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As caregivers, we want the very best for our families, and when it comes to their health, we want them to eat the healthiest food available—at least most of the time. But what about those times when we're looking to satisfy a sweet tooth or spoil our kids with an edible treat?
I remember one particular family gathering when my son was just three years old. As I watched him slyly gravitate towards a huge table full of candy, my initial maternal reaction was to say "no way" and point him toward some coloring books.
Unfortunately, as all mothers understand, three year olds can be rather persistent. Of course it didn't help that his junk-food-loving grandpa (my dad) begged me to "let him live a little because he's a kid."
So I succumbed to the pressure and let him indulge in bright green and yellow gummy bears, red heart-shaped candy, and one very long colorful candy kebab.
It was right then and there that I realized: it wasn't so much the junk itself that set off my maternal panic alarms, but rather the type of junk my son was chowing down. The candy he was eating was filled with artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, and ingredients I couldn't even pronounce!
When it comes to eating junk food, it isn't just kids who indulge—adults do too, including me. I love chocolate, licorice and ice cream as much as the next person – in fact, in fact, according to our own research (based on responses from 2,500 people), 95% of them eat junk food and 65% of them eat it at least once a week.
With obesity affecting almost 34 percent of adults and 17 percent of children, the junk food conundrum is twofold: not only do we need to limit the amount of junk food we're eating, but we also have to look at the type of junk food we're ingesting blindly.
As the authors of Unjunk Your Junk Food (Gallery, 2011), we believe the key to occasional indulging starts with reading the ingredients. The first place most of us look to when evaluating whether a product is healthy or not, is the 'Nutrition Facts' panel.
We ask ourselves: How much fat does this have? How many calories per serving? Is there a lot of sodium? The truth is if a product contains dangerous ingredients, then we shouldn't be eating it regardless of how much fat, calories and sodium it has.
So, what are these dangerous ingredients and how can we identify them on a food label? Based on our research, we have identified seven dangerous ingredients lurking in our (junk) food that are proven to wreak havoc on our immune systems.
In the book, we refer to these ingredients as 'Red Flags' or 'Savvy Alerts'. They are:
- High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)
- Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
- Partially Hydrogenated Oils (these always mean trans fats)
- Artificial Colors
- Artificial Sweeteners (including acesulfame potassium, or Ace-K; sucralose [Splenda], and aspartame)
- Artificial Flavors
- Preservatives (including: sodium benzoate, sulphites (sulphur dioxide), polysorbate 60, 65 or 80, TBHQ, and BHT/BHA).
Avoiding these seven ingredients when shopping for food is a huge step in the right direction.
As consumers, we need to be mindful of what we put into our bodies. We each need to take responsibility for our health by reading food labels and understanding what they mean.
Sounds easier said than done, right? Not if you're armed with a copy of Unjunk Your Junk Food.
From now on when you're grocery shopping, we want you to: pick up the product you wish to buy; turn it over to read the ingredients; evaluate whether or not it is good enough to put into your body (using our 'Worst Ingredients' chart on page 25 as a cheat-sheet); and then either place it into your cart or back on the shelf.
You have the power to decide whether or not you're going to put something 'healthy' or 'unhealthy' into your body.
We wrote Unjunk Your Junk Food because we wanted to provide a compromise between healthy eating and sinful cheating. We are not telling you to avoid eating junk food, but rather we're asking you to be mindful of the type junk food you are choosing to eat. It's that simple.
The more we begin to make the connection between the food we're eating and the side effects we're experiencing (positive and/or negative), the more we'll realize we have the power to make a difference in our lives and those around us.


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Sorry about posting ANOTHER LS3 swap thread. I know that Ct$-V just posted about putting an LS3 into a V. But I have a different issue surrounding the swap, and I didn't want to hijack Ct$-V's thread since that issue is kind of heading a different direction from mine. I posted this on LS1Tech already with a little response(it's only been a day), but I figured it wouldn't hurt to post on both sites in case there is a guru on one of the sites and not the other. My issue has to do with using a new LS3 ECM in the car.
I have a 2004 V with 142K miles. I had tossed around the idea of FI, but I see that as being a big problem for my budget. As such, I am now planning on putting in a 376/480 and LS7 clutch and selling the LS6 engine and clutch(that is , if there's anything left of my OE clutch). With any luck I could get another 100K+ miles out of the car.
To start out, I am aware of all of the issues surrounding using the LS6 ECM (Lingenfelter module, multiple adapters, knock sensor tapping, reprogramming, etc.). I'm certainly considering this avenue.
However, I am also very much considering using the ECM that can be supplied with the crate engine. This is honestly the more desirable route for me; I would rather not have to use a ton of adapters in the engine bay to make it work. I REALLY prefer to not have to tap a brand new engine to make old knock sensors work. I would also like to sell the LS6's ECM and pedal with the engine. I figure it might sell a little better that way. Not that a 140K+ mile engine is a hot item or anything.
The issue is with the stuff I've read about the other electronics interacting with the new ECM, particularly with a 2004 V. Things like stability control, instrument readouts, ABS. I've never read anything more specific than "It just won't work." I'm curious as to why it won't work. I'm also curious as to whether or not getting the car happy with the new ECM is easier than getting the old ECM happy with the new engine.
I've investigated the 2004 wiring diagrams associated with the engine vs the 2005 and noticed only slight differences. It would be nice to get my hands on the wiring diagrams for the 06 or 07 to see what differences the LS2 made.
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The White House on Monday announced that President Obama will sign an executive order prohibiting discrimination from federal contractors on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
"With this announcement, the arc of history bends a little further toward justice," said Sen. Jeff Merkley, D. Ore., the lead co-sponsor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). "Discrimination simply has no place in American workplaces. This executive order will allow millions more Americans to go to work empowered with the right to do their jobs free of harassment or discrimination."
ENDA would expand these protections to workers across the United States, where it is still legal to discriminate against workers on the basis of sexual orientation in 29 states, and on the basis of gender identity in 32 states. Though it passed through the Senate in November, ENDA is still waiting for action in the House.
Monday's announcement is part of Obama's year of action to ensure more opportunity for all Americans, a promise he made during his 2014 State of the Union address. He has already taken action on issues like minimum wage and equal pay, issues that also have companion federal legislation that is stalled in Congress.
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Minerco Resources, parent company of Level 5 Beverage Company, has appointed beverage executive Darin Ezra to Level 5's board of directors.
Ezra will take a leadership role in both the tactical and strategic direction of the company. He has more than 15 years of experience in the packaged consumer goods industry.
Ezra co-founded Power Brands Consulting in 2006 and serves as its CEO. Power Brands has been party to the development of more than 500 beverage brands.
He got his start in the industry when he founded SunWorld International ("SunWorld"), a company that specialized in the import and distribution of top-selling U.S. brands in Southern Africa including: Celestial Seasonings (the top selling herbal tea in the U.S. at the time), Ice Drops (breath fresheners) and Energy Now (the top-selling energy tablet in the U.S. for many years). He later licensed then sold his SunWorld business to IS Distributors (distributors of Dial soap products in Southern Africa).
With the proceeds of the sale of SunWorld, Ezra moved his operations to the United States where he co-founded BBrands, a beverage company focused on the energy drink market. BBrands morphed into a private label energy drink company and later to a company with a diverse portfolio of beverages and other consumer brands. Ezra sold his interests to the partnership prior to launching Go Girl energy drink, America's first female-oriented energy drink, in 2005. Go Girl was acquired by Norcal Beverage Company, one of the largest private contract beverage manufacturers in the country.
"The company is honored to welcome Ezra to the Level 5 team. He brings invaluable experience, unprecedented motivation, unparalleled entrepreneurial spirit and proven success to our company," said V. Scott Vanis, chairman of the company. "After working closely with Ezra and Power Brands over the past year, I believe our company is perfectly positioned with the right products and management team; we are set to achieve our very lofty goals. He and I share the same vision of building a well diversified, highly profitable beverage company."


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- It is designed to support and fit around adult learners with busy lives, with modules taught at evenings and weekends. In addition, you can take between one and three years to complete the pathway, taking modules as and when they fit around your other commitments.
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November 7, 2012
On Cooper's benching, penalty kicks, weather factor, the crowd
By Michael Lewis
BigAppleSoccer.com Editor
Much has been written and said about Red Bulls coach Hans Backe's decision to sit Kenny Cooper in Game One of the MLS Eastern Conference semifinals series. I, for one, did not like it.
After all, Cooper finished the season with a team-high 18 goals, which tied his personal MLS-season best. He also was the reigning MLS player of the week on the strength of his brace in the Red Bulls' 3-0 road win over the Philadelphia union in the regular-season finale the prior Saturday.
I reserve the right before making a definitive statement about his decision. We have to see how the aggregate goals series plays out.
Backe said it was a tactical decision because he felt the Red Bulls needed more pace on the road against D.C. United at RFK Stadium to try to stretch the game with Sebestian Le Toux in the lineup. Le Toux was not very effective, as was Cooper after he replaced him. But the Red Bulls earned a 1-1 draw, which is a decent result on the road.
Backe had indicated that Cooper would start Wednesday night's second leg of the aggregate goals series at Red Bull Arena. Earlier this week, Backe said he had not made a decision on whether Cooper will start.
If he doesn't start Cooper and the Red Bulls lose, Backe's decision will become one of the worst ever made in the league's 17-year playoff history.
If Cooper is in the Starting XI and he plays a key role in a victory, Backe will wind up in a much better light and perhaps a genius in some quarters.
Of course, Cooper can start and the Red Bulls can lose, in which first- and second-guessers will have a field day with Backe on his first leg decision. It probably won't affect Backe's status as coach for next season because he is considered a dead coach walking in the wake of a new general manager and subsequently a new sporting director to be named (who will name a coach). New regimes like to bring in their own men, especially with Backe's contract running out after this season.
The penalty phase
If the second leg ends in a tie, it will be decided by penalty kicks, which is a crap shoot and a bad way to decide games. But those are the rules. The shootout can be decided by a hot or lucky goalkeeper who sometimes has to make only one vital save to boost his team into the next round. On the other side of the ball, it could come down to who has more ice water in his veins.
The onus is always on the shooter because the conversion rate is around 70 percent and he is expected to make it
The weather factor
Who knows what the playing conditions will be like in Harrison, N.J.?
With a nor'easter bearing down on the area, the conditions could vary from sloppy to absolutely treacherous. That could add a random factor into the mix. For example, a usually reliable defender could slip or not get good traction at the very worst time, which could lead to a goal, perhaps the winning one.
Like penalty kicks, it would be an awful way to decide such a vital game. Hopefully, my fears will not be realized.
Should the show go on? And the crowd
Given what has happened to New Jersey thanks to Sandy and with the nor'easter upon us, I will take a pass on any crowd criticism because anyone who shows up at RBA, God bless them.
I tweeted on Tuesday that the league should move the game to Thursday for the safety of the players, fans, staff, RBA workers, media and anyone else who may be affected. Some reports have forecasts of 3-5 inches of snow in New Jersey, which would not make for a safe ride home.
Yes, I know that NBC is scheduled to air the Eastern Conference final at 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday.
But safety is more important than TV commitments. Hopefully, the storm won't be as bad, but I fear the worst, especially for anyone getting to and from the stadium.
Hopefully, MLS makes the right decision.
If the league does push back the game, I hope it is done it early enough in the day so fans will notified.


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thirteen I was uprooted from Australia and put at school at
Cheltenham, England, as my mother was of the opinion that
what is English is best, and my father, though a chauvinistic
Australian, respected most of her caprices. After seeing me
'settled' in my English prison, my parents and sister left
for Australia.' [Speaks
parting took place on a Swiss railways platform. At one point
my mother withdrew with my sister, leaving my father to acquaint
me, I began to sense, with the facts of life. Dusk was tingling
with village lights and their refractions off snow as we plodded
up and down in our felt boots, wordless banners of white mist
ballooning out of our mouths. My heart was beating horribly,
but at least it wasn't up to me to speak; the onus was on
my unfortunate father. At last he accepted his duty. He warned
me against the seats of public lavatories.
were both breathless with relief at the removal of a difficult
situation. Only the light was nagging at me, the sounds of
a train preparing to burrow through a Swiss landscape towards
bleached grass, eroded creeks, and the wounding blows from
butcherbirds' beaks. The wounds I suffered on the snowbound
platform were of a duller kind which promised suppuration.
was determined to keep my grief within the bounds of that
manliness I was being taught to respect, when I would have
liked to tear off the rabbitskin glove he was wearing and
hold the sunburnt hand to my cheek. I did nothing. I didn't
cry. I only throbbed as a windowful of faces slid away through
the Swiss dark.' [Flaws
spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres
and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years
as a colonial at an English school.' [Speaks
sensuality which had had free rein in the boy was now thwarted,
and he was cut off from the physical affection that might have comforted
him in England as it had at Tudor House[...] he had no privacy,
only a locker and desk. He withdrew behind a mask of remote detachment.
Though he did not appear to be suffering acutely, he exuded no happiness.
He was a pale, heavy boy who brushed his hair down flat behind fleshy
ears, and spoke with a chesty wheeze. He was unobtrusive, had few
friends and no enemies.'
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boy who had not thought about sex must soon have been made
aware of it, such was the housemaster's obsession[...] He
would burst into toshroom [bathroom] or gym hoping to catch
us in flagrante. He was the tallest man I had seen. He smashed
the light bulbs caning us. He promised to stamp out a 'morbid
kink' on discovering my passion for Chekhov, Ibsen and Strindberg,
and only stamped it deeper in.' [Flaws
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The other afternoon was a wash for schoolwork with J wanting to just snuggle me for a while. So, I took a peek at what was available to watch on HBO On Demand (which we have for the moment.)
The movie, Something the Lord Made, jumped out at me as what I needed to watch right then (it's last day available on demand.) P joined me and both of us agreed that it is an awesome movie. Actually, I still am getting goosebumps after watching this incredibly powerful movie. I did get goosebumps talking to someone about it last night who also found it to be a powerful and worthwhile film to watch.
Made by HBO back in 2004 (which might explain why I hadn't heard of it before this past week), Something the Lord Made chronicles the life of Vivien Thomas, a black man who spent years working and running the laboratory of Dr. Alfred Blalock. Together they made history with the first cardiac surgery to save the 'blue babies' from early death as they rerouted blood flow to the lungs. And, in the process they also challenged a system that still required blacks to come through the back door and had placed Thomas into Class 3 (janitor) instead of his true job of lab technician.
Interestingly, Thomas was initially hired to be a janitor by Dr. Blalock. But, his observation of Thomas had him start training Thomas in techniques to assist in the lab. Thomas was so valuable to Blalock that he brought him to his new post at Johns Hopkins By the end of his career, Thomas was the Director of Laboratories and had trained a multitude of Hopkins surgeons.
Along with the telling of how Thomas and Blalock worked together to perfect this surgery and do something everyone thought could never be done (perform surgery on the hearth), this story provides a glimpse at the issues of segregation that seem so foreign to many today. I have some memories of seeing colored signs in the deep south as a young child. P kept asking about some of the different things being done in the movie (e.g. Thomas stepping OFF the sidewalk to let the white individuals walk past) and why they would do it.
Now, I will caution that there are a few times when profanity is used in this film. Compared to most mainstream movies or even most made for cable shows, it seemed almost tame and only appeared at times when Dr. Blalock had extreme frustration and succumbed to that language like many others do. The other thing that might be upsetting to some is the graphic depiction of surgeries on dogs and later a baby. P said that he found seeing the blue babies a bit unnerving (as all those parents most definitely felt.)
I HIGHLY recommend this film to anyone wanting to see something that will move you. I definitely want to see this film again and plan to have R watch it as well. D's still a little young to have any true appreciation of the film. I could write a LOT more about this film and what I loved, but would rather just give you a taste so that everyone can enjoy this movie. For my homeschooling friends, this film could compliment history studies for the 20th century or even science/health given the strong tie in of the research with the story line.
I did take a quick look for how you can see this movie. Anyone with HBO can catch it later this month (check the schedule for when) and Netflix has the DVD available. And, there's always the option to just order up a copy!
This post has been submitted for inclusion in The Christian Home Issue 35 hosted here. As the featured columnist for the Movies and Music category, you can be looking forward to weekly posts on what we are watching or music we've enjoyed.
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Jul 31, 2010 at 12:55 am #1261736
Have been playing around w/ wetfire in my backyard. Have found a couple things:
1) Can't light it w/ firesteel, need lighter.
2) Big chunks don't stay lit
3) No way does it burn ten minutes as claimed in their promo video.
Mind you, these are ideal conditions I'm testing under… No wind, warm, concrete floor, dry, etc.
Is it my technique that's off? Or is the product overhyped?
What are your experiences? For those of you who have had successful experiences, pls share technique. Thx!Jul 31, 2010 at 1:03 am #1633677
Take a look at my youtube videos on the wetfire, below for you;
MarkJul 31, 2010 at 1:07 am #1633678
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@antigLocale: Pacific Northwest
As you can see, Mark lights them in like 2 seconds. It's all in the technique :)
You can have it easier on yourself if you put a little bit of hand sanitizer on the tablet and take your firesteel to that.Jul 31, 2010 at 1:10 am #1633681
Wow, looks great in your video. My experience is so different, I wonder what gives? Somehow got a bad batch or something?
What makes me wonder if it's really a technique issue is that after I got tired of trying with the fire steel, I used a butane barbecue lighter on it. It did light (after holding the flame to cube for a second or two), but it was just a blue flame on the surface that fairly quickly went out, without even burning the whole cube…Jul 31, 2010 at 1:12 am #1633682
Trick for me when lighting was to scrape a little bit off with your firesteel and place that on top, try to strike that directly.
CheersJul 31, 2010 at 1:13 am #1633683
Ok, going back out to the yard to try again.Jul 31, 2010 at 1:14 am #1633684
Will wait….. :)Jul 31, 2010 at 1:20 am #1633685
No luck. Again, went to the barbecue lighter after failing with the firesteel, cube lit, but then quickly went out, not completely burned…Jul 31, 2010 at 1:27 am #1633687
Sounds a bit weird, perhaps you do have a dodgy batch.
Are they dry? They should feel oily. Are they brittle? They should be like a warm biscuit (making some now), easy to break but still soft.
They should burn out completely and leave you with a black rusty shell, you can see that in the videos.
I have a few I could send up there, free, but I think postage would be a deal breaker for you.
CheersJul 31, 2010 at 1:42 am #1633689
Double post, sorry.Jul 31, 2010 at 1:42 am #1633690
Pls send biscuits, will send postage ;-)
Cubes are dry rather than oily, break easily but not soft. Maybe they're just too old. Gonna go look for some new ones tomorrow, see if that makes a difference. Your video clearly shows it works, so gonna try some new ones.
Thanks for the insights…Jul 31, 2010 at 1:47 am #1633691
No probs John, let us know how you get on.
MarkJul 31, 2010 at 2:31 am #1633696
Jeff AntigMember
@antigLocale: Pacific Northwest
It didn't work with the hand sanitizer method? Then, there is something seriously wrong with the tab!
Mark, I will take some of those biscuits as well. I hope they're buttermilk.Jul 31, 2010 at 8:52 am #1633736
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They definitely do have a shelf life, as I once found out the hard way. A fresh one should light right up with a lighter and burn in the rain.
As for firesteel use, I hate to say RTFM, but if you read the directions it says to scrape them apart into bits. In fact, if you're just using it as tinder, 1/4 tsp of flakes will get a fire going in dry conditions.
I have started a fire with a whole cube and a little heartwood kindling in moderate rain.Jul 31, 2010 at 10:02 am #1633745
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Contact the manufacturer and return them. They'll know what's wrong.
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Worked like an absolute charm. Put a bit on bark once, tiny wood slivers another time, strips of a cigarette pack twisted and all lit first try.
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There isn't an awful lot of information regarding this lady other than that she is from a village somewhere in Africa and has some of the best control of the ball with her head that I have ever season.
The 90 second video shows here heading the ball around 100 times, together with skills involving her shoulders and knees.
All performed whilst wearing a long skirt. Top work.


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Save Notebooks to Print Later?
I have an exceptionally poor printer (Imagewriter I), so I do not like
to turn in Mathematica output using this printer. I have access to HP
Deskwriters, which give acceptable quality, but the computers do not
have mathematica. Does anyone know of a way to save documents on the
Mac to be printed later, at higher quality, when the original app is
not available for printing? (The deskwriters are not postscript, so
postscript files will not work.)
Any help is appreciated,
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A discussion page for fans of the epic trilogy, a sequel to William Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth'. Banquo's Son, Bloodlines (Book two) and Birthright (Book Three)
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
My prayers have been answered and I have enjoyed a day playing in the snow and sitting in front of the fire reading and writing and eating. This is one of my two dogs, Jackson, who is very happy to pose for the photo. The other dog is Bella.
This is my eldest (left) and her French exchange student (right) in our front garden just before we head off down the valley, picking up friends on the way and congregating at Krusty Korner for a hot chocolate.
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Marconi discharger, fixed gap type. Used with small radio transmitters. Made by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., London, England.
Discharger is the term used to describe the device in which a spark jumps a gap.
The process by which a signal is transmitted begins with the charging of a capacitor by the output from an alternator stepped up to a high voltage by transformer. In smaller transmitters, the capacitor was charged from an induction coil.
When the capacitor is charged to a high enough voltage to break down the spark gap, it discharges into an inductor (a coil). The energy stored in the capacitor as an electric field, flows into the inductor where it is stored as a magnetic field. The flow then reverses producing an oscillation, which continues until all the energy is lost by radiation and heat.
The fixed gap was the first type of discharger used by Marconi; others introduced the quenched gap. Marconi replaced the fixed gap with the rotary gap discharger. These improved the efficiency of spark transmitters.
The spark gap is enclosed in a lead lined wooden box to reduce the considerable noise produced during operation; the spark gap was often kept in a ship's radio room. The box is also lined with asbestos to protect the wood from the heat of the spark.
Physical Description
Dark brown polished wooden box 1with two insulated brass connectors on top. A door with lock (no key with object) allows access to inside. The internal sides are powdery whitish grey in colour. There is a unattached grey metal tray on the the base, with some greyish powder in the tray. Hanging from the top are two hemispherical elctrodes; the curved surfaces facing each other acrross a gap. The electrodes are connected through the top of the box to the two external connectors.
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Donation from Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd., 29/12/1924
Marconi Wireless Telgraph Co. Ltd, London, Great Britain, 1900-1920
Metal plate on external top of box: MARCONI'S WIRELESS / TELEGRAPH CO LTD / MO 29465 LONDON
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/// "Secret" App Could Have a Positive Effect
The next time you have something you want to share, but you're worried about being judged or ridiculed, try using the app Secret to share anonymously. According to an article at Medium, this application has the potential to boost the confidence of its users.
When you sign up for this app, you will see the secrets of people in your network, which might include friends, coworkers, friends of friends, and so on. Secret does not currently have a ton of users, but it is growing in popularity. And with good reason, according to Medium's Adrian Phillips: "Secret has the potential to be a safe place for constructive feedback for upcoming writers and comedians as a place to test their jokes and opinions before they even post them to places like Twitter or Facebook. Through Secret's commenting and "liking" mechanics they are also able to test the waters and get feedback from their friends and others that may see their post on Secret without ever revealing their identity."
Of course, artists, designers, and other people who are not confident in their work yet could also use Secret in a positive way. Read the full article at Medium and then let us know….Would you use this app?
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- In Loving Memory (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/loving-memory/)
- - Meeka, you have been missed (http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum/loving-memory/428154-meeka-you-have-been-missed.html)
Meeka, you have been missed
Meeka the day off her having to be put down due to Lymphoma. Greatly missed. She loved her ball - YouTube
The day we had to put Meeka down due to Lymphoma. She insisted we play ball first. Only 4 yr old - YouTube
Just a great dog....We only had you in our lives for 4 years...Cut way too short. Your pictures still hang high in our house.
We just got back from OSU vet hospital and the first thing she does when getting home, grabs her ball and is ready to play. So, we played and played until she got tired then we all snuggled with her.....Such a horrible day. .... This happened about a year ago....Still not forgotten Meeka!!!!!
Precious girl. i'm glad you guys played her favorite game before she had to go
RIP Meeka
Beautiful girl- so sorry you lost her
So sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss of beautiful Meeka. You gave her joy until the end. My GSD Julietta loved playing ball and played up until her last day. They really forget their suffering when they are in the moment of playing ball.
Rip sweet Meeka..
Rest in Peace Beautiful Meeka ...
Meeka has gone on ahead to prepare the way, she'll be waiting for you.
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Gamboa camp calls out Adrien Broner
Story by Anthony Springer Jr.
Yuriorkis Gamboa didn't have much to say after his unanimous decision win over Michael Farenas to claim the WBA Interim Super Featherweight Title, but his promoter, 50 Cent, sure did.
After more than a year off, Gamboa proved that he's still a solid puncher, but got caught with a left hook that nearly changed the trajectory of the bout in the ninth frame.
"It was a moment where there was a good exchange," Gamboa said. I was going in for the kill. I felt I had the upper hand and he landed that good left hook."
The holes apparent in Gamboa's game may have him biting off more than he can chew in future bouts, as it seems 50 is hell bent on putting his prize fighter in exciting fights, instead of the usual promoter route of building highlight reels by knocking out tomato cans.
"He came out and put on an amazing show tonight," 50 said at the post fight press conference. "We're looking forward to moving up and fighting some more exciting fighters like Adrien Broner."
There was palpable shock in the press row after 50 strung the words "Adrien" and "Broner" together in light of Gamboa's performance. For much of the bout, Gamboa opted for showmanship – dropping his hands right in front of Farenas and weaving out of exchanges with little more than head movement – that kept the fight exciting, but would leave him open to a knockout against the likes of a puncher like Broner.
When all was said and done, 50 Cent meant what he said; doubling down on the man he wants his client to face next.
"I'm not shy to say I'm a fan of Adrien Broner and I want to make the best possible fights."
While some pundits will arguably say Gamboa, who may still be shaking off some ring rust, but off more than he can chew if the Broner bout comes to fruition, Gamboa has his eyes to the boxing stratosphere.
"[Tonight was] a very small step towards a much bigger future," Gamboa added. "I'm a warrior and I came to win. That's what happened."
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It's absolutely worth contacting our own sheriffs. Ideally, if folks can swing it, it might help to do just as you say by contacting every sheriff ... though I don't know an easy way to get in touch with each of them short of rooting out the correct contact info one by one.
Nice list, though nowhere near large enough.
Washington County, Oregon -- Gotta love anyplace with a pro-carry sheriff named Pat Garrett.


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"When someone wins, and someone is inaugurated, he becomes president, events happen . . . and people forget the circumstances of his becoming president."
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"People carry the knowledge, expertise, talents, skills and abilities they have, and when they migrate, they go with what they have"
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
"WELCOME CHANGE — For his installation ceremony, Indiana University Kokomo's new chancellor Michael Harris (shown in the middle above with Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama when they came to town in November) chose to focus on building coalitions for a regional transformation across north central Indiana over the traditional pomp and circumstance"
"It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for."
"He has to. That's his job, ... That's what happens when you run for president. You don't know what might happen like this."
"People thought the war was over in May of 2003 when President Bush landed on the cruiser under the banner that said mission accomplished. Here we are billions of dollars and thousands of lives later and it's still going on."


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999 (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
999 may refer to:
- 999, the year
- 999 (emergency telephone number), the telephone number for the emergency services in the United Kingdom, The Republic of Ireland, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, the UAE, Poland and others
- 999 (number), the number 999
999, Triple nine, Three nines may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]
- Galaxy Express 999, a manga and anime created by Leiji Matsumoto
- Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (2009), a graphic adventure game for the Nintendo DS, remade in 2013 for iOS
- 999 (band), a London punk rock band active since the 1970s
- 999 (Ukrainian band), a Ukrainian rock band
- "999" (song), a song by Swedish alternative rock band Kent
- "999", a song from Keith Richards' album Main Offender (1992)
- 999 (UK TV series), a 1992 British programme presented by Michael Buerk that aired on the BBC
- 999 (Malaysian TV series), a 2004 Malaysian crime reality television series
- Triple Nine, a 1995–99 television drama from Singapore
- Triple 9, a 2016 heist film
- Ducati 999, an Italian motorcycle
- Ford 999, a pioneering 1902 racer named for the locomotive
- New York Central and Hudson River Railroad No. 999, the first steam locomotive in the United States to operate at faster than 100 mph
Other uses[edit]
- 999 Zachia, an asteroid
- 9–9–9 Plan, a tax plan proposed by 2012 Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain
- Triple Nine Society, a high IQ society for the top tenth of one percent of the population, as measured by IQ score
- Nine (purity), an informal way of ranking purity; "three nines" would be 99.9% pure
- "Three nines" as a level of High availability (99.9%)
See also[edit]
- 0.999... for proofs that 0.999... is equal to 1
- Triple Nine (disambiguation)
|This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same number.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.


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I am having a very hard time to function in the society.
I have been doing psychotherapy for the last 5 years.
I can't relate to people on any level. I relate well to my therapist and also a social worker that I see.
I can't get a job, because I can't get along with people.
I am very much interested in working with a Type Theory professional / a Therapist who knows about MBTI. I live in Toronto. I am poor and therefore unable to afford fancy fees and so on.
I will not go deep into my personal life issues here on this Forum.
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Hillary John, 32, came to India from Nigeria four years ago as a tourist.
He was so charmed by the country — its ethnic dresses — that he gave up a career in geology in his country and returned in 2010 to study fashion design at a private institute in Delhi.
In September last year, he launched his own fashion label, Diamond Ark, which has a showroom in Arjun Nagar near Safdarjang Enclave in south Delhi.
The shirts, suits, gowns, cocktail gowns, sherwanis and lehganas showcase fusion — Indian ethnic, Afro-Indo, Indo-western. "The city's fashion fraternity has been quite supportive," says the shy, soft-spoken John.
The difficult bit, he says, has been to prove that Nigerians can run a legitimate business in India, thanks to misconceptions about his community related to drug sale, online fraud and suchlike.
When he sought to rent a place for his showroom, many discouraged the landlady. "Thankfully, she trusted me. Now everyone in the neighbourhood is quite comfortable with me," he says.
John is not the only one. A new breed of African expatriates is trying to shake off stereotypes, venture into diverse businesses in the city: fashion brands, modelling, restaurants, beauty salons, African stores and clothes manufacturing.


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The Federal Government is planning a network of marine protected areas and sanctuary zones across Commonwealth waters and we'll find out how the proposal is set to maintain Australia's unique coastal biodiversity.
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text: Okay here's the thing, and please don't flame me. My Mom got a copy of OS 10.2 for free. We installed it on her 400 MHz G3 PowerBook (the original one with the 6 GB drive). She didn't like it. She wanted to go back to 9.2, so we did. Now I still have a PC ( ) so I can't use it. I had a couple of Apples, but they were older, and they couldn't have used OS X anyway. After I move (next month, finally) I will be buying a new Mac, so it will have the latest version installed already. Other friends and family have Macs, but they're either stuck on 9, or have already upgraded. So I have these full install CDs, that I can't do anything with. I considered doing the eBay thing, but since they're open (and technically used), and they say NOT FOR RESALE, I'm thinking... no. Probably not a good idea. So I've got this perfectly good, fully registerable software, ready to use. And nobody wants it. So I can probably give it to one of you nice people to install. Nice of me, huh? I don't really need any software, but I'm willing to trade it for something. If it makes it legal, I also have an old Mac SE/30 and HP LaserWriter I'd like to get rid of. The SE seems to work, but the screen doesn't always come on (I think my friend used an external monitor). And the HP (connected through a serial cable) worked the last time I tried it on a beige Mac. So... any takers? It's not warez or anything like that, so I'm hoping I don't get banned or, you know, arrested or what ever . I just have a bunch of stuff I can't use that I'm trying to get rid of before the move in January. And I thought maybe someone out there wants it. Post, e-mail, or PM me. I'll be around. Thanks.


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Ventura Police Investigating House Fire That Sent 4 People To Hospital
4 hospitalized after dangerous house Fire Breaks Out
VENTURA, Calif. - Four people were taken to the hospital late Sunday night after a house burst into flames.
Investigators believe the fire is suspicious and could be arson.
The blaze broke out about 11 p.m. Sunday in the 900 block of Burlington Avenue in Ventura.
Monday morning fire investigators spent several hours investigating the damage. By Monday afternoon the fire was considered suspicious and transferred to the Ventura Police Department.
Friends and family of Kurt and Nellie Baker were shocked to hear investigators believe this fire may be arson.
Six people were sleeping inside the home when the fire broke out. A nearby neighbor saw the flames. He quickly called 911 and then helped the residents get out of the home.
Kurt Baker, the elderly homeowner who lived in the bedroom above the garage, went into cardiac arrest while trying to escape the flames. It took the quick action of a firefighter to bring him to safety.
"The first arriving crews found one of the occupants in cardiac arrest. They made a quick extrication rescue, got the man out and started CPR immediately," said Ventura City Fire Assistant Chief Matt Brock.
In total the fire sent four people to the hospital, including a firefighter.
Three were suffering from complications from smoke inhalation and the fourth was Baker, who was listed in critical condition Monday night.
"I don't know if he was going to make it and we still don't know what the condition is and then to see the house like this and under these conditions and for the reason that it was done, it just breaks my heart," said Cameron Antillon, Baker's relative.
Brock said the damage to the home is extensive and that the house can not be occupied until it has been cleaned up and repairs have been made. Brock said the Red Cross has stepped in to help.
Investigators estimate the structural damage at $150,000. On top of the structural damage investigators estimate the homeowners lost about $75,000 of their personal belongings, including a boat and a car sitting in the driveway.
Family members of the Bakers said they did not have home insurance because they had financially exhausted all their money helping their son battling cancer. He lost his life just a few weeks ago.
Baker's relatives hope to set up a relief fund to help the Baker family rebuild their home in the upcoming weeks.
Investigators ask anyone with information about the fire to give the Ventura Police Department a call.26734218


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Don't just let it go
Someone recently asked if I still taught "Core on the Floor", a piece I did for a yoga magazine. It was an hour and a half of power moves. I told him I was more into water than fire these days.
I'm leaving a class I just taught on spilling and unwinding. The theme was water. We are talking on the staircase and someone comments that someone else should just "let it go". I say, "Forget that. No one lets anything go. Pretending you do just makes you passive aggressive. I say just confront it. Not confronting it is just a form of self-loathing." I hear a snicker behind me.
I turn to see a smiling face. He says, "I'm listening to your conversation and I just had this conversation with my friend on the phone where I'm going off and he's saying, 'Man just let it go! Be like the water and just flow'".
"Yeah, No way", I laugh. "There's no flow. You get dammed up in the muck that hasn't been cleared. Now you're drowning in the backwash."
I think of the water that surged through our town in the flood. It took rocks that a human couldn't lift down the streets. It smashed things. It moved any obstacle in its path. It moved cars and houses.
And I'm reconsidering that tired lesson and thinking of the "flow" as an action that takes down obstacles like Ganesh's trunk rather than submission to tyranny. I reflect on a situation where I can test this thought. Years after letting go and 'forgetting' someone, I had the opportunity to confront him but it wasn't satisfying because he didn't really get it. That ignorance was what let him act wrongly in the first place. He didn't have the consciousness to understand his actions nor the kindness to consider them.
So what good did it do to confront him? Was letting go the final answer?
The flow I had been going with was a flow into a lack of self worth because someone I gave too much credit to did not think me worthy of consideration. Turning the other cheek might have seemed peaceful but that cheek was red with shame and it was shame on me for allowing that to happen. Obviously nothing had 'gone' because I confronted him when I had the chance. His surprise told me he was horrified to think he'd hurt me but after that I saw he was so self-involved I didn't even exist. That, it seemed, allowed me to let go. But why do I remember it now? Did I think there were no samskaras (seeds of memories) when I sent my anger into a balloon and let it go?
I called on water to help me wash seeds of discontent away like the flood took the seeds in my garden. I won't go with the flow. I am the flow, the torrent, the surging, roiling, tremendous flood waters. I am sweeping away this disappointment. I am sweeping away self doubt. I am clearing, shoving, throwing, smashing, rolling and flowing. I am a forward pressing force of nature. No prisoners. Intruders to my well being are being banished to dissolve. I am pulling my obstacles down with the undertow of my passion and I am being released above into the sunlit sparkles of gentle ripples of self- love and light.
Action not passivity is what is called for and my test results are strong. It seems the seeds of discontent are exiled by my awareness. They are drowned beyond germination. I feel truth of the perpetrator. I see the truth of the previous reaction. I see the reality of the dethroned antagonist. There is no letting. There is no other to do it for you. There is no truth in pretending. There is no use in ignoring. Time does not heal. We heal. We do the work. We find the way. No one gets hurt and though the situation or person still exists, the reaction to them is over so they really don't exist. The waters are calm.
When it comes to a physical yoga practice I may be more into water than fire but it takes a little fire to get the water moving on the mat and in life. Freezing out thoughts preserves them in the basement freezer. You can't just 'let it go'. We may be mostly made of water but we are human and too complicated to dismiss with empty phrases. Being the water for us requires the use of the hydro-electric damn. Water in its purest form is natural and will do its thing without distraction. We are not water. We need to think to stay the course.
To my friend on the staircase I change my advice. Go ahead and be the water, but make sure that water is full of fire or it may just be a stagnant pond.
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For many TV fans, their favorite shows are an escape from the drudgery of everyday life. For that very reason, most TV shows focus on characters who live in nice apartments or homes, and have a high standard of living. But there isn't a TV fan alive who hasn't occasionally wondered how their favorite TV characters can afford to live in luxurious homes.
There are plenty of TV shows that feature characters living extravagant lifestyles that just don't seem realistic. Here are some characters who don't seem like they should be able to afford the places where they live.
Monica Eton and Mike Ross, "Suits"
Mike is shown having a hard time making ends meet before he gets a job at Pearson Hardman, which is why he brings up the high cost of rent in Manhattan when chatting with Monica Eton. After Monica gets blacklisted at all the law firms in Manhattan, she was reduced to working in retail. Even in a high-end boutique, Mike guesses that Monica is going broke staying in her apartment on her meager wages. So how exactly is Monica earning enough money to both live and eat in Manhattan?
Even Mike's own real estate expenditures seem unrealistic. At one point, he's making enough money to have his own apartment (with no roommate), as well as buying an apartment for his grandmother outright. Bear in mind, this is just in his second year at the firm: A partner might have that kind of money, but it seems unlikely that Mike would.
The Donovans and the Gilberts, "The Vampire Diaries"
It's not long into the first season of "The Vampire Diaries" that Matt Donovan is the only member of his family living at home. His sister is killed, his dad is long gone, and his mother is AWOL, rarely sending money home to pay for the mortgage or utilities. Even though Matt works long hours at the Mystic Grill, it doesn't seems like he's making enough money to pay for the house on his own.
It is also not clear how the Gilbert clan pays for their home. It's possible that Elena's parents had life insurance, although not many people their age do. Although, they did know about vampires, so maybe there was a life insurance payout involved. It would certainly explain why Jeremy and Elena are able to live with their aunt, who is a student herself and not earning any money. As a founding family of Mystic Falls, there might be some money in a trust, or perhaps their house was already paid off. But there still seem to be an awful lot of expenses for two teenagers to handle all on their own -- especially if that trust-fund money wasn't accessible until Elena turned 18.
The men of "Friends"
In the show's first season, it seemed pretty improbable that three single women could afford an apartment in New York City. Monica was a chef and likely made decent money, but Rachel was a coffee shop waitress, and Phoebe was a free-spirited masseuse who frequently had her license revoked. However, it was explained that Monica was illegally subletting the place from her grandmother.
The men seemed more unlikely to be able to pay their rent each month. Chandler made good money as an executive, but Joey was frequently out of work, and he ate as much food as four people in some instances.


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Earth Sheltered Pit Greenhouse
In this area of Texas, I have two problems that I encounter when growing tropical plants. In the winter it freezes – a no-brainer – and in the summer, it gets too hot for many of the tropicals I grow. It's a pretty unfriendly environment for a plant that is used to an 80-95F range 365 and a quarter days per year. But, the land wasn't expensive, we have family here, and our well flows good even in the depth of drought, and most importantly, my better half doesn't want to cart the kids off to some remote Pacific island no matter how much I beg. So, determination and innovation is what I have left – and a blank slate of a property to exercise that on.
My goal is simple – grow tropical plants without going broke doing so. That means keeping the environment above freezing, and below the hundred mark if possible. And doing so without having to depend on expensive heating, be it by fuel – which is ridiculously expensive, or by electricity that, well, is produced by burning fuel currently so is similarly expensive, and without having to buy and install massive swamp-coolers that would only work until our humidity shoots up to where it usually is in the hottest, most miserable part of summer. And that means the solution needs to be inexpensive to build too. No expensive multi-layered glazing, no super-insulated walls or fancy gizmos.
Luckily, I'm a huge fan of earth-shelters and underground homes. I may never live in one and may forever be consigned to a stick-frame with a white picket fence, but that doesn't stop me from dreaming. It just fascinates me that the simplest way to cool down on a hot day is to go a few inches down into the ground – something I've seen dogs do. As such, it wasn't a far stretch for me to consider this for a greenhouse. At one time, I even daydreamed of having the greenhouse totally buried but having light wells. A major inspiration for that idea was Forestiere Underground Gardens as seen on HGTV. I was just enthralled by that show and researched it on the Internet extensively. I also found a Mother Earth News article about another DIY earth-sheltered greenhouse inspiring too. And more so, because he too grows tropicals, I found Russ Finch's semi-pit earth-sheltered and ground-mass heated greenhouse especially inspiring.
My problem was that I had no idea what the structure of my soil was. Our property is not far from a creek, so it was easy to surmise that we were sitting on silt. So I spent an enormous amount of time researching retaining walls and re-enforcing, getting rather elaborate and ultimately fatally impractical. It was time to step back and take a breath. There was going to be an earth sheltered greenhouse here, but I just wasn't sure what direction to take. Finally, I figured I'd put shovel to soil and see what I came up with.
It didn't take long, tho before the shovel idea seemed less appealing. I got down about a foot then the soil was like concrete. But I had already started – so I called a friend with a back-hoe – it was time to put some money where my ideas was and step in with both feet. I was starting off small and simple – 12′ wide and about 45′ long. I had already decided to use the cattle-panel hoops from my previous greenhouse to cover this thing – going from 9′ wide 6′ tall to 12′ wide and 4.5′ tall covering an 8′ deep pit – soil composition willing.
The first couple of bucket-fulls of soil told the story – the reason why I felt like I was digging in concrete after I got a few inches into the subsoil was that it really was, after a fashion. Strip away the shallow subsoil and what I have is sandstone! A rather hard sandstone too. By the time the back-hoe had finished digging, it's teeth where short, sharp, shiny little nubs, polished to a mirror finish. And what I had was the start of my earth-sheltered dreams – a pit that had walls of solid rock – no re-enforcing needed at all! I was beside myself – it only took an hour to excavate that, and he even carved a little ramp for me to go down into the pit.
My next quandary was how to cover this thing. It was fairly close to straight, but not perfect. I tried stakes to anchor the cattle-panels, but that didn't work as the ground wasn't fully even, making the forming of a perfect hoop impossible. I then figured I'd build a frame to mount it on and support it from inside the pit. That worked well, except, there was a space between the frame and the edge of the pit that I had to contend with.
I spent a winter trying to figure that out and the next Spring I decided to embark on an idea that had been hounding me – build an enclosure inside the pit for at least a temporary earth-sheltered greenhouse. The other option was to scrape the soil around the perimeter, dig a footer trench, pour a few yards of concrete then build a frame on top of that. A very good and ideal idea – but more expensive than I could afford at the time and I needed to relocate my plants pronto.
I had a corrugated-steel clad shed on the property that I was in the process of disassembling, and I had all the lumber that I used in the first framing attempt, so it wasn't long before I had walls being made. I actually built the thing in a 2-day frenzy of nailing. First the short wall at the back end of the pit, nailed together and clad with the corrugated steel while laying down, then lifted up and leaned against the end of the pit. Then the long walls, each one assembled likewise. They were heavy too – but I managed to get them up. And finally, the door-wall. I was lucky in that our house was in the process of construction when we bought it and had a spare glassed-in screen door. I made use of that for my greenhouse. I braced the top of the greenhouse. I should have braced the bottom too – one wall has moved in a few inches, but it's stopped where it is so I'm not too worried about it.
I couldn't afford to enclose the entire pit – not enough lumber, not enough corrugated steel – I was on a near zero budget here. So I only enclosed a little over 17′ of the pit. That required only four cattle-panels to cover. And they went on swimmingly – very easy to do. I did everything solo – no help whatsoever, so it took a bit of creativity to make this work. The ends were a little more awkward. I figured on a couple of pieces of plywood on either end and then I'd cut it to shape to the curve. Well, I never got around cutting it, but it's worked perfectly the way it is and I figure if I'm going to eventually disassemble this for the new and improved version I'm currently designing, why bother? But the ends really helped stiffen the entire hoop.
All I had left was to glaze it. Since I used cheap poly from the hardware – basically 6mil translucent general purpose poly – that didn't survive long in the UV rays of the sun, I decided not to cover it right away, but rather concentrated on moving all the tropicals down in the pit. It was now Fall and starting to get cool, but I still pushed it as far as I could, waiting until the last possible moment to put the poly on.
Now, here's an interesting thing with earth-mass. It radiates heat. It may not seem like it – but with the ground at a constant 65′ish, when it's cold outside, the walls actually serve as heat sources. I saw the manifestation of that very clearly one morning. A morning that was only supposed to get to the low forties. Instead it dropped to the low 30′s to upper 20′s! And I didn't have a lick of poly on the greenhouse. I went outside and the grass, house, trees, my pots and junk – it was all covered with ice. My water-hoses were solid with ice. It was cold. And I was terrified. I ran down into the pit and saw… perfectly happy tropical plants that had not a speck of ice on them – lotsa dew tho. Earth-mass at work, folks. Of course, it's more potent in the Fall, following a hot summer, than the Spring – there is a certain amount of stored energy from the summer playing a part here.
Nevertheless, I promptly glazed the greenhouse. My next challenge was attaching the poly. Did I want to nail it, or wrap it around a 2×4 then nail that, or what? I then remembered the problem I had with my last greenhouse – where the near constant wind eventually found weak spot in the plastic that caused them to rip and caused the rips to keep on ripping. The solution presented itself to me in the spare cattle-panels I now had – why not just lay the other cattle panels right on top of the poly? And it worked. The squares matched up to the ones below the poly, forming tear brakes. Additionally, the wind couldn't grab huge swaths of the poly, but only little squares. I did have a little rip and it stopped at the edge of the squares as I surmised it would.
Now for supplemental heat. I already had a wire out there that I used for my well, and I spliced into that to use for my heater. I didn't think I'd need it much but figured it would take the edge off. Even tho the enclosure was completely covered now – the walls still were exposed to the outside air – both on the entrance end and in the space between the other walls and the sandstone walls. So – earth-mass or no, it was going to get a little chilly because I was not excluding the winter air effectively. It still performed wildly beyond my expectations. My heater failed at the splice early on – and I never knew it. I had a very few plants show some curious signs, but the vast majority of the plants were so happy that I chalked the few quirks to something else. I figured that the figs go dormant naturally, the boswellia sacra has a highish dormancy temperature range, and that my chocolate trees and coffee trees – all clustered tightly together – were suffering from root-rot problems from the cool, moist soil. However, no heater, and a very cold winter for these parts and the rest of my plants acted like they didn't even know it was winter!
This winter is my second winter in this enclosure. Plans are underway for a new pit greenhouse – much larger, much longer, a little bit deeper and a taller riser giving me more headroom. I have a little more funding and am working at a place where dirt-digging equipment is easy to get ahold of. With my experiences with my current pit greenhouse, this new project is sure to be a blast. My goal is to plant right into the soil of this new pit – soil that I'll have to make by converting the sandstone into sand then mixing with organic matter and a dash of clay and whatnot. But that, folks, is another article. For my current greenhouse – built when I was at the lowest point of being broke from scavenged components – I am growing plants that would have way outgrown my topside hoophouse, and that required a fraction of the heating that I used up there. All in all, a very economical greenhouse.
To answer a commonly asked question – yes, when it rains hard I get a few inches in the bottom. But that's it – and the water drains away rapidly. A couple days later, 5″ of standing water becomes a little bit of wet sand. That's the advantage of having sandstone. The new pit will eventually be completely covered and won't flood at all, but it's never been a problem.
Another similar project that uses similar principles that mine does is a pool that's been repurposed into an earth-sheltered aquaponics greenhouse. Check them out at http://gardenpool.org/


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A panel has determined why the financial crisis became a financial crisis.
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Archives for January 30, 2009
It's easier to develop an eco-friendly light bulb than it is to develop an eco-friendly light-bulb that works well.
Michael Steele is now in charge of the Republican Party.
Researchers in Chicago say they've reversed the effects of Multiple Sclerosis.
Health officials have released a plan for deciding who gets rationed care during a flu pandemic.
Plenty, according to a new survey that shows only four other cities are less desirable to people who live somewhere else.
Some proposed restrictions while driving a car include a ban on changing the radio.
What would we be talking about without them?


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"One man's meat is another man's poison."
This document has focused on identifying sources of difficulty for users when interacting with a product. However, identifying the sources is only the first stage. The next step is to take action to re-design the product to remove or remediate those difficulties. If you have involved users with different types of impairments in the user sessions, then you may find that some user requirements complement those of other users, e.g. large text often helps users with low vision as well as some users with reading difficulties. However, some user requirements will conflict with those of other users, e.g. large text on a mobile telephone or PDA for low vision users will increase the memory demands on the user as less information can be displayed at the same time, which is not good for someone with Parkinson's disease. These conflicts are easier to identify if you have evaluated the products with diverse impairment types. However, if you have only evaluated the product with the one impairment type (e.g. low vision), then bear in mind that these conflicts between impairment types will probably still exist even if you have not observed them directly.
What are the weaknesses with this work to date?
One of the biggest challenges of accessibility is how to validate that the software, Web pages, or hardware are truly accessible and usable. It would be great if there was one tool that could be used to validate that the product is accessible, but every tool has its limitations and the truth is that a lot of times, manual testing and human judgment come into play. Also, regulations by governments, standards groups recommendations, and the technologies are constantly evolving. For example, IBM's aDesigner is a disability simulator that helps Web designers ensure that their pages are accessible and usable by the visually impaired. But there are few evaluation tools that address both usability and accessibility. The best recourse is to know your customers, design products that are useable for them, and continue to work with them to ensure your product is as accessible and usable as possible.
What research still needs to be done?
Methods of helping identify 'showstoppers'.
When working with PwD, you should expect the first few sessions to reveal a number of showstopper problems - i.e. those from which the user cannot recover. Frequently these showstoppers originate from traditional usability problems or from conflicts with the assistive technology being used. While the purpose of the user evaluation sessions is to identify the sources of difficulty, having multiple users all stop at the same point and be unable to proceed is obviously not a very useful use of them as a resource. It would be better if there was some way of identifying all the obvious showstoppers up front before beginning the expensive user sessions. Research is being performed on simulating the more obvious and easily understood impairments so that designers can identify the showstoppers earlier in the design process. The complementary approach to this is to develop educational techniques to help designers understand the basic features of common impairments to avoid the showstoppers being developed in the first place.
Do different assistive technologies yield different results?
Different assistive technologies (AT) can yield different results. In order for the AT to present useful information to the user, the AT must extract the meaningful information provided by the application. For example, most Windows applications use the Microsoft? Active Accessibility? (MSAA) technology to provide this interface between the AT and the application. The MSAA technology provides a programming interface to allow applications to communicate directly with an AT, i.e. MSAA enabled applications act as servers and ATs as clients of the MSAA. Because ATs developed over time as Windows and Windows applications developed, most ATs use a combination of MSAA and their own off screen model to determine the user interface presented by a software application. So not all AT products will extract or convey the same information to the user. Each AT makes their best guess based on the information provided by the application. So how do application developers and session administrators ensure their products are accessible? The best practice is to evaluate your product's accessibility using the AT that most of your customers use. If one AT does not present the correct information to the user, then try another AT to ensure that there is not a defect in the AT. Tools such as Inspect Objects are very useful in determining if there are programming errors in the application that keep the information from being accessible. Your application may be technically accessible but not work correctly with an AT. In this case it is necessary to work directly with the AT vendor to ensure proper interoperability.


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Fin Review: Apollo ** Atomic Aquatics ** ScubaPro ** Mares
August 10th, 2006
Split fins have recently taken the dive industry by storm. These untraditional fins may look a bit strange at first, but once you think about it, nature itself produces such forms to propel animals through the water. As human engineering adopts what nature perfects, consumers are granted more choices.
A little background: Traditional fins, or 'paddle fins' as they're commonly called, have been in use for a long time. The reason there has been little evolution in terms of shape is because of the historically disproportionate use of fins in warmer waters. As exposure suit technology has improved over the years, more and more people have been finding themselves needing some propulsion power in the chillier waters of the North. Also a byproduct of a thicker/larger suit and more equipment is more drag. Thus arises the need for a fin that doesn't require an Olympic deadlifter's quadriceps for use. That's right, split fins are designed to give you the same propulsive power over a greater number of kick cycles, which in turn requires a fraction of the muscle power needed to complete kicks with paddle fins.
Newer is not necessarily better. I'm a firm believer that there exists a need for both types of fins, split fins and paddle fins. I love my Mares Plana Avanti Quattros, the workhorse of the tropical dive industry. Others swear by the ScubaPro Jet fins. Both of these models require some extra effort for long-distance swims, but for maneuverability – the split fins can only vie for second place. A twitch of the big toe can rotate you around to snap a photo of that elusive mandarin fish, flitting about amongst the staghorn coral. Yet, diving in a drysuit and doing long surface swims compelled me to find a more suitable fin for the long-term. As I've come to appreciate the colder waters a bit more, and perhaps become lazier, I've also begun to appreciate split fins as well.
I started out with the lightweight ScubaPro Twin Speed fins. I have the full foot variety for bringing on dive trips in the warm waters, where packing light pays off. They're great for snorkeling in-between dives and are very comfortable, due to the ultra-soft foot pockets. Though I'm not going to go into a lot of detail here about full foot fins, I'll say that I've used quite a few pairs of rental fins of this type, and they can be extremely annoying if they don't fit your foot well. This includes areas that rub your ankle/heel. A nuisance in the beginning, this can turn into a sore a few days into a dive vacation that detracts from your overall enjoyment. So, when picking any full foot fin, pay attention to minor pinches and areas that rub. That's just my 2 psi.
For more utility, you might want to look into the ScubaPro Twin Jets, which are used around the world by underwater film crews and commercial divers who spend many hours in the water. These are very easy on the legs. On the downside, I've found them to be particularly hard to maneuver in tight areas where it's important to avoid stirring up the silty bottom (swimthroughs, caves, etc.), due to the large vents between the toe and the beginning of the planar surface of the fin. Also, the boot pocket is very shallow on top, something I never quite understood from a design standpoint. No matter what fin you buy, be sure to try the fin on first with the boot(s) you plan to mate them to, before purchasing them. Some rubber/plastic boot pockets are tough to slide into with the rubber soles of boots, and a little silicone spray goes a long way in making that boot slide in with ease. 😉
Next, I gave the Atomic Aquatics SplitFin a try. Though I read their marketing material and understood that their 'unique design' meant less expenditure of energy, the real thing that drew me to them was their darn good looks! (okay, it's not all about function, folks). These babies are some of the best darn looking fins on the market, and if they work half as good as they look, then I'm sold. They even come in a wide variety of colors. In diving though, this type of mentality wears off quickly, as practicality takes over (sorry Atomic, but I still think your regulators second to none!). For one, they are slightly positively buoyant. Which, believe it or not, actually made a difference underwater in terms of sending me into a feet-up position when horizontally balanced. Though this is good for finding them when you lose track of one in the water, it is not good if you need to counterbalance them with ankle weights. Another thing, I just felt that they bent too easily when stepping on the gas in a drysuit and all the gear you need for the cold water. Later, I attributed that out of sync kick cycle to a delayed rebound, probably due to being too soft for the amount of drag I was carrying w/ all the gear. Still, they work great in a 3mm wetsuit, so I think I'll be keeping them for trips to the tropics. Finally, the Atomics have the best darned finstrap clasp on the market. These things clip in and out so effortlessly that I'd buy these fins again, just for that single feature.
Continuing my search, I turned to a fin that I had avoided from the beginning, the Apollo Bio-Fin. I had left this one out primarily because they look so darn simple that they couldn't possibly be the best. In the end though, I decided to give them a shot. After all, they did pioneer – and later patent – the Nature's Wing technology (a fin with a slice down the center). Thus, they must've known something that the others did not from the outset.
Right off the bat I was impressed. The bottom line was that they produced great propulsion with effortless kicks, yet did not cap out like the Atomics did in cold water. My only complaint was that they were a little too noodle-like for my tastes, as a photographer who needs to make some tight turns at times. It was likely just the fact that I had come from using paddle fins for so long. It felt as though the kicks were coming too easy, though people buying their first pair or upgrading from other types of split fins would likely not notice this at all.
The personal preference for a fin with some degree of perceptible resistance led me straight to the Apollo Bio-Fin XT. These 'meaty' versions of the Bio-Fin are made from a stiffer material. Thus, they provide more resistance – and thrust – than do the regular Bio-Fins. Right from the start, I knew I had found a fin to suit my needs here in the Pacific Northwest. They provided the exhaustion-saving benefits of split fins, yet held the maneuverability of traditional paddle fins, resulting in the perfect blend of efficiency and utility. In fact, I loved the XTs so much that upon losing my first pair (I left them at the dive site!), I opted for another identical pair instead of opting for another pair of fins for this review. In my world, this means that I've really settled on a piece of gear, since my dive buddies will attest that I'm typically always up for trying something new, for better or worse.
On the final note, I'd like to add that if you've found yourself a good pair of fins that you plan to stick with, I highly recommend getting a pair of spring straps for your fins. These will make your life much much easier! Instead of fumbling around at the shore, trying to get them on with your buddy holding you upright, you can hop into the water with your BC inflated, and flip each spring over your heel. You're ready to go. Different manufacturers have different aftermarket spring straps, and some even provide their own versions (either out of the box or retrofit), such as those that come with the Apollo C-series Bio-Fins. The best retrofitted spring straps I've come across are those made by Innovative Scuba. For the Apollo Bio-Fin, you'll need the EZ Spring model, which fits right onto the native pegs that the stock buckle-clasp fin straps attach to. The Innovative Scuba versions are the best, most cost effective aftermarket spring straps I know of.
In summary, picking a good fin has to do with several key factors:
- Deciding Between Open Heel or Full Foot (tropics only)
- Ease of Use vs. Maneuverability (split vs. paddle; material and shape)
- The Shape of Your Boot/Foot + Fin Pocket
- Buoyancy Characteristics (some might not notice the difference as I did)
- Last but not least: Cost & Cosmetic Appeal
Entry Filed under: SCUBA
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October 8th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
[…] are fun too), fins are an integral part of a diver's gear kit. A few years ago I offered up a comparative review of a number of good performing fins, including the Mares Plana Avanti Quattro, ScubaPro Jet fin, […]
August 10th, 2011 at 4:37 am
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October 8th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
[…] are fun too), fins are an integral part of a diver's gear kit. A few years ago I offered up a comparative review of a number of good performing fins, including the Mares Plana Avanti Quattro, ScubaPro Jet fin, […]
August 10th, 2011 at 4:37 am
how much?? a pair..???
i want buy..


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5. Val Beverley
The luncheon was so good as to be almost ostentatious. One could not have
lunched better at the Carlton. Yet, since this luxurious living was evidently
customary in the colonel's household, a charge of ostentation would not have
been deserved. The sinister-looking Pedro proved to be an excellent servant;
and because of the excitement of feeling myself to stand upon the edge of
unusual things, the enjoyment of a perfectly served repast, and the sheer delight
which I experienced in watching the play of expression upon the face of Miss
Beverley, I count that luncheon at Cray's Folly a memorable hour of my life.
Frankly, Val Beverley puzzled me. It may or may not have been curious, that
amidst such singular company I selected for my especial study a girl so freshly
and typically English. I had thought at the moment of meeting her that she was
provokingly pretty; I determined, as the lunch proceeded, that she was beautiful.
Once I caught Harley smiling at me in his quizzical fashion, and I wondered
guiltily if I were displaying an undue interest in the companion of Madame.
Many topics were discussed, I remember, and beyond doubt the colonel's
cousin-housekeeper dominated the debate. She possessed extraordinary force
of personality. Her English was not nearly so fluent as that spoken by the colonel,
but this handicap only served to emphasize the masculine strength of her
intellect. Truly she was a remarkable woman. With her blanched hair and her
young face, and those fine, velvety eyes which possessed a quality almost
hypnotic, she might have posed for the figure of a sorceress. She had unfamiliar
gestures and employed her long white hands in a manner that was new to me
and utterly strange.
I could detect no family resemblance between the cousins, and I wondered if
their kinship were very distant. One thing was evident enough: Madame de
Staemer was devoted to the Colonel. Her expression when she looked at him
changed entirely. For a woman of such intense vitality her eyes were uncannily
still; that is to say that whilst she frequently moved her head she rarely moved
her eyes. Again and again I found myself wondering where I had seen such eyes
before. I lived to identify that memory, as I shall presently relate.
In vain I endeavoured to define the relationship between these three people, so
incongruously set beneath one roof. Of the fact that Miss Beverly was not happy I
became assured. But respecting her exact position in the household I was
reduced to surmises.
The Colonel improved on acquaintance. I decided that he belonged to an order of
Spanish grandees now almost extinct. I believed he would have made a very
staunch friend; I felt sure he would have proved a most implacable enemy.
Altogether, it was a memorable meal, and one notable result of that brief
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Mar 7, 2012 - StaffThe Wyoming Business Council's Agribusiness Division is now accepting photos for its 5th Annual Ag Photo Contest.
Amateurs, professionals, youth and adults may submit photos to the Agribusiness Division until Sept. 1.
While there are no subject categories, all submissions must be agriculture related and taken in Wyoming.
Photos could include crops; livestock and farm animals; ag recreation and activities; or scenic agriculture. Photos may be in color or black and white.
Contestants may submit multiple photos to the contest.
All contestants are eligible for the Grand Prize of $300.
Adult contestants may win $150 and $75 for first and second places respectively.
Youth contestants may win $50 and $25 for first and second places, respectively. Winning photos will also be used in the 2013 AgriCulture Calendar issued in fall 2012.
"This is the fifth year for the ag photo contest and the response we get grows every year," said Terri Barr, senior marketing information specialist in the Agribusiness Division. "The first year, there were only 28 photos submitted; last year, it was just shy of 300."
Each submitted photograph should be accompanied by a completed and signed application form. The photos must be at least 300 dpi in jpeg or tiff format. Each submitted photo should include the location of the picture, the contestant's name and a title (optional) on the back of the photograph. Digital photos may be submitted on CD or via e-mail.
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Obutt brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 37 Designs von 17 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Southern California College of Osteopathic Medicine
I'm one of the founders of Southern California College of Osteopathic Medicine. We are looking for a nice design to appeal to our investors and our future students.
If we will be happy with the results it can open the way for other design projects for the college.
Investors and founding team
Prospective medical students
The initial of the college is SCCOM and it can be part of the logo (example: UCLA, USC universities), all of it or not part of the logo at all (you decide).
We have no other requirements. See attachment for general description of the educational startup, as well as names of some of the competitors (you can google their logos).