). He likes to dunk his haylage in his water bucket so he has to have two in his stable, one for drinking from and one to dunk in!!! He is like my best friend, we have been together for 5seasons and when I ride him it's like putting on my comfy old slippers. I absolutely adore him.
High Garth High Flyer – owned by myself and Mr Clive Aldous. JT is a Dark Bay 8yr old intermediate gelding who only started eventing last June; I think an awful lot of him, and think he could be a very big horse for me. He completed the Novice Championships at Gatcombe this yr and will be aimed for the intermediate championships and a CCI** next yr. I am very excited about his future. He is so kind, and absolutely gorgeous. If he was human, I would want to marry him!
Pleiade Tame – owned by Mrs Denise Aldous. Mango is an intermediate Bright Bay French bred mare who is 8yrs old, and has been with me since a 5yr old, she had last season off with an injury, but is now back in work. She is a super jumper and a lovely mover. She will be aimed at the intermediate championships and an autumn CCI**. Her personality is so close to that of a human being, she absolutely adores attention!
Cornsay Grouse – owned by Mr Angus Smales. Grouse is a new ride for me for 2012. He has completed Burghley CCI**** 3times with Angus and has completed 7 CCI***. He is 15yrs old and extremely experienced. I aim to take him to the CCI*** U25 championships at Bramham in June. This will be my first ever CCI***. I am extremely lucky to be given the opportunity to ride him. He does however have too many quirks to mention!!!! Hehe.
Bed-Down is an important part of my stable management routine as they are clean and easy to use.


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My name is David Haynes. Designer, Developer, Writer, Marketer & SEO Guru.
Well, that was a mouthful! :) This page is dedicated to myself and my online portfolio among other things. You can also view my HTML5 Site by clicking here.
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Downloaded the game Hyperspeed from Abandonkeep
and ran with Neverlock loader (HYPERS_K.EXE). Adlib
music stutters very badly on PII-450, PIII-550 (both
WinXP SP1a + SBLive w/Creative drivers), and I've heard
a second-hand report that it happens on >1GHz
systems as well. The stuttering happens regardless of
cycle count, frameskip, fullscreen, keepsmall, etc.
settings, and occurs in the release build of 0.57, home-
built Release and Debug versions of the CVS (circa
3/3/2003) in MSVC++, and in a 0.573 debug release
that someone sent me.
Apparently this game is doing something strange that
DOSBox doesn't like.
When running in WinXP's NTVDM using VDMSound, the
game crashes in different places with complaints of too
little conventional memory. I tried running with DOSBox
because it allows you to disable both EMS and XMS
completely and still have 640kB of conventional RAM.
Peter Veenstra
Logged In: YES
- Played the easy cluster through to the end. Worked great. I
was using Roland sound instead of Adlib and it sucks though.
Not DosBox's fault.
Ben Shadwick
Logged In: YES
Yup it works good in the 0.58 release candidate I've been
testing. I think the multithreaded code just wasn't working in
any of the older 0.57 thru pre-0.58 builds I was trying.


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In the healthcare industry, technology can have life and death impact. And the digital channels that carry patient information are a key component of improving patient care. In this case study learn how one ophthalmology practice leveraged Comcast's Metro Ethernet service to securely streamline administration and share medical images for its remote locations.
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Austin Winberg (second from right) of the blue team passes Sunday during a game of flag football at Memorial Middle School in western Sioux Falls. / Joe Ahlquist / Argus Leader
October sun and a cool fall breeze combined Sunday afternoon in Sioux Falls to create almost ideal conditions for flag football.
Not every October weekend is so outdoor friendly, but that usually doesnt stop a group of friends that have played every Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday for more than seven years. They started playing as students at Augustana College. Once they graduated, they decided keep playing together, said Nate Helling, one of the original players.
Weve been doing this for seven or eight years, Helling said. So you dont have to watch your favorite team lose.
The group splits their time between Marion Park on Tuesdays and Memorial Middle Schools football field on weekends. Games usually start around 3:30 p.m. and can last until 7:30.
Through the years, the group has changed. Many of the original players have moved away or have become too busy with families. About five years ago, Helling said, a group of Roosevelt High School students joined in the weekend games. That helped round out the numbers.
Were on the fifth year of them now, Helling said. They stay the same age, and we keep getting older.
The groups existence was good news for first-time player James Determan, who coaches flag football for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. A friend invited him to the game Sunday.
Ive been looking for a group of people that play, Determan said.
Sundays game was a bit out of the ordinary for the weekend flag football warriors.
They kept score for the first time in years.
The young guys thought they could beat the old guys, Helling said.
Usually, the game is just a bit of friendly competition, and teams are picked at random.
Not everyone at the game was there to play. Herman Meyer was there to watch a friend play.
I used to play football myself, about 60 years ago, Meyer said. I just loved it, you know, just loved the sport.


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Janis Ian (Facebook) (Twitter)
Audiobook read by the author
Tarcher (2009), trade paper (ISBN 1585427497 / 9781585427499)
Autobiography/memoir, 384 pages
Source: Purchased audiobook (Audible, Inc.; ASIN B0089IC1KC)
Reason for reading: Personal; 2013 Grammy Award winner, Best Spoken-Word Album; 2013 Audie Awards nominee, Narration by Author(s)
Opening lines (from the Prologue):
"I was standing alone on a stage in Encino, California, halfway through the first verse of my song 'Society's Child.'
'Come to my door, baby"The problem had begun with a lone woman screaming out the words 'N**** lover!' Then the people sitting around her had joined in, chanting as though they were at a religious service. They were even chanting in time to the song.
Face is clean and shining black as night
My mama went to answer
You know that you looked so fine
Now, I could understand the tears and the shame
She called you "Boy" instead of your name'
"'N**** lover! N****lover!' beat beat beat beat N**** lover! N****lover!' beat beat beat beat
"It was difficult to concentrate on keeping my own time.
"The chant degenerated into yelling, twenty or thirty people in the sold-out concert hall. I peered to the left, where the sound came from, and saw some of them beginning to rise. They were shaking their fists in the air as the rest of the audience looked on in stunned silence.
"I was having a hit record.
"I was singing for people who wanted me dead."
Book description, from the publisher's website:
Janis Ian was catapulted into the spotlight in 1966 at the age of 15, when her soul-wrenching song "Society's Child" became a hit. An intimate portrait of an interracial relationship, "Society's Child" climbed the charts despite the fact that many radio stations across the country refused to play it because of its controversial subject matter. But this was only the beginning of a long and illustrious career.
In this memoir of her more than 40 years in the music business, Ian chronicles how she did drugs with Jimi Hendrix, went shopping for Grammy clothes with Janis Joplin, and sang with Mel Tormé, all the while never ceasing to create unforgettable music.
In 1975, Ian's legendary "At Seventeen" earned two Grammy awards and five nominations. Her next two albums brought her worldwide platinum hits. But after seven albums in as many years, she made a conscious decision to walk away from the often grueling music business. During this period, she struggled through a difficult marriage, which ended with her then husband's attempt to destroy her, and a sudden illness that very nearly cost her her life. The hiatus from music lasted for close to a decade until, in 1993, Ian returned with the release of the Grammy-nominated Breaking Silence. Now, as she moves gracefully into her fifth decade as a recording artist and writer, Ian continues to draw large audiences around the globe.
In Society's Child, Janis Ian provides a relentlessly honest account of the successes and failures - and the hopes and dreams - of an extraordinary life.Comments: I sometimes forget that the terms "memoir" and "autobiography" aren't precisely interchangeable, and that when I say that some of my favorite guilty-pleasure reading is "celebrity memoir," most of that reading is proper celebrity autobiography...and some of the celebrity autobiography I've enjoyed most has been either rather light, or very specialized, in the "celebrity" quotient. For example, if you were born much later than the mid-1970s, you may never have heard of singer-songwriter Janis Ian, let alone have any interest in her life story. I don't think she's had a big hit in this country since I was in middle school, and if the audio version of her autobiography, Society's Child hadn't won the 2013 Grammy Award for "Best Spoken Word Album" and snagged an Audie Awards nomination in the "Narration by Author" category, it probably wouldn't have caught my notice either.
Society's Child takes its title from Ian's first single, released in 1966, a controversial song about an interracial relationship that she wrote and recorded when she was barely fifteen years old. Years of steady work--writing, recording, touring (lather, rinse, repeat)--followed, and by her late twenties, Ian was a seasoned veteran of a music industry that was changing direction away from her strengths. She's changed direction as well, many times over the last few decades, and is well into her fifth decade of a career where she's now managing her strengths on her own terms.
The ups and downs and winding roads of Ian's career offer an interesting capsule of the music industry's evolution over a half-century, but her personal life may have had even more ups and downs and winding roads. Starting her career so young caused Janis to mature early in some ways and to lose ground in others. While she seldom doubted herself in matters related to her creative work, the practical issues surrounding it--management of logistics and finances--were often challenging, and the aspects of her life and personality that didn't involve her work were even more so. Struggles with identity and self-image, along with the aftereffects of childhood molestation, her parents' divorce, and her mother's chronic illness, led her into and out of therapy (with varying degrees of success) and relationships with both men and women. While Janis realized early on that she was attracted to women, she effectively spent her early adulthood living as a bisexual, and through a disastrous marriage.
Although she's not widely recognized for it, Janis Ian was a pioneer--as a musician, as an admitted and acknowledged lesbian, and as an independent artist making use of the Internet to connect with fans and market her work. All of that gives her story continued relevance. And the personal tragicomedy of it--the romantic drama, the associates who proved untrustworthy, the vindictive IRS agent who pursued her for years over back taxes--makes it fascinating reading.
I found that I needed to remind myself of the distinctions between autobiography and memoir more than once while listening to Society's Child While it may take off on tangents, memoir usually is structured around a central theme that drives its narrative; autobiography is less organized, and therefore, more like the life it portrays. That quality caused me to have trouble with Ian's chronology at times, and I needed to remember that while a story has to be told in some sort of sequence, some the events in that story may be occurring concurrently...and I just didn't need to fixate so much on what happened when and in relation to what else. That ended up not being so difficult after all, though, because Janis Ian drew me into her story beautifully. Each chapter of Society's Child is named for one of her songs, and most open with her performing a fragment of that song; this is a definite plus of the audio presentation, and made me want to add some of her music to my library (although I haven't gotten around to it yet). And when she's not singing, her style is intimate, conversational, and very engaging. I didn't know much about Janis Ian before reading her autobiography, but she's well worth knowing, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to get acquainted with her.


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"It's going to be a very successful season for us in the fact that the National Retail Federation is projecting holiday sales to rise by 2.8 percent," Kate Anderson said, mall marketing manager.
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The alert is for those located along Bailey Road from Van Buren Avenue to Graham Road.
It lasts until 9 a.m. Thursday morning as the city is looking at having to repair a water pipe.
Residents in the affected area are asked to boil water for a minimum of two minutes before using.
Akron Police report the following incidents took place over the weekend:
Police say Maynard ran off with the cash that they later discovered hidden on his body.
Police say Maycon G. Alavez, 26, of Clark St. in Akron, kicked in the door of a Chittenden St. home. It's reported Alavez ran into the bedroom of the home and pointed a gun at a victim. Another person entered the victim's bedroom with a bat. Police say Alavez hit that person with the gun and ran off. Alavez was tracked down by the K-9 unit and was arrested on charges of aggravated burglary and felonious assault.
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Police tried to pull over a vehicle on Cooledge that was approaching Darrow Road. The vehicle did not stop and headed south to a Metro Park. After the three suspects jumped out of the vehicle, that's when police nabbed two of the suspects.
Richard M. Reed, 29, and Obie Hairston, 26, are now facing aggravated robbery charges, among other charges.
Authorities believe they've identified the third victim in the so-call Craigslist killings.
The Associated Press is reporting that Noble County Sheriff Steve Hannum said Saturday that the body of Ralph Geiger was discovered in a shallow grave-- close to where the body of another jobseeker was found.
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None of victims report any injuries and Capt. Dave Davis tells the newspaper he wants it to stay that way. Davis said the time of day and the locations of the robberies are reasons police say the incidents could be linked.
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This year, the postal service anticipates about 16.5 billion letters, cards and packages to be sent during the Christmas season.
"That is lower than it has been in past years," he said. "The cards and letters-- people are sending less of those these days."
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From trusting online sources, to posting status updates on social media sites-- an Akron therapist says parents should be involved from the start when it comes to their children and technology.
Katie Filkorn, a mental health therapist from Akron Children's Hospital, joined the 1590 WAKR Ray Horner Morning Show Tuesday.
Filkorn explained how parents can obtain a better handle on how their children use of technology including social media websites, the internet and portable media devices. She advises parents to explain how and why information found online may not always be factual.
How To Better Monitor Children Online by WAKR Lindsay McCoy
She says parents should be involved from the beginning and an open dialogues should be started from usage rules to parental controls.
"Where trust starts to be broken and kids start to get defiant or defensive about it, its when parents are going behind their back, not even communicating to them that this is how things are going to be looked at," Filkorn said.
Filkorn said the devices used today impact the manner in which children communicate, especially when it comes to bullying.
"Kids then don't have the strength to stand up to each other, because now they're all doing over a screen," she said.
Filkorn says she's seeing evidence that problem solving skills are starting to diminish among teens and children.
A 15-year old suspect faces attempted murder charges after a shooting at a party in Green.
The Summit County Sheriff's Office reports deputies arrived to 49 E. Comet Road at 12 a.m. Saturday, where they found a 22-year old victim with gunshot wounds. The victim suffered wounds to the leg and abdomen.
The investigation shows the victim was part of a verbal fight with the 15-year old suspect. Authorities say the suspect pulled out a .45 caliber hand gun and fired a total of four shots. A second suspect showed off a weapon as well.
After running away from the party, the suspect was turned into the sheriff's office by parents. The suspect faces attempted murder and felonious assault charges. The second suspect was charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
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I have a question for all of you lawyers, and anybody else who opposes this idea for that matter. You adamantly oppose any sort of electrical shock inside of the car. Which, as was previously said, would require the criminal to admit to breaking and entering to receive said shock in the case of a lawsuit. The alternative being mentioned over and over again is to use piezo sirens at 100db+. At 115db it takes 30 seconds or less for permanent damage to occur and I know there are sirens capable of higher db's than these. This is not to say that the sirens can't cause instant damage to anyone. The time is just an averaged number.
My question is how a siren or many sirens which is likely the case, which can cause permanent hearing loss as opposed to a shock that only causes soreness, a better choice as far as a lawsuit? In this country's sad state of a legal system, I would think the thief with permanent hearing damage would be much more likely to win in court.
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I am having vision issues which are terrifying to someone whose work and interests lie in reading and writing. Because of this, I am falling behind in some of my reviewing commitments and ask for your support and patience.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
A Wedding Invitation...Review...DNF
After returning home from teaching English at a refugee camp in the Philippines, Samantha Bravencourt enjoys her quiet life working at her mother's clothing boutique in Falls Church, Virginia. When she receives an invitation to a wedding in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she looks forward to reconnecting with her college friend. Instead her life collides with Carson, a fellow teacher and the man who broke her heart, and a young Amerasian refugee named Lien who needs Samantha and Carson's help to find her mother before Lien's own wedding. When the search for Lien's mother reveals surprising secrets from the past, Samantha must reevaluate her own memories and decide whether to continue to play it safe or take a risk that could change her life.
I really don't like first person and I really don't like first person present tense. I know there are some who think it more dramatic or real, but it annoys me. I can often look past it, but not here. Part of that, too, was that I just couldn't find a reason to keep reading. I didn't like Samantha, I couldn't believe her relationship with Carson. There was nothing in this story that compelled me to keep reading. Fans of Alice J. Wisler will love it, but it wasn't for me. This is the second of her books that I've tried to read and I think it will be the last. There are authors you connect with and authors you don't and this is one that just doesn't work for me.
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So far i know JSF Reference Implementation only.
I would like to know Is there any diff b/w JSF vs Facelets? if not why facelets word using mostly and at the same time myfaces,tomahalwk why these words evolved?
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JSF is an extensible framework. It comes with a set of core tags such as the tags in the "h" (html) and "f" (functional) namespaces. But those tags are pretty basic. They don't provide the sophisticated GUI that most of us love, so it's a common practice to augment them with extension tagsets, such as RichFaces or Tomahawk. These extension tagsets usually offer better AjAX support, compound controls such as ComboBoxes and Shuttle Controls and so forth.
Myfaces is a bit different. myfaces.apache.org is the home of a number of different projects. There's the basic myfaces package, which isn't needed much anymore, since it's functionally equivalent to the Reference Implementation of JSF. Then there's things like Tomahawk that add scrollable table displays and Calendar controls. Trinidad is (if I'm not mistaken) an open-source implementation of Oracle's ADF tagset. Tomahawk is one of the oldest of the extension tagsets, and in some cases, the core JSF implementation now includes capabilities that requires an exension originally.
Facelets is a bit different. JSF in its pure form allows the output to appear in many formats, but Facelets was designed in part to optimize HTML output in particular. It's available as an add-on for JSF 1.x, but it's an integral part of JSF2. It's very useful, although, unfortunately it has also made it possible for people to try and code JSF views as though they were logic components instead of as form templates. That isn't a good thing to do, as it violates MVC rules. And more to the point, makes apps more difficult (and expensive) to maintain.
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Often, when something comes to an end, I find it meaningful to go back and look at its beginning, so as to get a sense of how things have changed throughout the process. A minute ago, I reread my first post here on Lector, "Electronic Readers . . . and Destiny!", and I'd like to touch on it, just to bring things full circle.
First of all, in that post, I discussed how these Sony e-readers differ from the Amazon Kindle I had used before. In general, my opinion on electronic readers hasn't changed; I will probably always be a fan of reading from paper, if simply because that was the experience I had first. I still think the Kindle is preferable because of its internet capabilities. But after regular use of Sony's device throughout the past few months, I found that most of the objections I had sort of melted away as I began to consider it less as a novelty and more purely as a tool. Yes, the e-reader lacks certain features that would make it niftier and somewhat easier to work with, but in the end I honestly don't care nearly as much about the buttons or pages I'm holding in my hand as I do about the meaning of the words I'm reading. Because they do offer advantages in terms of price, space, and environmental repercussions, I imagine that electronic readers will eventually replace paper books almost entirely–and I think that'll be okay. It won't be exactly the same experience, but all in all, I believe the ideas and their expression are what matter, not the specifics of the medium.
Actually, I think that point–that commitment to ideas matters above most other things–has been the theme of our reading material in this class, as well.
In Outliers, we read a lot of different stories about people who accomplished more than most, and Gladwell did his best to convince us that, as he wrote, "It's not enough to ask what successful people are like." He asked us to stop focusing on ill-defined and changeable things like people's characteristics; how can success stem purely from traits when traits themselves depend on all sorts of outside factors like one's parents and schooling and when one happens to be born? Instead, what makes someone an expert is that, throughout the complicated twists and turns of his/her life, that person has managed to accumulate an unusually large amount of experience (10,000 hours' worth) in one specific skill, towards one specific goal.
WAR gave us a closer look at adversity and just how good we humans are at adapting in order to overcome obstacles. Junger offered insights into the powerful phenomena of group loyalty and desperation. He points out that what we think of as "acts of courage", when looked at in the context of war, often seem simply like what must be done in order to ensure everyone's survival and the accomplishment of a set goal.
And both The Facebook Effect and Iran Awakening presented in-depth examinations of how individuals accomplished outstanding things by being extraordinarily dedicated to their ideals. Mark Zuckerberg created a program with the intention of improving modern communication. He had help from powerful friends, but these same people could have easily held Facebook back by diverting attention to profit or other matters–were it not for Zuckerberg's remarkable concentration on what he was trying to achieve with the program as a tool. Similarly, Shirin Ebadi refused to flee Iran like many of her colleagues did, opting instead to remain in constant danger and fight one battle after another to try to mold the Islamic system into one that respects women and intellectual freedom.
Zuckerberg, Ebadi, the men in WAR, and the outliers in Gladwell's book all had one thing in common: tremendous dedication to ideas–even to the point where they were willing to sacrifice other aspects of their lives in order to make progress towards those ideas. I think Gladwell was right when he encouraged us not to look at the people who accomplish things, but it seems to me he was still missing the point when he told us to look at where these people come from. I think the bigger question to look at when contemplating extraordinary achievements is "why?" or "to what end?" Ebadi, summed it up best when she wrote about her winning the Nobel Peace Prize: "Such lofty recognition could only be intended for what someone's life symbolized, the path or approach they had followed in pursuit of some higher purpose." That's what I'll be taking away from this class. Whether in the case of our e-readers, where people get caught up in disagreements over paper or electronic ink, or in the case of remarkable accomplishments, where we tend to focus on specific people and events, the specifics of the medium that holds the ideas don't matter all that much. The ideas do.


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Who benefits? As well as being a source of tremendous pleasure and interest to Church Recorders and worshippers alike, Church Records serve a number of practical purposes. They are used by:
the church authorities as a complete furnishing record
the police, who can use the accurate descriptions and photographs to identify retrieved stolen artefacts
Insurance companies who use the Records to identify items
Researchers who are producing theses and books on allied subjects
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The volunteer Church Recorders give an insight into how they go about recording a church, the detective skills and the enjoyment of working as a team to compile a detailed record.
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