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I have been loving the different school bus themed crafts and activities floating around lately.
Loved this School Bus photo craft from No Time for Flashcards
and this School Bus filled day at Fryman Four (if only I could be as fun and creative as this mom!)
We made a photo bus today and loved it.
Materials Needed: yellow, black, and brown construction paper, white cardstock, scissors, glue, copies of a few photos, colored pencils or crayons.
Prep Ahead
- Draw a bus and two tiny circles on a piece of yellow construction paper and cut them out.
- Draw two wheels and four squares out of black construction paper and cut them out.
1. Have your toddler add glue to the back of the bus and stick it on to the cardstock.
2. Have your toddler add glue to the back of the wheels and stick them to the bottom of the bus.
3. Next, have them glue the little yellow circles to the center of the wheels and add the four square windows to the top of the bus.
4. While my little guy did the gluing, I cut out pictures of the people he requested (mom, dad, himself, and his aunt). Then he stuck them on to the windows so that it looked like several of his favorite people were riding the bus with him!
5. Add other details with crayons or colored pencils. My little guy wanted to make a sun in the corner like the one he saw on No Time for Flashcards.
6. We also cut out a strip of brown paper for the road and glued it on.
We ended our fun by singing the Wheels on the Bus and driving around the neighborhood to see if we could find any yellow school buses- one of our favorite driving activities!
Our favorite bus book right now is Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
School Bus full of love!
Posted by Kristina at 9:49 PM
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This is fantastic! I did it. Kailee's favorite things now are school buses and trucks. We sing the 'Wheels on the Bus' song every day. I'll check out your truck activities. :) Thank you!!! You really could start on 'on-line' art school for toddlers, Kristina! :) See you soon! KatharineReplyDelete
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Suzanne is a crafty, capable, DIY girl who planned the wedding herself, and did a super job of preparing,co-coordinating, delegating, and orchestrating, and managing to be a happy, calm, radiant, and excited bride.
This pretty venue has yurts and cabins outfitted with wood stoves that guests can stay in, surrounded by a gorgeous forest. A rustic ski lodge for the wedding party to get dressed in compliments the vibe, and aspen trees provide a perfect backdrop for a wedding ceremony.
The Big Day
The day of the wedding was cloudy and brisk. No one from Arizona wants to hope that it doesn't rain. Our 7,000 elevation mountain town is still a high desert, but I will admit that I entertained a small hope that it just wouldn't rain this day. It held off for most of the day, while family and friends pitched in to help decorate and Sharon, the mother of the groom, handed out sandwiches and made sure people stayed hydrated, along with handling small emergencies, like the Baby's Breath Predicament.
As soon as the arch was all decorated with tulle, fabric, and flower sprays, and right when guest started to arrive, the rain started to pour down. But these two families took it in stride, and no one freaked out! And just as it was time for everyone to take their seats, the rain let up, guests dried off their chairs, and the wedding ceremony began!!
Suzanne looked gorgeous, Jeremy was all smiles, and his brother and wife sang a lovely song to commemorate.
I loved working with Suzanne to create these centerpieces!!
It didn't rain for the rest of the evening, and everyone had such a good time! We feasted on BBQ and laughed at a hilarious toast from the Best Man. Along with being in love with each other, the couple shares a love for Blue Bell Ice Cream, and set out an ice cream buffet of various flavors, including Bride's Cake and Groom's Cake, in lieu of a wedding cake.
And then we all danced and danced and danced the rest of the night! The couple was sent off on electric bicycles to their cabin in the woods, perfectly representing their twin spirits of adventure.

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All Sophie Bellard wants is her freedom, freedom to sail the seven seas, and freedom to be her own person without interference from some controlling husband. But an arranged marriage to handsome and dangerous Captain Andre Dubois derails all her hopes. After a disastrous wedding night where a ruinous secret is discovered, the two go their separate ways with hopes of never meeting again.
Sophie becomes a pirate, while Andre sets off for the Orient where he makes a murderous enemy. After escaping with his life, Andre returns to home waters, and in an unexpected twist of pirate fate, reunites with his estranged and unwilling wife.
When Andre's murderous enemy threatens Sophie's life, he vows to protect what is his, and attempts to win his wife's forgiveness and love, once and for all.
About the Author
Cathy Skendrovich has always loved a good story, and spent her formative years scribbling what is now called Fan Fiction. The current heartthrob of the time featured heavily in all her stories. Unfortunately, once she went to college, her writing took the form of term papers, written on typewriters instead of computer keyboards.
Upon graduation, Cathy took a job as an English teacher in a middle school. Along the way, she married her husband of now thirty-two years, had two sons, and moved to southern Orange County, California. She chose to work part-time in the school system there.
Now she has returned to writing. Prisoner of Love is her first published novel, followed closely by The Pirate's Bride. A sequel to The Pirate's Bride, as well as another contemporary romantic suspense are in the works.
She likes writing romance because she feels it's lacking in today's technological world. While she enjoys writing contemporary stories, creating romance in bygone times fascinates her. She hopes her ability to write in both genres will be the beginning of a long and satisfying writing career


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Shan is a single mom with two beautiful boys, Aaron, 7, and Isaac, 9. Her sons will be entering fourth and second grades at Coleman Elementary School in San Rafael in August. Although she had a difficult time as a child, Shan hopes to provide a supportive and nurturing home life for her children. She was adopted and never felt like a part of her adopted family. Shan has been on her own ever since she was 17, and she is not in contact with her adopted family. Unfortunately, the father of her children has not been around for the past five years, leaving her as the children's sole support. Shan works as an in-home caregiver and is also studying at College of Marin to increase her career options.
Shan is very challenged by the high cost of living in Marin County. "It's very difficult for my self-esteem," she says. "I cannot pull my own weight and live self-sufficiently. The services at Ritter Center are very good, and I need them to raise my boys. Everything is just so expensive these days." Thankfully, Shan and her children are enrolled in Medi-Cal for health insurance so that they don't have to worry about whether or not they can see a doctor when they get sick.
Like many low-income Marin families, Shan comes to Ritter Center for fresh and nutritious groceries from our food pantry. "I even pick up groceries at the pantry for some of my home-care patients who qualify," she says. Shan also sees a behavioral health counselor to talk through some of her problems and cope with stress. In the past, she has received financial assistance from Ritter Center to repair her car and help pay rent. She always enrolls in Ritter's Family-to-Family Holiday Sharing Program so that her sons can receive toys during the holidays.
Shan is very passionate about Ritter's Back to School program. "How you appear on the outside affects how you feel on the inside, so having new school supplies is wonderful," she says. "Schools these days require parents to provide so much more than they used to." Shan is particularly grateful for the $50 Old Navy gift card she received this year. "My boys are growing so fast it seems like they constantly need new clothes. Also, that is $50 I can now spend on tutoring assistance for my son who has been diagnosed with ADHD."
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First of all can we say a huge thanks – it's absolutely brilliant that you are thinking about adopting rather than buying as there are too many dogs in need out there right now.
UK Dog Rescue Facts
It's estimated that …
- Almost 25% of households have at least one dog as a pet.
- The average number of dogs homed by these families is 1.3 per household.
- That means there are just under 9 million dogs living in the UK right now.
- Almost 50,000 dogs are abandoned or dumped each year.
- Another 60,000 are lost, rescued and reclaimed by their owners each year.
- A perfectly healthy dog is put down every two hours by agencies who are struggling to cope with numbers of rescue dogs.
And that's just the dogs that are abandoned, don't forget that a dog could also be in need of a new home for other reasons too – death or illness of their owner, a house move into a property where dogs are not permitted, changes in circumstances etc.
Whatever the reason it's never the dogs fault that they find themselves on the street or in a pound or rescue centre and it doesn't make them bad dogs.
Why Home A Rescue Dog?
Take it from me, as someone who has always adopted, they make amazing companions and it's just so rewarding watching them change from shy, nervous and confused animals to loyal, trusting and loving companions. Just look at these two:
This is Fluke, he's a beautiful 6 year old Cocker Spaniel. We rescued him when he was just 6 months old by which time he had already been taken away from his mother far to early as a result of a police raid on the puppy farm he was born into. He went on to be rescued by a family who clearly didn't look after him well and dumped him back at the rescue centre after they split up. He arrived at the rescue as we were actually there hoping to find a Cocker Spaniel (hence the name).
Naturally, he was very nervous of people and confused but he quickly settled and has become an absolutely amazing companion.
We've now had him 5 1/2 years and he know's he's here to stay now but is still nervous of strangers which is understandable. Whilst he's come on in leaps and bounds e'll probably never quite get over this anxiety.
When Fluke joined our family we also had an old Golden Retriever / Collie cross (also a rescue) who really helped him settle in but we sadly lost him to old age a year or so after.
Fluke was then on his own for nearly a year before we decided to adopt a second dog and, after much discussion (it's really important to get the right dog for your circumstances) we decided to "downsize" and get a smaller companion for him … and Maisy entered our lives!
An incredibly cute ruby Cavalier King Charles Spaniel who was 16 months old when we got her. She came from a family who'd circumstances had changed and who made the difficult decision to give Maisy up to give her a better life.
We've had her 2 1/2 years now. She's a fantastic little dog and, most importantly, her and Fluke are inseparable, they get on so very well and are good for each other.
Both dogs came pretty much house trained – there were a few little accidents as they got into their new routines but that come with owning any dog. Both were in need of basic training and that was good fun and a great way to bond.
Why anyone would think about buying a puppy is beyond me when there are so many dogs like out two desperate for that second chance.
Dog Rescue Directory
So, now that we've hopefully convinced you to take the rescue route how can this website help?
Every time we were looking to adopt a rescue dog we found it very difficult to find a single list of all the dog rescues near to us. Lots of Google searches, searching forums and Facebook. The big rescues are easy to find but there are hundreds of smaller organisations that may not have a website and may work with foster homes rather than kennels and so there may be many many more dogs available in your area than you realise … and that's why I set up this website.
We're growing and intend to develop into THE definitive directory of UK dog rescue centres. It's completely free to advertise, we do not charge a single penny, we do this to help link rescuers to those who have a home to offer.
Find Your Local Dog Rescue
There are three ways to search:
- Move the map and zoom in to your local area and click on the arrows to read the info about each rescue centre
- Enter your postcode into the search box and select the option "Dog Rescue Centres (All Breeds)". you can also open the advanced search and select the radius you are prepared to travel. This will then bring up details of all your local dog rescues sorted by distance.
- If you are looking for a specific breed select this option and again insert your postcode and it will bring up a list of breed specific dog rescues organised by distance.
When you open up the details of any particular rescue centre you will be able to read a short description and make contact with them. Opening times are displayed, there's a phone number, email address, website address and links to their social media (Twitter & Facebook). As we develop we will be introducing other feature too.
Don't forget, leave your feedback and comments too – always appreciated.
Finally, if you have any comments or suggestions for us please please get in contact – you can either use the contact form or drop us an email to : firstname.lastname@example.com
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Three scenes from my recent week of speaking at events on the campus of University of Groningen in the Netherlands:
Scene One
Monday afternoon I spoke with a Muslim student after my talk about whether we can know anything about God.
She told me that she loves being among Christians as her questions are welcomed and she is given space to explore her questions about God.
She then asked me if I could help her with a question: Why do Christians hold Jesus in such affection? What is that provokes this love on their part?
I shared with her how Jesus shows us God come close to us and a God who both invites us to know him and also makes a way for this to happen.
Scene Two
Thursday afternoon I was approached by the president of the local LGBTQ+ society after my presentation on life after death.
One of his friends, a transgender student, had asked me – during the Q&A session afterwards – what I thought about the church's attitude to LGBTQ folk.
I replied that I didn't think the church had handled the issue well or in a manner reflective of Christ.
I talk about the human tendency to see everyone else as outrageous sinners and ourselves as righteous, when the bible says we're all sinners.
I said that Christians and LGBTQ people both need to stop lobbing verbal grenades at one another and get to know each other, trying to understand one another, as in my experience neither one really understand where the other is coming from.
When the president of the LGBTQ+ group approached me, he told me that he really appreciated my response, and we had a lovely chat for an hour about God and about his experience of life and religion.
Scene Three
Thursday evening an atheist student asked a tough question about science and God after my talk on purpose in life (below) and I gave an OK-ish answer to it.
I could see he wanted to pursue the question further, but I also sensed that others in the room wanted the Q&A time to end.
I said that anybody who wanted to keep discussing this issue was free to join me around a table at the front.
The moment I stopped speaking there was a scramble of students heading forward to join the conversation and we were all in intense but good-humoured discussion.
Within twenty minutes the atheist student had decided to start reading the Bible regularly with someone from the Navigators Christian group.
In between Monday and Thursday we talked and interacted with all kinds of other students – Hindu, Buddhist, nominally Christian, agnostic, not really anything, etc. – and we kept on finding folk who were open and interested to discuss Jesus with us.
It is striking how the very people many Christians assume are most closed to the message of Jesus – Muslims, convinced atheists and LGBTQ+ people – are actually quiet intrigued by him when given an appropriate opportunity to consider him and his claims.
Every time I speak with Christians I find many assume those outside the church are disinterested in God. Every time I engage with non-Christian audiences I find quite the opposite to be true.
It's a good time to be presenting Jesus to student audiences. It's not easy. But it's tilting towards openness and God is distinctly at work.


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About Us
The Central Shenandoah Valley Office on Youth (OOY) was formed in 1978 with the purpose of crossing government and organizational boundaries to foster collaborative efforts to prevent juvenile delinquency and develop youth programs.
OOY staff accomplish this through a balance of direct service to youth and active support of other government and community agencies.
Struggling youth and families need a scaffold of services around them to lift them out of their current situation. The OOY is part of the community's scaffold of services that support struggling youth and families.
OOY staff have the single thought, "How can we help make youth succeed?" To that end, staff work with schools, social services, and the juvenile courts to provide the additional resources and supports struggling youth and families need.
Office on Youth Mission
The OOY develops positive connections between youth, their families, and communities.
Office on Youth Vision
The OOY seeks to create a future where all youth thrive in a healthy family and enrich their community.
Office on Youth Values
- Demonstrating a sincere concern for others, for their needs and well being;
- Empowering youth and families to achieve success;
- Evaluating and Improving programs in response to community needs;
- Providing opportunities for growth.
- Anticipating and Responding to community needs;
- Building and Maintaining networks for effective service delivery;
- Creating a supportive environment that nurtures inclusion, respect and a cooperative spirit;Sustaining and Cultivating effective communication with community partners.
The OOY has many partnerships with other youth-serving organizations, schools, faith-based institutions, local businesses, and area non-profits. It is through these partnerships that many of the programs offered are made possible.


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We cut the noodle's top off a little with a knife, not quite in half. Marbles could be used for this but we used some balls that are about the size of ping pong balls.
We also cut a noodle into fourths and attached it to a sting on a balloon. The strung the string through the hole to make a balloon on a stick. Adeline then used another piece to "hit the balloon." We are trying to add some action words to nouns so this was an active way to do it.


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In a blog post, LinkedIn announced that it had passed a new milestone of 200 million members on its site. The popular business-oriented social networking site was launched in 2003, and had reportedly passed the 100 million marks in 2011. LinkedIn has added more than 13 million members since its last announcement on November 1, 2012.
LinkedIn serves its members in 19 languages in 200 countries or territories. It has 74 million members in the U.S., while 64 percent of them are outside the U.S, including 11 million members in the U.K., 7 million in Canada, 18 million in India, and 11 million are based in Brazil. The site's fastest growing countries are Turkey, Colombia and Indonesia. Approximately 2 members join LinkedIn every second. That's, 172,800 registrations per day!
Deep Nishar, Senior Vice President, Products & User Experience at LinkedIn, announced and thanked its users for helping them achieve this milestone:
I'd like to thank each of you for helping build the LinkedIn network into what it is today. It's been amazing to see how our members have been able to transform their professional lives through LinkedIn. You truly grasp the power of LinkedIn when you start to focus on these individual success stories.
According to the stats shared by LinkedIn, the IT sector represents the largest industry within LinkedIn at four million users, with two million in financial services and 1.95 million in higher education.
The U.S. remains its biggest market, followed by India. Here's a break down based on the number of users:
- USA (74m)
- India (18m)
- UK (11m)
- Brazil (11m)
- Canada (7m)
LinkedIn reported its earnings for Q3 2012 in November, and it had its revenue increased to $252 million, up more than 80% year-over-year. The company had an IPO price of $45 in May 2011, and is now trading at $112.25, up by 77 percent over the past 12 months.


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這個3小時的悉尼港游輪與晚餐套餐將引領遊客們進入歷史氣息濃厚的漿輪船,在悉尼著名地標與景點間暢遊,路線包括:月亮公園(Luna Park), 悉尼歌劇院及悉尼海港大橋。客人們可以從環形長廊優雅觀景隨後還可享受美味的三道菜晚餐,我們為您準備了豐富的菜單選項寵愛您挑剔的味蕾。晚餐之後備受期待的歌舞表演粉墨登場,這裏聚集了奇幻的魔術師和身着美麗戲服世界級的歌星與舞蹈家為您獻上絕對精彩紛呈的愉悅演出。絕妙的晚餐,游輪和表演套餐完美適合親朋好友聚會與團隊慶典!
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" We bought the Sydney Harbour Dinner cruise, so that we can enjoy the dinner while have a nice view around the world famous harbour. we would say it was one of the best dinner cruise we ever had. As we were the vegetarian, they had nice menu and even they made special fruit and salad platter for us as well. we had a nice time on the cruise.
We bought the Sydney Harbour Dinner cruise, so that we can enjoy the dinner while have a nice view around the world famous harbour. we would say it was one of the best dinner cruise we ever had. As we were the vegetarian, they had nice menu and even they made special fruit and salad platter for us as well. we had a nice time on the cruise.
Amazing! The performers and staff in the show boat were absolutely amazing!! Wonderful food! I would highly recommend to anyone visiting Sydney! My husband and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary although we were to shy to go up on stage so didn't mention it, but we had such a fantastic night!! Truly satisfied with the experience.
Good experience. Good memory. We had a lovely evening with this cruise. Booking is easy. All the staff are very nice. We can see the Sydney Opera House and bridge on the deck. We can enjoy the dinner in the warm room. Outside is so cold. The food is so delicious. We recommend it.
This is an absolutely great experience. Our family decided to have my birthday celebrated on this cruise. When we arrived, we found it very organised, all the staff were friendly. Everything seems great during the cruise, the food was beautifully cooked, the performance was fantastic, the harbour is nice as it is always... Nothing can be complained. We were hoping there can be a little extra time before the main course to be served, so can spend some time outside on the deck, it was such a good feeling to be there watching our most beautiful harbour when the boat was cruising through.
Food was great. The show was awesome. I would definitely recommend this. Was a fun evening out. The crew was friendly and very helpful. The show was brilliant and the views from the ship were absolutely incredible, get to see the Sydney Opera House at night time... beautiful!
I absolutely loved the experience. The waiting staff are excellent. I had a vegan meal request upon boarding but the chef went out of his way to cook me a beautiful vegan dish, on top of what he has to do for all the people on board. To me, that's dedication. I'm very grateful. The night was entertaining, fun and relaxing. Thank you so much.
My boyfriend and I had a really fun night on board the Sydney Showboat. We boarded the boat at 7 pm and got back at 10 pm. Purchasing on Experience Oz was easy as we just printed out the voucher and handed it to the staff when boarding. The show went from 9-10pm and the singers and dancers were very entertaining. The wait staff were also excellent. It was a good night and we would go again!
We had a lovely time. The food, staff and show we're all great. A table for two near a window was an added bonus. As was the special mention and candle for my birthday.
My son and I went on the cruise. The food was fabulous. Service was second to none. And the cabaret show was fantastic. Everyone was so friendly and couldn't do enough for you. Just a BRILLIANT night out.
The meal was wonderful. The wine wasn't great - maybe it was just the brand but it could have been better. The dancing was absolutely spectacular although the lighting wasn't always the greatest, sometimes it was hard to see the dancers. Not sure if it was the sound system but it was hard to understand the singer.


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Country Inn and Suites – Green Bay, WI
Home to the Green Bay Packers, sports fans can catch a game at Lambeau Field or visit the Green Bay Hall of Fame, both within minutes of the hotel. Shopko Hall and the Resch Center are also close by. For a fun-filled family day out visit Bay Beach Amusement Park, only 10 miles away. Our hotel is also conveniently located close to many Green Bay corporations and businesses including Georgia Pacific, Schneider National and Proctor & Gamble, St. Mary's Hospital and St. Vincent Hospital. You'll feel the country charm and personal touches of home throughout our 2 story 75-room hotel in Green Bay which is conveniently located off Hwy 41 and Oneida St. Guests will enjoy newly renovated amenities like: an elevator, pool/hot tub, exercise room, expanded continental breakfast with hot items served daily, wireless internet, and a business center. Each room offers flat screen TV's, iron/board, hairdryer, microwave and refrigerator, and coffee maker. Make the most of your stay with us and explore the many nearby Green Bay attractions.


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The Board of Directors and the Staff of the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Broward County are very saddened to announce the passing of Edith Schaffer Lederberg, who left us late Sunday night, January 6th, 2019.
For over 40 years, Edith devoted her life to "planning, coordinating, funding, and advocating for seniors." She was a guiding force in this Area Agency on Aging, and we will always remember her, miss her, and hear her words as we go about performing the duties of our daily tasks, in and out of this Agency.
As Edith recently wrote, "Saying good-bye is a sad song. The journey has been long and loving. I have performed my roles in life to the best of my ability to benefit humanity. May those, who now follow, become the dauntless leaders, who walk, arm-in-arm into a future of hope, harmony, and happiness."
We have lost the touch of Edith's caring embrace for each of us and all that we do, but the warmth of her presence still remains in our hearts and her words and her concerns will always remain in our thoughts and deeds.
Rest in peace Edith Schaffer Lederberg. Your life and love will always remain within us all.


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LLI Florida celebrates lower school teachers who continually hone their practice of quality student-centered learning. Many teacher conferences today focus on the needs of secondary school students.
From project based learning to social and emotional responses, LLI Florida will help transform you and your school to develop powerful future scholars. Join the first conference dedicated to primary age children.
What is LLI Florida
LLI Florida is a two-day professional development conference that is designed for teachers to share their practical classroom skills with other teachers in the Gulf region. Featuring fishbowl classrooms, active learning sessions, and collaborative events, LLI Florida is the new generation of authentic, effective teacher training.
Why LLI Florida?
Observable classroom practices with expert teachers
LLI Florida will feature model "fishbowl" classrooms where teachers not only talk about their skills, but show them live to attendees with students from MCDS. Simply the most authentic professional development possible at a conference.
Active learning for all learners
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Why Kids Love Ambrosia Apples
Keeping healthy foods in their diets
Getting kids to eat healthy foods isn't always the easiest task. Parents employ countless tricks to get their kids the nutrition they need. Whether it's counting the grapes they have to eat or hour-long stand-offs over a few pieces of broccoli, these tactics are exhausting. Luckily, there's one piece of fruit parents can confidently turn to – Ambrosia apples.
Kids love Ambrosia apples for a variety of reasons.
Sweet, Balanced Taste
Kids have more active taste buds than adults do because as we age, our taste buds fail to regenerate at the same rate. That's why kids often shy away from really intense flavours. Many fruits that taste just fine to us are too citrusy, sweet or sour to a child's young and lively taste buds.
Ambrosia apples have a mildly sweet taste that is kept in balance with a slight tanginess. For kids, this is a homerun for their taste buds because no taste receptors are over stimulated. It's just a nice, balanced bite.
Crunch Time
The wrong texture can be a real turn off for a lot of kids. When a child's first apple is a mealy apple, or a softer apple they may associate all apples with having a mouth feel that is neither soft nor crunchy. Ambrosia apples, however are crunchy and have a good snap to them. This makes them fun to bite and chew.
No Mushy, Brown Fruit
It doesn't take much to turn a child off their food. For example, when kids see dried up carrots or browning apples, they might just turn their noses up (even if they normally eat those foods).
The other problem that parents run into is that kids are less likely to eat food that isn't bite size. Send them to school with a whole apple and you're likely going to see it come home (or land in the trash). However, if you cut it up and it turns brown before they get a chance to eat it, it's definitely going into the bin or compost.
That's what makes Ambrosia such a great choice for kids because Ambrosia are naturally slow to brown. You can slice an Ambrosia apple into bite size pieces in the morning, wrap the pieces in plastic or put them in a sealed plastic bag and they'll still be crispy and creamy white when snack time rolls around.
Fun Shapes
Who doesn't want to have more fun? Kids love to eat food that's been cut into fun shapes. The great thing about Ambrosia apples is that you can cut them using whimsical shapes (cookie cutters are great for this) and not worry about them turning brown before they get eaten. And, because Ambrosia are crisper apples, you don't have to worry about them falling apart if kids decide to play with them a little before popping them in their mouths.
Whether you've got a picky eater or you're just trying to find new ways to keep fruit in your child's changing diet, Ambrosia is a great option.
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King Abdulaziz
City for Science and Technology (KACST) is a scientific
government institution that supports and enhances scientific
applied research. It coordinates the activities of government
institutions and scientific research centers in accordance
with the requirements of the development of the Kingdom
"Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030" was adopted as a methodology and roadmap for economic and developmental action in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. "Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030" encompasses—in a number of domains—strategic objectives, targets, outcome-oriented indicators, and commitments that are to be achieved by the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The Council of Economic and Development Affairs has established an effective and integrated governance model to translate the Vision into various implementation programs that will accomplish its goals and directions. The programs will be launched successively, according to the requirements of Vision.
In order to build the institutional capacity and capabilities needed to achieve the ambitious goals of "Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030", the National Transformation Program 2020 was launched across 24 government agencies including KACST. The program's strategic objectives are linked to interim targets for the year 2020 and the first phase of initiative implementation will be launched in 2016 and will be followed every year by phases involving more public agencies.
To achieve work sustainability and maximize impact, the program has employed a number of enablers that help increase the level of professionalism and ensure smoother workflow including transparency, institutionalization and specialized support.
KACST Strategic Objective
Key Performance Indicators
Relevant Vision 2030 Objectives
Enhance the infrastructure and facilities necessary for the development of local content
Number of establishments needed to develop local content
· Create an attractive environment for both local and international investors and enhance their confidence in our economy
· Enhance competitiveness of energy sector
Establish emerging technology companies with added value to contribute to the increase of local content
· Number of jobs being generated by start-up companies in incubators
· Number of jobs being generated by start-up companies in universities
· Number of tech-companies emerging from incubators
· Number of tech-companies emerging from universities through the Innovative Companies Program
· Boost entrepreneurship
· Develop IT sector
Strengthen the capability of small and medium-based companies to contribute to the increase of local content
Number of companies that were served or have their capabilities enhanced
Create an attractive environment for both local and international investors and enhance their confidence in our economy
Provide technical consulting services to government sectors
Number of consulting projects in the targeted sectors that have been submitted
Customer satisfaction for consulting services provided
Improve performance, productivity and flexibility of public authorities
Localization and development of technology in large domestic spending sectors
Number of localized and developed technologies in targeted sectors
Develop IT sector
Develop mining sector
Develop Oil & Gas sector
Enhance competitiveness of energy sector
Support research and development to ensure the sustainability of the local content development system
Number of published peer-reviewed research papers from scientific institution in the kingdom
Number of patents issued by the kingdom
Provide citizens with knowledge and skills to meet the future needs of the labor market
Boost entrepreneurship
Support local content through development of nationally-qualified professionals
Number of technical experts who have been skilled
Develop youth skills and leverage them effectively
NTP Operating Model
The Council of Economic and Development Affairs and the 24 participating government entities worked hand in hand to prepare and launch the National Transformation Program. Other government agencies, such as the Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affairs, were invited to take part in planning the initiatives, coordinating efforts, and producing high-quality and realistic outcomes. The phases of the program's operating models include:
NTP Launching
The first phase of the National Transformation Program was launched across 24 government agencies, including the ministries represented in the Council of Economic and Development Affairs and a number of public entities associated mainly with the strategic objectives of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030. Other entities were also invited because the ministries deemed their presence important for achieving strategic objectives of the Vision.
KACST's Strategic Objectives in the National Transformation Program 2020
KACST KPIs in the NTP
During the NTP workshops, KACST conducted a comprehensive survey for all initiatives and linked them with accurate KPIs to easily and accurately evaluate the accomplishment level for each initiative. These KPIs are distributed according to KACST's strategic objectives. They took care of evaluating development and research indicators, such as the number of published and reviewed scientific papers, registered patents, and technologies that were developed. They also looked at innovative indicators, such as the number of young technological companies and human resources performance indicators, such as the number of technological jobs generated from these companies, and many other indicators. KACST prepared 12 KPIs to evaluate the performance.
These are:
Measurement Unit
Targeted 2020
Number of published peer-reviewed research papers from scientific institution in the Kingdom
Research (annual)
Number of patents issued by the Kingdom
Patent (accumulative)
Technology (accumulative)
Establishment (accumulative)
Expert (accumulative)
Number of tech-companies emerging from incubators
Company (accumulative)
Number of jobs being generated by start-up companies in incubators
Job (accumulative)
Number of tech-companies emerging from universities through the Innovative Companies Program
Number of jobs being generated by start-up companies in universities
Project (accumulative)
Percentage (%)
KACST Initiatives in the National Transformation Program 2020
KACST proposed 30 initiatives within the National Transformation Program, to support its vision for the future of science, technology and innovation in the KSA. Each initiative belongs to one of three pillars: research support, technology transfer and localization and innovation.
Research Support Initiatives
R&D Support Program for Universities and Research Institutions
The Research Support Program funds the basic research or what is called also theoretical research. It is the methodological study oriented to expand knowledge horizons or understand the basic sides of the observed facts and phenomena, without determining certain applications, when beginning research. This research contributes to the establishment of knowledge and provides the scientific basis to be represented in the future in the development and applied research. The basic research program will be open to all researchers, but a mechanism will be adopted for the classification of research to regulate the presentation and analysis of results. The number of supported basic-research projects in this program will be decreased and high quality applied research will be increased.
Product Development Program to Establish Local Suppliers
The program aims to support joint projects between the research and private sectors to establish high quality small and medium sized enterprises that will develop products that contribute to maximizing the local content and the commercial and economic benefit from the technological potentials in the research sector. Up to 7 billion riyals was invested in R&D over the last seven years with promising outputs and commercial and economic opportunities. Moreover, the program seeks to benefit from these investments and outputs by newly established companies to develop high added value services and products.
Program to Stimulate Young people to Get Involved in the Areas of Science and Technology
This program launches a comprehensive group of initiatives to support science, technology, engineering and mathematics in public education, and develops and encourages research activities at universities. It increases communication about science and technology in the society.
Program of Industrial Innovation Centers
These centers aim to create partnerships between research institutions and the private sector in order to develop services and products that contribute to increasing the competitiveness of national companies, and the promotion of the local content. The program also aims to support the establishment of the appropriate atmosphere to develop the local content. It does this by: developing next generation technologies; supporting research cooperation efforts between universities and industry; transferring knowledge in the KSA; strengthening the university research; and improving science and engineering education in the KSA. It follows international best practices and brings them to the KSA.
Technology Transfer and Localization Initiatives
Localization and Transfer of Energy Technology
KACST undertook an integrated program to develop and produce solar energy technologies. The aim of this was to support industry in the Kingdom and to development new technologies that reduce oil and gas consumption, by encouraging entrepreneurship. Through these initiatives, KACST seeks to minimize solar energy production expenses based on the former successes in this field. Previously KACST managed to produce solar energy at 18 Halala per kilowatt/hour, and seeks to reduce this to 12 Halala during coming years. In addition, the program is determined to support the Saudi Electricity Company and Saudi Aramco in their endeavors to increase the localization of equipment and spares in the 5 next years. KACST is also involved in providing expertise in energy generation research and development to test the duty circles and components of gas turbines. Also, the program could contribute to well-establish exercises to manage solid waste in the KSA by building a utility to test how to transform solid waste into gas.
Rationalization of Energy Consumption Through Light Emitters in Buildings and Roads
This initiative aims to assist in decreasing electricity energy consumption through gradual conversion to low consumption light technology using light emitters made of Gallium nitrate in the KACST laboratories. These kind of materials pave the way to achieving the required objective, i.e. to produce a white light with high efficiency, five-fold consumption less than the normal illumination, and a life-cycle that exceeds 25 thousand operating hours. It also provides practical and effective solutions for efficiency decrease issues with the increase of the current. This initiative deals with the new regulations of the Saudi Energy Efficiency Center and the Saudi Standards, Metrology and Quality Organization. The benefit will be gained from KACST's accumulative experiences in this field and its partnership with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and University of California - Santa Barbara.
Localization and Transfer of Water Technology
Saline water desalination is a strategic alternative for drinking water supply for KSA. The Kingdom produces more than 18% of global production of desalted water, but the work on localizing water desalination technologies industries hasn't been achieved over the last few decades. So, KACST undertook work on localizing a number of desalination technologies starting from the designation of stations and development of many research tracks for all kinds of desalination, working in cooperation with many international research centers. The initiative includes topics such as water desalination, waste water systems, water network and treatment. Specifically, the initiative will address the following technologies: micro-filtration for water treatment, development of RO for sea water treatment, and development of low pressure RO for tertiary treatment.
Reduce Water Leakage by Monitoring the Water Pipeline Networks
This initiative aims to use advanced technologies in communication and information technology to develop an integrated system to protect long water pipelines, and monitoring water quality through wireless sensing networks. These includes a group of sensors which assess acceleration and heat and take analytical photos by infrared sensors, in addition to automatically generating the operating energy for the sensors by transforming the movement energy from the work environment.
Localization and Transfer of Oil and Gas Technology
This program develops 6 sub-technologies:
High-Efficiency Clean Fuel Production
Based on the accomplished research in the previous years, this initiative aims to develop a model to produce catalysts to get clean fuel without sulfur and nitrogen, and to develop the production of the fuel additives that will improve its features, and help create an environment free from dangerous materials that can affect health. This fuel was successfully created with Saudi Aramco.
Localization and Transfer of Mining Technology and Advanced Materials
KACST seeks to transfer and localize advanced materials and mining technologies by establishing collaborations between the related sectors and companies in the Kingdom, in order to promote added value and reduce waste in the energy sector. KACST will also focus on supporting the future economic strategy of the KSA and transferring the advanced technologies into the industrial sector.
Localization and Transfer of Health Technology
This programs aims to reduce healthcare costs, by completing the mapping of the Saudi genome to cover 100 thousand citizens in the KSA. It also aims to develop an integrated interactive information system to limit common genetic disorders in the Saudi community, which have a high cost to health services. The program seeks to limit diabetes mellitus and treat it in the KSA, by developing the potential of using a continuous gauge of glucose for Saudi health providers, and determining the main factors for the best management of this disease.
The initiative is also looking to localize and develop technologies to manage communicable diseases by establishing an integrated system of policies, procedures, orders, factories and labs that aim to quickly explore these diseases and take the necessary procedures to contain them and produce medicine and vaccines.
High-Protection Memory to Store Information and Digital Signature for Secure Government Transactions Device
USB flash drive memories are mostly used in the government authorities, and most of them are vulnerable to viruses and interpenetration. Hence, the locally made device and which is consistent with the systems of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, aims to issue the Saudi digital certificates to preserve information secrecy through providing coding technology and digital signature for the government authorities that enables the user to maintain information secrecy and verify clients' identity. It will also preserve data safety from default or change, allowing users to do business, operate, and send e-mails safely. The manufacture of this product is underway at KACST and a number of parts have been created and are being used in the experimental stage.
Regulatory Framework to Promote Open Source and Free Software
KACST is determined to formulate systems that support large and middle software manufacture quality, and contribute to reduced costs and localized technology. This includes expanding the free and open-source software, and increasing private sector efficiency to execute high quality software according to global standards. This requires the coordination of efforts to formulate laws and a regulatory framework.
A National Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System
Government entities and the private sector spend large amounts on managing their resources in similar ways. This initiative aims to establish a united open-source system with a low cost that can be designated and continuously developed. KACST has great capabilities in this field, and it is heading a committee to handle this subject along with many authorities, such as the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. This has led to many recommendations being formulated from this project.
Big Data for Strategic Planning Platform
Government entities including the Ministry of Economy and Planning and the General Authority for Statistics have a huge amount of data with different sources. This initiative seeks to establish an integrated technological stage that includes tools to prepare, store, analyze, and film the big data. This system enables the government authorities to have easy access to useful information to help them in strategic planning and decision making.
Low-Cost Communication Network for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications
Public and private sectors spend huge amounts on their business and on providing services at the right time. Government authorities, such as those regulating electricity, water, and gas, waste a lot of their resources. This initiative uses the IoT applications to cover Riyadh with LPWAN technology, as it can accommodate a huge amount of data consistent with energy saving sensors, which reduces pressure on communication networks with very low cost compared to the normal alternative.
Corrected Aerial and Panoramic Imaging
KACST has met many needs in aerial imaging on many occasions. There is a duplication and repetition in taking pictures which has resulted in unnecessary expenditure. Since KACST is the responsible for supplying all sectors with space photographs this initiative considers the addition of aerial picturing to KACST's responsibilities. This will lead to a 50% reduction in costs overall and prevents duplication of efforts. It seeks to prepare infrastructure to be able to provide this services for sectors.
Artificial Satellite Communication System to Prompt Applications Electronically to Government Agencies
Antennas with mechanical direction are used between ground stations and satellite, such as VSTA, in most government authorities. The suggested product is based on a laptop-sized electronic device that can be directed to track satellites without mechanical antenna. It can also be modified to use on vehicles such as cars, ships, planes and drones due to its small size. KACST developed a lab model, and successful tests were made for communication across satellites. KACST aims to complete the development, locally manufacture the parts and create a production line to make 100 devices as a first step.
Localization and Transfer of Building and Construction Technology
Components for dwellings are made in specialized factories using automation and robots are used to transfer them to building locations. They are made at competitive cost and with local staff, which reduces foreign manpower. It also aims to improve sustainability standards in buildings by applying systems to save energy and adopt integrated efficiency with renewable energy in future and current buildings. This leads to the development of sustainable buildings. The aim is to establish a production line with localized technology.
Localization and Transfer of Transport and Logistics Technology
It seeks to localize and transfer technology to maximize local content in transportation and logistics services, by developing integrated transportation systems inside cities, especially large ones. It seeks to reduce accidents and jams and decrease fuel consumption, by establishing advanced, low cost computer systems and by participating in technological counsels to identify the specifications to support information technology that can control logistic services. It will also improve transportation storage and delivery technology to reach optimum delivery speed.
Smart System for Monitoring Greenhouse Gases in the Kingdom
If carbon emissions are not limited, the dryness and high temperatures in the region will make it an unbearable place to live. The KSA is aiming to reduce emissions before 2030 but it is hard to do so without having monitoring systems to work out the worst emissions areas. It seeks to establish a smart system to monitor gases that cause global warming in the KSA by using low cost connected units. Decision makers will see areas that need quick intervention and make regulations to curb those emissions.
Technical Leaders Program
To solve the current gap in the national human resources, KACST established the Technical Leaders Program to prepare leaders for technological development through the best international institutions. Through this program, KACST has prepared graduates who have a passion for technological development, for PhDs at top-tire universities. And, it has developed highly capable industry leaders such as CEOs in small and medium sized enterprises, to get them ready for occupying roles in product development and at high levels of technology management.
Enhance Equipment and Facilities Necessary for the Development of Local Content
It seeks to establish ten national labs to promote the local content and provide many other services for public and private sectors. These labs take part to increase the added value of the industrial sector through the conducted research. They serve many sectors, including: energy, water and others.
Innovation Initiatives
Technical Consulting Program
It seeks to benefit from the national competencies and the available technological capabilities at KACST through providing technological consultation services that are included within the KACST field of expertise, including: energy, water and others.
Workshops Program for Prototype Development
It aims to establish three initial models development centers in the major cities in the KSA to support manufacturers in developing new products and try them in a suitable environment in a way that supports small and medium sized enterprises.
Program to Raise the Manufacturing Capacity of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
It seeks to provide a group of technological services such as technological consultations. It includes the complete technological promotion of the small and medium sized enterprises, in order to qualify them to contribute to the local content and develop products of quality in good quantity. It will provide definite support services for the small and medium sized enterprises, such as providing a major center, supporting industrial and technological qualifications, providing consultation services, and helping them to develop policies.
Business Incubators and Accelerators Program
It seeks to support the establishment of small and medium technological companies with large growth rate to contribute to the creation of jobs and diversify the national economy via the BADIR program belonging to KACST. Badir's five accelerators and incubators provide high quality services for information technology, communication, biological technology and young projects of advanced manufacturing. They seek to accelerate the growth of young Saudi projects by providing thought and funding at the same time. Also, they aim to assist young technological projects to skip the difficult challenges during various growth stages, and help with the creation of job opportunities.


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Information Security Portfolio
There are risks and costs to a program of action–but they are far less than the long range cost of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy
With the ever increasing amount of data being compromised due to inefficient and backward security solutions, importance of effective data protection and intrusion prevention systems becomes undeniable. Shifra offers a variety of information security, data protection and authentication services that helps organizations to protect and manage their logical, physical, and cloud-based data assets.
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The USA has always represented a dream destination for thousands of people, mainly because most of them were planning to achieve their "American Dream". In case you couldn't visit them until now, we suggest you to hurry up and to start your exhibition with a visit in Idaho!
Idaho is a U.S. state in the area known as the Pacific Northwest. The capital of the state and the largest city of it is Boise. The inhabitants are called "Idahoans" and another important information is that Idaho was the the 43rd state admitted in the USA, on July 3rd, 1890.
According to the data provided by the United States Census Bureau in 2004, Idaho had an estimated population of 1,393,262. Idaho is also known as Gem State because of the abundance of natural resources. The motto of the state is "Esto Perpetua", which in Latin means "To be perpetual."
The south area of Idaho (Southern Idaho), including The Metropolitan Area Boise, Idaho Falls, Pocatello and Twin Falls are located in the zone of the Rocky Mountains (this is also known as Mountain Time Zone). All the areas we were telling you about in the north of the Salmon River, including Coeur d'Alene and Lewiston, are to be found in the Pacific Time Zone.
Idaho has a very unusual name. It is probably the only U.S. state that was called as a result of an invented word. When they were looking for a name to be given to the new territory as an organized an place, George M. Willing suggested "Idaho", which would have been one of the languages of the Native American people.
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We would like to give some specific clues about this state in case you decide to visit Idaho. There is a range of state emblems and we would like to present them to you. It appears that the Horse of Idaho is "Appaloosa" and the dance of this place is called "Square Dance". The flower representing Idaho is Syringa and its fruit is Huckleberry. The state is symbolized by the bird called "Mountain Bluebird" and the fish known as "Cutthroat Trout".
It is best to hear these funny details from the inhabitants of Idaho, rather than from an article. This is why we recommend you to visit Idaho and not to waste your time anymore. Later it could be too late and you don't want this to happen!
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With the expertise in specialized technical and safety aspects to prevent fire and explosions of Explosives, Petroleum, Calcium Carbide, Gas Cylinders, Pressure Vessels and other hazardous substances, the CCOE acts as a unique Advisory body not only to the industry but also to the Government and Semi-Government bodies within the ambit of Acts and Rules being adminstered by CCOE. Without the CCOE approval no CNG cylinder valve can be used on vehicle in India.
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Blog Archives
It's been 3 years on WordPress! Photo Post!
I have no idea where the time went. It feels as though it was just a few months ago, that I was wracking my brain for the perfect name for my blog. I guess I can chalk it up to 'Time Flies When You're Having Fun'. I've been through quite a lot during that time, and I've enjoyed sharing my life with you, my readers.
We've been on quite a few adventures together. Let's take a quick look at what we've been through for the past 36 months:
We stuffed our faces and drank quite a few beers while traveling through Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia & Malaysia.
We then flew to Europe and admired the stunning architecture which varied from city to city, and country to country:
After jaunting through Europe, we took a well deserved break… before sailing the Caribbean Sea on a 40 foot yacht!
Did some local travels in my home country of Antigua… (mostly beaches and more beaches..!):
Then I took you guys with me to Trinidad and Tobago for seven months while I studied abroad!
Soon, After I took a trip to Venezuela… My very first South American Country. I can't wait to go back to the Continent!
I then returned to Europe where we visited Italy for a second time, a quick stop in London, before crossing the Atlantic to Canada and Miami. Which brings us to 2014, which saw us battling massive snow storms in New York and meeting my godson in Grenada for the very first time.
I am really happy to have connected with you guys, whether by your many comments (over 600!) or the countless 'likes' on my posts. The journey is far from over, so I hope you'll stick around for the ride! Thanks, thanks, and many thanks!!!
The Festival of Lights in Trinidad
Due to the large Indian population in the nation of Trinidad and Tobago, many of the Hindu celebrations are recognized there, and Diwali is not an exception. The Festival of Lights is one of the largest holidays of the Indian society, and I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in the festivities with a local family.
In the days leading up to Diwali, there was a hustle and bustle in my neighbourhood, as locals did various chores around their homes in preparation for the event. Many different structures were skillfully created using dried halves of bamboo shoots on which lots of candles would be placed. Many of my Indian friends stopped eating meats of any kind, as this is part of their religious proceedings for Diwali.
My close friend, Ameer invited me and a few of my friends over to his home to have dinner with his family to celebrate the event. The drive to his house was fascinating, as all of the Indians in the different villages and communities had seemingly hundreds of lights dotting their front lawns and porches. Everything from driveways to even the wall fences were bathed in a golden glow, and it was a spectacular sight to behold.
We soon arrived to Ameer's home, and his house was even more lit that most of those we had passed on our journey there. On closer inspection, I discovered that the candes were actually small wicks floating around in oil contained within small clay jars. His driveway was tiled, so at each of the four edges of a tile, a small jar was placed, creating a lovely uniform design. All around his house, from the window sills to the garage was covered with the brightly lit clay jars.
His extended family was there too, and the small children ran around the yard, taking care to avoid the jars of flames which were apparently everywhere. I was nervous about this, but they did look adorable in their traditional wear. Brightly coloured garments covered them from head to toe and the Bindi mark on their foreheads significantly stood out in a bold declaration of their religion.
Dinner was then held in the common room, and we were seated around a very long table. Several bowls of food were alligned in front of us containing all sorts of Indian dishes including Dahlpouri, Callaloo, roti skins, white rice, curried Channa and Aloo. We were then given freshly washed fig leaves on which we were to eat from using only our hands. It was quite the experience, and I treasure the memory. Everyone passed bowls of food around, and we were shown the easiest way to eat rice with our fingers. The 'togetherness' of this type of dinner is vastly apparent.
Everything that I ate tasted incredible, and I even tried a few delicacies that I was unable to identify. I was so pleased about everything, that I totally forgot that there wasn't any meat involved! All too soon, the meal was over and we washed our hands and went out to the front lawn. Ameer and his brother set off a large amount of fireworks, and after a while other homes in the community did the same. The sky was constantly painted with colours, and loud booms echoed into the night. The little ones ran around with sparklers in their hand, as their parents and grandparents watched on.
I am really grateful to my friend for his generosity, as I celebrated Diwali with him and his loved ones. It was my first experience with the Indian lifestyle, and it was an enlightening cultural adventure.
Queen's Park Savannah, Port of Spain
It was a long week of classes in a dull air conditioned room, so I really needed to get some sunlight and fresh air. When the weekend came around, a friend suggested that a day around Queen's Park Savannah may be a great idea for exercise and great views. It was quite a workout too, as Queen's Park Savannah forms the largest traffic Round-a-bout in the world!
There were lovely spots everywhere to sit and relax. The trees provided much needed shade as we walked along.


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The Nutribullet truly is a wonderful thing. I HONESTLY love it more than any other kitchen gadget I own, and have even been advising friends to choose it over the Vitamix when I've been asked my preference (sorry Vitamix, but there's just no comparison; you're three times the price, three times the size and three times as difficult to clean!!).
I use it every day for green smoothies and am making it my mission to experiment and whip up some other recipes in the new year.
My latest concoction is Lactofree Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate. It also has some sunflower, chia seeds and bananas thrown in for good measure so that you can feel extra virtuous whilst drinking it. (Hot chocolate that contains two of your five a day?!! Yes please!)
Although my diet is predominantly dairy free, I only have a lactose intolerance so have used Lactofree milk here. I personally prefer the taste of Lactofree to soya, hazelnut and oat milk and am lucky enough to be able to drink it. If you are entirely dairy free you can, of course, swap this for your favourite dairy alternative.
Makes just over 1 pint of hot chocolate so enough for two... unless you're feeling greedy of course! ;)
2x bananas
1x tbsp peanut butter
1x tbsp chocolate spread
1x tsp chia seeds
1x tsp sunflower seeds
1 pint milk
What to do.
Stick it all in your Nutribullet and blitz!
Then heat slowly on the hob at a low temperature (you really must do it gently or it will burn and/or go lumpy.... I know from experience. Patience is a virtue!)
Pour into your favourite mug and enjoy xo


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Greetings everyone,
I have been debating for about 48 hours now about which option I should take with my current numbers
(158 / 3.8 GPA from Rutgers NB undergrad)
option 1 -- retake in December, apply late this cycle
option 2 -- stick with these numbers and apply to RU-newark, similar schools.
option 3 -- retake in February/June and apply next cycle
Background info: overage practice tests have been around 161, highest ever being a 163. I took a prep course already as well. I am a Puerto Rican URM with typical softs including internships, involvement with orgs on campus, few academic recognitions. I really do need scholarships for law school (I went to the school I attend now for undergrad with a full tuition scholarship).
Is it realistic to think I can do better than a 158, and is a jump to a 162 significantly going to impact my chances positively?
Not sure where your numbers will get you? Dying to know where you stand? Come have your palms read by your fellow posters!
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Re: 158/ 3.8 GPA URM
Retake in Dec
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Re: 158/ 3.8 GPA URM
Retake December if you feel like you can improve to 160+. If not then sit out a cycle and retake in June.
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Thank you both for the advice. My biggest fear is to retake in december and NOT break the 160 mark..i would NOT take the LSAT three times. Im going to focus the most on logic games since i got -12 in this section and is obviously where i need to put in the most work.
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Firstly thank you for stopping by my blog and reading my ongoing ramblings as I review the year.
The Christmas decorations on my sites are now down and the 12 days around Christmas promotion has come to an end.
I am still proud to be one of a few that actually gives things away for 12 days and doesn't try to sell you a special for 12 days. Christmas is about giving isn't it after all.
Big plans for this coming year but I have to start my review of 2017 with a lot of things that really bugged me. This might upset a few people especially some other Traffic Exchange owners and a few surfers too but when you have read it and calmed down, maybe take a moment to think about it. We don't all think the same way but we all want whats best in the end. Heck I might just be right for a change, haha.
We all know that Traffic Exchanges have had a bit of a rough time over the last year and I made some huge changes to my business and some that didn't work not because they were bad ideas but more because nearly all the rest of the industry decided they would do nothing about the issues and carry on regardless.
Well I am going to kick off with a massive attack on a lot of other Traffic Exchange owners so here goes..
Stop wasting your members credits and diluting your advertisers results in the name of fast massive traffic flow.
Quality rules over quantity every day. Heck I cant even advertise at some of your sites.
I am one of a handful of owners that actually does this full time and you can see that a lot treat it as a hobby and not a business. That shows through in the fact most never buy any advertising at all.
I have a set advertising budget and yet each month it gets harder for me to actually spend it. I don't want credits at sites that are only active because they bribe their members to surf for a few pennies each day, I mean come on, how is that actually working out for you. Most of the exchanges that do this are either pretty close to bankrupt, not paying commissions they owe to members or run by an owner that thinks they need to deliver tons of traffic each day.
So let me set it straight right from now. By delivering more traffic with bribes you are both diluting the results of real advertisers that are here for the main reason of Traffic Exchanges and that is to exchange quality traffic and also forcing members to surf more and more in order to get enough credits to have their sites seen every day.
You think I am going to buy much of that rubbish traffic?
Truth is I am a buyer and I could not care less if you deliver tens of thousands of hits a day, Means nothing to me, what I want to see is signups to my sites that I am advertising. I don't care if you only send 10 people to my site a day, in fact I would rather you sent 10 quality views than 100 bribed people surfing for a few pennies.
Dig at other owners part 2..
A lot of you are a lot to blame in the whole problem of the last year and half. I mean firstly I know and saw with my own eyes a lot of you actually promoting the investment based TE that caused all the issues, secondly not many of you have actually done anything about the issues as well. Too many have sat back and done nothing except look for another payment option instead of actually researching and addressing the issues. How many of you at the time actually jumped ahead and spoke to someone from the payment processor and asked what the issue was and how to avoid issues?
I made changes and a lot of people laughed, Well I am not one of those that has gone bankrupt or ran away and abandoned their exchange am I. I made changes that upset a few people but it wasn't out of choice, it was for the greater good of the TE world. Now think about it, did the owner of the TE's that you use do anything or change anything and I am not talking about moving your payment processing to a separate domain to try avoid the issue via the back door etc.
If you are an advertiser not an owner ask yourself this. Could the TE's you use the most face issues again in the near future because they refused to adapt? If they have not changed anything they more than likely will.
Okay so now all the bashing of lazy owners or owners that cry wolf and still say I didn't do anything wrong its someone else fault when really its all our fault, for not doing enough to prevent it in the first place, is over it is time to address some good things.
Thats if your still here and not out chasing a few pennies. Actually I missed something there, if you are a penny surfer, surfing daily to collect a few pennies. STOP IT!
No really, if your spending all that time for a few pennies you really are doing it wrong. Ask yourself this? If you can make $25 sales by selling things to your list, all that time spent collecting 2500 pennies could be used to get you just one customer.
Pennies do not pay the bills, well a lot of them do but its much easier focussing on the dollars not the pennies. Just try it for a new years resolution. Work out how much you can earn surfing for 40 hours a week. Then go spend 40 hours a week the next week promoting something as an affiliate that could bring you some sales in and commissions. See if your better off that way, Im sure you will be and if your not if nothing works and collecting pennies is the best option for you then you probably should consider getting another job or something.
I want us all to be successful, but I cant do that if people are not willing to help themselves. Because face it, Earning a few dollars a week surfing for pennies is not success is it?
So what did I change this year, Well the main thing was I removed all the affiliate programs from my sites early March time. Why? because that is what I had to do to protect my account with a said payment processor because built in affiliate programs is what they see as the issue. Especially if your paying different commission levels for each account type, Why because basically your making people pay more to earn more and that is borderline to the investment thing they hate.
What I dod though is I left the way to promote my 2 main free entry sites Just Good Traffic & Mail Our list and instead of the commissions I went back to rewarding people that introduced others with a lot more referral credits (sends/views as I renamed them as PP also didn't like the word credit)
In fact at Just Good Traffic you get 10% as a free member and 20% as upgraded, Thats a lot to give away right? but I only needed to sell half as much not paying commissions on sales. Now for each person you introduce you can earn up to 20 views for every 100 pages they surf. Let me just tell you that there are a lot of sites still to this day that I have no need to buy credits in because my downlines I built still earn me enough to power my ads day in and day out.
You only need 5 referrals surfing 100 pages a day each to get you 100 page views a day right?
Now someone has been saying this for ages, a bit like me who has always preached for quality over quantity when others didn't agree well now its true. There is one sure fire way to get Traffic Exchanges back to how they were in the good old days and that is not to use them as an investment for money but as an investment in advertising. They are advertising sites after all not income opportunities.
You shouldn't be promoting Traffic Exchanges for money, you should be promoting them to your lists etc to earn you recurring traffic that in turn promotes your site and builds your membership/list so that you have more to promote to and then it grows and grows. There are plenty of products and services that you can promote to earn you affiliate commissions and not just that promoting tools and services that people need who use Traffic Exchanges is actually helping them too.
Anyway back to who was right about all this and who has said it all along, Someone that although I have got long with from the start and not really clashed with only on a professional note is Vern (Smiley as he is also known) Do not get me wrong, he has said some bad things to some people and upset others just like I probably have in this post. But he actually was right all along.
Don't take my word for it though, Have a look at what the guy that brought affiliate programs and commissions to Traffic Exchanges says himself here.
So lets sum this up then, TE owners, sort out your sites so real advertisers can buy your traffic and stop losing money on paying penny surfers, cant you see from how many sites have closed over the last year that it does not work long term that way, because your not making as much as you want to are you?
This year I was proud to try new things and try take the TE world forward or backwards to the good times where they was advertising resources and although not many followed, I had to change a few things again and adapt I still plan on doing this for a long time to come because I love the TE world, it is what built my business to how it is today.
I want to thank each and every one of you for joining me on my journey through a changing and hard year. I mean this to every member of every TE and every owner that is still with us. You can shape the future but you need to chase the rich pickings not pennies and make some real money. I want you and need you to make money, the more you make the more I make as a service owner.
I know there are a lot of you that would like to buy some services but sadly are not making enough money to do so, its time to stand up and force other owners to change their ways so you make more money. I cant do it alone, you cant either. It needs a big adoption of new ways like everyone took on the pennies and that.
Lets hope 2018 is the year when others take action because we all need to sing off the same sheet if we want to see TE's run for many more years to come.


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We've heard many times before the myth that Software-Defined Networks and OpenFlow aren't ready for prime-time. Late last year and earlier this year, we heard Cisco's thoughts on OpenFlow (including from a VP of Data Center Switching): "We don't think it's production-ready."
A couple of weeks ago, this myth was completely busted by Urs Hoelzle's keynote at the Open Networking Summit (ONS), where he revealed that Google's biggest production datacenter network is a Software-Defined Network running 100% OpenFlow.
This revelation was simultaneously electrifying, clarifying, and empowering. Just like last Interop was a coming-out party for OpenFlow, I think we'll look back at this announcement as the point where the whole networking industry realized SDN/OpenFlow is serious business, and I expect the number of SDN-related investigations and adoptions to start taking off from here (we'll check at the end of the year if we've reached my 20% prediction - Google's announcement will certainly help!). Indeed, we've already had a surge of interest since the ONS – it was an amazing show for Big Switch Networks with all of our talks, tutorials, and partner demos.
So, let's go mythbusting! (All credit to Adam and Jamie of MythBusters – a show I love watching with my kids…)
A *Big* Network
Think about all the critical applications and services that Google offers: search, maps, videos, ad networks, social networking, apps, … Obviously, you'd suspect that the backend, inter-datacenter network for all those services must be big. But you may not know just how *Big* it is. Their Internet-facing network was already the second largest network in the world at the end of 2010, accounting for somewhere between 6-10% of all Internet traffic. That's BIG, but their backend network is even BIGGER than that. Thus, it's very plausible that Google's backend, inter-datacenter network is the BIGGEST network in the world, and it's 100% SDN/ OpenFlow!
Myth: "OpenFlow is not < blank > enough for production."
There are many variants of the "OpenFlow is not production-ready" myth, usually following the form, "OpenFlow is not < blank > enough to run in production." Let's examine three of those myth variants and see how Google's talk busted them.
Myth Variant #1: "OpenFlow 1.0 is not complete enough for production."
Many folks in networking look at the OpenFlow 1.0 spec and lament that its feature set isn't complete enough to implement everything people want to do with networking.
It's true that OpenFlow 1.0 has a basic set of instructions (we've likened it to an initial version of an x86 instruction set) and that the ONF working groups are doing some great work to expand the instruction set to make it even more powerful/capable.
However, there are many production use cases that can be implemented with OpenFlow 1.0. We've talked about network virtualization as a very compelling use case, but Google presented another one: run a multi-datacenter, global WAN backbone. Sounds complete enough to me!
Myth Variant #2: "OpenFlow is not fast enough for production."
Again, after reading the OpenFlow 1.0 spec, people sometimes initially think that a centralized Software-Defined Network must be too slow to handle production traffic at the speeds that traditional networks run.
Besides the obvious "if it's running production on one of the biggest networks in the world, then it must be fast enough," there's another important measure of speed that Hoelzle highlighted: convergence times upon failure. There's a whole lot of difficult tuning to get convergence the way you want it upon link failure in a traditional network, and distributed protocols can only get you so far in terms of reducing the convergence time.
We in the SDN/OpenFlow community have seen that this is where centralized control planes can really shine. The control planes are running on server HW where the amount of memory and compute power are an order of magnitude bigger and faster and that server HW can be scaled-out in a cluster. So the reconvergence computation is quite easy to handle and the failover directions can be quickly propagated throughout the network. Indeed, Google saw nearly an order of magnitude faster convergence with their network and had much higher confidence that the centrally computed convergence was good and accurate:
Myth Variant #3: "OpenFlow is not secure enough for production."
This actually came up during Hoelzle's Q&A session, and I was so glad that someone asked it. Someone asked me this same question at the Ethernet Summit back in February, and I presented an argument very similar to Hoelzle's – a centralized, decouple control plane can actually be made more secure than a traditional distributed network.
Hoelzle reasoned that a single router being compromised in a backbone is already disastrous (high-publicized examples here and here). The problem is a traditional distributed network has so many "doors" to secure. So many different protocols, so many different devices, so many different layers – all have to be coordinated carefully in order to ensure no leakage.
Indeed, a number of former colleagues of mine are at a company (RedSeal) whose very premise is that traditional networks have become too difficult to secure unless you use specialized analysis tools and professional services.
So many doors to secure in a traditional network...
On the other hand, SDN and OpenFlow offer a decoupled control plane that has far fewer nodes to secure. These nodes are not in the data plane, and they're effectively server nodes – we have a lot of expertise in hardening/securing those. The distributed switches themselves now have only one protocol or "door" to secure – the OpenFlow protocol. So in the end, the SDN/OpenFlow network can be made more secure and can be maintained as more secure than a traditional network.
Status of this Myth? Busted!
In many conversations we've had with customers over the last 12 months, the question of SDN/OpenFlow's production-readiness has always reared its head, and now I believe CIOs, networking architects and designers, and IT professionals everywhere can know that SDN/OpenFlow is real, and they should start seriously looking at it ASAP.
We need to cover this in a later post, but I'll fully acknowledge the world-class talent and expertise Google has in networking and software. I was sitting with Jim Wanderer during the keynote (his group at Google is responsible for much of their datacenter networking software), and I told him how excited I am that Google is finally telling the rest of the world what challenging and ground-breaking work they've been doing. They did something that only a couple of companies in the world could have done starting 18-24 months ago - awesome job by the Google crew! Good news is that solutions based on this technology are now coming out from Big Switch Networks and other companies.
So, as Adam and Jamie would say, "What's the status of the myth that SDN/OpenFlow isn't production-ready? Confirmed, busted, or plausible?"
SDN/OpenFlow is in production at Google, one of the Biggest networks in the world, so this myth is Busted!


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North Coyote Buttes, Arizona.
The Second WaveMarch 31, 2009
Spring is coming!March 30, 2009
…And I can feel it in my sinuses. Wahoo! It'll only be a few more weeks until everything starts getting green again. I can't wait!
As you may know, I'm still working away at processing images from last fall/winter. This is one from late October in the Wichita Mountains NWR, Oklahoma. I fired away at this guy when he looked up at me, because he was looking down at the grass he was eating about 95% of the time. I was lucky to capture this flock of birds behind him.
Ring-billed Gull #2, Humber Bay Park, Toronto, OntarioMarch 28, 2009
Ring-billed Gull #1, Humber Bay Park, Toronto, OntarioMarch 27, 2009
Here is a photograph of a Ring-billed Gull. I know it's not the most beautiful or rare bird, in fact, you may know that they're quite common. Anyhow, I feel like I have two shots worthy of sharing. Matthew, Greg, and I were hanging around Humber Bay Park East trying to get some flight shots of a Wigeon and a Bufflehead. While we were there I shot a few flight shots of the many Ring-billed Gulls that were flying all over the place. Now that I'm looking at them on the computer, I kind of like 'em!
Bryce Canyon SunsetMarch 26, 2009
Hey everybody,
Here's yet another shot from my travels during this fall/winter. I had intended to get to Kodachrome Basin for this sunset, but I was running late. I decided I'd try my luck at Bryce Canyon, knowing that it was much better for sunrise shooting. I think I made out well for the relatively clear conditions. I really love the post-sunset "glow" that is always present in the Southwestern desert. I miss it!