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It's just not footy! Saturday night grand final is sacrilege
TWO long-time Ipswich rugby league supporters are filthy about the IRL grand final being on a Saturday night and are set to boycott this year's decider.
And they both reckon there are plenty of other supporters who share their view.
Goodna Eagles stalwarts Lyle Reed and Keiron Butler won't see their beloved team play either Brothers or Fassifern in the decider at North Ipswich Reserve on Saturday, September 10.
Both insist Sunday afternoon grand finals are part of Ipswich rugby league history and they don't want it messed with.
Butler said he canvassed opinion amongst the crowd last weekend at the footy and the consensus was that Sunday was the preference for the grand final, and that Saturday evening was "a joke".
The understanding of Butler and Reed, and most of those we have spoken to in Ipswich league circles, is that the decision to play on Saturday night is a directive from above by the QRL so that the Gold Coast can play its decider on a Sunday.
The QT asked the QRL about this and we were told that the decision was made by the IRL, a claim backed by IRL chairman Jack Rhea who said the IRL clubs voted on it. But the club officials the QT has spoken to can't recall any vote being taken.
Either way, Butler and Reed won't be going to the Saturday night grand final, where the A-grade decider kicks off at 5pm.
"I've been going to IRL grand finals since 1964 and haven't missed one apart from the year I was in the army," Butler bellowed, while outside North Ipswich Reserve.
"I played on this oval in eight grand finals for different clubs, mainly Goodna.
"Ipswich has held its grand final on Sunday for the last 50 years. It is a disgrace having this on a Saturday night. They've taken the heart and soul out of rugby league in Ipswich. They've taken our history off us.
"Sunday afternoon there is better atmosphere. They get better crowds. It is better for the culture of the city. We've got to preserve our rugby league history. Saturday afternoon grand finals don't work anywhere.
"I know a dozen life members down in Goodna who have said they can stick their grand final up their arse if they have it on a Saturday night.
"I won't be there."
The QT asked Butler: Even though Goodna is in it?
"I don't give a stuff if Jesus Christ is coming on Saturday night," he fired.
"He can play fullback for Goodna if he likes...but we'd still get beaten by the refs."
OK, thanks Keiron. Don't hold back!
Reed represented Gatton and Goodna in grand finals at North Ipswich Reserve and has been a coach and long-time strapper for the Eagles in his 40-year association with the club.
What does Lyle reckon?
"It is sacrilege," he said.
"I've written a book about the 100-year history of Goodna and districts rugby league and I am appalled what the QRL is doing to the Ipswich rugby league.
"Ipswich has been in the league for over a hundred years, a lot longer than the Gold Coast.
"This is all being done so that the Gold Coast can have their grand final on a Sunday.
"I'm very disappointed. The passion and the support that we will get on a Sunday would see 5000 or 6000 here in Ipswich.
"It's Ipswich's day of glory, and I mean day not night. Our rugby league history speaks for itself. How many internationals have we produced and how would they feel about playing on Saturday night?"
Reed has his niece's wedding on September 10, which was planned in January. He said he wouldn't be going anyway to the grand final even if he was free.
"I'd boycott it. This is one I'm going to miss," he said.
IRL chairman Jack Rhea said the decision to hold the grand final on Saturday night was made for the sake of players so they could celebrate the aftermath without missing work.
"It is simple," he said.
"In the old days blokes played in the grand final on Sunday.
"They'd get on the piss and wouldn't go to work on Monday, and then on Tuesday the boss would pat them on the back and say 'I hope you had a good weekend'.
"Now when they get on the (drink) and don't go to work there are blokes getting the sack from their jobs. Young blokes have got obligations.
"The clubs voted on it. We put it to them about Saturday night. There were those for and against, but in the end everybody agreed and it was carried.
"I am a traditionalist, but things are changing and we've got to go with it.
"What would you rather do? Would you rather run around on a Sunday afternoon in 30 degree heat or on Saturday night when it's 23 degrees?"
Rhea said the IRL was hoping to attract families to the game and that Saturday would be a day more suited to that.
The QT asked Rhea whether the decision had anything to do with the Gold Coast being given a Sunday grand final on the same weekend.
"No," he said.
"We'd made this decision well before then."
Ipswich rugby league historian Jan Christison consulted her historical records as she spoke to the QT, and discovered Ipswich Rugby League grand finals started off being played on Saturdays, before the Sunday date became the norm in the 1950s.
"In 1910 the first grand final was on Saturday, September 24 between Starlights and Belvideres and Starlights won," she said.
"Nobody played football on Sundays then.
"It was still Saturday in 1957 and then it became Sunday in 1958. There could have been one on Saturday since, but it looks like all Sunday since 1958.
"I really don't think it matters too much so long as we get a good crowd on Saturday.
"It is so much different to the early years because people only worked five or five and a half days a week. Now it is 24/7 and there are lots of part-time workers.
"It is hard to accept change, but I don't think the IRL had much choice this year."
What about the idea of a 'Mad Sunday' being the reason given for the change?.
"My husband and I have always said, even with the NRL guys, that what they need to do the day after the game is get up and go to a job and do something responsible, then they wouldn't get into trouble," she said.
"But it wouldn't matter if it was played on Friday night. They would do something on Saturday. If it was played Thursday, they'd do something Friday. That's just the nature of the beast.
"If they win the grand final on Sunday they'll do something Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. They'll go for a week."
Brothers club president Mark Hennelly said he agreed with Reed and Butler on the issue of which day the game should be played.
"Our preference is to play on Sunday afternoon," he said.
"Sunday afternoon and grand finals...that is tradition. It is what people expect.
"Our sides are generally well trained, and if you are a side that is reasonably fit you want to play Sunday afternoon in the heat against a side that is not as fit...but playing at night is a bit of an equaliser.
"But the fact of the matter is that it is a QRL or South East Queensland direction. The Gold Coast grand final is on the same weekend. They are on Sunday and we are on Saturday night.
"I'm led to believe that if there's the same timing next year the Gold Coast will be on Saturday night and we'll be on Sunday."
Fassifern Bombers president Kent West also would have preferred a Sunday date.
"I think there was some balls-up and the Gold Coast got in and booked in ahead of us," he said.
"Keiron is probably about my age, and the Sunday game is the traditional game. I'm a traditionalist and prefer Sunday afternoon football but if you have to play Saturday night you have to and that is all there is to it."
Either way, West just wants his Bombers to be in the GF and play against an Eagles outfit he said deserved to be there.
"Goodna is in the grand final and we are just hoping we can get over Brothers and join them," West said.
"It's good to see Goodna in there. They are a good club and mix well with our club and other clubs."
Butler won't be at the grand final but will be supporting Goodna from afar.
"I reckon they will win the grand final under the excellent leadership of Ramon Filipine," he said.
"And it is great to see Laurie Campbell there as the coach. "I'll be at home and getting phone messages every 10 minutes and getting descriptions of the game. I'll be sitting back with some Kilkennys and getting the flash scores from the oval."
Reed's wedding is at Logan and he too will be getting updates by phone.
"Goodna are one of the best teams in the competition and it will be a very close contest, although I am wary of Brothers," he said.
"I'm just very sad I won't be here to witness my long-term club Goodna make their mark in the grand final."
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I have a new "Poison Nightshade" bead series that I've made for the Halloween season. The idea behind is has a long story behind it, but I thought that it was one worth sharing.
Recently I realized that magic is real and a part of us all, in fact it's the fabric of reality. I used to be a perfectly practical and pragmatic person, in fact I went so far in that direction that I almost lost my spark. I neglected my own self care and felt like my responsibilities were eating me alive, but the more I pushed myself forward the more I felt like I was falling behind.
Last October, just before Halloween I went for a walk in the cemetery, that is just up the road from my house. To the back of the cemetery, where the oldest graves are, there is one cemetery plot in particular that is hard to miss. Dr. Pomroy was a successful doctor from the 1800's who prescribed herbal remedies.
His cemetery plot is gorgeous, every bit of it is covered in stone with an enormous pink granite monument in the center. There are heavy pink granite bird baths on either side. The pyramid theme continues in the stone walls around the plot, and the cut stone slabs that cover each grave. There are steps to invite you up. In this poor town his plot stands out.
On this October day there was one thing growing on this beautiful stone covered plot. I've always loved plants and identifying them and I recognized the plant with beautiful red berries as poison nightshade, and google confirmed that I was correct. "Poison nightshade on an herbal healer's grave!" I was thrilled with the joke and thought the timing, just before Halloween was especially thrilling and creepy.
There was one other time months before this that I visited this cemetery plot. I had taken my daughter for a stroller ride and fascinated with the elaborate plot I put the brakes on her stroller and went to check it out. A moment later my daughter was flying down the hill and I sprinted after her just narrowly catching the stroller before it crashed. My daughter was completely unconcerned and never realized what had happened but I was quite unsettled. I must have not put the brake on properly.
Intrigue became a seed in my mind, like the seed that a bird had dropped by the birdbath that had sprouted into poison nightshade. My daughter and I went back the cemetery as Winter fell and she was wearing a pair of bright purple mittens. I was trying to get her to take a nap and she was very grumpy. Having never read the inscriptions on the stone, I removed her from her stroller and took her with me so that this time, the stroller wouldn't roll away down the hill with her in it. She started having a tantrum, not uncommon for a strong willed two year old and before I could read the stone I had to leave with her. When we were almost back home she noticed that her mittens were gone and she started screaming "my mittens, my mittens!" I decided to go back later to retrace our steps but never got the chance to go back.
An impulse came to me a few weeks later. I was standing in my bedroom, which happens to be my favorite room in the house. It used to be an old attic and has walls that angle in but we were able to renovate it into a master bedroom. I had a vision for the room for years since buying our house. I painted the entire room white, with a white wood floor and a turquoise blue rug.
While standing there I remembered that years earlier when I first moved to this part of town, a friend and I had done a little bit of research into Dr. Pomroy and that he had a written a book of herbal recipes. I had never bought or read the book, so I decided to order a copy. I was busy with work so I never had time to look it up.
Later when I had a spare moment, I couldn't remember what I had had an impulse to do, just the feeling of it. It felt good. It took a few minutes to recall what the impulse actually had been. I have always enjoyed plants and foraging so I thought I might be able to learn about some local medicinal plants from his book. To my surprise the book has been archived and was available for reading free online.
Even more to my surprise the book was titled "Clairvoyant Reminiscences and Herbal Recipes" and included the life story of Dr.Pomroy. I found the story engrossing, so engrossing that I couldn't remember getting so lost in a book before and it reminded me of when I was a young girl reading novels.
Dr.Pomroy describes walking to a city 2 hours drive from here to find employment as a 15 year old, and walking through the Black Woods not realizing how expansive the forest was and having to spend the night there with wolves howling around him. He describes the development of his clairvoyant powers and frequently going to mesmerists. I always assumed that Dr.Pomroy had been a doctor who claimed to be clairvoyant. I never realized that clairvoyance led to his becoming a doctor. He prescribed herbal medicines for people in a time when mercury was prescribed as a medicine, surgery was crude, unsanitary, misunderstood and over-prescribed. Most of his patients came to him after traditional doctors could not help.
I fell in love with Dr.Pomroy and I felt so much connection to him as he described growing up here in a remote disadvantaged area, but having a deep love and connection with it at the same time. It was like reading a fantasy story that took place in your hometown. It made me start thinking about many aspects of my life, including having the bravery to go out in the world and share your gifts, knowing that not everyone will like or accept them.
After reading the book, I went back to visit his grave again on a winter day. We had about an inch of snow covering the ground and I went for a run. My footsteps packed the snow under my feet. I walked up the steps to his plot and this time I finally got to read the names and dates on the stones. I walked around behind the stone and exactly where I stepped and disturbed the snow was my daughter's purple mitten.
The older I get the more I realize that love is all there is to life and the only key to living a good one. We are sometimes taught to protect our hearts and to "grow up" and stop seeing the world with the loving accepting eyes of a child. When we hear about a story of a clairvoyant person, our mind goes to disproving and explaining.
The fact is that we do not live in a material world. There is something more, and there is something that bridges the divide between the material and the spiritual. That thing is God. That thing is magic. That thing is love. The differences between those three words, only exist in our mind, and our mind is a thing that differentiates. Beyond the practical view of the mind, there is only one thing, Love/God/Oneness.
I have since gone on to thoroughly research Dr.Pomroy and I have gone on many field trips in the process. It has been like a scavenger hunt, with lots of Easter eggs along the way, but the real prize in the end of every worthy endeavor, is none other than finding our authentic "self", our nature as Love. The things I have found and experienced have been rich, all underlying expressions of love.
Love comes through to us in gifts, in different ways. For me it's a deep connection with nature, a love of art and creativity. The things we are passionate about doing are the ways in which Love flows through us.
Yes, Magic is real. Its existence is what ties us together in shared being. It shows itself to us by coincidence, synchronicity, and shared connection, it's what makes this random and sometimes cruel seeming universe collapse into something small at times. Whenever we find out that we have a connection with some seemingly random person and we say "It's a small world!", and in that moment, magic happens.
We are connected. We are all one. What is real never dies, but lives on as Love. Sometimes that love is a crow dropping a poison berry so it sprouts into a weed that grows on the grave or an herbal healer. There are no mistakes in life, it's all by intelligent design.
It only requires our belief, and our recognition and acknowledgement to be seen. There is no difference between love, creativity, flow states and magic. Magic=Love. Open your heart to see it.

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Mandi Hanson
Mandi HansonCirculation Services Assistant
Mandi graduated from Baptist Bible College in Clarks Summit, Pa where she met her husband Brian. She has enjoyed serving with her husband in youth ministry for the last 23 years. During that time she was able to teach elementary school for 4 years and served as a substitute teacher. Even though she has enjoyed teaching and serving in her local church her greatest love has been staying at home with her four children. Mandi joined the library staff as Assistant Circulation Services Manager in 2012.
Education and Credentials
- B.S. Bible and Elementary Education, Baptist Bible College
- Spending time with my family
- Shopping and going out to eat with friends
- Vacationing at the beach
- Reading
- Leading Bible studies


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Pearson Cafeteria
Project Description
With an expanding enrollment, renovationand expansion of the Pearson Cafeteria at North Carolina Central University was long over due. In addition to doubling the facility's size, the project provided a new image for student dining, a campus gateway, a community hub and a larger variety of healthier food choices for students, staff, faculty and visitors.
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Durham, N.C.
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The Process
"Pearson Street," a new wide passage that cuts through the building, links the north campus with the academic quad. The open plan of the dining room is complemented by northern daylight from the full height glass walls, enhancing the dining experience while creating an ambience that attracts and retains. A variety of dining spaces are provided, from the flexible, 1,200-seat open dining with Marché style servery to the cybercafé, banquet room and chancellor's and faculty's dining areas.
Expansive exterior glass walls invite people into the cafeteria with generous views of the activity within. At night, the lighted glass walls become a welcoming beacon of these spaces. Indoor/outdoor spaces such as balconies and patios encourage interaction during nice weather while, conversely, Pearson Street and the cybercafé provide shelter in the event of bad weather.


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Directed by MILTON KATSELAS
Screenplay by LEONARD GERSHE
The blind boy has only recently moved into the Haight-Ashbury district from a plush San Francisco suburb, where Mom smothered him with heaping portions of maternal concern. A guitarist and songwriter, he is anxious to make it on his own, maybe put together a nightclub act. Everyone is impressed with his songs and with his matter-of-fact courage about his handicap. "You're a beautiful person, inside and out," gushes the girl next door, who rapidly graduates to roommate status.
Leave it to Mom to bust up the match. She tells her son he can...


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Cynical click-bait headline aside, I'll cut to the chase, they don't work. There, I said it.
Used with permission Baloo -Rex May
But let's look at why that is, there are 3 main reasons:
1. You will think that it's supposed to take responsibility for you. This is a commonly held view, and it seems the more expensive the chair is, the more likely you will fall into this trap. Harking back to my first ever blog, you have to remember that a chair is an inanimate object, it is incapable of "doing" anything, let alone taking responsibility for you. For sure, a good ergonomic chair will provide what we call in the Alexander Technique a "mechanical advantage", but it wont be providing any guarantees. You need to provide your own guarantees.
2. There's a strong chance that you will adjust it to your current conception of comfort or habitual use, i.e. to support your current levels of collapse and effectively ingraining them further.
3. This is probably the most pernicious of the three, you'll bring your old habits to it. Even if the chair is set up perfectly to offer you the greatest mechanical advantage, the habitual way you use yourself will fight against this advantage. Have you ever felt that a well set up ergonomic chair leaves you feeling more tired than a regular chair?
Let's face it, if ergonomic chairs were the answer no one would have back pain, and only ergonomic chairs would exist. And if you can make good use of an ergonomic chair, you probably don't need one!
It may seem a little unfair to single out one particular chair , but I do so partly from my personal experience and partly because it coincidently exhibits a point I've made a few times previously. They're also extremely common, certainly across the Square Mile (London's financial district) where I worked for many years as an IT consultant for a number of investment banks. For me, the "Aeron" style chair fails simply because the surface on which you sit is unstable. To repeat my mantra, "if you can stand on it, you can sit on it", this is clearly not a surface on which you could stably stand, being a stretchy woven fabric. It's like trying to stand on a trampoline, it provides little more support for your sit bones than a sofa. Maybe it's my narrow definition of what sitting is, standing on your sit bones, but I found that the Aeron strongly encourages a collapse into the back rest. That might be fine for resting/reclining, but aren't these supposed to be work chairs? As a reminder, the roots of your arms are in your back, you don't want to loose that support when you are typing away at your keyboard, it invariably leads to tense shoulders and potential repetitive strain injury.
For the sake of fairness I'll mention another ergonomic chair that I've had plenty of experience with in the past. Kneel on chairs do encourage an alignment of the spine, but they leave you somewhat immobile, and freedom to move is an essential aspect of using yourself well. I find that after a few minutes I feel locked in place and rigid, and that always leads to tension and feels more tiring in the long run than sitting on a simple flat surface. I also found it reduced the blood flow through my legs, causing discomfort.
Although it should be obvious by now that any flat surface will suffice for standing on your bottom (yes I will keep hammering home my definition of sitting), there is actually one style of ergonomic chair that I do quite like. Under the assumption that you are not expecting it to take responsibility for you, I find saddle chairs to be very comfortable, and ironically, it's not a surface you can stand on easily! It looks like there's an exception to every rule, but the sit bones are still well supported.
When you consider the cost of ergonomic chairs, and they don't come cheap, it is far better value, and cheaper than many ergonomic chairs, to learn to how to use a simple chair,
freeing you to sit anywhere with ease and poise.
"No, what we need to do is not to educate our school furniture, but to educate our children. Give a child the ability to adapt himself within reasonable limits to his environment, and he will not suffer discomfort, nor develop bad physical habits, whatever chair or form you give him to sit upon" - F.M. Alexander, Man's Supreme Inheritance.
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Adrian, I couldn't agree more. I'm curious about the saddle chair - I've never tried that.
I wonder what you think about chairs (or stools) that slant slightly forwards, rather than the typical slope that tilts backwards and encourages more of a slump. I've currently been exploring a very basic stool that is a little higher than a normal chair and has a slight slant forward and down. It seems to help me allow space in my hip joints, and encourages bending from there, and it is relatively easy to be upright without strain. It does not, however, conform to your "if you can stand on it, you can sit on it" rule - though as with the saddle chair, maybe it's another exception.
Adrian, I have the Freedom stool by Humanscale (I don't know if mine is made anymore) and I like it a lot. I alternate this with the infamous Aeron chair, knowing it's limitations, but using the Alexander Tru Comfort back support without the seat part. I'm not sure this is available anymore.
Freedom Stools look quite good Wendy, I just looked them up, I think I'd be happy with one of those. I'm typing this sat on an old dining room chair that has seen better days, I'd gladly replace it with A Freedom Stool.
After reading the blog a friend sent me a link to this:
It does look like it will support the sit bones well, I like it.
But for less than the price of this chair I can teach you to sit well on any chair and improve your general well being.
Which do you think is a better investment?
Hi Adrian.....Have you heard of the "Wave Stool" I believe it's inspired by the Alexander Technique. I would be interested to know your thoughts, the website is posture-chair.co.uk I've been a pupil for many years and enjoy reading your blogs, thanks for taking the time to write them.
Great article Adrian. I have found that I have stolen your phrase "standing on your sit bones" a few times (hope you don't mind).
I like the wave stool, we had one on our teacher training course and I found it very useful to let go of my legs in sitting. Something that at the time I believed was necessary to hold me up and I see this often in my pupils. Now my favoured chair is a plain old wooden flat seated chair or stool that can be picked up from a secondhand shop or even Ikea for a fraction of the cost. Alexander lessons are by far a better investment.
Karen, yes, I have tried a Wave stool, I found it very comfortable. But then again, I find a simple stool comfortable. I think you can tell from my blogs I'm not so interested in the furniture as long as it doesn't encourage poor use of ourselves, it's really what we bring to it that matters.
Thank you for reading, I'm glad you enjoy my blogs, it means a lot.
Hi Claire, feel free to steal, we all do from each other :)
Sometimes I wonder if my AT training was all about sitting on Ikea stools ;)
I bought a wave stool which as you probably know, is made to suit your individual height. This was recommended by my Alexander teacher. I'd tried a wave stool in her practice room and liked it. Whilst it does keep your back constantly mobile, automatically making all those minor adjustments according to changing posture, the seat itself is very hard. It seems to be nothing more than a flat disc of wood (not moulded to the shape of the bottom) covered by a thin layer of foam and then lined with the covering material. It also slopes forward. I found that the forward slope of the seat and the gravity that constantly being on a slope applies (even with your feet resting on the floor), combined with the slightly wider leg gait necessary because the rocker comes to a point in the front with your feet either side, together with the hardness of the seat, put constant pressure on the inner side of the front of my ischal tuborosities (sit bones). As a result I developed Ischial bursitis (one of the causes of which is regular or prolonged sitting on a hard surface - I used it as a computer chair). Now I can't sit down on any chair without pain and wish I'd never bought the wave stool!!! I did at one point try putting one or two cushions on it to make the seat softer but of course this ajusted the height so that my feet no longer comfortably rested on the floor. This stool, in my opinion, seems to focus on the health of the back whilst ignoring possible effects on other parts of the body. I also expierienced neck pain whilst using it at a computer. Now that I'm obliged to use a standing work station, the neck pain has completely gone.
The problem in many work places these days is that health and safety often makes it impossible (or very difficult) to get anything other than the officially approved chair. Luckily I don't work in such environments any more. Most coffee shops have stools or old fashioned wooden chairs so they're a great place to work
I love all your posts, definitely this post too. You are coming out with different posts day by day. The way of endeavoring the info is really interesting and cool. I would say health and safety plays an important role in our life. It's good to choose best bungee chairs and other top chairs for everyone.
Not completely agree with your version about the Aeron. As everything, if you use on the right way it will work. I use for long periods that chair (sometimes many hours without standing 5-8) and no problems on my back. I have to say that I corrected myself seating on that chair by always keeping my back on the backrest and for that it's important to have the screen in a good high level to keep your position and also found essential to have one of the feet support to keep moving your legs and uncles. The Aeron is great, to say that it was a time that the Pneumatic Cylinder was badly designed but I think they fixed after few years not to be wobbly and if you want to make it more stable simply use a little flat cushion (maybe latex one) to have little more support. Even days of 18 hours retouching pictures I can stand and walk without pain, not a thing that will happened if I do that on a hard surface, stable or not. Also, Aeron chair versions have the one that you can move the armrest and adjust in order to rest properly while you are typing and another essential is the common bad habit of just not increasing font size on the screen that it's so easy so people tend to force the eyes and position forward to reed. Got more points but good enough for now.
Fernando, maybe it's my narrow definition of what sitting actually is which you can read about in this post:
What you're doing in the Aeron chair is reclining, not sitting, and comes with other issues around being sedentry. And I don't doubt that you don't have the skill to sit well at present, but that's another issue. 18 hours is a long time to be sedentary, I would need to get up and walk around periodically to cope with that, even if reclining! Good to hear you're pain free all the same.
Hi Adrian. I need something to sit in order to work for 8 hours daily in my computer desk. It's a regular desk, around 75 cm high. I put my monitor on its edge and the keyboard in front of me, on top of the same surface. Monitor height is adjustable and I have space before the keyboard to rest my forearms. The only thing missing is the sitting really. Should I go with a saddle chair/stool? Won't I be tired after 1 hour, maybe start to losing focus on my work? Thanks!
Hi Allan,
Thanks for your question.
I'd question the wisdom of sitting for so long without breaks even if you have mastered the art of sitting well. You'll probably lose focus after an hour of mental activity anyway regardless of the chair.
See if you can find ways to take natural breaks like going to get a drink (hydration is important in our ability to focus after all), or make any phone calls standing up, preferably with a hands free kit so you can pace around your desk.
I do like the saddle chair but I'd recommend trying one in a shop to see how you like it. You can also get them with back rests so you can recline a bit to give yourself a rest from time to time.
Good luck.
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My favourite chair to sit on of all time would be a mahogany chair made by my grandfather, which had a flat seat carved a bit to mould to the buttocks, horizontally aligned (no forward or backward slope), with a nice upright hooped back, with spindles. The back was almost sloping inwards. It was probably a copy of some old fashioned chair, and it's firmness was so good...I feel sure my pelvic muscles can relax better on a hard surface.
When speaking about comfort in the workplace, ergonomic designs must be considered. With right chair we can help mitigate health risks such as carpal tunnel syndrome; lower back pain; muscle tension and fatigue.

I sit on those flat balance discs at work for a change in pace. Can't have a stability ball in my staid office, but the disc causes the same improvement in posture.
To me, everything starts with the proper posture. An ergo chair or an ergo desk can be great attributes to your office space. These can represent truly valuable assets to your office and greatly improve your life. I highly recommend talking to an expert about introducing these simple changes to your current life/work habits. http://ergonomictrends.com/bad-computer-posture-mistakes/
I have developed ischial bursitis in the past year and cannot sit in my "ergonomic " chair any longer, not even for a short time. I am scouting for a good chair that will position me well that I can tolerate sitting in. In addition to the IB, I have sciatica, "swayback", and an L5-S1 disc bulge. What's more, I am very short, and I cannot find a chair that has a short enough seat that my back reaches the lumbar supports while my feet are on the ground properly. If you have a suggestion, I'm all ears. My job is very demanding and I often sit for long periods before I realize I haven't gotten up. Thanks for the article.
Which chair is the best for my 7 year old, should I invest in a moll ergonomic chair? https://moll-funktion.com/en/products/maximo/
Any suggestions for kids chairs?
Thank you for your help!
Hi Elena,
There's certainly nothing wrong with Moll Maximo, and given that it can be adjusted as your child grows you'll get years of use out of it.
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We love creativity and individuality. That's why each piece of work our students produce is completely unique, with its own individual badge of identity. We don't just offer standard courses where everyone creates the exact same thing. You decide what you want to design and we'll help you achieve it.
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What is the 'exit status' returned by CkSsh_GetChannelExitStatus(). I want to run a program on a remote machine using CkSsh_SendReqExec() and get the program's exit code when it completes (the number passed to exit(n)). Is the number returned by CkSsh_GetChannelExitStatus() the exit code I'm looking for?
Yes and no.
If you are calling SendReqExec, then the SSH channel is running your program directly, and in this case the exit status of your program is the exit status of the SSH channel.
If you started a shell session, and you're running your program via the remote shell, then No. The channel exit status is the exit status of the shell program (it is the remote shell that would receive the exit status of your program).


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In the summer of 2011, a group of artists, leaders of a local women's center, students at a girl's school, and other local residents gathered in Balata, the largest refugee camp in the West Bank. Together with the artist Lily Yeh, founder of the nonprofit arts organization Barefoot Artists, they created a brightly colored mural of a tree that Yeh named the "Palestinian Tree of Life." It's a bright spot in a maze of three-story concrete blocks—in the camp, 23,000 people occupy a space of less than one square mile.
Lily Yeh and Barefoot Artists travel the world, engaging impoverished communities in collaborative arts projects to beautify their neighborhoods. They've conducted painting and performance workshops with children in the Ivory Coast. In Dzegvi, Georgia, they encouraged children and adults to take hundreds of photos that they then presented to their village. And in the heavily polluted outskirts of Beijing, China, the group worked with students, teachers, and staff to renovate their school, which is housed in a former factory and serves 520 children, mostly from low-income migrant families. The group believes that these participatory arts projects not only improve the physical environment, but also build social trust.
Before she started Barefoot Artists, Yeh had worked for years in Philadelphia, where in 1986, she brought a group of North Philadelphia residents together to convert a vacant lot into an art park with mosaic sculptures and murals. Over the years, she was joined by other artists and educators and, together, they created the Village of the Arts and Humanities, which offers arts and educational programs and has transformed more than 150 parcels of vacant land in Philadelphia into parks and gardens.


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Wealthy Are the Only Ones Spending
UPDATED: as of June 11 9:00 am
Retail sales tumbled 1.2% in May, as a new poll indicates that the spending is primarily coming from wealthier and older consumers.
The government released its report on retail sales for May on Friday, and the Commerce Department said sales dropped from the previous month bucking expectations for a small increase. Declines were pretty broad based among autos, gas stations and general merchandise stores. Grocery and health-care stores posted increases, and there was some strength in companies that sell furniture and appliances, possibly boosted by government tax credits.
A new poll from Gallup may indicate that the mix of spending may have a hard time keeping retail sales buoyant. The poll indicates that consumers who make more than $90,000 account for the bulk of that spending increase. Upper-income Americans' self-reported spending rose 33% to an average of $145 per day in May — up from $109 per day in April. Meanwhile, middle- and lower-income Americans' self-reported spending averaged $59 per day in May, unchanged from the previous month.
Higher-income "consumers seemed to be holding back on spending prior to May in response to the length and depth of the recession, the financial crisis, and a general feeling of economic uncertainty," wrote Dennis Jacobe, Gallup chief economist. "In May, this seemed to change. It could be that many upper-income consumers are experiencing 'frugality fatigue.'"
The result is consistent with the picture in the U.S. labor market. In May, the headline U.S. unemployment rate declined to 9.7% from 9.9%, but all of the gains came from workers with a bachelor's degree or higher, which tend to include the highest paid workers. The jobless rate among college graduates dropped to 4.7% from 4.9% as the number of unemployed declined, compared to an increase among all other education levels. The unemployment rate jumped to 15% for those with less than a high school diploma and climbed to 10.9% for high school graduates.
The increased spending by higher-income consumers also was reflected in monthly reports from companies. Luxury retailers posted some of the best numbers last week in same-store sales.
Meanwhile, when you break Gallup's spending data down by age, all groups increased their spending from last year, a positive sign for economic recovery. But the biggest jump — 45% — came from consumers over 65 years of age. Though down over the last month, the U.S. stock market rallied through most of the last 12 months, possibly boosting sentiment among retirees and those nearing retirement.


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3 Affordable Luxury Riads in Marrakech
When I was planning my second ever trip to Marrakech, I had a very clear idea of what type of vacation I wanted. My first trip there a gazillion years ago, was about seeing as much as I could in a short amount of time, and this second trip was to be more about soaking up the luxury of the amazing riads in Marrakech, dining at beautiful restaurants and of course shopping.
As I started researching and planning the trip, I was intent on finding affordable luxury riads to enjoy my time in this magical city. What quickly became apparent was that Instagram has made Marrakech so popular, meaning each time I found somewhere I liked, it would be booked out months in advance. I was starting to lose hope, but I persevered and struck gold. I may have had to change our flight dates by one day to make it all work, but needs must ;o)
We stayed in three very different, equally luxurious riads during our five night trip. I know that sounds OTT but A. it was the only way I could make the trip work, as nothing on my wish list was available for the full five nights, and B. the riads were no more than a 15 minute walk apart so it made moving accommodation pretty easy. I recommend staying in a couple of different places, I'd definitely do the same again, as you can explore a new part of the medina in each location you stay in.
So let's get to it, and check out these 3 affordable luxury riads in Marrakech …
Les Yeux Bleus
Riad Les Yeux Bleus is located in the Bab Doukkala district of the medina, and a ten minute walk from Jemaa el Fna square (very touristy and full of snake charmers and monkeys on leashes which makes me sad!).
Inside the riad you'll find two pools. A large one on the ground floor, and a smaller one on the roof top terrace. Breakfast is served around either pool each morning at a time of your choosing. We dined on the rooftop both mornings, and enjoyed the warm sun as we drank coffee, and planned our day.
Les Yeux Bleus has eight beautiful rooms, all individually decorated. Our room, located next to the ground floor pool was very large, along with a big en suite bathroom.
The interior decoration is beautiful, and you'll find plenty of cosy little spots around the riad to relax, a library to read a book in, there's also a full spa service including massage and hammam.
I loved this riad, it is extremely large and spacious, and oozes peace and tranquility.
Address: 7 Derb El Ferrane, Bab Doukkala, Medina, Marrakech, Morocco
Snan13 Marrakech
Located in Mouassine, just minutes from Jemaa El Fna Square, Snan13 is tucked away in a quiet, but very central spot in the medina.
From the moment we stepped inside the doors of Snan13, we were smitten. This riad is breathtakingly beautiful. White walls with the most gorgeous pink and orange Bouganvilliers spilling out over the top of the courtyard. The service at Snan13 is impeccable, we felt like we were being greeted by old friends. Nothing was ever too much trouble, and all the recommendations given by the staff were spot on.
This is a riad where you'll be surrounded by calm and beauty. Despite being in the medina, it was quiet, and so peaceful!
Snan13 has one grand suite and five double bedrooms, all individually decorated to an extremely high standard. Our room was facing the patio where there is a swimming pool and a dining area. I could literally climb out the bedroom window into the pool! Around the riad you'll find different lounge areas to relax in, and a large roof terrace where we were served a lovely breakfast.
I'm almost tempted to keep this place a secret as it's so special! If you want to feel like you've found a jewel amongst Marrakech's riads, I truly recommend this amazing place.
Email: email@example.com
Phone: +212 524 38 19 97
Address: Mouassine, Derb Snan 13. (Medina) 40030, Marrakech, Morocco
Numa Marrakech
Numa is located in Rahba Lakdima, very close to Jemaa El Fna Square and in a really great, central location, also close to Place des Épices, a lovely square selling everything from woven baskets to hats, and surrounded by some great cafes.
If you love design, you'll fall in love with Numa. This place is so incredibly chic, my mouth dropped open as I walked into the courtyard.
In the courtyard, you'll be served the most amazing breakfast each morning. I'm not a breakfast consumer but I made sure I got up each morning to enjoy this spread! On the first floor you can relax on sun loungers and take a dip in the very elegant looking pool. Further up on the roof terrace, you'll find more loungers and sofas to relax and soak up the sun on. There is also a traditional hammam and a massage room.
Numa has six rooms, of which some are suites, and their interior design is an amazing sight to see. Our bedroom was on the ground floor, opening up to the patio. The room itself was minimalist chic, and I really didn't want to leave on the day of our departure!
The staff, dressed in the coolest outfits, are down to earth, super helpful and always with a smile on their face.
If you want chic, designer and cool, this is the riad for you.
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: +212(0) 614-563683 +212(0) 524384664
Address: 37 Derba Aarjan, Rahaba Lakdima, Marrakech, Morocco


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The Best E Cigarettes For Quitting Smoking
When you want to quit smoking, there are a few solutions available to you. While you could go cold turkey or use one of the patches available, e-cigarettes are among the most popular and effective methods today.
People choose e-cigarettes because they can help you to quit smoking in less time and with fewer issues popping up. Actually getting started, though, may seem nearly impossible due to the number of choices on the market.
If you have limited knowledge of e-cigarettes, you may not know where to start. To help you, there is a large selection available. When it comes to cost, quality, selection, and effectiveness, you can find the one that works best.
Finding the best e-cigarette for quitting smoking is a lot easier than you might think. After all, there is a huge selection available today. With the growing market of e-cigarette users, you can easily find something that fits your needs and budget.
Doing so will not lead to stress or high costs or any other undesired issues. It is incredibly easy, a lot easier than some people realize. This is why people continually choose e-cigarettes when attempting to quit.
If you, too, want to benefit from this, then consider this:
- There are a large number of e-cigarettes at affordable prices.
- You can choose from dry herb, oil, and wax vaporizers.
- There are vaporizers that can handle all three.
- There are disposable e-cigarettes.
There are many, many more advantages to choosing e-cigarettes.
If this is something that you want to do, then go forward with it. You just have to make sure that you choose something that suits you. Everyone has different needs, after all, so what you may like is not the same as what another person might like.
Take this into heavy consideration when comparing the options on the market. As a beginner, you need to find something built for your unique situation.
Some brands, like V2, make this easy. They offer versatile, high quality vaporizers that you can begin using almost immediately. If you like the idea of vaping, but have no idea where to start, this is a good option.
The versatile, trusted vaporizers give you exactly what you need. You will have the chance to use dry herb, oil, and wax to figure out which one works best for you. You can even play with the different features and options to get something that you like.
Thanks to the other advantages with these major brands and vaporizers, you will have several accessories and other important items coming with your vaporizer. It is perfect for keeping you on track and getting you off traditional cigarettes.
For people who are still uncertain, you do not have to buy a vaporizer immediately. As mentioned above, there are disposable options. If you want to give this a trial run to figure out if it is right for you, you may like the disposable vaping pens available.
These are some of the best e-cigarette for quitting smoking because they give you access to the benefits of vaporizers without forcing you to go all in right away. You can see if it works for you on a personal level first. It is a good way to start using e-cigarettes.
Of course, just finding the best e-cigarette for quitting smoking is not enough. They have to fit into your budget, too. Whatever budget you have, you want to make sure that your e-cigarette can work for you.
Luckily, for the most part, e-cigarettes are affordable. One of the common advantages of switching over to e-cigarettes is actually the savings. While the upfront costs are higher, the overall costs are much lower.
You spend less over time to get them. Thankfully, the biggest brands in the industry understand that this is a good thing and continue to offer low prices.
You can find some excellent vaporizers from top brands, including V2 mentioned above, without having to spend too much. The products that you buy, such as the oils, come in at low prices, as well.
The vast majority of vaporizer pens are easy to use. You will not find too many that are difficult for newcomers.
In fact, some have designs with newcomers in mind. Manufacturers know that this is sometimes a scary transition for smokers, especially smokers trying to quit in an easy and effective manner, so they provide simple and efficient vaporizers.
You can use these without having to feel as if you are solving an impossible puzzle.
For smokers, the time to change is now. If you like the advantages mentioned above, you can find the best e-cigarette for quitting smoking. Just consider what you want and your budget and then start searching.
There are numerous major brands available, like V2 and Halo, that will help you to gain the most from e-cigarettes.
Want an even better alternative to smoking? Try using an all organic e juice with your new vaporizer…


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Drake teamed up once again with genius Fortnite gamer Ninja, and decided to up the stakes for their game.
Rap megastar Drake ended up losing a $5,000 bet with Twitch streamer Ninja when he hooked up with him once again for a round of Fortnite.
Just like they had done a fortnight ago when Drake joined Ninja, along with Travis Scott and Ju Ju Smith-Schuster, to break a Twitch streaming record for concurrent views, the Canadian star decided to join him for some online gaming on Tuesday night (April 10th) – only this time, the rapper decided to up the stakes.
Drake is a huge Fortnite fan who plays the game via Playstation 4 under the name 'TheBoyDuddus', and says he got friendly with Ninja by watching him play via Twitch. In last night's stream, Drake was apparently playing from a recording studio in London, with the rapper at one point mentioning potential lagging issues from playing on the EU server.
Drake at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards
The pair racked up at least one duos victory, before Drake challenged Ninja to one last game before he had to "go to work", and staking $5,000 on it, promising to donate to Ninja's account if he won. The professional streamer duly did so, notching up an impressive 16 kills, and you can see the winning moment below!
More: Drake calls out male fan for harassing women at Sydney concert
"Oh my god," Drake could be heard laughing upon the end of the game. "I'm a man of my word, I got you," he says, "send me the info." No confirmation about whether Drizzy actually paid up, but it's not as if Ninja needs any more money.
It was recently claimed that Ninja, real name Tyler Blevins, could be earning as much as $1 million per month from playing the Battle Royale mode of Fortnite.
The award-winning game was first released back in July 2017 across all platforms, conceived of as a cross between Call of Duty and Minecraft. With a free-to-play version coming in 2018, it's set in a contemporary Earth where a catastrophic event causes almost all of the world's population to disappear, and zombie-like creatures rise to attack the few survivors.
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Microsoft Stores Giving Away Free Windows Phones this Weekend!May 1, 2014 No Comments
Microsoft just finished finalizing their purchase of Nokia's devices division and already the Microsoft store will be giving away Windows Phones!
Come into a Microsoft store on May 3rd and 4th for a chance to win a free Windows Phone! We are giving away 8 phones per day, per store through the Opportunity Rings Instant Win game. Available in all US stores – full-line and specialty.
No word yet as to how this game or how this opportunity might ring yet but if you live near a Microsoft Store chances are you better make your way to one bright an early on Saturday.


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Outreach Awards
Using funding from the International Development Research Centre, EcoHealth Journal awarded eight small grants to the following individuals.
August 2018
Jimmy Lee of Conservation Medicine in Sabah Malaysia was awarded funding to translate existing educational materials regarding safe interactions with wildlife. Conservation Medicine works with the Sabah Wildlife Department to conduct field research and surveillance in both Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia, focusing on forested areas undergoing land conversion, and villages with high-risk of human wildlife interaction, either through wildlife habitat degradation or hunting practices. Examples of materials that were translated include: fact sheets on common zoonotic diseases, visual posters illustrating use of proper personal protective equipment, and flip chart books on how to interact safely with animals and avoid animal contact. The communications materials were disseminated to community groups in target areas as a part of planned field activities. Additionally, copies of these materials were made available at local stakeholder meetings and shared with local NGO partners.
Link pending (waiting on recipient to provide fact sheets)
Dr. Guangjian Zhu from East China Normal University and the Guangdong Entomological Institute was awarded funding to support his English-to-Chinese translation of a 50-page Living Safely with Bats 'bat book' that covers topics including: bats are an essential part of our ecosystem; ways to live safely with bats; how to dispose of dead bats; if contact with live bats is unavoidable; managing bats in the home; and managing bats around the outside of your home. The translated books were printed and distributed via training-sessions to residents at rural clinics in suburban Yunnan by personnel from the Yunnan Institute for Endemic Disease Control and Prevention, Dali. The goal is to evaluate residents' awareness of biosecurity and high-risk behavior around wildlife and domestic animals both before and after distribution of the books.
December 2017
Dr. Thulasimala of the Bharathi Womens College in Chennai-Tamil Nadu, India was awarded funding to study Dengue in Tamil-Nadu and provide education to those in the region. Dr. Thulasimala analyzed the spatio-temporal pattern of Dengue incidence, examined the relationships of Dengue incidence with physical factors, studied the socio-economic variables and the hazard areas, and carried out a prediction analysis and formulated a model for Dengue management. The model was shared with schools and health facilities to educate the public and is expected to help lower the prevalence of Dengue in the region
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Dr. Ana Perola of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil was awarded funding to support Cãoservação, a research project that aims to assess and improve the health of domiciled domestic animals (dogs and cats), wild carnivores, and humans who live near Carlos Botelho State Park in southeastern Brazil in the State of São Paulo. Dr. Perola developed and printed ten cardboard games that were used by the Cãoservação team during activities with children to promote responsible ownership, health education, and environmental conservation. The cardboard games were donated to local schools, parks, and protected areas in Brazil that struggle with conflicts between domestic animals and wildlife.
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February 2017
Johanne Saint-Charles from UQAM was awarded funding for the EkoSanté project, a collaboration arising from Communities of Practice in Ecosystem Approaches to Health (CoPEH) in Latin America and the Caribbean (CoPEH-LAC) and in Canada (CoPEH-Canada). The funding was used to design an on-line course for WHO/PAHO staff that provides the basic concepts of Ecohealth, with a specific emphasis on ecosystems. EkoSanté also designed possibilities to bring the course to a broader audience.
Chris Buse from UNBC was awarded funding to build training materials from a manuscript 'Field convergence in the age of Anthropocene.' The funding was used to generate a figure that accompanied the manuscript submission and supported a variety of knowledge translation efforts. The figure graphically depicts a rich 'family tree' and provides an important communicative tool for illustrating the trajectory and interrelationships between the field developments across time and space
February 2016
Catherine Pirkle from the University of Hawaii at Manoa used the funding to update her research group's mobile application, Bene-fish-iary. The app helps pregnant women in Bermuda follow guidelines regarding mercury consumption from fish by using the app to search for species and average mercury levels.
Donald Cole from the University of Toronto used the funding available to adapt, develop and disseminate a dynamic, training-oriented page. The page is included on the CoPEH-Canada website to use in their webinar and local courses but is also available to support other ecohealth practitioners in teaching their own ecohealth courses. The funding allowed for the allocation of human resources to support the development of a dissemination strategy that reaches a wide audience.


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MANSFIELD, Ohio – Police here got an unexpected but welcome guest Wednesday afternoon.
Sylvester Stallone, who is filming a movie at the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, stopped by the department to work out in their gym and say hello.
Police Chief Ken Coontz said the star even asked to take part in a K-9 demonstration in the parking lot and posted it on his Instagram account .
"We were honored to have him stop in and take time to talk and laugh with several of our officers," said Coontz. "He was very humble. "


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Stronachie 10 Year
Single Malt
A.D. Rattray // Highlands, Scotland
Stronachie was Highland distillery which operated between the 1890s and 1928, represented by A.D. Rattray Ltd. Though the distillery remains shuttered, the company has replicated Stonachie malts, based on an original sample. The 10 year release coincides with what would have been its 110th anniversary.
age10 Years
Single MaltDistilled in pot stills from 100% malted barley, produced at one distillery, aged in barrels; if Scotch or Irish, must be aged for at least three years.
Cask Typeex-bourbon
Tasting Notes
"The malt is a pale gold color, with golden fruit, floral and spice flavors to match. It's medium in body with a good malty creaminess, honey and tart accents. While it's not the original, this is a fun way to take a trip back in time. On its own merit, it's a light whisky that's a splendid way to start an evening or begin a flight."


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The KWWSPCA is not legally allowed to take into its care stray dogs. By law, all stray dogs must go to the Kildare Dog Pound (or the Wicklow Dog Pound if found in Wicklow) where they have to stay for at least 5 working days to allow the owners a chance to reclaim them. If no owner comes forward in that time, the KWWSPCA or another Animal Rescue, is allowed to take them out of the Pound and legally rehome them. About a third of all the dogs rehomed by the KWWSPCA are from the Kildare Dog Pound, which in 2017 was over 100 dogs. The Kildare Dog Pound now only puts to sleep a very small percentage of the stray dogs that come into in its care and these are the dogs that have been killing or worrying livestock or are considered too dangerous to be rehomed.
Advice if you find a stray
If you find a dog or cat, check for a tag with the owner's address and/or phone number. If the animal does not have a tag please take it to a vet and have it scanned for a microchip. If there is no microchip the best option to find the owner is to get the pet's photo and information onto Facebook. Send us a photo, details of where you found the animal, and a contact phone number that we can post on our Facebook page. You should contact other Facebook pages such as Kildare Pet Detectives and Lors Lost Dogs as they are very successful at reuniting lost pets with their owners. The ISPCA also has a Lost & Found section on their website where you can report animals you have found.
Details of found animals can be sent as follows:
- Facebook private message on the KWWSPCA Facebook page
- Email firstname.lastname@example.com
- Text or Whatsapp our helpline 087-1279835
In the case of stray dogs you must also call the Dog Warden (for Kildare 05986 23388 and for Wicklow 0404 44873, 086 2771695/086 3846430) and they will either collect the dog from you or ask you to take the dog in. The Kildare Dog Pound is open between 10.00 & 12.45 on weekdays only and the Wicklow Dog Pound is open from 11.00 – 12.30 and 3.00 – 4.00 Monday to Friday and 10.00 – 12.00 on Saturdays.


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New England's Most Awarded Sea-Doo Dealer
We are all very proud of our Sea-Doo award winning dealership.
J&M Camper & Sea-Doo has been awarded the
Sea-Doo District Dealer of The Year Award for the following years;
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2005
• 2006
• 2007
• 2008
• 2009
• 2011
• 2012
This award is made to dealers in their respective districts that achieve premium status with their product line. This includes being in the top of the following categories;
1. Market Share
2. Unit Sales
3. Parts Sales
4. Clothing Sales
5. Continued Education
6. Customer Satisfaction
In 2006 J&M Camper & Sea-Doo was awarded the Eastern Regional Award for PAC Sales (parts, accessories and clothing). The PAC award is given each year to the dealership that is tops in sales for Parts, Accessories and Clothing in each of the four regions of the country.
In 2010 J&M Camper Sales was awarded the National Sea-Doo Retailer of The Year Award. This award is achieved by just one dealer every year.
J&M Camper Sales has also been awarded Platinum Dealer Status every year since BRP has asked it's dealers to perform above and beyond normal requirements.
Platinum certification requires;
1. All sales personal are trained to BRP standards
2. All service personal are trained to BRP standards
3. The dealership promotes tasteful business practices
4. The dealership attend training
5. The dealership promotes the BRP product
6. The dealership participate in factory promotions
7. The dealership outgrows industry growth in his market area
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A thin band of showers brings some rain Wednesday morning: This is your Saskatoon forecast
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Published Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:11AM CST
Published Wednesday, September 23, 2020 6:11AM CST
SASKATOON -- The sun moves in, setting us up for another unseasonably warm afternoon as highs reach into the twenties.
Things stay mild as we head toward the weekend, albeit with stronger wind patterns expected over the next few days.
Here's the forecast for Saskatoon:
Today – AM Showers
High: 21
Evening: 19
Thursday – Partly Cloudy / Wind
Morning Low: 13
Afternoon High: 23
Friday – Mostly Sunny
Morning Low: 6
Afternoon High: 21


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In this course, you refine your English teaching skills and demonstrate content knowledge required to teach English in primary classrooms. You explore further how language learning theories provide the framework for the Australian Curriculum: English. You pursue innovative ways to teach English using The Four Resources Model and a range of English teaching strategies. You deconstruct and evaluate a sequence of lessons according to the Australian Curriculum: English (Primary), Queensland Curriculum Assessment Authority (QCAA) requirements to support students' learning needs.
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- Sunshine Coast: Semester 2
- Caboolture: Semester 2
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- Gympie: Semester 2
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Starcraft 2 is out, selling well, and a bunch of new people are signed up for Real ID. Seeing how this is playing out I think Blizzard made a huge mistake rolling out Real ID in Warcraft first.
Real ID makes perfect sense for a new game like Starcraft. It's the way to keep track of your friends, to play matches with them, to keep track of folks and chat between matches. It feels perfectly natural to use it, and the Facebook integration for finding friends is a welcome tool. There's also no identity question. You don't really have an avatar or character in Starcraft, you're just yourself, so using your email address to identify yourself in game makes perfect sense.
By contrast, the Real ID launch in Warcraft felt creepy. We already had a social network in the game, our guilds, why do we need this new thing? And the extension of our identity from Warcraft toon to real-world email made a lot of people nervous. Real ID in WoW just feels wrong, despite it being useful.
So here's my question. Why did Blizzard launch Real ID first in Warcraft? Why not launch it first in Starcraft, where it makes sense, and then later launch the Warcraft version when people were clamoring for it? My only thought is they were trying to leverage the Warcraft user base to help grow Starcraft 2. But that's insane: Starcraft 2 has been anticipated for 5+ years by gamers, Blizzard didn't need to do anything to make sure the launch was strong.
The sad thing is Real ID chat is pretty much useless in Starcraft. When playing WoW you have plenty of time to chat, it's a relatively slow social game. Starcraft is an intense clickfest. The last thing I want to do when managing my Protoss build order is chat with an old buddy.
The other frustrating thing about Real ID in Starcraft is I want a social group other than "my friends". Steam has a nice version of this, groups you can join, and it's relatively easy to play a pickup game of something like Left4Dead with sympathetic people without committing yourself to "friendship" and constant presence awareness. I don't think Real ID has something like that, a social grouping for GoonSwarm or Metafilter or OlderGamers or GayGamers or the like. That's an oversight.


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What does Lighting the Way Worldwide do?
Lighting the Way Worldwide is a unique ministry of outreach with a non-bothersome approach to sharing the biblically sound Gospel of Jesus Christ, based on apologetics, with people internationally from every walk of life. We have a table outreach format—a very simple approach to missions that God has spread all over the world. We rely on God to bring people over to our tables in every location where we offer free Bibles, literature, testimonies and sermons on CD to explain why we believe in Jesus as Savior and trust in the Bible as God's inspired Word to mankind. We have such table outreaches on city streets, at university and college campuses, prisons and national parks. This ministry of evangelism offers individuals from all classes, races and nationalities an opportunity to ask questions where no one is turned away and biblical answers are based on logic and reason.
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As Christians, we are all called to "do the work of an evangelist" (2 Tim. 4:5) and fulfill the Great Commission (Matt. 28:19-20 ). Since we were saved to live for Jesus and tell others about Him, we'll never know the deep joy of serving the Lord in evangelism if we are too busy doing other things, other things much less fulfilling. There is no deeper joy for a Christian than to serve others in the name of the Lord. Come join us with a table outreach in your city!
Take a look at the following outreach locations Lighting the Way Worldwide has begun:
- Angola Prison Rodeos at Louisiana State Penitentiary
- Asheville
- Atlanta (Marietta Square)
- Atlanta, GA, Little Five Points
- Atlanta (Outside a Mosque)
- Boulder, Colorado
- Cabo San Lucas, MX
- France
- GA Tech
- Homeless outreach (Venice Beach, CA)
- Israel (Jerusalem)
- Israel (Tel Aviv)
- LTW in Church
- LTW to the Philippines
- LTW to the Smokies
- Mexico (Guadalajara)
- Nashville
- Nashville – Kids in the Projects
- New Orleans
- New York City
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- Pakistan
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Developers are talking, debating and speculating about the exclusion of Mac desktop apps from this year's Apple Design Awards. We contacted some of our friends in Mac development (and several former ADA winners), and gathered their responses for you. Some are outright disappointed, some portend that this belies good things to come, and some are pretty understanding of the way Apple is handling the current drive toward mobile development. Here's the first batch of responses:
Aaron Hillegass, Big Nerd Ranch
"It seems likely that in the future everyone will be using mobile devices to access data in the cloud. At the moment, however, the applications that we use all day, every day are desktop applications. Eliminating the Apple Design Awards for desktop applications in 2010 is premature and an insult to the thousands of programmers who devote their days to making the Mac desktop a fun and productive environment."
Oliver Breidenbach, Boinx Software
"We are very proud that Boinx Software, together with TheCodingMonkeys, won what may turn out to be the last ever Apple Design Award for a Mac application with BoinxTV. Of course it is sad that Apple turns away from Mac desktop developers in what seems like a brutal fashion, but it is understandable that they focus their limited resources on the winning horse. At least, the momentum of the success of iPhone OS seems to fuel a growth in Mac sales, so keeping the momentum going is a smart thing and probably also benefits Mac developers. However, it would be nice if Apple could spend a little of the vast profits on additional staff for the developer relations team so that they could go on supporting the Mac developers as well as they do iPhone developers these days."


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Mumbai: Actress Taapsee Pannu, who has turned 31, shared a "piece of dope" and said that there is no high more intoxicating and energising than the high of being "self made". Taapsee tweeted: "As I age towards becoming an 'antique' sharing a piece of 'dope' with you all...There is no high more intoxicating and energising than the high of being 'self made'. Try it, it works. You all have been a part of my journey," Taapsee tweeted.
The actress, who turned 31 on Wednesday, made her acting debut in 2010 with the Telugu film Jhummandi Naadam. Since then, she has appeared in a number of critically acclaimed films such as Aadukalam, Baby, Naam Shabana, Pink, The Ghazi Attack, Soorma.
On the big screen, Taapsee's latest release is Mulk, a story of a Muslim family trying to reclaim its lost honour. She also has two more films in her kitty -- Manmarziyaan and Badla.


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The Lee Family. Once upon a time Noel and Rena got married and had 2 kids - Doris and Donald. Then one day, Doris got married to Jeremy and had her own 2 kids - Vince and Edda. We all live far apart, and keep moving around. It's hard to keep tabs on each other. Welcome to our blog.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Ice cream cake.
Vince's birthday party extravaganza is happening tomorrow so we picked up an ice cream cake for him on our date tonight. How did Vince get to be 12? Everything is happening too quickly...
So for the party, a handful of boys are going to walk home from school. Jeremy and I have to be in different parts of town and we are going to do our best to beat the boys to the front door. We'll have backup at the house, but I'm a little nervous to leave the backup defenseless for too long against the onset of a bunch of sugared up preteen boys.
By Doris at March 06, 2014
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Wow, you are brave. I was traumatized by having eleven five-year-old girls in our house, even though they were totally engrossed in stickers and markers and jelly pens.
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On tonight's show we discussed the impact of Herman Cain's recent weekend announcement on the race for 2012. Who do you think gains from no Cain?
Barack obama ,gain from no cain ,because of african american peoples they supposed to share .
Of course it will be hard to tell just how the split will occur, what percentage go to whom but if there is still any loyalty left, which I suspect there is, a good chunk will likely go along with Herman's endorsement, whenever that emerges.
What is very noteworthy here is that the largest online forum to date that has been a key supporter operation since he announced, http://www.hermancainforums.com, has now taken a powerful shift. The site administrator not only has already made his choice in whom he is now supporting but he is strongly urging the nearly 12,000 members to put their support behind Congressman Doctor Ron Paul.
One can clearly see that this decision, which is the right decision for all citizens who care about a strong America, has been greeted with what he says is "hell". You can visit and see for yourself.
Protecting the Constitution, our Bill of Rights, our civil liberties and our families are all mutually inclusive. We cannot expect to have one without the others. Supporting all of these things is arguably the basic civic responsibility of each person who calls himself/herself an American. Why should supporting the one candidate that has proven himself to be the total package be followed by retribution from his fellow citizens? One would expect it from a communist but not from an informed American!
If standing with a strong and knowledgeable constitutionalist candidate begets criticism, does it not say more about the critic than the supporter?
To learn more about Dr. Ron Paul, one should visit his website, http://www.RonPaul2012.com and click on the "Issues" option and read for yourself rather than react to those who do not support the Constitution as they should.
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AIA Leaves Architectural Record, Makes Architect Their Official Magazine
While Architectural Record is flying high this week with their new iPad/iPhone availability, they've also been handed a bit of bad news. Their longtime designation as the American Institute of Architects' official magazine has now left them, with the AIA's announcement that they've partnered with the publisher/media group Hanley Wood, which in turn makes their Architect the magazine that will be receiving the organization's seal of approval. So for you AIA members, consider that your explanation when your free issues of A.R. stop arriving and this strange new glossy with a somewhat similar name shows up in your mail slot. Be not afraid, timid architects — here's a bit about what members are going to get out of the new deal:
Under the new partnership agreement, AIA members will receive four Hanley Wood publications as a benefit of membership. Hanley Wood's ARCHITECT becomes the official magazine of the AIA. It will feature exclusive coverage of all AIA programs, and initiatives, including AIA Knowledge Communities, State and Local AIA Chapter activities, and efforts that involve individual members, with an increased focus on three primary areas-design, business, and technology. The magazine will showcase design and design excellence wherever it is evident.
Members will also receive digital editions of Hanley Wood titles residential architect, EcoHome and Eco-Structure, including full access to their respective web sites. Each of these magazines will provide AIA members with the information they need to take their practice — or careers — to the next level through news, case studies, and research on essential sustainability practices and products as well as a niche focus on residential design, important to a large number of AIA members.


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What if the Ron Paul Fans Became SEO Savvy?Blog Post: October 12, 2007
Ron Paul is everytwhere on the internet but outside of the internet social media world he is really almost unheard of, I have asked some of my friends that are much more political then I and they haven't a clue about who I'm talking about.
It is going to be interesting once the election comes around to see what kind of a vote Ron Paul does get versus some of the other candidates. However, it does seem like Barrack Obama has been doing quite a bit of viral marketing online also. I heard on the radio some of his mobile ring tones, they were.... interesting?


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If you want to live in a better society, where child labor and sweatshops cease to exist, then you need to pay attention to the economy you are creating. In the last couple of decade, an Alaskan economy has thrived and even attracted a lot of foreigners, who accepted a harsh climate, to earn significant wages.
They encourage companies to ensure that all workers are paid fairly and treated with respect and dignity.
However, now and then, we hear about sweatshops which neglect the essential employer's needs and impose them terrible working conditions. As an individual, you won't be able to achieve much, but if we unite in our demands, then we have changed things for the better.
By taking one or more steps we are going to outline, we have the power to make a difference.
Request sweatshop-free products
It is very challenging to discover whether a company you do business with or buy products from uses forced child labor or has sweatshops. They are usually well-hidden behind their reputable façade, such as Zara case. So next time you go shopping, make sure you are well informed about their business.
If necessary, research the web and see what other customers think about the company you are doing business with. Their employee policy must be transparent, all of them treated fairly and with respect.
Ask questions
To verify whether some company is legit and operating under laws and regulations, you need to ask some questions. We have drafted a checklist, and it's going to help you determine whether they use sweatshops.
First of all, ask them about their workers and how they are treated. Do they have factories around the world, of just one base? What are the wages and working conditions? Can they provide you a copy? Can workers support their families with the wages they receive? Does the company have a code of conducts that protects the fundamental human rights?
These questions are crucial and can help you discover shady companies that can ruin your reputation in the business world.


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Today is April 6, 2017 and it's an all new Collider Jedi Council hosted by Kristian Harloff with John Campea, Mark Ellis and David Griffin. Today the council previews everything they expect or hope to see at Star Wars Celebration 2017.
- The Last Jedi trailer
- Possible Han Solo spin-off trailer
- Spin-off announcements
- Star Wars 40th Anniversary
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Now is the segment called What's the Deal with Canon – a discussion on everything in the world of canon that isn't one of the movies be it Episodes or Star Wars'Stories. "Canon" here include the tv shows, books, comics and video games.


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In part 1 of this series, we discussed assistance on the Federal level for Indiana residents that are in jeopardy of losing their homes to foreclosure. In addition to these national assistance programs, Indiana has a number of State-sponsored assistance programs to aid those Hoosiers in danger of losing their home to an impending foreclosure.
Unfortunately, when it comes to foreclosures, things are not looking up for Hoosiers. Just yesterday, IndyStar.com reported that the Indy area's foreclosure rate continues to rise.
According to the IndyStar article, mortgage foreclosure rates and mortgage delinquencies in the Indianapolis area increased in September from the previous month. This indicator is a sign that difficult times for homeowners who have mortgages on their homes will probably continue for the foreseeable future.
- Metro Indianapolis area's foreclosure rate of 3.62% was considerably higher than the 3.29% rate in September of last year
- The Indy-area's foreclosure rate was higher than the national rate of 3.48 percent in September.
- September was the fourth straight month that the 90-day delinquency rate has risen in the metro area.
The Indiana Foreclosure Prevention Network, a coalition of community service and housing-related organizations, government agencies, lenders, realtors, and trade associations that are actively addressing Indiana's foreclosure crisis, has established 877-Get-Hope. Hoosiers facing foreclosure, whether immediate or in the distant future, may call this confidential, toll-free help-line for assistance at no cost. Counselors are available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily.
Over the past year or so, Indiana received $221 million from the U.S. Treasury to help unemployed homeowners pay their mortgage. Earlier this year, The Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHCDA) launched "Building The Bridge To Recovery (Indiana's Hardest-Hit Fund [HHF])", a program designed to help families who have fallen behind on their mortgage loans due to the loss of employment. Download the brochure for information about who is eligible for this program, what the requirements are, and how to apply for HHF assistance.
Non-profit agencies and organizations
The federal government's Housing & Urban Development (HUD) agency has classified many non-profits as certified housing counselors. Get information and find a listing of Indiana HUD housing agencies.
Pathstone, a not-for-profit community development and human service organization, also provides counseling and prevention services to low-income families and economically depressed communities throughout Indiana.
So don't despair. Help is out there. All you have to do is ask for it, even though this first step may be the hardest for many adults.
Whether you are having difficulty with your mortgage or not, you need to maintain your home's infrastructure to keep your family safe and healthy. As the recent weather (three straight days of cold rain and snow!) indicates, winter is here. If your furnace, heat pump, or central heating system is giving you trouble, give us call at 317-639-1111 for prompt, reliable emergency repair service in Noblesville, Greenwood, Westfield, or anywhere in the metro Indianapolis area. We are here to help 24/7, every day of the year. for more information about our services, visit the Thiele Heating & Air Conditioning website.


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Are You A Child Care Professional? Let's make your job easier!
Hello and welcome! Were so glad you're here and we hope you will find this site a source of tremendous value for you as a provider and administrator of your own business! We hope your visit means you are considering your marketing options and possibly wanting to move your business to the next level? If so, we can help!!
How can we help in marketing your business and opening the door to increased opportunity? How can we help you take better control of your childcare advertising so you are able to fill your positions if and when you need to? Perhaps your looking for an affordable way to advertise that can attract new families without stretching your budget.
Omaha Childcare Directory was established in April of 2007 and has successfully serviced child care providers and families in Omaha and the surrounding communities.
The directory was developed as an affordable marketing solution for childcare professionals and families searching for child care. We can offer a variety of child care options to families in our community by highlighting your child care business in such a way, that parents gain detailed information about your program using search terms or by using our referral network tools. These options make their search easier to find the type of care they need and the best fit for their family. By joining the directory, we can help you get your business out there so families can find you.
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