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When Green Grass Comes
The Daughter Of A Chief
To The Victors The Spoils
Love Words For Annie
For The Good Of The Company
I Go Where Wagalexa Conka Say
Adventure Comes Smiling
The Song Of The Omaha
Riders In The Background
Deputies All
All This War-talk About Injuns
The Wild-goose Chase
Set Afoot
One Put Over On The Bunch
Now Dang It Ride!
Annie-many-ponies Waits
Applehead Shows The Stuff He Is Made Of
In The Devil's Frying-pan
Peace Talk
Luis Rojas Talks
Wagalexa Conka Cola!
All This War-talk About Injuns
The Heritage Of The Sioux
Over his second cup of coffee the pale eyes of Big Medicine goggled
thoughtfully at the forbidding wall of lava rock that stretched before
them as far as he could see to left or right. There were places here and
there where he believed that a man could climb to the top with the aid
of his hands as well as his feet, but for the horses he was extremely
skeptical; and as for a certain big red automobile.... His eyes swung
from the brown rampart and rested grievedly upon the impassive face of
Luck, who was just then reaching forward to spear another slice of bacon
from the frying pan.
"Kinda looks to me, by cripes, as if we'd come to the end uh the trail,"
he observed in his usual full-lunged bellow, as though he had all his
life been accustomed to pitching his voice above some unending clamor.
"Yuh got any idee of how an autyMObile clumb that there rim-rock?"
Old Applehead, squatting on his heels across the little camp-fire,
leaned and picked a coal out of the ashes for his pipe and afterwards
cocked his eyes toward Big Medicine.
"What yuh calc'late yuh tryin' to do?" he inquired pettishly. "Start
up an argyment uh some kind? Cause if ye air, lemme tell yuh I got the
yer-ache from listenin' to you las' night."
Big Medicine looked at him as though he was going to spring upon him in
deadly combat--but that was only a peculiar facial trick of his. What
he did do was to pour that last swallow of hot, black coffee down his
throat and then laugh his big haw-haw-haw that could be heard half a
mile off.
"Y' oughta kep Applehead to home with the wimmin folks, Luck," he bawled
unabashed. "Night air's bad fer 'im, and the trail ain't goin' to be
smooth goin',--not if we gotta ride our hawses straight up, by cripes!"
"We haven't got to." Luck balanced his slice of bacon upon the
unscorched side of a bannock and glanced indifferently at the rim of
rock that was worrying the other. "I swung down here to make camp off
the trail But it's only a half mile or so over this rise that looks
level to you, to where the lava ledge peters out so we can ride over it
easier than we rode up off the river-flat in that loose sand. That ease
your mind any?"
"Helps some," Big Medicine admitted, his eyes going speculatively to the
rise that looked perfectly level. "I'm willin' to take your word fer
it, boss. But what's gittin' to worry me, by cripes, is all this here
war-talk about Injuns. Honest to grandma, I feel like as if I'd been
"Aw, it's jest a josh, Bud!" Happy Jack asserted boredly. "I betche
there ain't been a Injun on the fight here sence hell was a tradin'
"You think there hasn't?" Luck looked up quickly to ask. But old
Applehead rose up and shook an indignant finger at Happy Jack.
"There ain't, hey? Well, I calc'late that fer a josh, them thar Navvies
has got a right keen sense uh humor, and I've knowed men to laff
theirselves to death on their danged resavation--now I'm tellin' yuh I
It was all a josh mebby, when they riz up a year or two back 'cause one
uh their tribe was goin' t' be arrested er some darn thing! Ole General
Scott, he didn't call it no joke when he, went in thar to settle 'em
down, did he? I calc'late, mebby it was jest fer a josh them troops
waited on the aidge, ready to go in if he didn't git back a certain
time! 'N' that wasn't so fur back, shorely,--only two years. Why dang
your fool heart, I've laid out there in them hills myself and fit
off the Navvies--'n' I didn't see nothin' much to laugh at, now I'm
tellin' yuh! Time I went there after Jose Martinez--"
"Better get under way, boys," Luck interrupted, having heard many times
the details of that fight and capture. "We'll throw out a circle and
pick up the trail of that machine, or whatever they made their getaway
in. My idea is that they must have stached some horses out here
somewhere. I don't believe they'd take the risk of trying to get away
in a machine; that would hold them to the main trails, mostly. I know it
wouldn't be my way of getting outa reach. I'd want horses so I could get
into rough country, and I've doped it out that Ramon is too trail-wise
to bank very high on an automobile once he got out away from town.
Applehead, you and Lite and Pink and Weary form one party if it comes
to where we want to divide forces. Pack a complete camp outfit on the
sorrel and the black--you notice that's the way I had 'em packed first.
Keep their packs just as we started out, then you'll be ready to strike
out by yourselves whenever it seems best. Get me?"
"We get you, boss," Weary sang out cheerfully, and went to work
gathering up the breakfast things and putting them into two little piles
for the packs. Pink led up the black and the sorrel, and helped to pack
them with bedding and supplies for four, as Luck had ordered, while Lite
and Applehead saddled their horses and then came up to help throw the
diamond hitches on the packs.
A couple of rods nearer the rock wall Happy Jack was grumbling, across
the canvas pack of a little bay, at Big Medicine, who was warning
him against leaving his hair so long as a direct temptation to
scalp-lifting. Luck bad already mounted and ridden out a little way,
where he could view the country behind them with his field glasses,
to make sure that in the darkness they had not passed by anything that
deserved a closer inspection. He came back at a lope and motioned to
Andy and the Native Son.
"That red automobile is standing back about half a mile," he announced
hurriedly. "Empty and deserted, looks like. We'll go back and take a
look at it. The rest of you can finish packing and wait here till we
come back. No use making extra travel for your horses. They'll get all
they need, the chances are."
The red automobile was empty of everything but the upholstering and a
jack in the toolbox. The state license number was gone, and the serial
number on the engine had been hammered into illegibility. What tracks
there were had been blown nearly full of the white sand of that
particular locality There was nothing to be learned there, except the
very patent fact that the machine bad been abandoned for some reason.
Luck took a look at the engine and saw nothing wrong with it. There was
oil and there was "gas"--a whole tank full. Andy and Miguel, riding
an ever-widening circle around the machine while Luck was looking for
evidence of a breakdown, ran across a lot of hoofprints that seemed to
head straight away past the rim-rock and on to the hills.
They picked up the trail of the hoofprints and followed it. When they
returned to the others they found the boys all mounted and waiting
impatiently like hounds on the leash eager to get away on the chase. Six
horses there were, and even old Applehead, who was in a bad humor that
morning and seemed to hate agreeing with anyone, admitted that probably
the four who had committed the robbery and left town in the machine had
been met out here by a man who brought horses for them and one extra
pack horse. This explained the number in the most plausible manner, and
satisfied everyone that they were on the right trail.
Riding together--since they were on a plain trail and there was nothing
to be gained by separating--they climbed to the higher mesa, crossed the
ridge of the three barren hills that none of them but Applehead had ever
passed, and went on and on and on as the hoofprints led them, straight
toward the reservation.
They discussed the robbery from every angle--they could think of, and
once or twice someone hazarded a guess at Annie-Many-Ponies' reason
for leaving and her probable destination. They wondered how old Dave
Wiswell, the dried little cattleman of The Phantom Herd, was making out
in Denver, where he had gone to consult a specialist about some kidney
trouble that had interfered with his riding all spring. Weary suggested
that maybe Annie-Many-Ponies had taken a notion to go and visit old
Dave, since the two were old friends.
It was here that Applehead unwittingly put into words the vague
suspicion which Luck had been trying to stifle and had not yet faced as
a definite idea.
"I calc'late we'll likely find that thar squaw putty tol'ble close to
whar we find Bill Holmes," Applehead remarked sourly. "Her goin'
off same, day they stuck up that bank don't look to me like no
happenstance--now I'm tellin' yuh! 'N' if I was shurf, and was ast to
locate that squaw, I'd keep right on the trail uh Bill Holmes, jest as
we're doin' now."
"That isn't like Annie," Luck said sharply to, still the conviction in
his own mind. "Whatever faults she may have, she's been loyal to me, and
honest. Look how she stuck last winter, when she didn't have anything at
stake, wasn't getting any salary, and yet worked like a dog to help
make the picture a success. Look how she got up in the night when the
blizzard struck, and fed our horses and cooked breakfast of her own
accord, just so I could get out early and get my scenes. I've known
her since she was a dirty-faced papoose, and I never knew her to lie
or steal. She wasn't in on that robbery--I'll bank on that, and she
wouldn't go off with a thief. It isn't like Annie."
"Well," said Big Medicine, thinking of his own past, "the best uh women
goes wrong when some knot-headed man gits to lovemakin'. They'll do
things fer the wrong kinda man, by cripes, that they wouldn't do fer no
other human on earth. I've knowed a good woman to lie and steal--fer
a man that wasn't fit, by cripes, to tip his hat to 'er in the street!
Women," he added pessimistically, "is something yuh can't bank on, as
safe as yuh can on a locoed horse!" He kicked his mount unnecessarily
by way of easing the resentment which one woman had managed to instil
against the sex in general.
"That's where you're darned right, Bud," Pink attested with a sudden
bitterness which memory brought. "I wouldn't trust the best woman that
ever lived outa my sight, when you come right down to cases."
"Aw, here!" Andy Green, thinking loyally of his Rosemary, swung his
horse indignantly toward the two. "Cut that out, both of you! Just
because you two got stung, is no reason why you've got to run down all
the rest of the women. I happen to know one--"
"Aw, nobody was talking about Rosemary," Big Medicine apologized
gruffly. "She's different; any fool knows that."
"Well, I've got a six-gun here that'll talk for another one," silent
Lite Avery spoke up suddenly. "One that would tip the scales on the
woman's side for goodness if the rest of the whole sex was bad."
"Oh, thunder!" Pink cried, somewhat redder than the climbing sun alone
would warrant. "I'll take it back. I didn't mean THEM--you know darned
well I didn't mean them--nor lots of other women I know. What I meant
"What you meant was Annie," Luck broke in uncompromisingly. "And I'm not
condemning her just because things look black. You don't know Indians
the way I know them. There's some things an Indian will do, and then
again there's some things they won't do. You boys don't know it--but
yesterday morning when we left the ranch, Annie-Many-Ponies made me the
peace-sign. And after that she went into her tent and began to sing the
Omaha. It didn't mean anything to you--Old Dave is the only one that
would have sabed, and he wasn't there. But it meant enough to me that
I came pretty near riding back to have a pow-wow with Annie, even if we
were late. I wish I had. I'd have less on my conscience right now."
"Fur's I kin see," Applehead dissented impatiently, "you ain't got
no call to have nothin' on your conscience where that thar squaw is
concerned. You treated her a hull lot whiter'n what she deserved--now
I'm tellin' ye! 'N' her traipsin' around at nights 'n'--"
"I tell you, you don't know Indians!" Luck swung round in the saddle
so that he could face Applehead. "You don't know the Sioux, anyway. She
wouldn't have made me that peace-sign if she'd been double-crossing me,
I tell you. And she wouldn't have sung the Omaha if she was going to
throw in with a thief that was trying to lay me wide open to suspicion.
I've been studying things over in my mind, and there's something in this
affair I can't sabe. And until you've got some proof, the less you say
about Annie-Many-Ponies the better I'll be pleased."
That, coming from Luck in just that tone and with just that look in his
eyes, was tantamount to an ultimatum, and it was received as one. Old
Applehead grunted and chewed upon a wisp of his sunburned mustache that
looked like dried cornsilk after a frost. The Happy Family exchanged
careful glances and rode meekly along in silence. There was not a man
of them but believed that Applehead was nearer right than Luck, but they
were not so foolish as to express that belief.
After a while Big Medicine began bellowing tunelessly that old ditty,
once popular but now half forgotten:
"Nava, Nava, My Navaho-o
I have a love for you that will grow-ow!"
Which stirred old Applehead to an irritated monologue upon the theme of
certain persons whose ignorance is not blissful, but trouble-inviting.
Applehead, it would seem from his speech upon the subject, would be a
much surprised ex-sheriff--now a deputy--if they were not all captured
and scalped, if not worse, the minute their feet touched the forbidden
soil of these demons in human form, the Navajo Indians.
"If they were not too busy weaving blankets for Fred Harvey," Luck
qualified with his soft Texan drawl and the smile that went with it.
"You talk as if these boys were tourists."
"Yes," added Andy Green maliciously, "here comes a war-party now, boys.
Duck behind a rock, Applehead, they're liable to charge yuh fer them
The Happy Family laughed uproariously, to the evident bewilderment of
the two Indians who, swathed in blankets and with their hair knotted and
tied with a green ribbon and a yellow, drove leisurely toward the group
in an old wagon that had a bright new seat and was drawn by a weazened
span of mangy-looking bay ponies. In the back of the wagon sat a young
squaw and two papooses, and beside them were stacked three or four
of the gay, handwoven rugs for which the white people will pay many
"Buenas dias," said the driver of the wagon, who was an oldish Indian
with a true picture-postal face. And: "Hello," said the other, who was
young and wore a bright blue coat, such as young Mexicans affect.
"Hello, folks," cried the Happy Family genially, and lifted their
hats to the good-looking young squaw in the wagon-bed, who tittered in
bashful appreciation of the attention.
"Mama! They sure are wild and warlike," Weary commented drily as he
turned to stare after the wagon.
"Us little deputies had better run home," Pink added with mock alarm.
"By cripes, I know now what went with Applehead's hair!" bawled Big
Medicine. "Chances is, it's weaved into that red blanket the old buck is
"Laff, dang ye, laff!" Applehead cried furiously. "But do your laffing
where I can't hear ye, fer I'm tellin' ye right now I've had enough of
yore dang foolishness. And the next feller that makes a crack is goin'
to wisht he hadn't now I'm tellin' ye!"
This was not so much an ultimatum as a declaration of war--and the Happy
Family suddenly found themselves all out of the notion of laughing at
anything at all.
The Wild-goose Chase
Deputies All
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Lindsay originally edited the audio version of the Rooster Teeth Podcast and worked behind the scenes during the live streams, occasionally making an appearance on the podcast. She is currently part of Achievement Hunter, also appearing in various Let's Plays and on the Off Topic podcast.
Outside of Rooster Teeth, Lindsay also appeared regularly on a podcast called the Internet Box with Barbara Dunkelman, Kerry Shawcross, Michael Jones and Ray Narvaez Jr. from Achievement Hunter, and three other male members of the AH Community. The Internet Box ran weekly from late 2011 to early 2014.
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December 1 - Meet the Superhumans, the Channel 4 advert for its coverage of the London 2012 Paralympics, is emerging as the most successful marketing campaign of the year by winning a series of awards.
The 90 second advert, which was made by its in-house marketing team, 4Creative, dominated the prestigious PromaxUK awards, which recognise the work of the marketing and creative professionals who promote television channels and programmes.
The ad also did well at the British Arrow Craft Awards, which recognise the best British moving-image adverts.
There it won a gold award for direction by Tom Tagholm.
"Harder Than You Think", by hip hop legends Public Enemy, provided the soundtrack to the advert which stars Ellie Simmonds, Jody Cundy, Jonnie Peacock and Oscar Pistorius.
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|Ward Churchill
Tens of millions of people marched against the impending war on Iraq in 2003. WE WERE RIGHT AND THE RULING CLASSES WERE WRONG - AGAIN!!
The 18 million dollar 6000 page INQUIRY into The Invasion of Iraq
Ward Churchill is a phenomenon. With an immense intellect, incredible scholarship and speaking ability. To do his work justice in this medium is quite a task. Youtube has some of his presentations.
A sample of BOOK TITLES will give you an indication...
Churchill has also cowritten with luminaries like Haunani Trask, Gord Hill, Howard Zinn, Jim Van der Wall, and then there are forwards and introductions, countless speeches - the list of his work goes on for pages - LITERALLY...
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party ...
Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools
Marxism and Native Americans
Doing Time: The Politics of Imprisonment
Indians Are Us?: Culture and Genocide in Native North America
Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader
Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Expropriation in Contemporary North America
Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left
In a Pig's Eye: Reflections on the Police State, Repression, and Native America (audiobook)
Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of American Indians
White Studies: The Intellectual Imperialism of Higher Education
Perversions of Justice: Indigenous Peoples and Anglo-american Law .
The demolition of the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11 2001 - would make the outspoken professor a household name. In an emotional state Sept 12, Churchill first published On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Some People Push Back. Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality - and thus began The Little Eichmans
Churchill alleged class one Crimes Against Humanity by the U.S. armed forces in 1991 are what led to the World Trade Centre incident a decade later.
"The "US "surgical" bombing of Iraqs water purification and sewage facilities, as well as other "infrastructural" targets upon which Iraq's civilian population depends for its very survival. ... this sort of "aerial warfare" entailing myriad gross violations of international law, as well as every conceivable standard of "civilized" behavior -- the death toll has been steadily ratcheted up by US-imposed sanctions for a full decade now. Enforced all the while by a massive military presence and periodic bombing raids, the embargo has greatly impaired the victims' ability to import the nutrients, medicines and other materials necessary to saving the lives of even their toddlers. All told, Iraq has a population of about 18 million. The 500,000 kids lost to date thus represent something on the order of 25 percent of their age group. In effect, an entire generation has been obliterated." - wikipedia.


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text: SAVE Spending a spooktacular Saturday afternoon with family, friends, and pets is a good way to relax over one's hectic schedules, which had been evident with Night Sky Cinema's Furry Tales. On October 24, Nuvali's The Fields was jam-packed with people and dogs as they indulge in a day of fun and relaxation for people, and pampering for their pet dogs. The pre-Halloween event had several children and dogs dressed up in various costumes, from Dora the Explorer to aswangs. In addition to children and dogs in costumes, children are treated to face paintings, while dogs were treated to free grooming, ranging from nail trimming to doggy massages. In addition, children get to enjoy the inflatable castle present at the open grounds while others showcase their wacky side at the photo booth area. A Shitzu dressed in a witch costume. One of the many children who availed of face painting during the event. Early in the afternoon, two contests were held, namely Me and My Furry Friend Howl-O-Win, where pets and their owners dress up with matching costumes, and Tell a Tale, where children dress up in their scariest or cutest costumes. In addition to these main contests, there were minor contests held, in which participants get to bring home goodies from Night Sky Cinema's sponsors. Winners of Me and My Furry Friend Howl-O-Win The cutest winners of Tell a Tale As the night arrived, everyone placed their mats on the ground to enjoy watching movies outdoors to cap off Furry Tales. Movies such as Hotel Transylvania, How to Train Your Dragon, and Marley & Me were shown on an outdoor screen, to the enjoyment of everyone for the night. The Fields was full of people as they enjoy watching Hotel Transylvania.


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Andy Core is an expert in Work-Life Balance, Well Being and Peak Human Performance
One of the major benefits to leading a healthy lifestyle is that you no longer feel excessively stressed at work. This enables you to focus fully on your work and maintain your levels of productivity in the workplace. Consider these lifestyle choices and reap the rewards at work!
Reduce Caffeine Levels
We may often find that a cup of coffee will give us a temporary high that allows us to relax. However, one of the problems with this is that the high is usually followed by a low. When we crash, we find that our energy levels are sapped and we can become irritable. This is not a good state to be in when you are working. The short-term high that you get merely masks the real issue; try to find an alternative method to cope with your stress.
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Ventura County Resource Conservation District
Here is the survey Link
Please use this link to take the CCWAMMP interest survey
There are two (2) components to CCWAMMP:
Component 1 - Irrigation Efficiency Upgrades
This component will model the existing AWUE program. Solicitation for participants will begin in the three (3) priority areas and projects within those areas will be given initial preference. If interest has run short in the three (3) priority areas, other areas of the CCW's southern subwatersheds will be solicited for just this component.
VCRCD will act as the lead in selecting projects for this component, with Farm Bureau of Ventura County (FBVC) and USDA-NRCS (NRCS) as collaborators.
$150,000 total available for a minmum of five (5) irrigation upgrade projects. Just like AWUE program, all projects must be completed in one (1) year.
Component 2 - Nutrient & Pesticide Management Measures
This component will be conducted in partnership with NRCS to leverage their design expertise and funding opportunities for on-farm improvements. Growers interested in this component will need to work with NRCS to ensure that the design, installation, and implementation of nutrient/pesticide projects meet the agency's standards and specifications. See eligible management measures for projects below.
To encourage participation, this component will duplicate the cost-share paid by NRCS, providing the grower up to 90% of the total project cost (i.e. if NRCS paid for 40% of the project, this program will contribute another 40%, and the remaining 20% is required of the grower to contribute).
Match will come from the grower's NRCS payment and their own contribution.
Proof of the grower's final NRCS payment will be required for cost-share, which will include an itemized list of what and where MMs were installed.
NRCS will act as the lead for this component, with VCRCD and FBVC as collaborators.
Ideally, one (1) project will be implemented in each of the three (3) priority areas, totaling a minimum of three (3) projects. Each project will be required to serve as a "Demonstration Site" for educational purposes.
$183,900 total available for three (3) projects, making about $61,300 available per project.
The project focuses on agricultural lands in three (3) priority areas: two (2) areas in the Revolon Slough sub-watershed and one (1) area in the Frontal Pacific Ocean sub-watershed of the Calleguas Creek Watershed. See map below.
Landowner participants need to be NRCS EQIP eligible.
The end date of the grant is June 30, 2021, meaning ALL projects need to be completed by then.
Contact Jamie Whiteford at firstname.lastname@example.com or (805) 764-5132.
The purpose of CCWAMMP is to offer technical and financial assistance for the implementation of agricultural management measures (MMs) and irrigation efficiency upgrades to improve nutrient and pesticide management and on-farm irrigation efficiency in the Calleguas Creek Watershed (CCW) in accordance with Calleguas Creek Watershed Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs). The project focuses on agricultural lands in three (3) priority areas: two (2) areas in the Revolon Slough sub-watershed and one (1) area in the Frontal Pacific Ocean sub-watershed of the Calleguas Creek Watershed. Funds for this project were provided by a federal grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to the State Water Board to implement California's Nonpoint Source Program pursuant to CWA Section 319(h).


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Deep Draw Metal Forming for Bearing Components
The deep drawing process is our customers' preferred metal forming method for manufacturing bearing components. Deep draw is an essential metal forming process for needle roller and ball bearings because of the technology's ability to maintain:
- Shaped Radiuses
- Tight dimensional tolerances
- Smooth inside surface finishes
- Uniformity of wall thicknesses
- Concentricity of the outside dimension
We form higher carbon content steels and pre-plated materials for a range of bearing components and bearing assemblies for automotive and industrial OEM uses. Bearing deep drawn stamping requires us to work in dimensional tolerances as close as .0005 (.013mm), which we achieve through our machine capability and precise tooling design.
The surface finish of bearing components is especially critical because of the work load it bears once the bearing is fully assembled. At Prospect Machine, we consistently achieve deep drawing surface finishes that are free of score marks and burrs because we practice a high degree of tooling maintenance and vigilant inspection processes.
The uniformity of the wall thickness throughout the lengths of the cases and cups is essential to fit and function. The deep draw transfer press operation assures a uniform wall thickness as well as the reduction of variation required by our bearing deep drawn stamping customers. In addition, gages in our presses maintain concentricity of the outside dimension through contact measurements at different gage heights to maintain wall thickness uniformity. The data collected throughout these daily inspections is crucial to our SPC process for bearing and cup components.
Still another critical fit performed at the transfer press is needle insertion to check inside dimension conformance. Besides data collection, lot traceability is maintained on a weekly basis through embossed stamps applied in the transfer press process.
Precision performance in dimensional tolerances, surface finish, wall thickness, concentricity, and formed fold-over edges for high volume deep drawn components is the standard at Prospect Machine Products.


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Performance-Upgrade for your CMM - with ZEISS SensorFit
Tuesday, 27th October 2020 | 10:30 - 11:30 am (CET)
The new retrofit package ZEISS SensorFit makes your CMM state-of-the-art again and gives you the flexibility of using the latest ZEISS Sensor technology. Learn more about how ZEISS SensorFit not only gives you more flexibility in choosing your sensors, but also ensures the continuous operation of your measuring device for the future.
Highlights of this webinar:
- Find out more about sensor retrofits and how you can benefit
- Get to know different Use-Cases
- Learn about other upgrades for your CMM


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Call 0203 865 2113
Employment Partner: You will be of an award winning team, nationally recognised for a number of areas including Employment. You will work with leading individuals implementing the firms strategy in their flagship London office.
The team consists of leading individuals and is supported by the wider Pensions, Employee Awards and Health and Safety teams.
The Firm
This Top 50 law firm have grown substantially in recent years, and unlike many law firms this has been done organically rather than through mergers. Seen as one of the go to firms for Blue Chip and FTSE 500 companies this firm are seen as a National heavyweight. With further growth planned on the International stage, this firm are one of the most innovative and forward-thinking firms in London.
With a wide range of listed and Private Companies, Institutions and Individuals, you will find this firm has been attracting the best talent from the Top UK firms, by offering highly Tiered Legal 500 quality work, but with the work life balance that is often missed at larger practices. Winners of multiple national firms and employment awards, you can really see the benefit to joining this practice. Currently ranked in the Top 10 nationally for the amount of Legal 500 entries, you will work alongside ambition and quality lawyers.
A key benefit to this practice is not only the quality of work and there large reputation across Real Estate, Corporate, Commercial Technology, Banking & Finance, FinTech and Data. But is the culture that stands out, you will be part of a very diverse workforce within a firm that promotes staff well-being providing great results for clients and individuals alike.
The Role
This Top 50 firm are looking for a Employment Partner to join them in their Legal 500 ranked and Chambers ranked department within their City of London office.
The Employment department have won numerous awards Nationally and operates in the Top Legal 500 tiers up and down the country. You will be working with industry leading, Hall of Famers and Legal 500 & Chambers & Partners ranked lawyers.
The firm's highly rated employment team handles a wide range of excellent quality contentious and non-contentious work including advisory work on HR issues, disputes related work in the tribunal and courts, drafting employment documentation, employee relations and transaction/outsourcing work. The team's workload is increasingly top end, complex, premium work and accordingly we are working to strengthen our capacity at that level.
You will closely with the Pensions, Health & Safety and Employee rewards teams helping to implement the firms strategy.
Equity is available for the right level of candidate or a clear route to progress to this. Due to growth, if you are a Junior/senior partner looking to move with other's in your team then this is more than welcomed.
The Requirements
This is a stand out position for a Employment Partner to join this Top 50 practice in their City of London office.
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It's not a secret that the crystal chandeliers are very elegant indeed. But they collect lots of dust and for obvious reasons you won't wash such a chandelier very often. Usually to clean this beauty you need to take it down, disassemble it, wash every piece separately and thoroughly, dry everything out, assemble it and hang back to the ceiling.
The other way is to climb up the ladder and clean every crystal. It's very uncomfortable and your hands, shoulders and neck are going to get tired very soon.
These aforementioned ways illustrate laborious, monotonous and time consuming tasks which may prevent a person not only from taking care of the chandelier, but also from buying one.
But there exist an easy way of washing the crystal chandelier without taking it down.
For this procedure you will need:
• water pulverizer
• water
• soft cloth
• umbrella OR plastic washbowl
What to do:
During the entire procedure you will need to hold your umbrella opened and turned upside down (its dome looks down) right under the chandelier. If the umbrella has a hook-like handle it makes the task easier: just hook it right on one of the chandelier hands. Otherwise, if the umbrella doesn't have such a handle, you may ask someone to hold it there for you. If you have no one to ask for help – don't worry, you'll be able to manage the cleaning on your own.
So you hold the umbrella directly under the chandelier and quickly press the pulverizer handle. The sharper you press the stronger water jet you get. And these jets in their turn will do all the work by wiping the dust off the crystals and your chandelier.
Here you'll notice what the purpose of the umbrella is. All the water will trickle right down the dome of your umbrella.
After that, using the soft cloth wipe the chandelier dry.
There's also another easy way to ensure your chandelier safety during the washing procedure. It will help to keep the crystals intact in case you move clumsily and they fall down from the chandelier.
Here, instead hooking the umbrella on, you need to place a washbowl under the chandelier. If the crystal accidentally tears off – it won't break, because it'll fall into the water.
We think it's high time to turn the cleaning into a pleasant process so that you will be able to enjoy the cleanness and the dazzle of your crystal chandeliers more often.


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Making Disciples, Raising Up Saints & Transforming Communities for Christ
by the Rev. Dr. Pamela Anderson, Adult Spiritual Formation Director, Trinity Cathedral, Sacramento
The Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox, a fascinating and always illuminating scholar and theologian, will be speaking at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Sacramento on Friday, February 20, 2015. The focus of the event will be a presentation and discussion of the Rev. Dr. Fox's idea of "Original Blessing," which is the title of one of the 30 books he's written.
What: The Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox Lecture
When: Friday, February 20th; 7 - 9:00 p.m.*
Where: Trinity Cathedral, Sacramento
2620 Capitol Avenue
Sacramento, CA 95816
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Tickets: $12.00; limited quantity; available at the Cathedral Bookshop
For more information: please call 916-446-2513; Trinity Cathedral is wheelchair/ADA accessible
*Special music for this event will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by the Rev. Dr. Fox's lecture from 7-9:00 p.m. and a reception and book signing from 9-10:00 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased at the Cathedral Bookshop located at 2620 Capitol Ave. in Sacramento. The Bookshop hours are Tuesday-Thursday 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sundays from 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. "We are excited to host Matthew Fox and look forward to seeing you on the night of the event," says the Rev. Dr. Pamela Anderson, the Adult Spiritual Formation Director for the Cathedral. "It is sure to be a memorable evening." For more information about this event, please call 916-446-2513.
The Rev. Dr. Fox, formerly a priest in the Dominican order of the Roman Catholic Church, challenged the Church with his outspoken ideas and criticism of the Vatican's status quo on timely and controversial issues. Later, his expulsion from the Dominican order for "disobedience," led to his reception as priest in The Episcopal Church in 1994, and his founding of educational and spiritual educational enterprises. The Rev. Dr. Fox continues to lecture, write and publish books. To learn more about the Rev. Dr. Fox, please visit his website at www.matthewfox.org.
This event is the first of a speaker's series being launched by Trinity Cathedral, Sacramento and will kick off a six-week, small group discussion and study series that welcomes Trinity Cathedral parishioners and community participation. The series of small group meetings will delve more deeply into the theme of "blessing," and will continue through the season of Lent. To learn more about these small group discussions, please visit the Trinity Cathedral website at www.trinitycathedral.org in early February 2015, for specific dates and times. For more information about this and future events, please contact the Rev. Dr. Pamela Anderson via email at email@example.com.
This event is also the day before the CLC at Faith Episcopal Church in nearby Cameron Park. Attendees traveling to the area would be able to attend both events.
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text: This film is produced by Producer Aditya Chopra under the banner of Yash Raj Films with an exciting cast of John Abraham, Katrina Kaif and Neil Nitin Mukesh. The story is about friendship between three young friends whose beautiful lives are turned upside down by a series of large events which are beyond their control. For most of us read about large events happening in the world and are just headlines in the newspapers in the movie 'NewYork' these large events have changed the lives of these three young friends, forever. The film is directed by Director, Kabir Khah who has also directed the hit moviea 'Chak De India' and 'Kabul Express' This movie is bound to attract large audiences as its been the first film of the year of 2009 by Yash Raj Films.


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The term "melodic death metal" has lost all meaning with the rise of its postmodern form, which is essentially heavy metal or power metal (speed metal + later heavy metal) with death vocals, played at twice normal speed and using tuning and mode to achieve a melodic sound. The genre often fails because in an effort to deliver lots of those sweet ripping melodic moments, it renders itself uniform and thus passes like sonic wallpaper.
The best of the genre either takes after early Dissection, which is essentially heavy metal, or early At the Gates, which is essentially death metal. In the middle, there are those who combine the two, making what sounds like a cross between early Dissection and early Necrophobic. In this area, bands like Unanimated, Sentenced, Cemetary and Sacramentum made their great works. Desultory fit into this picture as well but was always just a bit more predictable and catchy than those bands would admit into their own music.
Some call it obvious, but the history of art shows us that the person who makes the most evocative form of obvious basically states what everyone is too neurotic to think clearly, and becomes a winner. For that reason, it's a terrible shame that this album has been overlooked since it is better than almost everything to come out in the genre recently. Opeth and BloodBath fans in particular might enjoy this album which is equal balanced parts beauty and virulent darkness.
Riffs are catchy and strike a good balance between melodic hook and infectious rhythm with some aggression to it, a form which is downplayed but provides a good internal counterpoint to the sweet spots (in contrast to most bands, who do this externally by playing the verses as grinding madness and the chorus as undistorted or sickeningly over-harmonized AOR riffs). In song structure, this album is more like older death metal of the melodic type, but its soul is pure heavy metal of the type that dominated the airwaves in the 1980s, just with twice the complexity and technicality.
In many ways, this album fulfills the promise of melodic metal. It's like a cross between Iron Maiden Number of the Beast and Slayer Reign in Blood. This is a hard mix to get right, and it's fair to note that there's more hard rock in this than even in Iron Maiden, but the end result is very pleasant listening that maintains a sense of longing and beauty in its atmosphere, while simultaneously raging against the darkness.


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In this class, students will learn how to use forge and anvil to bring knives to shape. forging techniques, steel selection, rough grinding, and the rudiments of heat treating shall be covered. This will be a foundational class for students who want to learn more about doing knife handles, finishing, and heat treating. Students may take this class again to continue refining their blades, too.
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News Hub: China Bank Move Weighs Down U.S. Stocks
Paul Vigna discusses Friday's market outlook, which is likely to be impacted by a move by China to tighten bank credit rules.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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by Terrence M. Allen, May 3, 2010
Revised November 30, 2010 for clarification, and updates
In reference to "the most asked for inclusion in amber" (A Mosquito): It is nearly impossible to find or acquire a piece of amber with a specimen of a mosquito. Michael Crichton, the author of the best-selling novel, "Jurassic Park", sparked the imaginations of many when he used a mosquito entombed in amber in his story to bring the extinct monster dinosaurs back to lifein today's scientific age of humankind. By extractiing the blood from a prehistoric mosquito which had been found preserved in amber, and which had before then fed upon and slurped up the blood from a dinosaur millions of years ago, he fancied a specious way to encode the "paleo-DNA" from the dinosaur blood from the mosquito's gut (filling in the missing gaps of the molecular strands of blood with blood from extant amphibians) and reproduce or clone real life size living prehistoric dinosaurs. Jurassic Park itself was a fabricated tropical island turned into an attraction or amusement park ("spared no expenses") where the guests could visit and observe living dinosaurs in an actual real life "paleotropical prehistoric animal park" setting.
Factually speaking, only a few dozen mosquitoes have ever been found in the world's supply of amber and copal pieces. These uncommon and scarce specimens reside in museums, univerisities, and a limited few private collections. They are not only of scientific value, but when available to the public, they are usually prioed from the mid to high hundreds to a couple of thousand dollars each because of their rarity.
The majority of insects and spiders that were trapped in the sticky tree resin which eventually fossilized into amber over millions of years generally were associated with the trees which oozed copious amounts of sap which later preserved their bodies in the amber. These insects most usually fed on plants and trees, gathered pollen or nectar from their related blossoms or flowers, or maybe gathered the sweet sugary tree sap for nourishment or as a substance to aid in making their nests. Many others were wood-boring pests or burrowed into the trunks, limbs, twigs, buds, or leaves (leaf miners and gall makers), of trees and plants, or were fungus feeders that lived under the bark or at or near the base of trees or on the floor of the forest of the trees which exuded these bleeding, sealing, self-healing, or repellant sappy-fluids.
Other predatory arthropods (insects,spiders and related arachnids) and even small lizards and tree frogs lived in the trees waiting for their next meals, while other insects were parasites of the sap-seekers. Other victims haphazardly lighted on globs of sticky resin flowing down the trunks and branches of the trees, or simply were blown by winds into the viscous sirup, sometimes even while mating and unable to fully control their copulating flight. Plant parts, incluidng pollen, flower petals and stamens, full flowers, bits of leaves, twigs, and other plant debris, including bark and plant hairs, were trapped in time in the same manner.
Mosquitoes generally wuold fall into the last two scenarios previously described. They would have inadvertently lighted to rest on the semiliquid tree sap and become stuck and unable to fly away, or they would have become victims of unpredictable winds which would blow them off course into the resin-traps. Male mosquitoes feed on the nectar of flowers (as females sometimes do too); only female mosquitoes are vampires and require a blood meal to obtain the protein in which to nourish their eggs. Consequently, mosquitoes would not normally associate themselves with sap-producting trees. Thus, the number of associated deaths due to being trapped in the liquid resin and preserved in amber is very small. It is even more rare to find a clear piece of amber with a whole or entire or exceptionally well preserved mosquito specimen.
Terrance M Allen
Retired Entomologist, California State Dept. Food & Agriculture
Certified Technician in Mosquito Control, Los Angeles County, State of California, Department of Health
Arachnologist, Practicing Paleontologist, and Factotum Naturalist
May 3, 2010. Revised November 30, 2010.


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Author(s): Isobelle Carmody
The fate of the elf troll, Little Fur, becomes entangled with the mysterious fox, Sorrow, who longs only for death. Together they must travel to Underth, the troll king's underground city, on a dangerous quest to uncover his evil plans. The wise Sett Owl has foreseen that the future of the earth spirit, and perhaps all living things, depends on the success of this quest. Led by a greedy, devious rat, how can they succeed? But how can they fail, when so much is at stake?
'Isobelle Carmody's Legend of Little Fur books evoke a dreamlike sense of warmth and tenderness.' - Sydney Morning Herald
'Isobelle Carmody's impish, environmentally passionate character is completely convincing, taking readers into a world that's familiar, and yet in Carmody's hands, refreshingly original.' - Sunday Age
Isobelle Carmody is Australia's most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers. She began her first book, Obernewtyn, when she was fourteen and since then she has written some of our greatest works of fantasy. Whilst she is perhaps best known for the Obernewtyn Chronicles (now comprising six volumes), her novel The Gathering was joint winner of the 1993 Children's Literature Peace Prize and the 1994 CBC Book of the Year Award. Also, Greylands, was joint winner of the 1997 Aurealis Award for Excellence in Speculative Fiction - Young Adult Division, and was named a White Raven at the 1998 Bologna Children's Book Fair. She has written many short stories for both children and adults and her picture book The Wrong Thing, illustrated by Declan Lee. Isobelle's first book in a new series for younger readers, Kingdom of the Lost: The Red Wind was winner of the CBC 2011 - Younger Readers Award. Isobelle divides her time between Prague in the Czech Republic and her home on the Great Ocean Road in Australia.


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Data Collections
A community dataset space allows Bridges' users from different grants to share data in a common space. Bridges hosts both public and private datasets, providing rapid access for individuals, collaborations and communities with appropriate protections.
Community datasets are appropriate when data will be shared amongst Bridges' groups. Any data that should only be accessed by one group should be stored in that group's pylon5 space.
If you have a dataset for use by multiple groups on Bridges, request that it be stored in the community dataset space by completing the Community Dataset Request form. If your data collection has security or compliance requirements, you should indicate so on the form, or you can contact email@example.com.
Public datasets
Some data collections are available to anyone with a Bridges' account. They include:
2019nCoVR: 2019 Novel Coronavirus Resource
Last updated: August 27, 2020
The 2019 Novel Coronavirus Resource concerns the outbreak of novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China since December 2019. For more details about the statistics, metadata, publications, and visualizations of the data, please visit https://bigd.big.ac.cn/nco.
Available on Bridges at /pylon5/datasets/community/
COCO (Common Objects in Context) is a large scale image dataset designed for object detection, segmentation, person keypoints detection, stuff segmentation, and caption generation. Please visit http://cocodataset.org/ for more information on COCO, including details about the data, paper, and tutorials.
Available on Bridges at /pylon5/datasets/community/
The PREVENT-AD (Pre-symptomatic Evaluation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer Disease) cohort is composed of cognitively healthy participants over 55 years old, at risk of developing Alzheimer Disease (AD) as their parents and/or siblings were/are affected by the disease. These 'at-risk' participants have been followed for a naturalistic study of the presymptomatic phase of AD since 2011 using multimodal measurements of various disease indicators. Two clinical trials intended to test pharmaco-preventive agents have also been conducted. The PREVENT-AD research group is now releasing data openly with the intention to contribute to the community's growing understanding of AD pathogenesis.
Available on Bridges at /pylon5/datasets/community/
ImageNet is an image dataset organized according to WordNet hierarchy. See the ImageNet website for complete information.
Available on Bridges at /pylon5/datasets/community/imagenet
Natural Languge Tool Kit Data
NLTK comes with many corpora, toy grammars, trained models, etc. A complete list of the available data is posted at: http://nltk.org/nltk_data/
Available on Bridges at /pylon5/datasets/community/nltk
Dataset of handwritten digits used to train image processing systems.
Available on Bridges at /pylon5/datasets/community/mnist
Genomics Data
Several genomics datasets are publicly available, in addition to the 2019nCoVR: 2019 Novel Coronavirus Resource listed above.
- The BLAST databases can be accessed through the environment variable $BLASTDB after loading the BLAST module.
- CAMI (Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation) is a community-led initiative designed to help tackle challenges in metagenome assembly and analysis by aiming for an independent, comprehensive and bias-free evaluation of methods. Data from the first CAMI challenge is available at /pylon5/datasets/community/genomics/cami.
- RepBase
- Repbase is the most commonly used database of repetitive DNA elements. You must register with RepBase at http://www.girinst.org and send proof of registration to firstname.lastname@example.com in order to use the Repbase database.
- The University of California at Santa Cruz reference genomes are available at /pylon5/datasets/community/
genomics/UCSC. The collection includes human, mouse and drosophila genomes.
- Other genomics datasets
- Other available datasets are typically used with a particular genomics package. These include:
Dammit uniref90
|Long Ranger
Other useful datasets
A list of datasets that may be useful follows. These datasets are not currently installed on Bridges, but can be copied to your pylon5 space, or if you think they would be useful to many Bridges' users, you can request that they be installed in a public space.
Deep Learning
Keras Datasets for Import
These datasets are available from https://keras.io/datasets/
- CIFAR10 small image classification
- CIFAR100 small image classification
- IMDB Movie reviews sentiment classification
- Reuters newswire topics classification
- MNIST database of handwritten digits
- Fashion-MNIST database of clothing
- Boston housing price regression dataset (from CMU)
Image Databases
- ImageNet
- The PASCAL Visual Object Classes Homepage
- Open Images Dataset V5
- The Street View House Numbers (SVHN)
Natural Language Processing
- Twenty Newsgroups
- Sentiment140
- WordNet
- Yelp Reviews
- The Wikipedia Corpus
- The Blog Authorship Corpus
- Natural Language Toolkit — NLTK 3.4.5
- DBpedia.org
Audio and Audio-Visual
- Free Spoken Digit Dataset
- Free Music Archive (FMA)
- Ballroom
- Million Song Dataset
- LibriSpeech
- VoxCeleb
Machine Learning
Scikit-Learn Datasets for Import
- Wisconsin Breast cancer - binary classification
- Iris - PCA, LDA, multi-class classification
- Wine - multi-class classification
- Boston house prices - regression
- Diabetes - regression
- Handwritten digits - image classification
Multi-class classification and clustering
Binary Classification
Univariate Time Series
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Sylvie Cournoyer has been interested in health and health care for several years and has worked in this domain since 2004 as a massage therapist. A graduate in psychocorporal massage from l'Institut Guijek de Montréal, she is also certified in related areas such as reflexology, fascial therapy, craniosacral therapy, Yoga-Thai massage, massage for pregnant women, and chair massage. Massage sessions with Sylvie are personalized and tailored according to the individual's need. She is a firm believer in the capacity of self-healing and her utmost desire is to bring awareness of, and insight to, wellness and well being using a holistic approach.
Practicing yoga intermittently since 2001, she undertook a Teacher Training Course in Hatha and Vinyasa yoga at the beginner and intermediate levels at Yoga Sangha in Montreal in 2011. She also received her certificate in Yin yoga from HappyTree Yoga in 2013. Sylvie continues to look at the different facets of yoga and likes to say that she is a perpetual student! Her teaching is a mixture of the art of yoga in the traditional form consisting of pranayama (yogic breathing exercises), mudra (sacred gestures) and asanas (poses). With her knowledge of the body she is able to customize her courses so that each student finds his/her place.
Sylvie Cournoyer is a certified Yoga instructor in Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin Yoga and Adapted Yoga and a member of the International Federation of Yoga. She is a massage therapist graduating from Guijek Institute in 2004.
- Member of the FQM (Fédération québécoise des massothérapeutes)
- Member of the ANN (Académie des naturopathes et naturothérapeutes du Canada).
- Member of the FFY (Fédération francophone de yoga)


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Archive for June, 2012
Monthly Archive
Sunday, June 10th, 2012
Tips For Choosing the Best Web Directory to List Your Website
An important part of the online marketing is that your Trade must get proper recognition. One way for that is to Enlist under the web directories. The web directories are the best places through which your business website can be identified in a proper awy. Your website can get the one-way links and that too […]


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Mercedes-Benz – Invisible
Not all publicity stunts are created equal. Often times, attempts at organic press coverage confuse potential customers more than lure them, usually because the marketer's message is lost in the mess of the stunt. Whether Mercedes' invisible car will help sell the brand's new fuel-cell, electric vehicle is yet to be seen, but the message is decidedly effective. Their point? The new fuel-cell vehicle from Mercedes leaves no trace, has no impact on the environment and is therefore invisible as far as the planet is concerned. Granted, there are some gaping holes in their logic, but covering the car in camera-equipped LED lights so as to mask it in the image of its surroundings is nevertheless a memorable message speaking to sustainability as well as modernity. The German automaker spent a week around the country engaging the public in this mobile message and since Saturday the ad has already tracked over a million views.
The Guardian – Three Little Pigs
You've got a British news source that has been in publication since the 19th century. You've got a fable as old as time itself. And then you've got this week's brilliant viral advert combining the two into something entirely new. For years now The Guardian, like many other standard print publications, has been reporting earnings losses, so it thrills us to see them taking this creative, incredibly effective approach illustrating the evolution of news and their role in the news of the future. In the ad, The Guardian reports, online and in print, the murder of the Big Bad Wolf. Social media allows citizens to chime in on the case with opinions, observations and even new information and the story changes before our eyes from three innocent pigs defending themselves to a foreclosure scandal in which the wolf was framed. Coverage combined with national debate spark citizen dissent and riots, all the while the ever-present news source is involved and informative, engaging its readers to be a part of the news and see all sides of the story. It appears that perhaps we've been hearing the story of the three little pigs from a less-than reliable source.
Kia Optima – Dunkology
Will Ferrell and the team behind Funny or Die have been bottling up their viral magic and selling it like hot cakes to brands like K-Swiss, Denny's and Pepsi. The site is becoming a major player in creating one of the few forms of marketing anyone cares about anymore: viral advertisements. With this week's Dunkology ad and subsequent interview (is that a two-for-one price, FOD?) Kia joined the list of viral brands on the web's top comedy source. Jeff Goldblum is obviously someone to trust, especially when wearing a lab coat (sometimes I think Jeff Goldblum was born in a lab coat) and since he is now an expert in "dunkology," it makes perfect sense that basketball star Blake Griffin would take part in a stunt where a Kia drives over his head (sort of) to dunk a basketball. Dunkology 101. The ad is funny, but the post-stunt interview with comedian Wyatt Cenac is hilarious. Links to Funny Or Die below:
Kia Optima Dunk
Post-Dunk Interview
Carl's Jr – Drive-In
Okay … Let's see … What is there to say about the new Carl's Jr. ad featuring Kate Upton? You see this photo here? It's even hotter than that. It has something to do with a spicy burger. Yeah, that's it. There's a burger and there's some jalapeños and it's so spicy that this year's Sports Illustrated cover model gets all sweaty (in the attractive way, of course, not the real-life way) and writhes around in her convertible while eliciting stares at the drive-in. She takes clothes off, we watch over and over. I thought videos of this nature weren't allowed on YouTube, but Carl's Jr. must have found a loophole. Sexiest. Burger. Ever.
Bamboo Sushi – The Story of Sushi
'The Story of Sushi' is an artisan advertisement. Part PSA, part self-promotion, this tale about the state of the world's fishing industry took 7 months to create and produce. Feature length Hollywood films are done in less. The miniatures were all crafted by hand specifically for this advertisement for Portland's Bamboo Sushi. Nothing gets the slow-food message across like a painstaking production process. We saw a similar throw-back approach with the stop-action video 'The Joy of Books' from Toronto's Type bookstore, romanticizing our connection to pages and stories, and they too received lots of attention (not to mention 3 million views) for their heartwarming viral ad. 'The Story of Sushi,' however, is less heartwarming than it is alarming and informative. It is an attempt to wake consumers up from eating in ignorance and consider the source of their seafood. The problem is, few of us know anything about how the fish we eat was caught, but that is also why this restaurant's message works so well. Because at the very least, we now know that we should care, that Bamboo Sushi cares and that their tables can be trusted. The time spent on this production was absolutely worth it. We wouldn't be surprised to find 'The Story of Sushi on next year's TED compilation of Ads Worth Spreading.
The Story of Sushi from Bamboo Sushi on Vimeo.


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One of the things we are most looking forward to in our new life is lots of extra time to pursue our interests. For me, that will be my writing.
Although, I have been writing for decades, I have much to learn as I have never mastered the craft. At this point in time, I am trying to turn an older non-fiction book I wrote on parenting into an e-book. Even though it was written long ago, it still seems to offer good advice and is relevant. For many, many years we worked as foster parents and with challenging teens. We also created and implemented two programs where we contracted with the county. We feel we have some right to offer advice as we have much experience in the field in many capacities. If ever my sorry technological background catches up with the problems of converting my file, this book will be available.
In addition, I am working on my first draft of my first novel. Since I never wrote fiction before, it is rather slow going. I have written over 11,000 words so far; now to make them the right words. Next draft will hopefully improve it considerably. I feel like I am about 1/10th of the way as I need about 100,000 words before it is edited down to 80,000. Will keep you posted on the progress and results.
When you add this blog which will eventually be almost daily, I have a lot to consider and think about. Writing is hard work for most of us and requires as much thinking, daydreaming or goofing off as it does physical act of writing.
When you are living what is today considered a normal life, you are subject to many distractions and short of barricading yourself up in a room, you will be interrupted often. The average person has little extra time in their day since many seem to need to fill every waking moment with doing something. Between things we do to make an income, clubs and charities and if we are lucky some recreation, we as a nation are super busy. Our new lifestyle should create time to do this daydreaming as well as some uninterrupted periods for writing.
Hopefully, with more time to devote to writing, I will be able to produce more than one book a year as it seems now is the pace I've adopted.
Besides the quiet and chance to be more serene as we commune with nature, there should be much stimulation as we see many new places, meet new people and discover some of the best well kept secrets of our gorgeous country. Stimulation and change of scenery seems to be necessary for me to be more inspired.
I am so looking forward to this lifestyle change. I can barely wait.
Writing on the road
One of the things we are most looking forward to in our new life is lots of extra time to pursue our interests. For me, that will be my writing.


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Harry Redknapp has escalated his war of words with Adel Taarabt, branding the QPR midfielder "the worst professional I have ever come across".
Rangers boss Redknapp has refused to relent on his comments after Sunday's 3-2 Liverpool defeat that Taarabt is "about three stone overweight".
Taarabt released pictures holding up his shirt in a bid to dispel Redknapp's jibes, claiming the former Tottenham boss has used him as a scapegoat for QPR's early-season troubles.
Redknapp in turn has said a bout of tonsillitis was the only way Taarabt has been able to shed some pounds, with persistent ankle troubles limiting him to just one appearance this term.
"The only reason he has lost weight is because he has had tonsillitis, that's the only way we could get any weight off of him," Redknapp told The Sun.
"He is not fit to play a game, that's the truth.
"He is the worst professional I have ever come across and I have been his only ally at QPR for the past three years.
"He doesn't try and I have protected him for too long.
"Even I could suck my stomach in for a picture and look OK."
Taarabt told the Daily Mail he has kept his weight at a level consistent with his loan spell at AC Milan last term.
"I don't like the food at the training ground, but eat healthily like every other player. Simple," he said.
'My heaviest weight at Milan was 86kg, my lightest 84kg – now I'm 85kg. It's not true to say I'm not fit.
"He tried to give an excuse."
Redknapp snapped in the post-match press conference after QPR's galling 3-2 Liverpool defeat on Sunday, launching his initial tirade against Taarabt.
Own goals from Richard Dunne and Steven Caulker gifted Liverpool an undeserved victory at Loftus Road, with Eduardo Vargas' two equalisers proving in vain for the hosts.
Leroy Fer twice struck the bar in the first half as QPR dominated the opening hour, only to slump to defeat to remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier League.
When quizzed on Taarabt's fitness on Sunday, Redknapp laid into the 25-year-old.
"He's not fit to play football unfortunately," said Redknapp after the Liverpool clash.
"I pick people that want to try, and deserve to be at a good football club like QPR, and want to work, and come in every day and want to work, and train, and show a good attitude.
"When he starts doing that, whether he ever can do it, maybe he'll get a game.
"I can't keep protecting people who don't want to run about and train, who are about three stone overweight.
"What am I supposed to keep saying, keep getting your 60, 70 grand a week but don't train?
"What's the game coming to?"


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Terror charges for suspect in murky Antwerp car incident
Policemen patrol in the Belgian city of Antwerp on March 23, 2017
A Tunisian man has been charged with terror offences after being arrested for driving at high speed into a crowded shopping area in the Belgian port city of Antwerp, prosecutors said Friday as his motives remained unclear.
The 39-year-old suspect identified only as Mohamed R. was charged with "an attempt to murder in a terrorist manner, an attempt to hit and wound in a terrorist manner and arms infractions," the federal prosecutor's office said.
However, a source close to the investigation told AFP on condition of anonymity that investigators could not confirm if it was a terrorist attack and said the driver made little sense during interrogation.
Other sources said the charges could be interpreted as a "precautionary measure" in order to keep the suspect in detention.
Thursday's incident came a day after a similar attack in London that killed four people plus the attacker. Wednesday was also the first anniversary of the Brussels suicide bombings in which 32 people died.
Belgium attack
Mohamed R. drove at high speed through the busy Meir shopping area in Antwerp, forcing people to jump out of the way, authorities said. No injuries were reported.
He also ignored an initial order to stop by soldiers.
The authorities said they found a rifle and bladed weapons in the car after they arrested the suspect in a parking lot on Thursday.
The Antwerp incident put Europe further on edge after the London attack and the incident at Paris's Orly airport last Saturday when a man was shot dead after grabbing a soldier's rifle.
Investigators said the man in Antwerp was clearly "under the influence of something" but it was not clear what substance.
He was not in a state to be questioned by police until Friday, a source close to the investigation said.
Even then, "his explanation made no sense" and "it is not confirmed that it amounts to a terrorist attack", the source added.
The source said the suspect had recently travelled between Belgium and the Netherlands, living in his car.
A French source close to the investigation said the man had "spent the night in a holding cell" in Antwerp on the eve of the incident before being released on Thursday morning.
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Police stand next to a car after a man tried to drive into a crowd at high-speed in a shopping area in the port city of Antwerp, on March 23, 2017
The suspect had a history of "petty crime," such as public drunkeness and drug use, but has apparently never been flagged as a radical, French police source told AFP.
Interrogated by French police, a friend of the suspect said the weapon in the boot of the car had been there for a long time and did not work.
The Belgian federal prosecutor's office said the suspect was driving at "very high speed" and that "at different times pedestrians were placed in danger".
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel praised security services in the Flemish-speaking city that "did an excellent job".
With soldiers deployed at key sites, Belgium has been on high alert since March 22 last year when suicide bombers attacked Zaventem airport and Maalbeek metro station, killing 32 people and leaving more than 320 wounded.
Belgium suffered a further shock in August when a machete-wielding man shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) attacked two policewomen in the industrial town of Charleroi, before being shot dead.
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Thursday, August 11, 2016 marked the 2nd year anniversary celebration of BASTILLE KITCHEN in Boston. The Parisian style restaurant by Seth Greenberg located at 49 Melcher Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02210, is the same location of the lounge club like Haute spot called CHALET. CHALET is located on the lower floor of the building and decorated like a chic lodge in the French and/or Swiss Alps. The space offers a full service bar so it is a perfect place to meet with friends for drinks, or for a date night, or simply for some Cristal champagne to celebrate life. Yet, Thursday night there was one focus in mind and guest joined together dressed all in white to dance the night away in honor of and to celebrate the 2nd year anniversary of BASTILLE KITCHEN!! Thanks to the dazzling dance music by the talented DJ Sandy Poirier, famed Best of Boston hairdresser, founder and owner of SHAG, there was not one person not up grooving and dancing and having a good time.
Seth has in the last couple of years brought Serafina Boston to the city as well as Bastille Kitchen, but his established Mistral restaurant has been around for 20 years and still thriving!! All locations offer the ability for private party celebrations including birthday and anniversary celebrations so the next time you need a special space think Serafina Boston, Bastille Kitchen and Mistral. Seth Greenberg is credited with bringing glamour to the Boston social scene via M-80, a Saint-Tropez-style bottle-popping dance club that attracted the original international jet set crowd and also created New York City's chic Capitale and Espace.
Find enclosed the images from Thursday, August 11, 2016, Bastille Kitchen's THE WHITE PARTY. Thank you guest DJ Sandy Poirier. It was a fun and fabulous celebration of this haute restaurant's 2nd year anniversary celebration!! Going forward to make a reservation and for more information including the menu please go to, www.bastillekitchen.net and/or call 617- 556-8000.
Photo Credit: JEAN HANGARTER
Photo Credit: JEAN HANGARTER


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Garbage is the new gold. Eklutna, Inc. has plans to get into the solid waste removal business, and has asked Municipality Of Anchorage permission to construct a "monofill" station on corporation land that is within the bounds of the Municipality.
But neighbors Svaja and Robert Worthington say that the Native corporation ought to build it somewhere else. They are forty year residents of the area, and point out that the proposed dump site would impact the quiet nature of their residential neighborhood
"We are shocked that they want to put this in a residential area. It is literally surrounded by parks and businesses and churches and schools and the senior citizens center and the post office and the walking trails. It is just right in the middle of all of that. "
The land is located in between the Old and New Glenn Highways. Ekluta has filed a master plan with the Muni's community development department for 68 acres — 17 of which would be used for the monofill project. Erica McConnell, who handles current planning for the Muni's planning department, says Eklutna's plan states the site is full of gullies that would be ideal containers for the waste. Not so say the Worthingtons
"We drove back there where they want to fill what they call gullies, and they are actually very beautiful natural ravines covered with beautiful trees and sloping hillsides. The materials they want to put there, apparrantly they have had a problem with them in the municipal landfill, it's messed up their leachfield, so they need to find somewhere else to put them." "And mess up leachfields elsewhere." "That's how we see it. "
McConnell says the type of fill would be debris from demolished buildings – what is left after toxic materials and recyclables have been removed – about 25 percent of the rubble left after demolition,
"As their application describes it, an inert waste monfill would take construction debris and debris from demolished buildings, anything that can't be recycled. So, wood, plastic, foam. It would not take any household garbage, any liquids or any type of putresceable waste."
McConnell says the plan would allow Eklutna to haul in fill for thirty years, then convert the property for other uses. McConnell says Eklutna's master plan contains a request for a conditional use permit for the monofill project.
"And they are required to get Master Plan approval, a recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Commission and an approval from the Municipal Assembly, and then they would also need a conditional use approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission for the monofill project. They are still in the process and no approvals from either the Planning Commission or the Assembly have been granted yet. "
A public hearing is set for August 12 on the conditional use permit that would allow the site to be used for fill. Planning Commission public comment on the master plan itself is closed, although a second public hearing before the Anchorage Assembly is scheduled for next month.


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Why the Sync Error occurs
This error occurs when the bill or invoice for the payment listed in the sync error cannot be found in QuickBooks. This can happen if the bill or invoice did not sync from Bill.com or if the bill or invoice was deleted in QuickBooks.
How to Fix the Sync Error
Check the Sync Status page in Bill.com to see what is causing the error:
If the error is for a payment for your vendor:
- Delete the bill in QuickBooks
- After deleting the bill (or if you cannot find the bill), contact Customer Support to request to have the bill re-synced to QuickBooks
- After the bill syncs, the payment will sync and the error will resolve
If the error is for a payment received from a customer:
- Find the invoice for the payment received in QuickBooks and clone it
- If you cannot find the invoice, create a new invoice and reapply the payment
- In Bill.com, find the corresponding invoice
- Click More actions
- Click Clone Invoice
- Update the invoice
- Uncheck all boxes under Send Via
- Click Save
- From the Sync Status page, click on the Payment Received
- Click the edit icon
- Apply the payment to the newly created invoice
- Delete the original invoice
- Sync again Once the newly created invoice syncs, the applied payment will sync and the error will resolve.


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Soybean aphid numbers are climbing in some growing areas, but entomologists at Ohio State University and Purdue University say farmers may want to think twice about spraying the pests.
"Over the past few weeks, the numbers of soybean aphids has increased," said Ron Hammond, OSU entomologist. "But we are trying to be cautious when it comes to treatment because we still don't know what the true threshold is before aphids start to damage the plants.
"We still believe it takes thousands of aphids per plant to cause damage, and there has to be a lot of plants infested with aphids in a field."
Field observations indicate soybean aphid infestations may have reached their peak and numbers could begin dropping in the weeks ahead, Hammond said.
"Some of the hot spots we've been observing have not increased in aphid populations," he said.
"There could be several reasons for this: winged aphids are dispersing and reducing numbers, there is a lot of predation from beneficial insects, or there might be a pathogen at work. I'm not finding as many aphids in some fields as I did a week ago."
Growers concerned about the aphid should randomly pick 10-15 sites in a field, observe the number of aphids found and decide whether to spray, Hammond said.
"If a grower is finding thousands of aphids per plant throughout his field, then he may need to spray," he said. "We don't want to discourage the grower from treating fields, but we don't want to encourage it, either, if it's not warranted. It's just as frustrating for us not to know what to do as it is for the farmer."
Lorsban and dimethoate are insecticides that have proved effective in lowering soybean aphid numbers.
Some soybean plants are yellowing, a characteristic related to soybean aphid damage. But entomologists are unsure whether the discoloration is being caused by the aphid or by other factors, such as lack of rain.
"The yellowing associated with aphids is often caused by a potassium deficiency," Hammond said. "The question is if one is causing the other -- whether aphid damage is increasing existing potassium deficiencies. There is some stunting of plants too, but we attribute much of that to lack of rain. Some of these fields haven't gotten sufficient rain since early June."
John Obermeyer, Purdue entomologist, said he is discouraging treatment as much as possible. "We're very concerned that should a producer treat today, in all likelihood they'll be treating again in a couple of weeks.
"When you treat fields with insecticide you're going to kill much more of the predator population than the aphid population," Obermeyer noted. "Aphids have a tremendous potential to repopulate, whereas the predators are going to be slow coming back, in comparison."
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Hey!! I have a backlog of posts to get written but I have just had a delicious vegan omelette and wanted to share with others. One of the biggest things I have missed since being vegan (nearly 2 and a half years now) is eggs. Fried eggs, Scrambled eggs, Omelettes etc. But, if you... Continue Reading →
The Boston Tea Party, Exeter (Vegan Food Inside)
Hey! The other day I received an email from someone at The Boston Tea Party letting me know about their updated menu and a new Vegan option. They asked if I would like to go and try it and provide some feedback. In the interest of full disclosure, I didn't pay for the meal as... Continue Reading →
Warrens Bakery – Vegan Pasty
Hey! So, the other day someone at work told me Warrens Bakery had brought out a couple of Vegan pasties. I loooooove a pasty, cant beat a good pasty. When I was a kid me and my dad were in Cornwall and went around about 6/7 different bakeries just gorging on them. Since being vegan,... Continue Reading →


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Beware the Hammer – #68
Stolendroids Podcast
As it turns out, we can only do a fast lane when we have a lot of headlines to blow through. Otherwise, we really aren't that fast! We've got your feedback questions and the universe decides to play a joke on Zuke!
On face book I noticed the droids wanted their listeners to send them questions for a possible Q&A episode so here's a question or two from me… well, four anyway. hahaAny of you into steampunk? If not what sort of alternate realities do you imagine?What got you interested in the tech world?Tumblr?What programs do you use to create the podcast?Many regards,Michael
Hi guys,
I have been listening to you for about 2 months now and am currently going through your back catalogue (at the moment I am at ep 23). So please accept my sincerest apologies for not contacting you sooner. My problem is I listen to pods whilst I work and then totally forget to email.
This week you discussed the benefits of apps to assist reading. I can't see this as being anything but a good thing, I have progressively learnt reading and co-ordination skills as well as many other things from various media. Whether this be video games, comics, tv etc.
The best way to learn is to engage with the material that you are being given. For some people this is simply having the text in front of you, and for some having it as a game style format will work better. The key thing is being able to have the variety of methods available at your disposal, not everyone learns the same way. And with apps it can potentially monitor your progression and then adjust its learning curve accordingly.
I think padds are the way of the future and should be implemented at every school. And save on paper and having to buy huge new text books or stock text books that are 20 years out of date.
One other subject I missed a while back was games. My top 5 is Final Fantasy 7 – epic in every sense, completed it 6 times and each play through takes at least 80 – 100hrs, Sonic 2 – so revolutionary and addictive it still stands up today, GTA3 – it was the first of the new wave GTA and revolutionised the series, Metal Gear Solid – such a great movie feel for a game, Resident Evil 2 – the first resi evil game I played and still my favourite.
Keep up the great work.
- Zuke's sad move to RIM
- RIM's board members barely squeak by
- Being just like everyone else will make us unique!
- Apple doesn't care about the environment anymore, just another post-Jobs change.
- You've got to be kidding me. My tax dollars at work.
- The TSA can shoot as many lasers at me they want so long as they stop feeling me up!
- Def Leppard re-records their own songs since the record label won't give them download royalties owed.
- A new gaming console is entering the market
- Beware, ransomware attempts to extort money from you.
- Scientists would have us believe that Batman could actually fly with his cape but landings would be dangerous. Obviously, they don't realize that he's the freaking Batman and he's practically indestructible.
- I can haz a film festival? Minneapolis can haz! A film festival dedicated to Internet Cats is set to start August 30th. No matter who wins, we've all lost.
- It may not be a planet anymore, but Pluto manages to keep scientists on their toes by collecting more and more moons. The newest has been designated P5 and has been captured by Hubble. Gotta catch them all.
- Firefly will be returning to television this fall. The Science Channel will be airing a documentary looking at the Comic-Con reunion, as well as a special behind-the-scenes roundtable interview with the cast where they'll answer many questions they've probably answered for fans before.
Talking Point:
The question of mini-series
Zuke's Favorite: Why Ron Perlman is the most awesome!
Stark's Favorite: History of Rock and Roll in one riff
Zohner's Favorite: The most horrible thing ever
Schmidty's Favorite: Minecraft Parody of Party Rock Anthem