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How to Start a Pet Supply Store
Years ago I started a pet supply store; I strongly disagree with the cruel industry of mass breeding of pets for the "pet store" industry so did not sell pets. I want to share with you my knowledge gained through experience and education.
Research the Need
If your area already has oodles of pet supply stores there will be very little need for another. To be clear a pet supply store is not the same as a Wal-Mart or other department type store that sells supplies, a pet supply store carries higher quality products and superior pet food, so even in areas with department stores that sell pet supplies the need may still be there for a proper pet supply store.
Your city hall might have information on how many cat and dog owners (according to licenses sold) are in your city or area and this may prove helpful in establishing a need.
Determine who your target customer is, and be aware that it is not "Everybody that owns a pet".
Leasing a Location Location Location
Your city hall will have information on how much traffic is on each city road regularly, and this information can help you pick a good location for your business. Of course it must be said that rents in prime areas will tend to be higher. Figure out what the cost is per square foot and if there are common area costs. Be sure you know what your rent/lease includes. If it includes heat and electricity it may be a good value compared with a similar cost that does not include these. Make sure you get a lease agreement, and have it checked by a landlord. Note that if you lease a space in a shopping mall your lease may dictate your days/hours. Make sure your location has parking as well as an area for deliveries and storage.
Make a Business Plan – Getting a Loan
If you do not have your own funds to start a business you must get a loan from a bank. They will require a business plan. You must give a description of the space you intend to lease, and what you intend to sell, staffing needs, and so forth. These are typically several pages long. The bank will also want you to indicate the need for such a service.
Part of your Business Plan should be your "Mission Statement", a one or two sentence claim about what your business is as a whole. For example "Animal Avenue is designed to serve the needs of caring pet owners in this area of the city of______. We will focus on healthy food and products and not sell or exploit pets." The bank will also want to know who your target customer is, and so forth.
Even if you have your own funds and do not need the loan, the work you put into making the business plan is well worth it.
Business License
You need to pick a name and register it, being sure it is not already in use. You will need to get a business license and in some areas further registration for taxes and payroll. Your local Chamber of Commerce is a good resource to get you started if you are unsure what you need or where you need to go.
photo source - A store in Norway (not my store)
Finding Wholesalers and Suppliers
Wholesalers sell products only to retailers who then mark up the products for sale. Pet food is needed to bring people back regularly but has a lower mark up (important so you do not have unsold food on your selves). Pet supplies are typically marked up by double or slightly more.
Your local competition is not going to tell you who they buy their supplies from, but stores in other cities might. You can do Internet search engine checks for "Pet supply Wholesaler" and "Pet Food Wholesaler".
Some areas have "Pet Fairs" and Pet specific Trade Shows where you may find suppliers.
If you know what kind of pet foods you will be selling, contacting the company and seeing who supplies retailers with the food might also get you some leads on wholesalers. Some pet food companies will supply you will shelves for their food, otherwise you must find shelving.
Décor for your Pet Supply Store
Shelving can be purchased from specialty stores that sell retail fixtures and such, some of these stores will sell used fixtures. Try to have fixtures that are fairly uniform in each area of the store as it adds to the look of the store.
You may want to paint the walls or even wall paper them. (This is one area I failed miserably as I was unaware of what to do, but have since worked in a well decorated gift store and realized I could have done so much more to my little pet supply store).
Sell premium pet food; this is not the food you find in grocery stores, it is good food that caring pet owners will seek out – make sure the pet food lists you as a supplier on their websites "location finder".
Sell at least 2 or 3 different brands of cat and dog food, offering many flavors of each.
Become super knowledgeable on pet food ingredients and brands, as such you can tell people why the brand you sell are so superior.
Get a dog groomer to rent space from you, or employ one, this brings customers into your store regularly. (*This did more to help my business than any one other thing)
Your wholesaler for pet food will typically credit you for unsold bags past their "sell by" date, make friends with your local animal shelter by donating these foods to them.
Ideally pass coupons on to your local shelter to give out with adoptions encouraging people to come to your store (shelters that sell products may not do this but some shelters will).
Keep Staff expenses to a minimum to start. It is easy to get excited and hire too many employees. To begin with you want to do most of the work yourself.
Your grand opening should be one month later than you actually open, allowing you to fix all your hitches and work out the bugs.
Form good relationships with your local SPCA, or humane society, having a jar to collect change to donate to them, and offer them a place to showcase an animal or two during your grand opening.
Offer a few gift items for people who love pets too!
Many businesses do not make a profit in their start up years. Be sure you have capital to pull you through these tough times. By your third year you should start to see a strong profit, if not you need to rethink your plans.


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These bars are easy to make and are made by hand with a wooden spoon – no electric beaters involved. The look and taste is uncomplicated, which is part of the appeal – just good home-made bars to be enjoyed any time of the day. I have left white chocolate chips as optional, the white chocolate would make them a little more special and are my husband's preferred version.
The bars are best eaten on the day they are made, however they will keep for a further two days in an airtight container.
Makes 18 slices|Baking time 20-25 minutes| Easy
Utensils required: Hand whisk|Wooden spoon|Measuring cups & spoons OR scale|Saucepan & bowl|20x30cm tin
125 grams unsalted butter
1 1/4 cups (187 grams) flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup (220 grams) soft light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup (50 grams) roughly chopped walnuts or pecans
100 grams white chocolate chips (optional)
- Preheat to the oven to 170 degrees C
- Grease and line a 20×30 cm baking tin
- Melt butter and cool slightly
- Mix flour, baking powder and sugar in a medium size bowl
- Whisk eggs and add vanilla and then melted butter and whisk again
- Make a well in the flour and pour in the melted butter mixture, mix with a wooden spoon until combined
- Fold in nuts and white chocolate chips if using
- Bake for 20-25 minutes until a light golden brown
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Monitor the energy consumption of up to four channels with the Zipato Zipabox Power Module. This add-on module snaps into a Zipato expansion slot. Once connected, the Power Module instantaneously measures voltage, current, and power values for each channel and sends real-time data to your Zipato web portal. Using this information, you can then create energy-saving rules in the Zipato Rule Creator.
To perform the measurement is necessary to use the current clamps ZWZIP_AMPCLAMP35(purchased separately).
Complemented with current clamps ZWZIP_AMPCLAMP35.
The ZipaBox Current Clamps are used for energy monitoring with the Zipato Power Module (not included) to sense the current of monitored channels.
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Rebecca Kahn is a doctoral student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She earned her MS in Epidemiology from Harvard University in 2018. After graduating with a BA in Public Policy and Global Health from Duke University, she worked with the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in the U.S. State Department's Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC). She then worked for Partners In Health in Sierra Leone on the Ebola response and health systems strengthening programs. Her current research focuses on using simulation and disease transmission models to aid in the design of vaccine trials for emerging infections.
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We are an Australian wholesaler trading since 2001. The name Go Natural was trademarked in 2009 to reflect the essence of our products.
We supply environmentally friendly gardening products to retailers and distributors in Australia and other parts of the world.
The concept behind the brand is to provide gardening products that are made of natural, organic or recycled materials that are effective and non toxic.
The Pest Control product range includes Natural Pest Control with products to attract and trap the Citrus Gall Wasp, Mediterranean Fruit Fly, Fruit Fly, House Flies, Blow Flies, March Flies, Aphids, White Flies, Codling Moth, Elm Leaf Beetle, Ants, Earwigs, Caterpillars, Snails, Weevils and other flying and crawling insects.
Our Weed Control product, Organic Herbicide, has been used in the commercial industry for many years and we have made it available to the domestic market in a ready to use trigger bottle. This product is made from Pine Oil and rain water. It is a knockdown herbicide that kills weeds fast.
Our grafting tool, Omega Grafting Tool, is made from stainless steel material and the blade is super sharp and strong that is reversible – cuts on both sides so it can be reversed when required.


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The School requires, as soon as possible an Estates Administrator (8.00am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday, all year round)
The Estates Administrator works as part of a small team of Estate staff involved in the maintenance and development of the grounds.
The salary range for this post is competitve & depending on qualifications and experience (at September 2019 rates).
Excellent benefits & training ● superb working environment ● London Stratford 20 mins by train
Closing Date: Midday, 9 August 2019
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Alternatively, please contact a member of the HR Department on 01245 467 588
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Bergsig Estate is situated in the Breede River Valley in South Africa, about 110 km from Cape Town.
This is where the Drakenstein and Hex River Mountains meet, creating such scenic surroundings that the farm was named "Bergsig", meaning "mountain view".
Being an Estate, all of our wines are "grown, made and bottled" on the property.
We combine modern equipment with a natural approach to wine making. The aim is to capture the unique terroir of our estate in wines that are complex though elegant.
The Estate offer an extensive range of wines, ranging from a fresh fruity Sauvignon Blanc, wood matured Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve wine and various Port Style wines.
Stainless steel tanks are used to ensure the fruity flavours of the white wines, while the Chardonnay and red wines are matured in the estate's 400 French and American oak barrels. The Port Style wines are matured in traditional casks.


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9th ANNUAL SWIM CHALLENGE
The English Channel Challenge for
Arkansas Children's Hospital
On September 15, 2009 Noah Sarkin was critically injured, suffering a fracture to his head while practicing
soccer. Four neurosurgeons at Children's Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas
performed a craniotomy, which included the cauterization of a severed artery
and reconstruction of part of his skull with titanium plates.
The surgery was a wild success. Ten
years later, Noah's story continues to thrive, as a senior attending the University
of Kansas, where he is majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in
In 2010, the Sarkin family
established the English Channel Challenge for Children's. Its
original purpose was a one-time fundraising event, a solo swim challenge
crossing of the English Channel. In 2011, Noah's dad made an unsuccessful
crossing attempt, but in so doing, the English Channel Challenge for Children's
as an annual fundraising event was born, with a mission to conduct an annual swim challenge
which must equal or exceed the 21 mile distance of the Englsh Channel crossing.
These annual fundraisers have raised
more than $300,000 in support of programs provided through the Arkansas
Children's Hospital Foundation, including financial assistance to families for
travel and lodging and providing fun and interactive environments inside the
hospital for the children, programs which are only possible through donations
from the public. The needs and demands are high and involve significant effort
by the Arkansas Children's Hospital Foundation to raise needed funds to
maintain and sustain these programs so that Arkansas Children's can meet and
exceed its mission to improve, restore and sustain the health of all children.
2019 is particularly significant in that it is the 10th anniversary of Noah's injury and his successful surgery. In celebration of ten years, the 9th Annual English Channel Challenge for Children's is going from sea level to one of the highest altitude pools in the world, located in Mountain Village, Telluride, Colorado, at 9,547 feet above sea level, where the air pressure is some 30% less than at sea level. Noah will provide crew and feeding support while his dad will swim
21 miles in the pool starting at 7.00am (Mountain Standard Time) on Saturday, November 23, 2019 (backup date of Sunday, November 24, 2019).
By doing these annual swim
challenges, we seek to continue bring attention to how fortunate our community is to have this all important internationally- renowned world- class pediatric healthcare resource right on our doorsteps. We also hope to do a small part to ensure that every child tucked in at
night at Arkansas Children's Hospital can feel like a child and not a patient.
The children of Arkansas Children's Hospital do not realize how much they are
supported by the generosity of donors like you. The Arkansas Children's Hospital
could not provide lifesaving healthcare to hundreds of thousands of children
without your help. Thank you for your generosity and support.
- Steffan, Casey, Noah and Cade Sarkin


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As 2018 ends…
- December 29, 2018
- Bob Quinn
- General
2018 is almost over. I hope it has been a good year for you. I send you every best wish for 2019.
Thank you for staying with the Sunday Supplement. I hope you're finding it interesting, or at least useful! If there is anything you would like me to write about in the coming year, do please let me know – firstname.lastname@example.com
Merry Christmas
- December 22, 2018
- Bob Quinn
- General
I want to wish you and yours a very happy and restful Christmas. I'll be spending it at home in Naas this year.
Christmas is one of those rare occasions when we have down time but are not away on holiday. It's a good time to really think about your future and check in to see if you're on track.
I wish you time to take stock this Christmas.
Don't get caught offside by investing in GBP denominated investments
- December 15, 2018
- Bob Quinn
- Financial Planning
It's hard to ignore Brexit at the moment but if you have an investment in sterling with a fixed end date in the near future, you have more skin in the game than most. This week I look at what to do with a GBP denominated investment. PS, I was in studio with Ivan Yates earlier this week advising on claiming back tax reliefs before year end. The link to the podcast is below. Take a listen.
Make a list, check it twice for 2019
- December 8, 2018
- Bob Quinn
- Financial Planning
As we head into the final furlong of 2018, it's time to consider what action you are going to take in relation to your personal finances in early 2019. This morning I am looking at four areas that need your attention.
Long life is great, but ill health can quickly change that
- December 1, 2018
- Bob Quinn
- Financial Planning
You probably heard in the news this week about the TILDA report on aging in Ireland which found that life gets better as you get older – well, up to the magic age of 68 anyway. It's actually a really interesting report – I've given a link to a summary of the report in the newsletter – but for me it throws up an existential question. I've put forward my view and I'd be curious to know yours.


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Some of my favorite tools...
I like animoto because it's such a simple and appealing way to present photos.
When I use this site, I check the boxes for images that I can "use for commercial purposes" and "modify, adapt, or build upon". It's a great way to find useful images.
This is a nice LCMS. Universities and high schools can use it for free up to a certain number of students. All others have to use the "business version" but even that is reasonably priced.
This displays the genius of Hans Gosling and also allows you to download his useful bubble graphs.
Like all Mac apps, Garageband works consistently. It's great for manipulating audio files.
GIMP is a robust tool for manipulating images. I use it for isolating an image and making the background transparent.
I love using this free tool for short screencasts.
Try as I might to like PowerPoint, I just don't. I wish we were all using Apple's KeyNote instead.
I love using prezi for simple presentations. It's an easy way to show scaffolding of concepts and inject some fun into a presentation.
Myudutu is a free authoring tool. You can save your course as a SCORM package and upload it to an LMS. It allows you to make branching scenarios too - a nice feature.
I'm forming a love-hate relationship with Google tools. When they work, they're amazing. Most of the time, google docs works for me. It's a great collaboration tool.
This site has training videos for internet tools and sites. What I love about Grovo is that many training videos are free of charge and each segment is just a few minutes long. Who doesn't have 5 minutes to learn a new skill?
I recommend the Khan Academy to just about everyone who uses the word "math" in a sentence. I find it to be inspirational both in its simplicity and its accomplishments.
Try as I might to like Word, I just don't. Apple's "Pages" is my preferred word processing app.
Voicethread allows you to combine an asynchronous voice chat with images. Very cool!
Once I start "wordling" it's hard to stop. It's a fun way to make words have a more visual impact.
YouTube needs no introduction. I use it for class content and for tutorials for myself.
Weebly is the easiest and fastest website creation tool I've found. You can also use your own html - a real bonus. It's great as a free tool but I chose to pay that $60 per year that it costs to go pro. The Pro version allows me to upload video.
Evernote is a great app. It allows you to share text, video, and audio files with your students. Those files even have geo tags! Students can collaborate by editing the files.
I'm trying to learn as many Adobe products as I can. They're all such great fuel for creativity.
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The race is on to find a golden 'trust' bullet to capture the political high ground after the squalid expenses racket, clear the air, make peace with voters and come out with a scrap of dignity. Today Brown delivers a speech on 'crime', Mandelson one on 'enterprise'. How ironic. 'Crime' and 'enterprise' go hand in hand, as the sordid MPs expenses scandal shows no signs of abating.
Both Brown and Cameron are scrabbling around to get themselves out of the mess.
Today there's a once in a political lifetime opportunity for Dave and Gord to grasp the nettle and find a golden bullet without shooting themselves in the foot. The alternative is to let the whole sorry mess rot and fester away and drag any dignity parliament has left down with it.
Battered Brown's political cabinet will today try to salvage something from the wreckage of his doomed premiership. But Guardianista Blair babe, Polly Toynbee, has launched a devastating attack on bunkered Brown, urging Labour MPs to dump him. With friends like Toynbee who needs enemies.
Ex-Labour Party general secretary, Peter Watt, has already blown the gaff on the brutal style of Brown tribal politics. He'll look for someone to blame, a scapegoat, a sacrificial lamb for the slaughter.
McCavity's track record on bold, decisive decisions isn't good but both Brown and Cameron need to restore trust to break free from the stranglehold of sleaze and scandals.
For both the answer is easy: Tell their greedy lot in the most blatant cases to pay back their ill-gotten gains and scram with their tails between their legs.
Today's Telegraph revelations centre on Tory toffs swanking it up on their country estates at the taxpayers expense. Whatever next? The pope's catholic and bear shit's found in woods?
Anyone who believes the old feudal aristocracy has been transformed into a shiny new liberal democracy is living in cloud cuckoo land. They just packed the wellies in the Range Rover and found a new home in the commons.
Exposing a rotten culture of ''bung it all on expenses" reinforces the public's disgust with the rotting expenses system. But at the heart is the shocking scandal of the greedy crooks and spivs who've flipped their second homes to fiddle MPs expenses with one hand and the tax man with the other.
That is the most damning outrage and indictment of an expenses system which is rotten to the core. And it is that which needs to change now.
Scrap the scandalous second homes allowance altogether. Replace it with a fixed rate 'London living' allowance for all MPs outside the capital. Ruthlessly cut back the rest of the freebie allowances and expenses which MPs can claim.
But fat chance that would get past the disgraced commons, speaker Michael Martin.
Labour back-bencher Kate Hoey was shot down in flames with a disgusting display of arrogance when she had the audacity to challenge the speaker and there lies the problem.
Trying to get any kind of reform past New Labour's gatekeeper is impossible while Martin remains in office.
Hoey is outside the government's New Labour loop. Martin's job has been to set a loop so wide, MPs can drive 4x4s through it, making it a doddle for his cronies to swagger through.
The Orange Party can spot a handful of decent and honourable MPs and takes its cloth cap off to them.
Labour's Hoey is one, LibDem Norman Baker and Tory backbencher Douglas Carswell two others. But out of 300 odd MPs not many and none among the rancid New Labour cabinet and ministers and Tory money-grabbers. Only a honest handful as the Telegraph dishes up a daily diet of drip-fed disgrace.
Both Dave and Gordon needs to act and act now, Clegg too before the Telegraph turns on his lot. Stop the June 4 English local shire and Euro elections turning into an anti-politician shambles.
Withdraw the whip from MPs with blatant and flagrant expenses excesses, make them pay back the cash, name and shame them and hound them out of Westminster. And start with the excuse for a speaker who's turned out to be a national disgrace.
The weekend of spinning and bleating about only obeying orders and "following the rules", blaming it on "the system" are well and truly over and cut no ice in the court of public opinion. Shame on the spinners who fed them those lines.
Brown and Cameron's two sorries were too late. Brown's disastrous premiership is over. This sleazy scandalous parliament should be over too. What is needed is bold, trusted leadership and a fresh start to clear the rotten air. And that means a general election now.
Brown still needs to find a golden 'trust' bullet and fire a final shot to break out of the relentless round of sleaze and scandals for the sake of his Party. He should start with a purge of his crooks and second-rate spivs.
But, as the government in waiting, it's how Cameron deals with the squalid scandals among his own kind that matters most.
As the quest to find that golden bullet to break out of the squalid mess intensifies, for Brown, his bullet has got his name on it.


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Daily News Blasts
Cerritos Beach Club Catches Fire
The once popular Cerritos Beach Club on Cerritos beach burned completely around 3 a.m. today. The cops arrived within 30 minutes. It got fully engulfed in flames and burned to the ground. There is no information yet on the cause. The restaurant bar became off limits to the public and was turned into a private club for homeowners of the nearby Pacifico condos. It was later closed for good.
Beach Wrestling at Costa Azul this Month
The National Beach Wrestling Championship will take place at the Costa Azul beach in San Jose this August 23-25. Over 10 Mexican teams will compete to represent Mexico at the World Championship.
Beach wrestling was introduced as an international style by UWW, the international governing body for wrestling, as another avenue for athletic competition. Beach Wrestling (or sand wrestling) has been a consistent style of wrestling internationally for centuries. Combining elements of all wrestling styles, including sumo. Beach events have drawn walk-up crowds when partnered with other sporting events, helping expand the reach of wrestling through non-traditional venues.
Los Cabos International Film Fest Changes Venue
For both the Red Carpet opening event and the movie projections. Festival executives Alejandra Paulin and Mary Garzón announced that this year he Red Carpet will take place on the Cabo Marina, outside of the Luxury Avenue shops in the Puerto Paraiso Mall and the movies will be shown at Cinemex, in the same mall. The film festival will take place November 13-17 this year.
Millions to Promote Cabo
Following the disbandment of the National Tourism Council, which spent millions every year in promoting Mexico abroad, the local hotel and restaurant associations are pitching money to promote Los Cabos in Mexico, the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and China.
The lodging tax this year will raise some $12 million for our local tourism promotion fund and the hotel and restaurants associations pitched in an additional $2.6 million. More business associations are expected to jump in and fund this effort.
In comparison, the Las Vegas tourism board dedicated $101.5 million to advertising in the 2018-19 fiscal year. Are we that poor?
Don Koll Gets New Lamps
Not Mr. Koll, the developer of Palmilla. He passed away in 2011. During his lifetime he donated a soccer stadium with an 8-lane race track and grandstands in Cabo San Lucas, which bears his name. The lamps were damaged by hurricane Odile and following storms. Last week, the Coppel Foundation from the Pueblo Bonito group donated 60 new high-efficiency LED lamps, which will save the city 50-percent in electricity consumption. The lamps are the same as the ones you can find at the San Diego Padres Petco Park stadium, the Dallas Cowboys' ATT stadium in Dallas, and Wimbledon in the U.K. Thank you, Coppel Foundation!
You Can Cook Like a Mexican too!
The Gringo Gazette brings you a new, entertaining and informative section in its Online version. Almost 100 different Mexican Food recipes written by our in-house Chef Ale Borbolla have been uploaded to our website for your enjoyment. Don't be afraid, Mexican cuisine is sometimes complicated but nevertheless a lot of fun, especially if you drink a Margarita (or two) while in the kitchen! Click on the photo below and start Cooking Like a Mexican, or visit our website www.gringogazette.com - the link is in the upper right-hand corner!
Wanna Spend the Night on the Cabo Arch?
Climb it and you will find out you can't climb back down. That is what happened to 5 youngsters who thought of having a good time hiking the Solmar mountain and end on top of the arch. The Navy responded to a call for help but could not find them as they were looking for other ways to come down. It wasn't until dawn the next day that a lifeguard spotted them and called for help again. The scared and tired group was reprimanded and told that hiking the arch is a no-no.
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The home cinema is fast becoming a must-have item for many people. Projectors are cheap and effective, and a spare room can easily be turned into a fabulous cinema room at little cost. But which are the best projectors screens and do you get it done right!? It can be disappointing when you have spent your money and the picture you get is poor, and there are a number of reasons why this can be so. The most common problem is with the screen, so let's talk about how to get the best out of your equipment.
Do You Need a Screen?
So, you have a wide, blank wall that you are going to project your images onto. That's great, and in many cases, it works perfectly. But there can be problems with this. You might think a wall is perfect, but there will be blemishes in the finish. The tiniest marks will show up through your projection and will be exaggerated. This can be distracting and will spoil the effect you are striving for.
Another problem with this method is that you need to pick the background colour of the wall carefully. You also need to make sure the room is completely blacked out, as otherwise, you will not get the contrast effects that you need for a perfect and impressive picture. This is why many people buy a screen – you can get them in various types and sizes – and it really is worth the added expense. The choice here is whether you buy a white or a grey screen – so let's talk about the benefits of each.
Why White or Grey?
If the idea of a grey screen is new to you, don't worry, you're not alone! Many who are new to the idea of home cinema systems are unaware of the benefits of a grey screen – there are downsides, too, which we will come to later – so we're going to give you a quick look at what a grey screen brings to the party, and why you should consider one.
The main difference is in contrast and brightness. A lot of this depends upon how dark your room is. If you have a cinema system in a basement – or any other room where there is no natural light – you have the best room possible, as you can completely black out the entire room, and leave the only light source as your projector. This will give you the most impressive results.
In a fully blacked-out room, a white screen will provide you with excellent contrast, and you will be able to achieve impressive brightness and get a great picture. So why consider a grey screen?
The Grey Screen
Your projector can project everything but black; black is achieved by not projecting in those spaces. This is why contrast is a potential problem with home projectors and screens. On a white screen in a room that is not completely black, this will result in poor image quality where the darker shades of the image are. Hence the grey screen idea.
A grey screen will help you highlight the blacks against the whites, and will give you a better effect in a poorly lit room. However, this does not mean you should rush out and buy a grey screen, as it may not be to your satisfaction. It's a personal choice as to how you like your brightness and contrast. For example, while a grey screen in a room that is not completely blacked will highlight the darker colours and shades, it will also slightly dullen the lighter ones; white will, of course, appear to be grey. This is why most cinema buffs opt for the white screen and the completely dark room.
Which is for Me?
This depends entirely upon where you put your home cinema system. If you are using a room that you cannot completely black out – a standard living room that you convert for cinema use occasionally, for example – a grey screen will certainly give you much better contrast, as it will highlight the blacks. If you have a dedicated cinema room, which of course is preferred, then you may find the white screen does everything you need.
If you have a room in mind check out how dark you can get it; make sure there is nothing reflective on the walls – fabric covering brings the best results – and test the room before you buy. This way, you'll be able to decide whether you need a white or a grey screen for the best effect.


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Lavergne exhibits the advantages accruing to the general community; impressing upon his countrymen the necessity of adopting, as far as circumstances enable them to do so, the cycle of operations pursued by their energetic neighbours. "It is said of us," remarks M. Lavergne, "that we do not care to feed on animal food, preferring vegetables and farinaceous substances; that we eat rye rather than wheat, for the same reason. The fact is, that we eat what our farmers can manage to grow for our subsistence. They cannot rear oxen, sheep, or swine in such numbers as to bring meat within the reach of the lower class, because they have nothing to give them during winter; and we eat rye simply because we cannot grow enough wheat, or even oats, of which to make bread of a more nourishing quality." In truth, rye is treated by M. Lavergne as the most profitless and contemptible of all products. "It would be most desirable," he says, "to abandon it, but this is not always possible." It is one thing to renounce rye, and another to raise better corn successfully, for it is not every one who is capable of forcing nature. The English, in order to achieve what they have done in the way of wheat culture, have been obliged to fight against the qualities of their soil as well as of their climate" (p. 70); and he goes on to insist further upon the policy of raising wheat only in situations and on land favourable to its growth and its ripening, one of the principles now steadily adhered to by our best agriculturalists, in pur
* See also a passage (page 187) in the chapter on "Les Débouchés" (markets), full of sensible and acute observations on this head.
suance of which, in combination with improved methods of cultivation, a smaller surface seems to suffice for its growth with us, than would formerly have been supposed possible. M. Lavergne states that whereas, in France, one-fourth of the ground under cultivation is required for the growth of cereals destined for human food, in these islands one-sixteenth of the soil under plough suffices to yield such an amount of wheat as it consists with good husbandry to raise. The annual produce of cereals in France is thus stated by our author: wheat, seventy millions of hectolitres; rye, thirty millions; maize, seven millions; buck-wheat, eight millions. The yield of wheat, upon the 1,800,000 hectares devoted to that grain in the British Isles, is given as forty-five millions of hectolitres, of which thirty-eight millions are grown in England at a rate of produce per acre fully double that of France. Passing from the all-important feature of root crops, on which the whole circle of scientific farming now revolves, M. Lavergne explains in his chapters on sheep and cattle the circumstances which have led to the wondrous amelioration of our domestic animals. In that section which treats of cattle, many instructive observations abound, mingled with a minute exposition of the merits of our various breeds. Indeed, the manner in which the author, up to a recent period wholly occupied with the highest functions of a political career, deals with the subject of cattle management, attests a singular aptitude for mastering new and dissimilar subjects. He seizes, and expatiates upon what may be termed the philosophy of "Grazing," with a perspicacity worthy of one whose life has been absorbed in the calling. He, like most modern agriculturists, is an advocate of "stall feeding" for cattle; or, as we have heard a friend humorously style it, "the subjecting cattle to a fixed position, upon bare boards, in a current of cold air." The fact is that ideas of profit, when once they have obtained possession of a farming mind, carry all before them; thus a French traveller, naturally smitten with the desire of emulating our practice, and appreciating the merit of skilful adaptation of "means to ends," readily falls in with this universally recognised aim—viz., the making of money by the shortest process. On other grounds, we confess ourselves inclined to look with complacency upon the old system of warm and clean litter, coupled with the liberty of turning about. But we must not give way to kindly, antiquated prejudices, in the face of tabular demonstrations of profitable results, such as are supplied by the apostles of a later school. The names of Bakewell, Ellman, and Collins, have here derived an additional chance of enduring fame and honour, by the mention of what they have effected for the improvement of English domestic animals. Of the former of these, M. Lavergne speaks as "a man of genius in his way, who has done as much to augment the wealth of his country as either Arkwright or Watt." (p. 22.) The value of Bakewell and his disciples' system, consisted, he tells us, in persevering "selection." Individuals combining the properties of rapid growth, disposition to acquire flesh and to assume rounded, handsome forms, were alone permitted to reproduce their kind; and by attentive, unwearied noting of their experiments for a series of years, these eminent
breeders of stock succeeded in arriving at the desired combination of qualities—the "Dishley," or New Leicester sheep, the "Short-horned," or Teeswater bull and cow, and the improved South Down sheep, being at the present time regarded as realizing the utmost perfection of which each class of animal is susceptible.
M. Lavergne seems not to have been aware of an opinion entertained by the late Mr. Thos. Gisborne, which is stated in that gentleman's "Essays," recently collected and published under the supervision of his friend, Mr. Joseph Parkes. He believes that "breeds" are destined to pass away, but that "races" are eternal. In other words, that a given type of animal will reproduce itself, in strict conformity with its original character, through ages; whilst that "breeds," formed by artificially crossing, and selecting the reproducers, will revert to the pristine type so soon as they are left to themselves. This is a physiological question which, though chiefly interesting to the curious inquirer, is not without value to the stockfarmer, and we should like to see it taken up by our scientific class. Another theory, very lately started respecting the disease called "fingers and toes," preValent among turnips chiefly, happens to proceed upon a somewhat analogous hypothesis. Assuming our actual edible bulbous roots to be nothing but improved forms of an originally wild and far inferior plant, this theory supposes "fingers and toes" to be neither more nor less than a struggle on the part of the genteel modern turnip to get back to his homely origin; diving down in a tapering, and often bifurcate root, as its remote and indigenous progenitors had always done before him. There is a certain correspondence between this plausible suggestion and the convictions of Mr. Gisborne, and both the one and the other possess that species of attraction for speculative thinkers which always attends a reference to universal tendencies in nature. The high condition of our corn cultivation, our live stock and teams, our buildings, implements, and effective methods of enriching and renewing the latent powers of the soil, call forth in turn the cordial admiration of the French visitor. Supporting his general statements by careful computations, his picture presents a body of information on which the imitators of English systems might safely rely. But whilst M. Lavergne contemplates, with something akin to wonder, the astonishing march of our modern agricultural movement, he is too wise and reflecting a teacher not to take account of the inherent difficulties which stand in the way of its adoption by his own people. It is in this mood that he writes as follows:— "The causes which have led to the agricultural superiority of the English, originate in the history and organization of our two nations. The rural economy of a people is not an isolated fact; it forms one element of a great whole. It is not upon our cultivators that the accountability for our backward condition should be chiefly cast, neither ought we to rely on them altogether for future progress. And it is not so much the concentration of their attention upon the soil itself which will secure progress, as a careful study of the general laws which govern the economic development of a community. "Up to this time," he goes on to say, "these


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Song of Lahore
Directors: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Andy Schocken
Year: 2015
Country: USA, Pakistan
Language: English, Urdu, Panjabi
Runtime: 82'
Lahore was once the cultural centre of Pakistan, a real creative paradise for musicians and artists of every discipline. Until 1977, when the imposition of sharia law led Pakistani orchestras to be disbanded and musicians vilified, even killed. In the past few years, the stifling restrictions have been somewhat eased, which led Izzat Majeed to start the Sachal Studios, convincing some of the most skilled virtuosos in the country to dust off their instruments and fight against oblivion. It's a desperate attempt to resurrect the musical traditions of a society that seems to have all but forgotten about its roots.
Everything will change when their unusual cover of Dave Brubeck's "Take Five", using traditional Pakistani instruments, becomes a YouTube sensation. The loose band of musicians turn into overnight celebrities and are invited by top jazz player Wynton Marsalis to join his famous orchestra at New York's Lincoln Center. Newcomer Andy Schocken and two-time Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid -Chinoy from Pakistan turn the band's journey and their rehearsals into a delightful and undeniably intoxicating travelogue about the power of music and everything that unites and divides East and West.


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CircuitPython module for the RFM95/6/7/8 LoRa 433/915mhz radio modules.
This driver depends on:
Please ensure all dependencies are available on the CircuitPython filesystem. This is easily achieved by downloading the Adafruit library and driver bundle.
Usage Example¶
Initialization of the RFM radio requires specifying a frequency appropriate to your radio hardware (i.e. 868-915 or 433 MHz) and specifying the pins used in your wiring from the controller board to the radio module.
This example code matches the wiring used in the LoRa and LoRaWAN Radio for Raspberry Pi project:
import digitalio
import board
import busio
import adafruit_rfm9x
CS = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.CE1)
RESET = digitalio.DigitalInOut(board.D25)
spi = busio.SPI(board.SCK, MOSI=board.MOSI, MISO=board.MISO)
rfm9x = adafruit_rfm9x.RFM9x(spi, CS, RESET, RADIO_FREQ_MHZ)
Note: the default baudrate for the SPI is 50000000 (5MHz). The maximum setting is 10Mhz but transmission errors have been observed expecially when using breakout boards. For breakout boards or other configurations where the boards are separated, it may be necessary to reduce the baudrate for reliable data transmission. The baud rate may be specified as an keyword parameter when initializing the board. To set it to 1000000 use :
# Initialze RFM radio with a more conservative baudrate
rfm9x = adafruit_rfm9x.RFM9x(spi, CS, RESET, RADIO_FREQ_MHZ, baudrate=1000000)
Optional controls exist to alter the signal bandwidth, coding rate, and spreading factor settings used by the radio to achieve better performance in different environments. By default, settings compatible with RadioHead Bw125Cr45Sf128 mode are used, which can be altered in the following manner (continued from the above example):
# Apply new modem config settings to the radio to improve its effective range
rfm9x.signal_bandwidth = 62500
rfm9x.coding_rate = 6
rfm9x.spreading_factor = 8
rfm9x.enable_crc = True
See examples/rfm9x_simpletest.py for an expanded demo of the usage.
Contributions are welcome! Please read our Code of Conduct before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.
Building locally¶
Zip release files¶
To build this library locally you'll need to install the circuitpython-build-tools package.
python3 -m venv .env
source .env/bin/activate
pip install circuitpython-build-tools
Once installed, make sure you are in the virtual environment:
source .env/bin/activate
Then run the build:
circuitpython-build-bundles --filename_prefix adafruit-circuitpython-rfm9x --library_location .
Sphinx documentation¶
Sphinx is used to build the documentation based on rST files and comments in the code. First, install dependencies (feel free to reuse the virtual environment from above):
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You Have the Rite to Sing, Sing, Sing
I can't sing. I actually took voice lessons as a graduate student and the professor, a priest, said to me as politely as possible: "Why don't we concentrate on your public speaking voice instead of singing." He was really on to something.
Elsewhere I have written about the Tridentine Low Mass providing Catholics with the "Rite To Remain Silent." This is, of course, one of the most salient and unmistakable features of Low Mass: the unbroken contemplative silence.
But what of High Mass? Or Solemn High Mass?
These are, of course, occasions not for silence but for singing, or more specifically, chanting—usually Gregorian, though there are wonderful variations such as Praemonstratensian chant as well—where, along with a pipe organ and with any luck a full-blown Latin choir, nearly every major part of the Mass is sung.
It may seem strange, then, that many Catholics who attend these High Masses still remain silent instead of joining in the beautiful celebratory singing. They may have good reason for their silence: like me, perhaps they simply can't sing (well) and joining in would only mar the beauty of the trained choir's hours of practice. Then there's the crazy plainchant notation that looks easy enough, but unless you actually know how to read and sing along with it, it's a lot like chess notation: it seems simple, but try to play along and you're sure to get lost, quickly.
Thomas Day in his delightfully-titled and informative book Why Catholics Can't Sing has some excellent insights (as well as plenty with which I cheerfully disagree), but one of his main points is that the American Catholic tradition is grounded in silence not out of hatred of singing, but out of fear of being killed. According to Professor Day, the Irish Catholics who came to the United States did so not only because they were being starved to death by their unjust British occupiers, but because the Catholic Irish were forbidden to practice their religion under the very real penalty of death. Mass in Ireland under British rule was not only silent, but surreptitious. Silence meant survival.
So when the Irish came to America and quickly cornered the markets on most of the archbishoprics and the couple of cardinal's hats here, it was from a tradition of silence-for-the-sake-of-survival that had a sort of "trickle-down" effect on their congregations. True, with the influx of Italian immigrants, loud and colorful street processions, statues clad in dollar bills, and songs in the local patois to saints (who in many cases were never officially canonized, like San Cono, the patron of Williamsburg, Brooklyn) in the streets lived uneasily along the official Irish-American stolid silence. Very uneasily.
So while it may be "natural" for American Catholics not to sing, even at High Mass, is that a good thing? I'm not sure this is a question of "good" and "bad" but rather one of common sense. If you've got a good voice, can follow plainchant, and know the settings, you probably should sing. If you are like me and couldn't sing even with professional assistance, you might have a better time of it just enjoying the contemplative music and harmony of the professionals and fully and actively participating in a contented contemplative silence.
And there's nothing to say that you couldn't join that august group of singers in the choir on a full-time basis: most of the Latin Masses I've attended are eager for more voices to join their choirs for High Mass.
My father, whose "singing" resembles a truck downshifting on a freeway without a clutch, has always maintained that "if you can't sing well, sing loud". And, not content with repeating that bon mot, he actually lives it: he sings loud, but never, alas, well. He also always follows up this chestnut with Saint Augustine's famous, "When you sing, you pray twice." While I love my father, I can't stand his singing—and if this is how his firstborn feels about it, I can only imagine what the souls around us at Mass growing up thought of the cacophony issuing from our pew.
Mercifully, my father can't read much Latin, doesn't understand plainchant notation, and doesn't know the settings of High Mass, so I doubt that he'd be in a hurry to belt out tunes he neither knows nor understands just for the sheer sake of singing at Latin High Mass.
Still, as early as 1978—decades before it became a phenomenal and surprise success—my father shared with me a vinyl record entitled simply GREGORIAN CHANT from France. He played it over and over—but he never once sang along with it (unlike his Mario Lanza albums). My dad grew up with the Latin Mass, knew just enough Latin (and German, Russian and Italian) to get by, but I never heard him sing Gregorian Chant. It was a treat just to watch him listen, and enjoy the beauty of these French monks.
And now I think I know why he kept quiet. It's not because such singing is best left always and only to the professionals, even at one's local parish, but out of humility. "Humility," T.S. Eliot tells us, "is endless." Of what service would it be to sing in Latin without knowing what you are singing, but rather how to sing it correctly. Sure, there are exceptions: I don't know anyone who, at Midnight Mass on Christmas, doesn't love to let out a full-throated "Adeste Fidelis", or at Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction "O Salutaris Hostia" and "Tantum Ergo". Or during the Stabat Mater at the Stations of the Cross. And it's always a pleasure (for me, at least) when the priest intones the Greek "Kyrie Eleison" at the Ordinary Form of the Mass, not merely for the change of pace (and language), but because there is something atavistic about it: a you-are-there feeling to those sacred words.
I once attended a Ukrainian Divine Liturgy at Christmas. It was a stunning display of liturgy, and the music was (literally) divine. I had about a dozen words of Ukrainian memorized, but it would have made no sense to try to "be ecumenical" or "join in" by singing along with the trained (and talented) Ukrainian choir. I kept quiet and was swept up by their power of prayer. I like to think humility—along with my inability to sing—added in some small way to the prayer of that pious group of prayers.
Still, I've been to at least one Latin Mass where the priest has actually encouraged the congregation to sing along "to the best of your ability, because God appreciates your effort." This was at an especially large church which had the dialogue Mass, and the priest (and deacon and sub-deacon) were left to do all the singing themselves. In short: they needed us to sing to assist their service. It wasn't particularly beautiful, musically speaking, but it was a prayerful experience I hope never to forget.