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text: Today is the first of three consecutive Saturdays (August 7, 14 and 21) for SUMMER STREETS, an event that closes up some Manhattan streets to vehicular traffic for people to play, walk, bike and for the first time, swim. Summer Streets provides nearly 7 miles of streets from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park for healthy recreation and is a part of NYC's greening initiative by encouraging New Yorkers to use more sustainable forms of transportation. Modeled on other events from around the world including Bogotá, Colombia'sCiclovia, Paris, France's Paris Plage, and even New York's own Museum Mile, this event is part bike tour, part block party, a great time for exercise, people watching, and just enjoying summer mornings from 7 AM to 1 PM. This year, urban swimming pools called "Dumpster Pools" are set up at Park Avenue and 40th Street near Grand Central Terminal viaduct. Space at the pools will be limited. Donated by Macro-Sea and designed by David Belt, the repurposed dumpsters are all different sizes; the deepest one is 4 feet 6 inches and another is 3 feet 6 inches deep. The stylized dumpsters were made specifically for this project so they've never actually been used for trash. The Pool hours are from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., and they'll be open, with lifeguards, on each of the three Summer Streets Saturdays.

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by Tom Gaylord
Copyright PyramydAir.com ©2009. All Rights Reserved.
This report is for all the new airgunners who have asked for descriptions of airgun powerplants. The ones listed here are found in traditional airguns, which means pellet-firing and steel BB-firing guns. This is not a look at airsoft powerplants, though some of those are virtually the same as some of the ones described here.
A pneumatic gun uses a stored charge of compressed air to propel a projectile. Because the pneumatic powerplant has so little moving mass and because it's less sensitive to temperature than any other airgun powerplant, it's the easiest type of powerplant to shoot accurately. The field of pneumatics is further broken down into four principal categories.
The Evanix Blizzard S-10 is a good example of a modern PCP.
Precharged pneumatic (PCP): This is possibly the oldest type of airgun powerplant--dating to some time before the year 1600. PCPs store an air charge in a reservoir, then release part or all of it when the gun is fired. Most big bore airguns are PCPs, as are most target guns and precision sporting rifles. In Europe and among target shooters everywhere, this powerplant is called compressed air.
Benjamin 397 and 392 are classic multi-pump pneumatics that have been around for over 50 years.
Multi-pump pneumatic: Multi-pumps date back to at least the 18th century but were reborn in America at the start of the 20th century. Today, they're found chiefly on low-priced sporting guns made in America. They require multiple pumps of a built-in lever to compress an air charge for firing--typically from three to eight or even ten.
Almost all multi-pumps are single-shots, but in the past some were made as repeaters. Repeaters take from 20 to as many as 250 pump strokes to charge completely, but you then get 10, 20 or even more shots without recharging.
The HW 75 pistol is a single-stroke pneumatic. Made by the Weihrauch factory in Germany, it's easy to cock and quite accurate.
Single-stroke pneumatic: Perfected in the 1960s, single-strokes are just what they sound like--guns that use a single pump stroke to pressurize the firing charge. If you attempt a second stroke, the air from the first stroke will be released. This powerplant is primarily found on target guns and low-priced guns geared toward the youth market, though there was a semi-successful single-stroke sporting rifle made in England several years ago.
Looks, shoots and handles like a firearm. The Walther CP88 is a firearm lookalike. It uses one 12-gram CO2 cartridge, which fits in the grip.
Yes, it has occurred to many people that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not air at all. Still, you will always find the CO2 guns included with airguns. Carbon dioxide is a refrigerant gas that expands dramatically at room temperature. At 70 deg. F, it produces 853 psi (pounds per square inch) of pressure. If introduced into a gun as a liquid, CO2 provides steady power for many shots. Because it's a refrigerant, CO2 will cool the parts of a gun as it passes through at firing. As the gas becomes colder, the pressure drops and, below 50 deg. F, CO2 is not very efficient.
CO2 was first used in the middle 1800s, but Benjamin and Crosman both pioneered its use in the 20th century. Liquid CO2 is put into convenient Powerlets (a term coined by Crosman, the company that invented the 12-gram size used in airguns) for ease of handling. It can also be put into guns from large bulk tanks. Normally, CO2 provides the lowest power potential of all the airgun powerplants, unless something drastic is done. The most practical way to get higher power from CO2 is to use a heavier projectile and a longer barrel.
Spring-piston guns
Spring guns appear to be an invention from the 19th century, though one type of spring gun--the bellows gun--dates from at least a century earlier. They're simpler in construction than the gas guns, with fewer moving parts, but they also have less potential for power than pneumatics and even CO2. Still, shooters like them for their simplicity. Today's typical spring gun falls into one of three categories.
The Gamo Whisper is a breakbarrel spring gun. Other cocking methods for spring guns include sidelever and underlever actions. The Whisper is one of many guns whose coiled metal springs can be replaced by a gas spring.
Coiled steel spring: This is by far the overwhelming leader in spring guns. A coiled steel spring drives a piston forward to compress air in a compression chamber. At the far end of the chamber, a hole called a transfer port lets the compressed air escape and get behind the projectile in the barrel. The steel spring technology has changed from a coiled volute spring in the mid-1800s to a coiled wire spring today.
Gas spring: Argentine airgun designers were apparently the first to adapt gas springs to airguns, but Theoben of England made them famous. They're also called gas rams and gas struts. Gas springs are longer-lived than coiled steel springs, plus they can be rebuilt. They act faster than coiled steel springs and have less mass, which lowers both the recoil and vibration of the gun. On the outside, gas spring guns look exactly like guns with steel springs.
Did you own a Red Ryder BB gun as a kid? It's also considered a spring gun.
BB guns (Daisy-type mechanism): The BB gun mechanism is a hybrid of spring-piston design. It also uses catapult technology (explained below) to enhance the effect of the compressed air charge. Not all BB guns use this special type of powerplant, but the Daisy Red Ryder is the poster child of those that do.
The Sharpshooter is one of many catapult guns that use mechanical force rather than compressed gas to launch a projectile. This brand traces its roots back to 1923, though this particular model was probably made in the early 1980s. It shoots a single No. 6 lead shot, which is nominally 0.118" in diameter. The gun is safe enough that it won't break a window, yet with rubber bands it'll kill a fly at 10 paces. These guns are remarkably accurate at short range. And, they're repeaters!
Catapult guns
Like CO2 guns, the catapult gun is not an airgun, strictly speaking. Still, you'll usually find it positioned among airguns because of its low power and quiet operation. Instead of an air or gas charge propelling the projectile, a mechanical catapult launches it.
Catapult guns have existed since at least the late 1500s in the form of the stonebow. In the 1840s, Hodges in England built a catapult gun larger than .40 caliber. Spear guns that use elastic bands are also catapults.
The best-known airgun example must be the Sharpshooter pistol that was invented by a dentist in 1923. Daisy once marketed a catapult that looked like a single-action revolver. It was their single-shot model 179 BB pistol.


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Powering her way to victory. ©Getty Images
Chloé Dygert Owen left no doubt who was the fastest on a tricky wet course in the Elite Women's Individual Time Trial on Tuesday at the UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire. The American, who rides for Sho-Air Twenty20, finished 1:33 ahead of fellow SRAM athlete Anna van der Breggen of the Netherlands (Boels-Dolmans Cycling Team).
Anna van der Breggen on her way to second place. © Getty Images
It was clear Dygert Owen was on a special ride when she passed former World Champion Lisa Brennauer early in the 32km test. By the end, she had passed eight of the riders ahead of her, and her margin of victory set a record for the World Championships ITT, eclipsing Fabian Cancellara's previous mark of 1:27 set in 2009.
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It's been a long road back from injuries for the 2015 Junior Road and ITT World Champ, but a stage sweep of the Colorado Classic showed Dygert Owen was back on top form. With the help of mentorship from three-time Olympic gold medalist and SRAM athlete Kristin Armstong, she put together a perfect race to clinch her first Elite ITT title.
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Earlier in the day Denmark's Mikkel Bjerg won his third straight U23 men's time trial title in Harrogate on a course made treacherous with heavy rain and, in places, standing water. Bjerg, who rides for longtime SRAM partners Hagens Berman Axeon, rode SRAM RED eTap AXS 1x on his Pinarello TT bike. American teammate Ian Garrison was second at 26 seconds back, and Brandon McNulty of Rally completed the SRAM podium sweep only one second behind Garrison.


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Since the global financial crisis, regulators have given increased attention to the responsibilities of fund management companies* in overseeing their delegated functions. The US Investment Company Act of 1940, and AIFMD and UCITS in Europe, are clear that – while the valuation function may be outsourced – the overall responsibility for the accuracy of the net asset valuation (NAV) lies with the fund management company. The maxim is that: while you can delegate the duties, you cannot delegate the responsibility.
A combination of industry trends – including mounting regulatory pressure, the growing popularity of passive investment strategies and the rise of ETFs, fee pressures and reduced margins – have presented managers with the challenge of having to fulfil their fiduciary duties in a cost efficient manner. Added to this is the pressure to ensure NAV timeliness. With strict publication deadlines, it becomes particularly challenging to ensure NAV accuracy and timeliness across a wide range of funds. Processes therefore need to ensure operational efficiency, as well as a demonstrable level of control.
When things go wrong…
As a number of recent cases have highlighted, the cost of NAV errors can be significant. Firstly, with an obligation to report such errors to regulators and shareholders, miscalculations can be embarrassing and – more importantly – may damage the trust and respect of investors.
Secondly, there is the issue of compensation. Investors who have bought or sold shares in the fund at an incorrect price need to be compensated accordingly. If the NAV price is overstated, then those who purchased shares will need to be compensated. However, it does not follow that those who sold shares will be expected to reimburse the fund for the amount from which they benefitted. Therefore, in practice, the loss is often compounded.
But the cost of compensation is just one aspect to consider. Fixing a NAV error takes time away from precious resources. Significant work is needed to investigate the error, plan a resolution, report to the regulators, involve the fund's auditors, notify and reimburse the affected investors, and to ensure the ongoing reporting of controls. This all comes at a cost that far exceeds that of ensuring things are right in the first place.
Prevention is easier and cheaper than remediation. NAV errors are costly, timely and carry reputational risk. To mitigate these risks and fulfil their obligations to investors, fund management companies should ensure that appropriate and transparent controls are in place within the valuation function.
The importance of pricing controls
When exercising their statutory obligation to oversee the valuation of the fund, the fund management company must pay particular attention to ensuring that the valuation policy and procedures contain the appropriate pricing methodologies for the various asset classes of the fund's investments (for example, the source, timing and type of quote used). In addition, detailed methodologies must be evident for fair value pricing, valuation of illiquid instruments and OTC derivatives. These must reflect the valuation rules as set out in the fund's Prospectus.
Best practice dictates that there must be sufficient controls in place over the valuation function to ensure adherence to the valuation policy. The exercise of these controls must be transparent to the fund management company for it to fulfil its duty in overseeing the valuation function. Reporting of key metrics such as exceptions to the pricing rules, manual overrides, pricing errors, number and duration of stale prices, number of broker quotes, illiquid securities and fair value adjustments are invaluable tools that aid in achieving transparency in pricing the assets of the fund.
So what are some of the key controls that can be deployed in pricing and what real world value do they bring? The following are some examples of pricing controls that form industry best practice:
1. Price variation check
Perhaps the most basic and commonly used check, the price variation check verifies if the daily percentage price movement is within a pre-defined tolerance.
Care should be taken to ensure that the tolerance level applied is appropriate to the volatility of its asset class. If the tolerance level is too low, the result will be an unnecessarily high number of exceptions. This must of course be balanced with ensuring that errors are identified early. Other factors affecting volatility, such as the price size ("penny stocks"), should also be considered when defining tolerance levels.
2. Vendor cross check
Regulations commonly require the fund management company to ensure the reliability of pricing sources. With increasing regulatory scrutiny, it's feasible that reliance upon a single pricing source for valuing the fund's assets may soon become unacceptable.
Seeking market consensus for a price enables fund managers to verify the reliability of the primary source, as well as challenge occurrences of missing or stale data.
3. Index check
Checking price movement against that of a relevant index can be useful in determining whether a large price move can be explained by volatility in the market. Care should be taken to ensure the reference index closely reflects the attributes of the instrument, whether that be sector, market capitalisation or volatility.
4. Stale price check
Stale prices receive much attention with good reason. If an asset is not valued at the latest realisable price, there may be concerns that this presents an arbitrage opportunity for short-term investors, which would be to the detriment of long-term investors. Notwithstanding, it's important that stale prices are identified, challenged and, where appropriate, priced at fair value.
5. Quotation type check
These checks ensure that prices sourced from a vendor are of the correct quotation type (eg – bid, last traded, mid etc.). This check is necessary to ensure adherence to the methodology of the valuation policy.
Selecting a pricing master that you can depend on
While the trend is for firms to rely less on manual processes, reliance on spreadsheets and macros for price control processes is still common practice at many organisations. This approach introduces a number of risks – manual errors, key person dependencies, incomprehensible or unstable code and lack of scalability.
Given the risks introduced by manual processes and macros, as well as the regulatory and fee pressures firms currently face, it is now more imperative than ever to have a pricing master application that you can depend on.
When deciding which system to implement, there are a number of important factors to consider. Consideration factors include the range of pricing vendors that the system supports, the set of out-of-the-box validation rules available, as well as connectivity to downstream systems.
One should also consider to what degree – and how easily – these business processes and rules can be customised to meet the specificities of the business systems and processes. For example, how easy is it to implement new validation rules to meet the fund's valuation policy? And can these customisations be performed at the business user level, or do they require the intervention of specialist IT resources?
As well as satisfying these requirements, a good pricing master should also deliver the process efficiency and scalability needed to fulfil regulatory and fiduciary obligations in a cost effective manner.
The regulatory landscape of the fund management industry continues to change at pace, with an ever greater focus on the oversight of the delegated valuation function. Fund management companies must be confident that their valuation policy is fit for purpose, addresses the valuation risks that pose a threat to shareholder interests, and is adhered to in the valuation of the fund. Good data management is critical to achieving this.
Pricing controls form a key role in ensuring that the valuation of the fund's assets is correct and in line with the methodologies detailed in the valuation policy. Care should be taken in selecting a pricing master application that delivers the control, transparency and efficiency that's required in today's operating environment and that provides the flexibility and scalability to fit with firms' current and future data governance requirements.


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This month, The Teacher's Magazine brings along lots of ideas, stories and lesson plans to work around the topic of Christmas.
You will find a story called The Unexpected Present in which two children receive a wonderful Christmas present. As always, there are activities for very young learners and young learners to do while and after telling the story.
There is also a Christmas project to practise vocabulary and introduce new structures including a story to read with children. You will also find activities to work with Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer, such as singing a song and watching a movie as well as vocabulary and grammar exercises.
For young learners and teenagers, there is a lesson plan about how people from different places celebrate Christmas.
To get ready for the holidays, there are lesson plans and activities on the topic of travelling, including a lesson plan called Round the World. You will also find cards for season's greetings and for the holidays.
We hope you enjoy this issue and make the most of it.
Merry Christmas!
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La revista ideal para los docentes de inglés que eligen trabajar eficazmente con alumnos de todos los niveles y edades.
Specially designed for English teachers.
The Teacher's Magazine is a monthly issue specially designed for teachers of English as Foreign or Second Language. It provides creative ready-to-go materials to make their classes more active and appealing to students.
The ideal magazine for English teachers that choose to work effectively with students of all levels and ages and an asset at the moment of developing contents.


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Corporate Social Responsibility
the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President
Xi Jinping pointed out that priority should be given to education so as
to speed up the modernization and develop education that satisfies
people's needs. According to the 2018 Government Report, the Ministry of
Education is about to take the lead to develop fair and quality
education to assists targeted poverty alleviation and push forward
comprehensive development in rural areas.
China Hi-Tech Group follows the direction of national educational development and actively responds to the call of local government. With strong sense of social responsibility, the group actively contributes to public welfare, promotes educational development and teachers'quality in poverty-stricken areas, and cares for mental health education of children in mountain areas. Last but not least, it leverages its resources and capabilities to support pushing forward poverty alleviation through educational development and equal access to education, aiming to establish a "learning society" that benefits all people.


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Thanks to Keelo-fans!!
What a great concert we enjoyed last night! James Keelaghan, with David Woodhead, and opener Juanita Wilkins thoroughly entertained the two-hundred or so gathered at Kitchener's Registry Theatre Saturday night. And it was a privilege to share the show with a total of 231 unique-visitors to this site, including visits from Australia, Massachusetts, BC, California, North Carolina, and all over Southern Ontario (these are folks that mentioned their locations during the chat that ran with the broadcast).
Given the novelty of consuming streaming-video concerts, and the Saturday night broadcast schedule, we are thrilled with those numbers! Mostly, we had so much fun with unbelievable music, incredible audience participation, and a tremendously supportive team at the Registry Theatre. Thanks to Jack Cole, Lawrence, Robert, Kristen, and everyone else who made this possible, plus our team of Robert Howard, Kate Adach, Helen Crouch, Rick Scicluna, and mostly, thanks to YOU.
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Some teachers under the Ghana Education Service (GES) Monday said they are uncertain whether to continue their normal classroom work as directed by their employer or heed the call by their unions to abandon the classrooms.
They expressed their confusion to the Ghana News Agency team, which visited some public schools in Accra to assess how they had responded to strike called by the three teacher associations.
The action is to back their demand for the immediate payment of all the legacy arrears owed teachers from 2012 t0 2016.
Some said they had already been paid their allowances; while for others, they did not qualify as beneficiaries and therefore had nothing to do with it.
There were also those who understood the strike as a matter of solidarity with their affected colleagues and were all for it.
Many, however, declined to make any comments, saying, they were not authorised to talk to the media.
The GNA observed through its rounds that the children were settled in their classrooms but they were not being taught.
The teachers were seen either quietly in their seats or in the staff rooms.
The team learnt that some also did not report to work.
At the Madina Demonstration School, a teacher who pleaded anonymity said: "I was waiting to hear from the GES before today so I came to school only to find out that some of my colleagues are not in school.
"I am not personally affected by the arrears they are talking about and I think we are punishing the parents and students wrongly."
Another teacher said they received messages from the Teacher Unions to stay out of school so they were waiting to hear from the Unions to resume work.
On Thursday, December 5, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers – Ghana, announced that their more than 300,000 members will embark on indefinite strike from Monday, December 9, over unpaid arrears to some of their members.
The GES, in statement signed by its Director-General, Professor Kwasi Amankwa-Opoku, and issued on Sunday, December 8, described the strike as 'illegitimate' and a breach of 'good faith'.
It said at its last meeting with the Unions on Monday, December 2, there was an understanding that the GES was working to clear the rest of the arrears to deserving beneficiaries by the Christmas break.
As of September 2019, 87,556 representing 95 per cent of the beneficiaries had been paid their arrears.
The statement added that the GES was in the process of validating the claims presented to it by the Auditor-General's Department to clear some anomalies detected.
"On 9th November 2019, Management of the Ghana Education Service received another set of data from the Controller and Accountant General covering 1,847 personnel who were to be paid their salary arrears.
"A close examination of the data indicated the following anomalies, which would have led to an excess payment of about GH¢11,300,376.00:
"Some of the personnel were to be paid undeserved ranks. Some of the names had no personal records on the GES payroll from 2012 2014 to establish that they could be owed arrears over that period
"Some of the listed personnel were not owed any salary arrears and yet had been credited with huge sums of money and in some case up to GH¢58,000.00.
"Some female personnel were to be paid night watchmen allowances when they have never been night watchmen with the GES.
"Some staff who were owed by six months have been credited for only two months."
The GES, therefore, asked its teaching staff to report to work as usual.
The Unions are, however, saying that none of the anomalies identified were caused by the beneficiaries so they should not suffer for it.
The GES, they said should go ahead to authorise payment and sort out the issues with the Controller and Auditor-General's Internal Audit Department.
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Yahoo Announces Changes in Entertainment Division
Yahoo has just posted to their blog the details of what's going on in their entertainment division, which many have been speculating on after the shutdown of Yahoo Podcasts earlier this week and rumors of the end of their music subscription service. According to the Yahoo Yodel Anecdotal blog:
"We are streamlining the structure of one portion of our Santa Monica presence — our entertainment division — with a vision of offering a more integrated entertainment experience. That means we'll creating more synergies between our music, games, movies, TV, and omg! properties, making them more personal and engaging for entertainment hounds."
It's unclear what specific changes will be taking place or if any additional Yahoo services will be shutdown, but at least we now have some idea as to why the podcast directory got the boot. The blog also talks about "a consolidated entertainment team," which could be marketing speak for lay-offs.


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Monday, September 29, 2008
flowers and a lightning storm: a month in review
I love that Dar Williams song. It felt more immediate when I was in school, but it is the end of the summer and I always get excited when fall rolls around. I still feel like things should begin in the fall. As Dar says, "It's just that time of year When we push ourselves ahead." Between the fresh-start feeling of fall and Elder Uchtdorf's inspiring talk at the General Relief Society meeting, I'm feeling antsy to start something. I'm not sure exactly what, but something. In the mean time, while I decide what that something is, I decided to chronicle what's already been done.
September has been a crazy month. Not really very eventful, but full. On Labor Day, Sam and I had planned to go to the zoo, but apparently, they were so busy last year, that they changed all their free days to obscure holidays like Columbus Day. Anna was crazy that day and refused to calm down, so we used our one trick and took her swimming.
It worked.
For dinner we all got dressed in our college football team gear and went to Chick-fil-A where we each (including Anna since she was dressed up too) got 3 free chicken strips. We added a fry and lemonade to share and had a great dinner for less than $4. Katrina came by afterward and watched Anna while Sam and I went to see Indiana Jones at the dollar theater. We really enjoyed the time away together and Anna was just starting to freak out when we came home.
Three days later was Anna's 4 month check-up. She was 16.5 lbs (95th percentile), 25.5 in (87th percentile), and I don't remember her head measurement, but it was 22nd percentile. Strange, huh? She also got more immunizations. The nurses at my pediatrician are great, and Anna gets all four shots and her bandaids on in about 27 seconds. It's not funny in the moment when my heart is breaking for my little girl, but looking back, I can laugh at how during all the shots she has that silent, horrified open mouth that you know is going to erupt in a huge scream at any moment, but it's not until the last bandaid is on and the nurse lets me pick her up that the scream finally comes. Despite its awfulness, it still amazes me.
Anyway, Anna reacted to this round of shots just like the last one-- she slept and cuddled a lot. I can't complain too much about that. However, on the same day, I was feeling awful and got squeezed in at the doctor. So, about an hour after Anna's appointment, I had to wake her up from her deep sleep, drag her to the doctor's office, hold her with one hand while filling out paperwork with the other because she needed to be cuddled and comforted, and then feed her in the magazine section of the grocery store while I waited for my prescription to be filled. We finally came home and took long naps. Needless to say, it was not the best day for the Cosby women.
The next day, we went up to the temple in Klein. I did a session there while Sam watched Anna. Then we watched our niece, Isabelle, while Ben and Amy went to the temple with Amy's sister. And the next day, we went up again, so Sam could go to the temple, and I went to Amy's sister's bridal shower. After three days of being away from home, getting shots, and having erratic nap schedules and locations, Anna was exhausted, and so were we.
Even so, everyone loved seeing Anna, and she willingly smiled and gurgled and got passed around. And when the time came that Anna could finally get all the sleep she wanted, she happily succombed rather that putting up a fight. At some point in there, we fed Anna her first "solids" if you can classify soupy rice cereal as that. We stripped her down and went for it. She didn't know what to do at first, but has since had some great success with a spoon. Her fool-proof method though is to dive at the spoon and get as much cereal in her mouth as she can. Then, she shoves her thumb in and sucks it so she can actually swallow the cereal rather than watching fall down onto her belly. It's not so graceful, but it works, and she loves it. These are pictures from our first attempt, but she's gotten progressively less messy.
roses and a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake with a flower on top. He told me I would have to wait until the weekend for my other present. We ate a yummy dinner at Olive Garden. Sam told them it was my birthday and the waitress told him, "Well then, have we got a surprise for her!" At the end of my meal, at least eight waiters gathered and sang an incomprehensible version of some birthday song and had me blow out a candle on my dessert: a dinner roll plate with nine Andes mints on it. Good thing we had ice cream cake waiting at home...
That week, we prepped for Ike, and you all know how that turned out. We actually had a great time that weekend. Sam came home early on Thurday and work was closed Friday. Despite the very stressful not knowing when or what exactly was coming, once the storm had passed, we just ate food, watched sports, made treats and took them to neighbors and friends, bought really expensive milk, and enjoyed the cool weather. We ate dinner with the Hatfields and the Mercers two fun and yummy nights in a row. Sam's work was closed Monday and Tuesday, so he went and helped clear debris. Though many were not nearly so lucky, we just had a general good time.
Marci's blog, but didn't want to weird her out, so I just mentioned that my friends went all the time. She screamed in the store when I mentioned Addie and Ella and has recognized me every time I come in. I have since embraced this beloved institution. I really enjoy going because it gives me a chance to interact with Anna outside the home, which is something I don't really do if we're out at the store or exercising. It's also nice for Anna to watch the other babies, and it's nice for me to talk to the other moms. Anna wore this outfit our first time, and all the babies loved her big red bow.
That week Sam also brought my birthday present which had been postponed due to Ike. He brought me a dieffenbachia which I named Henry (like Indianda Jones-he's a courageous and good looking plant). He also promised to go to a nursery with me to pick out any other plants I wanted. So now, I'm waiting till I have my fall/winter vegetable gardening class at HFP Enrichment Super Saturday in a couple weeks.
Sam had that Friday off work again, so after cleaning our apartment, we went to Five Guys for dinner. Sam first went during his internship in DC, but since then, they've franchised, so we drove 45 minutes to Richmond so I could try the most delicious burgers and fries I've ever had. Totally photo worthy. Sam's sad they're so far away, but I think that bodes well for our cardiovascular health.
I also baked some cookies that weekend using the NYTimes tips for chocolate chip cookies. They were really good (two days later) probably because Anna helped.
Since last week was a little quieter, I spent some time cooking. We had two other families over to enjoy this mock Cafe Rio salad. We still have a ton of the dressing. It's so good- and not so good for our cardiovascular health. I also made a yummy minestrone / Italian wedding soup, homemade meatballs from Susan's mom's recipe, and some homemade pizzas.
And now here we are, one day from the end of the month. This morning, Anna and I got up when Sam did and went to serve breakfast to some Ike evacuuees at Grace Baptist Church behind our old apartments. It was a fun morning and everyone loved little Anna (of course!) who barely slept at all yesterday and is making up for it today- which is why I've had time to write this really long post!
In another day or so, I should have this month's photos and videos up at my picasa page, but in the mean time, here are a few to whet your palates.
4 comments:
- Marci said...
Those last 2 outfits are SO cute! Was it Venitha you ran into?! She is THE sweetest lady EVER...we love all the librarians there though really :-)...but she is our favorite. I'm excited to tell Mike about the burger place - he'll want to try it out soon I'm sure! And I'm glad you liked the Cafe Rio recipe - it's pretty dang close I think - although it has been a few years since I've had the real deal. Maybe someday they'll open one in Katy :-)!
- Rebecca Holt Stay said...
Great stuff. I read this to Grandpa who kept commenting on all of Anna's flowers. She's adorable.
Had you realized that 'Henry' is the younger brother of our 'immortal resurrection plant that won't die'? So glad you have one too.
- Susan said...
- Sarah Louise said...
Oh, good heavens. Now I want to wear a giant flower on my head. Or have a baby. Or be your neighbor and hang out with you while you exercise with your baby and wear your reversible apron.
Any (?) of the above would do.


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I remember when I was a victim. It was hard work because BAD things were always happening to me. I was in a second marriage and it was SO SO difficult. For anyone who has experienced a blended family, it's a bloody hard gig. I had a child from my previous marriage and my husband had 3. We both had to consider the competing demands of our Ex's…so between us we were carrying a LOT of excess, emotionally charged baggage.
Boo, bloody Hoo!!!
It was great being the VICTIM….I could always blame everyone else for my "woe is me" predicament except for ME…pretty, pretty convenient.
But….do you know what?
I soon realised that this attitude did not serve me…it took away all of my POWER.
It all changed when I DECIDED to be at CAUSE rather than EFFECT in my life.
"How?"…I hear you say.
Watch this 5 minute video from my recent Fear to Fabulous in 6 Easy Steps workshop and you will see HOW. I promise you that your response will not be "…that's 5 minutes I'll never get back".
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Even though iOS 8 has been out for the better part of a year, some developers are just getting their sea legs when it comes to building quality widgets that give you live information and quick actions right from the Notification Center. But that's OK: many iPhone users are still getting used to the idea of widgets as well.
They're great for checking baseball scores, skimming the news or finding out when your next appointment is. Once you get your widget section set up the way you want, you'll spend less time hopping through apps to find the content that you're after or to perform a specific task. We'll get you through the basics.
How to add widgets
Widgets live in the Notification Center (accessed by sliding down from the top of Home screen), on the left side under the Today tab. The Notifications tab on the right is reserved for all those sometimes-annoying push alerts.
By default, Apple starts you out with widgets from its core services. The Today summary, Reminders, Calendar, and Stocks are decent enough, but as with many of Apple's apps there's often a better solution from a third party. Also, you can rearrange the order of the widgets, add new ones, or delete those on display. (The Today summary and Traffic Conditions are the only ones that can't be repositioned).
When you download a new app, you'll see a message at the bottom of the Notification Center if a new widget is available. Touch the Edit button to launch the screen that has all the available widgets to add. You'll see the familiar red button for deleting items, as well as three horizontal lines on the right that indicate you can move an object. Just touch and hold a widget's name to slide it into the position you want. You can rearrange the existing ones, add a new widget, or remove a widget that you don't want anymore.
Which widgets?
As with any operating system feature, some developers have built better solutions than others. Some widgets do a better job than others at keeping the information updated. ESPN, Nuzzel, and, of course, Apple's offerings are particularly reliable at putting the most up-to-date data in the Today view. Several other news apps, however, require you to jump into the app from time to time in order to get the most refreshed content. It's unclear if this is some type of restriction in how Apple allows developers to implement widgets or if the developers need to work out some bugs.
Other widgets allow for better productivity. Evernote's widget is a fine example, as it gives you one-touch access to creating a new note or reminder. Also, PCalc lets you add a calculator widget - a great way to have one within easy access and to save space on your home screen.
Ultimately, you'll need to spend some time building widgets into your workflow to see which ones you like. One-touch actions are the key differentiators here. Widgets that save you time and give you at-a-glance information are the most deserving of a spot in your Notification Center.
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Be a Winner: Be Passive
If I've said it to one client, I've said it to probably 1,000: Form an investment plan appropriate to your goals; make a long-term commitment to your plan; and–most important of all–stay the course.
Why do I place such importance on the last step? Because in my experience, the number one reason investors fail to meet their financial objectives is because they fail to keep their focus on their long-term goals and instead succumb to the short-term fluctuations in market value that feed the greed-fear cycle. Invariably, investors who try to either chase a "hot tip" or those who lose their composure in the face of a market downturn will sacrifice dependable, long-term gains.
The Market Is Not the Enemy–We Are
One of the most famous examples of this phenomenon is featured in a book, Wealthy by Design: a Five-Step Plan for Financial Security, written by my friend Kimberly Foss. From 1970 to 2011, the S&P 500 Index achieved an annualized compound return of 9.8%; $1,000 invested in 1970 and left in the market continuously would have grown to $50,662 by the end of the period. But an investor who tried to sidestep downturns in the market and, as a result, missed just a single one of the market's best days would have seen their annualized return decrease to 9.51%, or a total value of $45,431. From there, it gets worse: if you missed the five best days, your annualized return dropped to 8.68%; missing the fifteen best days got you a 7.28% annualized return, and if you missed the market's twenty-five best performing days, your annualized return dropped to 6.11%, or a total value of $12,068–slightly better than you could have done by just buying one-month T-bills.
And the principle still holds true. Take a look at the following chart, which updates the information I just presented for the period 1970–2015:
"But," you say, "there's no way I could be unlucky enough to be out of the market on the single day that was best-performing." Well, that depends. Can you guess when the single best day of returns in the S&P 500 occurred from 1970 to 2011? It was October 13, 2008. Does that sound familiar? It should, because on October 10, 2008, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunged nearly 700 points, to its lowest reading in more than five years. It recovered slightly by the end of the day, closing down only 120 points, but this came at the end of a week when the DJIA had lost some 1,900 points: the worst decline in points and percentage of value, in the history of the exchange.
Now, imagine yourself, just three days later, facing the prospect of buying stocks–or even buying a stock-index mutual fund. How do you think you would have felt? If you answered, "Scared to death," you would be, by far, in the majority. And indeed, thousands upon thousands of investors missed the single best day in the market for the last four decades at that time, because fear of a market meltdown kept their money on the sidelines.
Let's look at a little more market history. The best one-month return for the S&P 500 during the period above was October 1974, which immediately followed the second-worst one-year period in the market's history. Nine of the twenty-five best days in the market fell between September 2008 and February 2009, a period during which the S&P fell 41.8%. Needless to say, this was a time when "the common wisdom" dictated that investing in the stock market was pretty close to financial suicide.
Do you still feel confident in your ability to be invested at the times of peak market return? The fact is, very few people possess the ability to keep emotions out of their investment decisions. After all, our emotions have evolved over thousands of years in order to keep us alive. When a large carnivore suddenly appears, that burst of panic and adrenaline can keep you from becoming dinner. But that same sense of fear and panic rarely helps you make a sound financial or investment decision.
That is why I counsel my clients, over and over again, to stick to the original plan and keep emotions out of every investment decision–which some might refer to as "passive investing." But in this case, "passive," over the long haul, most often means "successful." By forming a plan that fits their goals, by diversifying their portfolios in appropriate ways, and then by staying invested and maintaining regular, disciplined evaluation, my clients can avoid the most common pitfalls of emotion-driven investing.
Is Passive Investing Anti-Capitalist?
A recent note from the research and brokerage firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC. took aim at so-called passive investing. Titled "The Silent Road to Serfdom: Why Passive Investing Is Worse Than Marxism," the article equates passive investing–especially the "indexing" approach that seeks to create portfolios that mirror market indexes like the S&P 500, the Wilshire 5000, or the NASDAQ–with the philosophy of central economic planning, such as that practiced in communist countries, since such an approach supposedly divorces the movement of capital from any active attempt to determine or judge actual value. This reflects the classic debate that often takes place among financial theorists, typically after a few beers: "If everyone is a passive investor, what's the point of having a market?" In other words, if everybody is just "buying the market," the market has no meaning.
Now, we're a long way from this rather abstract theory having any real influence in the day-to-day world of investing. First of all, by current estimates, only about a third of all investing is indexed. Given the fact that index funds have been around since 1975, we've obviously got quite a way to go before we need to start worrying about passive investors smothering the markets. In fact, according to Vanguard–the firm that launched the first index fund, back in 1975–on any given day, something like 5-10% of trading volume comes from index funds.
The other important thing to consider is that most often, those who warn of the evils of passive investing are also in the business of selling investment research geared toward active investors. In other words, as Clifford Scott Asness suggests in his article, "Indexing Is Capitalism at Its Best," when somebody tells you that you really need a haircut, you might want to see if that advice is coming from a barber.
"Passive" and "Active": Two Sides of the Same Coin?
In real life, no investor is 100% passive, just as no investor is 100% active. At various times, for various reasons, every investor will be "active" at some point, if for no other reason than the need to rebalance a portfolio in order to maintain an allocation strategy or to make a strategic liquidation as part of a financial plan. On the flipside, every investor will pursue a "passive" strategy for some period of time, simply because most trading strategies dictate at some point that certain holdings should be retained in order to maximize value. In a May 31, 2016, interview with Barry Ritholtz, Burton Malkiel, author of the classic A Random Walk Down Wall Street, says, "That's the wonderful thing about capitalism. If you have free markets and somebody can jump into the markets if there is an opportunity, you can count on the fact that somebody will. . . If in fact it was the case that markets were getting less and less efficient in reflecting information, believe me, there would be a profit motive for somebody to jump in."
The bottom line, and what I continually stress to my clients, is that you should have a plan, and you should stick to it. Most often, staying the course in this way involves an approach that could be characterized as "passive:" avoiding emotionally driven moves, and instead continuing to pursue the agreed-upon strategy until the goal is achieved.
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American efforts to develop nuclear-powered aircraft never took off during the Cold War, but they led to a nuclear reactor design that looks virtually meltdown-proof. Now China wants to use a similar design to build a nuclear future upon thorium fuel rather than uranium fuel.
Thorium-fueled nuclear power offers the chance to minimize nuclear weapon proliferation, produce less nuclear waste and create ultra-safe reactors, several experts say. Safer reactor designs look especially enticing in view of Japan's nuclear plant disaster.
There is no shortage of thorium – it's more than three times as plentiful as uranium, with large reserves around the world. The United States sits on the largest reserve. But despite having abundant thorium and having pioneered the reactor technology to use it, the U.S. has yet to explore the possibilities of a thorium-based nuclear future.
Cold War relic
The U.S. chose uranium for nuclear fuel in part because the material that can be used to produce nuclear weapons is difficult to extract from thorium. That looked like a downside for the U.S. military when it wanted to stockpile nuclear weapons during the Cold War, but it sounds appealing these days.
U.S. scientists and engineers did create a reactor that could use thorium — called a molten salt reactor — at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1954. That Aircraft Reactor Experiment, part of a peculiar effort to make a reactor for nuclear-powered bombers, later led to the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment that ran from 1965 to 1969.
Such molten salt reactors can produce more heat from less fuel by mass than traditional uranium-fueled nuclear reactors can. About 100 grams, or 8 tablespoons, of thorium could provide the energy used by an American during his or her lifetime, Kirk Sorensen, chief nuclear technologist at Teledyne Brown Engineering, said in a 2009 presentation at Google.
Pros and cons
Thorium by itself cannot start or sustain a nuclear chain reaction that generates power. Uranium-235 or plutonium-239 is needed to kick-start the reaction until enough of the thorium has converted into uranium-233. A critical mass of uranium-233 can then sustain the chain reaction.
That starter requirement offers a way to neutralize some stockpiles of plutonium, according to some advocates of thorium-fueled nuclear power.
"If you put weapons-grade plutonium in [the reactor], you can transmute it into a form where it's not usable," said Jim Hedrick, a thorium expert formerly with the U.S. Geological Survey.
But processing the thorium fuel isn't easy. Thorium does not change instantaneously into the necessary uranium-233. It first converts into protactinium-233. That element must be chemically separated so that it can slowly transform into uranium-233 over several months.
Engineers must figure out a cost-effective chemical separation for protactinium-233, says Larry Miller, a nuclear engineer at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Highly radioactive byproducts, such as uranium-232 and thorium-228, also can complicate the fuel processing and recycling.
Still, Miller sees thorium-fueled molten salt reactors as the most promising nuclear reactors for the future.
"If you poured substantial resources into it, I think you could have a fully operating molten salt reactor producing power in 10 to 15 years," Miller told InnovationNewsDaily.
The safer nuclear power
Molten salt reactors have several important safety features. They use thorium dissolved within sodium fluoride salt, which is very chemically stable and can go to high temperatures while at low pressure. That would mean no high-pressure- or steam-related explosions, such as those that plagued the water-cooled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.
Molten salt reactors are also highly self-controlled. If the salt fluid expands due to heating up, the nuclear chain reaction slows down because less fuel is available in the core. If the salt fluid cools and became denser, that allows the chain reaction to increase once more.
U.S. researchers even devised a safety system to keep the fuel cool in case of loss of power at a nuclear plant, the scenario that led to Japan's nuclear plant disaster. A small frozen plug of salt would normally be kept chilled by an electric fan. If the power ever died, the frozen plug would melt and allow the molten salt to drain into a tank that was passively cooled.
All of that means a thorium-fueled molten salt reactor is virtually guaranteed never to suffer a catastrophic meltdown.
Waste not, want not
A final benefit is that the thorium fuel cycle produces less radioactive waste, which lasts just a few hundred years. By comparison, waste from uranium-fueled nuclear power remains dangerous for thousands of years and requires extreme long-term thinking about safe storage.
India, which has the world's third greatest thorium reserve (after the U.S. and Australia), has begun a decades-long effort to build its nuclear industry upon thorium-fueled "heavy-water" reactors. The country's urgency stems from its lack of major uranium reserves.
More recently, during a Chinese Academy of Sciences conference in January 2011, China announced its intention to develop thorium-fueled molten salt reactor technology.
Whether or not the U.S. government and nuclear power industry choose to take up where they left off during the Cold War remains up in the air.
This article was provided by InnovationNewsDaily , a sister site of TechNewsDaily.
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Durham University Business School (DUBS) is the part of Durham University, the fifth best university in the UK. The business school holds triple accreditation from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS and is consistently ranked in the top 100 business schools in the world.
The MBA at Durham University Business School is designed to transform you into a business leader. The programme consists of core modules such as Accounting and Finance, Marketing, Strategic Management and more, after which there is an option to personalise the MBA with different pathways such as entrepreneurship, consultancy or technology.
Apart from the MBA, Durham also offer Masters programmes in accounting, economics, finance, Islamic finance, management and marketing.
Services for International Students
Libraries are located throughout the University with generous opening times, seven days a week. The Information Technology Service offers networked services in both campuses, with over 1,200 personal computers in classrooms and open access locations.
Durham Business School is currently ranked 75th in the Financial Times Ranking 2017 and 67th in The Economist. It's also ranked 7th for 'value for money' by the Financial Times and ranked 20th for 'personal development and educational experience.'
The Online MBA has also been recognised as one of the world's top programmes by the Financial Times and placed 2nd in the UK, and 5th globally.
The college system offers a range of accommodation options for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Durham University colleges provide activities and facilities for study, sports, the arts, socialising, relaxation and welfare. Generally, students will live in their college for the first year, move into private accommodation in their second year and then have the option of returning to the college halls for their final year of study.
Durham is situated in north east England, and is one of the most picturesque cities in the UK. The skyline is dominated by the 11th Century cathedral and castle, which is a world heritage site. Durham has a range of shops and restaurants, with a daily indoor market and a much larger outdoor market twice a week.


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Economies ''built on sand'' Part A
Countries that depend upon a single product and a single market for their economic existence put all their eggs into a single basket. When that basket takes a hit'' all hell breaks loose.''
Economies uniquely vulnerable to sudden shock have a number of common features. Economies that are the first to go into downturn after a natural or manmade crisis are overwhelmingly dependent on a single product and single market for existence.
This dependence on a single product or service for national revenue becomes monolithic. It is crystallized. A mold is set that is difficult to remold.
The single source of revenue becomes a ''golden goose.'' When the goose stops laying its golden eggs there is terrible trouble.
The greatest examples of mono economic cultures are oil producing nations. Offshore financial services share a similar dynamic with a single caveat: financial services are more prone to shock, as offshore financial services comprise entities that can easily move to an alternative jurisdiction.
This fragile nature of financial services is made worse if the jurisdiction is unable to fend for itself, and provide the bare essentials for survival within its boundaries.
Monocultures possess populations that camp around one single economic polarity. Then a ''single hit'' pulls a single product economy to its knees. The result is recession and economic downturn.
Conversely, diversified, resilient economies, that possess varied and numerous revenue streams, with a degree of self sufficiency, are capable of withstanding physical and economic trauma: sudden shocks to the economic system.
Resilient and diversified economies swiftly bounce back to normal after disaster strikes. The reason: there exists a diversified economic base that supports quick economic restoration.
After disaster, single product cultures recover much more slowly, especially when the ''golden goose'' has been crippled. There is no strong economic foundation to support strong and robust economic recovery. Recovery depends on importation and charity.
The huge increase in imports post a disaster creates a backlog at the ports. There is a sudden and massive increase in the need for the imports of everything, from construction materials to basic food stuff. There is a slowdown at the ports, prices rise; there are balance of payments issues and growing deficits and national debt.
One product economies become all consuming monocultures. Alternative generators of national revenue and GDP are nonexistent. Investment decisions are made to further ''prop up'' the single economic generator.
Alternative sources of national income- using the Virgin Islands Model- such as agricultural production, maritime commerce, fishing, local craft making, food production, and ecotourism, are underinvested in, or completely ignored.
All local businesses are pulled into the vortex of the single product, and become overly dependent on the one product. The one product becomes the ''center of gravity.''
Poor decision making by policy makers and economic mismanagement are a common denominator of economies that are monoculture and that lack diversity. This is the result of a ''comfort zone'' that deceives the population into thinking that the ''gravy train'' will always be in existence.
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About The Dem P&C Association
The Dem P&C is a superb way to get involved with the school and our community, and to help with the development of our school. You can contact The Dem P&C by email on email@example.com or via the website contact form.
The Dem P&C is a registered charity, details of which can be found here: ACNC -North Sydney Demonstration School P&C Association.
Monthly P&C Meetings
A monthly meeting is held which is attended by some of the school executive staff and is open to parents, carers and community members. It's always a friendly, informal atmosphere.
Executive Committee
The P&C is managed by an executive committee made up of a President, two Vice-Presidents, Secretary and a Treasurer. There are also a number of sub committees who drive specific working groups, such as compliance, communications, and fund-raising.
All the roles are held by parents and carers like yourselves. No CV's required just a willingness to get involved!
What does the P&C do?
- The P&C identifies needs or resources for the school, teachers and your children. These are funded through the voluntary P&C contribution requested at the beginning of the year, as well as the school fundraising and social events.
- The P&C also operates two businesses to deliver quality and affordable services to the school, these being our popular and friendly tuck-shop and the school uniform shop.
- We organise working bees to maintain and landscape the school grounds and school classrooms.
- We provide an informal and inviting platform for parents/carers to share ideas/concerns or learning initiatives they wish to explore for the school.
- We publish the Dem Directory for parents to refer to. This has proved extremely helpful for those new to the school by giving them easy access to contact details for other kids and parents in the school. Available before the end of Term 1.
- We represent the parent community on the School Council and Sydney University Advisory Committee (ADCOM), ensuring our voice is heard.
- We also collaborate with other regional P&C groups to lobby on important topics. 2013 was particularly successful which resulted in the addition of a new primary school on the Anzac Club site and the retention of the Bradfield College site, which is now the new high school, Cammeraygal. During 2014, we had the opportunity to influence the development of Cammeraygal.
It's YOUR school… get involved…
Meeting Dates
Have your say at a friendly P&C meeting. Everyone welcome, refreshments provided. It's a great opportunity to meet new people and get involved.
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Working Bee
Bring the kids and join our gardening working bee to help keep our school grounds clear of weeds and looking beautiful. Morning tea and lunch provided.
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Our ground-care team are equipped with experience and machinery to maintain your garden and grounds; from small back gardens through to small holdings and equine facilities.
We offer the full range of garden services, from occasional visits to get you back on top of your garden to regular maintenance regime. We can help re-design and landscape your garden to suit your individual taste or just keep the grass mown and tidy! Please click on the links below to see some of our recent work or contact us to discuss how we can help you. Whether it will take a spade or an excavator, a strimmer or a forest mulcher, we've got most of the equipment needed to get your garden looking fabulous again.
Paddock & Amenity Land Maintenance
We offer a wide range of services to small, medium and large land-owners. A flavour of our services is shown below.
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If there is anything specific you require that is not listed please contact us to discuss your requirements.


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Governor Plû¡yen and Captain Cameron Mouat.
New Shetlander No. 257, 2011, 23-33.
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In 1839 the Danish Governor in the Faroe Islands, Christian Plû¡yen, visited Shetland with three Faroese companions. During his stay Plû¡yen travelled throughout the islands and was given hospitality by a number of eminent Shetlanders. Plû¡yen never returned to Shetland but he kept in contact with one of the acquaintances he had made, Captain William Cameron Mouat of Gardie House on Bressay, of which letters preserved in the Gardie House Archive bear witness.
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Allan D. Reid is a professor and program supervisor at Centennial College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he teaches courses in networking, network security, virtualization, and cloud computing. He is the lead for the Centennial College ASC/ITC and has been teaching the academy curriculum since one of the earliest versions.
Allan has authored multiple books and online courses for the Cisco Academy program, where he is a subject matter expert and content team lead. He works as part of the core team to develop state-of-the-art assessments and courseware.
Outside of his academic responsibilities, Allan has been active in the computer and networking fields for more than 30 years and is currently a principal in a company involved in the design, installation, and management of network solutions for small to medium-sized companies.
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Occupation: Perioperative; endoscopy and PACU Nurse
Why I serve on the SCHC board: The decision to serve on the SCHC board has provided the opportunity to be personally involved in the local communities' access to quality healthcare. Not only do I serve on the board, but I am also a consumer and active user of the services at Siskiyou. Being part of the healthcare community where I serve as a nurse, I see daily the importance of vital immunizations and timely health screenings, followed by a healthy lifestyle. Eliminating many of the chronic diseases facing society today begins with regular and quality access to services designed to make healthy living a way of life. Affordability should not be a deterrent to quality healthcare. As new healthcare laws are ushered in and implemented at the local, state and federal level, being actively involved in the implementation and adherence interests me greatly.
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You might call it an, "I told you so," moment. Tuesday's wildly popular State of the Union address by President Donald Trump, offered time for satisfied reflection for Trump supporters including Congressional candidate Neal Tapio, whose unwavering support for Trump's candidacy in 2016 flew in the face of all of South Dakota's GOP establishment elite, most of whom are now racing to catch Trump's coattails, but who could be found issuing disgusted demands that Trump abandon his Presidential campaign just over a year ago.
"This President, in his words and his actions is doing something we don't often expect from our political leaders," Neal Tapio said.
"He's keeping his promises to the American people."
"I might say some apologies are in order from a long list of people, including here in South Dakota, but aside from Dennis Daugaard and John Thune, I won't name names. And I'm not going to hold my breath for anyone to admit they were wrong," Tapio said, wryly.
Both Daugaard and Thune made public calls for Trump to drop out of the 2016 Presidential race just weeks before his stunning election victory over Hillary Clinton. Tapio isn't allowing either of them, or anyone else, to forget it.
"That's just proof of how far out of touch South Dakota's GOP leadership has been when it comes to understanding what the American people have been saying and shouting for years, to deaf ears," Tapio said.
"Donald Trump came along and encapsulated perfectly the ignored cries of a large section of working and middle class Americans who were being squeezed from every direction by rising taxes, falling wages and rising consumer prices that were far outpacing family incomes. And as we saw Tuesday night, the American people love Donald Trump for not just listening, but for getting things done to fix the problems," Tapio said.
Tapio, whose daytime four city tour to announce his own Congressional campaign Tuesday dovetailed intentionally with the President's SOTU address that evening, says the nation's economic rebound alone should be enough not only to silence Trump's dourest critics and policy detractors but to make rank and file and even GOP party brass think long and hard about the future of the Republican Party and the ongoing fight between populist political newcomers and private citizens now seeking to join the Trump wave and establishment mainstream politicos desperately clinging to their long held grip on the levers of control and an equally dismal resume of losses and poor showings in national and Congressional elections since 2010.
"The Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 26,000 and climbing. Economists are now predicting unemployment at 3.5% by the end of the year and more than 300 companies have announced company-wide bonus packages awarding $1,000 or more to each and every employee," Tapio said.
"Combine all of those fundamentals with a tax policy that's allowing companies to bring business back to the United States and is letting workers keep more of what they earn and I think we are poised to see a roar out of the American economy that hasn't been heard for decades," Tapio said.
And Tapio believes the 2018 elections and the ultimate fortunes of the GOP hinge on whether or not voters and party leadership learned anything at all from 2016, and whether Americans have the courage to continue the Trump wave of success by filling Congress with a crop of fresh faces and people willing to help President Trump continue to implement his policies for the rest of his first term and beyond.
"Sending more establishment and phony politicians to Washington is the definition of insanity," Tapio can be heard to say in a newly produced radio ad playing on stations across South Dakota.
"If we keep doing what we've always done, not only will nothing change for the better, but all the progress and improvement that has been made in the first year of the Trump Presidency will be turned back and wiped away," Tapio said.
"We as Americans have to continue to believe that it's within our power to take this country back from the political mainstream that has held control for so long and that until very recently were still working very hard even inside the establishment GOP to obstruct and frustrate the implementation of the Trump agenda," Tapio said.
Tapio believes that politicians at every level and in both parties are beginning to sense the natural gravity of the Trump plan and the political loyalty and momentum that will be produced as the successes continue, resulting in a marked shift to a more unified GOP with the 2018 midterm elections looming large on the horizon.
"Voters and our leadership are going to have to make some very hard, very concerted choices in the coming months about how we move forward as a nation," Tapio said.
"It's easy when victories start happening to believe that things are finally in good hands and that things will be ok. But it's crucial to remember that most of the establishment is still plotting and scheming for a way to get back into power and to make the Donald Trump era of an outsider with a populist message nothing more than a bad dream that interrupted their dreams of big government and crony corruption," Tapio said.
"I'm running for Congress because like Donald Trump, I believe this is a moment of destiny for the American people where we finally and once and for all say, enough is enough and send career politicians and the establishment GOP packing for a museum display," Tapio said.
"There's only one true Trump populist in this race and that's the person who believed enough in him from the beginning to push back against the phonies and the establishment leaders who were doing their best to make sure Jeb Bush, or Lindsay Graham, or essentially anybody but Donald Trump was the nominee," Tapio said.
"They're running like crazy now to adopt the Trump brand because they know that's what conservatives and people across America are using as the standard in choosing a candidate at every level of government. But they need to be careful enough to read the label and the voting record and the fine print on each and every candidate," Tapio said.
"Fake Trump candidates are out in force in 2018. And in South Dakota and elsewhere, we can't afford to get fooled by the dog and phony show."


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I almost didn't write this one, mainly because the differences in acting for both of these idiots isn't much these days. But If I am forced to pick I have to say that Nick Nolte is the A-version and Gary Busey is the B-version. But really does it matter? they are both washed up anyway and they are both insane…really. From left to right (A version= Nick Nolte) (B version= Gary Busey)
*Note to Nick and Gary: You guys owe me big time, by doing this piece on you idiots I have given you exposure you desperately need for your flailing careers…thats OK I don't need your money just drop me a thank you note in the comments section below.


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[Hook - 2x]
Still Tippin' on four fours, wrapped in four fours
Tippin' on four fours, wrapped in four volks
Tippin' on four fours wrapped in four fours
Pimping four hoes and I'm packing four volks
[Slim Thug]
Now look who creeping look who crawling still balling in the mix
It's that six six long dick slim nigga sticking your chick
Pullin tricks looking slick at all times when I'm flipping
Bar sipping car dipping grand wood grain gripping
Still tippin' on four fours wrapped in four fours
Pimping four hoes and I'm packing four fours
Blowing on the endo Game Cube Nintendo
Five percent tint so you can't see up in my window
These niggas don't understand 'cause I'm Boss Hogg on candy
Top down at Maxi's wit a big Glock nine handy
Pieced up creased up staying dressed to impress
Big boss belt buckle under my Mitchell and Ness
Oh, Gucci shades up on my braids when I Escalade
When I'm riding Sprewells sliding like a escapade
I got it made the big boss of the north
Ain't shit changed I still represent Swisha House (Ha!)
[Hook - 2x]
[Mike Jones]
Four Fours I'm tippin'
Wood grain I'm gripping
Catch me lane switching with the paint dripping
Turn your neck and your dank missing
Me and Slim we ain't tripping I'm finger flipping and syrup sipping
Like do or die I'm pour pimping Car stop rims keep spinning
I'm flipping drop with indvisible tops
Hoes bop when my drop step out
I'm shaking the block with four eighteens'
Candy green with eleven screens
My gasoline always supreme
Got do-do the brown with a pint of lean
It takes grinding to be a king
It takes grinding to be a king
First Round Draft Picks coming
Who is Mike Jones coming
Slab shining with the grill and woman
Slab shining with the grill and woman
I'm Mike Jones (Who) Mike Jones the one and only you can't cloan me
Got a lot a haters and a lot of homies some friends and some phony
Back then hoes didn't want me Now I'm hot hoes all on me
Back then hoes didn't want me Now I'm hot hoes all on me
Back then hoes didn't want me Now I'm hot hoes all on me
(I Said!) Back then hoes didn't want me Now I'm hot hoes all on me
[Hook - 2x]
[Paul Wall]
What it do it's Paul Wall I'm the people's champ
My chain light up like a lamp 'cause now I'm back with the camp
I'm crawling similar to a ant 'cause I'm low to the earth
People's feelings get hurt when they figure out what I'm worth
I got eighty fours poking out at the club I'm showing out
I'm a player ain't no doubt hoes want to know what I'm bout
Biggest diamonds off in my mouth princess cuts all in my chain
Wood grain all in my range dripping stains when I switch lanes
Switched the name It's still the same Swisha House or Swisha Blast
Mike Jones he running the game and Magnificent bout his cash
Michael Watts he made me hot hard work took me to the top
G. Dash took me to the lot he wrote a check and bought a drop
I got the internet going nuts
But T. Farris got my back so now I'm holding my nuts
It's Paul Wall baby what you know bout me
I'm on that five nine Southle baby holla at me
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To refer yourself or someone you know to the Project then please contact us using these details:
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The below numbers can be called in case of an emergency:
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Your question will be passed to an appropriate member of staff for a response. We aim to respond to all questions within two working days.
If you do have an urgent medical query you should telephone the Practice. Goring Surgery telephone: 01491 872372 and Woodcote Surgery telephone: 01491 680686. The 111 number is mainly used for out of hours (evenings, weekends, bank holidays) and the 999 number for emergency help.


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How many times have you come across an old family photo, but have no idea of the identity of the people in it? Unfortunately, too often our ancestors neglected to scrawl identifying information on the backs of their photos. Fortunately for me, my grandmother Harriott Wickham (second row, third from left in the photo above) understood how important it is to record names of people in her photos for future generations. She not only preserved this photo of her graduating class, she also recorded her classmates' names on an accompanying scrap of paper.
The members of the Norwalk High School Class of 1907 are no more. But in their day, at the beginning of their adult lives, they were full of enthusiasm and hope for the future. As I gazed at their faces, so serious, yet so full of life, I wondered who they were and how they lived their lives? I decided to find out.
Not only had my grandmother recorded the names of her classmates, she kept a diaries during those years that describe many of them and tell of her interactions with them. Unfortunately, the diary for her senior year is missing, but she did preserve one for May 1908 to May 1909. From it, and from information I gleaned from research, I began to form a picture of these young people and their families; of where they came from and how they spent their senior year–and the rest of their lives.
What did they do? In small town America of the early 20th Century, young people went to balls, hung out at the library, formed societies, performed in plays and concerts, and played basketball (both boys and girls). They had séances and house parties and spent their summers in cottages on Lake Erie, lazing away the days and dancing at "The Grove" at Ruggles Beach at night.
Who were they and their families? What stock did they come from and how did they spend their lives after graduation? Because I have their names, I've been able to answer some of those questions. One of the young men in the photo became a U.S. Senator, but the rest of the the class led ordinary lives: some did not do well, some of them had successful careers. But each one of them has a story I want to tell.
Using my grandma's diaries and research on the internet, I'm continuing to flesh out the stories behind these faces. Over the next year, I'll post what I've learned–and what I don't know. I ask your help as I take this journey: to correct my mistakes, and to add your stories to the tale of the Norwalk High School Class of 1907.
Please like this post and let me know what you think in the comments. Thank you.
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Curren$y's flying high. Weeks after having his first child, the New Orleans native and Freddie Gibbs delivered their joint debut, Fetti. Produced entirely by The Alchemist, the album joins the ranks of Spitta's revered collaborative efforts. In his first sit-down ever with B.Dot and Elliott, Curren$y talks fatherhood, finances, Mac Miller, producers and much more!
Learn more: https://tidal.com/


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How to Change Brake Pads on a 2001 Chevy Silveradoby Jule PamplinUpdated November 07, 2017
Items you will need
Turkey baster
Tire iron
Jack stands
3/8-inch socket
Brake pads
Brake grease
Brake fluid
The four wheel disc brakes on the 2001 Chevrolet Silverado should be maintained regularly: General Motors recommends that you replace the brake pads every 50,000 miles. Worn brake pads can severely compromise the stopping power of the vehicle and lead to brake rotor damage. The braking system relies on its components working in concert to consistently slow and stop the truck during braking. Regularly check the brake pads, the brake lines, the rotors and the brake fluid level in the Silverado's master cylinder. Replace the brake pads when you hear the wear indicators scraping against the rotors or when the brake pedal response feels softer than usual.
Park the truck on a relatively flat surface. Apply the parking brake and pull the hood release lever located under the dashboard on the driver's side.
Lift the hood and remove the master cylinder cap. Remove half of the brake fluid in the reservoir with a turkey baster or syringe.
Crack the lug nuts on the wheels with the tire iron. One quarter turn on each nut will suffice.
Place the jack under the truck's frame and lift the vehicle. Place jack stands under the axles and lower the Silverado onto the stands for support.
Remove the caliper slide bolts (or pins) with the 3/8-inch socket and ratchet. Lift the caliper from the caliper mounting bracket and rest it on the rotor or the steering arm above the brake assembly.
Slide the two brake pads for each wheel away from the caliper bracket slots.
Apply brake grease to the back sides of the new brake pads and place them into the bracket's slots.
Lay an old brake pad or block of wood across the two pistons inside each of the front brake calipers. The rear brake calipers have just one piston and therefore do not require the worn pad or block of wood.
Place the C-clamp over the worn pad (or block of wood) and the back side of the caliper. Tighten the C-clamp to force the pistons into the side of the caliper. Remove the clamp and pad once the pistons have been fully opened.
Place the caliper over the new brake pads in the caliper bracket slots. Screw in the caliper pins and tighten them with the 3/8-inch socket and ratchet.
Replace the wheels onto the wheel bolts and screw on the lug nuts by hand.
Lift the Chevy with the jack and remove the jack stands. Lower the Silverado's tires to the ground and tighten the lug nuts with the tire iron.
Repeat steps 5 through 10 for all other sets of brake pads you are changing.
Remove the master cylinder cap and place a funnel inside the container. Pour brake fluid into the container until the reservoir is full. Remove the funnel and replace the master cylinder cap. Close the Silverado's hood.
- Edmunds.com: How to Change Your Brake Pads
- "Chevrolet Silverado & GMC Sierra Auto Repair Manual, 1999-2006;" Haynes, 2006
- Thinkstock Images/Comstock/Getty Images


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It's a great time to get Vivint Smart Home in Benton, California
Vivint Smart Home is the leading smart home provider in Benton for very good reason. In fact, with over a million customers, Vivint Smart Home is the premier provider in North America. We offer numerous key benefits, including a full suite of state-of-the-art equipment, the expertise of a 'round-the-clock security monitoring team, and a top-ranked mobile app to deliver a seamless, easy-to-use service that puts you in control of your home 24/7. The Vivint Smart Home system revolves around Vivint Smart Home Cloud. When you install our system in your home, you'll gain the ability to access it from anywhere, either through the Vivint Smart Hub touchscreen panel or Vivint Smart Home App. What makes Vivint Smart Home different is its ability to do more than just allow you to program features and functions. Vivint Smart Home Cloud adds an intelligence layer to the smart home system. That means it connects every component within the home into a simple-to-use communication network, giving you control over your entire home through a single user interface. That's empowering. Whether you want a simple way to reduce your energy bill, you want to be able to check in on your property while you're on vacation, or you want to protect your property from intruders, we've got you covered.