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Hondeklip Bay, Northern Cape
Hondeklip ('Dog Stone') Bay in the Northern Cape has had many incarnations, from being a humble trading store to a copper port, a crayfishing centre to a diamond diving hub. Today it's happy to host long-distance tourists who love far-flung adventures and a plate of seafood on a distant beach. more
Haenertsburg, Limpopo
The hamlet of Haenertsburg, in the Magoebaskloof Mountains, is a great place to stroll for a few hours. You can climb to the top of the hill for amazing mountain views, stroll the main street with its quaint shops and historic buildings, or wander through the beautiful arbour park. more
Bethelsdorp, Eastern Cape
When the village of Bethelsdorp near Port Elizabeth was first established in 1803, it was managed by two very driven men from the London Missionary Society, who found themselves acting as guardians, defending the resident Khoikhoi against the representatives of the colonial government and the labour-hungry Boer farmers of the area. more
Arniston, Western Cape
You'll find photographs of the picturesque fishing village of Arniston adorning many travel posters and brochures. Situated on the Western Cape's Indian Ocean coast, its incredibly brilliant blue seas and long stretches of white dunes are irresistible to local and international holiday makers. more
Chrissiesmeer, Mpumalanga
Chrissiesmeer, in the heart of Mpumalanga's's lake district, is surrounded by 270 lakes and pans brimming with birds, butterflies and frogs. There's even an annual frogging festival which keeps everyone on their toes. It's full of history too, from Anglo-Boer War battles to poignant graves of lost lovers. more
Ficksburg, Free State
Ficksburg offers visitors more than 30 experiences, including visits to cherry and asparagus farms; hiking and horse riding in magnificent sandstone mountains; a leisurely cruise through a private nature reserve aboard the White Mischief; and sampling decadent chocolates made in the village by an Alaskan chocolatier. more
Groot Marico, North West
Settle in to a genuine South African experience in Groot Marico. It's no wonder that so many of Herman Charles Bosman's tales featured this part of the country. With its enchanting atmosphere and warm hospitality, the Groot Marico offers you a culturally rich holiday that will be both relaxing and entertaining. more
Cradock, Eastern Cape
Walk the Victorian-era streets of Cradock, enter the local hotel and be transported right back to 1850, when adventurers and explorers rubbed shoulders at the long bar. Or come to Cradock in October and do friendly battle with the Great Fish River in one of South Africa's premier kayak races. more
Graaff-Reinet, Eastern Cape
Set in a curl of the Sundays River, the Karoo town of Graaff-Reinet is the fourth oldest settlement in South Africa and has seen more than two centuries of travellers, adventurers and prospectors pass through its streets. Today it is a vibrant centre for tourism, game farming and traditional agriculture. more
Fauresmith, Free State
Every little South African town has its quirks and special features, and Fauresmith in the southern Free State is no exception. With its old loco as an historic reminder of the days when steam trains chugged along its main street, Fauresmith has retained its other specialty: breeding superb endurance horses. more


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If the level of interest from a round of pitches to the VA Angels investor group is any indication, Kelly Beaulieu is the emerging star of the province's innovation set.
For several years, Beaulieu, 49, a professional agrologist, has been perfecting a specific-gravity monitor technology that measures dry matter content such as proteins, fats and carbohydrates in all sorts of agricultural and natural resource commodities.
That sort of measurement in a french fry factory, for instance, could save millions of dollars and reduce the fat content of a serving of fries by 22 per cent. That happens because Beaulieu's patented sensor technology will detect and eject the potato strips whose dry matter content is more prone to absorb too much cooking oil.
Cooking oil is one of the largest input costs for frozen french fry plants and the savings on oil costs could be worth millions for each plant. Touting reduced fat content in every serving of fries could be worth even more in positive consumer response.
And it's not just french fry production that could receive a substantial productivity boost through the wonders of specific-gravity monitoring.
"We believe this is a real technology game-changer," said Beaulieu. "It can apply to every processor that has a requirement to understand the quality of the raw product, and they can use it to improve their systems. It is very robust technology."
Some of the shrewdest investors in Western Canada seem to agree.
Beaulieu just got back from her second trip to Alberta, where she broke the all-time record for investor sign-ups with VA Angels, the large, long-standing Alberta-based angel investor group. (In addition to its very active groups in Calgary and Edmonton, it just organized similar groups in Winnipeg and Kelowna, B.C.)
She was looking for investments of about $2.4 million to bring the technology to the stage where food processors can install it in their lines. But she was also looking for business and marketing expertise she and her partners currently do not possess.
Beaulieu and her partners -- Winnipeg lawyers Harvey and Martin Pollock and Ottawa-based rocket scientist Philip Church -- have established a company called PB&C Agri-Tech Solutions Inc. to build the technology.
Randy Thompson, the founder and leader of the VA Angels, said PB&C attracted interest from 30 investors, the most up take in the history of the group. The previous record was 18.
And while it is no guarantee she will be able to close with the $2.4 million "ask" fully subscribed, she's well on her way. "What happens now is that a deal will be put together that has to honour what she and her team have done to this point with enough comfort they will do very well and the investors will do well," Thompson said. "We're all very excited."
Among other things, Thompson said, the VA Angels will help install a management team with the kind of skills that can arrange the right kind of licensing and sales agreement for such unique and sophisticated technology.
Beaulieu credits the assistance she's received from Innovate Manitoba, the provincial group that organizes the Manitoba Venture Challenge.
"The tutelage I've received from Innovate Manitoba helped me perfect the pitch and understand what it is that potential investors need to know," she said.
Jan Lederman, the chairwoman of Innovate Manitoba, is a big fan of Kelly Beaulieu and PB&C.
"I think she is a real example of true innovation," Lederman said. "She looks at an industry -- the food-processing business -- and thinks 'How can I make it different or better?' "
Beaulieu has already succeeded in launching one food processing company called Canadian Prairie Garden Puree Products Inc., which makes vegetable purées with a new processing technology that uses rapid steam-infusion cooking to retain the colour, texture, flavour and nutritional quality of the products in the purée.
That business is about to install large production equipment to be built at the Food Development Centre in Portage la Prairie that will allow it to export around the world.
Assuming its specific-gravity monitoring technology really works -- and Beaulieu and her advisers, including Martin Scanlon, acting associate dean of the faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Manitoba, believe it does -- PB&C could be well on its way to becoming the next major food industry technology to come out of Manitoba.

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Fox Again Hides Guest's Republican Ties
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Fox News' disclosure problem just got worse.
Fox once again turned to businessman Thomas Belesis for commentary without disclosing his position as an official for the New York State Republican Party.
As Media Matters has previously documented, according to the biography on his website, Belesis "is currently Co-Chairman of the New York State Republican Finance Committee." A 2011 press release touted Belesis as a "key backer of the State Party's efforts in the 2010 election and has also been an active supporter of the Republican National Committee over the last election cycle."
On today's edition of Fox's Your World with Neil Cavuto, Belesis attacked the Obama administration as "anti-business" and claimed that a Romney administration, on the other hand, would be "business friendly" and help spur "a lot of economic activity and pent-up entrepreneurial demand that's been on the sidelines." Belesis concluded his analysis by saying, "I think people are going to wait and sit on the sidelines until after or we get close to an eventual Romney win in the White House."
During the segment, Cavuto identified Belesis' as "a CEO, just down on Wall Street" and a caption identified him as "John Thomas Financial CEO," but his Republican ties were never disclosed.
Cavuto's failure to identify Belesis as a Republican official is part of Fox News' longstanding disclosure problem. The network has repeatedly hosted Romney advisers John Bolton, Jay Sekulow, and Walid Phares without acknowledging their participation in Romney's campaign. Fox has also heavily promoted contributor Karl Rove's anti-Obama super PAC, American Crossroads, often without identifying his connection to either American Crossroads or Fox News.
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After 13 years on the drawing board, a civil rights museum in New Orleans appears to be far from becoming a reality in Louisiana.
"Right now, given the fiscal condition of the state, I don't think it's going to become a priority," Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne said.
The pace of the project frustrates former state Sen. Diana Bajoie, who originally pitched the museum to the Legislature in 1999.
Bajoie, D-New Orleans, introduced legislation establishing the Louisiana Civil Rights Museum as the state's official civil rights museum. The museum was supposed to take responsibility for the "collection, preservation, and exhibition of archives, books, charts, documents, maps, records and other artifacts relative to the evolution, development, and history of civil rights in Louisiana."
Louisiana has a rich civil rights history. Chapters include:
- The 1953 boycott over seating restrictions on Baton Rouge buses. The boycott came two years before Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala.
- New Orleans was the birthplace of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights organization brought to prominence by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
- In 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated an all-white school in New Orleans.
"It's a story that needs to be told and we need to preserve the history," Bajoie said.
Before leaving the Legislature, Bajoie tried to revive the project in 2004 by requiring an annual report of the museum operations and management. A museum board was established.
However, a lack of funding continues to stall the project.
Building a state museum generally requires obtaining money in the state construction budget, which the governor largely controls.
The civil rights museum has obtained $900,000 in construction money, or capital outlay, money over the years, some of which has been spent on a feasibility study.
Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Gov. Bobby Jindal scrapped millions more dollars that legislators tried to secure for the project. Most recently, Jindal nixed a $75,000 cash line of credit for the museum.
Some museum board members seem reluctant to talk about the project.
State Sen. Karen Peterson, D-New Orleans, declined to return calls over a three-week period about the museum's progress. Another board member, Nolan Rollins with the Urban League of Greater New Orleans, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
The museum's only employee, Turry Flucker, quit earlier this year. Dardenne said he does not plan to replace Flucker.
Dardenne said the feasibility study suggested several sites in New Orleans' museum corridor for the civil rights museum. The problem, he said, is that acquiring land and building a museum takes money.
The National World War II Museum in New Orleans is a privately held attraction that sometimes attracts state dollars. The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches took years to build.
"It's not easy to get capital outlay dollars," Dardenne said.
Currently, the state is strapped for cash. The governor recently made mid-year budget cuts that included curtailing funding for hospice services. State parks are dipping into a maintenance fund to operate. The Jindal administration said repair money will have to come, as needed, out of the state construction budget.
"I don't expect this to be going forward in the capital outlay system anytime soon," Dardenne said.
Bajoie said that is a shame.
She said she wants to preserve the state's civil rights history for future generations. "As long as some of us are still living, we can provide institutional knowledge," Bajoie said.


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With more than 50 years of experience in manufacturing cymbals to the highest standard of sound, Meinl introduces its new symphonic range of cymbals.
The assortment includes nine different cymbal pairs: Available in three weights thin, medium, and heavy, with diameters of 18", 20", and 22" in every category. The new Meinl symphonic assortment is completed with five suspended cymbals with diameters of 14", 16", 17", 18", and 20".
With Jens Herz, principal percussionist of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra – Bavarian State Philharmonic, one of Germany's most renowned orchestras, Meinl has found an outstanding musician and consultant with whom to develop and optimize their new range.
"Our relationship with Jens Herz and the Orchestra is a gift," comments Meinl's Norbert Saemann. "His knowledge and experience in the classical field has been of enormous assistance in the creation of our symphonic cymbals. We were able to test and optimize them in the orchestra's newly renovated concert hall under real acoustic circumstances. We are very grateful to be able to work with him and subsequently gain a true behind-the-scenes understanding of the symphonic world."
Made from B20 bronze and hand-hammered in the company's own Turkish cymbal smithy, all cymbals feature an overall dark tonality. Depending on the chosen weight and size, the cymbal pairs are suitable for use in musical situations ranging from very low to extremely loud volumes, but always with a wide tonal spread. The new suspended cymbals feature a flat profile for an immediate and sensitive response with a long sustain. Ideal for mallet rolls for swelling crescendos.


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Popular Mechanics has announced its 2012 Breakthrough Awards. Awardees include three teams whose work received critical support from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Popular Mechanics designates its Breakthrough Awards as follows: Innovators, whose inventions will make the world smarter, safer and more efficient in the years to come, and Products, which are setting benchmarks in design and engineering today. The three teams supported by NSF fall into the innovators category.
Popular Mechanics will present all of the awards in a ceremony this evening, and will feature the awards in the November issue of the magazine. The ceremony will also highlight this year's Leadership Award winner, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors.
"We are once again excited to recognize this year's list of incredible honorees for their role in shaping the future," says James B. Meigs, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics. "From a featherweight metal to the world's fastest and most electrically efficient supercomputer, this year's winners embody the creative spirit that the Breakthrough Awards were founded upon."
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ATLANTA - Four suspected members of a fringe north Georgia militia group were arrested Tuesday by federal authorities and charged with plotting to buy explosives and trying to make a deadly toxin in a bizarre plot to attack government officials in Jacksonville and three other U.S. cities.
Authorities say at least two suspects accused of plotting attacks involving deadly biological toxins are former federal employees
Court records state that one who was arrested worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and another had worked for a contractor at the federal Centers for Disease Control.
The four listed in the indictment are Frederick Thomas, 73; Dan Roberts, 67; Ray Adams, 65; and Samuel Crump, 68. The men live in the north Georgia towns of Cleveland and Toccoa.
The four men were part of a group that also tried to obtain an unregistered explosive device and sought out the complex formula to produce ricin, a biological toxin that can be lethal in small doses, according to a federal complaint.
They have been talking about "covert" operations since at least March 2011, according to court records, discussing murder, theft and using toxic agents and assassinations to undermine the state and federal government. Court documents indicate the men talked about spreading ricin across several cities at once, including Washington D.C., Atlanta, New Orleans and Jacksonville.
"What I'd like to do is, uh, about 10 pounds of that (reference to ricin)…Put it out in different cities at the same time: Washinton, DC, maybe Newark, NJ; Atlanta, GA; Jacksonville, FL; New Orleans," Crump said in a recording made by the FBI. "All ya gotta do is lay it in the d--- road, the cars are gonna spread it."
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The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office issued a statement saying it was aware of the federal investigation in Georgia, but cannot comment on any specifics.
"We are aware of the arrests in Atlanta and believe there is no cause for alarm in our community," JSO Chief Mike Williams said. "We would like to take this opportunity to remind the community to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to law enforcement."
Court documents said Thomas told others that he intended to model their actions on the online novel "Absolved," which involves small groups of citizens attacking U.S. officials.
At one meeting, investigators say, Thomas openly discussed creating a "bucket list" of government employees, politicians, corporate leaders and members of the media he felt needed to be "taken out."
"I've been to war, and I've taken life before, and I can do it again," he told an undercover investigator, according to the records.
Thomas' wife, Charlotte, called the charges "baloney."
"He spent 30 years in the U.S. Navy. He would not do anything against his country," she said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
Thomas and Roberts are accused of buying what they believed was a silencer and an unregistered explosive from an undercover informant in May and June 2011. Prosecutors say he discussed using the weapons in attacks against federal buildings.
Prosecutors say Crump also discussed making 10 pounds of ricin and dispersing it in Atlanta and various cities across the nation. Adams, meanwhile, is accused of showing Crump the formula to make ricin and identifying the ways to obtain the ingredients.
Charlotte Thomas said her husband was arrested in a restaurant in Cornelia, Ga., and federal agents were at her home when she returned from the grocery store Tuesday afternoon. She said the agents wouldn't let her in her home.
"They tore up my house," Thomas said.
She said her husband doesn't have an attorney yet.
Margaret Roberts of Toccoa said FBI agents showed up with a search warrant and went through her home, taking a computer and other items.
She said her husband is retired from the sign business and lives on pensions.
"He's never been in trouble with the law. He's not anti-government. He would never hurt anybody," she said.
Listed numbers for the other two suspects could not be found.
The four men were scheduled to make an initial court appearance on Wednesday. Attorneys for the men were not identified, and the federal defender's office had no immediate comment.
U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said the case is a reminder that "we must also remain vigilant in protecting our country from citizens within our own borders who threaten our safety and security."
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I am back into the simply rails 2 book after reading half of learn to program and I am not getting the read out supposed on page 132 after puting inrake db:migrate in the the shovell folder... it just produces the same line in paretheses that I started with, but the 001_create_stories.rb file on page 126looks good. Anybody know why the read out is wrong?
Without knowing what the "same line" is, I'll guess.Maybe you missed the:force => trueon page 129?
what I mean is the same line as the prompt line, and like I said I checked the force true line in that file to make sure it read right and it looked correct
So at the prompt../shovell> rake db:migrateshows(in /path/to/shovell)and then hangs (or does nothing else)? No error messages?
Does it go back to the prompt../shovell>
yes it comes right back to same original prompt
Have you checked that the migration hasn't already been run? Once a migration has been run, if you run the migration again, you get minimal output. It might be worth rolling back to the previous migration and then running the migration again.
I don't think I know how to check if a migration has been run, how do I do it?
I never got an answer to why db:migrate didn't work, can somebody review my question and see if they know, I don't know to check if the migration has been done or not
In the application's log folder should be a "development.log" file. If you look at that you should find migration info and lots more.
Probably be easier to check the db/schema.rb file. It shows what your database currently looks like, have look and see if the migration you've written has already been applied.
below is the file, but I am not really sure what I am looking at, I am guessing it is correct create_table "stories", :force => true do |t| t.string "name" t.string "link" t.datetime "created_at" t.datetime "updated_at" end
Except for the version which would be different, yours looks like mine
ActiveRecord::Schema.define(:version => 20080830130129) do
create_table "stories", :force => true do |t|
t.string "name"
t.string "link"
t.datetime "created_at"
t.datetime "updated_at"
Yeah, so it looks like the migration has already been run.
You write the migration, you run 'rake db:migrate', the migrations are applied to the database. 'rake db:migrate' then won't do anything until you create a new migration.
A migration is like a set of instructions of what should be done to a database, so each one is only run once. If you were working in a team, the migrations can be kept with the project and then team members can easily run them against their own databases.
schema.rb then keeps track of what your database looks like (and also lists the number of the latest migration in the :version hash).


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Richardsons CC is a CTC-affiliated club in Scarborough, formed in 2009. In two years it's grown to 110 members.
It is the only cycling club in the area that has actively engaged with the local community. Activities in the last year have included:
- a family cycling day and barbecue, which attracted 80 people, half of whom were not club members;
- several guided off-road rides for beginners and family cyclists;
- led rides for 6th form students and Swedish exchange students in the autumn;
- off-road rides for teenagers with behavioral difficulties;
- beginners' road rides for all-comers;
- Go-Ride skills days in local schools;
- a cycling 'youth academy' for children aged 8-16, each week;
- teaching basic cycling skills to Brownies so they could get their cycling badge;
- running a mountain bike race for children aged under 16 at a local school;
- liaising with local authority representatives and CTC Cycle Champion Martyn Bolt regarding a cycling festival in Scarborough, and advising on ways to boost cycling generally.


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The DOE is committed to strengthening America's energy security, environmental quality and economic vitality in public-private partnerships that enhance energy efficiency and quality of life at the same time. One goal of DOE programs is to provide American consumers with a greater choice of energy-efficient products. The DOE has worked with TIAX and leading manufacturing partners on several breakthrough products including commercial refrigerators and residential clothes dryers that reduce energy consumption by as much as 60 percent.
As the nation's residential hot water consumption continues to rise due to the popularity of larger homes with amenities like deep soaking tubs, radiant heat flooring, steam showers and showers with multiple heads, the development of a cost-efficient condensing water heater for residential applications became a focal point. It was logical that A. O. Smith, with its strong heritage of innovation, should be the manufacturing partner for the project, and that TIAX, with its experience in making technologies ready for market, should be involved. A strategic alliance was formed.
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Higher efficiency water heaters have been available in the mass market for many years, but these products tend to be much more expensive than traditional storage water heaters. Since the thermal efficiency of water heaters is most often affected by flue standby losses, this was one key area for improvement. There is also the high cost of materials such as stainless steel for tanks and heat exchangers as well as expensive burner systems that have been used to achieve the higher efficiencies.
In addition to the cost impact, these stainless steel tanks bring with them a host of difficulties in the manufacturing process with regard to tank welding and overall product reliability. The increased costs and suspect reliability associated with some high-efficiency water heaters suggested tremendous opportunity for a cost-optimized version.
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The goal was to develop a heater that uses relatively low-cost, available technologies to achieve higher efficiency with a modest cost premium. Such a product would reduce the payback time from energy savings to a more reasonable length and make the product more appealing to the marketplace. The industry knowledge and engineering expertise of A. O. Smith were integral in finding the right solution to meet the hot water delivery needs of the mass market. It was necessary to consider the design of the heat exchanger system and increase input rates in order to finalize the specifications for this first-of-its-kind residential water heater.
A glass-lined helical coil heat exchanger made from low-carbon steel would provide significant cost savings when compared to stainless steel heat exchangers. Furthermore, a helical coil heat exchanger design provides increased surface area which, combined with the length of the coil, enables Vertex to accept 76,000 BTU input while keeping heat energy inside the tank longer. This configuration has been proven successful in A. O. Smith's Cyclone XHE commercial water heaters.
The end result was a revolutionary condensing water heater that had the following attributes:
Vertex is an innovative option for plumbing contractors to satisfy ever-increasing consumer demand for hot water, while simplifying installation. This new, 76,000 BTU power-vent residential gas water heater features 90 percent thermal efficiency and features a standard 50-gallon footprint. It combines higher input with more efficient combustion to produce much more hot water, with lower operating costs. Well-suited for larger homes with high hot water usage, Vertex will set a new benchmark in water heating solutions.
Headquartered in Ashland City, Tenn., A. O. Smith Water Products Company is a leading manufacturer and marketer of residential and commercial water heaters and hydronic boilers. A. O. Smith offers contractors an additional competitive advantage in that the company designs, builds, distributes and field supports the world's broadest line of residential and commercial water heaters, as well as commercial boilers. This single-source concept simplifies ordering, installation and service and is backed by almost 70 years of research and innovation. For more information, visit www.hotwater.com.
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Crystal Palace defender Alex Wynter is backing the Heart4More Foundation and its aim to ensure all professional players are screened annually to avoid tragedies.
The Foundation was set up by former professional footballer Tobi Alabi, 20, who collapsed during a football match in October last year, and was subsequently forced to retire after having a heart monitor implanted in his chest.
Eagles youngster Wynter, who has spent a part of this season on loan with Sutton United, believes the Foundation will quite simply save a player's life.
The 20-year-old said: "I think it's a great project that could end up saving many young people from a life-threatening situation.
"When I first heard about what happened to Tobi I was in shock because although his story is not the first I have heard, you never expect it to happen to someone you know."
With Tobi's collapse hitting close to home for Alex he insists it is now vital that players are screened.
"It's vital that people get screened. I don't think the current screening is good enough because there are still people suffering without knowing about the problem," he added.
The Foundation is using CrowdFunder to raise funds of £7,000 to screen 100 young people before a football match.
With the days ticking down before a March 25 deadline, the Foundation has raised more than half of the target with £4,500 donated.
However, the full target of £7,000 must be achieved by the deadline for it to be fully funded.
Wynter said: "It's a great idea and hopefully it can encourage people who can affect the situation, to make changes and improve the process.
"I would encourage people to donate simply because although you may not think it, you could be saving someone from living with a heart problem which could result in death.
"So get donating and let's help Tobi with this great project,"
To donate, go to crowdfunder.co.uk/heart4more
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Liza Long went from unknown blogger to Internet sensation this weekend after she compared herself to the mother of Connecticut mass killer Adam Lanza. Long, a single Idaho mother of four, reflected on her own 13-year-old son's mental illness, his threats to kill her and his siblings and the pain of loving someone who terrifies you.
She could be the mother of any of the long list of ill boys who have killed, she wrote. Local experts say she's not alone in coping with the anguish of raising a mentally ill child. While there are resources available, some parents feel shame and guilt because their children need psychiatric help. The Newtown, Conn., murders won't make their lives any easier.
On Friday, Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and opened fire, killing 20 children, six adults and himself. He earlier killed his mother, shooting her four times in the head.
"Three days before 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year-old son Michael missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong colour pants," she blogged.
"I can wear these pants," he said, his tone increasingly belligerent...
"They are navy blue," I told him. "Your school's dress code says black or khaki pants only."
"They told me I could wear these," he insisted. "You're a stupid bitch. I can wear whatever pants I want to. This is America. I have rights!"
"You can't wear whatever pants you want to," I said... And you definitely cannot call me a stupid bitch... Now get in the car, and I will take you to school.
"I live with a son who is mentally ill. I love my son. But he terrifies me."
Long's blog entry, which has been widely criticized for her comparison of her son to a mass murderer and for laying bare his mental-health problems, is chilling. She writes of the boy pulling a knife and threatening to kill her and himself after she asked him to return his overdue library books. She disarmed him while her two younger children followed the family safety protocol and locked themselves in the car.
Dr. Keith Hildahl, medical director of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program, estimates one in 20 Winnipeg school-age children is receiving mental-health services at any given time. Their needs include major mental-health issues, depression, behaviour problems, trauma and addictions. Patients can be as young as two, but the peak years are 13 to 16.
Hildahl says parents shouldn't be looking at their teenagers sideways after Friday's massacre. Tension is normal and outbursts common, he says. If a parent feels they are in immediate physical danger, they should call the police, he says.
Hildahl admits "there's never enough services" for children (and adults) with mental-health issues. Families are overstressed, he says, kids eat dinner watching TV and not engaging with their families, and our media-saturated world brings tragedies immediately into our homes, live and in full colour.
"In some ways, Newtown might as well have happened in Winnipeg," Hildahl said. His wife attended a Monday-evening vigil for six-year-old former Winnipegger Ana Márquez-Greene, slain on Friday.
He says "a decent effort" is being made to diagnose and treat mental illness, but some diagnoses come with bleak outlooks. Ten per cent of all people living with schizophrenia will take their own lives, he says. Depression, even if treated, also carries a suicide risk.
"We are working very hard with very damaged, very traumatized kids," he says of some young patients.
One Seven Oaks School Division principal, who requested anonymity, says "mental health and wellness" get a great deal of attention in schools. She says the first line of defence is a strong relationship between classroom teacher and student, bolstered by making school a safe and supportive environment. The division also relies on the support of all staff members, guidance counsellors and clinicians.
Hildahl is convinced the stigma surrounding mental illness can be tempered if people talk about the challenges they and their children face.
"(Parents) are terrorized by phone calls during the day (at work)," he says. "If you're a parent of the child (with a mental illness), every phone call from the school teaches you to be embarrassed by your child."
That's hyperbole, but Hildahl is talking about the real anxiety of parents who must cope daily with the outbursts and inappropriate behaviour of an ill child.
Liza Long wrote: "This problem is too big for me to handle on my own. Sometimes there are no good options. So you just pray for grace and trust that in hindsight, it will all make sense."
Newtown, Conn., doesn't make sense. The travails of mentally ill children, their parents, their teachers and siblings don't make sense.
Ignoring the mental-health needs of our children doesn't make sense.


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|Conservation of wildlife.
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|Assistance to public and private agencies.
|Chap. 965
|Surveys, etc.
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|Impoundment, etc., of waters.
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|Reports, etc., of Secretary and head of State agency.
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Costs of planning, construction, etc.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of March 10, 1934 (48 Stat. 401), is hereby amended to read as follows:
"In order to promote effectual planning, development, maintenance, and coordination of wildlife conservation and rehabilitation in the United States, its Territories and possessions, the Secretary of the Interior, through the Fish and Wildlife Service, is authorized (a) to provide assistance to, and cooperate with, Federal, State, and public or private agencies and organizations in the development, protection, rearing, and stocking of all species of wildlife, resources thereof, and their habitat, in controlling losses of the same from disease or other causes, in minimizing damages from overabundant species, in providing public shooting areas, and in carrying out other measures necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act; and (b) to make surveys and investigations of the wildlife of the public domain, including lands and waters or interests therein acquired or controlled by any agency of the United States.
Whenever the waters of any stream or other body of water are authorized to be impounded, diverted, or otherwise controlled for any purpose whatever by any department or agency of the United States, or by any public or private agency under Federal permit, such department or agency first shall consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the State wherein the impoundment, diversion, or other control facility is to be constructed with a view to preventing loss of and damage to wildlife resources, and the reports and recommendations of the Secretary of the Interior and of the head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the State, based on surveys and investigation conducted by the Fish and Wildlife Service and by the said head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the State, for the purpose of determining the possible damage to wildlife resources and of the means and measures that should be adopted to prevent loss of and damage to wildlife resources, shall be made an integral part of any report submitted by any agency of the Federal Government responsible for engineering surveys and construction of such projects.
"The cost of planning for and the construction or installation and maintenance of any such means and measures shall be included in and shall constitute an integral part of the costs of such projects: Provided, That, in the case of projects hereafter authorized to be constructed, operated, and maintained in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), the Secretary of the Interior shall, in addition to allocations to be made under section 9 of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), make findings on the part of the estimated cost of the project which can properly be allocated to the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife, and costs allocated pursuant to such findings shall not be reimbursable. In the case of construction by a Federal agency, that agency is authorized to transfer, out of appropriations or other funds made available for surveying, engineering, or construction to the Fish and Wildlife Service, such funds as may be necessary to conduct the investigations required by this section to be made by it.
Whenever the waters of any stream or other body of water are impounded, diverted, or otherwise controlled for any purpose whatever by any department or agency of the United States, adequate
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provision consistent with the primary purposes of such impoundment, diversion, or other control shall be made for the use thereof, together with any areas of land, or interest therein, acquired or administered in connection therewith, for the conservation, maintenance, and management of wildlife, resources thereof, and its habitat thereon. In accordance with general plans, covering the use of such waters and other interests for these purposes, approved jointly by the head of the department or agency exercising primary administration thereof, the Secretary of the Interior, and the head of the agency exercising administration over the wildlife resources of the State wherein the waters and areas lie, such waters and other interests shall be made available without cost for administration (a) by such State agency, if the management thereof for the conservation of wildlife relates to other than migratory birds; (b) by the Secretary of the Interior, if the waters and other interests have particular value in carrying out the national migratory bird management program.
Such areas as are made available to the Secretary of the Interior for the purposes of this Act under sections 1 and 3, or by any other law, proclamation, or Executive order, shall be administered directly or under cooperative agreements entered into pursuant to the provisions of section 1 by the Secretary of the Interior under such rules and regulations for the conservation, maintenance, and management of wildlife, resources thereof, and its habitat thereon, as may be adopted by him in accordance with general plans approved jointly by the Secretary of the Interior and the head of the department or agency exercising primary administration of such areas: Provided, That such rules and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the laws for the protection of fish and game of the States in which such area is situated.
The Secretary of the Interior, through the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Mines, is authorized to make such investigations as he deems necessary to determine the effects of domestic sewage, mine, petroleum, and industrial wastes, erosion silt, and other polluting substances on wildlife, and to make reports to the Congress concerning such investigations and of recommendations for alleviating dangerous and undesirable effects of such pollution. These investigations shall include (1) the determination of standards of water quality for the maintenance of wildlife; (2) the study of methods of abating and preventing pollution, including methods for the recovery of useful or marketable products and byproducts of wastes; and (3) the collation and distribution of data on the progress and results of such investigations for the use of Federal, State, municipal, and private agencies, individuals, organizations, or enterprises.
There is authorized to be appropriated from time to time, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act and regulations made pursuant thereto, including the construction of such facilities, buildings, and other improvements necessary for economical administration of areas made available to the Secretary of the Interior under this Act, and the employment in the city of Washington and elsewhere of such persons and means as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary for such purposes.
Any person who shall violate any rule or regulation promulgated in accordance with this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
The terms 'wildlife' and 'wildlife resources' as used herein include birds, fishes, mammals, and all other classes of wild animals and all types of aquatic and land vegetation upon which wildlife is dependent.
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Mayor Jerry Sanders appointed Sheffler, a local actuary, to the board of the San Diego City Employees Retirement System for a four-year term that ended in March. Here, he notes some basics of retirement funding and problems with SDCERS.
The city shouldn't skimp on its annual pension contributions
Those who aren't already immersed in actuarial science may find reviewing the basics of retirement-plan funding worthwhile.
The cost of a retirement plan is paid for in installments over the working life of each employee. Each installment is invested and the income from those investments reduces the total cost of his pension to him and the city. This investment-income portion normally amounts to about 80 percent of the total cost of a worker's benefits.
If regular installment payments are not made, the amount of investment income is reduced and the cost of the benefits to the employee and the taxpayers rises. Since the income from investments is added in over a long period of time, the cost of the plan increases exponentially when installment payments are missed. In short, a $100,000 payment skipped today would grow to a $215,000 payment in 10 years.
Many state and local governments have delayed, skipped or reduced payments to their retirement plans. They are usually prohibited from keeping money they should pay into the retirement plan because doing so is considered forced loans from the retirement plan to its state or local government sponsor.
The tragedy is that state and local taxpayers, who ultimately bear the plan's costs, may have to make up not only the missed payments but the interest those payments would have earned had the funds been invested.
In the private sector, the company that sponsors the plan would be subject to severe penalties for skipping or underpaying its contributions. Unfortunately, governments that sponsor retirement plans have traditionally resisted that regulation.
And to their everlasting discredit, public-sector union officials have not seen fit to demand it.
The 'corridor' keeps city payments aligned with reality
Not only skipped payments can affect the city's annual contribution to the pension plan.
Because the investment income that helps pay for the plan varies from year to year, a retirement plan's cost to the city varies, too. To allow the city to budget reasonably for each year's payment, actuaries apply a mathematical process called "smoothing" to prevent ordinary market swings from disrupting typically tight municipal budgets.
Smoothing is not intended, however, to mask extraordinary market changes, whether up or down, or to ignore genuine economic events. So smoothing is limited by a "corridor." In the city retirement system, this corridor is 20 percent of market value, whether it rises or falls.
Without the corridor, the smoothing can artificially decrease the city's payment. At some point, however, the city must catch up.
Let's say the stock market abruptly drops the assets' fair market value to $3 billion when the smoothed value has been set at $4 billion. Given the parameters set by the corridor, the smoothed value must be adjusted to reflect that drop. Otherwise, the loss of investment income won't be included in calculating the city's annual payment, the payment will be too low and future taxpayers will have to fill the gap.
The law requires all private-sector plans to use a corridor because it offers plan participants protection against abuse by the company sponsoring the plan. Public-sector plans aren't required to use them, and many don't. But public plans' trustees cannot excuse their own behavior by pointing out that others do it too. Failing to allow the protection afforded by corridors in public-sector retirement plans is irresponsible.
Trustees elected by unions have a conflict of interest
My last act as an SDCERS trustee was to point out what I must call a breach of fiduciary duty by a fellow trustee, Mark Sullivan, who was elected to represent the Police Officers Association and is now the retirement board's president.
There is a perception that board members elected from union groups like the POA must represent those unions above all other retirees and participants in the city retirement plan. Not so. All board members are supposed to represent all retirees and participants. That's why the Pension Reform Committee recommended entirely eliminating from the board these members elected by city worker unions and retirees.
Instead, the City Council at the time, aware of the financial support of unions during election campaigns, reduced what had been an overwhelming majority of these "elected" members with special interests to a slight minority. All the progress of the last four years can be traced to lessening the power of these elected members on the board, the influence of the unions or group that elected them and the conflicts of interest that arose.
The law calls retirement board members "fiduciaries" and requires certain conduct of them.
The fiduciary relationship is highlighted by good faith, loyalty and trust.
Fiduciaries have a duty to always avoid situations in which personal interests and fiduciary duty conflict. They cannot profit from their fiduciary post without the express knowledge and consent of the people they serve.
And particularly on point:
Even if no improper act results, a conflict of interest exists. And an appearance of impropriety can undermine confidence in the fiduciary who has the conflict or his organization.
These conflicts are insidious. Disregard for their importance led City Hall directly to disastrous plans known as MP1 in 1996 and MP2 in 2002. Board members agreed to a quid pro quo arrangement with unions that let the city pay less than it should have into the pension plan in exchange for more benefits for some members.
The phenomenal absurdity of increasing benefits while reducing contributions got the public's attention, which led to changes in the system.
The conflict shows up most on disability pensions
With overt conflicts of interest exposed as improper, board members must now use more subtle tactics to achieve goals otherwise prevented by law or public outrage. These conflicts most frequently arise in the preferential treatment of public-safety employees' applications for a disability pension.
These actions strike at the heart of fiduciary duty. Members of the retirement board have the same duty to the trust and to all participants, whatever their ties to the groups they were elected to represent. Yet the board's by-laws offer absolutely no opportunity to defeat the "appearance" of a conflict of interest.
How can the public be confident that the city will not again negotiate an informal arrangement with board members elected by their respective special-interest groups?
Unfortunately, Mayor Sanders has refused to reappoint experienced and proven independent trustees (of whom, admittedly, I claim to be one). He can undermine the pension board's independence by trying to barter with elected members or by exercising extraordinary influence over his new appointees.
Moreover, in further attempting to unduly influence the pension board, COO Jay Goldstone has informed the City Council that a committee will study how to circumvent the "corridor." That could easily lead to deliberate shortages in the city's annual contribution to the retirement fund. That's the road to MP3.
In several ways the system is easily ¼gamed'
According to the City Charter, employees are responsible for paying 50 percent of the "normal retirement allowance." Over many years, this requirement has been diluted to the point that employees now pay 19.6 percent of their benefits' cost. Until this year, the city even paid most of that reduced amount.
In city-speak, this is called a "pick-up." By my calculations, in the next two years the employees' contribution will drop to 12.1 percent of the total amount they collect in benefits.
How could that happen?
First, the benefits included in the "normal retirement allowance" haven't been conclusively determined. The list of benefits it does not include, however, has steadily expanded: disability pension payments, any negotiated benefit increases for past service, any losses resulting from plan experience (such as reduced investment income), early retirement subsidies, DROP and death benefits.
Second, when labor negotiations result in improved benefits, the employees are supposed to pay part of the cost of those future benefits. The retirement board is responsible for updating the employees' contribution rates. Again, probably because of the preponderance of "vested" interests on the board, employees have paid no more for future benefits.
Third, employees don't plug several other small leaks in the pension boat. They were undercharged for years for the famous "purchase service credit," but city taxpayers bear the loss.
Then there is pension "gaming," abusive strategies that some departments use to artificially increase workers' pension benefits without paying more into the system.
For example, retirement pensions are based on an employee's highest 12 months' compensation. An employee near retirement gets a temporary promotion and a higher salary, then returns to his previous assignment. But he gets a higher pension as if he had justifiably earned it.
Flaws in San Diego's system an eye-opener for the IRS
The San Diego City Employees Retirement System is much more complicated than the systems of similar cities, meaning more opportunities to exploit loopholes or inconsistencies in the Municipal Code.
In the private sector, retirement systems are designed to defeat many of these abuses. The amount of the employees' contribution is negotiated and their benefits match the funds available. If the fund experiences a series of losses, future benefits are reduced. The employer's contribution cannot be increased without his prior consent.
Until recently, the city code's pension provisions fell far short of the standard of practice in the private sector. The pension board clearly demonstrated that when it submitted the plan to the IRS after the critical Kroll report. The IRS found payments to retirees in excess of lawful limits and plan benefits (and therefore plan assets) diverted to non-participants (the presidential-leave benefit).
Worse, the IRS found that pension funds were raided to pay for health benefits. They have yet to be fully restored.
The SDCERS review so alarmed the IRS that it is now considering a special project to review other public-sector retirement funds.
Active vigilance is the price of a proper system
In summary, continuing issues with the city retirement plan will require active vigilance by citizens. I am most concerned about whether the elected members of the board will act selflessly, as fiduciaries must, and whether the independent trustees on the board can stymie the various attempts by city management or other vested interests to undermine the financial security of the system.
Citizens should be alert to the subtleties of municipal politics and their impact on pension finance. In the past four years, the board made a good start on reforming governance of the plan. But we are a long way from solving the city's pension-funding problems.


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Afghanistan Tour Dates Announced
Defending Intercontinental Cup champion's Afghanistan will visit Canada August 2-5 in the opening match for both teams in the 2011-2013 Intercontinental Cup. Following the match, Afghanistan and Canada will compete in two One Day International Matches and 2 T20 International's.
After shocking many and qualifying for the 2009-2010 tournament, Afghanistan raced to the top of the table and defeated Scotland in the final match to win the title. Canada, a two time finalist, in contrast struggled in the previous edition of the tournament. Being in winning positions in early matches they were unable to hammer home the advantage, and finished last in the table. The match against Afghanistan in 2010 will be remembered for one of the great chases in the history of First Class Cricket as Afghanistan chased 474 to beat Canada by 6 wickets.
Canada and Afghanistan have also played some classic limited over matches with Afghanistan holding a 2-1 margin in ODI's and a 3-2 margin overall. Many of the matches have been tightly contested thrillers and fans of both countries can expect more of the same this summer in Toronto.
Cricket Canada is finalizing venue schedules for the matches and will announce them shortly. The match schedule will be as follows :
August 2nd - August 5th, 2011 - Canada vs. Afghanistan ICC Intercontinental Cup (4-Day Match)
August 8th, 2011 - Canada vs. Afghanistan 1st One Day International
August 9th, 2011 - Canada vs. Afghanistan 2nd One Day International
August 11, 2011 - Canada vs. Afghanistan 1st T20
August 12, 2011 - Canada vs. Afghanistan 2nd T20
The ICC Intercontinental Cup is a cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council as part of its cricket development programme. It is designed to allow Associate Members of the ICC the chance to play first-class cricket matches against teams of similar skill in a competition environment and prepare them for eventual promotion to Test cricket status.The winners of the four-day tournament will receive $100,000 with $40,000 for second place from a total prize fund of $254,000. Ireland are the most successful side in the tournament's history having secured a hat-trick of titles from 2005 to 2007-08.


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Thursday Night Dinner Package
Looking for something fabulous to do this summer? Need to inject some fun in to your normal routine? This summer (from May 31 – September 27) MOPA's galleries are open late on Thursdays until 9:00 pm. Celebrate art after hours with The Prado Thursday Night Dinner Package, which includes a three-course dinner for two, a bottle of wine and two tickets to the Museum of Photographic Arts exhibition The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in NYC, 1957-1965. The Jazz Loft Project makes its West Coast debut at MOPA in an exhibition that captures an extraordinary chapter of American jazz history through over 200 photographs and master prints, as well as audio recordings that complement the images.
This outstanding evening is priced at $79.95 per couple and $39.95 for a single guest (with two glasses of wine), excluding tax and gratuity. For reservations, please call 619-557-9441 extension 1. Please note: The Thursday Night Dinner Package will not be available on Thursday July 12th and July 26th.
Every first Thursday of the month there will be live jazz music playing in the atrium (see Priscilla's blog post below) Please join us for this fabulous late night event!


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Cole is edging ever closer to four. Though
technically still three, it's been months since he has borne any of the
characteristic plumpness of toddlerhood. Instead, he embodies that
classic "sentient ball of knees and elbows" look of a young boy. He is
articulate for his age, but there have always been a handful of words
that elude him, much to our amusement. I told my husband, early on, that
I didn't have the heart to correct his more persistant pronunciation
mistakes because once they were gone that would be it. The sweet
innocence of saying "fink" instead of "think" would be gone forever.
Lello was the first casualty, quietly replaced one day by a bigger,
better vocabulary. I blame the schools. Lately, he's been correcting
himself when we watch Shrek, saying Fiona instead of By-ona. Obviously, I
want my son to grow into a fine, articulate man, but I can't help but
feel wistful as his speech matures. It is the last vestige of
babyishness that he has left and I'm watching it dissipate. When
"swimming cool" gives way to "swimming pool," I will be a basketcase.
not sure why I have this sudden urge to press pause. Perhaps it's
because I know there will be no more babies, so I'm urgently trying to
make this phase last as it eeks out it's final breaths. In a year that's
seen our family expand, relocate, and weather a mountain of other
changes, we've been operating in "keep your head down and keep moving"
mode. I fear that one day I will look up and there will be great,
lumbering men where my babies once were. I'm reliving all those moments
when a well-meaning older parent told me to "cherish this time because
babies don't last" while I was covered in vomit, being chewed on by a
screaming infant. I'm realizing there was truth in what they said even
though, at the time, I found their sentiment tone deaf because I was
struggling. All is not lost, though. The baby speaks Wookiee, so there
is still time.
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An Exploration Into Creativity
Uncovering The Brilliant Highlights of A Photographer's Mind
de By: Daniel Hellerman
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In An Exploration Into Creativity, Daniel Hellerman takes you on a journey into the mind of an HDR Photographer. By combining multiple exposures of images he attempts to present the world in new and never-before-seen ways. His photography shows that he has a masterful hand in both light and shadow. So come along on to a journey in color and vision.
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About The Author: Daniel Hellerman was born May 26th, 1987. He took quickly to technology as a child, and before he knew it, he lost himself in the virtual worlds a computer can hold. Always yearning to improve upon his experiences in computer games, Daniel was overjoyed when he got his hands on a set of level creation tools for a video game. His love of creating beautiful virtual worlds eventually evolved into his love of capturing the beauty of the natural world through photography. When Daniel learned of a new technique called HDR photography in January of 2007, he was hooked. HDR photography allowed him to combine multiple exposures of photographs, to create incredible photographs that not only evoke emotion, but leaves the viewers with a sense of wonder. Through the manipulation of light and shadow, Daniel Hellerman brings many incredible works to the photography scene.
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Everyday we read another article about someone who spent a lot of money on an Internet marketing course that promises instant or quick wealth. Most of you know what I am referring to..."Make $5,123.42 in 24 hours!" or the pictures of screen shots that illustrate thousands of dollars in a ClickBank account.
Making money on the Internet is not an overnight or instant thing. A business; be it on main street or the information super highway is still a business, period.
Of all of the social media applications out there Twitter has got to be the biggest waste of time for business. Or is it? How can a business effectively use this 140 character micro-blogging platform to reach an audience and create a brand that is followed and consumed? We have a few ideas and some suggestions.
Many bloggers find it hard to develop the habit of blogging regularly. Then there are other bloggers find it easy to blog everyday, some a couple of posts a day. As you may or may not be aware, for your blogging to be effective, you will need to add new content to your blog on a regular basis. In this post I want to share five tips that I use to make blogging easy.
Technology Workgroup helps business get found online using internet marketing, search engine marketing, and social media. Many times we have people ask us questions about finding a market or a niche. Often times I hear that the market is saturated, there is no more room for another pizza shop, mom and pop grocery, or coffee shop. It just isn't true...
More and more companies are "loosening up" on their views on social media in the workplace. Despite all the harbingers of doom and lost profits, it seems that there may have been a significant degree of error in their reporting. But is social media NSFW?
I think it is a good time to take stock of the "dark side" of using social media. A time will come when your customers will start talking about you or your brand using online social media ranging from Facebook to Twitter to Yelp, you've got to expect some negative comments in the mix. The question is what do you do when it happens? I would propose the following survival guide for when social media attacks.
Do you remember uniforms for gym class? Running shoes black or blue, tube socks either plain white or with stripes at the top, grey, black, or navy shorts, and white t-shirts.
No, it isn't a typo. I really meant "sheepwalker". One who follows the status quo …because that's what we do (as defined by Seth Godin).
Am I talking about tattoos? No. I'm talking about branding. No, and not the kind with the hot coals and the iron. I am referring to personal branding.
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how can i make a change calculator?
for exmaple i want to buy an item thet cost 5.89$ and in canada no more 1 cents so how can round the number to 5.90?
print(round(5.89, 1))
The point is i showed only example. the number will be random. and if its 3.32 i need to round this to 3.30. so how can i do it ?
import random
for i in range(10):
num = random.uniform(1,10)
rounded = round(num,1)
print('{} was rounded to {:.2f}'.format(num, rounded))
print 'Enter total:'
total = input()
print '$' + str((round(total,1)))
import os
def cls():
'''Clears any displayed data on screen
os.system(['clear', 'cls'][os.name == 'nt])
again = 1
while again == 1:
print 'Enter Total:'
total = input()
print 'Rounded total $' + str((round(total, 1)))
another = raw_input('Another Go? y/n')
if another == 'y':
elif another == 'n':
comt +=1
Guitarman2010 wrote:Noobish way
print str('Enter total:') #You don't need to convert a string to a string.
total = input() #You should never use input in python 2.x; use raw_input and convert your result.
#String concatenation in print statements is discouraged, but you have a bigger problem
print str('$') + (round(total,1)) #You converted the str to a str but didn't convert your float; this fails.
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A CHARITY linked with a major tea brand has been brought back to East Lancashire to contribute to good causes.
The son of Arthur Brooke, who founded Brooke Bond in the 1880s, set up the David Brooke charity 15 years ago in honour of his father to help disadvantaged children and young people.
The charity, which has moved back to Great Harwood from Reading, is now looking to donate to local causes throughout East Lancashire.
The company, which was established in the 1880s, had factories in Great Harwood, Burnley and Manchester and was administered from Eaves Hall near Clitheroe during the Second World War.
At its peak, the factory in Great Harwood employed more than 700 workers, and was taken over by Unilever in 1984.
The company, which was famous for making family-favourites including Oxo Cubes and PG Tips, decided to close it's Hartley Street factory in 1992 with a loss of around 350 jobs.
The factory in Burnley was closed in 1970.
The charity recently announced it had given a £3,000 grant to Child Action North West's new pilot scheme to help divert young adults from a life of crime.
Funds are still being raised for the scheme and organisers hope to be up and running in the next few months.
David Brooke's son Nigel, who now runs the charity, said: "The charity hasn't been involved in East Lancashire at all for many years but I moved it back to the area last year.
"I thought that it was important that the brand had a presence here and was involved in good works.
"It's focused on helping disadvantaged children and young adults and that's what this new pilot scheme is all about.
"It's important to get in there early and try and stop young adults going down the wrong path. I hope this scheme will make a huge impact on those young adults who need help and support."
The money will be used to fund the pilot project which will be based on the templates already being delivered by the Youth Justice Team and the employment and training scheme, Resolve 180, at Child Action North West.
Youth Justice Manager Faith Marriott said: "This funding will allow us to address the reasons why young men and women offend, reduce the risk of them reoffending and, importantly, use reparative and restorative justice to ensure they understand the impact crime has on victims and communities."


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Make your own clay charms
Clay Charms is perfect for future jewelry designers! The detailed step-by-step design guide teaches kids how to create fun and unique charms using the bright colors of clay. Create the charm, bake it, add the special glaze and attach to your charm bracelet! Perfect to keep or to trade with friends! For ages 8 years and up.Clay Charms Includes: 9 colors of clay, design guide, charm bracelet, shaping tool, glaze, drying rack, display rack, eye pins, and ringsClay Charms Dimensions: 9.3" x 8.4" x 1.1"WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD-Keep away from children younger than 3 years.


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Los Angeles, Oct 11 (IANS) Canadian model Coco Rocha has changed her wardrobe to match her short cropped hair style.
Contactmusic.com reports that the model told Glamour.com that all her clothes don't go with her new hairstyle and she had to make some changes in the kind of outfits that she wore.
"Clothes will look different with a short crop. Mine doesn't quite go with a maxidress, but I've been wearing a lot more leather jackets," she said.
The 24-year-old does not find it very easy to deal with her short hair.
"Everyone says short cuts are easier, but when I had long hair, it was - wash, go to sleep, wake up, and go. Now I have to tame this beast every morning!," she said.


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Penn Relays Results Homepage | Penn's Meet Schedule
PHILADELPHIA - In addition to three top-five finishes in the field events, the 4x200 relay reached the IC4A final for the University of Pennsylvania men's track and field team on the second day of competition at the 119th edition of the Penn Relays.
There were 39,103 in attendance at historic Franklin Field on Friday for a two-day total of 62,413 - well on the way to eclipsing 100,000 fans for the 10th straight year and the 13th time in the last 14 years at the world's oldest and largest relay carnival.
Penn had a stellar day in the relays, highlighted by the 4x200 which qualified for Saturday's IC4A final. Mason Smith, Kyle Webster, Seck Barry, Chad Payne edged Albany to win their heat at 1:26.91. That placed them 17th overall among 45 teams.
Then, among the 27 teams in the distance medley relay, Penn impressed again with a fourth-place finish. John Foye took the first three laps and handed to Ben Bowers for the 400 meters. Mato Bekelja took the baton for the 800 leg and then Thomas Awad finished the mile and stopped the clock at 9:50.23.
Just prior to that, the 4x100-meter relay matched up against the nation's best and nearly eclipsed 42 seconds for the first time this year. The Red and Blue were fifth in their heat and 38th among 71 teams with a mark of 42.12. Then in the 4x400-meter relay against three other Ivy rivals, the Quakers posted a season-best time of 3:14.62 to place third.
Penn also posted three top-five finishes in the field events. Freshman Thomas Pitt now stands just outside the school's all-time top 10 with a collegiate-best effort of 2.08 meters (6 feet, 9 3/4 inches). That placed him third in the Eastern high jump. Meanwhile, classmate Sam Mattis finished fourth in the discus championship. His final throw in the preliminaries measured 57.11 meters (187-04 ft.). That would have passed the school record had he not set the standard even higher during Penn's home opener last month. Junior Jake Brenza was second in the Eastern shot put with a mark of 16.39 meters (53-09.25 ft.) - his best throw of the season..
On the first day of competition, senior Mike Kiley, finished just a second shy of his personal best in the steeplechase when he placed ninth overall with a time of 9:18.56. A short while later, in the 5,000 meters, freshman Brendon Smith nearly reached Penn's all-time top 10 with a sixth-place time of 14:26.55.
Saturday will contain several more relays for the Quakers, including some Championship of America races, as well as several more field events for the Red and Blue. For a complete schedule of the events in which the Quakers will be participating, see the link at the top of this release.
For the largest track meet in the world, the Penn Relays is home to the nation's most extensive results page. For all of your Penn Relays needs, see the link to the Penn Relays results page at the top of this release. PennAthletics.com will have an update on the performance of the Quakers after each day of competition.
Penn at The Penn Relays:
Steeplechase:9-Kiley (9:18.56)
5,000 Meters: 6-Smith (14:26.55); 10-Shurtleff (14:34.83), 18-Foy (14:46.67)
4x100 Relay: 38-Penn (42.12)
4x200 Relay: 17-Penn (1:26.91)
4x400 Relay: 3-Penn (3:14.62)
DMR: 4-Penn (9:50.23)
High Jump: 3-Pitt (2.08m); 8-Bowers (1.96m); 13-Harriger (1.96m)
Shot Put: 2-Brenza (16.39m)
Discus: 4-Mattis (57.11m), 15-Brenza (48.20m)


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Dairy operations emit trace gases such as ammonia (NH3), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) into the atmosphere.
Now, USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have quantified just how much of those gases are released from open-lot and open-freestal dairies in the western part of the country.
In this article at DAIReXNET, USDA-ARS researchers April Leytem, Robert Dungan and Dave Bjorneberg describe their findings from a study of three commercial dairies in southern Idaho.
They discuss when emissions tended to be lowest (in the late evening and early morning), as well as seasonal variation of emissions from wastewater ponds and animal-housing areas. They also describe the annual average emissions from the housing areas of the three farms involved in the study.
The researchers say their next step is to validate and improve tools that can be used to estimate emissions from dairy production systems, as well as identify management strategies to reduce on-farm emissions.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Hot off an SSC win over the Florida Southern Mocs, the Saint Leo volleyball team defeated the visiting Warner Royals by a 3-0 score(25-15, 25-17, 25-19), Friday evening from the Bowman Center. The match marked the first contest between Warner and Saint Leo since 1998, and the win signaled the Lions' first non-region matchup since the end of September.
The Lions' squad came out strong, taking the first set by a score of 25-15 and never looking back. After a 25-17 win in the second set, the Lions capitalized on offense and blasted home a 25-19 set three win to take home the match.
As a team, Saint Leo hit for a .371 hitting percentage in the win. In addition, the Lions collected 48 kills, and held the visiting Royals to a .087 attack percentage.
Offensively, junior Lauren Campbell led the Lions in kills, collecting 12 to lead both teams. In addition, junior Tawni Warren and sophomore Jillian Stolzenburg tallied seven apiece.
Defensively, Yaidimar Santiago collected 16 digs on the evening, while Campbell totaled 13.
Senior setter Jaclyn Mailoto notched 41 assists in the win, bringing her season total to 1044.
The Lions will get back into SSC action when they travel to Winter Park, Fla. to battle Rollins College on Friday, Nov. 8. Game time is slated for 7:00 p.m.
For more on the Saint Leo volleyball program, visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook and 'Follow' the Lions on Twitter and Instagram.


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Is Your Bottled Water Worth It?
2010 Bottled Water Report
June 10, 2009
Is Your Bottled Water Worth It?: Find Your Water
Disclaimer: Drink plenty of water, but avoid bottled water when you can. It pollutes the environment and is often nothing more than tap water. When you must, choose brands with high scores (clear labeling) and advanced treatment.


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Tualatin Hills Nature Park and Interpretive Center
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Tualatin Hills Nature Park & Interpretive Center offers 222 ecologically diverse acres, a unique habitat including ponds, creeks, marshes and forests. The park can be explored via one and a half (1.5) miles of paved trails and four (4) miles of secondary trails. The Interpretive Center offers programs and special events for all ages, and the facility is also available for rentals when programs are not in session.
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