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eXtriGo's Privacy Policy
Welcome to eXtriGo – We care about our user's privacy and will do our best to protect it, subject to this Privacy Policy and the binding Terms of Use.
This Policy is subject to the Terms of Use and the terms used herein are the same as in the Terms of use.
By using or accessing the Site or any of the services, you are accepting this privacy policy. If anything here offends you or you do not wish to be bound by it, please do not access or use the site or any of its services. Any kind of use will be binding.
First and foremost you should know that no mater how we try, the Site can never guarantee that anything you post, upload, send to anyone or publish ("post") on the Site shall remain confidential. Quite the contrary – almost anything you choose to post on the Site WIL BE MADE PUBLIC and available to anyone on the Internet as the Site's main purpose is sharing your goals and their achievement process with the world.
Therefore, please DO NOT POST ANYTHING YOU WISH TO REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL.
What We Collect, and How:
- Site collects information. Upon any use of the Site, the Site may collect both Privately Identifying Information (PII) and Non-Privately Identifying Information (Non-PII), as follows:
- Registration information and more. When you register to the Site, you may supply us with mandatory information (mainly methods of contact such as password, active and operational e-mail address), with Facebook or other social media account access and other voluntary information (such as name, location, fields of interest, birth date, gender, goals and desires, etc.). Users may further post and upload to the Site various User Content and information. All such information is stored and saved. Please note that when you act in such a way, you may not be anonymous.
- User's record. Your user name, comments, photos, videos, your use of Site, messages you may send to other Users or to the Site, and various other details may be automatically collected and stored. This information is used to identify you as a specific user. We also collect any and all information you may post, upload or share on the Site, such as comments.
- Device-specific. The unique device ID or relevant device identifier you use, platform type and version, hardware and processor type, kind of browser, human readable hardware name, etc.
- Behavior on the Site, analytics data and personalized offers. When you click or look at certain pages and links throughout the site, interacts with the Site in certain manners or perform any other activity within the Site (such as voting on our surveys), we store such behavioral data and use it for non-identifying uses (such as analytical data) to improve our Site and to further offer our users better targeted offers, promotional material, advertisements, etc. We may share such data with others.
- Facebook and other social media networks accounts. When a you connect your account on the Site to another social media account such as Facebook, we collect your user ID or Facebook ID, session key, timestamps, friend list, photos, profile picture and other data as provided by Facebook or said network. By connecting using your said network account you acknowledge that and agree to it.
- Contact with the Site and other users. If at any time you contact the Site or other users using the Site, such correspondence of any nature may be saved and reviewed by the Site.
- Cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on your computer holding information about your use of the Site. This information is gathered for all users and may be used by the Site for various reasons such as to improve the Site, to offer you better experience using the Site, to offer you useful advertisement and promotional material, etc.
- Rejecting Cookies on your browser. You may configure your web-browsers to accept or reject all or some cookies, per browser's definitions. However, in order to use many of the services on the Site, you must enable accepting cookies from the Site. You are under no obligation to do so, but the Site's performance may be hindered if you so choose.
- Information supplied by you. When you register or log-in to the Site or when you use certain services, you may provide further personal identifiable information, such as your name, your user name, your email address, your password, etc. You may also, but under no obligation to, supply us further information such as favorite sport, beloved video clips or athletes, etc. Only your password and email are kept confidential. All other information supplied to the Site may not be kept confidential so you are to regard it as if it is public. We may also store any other information of any kind you choose to supply us with or share with other users or the Site.
- Any information and content may be collected. A user may set up a personal account and profile, upload and share materials, photos, videos, etc., post content, send messages, take part in surveys and act in any other applicable way with the Site and other users. You may also link your account with other social media accounts. The Site may collect, analyze and use this information posted and uploaded to it or to other social media accounts connected with each user so to provide its users with a better Site and offer more personalized features and promotional materials and offers, both from the Site or from third party vendors.
- Logging using other social media account and linking them. As stated, you may also log onto the Site using other social media accounts (such as Twitter and Facebook) ("such as" is not all-inclusive) or link them to your profile. The Site may use any information, content, pictures, videos, files and all other works or data included in such accounts and/or publish it as it may see fit.
- Collecting certain information regarding your activity. When using our Site, we may collect information about your use of the Site and your account, your downloads and uploads, votes and surveys, User Content, comments, messages, pages you view, items that may be of interest to you, length of time spent at each page and various other activities conducted on the Site.
- Collecting information in general. The Site may collect additional information from or about you in other ways not specifically described here. For example, we may collect information related to your contact with the Site by email or by any other way.
- Posting at your own risk. Should you post content of any kind on the Site, you do so at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable even if the content is posted on a personal space. We cannot guarantee that content you post will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
- Also if you choose to share certain content with other users, the Site cannot control the actions of those users and the confidentiality of the content.
- Deleted Content may still be public. You should be aware that even after removal of content, either by the Site or by you, copies of any content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Site, on its severs, on search engines or if other users have copied or stored the content.
Use of Information, Sharing and Disclosure:
- Disclosure of information to third parties. We do not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or companies which are not contractually connected with us, except when we have your permission, as described above, or under the following circumstances:
- The Site believes, in its sole discretion, that the law requires it or it has to respond to the legal authority of any kind and of any relevant jurisdiction;
- The Site received a subpoena, injunction, warrant or other court order to disclose such information;
- The Site has been requested to do so by a relevant authorized authority, by court order, by the police or by similar procedure;
- The Site believes, in its sole discretion, that relevant user actions or activities violate our Terms (as defined) or the Site needs to disclose any such information in order to defend itself or assert any of its rights;
- The Site believes, in its sole discretion, that the disclosure of the information is necessary to prevent or minimize physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity or may be interfering with the Site's rights or property, other users, or any third party.
- The Site believes, in its sole discretion, that the disclosure of the information is required to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims or protect any of our users; in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, or as otherwise required by law; or to investigate any violation of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use.
- The Site may transfer any part thereof or all content, personal information and other information about you if as a result of the sale, merger, acquisition or any other transaction our services, the Site or substantially all of our assets are assumed by another person (including corporation). That corporation will possess the personal information collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
- Possible other uses. We may also use your personal and non-personal information to:
- send users updates and promotional materials about the Site and its services of any kind;
- conduct research regarding the use and potential uses of the Site and better personalize the Site to our users' taste;
- provide the services and customer support you may request;
- offer better and more interesting services and perform statistical analysis of any such information;
- manage the Site and resolve disputes among our users and third parties;
- prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our Terms of Use;
- send our users targeted marketing and promotional offers;
- contact other social media networks you have registered your account with and publish data information or other content on your behalf.
- Posted content and information is always public. Please take notice that whenever you voluntarily posts public information and content on the Site, that information can be accessed by anyone using the Internet and the Site cannot be responsible to any result of such exposure.
- Caution is required. You may use the Site to share various information , but please take informed, cautious and relevant choices in the information you choose to share. You respect third party rights and make sure any of your content does not harm or breach third parties or the Site's rights in any way.
- Purpose of collecting data and information. Our primary, but not sole, purpose in collecting information of all kinds is to provide our users (as yourself) with a better optimized and much more interesting Site.
- Removal from our database. If you wish to remove your data from our database, feel free to contact us and request such removal at the "Contact Us" page. Please tell us exactly what information you wish us to delete from our files and we will act in accordance with your request. Do note that by deleting information you may not enjoy several features or advantages the Site allows you.
- Information stored and processed in Israel. By using the Site, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the USA, Israel or in any other country in which the Site or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using the Site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
- Information may be transferred to other jurisdictions. The Site may transfer information collected, including personal information, to third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. Please note that laws governing data collection and use at your own country may differ from the relevant laws applying to the site. You may be submitting your information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction may have, and still you consent to the transfer of information to Israel and other countries, and to the use and disclosure of information, including personal information, as described in the terms of this Policy.
- Transfer of information. The Site may transfer any and all content, personal information (including password protected) and all other information, works and materials to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale, merger, acquisition or any other transaction with the Site, its assets or a substantial part thereof.
Persons under the age of 13:
- The Site does not address persons under the age of 13 and does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under that age 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for the Site or any of its Services and do not send any information about yourself to the Site.
- Always keep in mind that you should never reveal your address, phone number or other personally identifiable information to any strangers on the Internet.
- Please note that minors and other users of the Site may be exposed to offensive or inappropriate content. The Site does its best to remove any offensive content or content not in accordance to the Terms of this Site, but the Site cannot guarantee such exposure will not happen. Surfing the Site should be done carefully, at your own risk.
Third Party Advertising on the Site
- Third Party Advertising on the Site. Advertisements that appear on the Site might be delivered to you by third party advertisers or partners. Such third parties may automatically receive your IP address and some other details when this happens. These third party advertisers may also use cookies, or other tracking technologies to offer you better services. In this way, they may gather certain information regarding the Internet use from your device in order to send you more relevant and targeted advertising (such as what advertisements were viewed or clicked on) or other purposes. The Site does not have access to or control of those cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers and does not recommend any such activity.
- This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by advertisers and you should be aware it might be possible, so act cautiously in accordance.
Changing or Removing Information and data
- Profile information and its edition. You have access and control over your profile information and some of the content you post. You may modify or delete all, any or some of it, as relevant. Please note that cached versions or backup copies of the Site might hold said information or content as prior to such change and are not deleted.
- Internal correspondence may not be confidential. Where you choose to make use of the internal communication features of the Site with other users or with the Site itself, you may not be able to remove or amend such content after it has been shared or sent and must consider it always as non-confidential.
- Reporting inaccuracies and deletion of information. You may change any of your personal information in your account by editing your profile within your account. You may report any inaccuracies in personal information that you cannot edit by "Contact " link at each page and request any change that is accurate and true. We will make a sincere effort to respond in a timely manner to your requests to correct inaccuracies. If you wish to remove your data from our files, feel free to contact us and request such removal at "Contact " page. Please tell us exactly what information you wish us to delete from our files (other than data about you that is anonymous) and we will act in accordance with your request. Do note that by deleting information you may not enjoy several features or advantages the Site offers you.
- If you check the relevant box for receiving commercial information and suggestions from the Site and its affiliates, we will periodically send you free newsletters and e-mails that promote the use of our Site, or affiliates or products/services we believe might be of interest to you. When you receive newsletters or promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications from us and you will have the opportunity to "opt-out" by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the e-mail you receive or by contacting us at "Contact Us" page.
- After receiving such opting-out request, we will cease any further communication with you, at your sole risk (if such communication might be necessary but you will avoid receiving it).
- Nevertheless, even if you do opt-out, we may still send you administrative related communication, including notices of any updates to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy, etc..
- The site may contain links or advertisements and you may be directed to other websites. Of course the Site is not responsible for the privacy practices of those other web sites. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of these companies and/or sites. Please be cautious when you use other websites and follow their privacy statement as well.
- Reasonable efforts are being made. The Site uses standard security measures, and accounts are secured by user created passwords.
- No warrants. The Site cannot ensure, warrant or guarantee the security of your password-protected-information or any other information kept by it or on its servers from any unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, mal-software and other factors that may compromise the security of such information, and you do so at your own risk.
- No obligation to any security measures. The Site might use security measures such as an updated anti-virus and firewall programs, but is under no obligation to do so and cannot guarantee such devices will protect you from any malware or other code.
- Third party content and other materials may include harmful elements. As the Site allows third parties to upload certain files, links and other content, it is advisable to use and up-to-date anti-virus and other protective software before downloading anything from the Site. The Site may but does not undertake, to review the Content's malicious attributes
Notification of Changes:
- The Site reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy as stated in our Terms. The most current version of the Privacy Policy can be reviewed by clicking on the "Privacy Policy" link located on our Site. As our user, it is your sole responsibility to review the Privacy Policy for changes and not make any use of the Site if you do not agree with the current Policy.
Contacting Us:
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you are invited to contact us by using the "Contact" link.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 315 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
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Tagline: Investing in an agile world
We are a new-style venture capital firm. We work with today's hottest technology startups. We invest in them, mentor them, get them connected and help them build successful businesses. We aren't traditional at all - we want to be seen as fresh, different, confident and connected.
We have 2 audiences...
1) the tech companies that are part of our portfolio. This group is more Gen x & y, mostly male, tech/geeky - but cool. We're more like this.
2) more traditional "money" types - who will invest with us. This group is typically more mature, more reserved, and less adventurous.
* We are looking for a masculine effect.
* we want a web 2.0 look
* Strong/bold fonts.
* Some colours that are preferred, but are not mandatory: charcoal gray, blues (nothing too old-school business) - even turquoise as an accent .
* We'd like to have a hill / flat mountain in front or somehow linked to the "real" part of the company name. The ventures is less relevant.
A theme to play on is agility - we are about investing in an agile world.
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Sisi's policy switch on Syria widens Egypt-Saudi split
"Our priority is to support national armies, for example in Libya to assert control over Libyan territories, and deal with extremist elements. The same with Syria and Iraq." Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi
When Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met with Lebanese prime minister Tammam Salam in June 2015, al-Sisi informed Tammam to be prepared for the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which could occur "at any moment." Now the Egyptian head of state has announced his support for the besieged Syrian leader and will be dispatching forces to supplement Egyptian troops already in the country since early November.
The move has lowered the temperature of Cairo's already lukewarm relations with Riyadh. The big chill seems to have intensified when Egypt backed a UN Security Council resolution on Syria drafted by Russia in October 2016. The resolution proposed by Russia contained much the same language as a rival resolution drafted by France, with the exception of a demand "that all parties immediately end all aerial bombardments of and military flights over Aleppo city."
Strangely enough, the Egyptian ambassador to the UN, Amr Abu Atta, voted for both the French and Russian draft resolutions. Justifying his seemingly ambivalent position, Atta explained that both drafts contained many common points, and that Egypt wants to support all efforts to end the tragedy in Syria. The Saudi ambassador, Abdallah al-Mouallimi, expressed his displeasure over the vote of the Egyptian ambassador, calling it "painful."
Following the vote, the Riyadh regime retaliated by cutting Saudi Aramco oil aid deliveries to Egypt; however, a five-year contract reportedly remains in force. Yet the October 8th draft resolution vote appears to have exposed an existing rift in relations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. In fact, there now seems to be a fundamental disjunction of views between Cairo and Riyadh on the direction of a "post-Arab-Spring" Middle East, quite the opposite of the "strategic and fraternal" relations between the two Arab countries proclaimed by Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukri after a January 2016 meeting with his Saudi counterpart, Adel bin Ahmed Al Jubeir.
In funding the coup that overthrew Egypt's first democratically-elected president, Mohammad Morsi, the Saudi royals had hoped to entice Sisi to join them in their regional hostility towards Iran. Instead, the Egyptian leader not only has withheld Egypt's forces from participating in Saudi proxy wars against Iran, but also has even hinted at warmer relations with Tehran, much to the chagrin of the Wahhabi war lords.
After Sisi's successful coup in 2013, the U.S. suspended foreign military aid for two years. As a result, Sisi, logically, reached out to Russian president Putin, who pledged increased support to Egypt and even alluded to inclusion in the Eurasian Economic Union, which consists of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Russia's assistance on the construction of nuclear power plants was also discussed.
The warming trend in Cairo-Moscow bilateral ties undoubtedly unnerved Washington, so in March 2015, the Obama administration countered by signing off on a large package of advanced military hardware, which included 12 Lockheed Martin F-16 fighters, 20 Boeing Harpoon missiles and up to 125 General Dynamics M1A1 Abrams tank kits. Citing U.S. national security interests, Obama also pledged to continue to ask congress for the $1.3 billion per year military aid despite Egypt's failure to gain "democracy certification." Historically, Egypt is the second largest recipient of U.S. foreign military assistance; the Israeli entity being number one.
Obtaining military weaponry for a country in economic distress by balancing against major powers is understandable, but causing an open split with major benefactor Saudi Arabia over Syria is not. Certainly, it is possible that Riyadh could further cut assistance to Cairo and possibly even support other Egyptian generals in a coup to oust Sisi. But this is not likely, since Russia, and perhaps even Iran would step in to make up any shortfall should the Saudis pull the aid plug on Egypt. And since both Russia and Iran are supporting the legitimate government of Syria under president Bashar al-Assad, it follows that Egypt would want to do likewise.
Furthermore, Saudi Arabia is tied down in regional wars it has started in Bahrain, Yemen and Syria as well as an ongoing oil price war, all of which are placing an enormous drain on Saudi financial reserves. Accordingly, Riyadh is not in a favorable financial position to exert substantial pressure on Cairo to impel Sisi to adopt the Saudi worldview. Saudi threatening to cut off oil shipments to Egypt had no effect either.
And despite rhetorical attempts at downplaying the dispute to the contrary, Egypt is clearly at odds with Saudi Arabia over Syria. "The [Saudi] Coalition fighting in Syria may want to change the regime in the country, but that is not Egypt's position," stated Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri in an interview with Egyptian media. The public statement followed an unexpected meeting between Shoukri and his Iranian counterpart, Dr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, on September 23 on the margins of the annual UN General Assembly session in New York.
Another factor in all this is the election in the U.S. of the flamboyant showman/real estate tycoon Donald Trump, whose foreign policy statements about Iran, Russia and Syria imply contradictory goals. Regarding Russia, Trump has expressed a desire to seek better relations with Putin. Concerning the fight against the so-called Islamic State, the U.S. President-elect claims eradicating Daesh is his number-one priority in the Middle East. As a result, even President al-Assad has expressed hope that the U.S. and Syria could be "natural allies" against terrorism.
On the one hand as a result of approaching the Russian position on Syria, Trump would by logical necessity become a de facto ally of Iran in the war against terror. But then on the other hand, Trump has also threatened to dismantle the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 countries, something that would decidedly sharpen tensions between Tehran and Washington. And this would also be an unfortunate development for Sisi, since bilateral ties with Iran appear to be thawing, after having been on ice from the time of Egypt's acceptance in 1979 of a U.S.-brokered peace deal with the Israeli entity.
Nevertheless, Sisi may be hedging his bets with Russia by warming up to Trump. "I believe that President-elect Trump will be more rigorously engaged with the issues of the region," he said, adding, apparently without sarcasm, "As a matter of fact President-elect Trump has shown deep and great understanding of what is taking place in the region as a whole and what is taking place in Egypt." Former U.S. ambassador Gary Grappo, now at the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver's Korbel School for International Studies, disagrees. "President-elect Trump has little knowledge of the Middle East, and his campaign was marked by a singular dearth of detail about whether or how exactly he will address the region's many problems."
While Sisi's praise for Trump may seem somewhat inflated, the Egyptian leader knows full well of the danger posed by Daesh to his country. With terrorist attacks for which Daesh has claimed responsibility occurring in the Sinai and elsewhere in Egypt, Sisi may have chosen to support the Syrian military to fight his war on terror in Syria instead of in the Egyptian homeland.


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Vesper is a large garkain who is accompanied by at least two other garkains and several wraiths. The Royal huntsman will pay handsomely for his head.
Vesper can be found at the beginning of path leading the Striga's crypt on Cemetery Island in the Swamp Cemetery.
Associated Quest
- Vesper is Latin for evening (star).
- Be careful not to pursue Vesper and his entourage too far into the Cemetery as you will then also encounter Lilly, the Vampiress of the Swamp and it is simply a pain to deal with two trophy heads at one time. Simply get Vesper, go back to the Druids' cave, collect the reward from the Royal huntsman and then return for Lilly.
- Vesper's name is an easter egg. There are three Polish novels, by Magdalena Kozak, featuring a vampire named Vesper, who is a commando serving in Polish special forces.
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Hurt In A Boating Accident? Ohio Boating Accident Attorney
If you were hurt in a boating accident, it may be necessary to find knowledgeable experts who can testify regarding who is responsible for your accident. Many boating accident cases are governed by maritime law, a very old and very complex area of the law that relatively few attorneys understand thoroughly.
For example, right of way issues are often important in boating accident cases. The rules governing right of way are often complicated, and right of way can change in a matter of seconds, depending on the circumstances. In order to recover damages, you may need a team of lawyers and experts who can analyze your case and work together to prove the other boat violated your right of way.
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"I will be to them a God!" Hebrews 8:10
That is, to all His redeemed people. I will be the object of their adoration and trust, the subject of their meditation, and the source of all their happiness.
To be our GOD is more than being our friend, helper, or benefactor. He engages to do us good according to His all-sufficiency, to bestow upon us blessings which none else can!
He will pardon us–and pardon like only God can!
He will sanctify us–and sanctify us like only God can!
He will comfort us–and comfort us like only God can!
He will glorify us–and glorify us like only God can!
If He is our God–He is our All.
And all that He has is ours! He is our inheritance, and a glorious inheritance He is.
Consider, when in danger, in darkness, in distress, in temptation, in duty, or in affliction–God will be to you a God delivering you, enlightening you, comforting you, strengthening you, and sanctifying you.
Look to Him for all that He has promised–which is all that you need! Adore His Divine perfections, and rejoice that they are all engaged to make you eternally blessed.
Live to His glory, walk by His Word, and He will glorify Himself in your present and everlasting welfare. He rejoices to do good unto His people, He delights to bless them!
"I will be to them a God!" Hebrews 8:10
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"Rocketing Into the Grand Canyon's Great Unknown," Outside
Outside shares an excerpt from Kevin Fedarko's forthcoming book, The Emerald Mile, about the author's insane adventure tackling a raging, rapid-filled Colorado River in a 17-foot wooden dory. Anyone who plans to raft through the Grand Canyon this summer might want to postpone reading. —Jen Murphy
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Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
This vivid tale about family relationships weaves multiple story lines together—from Ethiopia to New York—and tells of twin brothers, their turbulent entry into the world and the fateful journey that lies before them. I couldn't put this book down! —Jill Greenwood
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I can't help being fascinated and impressed by the ability to make something entirely new out of found objects—transforming them, yet in some ways leaving them the same, giving the viewer direct access to the creative process. These 'Light Sculptures' show the artist's skill and draughtsmanship in a most unusual way. —Bryan Kitch
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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Philip Dickey scratches his head. He is sceptical about playing in the doner shop where some Turkish men are having their Ramadan-supper. "I don't want these guys to make fun of us. I mean, they are wearing leather jackets and have motorcycle helmets," Philip expounds. After some contemplation Philip and his bandmate Will Knauer take the risk and play the mellifluous "Modern Mystery", while having a cup of candied black tea. Their songtitle "I Am Warm and Powerful" perhaps best describes what Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin sounds like. The Springfield-based band indulges both in sensitivity and buoyancy. Since the release of their debut album in 2005, the four Missourians have been boostered by a buzz from music blogs. As the bikers left the eatery, Will and Phil started their musical charm offensive; however the question remains unsolved whether those tough wretchs would have been pleased about the cautious milksops' performance.
- October 19, 2008
- Michael Luger
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I was 5 weeks post-partum, and I was saying no when people offered me something to eat as a breastfeeding mother.
I am on a diet I said jokingly!
You're on a diet? My friends asked.
Knowing that it seemed totally out of character for me to use that language, having most likely experienced me tell them they were too skinny and vain at some point in our friendship and that they were perfect whatever they looked like. Don't get me wrong. I am an artist, and I appreciate fashion, expression, and the innate beauty of women. I know and recognize the joy and medicine that can happen when a beautiful woman walks in the room.
But beauty as most people can tell you is never skin deep, and when someone is beautiful, at least from the way I see it. It's a matter of soul.
Funny how things can change. How when you are that beautiful woman who turns heads you can say these things, but when you gain 35 pounds and have just had a baby you suddenly don't feel so hot.
I was mostly watching my eating as I had gained weight during my pregnancy and it being finally hot out in the cool climates of Canada I wanted to get into my summer wardrobe.
I was weighing myself obsessively too. The more I weighed myself, the more felt frustrated with how I was not losing weight and things were still tight on me.
Having gone through feeling similar feelings from when I was going through my adolescence….. I was slightly irritated at myself for feeling these things after my 2nd child.
I thought that I had healed this old wound, and yet it felt like it was searing open after I gave birth to my second son Kuray, which translates to Healer.
Here I was again healing what I began to remember was a HUGE collective wound for women.
Finally it dawned on me as I was driving with my partner. And as we sat at a red light, i began almost yelling.
"This is Crazy!"
"I cant believe how crazy this is, and that I got tricked into this insanity when I know better!"
I realized in that moment as though the divine force of the universe came down at that red light in china town and showed me how completely disconnected I was from my soul.
There was a time where all men and women worshipped the goddess.
There was a time, where every young girl and boy would learn this from the time they were toddlers until they were full adults in form that mothers birthed life and because of this beautiful sacrifice, life continues.
There is nothing more hot and sexy then a woman who has given birth to life. It is pure, raw life force. It is the arrival of a new universe on our planet. It is a miracle.
And here I am feeling frumpy. Here the culture perpetuates a real myth that this time that is difficult, full of sleep deprivation, frustration and getting through the long nights.
All that can be true. Believe me I know! But the whole energy around all of that would be very different if we did it with the deepest honour and respect understanding that our role in this moment was so Sacred and spiritual in its nature. Not just to our families, but to humanity.
If I was living in a time where the Goddess was honoured and worshipped. Where the cycle of birth and death were viewed as integral to our existence and treated as the most important Job on the planet. Where Doctors, Lawyers, and Business Executives were deemed just as Equal to the title of Mother.
I am not a woman whose full time occupation will be a mother and that be my full time job. I have dreams that go over the mountain, and I have my purpose on this planet that goes beyond just taking care of my children.
But even if I didn't. Even if I just raised my children and not the hundred other things I do while raising them. If I gave birth, and raised the next generation to be conscious human beings filled with integrity and wisdom. Don't you think this would be more than enough?
Because we live in a culture and world that suppresses the feminine spirit on such a subtle level. Where the standards of what it is to be a woman, a mother and all the other things we do, have become so high, that we cannot hear the whispers of our own heart and soul. The pressures of what we are supposed to look like, how we are supposed to be feeling and what we are supposed to be doing, are so ingrained into a false premises of what is actually real and life giving.
So this goes out to all the multitasking manifesting mothers out there.
Whatever your shape and size, whatever you weigh, whether you did your hair or nails or bothered to look in the mirror and take a shower today because you were up all night raising the next generation.
I honour you. I love you for all that you do. I see you and all your hidden sacrifices, May all your dreams come True, and may you know that you are enough. You are beautiful, and because of you, life continues……


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By Dr. Priya Mendiratta
What we don't see still exists, perhaps despite the 7 billion population, many undiscovered treasures are still out there just on this planet.
Listening to Neil Tyson, my favorite astrophysicist, if the entire Universe's age was compressed into one calendar year, the life of documented human race would just be a second.
Recently we visited Blanchard Springs caverns: these are one of Arkansas State's treasures and most unusual underground caves located in the Ozark National Forest in Stone County in Northern Arkansas USA, located a short distance from Mountain Home. They are believed to have been formed, and continually changed, by an ongoing mountain spring that pours into a glassy-surfaced trout pond below the cave, called Mirror Lake.
Previously we had been here for a summer trip and it had taken over three hours to explore the entire cavern but the underground portion is closed during winters, so as not to disturb the 400,000 bats that are hibernating deep underground.
We were taken by elevator down to bowels of earth 21, stories below or approximately at a depth of 216 feet down under though at some places the cavern is 250 feet deep.
The cave was first perhaps discovered by Native Americans, and a body was discovered few decades ago around 1955, which was carbon dated and found to be 1100 years old, though not clear as to how without any flashlight someone ventured this far centuries ago.
This cavern was discovered by teenagers 14 and 16-year-olds, who took some long exposure photographs in the area they were hiking and were really not sure what they stumbled upon with just a flashlight, but on developing them they were shocked to see the surroundings and accidentally discovered it.
The locals knew about it as early as 1955, when it was called the half mile caves. The state tourism took another 8 years from when they were actually discovered and opened to the public in 1973 after making it safe for public viewing, lighting it up, making safe access and elevators to reach a depth of 200 feet.
A Czechoslovakian, opera house worker was hired especially and did an amazing job of lighting the cave, to give it the current stupendous appearance.
Some 50 million years ago water passed through limestone and collapsed the ceilings to form caverns, but current cavern was formed some 100,000 years ago and has been preserved intact essentially.
It is estimated that surrounding Ozarks may have up to 10,000 such caverns waiting to be discovered.
We took the shortest 1-hour tour available called the drip tour and entered a site called "the cathedral site" and was one of the most spectacular sites that only a personal experience can define better.
It appeared to be a scene akin to Indiana Jones movie "The raiders of the lost Ark".
There was beauty, awe and a sense of spirituality evoked at the marvelous treasures.
It was like one was surrounded by many Shiv linga( Hindu God Shiva's formation in a cylindrical form worshipped in Hindu Temples as a symbol of generative power) in different sizes glowing an amazing red, grey or white depending on the underlying mineral.
The iron oxide gave a red hue, manganese grey ones and white were calcite.
Calcite is a common constituent of sedimentary rocks, limestone, in particular, much of it is either precipitated or dissolved by ground water, it is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3)
Calcite deposits over 100 years and it grows a cubic inch, primarily by water dripping through caverns causes the calcite to continue growing.
The stalactites (grow from the top) the ceiling formations – grow long enough to connect with stalagmites (formation on the floor), they join to form columns.
The cave temperature year around is at 58-degree f and is100 percent humid. To reach the lower level there are some 700 steps and in the summer, this discovery trail takes 2-3 hours to explore.
A white-nose bats disease has killed or made bats extinct in many other caves globally, which is actually a fungus that prevents them from hibernating so they leave caves in winters only to freeze to death or die of hunger and fall off the sky out of sheer exhaustion, some may consider that a supernatural phenomenon in some parts of the World.
The forests around have been thinned some by conservation officials to decrease the fungus spreading in bats, and to help them survive by opening the canopy, and have been successful in this area in keeping them alive.
The only organism that grows in caves is Salamander, an amphibian that exists on bat drippings or bat poop or guano.
It is rumored that manganese is formed around a microorganism and presence on Mars of manganese might mean a sign of some life.
Interestingly the bats are sort of potty trained and poop in the same exact place or entire bat family does that for generations resulting in big bat black poop mountains in the cave called guano.
The guano or bat poop is used to make fertilizer as are rich in nitrogen, potassium and phosphate, even to make gun powderBat guano from the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky was used to make saltpetre, of the three key ingredients of black gunpowder, up until WWII and rumored ladies that it is used in cosmetics including mascara though lately all cosmetic companies have announced that to be false, saying that it is made from guanine which is obtained from fish gut.
Some formations look like a battleship, some like the opera house balcony, some resemble Indian Shiv Lingas, and some is left to your imagination.
The acid in hands can destroy the calcite growth making it loose the ability to grow, making it dry and chalky, so touching is forbidden, and tour guide does not let anyone step away from the path created to preserve the beauty of the cave. Also, a dry spell or drought can cause the lack of dripping and formations.
I wondered if the place was safe during a nuclear attack though cavern can house up to 29,000 people, the water and air would bring the nuclear effects into this depth even, in under a day.
The depth is surprisingly protected from earthquakes, though has an earthquake meter installed in ceilings and though several in the area, have caused destruction on the surface but none at the depth for centuries.
During summer, the tour guide takes for longer, 6-hour tours called the wild cave tours for some groups who are in good physical health through dark caves and one has to crawl through them to see more inner depths than was visible. Aaron Christopher was our wonderful guide through the trip.
It is true sometimes some such experiences are priceless, not found in books, but meant to just be felt and experienced with our senses, and continue to add on to our entire experience on earth.
Priya Mendiratta is a physician, an associate professor in geriatrics at University of Arkansas for Medical sciences at Little Rock Arkansas, USA.


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Lesson : Disasters: Prevention is Better than Cure
This lesson explores how some tragedies can be avoided if preventative measures are taken. It uses the 2005 Louisiana hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Tsunami, the Bhopal disaster in India in 1984 and the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 as examples.
Cross curricular links: Literacy, Geography, History
Learning Activities
- Paired discussion about accidents the children have experienced
- Making an assessment of risks around school
- Discussion: When is there a need to take risks?
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Two issues you won't hear in the sales pitch for new gTLDs
2011-12-27 15:10:58
With only 15 days left until ICANN opens the gate for another 1000 top level domains, my guess is that most big brands now plan to buy their own gTLD. Why? Like I wrote in an earlier blog post: Mostly for defensive reasons. They don't want to risk that anyone else would use their brand as a top level domain.
Short term issue: It will be difficult for a brand to communicate the new url string
This might seem trivial but I think it will be a major issue in the beginning.
Take the airline SAS. They don't own the "www.sas.com" url, so they might be interested in a top level domain of their own like ".sas". But how shall they communicate it the first couple of years, before broad customer groups get used to the new gtlds?
Three alternative ways to communicate the url string:
1. "Visit us at .sas" – It is difficult to understand that it is a url. A single dot to indicate where you live online will maybe not be enough for large groups of consumers.
2. "Visit us at www.sas" – Feel like something is missing, right? Where is the domain extension?
3. "Visit us at http://www.sas" – Doesn't make things easier, just longer.
My guess is that most brands who invest in their own gtld will choose number 1, the ".sas" alternative. They will try to emphasize the dot graphically, but it will take time before people understand and appreciate the short url.
After a few years people have learnt that some of the big brands have their own gtld and that is indicated by a dot.
Advice: Wait with the launch of your new .brand url until your target groups understand the new url concept.
Long term issue: People use automatic suggestions and search results instead of url's
A lot of people access url's by typing the brand name in the browser search box. At that point they get automatic suggestions, based on frequency and individual habits.
If your brand is among these suggestions, the actual url means less. If you are not among the suggestions, you should as a big brand be among the presented search results. And that has less and less to do with your actual url, and more and more to do with marketing and good SEO.
This development will of course continue. Browsers and search engines will become increasingly smarter (Apple's Siri is a great example) and the need to know the url will continue to diminish.
Domain names will stay important but branding and trademarks will once again have the upper hand.
The "secret" reason why big brandswill buy their own new gTLD
2011-12-08 11:27:51
Last week there was an interesting seminar in Stockholm about the new top level domains (gTLDs) that will be open to application early 2012. Participating were representatives from all sides: registrars, registries, ICANN, trademark lawyers, brand owners and domainers.
I got to talk to some of them and here are my thoughts on how big brand and trademark owners will and should act. (We at Markify have no financial interest in the new gtlds.)
Three categories of gTLDs
First a bit of background:
From January 2012 anyone can buy their own tld, http://newgtlds.icann.org/ The fee for just buying the tld will be $185.000 plus $25.000/year. The cost for marketing your new tld will of course be much higher.
The three main categories that will apply for a new tld seems to be:
1. Geographies/Communities: .nyc, .moscow, .gay
2. Generic words: .bank, .poker, .shop
3. Brands: .facebook, .hitachi, .canon
Number 1. Geographies and number 2. Generic words will both try to sell domain names in one way or another. But number 3. Brands is a very different category, with a very different agenda. What will they do and why?
The one big reason to buy a tld for a trademark owner
Why should a brand owner even consider buying a new gtld? The core sales pitch you can hear focus on two aspects:
- A short and attractive url – .SQUARE instead of SQUAREUP.COM
- New marketing possibilities – DRIVE.BMW instead of DRIVE.BMW.COM
I think most owners of big brands will think: "Why bother? I don't need that. I already have the url I want and I'd rather spend that money on something else."
True, but my guess is that they will reconsider and actually try to buy the new tld. Why? For one big reason:
You don't want anyone else using your brand as a top level domain.
Some trademark holders, with really famous, well-known trademarks, will be able to stop others from getting the tld. But most trademark owners will not be able to stop an application, because they don't have all the trademark rights (all classes, all markets). The only certain way to stop it will be to buy the tld yourself.
What you should do: 3 cases
In short: If you can afford it - both the fee and the future marketing costs - you should buy your own tld. But for a couple of different reasons.
Case 1 - "Facebook"
You own the relevant .com and there are no other identical big brands competing for the new tld.
To-do: Buy the new tld primarily for defensive reasons. You don't want anyone else to own it.
Case 2 - "Apple"
You own the relevant .com (like Apple Inc does) but there are other identical brands (like Apple Records) competing for the new tld.
To-do: Buy the new tld primarily for defensive reasons. You don't want anyone else to own it and in the long term there might be advantages using it.
Case 3 - "SAS"
You don't own the relevant .com, like Square, SAS (the airline), Next (many) etc. This group is highly motivated and they are the dream clients of the "helping-you-get-the-tld-you-deserve" industry.
To-do: Try to buy the new tld to get an attractive url. And be prepared to invest heavily in marketing your new domain.
The .com vs new gtlds
For the foreseeable future, 3-5 years, I believe the .com will continue to be the prime real-estate online. The new top level domains will form a new, second rate domain class, just below the .com domain.
Why? Because most big brands, that already have the .com, will not bother to invest huge amounts in teaching people a new url. Even if the url is shorter, it still is a change of address. And as long as the big brands stay on the .com with their main sites, it will continue to be the prime address.
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Back in NZ, for a while.
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personal, travelWell, I'm back in NZ for a few weeks - until the 25th. Something important - really, really important, in the category of 'most important things ever' - has come up in NZ, and I convinced my employer to let me work from NZ for a while for 'personal' reasons.
I would really, really love to go into details here, but it's probably not wise. More later, including all the juicy details. This assumes that there is actually anyone who reads this that doesn't already know exactly what I'm talking about, anyway. Which I doubt.
A public apology to #sporksters
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personalI've been a bit of an ass lately. Sorry.
It's been brought to my attention that I've frequently been less than friendly the past few weeks, culminating with the almighty row in #sporks a day or two ago. A lot of it stems from what's been going on in my life recently - moving, new job, visa problems etc - but that's no excuse. In the past few days, particularly, I've found myself snapping at the smallest things. Once or twice, nothing more than another spam arriving in my inbox was been enough to get me angry(er). Something that took no more than a second to review and delete.
Now that I'm aware of it, I'm actually feeling a hell of a lot better already. I ought to be more like my ordinary, sanguine self, hopefully. If I'm not, pull me up on it. Tell me I'm being an ass again.
Photos of my new apartment
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personal, travelA bunch of photos of my new apartment. Please forgive the poor compositing on the two of my work area, I didn't have a tripod, and it wasn't possible to get the whole thing with a single frame (too much dynamic range).
Edit: Added a picture of how it looks at sunset:
Somewhere to stay!
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personal, travelAs much as I like sleeping in Dark's lounge, eating his breakfast cereal, and working from his dinner table, I have been desperately searching for a furnished apartment I can stay in while I'm here. All at once, on Thursday, my search paid off - with two seperate apartments. I took the slightly more expensive and slightly larger one, paying $100 less than Too Much for it. It's still a studio apartment, but it has a murphy bed, placed such that I can fold it up when I have people around, but I don't _have_ to if I don't. It has a nice little enclosed balcony/conservatory area with a computer workstation. I can work whilst looking out over the city from my dizzyingly high 32nd floor perspective.
Photos will be forthcoming once I'm moved in, later today.
Back in Canada
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personal, travelSo, I made it back into Canada. After all the extensive, lawyer-assisted preparations so I would be able to explain myself in sufficient and excrutiating detail to the customs officers, I was simply waved through with nary a glance.
Then, as I pull away, suitcase in tow, the officer goes "Hold on a moment". "Uh oh", I think, "now I get the half hour of going over all my documentation 5 times before they're satisfied". I return to the desk, and give him back my passport. The passport scanner is flashing "NZ Passport Alert!!!" on and off. The screen has a single line entry " Personal Marajuana Posession". I have no idea what it's talking about - I presume a name collision. He puts the passport back on the scanner, waits a couple of seconds, takes it off, hands it back, and tells me I can go. I do.
How Canadian Immigration helps Amtrak compete with airlines for user-unfriendliness.
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personal, travelToday was the day I was scheduled to go back up to Canada, after 3 weeks down here in Seattle training at the offices of the company I contract for. In an ideal world, I would have headed back to Vancouver, whereupon I would have located a furnished apartment to stay in until the end of June, or, with an application to Canadian immigration, possibly as late as October.
Instead, I spent 4 hours getting down there, 3/4 of an hour being interrogated by Canadian Immigration personnell, 6 hours sitting in a stationary train being watched over by a security guard, and another 4 hours back to Seattle.
Basically, the Canadian customs officer decided my reasons for wanting to (re)enter Canada weren't wholesome enough. The fact that I was contracting for a Seattle company, and planning on staying in Vancouver with trips down to Seattle at intervals, apparrently indicated to him that:
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Things that are strange about North America, part 1
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personal- Coins are 1c (useless bits of copper), 5c, 10c and 25c. Canada sensibly has $1 (a 'Loonie') and $2 (a 'Toonie') coins. The US still has scraps of tattered paper for $1, and nothing for $2.
- The 5c coin is bigger than the 10c coin. So is the 1c coin. Yes, the 10c coin is the smallest coin of the lot.
- 10 coins are 'dimes', and 5c coins are 'nickels'. The 10c coin doesn't even say what its value in cents is, just 'one dime'.
- Pedestrian crossing buttons are sometimes on the side of the pole facing the direction you want to cross, and sometimes 90 degrees from that (with an arrow pointing the direction you should cross for this button). They are never on the opposite side of the pole to the direction you are going so you can press it as you approach.
- The only 'barn dance' crossing I have encountered has a recorded voice telling people how to use it.
- Cars drive on the right (duh).
- Most roads are more than two lanes, even right in the middle of town.
- The lanes are really narrow.
- Instead of one set of signals, possibly with additional left and ...
Stereotypes in action!
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personalOn Sunday evening (a little before midnight - the Amtrak train got in really late), I arrived at my accommodations for the next 3 weeks - the Pacific Inn in Bellevue. Checking in, the person at the desk asked me for my passport or driver's license so he could take a copy of it. I gave him my passport, which he took to another room to photocopy.
I waited for him to return. And waited. And waited. About 5 minutes after he left, he came back in, without my passport or a copy, and said "You're a software guy, right?".
I'm sure you can see what's coming. He was unable to operate the photocopier. He asked me to take a look. I pressed the '+' button to increase the number of copies from 0 to 1, then pressed the copy button. It copied.
What amuses me here isn't that he was unable to operate the photocopier - any photocopier that defaults to 0 copies (and returns to that when all its copies are made) is particularaly badly designed, and it's not surprising he had trouble if he hadn't used it before. What amuses me is how incredibly ...
Here I am
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personal, travelWell, here I am in Canada. The trip was, as expected, exhausting, and hard on my legs.
The flight out of Christchurch was on one of the old, unrefurbished 747s, which was rather annoying - the in-flight entertainment systems on the refurbished ones are really good at banishing boredom. Instead, mixed with mostly failed attempts to get some sleep, I read Jennifer Government cover-to-cover (good book), with enough time left over to watch the few remaining episodes of QI that I hadn't seen yet.
Then I transferred through LAX, where I had to pick up all my baggage to check it in at the transferring baggage desk. Thankfully, a helpful TSA(!) person told me I should take it all upstairs and get it checked in there, because the bike was too large and would have to go up there anyway. After a wait of about 1/2 an hour to get into the lift, my bag, box and bike were accepted almost immediately.
The service from Air Canada wasn't nearly as bad as I'd been led to expect - the flight attendants were friendly to a fault, and I have no complaints. Maybe it was an exception.
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An unexpected party
Posted by Nick Johnson | Filed under personalYesterday evening, my (now ex-) flatmates came around to pick me up for a farewell drink or two at the dux. Returning home, I was somewhat, though not entirely, surprised to find the kitchen dining room filled to bursting with friends and acquaintances. I'd been expecting a family farewell dinner, with maybe some extended family around, this was rather larger.
I had a great evening, and caught up with some people I haven't seen in too long. I was given a few going-away gifts, chief amongst them the book 'Are you a geek?', given to me by a collection of friends. I'm pretty sure I know what the answer is already, but from the browse through it I've already had, the book is hilarious. I look forward to filling it out.
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Stephen Tall and Emma Burnell on House of Comments - Episode 28
The latest "House of Comments" podcast with myself and Stuart Sharpe of the Sharpe's Opinion political blog is now live. The website for the podcasts is here and the 28th episode which we recorded on Tuesday 1st June is available to download via this page here (raw mp3 file here if you prefer). You can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes here. Or you can listen to it right now here:
The format is to invite political bloggers on each week to discuss a few of the stories that are making waves in the blogosphere.
This week we were joined by Stephen Tall, co-editor of Lib Dem Voice and Emma Burnell of the Labour Scarlett Standard blog.
We discussed the David Laws resignation and its ramifcations for public life and the coalition as well as the Labour leadership contest.
If you are a political blogger and would like to participate in the future, please drop me an e-mail here.


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> Access a map of current Ontario forest fire information. This "Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System" is a national system for rating the risk of forest fires, based on a variety of factors, such as ease of ignition and difficulty of control. Ontario posts additional general information about restrictions, here: https://www.ontario.ca/page/outdoor-fire-restrictions
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Central and South Ontario– call 911 or your local municipal fire department
Northwestern Ontario – Call 310-FIRE (3473)
Northeastern Ontario – Call 310- FIRE (3473)
Is Your Community Prepared?
The Federation of Ontario Cottagers' Associations (FOCA) represents a large number of property owners in Ontario, who as a group have significant land holdings. Waterfront property owners together own more than 200,000 acres of forested lands, and are key stakeholders in fire safe living. FOCA encourages waterfront communities to discuss wildfire preparedness and create a community action plan. Consider the following:
- What will you do if a fire is approaching your or a neighbour's residence?
- Who will you call, and how do you sound an alarm to notify the community?
- Does your community have fire equipment in strategic locations on the lake?
- Who is in charge of maintaining this equipment, and who has access to it?
- Are there emergency exits clearly marked in community buildings?
- Do you have a home escape plan?
- Have you located fire safe areas in the community such as lakes or other wet areas, rock outcrops, and roads?
Ontario's cottage and camp owners are by sheer geography, a self-help group. As
rural and often remote residents, they need to be independent when it comes not only to day to day living, but also to be prepared and able to respond in times of crisis and emergency.
It is important for rural and woodland residents to learn about and understand their risks, and to take proactive steps to make their families and their property safer.
Every homeowner can do something, and at different times of the year they have different opportunities to make a difference. FOCA encourages landowners to plan ahead to protect their homes from the risk of forest fires and follow safe burning guidelines for brush and campfires.
- Protect your family
- Protect your property
- Prepare yourself, and your community in the event of wildfire
Earlier News:
May 12, 2016 – Sprinklers save cottages – Fireball strikes island but wet buildings survive (Winnipeg Free Press)


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Psychology & SInging - Reflections on my mental, physical, and spiritual experiences on this musical and soul journey of my life.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Obstacles, hardships, and growth...
My parents divorced when I was 11. I was an only child, very close to my parents, and we moved around a lot so it was like my world exploded. My safe bubble was gone. I've struggled in relationships my whole life having some devastating breakups. In the last several years I've endured a "manager" who turned out to be a charlatan con man who reeked havoc with my career and finances and then terrorized me and my career. I was caught up in the middle of a legal battle, on behalf of a deceased relative, that terrorized me, dominated my life and peace of mind for 5 years. I've struggled to find my right place, right voice, in my career and career choices. For so many years I've been exhaustingly buried in "busy" with other people's demands of my time and directions of me musically, which helped to pay the bills, but none of which yielded results to get me closer to my dreams or my goals for my life. Four years ago, I suffered the sudden and devastating unexpected death of my mother when we had many unfinished things to resolve. I've worked in a band, that for me was somewhat toxic, that inch by inch hijacked much of my free time and psychic space which in turn delayed my ability to accomplish my own goals. And I've seen my partner through a 2 year plus long health crisis.
Many of these dramatic and traumatic things overlapped so I was juggling several at a time. When I sit and look back on it now, it feels like I've been "surviving" trauma and drama for years. Perpetually distracted from my goals and life missions by what felt like violent life blows, paralyzing difficulties and overwhelming circumstances. It's been my normal. Waking up every day trying to get through this "current trauma" in my life. Feeling that my life had been hijacked constantly by outside forces. And, therefore, constantly swirling in a mix of anger, victimization, complaining and crushing depression. And, of course, escape. Which, for me, lives in a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.
In this emotional and psychological mess, where is the room for art, for my voice, for my psychic space to have the wide open space to really create and thrive? Did I attract the drama and trauma to keep me from doing the hard work on my art? ...maybe... I've always been jealous of the people who could turn these life pains and struggles into art. I've tried. My new album has some of it but I've never been able consistently use songwriting or writing as healing. Songwriting just felt like I was wallowing in more pain or bathing in an angry rant so I avoided it.
But what I feel right now, in this moment, is that I'm turning a corner. As 2015 begins, I'm clear. Clearer than I've ever been that my life is my OWN. It's mine to govern. And I've never been so comfortable saying "No" to requests and demands on my time. And I won't join a situation unless it is aligned with my truth and I can honestly put my full AGENCY behind it. And I now work to not let challenging external circumstances and situations YANK me to and fro. To not let them have the power to hijack my life, my psychic space and my peace of mind. And I try to stay mindful to not give more energy to and be more aware of the psychic vampires and controllers who seem to want to claim ownership of, stake out real-estate of, or claim rights to my essence. No more. And I won't let the bullies terrorize me anymore. Oh how I've quivered under the bullies, the controllers, the manipulators, and the emotional blackmailers. I will speak my truth, stand up for myself, and stay clear about boundaries. I'm clear. And as I get clear, as I take my power back in my life, the anger, depression and feeling of victimization falls away.
But the biggest realization, that I feel very clearly now, is that life handed me all of these things to help me become the woman I've always wanted to be. Powerful, courageous, self -expressed, self-directed, authentic, truthful, and excited and enthused about my life. They pushed me to find those things in myself. This is my spiritual journey. With each obstacle, I have the opportunity to lean into the edges and earn another warrior-ess stripe. Each difficultly and challenge is another step on the ladder to evolving. You can't have one without the other. The challenges are the KEY to the growth.
And to my mother:
I miss you terribly, every day. So many things I wish I could say to you and so many things I want to share with you. But wherever you are, I hope you're proud of me because, today, I am grateful for each struggle, difficulty, and challenge. Even grateful for the bullies and vampires because my experiences with them and all of it have brought me here. And I am going to keep pushing, growing and striving and never give up...to be the woman you always knew I was. Thank you.
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and, personally, I feel that even when your lyrics are not directly dealing with this kind of ideas, it is your voice and your way of being which does convey the deeper meaning. The whole process of finding ones own center, authentic being.ReplyDelete
I find your writing very inspiring - and I wish you all the best! Patiently waiting for the new record, but may it take as long as it takes =)
Hi Anna.ReplyDelete
I heard your music for the first time today, I am now a big fan.
I am sorry to hear about the difficulties you have faced. Unfortunately it seems to be the case that the truly talented amongst us have demons to face, and it's very brave of you to open up like this.
I hope you are in a better place today, you are an inspiration and an amazing performer, I hope to catch one of your shows next time I visit the US. X
sounds like the levee broke, many blessings for 2018,ReplyDelete
one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Hi Anna, my wife and I had tickets to Zepprella in Indianapolis but had to cancel. We're from Mpls and couldn't find a room, it was the same weekend as the Indy 500.�� I emailed you prior about how much I really could relate to much of your "Soul Truth" album. Still listen to it often on my way to work (it's a hour commute).ReplyDelete
I really can relate to many of the songs, especially "back on track". I was married to a woman with Borderline Personality DIssorder for 24 years. Lost who I was. Stayed too long due to spiritual convictions "husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church" now I know that there are boundaries and limitations. So glad to be "back on track" and "seeing with new eyes". My current wife I love as Christ loved the church and she loves me back the same, it's a two way street, a partnership.
So empathetic about your situation with the manager who was probably some mix of narcisstic/borderline shit. And the other stuff piled on top. So sorry about your mom. Sometimes when it rains, it pours. I believe with hardship you can become bitter or better. It's made me better and I see the same in you. Thank you so much for expressing our experiences in your music.
Joe Durushia


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Posts filed under 'Whipper Snapper'
mojo monkey
Just monkeying around cause the Sunday Cupcake inspirations is monkeys and here's a card a little like today's Mojo Monday. The stamp is Whipper Snapper, the sentiment printworks, and the paper dcwv. The monkey is chalked, the frame cut with a nestie from spellbinder, then tied with a ribbon bow.
cow jumps moon
the Simon says stamp theme is nursery rhymes and fairy tales and i had this Anna Wright Whipper snapper Designs set with a cow jumping the moon so here it is- added a few borders a star border punch by Martha Stewart and used a little chalk to color the cow..
would make a cute baby card.
birthday monkey for bill
Its Wills birthday and hes a monkey fan so hers the card. I combined two challenges Mojo Monday sketch- real loosely applied and Everybody art challenge blue brown and green. its paper Piecing and chalk coloring. The stamp is from Whipper Sanpper.
ba ba black and white sheep
For some reason I wasn't able to load this card this morning so here it is a little late
The background boxes filled with shepardess and sheep are from Anna's whipper snapper Bo Peep stamps and the sheep is a black flower stamp cut( two petals for the face and two petals for the legs and pasted on the front and back of a scalloped circle. The eyes are gel pened on.
The grass from a G-rated grass stamp.
Thank ewe 1
I got the idea for this card from my brotherinlaw's favorite coffee cup.
It was so cute with several white sheep and one with a brown design.
So when i got home from Washington (the state not DC) i had to make a card with several white and one design sheep, i may do more!
I had a great stay in Sequim Washington and my sister and mom gave me a suprise birthday party…. it was a suprize since it was 4 months early.
This card uses several stamps, the sheep are whipper snapper the letters are My Sentiments Exactly and the grass is G-rated Rubberstampes.
Poppy note
This is a note with my favorite flower the California poppy.
The words"just a note" is "studio G clear stamps" If ound in one of the bins at Michaels. Theflower stamp is from Whipper Snapper . The stamp is colored with twinkling H2o's.
The beads are also from Michaels. The picture is my phgotograph of some poppies on the side of the road… They are wild flowers.
Thanks Million hat
I was given a hat the other night. What a surprise so I'm sending this card off asap.
The hat is Whipper Snapper's Anna's grandma's hat and the words are print works ' Thanks a Million' from a stamp with multiple sets of stars and words. The that is painted and another flower painted and raised over the flower for depth. The thanks is stamped once in orange and once in black( the orange didn't really show so i stamped over it.)
I love the clear beeds so three were pasted on the top right.
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Rishikesh is the only destination famous for Pilgrimage. It is a great destination to enjoy water rafting, kayaking. Visitors come here as this is a place of meditation and Yoga.
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All these hotels give a satisfactory feeling of homely lives. It is beyond imagination to opt for top class hotel at affordable prices in this threatening market trends. There are few real estate gimmicks like Gym, swimming pools, parking and hygiene breakfast availability too. The privacy and priorities of visitors are always taken into consideration so that they must think to visit them again. It has been seen very often that once you are back from the trips, people enjoy their work. Students love to work hard to score good marks.
Finding hotels in Rishikesh within budget is the wise decision to make the trip successful. There are lots of visitors who are pretty conscious about the rate and look for main booking engine. Keep comparing the rates to obtain discount hotel deals. Visitors and clients are very well acquainted with the knowledge that hotel industries are rapidly growing.


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Why Fish Can Drink Salt Water And We Can't
When we drink saltwater it can kill us, yet our oceans are teeming with life. Why can some species survive in saltwater while others can't?
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Why Is the Ocean Salty? (ponce.sdsu.edu)
"How salty the ocean is, however, defies ordinary comprehension. Some scientists estimate that the oceans contain as much as 50 quadrillion tons (50 million billion tons) of dissolved solids. If the salt in the sea could be removed and spread evenly over the Earth's land surface it would form a layer more than 500 feet thick, about the height of a 40-story office building."
How Do Salmon Change From Freshwater to Saltwater Fish? (Science Daily)
"For decades, researchers have tried to find out what regulates changes in salmon when they transform from being freshwater to saltwater fish. Now they have come a little closer to an answer. A new study shows that light -- increases in day length in the spring -- affects developmental processes in the fish's brain during smoltification."


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Don't be afraid if you're seeing a cemetery in your dream! Although, this image is frightful, a dream interpretation is quite opposite. It bodes you a long and happy life, strong health, welfare and a successful business.
- If you're walking along a cemetery feeling peaceful and calm in your dream, it bodes you changes for the better. They may appear to be more thoroughgoing than you expected. These changes can refer to moving to another apartment/house or even city/country. Also, they can deal with gaining a new work position. Don't resist them! These changes are exactly what you need now. Think them thoroughly over. Don't hasten to refuse them! If a woman, who has children, is seeing herself bringing fresh flowers to a cemetery in her dream, it refers to sound health for all members of her family.When a young widow is dreaming that she is at a cemetery, it is a favorable sign for her. It means that she'll get married again very soon.If there are children, who are gathering flowers at a cemetery in your dream, it stands only for good - sound health, welfare, true friends, a successful family life, etc.If you're reading the inscriptions on memorial stones in your dream, it indicates that you'll have many friends in your life.If a young person in his/her dream is walking down the alley with graves, it shows his/her friends' attitude toward him/her. They love him/her very much, wish him/her only the best, don't envy and are always ready to give him/her a helping hand. Yet, it is possible that there will appear sadness and sorrow in his/her life due to some impressive reason. It can lead even to a depression. Unfortunately, here his/her friends are powerless. They won't be able to help despite all their attempts. He/she has to go through this life stage on his/her own.
- Walking about a cemetery feeling sadness and despair in your dream, indicates that there is a possibility of you having taken a wrong turning in your life. Reconsider your attitude to some events or people. Changing the attitude will help you to solve your problems. If you leave everything as it is, in future it will inevitably lead to serious complications. For a bride to see that her wedding ceremony is taking place at a cemetery is an extremely bad sign. It symbolizes her husband's death in an accident.If a young man or woman is seeing in his/her dream the meeting with his/her beloved one at a cemetery, it foreshadows them a misfortune as a couple. They'll never become husband and wife. Moreover, they're doomed to watch a wedding and a happy family life of one another with other people in the future.If in your dream you're going for a winter walk along a cemetery, it forebodes you poverty and hardship in the future. This will require from you all possible actions to keep your head above the water. Yes, there will be hard times for you. Still, remember that every cloud has a silver lining. Even from such a difficult situation in your life you'll come to essential conclusions and learn an important lesson, which will be helpful for the future!


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Theory and application of an approximate model of saltwater upconing in aquifers
Journal of Hydrology
By: C. McElwee and M. Kemblowski
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Motion and mixing of salt water and fresh water are vitally important for water-resource development throughout the world. An approximate model of saltwater upconing in aquifers is developed, which results in three non-linear coupled equations for the freshwater zone, the saltwater zone, and the transition zone. The description of the transition zone uses the concept of a boundary layer. This model invokes some assumptions to give a reasonably tractable model, considerably better than the sharp interface approximation but considerably simpler than a fully three-dimensional model with variable density. We assume the validity of the Dupuit-Forchheimer approximation of horizontal flow in each layer. Vertical hydrodynamic dispersion into the base of the transition zone is assumed and concentration of the saltwater zone is assumed constant. Solute in the transition zone is assumed to be moved by advection only. Velocity and concentration are allowed to vary vertically in the transition zone by using shape functions. Several numerical techniques can be used to solve the model equations, and simple analytical solutions can be useful in validating the numerical solution procedures. We find that the model equations can be solved with adequate accuracy using the procedures presented. The approximate model is applied to the Smoky Hill River valley in central Kansas. This model can reproduce earlier sharp interface results as well as evaluate the importance of hydrodynamic dispersion for feeding salt water to the river. We use a wide range of dispersivity values and find that unstable upconing always occurs. Therefore, in this case, hydrodynamic dispersion is not the only mechanism feeding salt water to the river. Calculations imply that unstable upconing and hydrodynamic dispersion could be equally important in transporting salt water. For example, if groundwater flux to the Smoky Hill River were only about 40% of its expected value, stable upconing could exist where hydrodynamic dispersion into a transition zone is the primary mechanism for moving salt water to the river. The current model could be useful in situations involving dense saltwater layers. ?? 1990.
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