text: Bob Humphrey - October 28, 2010 Using Game Calls The experts weigh-in on where-to, when-to and what is enough. By Bob Humphrey Eddie Salter is recognized as one of the country's leading authorities on turkey and deer hunting. He has appeared on ESPN, TNN, The Outdoor Channel, ABC's 20/20, numerous hunting videos and television commercials for Hunter's Specialties.It was an unusually cold morning for mid April as Brad Harris and I made our way through the pre-dawn Kansas darkness. The cold didn't seem to be bothering the turkeys, though, and we'd soon located gobbling birds on at least three different roosts. Brad picked the closest bunch and led us within a safe distance, selecting a narrow strip of woods between two fields as our set-up location. As soon as we settled into position, Brad began alternately working a box call and a diaphragm with some aggressive cutts and yelps. He and the three gobblers exchanged vocal volleys for nearly 30 minutes, but the birds never moved an inch closer. Eventually, the gobbling stopped, but not Brad's calling. He continued for another 15 minutes without a response.When the toms finally sounded off again, from the same location, Brad picked up the intensity of his calling. For the next 20 minutes, he conducted a symphony of nearly nonstop aggressive calling, switching from box to slate, slate to diaphragm. Eventually, the birds broke the standoff and began a slow march that ended amongst our decoys. It was the most aggressive turkey calling I'd ever witnessed, and it worked. When it comes to turkey calling, one of the biggest questions facing hunters is: How much is enough? Too much and you might spook the birds, not enough and they'll lose interest. That same quandary applies to elk and deer hunters as well. The key is finding the right level, but that still leaves the hunter to decide where that level lies. To answer that question, BOWHUNTING asked some of the top names in the game call industry. What follows are their thoughts on how to decide how much is enough. TURKEYS With turkeys, deciding how aggressive your calling should be can depend on several variables such as the time of season, time of day, how hard the birds have been hunted, the individual temperament of the bird you're calling to and, perhaps most important, their reaction.Early season seems to be the time for aggressive calling. "In the early season, when I've done my scouting and know I have several birds located, I immediately go into aggressive mode," says Harris. "I want to attack and call aggressively to fire up toms and make them think that I'm the hottest hen turkey in town." Eddie Salter echoed those sentiments, in his own inimitable way. "I'm gonna call the feathers off a turkey during the first part of the season." Early season, however, can mean different things in different parts of the country. "The first thing I'm gonna do is figure out what transition the turkeys are in," says David Hale. "If they're in the first or second, you can do a lot of calling." Mark Drury admits to being more vocal in the early season too "because you're catching birds when they're first splitting up, and there's a lot of vocalizing going on. Dominance hasn't been established among hens or gobblers, and it's easy to be vocal and fit." A turkey's individual temperament can also guide how aggressively you should call. "Like humans, they have exciting days as they're getting into the mating season, and they have days when they don't feel as good and are not as active," says Will Primos. Drury agrees: "I think turkeys go through moods, more than even humans do. At certain times they're very callable, and other times you are simply wasting your time."Harris, Primos and Ernie Calandrelli all used the phrase "taking a turkey's temperature." "If I call and he's cutting me right off, I'm gonna keep pouring the coal to him, as long as he's really interested and I know he's getting closer," says Calandrelli. Gary Sefton agrees, saying, "You have to let the gobbler dictate how aggressively you call. I want to try to get the gobbler excited and worked up by sounding like I'm excited. If I can get him foaming at the mouth, he will most likely be less cautious when approaching." Once you get a bird responding well to aggressive calling, you should keep it up. Primos likens it to fishing. "If you let slack get in your line, you have a good chance of that fish throwing the lure." Harris also cautions about easing up on a bird that responds well, particularly if there are a lot of hens around. And Salter observes, "Sometimes you get a bird who'll gobble to everything you give him. Then after about 30 minutes he shuts up. What likely happened is you called so much you had the bird broadcasting, and another hen came in and picked him up." Talkin' Turkey Brad Harris: "The key is reading the situation and trying to evaluate every day you are in the woods, every hour. Determine what the mood is, and try to adjust yourself to that mood." Ernie Calandrell: "You'll probably hit two peaks that will vary from year to year. You're just gonna have to hope you're in one of those peaks, which is where they're gonna gobble back to you the best." David Hale: "If he just stands there and gobbles to everything you do, you're overcalling." Mark Drury: "I am a strong believer that you can't overcall; but you've got to take a common-sense approach." Will Primos: "If you can take their temperature and listen to what's going on, how they're responding and what they're fired up about, you can read that turkey and do a much better job of calling." Eddie Salter: "If I call to a turkey and he cuts my call before I ever get finished, he's telling me he really wants to ride in my truck." Gary Sefton: "Aggressive calling to excited gobblers promotes a lot of gobbling; but the more a turkey gobbles, the more likely he is to attract a hen or another hunter. You have to play it by ear." There are times when you need to tone it down, however. Harris says, "If I'm hunting an area where there's only one gobbler in a certain drainage, and he has his own little group of hens or he has felt hunting pressure, then I'm gonna look more at positioning, coaxing and feeling out that bird in a softer manner. I don't wanna blow him out of there; he's the only game in town." Primos recalls, "I've had situations where If I did anything but scratching leaves, I wasn't gonna kill that turkey."Calandrelli, like the others, looks for a gobbler's reaction. "If he's quit gobbling and hasn't come any closer, sometimes I'll sit quietly for 45 minutes or an hour and listen for him drumming or rustling in the leaves." Sefton adds, "My subtle approach involves three or four soft yelps at irregular intervals with some clucks and purrs thrown in now and then. I'm not really calling to the gobbler, I'm just letting him know there are some hens in the vicinity and if he wants any company he'll have to come to me."Later in the season you also need to tone it down. "The greener it gets, the less vocal you can become," says Drury. "When you get into full green, it's time to slow down a little bit." Hale also observes that in the later transitions gobblers are less apt to come to aggressive calling. Harris adds, "In the late season, many of the vocal, aggressive gobblers have been taken, and you are hunting the older or heavier-pressured birds. When I know that's the situation, I'm gonna slow my pace down. I'm gonna become what I call a scared hen, calling very softly and sparingly."ELK All of our experts agreed there are a lot of similarities between calling elk and turkeys. In fact, Eddie Salter likens it to "hunting a 900-pound turkey." Thus, many of the same principles apply, like timing of the season. "You have to determine how far along the rut is to determine how much calling you can get away with," says Hale. "The prime time, like the third transition on turkeys, is the peak of the rut, in the early part of the season. You probably won't overcall then. As it gets later in the season, these bulls don't want to hear all this foolishness." Harris concurs, noting that in the early season, "If you happen to hit it right when the bulls are gathering the cows, there's a lot of frenzied movement and calling going on. Then I want to get involved; I want to be aggressive and cover a lot of ground, do a lot of calling and draw attention to myself."In 1963, 11-year-old Will Primos crafted his first duck call. Driven by a passion to create calls that perfectly reproduce the sounds of nature, Primos built a company that now markets over 240 turkey, deer, elk, waterfowl, predator and other game calls, produces the popular "TRUTH" video series and in 2001, launched the "Primos TRUTH About Hunting" television series on The Outdoor Channel.Location is also important. Drury notes that elk on public ground "get the tar called to 'em" before, during and after the season. "You're kidding yourself if you think you can blow a diaphragm bugle and have bulls run over you," he says. Elk density where you're hunting should also be factored in. "I've gotten into herds where there's six or seven bulls and 30 or 40 cows in one drainage," says Harris. "The situation is frantic, with a tremendous amount of calling. I want to be very aggressive, and I find that it fires up elk and they respond well." Whether on public or private ground, Wayne Carleton believes where you set up is important. Just like turkeys, "If you're setting up right, you hardly have to call," he says.Just like a turkey, you have to take an elk's temperature and see what he's responding to. Calandrelli says, "If every time I cow call he's bugling and getting closer, I'm gonna keep cow calling at him, keep him interested" Primos concurs, and says, "If the bull's bugling and he keeps coming, don't change what you're doing." Carleton offers slightly different advice. "Once they're stimulated, you try to crank 'em up. As soon as they turn to you and start coming, then you really want to back off on the calls." Drury adds, "Try and locate from a distance with a bugle. When he gets in close, you better sound like a cow, and you better not overcall when you do your cow calling." He also recommends adding other sounds to sound realistic, such as cracking in the brush and the little chirps and mews that the calves do. On ElkBrad Harris: "I find myself trying to call like the situation that's presented to me in nature."Ernie Calandrelli: "Work 'em just like you would a turkey."David Hale: "You have to determine how far along the rut is to determine how much calling you can get away with."Mark Drury: "You're kidding yourself if you think you can blow a diaphragm bugle and have bulls run over you."Will Primos: "If you're calling more than you need to to stay in touch with that elk, something's wrong."Wayne Carleton: "My theory is that the better people learn how to call, the fewer elk they call in because they learn how to imitate the really deep sound, and sometimes that's intimidating." Also, like turkeys, elk hang up. Primos observes, "When they get to within about 75 yards, they're gonna stop and stand there because they're scared they're gonna get themselves into the fix of getting broadsided by another bull or getting into a fight." This can be especially frustrating for bowhunters. Primos recommends soft mews to make them curios. Carleton's answer is to scream as loud as you can on a diaphragm, "just bugling really high-pitched and really loud, but not deep and gnarly like a big bull."Deer When it comes to calling, deer are quite different from elk and turkeys. One of the biggest differences is that in most cases you don't know the animal is there until you see it. Still, many of the same general guidelines apply. Where you hunt is important, but when you hunt and how the animal reacts to your calling are probably the most important factors in determining how aggressively you should call.For purposes of calling, the deer season can be divided into two segments: the rut and the pre- and post-rut periods. "I think you can do some calling any time of season and be successful," says Drury. Tactics should vary by season. Early in the fall, when the bucks are in bachelor groups, Sefton uses nonaggressive "attention" grunts to stimulate the social curiosity of the bucks."These nonthreatening sounds prompt a more direct and less cautious response," he says. Harris also recommends softer calling and a light tickling of the antlers, saying, "Try to work on their curiosity more than their rut-driven instincts." Salter recommends using "minor doe calls, doe bleats" and, Primos adds, "it's best to use the quivering shorter bleat" early in the season. Later, as the rut tapers off, deer become less active and less vocal. "I'm also tapering off my calling," says Harris. "I'm backing off from aggressive modes to softer contact sounds."All of our experts agreed that as the rut begins, it's time to step things up. "Bucks are roaming all hours of the day," says Hale. "Now's the time when you really get aggressive calling because you know there's an opportunity for a deer to walk within your hearing at any time." A common question among hunters is how much to call when you're not seeing deer. Both Salter and Calandrelli recommend calling about every 15 minutes, whether you're seeing deer or not. "As long as I've got a still morning, I'll grunt five or six times then put the call up and see what happens," says Calandrelli. Hale adds, "You're not gonna overcall; you can sit there all day, but it's not gonna do you much good unless the deer walks into hearing range."Once that happens, it's time to take his temperature. "When I spot a deer, my first instinct is to get his attention," says Harris. "Then I want to immediately reassure him with another grunt that yes, that is what you heard." Then, you look for a reaction. "I want eye-to-eye contact," says Hale. "If a deer's interested at all, he's gonna turn and look your way; if he's not spooked, chances are the hair's gonna stand up on his back." Most of the callers agreed that if the deer starts coming your way, it's time to quit calling. What They're Saying: Brad Harris: "It's very important that once you get them to stop, you reassure them that what they heard was another deer." Ernie Calandrelli: As soon as he's coming, that's it. I'm done calling at him." David Hale: "If he's coming your way, you don't need to call him." Mark Drury: "The moment he locks up and doesn't act interested in what I'm doing, I shut up." Will Primos: "The important thing is to say the right thing at the right time." Gary Sefton: "I've used aggressive sounds effectively when I was sure of the stature of the buck I was calling to, but I believe they would have responded just as well to nonaggressive social sounds." How you respond to a negative reaction is also important. Harris says, "If he acts like he's uninterested or I scared him, then I'm gonna back off that pressure." Drury agrees, saying, "If they just aren't giving me the body language that I like to see, I give up because I don't want to burn that chip that day. I want to wait 'till I catch him in the right mood." Salter doesn't give up quite that easily. He explains, "It's kind of like when I come home in the afternoon. My wife's carrying on, and I don't pay much attention to what she's saying. All of a sudden she realizes it, and her voice changes; it gets high-pitched, and she's saying, 'You better get over here now.'"Sefton prefers a more cautious approach. "I prefer to use doe sounds like estrous bleats, contact bleats and breeding bellows to try to initiate a mating anticipation response, which is the most profound response. Bucks looking for does respond in a more direct fashion and are less tentative and cautious when coming in." Both he and Drury noted that bucks approaching a call often go downwind and scent-check the caller before committing. "I don't call to deer nearly as much as I used to," says Drury, "because I think you're getting downwind-checked by so many animals that you never know are there." GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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An Expanse Of Sound: Jane Weaver's Favourite Albums
John Freeman
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With the release of her stunning new album, Modern Kosmology, Jane Weaver talks to John Freeman about the 13 records that shaped her musical universe. Portrait by Rebecca Lupton.
Prince And The Revolution - Purple Rain
I love this album and my vinyl is absolutely knackered from DJing. This came out in 1984 and my brother was absolutely obsessed with Prince and had a massive collection of Prince stuff. Prince released a huge amount of records during the 80s and 90s and I couldn't keep up with his output.
Of all of his work, Purple Rain is the album for me. Around the time, I would buy most music on tape and would only by the odd album on vinyl as it was more expensive. My friend had a bit more pocket money than me, so she used to buy more records. She bought Purple Rain and Paul Young's No Parlez at the same time. We played Purple Rain to death. We sat in her room and would just put it on again and again and again.
It is such a great pop record. I think 'Take Me With U' is one of the best songs ever. I once did a cover of 'The Beautiful Ones' when I was in a band called Misty Dixon, which was probably the stupidest choice I could have made. It is really hard! I couldn't work out the chords and the whole thing was really difficult. I did manage it in the end, with the help of some trickery.
The great thing about the age of digital music is listening to things on good headphones. When I downloaded Purple Rain recently I suddenly noticed the amazing production. It was like being able to be really indulgent about the record. There are so many little things I could now hear on good headphones and it made me realise just how clever he was. He was such a genius. He must have only been about 24 or 25 when he made Purple Rain.
There was also the thing about Purple Rain that it was all a little bit sexy. I remember wondering what 'Darling Nikki' was about. He always had a glint in his eye. I didn't see the film until much later, as it was deemed a bit rude for me at the time. It's not a very good film, it has to be said.
The only time I saw him live was about 15 years ago at Manchester Apollo. It was during that phase where he wouldn't play any old songs. So, he just played his new album and it was good as he had some amazing session musicians. He did this weird thing where he got members of the audience on stage to dance. He was totally taking the piss out of everybody. It was making people squirm but it was also quite funny. Then, at the end, he did some of the old stuff and I was in tears.
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One of my favourite television documentaries 'Ancient Aliens', is now in its 12th season, and is about to air its 125th episode. Astoundingly- that's more seasons than 'Friends' (one of the most popular TV shows of all time), and nearly as many episodes. Not bad for a documentary which explores the theory that extraterrestrials visited our planet thousands of years ago and influenced the development of human civilisation.
Ancient Aliens explores the controversial theory that extraterrestrials have visited Earth for millions of years. From the age of the dinosaurs to ancient Egypt, from early cave drawings to continued mass sightings in the US, each episode in this hit HISTORY series gives historic depth to the questions, speculations, provocative controversies, first-hand accounts and grounded theories surrounding this age old debate. Did intelligent beings from outer space visit Earth thousands of years ago?"
People who have never explored this topic before might wonder how they could possibly come up with that many chapters of evidence without making shit up or dredging up the same old stuff over and over again. While it's true that there is sometimes a review of earlier arguments (for benefit of the newbies), and occasionally the assertions they make are so wild it seems like they're just grasping for any new material, the fact is, after twelve seasons and 125 episodes it's still going and continues to be one of the most popular series on the History Channel today, and is currently one of the top rated cable shows in the USA.
[the_ad id="54346″] I love that there is always so much more to explore…new evidence popping up thanks to new archaeological digs and the continuing discovery and translation of new ancient texts. Our ideas about history are never static- our current understanding of the world is always changing as new scientifically studied evidence comes to light. At the fast rate our understanding of the world and the universe is changing, any history text book would strictly be out of date as soon as it were published. Science is always making exciting new discoveries and drudging up new stuff which in turn forces us to ask new questions. And -thankfully- this allows room for the dreamers- those with imagination, those who can see a bigger picture, the pseudo-scientists (many who still strive to use the scientific method of inquiry), the apparently crazy, and the curious who all have in common an innate drive to explore the unknown and answer that age old question what if?
Although I have always loved Ancient Aliens and have found many of the ideas raised thought provoking, I have always taken a lot of it with a grain of salt. I loved the entertainment factor of seeing the size and volume of Giorgio's hair grow in each episode, or betting my friends on if Erich Von Daniken (of "Chariots of the Gods" fame) would ever wear a different jacket (after being interviewed in nearly every episode for 12 seasons the answer is still no). I even invented a sort-of amusing 'Ancient Aliens Drinking Game' back in 2013. It's fascinating stuff, but also light-hearted and lots of fun to take in. After all, we can ask the big questions beginning with"what if"? and look at the current evidence from history through varying interpretations, but in the end we don't really know. And we don't know what we don't know. But that's what makes exploring this stuff really exciting.
One of my hobbies over the past decade (and a lifelong interest) is reading about vast bodies of secondary evidence (-some good, some dicey-) around ancient technology, architecture and knowledge which seems to be a lot more advanced than our current level of technology can accurately reproduce. It's an actual thing. That much is certain.
But was it aliens? Maybe. I personally see only one of two answers here: either our current understanding of the rise and fall of human civilisations is correct, but aliens visited earth thousands of years ago where they were mistaken for 'gods' and left behind evidence of advanced technology and knowledge, OR everything we think we know about the apparently linear rise and fall of human civilisation is wrong, and human beings existed long ago who were more advanced than we are today (-perhaps a cataclysm such as an asteroid impact or the last age age wiped out most of the traces of those civilisations and forced humanity to start over). Either way- the implications are profound!
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So much great information!
By Alex
I usually try and stay away from reposting other content, but there has been so much good stuff released in the past week or two that I wanted to make sure you hadn't missed any and I didn't forget it!
First off, Brian Smith posted a fantastic article outlining common Project Server 2010 Business Intelligence Center errors here.
The Project Team posted an overview of where to look to find the most up to date Project documentation for Developers IT Pro's and end users. On a similar note, Brian also posted a number of RSS feeds for Project 2010 and 2007 related content. And to top it all off, one of the must have files in my SkyDrive account, the Project Server 2010 Technical Library in compiled help format, was updated to include the latest content including 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to Demand Management' and planning papers for installing Project Server 2010 into a Virtual Environment.
Last week, Microsoft finally released the 2010 version of Playbooks. For those who don't know what Playbooks is, it's a tool used to transfer Project Server configuration settings from one environment to another. Particularly useful if you want to ensure your Development, Test, Production & Disaster Recovery environments are all configured the same way.
Finally, the Project 2010 SDK was also refreshed, both online and for download. It includes a number of updates on existing topics and new content around developing PSI extensions and Project Server web parts.


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The Bees Need Our Help on Earth Day
We live in a world of contrasting elements and sometimes
a direct experience of opposites can help us grow and evolve.
For example, loss can teach us about connection, grief can give us an appreciation for joy, a long cold winter will make us celebrate the coming spring. Last fall I was working on an article about GMO, and I really enjoyed researching the topic. I learned some important things about issues that seemed unrelated on the surface but are actually quite interconnected and essential for all of us to recognize. Monsanto, so often despised on social networks and demonized – yet it may be providing an opportunity for a much needed dialogue, in effect enlightening us through demonstrating the contrast of opposites.
It is fair enough to say that Monsanto opposes the beliefs of those who care about their right to know what is in their food, by pushing back against GMO labeling laws. This giant corporation also stands in contrast to the belief systems of those who believe in heirloom seeds, organic and bio-dynamic agriculture. The increase in pesticides used on GMO crops end up pouring into our waterways, which places Monsanto at odds with environmental groups and those concerned with water quality. Others find themselves in contradiction with this multinational bio-chemical corporation because the bees that pollinate flowers and vegetables are threatened by these pesticides. If opposites attract, Monsanto has done wonders to attract and unite many people who share a deep love for life on the planet.
Sustainability is defined, in ecology as "…how biological systems remain diverse and productive. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. In more general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes."
The definition of greenwashing is "A form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly. Evidence that an organization is greenwashing often comes from pointing out the spending differences: when significantly more money or time has been spent advertising being 'green' (that is, operating with consideration for the environment), than is actually spent on environmentally sound practices.
Greenwashing efforts can range from changing the name or label of a product to evoke the natural environment on a product that contains harmful chemicals to multimillion dollar advertising campaigns portraying highly polluting energy companies as eco-friendly."
Using the logic of opposites, we can be grateful that Monsanto has illuminated issues that we should all be concerned about. Here are 5 worth considering:
1. Recognizing the damage of pesticides in our water:
The growth of GMO crops eventually produce pesticide-resistant insects which increases the amount of pesticides needed to obtain the same results year after year. The increased use of these pesticides runs off into creeks, streams, watersheds, and our drinking water.
The Pesticide Induced Diseases Database provides access to a wide array of scientific studies on the dangerous health effects of pesticides. Glyphosate and Roundup, the herbicides which GE crops depend upon, are implicated in numerous adverse health impacts in human beings. Roundup formulations are of particular concern because the 'inactive/inert' ingredients in the product have been shown to enhance the toxicity of glyphosate. One particular 'inactive' ingredient, polyethoxylated tallowamine, or POEA, a surfactant used to adhere and allow glyphosate to penetrate into plant leaves, was shown to be capable of killing human cells, particularly embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells, according to a study published in Chemical Research and Toxicology.
– Beyond Pesticides
2. Teaching us about the history of chemical warfare:
Agent Orange was one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. It was manufactured for the U.S. Department of Defense primarily by Monsanto Corporation and Dow Chemical. The British were the first to employ herbicides and defoliants to destroy the crops, bushes, and trees of communist insurgents in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency.
We now have a revolving door between high-level Monsanto lobbyists and politicians, who legislate food safety and production with business interests placed above the environment and public health.
3. Understanding the interconnected web of life including honey bees
Who woulda' thought that the ecosystem was so interconnected and interdependent that all these vegetables would be dependent on honey bees?
• Apples • Onions • Avocados • Carrots • Mangos • Lemons • Limes • Honeydew • Cantaloupe • Zucchini • Summer squash • Eggplant • Cucumbers • Celery • Green onions • Cauliflower • Leeks • Bok choy • Kale • Broccoli • Broccoli rabe • Mustard greens
More information here.
By targeting the insects that ruin crops, pesticides have inadvertently hurt our bees to the extent that we could have wide spread bee colony collapse if we don't do something about it.
4. Questioning commercial agriculture and considering where our food comes from
Our population has grown exponentially, and what may have been a solution 50 years ago may be a problem today. Consider all the fossil fuels used to ship food across the planet. What if more food was grown locally, if local laws encouraged community gardens and food forests? It is important to question the direction in which things are going. Some of the problems we currently face are forcing us to reconsider what large-scale agriculture should look like. Asking the tough questions always leads to solutions, and there are always safer, more effective ways to move forward.
5. Inspiring us to grow our own heirloom seeds and source our food locally
Because of the industry push-back against local and state ballot-initiatives to have GMO food accurately labeled, one of the best ways to know what you are getting is to grow your own or support local farmers. Supporting local farmers and growing your own also decreases the amount of fossil fuels that are used in transport and provides you with the freshest, most nutritious food possible. Heirloom seeds are available at places like Native Seed Search and with them comes a long lineage of cultural heritage and stories from the people who have preserved them. This helps us to have a deeper understanding of our place within the larger web of life around us, and our role in history to make this place better for future generations. This Culture Collective article has a list of great resources about the importance of heirloom seeds.
When we were children we all learned to walk by falling down… lots! We learned the importance of honesty when we told a fib and lost the trust of a friend. We learned how precious love is when we lost a lover. We are wired to embrace opposites in this world of contrast, sometimes there are painful lessons but the quicker we adapt and learn, the quicker we grow and heal. Biotech gave us many solutions as our population swelled, but it is riddled with problems that we must now openly address. Just as training wheels may have once helped us ride a bike, we would find them limiting if we were to keep them on after we knew how to ride. Permaculture has many organic solutions that help to regenerate the land while using organic, and we need to consider transiting commercial agriculture into safer ways of producing healthy food. Perhaps we may one day thank Monsanto for causing us to wake up, to organize, and push for safer alternatives!


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That leaves us with two options. You, I and the police could stay off the A361 and leave it solely to the nutcases, who would eventually kill each other off, leaving the entire human race descended from the superior genes of you, me and the editor – this is the Darwin solution.
Another objection is that we should not be encouraging more road traffic. Instead, we should be encouraging the use of the railways and so should build more rail connections. Personally, I like that idea. I have a dream of a monorail connecting Ilfracombe with Barnstaple or even Tiverton or Taunton. However, I think that, too, is unrealistic. Brian Greenslade would like to improve the Tarka Line. While that may make the journey between Barnstaple and Exeter better, it would do nothing for the A361. Tony Olsson's scheme of reinstating the Barnstaple-Taunton rail link is better, but is unlikely ever to happen. The truth of the matter is that rail travel in Britain is too expensive compared to the cost of road. No government would ever dare to be too obvious about changing that and so, if it were to change, it would take a very long time of accumulated small changes. What is more, in the decades since Beeching decimated the railway system, we have become accustomed to using cars even for long journeys, and I don't think we would stop now even if rail were suddenly to improve. If ever I stumble across a time machine, be assured that the very first thing I will do is go back in time and tell Dr Beeching what a mistake was his ill-advised report.
I wrote a couple of months ago about an elderly lady who had received notice that a mobile phone mast was to be erected right outside her house. Sad to say that, even though Ilfracombe Town Council recommended the scheme be rejected, the District Council approved it. The lady's two main concerns were, I believe, that the mast would reduce the value of her home and that its proximity, remembering that she would be at home most of the time, could have adverse health implications. Apparently, neither of these factors is allowed to be taken into account.
Planning is always a difficult problem and the siting of mobile phone masts more difficult than most. We all want a good mobile signal, so the question is how much are we prepared to sacrifice to obtain one. In most cases, of course, the question resolves to "how much are we prepared to force some other poor sod to sacrifice". However, even if a particular planning application does not affect you, it is worth making sure that it is dealt with fairly, since it could be you next time.
I have thought for some time that planning laws seem to have developed in a way that favours commercial interests, at the expense of local interests. It seems to me that there is at least one thing that could be done to make the playing field more equal. If, as with the mast, a planning application, if granted, would result in those nearby suffering a financial loss (as in a reduction in the value of their property), the applicant should recompense them for their loss. This would not solve all of the inequalities but would ensure that commercial interests would not profit at the expense of individuals.
What do you think?
Meanwhile, this does nothing for the unfortunate lady outside whose house the mobile mast is to be erected. Surely there are better places to locate it!
At the weekend, I went to the Devon Street Food Festival with two of my daughters and my grandsons.
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Before I talk about belonging spaces, I would like to briefly introduce my philosophy about depression. No matter how many therapy sessions you go to, no matter how many medications you take, depression is always there, just below the surface, trying to control you. You're job is to control it. We all have different levels of depression, but I do believe that recovering from depression is a continuous recovery. It's not the twelve steps of alcoholism, but I have a similar philosophy to that, in that I always need to be aware of the ebbs and flows of my mental health, and pay attention to when I need to bring extra coping mechanisms into play.
One of the things that I learned as I began my climb out of severe depression and into depression recovery was that I needed a belonging space. We have a decent sized house for our family, but none of the spaces were solely mine and in the depths of the worst of it, I spent a lot of time sitting in my car. It was quiet and I was alone, but it was also bleh.
I don't drink coffee, but I do like Starbucks. I could nurse a cup of tea for about an hour and recoup some of my personality there.
During the worst of it, I also found that lists helped me get through the day, and I still find myself revisiting them.
These are some of my tools that I will talk about later as I post about suicide prevention and prevention awareness.
One of my favorite belonging spaces is somewhere I used to visit during the worse times, but I still go there today for a smile.
Before I began on my depression medication, before I even new there was a problem with my mental health, I was on medication for high blood pressure, so I needed to pick up my meds at my pharmacy every month. When we moved to our house several years ago, I did not want to switch from our small town family run pharmacy to a big box drugstore chain, so I travel about thirty minutes to get there, once a month.
Each month, without fail, I'd travel the thirty minutes, and take a quick tour of the town, our old apartment, downtown to the street that has the post office and city hall, but inevitably, each time, I would find myself at the local natural attraction, the Falls.
I have never liked water, especially big bodies of water, but I have always enjoyed waterfalls, no matter what their size. For some reason, I find them soothing.
Over the years, the surrounding viewing areas of these falls have been built up, and they've added two new parks with historical kiosks and benches, and all sorts of floral and fauna. It's just beautiful.
Instead of spending fifteen minutes sitting in my car in silence, I would get out and walk around the smallest park, sit on a bench, and listen to the water rushing over the side and splashing at the bottom, into the river. I'd close my eyes, and not think about anything. There was usually a cool breeze, and I'd let it blow over me, through my hair and across my closed eyelids. I'd breathe in whatever smells were there. It's a city park, but it has such appeal. In front of me were the powerful falls, and behind me were the apartments, the former housing units of the nearby mills from the 19th century when these Falls were just as popular then as Niagara Falls is today.
I'd stand as close as I could, which was not very close, and I'd take a picture to post on my Facebook. Sometimes, I'd record the sound of the falls on my phone to listen to later.
This is my belonging space. It is sacred to me, and no matter what else was going on in my life or in my head, this place had, and continues to have a way of calming me, and letting me re-energize myself to go home and continue on until the next month; or at least until the next therapy session.
Before my corner office, before my visits to church, before my writing group, this was my space that held my hand, and squeezed my shoulders.
Try and think of your own belonging spaces that you can use to regroup and move forward. It doesn't have to be anything fancy or elaborate. I've used the corner of the food court at the mall. Give it a thought and be well, and please remember, you are never alone.


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The scientific journal Reviews on Environmental Health has published a report by international scientists calling for greatly reduced exposure limits for electromagnetic radiation from power line and telecommunications technologies, including cell phones and wireless technologies. The statement, called The Seletun Scientific Statement, was written by scientists in five countries based on a large and growing body of evidence of biological effects. They say governments should take decisive action now to protect biological function as well as the health of future generations.
The Seletun Scientific Statement includes "10 Key Recommendations to Protect Public Health". See the Video Announcement by Seletun Scientific Panel, Chair, Olle Johansson, PhD of The Karolinska Institute in Sweden, which is now circulating on every continent. The warning very strongly states the global population is at risk, that there is serious disruption to biological systems occurring, and gives guidance to governments as to what levels of RF (radiofrequency) and ELF (extremely low frequency fields) are acceptable based on a review of the science showing biological effects. The scientists say the former means of assessing risk, looking at heating effects of radiation, is not valid, and that biological effects must be at the heart of exposure guidelines to protect public health from serious, and possibly irreversible DNA level damage to our species.
Dr. Johansson says, "Biological effects are occurring at exposures many orders of magnitude below existing global safety limits."
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- The Burden of Proof for the Safety of Radiation-Emitting Technologies Should Fall on Producers and Providers, Not Consumers
- EMF Exposures Should Be Reduced in Advance of Complete Understanding of Mechanisms of Action
- The Current Accepted Measure of Radiation Risk—the Specific Absorption Rate ('SAR')—Is Inadequate, and Misguides on Safety and Risk
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- Pre-Market Health Testing and Safety Demonstration Needed for All Radiation-Emitting Technologies
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Open a door and see what's behind it! Give the boy something to eat. He'll even say "Thanks!" Color a cat with the help of the magic crayon! Push a button and watch the elevator door open-what could be inside?
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Included are ten concepts: Give, touch, open, close, top, middle, bottom, push, color, erase.
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They are equine angels
The 4-year-old Clydesdale cross was raising awareness about how the estrogen replacement drug Premarin is made with the urine of pregnant mares whose foals, like Mocha, are discarded.
Mocha almost didn't have a chance to become the beloved family pet of Donna and Norm Cloutier and their children in Roxbury, or to learn to bow and to display her gentleness.
She was destined to be slaughtered.
Her mother's estrogen-filled urine -- collected while she was pregnant with Mocha -- was a goal of the Canadian farmer who bred her. Mocha was among thousands of foals born every year to mares kept just to make the estrogen replacement drug Premarin. She was lucky to find a home.
Her story is among a dozen about Premarin rescues featured in a new book, "Equine Angels," subtitled "Stories of Rescue, Love, and Hope," by New Milford resident Frank Weller, with photographs by Donna Cloutier.
New Milford Library will have a talk and book signing Oct. 25 from 2 to 4 p.m. for the release of the 179-page volume with 130 color photographs.
"This is a platform for the horses to tell their story," Weller said during an interview at Cloutier's Roxbury farm Wednesday.
"Donna and I had the vision to show how valuable these horses are to a family. They go on to be athletes and ambassadors, but they become great family members. There are so many people uplifted on the rescue journey."
Weller, 57, who has a business that helps in film productions, like scouting locations, became committed to the Premarin foals when he made a documentary about them in 2001. He founded Equine Angels Rescue Sanctuary in 2002 and has since found homes for 250 Premarin foals, including two owned by Ridgefield residents Deborah and Craig Cole.
In October 2003, the Coles offered to foster two foals until Weller found them homes. But within days the couple decided to adopt the two horses and named them Diamond and Baby Puck.
They say the horses helped them as they rebuilt their lives after Craig was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
"They have been an incredible addition to our family," Deborah Cole said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "They came with a lot of healing grace to us, and they're an immense amount of fun."
Cole had just come in from riding the horses, which she said pranced in fallen leaves churned up by the wind.
"They definitely know they've been rescued,'' she said. "They're so grateful and sweet. What we've given them they've given back tenfold."
Premarin has been used to help women deal with menopause since the mid-1940s, though about six years ago doctors began to advise against hormonal therapy because of increased incidence of breast cancer, heart attack and strokes during its use.
But, as late as four years ago, 450 farms in Canada and 50 in the United States each kept 100 mares to supply urine needed to produce the drug. The urine earned each farmer up to $200,000 a year, but resulted in 50,000 foals a year that needed homes or went to slaughter.
Since the decrease in the production of Premarin, the number of farms with Premarin mares has been reduced to 80, all in Canada. About 8,000 foals a year still need homes. Some are adopted or sold for recreation, but many are sent to be fattened to be sold for meat.
Weller's group and others like it across the country used to buy the foals at auction in August, but now Weller is buying the foals directly from the farms at prevailing meat prices.
One of the joys of making these matches is that they blossom into great combinations and partnerships," Weller said. "It's very rewarding for us to see, and can be a dream come true for the owners."
Cloutier, 45, grew up with horses and has two besides Mocha. She met Weller five years ago, when her oldest child, Nicole, adopted a Premarin foal as her senior project at Shepaug Valley High School.
"People get the impression that Premarin foals weren't as worthy because they weren't a fancy breed but they can do anything you ask of them," Cloutier said.
Many Premarin foals are part draft horse because their mothers produce a larger amount of urine.
"I've had horses since I was 14 and I've loved them all, but I've never had one like Mocha. She's trusting and I love that."
Weller said there is now talk about using Premarin in Third World countries or making other products from mare urine, so the rescues will continue.
With fewer foals needing homes comes another challenge of finding a place for mares that are taken out of production. They are not good candidates for adoption. One solution Weller is working on is for farmers to keep their mares turned out in a sanctuary that Weller's group will help support.
Rescue work, Weller said, not only makes life better for the horses, but the humans they touch. "It's wonderful to see how people are uplifted by loving a horse and being loved by a horse."
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Book Review: My Boyfriend Is a Bear by Pamela Ribon & Cat Farris (2018)April 17th, 2018 7:00 am by Kelly Garbato
MRRRHHNH. (That's Bear for "Coming in for a hug.")
(Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley.)
I honestly didn't expect to love this book as much as I did.
I mean, I don't know what I expected, other than it seemed like a cute idea that could very well fail spectacularly. At the end of the day, I picked it up because I really, really wanted to use this video in a review.
Nora stumbles into a 500-pound American black bear while camping with one of her many d-bag boyfriends. When Bear is later driven from his forest home by wildfires, he finds Nora thanks to a discarded issue of Bust. (Nice touch! Eff off, Ben!) Against all odds, these crazy kids fall in love and make a go of it. But will Bear's looming hibernation rip them apart, if society doesn't break their spirits first?
My Boyfriend Is a Bear is weird and adorable and just straight-up delightful. I know I'm supposed to read it as an allegory about overcoming differences both large and small in relationships, but you know what? It's also a cuddly AF romance story about a lady and a bear. Says the girl who claims as her soulmate a snaggle-toothed, marshmallow-bellied rat terrier (now nearly five years dead, and whom she thinks of on the daily) and once referred to her first-adopted dog as "her other boyfriend ™." Dogs > people. Probably bears > people, too. All nonhuman animals > people, who are we kidding.
As much as My Boyfriend Is a Bear had me laughing – and it was like whoah – it also has its fair share of sad moments, especially as Bear's hibernation approaches. That last act was filled with snot-flinging ugly crying. But the end? Pure magic.
This is one that's earned a permanent place on my nightstand, right on top of Hyperbole and a Half and the Sarah's Scribbles collections. Along with Nicole Georges's Fetch, it's a book I'll turn to every now and then, when I need a good, hysterical cry.
Basically My Boyfriend Is a Bear is the best thing ever. Or at least since the proud tradition of bears wearing tees without pants.
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Via GP, on today's edition of The View, Sherri Shepard thinks Santa Claus should be black. Barbara Walters ponders whether or not Santa Claus was a woman. This nonsense from reality challenged Liberals like Ms. Walters & Ms. Shepard completely ignores the fact that Santa Claus (a.k.a. Saint Nicholas) was a fourth century Christian Greek Saint.
Oh well, at least neither said the Bishop of Myra should be depicted as a penguin.
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Thoresby, Clumber, Worksop, and Welbeck changed constantly over the decades, sometimes at the whim of the resident, sometimes fire. Clicking on the links will take you to more detailed information and pictures. For information about how the Dukeries were essentially brought about by Bess of Hardwick, see this link. Note: Although often referred to in accounts of the Dukeries, Rufford was not an actual ducal seat, but is included on this blog due to it's strong connections.
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Rhiannon Fish talks engagement plans with Reece Mastin
'Home and Away' star Rhiannon Fish has revealed she's leaving the Aussie soap for a shot at the big time in LA, but that doesn't mean that things are all over with her boyfriend Reece Mastin – far from it!
The 22-year-old actress dished on her relationship in an interview with TV Week, revealing that she believes her romance with the 'Shout It Out' rocker will withstand the trials of long-distance love.
"It is hard, but I think if you've got a dream, you just have to follow it," said the actress, when talking about the idea of moving away from her boyfriend of over a year.
"I trust that Reece and I have a really strong relationship. People make long-distance [relationships] work, so there's no reason why we can't make it work too."
Looking to the future, Fish explained that the pair have talked about tying the knot, but they're not ready to walk down the aisle just yet.
"[Getting engaged] is something we've discussed," admits the starlet. "But, it doesn't mean it'll happen anytime soon. He's 18 and I'm 22! It's certainly something we see in our future."
Speaking of making the move to Los Angeles, the Canadian-born actress revealed that she's heading over at the start of next year and is already set up with a management company in the US.
"I did a bunch of auditions while I was over there and it went really well," she shared.
"Now, it's just that whole sitting by the phone and waiting to see if one of them comes through…"
Meanwhile, Rhiannon is looking forward to competing in the upcoming season of 'Dancing With The Stars' and getting in some quality time with Reece and her family before she sets off.
"The Mastins always have a really big Boxing Day event, so I'm definitely going to be there, and I think we're going to try to split Christmas Day between my family and his."


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Seite 21 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee : nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Seite 392 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Seite 392 - LET a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Seite 324 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Seite 87 - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out?
Seite 394 - And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.
Seite 87 - For what man is he that can know the counsel of God ? or who can think what the will of the Lord is? For the thoughts of mortal men are miserable, and our devices are but uncertain. For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
Seite 133 - ALMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts be open, all ./~\. desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid; Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord.
Seite 241 - Abraham, that he would grant unto us, that we, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
Seite 305 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage : But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage : Neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.


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We posted a video last week showing you how to do some flat iron curls and this is the other part of that same hairstyle. These are called Long Knots and they add a fun look to lots of different styles. (I apologize for some of the instruction being out of the frame but hopefully it won't hinder the basic idea.)
Remember that you can secure your Long Knots with bobby pins if you would like to.
Like I said in the video, you don't need to secure the bangs before hand but we chose to do that for this particular style.
We only did 3 knots here but you can do as many as you like and they can be as big or as small as you like just depending on how much hair you grab.
Her ends were just left hanging for this style but you can pull them into braids, buns, or ponytails as well.
We just finished it off with some flat iron curls and we posted the video for those last Friday.


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Gust has another expansion pack for Ciel no Surge. World Pack volume 6 includes a rock-paper-scissors minigame you can play with Ion along with a new story. For more details about the expansion pack check out this post.
A new talk pack adds a brand new date sequence with Neriko.
Gust is also selling a Blooming Yard and Mulberry Beret costume items for 300 yen ($3).
Ciel no Surge is a communication game where you spend time with Ion. You can pop in on Ion at any time during the day and even set a time to have a date… on your Vita. Talk Pack volume five lets you revisit a favorite date spot as many times as you want. Also, if you missed the love confession event from Talk Pack 4, you can reveal your feelings to her in pack five.


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The digital economy has created a demand for 216,000 more tech workers, report finds
The transportation, retail, healthcare, finance and manufacturing sectors are ramping up demand for digitally skilled workers
How professional sports teams use the cloud to gather and analyze player dataThe Seattle Seahawks collects vast amounts of data from games, players, and practices to help coaches and players achieve optimal performance
BlackBerry Motion review: Long battery life, strong build quality will leave you pleasantly surprisedLynn Greiner: The Motion is proof that you don't need to spend a fortune on a phone for it to be somewhat drool-worthy
EU's new privacy regulations are coming and North American companies need to be readyThe General Data Protection Regulation — a harmonized set of privacy regulations that protects EU residents — goes into effect on May 25, 2018
'Turning empathy into action': SAP responds to customer complaints with new services, strategies
A big focus for the company is SAP Leonardo. It's not a product, but more of an overarching strategy to help companies with their digital transformationsRead the Full Story →
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Captain Canada at Dell EMC World where they discussed 'digital transformation'The event's product announcements seamlessly melded components from several branches of the new Dell EMC family tree into cohesive product offerings
Red Hat says it's tweaking its strategy to focus on cloud and partnerships to match market demands84% of customers say their overall IT strategy would include a mix of public, private, and hybrid cloud, and 59% have, or plan to have, a multi-cloud environment, Red Hat ...
More companies are using artificial intelligence and analytics to fight against cyber threats
Global ransomware attack 'WannaCry' is living up to its name — and more could be on the way
From an Intel critical flaw to HandBrake video app hack, here's security news IT leaders need to know
From Qualcomm's Apple patent feud to falling tablet sales, here's news IT leaders need to know
BlackBerry KEYone review: TCL plays to the diehards with a combination of old and new
From Microsoft patches to apps stealing data, here's security news IT leaders need to knowThis week's highlights also include patches from Adobe, Riverbed, Juniper and more
Organizations are lagging in digital transformation despite evidence saying it pays off: studyThe study reveals companies that have done their transformation see more IT projects completed on or ahead of schedule, on or under budget and lower overall IT spending
Samsung ordered to pay Huawei and SAS announces new products: News IT leaders need to knowThis week's highlights also include Yelp acquiring a Toronto-based startup and Microsoft shutting down its open source repository
From 223 Apple patches to the FBI warning of exploits, this is the security news IT leaders need to knowAlso included in this week's highlights are hijacked IoT devices and malicious ads appearing in Skype
From Verizon releasing its data breach report to Cisco patches, here's security news IT leaders need to know
Also in this week's update is original Windows 10 support ending and Intercontinental Hotel Group's breach scope expandingRead the Full Story →
New Google algorithm shrinks image size, Apple acquires Workflow: News IT leaders need to know
This week's highlights also include a GoDaddy acquisition and Rogers launching Social Media SecurityRead the Full Story →
IBM and Queen's University Smith School of Business unveil five-year partnership with 'the Cube'The Cube will give Smith students and faculty access to IBM's cloud, its cognitive computing engine, Watson, its expertise, and assistance with curriculum
Microsoft Corp launches Slack-competitor 'Teams,' bets on built-in Office 365 integration to succeedThere are over 150 integrations with bots and connectors from companies like Trello, Hipmunk, Kayak, Zoom.ai, and Papr, with more to come, the company said
'You will see us do more acquisitions': A conversation with HPE CEO Meg WhitmanIn an interview with the Post, Whitman discusses topics such as why she changed her mind about splitting the company and how the subsequent evolution of HPE will progress
RedFlagDeals reveals database breach, plus patches from others: Security news IT leaders should knowThis week's highlights also include MongoDB attackers moving on AWS ElasticSearch and report of browsers revealing personal information
From Windows Vista to seven Flash flaws this is the security news IT leaders need to know
This week's highlights include Android handsets infected somewhere in supply chainRead the Full Story →
Google Cloud announcements, AI partnership from IBM and Salesforce: News IT leaders need to knowThis week's highlights also include Microsoft releasing Visual Studio 2017 and HPE acquiring Nimble
Security vendor RSA introduces new strategy for businesses to take on digital challengesDuring his keynote at the 2017 RSA Conference, CTO Zulfikar Ramzan told the crowd that any enterprise has to be a joint venture between business and security
Huawei announces flagship phones for CanadaA mobile phone maker you likely think you haven't heard of is launching two flagship phones in Canada later this year
You had one job: How an Amazon typo broke the Internet this weekAmazon.com Inc. said a human error at its cloud business caused sweeping outages across the Internet for several hours earlier this week
Malware attempts to frame Russians, plus plenty of patches: Security news IT leaders need to know
This week's highlights also include unpatched WordPress sites and Google disclosing a Windows vulnerability
Industry consortium including Deloitte, SAP and AWS founded to accelerate 'digital transformation'
Microsoft cancels February patches, PayPal acquires TIO Networks: News IT leaders need to know
Mac users receiving malware spam, hacker hits 160,000 printers: Security news IT leaders need to know
Google adds more Cloud Platform support, HPE acquires Niara: News IT leaders need to know
Netgear router vulnerability and critical bug in Linux app: Security news IT leaders need to know
LG V20 smartphone review: Great audio and large screen, but infrequent security updates
Cisco tries to move into the digital meeting room with launch of its Spark Board
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Get your teeth straightened discreetly with Dr Peter McMahon, an Invisalign provider
The Invisalign system is an effective way to discreetly treat:
- Crowded
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It is also an effective way to deal with alignment problems such as:
- Overbites
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Invisalign and Why It's the Orthodontic Treatment You Want
It's discreet so no one will notice you're having work done.
But more importantly, Invisalign works.
The fact Invisalign is virtually invisible (making it nearly impossible for anyone to notice them) is a big drawcard. Especially for adults who work a lot with clients and don't want to be seen with train tracks running across their teeth.
If this is you, then Invisalign may be the answer.
This treatment can often greatly benefit young adolescents as well. Let's not forget how image-conscious some teenagers can be.
If your child/teenager needs orthodontics but refuses because of the stereotyped image of obvious metal protruding from their mouth, then AAA Orthodontics in Brisbane has the answer: Invisalign.
Not only is Invisalign discreet but the aligners are removable. You can eat and drink as normal: just take them out! Although you will need to clean your teeth before you put them back on.
There is another benefit as well: a feature of the Invisalign aligners is that they are removable. Because they are removable you can eat and drink as normal, and you can brush and floss as normal too. With traditional braces that are glued to the front of your teeth, it's hard to maintain optimal oral hygiene. With Invisalign you just take the aligners out, clean your teeth and place your aligners back in.
Invisalign Treatment: How Long and What's Involved?
The treatment consists of a series of plastic aligners which you'll change every 2 weeks. Every 2 weeks you'll be given a new set of aligners that will gradually shift your teeth over a 2-week interval.
As far as pain goes, it will be negligible compared to traditional metal braces. Invisalign does not have any metal parts to jab and poke your mouth or irritate your gums; the only discomfort you'll feel is for a couple of days after you've got new aligners. Which is normal. The discomfort you will feel is the pressure generated by your aligners as they move your teeth
A range of orthodontics at AAA Orthodontics in Brisbane
We offer traditional metal braces.
There is nothing wrong with traditional braces. They are the most cost-effective way of producing a perfect smile. But they're not for everyone.
This is one of the reasons why AAA Orthodontics offers Invisalign as well as metal braces. Metal braces have been successfully used for decades by millions of patients worldwide.
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Giving you a choice
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COLUMBUS — Wayne heavyweight Jacob Padilla became state champion and remained undefeated at 42-0 by defeating Jack Roesch of Avon 3-2 in the championship match at the state wrestling tournament Saturday night.
He pinned Max Millin of Massillon Perry in the semifinal Friday in 3:04.
The state's top ranked heavyweight, Padilla won each of his matches at the state tournament taking place in Columbus at the Jerome Schottenstein Center.
Padilla, a junior, opened the tournament against senior Tyler Jones (17-6) of North Olmsted to win by a fall in 1:18. Padilla advanced to score a 7-2 decision over junior Yousef Awad (30-5) of Lakewood.
He then defeated Millin in the championship semifinals Friday to advance to the title match.
Teammate Jaden Hardrick, also a junior, did not fare as well in the 160 pound weight class. Hardrick (26-7) lost his first match by major decision 9-1 to senior Drew Newton (40-8) of Perrysburg.
In the consolation bracket Hardrick scored a 2-1 decision over Anthony Rizzo of Brecksville-Broadview Heights. Hardrick then lost a 9-3 decision to Aaron Morton of Westerville South to end his state tournament run.
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"Rivertime" by Trace Balla, Allen & Unwin (2014)
I firmly believe that a good picture book can be one of a teacher's greatest tools when it comes to breaking open hard to reach topics in the classroom. It makes sense then that I am always eager to have the opportunity to read and review a recent release with a view to "somehow" integrating it into my lessons. Trace Balla's lovely book "Rivertime", invites her audience to experience the beauty of Australia's Glenelg River through the eyes of Clancy, a young boy from the city with a passion for numbers. When Clancy joins his Uncle Egg, a slightly obsessed bird watcher, on a camping trip, he is somewhat reserved. Why does he need to leave behind all his cool toys and gadgets? Why does he need so many pairs of socks? What follows is a remarkable story about letting go, growing up, surrendering to the journey and the simple wonders of nature.
"Rivertime" finds its place easily within the middle primary school curriculum. I gave the book to my 8 year old son to read and a short while later (as I had predicted) he loved it so much that I had to prise it out of his hands for reviewing. Teachers will effortlessly find connections to units of work focusing upon biodiversity in the Social Sciences. It would be the perfect starting point for exploring the flora and fauna of Australia's river systems with a focus upon the impact of human settlement. I was encouraged to see Balla's integration of indigenous perspectives on the topic also. Similarly, the story has cross-curricular links into the English Curriculum, with the story providing opportunities for creative reflection and text production.
"Rivertime" is told in a comic strip style. I found this an appropriate method of narration in this instance; although this style does not always engage students effectively when read aloud to a group. With this in mind, "Rivertime" is best enjoyed solo or in small groups especially when used in conjunction with opportunities for sharing or larger group work.
Reviewed by Tanya Grech Welden
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We are facing a challenge with authenticating users so they can get in to the Pentaho admin console. We are using the JDBC security DAO (Oracle) and our users table is supposed to store the password in an encrypted digest form.
From what I know, there is no function we can use in the SQL to decrypt this password when trying to authenticate users. So I wanted to know if there is a way we can apply our custom encryption function to the plain-text password passed by the login screen to the acegi authentication routine.
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Interview with Bobbe Palmer, author of Can This Be Home? And Four Other Stories
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Title: Can This Be Home? And Four Other Stories
Author: Bobbe Palmer
Publisher: iUniverse
Genre: Fiction
Format: Ebook
In a compelling collection of stories, Bobbe Palmer shines a light on five women of different ages and circumstances as each faces unique challenges. After little Ally witnesses a fight between her father and another farmer over water, she soon discovers what happens when a man thinks he can do everything for himself. Janie was once happy with Brad. But that was before he let the drink overtake his life. Now all she worries about is which one of them it will kill first. Odd Ida does not like boys. But when one appears at her door, she invites him into her home-and unwittingly, into her life, where she learns loneliness can be cured. Sandy knows something is visiting her farmhouse at night. Now all she has to do is determine its identity and what it wants.
Can This Be Home? is a compilation of tales that offer powerful descriptions, tormented characters, and heartbreak as five women bravely confront their trials.
1.Can you please tell us about your book and why you wrote it?
This is a book of short stories about women of a variety of ages, in different places, each with a unique problem to solve. They are character sketches, actually, drawn from women I have known over the years. I wrote them for my own satisfaction about a love of stories and being able to create them. I had no great earth-shaking reason to write them except that it gave me pleasure to see what I could do with them - no great cause to support, no crusade against injustice, no exposure of evil – all good reasons to write, but not my reason for these stories.
2. What were some of the biggest challenges you faced writing it?
It was a challenge to create believable characters, and plausible plots. Sometimes I wondered if I had gone beyond reasonable belief. I needed to get inside my people and try to express who they are and how they would be likely act following particular happenings. Sometimes I wondered if I had gone beyond reasonable belief.. I found it a little hard to anticipate how what I wrote would touch readers.
3. Do you plan subsequent books?
I don't have anything in mind at this point. I will still be writing for the fun of it, but whether I will ever again have something worth another book remains to be seen.
4. When and why did you begin writing?
I always loved stories and had fun creating them in my head as I grew older. I had a fine teacher in high school who thought I had potential and encouraged me to be a part of the creative writing courses he taught through the three years there. I didn't find similar encouragement through college, but I kept writing things for my own pleasure, and have continued to do so.
5. What is you greatest strength as a writer?
I think I am able to" paint with words," as some friends have said. I like describing things in detail and making them come alive with word and phrases. I believe I do that well. My readers admire my ability to describe the world around my characters so that they feel transported to that place and time. I observe the world around me in detail, and take pleasure in bringing that to my stories as well as I can. I think that in doing that I use words and the rhythm of language to give reality to stories and their characters.
6. Did writing this book teach you anything?
. Writing and rewriting the stories over long years of polishing them taught me many things about how to create a believable plot, how to present characters in a believable way, how to prune out what was not valuable to the story. Just practicing over and over made my writing much better. I learned lots about publishing as iUniverse helped me to get that done. I knew little about any of that before
Meet the Author:Bobbe Palmer attended Grinnell College in Iowa and the University of Denver. After teaching school one year in Kansas, she married a Presbyterian minister. She assisted him as he served churches in Wyoming, and then in mission work in Alaska. Now a widow, Bobbe lives in Estes Park, Colorado.


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Hydrology of aquifer systems in the Memphis area, Tennessee
Water Supply Paper 1779- O
By: James H. Criner, P-C. P. Sun, and Dale J. Nyman
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The Memphis area as described in .this report comprises about 1,300 square miles of the Mississippi embayment part of the Gulf Coastal Plain. The area is underlain by as much as 3,000 feet of sediments ranging in age from Cretaceous through Quaternary. In 1960, 150 mgd (million gallons per day) of water was pumped from the principal aquifers. Municipal pumpage accounted for almost half of this amount, and industrial pumpage a little more than half. About 90 percent of the water used in the area is derived from the '500-foot' sand, and most of the remainder is from the ?400-foot' sand; both sands are of Eocene age. A small amount of water for domestic use is pumped from the terrace deposits of Pliocene and Pleistocene age. Both the '500-foot' and the '1,400-foot' sands are artesian aquifers except in the southeastern part of the area; there the water level in wells in the '500-foot' sand is now below the overlying confining clay. Water levels in both aquifers have declined almost continuously since pumping began, but the rate of decline has increased rapidly since 1940. Water-level decline in the '1,400-foot' sand has been less pronounced since 1956. The cones of depression in both aquifers have expanded and deepened as a result of the annual increases in pumping, and an increase in hydraulic gradients has induced a greater flow of water into the area. Approximately 135 mgd entered the Memphis area through the '500-foot' sand aquifer in 1960, and, of this amount, 60 mgd originated as inflow from the east and about 75 mgd was derived from leakage from the terrace deposits, from the north, south, and west and from other sources. Of the water entering the '1,400-foot' sand, about 5 mgd was inflow from the east, and about half that amount was from each of the north, south, and west directions. The average rate of movement of water outside the area of heavy withdrawals is about 70 feet per year in the '500-foot' sand and about 40 feet per year in the '1,400-foot' sand. The average rate of depletion of storage in each aquifer since pumping began is about 1 mgd. Most of the recharge to the '500-foot' and '1,400-foot' sands occurs in outcrop areas about 30-80 miles east of Memphis. Also, water leaks from the terrace deposits to the '500-foot' sand in some places, and there may be some leakage from streams where the confining clay is thin or is breached by faults or streams. The quality of water from both the principal aquifers is very good. Iron, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide are the only constituents found in undesirable quantities. Water from the terrace deposits is hard but generally contains less iron and carbon dioxide than water from either of the principal aquifers. The hydraulic characteristics of both aquifers were determined by pumping tests and by applying the knowledge of the geology o# the area; these characteristics indicate that the aquifers are capable of producing more water than is currently being pumped from them. The '500-foot' sand will produce more water per unit decline of water level than will the '1,400-foot' sand. There appears to be no reason why the development of water supplies from both aquifers should not continue, but well spacing will remain a factor which could affect future development. Greater well spacing will tend to prolong the useful life of a well and the aquifers.
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