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When you're called to be sick and not well, when you're called to mourn, not rejoice, when you're called to sit in sackcloth and ash not splendorous robes, when the ache of days fades to the ache of night, when friends become foes and foes strike in their might, when God beats a distant drum and doesn't warm the hearth, when sweet becomes bitter and heart wilts with fright, angels are watching from the wings. And perhaps they bear up the most unspeakable things. Perhaps they lift up the most sorrowful songs and breathe breaths of life into the weariest lungs. And perhaps they draw maps in the stars and desperately beckon, look, here's where you are. Here's God's throne. It's not that far.
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text: Timal Yatra is not a general Buddhist festival but a festival (Yatra) of the Tamang cast. Tamang people gather at Boudha's stupa on this day to offer butter lamps to the deceased family members. They celebrate the whole night by singing around the stupa. Mostly young Tamang boys and girls are seen taking active part on singing competition. It is called Dohori (question's are asked in songs and replied in songs accordingly) If the boys and girls like each other they can also get married. Locals put stalls all around the stupa for Tea, Momo, Chhyang, Aaludam etc. Next day, in the early morning, they go to Balaju to take a holy bath. Some people also go to Jamacho (top of the hill at Balaju) to visit Mela. -Kathmandu (Boudha) Nepal, 2012-


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We sent the Shark 2.0 to every sponsored athlete on the Mad Rock Team, and got great feedback.
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The shoes are built around the original Shark last but Mad Rock provided lots of new exciting features on the model. Some of the new features found are the utilization of 1.8 mm R2 rand rubber and the Arch Flex system. The elastic property in Mad Rock R2 formula hugs and locks foot in to place without the pain associated with other high performance shoes. …"
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Today's Printable Paper Doll Inspirations:1970s Punk Music, plus this picture, this picture and this picture
Here's a fact most people don't know about me. I love 1970s classic punk music.
It is not at all uncommon to hear me singing along loudly to the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, the Clash or Blondie while driving in my car. So, when July's theme- Musical Genre rolled around, I knew from the get go that I was drawing a classic punk outfit for the Collaborative Paper Doll Project that myself, Boots, Miss. Missy and Julie have taken on.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't settle on punk at first. At first, I thought I would do jazz with a 1920s get up, or maybe country music (another love) with a banjo and a cowboy hat. But as I sat in my living room listening to the Ramones, I realized that I really should embrace one of my first and strongest musical loves. So, Punk it was.
(In case you are wondering, here's a link to my favorite Ramones' song.)
Once I settled on punk, I also knew I wasn't going to do contempoary punk fashion or the punk fashion of my own adolsence. I wanted to draw a 1970s punk outfit.
That meant drawing what might be my first biker jacket, heavy duty boots and a mowhawk. I added buttons to the jacket and lots of spikes. The tiny mini-skirt and torn up shirt seemed to fit the aesthetic.
There's lots of pictures of Punk attire on my Punk Fashion pinterest board, but this picture, this picture and this picture, all from the 1970s, inspired today's punk look.
This month's Paper Doll Collaboration theme was "Musical Styles" and obviously, I chose punk. Head over to Paper Doll School, Popculture Looking Land and Miss. Missy's Paper Dolls to see what other folks are creating.
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Verz Design Manila Dinner and Karaoke Night 2015
After a whole week of stress, hard work and endless meetings, the whole team decided to go out for a well-deserved company D'nD last Friday night! As our mantra goes, "Work Hard, Party Harder", and so we did!
Together with Henry, Soong Ming and Irene from the Singapore team, everyone enjoyed a splendid array of food at an Eat-All-You-Can dinner at Buffet 101 in Glorietta, Makati City. Exquisite and mouthwatering dishes of different cuisines undoubtedly satisfied everyone's appetite for delicious and savory food!
Of course, we didn't let this opportunity to take amazing group photos pass us by!
Wishing our senior web designer, Maybelle and web support, Shekinah a happy birthday!
After our sumptuous and belly-filling buffet dinner, our next stop: Redbox Karaoke Bar!
For this one night, everyone became rock stars and belted their hearts out to some old tunes and the latest top hits on the radio!
At work, we're all professionals taking our craft seriously, but at night, we become one, big, happy family.
Another photo opportunity for all of us!
That includes group selfies, of course!
To more company events like this! Cheers!


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Karen L Azinger has always loved fantasy fiction, and always hoped that someday she could give back to the genre a little of the joy that reading has always given her. Twelve years ago on a hike in the Columbia River Gorge she realized she had enough original ideas to finally write an epic fantasy. She started writing and never stopped. The Steel Queen, her first book, born from that hike in the gorge, became the start of The Silk & Steel Saga (SASS). Silk & Steel was originally intended to be a trilogy but the story was so epic, she ended up writing a sweeping seven book saga. The saga is now finished! The Steel Queen, The Flame Priest, The Skeleton King, The Poison Priestess, The Knight Marshal, The Prince Deceiver, and The Battle Immortal are all published as e-books and print books and getting great reviews.
Reviewers compare her books to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time and to George Martin's Game of Thrones. Along the way, she also published a collection of short stories, The Assassin's Tear, including two stories set in the Silk & Steel world. Before writing, Karen spent over twenty years as an international business strategist, eventually becoming a vice-president for one of the world's largest natural resource companies. She worked on developing the first gem-quality diamond mine in Canada's arctic, on coal seam gas power projects in Australia, and on petroleum projects around the world. Having lived in Australia for eight years she considers the Land Down Under to be her second home. She also lived in Canada and spent a lot of time in the Canadian arctic. These days she lives with her husband in Portland Oregon, in a house perched on the edge of the forest.


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Having some dramas with my postpay account. For some reason I went over the 1GB bundle and got a TXT alerting me.
I then a few days later got a TXT saying my GB bundle has renewed, but then a TXT a few days later saying I was at my spend limit.
I suspected some app went nuts on my phone, but am confused as 2 degrees said my 1GB bundle was renewed but it was not - so I went to buy another 1GB bundle but couldn't because of spend control.
I waited a few days, then unset spend control for the month, and then tried to buy a 1GB bundle but it kept rejecting because of my credit limit (I suspect its $150) So I paid my balance off in full so I had a $0 balance.
I then waited a day and tried to buy a 1GB pack but was still rejected. I called 2 degrees, and the girl I spoke to tried to explain how all their systems work for like 10-15 minutes and I really should have listened closer but the gist was I had to bring my account into credit. We agreed to put $50 credit, so I'm -$50 or in positive by $50.
I waited another day and then tried to buy a 1GB pack but that didn't work, so I called up again and another girl did some magic and I have a 1GB pack now, and my account should turn over on the 4th of Jan.
My questions are this.
1. The credit limit appears to be a limit of not how much I can owe 2 Degrees before they suspend services, but how much I can actually spend with them in a month. Is this correct?
2. Is there anyway to have my 2degrees data simply cut off after the 1GB pack gets used up, or alternatively renews and get's another 1GB pack as otherwise I get charged at something like $200/GB instead of $20. - Still much better than the old days with VF/XT @ $10000/GB on casual data but annoying none the less.
3. Is there anything I can do now, as I cannot check voicemails, and am on call over Christmas and am scared my data will run out again or I get a voicemail I can't clear.
I should also mention the first girl said I could call up once my account rolled over and get a credit for the casual data which is nice. I do like 2 degrees.


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Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows by the end of the 2011-12 season in May, 2012. (includes results from January 2- March 4, 2012):
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With Ringer separating itself from the CW pack to the downside, the network is still certain to cancel one more scripted show (and maybe more) and it will almost certainly choose from Hart Of Dixie, Nikita and Gossip Girl.
Even though its spring ratings are as woeful as Hart of Dixie, I'd give Gossip Girl a bit more chance at renewal than the other two. Call it the "Dawn Ostroff Memorial Renewal".
It's impossible for me to separate the chances of Hart Of Dixie and Nikita. Nikita ratings are lower, but it's on Friday. But, it's in its second season and has had two "bites at the apple" to distinguish itself. Hart of Dixie may get a renewal just to give it a second chance. Or not, they could both be canceled.
The Renew / Cancel Index above includes results beginning January 2, 2012. How did the CW's shows stack up based on their Fall results? Click here.
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(F) -Fridays: Shows airing on Fridays were renewed with significantly lower than average Indexes.
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E-Field Distribution on HV Insulators' End-Fitting
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E-field plays a major role in the aging processes of insulators mainly because it is the factor that triggers partial discharges. Insulators are directly affected by E-field both in their long and short term performances due to corona and arcing. Local E-fields along insulators that exceed a certain critical threshold start ionization processes that release luminous discharges, termed corona, and ions producing nitric acids and other oxides that interact with the insulators' material and compromise them. Prolonged exposure to corona activity, regardless of the primary cause, degrades insulators and if not treated shorten their life time.
Numerous factors are involved with creating high local e-fields some of which are manageable and others are unmanageable. The presence of corona, its location and magnitude correspond to the local E-field magnitude and direction. E-fields values must be kept below the threshold value and though there is no universal accepted value available it is true that if corona appears the local E-field is above 30 [kV/cm]. The option to control E-field distribution along insulators is one of the ways to extend insulators' life span and consequently reduce maintenance cost.
Variations in any of the following factors will lead to changes in the E-field distribution:
Manageable factors:
- Applied voltage
- Design of the insulator
- Material and the electrical properties of the insulator
- Usage of corona rings and their design (Inner and outer radius, positioning, thickness)
- Hardware design
- Phase spacing
- Presence of grounding
- Contamination
- Pollution
- Weather (precipitations, moist, wind)
- Birds dropping
- Vandalism
Selection the correct type and design of insulators is one of the major manageable factors. For example, polymeric insulators that are manufactured to endure contamination with their rubber housing are commonly used in polluted and coastal areas. Polymeric materials are badly affected by environmental stresses like UV-radiations and heat. In hot areas with high UV radiation using ceramic or glass insulators is more common. Attached hardware, such as: arcing horns and grading devices etc., have a large effect on the E-field distribution along insulators and need to be considered. For example corona rings change the distribution of E-field, reduce the maximum E-field at the end fitting nearest to the power transmission line and improve the voltage distribution along the insulator string.
There are three main regions of interest when considering corona in insulators:
- Within the insulator at the interfaces between 2 or more different materials
- On the surface and in the air surrounding the insulator and its end-fitting seal
- On the surface and in the air surrounding the metallic end fittings and attached corona rings
Fig. 1 NCI Design
As shown in Fig. 2, the E-field magnitude near either end of an insulator, energized or grounded, is higher than in the mid span with the highest values near the energized end and therefore much attention is drawn to handling properly these areas. Sealing at the end fittings, for example, should be kept corona free and intact. Compromised sealing might lead to water ingress into the rod, to brittle fracture and to erosion of the end fitting metal.
Fig. 2 It can be seen from the plot that the E-field magnitude is high at the energized end and reduces exponentially along the insulator length. The magnitude increases again at the grounded end but to a far lesser extent.
End fitting design changes the magnitude of the E-field on the surface of insulators. Large end fittings with rounded edges tend to reduce the peak magnitude of the E-field values closer to the end fittings. Examples of E-field distributions for different end fitting designs are shown in Fig. 3
Fig. 3 Examples of the E-field magnitude distribution surrounding three different designs of end-fitting
Corona rings, as mentioned, influence the E-field magnitude and distribution as shown in Fig. 4. Corona rings' parameters: inner and outer diameter, positioning, orientation, radius, etc., influence the E-field distribution and must be considered before application.
Fig. 4 shows the magnitude of the E-field along the axis of an insulator which utilizes corona rings on both the live and grounded ends. The presence of the corona rings results in a shift of the position of highest E-field to a location 3 sheds away from the live end fitting.
To conclude: Corona is a derivative of a high local E-field. Insulators that must maintain their mechanical and electrical characteristics should be tested periodically for corona activity. Polymer insulators, in particular, should be kept corona free or run the risk of accelerated aging. Measuring E-field values is not a task that can be performed regularly, therefore knowing the parameters that are involved with E-field can lead to efficient use of corona cameras and to a better control of the electrical asset.


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December 6, 2013
By Ben Murphy
The 2012-13 basketball season was near magical for the Clare Lady Pioneers. The Clare girls went 23-2, racked up their
third straight Jack Pine Conference title, won districts and won the team's first ever regional title before losing a one-point heart-breaker to Bullock Creek in the quarterfinals.
"I like where we're at right now," third year head coach Matt Rodenbo said. "We have three players with an abundance of experience and success. Some of our new players are getting better by the day. It is a nice mix right now."
Back from that team are seniors Lindsay Winter (point guard, first team all-state, first team all JPC, school's second
all-time leading scorer), Corrine Wezensky (center, JPC honorable mention), Alex Stark (guard, forward, JPC honorable mention), Kodi Humphrey (forward), Tara Pummell (guard), Haley Pulcifer (guard) and Amanda Yats (forward). New to the team are juniors Olivia Cooper (guard), Kenzie Humphrey (guard), Mackenzie Thayer (forward), Morgan English (center) and freshman Lexi Harton (forward).
"Obviously we are going to lean on Winter, Wezensky, and Stark," Rodenbo said. "These players have played in several big games for this program over the years so they are tested. As far as a breakout player I think several have an opportunity to do that. Kodi Humphrey, Cooper, Kenzie Humphrey, and Harton will improve throughout the season as they get more experience at this level. I'm not counting out anybody on this team as far as gaining more minutes throughout the season. You never know for sure who is going to step up and play well." The Pioneers have won three straight JPC titles, though the coach sees a few teams standing in their way of a four-peat.
"Beaverton has everybody back," Rodenbo said. "Gladwin will be good and people would be making a mistake looking by Farwell. I think top to bottom the league will be competitive."
Despite the scales weighing heavily in favor of another good year, Rodenbo isn't taking anything for granted. "I don't want to speculate on that," he said.
"Last season was without a doubt special but this team will develop their own identity. I think the key for us will be to continue to improve throughout the season."
Clare opened its season with a 64-37 win at Montabella Tuesday night.
The Pioneers opened fast, taking a 20-4 lead after the first quarter and pulled ahead 37-17 at the half. Clare outscored The Lady Mustangs 15-8 in the third with both teams netting 12 points in the fourth.
"Goof effort all the way around," Rodenbo said of the win.
Winter hit four threepointers to finish with 22 points and added five steals, four rebounds and two assists. Wezensky had 13 points, eight rebounds and three steals, Codi Humphrey had eight points and eight rebounds, Stark had six points, nine rebounds and three steals and Thayer had four points and five rebounds.
Clare (1-0) plays at Gladwin tonight (Friday) in its JPC opener and plays at Saginaw Nouvel on Tuesday.


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Pest Control For Spiders
With hot weather this also brings out the spidres that have been quietly breeding away in your home and gardens. Most of the time these spiders are not a nuisance to people as hey live outside helping catch other nasty pests in your garden. However if there is a serious infestation and they are entering your home it may be time for spider pest control treatment from a proffesional business.
The first step would be to inspect the home and seal off any gaps or holes where the spiders may be gaining entry from. Use door stoppers or rolled up towels to block any gaps under doors. Trim back brances that are against the home's roof or building as spiders often gain acces to the home by climbing down these branches. Keep your lawns neat and tidy, bushes well prunes and yard clear of debris. This will reduce shelter for both spiders and the insects they eat and help them stop breeding.
A good quality residual dust should be applied to your roof void space by way of an electric blower.
This will spread among your empty roof space and any spiders that walk along this dust will pick up a trace of it and it will kill them off. It is important to have your roof void dusted with a quality dust as spiders often gain access into your roof void then work their way into your home through light fittings.
A licensed pest controller has access to chemicals which are not available to the general public. These chemicals are highly effective and provide long-lasting treatments against these spiders, they are safe, non-staining and leave no nasty odors. They are of much better quality than sprays bought from your local stores. A surface spray treatment should be applied to all your internal skirting boards and a spray to the outside of your house. Once a spider walks along the spray treated area they will die.
Gardens, fences outdoor furniture and rock areas should also be spray treated as spiders are very often found in these areas. Ground dwelling spiders living among rocks and your garden will hopefully pick up a trace of the spray and kill them off.
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Very stylish and chic yet still smart!
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This week I mixed my casual pieces with dressy casual.
On wednesday, we took the kids to see a play called "The Ballad of Emmett Till" at the Ensemble Theatre. You should definitely go see it if you can. The lead, Joseph "JoeP" Palmore plays the charming and lovable Emmett Till.
On Friday, I and the other teachers chaperoned the Valentines Day dance. Ironically, when I was in middle school, I had not been allowed to attend our school dance. When I was chaperoning, I saw that the students were mostly shy with each other and just wanted to dance with their friends. I wore a khaki long praire skirt with my Miley Cyrus checked shirt. Lol.
Wednesday was my favorite outfit, Monday was my next favorite. Friday's was really comfortable except for the shoes. I need to get over my height insecurities and invest in some good ole flats.
Very stylish and chic yet still smart!
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This is our favourite day walk in the entire Nepal Himalayas. When we say "day walk" we mean just that…not a continuous trek, a walk that you start and finish from the same place.
This short and straightforward day walk up to sacred Sekong Lake beneath the behemoth of Dhaulagiri (26,795 feet) affords unimaginably breathtaking views across the amazing Kali Gandaki Valley to Annapurna and the Nilgiri peaks as well as Dhaulagiri and its dramatic ice fall.
When we walked this trail, it certainly felt like a "discovery" as we didn't encounter anyone on the trail, except for a lonely Yak herder….and even then he was far higher up in the valley too, so we only saw him and his Yak herd from a distance.
We first "discovered" the circular walk up to Sekong Lake by accident. At the time we were "researching in the field" what became our Ultimate Annapurna Adventure and having hiked over the Thorung La we were actually mountain biking our way down the Kali Gandaki Valley from Jomsom, considering the support logistics, as well as looking for an ideal overnight halt and to be honest a rest day too.
So, that's how we ended up in Thasang. Liked it and decided it was a good place to take a rest break.
However, chatting with the lodge owner that evening (trying out his buckwheat brandy!), he mentioned this relatively new trail, so we decided to check it out the next morning.
As for Thasang, well, there used to be a time when the traditional village of Thasang could only be reached on foot and thus required continuous days of trekking up the Kali Gandaki Valley, or by flying up to Jomsom and then trekking down.
Not any more. The good news is that Thasang can be reached in just a days drive from Pokhara in a jeep. And what a drive it is up to Thasang too as you climb up through the awesome Kali Gandaki Valley and into the heart of the Himalayas. It's a rough, uncomortable and very adventurous journey for sure though and definitely not for the faint hearted.
Thasang itself couldn't be more spectacular location wise. It sits on a hill, perched high above the valley below. An eagles nest location right under Dhaulagiri.
Even better, there's a really cool place to stay in Thasang too. A luxury lodge affording proper bedrooms, proper beds, en-suite western style bathrooms and absolutely superlative Himalayan views that make coming here more than worth it alone.
Back to the walk. The lodge will usually let you 'borrow' one of their staff if you want someone to accompany you. Certainly get the lodge to knock you up a tasty picnic to take with you.
It begins with a descent from the village, through terraced fields and back down to the floor of the flat Kali Gandaki River Valley.
Upon reaching the jeep road you turn right and follow the road across a small bridge. Pretty soon after crossing the bridge, still following the jeep track you'll come across a big sign "Dhaulagiri Icefall & Sekong Lake".
Join the trail that the sign is pointing too and basically that's it……keep following the trail in a clockwise direction.
The trail itself rises steadily up through fragrant pine forests, but soon gives way to a more open landscape. The gradient eases as you pass through fields of ….er….wild marijuana and then begins to climb once again up to the small mountain lake of Sekong (a tarn we'd call it Cumbria). Walk for a few minutes more above the lake for the idyllic picnic site.
Right above you towers Dhaulagiri and across the valley the peaks of the Annapurna range and the omnipresent Nilgiris. If you're lucky you may see a Yak herder with his valuable (and increasingly rare) Yaks.
You can walk higher up on the flanks of Dhaulagiri towards it's incredible icefall. Just allow yourself enough time to come back down again. Reaching the icefall itself is an altogether longer and different proposition entirely.
Picnic time and usually at this relatively modest altitude of around 2600m it's quite mild and often sunny.
Such a beautiful location with outstanding views all around you is no place to leave in a hurry. But, when you do decide to move on follow the trail heading clockwise along the lake shore (saves going down back the same way) and soon the path heads back into the forests, passing another small lake, before finally bringing you back out on the jeep road.
Turn left, back across the bridge and then follow the trail back up to Thasang.
You could probably complete this circuit walk in 3-4hrs, but as there's so much to 'soak up' making a leisurely day of it is best.
This beautiful walk now features in our "Mustang Magic Luxury Lodge Trek", although several Snow Cat Travel clients have asked us to include it in their custom Nepal tour, either as part of a longer Jeep Adventure to Lo Manthang, or simply as a couple of days excursion from Pokhara on a tailor made cultural tour of Nepal.
Here's Google map of the walk that we made!


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The year was going slow, profits are down and slowly you are getting pinned against the edge of falling into the bankruptcy pit. Your business is thirsty for that return-on-investment (ROI) and you have to deliver. Without mentioning the turbulence and stress that goes along with this situation – you are forced to think potentially outside of the box to solve this one.
This hurdle is usually the hardest to overcome but luckily there are many solutions both technical and presentational that you can do to start that cash start flowing in. Below you can read about a couple of angles you can take when considering solving these issues.
Redesign your website
This is an undertaking that requires a lot of time and effort in order to succeed. Various aspects of your website can be redesigned. One side of the coin is purely visual aesthetic design. The visual is very important if not more than the other side and you change it by implementing new styles and layout arrangement. The other side of the coin is the technical part of the website. If a website is not user-friendly and has bad architecture, content distribution, and cross-platform accessibility it will probably cost you money.
The important thing here is to keep yourself focused and calm. Try approaching this from the angle of a potential customer. Play with his levels of understanding of your brand/product/market. See how this molds into your site's presentation. If you consider this approach quickly you will realize just how much you can improve!
Measure the scale
Underreacting or overreacting is a big NO if we are looking for quick results. A dollar saved is a dollar earned. Much like investing it in the right place at the right time. This is why we scale problems and react only when and where necessary. You don't need to change the whole thing because one option isn't delivering similarly to how a broken system won't be fixed by changing a button.
Take a look at the data if you have it available. If you don't – try and get some. It is pretty good for pointing you in a rational way. Allow the data to guide you in determining the problem and do the absolute bare minimum to fix it. If you are doing a complete revamp of your site without being absolutely certain that is the way to go – chances are you are probably getting rid some of the good stuff as well.
Focus on your SEO
Many aspects of your website affect your ranking within Google's algorithm. Getting your website and its content search engine optimized (SEO) is a priority if you are struggling for fresh traffic. This alone can make or break your investment. SEOs take into consideration over hundreds of factors and try tweaking each out.
Whether it's focusing on retail, marketing, branding or content aspects, all involved within SEO – delivering on all of these fronts can be a mountain to climb on. If overwhelmed, many turn to companies like GWM, in order to provide the best visibility for their online presence.
Check-out your biases
This one isn't necessarily a strategy, rather a good point to end on. Choosing the correct option is only a part of the solution. You must convince yourself that the choice you made is correct and hone it. The greatest issue when choosing our solution is our biases clouding our better judgment. We all have our personal preferences on what aspect of our business we value the most.
This can be a slippery slope. An economist will overthink the finances, a designer aesthetics, a manager organization, etc. Always talk to your coworkers and ask for opinions to better your input. Fresh perspectives should be openly accepted as they allow us to form well-developed solutions.
Whether the change you make is minor or major – they have to reflect the final goal you are striving for. Argue from the point of using data and experience to help you see the issues and solutions to them. Check and double-check your information, making sure you are on the right path every step of the way.
Turning things around quickly is usually a bang or a bust. Rarely can there be a middle ground found when taking a step this extreme. Making sure your shot at this is straight and true is an obligation you shouldn't take likely – for your sake.


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Amprius Begins Shipping a Better Smartphone Battery
A company called Amprius is getting closer to delivering salvation from so-so smartphone batteries.
As one of several companies trying to fix smartphone battery life, Amprius has begun supplying its first products to phone and tablet makers.
The exact improvement in real-world performance is tough to quantify without testing old and new technologies side-by-side in the same phone, but the company estimates a 10-25% improvement at first, Amprius CEO Kang Sun said in an interview.
"This is already a substantial improvement from the batteries in the marketplace," Sun said.
What the company can quantify is Watt-hours per liter–in other words, how much energy can be stored in a given volume. Amprius' first smartphone battery, with 1850 mAh capacity, offers 580 Watt-hours per liter, compared to about 530 Wh/L for existing high-end batteries. Amprius is also offering a 4060 mAh, 600 Wh/L battery for tablets, and is working with phone makers…
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Q. Why was the student's report card wet?
A. It was below 'C' level.
Q. What is white when it's dirty and black when it's clean?
A. A blackboard.
Q. What's the longest table in the world?
A. A multiplication table.
Q. What can you hold in your right hand but not your left hand.
A. Your left elbow.
Q. Brian's mom has four children.
The first was a boy named Jerry. The second was a girl named Susan. The third was a boy called Robert, and the fourth was another boy.
What was his name?
A. Brian.
Q. The Jones family built a house, only to find that all four walls faced south. When they were finished building, they looked out the window and saw a bear.
What color was the bear?
A. White. The house was built on the North Pole and bear was a Polar Bear.
Q. Joe was asked how many ducks he had.
He answered, "As they ran down the path, I saw one
duck in front of two ducks, a duck behind two ducks, and a duck between two ducks."
How many ducks did Joe have?
A. Three. The ducks were waddling down the road in single file.
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Q. There are two coins on the table totaling 35 cents. One of them is not a quarter.
What are the coins?
A. One of them is not a quarter, but the other is! A dime and a quarter.
Q. Little Abbey lives on the fifteen floor of an apartment.
Each morning she takes the elevator down to the lobby, where she waits for her school bus. After school, she walks back to the elevator, which she takes up to the sixth floor. At the sixth floor she gets out and walks up the remaining nine flights of stairs to get to her apartment.
Why doesn't she take the elevator all the way up?
A. Abbey can't reach any buttons higher than the number six.
Q. There are six purple socks, four red socks, and eight black socks all mixed up in a drawer.
The socks are exactly the same except for the color. Your room is pitch black and you have to pick out one pair of matching socks.
What is the least number of socks you would have to take out of the drawer to guarantee matching a pair?
A. Four. It would be possible to get a matching pair in the first two that you pick out, but since you can't see, you'd have to take four to guarantee a match.
If you pick out a purple sock, followed by a red one, then a black sock, then the next sock you pull out, whether it's purple, red, or black, will match one of the socks already in your hand.
Q. Why do you have to be careful with sunrises and sunsets?
A. Because day breaks and night falls.
Q. What's round and bad-tempered?
A. A vicious circle.
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Q. What can you put into a barrel full of water to make it lighter?
A. A hole.
Q. What works only after it's been fired?
A. A rocket.
Q. Which kind of house weighs the least?
A. A lighthouse.
Q. How did the hairdresser get home so fast?
A. She took a short cut.
Q. When do dentists get angry?
A. When they run out of patients.
Q. What does a farmer grow if he works very hard?
A. Tired.
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Claire Winfrey
PhD Student
Claire joined the lab in August 2017. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. In addition to working with and publishing on herpetofauna, Claire completed an undergraduate research project examining the role of visual and non-visual cues in damselfly mate recognition (Winfrey & Fincke 2017).
Undergraduate students
Will Kirkpatrick
Will joined the lab in May 2017. He is a junior in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UTK. Will worked on a sodium addition experiment and collected data for a manuscript on breeding biology of a tropical bird. He presented his work at the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA), the UT EEB undergraduate symposium, and UT Discovery Day. In 2018, Will received an undergraduate grant to carry out a summer project on behavioral responses of dung beetles to temperature change. Will is headed to a PhD program at the University of Arkansas in Fall 2019!
Morgan Fleming
Morgan joined the lab in February 2018. She earned her Associates from Roane State Community College. Morgan assisted with dung beetle physiological research for six months before embarking on an independent project. She received an undergraduate grant to continue working on her independent project in Summer 2019.
Jerame Brown
Jerame joined the lab in October 2019. He is helping to get the fall armyworm system off the ground!
Connor Riley
Connor joined the lab in September 2019, the same month he started his BS in Microbiology at UT. He has previous research experience in both a medical entomology lab and an oceanographic institute in Florida.
Abby Wells
Anna Raney
Bella Ritchie
Logan Hysen
Kylie Hannahs
Duncan Mccurry
Research Assistants
Sarah Jayne Brawner
Sarah joined the lab in August 2017 as an undergraduate and received a BS in Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2018. As an undergraduate, Sarah helped launch a new direction in the lab — gut microbiome research on dung beetles. She returned to the lab in November 2018 as a Research Assistant to help with a variety of ongoing and new projects. We're excited to have Sarah back!
Previous Team Members — folks we miss!
Matt McGee
Matt worked in the lab from June-December 2017. He completed his BA at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2011. While in the lab, Matt helped with beetle trapping in the Smokies, dung beetle breeding in the lab, and a warming experiment in the field. He also first-authored an article on breeding biology of a rare Ecuadorian bird that has been accepted for publication. He is starting a Masters at Cal State Monterey Bay in August 2019!
Shelby Collins
Shelby was in the lab from January-June 2018. In addition to being in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Shelby was part of the Vols Teach Program, which emphasizes field based experiences and is aimed at training those interested in a career in secondary teaching. Shelby helped with several outreach efforts in the lab, and she was the Education Coordinator for our summer research program with high school students of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
David Edwards
David was a lab member from May 2017-May 2018. David helped with dung beetle breeding experiments and worked on a sodium addition experiment. He also co-authored a manuscript on the breeding biology of a bird species from Ecuador.
Atira Sherrod
Atira was in the lab from September 2016-May 2017. She received her Associate of Science degree from Pellissippi State Technical Community College. She completed her B.S. in Biology at the University of Tennessee in 2016 with a concentration in Microbiology. Atira became particularly interested in ecology and evolutionary biology and took additional undergraduate courses to round out her education while working in the lab. She assisted with dung beetle research and worked on an independent project examining operative temperatures of beetles across seasons.


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Frank Ashen, a Monterey resident and former member of the Lake Buel District Board, recently passed away. He was an active contributor and supporter of the District, and will be missed by many.
Frank Ashen, a Monterey resident and former member of the Lake Buel District Board, recently passed away. He was an active contributor and supporter of the District, and will be missed by many.
It's been years in development, and Wired West is at a critical stage. The municipal coop to bring fiber based broadband (internet, television, and telephone service) to the under-served towns in Western Massachusetts including New Marlborough and Monterey needs your support to move forward.
It's essentially a two-step process before build out can occur: 1) each town must have at least 40% of its households express a statement of interest and submit a refundable $49 deposit and 2) each town must vote on issuing a municipal "construction" bond to build out the network with a 2/3 majority needed to pass. Why 40%? Because at the 40% threshold, the business model projects that the Wired West subscribers will generate sufficient revenue to cover operating costs and payback the construction bonds.
If you have not signed-up and are interested, visit this site soon: https://register.wiredwest.net/ . Neither town has reached the 40% target as of April 15, 2015.
Let's also acknowledge the tireless work of our Board of Selectmen appointed reps to Wired West, Monica Webb (Monterey) and Tim Newman (NM) who have shepherded the process so far. Let's now do our part to sign up and make telecommuting from the beautiful shores of Lake Buel a viable option!
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Boston Globe article (4/5/2015) about Wired West: https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/04/04/time-for-western-mass-get-broadband-speed/Lqo2Ia5tn07lM52PXEbCyL/story.html?comments=all&sort=NEWEST_CREATE_DT
Berkshire Eagle Editorial from May 3, 2015
It's that time of year again for the Annual Lake Buel Restoration / Preservation District Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held at 10:00 AM on Saturday May 24th at the United Church of Christ Meeting House (lower level room) located at 449 Main Road in Monterey. Please attend in person or send in your proxy statement since no business can be transacted without a quorum of district proprietors. If you are planning to attend in person, please arrive early to allow sufficient time for attendee and proxy registration and quorum calculation. The doors will open at 9:30 AM.
As many of you know, Dave Lewis passed away last year. Several residents have inquired whether the fireworks company he was so closely identified with would continue. The good news is it will, and subject to funding approval at the upcoming District meeting on May 24th, Berkshire Fireworks will once again provide a glorious display over Labor Day weekend.
Assuming you are one of us who longs for the cell phone service and the associated option for internet connectivity. For over a year, I have glanced up the hill at the intersection of Pixley (Rt 57) and Main Roads (Rt 23) in Monterey, only to be disappointed by what appears to be a tall silver flag pole. What is eventually going to be the first cell phone tower in Monterey has been in the works for two years, with only hearsay stories about numerous delays and no one committing to a "go live" date after the Autumn 2012 target came and went. Discovery at the Monterey Second Home Owners annual meeting in August that new building permits had been issued to AT&T, Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile only heightened speculation.
Well, the past weekend, I noticed a set of mounting brackets have been installed at the top! Progress we can see! Could it be that by Columbus Day we might actually have cell phone service?
Once again, we'll have the opportunity to watch a splendid fireworks display over Lake Buel on the Saturday evening of Labor Day weekend (August 31). The launch site will be the beach area near Kutsher's Sports Academy around 9:00 PM. Enjoy!!


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Wild Food: Seven Herbs To Celebrate The Return Of Green
(Photo from Shizenjuku)
Sirerdrick made a good point in the comment to Bonnie's post about Food Foraging, noting that in Japan, you can find a lot of wild foods, including bamboo shoots, fern saplings, and ginkgo nuts. Actually, today, January 7 is a traditional day to celebrate the first herbs that grow this time of year. This afternoon I noticed that my supermarket sold the herbs, so I didn't have to do much foraging, but I like the way they make stuff available:
(Seven herbs from wikipedia)
* Water dropwort (seri, Oenanthe javanica)
* Shepherd's purse (nazuna)
* Cudweed (gogyÅ, Gnaphalium affine)
* Chickweed (hakobera, Stellaria media)
* Nipplewort (hotokenoza, Lapsana apogonoides)
* Turnip (suzuna)
* Daikon (suzushiro)
Since there is little food to harvest in early January, these fresh green herbs bring colour to the table and eating them suits the spirit of the New Year. At temples and shrines around Japan, this is a day to celebrate the return of green, as farmers start harvesting the tiny leaves and roots.
And if you ate too much during the holiday, you will appreciate the light, simple fare, usually eaten with a rice porridge.
Of course it is also a reminder of how grateful we really should be for the abundance of food - something we tend to take for granted, as low oil prices have made industrial, large-scale (polluting) factory-style farming the norm. For how long? Nobody knows. And most of us are not very well prepared to grow our own, GMO free food. How about you?
(Image from Our Adventures In Japan)
Food blogger Kat has the recipe:
You wash all the grasses and parboil until the leaves wilt. Then chop up and add to your porridge. The porridge has the consistency of oatmeal, but you could make your porridge more liquidy if you like. It tastes like you added spinach to your un-sweetened oatmeal.
More food foraging:
Food Foraging Lessons for the Recession
Food Foraging for the Faint-hearted
Food Foraging: Gourmet Food Hunting
A Year in the Woods Eating Wild Food
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The first First Lady to appear on Sesame Street was Barbara Bush, so I'm going to start with the footage from her appearance.
I wasn't able to find footage of Hillary Clinton on Sesame Street (if anyone knows where I can find it, I would be willing to post it), but I did find a TV Guide cover of Mrs. Clinton and Big Bird to share.
I was also able to find Laura Bush on Sesame Street – she appropriately reads a book to the characters.
I also found an article that calls Obama the first Sesame Street president – meaning that he is the first President who grew up watching this program and learning from it. The article goes on to compare Sesame Street and the Obama Presidency:
The Obama presidency is a wholly American fusion of optimism, enterprise and earnestness — rather like the far-fetched proposal of 40 years ago to create a TV show that would prove that educational television need not be an oxymoron.
This article also includes information on how Michelle Obama felt about appearing on Sesame Street:
When Michelle Obama visited the set in Queens, N.Y., to talk about "healthy habits" a few weeks ago, she was practically fizzing. "I'm on a high," she said. "I never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird." Let it be noted that this visit came after she'd met the Queen of England at Buckingham Palace and welcomed Stevie Wonder to the White House and enjoyed all kinds of other not-too-bad perks of being First Lady. "I think it's probably the best thing I've done so far in the White House."
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Insane Forest Goes On Hiatusby francisbonnet on November 18, 2013 at 12:01 pm
Dear Readers,
Insane Forest was always intended to be an experiment in potty humor and tastelessness — an outlet for ideas too disgusting, bloody, or outrageous to fit into my other comic series. For now, that experiment has come to a close. I am putting Insane Forest on hiatus for the foreseeable future. I want to thank all of you who stuck with Insane Forest these past eight months. There is always a possibility that I will return to this comic strip in the future, and if I do I will surely announce it here and on my Suburban Fairy Tales site, which is updated with new strips three days a week. Thanks again and see you over at Suburban Fairy Tales!
-Francis Bonnet
The Comic Strip Coloring Processby francisbonnet on August 1, 2013 at 9:44 pm
A lot of people asked about the way I color Insane Forest. It isn't really anything special, but I'll share the process with you.
I do the pencils and inks by hand and then scan them into the computer at 600 DPI. From there I bring the artwork into Photoshop so I can add the color. People think the strip is colored using real watercolor (which is the effect I'm going for), but in reality I actually use the Watercolor Wash Brush, which is located in the brush presets in Photoshop.
I start coloring the strip directly on the computer using my Wacom Intuos tablet. I find it easier and faster to use a tablet than coloring it with a mouse. The color is done in its own Photoshop layer behind the ink layer. I do this so that the color won't show on top of the inks.
It takes about 20 minutes to color in a strip. I purposefully color it loosely because I like the look, and it's also quick. The final result can be seen below.
I work about four weeks ahead of what appears online. Since Insane Forest is only a weekly strip (for now) it's pretty easy to stay ahead of schedule.
Eternal Conby francisbonnet on June 9, 2013 at 12:56 pm
Just letting all my loyal readers know that I will be appearing at Eternal Con, a pop culture and comic book expo, this Saturday, June 16 at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York.
I'll be there all day to promote my other, more family-friendly comic strip, Suburban Fairy Tales. I'll be selling Suburban Fairy Tales books and giving away free sketches with every purchase. Although I won't be actively promoting Insane Forest at Eternal Con, if you're a fan of the strip stop by the Suburban Fairy Tales booth and request an Insane Forest sketch.
For more information about Eternal Con, check out the Eternal Con website.
Problem with User Commentsby francisbonnet on May 24, 2013 at 1:39 pm
Seems the Insane Forest site has been filtering any and all comments to spam — even my own! I didn't realize it until just now, but it had something to do with the spam filter I had installed onto WordPress. I apologize if anyone has been trying to post comments on some of my comics/blog posts and they haven't been showing up. It should be fixed now (I hope)!
No Ugly Duckling in Insane Forestby francisbonnet on April 12, 2013 at 11:59 pm
When I started Insane Forest I thought that Ugly Duckling would be the perfect character to bring over from my other series, Suburban Fairy Tales. Well, since I recently decided to work on both series simultaneously, Ugly Duckling will remain as a character exclusive to Suburban Fairy Tales — which means he'll never show up in Insane Forest.
I'm not interested in doing any crossovers, and having the same character appear in two of my ongoing series will just get confusing. I will be removing Ugly Duckling from the cast picture on the top banner of this site in the coming weeks and replace him with another character who I plan on having join the cast instead.
Yes, that's right, a new character will be joining the cast of Insane Forest! I won't reveal what animal it is yet, but he'll be showing up in the cast photo soon. Stay tuned for more info!


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THE EMPEROR : downfall of an autocrat, by Ryszard Kapuściński. Translated from Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand. New York: Vintage, 1983. 164 pp. ISBN–10 0151287716 Forty years ago today, the deposed absolute ruler of Ethiopia died in prison after more than 40 years on the throne. Haile Selassie, the Lion of Judah, […]
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Book review: Our Great Big American God
OUR GREAT BIG AMERICAN GOD : a short history of our ever-growing deity, by Matthew Paul Turner. New York: Jericho Books, 2014. 241 pp. ISBN 9781455547340 This is a book about the history of Christianity in America, written by a young, white, evangelical blogger from Nashville, Tennessee. As best I can tell, Matthew Paul Turner […]
Book reviews from LibraryThing
Over the last few years most of my writing online has been on the LibraryThing website, a social niche for book people. LibraryThing's main product is an easy way to catalog book collections with as much or as little detail as you like. On the social side, it provides book-related local information (on the web […]
How to review stuff
Tim Carmody at Snarkmarket wrote a thoughtful essay on reviewing books, movies, and other works in the new-media environment. In a nutshell, he points out how swarms of reviews posted at Amazon (for example) can have competing objectives, centering on what he labels immanence versus transcendence.1
The difference between these helps explain a gap between traditional newspaper reviews, which emphasize the value of the transcendent work, and consumer reviews at Amazon and countless other sites, which are more likely to focus on the particular experience with one (immanent) form of the work. Continue reading "How to review stuff"
teh kidz r alright
I was recently directed to yet another complaint about the decline of literacy, the corrosive intellect-leaching power of digital technology, and our collective guilt for letting Western civilization subside into a mire of tweets, blogs, and gaming.
iPhones Have Consequences, by Sally Thomas, is a witty, engaging essay on the subject, supported by memorable anecdotes. I believe it delves deeper into the question than most such efforts, and it's well worth reading.
I feel I must address her argument that the present college generation is dumber than we forty-somethings, seeing as I've argued exactly the opposite. It's my view that the forty-somethings are the dumbest generation currently on offer, and the so-called "twixters" or "tweens" are more curious than we, and have read more and thought about more than we had at their age. Continue reading "teh kidz r alright"
Fifteen books
This is one of those Facebook memes: a list of 15 books that matter to me, written down in the order I thought of them, without reflection or editing. I scribbled it down last year, felt satisfied, and forgot to post it. So here it is for whatever it may be worth. Continue reading "Fifteen books"
The book that changed your life
The question has become commonplace in published interviews with authors and other bookish people. I think I just read the best answer yet given to that question: Book that changed your life: Introduction to Computer Data Processing, Third Edition, 1984. If this textbook had not so clearly described how god-awfully boring a career in information […]


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The House just passed a revised healthcare bill which also allows for the ACA to be withdrawn. Yes, I know this bill needs to be sent to the Senate as well. However, this is one step closer to a very scary reality for many many people, myself included. It also comes with the realization that 217 people have just stated that they are alright with the idea that my daughter and so very many like her could die. I know some of you are saying that this is jumping to extremes. Let me tell you about extremes.
Extremes is when your first child, the child you tried SO very hard for 5 years to conceive is born with liver disease. This disease attacked your child through no fault of yours or your child's. When she is three days old you are faced with the possibility of having to leave her behind at the hospital because she is too sick to come home with you. Extreme is finding out at just 11weeks of age she will have to go through not just one day of testing, but two and then a lengthy and dangerous surgery. Extreme is finding out that your perfect child was born without a gallbladder so they could not even perform the one last test they wanted to. Extreme is watching your child's belly swell to the size of a basketball due to all of the fluid collecting in her abdominal cavity. And then listening to her scream in pain every time her belly was drained. Being told that your child has developed the very infection most common for that type of surgery right away while you sit and just watch because you can do nothing to take away her pain or make her magically better. Extreme is finally getting to come home after almost 20 days in the hospital only to go back a week later for another infection. Then you get to stay a week, come home a week, go back again for a week and so on. After a few months of this, you are told your child is one of the unlucky 33% who will need a liver transplant sooner rather than later. Extreme is asking complete strangers to volunteer to give your daughter part of their liver so she can live and watching the outpouring of how many people just simply say "Yes". Extreme is getting the call that a liver has been found for your tiny little girl and being told just come to the hospital in the morning, no rush...when you know it should have been a rush, but that means the child you are getting the organ from hasn't been removed from life support yet. Extreme is handing your 5 month old baby over to complete strangers for a surgery that lasts 10 1/2 hours only to be told afterwards that your child might not have made it to Christmas by the surgeon, which was only about a month away, because she was worse than they had originally thought. Extreme is 2 months of isolation and continued life saving medication twice a day every day for the rest. of. her. life. just so she can live. Extreme is watching your beautiful almost 9 year old child be ashamed of the scars she has because she was born with a disease that no one can predict, no one can tell her why she contracted, and no one can cure. Transplant is not a cure. It is simply a treatment.
If this bill goes through, she could be dropped from her insurance along with so many other children with pre-existing conditions. She could be forced to change hospitals or healthcare providers. She could be labeled high risk. All of these things could lead to her eventual death. Just because she was born, someone found it in their heart to save her life when they lost their child, and she lived. That's it. That is all she has done.
Granted, she could not be dropped from her insurance. They could just raise her deductible and lower her coverage so much that we, as her parents, can no longer afford to pay for her medical care or she is refused from treatment because the Hospital isn't getting paid for her care by the insurance or us.
Again, all she did was live. Tell me why it's ok for a little over 200 people and the POTUS to say it's ok if she dies. Also, think about this. If you are not ok with abortion but are ok with children (even adults) losing their life because they have a pre-existing condition, you no longer get to call yourself Pro-Life, you just get to call yourself anti-abortion. Plain and simple.
For those of you wishing to share, please feel free.