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Day 10
Saying Goodbye
Your adventure with Chris across India is coming to an end... but our journey together is just beginning!
In today's episode, Chris reflects on his experiences in India and invites you to be part of God's exciting plan to transform India.
You'll discover how you can change lives by partnering with India's Christians as they share the Good News!

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The center of NGC 3370
shows well delineated dust lanes and an uncommonly
ill-defined nucleus. 65kB 55kB Two regions
on the edge of the galaxy show bright blue
clusters of young, massive stars as well as
distant, red background galaxies shining through.
48kB An unusual concentration in the upper
corner shows a complex region of tidal interaction
between a bright galaxy and its companion.
Superimposed are a foreground star in the
Milky Way and a background galaxy. 45kB A
Sombrero-galaxy-look-alike is seen edge on
with a small warp in the middle right. 48kB
In the lower middle right, a distant filament
of merging blue galaxies can be seen.
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NASA and A. Riess (STScI)
SN 1994ae was discovered by S. Van
Dyk and the Leuschner Observatory Supernova Search
(IAU Circular 6105) using an automated 0.76-meter
telescope. The discovery image was taken on Nov.
14, 1994. The supernova was located about 30".3
west and 6".1 north of the galaxy's nucleus. The
image on the left is from the 1.2-meter telescope
at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (courtesy
R. Schild/CfA) and was obtained in good conditions
a few weeks after maximum light. The supernova peaked
at ~13th magnitude in the visual.
Extensive monitoring of the light
curve in 5 colors was obtained beginning 2 weeks
before maximum and provides one of the most complete
photometric records of a supernova light curve (Riess
et al. 1999). The image on the right is from HST
9 years later, by which time the supernova can no
longer be detected. Many interesting features of
the host as well as other background galaxies are
blurred beyond recognition by the atmosphere in
the ground-based image. HST, which sits above the
distorting atmosphere, captures great detail at
exquisite resolution.
such as SN 1994ae, can be used to calibrate
distance measurements in the universe,
because other, fainter stars of known
brightness can be observed in the same
galaxy. These stellar "standard candles"
are the Cepheid variable stars, which
vary regularly in brightness with periods
that are directly related to their intrinsic
brightness, and thus allow the distance
to the galaxy--and the supernova--to
be determined directly. However, only
the Hubble Space Telescope, equipped
with its new Advanced Camera for Surveys,
has the capability to resolve these
individual Cepheids in NGC 3370.
Above we see a "movie" of 12 consecutive
epochs of a long period (~50 days) Cepheid
variable. The Cepheid is in the center
of a crowded region of stars. The resolution
of HST is required to pick out the variable
star from its neighbors. The star was
caught initially fading before suddenly
doubling in brightness, then declining
again to its faintest point over 4-5
weeks. By plotting the change in brightness
(magnitude) over time (days) we can
see how the cepheid intensity rises
and falls. At right is a "light
curve" of the brightness over time
for one of the cepheid variables in
NGC 3370. Peak-to-trough variation,
or from its faintest to its brightest,
represents a doubling in brightness.
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for Larger View
NASA and A. Riess (STScI)


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The June Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Jasmine of Confessions of a Cardamom Addict and Annemarie of Ambrosia and Nectar. They chose a Traditional (UK) Bakewell Tart... er... pudding that was inspired by a rich baking history dating back to the 1800's in England.
Anyone reading this may have noticed that I've been slacking lately. Yes, it's true. Not for lack of wanting to write - I just have other things going on right now, so my cherished blog has taken a back ... burner, you might say. But I am going to try to keep up with one thing - the Daring Cook and Baker challenges. I am always in the kitchen anyway, so I may as well take some input, inspiration and ideas from others instead of always sticking with the usual suspects.
So, I apologize ahead of time if this entry seems like I phoned it in. (Actually my husband took the camera out of town, so I did actually phone it in). Some people might think that shorter entries are better...what do they know.
What was I talking about? That's right, Bakewell Tart. This tart consists of a slightly sweet, shortcrust pastry, spread with a thin layer of jam and topped with a golden puffy layer of frangipane. Check out the hosts' blogs for an interesting history of this dish.
As cherries are in season in Colorado, and delicious right now, I decided to attempt homemade cherry jam. I was a little worried that I didn't have fruit pectin* on hand, a common ingredient in many jams (I read a lot of labels). I decided to risk it and followed a pectin-free recipe on Jasmine's blog for a simple blackberry jam, subbing cherries for the blackberries. Although delicious, the jam unfortunately never set. It would have made a delicious sauce for something else (a frangipane tart, perhaps?)
The frangipane (a sort of dense custard of eggs, powdered sugar, butter and ground almonds) was easy to make and delicious.
The verdict on the crust? Hmm. I must have missed something in the instructions, or my jam (sauce) was simply too wet for the crust, because the cooked tart had a soggy and almost completely uncooked crust, while the frangipane on top was close to overcooked. I think a simple fix for this would be to blind bake the crust before filling and baking again.
But a soggy crust can be ignored - I have suffered through many a mediocre crust before... All in all, I enjoyed this challenge, especially getting to use the seasonal fruit. The almond taste definitely brought out the cherries and vice versa. I will make this again with the blind bake modification. Thanks to Jasmine and Annemarie for a very original suggestion.
* Pectin is a gelling agent that occurs naturally in many fruits (apparently not cherries) and is sold in various extracted forms, usually having been obtained from apples and/or citrus peel.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Daring Bakewell Tart with Fresh Colorado Cherries
boulderhomecook Monday, June 29, 2009
Labels: challenges, Daring Bakers, dessert, summer fruit
3 Responses:
- Kaida said...
Better late than never! Great job on this month's challenge.
- June 29, 2009 at 9:08 PM
- Lisa Michelle said...
Love the fresh cherry filling beneath your gorgeous frangipane! Very nicely done :)
- June 29, 2009 at 11:13 PM
- ice tea: sugar high said...
How I envy you for having cherry season in the US, it's still months till the cherry season begins here in OZ =(. Your tarts look divine. well done
- June 30, 2009 at 6:03 PM
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Families are the best. Time together is the most important thing, and these days not everybody has the time to prepare a 4-course meal for 8 or more people. Let O'sole Mio cater your next family get together or event, and your guest and your appetite will thank you.
We feature a huge catering menu which can be seen online on our website. From Pasta to Chicken to Heros and more, the O'Sole Mio menu has something for everybody. We specialize in Italian favorites, and our catering menu is extensive to help add variety and excitement to your next gathering.
Visit us online at www.serveyourfamily.com/osolemio and we hope you'll find that perfect dish for your next get together, meeting or event. You can choose from a variety of dishes and authentic Italian meals. We're happy to serve your family, and hope you'll come visit us soon.


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For Christmas, my husband surprised me with an AncestryDNA kit! This summer, we are exploring Europe for 36 days and we wanted to know our ancestry to make our voyage all the more exciting.
Growing up, I was told my ancestors were from the Netherlands, Germany, Czechoslovakia and possibly Poland. There was some debate whether we had ancestors from Spain because I have a very Spanish maiden name. My AncestryDNA results told me otherwise, and the results have stirred up some talk whether or not I was switched at birth. (Not likely.) So how accurate is AncestryDNA?
About AncestryDNA
AncestryDNA is a DNA testing service that uses state-of-the-art equipment to tell you your family history. It maps ethnicity back multiple generations and provides you with information regarding what regions your ancestors came from and links to possible unknown relatives. I can attest to the relatives portion – my aunt, who has a different last name than me, came up in my "possible relatives" section. So did about two-dozen strangers across the globe. I look forward to reaching out to a few of them.
Taking the Test
I was pleasantly surprised by the ease of the test. The AncestryDNA kit includes instructions, a saliva collection tube and a prepaid shipping box. We were instructed not to eat or drink for 30 minutes before spitting into the tube, then it just took a couple of spits to fill er' up. A tiny container of blue liquid was included to mix with our spit. We shook the tube and shipped it off to be tested. The results were in our email inbox within a month, but they ask you to give them 6-8 weeks.
Our Results
My husband and I both took the test and were amazed by our results! 54% Great Britain?! That was the most shocking! Only 5% Dutch (Europe West)? My family says that must be inaccurate. I'm looking forward to hearing what people abroad peg me as. When my sister visited Europe, locals assumed she was Dutch or Czech. What would you have assumed I am based on my facial features?
My husband was pretty shocked by his results as well. The results even included a few more low confidence regions in our results, my husbands were 4% Europe South, 2% Scandinavia, 1% Europe East and 1% Finland/Northwest Russia. We always assumed my husband was very German, it looks like we were correct!
Final Thoughts
I appreciated the simplicity of the test and loved getting my results within a month. I was surprised by how simple it all seemed! However, at $79.00 a test (a discounted price), I expected more from my results. I received a list of several regions, some included specific countries, but mostly it was very vague. Unfortunately I assumed that science was further along than this and I would have a pinpointed area where my ancestors lived as well as relatives in those areas that I could look up. I should have done more research beforehand, because AncestryDNA does not promise exact results.
Would you consider getting an AncestryDNA test? What have you been told about your ethnicity that you would like to explore further?
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Doug Richardson is the inventor and founder of Cinegif.com. He discovered his art talent after a severe head injury on January 2, 1992. After 6 months of rehab he was back in school at St. Edwards University in '94 studying photography. He shot freelance sports photography for the Austin American Statesman and Westlake Picayune from 1996 until 2008 winning 1st place in 2003 with the Texas Press. Over time his style of rapid sequential photos of the same athlete gave him the idea for the invention and patent of the IP commonly known as a Cinemagraph (term from Flixel) in 2005. Even though the concept is now being used worldwide he is determined to stand up for what he invented.
1996: Started Thephotoguy DBA for sports photography and did an internship at Texas Parks and Wildlife as a photographer.
1997: Along with the freelance sports coverage he worked for the University of Texas as a photographer for the UT Cheerleading Team at all home games
and practice for their calendar/poster.
1998: Began to shoot sports photos (still using film) for the EISD school district in Westlake and other private schools full time.
2001-2005: Changed to digital photo and continued to shoot sports until 2011.
2005: Filed provisional patent app. Made Cinemagraph type videos for Jaguar Land Rover Austin and online media advertising.
2006: Started Emailfilm Technology, Inc. (dba Cinegif Inc.) while still shooting sports photography. He continued to produce 'Cinemagraphs' for Jaguar Land Rover Austin along with over 100 shoots for a Toyota dealership in Houston Texas. Each production took an entire day for the shoot and editing. In April '06 filed for patent 7,629,977 and in 2007 CIP apps. Cinegif made Cinemagraphs to increase click through rates (CTR) for the Automobile Industry Honda, Toyota, Lexus, Nissan and other Industries including Nursing, Healthcare, Banking, Credit Card, Jewelry and Online Dating. Worked with Outsell.com, Datran.com, Adknowledge.com and many others.
2007: In June 2007 filed for the second Patent CIP. Doug sent out a press release and got the interest of Adknowledge (Adk.) based out of Kansas City. Shot and produced films for email campaigns in nursing, health care, bank loans, credit cards and jewelry using hired models, lighting crew and assistants for shoots in Austin and Houston. He also continued to shoot for Howdy Honda, Town North Nissan, Covert, Henna, Don Hewlett, Capitol Chevrolet and Lexus through Outsell Inc. with consistent increased CTR (click through rate).
2008: Concentrated on Real Estate agencies here in Austin for their signatures. Produced for agents in Keller Williams and Century 21 for changing videos in their signatures each time opened which increase open rate for email. July 17th the US Patent No. 7,388,587 was issued.
2009-2010: Doug spent the first 7 months working on his next CIP. In May he did some shoots for Collegeforward.org and was Issued US Patent No. 7,629,977. He still made Cinemagraphs for Real Estate, Automotive and Advertising Industries. September met with Thought Equity. Did shoots for cell phone, downtown Austin, golf course in Houston, jewelry, Toyota automotive and dating. Starting in November began more shoots for auto industry through Outsell.com with Chevorlet, Honda, Lexus and Nissan.
2011: Did some work with LeverageMarketing and got results from Acknowledge: Prepared for expo in Houston and more shoots for AdKnowledge in Auto, cell phone, computers, dating, golf, loans, media, office, people, singles and sports. Put together a library of Cinemagraphs for clients to use on their email signatures. He was issued his third US Patent No. 8,035,644.
2012: Began to notice other users of the Cinegif technology by video producers and smartphone manufactures along with producers of software, apps and devices sold that used and included the Cinegif technology. Company A had produced a free app to download. In October of 2012 he bought some of the mobile phones, did testing and full write-ups of the use of my IP. Doug continued to do shoots and designs for uship.com and PulsePoint.com.
2013: Cinegif.com began to work with T3Media.com and posted over 700 Cinemagraphs for sale that took up a good part of 2013. Cinegif Cinemagraph Cloud software became available as subscription even though Company A had released their free version in 2012.Cinegif had notable customers such as John Deere, Canon Canada, Mashable, Kraft, The Integer Group and Starwood Resorts. Doug did more testing of the smartphones using the IP. Issued US Patent No. 8,487,939.
2013-2015: Began to notice other users of the Cinegif technology by video producers. Found producers of software, apps and devices sold that used and included the Cinegif technology. Issued forth patent (8,487,939) then filed Cont. and CIP applications. Cinegif Cinemagraph Cloud software became available as subscription. Cinegif had notable customers such as John Deere, Canon Canada, Mashable, Kraft, The Integer Group and Starwood Resorts. Currently Cinegif.com owns 4 U.S. Patents 7,388,587, 7,629,977, 8,035,644, 8,487,939 and one open application 14/262,947 with malleable claims.
June 2007-June 2008: Filed Lawsuit against Samsung and in June 2008 had a successful mediation and the case was settled.


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A fascinating account of life in Buriton during the Second World War
Gill Hamilton, now living in Perth, Australia, has recently sent details of her life in the village as an evacuee from 1939-45.
She had been living as a small child in Portsmouth before she came to live with Canon and Mrs Morley and about 18 other evacuees in Buriton Rectory.
Her memories, supplemented by contributions from companions Liz Payne and Jane Hunt, describe life at the Rectory, at school, their food (and cod liver malt!), bath-times, punishment and Christmas activities during the wartime.
The account will be incorporated into the work of the Buriton Heritage Bank initiative – but if you have any information about evacuees in Buriton during the Second World War please contact Doug Jones (01730 231326) or send a message to email@example.com


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Identity Thief
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It was about a gentlemanly business - Sandy Patterson, who discovered that he lost his entire identity, personal information on the way abroad. During the chase to catch the thief, he accidentally got into trouble with a woman named Diana.
Actors: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho
Directors: Seth Gordon
Country: United States
Duration: 111 min
Quality: HD
Release: 2013
IMDb: 5.7


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|Tech 1 Cruiser
|Basic Fitting Information
|275 tf
|High Slots
|Medium Slots
|Low Slots
|Rig Slots
|See Fitting for more information.
|Basic Combat Attributes
|Shield HP
|Armour HP
|Max Velocity
|153 m/s
The Osprey Cruiser is the typical next step for players moving up from a Frigate or Destroyer to a Cruiser. Its inexpensive price and bonus to Mining Yield make it ideal for people who want to upgrade their mining yield on a budget. Its limited powergrid and CPU make it a bit tricky to outfit for a fully operational combat ship, it is very valuable in a support role, as the shield and armour are not as strong as other more combat oriented ships and they have a bonus towards shield transporters. For mining, it is very capable, and ranks number 4 for overall mining output. With its good sized cargo hold, it can also be useful for trade and picking up loot from large battles, or supplying others with ammo in a logistics role. There have been some instances where Ospreys haven been used for Anti-Pirate efforts. Due to the unique layout of the slot layout and split weapon's systems, some Ospreys have been known to take out Pirates looking for a cheap miner to flip. The inclusion of a sizable Drone bay allows for more DPS in this offensive role.
Description & Bonuses
The Osprey offers excellent versatility and power for its low price. Designed from the top down as a cheap but complete cruiser, the Osprey utilizes the best the Caldari have to offer in state-of-the-art armor alloys, sensor technology and weaponry - all mass manufactured to ensure low price. In the constant struggle to stay ahead of the Gallente, new technology has been implemented in the field of mining laser calibration. A notable improvement in ore yields has been made, especially in the hands of a well trained pilot.
Special Ability: 20% bonus to mining laser yield per level. 10% bonus to capacitor use of shield transporters per level.
Role Bonus: 500% bonus to range of shield transporters.
Source(s): EVE Online solutions
Max velocity : 153 m/sec
Ship warp speed : 3 AU/S
Magpulse propulsion strength : 5 points
Base price : 2,875,000 ISK
Tech-1: Osprey
Tech-2: Basilisk
Faction: Osprey Navy Issue
Skill Requirements
Blueprint Info
Base Price : 28.750.000 ISK
Manufacturing time : 3 Hours, 20 Minutes
Research material time : 2 Days, 18 Hours, 40 Minutes
Research copy time : 5 Days, 13 Hours, 20 Minutes
Research productivity time : 2 Days, 18 Hours, 40 Minutes
Wastage factor : 0.1
Production limit : 15
Bill of materials
Isogen : 4320 - 3520 / 3200
Megacyte : 68 - 55 / 50
Mexallon : 17330 - 14121 / 12837
Nocxium : 1134 - 924 / 840
Pyerite : 69668 - 56767 / 51606
Tritanium : 275989 - 224880 / 204436
Zydrine : 259 - 211 / 192
Datacore - Caldari Starship Engineering : 8
Datacore - Mechanical Engineering : 8
Esoteric Ship Data Interface : 1
Ship's Card Game Version
Ship type : Cruiser
Assembly : 2
Cost : 6
Power : 5
Shields : 5
Osprey's assembly cannot be hastened.
Reassemble Osprey: Hasten the assembly of a ship in your dock so that it is fully assembled. Play this ability only during your management phase.
See also
The Osprey at EVE-Online's Item Database [1]
The Osprey at ESSDB [2]
The Osprey at EVE-Extra [3]
The Osprey at Battleclinic [4]
The Osprey at EVE-DB [5]
The Osprey at coldfront [6]
The Osprey at the Eve-Guides.com database [7]
The Osprey at object database [8]
The Osprey at Allakhazam [9]
The Osprey at chruker.dk [10]
The Osprey at EVEHQ's Item Database [11]
The Osprey in card-form [12] Template:Core Ships


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The average pay for a Field Service Technician is $16.59 per hour.
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The field service technician performs different types of support at the customer's location, such as troubleshooting, setup, and installation of systems and equipment. Daily work logs and service tickets must be filled out and accurate, and there is an element of end user and owner training to the position. Technicians must be able to work face to face with customers on a regular basis, providing training and product support. There is some physical labor involved in being a field technician, and some lifting of equipment.Read More...
Technicians must have good product knowledge, but also be able to "think outside the box" when necessary. Experience with many different computer systems is beneficial. Applicants must be able to work without much direct supervision on a daily basis. Project management skills are helpful, as many projects involve ensuring that equipment from multiple vendors is installed properly and working together. There are typically multiple projects in progress at the same time, so technicians must be able to track and stay updated on multiple tasks at the same time. (Copyright 2019 PayScale.com)
- Provide on-call emergency service as required and maintain communication with the department manager while in the field.
- Educate customers on preventive maintenance and safety regulations, and provide general customer service on the phone and in person.
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- Maintain records of service calls, training, and expenses.
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Nirmala Sitharaman
Indigenisation in defence sector has to be on top of agenda: Sitharaman
Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday said manufacturing of defence equipment cannot be done with borrowed technology and indigenisation has to be on top of the agenda for India, which is one of the largest importers of arms in the world.
Big discounts on offer to set up units in UP's defence corridor
UP is rolling out the red carpet for companies wishing to set up big defence and aerospace units in the 'Defence Industrial Corridor' in the state, which was recently announced by Modi, by way of reimbursing 25% cost of land for the project and host of other benefits.
MSMEs to climb on defence manufacturing bandwagon
"The defence indigenisation exhibition would provide an opportunity for MSMEs to get to know the product requirements of DPSUs," president of Codissia V Sundaram said. The expo will be an initial step of the plan to make the city a defence manufacturing hub in the next 10 years, Sundaram said.
Defence ministry okays Rs 1,850 crore plans for combat vehicles, ship
The Defence Acquisitions Council, chaired by defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, approved the Rs 1,125 crore project to order the 156 infantry combat vehicles (called BMP-2/2Ks) for the mechanised infantry, other arms and services from the Ordnance Factory Board.
Government may announce a new 'outcome-oriented' industrial policy by October
Nirmala Sitharaman to hold consultations with stakeholders, including industry captains, think tanks and states to finalise the policy.
Reform labour laws to enhance ease of doing business: NITI Aayog
The survey covers more than 3,000 enterprises across India and makes an effort to assess ease of doing business from their perspective as opposed to the perspective of policy makers.
Government allays fears on implementation of Goods and Service Tax
"There is no separate explanation to public and another for traders. It is all the same. The price of essential commodities will not rise (post GST)", Nirmala Sitharaman said.
Exporters to get tax refund under GST within 7 days: Nirmala Sitharaman
Exporters have been demanding ab-initio exemption from payment of taxes under the GST regime arguing that delay in refunds often takes months.
GST to help improve India's exports: Sitharaman
Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will help improve India's export growth.
Exports rising despite global headwinds: Nirmala Sitharaman
She also said that the government will come out with amendments to the foreign trade policy to align it with the GST, which is scheduled to be rolled out from July 1.
Indian PM Narendra Modi turns focus on job creation
The government, which will soon complete three years, is going all out to ensure it delivers on the promise of creating 1 crore jobs.
Mid-term foreign trade policy to be out before GST roll out: Nirmala Sitharaman
Sitharaman said suggestions were made that the review should be concluded by July 1 so that it is aligned with the GST implementation.
India to revamp foreign trade policy to give leg up to exports
The foreign trade policy, announced in 2015, has set an export target of $900 billion, or about Rs 58 lakh crore, by 2020.
'EVs have potential for Japanese investors to diversify in India'
The Commerce Minister met leading Japanese companies in Automotive, Healthcare, Internet and Energy sector and discussed opportunities and their plans for India.
India needs young entrepreneurs to create more jobs: Nirmala Sitharaman
"India needs several entrepreneurs who can become fountainheads of commercially viable ideas that will make a difference to the economy and the country," Nirmala Sitharaman said.
Indian Engineering Sourcing Show opens in Chennai
According to EEPC India, Russia coming forward as the Partner Country in this event is a testimony to the stature achieved by IESS. India has a long standing partnership with Russia in engineering sector.
Government launches Rs 600 crore scheme for developing export infrastructure
Launched by Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the Trade Infrastructure for Export Scheme (TIES) seeks to bridge the infrastructure gap and provide forward and backward linkages to units engaged in trade activities.


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Dasymutilla gloriosa, a species of white "velvet ant", might not give you nightmares. After all, the thistledown insect–which is a solitary female wasp, not a real ant–is not huge (somewhere in the half inch range), not aggressive, and lives out in the desert here in Cochise County, Arizona. At a distance, she looks like a little (slightly raggedy) bit of cotton fluff darting here and there, a darling bit of a thing.
But up close is different–and imagine if she (the fluffy ones are always females) was your size or even bigger. Imagine this thing being the size of a mountain lion and coming at you. Note: She's fast, too. Really fast.
Paradigm shift? Doesn't look so cute now, does she?
At least the thistledown white is not the largest of the velvet ants. That would be the red version, also known as the cow killer, which we also have here on our property. Not that any of these wasps really go around slaughtering 1,000 pound Hereford or Angus beef animals, but they do have re-e-eally long stingers that reportedly hurt a lot. Their venom is not overly nasty, but their butt-spears sting deep and hard and make up for that. Super tough exoskeletons, too; some collectors have reported difficulty getting steel pins to pierce their armor. Which is a good thing in my book; I'd just as soon see the collectors stuck through and mounted on display boards.
As babies, Dasymutilla gloriosa and the numerous other species of velvet ants find themselves well fed without having to work at it. Mom lays her eggs near pupae of ground dwelling bees or even other wasps, the junior monsters hatch and grow fast, and the immature bee forms become lunch within a matter of days.
Which makes the adult velvet ant's preference for nectar a bit of a surprise. The adults will also eat other things, though, little things that live below ground…and sometimes they find a use for that nectar-sucking proboscis that leaves the observer going, "Ew-w-w!" The feeding tube will not pull up solids (Duh!) but was clearly being used in a couple of the photos I took today. There's certainly no "nectar" under the surface of the bare earth the wasp was hunting, but it's a sure bet that vacuum sucker thing was sucking up something liquid. Spiders suck the life juices out of their victims; this had to be something similar.
On the other hand, the velvet ant is not, as I originally but erroneously thought, a parasitic wasp. Some of the sources I consulted the first time we encountered one of these motorized cotton balls were apparently a bit misinformed. The mama wasp does not lay her eggs inside other insects but rather next to baby bee pupae (or whatever)…which makes the young, freshly hatched velvet ant a carnivore rather than a parasite.
As adults, they don't seem to have the slightest interest in tackling other quick moving, above ground insects. The model in the photos on this page was "ground hunting" in close proximity to all sorts of harvester ants, crickets, and beetles. She ignored them all. Her prey (of whatever sort it may be) appears to live below ground surface and is either slow moving or completely stationery when the hungry thistledown comes to call.
After giving the thistledown velvet ant a hard time about being "the stuff of nightmares", it's only fair to mention that this girl bug in the raggedy cotton dress really got the short end of the stick in the mating department. The males lack stingers but they get to fly–yep, they have wings–and they're a lot bigger than the females. So much so, according to one source, that they sometimes carry the girls aloft when mating.
Talk about getting carried away. Do you suppose that's the real reason a female Dasymutilla Gloriosa has such a tough exoskeleton? So that if a guy dumps her from on high in the sky, she bounces when she hits the ground instead of going splat?
That would give a whole new meaning to the term "on the rebound"….


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Drawing Power
Sunday, August 24, 2008
NEW YORK -- I've wandered into an alternative universe, and I'm trying to decide if I want to stay. The setting is the lovely, old-fashioned library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, in midtown Manhattan. The event is a gathering called "SPLAT! A Graphic Novel Symposium." I'm here because the organizers have promised to lay out, in the course of a single day, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Graphic Novels."
What I want to know is: How did this formerly ghettoized medium became one of the rare publishing categories that's actually expanding these days?
"SPLAT!" seems a perfect place to start looking for answers.
Sponsored by the New York Center for Independent Publishing, it's crammed with influential cartoonists, editors, agents, librarians, marketing types and booksellers. There will be talk of literary comics, autobiographical comics, Web comics, kids' comics, comics in libraries, comics in schools and much, much more. By day's end, my head will be buzzing with new knowledge on subjects ranging from the distribution revolution that helped make the graphic novel boom possible to the Manga Invasion from Japan.
Above all, "SPLAT!" is filled with enthusiastic voices.
What is a graphic novel?
"It's a perfect synthesis of artwork and literature!"
When will graphic novels come into their own?
"We seem to be in a golden age of comics publishing right now!"
And yet . . .
To a lifelong Prose Guy, whose idea of a good time involves a comfortable couch and a book full of nothing but words, the graphic novel galaxy can still feel far, far away.
Yes, I know comics can be ambitious and aimed at adults. Art Spiegelman's "Maus" made this indisputable two decades ago, and there has been plenty of impressive work done since. But I can't help wondering, even as I begin to explore the rise of what's sometimes called "sequential art," if I can ever overcome my personal bias toward prose.


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Park City, UT (PRWEB) February 12, 2013
Today, Zane Benefits, Inc. published new information on Stand-alone HRAs and Health Insurance Premiums. Zane Benefits, which provides comprehensive and flexible alternatives to traditional employer sponsored health benefits, is the leader in defined contribution and health reimbursement arrangements.
According to Zane Benefits' website, over the last 2 weeks, we have received several inquiries regarding PHS Act Section 2711 annual limit requirements and how it affects the future of stand-alone Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs). This article outlines a special exemption from the 2711 rules for most stand-alone HRAs that reimburse health insurance premiums.
What Is an HRA?
According to Zane Benefits' website, Health Reimbursement Arrangements are employer-funded medical expense reimbursement plans that reimburse employees up to a set dollar amount for medical expenses (defined in Code section 213(d)) per year. The IRS determines the rules and regulations for HRAs. Generally, HRAs must comply with Sections 105 and 106 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
What Expenses Are Eligible For Reimbursement From an HRA?
According to Zane Benefits' website, HRAs can reimburse employees for medical care expenses as defined by IRS Section 213(d), which include amounts paid for:
(A) the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease,
(B) transportation costs to receive medical care described in (A),
(C) qualified long-term care services as defined in section 7702B (c), or
(D) insurance.
What Is Section 2711?
According to Zane Benefits' website, Section 2711 of the PHS Act, as added by the Affordable Care Act, generally prohibits group health plans from imposing lifetime or annual limits on the dollar value of essential health benefits.
On June 28th, 2010, the federal government issued the following regulations for Section 2711:
"§ 2590.715-2711
No lifetime or annual limits.
(a) Prohibition—
(1) Lifetime limits. Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, a group health plan, or a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage, may not establish any lifetime limit on the dollar amount of benefits for any individual.
(2) Annual limits— (i) General rule. Except as provided in paragraphs (a)(2)(ii), (b), and (d) of this section, a group health plan, or a health insurance issuer offering group health insurance coverage, may not establish any annual limit on the dollar amount of benefits for any individual.
(ii) Exception for health flexible spending arrangements. A health flexible spending arrangement (as defined in section 106(c)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code) is not subject to the requirement in paragraph (a)(2)(i) of this section.
Click here to read full article.
About Zane Benefits
Zane Benefits was founded in 2006 to provide a revolutionized SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) administration platform ("ZaneHRA") for Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRAs) and defined contribution healthcare. The flagship software provides a 100% paperless administration experience to employers and insurance professionals that want to offer better health benefits without a traditional group health insurance plan at lower costs. For more information about ZaneHRA, visit http://www.zanebenefits.com.


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Very Fond of Food: A Year in Recipes [Repost]
- 17-01-2016, 19:25 Author: Admin
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Very Fond of Food: A Year in Recipes by Sophie Dahl
English | Apr. 3, 2012 | ISBN: 1607741784 | 288 Pages | EPUB | 50.5 MB
English | Apr. 3, 2012 | ISBN: 1607741784 | 288 Pages | EPUB | 50.5 MB
A stylish and charming cookbook from a rising food star that interweaves personal anecdotes about food and the good life with 100 simple and appealing seasonal recipes.
Bestselling author Sophie Dahl offers up 100 wholesome recipes for health-minded home cooks who yearn for a bit of indulgence in her gorgeous second cookbook. Favoring natural sweeteners, minimal meat, and abundant produce, these dishes satisfy yet never feel ascetic. Recipes ranging from Roasted Pumpkin with Sautéed Greens and Toasted Cumin Dressing to Rhubarb Rice Pudding are organized seasonally, and the book finishes with a full chapter of luscious desserts. But the recipes are only part of the story–Sophie's food-filled memories and musings on the good life make this a book to treasure for its writerly charms as much as for its advice in the kitchen.
Very Fond of Food will enchant the eye with evocative photography and whimsical drawings; inspire the mind with witty recollections on family, travel, and romance; and captivate the palate with recipes that comfort body and soul. Sophie Dahl invites you into a delightful world where every meal is a story, and there's always an excuse for cake.


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(by Jodi Wallace, Colorado Law 2L)
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong proclaimed, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Buzz Aldrin followed, describing the moon's surface with the words "magnificent desolation." For a few short hours, the two men explored the lunar surface, gathered samples, and then climbed back aboard the lunar modular to come back to Earth.
47 years after Apollo 11 was launched to take the first astronauts to the moon, Elon Musk (chief executive of SpaceX) has announced his plans to create a permanent human settlement on the surface of Mars. But Elon Musk is not alone in this ambition—his announcement is only the most recent, and perhaps the broadest in scope.
Continue reading "Last Week in Tech Law & Policy, Vol. 38: Colonizing Mars—Fact or Fantasy?"


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Tuesday28 Mar
Football Managers & Software Architecture
"The lesson is that you cannot integrate applications in one fell swoop. You have to do it iteratively"
So what is software architect? To help figure out what a software architect isn't, Oracle Corp's Paul Marriott, a passionate Arsenal Football Club fan and disgruntled England team supporter, offers a counter-example from his favourite sport: England manager Steve McClaren.
McClaren lacks an overall architectural vision of how to provide his team with the player selection, tactics and leadership it requires, Marriott grumbled.
Thus, an England team composed of some of the world's best individual footballers was poorly integrated, performing below its potential and struggling to qualify for the finals of the European tournament next year.
This is comparable to what the lack of a software architecture can do to a company's ability to make the best use of its IT infrastructure, according to Marriott, who is Oracle Asia Pacific's senior director for Oracle Fusion Middleware between Saturdays.
All too often, said Marriott, a company's or government agency's various applications are built as "silos" vertical stacks with little or no connection to other applications around them, and which make providing a view of the organisation's entire information infrastructure difficult because they cannot be easily or dynamically integrated.
"This is why old-school enterprise application has turned to be an expensive and fragile exercise. For the last 20 years organisations either had to it by themselves or pay a system integrator to do it. Every change means the application integration has to be done all over again," he said.
The company often winds up with a poorly integrated information infrastructure that does not serve it well, and loses competitiveness as a result, Marriott said.
"The lesson is that you cannot integrate applications in one fell swoop. You have to do it iteratively, as a new pieces are developed and need to be fitted into the whole.
The only way to solve this problem is to have highly interoperable technology components that can be used to integrate applications together using open standards," he said.
This is why it needs the function carried out by capable software architects, who can manage the organisation's technology platform as it evolves, the organisation's critical business processes and the human element together.
Oracle is keen to develop a software architecture community including systems integrators and independent software vendors. So it has developed Oracle Fusion Middleware, its name for a group of several products aimed at providing the coherent, advanced SOA (service oriented architecture) – enabling software architecture.
In Malaysia, Oracle is seeing a lot of interest in application integration from the public sector, which is keen to provide more sophisticated services centrally to avoid the creation of unmanageable application silos, said Marriott.
Meanwhile, in the private sector, there is a great deal of interest in the financial sector, and companies interested in outsourcing non-core activities like human resources and payroll services.
This requires that the companies have a highly flexible software architecture that is loosely coupled to the organisation so that the non-core functions can be handed off to external service organisations with a minimum of disruption.
Marriott said that the growth rate for Oracle Fusion Middleware is about 50% in 2005 over the previous year, comparable to the rest of the Asia-Pacific region.
He was in Kuala Lumpur to speak at the International Association of Software Architects (IASA) Symposium 2007.
Paul Marriott,
Senior Director for Oracle Fusion Middleware


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Globesity Prevention: Eating MindfullyMadeline Gilkes Published: 06 Mar 2017
Mindful eating has gained some attention in recent years (O'Reilly et al. 2014) and it is not hard to see why when considering the global epidemic of overweight and obesity that the World Health Organization (WHO) refers to as 'globesity' (2017).
The WHO conveys that despite obesity being visible, it is an issue that is neglected. There are concerns that serious health detriments will arise if the issue of obesity is not actioned stat, as obesity is going hand-in-hand with undernutrition (WHO 2017).
Alarmingly, in 1995 there were 200 million obese people worldwide and by the year 2000 there were 300 million (WHO 2017)!
Whilst men are more prone to being overweight, women are more likely to be obese (WHO 2017).
'Obesity poses a major risk for serious diet-related noncommunicable diseases, including diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, hypertension and stroke, and certain forms of cancer. Its health consequences range from increased risk of premature death to serious chronic conditions that reduce the overall quality of life.'
Obesity is primarily a social and environmental disease (WHO 2017), and therefore the University of Auckland (New Zealand) aims to uncover socioeconomic, political, cultural and physical contributors to obesity. WHO is also working with Australia's University of Sydney to establish the economic impact of globesity and global weight-gain.
In Australia alone, 63% of adults and one quarter of children are obese or overweight (AIHW, 2017). People living in remote or 'outer regional' Australia are 15% more likely to be overweight or obese than those from Australia's main cities (AIHW, 2017).
WHO (2016) raises the interesting and unfortunate point that obesity is preventable and 'most of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.'
O'Reilly et al.'s (2014) review of 21 papers found that 18 of them (86%) indicated that mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) effectively improved eating behaviours such as binge-eating, emotional eating and external eating.
Similarly, Robinson et al.'s (2013) systematic review found that attentive eating can help to influence dietary intake which may assist with weight loss without needing to calorie-count.
Daubenmier et al. found that:
'Improvements in mindfulness, chronic stress, and CAR (cortisol awakening response) were associated with reductions in abdominal fat. This proof of concept study suggests that mindfulness training shows promise for improving eating patterns and the CAR, which may reduce abdominal fat over time.'
What is Mindful Eating?
Evidently, there is an emerging movement towards mindful eating practices in weight management. But by now, you may be wondering what 'mindful eating' actually involves. Lofgren (2015) explains that mindful eating is:
- Non-judgmental
- Accepting of feelings whilst eating or within eating locations
- Self-awareness of cues of hunger and becoming satisfied
- Deciding which foods to eat and amount to eat
- Opting for nutritious and enjoyable foods
- Not performing other activities whilst eating (e.g. sitting down to have a meal instead of eating whilst working)
- Comprehending the repercussions of not adhering to mindful-eating practices (e.g. over-indulgence in unhealthy foods creating potential for weight gain, ill health, or undernutrition)
O'Reilly et al. (2014) express that weight gain and weight regain, post- successfully losing weight, can result from eating behaviours such as binge-eating, emotional eating, external eating, and craving-related eating. 'A recent study of binge eating in a community sample found that nearly 70% of individuals who engaged in binge eating were obese' (Grucza, Pryzbeck & Cloninger, 2007 cited in O'Reilly et al., 2014).
Unfortunately, O'Reilly et al.'s (2014) paper suggests that most people lose weight, regain it and end up back at their initial weight or even exceeding it within about five years.
Olson and Emery's (2014) systematic review also raises the concern that despite 13 of the 19 studies showing weight loss amongst mindfulness intervention participants, it is unclear to what extent these weight loss changes resulted directly from mindfulness.
These researchers (Olson & Emery 2014) put forward that future research is necessary regarding the contributing factors (e.g. biology, psychology) to the relationship between weight loss and mindfulness.
Another field to investigate with further research is why certain people have poorer inhibitory control than others (Hogenkamp et al. 2015).
The study (Hogenkamp et al. 2015) of long-term weight loss in individuals post Roux-en-Y Bypass bariatric surgery, showed a significant number of people struggled with sustainable weight loss. These individuals were found to have less inhibitory control than those participants that managed to sustain weight management following surgery, thus suggesting that cognitive behaviour therapies post- bariatric surgery may aid in sustaining weight management (Hogenkamp et al, 2015). Once more, leading back to the original suggestions that mindful eating may assist in the prevention and/or management of 'globesity'.
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- Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2017, Overweight and obesity, AIHW, Canberra, ACT, viewed 6 March 2017, http://www.aihw.gov.au/overweight-and-obesity/
- Daubenmier, J, Kristeller, J, Hecht, FM, Maninger, N, Kuwata, M, Jhaveri, K, Lustig, RH, Kemeny, M, Karan, L & E Epel 2011, 'Mindfulness Intervention for Stress Eating to Reduce Cortisol and Abdominal Fat among Overweight and Obese Women: An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Study', Journal of Obesity, vol. 2011, no. 651936, viewed 6 March 2017, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jobe/2011/651936/
- Hogenkamp, PS, Sundbom, M, Nilsson, VC, Benedict, C & Schiöth, HB 2015, 'Patients Lacking Sustainable Long-Term Weight Loss after Gastric Bypass Surgery Show Signs of Decreased Inhibitory Control of Prepotent Responses', PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 3, pp 1-8, viewed 6 March 2017, http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0119896&type=printable
- Lofgren, IE 2015, 'Mindful Eating: An Emerging Approach for Healthy Weight Management', American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 212-216, viewed 6 March 2017, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1559827615569684
- Olson, KL & Emery, CF 2014, 'Mindfulness and weight loss: a systematic review', Psychosomatic Medicine, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. 59-67, viewed 6 March 2017, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25490697
- O'Reilly, GA, Cook, L, Spruijt-Metz, D & Black DS 2014, 'Mindfulness-based interventions for obesity-related eating behaviours: a literature review', Obesity Reviews, vol. 15, no. 6, 453-61, viewed 6 March 2017, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24636206
- Robinson, E, Aveyard, P, Daley, A, Jolly, K, Lewis, A, Lycett, D & Higgs, S 2013, 'Eating attentively: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect
of food intake memory and awareness on eating', American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 112, viewed 6 March 2017, http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2013/02/25/ajcn.112.045245.full.pdf
- World Health Organisation 2016, Overweight and obesity, WHO, Geneva, viewed 6 March 2017, http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/
- World Health Organisation 2017, Nutrition: Controlling the global obesity epidemic, WHO, Geneva, viewed 6 March 2017, http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/obesity/en/
Madeline Gilkes
Madeline Gilkes focused her research project for her Master's of Healthcare Leadership on Health Coaching for Long-Term Weight Loss in Obese Adults. She also has a Graduate Certificate in Adult & Vocational Education, Graduate Certificate in Aged Care, Bachelor of Nursing, Certificate IV Weight Management and Certificate IV Frontline Management. Madeline is an academic and registered nurse. Her vision is to prevent lifestyle diseases, obesogenic environments, dementia and metabolic syndrome. She has spent the past years in the role of Clinical Facilitator and Clinical Nurse Specialist (Gerontology and Education).


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hope for hepatitis b
We are working with multiple partners to improve long-term access to therapies that suppress the hepatitis B virus and prevent liver damage which preserves health and alleviates suffering. In 2016, renovations of the clinical laboratories at the two pilot program sites (Pyongyang #2 Hepatitis Hospital and Kaesong #2 Hepatitis Hospital) were completed.
In June 2017, we agreed to expand the HOPE program to a third site—South Hwanghae #2 Hepatitis Hospital. Program expansion will require renovations of the lab to support ongoing diagnostics for the patients who live in this province.
clean water
Contaminated water supplies contribute to high rates of diarrhea and other gastrointestinal diseases, exacerbating endemic hunger and malnutrition, and further weakening the already compromised immune systems of patients. This makes them more vulnerable to contracting TB and other life-threatening diseases.
When we learned that care centers were relying on hand-dug, shallow, often contaminated wells, or unprotected streams and springs for their water, we began working to support clean, protected water sources for these facilities, their staff, and the patients.
First, we begin by assessing each local care center's situation then devising a low energy-input solution that will work over the long term. Because we are generally limited to two technical visits a year to complete technical projects, it can take anywhere from 1–3 years to finish a project. During that time, funds have to be raised. First, a deep-water well needs to be successfully drilled and then a hand-pump installed immediately for patients to access clean water. Then, if a water distribution system is planned for a location, more funds need to be raised, materials have to be purchased and shipped to the site. Later, an expert volunteer team is assembled to work alongside local staff to install the materials to create a fully functional system. Thus far, we have installed solar-powered, gravity-fed water systems at 15 care centers; three more are planned for 2017.
Water Filter Buckets
While facilities wait for a permanent source of clean water solutions, we send Sawyer water filter buckets to provide filtered water to patients and staff for drinking and cooking. These filters last up to 10 years and only require simple maintenance in order to keep them fully functional. This year, we hope to start a pilot program to send filter buckets home with patients who do not have access to clean water at home.
renovations and technical assistance
Technical assistance inludes: installation of diesel generators in a hospital, renovation and re-equipping of an operating room, and installation of solar-powered, gravity-fed water systems at rural rest homes. Projects are identified by local partners, and resource needs are discussed and coordinated with provincial and central level colleagues; priorities are determined through mutual consultation. CFK engages in fundraising for material costs; skilled volunteers self-fund travel expenses and donate their time to work side-by-side with local staff to complete projects. In this way, local buy-in and investment is leveraged with externally provided materials and skills, resulting in lasting improvements and knowledge transfer. In the process, relationships are strengthened.
General Aid
We are grateful for the longstanding partnerships with several organizations who provide ongoing support to TB, hepatitis, and pediatric patients through the donation of nutritious food, hygiene kits, warm blankets, medicine, and other support. CFK sends such support in sea containers throughout the year and confirms the arrival, distribution, and use of support on regular confirming trips that normally take place in the early spring and late fall. Supplemental food is critically important to support patients trying to recover from diseases like TB and hepatitis.
Training Doctors
Since 2008, in partnership with the MoPH, Stanford University School of Medicine, the Bay Area TB Consortium, Global Care Partners, and other experts, CFK has provided ongoing training at the NRL. North Korean doctors and lab professionals continue to improve their skills in TB diagnosis and treatment.
Ongoing skills transfer is also a critical aspect of the hepatitis B treatment program. Staff (doctors, nurses, lab doctors, pharmacists, and others) regularly participate in workshops to increase their knowledge and skills base.
Doctor Kits
These kits include the most basic diagnostic tools a doctor or nurse needs every day, such as a stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, thermometers, hand crank battery lanterns, and other items in a bag printed with CFK's logo. We have distributed hundreds of doctors kits, and there is a continuing need for more.
agricultural support
Nutritious food is central to recovery from malnutrition and disease. CFK has provided hundreds of greenhouse kits of all sizes to help rural places grow vegetables year round. This work began in 1997 when five prototype greenhouses (designed by the late Dr. John Wilson) were taken to North Korea as the first stage of a program to provide tools for growing more food. In November of 1997, two hundred more greenhouses were delivered. Since then, we have continued sending and building greenhouses at specific facilities throughout the provinces we support.
Over time, our greenhouses have evolved and improved, becoming larger and more efficient while including many small heat-retention modifications. North Koreans are using greenhouses to grow spinach, lettuce, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, melons, and other vegetables rich in vitamins and minerals vital to their health. Through improved nutrition made possible by greenhouse-grown vegetables, donated food including canned meat and protein rich soup mixes, TB medicine and supportive care, 85–90% of patients treated at hospitals and rest homes are cured and return to their homes, families, and communities.
Other agricultural assistance provided by CFK includes irrigation sets, small tractors and cargo tricycles to help with the transport of supplies and crops, preparation of fields for planting and harvesting which improves yields.
Transportation: motorcycles and ambulances
Walking tractors come in sets that include the tractor, a trailer, tiller, plow, and irrigation pump. They are used by rural facilities 5–8 hours a day to help care centers grow more food for patients year-round and to carry supplies between care centers. Each tractor generally lasts 5–6 years before needing replacement. We send tractors to all of our supported facilities, and we need to provide ongoing support with parts and consumables.
Many of our supported facilities are located in very remote areas—miles from the county center where they receive their supplies; the roads are narrow and often in poor repair. Cargo motorcycles provide an efficient and practical means for local rest homes to carry support and patients longer distances. In 2014, we were able to send 17 motorcycles and 10 cargo motorcycles to directors at our care centers providing better transportation for patients, gathering supplies, and other aspects of their work.
solar light
After sundown, utter darkness describes most TB and hepatitis B care centers due to the lack of grid-supplied electrical power. In 2014, we began a project to equip facilities with solar powered lighting that allows staff to read, work, and care for patients after the sun goes down. The lighting system is a self-contained solar rechargeable system supporting 12V LED lighting and USB charging ports for rechargeable lights and cell phones.
We recently introduced Luci inflatable solar lights that include a small solar panel at the top of the light providing a way to recharge them in direct sunlight during the day and supplying 6–8 hours of light at night. The lights can last up to two years if used everyday and longer if used less frequently.


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patentlitigatrix wrote:middleastpeace wrote:patentlitigatrix wrote:middleastpeace wrote:Anyone commute from outside of Berkeley their 1L year? I.e a 30+ min driving commute. Did you ever get late bc of traffic? I'm debating whether or not I should commute from my parents' house and save money on rent.
Where are you coming from? I didn't live in Berkeley any of my years there.
As of right now, North Richmond (near point pinole), but my parents and I might move this summer. We would move to an area that still adds up to a 30+ min commute for me. Did you have trouble finding parking in Berkeley? I heard the underhill parking lot fills up quick.
I commuted from SF. I rented a space from someone on Craigslist about 2 blocks from the law school because it was about the same price and a guaranteed space.
how bad is the commute from sf to boalt? My fiancee is probably going to be working in sf while im there, and if the commute to the school wont be too bad, that could be an option we look at. Also, any suggestions about areas of sf that are the quickest to the school would be greatly appreciated.


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Olivia has tons of personality packed into her little self! She is a big daddy's girl and loves helping mom with her little brother. This photoshoot by Connie Meinhardt Photography was planned for Olivia's 5th birthday, to commemorate this sweet time in her life. Of course, the whole family got in on the modeling action but it was undoubtedly Olivia's day. From jumping on the bed to sitting in her fort to making daddy wear her dragon's tail, the birthday girl made the most out of her shoot with Connie Reinhardt Photography and had tons of fun along the way!
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The Guadiana Loop
I've been in Ayamonte, on the Atlantic Coast of Andalusia, or Andalucia, for the past three weeks. We bought an apartment here 4 years ago and come out here for breaks. It's too hot in high summer, but for the rest of the year, the weather is, on average, much better than at home. It's the sunniest area of Europe. Ayamonte is on the mouth of the Guadiana and across the river lies Vila Real de Santo Antonio, in Portugal. You can cycle on the Spanish side and indeed, there's some good off-road stuff if you want that, but there is superb cycling in from the coast on the Portuguese side, but you have to work it out for yourself as, despite a posting by a Portuguese chap on a previous post, decent accurate maps are very hard to come by, especially if you can't speak Portuguese.
This is to describe one of my long, and indeed hard training spins.
Headed for the small river ferry which is about 5k from my house. This runs once an hour on the half-hour from the Spanish side in winter, and on the hour from VRSO. It takes 20 minutes.
Once in VRSO you have to cycle about 400m on bone-shaking cobbles to get on a smooth road. Here they have built a fabulous and totally unnecessary cycle-track to the main road.
There is no need for it as there's almost no traffic on this road, ever. This is typical of how facilities for cyclists are produced. They never ask the cyclists.
From the main road you cycle towards Castro Marim. This is an old town, where I always have coffee unless I'm doing the spin I'm describing. I kept going past Castro Marim, past the exit onto the Motorway for Spain and took a right for Junqueira.
At this point, the weather was fantastic. About 18C, sunny, a bit of a breeze against me.
After Junqueira you start a climb to Azinhal. I was fortified by the image of the fantastic cafe in this small village. It's a cake bakery with a cafe and the cakes are fantastic. It's in a little nook behind the "main" square.
There, I had two lovely cakes with a coffee. The place is spotless. The friendly Portuguese lady who's usually there talks and smiles incessantly at me, and I answer in Spanish. Neither of us understands a word the other's saying but we have this friendly relationship. Like a blueprint for a good marriage for this century, perhaps!
One of the cakes was a soft sponge with pear and syrup on top and the other a very light type of chocolate biscuit cake. In general, Spanish cakes are most disappointing to our taste. They are very dry and lack oomph in every possible way, and then some, but these Portuguese cakes are certainly more like what Northern Europeans like. Suitably fortified, and yes, I did need two cakes for what was to come, I proceed onward from Azinhal. This route is hilly with some longish climbs and I was into the wind.
Off to the left I saw the reservoir lake of the Odeleite (Ohdelight.. terminal e's like this are not pronounced in Portuguese) dam.
Odeleite is a super area for walking. In fact most of the Algarve is. All words in Spanish and Portuguese beginning with Al are of Arabic origin. The Moors ruled here for 600 years. Algarve means "The West".
The road plunges and then rises again for a mile or so. Eventually I reach the turn off for Alcoutim, which is signposted, or as a Belgian guide here, who has excellent English, insists on calling signalised!
Then I get my first view from the Portuguese side of the new wind turbines on the Spanish side. A large infection of these has erupted from the bank of the Guadiana inland. They are enormous. I've come to the conclusion that this green energy is not the answer to global warming. The release of sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere as discussed in the book Super Freakonomics would be a much simpler and infinitely cheaper stratagem.
I now cycle by the river for quite a bit, through villages called Foz de Odeleite, Alamo (no sign of Jim Bowie or Davy Crockett), Laranjeiros and so on. The odd yacht moored in mid-stream. This is a very quiet road, at its busiest. A fine place to cycle, though not ultra-spectacular.
Outside one of the villages lie the vestiges of a Roman villa.
After Laranjeiros there is a nasty climb and before Alcoutim, another.
As you approach Alcoutim, you first see Sanlucar de Guadiana, its Spanish twin, across the river.
Alcoutim is a tourist town, but I can't see why. It's famous for being famous. Tourists visit it and come up the river on booze cruises from VRSO and Ayamonte. I think the answer lies in the booze!!
There is a small river ferry which fortunately was on the Portuguese side when I arrived. Sometimes you have to wait quite a while and whistle etc. to attract it if it's on the other side.
Here you see my Spanish Agece Sevilla MTB on the boat. This is a cheap bike I bought here. It's too small for me so I sized it up with components. It's the biggest I could get here. It's not great but a bike's a bike. I carried a large flask of cold water with me in the small panniers I use on this bike. This is a clever plan, as Baldrick would say, as it can get very hot here.
At the exit from San Lucar I had a sandwich in a bar I'd never been in before. Un bocadillo con jamon y queso is the very man (a Spanish ham and cheese sandwich). I had this and diet Coke and had a hilarious and prolonged conversation with an Englishman of about my own age there. He was, as I am, a gross extrovert and we had great fun. We discussed the entire human condition, including Tiger Woods' meltdown and I said "He can't putt any more". His answer was that he could imagine what part of him was interfering with his putting stroke. He was a marvellous mimic and had me in stitches taking off the football manager Harry Redknapp.
Eventually, and reluctantly, I get back on my bike to tackle the bad hills on the next part of my route. It's hot, about 24C. I'm thirsty. I climb and drop and climb and drop and tackle the worst climb of the day, for which a granny ring is a must. It peaks at maybe 20%, for not for long.
The hard bit ahead. See the curve upper right.
It's about 16 km from San Lucar to San Silvestre de Guzman and somehow, none of it is ever easy. Wind in the face, hot, undulating. Some nice views, but not as good as Portuguese side, except when the flowers are in bloom in the Spring.
I reach San Silvestre and then follows the boring bit through Villablanca to Ayamonte.
I get the knock on reaching Ayamonte, quite badly, and eat a Magnum.
Finally get home, 56 miles, a fair bit of heat and a lot of climbing later.
Hard enough when I was doing it, but not really tired afterwards. That's because I haven't allowed myself to become unfit since my summertime trek.
I've more often done this route in reverse. It's better that way, I think.


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Kids, teens in York, Chester, Lancaster counties gain confidence in running, and in life
Girls in York, Chester, Lancaster counties run for their lives
If you were to tell thousands of local girls they "run like girls," they would likely give you a high five.
Girls in York, Chester and Lancaster counties are crossing the finish line of 5k races armed with self-confidence and a healthy dose of teamwork. They are athletes, some wearing colorful tutus and bows in their hair.
Organizers of Girls on the Run Tri-County expect more than 1,500 third- through eighth-grade girls to sign up for the 10-week spring program that begins in late February and ends with a 5k race.
"Whether they run, walk, skip, ho, or jump, the goal is to come across the finish line," said Lindy Morris, council director for Girls on the Run Tri-County.
Interest has swelled so quickly, organizers are left with a coaching void, Morris said. If more than 14 girls sign up, the organization uses a lottery system to get in. Some girls are unable to join.
If more coaches apply, more teams can be added, Morris said, and all girls will be able to participate. Coaches do not have to be runners or teachers, and training is available. Coaches will be CPR certified.
Making strides
Girls on the Run helps girls, ages 8 to 14, build self-esteem, learn about relationships and how to take care of themselves, Morris said. The nonprofit life-skills program started in Charlotte in 1996, and now is in all 50 states.
The Tri-County program has teams at 42 sites, Morris said, which are generally located at schools. The teams are divided into two groups — one for elementary school girls and one for middle schoolers.
There are two sessions - one in spring and one in the fall. Each session begins with the coaches and girls discussing relationships, emotions and the importance of exercise, Morris said. Then the girls take off running.
Each team also tackles a "community impact" project, where they learn to be part of the community and "that they can have an impact in the world," Morris said.
Still growing
The program has continued to grow since the first two teams — one in Fort Mill and one in Rock Hill — started in 2003. In its infancy, the team had 20 girls, Morris said. It now serves more than 10,000 girls.
Some of the girls have returned as coaches. Others have gone on to compete in track and cross-country in high school and college.
Aubrey Gunnels, 23, of Fort Mill, joined Girls on the Run in fourth grade and competed in the track at Nation Ford High School. She continued running at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
"I discovered I really like running," said Gunnels, a technology consultant who lives in D.C. "It definitely started my running career."
Gunnels said the program "reiterates the courtesy and respect for other people, and it's a good example of how hard work pays off."
Boys run, too
Girls are not the only ones who benefit from a life-skills and running program. A similar program, Let Me Run, is exclusively for boys in fourth through eighth grade and has about 23 teams in York County, said Brittney Collins, a fourth-grade teacher at Northside Elementary School of the Arts in Rock Hill.
Collins said Northside has a Girls on the Run program. She saw the need to target the male population. The program runs seven to 10 weeks.
"A lot of the boys felt left out, and I believed they were missing out on a great opportunity," Collins said. "This program creates a boy culture that celebrates lifting up others, encourages self-improvement as well as perseverance, and encourages them to be themselves."
Another Let Me Run coach at Rosewood Elementary School, Laura Wallace, said the boys on her team learn to give each other praise and feedback.
"They all want to return and do it again," Wallace said. "They all wore their medals for days."
Both organizations are accepting applications for coaches.
"As people become more aware of learning these skills at a younger age, a lot of the moms and coaches say to me 'I wish I had this program as a kid,' because it does put all of the pieces together," Morris said. "You have to be a complete person taking care of your mental, your physical, your spiritual - every piece of you has to come together."
Want to run?
Registration for Girls on the Run runs through Feb. 3. Cost is $135. Scholarships are available, as well as shoes if needed. To learn more or to register, visit gotrtricountysc.org.
Registration for Let Me Run is Feb. 1-15. Cost is $110. Limited scholarships are available. Visit letmerun.org for details.


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HALIFAX—Halifax police are now treating the disappearance of a 26-year-old woman as suspicious after her car was found in Ontario.
Loretta Saunders was reported missing by her family on Monday after she was last seen in the Cowie Hill Road area of Halifax last Thursday.
Investigators say her car was discovered Tuesday night in Harrow, Ont., south of Windsor.
A 25-year-old man and 28-year-old woman were arrested by the Ontario Provincial Police on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle and for outstanding warrants.
Police are asking anyone who may have seen Saunders or her car, a Toyota Celica with a Newfoundland and Labrador licence plate of HCP 543, to come forward.
Saunders is an Inuit woman, five-foot-seven and about 120 pounds with light brown straight hair.


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Renovations continue at Mountain Home
We recently had the pleasure to spend a few hours with Lisa and Scott Jenkins, the current owners of Mountain Home Bed & Breakfast in Front Royal, across from the entrance to Lake Front Royal. The Jenkins purchased the property from Nevill Turner in 2013.
Mountain Home is listed on the national and Virginia Department of Natural Resources registers as a historic property; the original main home was built in 1847 by wealthy landowner Samuel Gardener. An addition was added to the back of the home in 1869. It is one of the few structures in our area that survived the Civil War.
There are seven designated historical structures on the property — the main house, lower garage, upper garage, chicken coop, meat house, sheep shed and "The Cabbin," the only spot currently available for rent. It can be rented by through hikers and visitors to the area.
So-called because Gardener's daughter, Annie, refers to it in her diaries as such, Lisa says The Cabbin was originally a log cabin from the 1780s, slave quarters from the 1800s and the tri-county courtroom for Rappahannock, Page and Warren Counties in the early 20th century.
Mountain Home is a work in progress. The Jenkins showed us all three levels and explained in great detail their plans for renovation, including working with a historical contractor to ensure the renovations are as accurate as possible. The home still contains the original fireplaces, hardwood floors and in some areas Greek revival woodwork around the doorways.
In some areas of the basement one can see the original wood beams dating back to the 1800s. The Jenkins' plan on three rooms, all with private bathrooms, that will be available for rent. Two will be on the second floor along with their private quarters. The upper floor will also have a sitting room/library for guests to enjoy.
The main level, along with a gathering area and a handicapped accessible room, will have a large kitchen and workspace for Scott, who loves to can. The basement or lower level will have a game room/entertainment area for through hikers and guests.
The Jenkins currently reside in McLean during the week and at Mountain Home on the weekend, alternating work schedules so someone is always present to care for the property. They are active with local chapter of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) and they will be hosting an ATC family hike on Sept. 27. (Scott hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2012.) The Jenkins had their first guests in the winter of 2013 and hope to have renovations complete in four years.


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As lead web developer for my employer's organization, I'm responsible for configuring and maintaining an SVN repository for each of our web applications. Each has several archived versions and at least a couple of branches.
Currently, to deploy the latest version of each web site I "export" the appropriate tagged version to the directory from which Apache serves that site. For example, assuming I have a working copy checked out at /var/www/dev/app:
$ cd /var/www/dev/app/archive/1.2
$ svn export . /var/www/html/www.myapp.com
But I'd actually still like to have the live site linked to a repository version, so that I can do an "svn update" to pull over the latest updates; I just don't want any files or small modifications in the live deployment directory to be committed back to the repository.
What I'd like to do is create a read-only branch in the repository which always contains the latest production version of the application, which I can checkout to the deployment directory.
I've seen this done with a lot of open source projects, where anyone can check out a particular branch of the application but it's a read-only branch, so you can't commit back to it.
How can I accomplish this?


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All Austrian Universities to Go Cage Free
Forget about cloning animal cells to make vat meat, Vegan.com is redoubling its efforts to clone Mahi Klosterhalfen. The German activist just achieved one of his most significant victories to date.
Mahi discovered that all universities in Austria coordinate their egg purchases through a single supplier. So he reached out to the CEO of the Austrian student services organization, convincing the executive to look into switching to a cage-free supplier.
Because of the process Mahi helped set in motion, all of Austria's universities will go cage free beginning next month.


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In 1813, Dr. Nathan Smith, founder of Dartmouth Medical School, performed a pioneering surgery on young Joseph Smith, saving his leg and possibly his life. Your gift to the Joseph Smith Miracle Scholarship Fund honors the legacy of both men and provides scholarship support to students at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine. Thank you.
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One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
1A person employed to carry luggage and other loads, especially in a railway station, airport, hotel, or market.
carrier, bearer, baggage carrier, baggage bearerView synonyms
- 'Commuters alighting at the station, porters with luggage on their head and the crowds on the platform as the train arrives, were all there.'
- 'Horses, and at high altitudes, yaks, are used instead of porters to carry loads.'
- 'During the days of the great steam trains, when you arrived at a station there was a ticket clerk in the front office, on the platform there was a porter, and on larger stations there was a Station Master.'
- 'He was a porter on the Sydney railways during the war, then came up to Lismore, where he was a share farmer.'
- 'He began his railway career as a porter at Clapham in the days when Ingleton Colliery was open and thousands of tons of coal passed through the station.'
- 'This always becomes alarming as the number of items increases to the point that I would need an army of attendants and porters to carry the luggage.'
- 'The car drove off to the train station, and the porters put her luggage on the train.'
- 'As an unsmiling porter arranged her sensible luggage on the platform, Nixes took the opportunity to look appraisingly around.'
- 'The porter loaded their bags onto cart and began to lead them down the wharf.'
- 'He then gets on the train, as the porter takes his luggage.'
- 'We were met by porters who carried our luggage on their heads and we took a shuttle boat, called a dhow, across to tiny Lamu Island.'
- 'Adam engaged a porter to take our luggage and make sure it got on the ship and then pulled his watch out of his coat pocket.'
- 'It was crowded and noisy, but fortunately, Baron Kaspar got a few porters to carry our luggage and surround us, keeping us isolated from everyone else.'
- 'A porter carried our luggage for us to the door, and helped us into the aircraft.'
- 'Gone are the African guards, the other porters carrying luggage, and the road and the countryside.'
- 'By 10 am the main activity in the market is over and porters lean exhausted against their trolleys, counting their day's takings, and charging their energy for the following morning's business.'
- 'For many years he worked as a railway porter and engine driver in Moscow, painting in his spare time, but from 1967 he was a full-time artist.'
- 'He took all the luggage off the porter and with a polite thank you and goodbye, sent him on his way.'
- 1.1British A hospital employee who moves equipment or patients.'a hospital porter'
- 'Portillo has done his own stint as a hospital porter and spent quality time in-depth shadowing a school teacher.'
- 'A retired hospital porter feared he would not have enough money to get through the week - only to learn he had scooped £5.6m on the Lottery.'
- 'Mike Phillips, a hospital porter, said: 'I would not want any of my family in hospital at this time.''
- 'Then there was a hospital porter who is always angry about being made to work beyond his hours.'
- 'Doctors were the least likely group of clinical staff to be trained to counter violence, and support staff, such as porters and receptionists, rarely received adequate training, the report shows.'
- 'She said: 'The best way to reduce the infection rate is to ensure all staff, from porters to consultants, are rigorous about washing their hands and hygiene after examining a patient.''
- 'The following morning he got a call from a hospital porter at St John's Wood who saw the story in the paper.'
- 'He was living in the States at the time, and he had a job as a hospital porter.'
- 'The next day I took my daughter to the district hospital where I had last worked before leaving Britain, and although a porter recognised me no one else did.'
- 'The hospital has two porters working at any one time.'
- 'Mark's a bookish hospital porter seemingly allergic to romantic relationships.'
- 'The 56-year-old is going to become a hospital porter instead.'
- 'Bill, like many of the porters at the hospital, is a former steelworker.'
- 'Up until 10 years ago Humble worked as a labourer and a security guard, while his brother was a hospital porter.'
- 'The third man from the right, with the bald head, was the head porter at the hospital, Mr Hudson.'
- 'Employees including porters, cleaners, security guards and others voted by 254 to 152 to take industrial action.'
- 'A hospital porter, a call centre operator, supermarket shelf stackers and a factory worker, they meet regularly in an all night cafe to kill time.'
- 'My complaint is with the porters and the nurses.'
- 'I have been in hospital, very recently, where I was never checked in, never greeted and not even asked to get changed for my operation until the porters came to get me.'
- 'As an egalitarian, I liked the appellate tribunal's manner of lumping together porters, stokers, stretcher bearers, and doctors.'
- 1.2 A person employed to carry supplies on a mountaineering expedition.
- 'It is an eight-day walk from the nearest town to the earliest gold fields, and the only way to bring in supplies is on the backs of native porters.'
- 'Such a package will include transport, accommodation in the mountain huts, meals while on the climb, park entry fees, services of an experienced mountain guide and porters and cooks.'
- 'We'd made base camp early and sent the porters packing - with our gear.'
- 'The pair spent some time haggling with the Berber porters over a good price; the Berber tribe are mountain inhabitants and work as guides and carry equipment for climbers.'
- 'Two years later, a 52-man Japanese expedition with 1,500 porters laid siege to K2, scaled the Abruzzi, and posted the second summit.'
- 'Although roads connect many major commercial centers, in much of the country goods are transported by porters and pack animals.'
- 'Yet the Sherpas did not climb this and other peaks until recruited as porters on sahibs' expeditions.'
- 'At this rate we more or less kept pace with the unfortunate porters whose job it is to supply the mountains' hotels with everything from tea to double glazing.'
- 'The military also forces villages to supply porters to carry army supplies to their operations.'
- 'The Sherpas' reputation as excellent porters and guides on mountain-climbing and trekking expeditions has brought them a new source of income and, for some Sherpas, a comfortable living.'
- 'I'm probing, with limited success, for details about Lhakpa's life - namely, whether he's ever worked as an expedition porter.'
- 'Another group that has carved out an occupational niche for itself is the Sherpas, who are well known as guides and porters for mountain-climbing expeditions.'
- 'Late in a day of falling into waist-deep slime, being bitten by ants, and clawing up mudslides, my expedition mates, our porters, and I crawled under a rock to escape the cold, driving rain.'
- 'Instead of four porters, two men transport the colonial official.'
- 'The expedition lasted 15 days, with a crew of porters, cooks, and guides.'
- 1.3North American A sleeping-car attendant.
- 'Parks had worked closely with E.D. Nixon, a black trade unionist in Montgomery, the head of the local branch of the sleeping car porters ' union and a longtime fighter for voting rights and other issues.'
- 'He was a porter on a Pullman sleeping car during the golden age of rail travel.'
- 'In 1925, the porters organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which was led by A. Philip Randolph.'
- 'Bellboys, porters, restroom attendants and taxi drivers will happily accept loose change.'
2mass noun Dark brown bitter beer brewed from malt partly charred or browned by drying at a high temperature.'a nice pint of porter'count noun 'the company produces a bottle-conditioned porter'
- 'Paddy, once it opened, headed straight to the bar, as if he hadn't enough porter and whiskey drank and proceeded to tank up again.'
- 'A lot of those heavier beers - porters, stouts, bocks and such - are available year round from many brewers.'
- 'He adds that the 80 or so brews on offer, including bitters, milds, porters, stouts, wheat beers and real lagers, will range in strength between three and eight per cent and alcohol by volume.'
- 'Two of the most enjoyable social occasions of the past six months were accompanied by cups of tea in Cafe Regular in Brooklyn and pints of porter in the White Horse pub in Limerick.'
- 'For example, Pilsner is one of the most popular lagers, while porter and stout are examples of ales.'
- 'Bigger lads too took part in this old custom while even bigger fellows played in bars to get the extra few 'bob' for a few pints of porter.'
- 'Arthur Guinness first began to brew porter in 1778, and would eventually stop brewing ale in 1799.'
- 'Originally, all beers were dark and heavy, similar to the porters, stouts and brown ales of Britain.'
- 'In the left corner, a butcher and a blacksmith are each of them grasping a foaming tankard of porter.'
- 'Bread rationing was reintroduced in January 1947 as was soap rationing and, critically, beer and porter supplies were drastically reduced.'
- 'A beer and a cigarette from a smirking, toothless porter ease the immediate pain, while jibes from my travelling companions put my huffs and puffs into perspective.'
- 'Moreover, they are not drinking the servant's traditional porter or ale, but 'punch'.'
- 'It was back in 1790 that Guinness began to produce what was to become its trademark product, a rich dark porter that came to be known as stout.'
- 'Even in England, the traditional home of ales, lagers grow bigger and bigger, placing not only ales, but stouts, porters and other brews in the shade.'
- 'Now we have Ales, with their bitters, pale ales, porters, stouts, barley wines, trappist, lambic, and alt.'
- 'Three beer styles are eligible in the competition: sweet stout, brown porter and best bitter.'
- 'In England, porter, originally the beer favoured by porters at the market, became the health drink of the Victorians, often prescribed by doctors for convalescent ladies.'
- 'They smiled broadly when her medicine bottle as she described the large bottle of porter, was always delivered discreetly in a brown paper bag.'
- 'When Irish brewers tried to make porter in the Emerald Isle, they ended up producing stout, Andrew says, because the water was different.'
- 'The beer gets better, summer beer in a beer garden is quite something but give me an old pub with an open fire and a pint of porter or stout any day and I am one happy lady.'
Middle English: from Old French porteour, from medieval Latin portator, from Latin portare 'carry'.
An employee in charge of the entrance of a hotel, block of flats, college, or other large building.'a night porter'
doorman, doorkeeper, door attendant, commissionaire, gatekeeperView synonyms
- 'Hotel guests were woken by the crash and the night porter and duty manager rushed outside to help the injured.'
- 'They are looking receptionists, bar staff, night porters, duty managers and housekeepers, among other staff.'
- 'She pursued the thief onto the High Street before returning to Exeter College to alert the porters.'
- 'The spectre, who wears Victorian costume, has apparently been seen several times by the hotel's male night porter and male guests.'
- 'The quick actions of the Kirkwall Hotel's night porter were praised by the police this week after he averted a potentially damaging fire.'
- 'The porters at the College and eleven hired security officials then detained a man at the instruction of the College Dean while the police were called.'
- 'The night porter noticed smoke early on Sunday morning.'
- 'In the hotel's Whisky Room, which was doubling as a cloakroom, the peer asked the night porter for his coat, but was refused permission to enter and look for it because he was deemed too drunk.'
- 'The ultimate put-down comes when the college porter outsmarts George in logical debate.'
- 'After a fantastic evening we walked to the car park to find the night porter, anticipating our departure, had scraped all the ice off our car's windscreen.'
- 'He carried one of her small cases into the lobby of the building where a porter stepped forward to retrieve it.'
- 'Hill has not yet been contacted by College authorities regarding the incident, but he has already apologised to the night porter.'
- 'About ten years ago, Mr Haggarty said night porters are said to have seen a First World War soldier drinking in the bar.'
- 'The melee was broken up by me and the barman, Tyrone, a genuine hard man who doubled as the night porter.'
- 'He worked as a night porter in hotels, which no doubt gave him time to read.'
- 'He even made a list of duties for the night porter including an instruction to move the bed but he never had a chance to give it to him before the alarm.'
- 'Back at the Midland Hotel I spoke to the night porter, Patrick, a former miner.'
- ''They were armed with a handgun, entered the hotel and assaulted the night porter,' said a Garda spokesman.'
- 'But although Andrew, 42, did try breaking out and working as a clerk and a night porter, he found the jobs dull.'
- ''When we got to the lift, he saw the night porter and took an envelope out of his pocket,' Albert recalls.'
Middle English: from Old French portier, from late Latin portarius, from porta 'gate, door'.
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For crispy kuih bahulu add another 10g sugar into the batter.
I personally prefer soft and springy kuih bahulu.For more flavour options,you can add pandan flavour,cappucino flavour(omit coconut milk-replace fresh milk)or chocolate flavour(omit coconut milk-replace fresh milk).
4 Eggs Large
130g Caster Sugar
200g Plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 Tbsp cooking oil
1.Preheat Kuih Bahulu mould in the oven at 360'F for 10 minutes.
2.Combine ingredients A in a mixer and beat for 15 minutes or till fluffy.
3.Add in ingredients B in several batches and mix well.
4.Add in ingredient C in final step.
5.Mix well the batter.
6.Grease the mould with oil and spoon in batter into the mould.
7.Bake till golden brown.
8.Remove the cakes with a skewer.
9.Cool before storage.
10.Best serve for overnite storage.


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What Charlie Sheen and His Taste for Cocaine and Porn Stars Can Teach You About Conversion
This is part one of a series of posts I'm putting together about conversion: why it matters, what you need to know, and how to get better at it.
You've probably heard lately about Charlie Sheen hanging out with porn stars, snorting tons of cocaine, and overall just having way too much fun. He's also been demanding a lot more money from his show… which I don't really get because as I understand it, he's the one that got fired. A lot of people are saying he's bipolar and has actually lost it over the last few weeks so who knows what will happen.
What I do know, is that Charlie Sheen obviously hasn't been doing his sitcom as a hobby, or because he loves doing it. He's clearly been in it because he is making a ton of money from it.
The point I want to get across to you is this: if you aren't spending a big portion of your time constantly improving your website's conversion, you are doing all that work for free, and completely wasting your time.
Conversion Obviously Matters
When it comes to being successful online, you've probably heard that content is king. I think what the phrase should really be is 'content that converts is king.'
If you're not worried about conversion, or you haven't spent that much time on it… you are wasting your time. Having a high-converting website is the most important factor in being successful online.
Conversion vs. Traffic: What's More Important?
A few years ago, everyone was worried about traffic, and how to get as much of it as they could. Getting a ton of traffic to your site definitely isn't a bad thing, but with all the place people can spend their time online, it's getting harder and harder to get a lot of quality traffic.
When people have so many options and distractions online, it makes conversion your first priority. Conversion is much more important than traffic.
Conversion can mean anything measurable that you want your visitors to do. This could mean leaving comments, staying on your site long, giving your their email address, taking a poll, sending you an email, or ultimately buying something from you.
If you aren't watching this stuff and doing what you can to make these things happen more often, your website is serving you no purpose. I guess it could be a hobby for you… but I'm assuming that ultimately you're wanting to benefit financially from your websites.
Conversion encompasses a lot of material and factors. Over the next few days, I'm going to get into a lot more of the how-to behind increasing your website's conversion rates, so keep checking back.