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Graeme Le Saux believes it is too soon for Southampton's Luke Shaw to move to Chelsea.
Le Saux, who played for both the Blues and Saints in his illustrious career, believes the 18-year-old left-back is at the right club to continue his development.
Shaw, a boyhood Chelsea fan, has been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge as long-term successor to Ashley Cole and is in line for a call up for England's friendly with Denmark next month.
Le Saux, an ambassador for the Budweiser Open Trials campaign, which will provide amateur footballers with the opportunity to play at Wembley in front of professional scouts, told Press Association Sport: "I've been watching him play quite a lot.
"He has the qualities of an attacking full-back who has a lot of pace and a lot of energy.
"His defending is getting better as he gets more experienced.
"He's still very young and the more experience he gains for his club and at under-21 level, I feel that he's in the right place at the moment and his development is crucial."
Cole's influence has waned and he is currently second-choice left-back for Chelsea and England.
Le Saux thinks it was inevitable age would impact on Cole, with the 33-year-old overtaken by Everton's Leighton Baines in the England pecking order.
"I would pick the player that is in form, playing regularly and deserves it on past performance for England," Le Saux added.
"When you look at Ashley Cole you think of the high standards he's set himself over his career and when I've seen him play he doesn't look as sharp as he had done before.
"Inevitably after playing so many games and getting older, it does take a bit longer to recover from injuries and to maintain a level of fitness for that position, marauding forwards like he does.
"Maybe he's not able to play quite so many games.
"For Ashley Cole it's important he maintains his levels in training and when he plays.
"He's a fantastic professional, in terms of his attitude, and he has to maintain his focus."
For Jose Mourinho's Chelsea, Cole's place has been taken by Cesar Azpilicueta, the Spain right-back playing on his 'wrong' flank.
A rib injury saw Cole drop out of the team initially and a poor performance at Newcastle on November 2 did not help matters.
He has started three Premier League games since, when Branislav Ivanovic was injured and Azpilicueta switched to right-back, and been an unused substitute in the last five games.
Mourinho insists Azpilicueta has been selected ahead of Cole purely on merit and that the England centurion has a future at Chelsea.
Le Saux, who is also an admirer of Aston Villa's on-loan Chelsea defender Ryan Bertrand and Kieran Gibbs of Arsenal, praised the Spaniard for his displays.
"Azpilicueta's done very well when he's played," he added.
"I have played right-back on occasion and it is difficult.
"It's comparable to driving a left-hand drive car in Europe. You have to recalibrate your brain a little bit. Thankfully there's no roundabouts on a football pitch."
:: The Budweiser Open Trials, in association with BT Sport, will see six regional trials take place across the country. The trials will culminate in a showpiece match at Wembley Stadium. Those who make the cut will have one last chance to prove it's never too late to achieve your dream as they play in front of professional scouts. Watch the first part of the Budweiser Open Trials on BT Sport on Saturday 8th March as part of its FA Cup coverage and subscribe to YouTube.com/BudweiserUK


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Thunder Over the Blue Ridge Open House and Air Show
The Thunder over the Blue Ridge Board of Directors has been working diligently to ensure that the air show scheduled for May 11 and 12, 2013 at the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport in Martinsburg would be its usual success and community celebration of our armed forces. The Board could not have been more excited since the show was scheduled to feature the United States Air Force Thunderbirds. It would have been our way of saying thank you to the 167th Air National Guard for all they do in our community.
Unfortunately, due to the automatic cuts in federal spending caused by the sequestration that has gone into effect, the Thunderbirds appearances and operations have been cancelled for all events scheduled for after March 31, 2013. As a result of the loss of the featured act, the Board has reluctantly decided to cancel this year's air show. If federal budgetary and insurance issues are resolved in relatively short order, the Thunder over the Blue Ridge board will consider reinstating the event.
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Just outside the village of Anin, in the Jenin area of the West Bank, Awad Milhem works with his two sons picking olives under the unusually hot October sun.
His land overlooks a valley dotted with olive trees, at the bottom of which runs the separation fence and an Israeli border patrol road.
The fence snakes eastward into the West Bank, away from the 1949 Green Line, to encircle the illegal israeli settlement of Hinanit which is visible on the opposite hilltop.
Awad told the Palestine Monitor that Israel's separation fence cut through his olive groves. "They uprooted my ancient [surri] trees and replanted them in the settlement to support their story of how they are the descendants of the land."
The hulking surri trees, so-called as they are said to date back to the Roman era, produce around sixteen litres of olive oil compared to those Awad is currently harvesting, which produce three to four litres.
"Of course, it's a feeling of pain, hurt and anger, but I am the weak and they are the strong. I can't stand in the face of the army and their weapons." laments Awad, "So all I do is get hurt on the inside."
Awad was told he could apply for compensation through official procedures, "but none of the farmers in the village did, because this means that you are accepting the fact that they took your land, and it's as if you're selling it."
This is the first year since 2003 that Awad has been granted permission to access his 20 dunams of land (20,000 square meters) on the other side of the fence. But only one of his sons has been permitted to help him harvest.
Awad isn't optimistic about this year's harvest. "There is so much lost crop because we cannot finish the majority of these lands during the harvest season alone," he said. This is compounded by the lack of year-round access to weed and prune the trees. "The yield is much lower. It's not really worth the effort to cross the wall to harvest the lands."
Pastoral farmers can no longer access the other side of the valley either. Conversely, Awad says that Israeli settlers bring their cows and boars in trucks to the Palestinian side which eat crops and destroy trees.
As in all of the West Bank, access to irrigation water is restricted. Palestinian farmers are not permitted to drill wells for irrigation, so like so many other farmers, Awad's olive trees are solely dependant on rainwater.
According to 2011 figures, the average daily (domestic, urban and industrial) water consumption in the Jenin area was only 38 liters per person, compared to an average of 73 liters for the West Bank and 183 litres for Israel. "Water is given sporadically to each village at different times and on different days. It's barely enough for us to drink," Awad explains.
Water allocation to Palestinians has been capped at 1967 levels, despite the rapid population increase. Lack of water access severely curtails the West Bank economy. It is estimated that if water restrictions in Area C were lifted, an extra agricultural production (currently around half of which is olive production) worth $1.22 billion could be generated yearly, with a large proportion from the predicted tripling of oil production per tree.
This year has been particularly dry in the Anin area, and Awad is expecting 50 percent yield from his trees, compared to 80 percent last year.
Awad is part of a commercial cooperative called Canaan Fair Trade which works in partnership with the Palestinian Fair Trade Association (PFTA) to represent village farming cooperatives in the northern West Bank.
After the second intifada, Palestinian farmers could not compete in the international market due to high production costs and low global olive oil prices. The PFTA was created to guarantee farmers a fair price by enabling them to pool their resources and access long-term global market opportunities by managing post-harvest operations, and running community-based projects.
Through the Centre for Organic Research and Extension (CORE), farmers are helped to reestablish the traditional farming methods and to improving olive oil quality.
Nasre Abufadale, another farmer working with the PFTA, explains that, "to keep up with agriculture is expensive. Water is expensive. fertilisers are expensive. So you have to go by the very traditional methods."
His harvest has been a success, and praises Canaan's assistance, "I am proud to be pressing at this press."
Another olive farmer, Mohammad Hameda, from the Burqin area, remembers with resentment how farmers used to be "subjected to the monopoly of the local traders who would pay very low prices. What Fair Trade and Canaan did is move this to a new level."
He sees the olive tree as a symbol of Palestine, and an, "attachment between the farmer and the land."
This is evident for the less fortunate Awad, back in Anin, whose rumi trees now sustain the settlers. "Every time I pass by here I remember that I had trees where this wall was." Awad pines, "It stays in my heart."
Undeterred, he quit his job and bought more land to plant 800 new olive trees "to prove my existence and ownership of the land. This is a form of resistance."
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These are proposed tuning packages, though the quad exhaust is already available in Japan. The new trim will also include your choice of 18-inch wheels and, of course, a lowering kit. While being closer to the ground might actually reduce drag, we're not sure if the "aero" kits will actually be more aerodynamic than the stock setup.
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In this context, however, I think he meant that he was lost in thought for a moment or two, and wasn't paying attention to the conversation around him. I would have to see the preceding sentences to be sure.
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The winners of the 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award have been announced, honoring some of the past year's best works of short science fiction and science fiction novels, respectively.
Three honorees for each award are selected each year by a committee of judges. This year's committee for the Sturgeon Award included James Gunn of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, Kij Johnson, Frederik Pohl, George Zebrowski, and Noel Sturgeon. The Campbell Award jury consists of Gregory Benford, Paul Di Filippo, Sheila Finch, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Paul Kincaid, Christopher McKitterick, Pamela Sargent, and T.A. Shippey.
Paul McAuley took home the first place Sturgeon Award for his story, "The Choice." Our own Charlie Jane Anders received second place for her "Six Months Three Days." (If you haven't read it yet, definitely do; it's a fascinating exploration of clairvoyance, free will, and the tricky nature of memory, especially when it comes to romantic relationships.) And Ken Liu's sweetly sad "The Paper Menagerie" took third place.
As for the novels, Christopher Priest's The Islanders and Joan Slonczewski's The Highest Frontier tied for first place in the Campbell Awards, with China Miéville's Embassytown awarded third place. Lavie Tidhar's novel Osama received an honorable mention.
Congrats again to all the winners and honorees!
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Children and Cats
Veterinarian Reviewed on January 4, 2008 by Dr. Janice Huntingford
Cats quite often make loving family members who interact very well with children. The kind of cat and the timing of bringing a cat into a family with children are important considerations to be made. In addition, cats can be better pets for small children than dogs while there are some special health concerns with cats and children.
Bringing a Cat into Your Family
Any time a new pet is added to your family, there needs to be a commitment to the care of that pet. Often, families decide that having a pet will complete their family but do not consider the implications of pet ownership. Kittens for example, need time every day for grooming, play, training, and socializing with people. This can be quite the time commitment for a family with small children but without proper care kittens can become difficult pets. Your cat may become very unhappy, which usually leads to more serious behavioural problems, so it is important to be prepared for a new cat.
In addition, small children (especially boys) are often more interested in tormenting a cat than loving them. Cats need to be treated with gentle affection and young children might be too energetic for a cat. That being said, cats are usually less aggressive than dogs and are more capable of getting out of the way. They can climb up on furniture and hide in tight spaces so they can avoid kids when they are getting overexcited.
As far as the breed of cat is concerned, you'll probably want to choose a breed that is less prone to anxiety. A good example is a large, male cat that has been neutered. Pure breeds of cat tend to be associated with higher stress levels and might not make the best pet for a family.
Also remember to prepare your home for a new cat. Make sure to safely store any cleaning products or medicines that can be deadly for cats. In addition, you need to create a child-free area for your cat's litter box and food. It would also be useful to explain to your kids the rules about owning a cat as well as who will share what responsibilities.
Cats and Infants
Many new parents are concerned about brining their newborn into a house with a cat. Toxoplasmosis, caused by the bacteria Toxoplasma and contractible through cat feces, is one of the most serious concerns as it can cause brain damage and even death. In addition, new parents tend to be concerned about the possibility that a cat will smother their child resulting in death. While the latter concern is usually exaggerated (veterinarians rarely, if ever, report cases of cats accidentally smothering babies), toxoplasmosis is a serious, valid concern. That being said, there are a few precautions that can be taken to drastically reduce risk.
First of all, be sure to regularly clean the litter box. If your cat has a clean litter box and the area round the box is clean, it is very unlikely that feces will come in contact with your infant. In addition, do not allow children to pay near or around your cat's litter box. Sandboxes and dirt piles can also be an area of concern. Outdoor cats will often defecate in these areas making them unsafe for children to play.
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Organizers of the Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival reluctantly announced Sunday they will scrap plans for a 2013 festival in Norwich.
Organizers of the Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival reluctantly announced Sunday they will scrap plans for a 2013 festival in Norwich.
The board of the festival decided Saturday not to hold the festival this year and made the announcement Sunday afternoon on its Facebook page.. Executive Director Roger Moss, who is also Norwich's recreation director, confirmed the cancellation Sunday, saying lingering uncertainty about the costs and location doomed the festival.
The festival has been homeless since its planned location of Dodd Stadium fell through. The stadium's first priority is the Connecticut Tigers, who have home games the weekend of the festival and can't change their schedule. Unknown costs and unsecured permissions have kept organizers from making a commitment to alternate sites within the city, Moss said.
"The fact that we're making this decision so late tells you it was a hard decision, and one we didn't think lightly on," Moss said. "The decision was definitely difficult and not one the board wanted to make, but at this point, we wanted to give the bands an opportunity to find other places to play and not hold them up."
Thirteen bands and performers were booked for the festival, including popular artists Tony Trischka and Claire Lynch, according to the festival's website, which was updated Sunday to reflect the cancellation.
After Dodd Stadium was ruled out, the organizers had looked at Kelly Middle School for performance space, but its topography made camping impossible, and the Board of Education still had not provided the festival organizers with a use cost, Moss said. The option of camping at Mohegan Park was still up in the air, and the City Council was set to hold a hearing today on an exception that would allow festival guests to camp in the park during the event. Currently, camping there is only open to youth organizations.
While organizers wanted to keep the festival in Norwich, they said they looked at fairgrounds and park spaces throughout the state.
"Some locations would have changed the nature of the festival to a town fair with multiple stages at various locations, and others, including Kelly Middle School in Norwich, were short camping space on site or priced out of range," the group wrote on its Facebook page.
Festival organizers say they expect to hold the festival in 2014, and Moss said they are once again looking at Dodd Stadium.
Norwich Mayor Peter Nystrom said Sunday that he was disappointed the show would not go on as scheduled, but blamed the cancellation on the economy.
"The economy is hard, and when they moved here two years ago, they lost a $25,000 sponsor that they were not able to replace," Nystrom said. "It is what it is. You don't want to put something on and lose money."
The festival was a great event for the city, Nystrom said, with "a very mellow crowd that just came to listen to the music." He said he hoped to see the festival return in the future, especially for tourism reasons.
"Norwich has a rich history of festivals, and this fit right in. Bluegrass is new here in the city, but with Rock the Docks, that's a small festival on a weekly basis, and I thought bluegrass fit right in," he said. "It was a nice, enjoyable opportunity for people to visit the city who haven't been here in the past — from outside the state in particular. Those are the kinds of things you want — family-oriented events."
This would have been the 18th year of the Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival. The festival was named the top concert of its kind in 2010 by the International Bluegrass Music Association and has many loyal fans, Moss said, which gives the group hope for a renewed spirit in 2014.
"We have some people who have already bought tickets for this year tell us to hold onto their tickets for 2014, and that's promising. People know us, believe in us and want to see it happen again," Moss said.
Moss said the uncertainty likely contributed to smaller than usual ticket sales numbers this year. Numbers dropped from previous years when the festival moved from East Hartford to Norwich last year, and numbers were down again this year. Moss said he hopes the trepidation doesn't affect sales in 2014.
"Anytime you do something like this, there's a chance to lose people. They say, 'You canceled once, what's to keep you from canceling again?' "


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A former Dutch pastor named Marc Angenent has carved out a niche market selling sex toys on-demand to Christians through his subversively named website "Love Garden." This new business is very important to Angenent in his ongoing effort to combat what he calls "lust phobia" among Christian couples. And what better way to get encourage timid couples than to sell them gels that protect against premature ejaculation, dildos, prostate stimulators, erection rings, and, the "Iris" vibrator, which, at more than $100, is considered the pink Cadillac of vibrators and easily Angenent's bestselling item?
Der Spiegel reports that Angenent spent 23 years as the minister of a young congregation. He would visit what were often newlywed couples and ask them, as if it was any of his business, if they had satisfying sex lives. To the many couples who told him that, even in the early stages of their marriages, sex was often boring, Angenent suggested that they give freer rein to their more lustful fantasies. Now retired from the divinity racket, Angenent works as a sex therapist and sex toy purveyor, a dual vocation that seems to utilize his talent for frankly discussing the sexual dysfunctions of total strangers. The seemingly liberated Angenent, though, has one restriction on items that he'll sell — no S&M paraphernalia and no porn. Not that the Dutchman isn't totally cool with that sort of thing (he is), it's just that he doesn't want to freak out any of his new Christian customers, many of who might be taking their first tentative steps into the enchanted, Dr. Seuss-like jungle of sex toys.


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12 Stocks to Get Dividends Every Month - Slide Show
A regular paycheck isn't the only way to ensure a steady flow of income. By carefully selecting stocks that pay dividends on the right schedule, you can build a portfolio that guarantees cash every month. Here are a dozen great stocks that do just that.
Yield (as of August 4): 2.9%
52-week high: $105.64
52-week low: $84.91
5-year dividend growth rate: 13.6%
Last dividend increase: 12.5% in February 2014
Also pays in: April, July, October
Occidental Petroleum ( OXY ) is primarily a domestic oil and gas producer, with much of its exploration in California and in shale formations in Texas and North Dakota. It differs from some other large oil companies in that it doesn't have a low-profit refining and marketing business. It also says, emphatically, in its investor presentations that increasing its dividend is a higher priority than making acquisitions, buying back stock or piling up reserves.
Yield (as of August 4): 5.1%
52-week high: $45.84
52-week low: $36.58
5-year dividend growth rate: 5.1%
Last dividend increase: 0.2% in June 2014
Also pays in: Every month
This real estate investment trust pioneered the strategy of buying or building free-standing drugstores, restaurants, cinemas, fitness centers and similar buildings and leasing them to familiar chains, which pay the rent, maintenance and taxes. Realty Income ( O ) pays dividends every month and raises the rate several times a year, though slowly and usually by small amounts. The REIT is safe and consistent, with more than 500 consecutive monthly dividends to its credit.
Yield (as of August 4): 2.6%
52-week high: $34.83
52-week low: $21.89
5-year dividend growth rate: 10.0%
Last dividend increase: 7.1% in September 2012
Also pays in: June, September, December
Intel ( INTC ), which makes semiconductors and processors, is one of tech's most committed dividend-payers, though its last increase was in 2012. Intel is fighting slowing growth in sales of desktop and laptop computers--its largest sources of sales and profits--and as it makes inroads into smartphones and tablets, its cash flow will grow and higher dividends should follow.
Yield (as of August 4): 2.2%
52-week high: $73.79
52-week low: $62.75
5-year dividend growth rate: 9.0%
Last dividend increase: 8.8% in November 2013
Also pays in: July, October, January
The world's leading maker of spices and flavorings, McCormick ( MKC ) grows steadily in part by taking over competitors' brands and introducing American favorites to the rest of the world. Its profit margin is more than twice that of the meatpackers whose steaks and chops star in McCormick's recipes. Plus, the company has little debt.
Yield (as of August 4): 3.2%
52-week high: $85.82
52-week low: $73.61
5-year dividend growth rate: 7.9%
Last dividend increase: 7.0% in April 2014
Also pays in: August, November, February
Procter & Gamble ( PG ) is the archetypal solid, predictable, low-stress growth stock. It is so huge that a 7% to 10% dividend growth rate may be all you can expect -- but that's good enough considering that it usually yields more than 3%.
Yield (as of August 4): 2.3%
52-week high: $82.25
52-week low: $66.23
5-year dividend growth rate: 27.0%
Last dividend increase: 39.1% in June 2014
Also pays in: Every month
Smaller and mid-sized companies have joined the rush to pay higher dividends and WisdomTree MidCap ETF ( DON ) is a convenient way to sample 400 of them, spanning the economy from utilities to REITs to energy to retail. The fund pays dividends each month, joining Realty Income as 12-time payers in this model portfolio.
Yield (as of August 4): 3.2%
52-week high: $114.45
52-week low: $91.44
5-year dividend growth rate: 7.0%
Last dividend increase: 3.7% in February 2014
Also pays in: October, January, April
The maker of Kleenex, Huggies and Scott paper products resembles Procter & Gamble in that it makes familiar household products and sells them in more than 100 countries. Kimberly-Clark ( KMB ) has raised dividends every year since the early 1970s and aims to maintain a higher dividend yield than most other industrial and consumer-product companies.
Yield (as of August 4): 4.0%
52-week high: $38.58
52-week low: $28.75
5-year dividend growth rate: 28.5%
Last dividend increase: 25% in May 2013
Also pays in: November, February, May
Potash is fertilizer and this Canadian firm could be spreading it on its dividends to produce bigger and higher checks for investors pocket. Five years ago Potash ( POT ) paid 3 cents a quarter. Now the dividend is 35 cents, four times a year. The world doesn't have many sources of this essential resource and while the price can swing like any mineral, the dividend is secure.
Yield (as of August 4): 2.8%
52-week high: $106.74
52-week low: $85.50
5-year dividend growth rate: 7.4%
Last dividend increase: 6.1% in April 2014
Also pays in: December, March, June
A blue-chip cash machine with a great group of global health businesses, Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) grows just enough to raise dividends between 5% and 10% a year while the shares almost never misbehave. This is the way the stock market is supposed to work for patient, loyal investors.
Yield (as of August 4): 2.4%
52-week high: $83.82
52-week low: $69.76
5-year dividend growth rate: 7.8%
Last dividend increase: 10.3% in November 2013
Also pays in: January, April, July
Automatic Data Processing ( ADP ) is a giant payroll processor and also administers employee-benefits programs. It also profits by investing money it holds for employers before paychecks are cashed and deposited, so even a small rise in interest rates would make it richer. ADP is a financial fortress with $1.7 billion of its own cash and little debt.
Yield (as of August 4): 2.1%
52-week high: $122.17
52-week low: $82.23
5-year dividend growth rate: 10.3%
Last dividend increase: 10.7% in March 2014
Also pays in: February, May, August
A defense industry powerhouse, General Dynamics ( GD ) also makes private jet planes and offers information-technology management services. Cuts in the military budget (whether rumored or actual) haven't stopped it from raising dividends briskly every year.
Yield (as of August 4): 3.9%
52-week high: $55.94
52-week low: $41.83
5-year dividend growth rate: 4.0%
Last dividend increase: 2.0% in October 2013
Also pays in: March, June, September
American Electric Power ( AEP ) is one of the safest traditional regulated utility stocks because the chain operates in 11 states, which spreads the risk from storms and other controversies. AEP also pays a reasonable 57% of its earnings as dividends, which gives it scope to raise the payment even in slow years and makes the chance of cuts extremely low.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.


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Ireland's wildlife scene is buzzing. Getting close to it, though, needs no safari or special gear – in fact, it's usually just a walk in the park
National Parks in the Republic of Ireland and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Northern Ireland are some of the best places to see our wildlife showing off. They make some pretty playgrounds, too.
Take Glenveagh National Park in County Donegal, with over 16,000 hectares of wilderness streaked with lakes, rivers and a castle. Falcons, ravens, peregrines and the recently reintroduced Golden Eagles take to the skies watched by you and the resident deer, badgers and foxes.
County Antrim's Causeway Coast is another Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with 18 miles of crumbling coastline, cliffs, and the Unesco World Heritage Site of the Giant's Causeway.
The area is home to some charmingly named seabirds including guillemot, razorbill, kittiwake and fulmar – and if you keep your eyes peeled at the start of April around Rathlin Island, the puffins may come out to play, too.
Life is also thriving around the shoreline with shrimp and crab, while rare plant species include the pretty Blue Spring Squill and White Sea Campion.
Slip down the eastern coastline to Wexford Wildfowl Reserve's mudflats and islands, which house nearly half the world's population of Greenland white-fronted geese and over 190 species of waterfowl.
Connecting all of these counties and more are the island's rivers and lakes, which are bouncing below the surface with perch, trout, pike, bream and salmon; while the banks rustle with mink, voles, duck and geese going about their daily business.
Under the sea
On the watery side of things, Fungie the Dolphin is still doing his thing in Dingle in County Kerry; while you can catch a ride from the North Irish Diver at Antrim's Ballylumford Harbour for some porpoise spotting.
If it's the big-hitters you're after, Whale Watch Ireland in Cork invite people out every August to clap eyes on humpbacks and silver grey backs.
Oh, and along the coast, keep your eyes peeled for seals, dolphins, basking sharks and even the odd killer whale, as spotted off Donegal's Inishowen in recent months.
Picture perfect parks
We also can't resist mentioning our three Global Geoparks: areas recognised by Unesco for their exceptional geological heritage, and another reason our wildlife inhabitants are a pretty happy crew.
The Geoparks also tend to be gob-smackingly beautiful: The Marble Arch Caves Geopark spans from Counties Fermanagh to Cavan and includes cliffs, forests, labyrinthine caves and mountains; while County Waterford is home to the Copper Coast Geopark, an veritable outdoor geology museum reflecting environments that have developed over a whopping 460 million years.
Speaking of the ancient, right in the shadow of the pre-pyramid Newgrange is where you'll happen upon Brian McCann's Falconry and a host of feathered friends from peregrine falcons, golden eagles and the infinitely cosier owls. If you're looking for a bird's eye view…
Moving on to our third geopark: The Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark is a blockbuster. Famous for its striking limestone landscape, living wild in the crevices of this strange looking lunar landscape you'll find rabbits, wild goats, mink and badgers, and Ireland's only native lizard, the viviparous lizard, which can be seen scampering between shadow and sunshine at will.
Up in the air, meanwhile, the Burren also takes great care of the rare Great Yellow Bumblebee.
A Nature Reserve is an area that is protected under Ministerial Order in the Republic of Ireland. The National Parks and Wildlife Service lists them all by county. Those in Northern Ireland can be found on the NIEA website.
Told you it was buzzing over here. Are you coming for a walk on the wild side?
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Hard play and pressure defense are the backbone of Coach Anderson's teams. Stance, hands, balance and closeness to the offensive player are very important principles to Anderson. Using an overhead, Anderson diagrams his defensive system. Ball pressure, anticipation, rotation and trapping are key terms in this system. On ball pressure, trapping corners on the baseline, making the sideline an extra man, using the half court line, trap with opportunity, and rotation round out the keys to this defensive. The progression of this defense starts with 1-on-1 defense by using the zig-zag drill. The run-and-jump can be added to the 2-on-2 or 3-on-3 drill. Other practice drills shared by Anderson show transition situations, sliding drills, 2-on-2, run and jump and 4-on-4. Areas covered, many of which are reinforced with game clips, are full court pressure, trapping, and half court man pressure.
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This is a solid full court pressure DVD. However the Bruce Pearl, Forrest Larson and Rick Pitino DVD's are better.
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Yes that should work. I'll try it when I get home from work.
I must say that the Propeller makes a perfect debugging tool for things like this. I don't know exactly how many clock cycles the above is going to take, but I know that it is very easy to write Spin code and download and test things quickly and when the /rd line goes low and all the higher address lines go high, it has made the jump.
Thanks Yanomani!
@Yanomani - I found that data sheet, thanks for the link. It contains useful timing information.
I am looking at response time for the prop to detect the Z80's I/O accesses and respond, either by issuing the /WAIT to buy more time or stopping the Z80 clock. I want to see how this compares with Z80 clock speed. The data sheet only shows the information for 5V +/- 10% voltage and 0-70C tempature range not 3.3V so take them with a grain of salt. But they can be still be used to get a very rough indication of where we stand and what might be possible.
For the wait method:
You need to drop /WAIT within a maximum amount of time after /RD (or /WR) and /IORQ both go low.
There is a small delay before /RD (or /WR) goes low after a clock edge. You need to have /WAIT issued before 1.5 x the Z80 clock period minus a setup time following this same clock edge. This table computes the maximum response time you have after detecting the /IORQ and /RD edge in the prop and the number of propeller clocks this corresponds to at 80MHz before the /WAIT must go low. Times are in nanoseconds.
Z80 1.5x /RD /WAIT Response Propeller Freq Period low delay setup Time clocks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 20MHz 75 40 7.5 27.5 2 10MHz 150 55 20 75 6 8MHz 187 60 50 77 6 6MHz 243 70 60 113 9 4MHz 375 85 70 220 17
There is no way 20MHz is possible without external hardware doing the /WAIT.
For 10MHz you might be able to generate if the combination of the "waitpeq" and "and outa, mask" operations can complete within 6 clocks after the edge. It might just be possible - it will be very close but worth a go. 6 MHz down should be very doable.
For the clock stopping method:
On I/O reads (which is the tighter case compared to I/O writes) you need to stop the clock before the Z80 latches its read data from the data bus.
Without waits, you have to stop the clock within 2.5 x the Z80 clock period minus the /RD low delay. The Data setup time is also shown but it should not factor into the computation if you stop the clock in time, however once the prop presents the I/O read data on the bus you will need to wait at least this amount of time before you can start the clock again. Time are in nanoseconds.
Z80 2.5x /RD Data Response Propeller Propeller Freq Period low delay setup Time clocks Instructions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20MHz 125 40 12 85 6 1 10MHz 250 55 25 195 15 3 8MHz 312 60 30 252 20 5 6MHz 405 70 40 335 26 6 4MHz 625 85 50 540 43 10
If you are controlling the clock in software as fast as you can, and polling /IORQ to be low with something like this code below you can only clock the Z80 as fast as 20M/6 = 3.3MHz if the prop runs at 80MHz and you want a symmetric clock output.
loop xor outa, clockmask test iorq_mask, ina wz if_nz jmp #loop ' .. pause toggling the clock pin and do the IORQ here
If instead you are controlling the clock using a counter you will need to do a WAITPEQ on the /IORQ, then stop the counter clocking as soon as possible. I expect this takes at least 5 propeller clocks, (at best) 1 for the waitpeq detection to compete if it was already running, and 4 for the write to CTRA register to stop it, assuming no other internal delays inside the prop itself (which there might be - I don't know). I'm not sure that 20MHz is achievable - it's really tight. Probably 10-12MHz is more resonable to expect?
ps. you can always buy a 20MHz rated Z80 CPU and clock it slower. The numbers above indicate using each particular MHz rated Z80 but there is no reason you can't underclock a faster one, that will help too.
Had a very similar idea myself a few days back but didn't take it further. In minimalist systems with no other I/O but the prop, we could use the same scheme with the /RD, /WR resistors and connect it like this.Ok, here is another crazy idea. What would happen if you connected the Z80 /IORQ to /WAIT ? Would it simply latch up the Z80 and stop it running the first time it does an OUT or IN instruction. Not very exciting. Others have mentioned latches. But what if you connected the Z80 /IORQ and /WAIT pins together with a 220R resistor. Now connect the /WAIT pin to a propeller pin (it could be the pin that was used for the /IORQ sampling).
When the Z80 was conceived, even a 2.5 MHz crystal was a very expensive part.
In 1965, typical quantity-one pricing for the SN5400 (military grade, in ceramic welded flat-pack) was around 22 USD.[11] As of 2007, individual commercial-grade chips in molded epoxy (plastic) packages can be purchased for approximately 0.25 USD each, depending on the particular chip.
Hmm, maybe I'm not getting everything, but why would you want / need to load CP/M (or anything else than the bootloader) via the Propeller?Yes I'm not sure about /wait either. I'm writing all the code first in Spin and then later will move over to Pasm. Benchmark test on this site http://bytecruft.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/rudimentary-benchmarks-for-parallax.html suggests that the fastest Spin can clock the Z80 is about 50Khz. That is plenty fast enough for small bootloaders, but initial tests suggest that CP/M would take far too long to load. Pasm is over 100x faster.
Hmm, maybe I'm not getting everything, but why would you want / need to load CP/M (or anything else than the bootloader) via the Propeller?
In my (simplistic) view, once the Z80 has it's bootloader, it simply takes control over the rest of the machine. I must be missing something.
Has anyone prototyped a Z80 system using the serial resistors on the /RD and /WT lines and then run the Z80 at full speed (say 5Mhz .. 10Mhz)? During the boot loader phase the Z80 is not being clocked at any where near full speed.
This why I asked if any one has actualy tested the design.
Hi cavelamb;
I do not have any board layout for the Min80. Board layout not my thing. The PDF on my website is meant to be a replacment for a hand drawn schematic and needs a lot of cleanup work before using as a board layout.
If you just need a 3.3 volt supply the new "Propeller Project Board USB" seams to have enough space to build a simple Mini80 prototype. If you need a 5 volt regulator then I would pickup the "3x4 Blank Proto Board" and just add the required voltage regulator(s). Compared to connectimg the Z80 and RAM adding the voltage regulator(s) should be simple. I do not know much about 3rd party boards, maybe someone else has a suggestion for a sutiable board.
Has anyone prototyped a Z80 system using the serial resistors on the /RD and /WT lines and then run the Z80 at full speed (say 5Mhz .. 10Mhz)? During the boot loader phase the Z80 is not being clocked at any where near full speed.
Using a 74LVC540 would top out about 20 mhz for the Z80
(5.1 ns is not bad though)
1) 2 pin mono TV out 80x24 ansi terminal. (2 COGs)
There is no room for a VGA display because it would need 2 COGs for video rasterizer. If I need a VGA terminal can always use a PropTerm connected to the RS232 or I2C. This gives a complete computer comparable to many of the early CPM systems you could buy at the time.
Oldbitcollector (Jeff) wrote: »How about using a second Propeller with VGA display? (2 pin serial)
The second point applies to mode 2 interrupts on the Z80 only. In mode 2 interrupts must be held until the interrupt responce code executes an EOI opcode indicating the interrupt service routine is completed.
The I/O I specified for my next prototype will require 14 pins.
@Shael - you have some brilliant ideas. Running the whole thing at lower voltage. Booting with less chips. I'm having trouble keeping up!
Mode 2 interrupts you say? Back to the Z80 manual...
Back now. Ok, I think I am coming up to speed with what you are doing.
Yes I have been drawing up a schematic with 14 pins as well. The propeller never seems to have enough pins and so I am designing a board with a MCP23017. Ok, it is another chip so not truly minimalist. But what I want is a 50 pin header coming off the propeller motherboard - some pins for voltages, then the 32 propeller pins P0-P31. And then I'm going to call the 16 I/O pins from the MCP23017 as P32-P47 and think of them as 'slow propeller' pins.
I think it may make interfacing to other boards easier as sometimes pins need to be fast and sometimes they can be slow. An example is the 4 pins to talk to an SD card. The DI, DO and Clk pins need to be fast. But the /CS pin can be a slow pin. And that saves a fast propeller pin for something else.
Ditto things like diagnostic leds - they can be slow pins.
In a general sense, all the pins needed to boot up the Z80 can be slow pins. If that saves some fast pins for the IORQ interface, that has to be useful.
So the Z80 reset line can be a slow pin. I am not entirely sure but I think that one of either /RD or /WR can be a slow pin too. (for an IORQ, if we detect that IORQ is low, and then test either /rd or /wr and it is high, the other must be low.).
So three pins saved so far. I'm still in two minds about mono or stereo sound - that might save another pin. Maybe that means more address pins available and hence more ports available?
Lots of possibilities and fun to think about all the designs we could build
Vcc | Pullup Resistor | | Z80 /RD <---- Current Resistor -----> Prop /RD < ---------------bus ----------------------> SRAM /OE | |+ Diode |- Pulldown | GND <--- Resistor---------------------------------------> Z80 /RESET | | Vcc |- | Diode Pullup Resistor |+ | | | Z80 /WR <----- Current Resistor -----> Prop /WR <---------------bus ------------------------> SRAM /WE


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One of the best tactics a person can have for cutting their food and household supply expenses is to always have a grocery list when they go to the store. If you go to the store without a list, you're far more prone to buying things that you don't really need.
Here's the thing: just having a grocery list doesn't help too much if that grocery list doesn't make any sense. A good grocery list actually matches what you need at home, minimizes the amount of guesswork you need to do in the store, and gets you out of the store as quickly as possible.
A grocery list like this requires a game plan, a routine that makes sure that the grocery list you assemble is a lean and mean tool to minimize both the time and the money you spend in the store.
Here are eight steps for getting there.
Know your stores
We shop regularly at three different stores, and for different reasons. We use Fareway for most of our food staples, Sam's Club for bulk household items (particularly non-perishables), and Hy-Vee for more esoteric food items that we can't get at the other two stores. Because we've been using this three-pronged approach for a while, we have a good sense as to what we can get at each store.
We can use this knowledge to make more sensible lists. I inherently know what items we're likely to get at each store and can thus write a separate list for each one. That way, I'm not wasting time in each store wandering around looking for something they may or may not have. A single combined list doesn't really help at all in this situation.
Use a whiteboard
We have a whiteboard on the inside of our pantry door. Whenever we notice an item is running low – like baking powder or something like that – we just add it to that list.
When it comes time to actually assemble our grocery lists, the whiteboard on the inside of the pantry door is the first thing we look at.
Keep relevant coupons on whiteboard
The whiteboard we have has a metal backing, so we can put magnets on it. When we spot a coupon that we know we're going to use soon, we put it on the whiteboard under a magnet so that it's right in our face when it comes time to grocery shop.
While I do collect coupons in a mild way, I am far from an extreme couponer. However, sometimes coupons just jump right in your face. A coupon that saves a dollar on an item I'm going to buy anyway is basically a dollar bill, after all.
Get out your grocery flyers
When it's time to buy groceries (for us, that's about once every seven to ten days), the first step is to grab the latest flyers from the stores we regularly shop at. Those flyers can sometimes help us to figure out where to buy specific items. Most of the time, it means that we'll choose to not buy something at Sam's Club because of the sale at another store.
All of the flyers we need are online at the websites for the stores we use, so it's pretty easy to find them and utilize them.
Create a meal plan at the same time
Another step we take is to make a meal plan at the same time that we assemble our grocery list. I usually try to make a ten day meal plan when doing this.
What I'll do is literally make a four column grid with ten rows on a sheet of paper. Each row represents a day and each column represents a meal and a bedtime snack (bedtime snacks are kind of a requirement here because our daughter takes medication that requires food at bedtime). In each of the forty cells in that table, I plan a meal of some kind.
That meal is often based on the fresh ingredients for sale from the store flyers, particularly the early cells. Some of the later cells are usually covered by meals we've already made and frozen in advance. We'll also make extra batches of some of the early meals and freeze them, particularly if there's an ingredient that's at a very large discount.
From this meal plan, you can figure out the recipes you need to make all of the meals, and thus figure out all of the ingredients needed. Since your meal plan started with the grocery flyer, you know that the backbone of many of the meals consists of sale items, so you can be pretty confident that your grocery list is a money-saver.
Don't assume you have items – check!
It's really easy to just assume that you have a key element of a meal. "The good pasta sauce is on sale this week… I'm sure we've got some pasta in the cupboard… so we'll pencil it in for Wednesday." Don't assume. Check.
If you assume, then you're likely to end up having to make an unplanned trip to the grocery store to pick up the items you're missing, which can add up to unnecessary expense and time. A quick peek in the pantry solves that problem.
Group the items on your list sensibly
When I assemble my list, I tend to do it in groups. I have a "produce" section. I have a "dairy and eggs" section. I have a "household supplies" section. I have a few other sections for common food groupings in the store. I usually have a "frozen" section too for flash-frozen vegetables and the like.
Having your items grouped like this on your list keeps you from thinking you've finished your produce shopping, heading clear across the store to another area, then finding another produce item and having to go all the way back across the store again. It saves a lot of time and the less time you're in the store, the less likely you are to make impulsive purchases.
Be specific – but not overly specific – with your list
The less specific the item is on your list, the longer it will take to buy in the store. Figure out what you want at home, then write that down on your list.
If I have a coupon, I'll be as specific as the coupon says. The same is true with items from the flyer. On the other hand, if I need a box of whole wheat angel hair spaghetti and I just write "pasta" on the list, I'm going to likely burn a lot of time in the pasta section and end up putting the wrong thing in the cart.
Of course, if you're too specific, you often run into trouble. I'll write things like "kitchen trash bags – Glad ForceFlex" on my list (they're the ones that seem to work best for us) because if I wrote the exact package I wanted, they might not have it, and this allows me to compare sizes. On the other hand, if I just wrote "trash bags," I might not get what I want, particularly if someone else is using the list.
Using these tactics in concert results in a lean and mean shopping list. This list gets me through the store with shocking speed and minimizes the cost of what goes into my cart while also making sure I have everything I need. Sure, it takes some extra time at home, but that time is saved in the store – and you're not going to be putting unnecessary items in your cart when you're at home, are you?
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SAN FRANCISCO — The fees to attend California's community colleges are by far the lowest in the United States — less than half the national average — yet at least 40 percent of the 2.4 million students in the largest U.S. system of higher education do not pay them.
The reasons? An unusual financial aid program and a half-century-old vision that made affordability and open access the chief purpose of the two-year schools.
The costs are so low at $1,380 a year for a full-time load and are so frequently waived for students who meet income and social eligibility criteria that during the recent economic downturn the system relinquished more fee revenue — $577 million — than the $361 million it collected, according to 2011-12 data from the California Community College chancellor's office.
After steep state spending cuts forced colleges to reduce course offerings and turn students away, college leaders, lawmakers and experts are questioning whether California can afford such generosity.
The 112-college system's governing board has begun a slow but steady process of restricting its popular fee waivers, which have been criticized for carrying few conditions and income cutoffs that could allow a family of four earning as much as $90,000 annually to qualify.
On Tuesday, the board will vote on a plan that would require students with fee waivers to maintain at least a C-average over two consecutive terms and to show adequate progress by taking at least half of their courses for credit.
Under the change, which exempts the disadvantaged and would take effect in Fall 2016, as many as 48,479 recipients could lose their fee waivers, said Linda Michalowski, vice chancellor for student services and special programs.
"For a student to enroll and do poorly academically, drop out, come back and do poorly, that does not correlate with student success, yet our policy on the fee waiver has said it doesn't matter; you can fail and fail and fail and come back and we will support you again," Michalowski said. "That doesn't benefit anybody."
Many supporters of the proposed shift argue it does not go far enough in addressing the financial realities of a system that is supposed to put some students on a path to a four-year university, prepare others for careers that do not require baccalaureate degrees, and serve older adults and high school students who take classes for enjoyment or resume-sprucing — at a price that covers less than a quarter of the actual costs.
Steve Boilard, a former legislative higher education analyst who now directs the Center for California Studies at Sacramento State, said the recession exposed a dilemma: How do you keep fees the lowest in the nation while making state-backed waivers so widely available?
As state funding declined by $1.5 billion over four years, lawmakers raised fees three times, to the current price of $46 per unit. But nearly all the anticipated revenue was eaten up by the waivers and colleges ended up cutting courses and enrollment anyway, said Boilard, who thinks the state needs to look hard at further restricting waivers and substantially raising the admission price.
"The community college system is supposed to be affordable for all, but we have shot ourselves in the foot by trying to achieve that through low tuition," he said.
Long Beach City College President-Chancellor Elroy Oakley, who estimates four of every five course credits taken by his 31,000 students are subject to waivers, said it's time for the state to re-examine fee exemptions and other financial aid, as well as a dramatic fee increase.
"There is a lot of room to raise more revenue and still be below the national average in terms of fees," Oakley said. If the fees were higher, students could still access federal aid and "would be paying nothing more, and then that money would be going back into the institutions, which is, frankly, what 49 other states in the nation do," he said.
Oakley recently championed a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that allows Long Beach City College and five other community colleges to offer high-demand courses at non-subsidized prices during short summer and winter sessions. Community college system Chancellor Brice Harris, along with some students and faculty, oppose the experiment as a bad precedent that prioritizes an education for those who can most easily afford it.
Critics of the current system note that California could charge more than double what it does now and still would be below the average of what it costs to attend community colleges in the next 10 most populous states.
That California's community colleges are so inexpensive is a legacy of its exalted 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education, which established the state's three-tier college system. Under the plan, the colleges' primary mission was to "offer academic and vocational instruction at the lower division level for both younger and older students."
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education President David Longanecker has been trying to convince California officials that the 1960 plan needs to be revamped or scrapped.
"In the 20th century, we were trying to encourage people to go to college and that made a heck of a lot of sense in the 1960s when California was a wealthy state," Longanecker said. "Today, California is no longer a wealthy state and we are turning people away from college who want to come. What we have now is a low-cost pricing scheme that is starving the system and doesn't make sense in the 21st Century."


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–> PLEASE NOTE: masks are made with two layers of cotton unless you choose to have the sewn-in filter layer. This is an order option with no additional cost. Details on the sewn-in filter below*.
Fabric is 100% cotton and pre-washed with scent-free detergent.
*If choosing the sewn-in filter option: I used a single layer of polyester stretch chiffon between the two layers of cotton. This fabric was chosen based on what I could find online as a suitable filter. This filter WILL make the mask thicker and slightly harder to breathe through. Think of the difference between a strainer with large holes and a strainer with a more tightly woven mesh... I decided to offer this choice for those who need masks in an environment where they have to be inside and closer to people.
Discounts for multiple orders:
Please order from this page: QUANTITY DISCOUNTS and choose either 2x masks for $34.00 ($17 ea) or 3x masks for $45 ($15 ea) and add your fabric selection and size in the order notes!
Always feel free to contact me with questions!
Each order contains a mask, nose wire and a spare, and care and use directions.
I studied up on elements to make this the most comfortable and practical for longer wear, since I first made them for friends, family, and community who needed them for work. Please see my photo illustration if you want to modify the ties into ear loops. I sewed a little open-ended nose wire sleeve so you can choose to use it or not. A filter pocket is for those who want to add a layer of protection.
General fit guidelines:
Medium tends to fit women and teens
Large tend to fit men
*Masks shown on the mannequin head are all medium and shown on a smaller face than average.
If you prefer over-the-ear-elastic and feel motivated to alter your mask, you can pull out the ties, thread elastic through the end sleeves, knot elastic to your desired fit, and pull the knot into the sleeve to hide it. You can also cut the long tie at the top, creating two ribbons to tie to behind ears to fit. The ties are made from recycled knit ribbon with minimal stretch but will work as ear loops. See the illustration in photos!
Washing instructions:
Remove nose wire if machine washing. I provide a backup metal strip, but if you lose both you can use pipe cleaner, heavy-duty twist ties, or wire.
Tie the knit ties in a bow before washing to avoid having them slip out of their side sleeves
Machine: High heat/ high dry*
Or- hand wash and hang to dry
*After machine drying: if mask is super wrinkled or crunched up, dampen by spritzing water on it and use your hands to "iron" it out, smoothing and lightly pulling fabric - or use an actual iron (but who wants to do that?)
Packaging: Each mask will be packaged in a sealed clear plastic bag with fit and washing instructions enclosed. If ordering multiples I will package them all together. If you're purchasing to give to others and want separate packaging, please note that on your order- I'm happy to do that for you.
This is not a medical-grade face mask. I researched as much as I could to make the best offering, but they're still just a double layer of cotton.
This style of mask is to help protect others in case you carry the virus either asymptomatically or are not showing signs of being infected yet. These masks will provide a small amount of protection for you against someone else in close contact who is not wearing a mask, but not much from what I've read from doctors and scientists. Adding a filter provides another level of protection to others, and might provide a small degree of protection for yourself. I highly recommend reading up on mask-wearing: why, when, where, and best practices!


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