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17: Adam Culp - Maximizing Your Conference Experience
In this episode, Adam talks to Adam Culp, organizer of Sunshine PHP and ZendCon. They talk about how to get into conference speaking, how to make the most of a conference as an attendee, as well as tips for running a great local user group.
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The Human Resources Department provides comprehensive human resources services to management and staff throughout Fort McKay in the areas of recruiting, employee relations, planning, organizational development, training, performance evaluation, and policy development.
The department ensures employees work within the parameters of FMFN Policy and Procedures, the Canada Labour Code, Alberta Human Rights legislation, and other employment-related acts and regulations. It also oversees workforce development, including the Employment and Training Program, the Steps Forward Program, and one of our newest programs, Foundations for Success, which will deliver a full range of life skills management courses for the Fort McKay community.
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My littlest man is now nearing 15 months! 15. He is so precious. We love having this little man in our family. He is now walking, saying a few words and becoming VERY independent and stubborn! He likes it his way or the highway thankyouverymuch:)
He loves to jump on his little trampoline, or a couch, or a bed or or anything that bouncy..bouncy..bounces.
He has a mild to well actually severe love of the dishwasher. He loves nesting toys and or anything that will fit inside something else. He loves his brothers and will follow them around to play. He loves when daddy comes home from work. He loves to follow me around all day. If I get in the shower I can always plan on him sitting outside the door when I come out. (unless the dishwasher wasn't shut tight:) Then of course he'll be there unloading it all over the floor. He has gorgeous blue eyes. He had a skiff of blond hair that his father shaved off while I was at work! SNIFF.
Still so sad bout it.
LOVE him so much. SO MUCH.
Pardon the lil snotty nose. Finn always has a snotty nose though. So.
This was Finn's birthday cake.(like a week later) Who made this hideousness anyway? Something obviously went horribly awry! Thanks to Aunt Nattie who saved the day and got you a new one. I am documenting the ugly cake MONTHS later cause it's maker still isn't over it. HA.
Oh look daddy left a treat in your reach...Feel free to go hide behind the recliner and have at em!
SO Sweet
Don't you all wish you could have a Finn?


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Keystone Woodturners
Keystone Woodturners is a chapter of the American Association of Woodturners. We share the purpose of providing education and information to those interested in woodturning. The Club was founded in 1996 and has grown to over 70 members. We meet monthly on the third Wednesday of the month. Check out the other tabs on this website for examples of what we and our members have been doing and for other information about the Club.
November meeting – November 16, 2016 at 7:00 PM
Meeting agenda:
Welcome Bob Zrebiec – President
Show and Tell
Show and Tell is the part of the program where our members get to show off their work. They bring in turnings they have completed or are working on and discuss design, techniques, materials, finishing, etc. There is always something to learn at these sessions and you will be amazed and inspired by what our members make.
Demonstration "Turning an Ornament" by Harry Pye
Harry is a member of Keystone Woodturners and advisor to the board of directors. He is also a member Bucky County Woodturners where he has also demonstrated turning ornaments . Harry has be activitly involved in turning pens for the troops project. This will be the second year he has demonstrated turning a holiday ornaments at Keystone Woodturners meeting.
Club members bring in their spare wood and surplus tools, donate them to the Club and give other members the chance to put them to use while increasing our Club Treasury. Guests may participate in the raffle.
Club committee reports and club business
Giving back to the community projects
Wig stands for cancer patients at Paoli Hospital and area cancer centers. Wigs are provided by the treatment Centers to cancer patients who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment. The Keystone Woodturners members will provide lathe turned stands through November for distribution by Paoli Hospital. These are three examples of recent contributions to the project.
Beads of Courage lidded boxes to be donated to A.I. DuPont Childrens Hospital on December 17th, 2016.
Through the Beads of Courage campaign, children receive a unique bead to represent each procedure or treatment. For example, a red bead for each blood transfusion, a yellow bead for each night in the hospital, a star bead for surgery, a white bead for chemotherapy. Their collection of beads becomes a tangible record of their journey. Each wood-turned box will be used to hold a sick child's precious beads. In 2015 Keystone Woodturners donated a total of 35 Beads fo Courage wooden boxes. Our 2016 goal is 50 wooden boxes through December. These are two examples of our July donations
Keystone Woodturners Meeting Location
We meet at Joe McCann's shop. There will be a sign on Hallman road onto his driveway. His shop is located behind his house at:
387 Hallman Mill Road
Phoenixville 19460.
If you run into problems, call Joe at (610-331-2372).
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Finally, some details.
And the details of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's new plan to rid banks of toxic assets actually aren't half bad. Some of the biggest fears -- such as having taxpayers taking on all the risk -- have been smoothed over to a certain extent. The plan is big. It's serious. It'll get private capital in the game. It actually has some teeth to it. And that's why the stocks of JPMorgan Chase
Still, this is hardly a silver bullet that'll usher in victory. It has some big faults -- we'll get to those in a moment. First, here are a few pros of the new plan.
Fair is fair
Rather than having taxpayers give private investors a free ride to no-risk profits, the amount of equity put up to buy toxic assets from banks will be split 50/50. In other words, if private investors make money, taxpayers will make just as much. And if taxpayers lose money, private capital will, too. As Geithner said this morning: "We don't want the government to assume all the risk. We want the private sector to work with us."
That should make pricing a fair game
Overbidding for assets isn't likely, since private investors have as much skin in the game as taxpayers do. If taxpayers were accepting the brunt of the risk, private investors would systematically overpay -- a situation that would almost guarantee taxpayer losses. Since private capital can very realistically lose every dime it puts in, bidders will pay only bargain-basement prices for bank assets. That could turn out to be a boon for taxpayers, with realistic potential for big upside.
Leverage is cheap these days
Since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke came out swingin' last week with the intent to buy $1 trillion or so worth of debt securities, interest rates are about as low as humanly possible. The plan also has a provision that allows buyers to issue debt guaranteed by the FDIC. That makes leveraging asset purchases incredibly effective. The lower the cost of capital is, the higher the price private investors will be willing to pay and still make it worth their -- and taxpayers' -- while. For banks, private investors, and taxpayers, that's a win-win-win.
Now for the bad news ….
Will it be enough?
The plan will leverage $75 billion to $100 billion of TARP funds into $500 billion to $1 trillion worth of purchasing power. That's a stupendous amount of money, but it might not be enough to get banks out of the mud. Last month, New York University professor Nouriel Roubini predicted that it would take at least $1.4 trillion to get back on a sustainable path. So although this plan is a big step in the right direction, there's no reason to believe it won't end up like every other bank bailout plan to date: too little, too late.
About that equity-sharing part …
Sure, it's awesome that a 50/50 equity split means there won't be a massive subsidy from taxpayers to private investors. Problem is, banks need a massive subsidy from someone. Private capital can already purchase these assets if it wants to; the market has ground to a halt because (a) there's no transparency in these assets, and (b) banks aren't accepting bids, because selling assets for too low a price means writedowns that they might not be able to swallow. This plan doesn't address either of those problems.
Hence, there's a chance that the gap between what private investors are willing to pay and what banks are willing to accept won't be met. Private investors might be willing to pay only $0.50 on the dollar for assets that banks will be willing to sell for no less than $0.80 on the dollar. The likes of Bank of America
Who wants to take part in this plan?
After the AIG
Your turn to chime in
For the first time since who knows when, the government introduced a bailout plan that the market -- at least at first glace -- seems to like. Did Geithner finally get it right this time? Feel free to share your thoughts and suggestions in the comment section below.
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I have a YouTube channel. The videos on it are unlisted because I am going back to my old videos on google drive, and uploading them on YouTube as an unlisted video. Then edit it and add my intro and outro. Then I embed that video back to my older post on my blog. I used to not edit it, and embed the video right from google drive. So I made my channel approximately a month ago. I got my first subscriber was about a week ago, and since then I have gotten 60 subscribers! I go on peoples live streams when people do shoutouts. I go on a website that shows you a live subscriber count. You go to the website and type in your channel name, username, ID, or URL. I really want 100 subscribers so I can access some options that you have to have 100+ subscribers for. If you could take the time to click the link below to subscribe to my channel if you haven't, I would greatly appreciate it.
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The centre offers specialist treatments including: Naturopathic Medicine, Holistic Physiotherapy, Sports Injuries, Orthotic Prescriptions, Reiki Healing, Reflexology, Emotional Freedom Technique, Hypnotherapy, Homeopathy (Medical), Past Life Regression, Flower Essences, Geopathic Stress Clearance, Feng Shui, Space Clearing, Remedial Body Massage, Sports Massage, Sports Thai Massage, Ear Acupuncture, Acupuncture, Shoni Shin, Body Psychotherapy, Chiropractic Therapy, Bioresonance Scanning, Kinesiology, Crystal Healing, Life Coaching, Blood Testing for Allergies, Deficiency and Toxicity, Intravenous Vitamin C and Mistletoe Infusions and Myofascial Release.
Individual treatments and courses of treatment are available and your improvement can be measured via the Nerve Express, an advanced diagnostic assessment tool which shows your level of physical fitness and emotional state and how this changes over time.
The Freedom Centre is located in Hastingwood, near Epping, Essex and opened it's doors in October 2015.
The centre boasts exclusive state-of-the-art equipment such as a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber (HBOT), Far Infra-Red Sauna, Low Level Light Therapy, Peat Hyperthermia Mud Bathing and Lucia No3 Hypnogogic light experience as well as many other unique treatments and classes.
We are located just off the A414 and only five minutes from the M11 Harlow, within easy access of Chelmsford, Bishops Stortford, Hatfield Heath, Loughton, North Weald, Brentwood, Ongar, Waltham Abbey, Stansted and Central London.
BSc (Hons) G.S.R., Dip.Phys., MCSP.HPC., ACPEM., RGRT., LFHom(physio), GHR.
Director and Founder of 2Evolve Practice 2001 & The Freedom Centre in 2015. Specialising in complex conditions of the mind and body, Louise utilises an advanced synergistic approach, drawing on her vast experience with a myriad of therapies to bring a state of balance back to each patient.
Louise is a Chartered Physiotherapist, Graduate Sports Rehabilitator, Wellness Practitioner, Reiki Master-Teacher (Reiki Council Verified), Complementary Therapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Medical Intuitive. A member of ACPEM (Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Energy Medicine) and registered with Private Healthcare Companies including Axa PPP and Bupa International.
A qualified IDTA dance teacher, she was previously resident Physiotherapist for performers and dancers at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London and has worked with students at Central School of Ballet, London, players at Leyton Orient FC and athletes at Enfield & Haringey AC.
A special aspect of her work has involved supporting terminally ill patients, helping to make their last days, weeks or months as comfortable as possible and facilitating a peaceful transition to the after- life.
Registered with The Chartered Society Of Physiotherapy (CSP), Association Of Chartered Physiotherapists in Energy Medicine (ACPEM), The Faculty of Homeopathy (LFHom Physio), The Reiki Guild (RGRT), The International Hyperbarics Association (IHA). The General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR) and the Health Professions Council (HPC). An ethical, professional and confidential service is guaranteed at all times.
Annette Schaefer has worked for over 30 years as a Heilpraktiker (Naturopathic Doctor) and Psychotherapist in Germany in her private practice. Now practicing between The Freedom Centre in Hastingwood and her German practice, her work includes Bioresonance Therapy, Acupuncture, Intravenous Infusions, Homeopathy, Massage, Chiropractic Therapy and Tibetan Sound Bowl Massage. Her body-psychotherapy involves couple therapy, mindfulness and nature based work in the outside world.
Tracey Harley lives on the family smallholding in Much Hadham with her partner, two adult children, 3 dogs, ponies, pet pigs and numerous chickens. She has always had an interest in complimentary treatments & therapies and the energy/spiritual side of life. Tracey practices Hypnotherapy, Current & Past Life Regression, Holistic Massage and Reiki & Reiki Drum healing.
I have been in Holistic Therapies for 20 years. first qualifying in 1996. After becoming unwell I decided to get better using Natural Therapies. This then inspired me to qualify as a practitioner, wanting to help others in a positive way. For me it changed my life forever.
I offer Reflexology, Aromatherapy and Indian Head Massage. You may like to try a combination of two Therapies in one session, which is very beneficial providing a feeling of deep relaxation and comfort. The natural way to good health is very inspiring to me, I hope that others will feel this too.
Joanna has been interested in alternative medicine for over 25 years after suffering with acute eczema and asthma as a child. She was successfully treated at the Royal London Hospital of Integrated Medicine with a combination of homeopathy, diet restrictions, herbs and was amazed at the results.
Her love of complementary medicine prompted a change of career in 2013 when her father became seriously unwell. She moved away from working in media at ITV News and being an art historian archivist at the National Portrait Gallery to concentrate on retraining in the health and wellbeing sector.
Joanna is an ITEC trained Holistic Massage Therapist, Manual lymphatic drainage Therapist and Reiki Practitioner. At present she is a second-year student of acupuncture at the City College of Acupuncture under the guidance of Paul Johnson.
Joanna has a passion for treating people with a whole-centred individual approach and often uses lots of different modalities to help clients regain optimal health.
Aiga's holistic health approach has started several years ago due to the health of her daughter. Aiga came to the conclusion that orthodox medicine weakens the body and immune system. Complementary or alternative medicine is the way to maintain health without disturbing the natural flora in the body.
Aiga offers Scenar therapy - Scenar is a modern technology device and stands for: Self-Controlling-Energy-Neuro-Adapting-Regulator. It can be used to help both acute and chronic pain.
Aiga has been trained by one of the Scenar inventors, Professor Alexander Revenko.
Tom cured himself of anxiety, depression and decades of unhappiness and now he wants to share what he found with the world. Tom will teach you the skills to become the observer and break free from the beliefs and internal dialogue that don't serve you and reveal truly who you really are.
Through the process, you will expose the unconscious areas that are causing the problems and connect you to your conscious self. You will learn who you are, and what you are not. Self-realisation is available to everybody.
Beautifully he will connect you to the destination of your happiness and help set you free.
Daniela Tuari is an Elemental Space Clearing® expert, a Theta Healing® practitioner and an intuitive coach.
Her main expertise is in space clearing and Feng Shui and she uses this powerful method as a stepping stone to changing people's lives. Cleansing the etheric spaces of houses and releasing any absorbed negative energy has helped many people remove blockages in their lives, become more successful in their personal or business life, find a soul mate and attract happiness, prosperity and abundance.
I highly recommend Louise and can sincerely say she is the very best physiotherapist I have ever seen and I have seen quite a few through NHS and the Private Sector. She got me through a terrible time when I had Sciatica and again with back problems. On top of that she a Reiki healer which comes through in her treatment. JUST WONDERFUL. Thank you Louise.
After a serious road accident, I was treated by Louise for neck and back pain. The course of treatment was totally different to anything that I had ever experienced, which had included a course of physiotherapy, and despite specialist doctors failing, Louise was able to help me resume a very active life again. Thank you
Louise is a very special therapist. She has expertise in many areas and I have absolute faith in her skill in determining which is the best to use with any presenting problem. My relationship with her is one where I tell her what is wrong, through intuitive and detailed questioning she gets a good understanding of where the problem may have arisen and she then decides of the best therapeutic method to use. She has helped me when I have floundered and goes way beyond any more 'conventional' medical help. I would describe her as a psycho/physical therapist, working on both mind and body to excellent effect.
The work of Louise and the new Freedom Centre, Hastingwood,has helped to reduce my anxiety and stress in many ways. I was thrilled with the programme that Louise implemented to bring about an improvement in my well being. The first few months were beyond my expectations and I could feel and see myself accomplishing my well being goals. I appreciate the time she has worked with me and can see that she is a cut above the rest. Throughout her politics of health matters and seeking to serve she has delivered results and then some.
After having unsuccessful foot surgery, being in a lot of discomfort with swelling and little movement I was recommended to Louise by another consultant {unrelated to the foot problem) for physiotherapy. Louise has turned my life around, I now have no pain or discomfort, no swelling and much more movement and am able to do most things that I could do before the surgery. The practice is very modern and comfortable and I always feel special when I attend my appointment.
I have had the pleasure of being a student of Louise last year following a wonderful Reiki treatment where she really uses her wonderful skills to deliver healing, my treatment was diverse, enlightening and incredibly rewarding. The Reiki II course blew me away, Louise is kind and patient and ready to impart her knowledge to her students in the most wonderful way.
I am more than happy to recommend Louise Segui to anyone ; when I went to Louise for Physiotherapy ten years ago I was in total bad shape, now ten years later, feeling fantastic and still a kid at 67.
Louise has treated me since 2002. She has used a number of different techniques including massage, heat, Reiki and exercises. In recent years, we have found Thai Sports Massage to be particularly beneficial. She always reassesses and adjusts treatments to suit the situation and I have always found her advice very helpful.


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Match day Mascot:
The cost £75.
Junior Rainworth Kit (to keep)
Signed photograph with your favourite player/players
Family pass for the game for up to 5 members
Player Sponsorship
The cost £100
Sponsor your favourite player for the season; with details being presented in the Match day Home programme every week and also on the website.
In addition you will get a photograph; to be taken with your favourite player in the Home kit and duly signed by that player.
It can include family, children or grandchildren to suit.


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This card will be a choice of boy or girl...depending on what you might be expecting (not literally!)
This is another free cutting file but this one was from Miss Kate Cuttables. Kate does a daily freebie which is usually a cutting file and they are great so worth checking out her website. This one is no longer free but is available for a very small charge. I make a point of logging on each day in order to download the freebie while it lasts.
Her files often involve quite a lot of layers which I've trimmed out of this version. The elephant is just two layers of shades of grey. I've added some highlights with a white pen. The balloon was attached with a thin piece of cut card but I've just used a piece of ribbon and also added a bow, I made the balloon big enough to accommodate a little stamped message. I've also added a few mini punched hearts and also a matching oval at the bottom for the elephant to stand on. I love the combination of grey with either the pink or the blue and think this makes a really sweet new baby card,
This is the last card for me to share from the forthcoming workshop...still time to book your place. We are meeting on Tues 12th June 10am at Blakemere Village, Call or email the shop The Wendy House to book a place.


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A handcuffed Retford man who bit a police officer on the arm shouted "I didn't actually do anything" as he was taken to the ground, a court heard.
Police were called to James Duro's home on St Andrew's Way after he returned, injured and drunk, and began blaming his partner for his injuries, on June 13.
He was taken to King's Mill Hospital for treatment, but became volatile and began flailing his arms, said prosecutor Donna Fawcett.
A struggle took place in the car park, and Duro bit the policeman on his right bicep, leaving a two pence piece-sized welt.
He said: "I didn't actually do anything."
The constable had a tetanus jab and a five-day course of anti-biotics.
Ian Pridham, mitigating, said Duro, a warehouse worker, who had no previous convictions, has been with his partner since 2017 and they have a ten-year-old child.
"This is completely out of character," he said. "That evening he drank beer with a friend and then a bottle of cherry brandy.
"He doesn't drink very often at all, but he clearly had a great deal to drink.
"He came home with a huge black eye and a very swollen cheek. He doesn't know to this day how he got this.
"Initially he was objecting to being arrested because he had done nothing wrong as far as he was concerned.
"There is no breaking of the skin and no sign of teethmarks. He does accept that he caused that. He is embarrassed and quite appalled by his behaviour."
Duro, 27, admitted assaulting an emergency worker, when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Thursday.
He received a 12 month community order, with 80 hours of unpaid work and 12 rehabilitation days. He was ordered to pay £250 compensation, with £85 costs and an £85 government surcharge.


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Posted on June 26, 2009 at 4:52 PM • 9 Comments
Rich Wilson • June 26, 2009 5:40 PM
Cute. Sure. But $95 for $15 worth of memory? That's a lot of cute premium.
Davi Ottenheimer • June 26, 2009 7:15 PM
Cute, but it would be better if they donated to squid research or something...like the WWF penguin
spaceman spiff • June 26, 2009 10:03 PM
A bit overpriced I think. The premium for "cute" is just too much! Let's see, an 8GB USB drive these days is under $20, so they are charging $75 for the fuzzy squid. I think they'd sell a lot more if they dropped the price to around $40 (or less).
Martin Nash • June 27, 2009 12:01 PM
I followed the link expecting a different type of squid (http://www.squid-cache.org/) running on a USB drive!
Prometheus • June 28, 2009 4:46 PM
As cute as my grannies knickers. Although have to admit am fan of squid thread.
Bunny nonny a • June 29, 2009 5:58 AM
I kinda liked the flying spaghetti and cthulu ornaments. The cost is these look to be all had may. You're paying for craft.
Bunny nonny a • June 29, 2009 5:59 AM
Hand made not had may...next I'll be asking what's a henway
mcb • June 29, 2009 11:43 AM
No mention of water resistance...make certain the carpet monkeys don't use it as a bath toy.
Bryan Feir • June 29, 2009 12:44 PM
@Bunny nonny a:
About 5-7 pounds.
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Recently, I bought my son an iPod for helping me in the yard. He earned it! but when it came, it would not work! No matter what we tried, it would not work. I spent an hour on the phone with their tech support - no luck. They told me to return it to the Apple store.
Well, I am not a technoneophyte. So it was not like I was a rube about it. I know how to follow instructions and the tech lady was very polite. So after work (I am working half days - how else do you think I spread all that mulch?), I grabbed him and we made the trip into the {Gasp} West end (no one goes there voluntarily as the traffic is horrendous! And the lights don't know a sync from a hole!
We get out there, and lo and behold, you cannot go into an Apple store and get service! You have to make an appointment! Luckily we could make one for 20 minutes hence. So we did and waited.
Then we got waited on. The guy was your typical Apple head. Knew everything about Macs, and nothing about anything else. But he could follow instructions and run programs. He plugged up the iPod and said "It says it has no configuration" (OK, why don't they send you to software that can tell you that?). So he loaded a configuration on it (the Tech lady had talked us through doing that supposedly). Then asked us "Windows or Mac?" (I should have titled this "Windows or Mac so that Bluedev could catch a break.). Windows (I have a Mac, but it is only a 180mhz PPC - ancient!).
So he went into the back to test on a Windows machine (It is the Apple store after all). Came back in 10 minutes and said all was fine!
I was not buying it. "We did all that last night and it still did not work! How do we know it is going to work now?". After going back and forth for 10 minutes, he finally said if it did not work again, he would replace it.
I was not looking forward to ANOTHER trip to the {GASP} West End, but took the iPod and my disappointed son home to try it again.
Then something strange happened! It started to work! It started ripping songs off his CDs. But being the doubting Thomas, I was not going to be convinced until he could download them and play them on his iPod! 2 Hours and 80 songs later, he disconnected the iPod and tried it out.
It worked!
Well, while I was not nasty with the Tech at the Apple store, I was not nice either. But swallowing my Tech Pride, I called and asked for the Tech. He was at lunch. So I asked to leave a message and the guy on the other end said sure. I told him who I was (the tech will probably remembered me as you do have to sign up for appointments, remember?), and said I wanted to thank Brian X as what he told me was 100% right and he had fixed the iPod and I was thankful for his patience with a less than smiling customer.
The other guy said he would give the tech the message, and could he share it with his supervisor? Of course.
I don't like being wrong, but when I am, I am more than willing to eat some crow and admit it to the guy who helped me. So here is a blog for you Brian X. And thanks again.
If I have any more problems with it, I know who I am going to ask for in the future!
Besides, Crow is not too bad when you get a taste for it.
The look on his face, and joy in his eyes! That was worth more crow than I can ever be able to eat!
And Like I said, he really did earn it! I just earned the right to call my wife a gringo.
(She does not pay - well not with things at least.......)
Yea, I am quick. But then while I hate it when I am wrong, I hate it more if I gave the right guy a hard time. As I said, I was not nasty, just not nice. Besides, since he knew more than the tech, I dont want them to lose him!
In the Words of George S. Patton: "Sure do! Every God Damn day".
Good of you to admit when you are wrong!
This is yet another example of why I don't like macs though. My son got an iPod Nano and it has been no end of frustration. My other son got a 50 generic MP3 player and we've had no problem with it whatsoever. The iPod didn't even come with a complete set of instructions.. just a foldout sheet that basically told us nothing except that you can't do anything with it if you aren't online.
Friends don't let friends use MAC!!
I know. But he did not want an MP3. He wanted an iPod. Personally, I would have preferred the MP3.
Techs, even customer service people, rarely get a thank you, but lots of curses. I try to acknowledge when they do good as I know they get lots of complaints. It just tastes worse when I have to swallow the crow.
Good rules to live by. Especially the second one. Kind of a bummer when you get something and it does now work right out of the box. But it was not this guy's fault. He just told me what I did not want to hear, but was right.
Tastes more like Chicken.


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Native Species
The question of native versus non-native species is often complicated. For example, salt cedar (tamarisk) is an invasive species that is the target of widespread eradication efforts, yet it has also become a favorite habitat of the endangered southwest willow flycatcher. Climate change impacts will only heighten that complexity as some native species fail to adapt and non-native species fill their ecological niche. Nevertheless, Amigos Bravos has a policy of conserving and restoring native species and working to develop policies and practices that aid adaptation to climate change.
Species in the Spotlight: Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout
The Rio Grande cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki virginalis), a member of the family Salmonidae, is found in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado in tributaries of the Rio Grande. See below for a detailed range map.
It is the state fish of New Mexico, and is one of 14 subspecies of cutthroat trout native to the western United States. Cutthroat trout once inhabited most coldwater streams throughout western North America. The RGCT is considered the southernmost subspecies of cutthroat trout, and is differentiated from other cutthroat trout by the large spots that are concentrated towards the tail and colorful pink or orange hues on its belly and sides.
For more on identifying the Rio Grande Cutthroat trout, visit: http://www.wildtroutstreams.com/rio-grande-cutthroat
In New Mexico, Rio Grande cutthroats occupy just 10% of their historical range. This reduction is due to a combination of factors including: water diversions, stream drying, dams, habitat degredation, changes in hydridization with rainbow trout, or competition with brown and brook trout. According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 13 core populations remain in the wild. These are the key to the survival of the species. Four of the 13 core populations are located in the Santa Fe National Forest. The Rio Grande cutthroat trout is currently a candidate for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
For detailed information on this species, read the 2004 click here.
Amigos Bravos has been instrumental in the formation and work of New Mexico Friends of River Otters, which is reintroducing the river otter to New Mexico. If you believe that you have seen an otter or otter sign - we want to know about it! To download a river otter observation sheet to record the details of your sighting please click here.
If you are a teacher or student interested in our River Otter Curiculum developed in 2013, please click here.
The North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) is a large and strong semi-aquatic mammal in the weasel family. Highly social, playful, and possessing seemingly unlimited energy, they are a joyful sight to the lucky observer.
Otters are more at home in the water than out of it, using water for hunting, frolicking, traveling, and as a refuge from danger. They thrive on a diet of crayfish, fish, and insects. Their lithe, streamlined shape, powerful tails, and webbed feet make river otters expert swimmers and divers. Dense, glossy brown fur, with long guard hairs, keep them warm and dry in icy winter waters.
For thousands of years, river otters were a part of the natural environment of what is now New Mexico. As an animal at the top of the food chain otters played an important role in the aquatic habitat of rivers and streams by helping maintain the balance of native fish and other species. Otters were once abundant enough in the rivers and streams of New Mexico to have been documented many times in the diaries and journals of early travelers in the region. Historical reports indicate that river otters were present in the Gila River, the upper, and middle Rio Grande, the Canadian River, and possibly the San Juan River. Pollution, deforestation and unregulated trapping caused their decline and eventual disappearance from New Mexico.
River Otter Reintroduction
New Mexico Friends of River Otters is a critical mass of community-based environmental and wildlife organizations, representative State and Federal agencies, and a scientific advisory panel, dedicated to the successful restoration of river otters to New Mexico's waters. Amigos Bravos is a founding member. Extirpated from New Mexico since 1953, the river otter is viewed as an umbrella species indicative of the health and integrity of communities associated with streams and rivers. Through an integrated approach focusing concurrently on the scientific/biological basis of reintroduction (through surveys and habitat mapping and the drafting of restoration strategies and planning documents) and an educational component (targeted workshops, educational materials, and outreach efforts to gain stakeholder and decision-maker support) the project aims to replicate successful restoration projects in neighboring states of Arizona, Colorado, and Utah.
33 river otters were reintroduced to the Upper Rio Grande between 2008 and 2010, after a 60–year absence. The wild otters were captured and transported from Washington State by USDA Wildlife Services and Taos Pueblo as part of a larger otter reintroduction program organized by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, Taos Pueblo, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and the New Mexico Friends of River Otters. For a video of our river otter re-introduction, please see the following link: uploads/fck//file/river_otter_movie.mov
After this successful project, the next goal of the Friends of River Otters was to re-introduce river otters to the Gila River. Unfortunately, these plans have been put to a stop by the New Mexico Game and Fish Department. Please see the news article to the right for more information on this troubling development.
Help Us Monitor the River Otters!
Amigos Bravos and other members of New Mexico Friends of River Otters are working with volunteers to do otter monitoring in the Upper Rio Grande watershed. A Volunteer Otter Monitoring Training was held in 2009, and each spring, a presentation is giving to river rafting guides in the area in order to educate them on River Otters and the importance of reporting sitings. To download a copy of the protocols for otter monitoring and guidance on how to identify otter tracks and scat please click here. Rachel Conn from Amigos Bravos appeared in a video about the river otter reintroduction effort on the Albuquerque Journal website.
Field Observation with a Camera Trap, also known as Trail Cameras ("River Camera")
In an effort to monitor the progress of the river otter re-introduction in the Upper Rio Grande, Amigos Bravos placed our first "River Camera" near John Dunn Bridge on January 28th, 2016. We "caught" our first otters playing at night on January 29th, 2016. We continue to see river otters at this location, and frequently see a group of 3-4. We have also seen bighorn sheep, a ringtail cat, a bobcat, a coyote, raccoons, and geese at this location. We deployed a second River Camera on February 13th, 2016 on the Rio Grande near Rinconada. This camera frequently "catches" a beaver family and raccoons. River otters have been "caught" once at this location by our camera. We have also seen wood ducks, geese, other birds, muskrat, and bobcat there. The cameras are motion activated and snap 3 pictures every 30 seconds when they are triggered by movement. Amigos Bravos plans to expand this monitoring program on the Rio Grande with more cameras, and to survey the San Juan for signs of river otter this summer. Like us on Facebook and visit this page frequently to see the new River Camera pictures as they are collected.
To learn more about food habits of the river otter, see Food Habits of the North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) (84KB pdf), prepared in 2003 by Heidi Hansen, graduate student in the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming, and the Abstract on Food Habits (40KB pdf), prepared by Jon Klingel of the New Mexico Friends of River Otters.
To learn more about the feasibility of reintroducing the river otter in New Mexico, see the 2006 New Mexico River Otter Reintroduction Feasibility Study and The Case for River Otter Restoration in New Mexico (148KB pdf), by Melissa Savage (the Four Corners Institute) and Jon Klingel.
Amigos Bravos Board member Jon Klingel has helped us research and develop an internal policy (52 KB pdf) urging caution in the use of Fintrol, a chemical agent used to kill non-native fish in an effort to restore native fish populations.
The disappearance of the Río Grande silvery minnow is a critical indicator of a collapsed natural system. The demise of the sole remaining native minnow species is – like the canary in the mine – a signal of imminent danger posed by development and river management trends. By acting to save the Río Grande silvery minnow, we may well be saving the health, social fabric, and economic sustainability of all communities in the middle Río Grande valley.
The Río Grande Silvery Minnow was listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act in 1994.
Amigos Bravos was part of the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service's team that developed the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow Recovery Plan. Finalized on July 8, 1999, the Plan was revised in 2010. Amigos Bravos was represented in the revision process by John Pittenger of Blue Earth Consultants.
For more information on the court case history of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow, see Judge Parker's landmark decision in the case
RIO GRANDE SILVERY MINNOW et al., plaintiffs,
John W. Keys III et al., Federal Defendants, MIDDLE RIO GRANDE CONSERVANCY DISTRICT et al., Defend ants - Intervenors.
The most current news for the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow is unsettling. As New Mexico heads into it's fourth year of drought, the river is unlikely to meet the demands of target flows for the minnow. Please see the news article to the left for more information on this dismal prediction.


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February 2004
Way to Go
Monday, February 9, 2004
Over 25 major environmental and social justice groups have this week joined forces to form a coalition called Way to Go to lobby the Government on transport policy.
The coalition is calling for the Government to fund 12 measures to help reduce traffic levels and improve the environment including:
* A cycle-friendly road network and cycle training for all
* Services and facilities close to people so they don't have to drive
* Safe routes to schools for all children
* Lower speed limits – 20mph default in residential areas
The Way to Go coalition is asking tens of thousands of people to send postcards or emails to their MP asking them to tell Transport Secretary, Alistair Darling, to commit to more funding for these measures in his revised transport plan. Emails can be sent to MPs via the coalition's website at
The Way to Go coalition is campaigning to influence the Government's review of its 10 year plan for transport. It is made up of Age Concern England; Campaign to Protect Rural England; Council for National Parks; CTC - the national cyclists' organisation; Carplus – the car club network; Citizens Advice; DaRT (Dial-a-Ride and Taxicard Users Ltd); Environment Transport Association; Friends of the Earth England, Wales & Northern Ireland; Friends of the Earth Scotland; Help the Aged; Joint Committee on Mobility of Blind and Partially Sighted People; JMU Access Partnership; Living Streets; London Cycling Campaign; National Council of Women of Great Britain; National Federation of Bus Users; National Federation of Women's Institutes; Railfuture; Ramblers' Association; Royal National Institute for the Blind; SERA (Socialist Environment and Resources Association); Slower Speeds Initiative; Sustrans; Transform Scotland; Transport 2000; TSSA (Transport Salaried Staffs' Association) and UNISON.
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Gallery 54
On March 18, 2018 - Uncategorized
I am pleased to share that I have a number of my paintings available at Gallery 54 in Skaneateles, NY. In addition to nine of my oil and pastel paintings at the gallery, I have giclee prints matted and ready to place in your own 9×12″ or 11×14″ frame.
Visit the Gallery 54's website to check the hours: http://gallery54cny.com
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Newly revised and uploaded to my site is a wonderful, short Christmas tune for SATB with Classical Guitar accompaniment. Listen, Listen was originally composed in 1976 for the Grand Land Singers Christmas shows and quickly became a favorite of many of the performers. The version with classical guitar works best with small ensembles so as to not drown the accompaniment. The other version is effective for larger ensembles with the same choral voicings but with piano accompaniment.
These are both free downloads. I invite you to download these and include them in Christmas programs.
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With the launch of his new novel, Zeroflash decided that a brief chat with award-winning Science Fiction novelist, Chris Beckett was in order. Chris is a Cambridge resident and as published a number of books, including a couple of short-story compilations – most notably The Turing Test, which won the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award in 2009.
His latest offering, America City is available at all good retailers in November 2017…but what's it all about?
Chris, what's this book all about?
In the next century, changes in the climate mean that powerful hurricanes strike the East Coast of America repeatedly all through the season, right up to Delaware and even further north, while large areas of the south west US suffer from such chronic drought that farms and communities are abandoned because it's just too expensive to provide water. This has resulted in a major internal refugee area, with homeless people from affected areas (like the Okies of the 1930s, but on a much larger scale) moving north in search of a new life, and northerners becoming increasing unhappy about this.
A young, ambitious, British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, takes on a new client: the charismatic Senator Stephen Slaymaker, whose one big idea is that somehow the population of the entire country has to shifted around before north-south tensions tear it apart. Slaymaker, a former soldier and businessman, is a self-made man who started out on a trailer park and became a billionaire, and his politics are much more conservative than those of Holly and her friends, but the two establish an immediate rapport and it is Holly who eventually becomes the mastermind of Slaymaker's successful bid for the presidency.
But how does she manage to sell the idea of a population transfer to Slaymaker's power base in the northern states, where people are so resistant to helping southerners as to be seriously talking about establishing internal frontiers? Holly comes up with a plan which works, but it involves some pretty dirty tricks, and has devastating consequences which she did not anticipate.
How long did it take you to write?
Depends whether you include false starts, and early prototypes, but it was my main project for a year, and also involved a fair amount of preliminary reading on American history and politics, climate change, meteorology and, specifically, on the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. (I was very struck by how quickly the victims of that hurricane were 'othered', how they were turned from compatriots in trouble, to a kind of threat, and that was one of the main starting points for this book).
Is inspiration for your stories something you find or work for?
Occasionally a story will pop in to mind fully formed, but usually I have to work very hard to find it. Often it only comes when I'm starting to wonder if I should give up! The trick is to assemble a bundle of disparate preoccupations that, at some intuitive level, feel like they might be part of the as yet unknown book or story I hope to create, and just keep banging together in different ways until something clicks.
In this book, these elements included climate change (obviously), hurricane Katrina, and a jumble of ideas I've had knocking around in my mind for a while about social class and what we call 'left' and 'right' in politics. Also: Twitter and its echo-chamber effect, and fake news, and trolls and bots. Even just the name Slaymaker with its ambiguous meaning –I borrowed it from an administrator at the University of East Anglia– was an important element in the final synthesis. And some lines from Beowulf. And Dr Faustus. And, I think, a little dash of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, which also describes a highly manipulative political campaign which achieves its objective, but with unintended consequences.
Your work has received many compliments – "A masterpiece" The Guardian for one. How does that make you feel?
Well it's lovely. Like many people, I don't have a particularly high opinion of myself so it is immensely reassuring when someone finds something of value in a story I've made. It also spurs me on, like people shouting encouragement from the side lines when you're running a marathon.
Your latest collection of short stories, Spring Tide is out in 2018, what can you tell us about it? How does it differ to The Turing Test and The Peacock Cloak?
Both of the other collections were science fiction stories, written over a period of years and previously published in magazines or anthologies. But the stories in Spring Tide have never been published before. Some of them had been knocking around half-finished for a while, but most were written from scratch specifically for the collection.
Another thing that's different is that, although it includes stories with fantastical elements – for instance one deals, from the point of view of an angel, with the history of the universe from creation to the end of time– none of them are really science fiction, and many are little portraits of fairly ordinary people living in our own familiar world. Loneliness is a theme, but also the overcoming of loneliness.
Given that America City and Spring Tide are done, what's next? Might we suggest a sit-down and a cup of tea?
I'm very good at sitting down and having cups of tea, I can assure you. In fact I was saying to my wife this morning that I've decided to embrace the fact that I'm just one of those creatures, like a Slow Loris, that moves about at a more leisurely pace than other animals. I'm not sure she thought this a good plan.
But I am now working on a new novel project, which I don't want to say any more about at the moment because it is still very much at the development stage. I'm also writing some short stories.


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Shahida Mausi has built a career in cultural and entertainment programming, designed to serve the public. In 1996 she formed The Right Productions, Inc. (TRP). The company has managed and operated the 6,000 seat Chene Park Amphitheater, providing food and beverage service, security, parking and other aspects of major event production since 2004. Under her direction Chene Park has increased events and attendance annually, serving approximately 100,000 in 2010.
As the president of TRP Ms Mausi has created national award winning marketing promotions, gained and sustained relationships with such clients as MGM Grand Detroit Casino, The City of Detroit, and the Greektown Casino. In addition, The Right Productions has provided talent and production services for special events including the Super Bowl XL Winter Blast, Detroit 300, the Detroit Music Festival, and Movement – Detroit's Electronic Music Festival.
Ms Mausi has produced and booked concerts with great artists including Wynton Marsalis, Della Reese, Little Richard, Nina Simone, Deepak Chopra, Herbie Hancock, Judith Jamison, Fela, Jill Scott, Mary J. Blige, and Carmen McCrae, just to name a few.
A pinnacle experience occurred when Ms Mausi produced the largest event held to commemorate the historic visit of Nelson and Winnie Mandela to Detroit. Under her direction Tiger Stadium (never before used for such an event) was completely outfitted as a major concert venue, with pooled electronic media, new ticket scaling and computerization. Ms Mausi orchestrated the major technical and artistic production elements necessary for such an auspicious occasion in less than four weeks. More than 50,000 people attended the event and hundreds of thousands more viewed televised coverage. Participants included Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, a 2,000-voice choir and an array of other artistic and political dignitaries. The impact of the event was palpable for several days thereafter. It helped grossed more than $1 million, to celebrate and project the spirit of Detroit nationally and internationally.
Ms Mausi also played a pivotal role in creating of the African World Festival, later used as a model for the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta She has been involved in bringing international productions with historical significance, including Sarafina and Black Heroes in the Hall of Fame, to new audiences. She also produced the audio book of Ron Milner's CHECKMATES, starring Ruby Dee.
Ms Mausi is a past board member of the Michigan Council of the Arts and Cultural Affairs Board, the Kellogg Foundation Youth Initiatives Committee, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Board of Directors, and has chaired National Endowment for the Arts panels. She is the past vice-chairperson of the Museum of African American History.
Prior to going into business Ms Mausi served for ten years as Director of the City of Detroit's Council of the Arts, a grant making, producing and an advocacy agency. Hosting and producing Detroit Creates on WJZZ – FM Detroit, Ms Mausi gained five years of radio production experience. Seeking to blend cultural and social redevelopment, she served for three years as the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Detroit YWCA, overseeing the programming, and facilities of five metropolitan Detroit locations. She also produced programming for the Detroit Public Library system using a gamut of events from lectures, theatre, dance film, festivals, and exhibitions to draw record crowds and publicity into the institution.
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Criteria these that must be understood ' ' as indispensable learnings to the end of a period, for another one, as references that allow the analysis of its advances throughout the process, considering that the manifestations of these advances are not linear, nor idnticos' ' (p.97). The second part comes expressing the detailing of the proposals presented in the first part, divided in two specific chapters. Learn more on the subject from Hachette Book Group. Chapter 1 mentions to it the first cycle, presenting the education and the learning of Portuguese Language in the same, also displaying the used objectives and contents. Beyond the evaluation criteria that must be used for verification of the learning. You may wish to learn more. If so, Hachette Book Group is the place to go. Already chapter 2 makes aluso to as the cycle, presenting the same characteristics of chapter 1: education and learning of the Portuguese Language, objective, unfoldings of the contents and criteria of evaluation for as the cycle, with activities that if the pupil waits to develop satisfactorily. The PCN of the Portuguese Language is a document that it searchs to become clearer the relation enters the election of the contents and the considered didactic treatment, contributing so that the educational transformations happen in the lesson of Portuguese Language despertando the interest of pupils.
As we can see the PCN of the Portuguese Language he is not ' ' animal-of-seven-cabeas' ' that authors and educators, in its majority, criticize negative and if they deny the seguiz it. He is composed basically for necessary orientaes for the work in classroom. He brings viable and possible suggestions to be followed, since that he has comprometimento of the part of the professor in executing them, so that the lesson if becomes more significant and attractive for the pupils. He values the context of the school, with dynamic and creative lessons, texts that instigate the pupils to be curious and to develop the habit of the reading. He makes possible the access of the pupils to the universe of the texts that circulate in the society, teaching the produziz them and to interpret them, developing in the same the access to the information written with autonomy and creating conditions for well produziz it. These factors are basic, so that as much the reading how much the writing, if becomes one pleasant habit, therefore ' ' the people learn to like to read when, of some form, the quality of its lives improves with leitura' '. Therefore the adoption of the PCNs, of Portuguese Language but of you not only discipline them to all, if she makes necessary so that let us can have a public education of quality, capable to form independent, critical and creative citizens acting in the society. Refencia: National Curricular parameters: Portuguese language/Ministry of the Education. Secretariat of the Basic Education. 3.ed. Brasilia: The Secretariat, 2001.