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Protecting nature for the benefit of all Surinamese people and the rest of the world© Trond Larsen
South Suriname Conservation Corridor
Conserving 7.2 million hectares of pristine tropical forest and fresh water sources© Trond Larsen
Coastal protection by rehabilitating mangroves© Kyle Obermann
We are Conservation International Suriname
We work across Suriname to protect nature for the benefit of all Surinamese people and the rest of the world. Being the greenest country in the world, Suriname harbors unrivaled natural resources and globally significant biodiversity. We work to conserve natural capital, the foundation of socio-economic development.
What we do
Putting South Suriname on the map
How can remote Surinamese communities living deep in the rainforest protect their livelihoods? One way may be through a surprising activity: making maps.
How we work
Our work
Conservation International-Suriname is helping to protect nature in one of the greenest and most biodiverse countries on Earth.


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Dacorum Extended Access launched on 30th June 2018. This is a new GP service that will operate from 17.00 until 22.00 on weekday evenings, Saturdays from 9.00-13.00 and 14.00-18.00 and Sundays from 9.00-13.00. It is an appointments based primary care service. The slots can be booked via the patient's own surgery. It will be staffed by local GPs at West Herts Medical Centre and The New Surgery in Tring. From Saturday 4th August we will also have Saturday 9.00 to 13.00 slots at The Nap in Kings Langley.
These are routine appointments being offered at times that may be more convenient to patients and the GP on duty will have full access to patient's medical records.
Please ask at reception if you wish to book an Extended Access appointment.
The surgery is closed for weekends and Bank Holidays.
If you need to speak to a doctor when the surgery is closed, please call 111 to be directed to the GP out of hours service.
The 111 service is available for advice in-hours if you do not require an emergency 999 ambulance but are unsure of which service you do require.
Doctor appointments are available at the following times:
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Paintings, Drawings and Illustrations by Nashville Tennessee artist Chris Ousley.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tufted Titmouse (gouache 5x8) $100
These birds really go nuts over our bird feeder. Mini our cat enjoys the bird show every day at the window. Looks like this one is waiting for me to put out more bird seed.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Pretty Red Shoes (10x8 acrylic) *SOLD*
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Sketches from Chattanooga (pencil)
(From my sketch book) Saw this cat sitting in front of Big Ben's BBQ in Chattanooga. The other sketch is by the foundry which they are razing.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Show Off (8x6 gouache) $80
Driving through the Blue Ridge Parkway last October this tree could not wait to show off it color in the afternoon light.
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Monday, April 7, 2008
5 Points Franklin (watercolor 5x7) $80
This is Five Points in downtown Franklin Tennessee. I painted this last year in one of my watercolor sketchbooks. I misplaced it (behind my music books) and just found it the other day. There is usually lots of traffic in Franklin but I did not feel like painting any cars that day.
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While the price analogs of the last few year's exuberance in US equity markets are enough to worry all but the most systemically bullish "believer"; we suspect the following article from the LA Times In the Spring of 1987 will raise a few hairs on the back of the neck of perpetually optimistic extrapolator..
It's never different this time..
"One of the largest bullish factors is burgeoning worldwide liquidity, thanks to expansive monetary policies by central banks. That has helped fuel a surge of foreign investing that could propel US stocks higher, regardless of what happens to the American economy, some analysts say...Low interest rates also help stocks by making Treasury securities, certificates of deposit and other interest-paying investments less attractive. The sluggish economy, meanwhile, keeps the Federal Reserve from driving up interest rates and prevents inflation from overheating...Also, the sluggish economy--by keeping manufacturing rates low--discourages money from flowing out of financial assets into such investments as factories and machinery."
- LA Times, March 8, 1987; a few months before the October 1987 crash
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Heralded as the Philippines' last frontier, Palawan is paradise for soul-seekers, nature-lovers, and travellers who are looking for a one-of-a-kind getaway. Palawan's many tropical islands provide the ideal backdrop for anyone who wants to commune with nature, where sleeping in Palawan hotels guarantees the gentle sound of the waves and the cool sea breeze will lull you to sleep. The absence of commercialization and the locals' way of life which has protected Palawan's biodiversity and ecology, lures travellers to come and experience what the Palawan islands have to offer.
Puerto Princesa, Palawan's capital, is the starting point for many destinations around the region. Puerto Princesa is the most developed area of the region, and has just about every modern amenity needed, including shopping malls, restaurants, clinics, and Palawan hotels to choose from. However, it has still succeeded to keep intact a provincial, relaxing way of life. Puerto Princesa offers many types of accommodation in Palawan for every budget; Asturias Hotel has international-standard amenities with value for money, while Casa Linda Inn and Puerto Pension are some of the many others that provide affordable yet excellent Palawan accommodation.
From Puerto Princesa, one can choose to go to several other destinations. The sleepy town of El Nido is among the most popular, situated about 7 hours up north, for its virgin tropical Palawan beaches, mystical lagoons, majestic limestone formations, rich marine life and biodiversity, and extremely laid-back way of life. There are also a variety of El Nido hotels to choose from, including luxury Palawan resorts such as Miniloc and Lagen Resort, while rustic yet genuinely local establishments such as the Alternative are a favorite of backpackers.
Further up north is the island of Coron, located in the Busuanga province. Similarly to El Nido, Coron's diverse and exciting landscapes and laid-back environment make it ideal for those who want peace and quiet in an exotic destination. Apart from surrounding islands and white sand virgin beaches, Coron is especially known for stunning lakes and wreck diving. Coron hotels let you appreciate nature, as they use natural materials and are set in breathtaking settings. For budget travelers, Kokosnuss has backpacker accommodations while Sangat Island Dive Resort offers more upscale yet nature-friendly accommodations.
Our team at Go Discover Travel has traveled extensively around Palawan to bring you top quality hotel choices, and have insider information for just about anything you'll need for your trip. We have good working relationships with each of our hotels in Palawan, and hold close in our hearts their goal to keep Palawan protected.
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Levy Lorenzo plays electronics and percussion
"electronics wizard" - The New York Times
Born in Bucharest, Filipino-American Levy Marcel Ingles Lorenzo, Jr. works at the intersection of music, art, and technology. On an international scale, his body of work spans custom electronics design, sound engineering, instrument building, installation art, free improvisation, and classical percussion. With a primary focus on inventing new instruments, he prototypes, composes, and performs new electronic music. As an electronic art consultant, Levy designs interactive electronics ranging from small sculptures to large-scale public art installations with artists such as Alvin Lucier, Christine Sun Kim, Ligorano-Reese, and Leo Villareal. As a percussionist, he co-founded the experimental theater/electronics duo Radical 2 with Dennis Sullivan and is a member of the Peter Evans Septet. As a sound engineer, he specializes in the realization and performance of complete electro-acoustic concerts with non-traditional configurations. One of his main engagements is Claire Chase's Density 2036 project. A core member of the acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), he fulfills multiple roles as live sound engineer, electronicist, and percussionist.
Filling a unique niche, Levy is in demand as a freelance designer and artist. His work has been featured at STEIM, Harvestworks, MIT Media Lab, Ensemble Moderne, Darmstadt, Yellow Barn, Pitchfork.com, Slashdot.org, G4TV, Grey Group, Bose, The New York Times, BBC, and Burning Man. An advocate for interdisciplinary arts, he has collaborated with dancers, video artists, public artists, mathematicians, sculptors, architects, and dramaturgs. Bridging the gap between the electronics design cycle and the performance practice of cutting-edge contemporary music, Levy is as equally comfortable wielding a soldering iron as drumsticks and four-mallets. He has fluency navigating hardware schematics and coding in various software environments, as well as interpreting complex musical scores and playing chamber music.
Levy earned degrees as Master of Electrical & Computer Engineering from Cornell University, and Doctor of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance from Stony Brook University. He has given numerous guest workshops and lectures on electronic musical instrument design and performance practice. Dr. Lorenzo holds a position as Professor of Creative Technologies at The New School, College of Performing Arts.


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Levi's wants you to help lower the impact of jeans
Today, Levi's released a new Life Cycle Assessment for their jeans as part of an effort to promote more sustainable water usage. The report comes just ahead of World Water Day, which is March 22.
A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a useful tool that looks at the different environmental impacts of a product. It follows the process from the very beginning where the raw materials are grown, mined or synthesized, through manufacturing and consumer use, to disposal or recycling.
Levi's has taken a number of steps to reduce its water footprint throughout the production chain, including working with the Better Cotton Initiative and introducing water saving and recycling processes to their manufacturing facilities. According to Stephen Leahy's "Your Water Footprint," it takes 7,600 liters of water to grow the cotton and manufacture a typical pair of jeans. According to Levi's Life Cycle Assessment, a pair of Levi's 501 jeans uses 2,835 liters of water for the same steps. That's a pretty dramatic savings.Consumer care, or how we wash and dry our clothes, also adds considerably to the cradle to grave water consumption of a pair of jeans. On average, it adds another 860 liters according to the Levi's report—or about 23 percent of the total water used over the lifetime of a pair of jeans. Growing the cotton amounts to about 68 percent of water consumption.
An urban legend that you will often encounter when discussing the environmental impact of clothing is that consumer care is the biggest problem. "When you talk to apparel companies, what they will tell you is that the biggest impact of apparel on the environment is consumer care," said Linda Greer, a senior scientist for the Natural Resources Defense Fund and the director of their Clean by Design program.
Greer explained this myth traces back to two early studies that assumed that consumers wash all their clothes once a week. That doesn't mean you do a load of laundry once a week, but that you actually wash, dry and iron every single item you own every week. Using that as a formula, of course you would come up with a staggering impact. Fortunately, no one actually cares for their clothes like that.
The Levi's report does a better job of looking at the real impact of consumer care, by parsing the different impacts of different approaches to care. Not surprisingly, washing your jeans after one wear will have a much higher impact than washing after several uses. Using cold water and line drying will also reduce the environmental impact of washing.
Their report also finds some interesting regional differences. In the U.S., people tend to wear their jeans twice before washing them. In France and the U.K., people tend to wear them slightly more, averaging 2.5 wears. In China, people tend to wear their jeans four times before washing.
But Levi's wants to promote the idea that you can wear your denim ten times or more (as you can see in the chart above), and their CEO has gotten a lot of press for telling us to never wash our jeans.
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Research Manager, Illuminas, New York City
Illuminas, a member of the UK company Media Square plc, has gone from strength to strength since first opening over 20 years ago. Illuminas' reputation has been built upon its ability to provide excellence in marketing research and consultancy, always delivering strategic insight in a succinct and actionable format. With offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Austin, Texas, Illuminas has the ambition to be a top 20 global research consultancy within the next few years.
To support and grow the client base of multinationals firms, we're seeking an enthusiastic research practitioner with 3 – 5 years agency research experience. You will work as part of an existing small New York team to service and grow the New York client base. You will also join other global team members to support client needs derived from Illuminas offices in London, Austin, Hong Kong and Shaghai as required. Illuminas only hires qualiquants – those who are method neutral in their skill set and approach to delivering the right tailored solution for a client challenge.
The candidate's technical skills in qualitative and quantitative research, analysis will be augmented by engaging and actionable recommendations. Illuminas seeks SWANs not stars – i.e. candidates who are Smart, Work hard and are Nice – talented but collaborative.
Job Responsibilities
- Involved in projects spanning a range of sectors, particularly but not exclusively financial services, (mobile) telecoms and CPG
- Qualitative and quantitative – candidate must be open to doing both and, particularly, to have experience in qualitative group moderation
- On qualitative jobs, responsibilities will include:
- Development of field materials – stimulus, screeners and discussion guidelines
- Liaison with suppliers to organize fieldwork
- Conducting fieldwork
- Depth interviews
- Viewed group discussion – consumer and business
- Workshops
- Assisting with analysis and report writing
- Costing
- On quantitative jobs, responsibilities will include:
- Design, write and/ or revise questionnaires – both online and CATI
- Liaising with data collection agencies
- Checking questionnaire scripts and interim data to ensure accuracy
- Check final data/ tables
- Perform core data analysis from both tables and SPSS files
- Create charts in PowerPoint with explanatory context for the findings
- Costing
Job Requirements
Have a keen interest in consumer behavior, and be an enthusiastic and inquisitive researcher.
Be confident in front of clients and should require minimal supervision when dealing with clients on day-to-day project-specific tasks
The right candidate will ideally have a base level experience of both qualitative and quantitative research techniques and have experience in:
- Carrying out desk research
- Writing project set up documents – screeners, guidelines/ questionnaires
- Help writing proposals
- Moderation
- Analysis
- Chart design/ report writing
- Presenting
The selected candidate will have good communication, organizational and strong analytical skills as well as good energy and enthusiasm, a strong work ethic and sense of fun.
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Director Research, Illuminas, New York City
Think you meet the qualifications? Please forward resume to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Illuminas, a member of the UK company Media Square plc, has gone from strength to strength since first opening over 20 years ago. Illuminas' reputation has been built upon its ability to provide excellence in marketing research and consultancy, always delivering strategic insight in a succinct and actionable format. With offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Austin, Texas, Illuminas has the ambition to be a top 20 global research consultancy within the next few years.
To support and grow the client base of multinationals firms, we're seeking a senior, seasoned research practitioner (10 years or more experience) to work alongside a London SVP Research to service and grow the client base and develop the research team. Illuminas only hires qualiquants – those who are method neutral in their skill set and approach to delivering the right tailored solution for a client challenge.
The selected candidate will have accomplished technical skills in qualitative and quantitative research. They will also have proven team building and staff development skills and the ability to take P&L responsibility. It's expected that after a period of time that the right candidate will lead the New York office and report direct to the Global CEO in London headquarters.
We are not interested in finding a career manager or salesperson because Illuminas' development is relationship based and sales are mainly word of mouth as we deliver excellent research and client service.
Job Responsibilities
- Be passionate about research and brands, be data and methodology neutral and not reliant on selling products, black box solutions, a big brand name.
- Comfortable building a portfolio of accounts through adhoc qual research, quant research and related analysis and advice /recommendations; hard work, being as good as the last project, going the extra mile on service. Outcompete the peer group on service, superior analysis and team members who are multi methodology trained and comfortable giving succinct marketing and business advice as out.
- Able to manage, motivate and grow teams internally and externally through strong communication of knowledge and ideas to clients and suppliers.
- Lead and develop the business;
o Client development and relationship building to ensure repeat business
o Prospect and win new business
o Build their own profile within the industry as a custom research and consultancy specialist
- The candidate will develop and grow Illuminas in New York by using their own qual, quant and marketing advisory skills; a high level of commercial support will be supplied (IT, Finance, project and client profitability analysis by a global COO in conjunction with the US Accounting Manager (based in Texas, visits monthly to support).
Job Requirements
- A great researcher – expertise in both quantitative and qualitative approaches with the ability to translate research into insights, ideally 10+ years experience
- Experience working in the North American market, be comfortable there and connected to the client/agency community
- To fit in with the Illuminas culture – entrepreneurial/creative and charismatic with a sense of humility. Partnership business model (informally and formally where possible) rather than a public one.
- To have had exposure to P&L responsibility but no requirement to be a financial expert. Budgets, forecasting, project profitability and client profitability will be analyzed and supported by the US Finance team / Global COO.
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Transaction Management Sr. Analyst – PayPal – San Jose, CA
The PayPal Global Core Payments group is responsible for defining and managing global payment solutions and partnerships that enable the movement of funds into and out of the PayPal system. Transaction Management Sr. Analyst, a critical and highly visible role of Global Core Payments, will manage transaction expenses logic and provide insights/analytics to optimize transaction expense.
• Manage transaction expense logic and process by working with various parties – markets, platform, data management, to design data architecture, ensure the relevant cost data captured correctly in Teradata, which is critical to manage transaction expense
• Develop statistical and financial models to analyze the business impact of new initiatives, changes to existing initiatives (e.g. contract re-negotiations), process improvements and fee changes
• Support initiatives to optimize transaction expense
• Provide analysis and recommendations on transaction costs to support the markets, compliance, strategy and GCP platform teams
• Maintain and enhance key business reports, and communicate the trends and opportunities
• Engage in end-to-end project management, including problem/project scoping, methodology/approach, fact/data gathering and manipulation, analysis and modeling, problem solving, and communication of insights and recommendations.
• Present business insights to multiple levels of management across business units and functional areas
• Develop strong working relationships with cross-functional groups across the organization
• 4-7 years of experience in analytics/quantitative role in banking, consulting or related industries
• Demonstrated excellence in quantitative analysis
• 2-7 years experience with SQL (preferably on Teradata), and a good understanding of relational databases(foreign keys, primary keys, normalization etc.)
• High level of proficiency in Base SAS and SAS Enterprise Miner
• Solid knowledge of UNIX environment and basic UNIX scripting
• High level of proficiency in Excel, Access and PowerPoint
• Strong problem-solving & multi-tasking skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Ability to ensure quality of analytics with the mindset of big business picture
• Working in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams, and be able to communicate technically intricate concepts/results in business terms
• Familiarity with payment is preferred
• BS in a quantitative field, MS preferred
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I've failed a lot in life and I'm very happy I did so because it allowed me to learn so many new things about business, family and life in general.
Here are example of failures since 2000
- Software programming agency
- Security camera installation
- 2 restaurants
- Retail store
- Over 4 blogs
- Health products salesman
- A divorce
Here's why I'm happy with these failures…they helped me succeed in everything I do in eCommerce.
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It's Given To Too Many Incapable Of Informed Decision.
My friend Subrosa laments her encounter with a "Yes" campaigner. A benefit scrounger miffed because Westminster is attempting to use the benefit system for those in need, not those who pursue a selfish, lazy and pathetic lifestyle choice. What a reason for wanting independence! More to the point, why does the stupid sod think an independent Scotland can afford the same or higher largess for such cretins as he who suck the blood from the economy of any Country.
One might ask how much of the Barnett formula gets spent on benefit payments to fund the latest footwear and drug habits of the effing feckless? That these socialist creations should be dominant in Scotland is, of course, a joke, too. These underclass, yet well heeled scum, are behind so much of the UK's ills.
Unfortunately our leaders in Brussels, aided and abetted by the traitors in Whitehall and Westminster, have decided that the promotion of these mass hordes of ill educated and often immigrant masses, suits the agenda for a new world order. The Orwellian vision of a ruling elite, with a pretense of socialism, used to subjugate all but their chosen few.
Were I to develop the argument then the conclusion would have to be that this is little more than a circus. One created by devolution and engineered by socialists to mastermind the destruction in Scotland of any opposition to socialism. It's working. Even a yes vote will leave the Scots stuck with their beloved obsession for a brutal political thuggery beloved of the Left and Trade Unions. One alluded to by Subrosa in her post.
Unfortunately her experience is one rampant throughout these Islands. The gentle, altruistic and more decent middle class mores are long devolved, pun intended, by the Pol Pot, Stalin mindset. One which lies deep within all aggressive lefties and embraced by Common Purpose, as is Islam, as tools to further domination by the Bliar/Brussels like set, seeking to rule everything they can. For themselves and no one else.
One of the first acts of such philosophies and their cohorts was always to destroy social upward mobility, once available through good education and inspirational, conservative teachers. The weasel words such as "education, education, education" ring terribly hollow these days. Add the horrific importation of cultures hell bent on genocide, rape and colonisation and you begin to realise how unimportant this Big Top event actually is.
I repeat my point, nothing will change for the better,whatever the result. Everything will be worse than before the Labour Party took us down this road. A journey no better than the one we are being forced down by Brussels.


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Doug will be teaching the Charlottesville meetup group about the core data structures of search engines and how to leverage them to do fun/interesting data tasks:
A search engine like Elasticsearch thrives on comparing things–and not just text! Finding similar images, students, users, products, or weather events sound like fancy machine learning problems. In reality we can teach Elasticsearch to detect at risk students, predict the weather, and find similar images very efficiently and at high scale perhaps without the data scientist. In this talk we subvert search by:
- Appreciating Lucene's core search engine internals
- Learning how we can subvert this data structure to rank just about anything!
- Poking at some "stupid search tricks"– image search, student comparison, that demonstrate this subversion: turning search into a smart comparison powerhouse!


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Open acetylene generator
Brand : Jinding
Product origin : Liaoning,China
Delivery time : 20-45 days
Supply capacity : 10 sets / month
Open acetylene generator
Open acetylene generator for large pieces of calcium carbide, calcium carbide particle size below 200 into buckets, lifting buckets with explosion-proof electric hoist, and then by hand feeding or belt conveyor feeding. Calcium carbide is added into the barrel from the upper part of the feeding barrel and enters the inside of the generator through the water surface. The calcium carbide is uniformly distributed on the grating plate by the distributing device to react with water to generate acetylene gas and calcium hydroxide. Acetylene gas due to filling drum and overflow tube water seal can only be scrubber spray water washing and cooling into the low-pressure system. The production of calcium hydroxide deposited in the generator cone at the end, after a certain period of time by the slag discharge pipe into the slag pool. Different types of open acetylene gas generator in between 80 ~ 300m3 / h.
Product features:
1. The raw material calcium carbide wide range of particle size. This generator can use large pieces of calcium carbide. Calcium carbide particle size in the most suitable 200-50mm, a small amount of calcium carbide can be used below 50mm. Calcium carbide do not have to be broken, eliminating the need for crushing equipment and dust removal equipment.
2. Can ensure safe production. Generator and scrubber, safety water seal two in one. Acetylene gas is washed, cooled to a cleaner gas, will not block the pipes and valves, is conducive to safe production. When the pressure in the generator exceeds the water seal height of the charging cylinder, the acetylene gas will be automatically discharged from the charging cylinder and discharged to the outside along the exhaust pipe, and will be relieved than the general safety water seal Quick and timely, to ensure the safe operation of the generator.
3. Acetylene gas purity, high calcium carbide efficiency. Open acetylene generator does not require replacement of nitrogen gas, high purity acetylene gas, generally up to 99%. As the calcium carbide without breaking, reducing the broken small particles of calcium carbide, powder loss, improve the efficiency of calcium carbide.
4. Simple structure, lower equipment costs and operating costs. Open-type generator simple structure, there is no transmission equipment and ancillary motor, no air compressor, no crushing, dust removal equipment, thus greatly reducing the investment in equipment. This generator, regardless of the size of a single set, reduce operator and reduce operating costs.
5. Open-type generator with automatic slag discharge and manual or slag two kinds of use, manual slag eight hours to use once on the generator in the working state has no effect, automatic slag generator in normal work can be used continuously , Does not affect the generator effect, automatic slag discharge and manual slag are not leaked gas.
6. Open-type acetylene generator to drive a nitrogen replacement, nitrogen consumption less waste of acetylene gas less, driving, saving 3% to 5%.


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Originally created for Samuel F. B. Morse's electric telegraph in the early 1840s,
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|"For This Child I Prayed" by Elspeth Young
Hannah's story has meant a lot to me in my life because at the beginning of my marriage I had some health problems and at one point was faced with the possibility that I might not be able to have children. Up until that point in my life I'd never really wanted to become a mother. My life plans included a Ph.D., traveling, and doing important things- which in my mind meant working for the UN fighting AIDS and world hunger. Children were not a priority in my life and I figured they would come someday when I had started all the "important" things I wanted to do with my life. Then, when I was faced with the fact that I might never be able to have children and suddenly ALL I wanted in the whole world was to be a mother-- desperately. I spent hours on my knees pleading with God, telling him that my heart had changed and begged Him, like Hannah, to "not forget thine handmaid".
I know there are people who will disagree with me but I feel that within every woman is a mothering heart—the divine seeds of love that yearn for continuing life. I realize that there are women who say they aren't "natural" mothers, they don't like children, or they have never had those sort of desires. I understand that, completely, because for a long time that was what I said about myself. Yet I firmly believe that we have been created in the image of God, male and female, and that like him we find out greatest joy in creation. When we participate in any sort of creation -- whether it be creating a new life, a piece of art, music, writing, the construction of a building, or the nurturing of a garden-- we get to be an instrument in God's hand and vessels for his power. They are the times we see, like Hannah did, that we are nothing without Him and they cause us to exclaim, "My horn is exalted in the Lord." They are the experiences our souls hunger for.
Questions to Think About:
- I realize that not all men and women have the opportunity to use their procreative powers on this earth. What ways do you exercise your creative power?
- Do you think that there is something within men and women's eternal soul that desires children? Why or why not?
- Why are women willing to make such sacrifices, including risking their lives, to bring children into the world?
- Could you dedicate your child to the Lord like Hannah did?
- What other women in the scriptures does Hannah's story remind you of?
- Why are women so quick to judge each other unkindly and "provoke each other sore", especially in relation to the experiences of child bearing, pregnancy, labor and mothering?


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Long before we all had initials hammered onto multiple pendants, hung on a chain and clasped around our neck or fingers full of signet rings stamped with a child's monogram, jewelry designer Jennifer Fisher was busy making her own personalized nameplate to commemorate the birth of her son Shane, now 10-years old.
The dog tag pendant she created garnered the designer tons of attention and shortly afterward she gave birth again, this time to her wildly successful jewelry collection now comprised of over 4000 charms – many of them very much mom-appropriate.
Between the daily design process, frequent travel and keeping up with her 8 and 10 year-old children, Fisher still manages to look not just stylish, but effortless, interesting and always decked out in some statement glasses and beyond covetable accessories (natch).
We caught up with the designer to see how she keeps it all balanced while looking (and staying) so damn cool.
Children's name / ages: Shane, 10 & Drew, 8
How would you describe your personal style?
Tomboy chic
What was the impetus for starting your jewelry brand?
I grew up fascinated by the whole process of jewelry design and manufacturing. My grandfather was a silversmith and as a little girl I always used to go into his shop and watch him work. After my son Shane was born, I wanted a special piece to represent him. When I couldn't find anything to buy that I liked, I decided to make my own dog tag and wore it on a long gold chain. People kept stopping me on the street asking me where I got it and I knew I had something.
How would you define the brand aesthetic?
Classical modern with an edge.
How would you describe your customer?
The Jennifer Fisher customer is every woman. I design with this in mind so that the collection is wearable regardless of age or style.
We read that you started your line after looking for a piece of jewelry to celebrate the birth of your first son….now your collection offers many custom pieces to commemorate special occasions. Which do you think are the most wearable and why?
I think the biggest tip I can offer is to stay true to yourself and your own style. I have all types of women wearing my pieces, and they each wear them differently in the way that expresses who they are and how they like to dress every day.
What are your thoughts on buying jewelry for yourself vs being adorned by someone who loves you?
I'm a big proponent of both; I love when a thoughtful husband or boyfriend comes in here and can pick out exactly what his wife or girlfriend wants, but by the same token, there's something so special about the women who come in here after having saved to make a big purchase for themselves that they will always remember. There's so much emotion when it comes to buying jewelry, and that's what I love about it.
Which pieces from your collection would you recommend for busy moms on the go?
Moms constantly come in to purchase our burnish cuffs; they are a great way to show off your entire family on your wrist and they look better the more they are worn, so they are easy pieces to put on and never take off.
Our brass chokers are very comfortable and work with any sort of top, so I recommend those as well.
My last go-to for busy moms would be one of my trademark charm necklaces. Charms are perfect to commemorate the birth of a child, or a special anniversary or family event. The more charms, the better- which makes it perfect for a husband who can never figure out what to buy his wife.
As a busy working mom, what is your best advice for other working moms trying to strike that balance between work and family? What is your biggest challenge?
As much as I love what I do, the most important thing in my life will always be my family. It's important for me to have success in my career, but more important to be a great mom, wife and daughter. Nothing means more than that, and that's something I always keep with me.
As a mom of two, which age do you think has been most challenging in terms of finding enough time & energy to balance everything?
It was definitely more challenging when my kids were babies. Now they are almost as busy as I am with all of their after school activities and homework, so we are able to strike a nice balance, schedule wise. It just works!
What does your typical day look like schedule-wise?
Every day is different- either in and out of the office in back to back meetings, or with my team all day designing and planning for our next collection. The one thing I always, always must do is be home to make my children homemade breakfast every day. It's my favorite way to spend the morning and I know it's something they will always remember when they are grown ups.
What do you do to carve out time for yourself? Meditation / Exercise / Nights out with girlfriends, etc?
Lately, I have not been doing much – unfortunately! However, when I do work out, I love to train one-on-one at Body By Simone with Gabby.
How do you balance your time between work, your child and nurturing yourself?
Being with my family is nurturing myself, so that's really all I need to do to find time for myself outside of the office. Carving out time for a relaxing manicure and pedicure doesn't hurt either…
What are some of your specific gadgets, organizational tools or aids that help maintain a stress-free work/family balance?
I am constantly on my iPhone, but there aren't any specific organizational tools that I use on a regular basis. Staying healthy usually helps minimize the stress in my life.
If any, what changes did you make to your work hours/life in order to create more time with your kids?
I didn't really have to make any changes. My children and my company have both been steadily growing, so I have been learning as I go along.
To what do you attribute your strong work ethic? What do you hope your children learn from watching you work & run your business?
I've realized it's not something you can learn. It 's been engrained in me since I was a child, so I can thank my parents for my work ethic. I was taught to work for everything I have, and I hope that my children will see that hard work and dedication is necessary to achieve anything.
With less time to get ready in the morning, what is your go-to look in order to look chic and put together for a full day and possible evening events (realizing that you might not have time to run home between the office and an event?)
I always keep preplanned looks ready to go. This way, when I'm leaving the house, I can grab a look to change into for night without much stress. Planning ahead is key. And a shoe and bag change…
What are your wardrobe essentials?
My wardrobe essentials are jeans that can go from day-to-night, as well as a good variety of colored basics to mix and match. I always try to pair designer pieces with multiple colored looks.
Which beauty products do you swear by?
I swear by Tatcha for skincare and Chantecaille tinted moisturizer – their products are amazing. Also, regular facials with Joanna Vargas are a necessity.
You seem to have a flair for accessories in general. Besides jewelry, what are a few of your favorite accessories and brands? And what advice would you give to pregnant women or new moms on how to accessorize to maintain their personal style?
I love my Edie Parker bags for night (we just launched a collaboration on Net A Porter). Celine clutches and shoes are also staples for me. Paul Andrew's gladiator sandals are currently my favorite shoes.
We love that your instagram always has such motivational messages. Are there any mantras you find yourself coming back to?
Just to keep it real. I feel that the more honest you are, the better. I post whatever my mood is… I do all my posts myself.
What are your favorite activities with your children in NYC?
Dining alfresco at Bar Pitti or Mr Chows in the warmer months and skateboarding or biking around now that they are older. They are getting older and are so scheduled with their sports and school activities that meals together are more important every day.
What is the most valuable thing motherhood has taught you?
I'm still learning, but I've learned patience for sure. This is something I work on daily. Having to slow down and breathe with children is the most important thing.
What has been the most surprising thing about becoming a mother?
How much kids make you laugh and cry. I am shocked everyday by how amazing kids are and how they see the world.


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PreLaw magazine has ranked Hofstra Law 4th among all U.S. law schools for the most improvement in the employment rate for graduates from the Classes of 2011 through 2016. The rankings are announced in preLaw's Back to School 2017 issue.
With an increase of 22.8 percent, Hofstra Law is one of only nine law schools that have improved their employment rates by 20 percent or more since 2011. This recognition for the employment success of the Law School's graduates comes on the heels of the spring 2017 rankings by Law School Transparency (LST), in which Hofstra Law ranked 35th among all U.S. law schools for its Class of 2016 employment outcomes.
In its analysis, preLaw used a modified employment score that considered the quality of the position. For example, the magazine explains, a full-time, long-term bar-passage-required job (the type of employment law school graduates value most) was given a 100 percent weight, and a part-time, short-term job that did not require the bar exam was weighted at 10 percent.
PreLaw magazine is a National Jurist publication.
Read the full article "Most Improved Employment Rates" in preLaw's online Back to School 2017 issue.


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The innovators at GE Appliances are known for designing and manufacturing appliances that improve your life at home. Purposefully designed with the consumer in mind, GE Appliances invests in the actual experience homeowners have with their products. Designed to represent the cutting-edge of modern design, the GE Profile® Series is crafted to make a sophisticated statement that perfectly complements modern kitchen style. Featuring minimal curves and clean lines, GE Profile® appliances blend the perfect artistic details with intelligent features to improve and simplify your life.
Stepping into a GE Profile® kitchen, you will first notice the professional touches, sleek design, and polished finish. A leader in premium finishes, GE Appliances offers today's most sought-after finishes in its GE Profile® line, including shiny stainless steel, bold black stainless steel, and Slate™. The revolutionary finish of lustrous GE Slate™ is designed to resist fingerprints and smudges so its even to keep your appliances stunning even with young children around. The GE Profile® Series has thoughtful design details, including understated touch panel refrigerator controls and edge-to-edge cooktops, that provide a unified look for seamless integration. Every GE Profile® appliance is designed to blend in seamlessly into any kitchen design while offering the custom look of counter-depth refrigerators, streamlined wall ovens and ranges, and cabinet-flush dishwashers.
The GE Profile® Series has the commercial-grade features to provide you with a better cooking experience. Every perfect meal starts with fresh ingredients stored in optimal conditions thanks to the TwinChill™ evaporators found in GE Profile® refrigerators to perfectly regulate your refrigerator's climate. Your refrigerator can do so much more with incredible features, including Hot Water Scheduling for hot water the moment you need it, a Keurig K-Cup Brewing System to brew your favorite hot beverage right at your refrigerator like in the 36" 27.8 Cu. Ft. French-Door Refrigerator with Keurig® K-Cup® Brewing System, and Hands-Free Autofill to automatically fill your container so your routine is never interrupted. The new GE Profile® wall oven with LCD screen display, like on the 27" 4.3 Cu Ft Self/Steam Clean Convection Single Wall Oven with Wifi Connect, offers more precise cooking modes and helpful tips when you need them, and even broils and cues convection on your behalf. GE Profile® cooking appliances maximize every inch of space with edge-to-edge cooktops like the 36" Built-in Gas Cooktop, offer powerful searing with 21,000 BTUs tri-ring burners, and True European Convection with Precise Air to evenly bake foods. GE recently gave its GE Profile® Series dishwashers - like the Front Control Dishwasher with Stainless Steel Interior and Two Wash Zones - 54% more cleaning jets than any other on the market, including dedicated bottle jets, 40 deep clean silverware jets, and a flexible third rack for ultimate flexibility. Your dishes will come out sparkly clean every time.
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We will have air conditioned tents, free food, games, music and more! Journey of Hope (30 men from California are cycling here to help people with disabilities sit in a kayak, many for the 1st time. ..Mustard Seedsters and residents from the Hudspeth Center, veterans and others have been invited .AmeriCorps will be assisting!
L.I.F.E's goal for this event is to open doors for people with physical & mental disabilities to see what recreational opportunities the Rez has for them to experience. Thanks to Craig Hunt for help in renting the park, and the PRVWSD construction Crew, Jimmy Stewart, Susan McMullan, Deputy Director, and the IT section and other great employees ... the kayak launch at Pelahatchie Shore Landing is now totally ADA compliant! Please pass this info along to others with disabilities Our watershed education and outreach is VIP in sharing our vision on a cleaner and more beautiful Pearl River and Reservoir! Bring your smile and join me at the KRB tent this Saturday! I will be there early helping them set up! Jeannine
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Basic Flood Insurance Facts for Florida Residents
When it comes to Flood Insurance, many people believe that they will be covered by their homeowners insurance policy in the event that their house is damaged or even destroyed by a flood.
The Facts
The fact of the matter is that home owners insurance does not cover damages from flooding. This is an important fact to remember especially considering the fact that Florida is a state that is very prone to flood damage.
- The only guarantee for flood insurance is to purchase a flood insurance policy.
- If your local community participates in the NFIP whether your home has been flooded before or not you may still purchase flood insurance
- You may purchase flood insurance at any time. However, there is a waiting period of 30 days before the policy actually goes into effect.
- More than twenty-five percent of the NFIP flood insurance claims are for structures outside the identified flood plains.
- An area need a dam or levees at risk of levee or dam breakage. This is an important note to consider.
- Even if you face moderate flood risks you should get insurance. It can even be purchased for as little as $80 per year.
- You end up paying more for state and federal disaster relief when you do not buy flood insurance.
- It is a good way to help keep disaster relief costs down for taxpayers
- Contents coverage is available
- Flood insurance will not cover contents of a finished basement or basement improvements. This includes: finished walls, floor, and ceilings.


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Authors: Jason Chittenden
Phxnlme: An R Package that Faciliates Pharmacometrics Workflow of Phoenix NLME Analyses
Onartuzumab with or without Bevacizumab in Combination with Weekly Paclitaxel Does Not Prolong QTc or Adversely Affect Other ECG Parameters in Patients with Locally Recurrent or Metastatic Triple-negative Breast Cancer
The purpose of this study was to examine the potential effect of onartuzumab, when administered with or without bevacizumab in combination with weekly paclitaxel, on the corrected QT interval (QTc) and other electrocardiogram (ECG) parameters, was investigated in a randomized, phase 2 study OAM4861g of first- or second-line therapy in patients with locally recurrent or […]Read More
Modeling of Pharmacokinetic Systems Using Stochastic Deconvolution
In environments where complete mechanistic knowledge of the system dynamics is not available, a synergy of first-principle concepts, stochastic methods and statistical approaches can provide an efficient, accurate, and insightful strategy for model development. In this work, a system of ordinary differential equations describing system pharmacokinetics (PK) was coupled to a Wiener process for tracking the […]Read More
A Fast Bootstrap Method Using EM Posteriors
Analysis of Level A In Vitro-In Vivo Correlations for an Extended-release Formulation with Limited Bioavailability
A two-stage, numerical deconvolution approach was employed to develop level A in vitro–in vivo correlations using data for three formulations of an extended-release oral dosage form. The in vitro dissolution data for all formulations exhibited near-complete dissolution within the time frame of the test. The pharmacokinetic concentration–time profiles for 16 subjects in a cross-over study […]Read More


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Listening Tour, Perth
Hey there,
AYCC is a grassroots organisation (that means, it's run by people like you!), and that also means that we care what you have to say. We want your input into what campaigns we run in 2018 and we want to hear your thoughts on how to solve the climate crisis.
So, Millie, our WA campaigner is coming to Perth in September to speak with as many of our volunteers as possible and to ask them some questions about what we can get done in 2018 to build a movement capable of bringing down the fossil fuel industry and rapidly transitioning to 100% renewable energy.
Join us for an evening of dinner, questions and strategy to let us know your thoughts.
WHEN: Monday September 18th, 6-8:30pm
WHERE: The Conservation Council WA, 2 Delhi St, West Perth. The event space is all ages, so everyone is welcome. It's also wheelchair accessible.
WHAT: An evening with AYCC's WA campaigner to hear your thoughts on AYCC's 2018 plans. THERE WILL BE FOOD!
WHO: All AYCC volunteers
WHY: We want to hear from you!
The ideas we've put together will be available for you to read beforehand. So, if you don't have a copy already, get in touch with Correa (email@example.com) or Chanel (email@example.com) to grab a copy. Come with your thoughts, ideas and energy.
Can't wait to see you there!
2 Delhi Street West Perth
Perth, WA 6005
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Phyllis Esposito: Interdimensional Private-Eye #57
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The next thing I knew, the towel was plucked off of my face, and Eddie was looking down at me. "No time to lose, Phyllis," she said. "Chop chop!"
I blinked, sat up quickly enough that it made me a little dizzy, and asked myself how I felt.
That I even had the presence of mind to ask the question told me that it had been at least an hour since I took the sponge. The initial rush had faded.
I looked at the display on my portal generator. It was three in the afternoon, a little over two hours since I'd taken the sponge. Now that the walls had stopped singing to me, I was able to focus a little better. I had probably another ten hours of gradually diminishing effects before I'd start to crash.
Eddie snapped her fingers behind me, and I turned around. "Let's discuss, shall we? I do have other appointments today."
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Even though they differ by only one letter, there's an important conceptual difference between the terms "modal view controller" and "model/view/controller". The first is a view controller presented in a certain "modal" fashion, and the second is a pattern. The modal-view-controller tag creates potential for confusion since it looks like "model/view/controller" but means "modal view controller". It should be replaced entirely by the modalviewcontroller tag. I've editted the three existing questions that used the offending tag so that they now use modalviewcontroller.
I'm not sure how to start the blacklisting process for a given tag, but I'd like to see modal-view-controller removed from the lexicon of tags.


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A short walk which traces the footsteps of one of Bedford's most well-known inhabitants – John Bunyan.
Click here for bus and train timetable information.
Bedford is easily accessible from the M1 via the A421 or from the A1 via the A603.
Parking is available in short and long stay car parks situated in the town centre and there is also a park and ride service.
This walk begins at St John's Rectory, St John's Street, just south of the Town Bridge.
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In refuting a New York Times report, which found that he received at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father's empire, President Donald Trump went back to Economics 101.
In a tweet, Trump did not specifically deny the conduct the Times described as "dubious tax schemes," including "instances of outright fraud."
"The Failing New York Times did something I have never seen done before. They used the concept of 'time value of money' in doing a very old, boring and often told hit piece on me. Added up, this means that 97% of their stories on me are bad. Never recovered from bad election call!" Trump wrote.
In addition to gifts, the Times reported that Fred Trump loaned his son at least $60.7 million, or $140 million in today's dollars. It also said Trump and his siblings dodged taxes to help boost the value of the money they got from their parents.
The basic rule in economics is that the value of money today will not be equal to the same amount of money in the future. Also known as the time value of money, this accounts for factors such as interest and inflation.
For example, a Hershey bar cost about 2 cents when it was first introduced over 100 years ago. That same chocolate bar costs close to $2 today. A few decades in the future, it will be considerably more expensive.
When looking backward — as the Times report did — using the time value of money helps readers think in today's dollars what an amount might have bought in the past (i.e., yesterday's 2 cents is today's $2).
Either way, it is important to keep in mind that dollar amounts on paper and real returns (adjusted for inflation) are different.
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USAA's Greg Schwartz Keeps IT's Focus On The Customer Experience
Elite 8 2013The October issue of Bank Systems & Technology introduces the 2013 Elite 8 -- eight visionary bank technology executives who are enabling transformation in a changing financial services industry. Our exclusive profiles report how this year's honorees are leading their companies' efforts to capitalize on mobile, compete on superior customer experience, improve operational resilience and tap into the potential of big data, among other hot trends. To read more, download our October 2013 digital issue now.
Another way USAA drives innovation is through its Innovation Communities for the Enterprise, or ICE, an interactive program that allows employees in any part of the business to generate and propose new ideas. "On the IT side we constantly are mining that tool for great ideas," Schwartz says. Additionally, USAA runs an innovation center lab open to all employees for brainstorming and idea development.
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USAA also launched a coding competition, called Code as ICE, which runs several times a year. It gives cross-functional teams business problems to solve. All the ideas submitted at the most recent competition "have the potential for us to fund and take to production," Schwartz says. "Our employees are passionate about it, they work [the challenges] on their own time, they love the competition and they love the teamwork and exposure it gives to the business community. It's all about keeping the entrepreneurial spirit alive here at USAA."
Schwartz's commitment to fostering that entrepreneurial spirit typifies his approach to leadership. "I try to be an inspirational leader, not a problem solver," he says. "I work with my team setting big hairy audacious goals, really empowering my direct reports and my teammates to exceed those goals."
Personal Snapshot
Greg Schwartz
CIO and senior VP of information technology services, USAA
IT organization: $1 billion budget, 2,500 employees
Career: Joined USAA in 1983, named to current position in 2004
Education: BS in management information systems, Texas State University; MBA in finance, St. Mary's University
Hobbies: Boating, golfing, fantasy football ("I'm really good at it!") and spending time with family
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Snow and Ice Melting Systems: Factors Influencing Design (Part II)
Design of a snow and ice melting (SIM) system is a bit more complicated than design of a radiant heating system, since the SIM output loads are based on several factors, not just the outdoor design temperature. By "loads" we mean the amount of heat required to operate the system.
Some designers also call this the "heat flux" and it is usually expressed as "Btu per ft2 of area per hour" or "Watts per m2 per hour." For example, 125 Btu/ft2 per hour is a SIM load required by some residential and commercial systems.
Actual SIM loads are based on melting snow into water and evaporating water into vapor, leaving outdoor surfaces dry in some designs, the majority of the water is expected to drain off. Factors which affect SIM loads are:
– air temperature when snowing/melting
– rate of snow fall
– snow density
– wind velocity
– humidity level of the atmosphere
– slab temperature at start of snowfall
and even the "apparent sky temperature."
Much of the information available to SIM designers comes from ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers). REHAU designers have access to this information.
A few years ago, ASHRAE dropped the Class I, II, III scheme for sizing loads and instead published tables showing "Frequencies of snow-melting surface heat fluxes at steady state conditions" for major cities. The table goes from 75 to 100% frequency, and lists SIM loads for various Free Area Ratios. Once the designer selects the most appropriate Free Area Ratio and Frequency Distribution, SIM loads can be selected from a published table. For cities not found in that table, a series of calculations will estimate the loads based on historical weather data for that location.
REHAU's new Technical Bulletin 250 "SIM Load Selection Table" is provided to give suggested values for Free Area Ratio and Frequency Distribution for SIM designs across North America to meet typical customer expectations.
Once the SIM load is known for a project, the next design steps are:
– Estimate downward losses
– Calculate total loads for the heat source (typically a high-efficiency boiler)
– Design the PEX piping system for delivering the Btu requirement; this includes selecting pipe size, spacing and circuit lengths which are typically 3/4 in. PEX pipes at 8 in (20 cm) spacing with circuit lengths ranging from 200 to 350 ft (60 to 110 m)
– Select the type of heat transfer fluid (usually propylene glycol mixed with water)
– Calculate the flow rate for the SIM piping system to deliver the Btu requirement
– Determine the head loss through pipes, manifolds, heat source and other equipment
– Select the right circulator and other hydronic components, such as expansion tanks
From the designer's perspective, once the SIM load is known, the rest of the steps are straightforward.
By Lance MacNevin


text: Violence has intensified in Pakistan inrecent weeks [AFP] "It is not a ceasefire," he stressed, "if they fire a single bullet we will respond with 10 bullets." Military campaign Violence has intensified in Pakistan in recent weeks with the military battling armed groups in three different parts of the country's northwest. Troops backed by helicopter gunships and heavy artillery have for weeks been pounding what they say are pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda strongholds in the area, killing more than 560 people, according to officials. The US says that al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are based in sanctuaries in northwest Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal areas on the Afghan border. The suspension of military operations comes a day after Pakistan's army said it had killed 40 fighters in an air strike that targeted a rebel stronghold in the country's Swat region. Deteriorating security in Pakistan has coincided with a faltering economy and political upheaval, with the resignation of Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, last week. That was quickly followed by a split in the ruling coalition. SOURCE: Agencies


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As part of the Edelbrock Performance family, Russel Performance is also working hard to keep up with the automotive industry with new products and innovations, and those innovations include a more user-friendly and enhanced website. Announced recently is the relaunch of their improved website with a completely new look and feel to it, utilizing the newest technologies to create an improved user experience.
As with Edelbrock, Russell focuses their attention on the user experience and improved the site with extensive product information to help customers and users access and understand Russell's wide range of performance plumbing products. Their product line of hoses and fittings for the automotive application includes engine, transmission, steering, fuel system management, nitrous, and brakes.
Some of the improved website features include:
- Utilizes the latest in programming for improved download speeds
- Improved search feature for easier to read product look up
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- Date: October 31-November 1, 2017
- Location: Mount Hood National Forest
- Start: Salmon River West Trailhead
- Distance: 10.5 miles
- Duration: 2 days
- Type: Out-and-back
- Map: Adventure Maps: Mount Hood Area
- References: Oregon Hikers
One of the perks of being a music teacher at the academy I work at is the built in vacation time during typical holiday breaks (generally coinciding with the local school district's schedule). This includes Thanksgiving and Christmas, but in recent years, it has also included Halloween! This year, with Mack no longer working retail (and thereby having more control over his schedule), we were able to plan a Halloween backpacking adventure with Cassie. It was by no means ambitious or difficult (purposefully intended since our final 50K race took place a few days later), but it was the perfect mid-week getaway and a great inaugural trip for what will hopefully become an annual Halloween tradition.
Day 1: Salmon River West Trailhead to Goat Creek, with side trip to Frustration Falls viewpoint (5.5 miles; 3 hours 40 minutes, breaks included)
We took advantage of the short mileage day with a later-than-usual start at noon. There were only a couple of cars parked at the trailhead, so we could look forward to some solitude on this generally popular trail. Little to no fellow visitors also meant Cassie could be off-leash! It was a surprisingly beautiful fall day. Sunlight filtered through the dense canopy with an occasional picturesque sunburst. The changing colors of maple and alder trees contrasted beautifully with the vibrant green of the Douglas fir, hemlock, and cedar trees, as well as the variety of ferns carpeting the forest floor. The trail remains close to the river for the first couple of miles. With practically no one else on the trail, the only sounds that filled the air were of rushing water, the rustling of leaves when a breeze passed through, and a few chatty birds.
After passing the wilderness boundary and the first two backcountry camp areas, we began the gradual climb up to the highlight of the trail: the Salmon River Gorge viewpoint. The river roars through the canyon a few hundred feet below this open, rocky bluff. The hillsides are completely draped in dense forest, so the river itself is actually difficult to see, but you can still hear it if you listen closely. Following the viewpoint, we continued along a narrow, very exposed (but brief) section of trail etched into a steep slope that led us back into the shade of the forest.
While planning our route, one of the side trip opportunities that came up during my research of the area was Frustration Falls. From the trip reports I'd read, I knew to keep an eye out for a steep side trail about four miles in. It also helped that I came out to run some of the Salmon River Trail with a friend just two days earlier. Although we didn't follow it down, we did find the aforementioned side trail. I might've missed it on our trip if I hadn't scouted it out a couple of days earlier! Although the side trail is short (about a quarter of a mile down to the view of the falls), it's quite steep and slick. I imagine it can be treacherous after heavy rain. We stashed our packs about half way down as the incline steepened. Despite the tediousness of it all, the stunning three-tiered Frustration Falls was definitely worth the effort.
Back on the main trail, we were just a mile or so away from our campsite. It was a slow mile though. The fall colors were irresistible and I found myself pulling out my camera every couple of minutes. Before we knew it Goat Creek was right below us and we could look across the way and see the nearby campsites. Not a single tent was in sight. Our decision to do a mid-week overnighter was certainly paying off!
It was already late afternoon and about to become early evening by the time we set up camp. We went about enjoying some hot drinks first. Mack packed in a small Nalgene containing butterscotch schnapps to add to our hot cider. The combination literally tastes like caramel apples and is probably my new favorite hot drink (although it might get bumped once I try hot cocoa with peppermint schnapps this winter). To celebrate Halloween, we also packed in frosted pumpkin shortbread cookies and a giant bag of mixed sour candies (Mack's preferred treat). Cassie chose to hang out inside the new tent (that's right! no more busted zippers and patched up holes!) and curl up on my sleeping bag. Not even the smell of our delicious Halloween treats could lure her out.
It started to get dark quickly, so we attached and staked down the rainfly, cooked up a batch of instant mashed potatoes (and one more round of spiked cider), finished up our treats, then crawled into our sleeping bags. Our new Big Agnes tent has sewn-in lights, so we tested them out. So much better than using our headlamps or flashlights! Hopefully this tent lasts us awhile because so far we love it! We capped off our Halloween themed trip with a "scary" movie. I say "scary" because I'm not sure Donnie Darko really fits this description, but neither of us was really in the mood for some slasher flick or even a supernatural one while we were alone in the woods. Maybe Hocus Pocus will be a more fun choice next year.
Day 2: Goat Creek to Salmon River West Trailhead (5 miles; 2 hours 20 minutes, breaks included)
It was strange waking up and knowing that we'd be going back to work later that afternoon. However, it was also a good incentive to actually get up and get moving quickly. We were packed up and on the trail by 8 am. The sky was still overcast, which made the fall colors along the trail pop even more. It also made the Salmon River Gorge viewpoint far more clear, richer in color, and photogenic now that the heavy sunlight wasn't blinding me and washing out the image. I was so happy to pass through this section again and see it all in the (far superior) early morning light with the sun barely starting to creep through the clouds.
After the mini-photoshoot at the viewpoint, we pressed on to make sure we would make it back to the car before 11 am. Now that we were going downhill our pace was effortlessly faster though. I even managed to find opportunities to take a few more photos (especially now that everything was less washed out by the sun) without adversely affecting our estimated arrival time. We made it back to the car at 10:20 am and even had time to spare at home before either of us went in to teach that afternoon. Despite being a little reluctant to go back to work for a couple more days, our first ever mid-week overnight adventure was just what I needed to get me through the rest of the work week. Hopefully there will be more opportunities to do something like this. At least we'll be able to count on it for next Halloween!


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He served in the USAF during the Vietnam War, from 1968-1972, and was employed as a technician and engineering specialist in the Nuclear, Night Vision, and Metals Plating industries - later teaching high school biology and physical science.
He worshiped at First Congregational Church of Otis, Massachusetts, First Baptist, Chicopee, Christian Life Center and Bethany Assembly of God, Springfield, Massachusetts. He has held secular educational positions and music ministry posts at the aforementioned churches.
Frank, likes outdoors, and specifically, the mountain woodlands. He has interests in studying wildlife and photographing the flora and fauna in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts.


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|O'Dea, Aaron
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|Taylor, Paul D.
|NATURE / Fossils
|SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution
|SCIENCE / Natural History
|SCIENCE / Paleontology
|Smithsonian Books
|October 2014
|11.23in x 8.88in x 0.85in
|From The Publisher*
|A History of Life in 100 Fossils showcases 100 key fossils that together illustrate the evolution of life on earth. Iconic specimens have been selected from the renowned collections of the two premier natural history museums in the world, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, and the Natural History Museum, London. The fossils have been chosen not only for their importance in the history of life, but also because of the visual story they tell. This stunning book is perfect for all readers because its clear explanations and beautiful photographs illuminate the significance of these amazing pieces, including 500 million-year-old Burgess Shale fossils that provide a window into early animal life in the sea, insects encapsulated by amber, the first fossil bird Archaeopteryx, and the remains of our own ancestors.
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Through a combination of informative text and striking pictures, Taylor and O'Dea, of the Natural History Museum, London, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, respectively, present an overview of the evolution of life on Earth. Using some of the notable fossils present in the collections of the Natural History Museum and the Smithsonian, they describe life forms ranging from 3.5 billion-year-old cyanobacteria to the Stellar's sea cow, which was driven to extinction in the late 18th century. Each picture is coupled with a brief description and readers are treated to a discussion of what evolutionary lessons can be learned from each fossil. (The book's only major downside is that the fossils are presented without a clear indication of scale, so it is difficult to appreciate size differences.) In addition to such standard fare as descriptions of how Archaeopteryx displays both bird and reptile characteristics, the authors go further afield, demonstrating, for example, that grasses were common many millions of years earlier than originally hypothesized. The fossils Taylor and O'Dea present lead them to wonder about such issues as the nature of symbiosis or whether all dinosaurs were warm-blooded, using their material like any good scientist: to ask as many questions as they answer. (Oct.)
As intriguing remnants of the geologic past, every fossil tells a story about the evolution of life on Earth. Paleontologist Taylor (Natural History Museum, London) and paleobiologist O'Dea (Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst., Panama) have assembled information on 100 fossils that showcases the enormous diversity of life forms that have come and gone since life began in the seas 3.5 billion years ago. For each fossil there is a photograph accompanied by a lively single-page essay describing the organism's anatomical features, diet, lifestyle, taxonomic classification, and evolutionary significance. With only ten fossil plants included, the collection is heavily weighted toward animal species. Although the photographs are of high quality, labeling of each fossil's prominent features would have been helpful for understanding the configuration of less familiar species; a scale of measurement would have been handy as well. VERDICT From single-celled foraminifera to gigantic steppe mammoths, this volume presents a sweeping panorama of ancient life and is recommended for nonspecialists interested in paleontology or evolutionary biology. A solid companion to Donald Prothero's Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters.--Cynthia Lee Knight, formerly with Hunterdon Cty. Lib., Flemington, NJ
This beautifully illustrated volume is a showcase of representative fossils through geologic time. It is a gallery of stunning double-page spreads and an example of fine book design. The spectacular images are paired with informative and insightful text provided by Taylor (Natural History Museum, London) and O'Dea (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama). The fossils depicted are primarily specimens held by the authors' respective parent institutions, supplemented by a few from other museums. If these fossils are not already iconic, they ought to be. A section in the back of the book gives further details about the actual specimens for interested readers. The essays are erudite, but not technical. The fossils provided inspiration for the authors to muse on many aspects of evolution, geologic change, and the diversity of life over time. Their prose is further enlivened by accounts of the colorful historical personalities who made key discoveries. Each essay and photo is used as an opportunity to illustrate at least one major concept in paleobiology. It is a perfect book for public libraries.
--W. L. Cressler III, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers and lower-division undergraduates.
|Biographical Note
|PAUL D. TAYLOR has worked in the Department of Paleontology at the Natural History Museum, London, for 30 years, heading the Invertebrate and Plants division between 1990 and 2003. His research focuses on fossil and living bryozoans, with subsidiary interests in evolution, paleoecology, and fossil folklore. He is the author of Fossil Invertebrates. AARON O'DEA is an Associate Staff Scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. He uses the fossil record to understand past climactic changes in the seas and their role in extinction and speciation, and how life in the past can help us predict the future.


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Moving: Rainy Day on the 33
The 33 Stanyan bus is one of the most scenic Muni bus routes. You travel through the Mission, Castro, Twin Peaks, Haight, and on to the Richmond. This includes going over a mountain, passing through three business districts streets (Mission St, 18th St at Castro, and Haight Street) while passing the Valencia and Clement corridors and ending close to Laurel Village at California Street.
Most famously, the route includes one of the most dramatic u-turns an electric trolleybus takes in San Francisco. Whether climbing up Twin Peaks, or coming down, when the bus passes through the intersection of Market Street and Clayton Street, as shown in the image below, you always wonder if the driver will pull off the turn without the trolleys falling off. Orange arrows are going uphill towards the Haight, while yellow arrows show the path of where the 33 Stanyan bus goes downhill towards Eureka Valley and the Castro.
|Image courtesy Google Maps
The video below shows the journey as viewed out of the back of the bus from Ashbury Street just above Frederik, up over the 17th Street saddle onto Clayton, loop a "u" at Market & Clayton, down to 18th Street, past Dolores Park and finally ending (rather abruptly) at Valencia Street. Note the following moments:
- Bus makes the big U-turn from Clayton to Market at (0:30).
- While the bus stops early on, Sutro Tower makes a full appearance as the clouds clear a bit, just as the guitar makes its big riff. (0:40)
- Long stop at 18th and Castro Streets (1:04)
- Traffic along 18th Street
- How many double parked vehicles does the bus have to drive around?
The music is from the film Run Lola Run. Kind of makes you believe Muni really can move fast!


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Star Systems 2018 – First competition for the season
Platinum and first overall for their division!!! Way to go Gracie and David.
Competition Flashback
How about a flashback to Primetime 2016!
Happy Birthday, Kylee!
Happy 16th!
Star Systems weekend in Lakeland, Florida
Super proud! Victoria got platinum on her solo, won her category and placed 3rd overall.
Our dancers had a great time. Thank you Star Systems for a wonderfully put together competition.