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Last year's New Zealand Music Awards ceremony was dominated by groups - led by the runaway success of Fat Freddy's Drop - but this year it seems to have swung back to solo voices.
The award nominations, announced yesterday, have three veteran singer-songwriters - Bic Runga, Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan - among the five nominations vying for the top award, Album of the Year.
Runga's third album Birds already has two Tuis next to its name from the technical categories announced yesterday.
She also has two other nominations - Best Female Solo Artist and Single of the Year - taking her potential haul at the Aotea Centre on October 18 to five.
McGlashan and solo debut Warm Hand is up for Best Album and Best Male Solo Artist. Bathe In The River, the Hollie Smith-sung song he wrote for the No. 2 soundtrack would seem to be a frontrunner for Single of the Year.
The solo practitioners might have had even more nominations had organisers, the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, not dropped the Songwriter of the Year category. Rianz decided that songcraft was already recognised by the Apra Silver Scroll, which will be presented on September 20.
As well as being up for Best Album for his Available Light, last year's Songwriter of the Year, Dave Dobbyn, is nominated alongside McGlashan and Che-Fu in the Best Male Solo Artist category.
Other leading nominees include Auckland punk band the Bleeders, who are up for Best Group, Breakthrough Artist and Best Rock Album for As Sweet as Sin, the artwork of which won Chris Knox the Best Album Design among the technical categories yesterday.
Hip-hop's heavy presence in past years has been pegged back this year. Only Che-Fu and Frontline appear outside the best hip-hop group category.
And while last year's wins by Fat Freddy's Drop and Shihad gave the awards a Wellington-centric feel, this year few acts are from outside Auckland in the major categories, though capital city collection Fly My Pretties is up for Best Group and Best Aotearoa Roots Album.
Also on two nominations apiece are drum'n'bass heavyweights Concord Dawn, pop-punk outfit Elemeno P, singer-songwriter Anika Moa, hip-hop duo Frontline and South Auckland soulstress Aaradhna.
No finalists are announced in advance for the highest-selling single and album, the radio airplay and the international achievement awards. Many of the acts also figure as candidates in the public-voted People's Choice Awards - which mean that Fat Freddy's Drop might even win something this year too.
Early winners
Three technical category winners were awarded yesterday during the nomination announcement for the 41st New Zealand Music Awards. Bic Runga and her Birds album have already scored two wins with her winning best producer for the album and Andre Upston taking away best engineer for his work on the record.
The best album cover award went to Chris Knox for his artwork on the Bleeders' debut album As Sweet As Sin.
How to be there
For the first time in its 41-year history, this year's New Zealand Music Awards ceremony is open to the public.
Tickets are now on sale for the show at Auckland's Aotea Centre on Wednesday October 18. Who will be performing on the night is yet to be confirmed but, as always, the show will feature many of the nominees and some surprises. Tickets are $45 and available from Ticketek and selected music stores.
PlayStation 2 SingStar Album of the Year
Don McGlashan - Warm Hand
Bic Runga - Birds
Dave Dobbyn - Available Light
Concord Dawn - Chaos By Design
Elemeno P - Trouble in Paradise
The New Zealand Herald Single of the Year
Bic Runga - Winning Arrow
Goldenhorse - Out Of The Moon
Mt Raskil Preservation Society featuring Hollie Smith - Bathe In The River
Pluto - Long White Cross
The Feelers - Stand Up
Kiwi Best Group
Bleeders - As Sweet As Sin
Elemeno P - Trouble In Paradise
Fly My Pretties - The Return of Fly My Pretties
Best Male Solo Artist
Che-Fu - Beneath the Radar
Dave Dobbyn - Available Light
Don McGlashan - Warm Hand
Best Female Solo Artist
Aaradhna - I Love You
Anika Moa - Stolen Hill
Bic Runga - Birds
Breakthrough Artist of the Year
Aaradhna - I Love You
Bleeders - As Sweet As Sin
Frontline - Borrowed Time
C4 Best Music Video
Mark Williams - Wandering Eye (Fat Freddy's Drop)
Alyx Duncan - Fuji (Minuit)
Adam Jones - Long White Cross (Pluto)
Best Rock Album
Bleeders - As Sweet As Sin
Blindspott - End The Silence
Elemeno P - Trouble In Paradise
Best Urban/Hip-Hop Album
Frontline - Borrowed Time
Nesian Mystik - Fresh Men
Opensouls - Kaleidoscope
Best Dance/Electronica Album
Concord Dawn - Chaos By Design
Recloose - Hiatus on the Horizon
Sola Rosa - Moves On
Best Aotearoa Roots Album
Anika Moa - Stolen Hill
Fly My Pretties - The Return of Fly My Pretties
Rhombus - Future Reference
Best Maori Album
Mahara Tocker - Hurricane's Eye
Rodger Cunningham - Toto
Te Reotakiwa Dunn - Te Reotakiwa Dunn
Best Gospel/Christian Album
juliagrace - juliagrace
Mumsdollar - A Beautiful Life
Shooting Stars - Over The Water
Best Classical Album
Bridget Douglas and Rachel Thomson - Taurangi
The New Zealand Trio - Spark
Tower Voices Of New Zealand - Spirit of the Land
People's Choice Award
Elemeno P
Bic Runga
Goodnight Nurse
Fat Freddy's Drop
How to vote in the People's Choice Award
Voting is open now for the People's Choice Award, the category in which New Zealand music fans have their say.
This year's finalists are Pluto, Fat Freddy's Drop, Frontline, Elemeno P, Bic Runga and Goodnight Nurse.
Here's how to vote your favourite artist by text message
1) Txt Choice and then
A for Pluto
B for Fat Freddy's Drop
C for Frontline
D for Elemeno P
E for Bic Runga
F for Goodnight Nurse
2) Send the TXT to 3950
The text votes cost 50c each but, by voting, you and a friend could win VIP passes to the New Zealand Music Awards at the Aotea Centre on October 18 - and just as you've recovered from that big night you'll then fly to the Australian Music Awards in Sydney.
Other categories to be announced on night
Highest Selling NZ Single
Warehouse Highest Selling NZ Album
NZ on Air Radio Airplay Record of the Year


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Breakfast of champions makes Andy a glutton for punishment
WHEN Andy Murray primed himself for the Australian Open with a training camp in Miami last month, the most physically demanding part of the pre-season program came on the track, where he did 400-metre sprint after 400-metre sprint, but it sounds as though a close second to that was what he had to go through at the breakfast table.
Murray had been set a target of taking on 6000 calories a day in an attempt to bulk up in Florida; he was eating for victory. This was endurance eating, a diet that you do not really expect outside of freak-show documentaries such as Half Ton Son.
The American teenager in that film was bed-bound, but Murray was eating his way to the best shape of his life, putting on five kilograms. "The hardest part about the food was the breakfast, that was difficult," Murray said. "I would get up and have a protein shake and bagels with peanut butter, and the peanut butter would stick to my teeth and then I would have eggs after that, and then yogurt and then fruit and then whatever."
Add to that list cake, steak and sushi, up to 24 pieces in a sitting. "That was really tough each day to keep doing that," he said. "I'm used to eating 4000 calories a day, so those extra 2000 calories were tough. That's a lot of calories - you're meant to eat 2400 in a day."
At night during his training camp, Murray visualised himself as the Australian Open champion, lifting up the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup. "You never know what the feeling would be like, winning a grand slam, but I imagine it would be pretty immense, a great relief and a huge weight off your shoulders It's something I believe I can do. I don't think I'm kidding myself that I have the potential to do it."
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Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - "Another Day" (3)
Melody Mountain got a certain amount of mileage out of pitting Susanna Karolina Wallumrods angelic voice against familiar, sometimes rough material. The shiver that Its a Long Way to the Top induced was partly due to its high, otherworldly texture, partly from the recognition that this was an AC/DC song, one that had played on the radio for a long time, that had nonetheless been transmuted into something eerily unrecognizable. There was a stunning transposition of expectations, a subversion of well-known, well-worn symmetries in this cover, and that was true of other cuts KISSs Crazy, Crazy Nights, Joy Divisions Love Will Tear Us Apart and Cohens Hallelujah. Now in the third Susanna album, Wallumrod and her partner Morten Qvenild, venture mostly into original territory. There are only two covers Roy Harpers Another Day and Rushs Subdivisions and neither song is exactly canonical. As a result, there is a shift in the duos art and its impact on the listener. Where before, they began with the familiar and made it strange and unearthly, with 3 they start out with the otherworldly and try, in a variety of ways and only partly successfully, to ground it.
First, there is Wallumrods voice, as crystalline as ever in the high range, yet prone now to dip into an earthier middle range. The phrase, Do you recall? in opener Recall begins in icy purity and floats there until the final syllable, when Wallumrod digs down and nearly belts the ending. Later on the single Palpatines Dream, the shift is even more pronounced, with Wallumrod slurring the verse like a jazz singer, pushing the chorus like a pop diva. Where before you could imagine her singing folk, even classical music, now she seems ready for Top 50 maybe R&B. (Check the murmured ohs moaned into the chorus.)
The other big change is that the songwriting isnt quite enough to carry the day, so Quenvild builds up the arrangements around them. Recall starts out hushed, just plinking synthesizer and Wallumrods singing, but it ends in a hyper-dramatic barrage of electro-drums. And, worse, the track really needs the bump. The opening, however beautiful, is a bit dull. Guiding Star, which follows, is never boring, but it does feel over-stuffed and over-thought, with its massed Susanna-doubling choruses and woozy synths. You long for the clean, eerie economy of Melody Mountain, but the songs here are either shapeless or overdecorated and sometimes both.
Neither of the two covers is as successful as the ones on Melody Mountain, though both have their charms. Harpers Another Day is slowed to narcosis, its lyrics about missed love and unborn children turned chilly against a liquid backing of piano. Its exhausted rather than tragic, evoking the bleak tail of a terrible argument, the point when you cant summon the energy to care anymore. Subdivisions is just odd, though, its bell-tone synths framing a dead-pan consideration of American anomie shopping malls, high schools, etc. in disco-pop flavors reminiscent of Abba (the sad Abba, the ones who wrote Fernando and The Winner Takes It All).
The melodies slip away, the time signatures flicker in and out. Everything is unstructured and impressionistic, but not terribly arresting. Again and again, you confront a very pretty voice with not much to say. I just need sensational OK for a while, Wallumrod sings in The Game. Sensational voice, humdrum melodies and arrangements that are just all right Id say shes got her wish.
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A few years ago, one of my freelance copyeditors sent me this note:
I bought some things at Schnucks the other day. I looked at my receipt, which said this:
Thanks from your "friends" at Schnucks.
Does that mean they're not really my friends? Or are they quoting text from another receipt?
I get snarky notes like this from my freelance staff all the time. One of my editors told me about this site, The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks: http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com. Here are some of the examples pictured on that blog:
On a restaurant awning: Amicci's: A "very" casual eatery
On a birthday cake: Happy birthday "Ann"
On an exit sign: "Emergency" use stairs
A sign on an airplane from Tokyo to Beijing: Please enjoy our "Safe" and "Comfortable" flight
Amusing as they are, these signs, receipts, and notes are a reminder of how much we're losing sight of the meaning and correct use of quotation marks. It appears that the writers of those notes want to emphasize certain words in their messages. Well, quotes aren't the way to go if you want to emphasize certain parts of your message. Here are the actual rules for the use of quotation marks:
1. Use quotation marks around a word, phrase, or sentence to indicate that the word or phrase is quoted from another source.
2. Use quotation marks around a word, phrase, or sentence to indicate that you're not conveying the literal meaning of said word, phrase, or sentence.
Here's what Chicago Manual of Style says:
Quotation marks are often used to alert readers that a term is used in a nonstandard, ironic, or other special
sense. Nicknamed "scare quotes," they imply, "This is not my term" or "This is not how
the term is usually applied." Like any such device, scare quotes lose their force and irritate readers if
overused. These are legitimate uses of quotes:
In disk-to-film technology, "repros" are merely revised proofs.
"Child protection" sometimes fails to protect.
Remember that "flu" you had last winter? Well, that was actually food poisoning.
7.59 "So-called"
A word or phrase preceded by so-called should not be enclosed in quotation marks. The expression itself indicates irony or doubt.
So-called child protection sometimes fails to protect.
Her so-called mentor induced her to embezzle from the company.
7.61 Slang
Terms considered slang or argot should be enclosed in quotation marks only if they are foreign to the normal vocabulary of the writer or likely to be unfamiliar to readers. Quotation marks should not be used for mere colloquialisms.
Had it not been for Bryce, the "copper's nark," Collins would have made his escape.
Most commonly, skateboarders will progress and learn new moves by practicing-or "sessioning"-with peers and more advanced skaters.
I grew up in a one-horse town.
Only techies will appreciate this joke.
What is he beefing about this time?
Many of our authors are unaware of or lose sight of the correct use of quotation marks. Here are examples that should not have quotation marks:
For students wearing knee pads, demonstrate how to perform a "knee slide" on flat ground.
There's no irony there. It's actually called a knee slide. So lose the quotes.
Describe the general traffic patterns of the park and the directions most skaters will be riding so that students can get a feel for the "flow" of the skatepark.
No irony or play on words there, either. Flow is the precise word.
Many diabetic athletes report seeing a "spot" in their line of vision when they have hypoglycemia.
It is an actual spot, so there's no need to enclose that word in quotes.
If there's a need to place emphasis on a word or phrase, use italics, not quotes. But use discretion there, too. Many writers overuse italics, and readers are left with sensory overload. Here's CMS' take on italics for emphasis:
7.49 Italics for emphasis
Good writers use italics for emphasis only as an occasional adjunct to efficient sentence structure. Overused, italics quickly lose their force. Seldom should as much as a sentence be italicized for emphasis, and never a whole passage. In the first example, the last three words, though clearly emphatic, do not require italics because of their commanding position in the sentence.
The damaging evidence was offered not by the arresting officer, not by the injured plaintiff, but by the boy's own mother.
In the following examples the emphasis would be lost without the italics:
Let us dwell for a moment on the idea of conscious participation.
How do we learn to think in terms of wholes?


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20 Uses for Vodka You Didn't Know About!
Most people are happy to mix Vodka with Cranberry Juice, make a Martini or just sip it over rocks. Did you know you could clean glass or metal with it? Make a better pie crust, and freshen fabrics? Hmm. Seems like a waste to us, but here are 20 MORE uses for Vodka.
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1. Clean glass surfaces. Swap your Windex for a spray bottle of diluted vodka to make glass sparkle, says This Old House.
2. Lift stains from upholstery. Remove ink, grass and even some food stains from upholstered furniture by rubbing the fabric with a clean cloth dipped in vodka, recommends This Old House.
3. Make a better pie crust. Substitute ice-cold vodka for water to make pie crusts flakier, says Instructables
4. DIY freezer packs. Make a reusable ice pack by freezing equal parts vodka and water in a zip-close freezer bag, recommends Instructables.
5. Make metal fixtures shine. Just wipe them down with a soft cloth soaked with vodka, suggests This Old House.
6. Remove stubborn gunk. Say goodbye to gooey residues by scrubbing them with a scouring sponge moistened with vodka, according to Care2. Rinse clean with liquid dish soap.
7. Freshen up fabrics. Forget Febreze -- spritzing straight vodka onto clothing will remove odors, says This Old House.
8. Clean oily hair. Add an ounce of vodka to your shampoo bottle to prevent oil buildup on hair, recommends Care2.
9. Sweeten ironed clothes. Make lavender-scented water for your iron by mixing three ounces of 90-proof vodka with 12 drops of pure lavender essential oil and letting it sit for 24 hours, suggests Care2. Then add 12 ounces of purified water and stir. Store leftovers in the refrigerator for up to six weeks.
10. Remove rust from metal. Soak metal items, like screws or razor blades, in vodka for a few hours before wiping the rust away, advises This Old House.
11. Keep cut flowers fresher longer. Mix a couple drops of vodka with a teaspoon of sugar and adding it to the vase's water. It will stop the production of wilt-inducing ethylene, says This Old House.
12. Make gems sparkle. Clean diamonds, emeralds, or other crystallized gemstones by soaking them in vodka for five minutes before rinsing and drying, says BuzzFeed.
13. Repel bugs. Spray vodka directly on the insect or on your skin as a repellant, says Care2.
14. Make mouthwash. Vodka can be used as the base for homemade mouthwash, says Care2, with the addition of water, liquid glycerin, aloe vera gel and spearmint oil. Get the recipe at Care2.
15. Get rid of weeds. Avoid nasty pesticides and kill weeds at the same time with a spray made of one ounce of vodka, a few drops of liquid dish soap, and two cups of water, according to This Old House.
16. Brighten tiles and caulk. Remove dark spots caused by mold and mildew off of tile and caulk by spraying them with vodka, letting them sit for 30 minutes, scrubbing with an old toothbrush, and rinsing thoroughly, says This Old House.
17. Tone your skin. Use vodka as a facial toner to clean and tighten pores, suggests Life Hackery.
18. Treat scratches and rashes. Since vodka is a local anesthetic and disinfectant, it's perfect for treating minor wounds and rashes, says Instructables.
19. Freshen up shoes. Deodorize funky smelling shoes and boots by spritzing the insides with diluted vodka, says This Old House.
20. Remove bandages painlessly. Take off a Band-Aid without the sting by soaking the bandaged area in vodka -- it'll dissolve the adhesive, says Life Hackery.
Ellen Sturm Niz is an editor and writer working, parenting, and living in New York City. Follow her on Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Google+.


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Rhonda, your the BEST and thank you for always working on making what you have better just for us
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Rhonda, your the BEST and thank you for always working on making what you have better just for us
Rhonda love your blocks I like your strip way of doing them goes faster for me. Thanks Juanita
thanks for the new tute! i will try it. nothing ventured, nothing gained. where would i find blocks that use these?
The only bad days are the ones you don't get.
nancia here are some of my Boston Block designs. Under each quilt block you will see the quilt block expanded out so you can see the individual "blocks". I do use some HSTs with the Boston Blocks too
Rhonda's Sampler Quilt Along - Boston Blocks
Thanks Rhonda!
Thank you Rhonda. Also I'm in love with the handsome fellow in your avatar.
Rhonda you are so generous with your time, and so clear with your instructions! I will definitely use these. Thank you!
Fortune favours the prepared mind
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein
Awesome Tutorial!! Thank you!
Living a 1/4" from the edge
You're more than welcome. I love to share and help others.
Thank you for the tutorial. It is nice to have three ways to cut squares.


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- Nancy K. K. Koster, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Assistant Director, Cardiovascular Fellowship Program, Creighton University Mredical Center, Omaha, NE
Cardiovascular Imaging Review-a title in the Cardiovascular Imaging Handbook Series-is a comprehensive source for a quick review of commonly tested images. Dr. Nancy K. Koster combines everything you need to know for the cardiovascular subspecialty boards into one volume so you don't have to spend time thumbing through multiple books. Carefully selected, high-quality images-many in full color-depict the most important and representative images in electrocardiography, echocardiography, angiography, CT, and MR imaging. With online access to the text, a downloadable image library, and moving images online at expertconsult.com, this resource serves as a complete review of cardiovascular imaging.
Key Features
- Includes access to the fully searchable text online at expertconsult.com, along with a downloadable image library and moving images.
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Staff Selection Commission Admit Card 2014
Announcement Type: Admit Card
Name of the Post: Multitasking (Non Technical) Staff
Examination Dates: 16/02/2014 and 22/02/2014
Staff Selection Commission will hold the Written Test for the Multitasking (Non Technical) Staff Post. Candidates who have applied for the post must be looking for their Admit Card. Those candidates who have yet not received their Hall Ticket for the exam may download the Admit Card from the link provided at the end. Get more update on recruitmentinfosite.com .The method to get access to the Admit Card is mentioned below.
How to Download Admit Card for SSC MTS Exam:
1. On the Home Page of the SSC, find the link for the "RECRUITMENT TO THE POST OF MULTI TASKING (NON TECHNICAL) STAFF IN DIFFERENT STATES AND UNION TERRITORIES, 2014 TO BE HELD ON 16/02/2014 AND 22/02/2014"
2. Open this link and search your application status by entering the Registration Id/Roll Number OR input your Name, Father's Name and Date of Birth and then find your application status.
3. Print the Hall Ticket/Admit Card for the exam on A4 size paper.
With the help of above link, candidates of any state or union territory can download the Admit Card.
If candidate finds any problem in the Admit Card, they can get it resolved by sending Email or calling at Numbers provided for the respective SSC regions.
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I know I mentioned this a year or two ago, but I thought i'd post a thread explaining the issue and how I've managed to work around it.
My wife and I became foster parents over a year ago. We have had a few weekend placements here and there but we just got our first long-term placement not too long ago. Well, the problem is C.P.S. has a rule that any guns in the home be unloaded and the ammunition must be stored in a different locked safe from the gun. And the two safes must have different keys. So you can imagine how annoying it is every day that I must open one safe for the gun and another for the magazine. This has made it virtually impossible to carry chambered as well. I tried chambering and unchambering the gun each day. Keep in mind I can't use the same bullet each time I chamber since it could suffer from setback. But honestly it is just too much work and I finally just said forget it and don't bother with chambering a round. What is even more scary is the idea of a home invasion at night. It will now take considerably longer to get a working gun ready to defend our family.
However, I had an idea recently and when CPS came for the last visit I asked the worker about it. I have one biometric safe (fingerprint style) that I had been using originally to store my loaded gun. But since it doesn't use a "key" I figured it didn't meet their "two-key" requirements. So I have not been using it since we got a placement. I showed it to the lady and she had never seen such a thing before. So I asked her if my finger qualified as a key. She thought about it and said yes. So I asked her if I bought another biometric safe, and programmed the fingerprint from my other hand on that one, would that be considered a different key. She also agreed. So I'm going to go get another safe and put them side-by-side. That way I can walk up to them and slide my fingers (one from each hand) on them simultaneously so that I can get quicker access to the gun and magazine. It doesn't solve the problem of chambering, but otherwise should speed things up considerably in the mornings and evenings.


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The CDC released data yesterday showing that last year the birth rate in the U.S. for women aged 15 to 19 declined to a record low of 40.4 births per 1,000, down from 41.1 in 2004 (a 2% decrease). For some perspective, the rate back in 1991 was 68.1 births per 1,000 women. The decline was most pronounced among 15-17 year-olds, for whom the birth rate fell 3%, to 21.4 births per 1,000. The rate for this age group has dropped fully 45 percent since 1991.
Now, folks at the the National Abstinence Clearinghouse will laud these results as directly stemming from their abstinence-only education efforts, though there is no evidence that such education works, and plenty that the curricula is false and misleading. (Still abstinence-only ed shops have received a billion dollars in federal funding since Bush came to office.)
Choicers will be equally proud of the low rate, which they'll point out is an outgrowth of proper access to birth control and, thus, fewer unwanted pregnancies. Still, while we'll be hearing about the record low, coverage likely won't focus on the flip side, that there were nearly half a million (421,123) children born to girls under 20 last year.
There is more work to be done for sure to protect women's right to choose -- whether they want to have an abortion, or take a pill, or have sex before marriage -- and though there was lots of good news out of this month's election, repro rights are still in jeopardy. The Nation's Katha Pollitt points out that of the 22 pro-choice Dems who ran for Congress only two won, and every anti-choice woman incumbent prevailed.


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Okay bud, the key here is to increase the speedat which you things. You should be able to call your shots as you fire them, even at .2 or even .12, Start by trying to see your brass as it ejects from the gun. When you can ID about where it landed because you saw it, you're resady for the next step. On that step you wil try to call double taps by marking them on a munu target before you ook at the actual target. Use X for the cal and O for the actual. When you can do that reliaby start adding shots to your string.
You're trying to run before you can walk, dude. Do these steps and drop me a PM when you can fo 5 shots and call them all accurately and quickly. It'l be a few sessions before you're there.


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Feud between Turkey's Erdogan and influential cleric goes public
By Seda Sezer
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A feud between Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and an influential Islamic cleric has spilled into the open months ahead of elections, highlighting fractures in the religiously conservative support base underpinning his decade in power.
Erdogan's government has incensed followers of Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Islamic preacher whose supporters say they number in millions, with plans to abolish private 'prep' schools many of which are financed and run by Gulen's movement.
The reclusive cleric drew parallels with the behavior of the secularist military in the build up to past coups.
Gulen has built a global network of schools over the past four decades promoting Turkish language and culture. In doing so, he has established a powerful movement whose members hold influential positions across Turkish society, from the police and judiciary to the central bank, political parties and media.
"The draft bill regarding closing of prep schools and reading rooms came like a dagger to our heart," an editorial on one of Gulen's official websites said, an unusually blunt expression of opposition to Erdogan's government.
In a voice recording on another site, Gulen recalled the actions of the military, staunch guardians of Turkey's secular order, which staged three coups between 1960 and 1980 and forced Turkey's first Islamist-led government from power in 1997.
"They could even want to shut the gates of heaven," he said. "We have seen this during the 1960 coup and have been slapped by it. We have seen the (1971) coup and been kicked by it. We have seen the 1980 coup and we've all been hit by them."
Gulen's sympathizers, largely drawn from the same religiously-minded professional class which helped sweep Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party to power in 2002, revere him as an enlightened, pro-Western face of progressive Islam. Continued...


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Over time, particularly if you have a low specification setup, your Windows installation may degrade, become sluggish or even unusable, although hopefully you will make the decision to reinstall before it gets that bad.
It may be interesting or even useful to be able to see when the operating system was installed. If you are a constantly heavy user/surfer, it could give you a rough idea how long it may be before you have to reinstall again.
For the purpose of this article, I'm using Windows 7 but it will work on other, earlier operating systems.
Click Start and type cmd
Right click cmd in the programs list (it will be at the top) and select Run as Administrator
In the command prompt window, at the flashing cursor, type systeminfo | find /i "install date" You can copy and paste the command from here but Control + v won't work in the cmd window, you have to right click in the window and paste.
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Snap-Shot-City is an "urban photographic treasure hunt" that encourages folks to pick up their cameras, head out into their cities, and see things in a whole new light. After 2,000 participants, who've taken 6,000 pics in 78 cities around the world, they know a thing or two about how to get people's artistic juices flowing
Now Snap-Shot-City is back for it's third year, and to kick things up a notch they're starting a good ol' urban throw down. Posing the photographic challenge to two of the world's cultural powerhouses — New York City and London the aim is to start a trans-Atlantic photo battle that will bring people together while also showing each city's unique urban landscape.
Get registered (if you're seriously hardcore, trying entering the team category) and on the big day you'll be given a list of top-secret interpretive categories. Then, hit the streets to complete the hunt. The challenge is also linking together two of the world's biggest gaming festivals — NYC's Come Out & Play on June 6-8 and London's Hide & Seek on June 26-28.


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So I have two 2D array layers, one of the ground/terrain and another that contains entities/units.
One item can occupy a spot at a time, but since I want some entities to overlap, how can I efficiently do this?
I have already tried doing it with a list, but I don't prefer it since I have to run through the whole list each time I want a specific entity, when in a 2D array I can just do Entities[x,y] and I have the specific entity I want.
No code necessary, just an explanation. Thanks
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POLICE have charged a man after a bomb scare shut down part of Surfers Paradise for several hours today.
Police allege the man - seen acting suspiciously in Trickett St - told them there was a bomb in his bag and parked car.
Police called in the bomb squad as a pre-caution, set up a cordon and x-rayed the vehicle and bag before determining there was no threat.
The man has now been charged with making a false claim about a bomb threat.
Meanwhile, a suspicious device found at Gladstone this morning has been detonated safely.
Police have not yet released details about the device, which was discovered at Barney Point Park on Barney St shortly after 11am.
A 100m exclusion zone was established, forcing the Barney Point Coal terminal to be evacuated.
Specialist officers attended the site to defuse the situation.
The exclusion zone was lifted at 5:21pm.
Earlier it was reported police had declared part of central Surfers Paradise a no-go zone after the discovery of possible explosive devices.
Emergency services were called to Trickett Street, in the heart of the Glitter Strip, about 12.20pm following reports a man was acting suspiciously in the street.
The report prompted police to swarm the area and quickly locked down part of the street.
A man was reportedly taken into custody at gunpoint and a 100m exclusion zone established around a phone box and vehicle two streets south of Cavill Mall.
One report said the man was carrying a molotov cocktail.
Roadblocks at each end of the street have stopped residents and tourists from accessing the area.
No exceptions have been made for people who parked their car in the blocked zone.
"I have an appointment in Brisbane in an hour but they won't let me go get it," a man said.
Locals are being urged to avoid the area as investigations continue.
Meanwhile, a suspicious device has been found at Gladstone this afternoon, triggering a 100m exclusion zone around the site.
The device, which has yet to be identified, was discovered at Barney Point Park, Barney St.
The exclusion zone encases the Barney Point Coal Terminal, which has been evacuated.
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Eddie26 brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 55 Designs von 23 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Powertrain or Powertrain Products Inc
we sell remanufactured engines,transmission,differentials & transfer cases to the public & wholesale trade via the internet & face to face sales as well as mailers. This logo will be used in every facet of our business from website to business cards, even to the side of our delivery vehicles. I will entertain using just powertrain but the company name is powertrain products inc
I need a design that makes it obvious we are a auto business. maybe ties in a picture of an engine, flames, metal something along those lines. prior to this I was going to have a tatoo artist come up with a logo so something that would be viewed as as a cool design.


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Half Pint Ice Cream started out with a tiny Cuisinart home ice cream maker and a dream. Owner and chief ice cream maker/scooper/lover, Cle Franklin, has been a huge fan of ice cream from a young age, even working at a local scoop shop in her hometown of Boston as a teenager. Upon moving to Seattle 12 years ago, she was surprised to find very little in the way of local ice cream offerings. Five years later, Half Pint Ice Cream was born. The first summer she set up shop at just two farmers markets and over the years we have grown and evolved, and now we can be found at eight farmers markets across the greater Seattle area.
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BeschreibungDrawing on the rich imagery of rocks and stones in scripture, these powerful messages center around the compelling metaphor of stones (and our willingness to throw them) as representative of our sins. As worshipers enter the sanctuary they are invited to pick up stones as a concrete symbol of each sermon's theme; then as the message concludes the stones are placed at the foot of the cross. When the stones disappear on Easter (just like the stone sealing Jesus' tomb), it's a vivid illustration of how the Lord also removes our stones of sin. Each chapter includes several thought-provoking discussion questions to spur further reflection. With messages for Ash Wednesday, five weeks of Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday, this is an excellent resource for Lenten midweek programming. Molin takes us on a journey of prayerful and honest repentance -- a powerful and life-changing journey of celebration, of grace, of awe at the miracle of the empty tomb and the promise of life.... Pastor Molin is one of the best sermon story-tellers I've heard. But each sermon and every story also teaches a biblical text. These sermons are grounded in the living Word of God... (from the Foreword) Glenndy L. Sculley, Bishop's Associate Minneapolis Area Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Steven Molin is the senior pastor of Our Savior's Lutheran Church (ELCA) in Stillwater, Minnesota. He has also served parishes in Oregon and South Dakota, and been an area director for the youth ministry organization Young Life. Molin is a graduate of Concordia University (St. Paul, Minnesota) and Luther Theological Seminary.
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
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Erscheinungsdatum: Januar 2003
Seitenanzahl: 60 Seiten
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Adam Sandler may have found the secret to ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Comedy.
His new one, "Don't Mess With the Zohan," is so offensively in-your-face that it bulldozes through any political correctness in dealing with the touchy Middle East issue.
As Zohan, Sandler plays a superhero Israeli counter-terriorist commandoassassin, who would rather be an American hairdresser than catch bullets with his nostrils fighting Palestinians. He's a bizarre mix of Eric Bana in "Munich" and Warren Beatty in "Shampoo." For a while, it works.
After a slam-bang action opening, Zohan fakes his death at the hands of his rival, the Phantom (John Turturro). He hops a flight to Manhattan in the plane's pet compartment, sharing it with dogs, Scrappy and Coco, whose names he adopts as his alias.
On arrival, "Scrappy-Coco" makes a beeline to the famed Paul Mitchell Hair Salon, where he demands audience with Mr. Mitchell himself. Considered a joke in this salon and a number of others, our hero finally submits to picking up cut hair at one run by beautiful Dalia (Emmanuelle Chriqui), who happens to be a Palestinian-American. Finally permitted to style hair, Scrappy-Coco is a huge success with the elderly ladies, thanks to his sexually-charged hairdressing technique, not to mention the actual fornication he provides.
Love blooms between Dalia and Zohan, along with the realization that in the American melting pot, ethnic differences die in the face of l'amour, money and most everything else.
However, ancient hostilities are still stewing as the Phantom has opened a food franchise in the U.S. and Palestinian goat herder, now N.Y.C. cabbie Salim (Rob Schneider), has identified Scrappy-Coco as the enemy, Zohan, from Middle East days. But the real baddies behind the scene are corporate bigwigs intent on fueling old feuds to clean out the Arab and Israeli storeowners and start a mall.
"Don't Mess With Zohan" is near great for the first hour, before the characters begin gagging on their gags. How many jokes can we take about hummus, Hacky Sack or Zohan's crotch. Even the multiple cameos (Mariah Carey, Chris Rock, John McEnroe) can't hold up the ultimately see-through storyline.
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Bièvres International Photofair2012-06-26 2 8 Share Tweet
Because of its uniqueness and scope, the Bièvres International Photofair is rightly nicknamed as the Mecca of Photography.
This international fair is the largest in France as well as among the largest in Europe, making it the world capital for "iconomécanophiles" (crazy people collecting cameras). Every first weekend of June, and for 2 days, it annually attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world. More than two hectares of fairground is allotted for over 300 traders to present their products/services usually European, Japanese, and American. Whether you are a photographer, a graphic designer, an illustrator, a writer, a collector, a secondhand dealer, an antique-hunter or simply a photo-fan, you will most likely find what you are looking for here. You can bargain and trade for all sorts of rare pieces of equipment, collection objects, vintage cameras, lenses, and accessories, vintage pictures, even old books.
Even though I've seen people paying stacks of 500 euros for vintage cameras, no matter what your budget is, you can still find a hidden treasure. I even found a brand new LC-A for 20 euros! It is an amazing time to walk from stand to stand talking and listening to passionate conversations and touching amazing cameras such as a gun-shaped analogue camera (sold for not less than 15,000 euros though!). I spent one full afternoon sneaking around, and got dizzy with all these analogue stands, it is like being in a supermarket specializing in things that you like. But I also felt frustrated by the lack of time as the day went by so fast I couldn't really bargain for all the cameras that l saw. It has been a couple of weeks now and I still dream about the fair at night..
To those who are passionate about all things analog, no matter where you come from, I highly recommend this annual event! Also, if anyone knows about any other big analogue fair in Europe or elsewhere, I would be very happy to be informed!
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Class Practices: How Parents Help Their Children Get Good Jobs
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BeschreibungExplores how parents seek to increase their children's chances of educational success and occupational advancement.
Inhaltsverzeichnis1. Introduction; 2. Material help with education and employment; 3. Financial choices and sacrifices for children; 4. Expectations and hopes for educational success; 5. Fulfilling potential and securing happiness; 6. Contacts, luck and career success; 7. Friends and networks in school and beyond; 8. Conclusion; Appendix A. The interviewees; Appendix B. Doing comparative research; Notes; Bibliography.
PortraitFiona Devine is Professor of Sociology at Manchester University and has been a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She has published extensively and is a former Chair of the editorial board of the journal Sociology.
Pressestimmen'It is an absolute pleasure to read and in my view is one of the most theoretically and methodologically sophisticated books within sociology and the sociology of education to have been published in the last decade or more ... Devine's book has the real feel of an insider ...'. Journal of Social Policy 'This is a fantastic book that adds much to the growing collection of literature on middle-class practices, higher education and the perpetuation of class privilege. It is well written, intelligent and accessible, enabling undergraduate use as well as providing an excellent study for those in higher levels. Devine offers a powerful analysis of the everyday micro practices of class advantage, and for all of this Devine should be applauded.' Sociology
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Installing TC Saginaw Power steering pump on 22r.
I recently installed hydro assist on my toyota. I modified the stock toyota pump, but found that it did not put out the pressure I was hoping for. I would have to throttle the motor up to about 1200-1300 rpms to get the pressure I needed to steering. I wanted something that would give me better pressure at lower RPM's (600-900 rpms).
I did alot of research and everyone kept saying to buy the $200 (then you need a $50 pulley) pump from PSC or other steering companies. I did not really want to spend $250+ on this mod.
My friend has a 4.0L Jeep and has no issues with his modified saginaw pump(a modifed saginaw pump puts out more pressure then a modifed toyota pump). I ordered a Pump from a 95' Jeep 4.0L with Remote reservoir. Part Number 20-813 . These are also simular pumps to the ones that they are selling for $200. If you compare pictures of the pumps, you will notice the simularities. This pump cost me $78.
Next, I needed to find a Power Steering Pulley to run with a VBelt, as jeep's had a serpentine belt.
I used part number SUM-340204 from summit racing. It is a Zoops manufactured aluminum pulley. The diameter of the pulley is 5.00", which is smaller then stock Toyota pulley's and smaller then the jeep Serpentine pulley.
Link to summit pulley: [URL="http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=SUM%2D340204& N=700+0&autoview=sku[/URL]
I already had a AN fitting power steering hose, So i purchased a Metric to An adapter, 16mmx1.5 oring:
The fitting into the pump is 16mm with an Oring fitting. You can buy these as AN to 16mm or JIC to 16mm. If you were to do some more research, you could probably find a power steering hose that has the fitting sizes you need.
Next order of business was to modify the Power Steering bracket. PSC sells some goofy tapped aluminum block. I thought that it looked someone hill billy, So I just modified what I had.
It is just a 4"x5"x1/4" plate that I cut out and drilled.
In order to get higher pressure out of this pump you have to modify it. It is pretty easy and you can follow these instructions:
The pulley is a press on pulley, But I choose to use a button head 3/8" bolt to hold the pulley on.
Here is the pump and pulley installed on my 22r:
Since the pulley is smaller then stock, you will need to get a new belt. It is .5" smaller then stock. The stock belt is a 17440 (44"), you will need a 17435 (43.5").
I can now get the steering feel I was looking for at a lower RPM's. The total cost for this mod was:
Power steering pump - $78
3'-5/8" bulk hose - $6
Metric to AN fitting - $9
Summit pulley - $35
New belt - $15
Grand total of $143.
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Pop star Lily Allen has voiced her regret at refusing to accept payment in Bitcoins for a gig.
The Hard Out Here singer was asked to perform on 3D chat website Second Life from the comfort of her home "about five years ago".
She turned down the offer as the virtual currency was worth only a small amount at the time and largely reserved for experimental use in online games.
The 28-year-old's head is now in her hands as a single bitcoin is currently valued at $974 (£593), making "hundreds of thousands" a huge fee to have rejected.
Allen's fortune could be worth more than 20 times her £6m reported worth had she accepted Second Life's offer.
About 5 years ago someone asked me to stream a gig live on second life for hundreds of thousNds of bitcoins, "as if" I said.
January 5, 2014
The price has fluctuated since the first transaction using the currency took place in July 2010, when two Papa John's pizzas were bought with 10,000 Bitcoins. Up until 2011, one unit was worth just 15p.
Last year, the value of one Bitcoin started at $13.30 (£8) in January and rose dramatically to hit $1,127.45 (£687) in early December.
Among those to have missed out on a fortune is IT worker James Howells.
He obtained 7500 Bitcoins in early 2009 when the currency was launched publicly, but stored them on a laptop hard drive that he later threw away by mistake.
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After years on conceptualization and whispers, Maserati (FIATY.PK) seems finally comfortable enough to begin work on its first SUV next year. The bodies for the new Maserati Levante, based heavily on the Kubang concept that debuted in North America in 2012, should see initial production in Northern Italy beginning in 2015, according to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne.
In 2013, Maserati sales more than doubled to 15,400 vehicles and trading profits tripled. By next year, the brand is hoping to move 50,000 units, as Fiat uses the luxury marque to put a solid dent in the German's grip on the European luxury market. It's new sedan, the Ghibli, is priced to compete directly with BMW's 5 Series.
"We are getting [the Mirafiori plant] ready for production (of the Maserati SUV.) The first bodies are expected for 2015," Marchionne said at the Geneva Auto Show. Reuters noted the Levante was originally supposed to be made in Detroit using Chrysler's manufacturing channels, but the company decided last year the production of Maserati and Alfa Romeo — also under Fiat Chrysler's umbrella — would remain in Italy.
Marchionne also discussed the production of the Alfieri concept coupe, which made its debut at the Geneva Motor Show. That car, too, could be production ready in the near future, Marchionne said. "The platforms and motors are there," Marchionne said. "Technically, production could start in 24-28 months."


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Awesome read! It's great having a former personnel guy on staff for this sort of insight into the FO's draft thinking.
Haloti Ngata, DT (2006): I was in the Ravens' war room during the 2006 NFL Draft. We were looking for a big, athletic defensive tackle to help protect Lewis, someone who could also provide some interior pass rush, and we'd had our sights set on Ngata well over a month before draft day. When it looked like the Cleveland Browns might select Ngata one spot ahead of us, Ozzie made the call to send them a late draft pick in order to move up a spot and secure the talented defensive tackle from Oregon. Newsome believes a strong defense is built up the middle. With Ngata, we were set with elite players at defensive tackle, middle linebacker and free safety.
Anquan Boldin, WR (2010): During my time in Baltimore's personnel department, the extent to which Newsome appreciated Boldin's play with the Arizona Cardinals was never a secret. The wide receiver's toughness, attitude and timely playmaking were qualities that were plentiful on the Ravens' defense but sorely lacking on the other side of the ball. I always thought Ozzie saw an image of himself in Boldin: a clutch player who could be a third-down security blanket for a developing signal-caller. Boldin has been outstanding during his time in Baltimore


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60th ANNIVERSARY: Wayne and Martha Wood
Wayne and Martha (Rising) Wood, of Shelocta, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on July 5, 2014.
Together, they own Berkwood Farms and operated a dairy farm for many years. Wayne is a former Armstrong Township supervisor. Martha is retired from the Bon Ton in Indiana.
They are the parents of eight children: Barbara (Rick Heberling) Mock, Nancy (David) Brendlinger, Allen (Sherry), Karen (Alvin) Fulmer, David (Brenda), Lori Gunter, Beth and Scott (Mary).
They have 15 grandchildren: Erica Mock; Andrea (Jeffrey) Pritt; Amanda and Stacie Brendlinger; Nicole and Chad Wood; Melissa (Chadd) Miller; Brian Fulmer; Becky (Steve) Lingenfelter; Danielle (Jim) Redman; Deana' (Tim) Neal; Sarah and Jack Gunter; and Michael and Jacob Wood.
They have eight great-grandchildren: Zachary, Jaycee, Conner, Jayden, Adam, Morgan, Austin and Nathan.
The couple celebrated with a family gathering at the home of their son Allen.


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As a trainee at Lincoln's Inn firm Wedlake Bell, Nigel Davis acquired a taste for open, green spaces. But there was one thing lacking from nearby Lincoln's Inn Fields and Gray's Inn Gardens – sheep.
For just as the lawyer, who now runs Nigel Davis Solicitors from his farm in Derbyshire, was preparing to qualify into his chosen profession, he was also developing an interest in something else that would become a lifelong passion – sheepdog trialling.
A move to the countryside in 1975 allowed him to indulge this passion and now, after more than a year's planning, Davis is preparing to play host at this year's World Sheep Dog Trials near his firm's second office in Cumbria.
"I'm chairman of the organising committee for the World Sheep Dog Trials which are being held in Cumbria," says Davis, pointing out that this will be the first time the event has been held on English soil.
Although Davis will not be herding sheep himself at the event, he has been working behind the scenes organising the trials since taking over the chairmanship in January last year.
And with just a few months to go until the triennial event takes place in September, final preparations are being made for what Davis terms the "World Cup or Olympic Games of sheepdog trials".
"We've got 240 dogs from 24 countries taking part," says Davis, adding that dog handlers are flying in from such diverse locations as Brazil, the Faroe Islands and Japan.
With each handler bringing their own dog to the four-day event there will be plenty to keep the UK's quarantine officers busy. But thankfully, says Davis, competitors will not be bringing their own sheep.
"The sheep are all from Cumbria," he says, adding that, despite being chased around the Cumbrian fells for four days solid, the animals are unlikely to be fazed by the event.
"The sheep are used to being farmed; they're flock sheep," he says. "They're used to sheepdogs rounding them up and being chased. It's not like they're fetched from the fell on the day of the trial."
Having been involved in sheepdog trials for more than 30 years, often as a competitor, Davis is a past secretary of the Derbyshire County Show and the Brailsford Ploughing and Hedgecutting Match, and is currently secretary of Dovedale Sheepdog Society.
And with Nigel Davis Solicitors focusing on agriculture law, Davis was a natural choice to serve as legal adviser to the World Sheep Dog Trials – which he says he is proud to do on a pro bono basis.
"When the Earl of Lonsdale [who owns the Lowther Estate, where the event will be held] asks you to do something like that, you obviously accept," he says. "It's a great honour to be asked to do it. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity."
With sheep and sheepdogs playing such a prominent role in Davis's life it is no surprise that he farms Rough Fell sheep, as well as Hereford cattle, on the farm that doubles as his firm's headquarters.
The bulk of the firm's three partners and total staff are based at the Derbyshire smallholding, sharing the 25 acres with Davis's flock and herd, with the remainder working out of an office in Burton-in-Kendal, Cumbria.
The set-up, says Davis, is ideal as it allows him to farm on his land while ensuring all his farming clients get his full attention.
But how does Davis manage to perform such a demanding role and also find the time to fit in all his sheepdog-related commitments?
"I get up early," he says.


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Have been too busy to really put down my thoughts about yesterday's election, but I can tell you that I am not at all despairing — in fact I've been doing Cher-smacks and telling people to "snap out of it" all day — nor do I feel doomsdayish; rather I feel very grateful to have things clarified for us in such a way.
I will write more — perhaps this evening — to explain what I mean (so check back) but this morning I participated (humbly, along with Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Sean Cardinal O'Malley, Michael Sean Winters and other heavy-hitters) in an opinion-roundtable with Aleteia Media, which you can read here. You might say it was a quick sketch-out of what I will expand on, later:
It is interesting that while exit polls cited the economy and jobs as the most pressing concerns of voters, they decided to stick with a president who has been at times hostile toward business and demonstrably remiss in attending to matters of job-creation, rather than go with the businessman.
From what I can tell, many people bought into the false "war on women" tropes and easy demonizations and their willingness to do so signals a furtherance of secularism and "the politics of the personal." It means the Church is going to have to gird its loins and prepare for challenges that will require genuine sacrifice, because the society is not terribly interested, at this moment, in our very real concerns about threats to religious liberty, and those who are even aware of that threat still see it as a strictly "Catholic" issue that will not touch them.
Someone tweeted me last night that the Obama win was "too bad for you Catholics" and I thought, "and there is a big part of the problem, right there, the notion that only Catholics are being challenged." People do not see a diminishment of liberties in one area as the beginning of diminishment in all areas.
[…] Relativism, with a dose of narcissistic self-actualization, has been redefined as a "tolerance" that will tolerate anything but intolerance, and those religious groups who insist on teaching the faith to an age rather than teaching a passing age to the faith are seen as too-intolerant-to-be-tolerated by the secular triune godhead of state, media and academia.
The challenges are only going to get worse because the society is in a habit, now, of dissolution and this election feels to me – and I emphasize feels, because this is just instinct talking – like a willful choice toward the here-and-now rather than [toward] eternity. It's a choice fueled by feelings being given primacy over reason, a general lack of imagination, and a poor understanding of supernatural realities that – I am sorry to say – is partly due to the deplorable job the Church has done, for far too long, of teaching its members how joyful, affirming and fulfilling is the life lived in Christ, and in obedience to his Bride.
We have for too long allowed our Church to be interpreted and filtered through media outlets whose members are sometimes hostile, sometimes ignorant, sometimes both. We have permitted a sacred continuum to be perceived as out-of-touch rather than wise, and we're paying for that – and the payments are about to increase.
But there is an opportunity, here. Last night I monitored reactions from people on social media and I saw many "people of faith" – Catholics and Evangelicals – being completely roiled by the returns and I kept thinking of Peter's first Letter: "There is cause for rejoicing here. You may for a time have to suffer the distress of many trials; but this is so that your faith, which is more precious than the passing splendor of fire-tried gold, may by its genuineness lead to praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ appears." (1 Peter. 1:6-7)
There is a great deal of genuine Christian feeling and desire out there, but it is immature – American Christians have for the most part lived comfortably the life of faith. I believe we're being given a chance, now, to become mature in our faith – if we are willing to be open to the workings of the Holy Spirit.
That is a big "if". American Christians have not gone completely untouched by the influences of secularism and the selfishness and self-regard it foments. "Thy will be done" still spins our heads because our training insists, "but what about what I want?" We don't realize that what God wants for us is always better than anything we can want for ourselves. The Church has a lot of work to do; much to teach; voices to find. But I believe the Holy Spirit is bringing them forward. Welcome to interesting times.
I understand more POV's will be added to that piece, so you might want to check back to it later in the day.
Russell Shaw, who also participated in the round-table, says the election sets up a two-pronged crisis for the church:
The first prong of the crisis is that Obama is expected to press policies favoring abortion, contraception and same-sex marriage even more aggressively and coercively in his second term than in his first.
The second prong is reflected in the fact that, according to CNN exit polls, 50 percent of the Catholics who voted backed Obama despite his well-publicized conflict with their Church, with 48 percent going for Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
Read it all.
Marybeth Hicks ponders the disconnect between the realities of what the church does, and how she is perceived.
Meanwhile, I must say I am very proud of the Patheos bloggers and others who have managed to keep their heads while really looking at the spiritual side of things. In particular, I must say I think Tom McDonald, Frank Weathers, Tony Rossi and Lisa Hendey (and Mark) have nailed a lot of what I have been feeling since yesterday, while Joanne McPortland has even taken a mantel from me, I think, and Sam Rocha surprises.
Lots of wisdom in those posts — and also lots of hope and no teeth-gnashing. Check them out. And come back later, see if I've managed to write something! :-)
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I forgot the dosage my vet said for giving my 40 lbs dog Immodium for diarrhea?
I lost the paper that I wrote down the dosage of Immodium that my vet said is okay to give my 40 lbs dog for diarrhea. So I looked it up and I'm seeing .1mg per pound on a lot of websites. If the human dosage is one 2mg pill, why would a 40 lbs dog take two times more than a 100+ lbs human?
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call your vet. I've never given Immodium. They've suggested Pepto but never Immodium.
feel better soon Ginger.
Dieta answered on 10/25/11. Helpful? / 0
If you can't get a hold of your regular vet, then I would call an emergency vet and ask. I've called emergency vets before and asked them questions. Good Luck!
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Call your vet. Do not go by the online answers. I am a vet tech. Dogs generally are prescribed a higher dose than humans do to the fact that they have different metabolisms and react differently to drugs. Their systems are not as sensitive as the human system therefore they will need more to make a difference.
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Following Food Import Ban, Russians Are Turning to an Old Soviet Staple
- By Reid StandishReid Standish is associate editor, digital, at Foreign Policy. Reid writes on Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia and is the newsroom's digital point person. He has lived in and reported from Finland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Ukraine, where he covered everything from Santa Claus to drug trafficking. A native of British Columbia, he holds a B.A. in international studies from Simon Fraser University and an M.A. from the University of Glasgow.
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Earlier this month, Russia announced that it would retaliate against Western sanctions by banning the import of a wide variety of foods, from fruits to fish, from Europe, the United States, and other countries that levied sanctions against Russia. As a result, some Russians in Moscow and St. Petersburg are facing decreasing food supplies and rising prices at the checkout line.
Now, in what has become a symbol of the country's defiant stance toward its Western critics, many Russians are turning to an old dietary staple to reduce their dependence on foreign food and show their support for Russian President Vladimir Putin's hard-line stance toward the United States and its allies. Buckwheat — or grechka, as it is known in Russian — is a relatively cheap and versatile food that can be used to make porridge and casseroles. And amid tit-for-tat sanctions with the West, many Russians are turning to social media to flaunt their love of the traditional dish and express solidarity with the Kremlin's food sanctions, launched on Aug. 7.
According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, the price of meat in Moscow has risen 6 percent since the announcement of the import ban. Meanwhile in St. Petersburg, the price of pork is up 23.5 percent, and the price of chicken is up 25.8 percent, during the same period. Russia currently imports about 16 percent of its food, and the country's consumption of meat, fruit, vegetables, and dairy far outpaces its domestic production capacity.
So it's no surprise that Russians are turning to buckwheat — both because of its symbolism as a staple during Soviet-era shortages and because of its ready availability in grocery stores.
Recipes are also circulating that ostensibly provide more creative and less bland ways to prepare the dish. In Russia, buckwheat is traditionally served with milk or butter. This recipe advises a preparation with onions, garlic, and tomato paste.
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But the food wars aren't just affecting Russia. Lithuania and Poland, Russia's western neighbors, have also been hard hit by the Russian ban on imports of fresh fruit and vegetables. In Poland, whose apple farmers rely heavily on exports to Russia, locals have taken to social media to post photos of themselves eating apples and have even launched an apple-a-day-keeps-Putin-away campaign to support Polish farmers.


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When you're twenty-something, you're constantly changing, growing, and learning. You're setting a foundation for your life, and books are a great way to expand your horizons and learn even more about the world. The books on this list are great ways to experience different perspectives and learn about other cultures and history. These are books that will make you think.
These are 20 good books that will open your mind and change you during your 20s. There's something for everyone on this list, but first and foremost, an honorable mention goes to The Complete Works of Shakespeare – which didn't make the list because you all should be smart enough to read that without being told. I can't do everything for you guys! So, take a look at the 20 best books you should read in your twenties, then start reading! Time's a wastin'!
These are 20 good books that will open your mind and change you during your 20s. There's something for everyone on this list, but first and foremost, an honorable mention goes to The Complete Works of Shakespeare – which didn't make the list because you all should be smart enough to read that without being told. I can't do everything for you guys! So, take a look at the 20 best books you should read in your twenties, then start reading! Time's a wastin'!
This book consists of two separate stories that intertwine together. One is set in the 14th century in Italy and Sicily and features Dante Alighieri. The other is set in Autumn 2001 and has a fictionalized version of Nick Tosches as the protagonist. The historical and modern stories alternate as Dante tries to finish writing his magnum opus and goes on a journey for mystical knowledge in Sicily. Meanwhile, Tosches, as something of a Dante expert, is called in by black market traders to attest to the authenticity of a manuscript of The Divine Comedy that was supposedly written by Dante himself.
This book is so good and interesting, you'll find it hard to put down. Even if you know nothing about Dante, The Divine Comedy, or Tosches, this is a must-read. Even Johnny Depp has read it and supposedly purchased the rights in order to turn it into a film - so you know it's cool. see more on In the Hand of Dante
This is not just a book. In 1968, The New York Times called The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test "not simply the best book on hippies… [but also] the essential book." It's a work of literary journalism by Tom Wolfe, published in 1968. Using techniques from the genre of hysterical realism and pioneering new journalism, the "nonfiction novel" tells the story of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. The book follows the Pranksters across the country while driving in a psychedelic-painted school bus dubbed "Further" (called "Furthur" in the book due to an initial misspelling on the bus's placard) as they seek personal and collective revelations through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs. The book also describes the Acid Tests, early performances by The Grateful Dead, and Kesey's exile to Mexico.
This book is a real trip, even if you're not a hippie, or have never done LSD. It takes you into the land of the Merry Pranksters, and as square as you feel reading it, you also feel like you maybe just got a little cooler. This film version of the book is supposedly in development with Gus Van Sant directing.
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#29 on The Greatest Non-Fiction Novelssee more on The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
This book, Rand's first major literary success, brought her fame and financial success as more than 6.5 million copies were eventually sold worldwide. Ayn Rand was a strong, opinionated woman, and some call her the first feminist. Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected all forms of faith and religion. She supported rational egoism and rejected ethical altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed all forms of collectivism and statism – instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she believed was the only social system that protected individual rights. She promoted romantic realism in art. She was sharply critical of most other philosophers and philosophical traditions. In short, Ayn Rand was a badass.
The Fountainhead's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an individualistic young architect who chooses to struggle in obscurity rather than compromise his artistic and personal vision. The book follows his battle to practice what the public sees as modern architecture, which he believes to be superior, despite an establishment centered on tradition-worship. The ways other characters in the novel relate to Roark demonstrates Rand's various archetypes of human character, all of which are variants between Roark, the author's ideal man of independent-mindedness, and integrity, and what she described as the "second-handers." The complex relationships between Roark and the various kinds of individuals who assist or hinder his progress (or both) allow the novel to be at once a romantic drama and a philosophical work. Roark is Rand's embodiment of the human spirit, and his struggle represents the triumph of individualism over collectivism.
The manuscript was rejected by twelve publishers before a young editor, Archibald Ogden at the Bobbs-Merrill Company, risked his job to get it published. Despite mixed reviews from the contemporary media, the book gained a following by word-of-mouth and became a bestseller. The novel was made into a Hollywood film in 1949 in which Rand wrote the screenplay, and Gary Cooper played Roark. It even made it on an episode of "The Simpsons."
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#55 on The Best Absurdist Fiction Novels
#29 on The Best Books Written Under Pen Names
#22 on The Best Books By Entrepreneurssee more on The Fountainhead
Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn't merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters's strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the "true" Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins — that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer—at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it's a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life.
That's from the book jacket. What they leave out is Switters's affinity for the show-tune "Send In The Clowns" and the fact that he is confined to a wheelchair for a very specific and terrifying reason, but he isn't disabled. This book is hilarious, and though Robbins is better known for his novel Still Life with Woodpecker, I much prefer this book. see more on Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
This book has one of the best opening lines in the history of the written word:
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
It's so gorgeous, it's almost chocolatey. Bands have set these words to music, artists have painted to it, Hollywood and the media have been obsessed with it. This book has been controversial since it was written; it couldn't be published because it was found indecent, so it was snuck about in coffee houses and alleyways. A movie starring James Franco was released in 2010, and if you're too lazy to read the book yourself, I highly suggest you watch the film.
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It is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. The team crisscrosses the country any number of times, picking up strays along the ways and learning of life and love. On the Road is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiments. While many of the names and details of Kerouac's experiences are changed for the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts. There is an ongoing discussion of the true relationship between Kerouac's alter ego Sal Paradise and the lead hunk of the story, Dean Moriarty. Dean was based on a guy named Neal Cassady, and he's found in several Beat books and legends (including The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test). Some interpreters believe maybe this was more than a friendship, but I personally feel that while Kerouac clearly loved and admired Cassady, I don't know that the sexual line was ever really crossed other than silly cuddles and kisses. You'll have to read the book and decide for yourself. It was the '50s.
People visit Kerouac's grave and leave shoes, smokes, wine, food – anything he may need on his trips. On the Road defined a generation and described the longing of that time. Kerouac wrote the original manuscript on a scroll, and his dog literally ate the ending. It was bought in 2001 by Jim Irsay (owner of the Indianapolis Colts) for $2.43 million and now tours the country.
In 2012, the book was made into a film with horrid actors like Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst. There are some saving graces such as Amy Adams and Steve Buscemi, but the leads are all pretty bad, so I highly recommend reading the book and skipping the film.
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#27 on The Greatest American Novels
#52 on Books That Changed My Life
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Easily one of the greatest books I've ever read, and the most beautifully written. The story is influenced by real events in the life of Gregory David Roberts. In 1978, Roberts was sentenced to a 19-year imprisonment in Australia after being convicted of a series of armed robberies of building society branches, credit unions, and shops. In July 1980, he escaped from Victoria's Pentridge Prison in broad daylight, thereby becoming one of Australia's most wanted men for the next ten years. The book follows Roberts – using the false identity Lindsay Hood – through India, in which he creates a medical clinic in one of India's many slums and chases after a girl. The novel is commended by many for its vivid portrayal of tumultuous life in Bombay.
The book is long, but so worth it; you will devour every word and even reread the novel.
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This is a book about a book about a movie that doesn't exist. It's incredible. The format and structure of the novel is unconventional, with unusual page layout and style. It has a lot footnotes, many of which contain footnotes themselves, and some of which reference other books that do not exist. The footnotes are from fictional editors and from one of the main characters. Sounds confusing, but trust me, it's not, and it's amazing. Some pages contain only a few words or lines of text, arranged in strange ways to mirror the events in the story, often creating both an agoraphobic and a claustrophobic effect. The novel is also distinctive for its multiple narrators, who interact with each other throughout the story in disorienting and elaborate ways.
While some have attempted to describe the book as a horror story, many readers –as well as the author – would define the book as a love story (if forced to add such a label). Danielewski expands on this point in an interview: "I had one woman come up to me in a bookstore and say, 'You know, everyone told me it was a horror book, but when I finished it, I realized that it was a love story.' And she's absolutely right. In some ways, genre is a marketing tool."
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#26 on The Greatest Experimental Literature
#51 on The Scariest Novels of All Time
#73 on Books You'll Never Finish Readingsee more on House of Leaves