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Incredible soundtrack! keep up the series!!!!!
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The Mourner Marches On
"The Mourner's" plot reveals the main character, a human, whose elven girlfriend died at the hands of her own race. Even in fantastical places, racial prejudice can get ugly, and it shows.
Our hero, "The Mourner" pays back the elf who killed her in spades and carries the murderer's head as a reminder not to be carried away. Even in her death, "The Mourner" will always have her in his heart and that her death will never be in vain.
Good job with the sequel, Charlie Zero. I commend you.
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Leopold The Last - Educational Fund
£1,753 of £15k goal
I'm somewhat in the middle. I believe we participate in many life changing events, both sad and joyfull, and sometimes it is helpful and maybe even healing to create a reason...
Before I move on to the reason for this Fund, you need to meet Ceri and her very special four legged friend, Leopold The Last (Leo). If you have ever had anything to do with horses, you will know they can form a strong bond with their owner and rider. Leo sure had one with Ceri.
In the summer 2016, a 38 year old Ceri received devastating health news. Secondary cancer.
When she asked me for help with rehoming Leo I thought I would take him on whilst she was undergoing treatements and together we will find the right solution for Leo.
I thought I would keep him so she had him close by, a comforting presence throughout gruelling times.
I thought being able to see him, even if not able to ride him, would give her strength to keep fighting.
I'd like to tell you that she is still here and having a chance to survive but this is not the case.
Ceri passed away a week after I picked Leo up and promised to secure a good life for him.
When something means so much to someone, as this little horse meant for Ceri, it is especially important to make sure the promise is kept to the best of my ability.
This is where this Fund comes in. This is where you come in. You can help me give Leo an opportunity to do something meanigful and important.
Who am I...
I'm a horse riding instructor and run a coaching programme - Aspire Equestrian Riding Academy - aimed at people of all ages who have deep interest in ethical equestrian sports, who want to ride and train horses with knowldge of their biomechanics, anatomy and psychology.
Ceri's dream was to learn as much about good, wellness focused training as possible. Her dream could live on via Leo's work within Aspire Academy.
For this reason, the primary aim of this fund is to secure at least 1 year of regular training and care for Leo and create a series of educational sessions for those riders who would otherwise be unable to afford quality tuition and training but who could learn from Leo.
For me to be able to continue caring for Leo in best way possible and proceed with his educational role, I need to secure money for:
- Leo's care (hoofcare, veterinary care, saddle checks, health checks)
- Leo's livery fees
- investigations of Leo's small performance issues which Ceri had started to address before her death
I would love to have you on board and part of #LeoAspireJourney. Every tiny little contribution helps.
You will be able to follow Leo's story via Aspire blog, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
There are some incredibly sad stories we all have within us but some of them can also give life to projects that can bring smiles instead of tears.
Your contribution will help keep Ceri's dream alive and let Leo educate many who meet him.
All the very best and a huge thank you in advance for your contribution, however small :)
Wiola & Leo
Hello everyone :) It's been a very interesting month for Leo so now that I finally have a quiet moment to sit down and write a proper update, let's get to it!
First of all, the saddle malarkey. I had a feeling it was not fitting Leo well for quite some time now and I am kicking myself for not listening to my intuition here but hey ho. I had it looked at the first time I was a bit concerned (in the late Autumn) but other than an advice to keep an eye, nothing major was found.
However, Leo's behaviour during tacking up was getting worse (nothing major but little things like ears back, trying to bite when girth was being done up etc). It didn't stand out that much as he was a bit like this when he first came but enough to make me worried.
Now, I have this beautiful, expensive saddle that was specifically fitted to the horse but the horse changed shape quite a bit and doesn't think he likes this saddle anymore :-/
I had it checked again in November and the saddler advised to have a thorough check and adjustment done as the saddle was out of balance on Leo's back.
I took it more seriously this time and kept ridden sessions very short whilst extending in-hand sessions. I also started doing short bareback sessions and Leo's movement was definitely different (freer, more supple) that in the saddle.
I rode Leo last time in the saddle at the beginning of January and painfully resigned myself to discontinue as he was definitely not comfortable.
So now, we've been doing a lot of groundwork, some bareback once/twice a week and walk out hacks. Two weeks in and he is already much happier, there is much more movement in his back and more swing in his pelvis in trot and his overall attitude to work has improved too from slightly robotic obedience to a curious interest in my questions.
Mid month I received a very generous offer from Louise Crow, a technician for SyncEquine. More about her here:
She wanted to donate of a full body scan plus veterinary report to Leo. Whenever I look at a horse with some movement issues I always think how incredible it would be to just see inside them to plan their management as best as possible without forking out thousands of pounds for usually suggested diagnostic tools like MRI or scintigraphy.
I can't thank Lou enough for this offer, I have helped with the scans before and she was as thorough and professional as if we were paying clients.
Christine of http://cdphotos.co.uk/ who is my superb creative assistant helping during my teaching work, came to take photos during the whole process and a little collage from it is attached here :)
The report from the Vets came a few days later and gave me plenty of think about pointing at areas of concern and suggesting ways of addressing them.
We decided to re-scan in a few months so I can see if what I am doing is helping and re-evaluate then. I would recommend this company without hesitation, superb tool for monitoring your horse.
Leo's current work is good and my main focus during the groundwork is his straightness. He moves slightly quarters in/shoulders out on the right rein which then affects his ability to bend to the right.
The saddler is coming next week to help me fit something interim. Once I have managed to sell Leo's current saddle, I will get him something nicer but right now.
If any of you reading this is looking for a beautifully crafted dressage saddle, please see here for more details:
I'd been in touch with the designer and they were incredibly helpful but the costs of re-fitting this saddle are just too high for me. I am also thinking that a good general purpose saddle might be the way to go or a dressage saddle that allows for a comfortable ride in shorter stirrups as I need to be taking Leo out and about not just schooling in the arena.
On a crazy chance that anyone reading this collects unique dressage saddles (this one is made by Ideal but is of a classical dressage design - more about it in the link above) and would like to buy this one for their collection, give me a shout!! :-D
One thing I never thought I'd miss is mooching about the countryside on the spooky guy so I can't wait to have a saddle he likes soon!
I do get asked about my plans for Leo quite often but other than the fact he is going nowhere and doesn't owe me anything, I don't have any plans set in stone. He will be a schoolmaster for my Academy riders in some capacity and I am working on improving and refining his in-hand work skills so he can teach others a good basics of groundwork and if all goes well, I'd like to compete him a little within his comfort levels but we shall see.
He is happy and content, a few days ago he got a new turn out rug from Kelly as a donation gift and enjoys making it filthy day by day rolling in the mud, he has friends in Yorkshire asking about him and sending little financial help and he has a fabulous ongoing feed sponsorship from Smart Horse Nutrition. Lucky guy I'd say!!
Speak very soon :)
Wiola & Leo <3
Leo had a quiet festive time with me having plenty of time for him. We had nice long grooming sessions and in-hand work mostly over poles as well as continuing the work on suppleness and back mobility.
On the 28th of December, my youngest Academy rider came to have Leo experience. He was on his best behaviour and she rode like a little pro ;)
More photos of her on Leo attached and you can see a short video on Academy's Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BOkb85agkOc/?taken-by=aspireequestrian
I wanted Caitlin to experience lateral movements so worked Leo in-hand so she could feel the positioning for shoulder-in and leg-yield. When she comes next time we will do more so she can build her feel tool box :)
She got the experience of a big movement (Leo has a much more cadence and length to his strides than Caitlin's usual lesson pony) and she coped with it beautifully.
One thing that worries me is Leo's saddle as with his body changing shape as he becomes fitter, it no longer sits well on his back. I have so far been trying different pads and it does help but addressing the issue is the first thing on the New Year to do list.
Talking on the New Year...I can't thank everyone enough for all the support for Leo and this little project. I know that with the right management he can make a fabulous schoolmaster and seeing little Caitlin on him, I would love to see if he could take a young rider for a little training journey!
So I will be carrying on updating you all, hoping you can join in and get involved :)
Have a wonderful New Year 2017. Make it your own! :)
Wiola & Leo <3
Leo power walks 90% of today's hack. It's mostly hills here so it's not an easy stroll by any means. He feels fabulous.
I get him his 3rd scenar treatment today too (thank you to everyone who helps out by donating to this fund, it makes a big difference in Leo's management :) ) .
More about scenar: http://www.equus-scenar-training.com/what-is-scenar/
I hope he enjoys his early festive gift ;) A few photos from his session below :)
All the best,
Wiola & Leo <3
Owned by Alison since 3/4 years old and living a good life until 26. Warmest thank you to Dancer's owner and everyone at Lindrick Livery for your donation.
Rest in Peace Dancer. Leo says thank you too! <3
I'm serious: exercise, food, friendship, solid boundaries--a human could want as much!
Patricia - this made me chuckle ;) Thank you for your support!
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O, Canada! On the heels of yesterday's report that Amazon got a little tipsy and tried to take a peek up RIM's skirt last summer comes the WSJ's news that both Microsoft and Nokia thought about buying the beleaguered BlackBerry maker. Sheesh, RIM, people are gonna start talking.
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A field inventory of trees was conducted in March of 1997 in a logging concession at the Tapajos National Forest, south of Santarem, Para, Brazil. The inventory was conducted by the foresters and technicians of the Tropical Forest Foundation (FFT) and included all trees with diameter at breast height greater than or equal to 35 cm. Four blocks of approximately 100 ha each within the 3,200 ha concession were inventoried. Within each block, parallel trails 50 m apart were established, and the location of each tree measured was recorded to the nearest meter using an orthogonal coordinate system based on these trails. Field data for each tree includes: identification number, ground position, diameter, common name, scientific name and qualitative estimates of bole and canopy quality. Data are provided in one ASCII comma separated file. These data were used to calculate above-ground live biomass as described in Keller et al. (2001), but biomass data are not included in this data set.
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Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere : The Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) is an intensive scientific investigation of the tropical rainforest of Brazil and portions of adjacent countries. Like FIFE and BOREAS, this project uses intensive remote-sensing techniques and ground-based experiments to investigate the atmosphere-biosphere-hydrosphere dynamics of this large tropical region. The LBA Project encompasses several scientific disciplines, or components. The LBA-ECO component focuses on the question: "How do tropical forest conversion, regrowth, and selective logging influence carbon storage, nutrient dynamics, trace gas fluxes, and the prospect for sustainable land use in Amazonia?"
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Venezuelan born, Gabriela Montero has an extraordinary ability as an improviser, rare in the classical world and this is fast becoming her trademark. For Baroque, Gabriela takes some of the best known Baroque themes, including Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, Albinoni's Adagio, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Boccherini's Minuet and Handel's Water Music, and creates classy improvisations full of passion and poetic musicality.
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|January 13, 2014 08:45 AM EST
Enterprise IT organizations today often are bypassed as employees and LoBs use cloud services; in fact cloud computing is considered the revenge of the business unit. 2014 will be year that the Enterprise IT organizations move from role of helpless bystander to role of strategic partner to the business unit. It will be the year that the CIO carves out a new role of strategic importance, namely the enabler of cloud apps that drive agility, productivity and competitive advantage for their business units. In 2014, CIOs and IT departments will use rapidly emerging cloud security solutions to accelerate the adoption of SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) within the enterprise and will embark on security transformation.
1. Rush to adopt cloud services will drown out security fears
Cloud security risks will never be completely eliminated, obviously, but security won't be a cloud adoption obstacle in 2014. Cloud security is already on par, if not better than, traditional digital security, and 2014 will mark the cloud security tipping point, the beginning of real security transformation.
The major tech giants (Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc.) have all placed major bets on the cloud, and the rest of the economy, regardless of industry, will follow their lead. In fact, a recent study found that cloud adoption is already high in industries as varied as manufacturing, health care, media and financial services - and that's just reported adoption.Shadow IT would push those numbers higher.
2. IT stops blocking cloud services over outdated risks
There will be big change in 2014 on how IT copes with cloud risks. The status quo is based on outdated arguments and limited visibility. Today, IT generally blocks what it knows (Facebook, YouTube, ESPN.com). Many of these sites are blocked in order to prioritize productivity (and often to conserve bandwidth). And what IT does not know today generally gets through, which is often risky.
This approach is pointless at best, since it's so easy to find workarounds, and counterproductive at worst, since IT often blocks services that will boost productivity. According to our 2013 Cloud Adoption & Risk Report, which compiled data from more than 3 million users across more than 100 companies in various industries, IT still blocks what it knows, not necessarily what puts organizations at risk.
In 2014, IT will get the visibility needed to feel comfortable loosening the reigns, helping employees evaluate and understand the risk of these services, rather than simply blocking them.
3. IT gains more organizational power due to the rise of SMAC
Not that long ago, the IT world fretted about whether or not IT was becoming irrelevant in this service-driven world. Now, with social, mobile, analytics, and cloud trends all converging in chaotic ways and the number of service providers increasing at dizzying rates, IT will start to get over their self-image as operators and providers of all IT infrastructure, applications, devices, and services and will start to see themselves more as the strategic enabler of services
According to Computerworld, the hottest IT job right now is IT business analyst. Not long ago, only the CIO worried about aligning technology with business goals. In 2014, it will be the entire IT department.
4. Revenge of the CIO - CIOs will transition from CI-No's to business enablers
As IT departments become more strategic, the CIO's role will change drastically too. CIOs are tired of being "CI-No's." It's not a fun job. Fortunately, they no longer have to fill that role. As IT pros evolve into internal tech consultants who identify, evaluate, and oversee technologies (and not necessarily the ones who have to develop, deliver, or operate these technologies), CIOs will be tasked with figuring out how new technologies deliver competitive advantages.
CIOs will look at cloud, mobile, social media, and whatever other new technology comes along to discern how these cloud services will benefit the business, operationally and strategically. This means the background of CIOs will change as well. Organizations will value pure IT backgrounds less and less, instead prioritizing business and operational experience.
5. CIOs who aren't comfortable with SMAC will be challenged
By the end of 2014, CIOs who don't understand the strategic importance of social, mobile, analytics and cloud will be considered old school and less relevant to the organization. CIOs who "just say no" and fail to adapt will face criticism from everyone from board members who can't live without access to corporate data on their personal tablets to developers who demand access to services like AWS.
Moreover, in 2014 CMOs will continue to infringe on areas of responsibility that used to belong solely to the CIO. Those CIOs who continue to block cloud services that deliver business value will place their organizations at a competitive disadvantage, and once the rest of the C-suite wakes up to that fact, it will be the CMO, not the CIO, driving the future of technology within those slow-to-adapt organizations.
6. Unencrypted data will start to disappear
Ask any digital security professional for tips on how to better secure anything from the cloud to mobile end points to social media, and every single one will mention encryption at some point. In 2014, data will be encrypted everywhere - in motion, at rest, on corporate-owned smartphones, on employee-owned mobile device, etc.
As more applications and services reside in the cloud, the focus on how best to encrypt data will shift away from endpoints to cloud services and networks. The weak link in data encryption is the endpoint, but in 2014 that weak link will start to be eliminated, with important data never stored on end devices.
In 2014, enterprises will also demand encryption services that encrypt data no matter where it resides. Soon, there will be no such thing as unencrypted data.
7. Cloud adoption will force the enterprise to regain control of encryption keys
As unencrypted data disappears, so too will encryption keys that the enterprise does not own or control. New key escrow mechanisms will emerge allowing cloud service providers to have access to the customer data in the clear, but only for controlled, narrow windows of time. There will also be massive interest in encryption algorithms that allow enterprise ownership of encryption keys and do not break cloud service provider functionality.
8. VPNs and agents begin to disappear
Mobile devices access more enterprise services each and every day, and the way most enterprises protect data as it travels from applications to mobile devices is through a VPN. However, even simple to use VPN clients have their issues, such as reduced battery life and misconfigurations and connectivity issues.
As everything from tire pressure gauges to soil sensors to fitness monitors connects to the Internet, new ways to encrypt wireless data traffic will emerge. The agent-based approach will start to be phased out in 2014.
9. Data security re-emerges, this time to stay
Even as encryption becomes standard, it won't be enough. Encrypting data is indeed a best practice, but it's one tool in the tool chest. Just because your data is encrypted doesn't mean you know where it's been, where it's going, or whether or not it was accessed inappropriately. As a result, data access analytics and cloud-based data loss prevention (DLP) tools will start to become as common in the next few years as firewalls were in the past.
Data tracking tools will grow more powerful over time, meaning that even if you store data in a third-party cloud that you have no visibility into now, you'll need to start gaining visibility in 2014.
10. A virtual security perimeter begins to take shape
Traditional perimeter security is on life support. Traditional Firewalls, IPSes, and VPNs do a poor job of protecting against emerging cloud, mobile, and social threats. However, there is now a virtual cloud edge developing, one that enforces policies spanning authentication, identity management, access control, encryption, data movement, and more. This virtual cloud edge will enable organizations to securely stitch together their various clouds (private, public, hybrid), while even protecting traditional behind-the-firewall applications.
In 2014, the virtual security edge will begin to take shape in response to BYOD and cloud risks, but its benefits will be much further reaching.
11. The SMACS famous five (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud, Security) will be the rage in 2014
Cloud is the main driver of social and mobile today. Cloud-delivered analytics will become more widely used. In 2014 cloud and analytics will form another alliance, namely, "Analytics for the Cloud." This will help the industry gain better, more actionable insights into cloud usage and behavior. The analogous alignment between Cloud and Security will emerge: cloud-delivered security will become more widely used and will be joined by security tools purpose-built for the cloud.
Meanwhile, those organizations blocking services will be at a major disadvantage in 2014, since their ability to compete will be seriously hindered.
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My husband and I are going on the Silver Sea Egypt cruise in October and want to take a tour of Petra and the Wadi Rum desert. The ship has not confirmed that they will offer this. We get into Aqaba Sunday at 8am and leave Monday at 6pm. What is the best tour for this time frame? We are not opposed to staying in Petra overnight. Has anyone had an experience with Petra Travel and Tourism which runs packages for a tour of Petra one day and a short desert tour the next for $245 per person with overnight in Petra?
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I'm not familiar with that tour operator, but the price is good. Which hotel are they using in Petra? There a few lovely hotels in Petra (5* in fact). And I'm sure you'll have some meals included in that amount - breakfast, at least second day - but check about lunch and dinner the night you stay over. Otherwise, I'm sure the hotel has offerings and there are local restaurants nearby and cost can't be much.
We did a mini-Jordan trip on way to Egypt and paid about that but we stayed at a "no-star" airport hotel, though clean and since we were out all day was no matter. Did a full day to Petra and next day Jerash and Amman before heading to Egypt.
The price is good, but check the hotel and meals included - otherwise, go for it!
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Further to above response I remember the names of two hotels - the Movenpick is at the entrance of Petra and easy to get to see the sunrise or stay late and see sunset.
Another is the Taybet Zaman (sp) a bit of a distance away, but amazingly beautiful, small, reconstructed from an old ruined city/town under the auspices of Queen Noor who tho a Queen received her degree in architecture.
See which one the tour operator might offer.
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We stayed at Taybet Zeman--it was exotically lovely, and the food was good.
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I think you got a great deal on that tour. I will be going to Israel and then to Petra. I am paying $300 for the Petra Portion. We are going to Masadah and also another place in Israel called, Eilat(more of beach resort), it's supposed to be very nice. Then we are headed to Petra for one night. My parents took the Egypt cruise and they loved it. I wish you and your husband a wonderful trip.
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Did you take a tour with Petra Travel? If so, what did you think about them? I have looked at their web page on a link from the Jordan Air site and wondered about a tour with them.
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My wife and I have done a 10 day tour of Jordan with Petra. Can't praise their organization, efficiency, friendliness and courtesy highly enough! We're now looking at getting them to organize a trip to Syria for us by road from Jordan, such is our confidence.
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Great thread: anyone can suggest the cheapest airline to fly to Jordan from Midwest. Seems that the current air ticket prices are simply over the top!
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Our firm is pretty straight as far as time off. Regardless of experience, you are only given 2 weeks per year for Vacation and 1 week per year for PTO/Sick. There are no provisions for maternity or paternity. These weeks are actually broken down into hours, rather than days, and they can accumulate over the years. It's not a situation where you have to use them or lose them. Our work week is broken down into 40 hours per week minimum. So, if I wanted to, I could say that I am going to take Friday off and work all 40 of my hours in the first 4 days. Then, come Friday, I can take off and not have to take any sick or vacation time. I, however, work under a very loose agreement with my company. I would like to see a little more vacation time, as I live away from the rest of my family and would like to see them more.
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Mellowood Art Gallery
Painting Parties
Party, Party, Party!
Join Val at Mellowood Studio for an afternoon of fun and creativity at a Watercolour Painting Party,.
You will be guided step-by-step in painting a watercolour scene while enjoying an afternoon of fellowship. All materials will be supplied and, at the end of the afternoon, you will take home a finished painting with a mat and a clear acrylic bag for protection. That's the fun, the paint, the paper and the help all for low cost of $45.00. All you need to finish off your masterpiece is an easily purchased frame to suit your decor. And your signature on the bottom of your painting!
There are two types of party to choose from:
Vignettes — Choose ahead of time from 8 different scenes and I can have your drawing all prepared so all you have to do is follow my guidelines and paint. You will do an 11 x 14 watercolour and have a 16 x 20 mat to give it that finished look.
Little Guys — You will choose 2 scenes for the Little Guys Party. I will guide you through the painting and you will end up with two 5 x 7 paintings with 8 x 10 mats. There are 6 scenes to choose from.
Here are a few links to recent, successful parties held on June 11/2016 and June 18/2016.
Parties will be held Saturday afternoons from 12:30 to 4:00.
Dates for 2017
- Vignettes — To be announced.
- Little Guys — To be announced.
Please call us at 250-866-5772 or email to reserve your spot. Places are limited!
If you are interested in organizing a Watercolour Painting Party for a group of friends or a special event, please email me. I will do day trips in the Central Kootenays.
Following are examples of the paintings you can choose to do:
For Vignette Parties
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Sometimes football teams are forged during the grueling practices of spring and summer, and through intense strength training, and rigorous film study. Sometimes, however, teams "find themselves" via a single great play or performance against an opposing team on the gridiron itself.
One wouldn't ordinarily think that a game against the Kansas Jayhawks would be the setting for such an epiphany, but it is just possible that is what happened in the second half of Texas Tech's 55-19 trampling of the Jayhawks Thursday night.
Kansas, of course, is the worst football program in the Big 12. They came into the game with Texas Tech (3-1, 1-0 in the Big 12) riding a 36-game road losing streak, and haven't won a conference game since defeating Iowa State 34-14 on October 8, 2014. KU (1-3, 0-1 in Big 12) hasn't had a winning season since 2008, and hasn't beaten the Red Raiders since 2001.
The 2016 renewal of the series began as if Texas Tech would once again cakewalk to victory over the Jayhawks. The Red Raiders scored touchdowns on their first two possessions and, despite going into an offensive funk late in the first quarter, led the visitors 21-2 thanks to a 17-yard Pat Mahomes-to-Devin Lauderdale strike with 7:35 remaining in the first half.
But what looked to be a leisurely stroll in the park soon turned into a very nervous trek through a terrible neighborhood.
The Texas Tech defense, which had hitherto played virtually perfect football, quickly reverted to its old shaky self on Kansas' next drive, which went 75 yards in seven plays, and terminated with an 18-yard touchdown strike from Ryan Willis to Chase Harrell. Even though the Red Raiders answered with another touchdown just before halftime, there was a feeling of concern because of the Tech defense's play on KU's touchdown drive.
The concern turned into real worry after Cameron Batson muffed a punt, which Kansas recovered on Tech's 39 yard-line, and quickly cashed in for a touchdown on Montell Cozart's 11-yard pass to Steven Sims.
On Tech's very next drive, the Red Raiders went 3-and-out, and Erik Baughman's 33-yard punt set Kansas up on Tech's 38 yard-line. The Red Raider defense stiffened, however, allowing only a 35-yard field goal. Still, a 19-point lead had dwindled to only nine points with most of the second half still to play.
Then, with approximately seven minutes to play in the third quarter, apparent disaster struck. On 2nd-and-4 from Texas Tech 29, Pat Mahomes ran through an alley in the Kansas defense, and 32 yards later, was slowed down by Fish Smithson and cleaned up by Isaiah Bean. Mahomes was driven shoulder-first into the turf, sustaining an injury in the process. What's more, the injury was significant enough to shelve the team's surefire money-card for the remainder of the game.
Suddenly, Tech's hopes rode with little-used backup Nic Shimonek. The specter of a devastating upset loss to the Jayhawks suffused the atmosphere in Jones Stadium.
But Shimonek rose to the occasion.
He completed his first three passes, the final of which was a four-yard TD to Dylan Cantrell.
Following the Tech's defense's stifling of Kansas' next drive, Shimonek led the Red Raiders to another touchdown, this one on a 37-yard strike from Shimonek to Keke Coutee.
From then on, it was more of the same. The defense prevented the Jayhawks from even threatening the Red Raider goal-line, while Shimonek threw two more touchdowns, one to Coutee and the other to Jonathan Giles. Texas Tech had not only avoided a cataclysmic loss, but had done so in style, thoroughly dominating the Jayhawks for the final one and a half quarters.
Now a home blowout victory over the Kansas Jayhawks is, in and of itself, not particularly noteworthy. Most Big 12s pile-drive KU as a matter of course. But it is not the score that is significant in Tech's win. Rather, it was in how the Red Raiders accomplished it.
Midway through the third quarter, Tech looked dead in the water, while KU was riding a crest of momentum. Making matters worse, Mahomes, who seemingly represented any hope the Red Raiders had for a special season, went down and out with an injury.
In those circumstances, many football teams, and indeed, many past Texas Tech teams, would have succumbed to circumstances and exited the stadium with an appalling loss draped around its neck. Instead, the Red Raiders, led by an unlikely hero, stormed back and dropped Kansas like a bad habit.
If the Red Raiders manage to defeat a tough Kansas State team on the road next Saturday, this team could be off to the races.


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Experts say insurance should be part of any risk management strategy. However, the agricultural sector is susceptible to many challenges. Uncertainties in weather conditions which subsequently affects farms yields and the of lack of access to capital and farm inputs, as well as unfavourable trade policies limits the economic potential of stakeholders in the sector, particularly smallholder farmers.
Many banks also shy away from lending to the agricultural sector and even when they do, it is at higher interest rates.
It is against this background that agricultural insurance was introduced to address some of these challenges, most of which are beyond the control of the farmers.
Role of agric insurance
Formerly, there was no coverage for farmers to enable them to invest in potentially more lucrative farm activities.
However, in 2011 stakeholders in the insurance industry came together under the auspices of the Ghana Insurers Association (GIA) to form the Ghana Agriculture Insurance Pool (GAIP) which is mandated to supply agric insurance products to farmers.
In an interview in Accra on March 1, 2017, the General Manager of the GAIP, Mr Ali Mohammad Kato, said agric insurance was a specialised area and that the GAIP was working with support of GIA, USAID, ADVANCE and others to provide insurance for smallholder farmers, commercial farmers and another product for poultry farmers.
He said there are challenges from the demand side and suppler side which agriculture insurance comes in to solve.
Mr Kato said Ghana mainly depended on rainfall agriculture and climate change has also brought about erratic rainfall pattern which made drought eminent and all of these tend to have impact on farmers production and access to credit.
"If you take a facility from a bank and you suffer a drought, how do you go back to repay the loan? The recovery should be rescheduled and which comes at another cost but I should have agric insurance which is taking care of the production and loss of yield then I will be in business and if I am a smallholder my income will be protected," he said.
He said agriculture insurance could again influence the interest rate which the bank is charging because some of them risk may have been mitigated with the presence of agriculture insurance.
Impact GAIP's intervention
He admitted although it had made some inroads, there was still room for improvement.
"We need more publicity. Awareness creation is key. Marketing to get the product to the people is a challenge and the people's appreciation, accepting it as a risk mitigation tool is a challenge. So we are trying to move with the financial institutions so that whatever credit facility they are given, there should be agric insurance component to improve recoveries," he said.
Claims under GAIP
About 140 farmers mainly in the Northern and Upper regions received claims under the Drought Index Insurance production in October 2012.
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This Texting and Driving Campaign Will Make You Think Twice Before Texting and Driving [VIDEO]
It's no secret that if you text and drive, terrible things can happen. We urge you to stop texting and driving! See the gruesome video below...
It's no secret that if you text and drive, terrible things can happen. We urge you to stop texting and driving! See the gruesome video below...
As we pass the midway point of Distracted Driving Month 2014, a story is coming out of Australia regarding 21-year-old Kimberley Davis. My nickname for her will now be "Piece of Work."
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Facebook, Happy Birthday to you!
Yep, it's good ole Facebook's birthday. It's celebrating 10 years of helping to reunite high-school friends, sharing fun family photos and driving people crazy with posts of over-sharing from why you're sad to what you had for dinner, ha!
Check out this cool video Facebook made for itself... Hope you had some cake!
Eyewitness News meteorologist Wayne Hart tweeted this video of footage from Typhoon Yolanda, which smashed into the Philippines yesterday with 195 mile per hour winds. Watch how quickly the flood waters rose in Tacloban City. This is pretty frightening and, for the city, the second massive flood in just three years.
So, although I'm not the first person you'd think of to take care of your cats and dogs while out of town for the weekend, I do loooove me some baby animals! And, who doesn't love panda bears?!? I saw this sweet video and just had to share it with y'all!
This one month-old baby panda was caught on film at the Taipei Zoo meeting her mother for the first time. Although this video is super sweet, I noticed a few interesting things, haha!
I wish I was kidding. But, then again, there are now Pakistani children who are in loving homes. Regardless, in the category of "Best Country in Which to Live on This Planet," the good ol' U.S. of A. still wins, hands down.
Tensions with North Korea may be reaching an all-time high as Kim Jong Un continues to issue threats that he is ready to unleash a nuclear assault against the United States. Well, now, his dire warnings have been heard by the wrong person. KIZZY!! Yep! Kizzy thinks the North Korean leader is acting a like a cray-cray fool and she's ready to issue a warning right back at him. It involves brass knuckles, pepper spray and her momma, LaShondra Golden Shank Johnson. Take a listen. This is a scream!
Suppose you're walking through Wal-mart or Target one day. Maybe you're just killing time, so you're just browsing. Then someone approaches you and says something like, "That'll be five dollars please."
This morning, Pyongyang (the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea) threatened the United States with nuclear bombing in response to proposed sanctions on its nuclear programs due to recent warhead testing.
I never would have imagined, in my lifetime, seeing anything like this. Of course, that's not the first time I've said that and it probably won't be the last. It's like something out of a sci-fi/disaster movie.
An oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico near Grand Isle, Louisiana, sending four people to the hospital, with two believed to be missing, according to the United States Coast Guard...
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What we are calling the Redwood Empire includes only the 3 High School leagues that compete in this area.
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- Minimum stay:3 nights
- Sleeps:9
- Bedrooms:3
- Bathrooms:2.5
- Property type:Apartment
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- Pets considered:Ask Manager
- Wheel chair accessible:No
About the Property
Three Double Bedrooms, Living Sofabed, Kitchen, 3 Bathrooms
The apartment is on the the second floor of a residential building close Piazza del Popolo, where you can find shops of all kinds and public transport connects you to all other areas of the city.
- 2 charming double bedroom (one with double bedroom : 170x190 cm) and a single sofa-bed; one with double sofa-bed (150/190 )
- 1 charming bedroom with two single beds (cm 80x190)
- A large living room with 2 leather sofas and a large TV and large dining table made of crystal.
- There is also a large kitchen-living room where there is an additional comfortable sofa double bed (150 x 170)
- 2 comfortable modern bathrooms: one with shower, sink, bidet,wc, etc ; the other with Jacuzzi, sink, bidet,wc, etc , moreover a little bathroom with wc and sink;
The atmosphere is ideal for those who wish, after sightseeing or business commitments, to find themselves in a comfortable and relaxing environment.
The apartment can accommodate up to nine people.
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Merlyn Rees, politician: born Cilfynydd, Glamorgan 18 December 1920; Lecturer in Economics, Luton College of Technology 1962-63; MP (Labour) for South Leeds 1963-83, for Morley and Leeds South 1983-92; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Army 1965-66, for the RAF 1966-68, Home Office 1968-70; Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1974-76; PC 1974; Home Secretary 1976-79; changed surname to Merlyn-Rees by deed poll 1992; created 1992 Baron Merlyn-Rees; Chancellor, University of Glamorgan 1994-2001; married 1949 Colleen Cleveley (three sons); died London 5 January 2006.
In these days when great resentments are caused by special advisers, over-mighty press secretaries, political chiefs of staff and their ilk, it may seem odd to say that Merlyn Rees's pinnacle of influence came when he was special adviser-in-chief to the Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979.
He was also James Callaghan's totally trusted Home Secretary, and a person elected in his own right who had been at the very heart of the Labour movement since he was personally chosen by Hugh Gaitskell to be organiser of the Festival of Labour in Battersea Park in 1962 - a task he undertook with gusto and success. It never occurred to any of us, albeit that we might have disagreed with his policy and that of the Government, in any way to resent his influence on the Prime Minister. It was wholly proper.
However, Merlyn Rees will go into the history books as the first Labour Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, for the years 1974-76. Many ministers display little interest in their portfolio after they have demitted the office over which they preside and with which they have been temporarily identified. Rees was to remain intensely and passionately involved in the problems of Ulster and the island of Ireland for the rest of his life. He would visit Ulster or Eire three or four times a year every year. And his book Northern Ireland: a personal perspective (1985) is and will be required reading for any serious historian of the province in the latter part of the 20th century.
His father was a founder member of the Labour Party, and like his father and grandfather was a coalminer. He was born in the pit village of Cilfynydd, which in the Welsh language means "between the mountains". When Rees was only six his father walked to London after the General Strike, got a job and brought his family to the capital. However because they could only afford the most unsatisfactory lodgings the young Merlyn went back to stay with his grandmother for his primary education in Cilfynydd.
As they were Welsh immigrants in a large Welsh community, although Rees went to Harrow Weald Grammar School he still thought of himself as Welsh. On the outbreak of the Second World War he went to Goldsmiths' College to train as a teacher but was evacuated to Nottinghamshire and joined the RAF. He applied himself to such effect that he ended up as a squadron leader and was even offered a permanent commission - which he declined in favour of going to the London School of Economics to read Economics and History under the wing of Professor Harold Laski.
After a good degree he stayed on to do research, took a master's degree and was invited back to his old school of Harrow Weald to run the sixth form. He married a girl who had left the school three years previously, Colleen Cleveley, who was to remain his marvellously supportive wife for more than half a century.
In 1955, and again in 1959, he was invited to contest Harrow East against Ian Harvey. He contested a by-election in March 1959 caused by Harvey's homosexual scandal and resignation and fought the same seat in the October general election. At the invitation of another Welshman, Morgan Phillips, the formidable General Secretary of the Labour Party, who had been impressed by Rees's performance as a candidate, he left teaching to become organiser of the Festival of Labour.
In the aftermath of the Battersea Park success, it was mooted that Rees should succeed as General Secretary of the party, an idea on which he poured cold water. Gaitskell interviewed him and asked him what he proposed to do. Rees said that he would like to become a Member of Parliament, whereupon Gaitskell pulled a list of seats out of his office drawer but explained that no seat could be fixed. Neither of them could possibly guess that shortly he would be elected - in June 1963 - to Gaitskell's own seat of South Leeds with a majority of 11,000.
As soon as he got into the House of Commons Rees was chosen as Parliamentary Private Secretary to James Callaghan - then the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. I was parliamentary aide to Richard Crossman in the same period and saw how loyally and effectively Rees served Callaghan in the most difficult job in British politics. On the election of the Labour government in October 1964 Rees went to the Treasury as Callaghan's PPS and learnt his way around the very centre of Whitehall. Within a year Callaghan saw that he was promoted as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Army and in the following year as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Royal Air Force. In 1968 he went to the Home Office, where he was given the responsibility for the poisoned chalice of immigration and the Fire Service.
Rees had always had a particular interest in Ireland - sparked initially by his father, who had been stationed there during the First World War, and by one of the dedicated schoolteachers at Harrow Weald. In 1974, with the unexpected return of the Labour government, Rees went to Northern Ireland.
His first parliamentary obligation was the dismal statement about the deaths of two soldiers of the 14th/20th King's Hussars on 21 March 1974. Rees was genuinely pained because he was not only a minister but a very sensitive, caring human being on the whole succession of such statements arising from the troubles. He saw himself as a cross between a governor-general, a secretary of state and a security chief. He would tell us that it was quite different from any other job in government.
His wife Colleen went over to Ireland for four or five days each week and the pair of them established a reputation for decency and concern as good as anybody from the other side of the water could possibly establish. The object of his being there was to end internment and in that object he succeeded. But he came to believe and believed until his dying day that London and Dublin were never going to solve anything and that the eventual solution could only be found in the province. He believed that the changed nature of the violence which had started with Bloody Sunday meant that terrorism was institutionalised.
When Labour was defeated in 1979, within days Rees had gone to the Cabinet Office and the Northern Ireland Office to look at his papers, as ministers were entitled to do, and go through his diaries for the purpose of writing his book. He had wanted to give it the title "No Solution". The publishers didn't find that title appealing but Rees thought that it summed the situation up and that only by patient, hard, day-to-day slog would anything ever be achieved.
In 1976, when James Callaghan, whose election organiser Rees had been in a contest against Michael Foot, Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Tony Crosland, became party leader and Prime Minister, Rees was given the job of Home Secretary, the bed of nails which probably more than any other ministry determines the reputation of the Government. He chaired many cabinet committees and thought that the difference between the Home Office and the Northern Ireland Office was like the difference between commanding a battalion and commanding an army group. He was the first one to tell me that his Permanent Secretary on his first day had said: "The trouble is that you think there is a blue sky, and then you get a bolt from the blue, a huge political thunderstorm."
Merlyn Rees will be remembered as the Home Secretary who had Mark Hosenball deported with the ex-CIA agent Philip Agee and who set up the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure after police abuse of safeguards in questioning suspects had been demonstrated in the Maxwell Confait convictions and who set up the "Countryman" investigation into City of London Police and Metropolitan Police corruption.
He wanted to reform the Official Secrets Act. He had been a member of the Franks Committee which examined the operation of Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act in 1971. He was also a member of a later Franks Committee in 1982, an inquiry into the background of the Falklands War. I appeared for an hour and 35 minutes before the committee and left fulminating that Merlyn Rees had asked me so many long-winded and largely irrelevant questions. I was not alone in impatience at what some of us called "Merlynating" - a code-word at that period for spouting hot air and circling round and round awkward points.
In his earlier days, however, Rees had been very sharp and wrote an excellent textbook on economics, The Public Sector in the Mixed Economy (1973), which was much used in sixth-form colleges. In his preface he says,
The pretence that the Labour Party is only for the public sector and the Conservative Party against it and working for a return to some mythical free-market economy just does not in practice stand up to examination.
Merlyn Rees was endowed with considerable political courage. It would never have occurred to him to go to the SDP or the Liberals; he was one of those members of the Labour tribe, concerned with the interests of the workers through and through, who held the Labour Party together in the 1980s when it might well have disintegrated.
His gift for friendship and his importance to the Callaghan praetorian guard of MPs such as Jack Cunningham, Gregor MacKenzie, Roger Stott and Roland Moyle cannot be exaggerated. He was a politician of significance, integrity and genuine compassion.
In great old age, and in unselfpitying infirmity, flanked by Colleen, Merlyn Rees attended the House of Lords on a regular basis (he was ennobled in 1992 as Lord Merlyn-Rees) and insisted on being present at the funerals of his friends and contemporaries. Contrary to general belief, the personal behaviour of many politicians is estimable. Rees's personal behaviour and thoughtfulness for others, even at periods of intensive disagreement with people like me on Ireland, was exemplary.
Like Jim and Audrey Callaghan, Denis and Edna Healey, Merlyn and Colleen Rees were one of the great political partnerships in the Labour Party.
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