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Monday: Chili Mac
Tuesday: Cajun Chicken & Dumplings
Wednesday: Refried beans, spanish rice, taco meat, avacado, cheese, homemade corn tortillas, homemade salsa, and whatever else I feel like throwing in
Thursday: Salmon Patties, baked sweet potato fries, roasted broccoli
Friday: Homemade Pizza
A Real Potluck Saturday: I'm bringing lemon garlic chicken and "brookies" (I think)
Brookies are a cross between brownies and cookies. I haven't tried the recipe yet, and it is from this cookbook that has a few other favorites, so I trust it will be good. And honestly, how could something not be good when it is a cross between a brownie and a cookie?!
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The history of the Abbey can be divided into three. A period until the conquest when the building was the cathedral seat of St Aldhelm and other bishops of Sherborne, a period up to the Reformation when it served as a Benedictine monastery and since as a parish church. The tracery in the vaulting throughout the church is spectacular as is the carving behind the high alter. Its retention is due in no small measure to the restoration undertaken in the 19th Century by R C Carpenter and William Slater. Major repairs over one hundred years later consolidated this work.
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text: Piano Tiles is an addictive game,you should not miss.Test your reflexes against time and movement. Test your speed and accuracy with this simple and fun game!The play rule is the simple,but you Still need a lot of skill,Don't step the white tile.Tap your fingers as quickly as possible, but dont step on the white tiles.Classic modeTap the start button to begin and then tap on the black blocks to follow the 50 steps toward the goal. The quicker you tap, the faster the path moves!Arcade modeYou have the option to display how many steps you've taken and if you want a countdown.Zen modeIn this mode you have a 30 seconds to step as many times as possible.Replay modeIn this mode you step tiles to get extra time,finally,will need more tiles.Candlelingt modeIf you miss tiles will reduce screen brightness,full of fun and challenges.


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By the looks of the morning this is NOT going to be a "Knitter's Spring" day. Instead its going to be a gorgeous day in June - sunny, comfortable with little humidity. Ahhhhh!
This is the first June in a couple of decades I've not had a child in school and so not had to navigate/manage the likes of...
Academic year end meetings, parties, concerts, report cards and teacher interviews, information nights for the upcoming school year, recitals, trips, graduations, playdays, track meets, proms, teacher/coach/instructor gifts, sports finals and semis, baking and/or cooking contributions to any and all of the above mixed in with auditions and tryouts and course selection for the next school year. Never mind the "Summer" programs and activities that start before the school year ends, overlapping to an almost cruel degree the frenzied finishing up of the stuff that's been going on since the previous September.
...the June stuff.
So I decided to embrace my "new" June this year.
Instead of making food for school events or pot luck suppers related to the kid's activities I'm making lovely light dinners for us here at home enjoying seasonal ingredients like Rhubarb, Asparagus, Scallops, Mint, Peas, Lamb and Lemon. I'm taking time to set the table in the garden where the floral action's in full swing after a sip (or two!) of wine on the patio where I keep an eye on the BBQ.
In time for the start of the month (instead of the end of it) I switched out the linens, pillows, throws, area rugs to light, bright cool cottons, sisal and rafia. (Okay a couple of times this June we've had to put the furnace or gas fireplace on but the point is things looked like summer!)
Rather than just brute force garden taming I'm indulging, a bit each day, in seeing to the finer details that make a June garden feel luxuriously well tended. (You know sweeping path edges and fluffing up the soil, plucking wee tiny weeds just as they emerge - that kind of stuff - as if there's a staff seeing to it - the staff happens to be me but still, luxurious!)
All this while prepping the dog for the next Obedience trial in a couple of weeks and knitting and hunting down yarn for summer projects at the lake and I even plan to get out to the DKC meeting next week!
It feels like a triumph. I wouldn't change Junes passed for anything but we did them up big to the point of being "done" so now I can move on happily and in full appreciation of what this June offers...
Today, after our walk, Hudson and I are headed for the grooming table. Everyone's out for dinner this evening leaving me to enjoy leftovers, knitting and "sipping" on the patio taking in the garden views with a clean fluffy dog at my feet!
June - I'm loving it!


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Last week, Brisbane developer Auran held a tell-all event on their world-class MMO, Fury. We were lucky enough to secure exclusive access to one of Fury's new maps, 'Courtyard', which you can brush up on right here, or read all about the back-story here. We also took the opportunity to sit down with Andrew Edelsten, Game Operations Manager at Auran, for an in-depth look at why you should sit up and take notice.
Update: You can now register for the Fury Pre-Beta right now over at FilePlanet! What are you waiting for? Be there now.
IGN: You're demonstrating a mostly-complete build of Fury now. How many maps are you planning on releasing in the final version? Can you take us through the game types, too?
Andrew Edelsten: We're looking, ideally, at six maps for each game type. There are four game types; there's Elimination - your four vs. four, there's Bloodbath - a 32 player free-for-all, Vortex is 16 on 16; it's a variation on capture-the-flag; the big game-type is Fortress - up to 32 players on each team, huge castles on either end of the map and those maps are huge. They take you quite a while to traverse. We're still trying to iron out some gameplay 'kinks' on Fortress, though.
IGN: Oh yeah? What kinds of kinks have popped up?
Andrew Edelsten: There's just certain things that take away from it being fun. The core game is fun, but we want to make sure each game type is just as fun as well.
IGN: How big is your Beta testing team right now?
Andrew Edelsten: We have 20 internal beta testers working on it right now, and then we outsource some of the testing - and there are 60 of them - and then we also have what we're calling Pre-Beta testers, and we have several thousand of them. And that's what we're doing with IGN - that's just about to launch. It's a mail-out next week, so fans should look out for that.
IGN: We've heard you're going to be holding global event in three or four months - kind of like an open beta. Can you discuss this?
Andrew Edelsten: Yeah, there's talk of doing some pre-launch open weekends and so on. The closed- or 'pre-beta' as we're calling it is very important from a testing point of view. We can make sure the servers can handle the load and there aren't any abilities that suddenly wipe the whole team out or anything like that! We've done certain amounts of testing, but there's nothing like having several thousand players kicking the hell out of the servers.
On the marketing side of things, it's a different story. We're a new player, we're a different game - it's sort of different. It's not an FPS, it's not an RPG - it's fun. I'd say it's an 'online-fantasy-combat-game'. It's about very fast combat, no grinding per-se, no having to collect '23 acorns and bring 'em back to the dude, run half way across the world and collect something else'.
IGN: South Koreans love their MMOs and Fury has a very distinct 'Asian' feel to the game levels and designs. Is this a coincidence? And are you planning to tackle that market?
Andrew Edelsten: It certainly was a consideration. As we progress through development, we actually think the gameplay will be more accepted by western markets, but it will also be attractive to the Koreans and Taiwanese and Chinese. Our new investor is a big player in China and Taiwan. They'll be able to help us with partners there. It's been a wonderful addition to the Auran group.
IGN: You also recently signed to Gamecock - how is that working out?
Andrew Edelsten: They're great. Very similar wavelength to us - Tony Hilliam, our CEO, gets along with them really well and they just strike a chord. They're willing to take risks on games that aren't in the traditional mould, and I think that's wonderful.
IGN: Let's talk about working with Unreal Engine 3. The game looks great, but how scaleable is the engine?
Andrew Edelsten: The artists have been able to do great things; the special effects artists in particular. I mean, the ice lake [on 'Courtyard'] has really good shaders for instance. It also means, though, Unreal Engine 3 does push the hardware. We then had to go, 'well, we can't only have a GeForce 7-only game.
IGN: Will this be a DirectX 10 compatible game? Or are you building Fury with DirectX 9 in mind?
Andrew Edelsten: We will have some DirectX 10 features. They're still being finalised, but basically we're adding the proper DX10 pipeline at the moment. We've got a couple of guys working on that, working with Nvidia and Microsoft closely. We've also got the low-end renderer to cater for GeForce 5 and hopefully even GeForce 4. The engine is quite scaleable now - it wasn't for a long time, but we put our best 3D guys onto it and they made the fall-back renderer look really good and playable and fast.
IGN: A buttery framerate is really important for a twitch action game, after all.
Andrew Edelsten: Yeah - it's not so important for aiming in Fury, because that's auto-done, but you need to be able to see all the animations going on. That's the way you can identify the other players - not so much from what they're looking like - although if someone's wearing cloth armour, it's unlikely they're going to rush at you with a battleaxe. However, some of the healing spells for instance - I can tell exactly which heal they're doing, just by the animation.
So yeah, performance is really important, given the speed of the game. So for us, we really have to hit 30 or 40 frames per second minimum; otherwise, you're not going to be able to play the game effectively.


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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Take Another Look ... The Secrets & Show # 405
In the middle of the Canadian Punk scene in the late 70s, guitarists Freddy Pompeii, Chris Haight and drummer Mike Anderson left The Viletones after disagreements with the direction that the band was going in and joined up with John Hamilton, a bassist that previous played in another Canadian Punk band The Diodes. Still trying to keep true to their Punk ethics, they went in a completely different direction. Calling themselves The Secrets (not to be confused with the 60s band of the same name from Canada) they absorbed Rockabilly, Blues and 50s Rock influences and started playing gigs around town. They quickly signed to an independent Toronto Label Bomb Records in 1979 and recorded two live tracks "Teenage Rampage" and their version of "Shout" for inclusion on the compilation album for the documentary film The Last Pogo that would be released in the fall of 1979. Titled And Now Live From Toronto ... The Last Pogo, these were the first recordings that The Secrets made.
The Secrets then began work on their full length debut which would be entitled Success Without College that was released in 1980. The album was an eclectic album which has often been described as part Punk part early 50's Rock and Roll. The album featured songs such as the studio version of "Teenage Rampage", "Suzie Peroxide", "Strictly From Cough Syrup" a song which addressed Pompeii's own person demons, and a cover of Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman". The first single released to promote the album was "Tattoo City" backed with "Pretty Woman" which did get decent airplay in Southern Ontario and the album did get good reviews, but it did not translate well into sales. Following a live show Pompeii was busted on drug related charges. The band split at this time, Pompeii moved to the US, eventually forming Immaculate Hearts and released a few 45's before becoming a successful freelance artist. Hamilton joined a reformed version of The Ugly Ducklings before forming Daily Planet.
While The Secrets time as a band may have been brief they were sustained in the public consciousness via numerous compilation albums in the 80s/90s. In 1997, the label Other People's Music released the album Teenage Rampage which compiled the bands first album Success Without College along with the live version of "Shout" from The Last Pogo compilation album and six previously unreleased tracks. The Secrets are an example of one of those bands that pop up and disappear so quickly that most people may not even have heard of them, or maybe they even had negative things to say about them. Like many Punk bands have done they expanded into different areas musically, but The Secrets are one of those bands that are an important document to the Canadian Punk scene of the late 70s, even if they weren't completely falling into the so called "Punk" category.
This week once again, I Filled in for Some Folks Get The Blues (from 9-10:30 AM), which I will be doing until the end of May. The show will be Folk, Country and Blues centric, but will also include glimpses of other Rock and Roll forms. Revolution Rock will follow this program from 10:30 to Noon featuring my usual blend of Garage, 70s Punk/New Wave, and Indie Rock.
Part One - Revolution Blues (Some Folks Get The Blues Fill-In) Play List:
1. Rosco Gordon – No More Doggin'
2. Jimmy Reed – Shame, Shame, Shame
3. Junior Wells – Come On In The House
4. Frank Frost – Harp and Soul
5. Toussaint McCall – Shimmy
6. Deer Tick – Friday XII
7. Joel Plaskett Emergency – Somewhere Else
8. Twin Library – Archives
9. Leeroy Stagger – Travelling Over Water
10. Indian Wars – Won't Do A Thing
11. Pow Wows – No, Thirteen
12. The Angry Dead Pirates – Being
13. The Nevermores – Like A Pill
14. Wolfy & The Bat Clubs – Guy Like Me
15. The Molting Vultures – Cool Right Down
16. Allen Wayne – Chills & Fever
17. Grey Kingdom – When Seasons Drown
18. Woody Guthrie – Ranger's Command
19. Leland Sundries - VFW Hall
20. The Mark Inside – The Bottom Line
21. Neil Young – Revolution Blues
22. Bob Dylan & The Band – Ballad Of A Thin Man (Live Liverpool Odeon Theatre May 14 1966)
Download part one (Revolution Blues) here!
Part Two - Revolution Rock Play List:
23. Holograms – Chasing My Mind
24. Rotten Tropics – Spectre Tectonics
25. Dum Dum Girls – Just A Creep
26. The Imagineers – The Legend of John The Terror (Notorious)
27. Is/Is - Moon Dropping
28. Bittersweet Draw – Leavin' Hinton (CJSW Session)
29. The Gerry Alvarez Odyssey – In the Garden
30. Little Roosters – I Need A Witness
31. The Pygmies – She Lied (CJSW Session)
32. Ex-Boyfriends – Bubblegum (CJSW Session)
33. The Ugly – All Because of You (Live)
34. Blue Peter – Time & Money
35. The Secrets – Teenage Rampage
36. Dik Van Dykes - Pterodactyl
37. Blue Orchids – House That Faded Out
38. 101'ers – 5 Star Rock N' Roll Petrol
39. Thee Mighty Caesars – Now I Know
40. Brian James – I Can Make You Cry
41. Iggy Pop – Some Weird Sin
42. The Hives – The Hives Are Law, You Are Crime
43. Generation X – From The Heart
44. Wire - Please Take (Black Session)
45. The Strangeloves - Night Time
46. The Vagrants - Respect
47. Square Root of Margaret - Attack of Giant Problem vs. the Creature from the Planet of the Incredible Sinking Solution
48. Black lips – Fairy Stories
Download part two (Revolution Rock) here!
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Sphero upgrades hardware, allows customizations
John and Daniel got to sit down with Ian and Adam from Sphero to talk about the newly introduced Sphero 2B. Turning a remote controlled ball into a game and then branching out with new customizable hardware, Sphero has been hard at work. Whether you want to complete challenges or freely roam around the office and have some fun with friends, look no further than the Sphero.
To catch all the talk about the new changes from Sphero be sure to check out the entire interview above.


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Stéphane, Zohra and Laure live in the same city, but don't know each other. Stéphane, a 30-year-old lost in a world where he has no bearings, is offered a deal that could change his life, but at what price? Zohra left Algeria to try to understand the death of her son, who was murdered in France. Laure experiences love for the first time, full of passion and innocence, with a young, rebellious man who ends up in jail. There is no reason that these three would one day meet each other in a prison's visiting room. Nevertheless, it is in this setting that each of them must take their fate in hand.
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Peter Hill Design is proud to have created the Mill City Summer Opera's playbill for July 2016. The young opera company focuses on presenting innovative and world-class opera in nontraditional venues.
Peter Hill Design was recently awarded an American Web Design Award from GD USA for Dwell Vacations.
Peter Hill Design was proud to work with Legal for Good on their rebrand.
Peter Hill Design, an award-winning creative firm established in 1994 by Peter Hill and led by Megan Junius since 2011, has just hired John Horner. The move is in response to Junius' vision to expand the firm's creative service offerings to new industries and markets.


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Finding could help immune system attack tumors• medicalnewstoday.com
Dr. Wayne Hancock of the division of transplant immunology at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues report their findings in this week's online issue of Nature Medicine.
The study focuses on a question that fascinates immunologists: why doesn't the immune system prevent cancer in the first place? It has the tools to do so.


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By Peter Pawlak with Justine Sass
For some children in Asia-Pacific, particularly girls, the mere walk to school is menacing and comes with the daily threat of violence. Once at school, they might also be subject to physical, psychosocial and sexual abuse – bullied by teachers and peers or abused in the name of discipline.
Violence against children in schools is a complex, multifaceted issue. It is closely linked with broader social norms around acceptance of violence, deeply ingrained gender inequalities and rigid gender expectations. School-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) refers to violence affecting school children that occurs in or around education settings and is perpetrated based on gender roles or norms, and expectations of children based on their sex or gender identities.
SRGBV is a disturbing violation of children's fundamental human rights and directly contravenes the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which all countries in the region have ratified and most have signed.
The scope of SRGBV is immense and challenging to comprehensively assess and address in Asia-Pacific given the incredible diversity of cultural contexts and norms.
A new review, "School-Related Gender-Based Violence [SRGBV] in the Asia-Pacific Region", commissioned by UNESCO Bangkok and implemented in partnership with the East Asia Pacific Regional UN Girls' Education Initiative, takes on this challenge. The review examines the evidence on SRGBV and related policy and programming in Asia-Pacific, offering a base for much-needed debate and policy-level discussions.
Scale of SRGBV in the Region
An Asia-Pacific Roundtable Meeting in Bangkok last year defined SRGBV as referring to all forms of violence that occur within educational contexts and result in the physical or psychological harm of children. "SRGBV is based on stereotypes, roles or norms, attributed to or expected of children because of their sex or gender identities. It can be compounded by marginalisation and other vulnerabilities," the roundtable noted.
Determining the scale of SRGBV in the region is difficult, the report finds. The lack of specific or inadequate SRGBV reporting in many countries is a major obstacle, with many acts of violence that could be classified as gender-based being lumped in with other types of violence or going unreported by children out of fear or due to taboos around sexuality and young people.
Deeply ingrained cultural norms throughout the region also justify violence and stigmatize people based on their gender identity/expression. As the report highlights: "Concepts of family honour, sexual purity and shame often justify even the most violent or discriminatory actions against children, and can be seen by parents, teachers and students themselves as acceptable, including in educational settings." In this context, determining the extent of SRGBV becomes extremely difficult.
The lack of comparable data makes it challenging for effective policies adapting a rights-based approach to be enacted to address SRGBV. Policies that are in place are often either based on uninformed assumptions or address a single aspect of SRGBV rather than taking the holistic approach the study recommends.
Histories of Violence
Compiling what data is available through studies conducted throughout the region, the review presents an alarming picture of the extent and effects of SRGBV in Asia-Pacific. The most common forms of SRGBV in the region are: corporal punishment; physical violence and abuse; psychosocial violence and abuse; bullying including cyber-bullying; and sexual violence and abuse.
The report profiles how SRGBV is driven by rigid constructs of femininity and masculinity as well as social expectations. The plight of Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old girl shot for championing her right to an education, was an extreme example of this and also underscored the dangers children, particularly girls, face in conflict zones.
Even outside of such life and death scenarios, for many children in the region not conforming to gender constructs carries the threat of SRGBV, including sexual violence and bullying.
Verbal and emotional abuse and social exclusion or discrimination are common and often characterized by verbal humiliation based on caste, status in society, gender identity/expression or perceived sexual orientation, and disability. Girls appear to be more likely to face this type of psychological abuse, including discrimination and social exclusion, whereas boys are more vulnerable to physical attacks. Those who are believed to be same-sex attracted or gender non-conforming are also subjected in many settings to psychosocial violence and abuse in multiple forms.
Unsafe family environments also lead to SRGBV, with children often replicating the behaviour they see at home, such as violence among family members. The report also points to the psychological effects of being raised in an atmosphere of violence. When parental abuse is the norm, violence in a school setting may not seem remarkable to the child, let alone worth reporting.
Contributing to an environment where violence becomes the norm, are underlying attitudes towards corporal punishment in schools. Many countries have banned the practice, but implementation remains a problem. The prevailing sentiment in many countries is that this form of physical abuse against children is beneficial – captured succinctly in a popular expression quoted in the report, "In the tip of rattan, there is gold."
Impact on Children
SRGBV robs many children of their right to an education. The report lists several factors that make SRGBV a "critical barrier to the right to education". Along with the psychological and physical harm done to children, learning achievement deteriorates when the educational environment it is no longer considered safe.
"The experience or even the threat of SRGBV often results in irregular attendance, dropout, truancy, poor school performance, and low self-esteem, which may follow into their adult lives," the report notes.
For children living near conflict zones or in areas where the nearest school is hours away, the mere walk to school can pose a threat. The report lists several cases in the region of girls being afraid to go to school for fear of rape or other violent attack on the journey.
The policy approach in the region largely lacks an evidence base, is fragmented and influenced by cultural and social gender stereotypes. Policies in the region boast "only a few successful results".
Path Forward
Addressing SRGBV is crucial to ensuring that all children are able to access their fundamental right to an education in a safe environment. To that end, the review ends with a call for the following steps to be taken:
• a clear articulation of the problem;
• comprehensive and integrated action;
• policies underpinned by robust evidence;
• effective legislation and regulation;
• inter-sectoral coordination and collaboration;
• safe and effective reporting and response;
• well-trained personnel;
• mechanisms established for transparency and accountability, participation and inclusiveness; and
• gender transformative teaching and learning mechanisms.
The review and its recommendations break ground in defining SRGBV in the Asia-Pacific context and outlining a path towards putting an end to it.


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Hi all!
Apologies as I have been very busy with craft fairs and other things, so my Stampin' Up! posts are suffering. Will make some time this week to get some new work on here!
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Krishna Sweets opening outlets in BPCL bunks
Called "SKS and AJK Fine Dine Restaurant", these vegetarian outlets will be operated by students. It will be a motel which will also cater to the rural population. This will provide direct exposure to the students of Hotel Management and Catering and they can earn while learning. Apart from the products of Sri Krishna Sweets, these outlets will provide "speed lunch", chat counter, etc. Theme food festivals on weekends and sweet buffet during festival seasons are also planned.It is also proposed to open five more outlets including at RS Puram, Avanashi Road and Ukkadam.
A memorandum of understanding in this regard was exchanged between M.Krishnan, Chairman and Managing Director, Sri Krishna Sweets Pvt. Ltd. and Ajeet Kumar Lal Mohan, Secretary and Managing Trustee, AJK College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, in the presence of Somasundaram, Territory Manager, Sales, BPCL, Coimbatore.


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Prices for rare earth oxides shot up to historical highs in 2011, even for two of the most abundant of the light rare earth elements, lanthanum and cerium. The higher prices and concerns over availability of supply led to considerable demand...
Prices for rare earth oxides shot up to historical highs in 2011, even for two of the most abundant of the light rare earth elements, lanthanum and cerium. The higher prices and concerns over availability of supply led to considerable demand destruction. But where rare earth pricing is headed from here is hard to predict — especially considering the predominantly light rare earth oxide projects Mountain Pass of Molycorp (MCP-N) and Mt. Weld of Lynas Corp. (LYC-A) are slated to swing into full production in 2013.
Where does all the uncertainty leave the dozens of junior companies that count rare earth projects among their assets?
Jon Hykawy is gloomier than many analysts when it comes to prices for rare earth oxides next year. For the more common lanthanum and cerium oxides, the head of global research, clean technologies and materials at Byron Capital Markets in Toronto, forecasts a dramatic plunge from the historic peaks they reached in mid-2011.
"Lanthanum and cerium prices are projected to collapse," he contends. "This will not happen until 2013 and beyond, but our opinion is that this is largely inevitable. Barring a newly discovered use for lanthanum and cerium at a higher price, it is our belief that prices for both lanthanum oxide and cerium oxide will collapse to levels below historical floors."
His latest forecast predicts that lanthanum oxide will drop from US$85 per kg in 2011 to US$75 this year, and then plummet to US$10 per kg in 2013. From there, it gets worse, with prices forecast at US$3 per kg in 2016 and 2017.
Hykawy sees cerium oxide moving from US$75 per kg in 2011 to US$60 this year, and then tumbling to US$8 per kg in 2013, US$3 in 2014, and all the down to US$1 in 2017.
Even the price for neodymium will likely taper off from US$285 per kg in 2011 to US$200 this year, before tumbling to US$100 in 2013 and US$75 per kg from 2014-2017. Unlike lanthanum and cerium, neodymium is seen as a "critical" metal — one that is essential in modern technology and for which there are no ready substitutes. Neodymium is used in the manufacture of neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnets.
As for other REEs that are especially in demand, including heavies dysprosium, terbium, and europium, Hykawy forecasts they will fall by up to 80% from their 2011 highs in just two years' time.
Hykawy argues that prices will fall not just because more non-Chinese rare earth projects such as Mountain Pass in California and Mt. Weld in Western Australia are coming on stream later this year and next, but because the extraordinarily high prices the industry has seen since early 2010 have encouraged a number of end-users of rare earth elements to switch to cheaper substitutes or develop new technologies that don't require the materials.
That shift began in late 2010, he maintains, kicked off at the Roskill Conference in Hong Kong in November of that year, when Japanese presenters admitted their goal was to cut their consumption of cerium by as much as 70%. Cerium is used to polish glass in many industries, including LCD manufacturing for television and computer screens.
The trend picked up steam in January 2011, when Toyota Motor Corp. decided to use REE-free induction motors in the drive trains of their new round four electric vehicle. By July 2011, several wind turbine manufacturers in China had decided to stop making turbines containing permanent rare earth magnets, and W.R. Grace, a catalyst producer for the petroleum industry, declared it had developed new low or no-REE fluid catalytic cracking products.
"What high current prices do is convince users that they must engineer around the use of rare earths, substituting new materials or technologies for REEs," the mining analyst reasons. "While lanthanum is not a particularly good catalyst, it did have the advantage for many years of being inexpensive," he continues. "That changed in early 2010 with the advent of much stricter Chinese export quotas. Those quotas did not differentiate between REEs, so immediately thereafter buyers of lanthanum outside of China were competing with buyers of neodymium and dysprosium or other expensive rare earths for tonnes of quota. Lanthanum prices skyrocketed, and when a material that was previously adopted because of low prices suddenly becomes expensive, demand will surely fall."
While Hykawy sees much of the demand destruction that has already occurred as temporary — he believes manufacturers are likely to come back to REEs when their prices come down — another issue end-users are grappling with is security of supply.
For example, in the case of Toyota, the cost of rare earths is still only a fraction of the total cost of its Prius hybrid car, even at the inflated prices that exist outside of China. The amount of neodymium used in a Prius is about 700 grams or about US$66.
"A ready supply of neodymium at prices as low as US$45 per kg that is prevailing in China today (perhaps even approaching the US$94 per kg free-on-board (FOB) China today) would easily convince Toyota and all other automotive companies to maintain the use of NdFeB magnets in DC motors," he writes in a recent report. "With good quantities of neodymium flowing out of Lynas, Molycorp and Great Western Minerals by the beginning of 2013, we further believe that the Chinese will relax their export quotas to take part in the global market, and auto manufacturers will be back to using DC motors and nothing else."
(The same would be true of wind turbine makers, where one 3-megawatt wind turbine uses about 2 tonnes of magnet containing about 620 kg of neodymium.)
In 2013, Molycorp is expected to produce about 23,000 tonnes and Mt. Weld 22,000 tonnes. Great Western Minerals' (GWG-V) Steenkampskraal project in South Africa will produce about 10,000 tonnes and there are four companies that appear to have ionic clay deposits containing ore that is similar to the material from which Chinese firms extract heavy rare earth elements in southern China, he says. Two of them, including OTC and Frankfurt-listed Tantalus Rare Earths (TEFFF-O), could start producing at levels of 5,000 tonnes per year as early as 2013, he maintains.
Hykawy is also of the view that production quotas in China will rise over time as state-owned enterprises successfully cut emissions from their rare earth operations and as supply comes on stream outside of China. China's 2011 quotas went under-utilized and the country's full-year quota for 2012 is about 31,130 tonnes, an increase of 3% over 2011 levels.
Gareth Hatch, a co-founder of Technology Metals Research in Carpentersville, Ill., points out that 2011 wasn't the first time China's export quotas went unused: roughly 70% of the quota wasn't used in 2009/2010.
"Perhaps the reason that the projected quota for 2012 did not decrease was because the authorities anticipate continued declines in price for these materials," he says.
Hatch also notes that this year is the first time that China has differentiated between light and heavy rare earths in its export quotas.
"We've been expecting this for a year or two because the first projects that come on stream outside of China, such as Mountain Pass and Mount Weld will be producing a lot of light rare earths so it probably makes sense from the Chinese export point of view to decouple the lights from the heavies."
Indeed, he predicts that in a year or two it is possible that the industry will see the complete disappearance of light rare earths from China's annual export quotas.
The question is whether companies in China will be allowed to swap export quota. Typically, rare earth companies produce only one or the other (lights or heavies) and Hatch doesn't believe there will be any substan
tial new producers of heavy rare earth elements for at least a few more years. "If you're a light rare earth producer in China and you don't really have the circuits to make heavy rare earths, having the quota is no use to you, so it will boil down to what mechanisms are in place to swap quotas. It may be there has been some clarification on this in Chinese-language publications but I haven't seen anything yet in English."
In terms of prices, Hatch believes the most likely scenario this year will be the convergence between Chinese export and domestic prices. Over the last year or two there has been a disconnect between the export price and the domestic Chinese price because of quota surcharges traders were putting on exports. When the price of lanthanum reached US$140-150 per kg, he explains, as much as US$100 of that cost was profiteering by traders, and didn't reflect the true price of increases for the raw material.
But as prices peaked above historical prices in the summer of 2011, both the China price and the export price started to come down. "If you look at the charts, it appears likely that the prices for at least the light rare earths will converge again at some point this year," he says. "The surcharge for a tonne of export quota in such cases would decline to be close to zero."
The question is how much further do prices have to come down before you see previous users coming back to the market, Hatch asks. "Demand is absolutely driven by price and some companies were able to adapt in terms of substitution."
A price-floor for REEs?
Hatch doesn't believe prices for lanthanum and cerium will drop below historic levels of US$4-5 per kg or under US$35-40 per kg for neodymium because production costs in China continue to increase due to pollution-control measures.
"The cost of production in China is a little more expensive than it used to be and that's what you're competing against," he maintains. "And that's due to stricter environmental standards and pollution control. Despite the rhetoric of the Western media, there are strong indications that the new regulations for these facilities are stricter in China than in Canada or the United States."
That's one reason why China split its export quotas this year into "provisional allocations" and "confirmed quota" categories in a bid to further pressure rare earth companies in the country to clean up their operations, Hatch says. Companies that have quotas in the provisional category must meet various pollution control regulations by July 2012. And while the Chinese certainly have more work to do to improve the mining side of the equation, they are making progress in cleaning up the separation and processing of rare earths.
"I've spoken with people firsthand who have visited China in the last six months who tell me that you can eat your dinner off the factory floor," he continues. "They're clean, they're recycling water, they're recycling reagents, they are really getting their act together. They have invested in these facilities, so I don't think the baseline prices are going to drop below historical levels, certainly not because of pressure from the Chinese."
John Kaiser, who follows the rare earth industry closely and is the editor of Kaiser Research Online (www.kaiserbottomfish.com), believes that Chinese domestic prices will likely settle out somewhere in the 200-300% level above the historic level and that eventually, FOB prices will converge with domestic prices as material from Lynas Corp. and Molycorp come on stream in Western markets.
"Following the juniors, the question is whether the domestic China prices have at worst another 30-40% downside — that is a critical question for them," Kaiser says. "In the case of lanthanum and cerium, there is potential for that to go down even lower than current levels, because those are the two primary constituents for the light rare earth dominated deposits."
Kaiser also points out that China's 2011 export quotas went underutilized — not just because there was price resistance among Western end-users to pay FOB offer prices that were at a premium — but also because there was substantial movement of Chinese rare earths outside the country through smuggling channels.
"There was this remarkable jump reported in June of last year that Chinese domestic consumption was 86,000 tonnes," Kaiser says. "Some of that was due to rapid movement of Western capacity to get access to this material, but another reason was simply that rare earths destined for the export market were reclassified as domestic consumption and then smuggled out so they didn't have to pay the 25-35% duties."
When you look at typical prices for rare earths prior to July 2010, Kaiser says, they were quite low and had essentially flat-lined for the three years before that. Since July 2011, however, the market has seen FOB prices come down substantially, as well as Chinese domestic prices. "They look like they may be stabilizing now. . . (but) will these prices be acceptable to industry?"
A changing landscape
Kaiser argues that because prices for rare earths largely impact demand (and substitution) for them, anyone who tries to project future demand is "just guessing." What he does know is that end-users are developing relationships with the more advanced rare earth juniors outside of China and some have signed off-take and off-take financing agreements. "They are all very eager to see juniors define what their mining plans are so that they can pick and choose which ones they might want to get their mitts into and provide development financing in exchange for off-take agreements."
What the basis for establishing a price, however, remains a mystery. "China itself is setting up a cartel type system whereby they are going to have a central buyer which purchases the rare earth elements, stockpiles them, and then makes them available on a needed basis — similar to the way De Beers used to manage the supply of rough diamonds," he says. "This will get complicated when there are new supplies emerging outside of China."
Kaiser believes that the market could discover that rare earths are not at all like a commodity where the production disappears through private supply channels at prices that are never disclosed. And he suspects that unless there is an effort made by a company such as Molycorp to consolidate the industry and put all the projects under one umbrella, the industry will see the more advanced juniors simply disappearing as either consortiums or being acquired by a large company like Siemens, which would then bring on board contract mining. "Because most of these are, in essence, chemical plants, the mining part is at best trivial," Kaiser reasons.
In any case, the market is in the process of whittling down the one hundred-plus juniors that today claim rare earth assets down to a smaller group with projects that are actually workable.
"Ideally, the juniors should be bought out and all the shareholders will be happy and the managers can hand the keys to the buyers. But the strategy is now that the junior is still responsible for doing most of the work and raising most of the money and the end-user has dibs on the success that any junior may have," Kaiser says. "The bloom is off on the REE rose. The media attention to REEs is over. It's a three to five year march. . . By that point, deposits of heavy rare earths will come on stream and as for the heavies, we don't need too many of them — they're only about 15% of total consumption. And that's roughly how the Chinese have skewed the quotas."
In the meantime, however, it's a h
orse race to the production line.
The contenders
Hatch of Technology Metals believes that Great Western's Steenkampskraal project has a strong chance of production as soon as 2013 "depending on when they build a separation facility with the Chinese," and that Alkane Resources (ALK-A), Arafura Resources (ARU-A), Avalon Rare Metals (AVL-T), Rare Element Resources (RES-T, REE-X), Quest Rare Minerals (QRM-V, QRM-X) and Matamec Explorations (MAT-V), all have projects that are likely to become mines.
Kaiser likes Avalon, Quest, Tasman Metals (TSM-V, TAS-X) and Rare Element Resources because he believes they are the most advanced of the 2015 and beyond supply contenders and because they each have the capacity to make a significant contribution to the rest of the world's supply problem. Of the four, Kaiser argues, only Rare Element does not have the ability to provide a meaningful supply of heavy rare earths, but its Bear Lodge deposit "is the second-highest-grade advanced project in North America and will be of interest to end-users who are locked out of the Lynas and Molycorp supply via off-take arrangements those companies have already made."
Of Kaiser's picks, Avalon's Nechalacho project is the most advanced with heavy rare earth content. But it also has to deal with "very high capital and operating cost due to its mineralogy" and with "the sluggish permitting bureaucracy" of the Northwest Territories. As for Tasman Metals, "it is the least advanced, but stands to benefit if it delivers a plausible initial flow sheet for Norra Karr whose dominant mineral, eudialyte, has historically posed processing problems, and publishes a favourable preliminary economic assessment."
Because of its location close to infrastructure within the stable country of Sweden, and its very large size, Kaiser believes Norra Karr will be of interest to European end-users seeking rare earth security of supply in their own backyard.
Finally, Quest's Strange Lake deposit "ranks far above all other heavy rare earth deposits in terms of overall grade and heavy rare earth content." Kaiser notes that its critical milestones for 2012 are delivery of a detailed flow sheet and a prefeasibility study based on a mining scenario that overcomes the location's infrastructure challenges in a manner that is satisfactory to both Quebec and Newfoundland stakeholders.
"If Quest can solve these issues it has the potential to become the world's primary long-term supplier of heavy rare earths that are not already allocated via off-take agreements," he says.
Hykawy's top pick in the sector is Great Western Minerals, which has finalized a joint venture on solvent extraction technology with Ganzhou Qiandong of China and is negotiating off-take agreements with a number of potential customers, including Aichi Steel for magnet alloys. He says that mining operations should start by the second half of this year.
He also likes Matamec Explorations, in part because its hydrometallurgy is "commercially viable and has the potential to be improved further" and because its current resource, sufficient for a mine life of seven years, is expandable. "There are a number of potentially good heavy rare earth projects that can be up and running relatively quickly and produce at very low cost levels and these include Matamec," Hykawy says.
Hykawy's also got an eye on Tantalus, which has an ionic clay deposit in Madagascar. "They have a Chinese partner, China Non-Ferrous, which obviously knows something about ionic clays and have tested their material and have suggested it is in fact leachable clay," he says. "And that would make it the very first one I've seen out of China."
As for Molycorp, Hykawy sees considerable value in its mine-to-magnet model, which was de-risked late last year in a joint venture with Daido Steel and Mitsubishi Corp. to make neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) permanent rare earth magnets. He also thinks Molycorp is "making the right moves to secure supplies of heavy rare earths and to expand its cash flow as much as possible by moving its materials downstream."
Hykawy's other picks include: Arafura Resources, Frontier Rare Earths (FRO-T), Rare Element Resources and Ucore Rare Metals (UCU-V).
— The author is a senior staff writer at The Northern Miner. This story was first published in the March 2012 issue of Mining Markets magazine.


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The folks at Ereader.com have a superb bit of software available for all mobile platforms that could read/manage your purchased books as well as browse their website, containing thousands of books ready for download. I was immediately hooked! I downloaded the free software for my iPhone as well as my Windows Netbook and began purchasing books.
My first purchase was Karen Traviss's Gears of War – Aspho Fields. Fans of the colossal selling Gears of War video game series will get a close up personal look at Delta Squad's rag tag soldiers Marcus Fenix, Dominic and Carlos Santiago, as well as C-Company's Cole Train, and Baird. Hoffman and Anya are also present.


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A fantastic 100 piece puzzle with a difference. With lots of activities going on at the Zoo, children can enjoy hours of amusing fun as they piece together this colourful Spot the Difference puzzle. The finished puzzle piece is exactly the same as the image on the box except for 12 differences. Once the puzzle is complete, each child must try to find all the 12 differences between the box image and the puzzle image. A list is included if you get stuck – but no cheating! This puzzle helps your child with co-ordination, and colouring along with viewing alteration between images. This puzzle is a great gift idea for young children. The puzzle is made from high quality card and is securely sealed together in a shrink wrapped box. The finished puzzle measures 335mm x 496mm. Suitable for ages 6 years and up.
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Start: 06/03/2011 8:00 am
From the "Glacier Lodge" trailhead above Big Pine, hike up the North Fork of Big Pine Creek to a camp at Sam Mack Meadow. From there, cross the Palisade Glacier - the largest glacier in the Sierra Nevada - and climb the U-Notch Couloir (snow and possible ice, to 40 degrees).
From the notch, climb two pitches up the 5.4 "chimney", then the follow the easier class 3+ ridge to the top. Return home on the 3rd day.


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Wells is a smart guy and very knowledgeable about the area just doesn't share most of our affinity for the precise coordinate system that we've had since the last century – or any coordinates. The forwards to his books claim that he's never had any problem finding any of this by merely using maps so we shouldn't either; but, in his later books he has relented and included "those funny little numbers" in deference to "the younger generation."
I've geocoded some of his other books and this one fits right in with other maps we've already made in Colorado. Anyone desiring to ride these trails would have a better experience if they had read the information in this book first – that's why I'm following his book series. Just don't forget to download the free map we've made and examine the trails in Google Earth first to get the lay of the land and trail (link below).
If You're Going To Get The Book?Guide to Colorado Backroads & 4-Wheel Drive Trails, Vol. 2. That way you'll still pay the same price but a portion of it will go toward keeping Offroading Home "on the air." Thanks!
The combination of these FREE Google Earth maps along with the original descriptions from the book is the best of both worlds.
There are several items mentioned in the book which should be recognized by off-road riders in Colorado. They have to do with Colorado laws, Forest Service rules, Colorado camping guidelines and simple trail etiquette.
Colorado Laws
- Most trails require the vehicle to be licensed and driven with someone who has a valid drivers license; some can also require the vehicle to be street legal.
- Vehicles traveling uphill have the right of way. However, common sense tells you that if there's a close wide space available to you, you should pull over and let the other pass.
- Don't drink and drive.
- NO vehicles (even bikes) are allowed in Wilderness Areas.
Forest Service Rules
- Travel only on roads with signs displaying a Forest Service number or otherwise marked.
- No shortcuts at switchbacks, stay on trails at all times. Don't use other's tracks as an excuse to deepen an irresponsible track.
- Do not enter a closed trail.
- Forest Service roads often cross sections of private property. Do not enter if posted no trespassing. Leave gates the way you found them, closed if indicated.
- Pack out trash always - except in fee areas where there is an empty, approved receptacle. Don't overflow full containers and don't throw trash in pit toilets.
- Never drive across open meadows. Don't pick wildflowers, walk across delicate tundra or remove any artifacts – no kiddin' – drop them where you found them.
- Camp within 300 feet of the road.
- Don't park in tall grass due to fire danger.
- Bury human waste at least 6 to 8 inches deep and AT LEAST 200 feet from any water source, campsite or trail.
- Special land use regulations take precedence so check current FS maps.
Trail Etiquette
- Drive slowly with caution always, especially around blind curves.
- Be quiet. Don't play radios loudly, spin tires, gun engines. Use horn only in emergencies. Smile and be courteous to everyone to create a positive image for four-wheeling. There's a reason that trails get closed to everyone.
- Always pull over to the side of the road when you are not moving. Pull over for hikers and bikers. Stop and shut off engine for horses and pack animals.
- Avoid crossing streams if possible. Cross only at designated places.
- Pull over and let other vehicles pass.
- Control your pets at all times. Don't let them bark or chase wildlife.
Camping Guidelines
- Use developed or existing campsites.
- camp away from streams, lakes, hiking trails, and historical mining sites. Leave as much distance as possible between you and other campers. Respect privacy of others.
- Use a gas stove if possible, try to avoid fires. Fires only when allowed and always within a rock fire ring. Bring own fire wood, don't cut branches or trees. Let burn itself out to ashes then spread so completely cold. If must, douse fire thoroughly and watch to make absolutely sure it's out. Pack out bottles or cans.
- Avoid using soap around lakes or streams. Heat water to clean utensils. Don't bathe in or near a stream or lake especially with soap.
- Prepack food in plastic bags or reusable containers and haul away all trash.
- Inspect area thoroughly before leaving, leave NOTHING behind.
Area Four: Steamboat SpringsArea four has five trails and three basecamp towns and covers some truly magnificent Colorado areas. The designation in parentheses are the difficulty level.
Basecamp Towns: Steamboat Springs, Hahns Peak and Columbine (not the city, the tiny backwoods hamlet).
Trails: Ellis Jeep Trail (D), Hahns Peak (M), Farwell Mountain (M), Blowdown Area (E) and Buffalo Pass (E).


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Tom Davis, Classic 'Saturday Night Live' Writer, Dead at 59
Tom Davis, best known for his partnership with now-Senator Al Franken, has died from throat and neck cancer. He was 59.
Franken and Davis were hired together for the first season of 'Saturday Night Live' - as the New York Times notes, they had to split a paycheck - and were on the ground floor for the show that reshaped American comedy, and became a launching pad for most of the major comedic talents of the last thirty-plus years. Though Franken and Davis would often close out a show with 12:50 sketches that were very hit and miss, their work as writers led to some of the show's classic bits and reoccurring characters. From the Coneheads, to Dan Aykroyd's Julia Child impression, to Steve Martin's Theodoric of York, medieval barber, they had a hand in some of the show's most indelible sketches.
The duo stayed with 'SNL' until 1980, when the show went through a huge turnover, but Davis returned in 1985 when Lorne Michael came back to produce the show where he wrote off and on until 1993. He also came back to 'SNL' for the 2002-2003 season.
Though 'Saturday Night Live' proved a great launching pad for many writers and actors, Franken and Davis got a shot at stardom with the little scene movie 'One More Saturday Night,' and Davis only wrote one movie outside of that: 1993's 'Coneheads.' This seems partly due to Davis's admitted drug use, which he chronicled in his autobiography "Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss: The Early Days of SNL From Someone Who Was There," where he mentions touring with the Grateful Dead, and his falling out with Al Franken, which happened in 1990, only for the two to reconcile a decade later.
Like a lesser known member of the Mercury Seven or Ringo Starr, Davis may not be the brightest star of the first five seasons of 'Saturday Night Live,' but his time there make him legendary, and his death is a loss for comedy.


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New 'bionic nerve' may bring damaged limbs and organs back to lifeNovember 14th, 2007 - 2:27 am ICT by admin
According to them, the bionic nerve will repair broken "peripheral nerves", which are found outside the brain and spinal cord.
They revealed that the bionic nerve is created from the patient's own stem cells, which can be turned into any tissue from brain to skin cells.
The researchers are planning to place stem cells into nerve cells within a biodegradable plastic tube, which will then be inserted between the two ends of a cut nerve in the body.
New nerve fibres growing in the tube will join with the broken ends to bridge the gap, say the researchers.
Lead researcher Dr Paul Kingham, whose study is published in the journal Experimental Biology, has revealed that his team has already isolated stem cells from the fat of animals, and transformed them into suitable nerve cells.
He is now planning to extract stem cells from fat removed from adult human volunteers, reports the Daily Mail.
The researchers said that the technique could be used to re-attach severed arms and legs, repair nerves cut during cancer surgery, and restore life to transplanted organs.
Professor Giorgio Terenghi, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Regeneration at the university, insists that the new technique is superior to the current method of repairing nerves. (ANI)
- Stem cells derived from fat cells could be useful in tissue reconstruction - Dec 24, 2010
- New findings could lead to improved treatment of spinal cord injuries - Nov 16, 2010
- Stem cells from skin, blood regenerate faltering liver - May 12, 2011
- Scientists grow human bones from fat - Jun 10, 2012
- New technique converts skin cells into brain cells - Jun 10, 2011
- How nerve cells regenerate after injury - Sep 28, 2010
- Glowing 'firefly' stem cells could help repair damaged hearts - Sep 29, 2010
- Bad breath chemical converts dental pulp into liver cells - Feb 27, 2012
- Scientists develop toothy way to treat spinal injuries - Dec 04, 2011
- Intestinal stem cells offer clues to colon cancer origin and relapse - Mar 18, 2011
- How to keep stem cells 'forever young' - Dec 29, 2009
- Synthetic protein to help regenerate new tissues - Sep 11, 2011
- Multiple sclerosis 'could be reversed by activating stem cells in brain' - Dec 06, 2010
- Scientists grow human liver tissue for transplantation - Jan 21, 2011
- Breast milk can be source for stem cells - Oct 18, 2011
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Sometimes when I shop, I guilt myself into buying colors. I tell myself, "All you ever wear is black and grey, and you need to branch out and brighten up." Then, I buy the colorful clothing—and it largely hangs unworn in my closet while I continue to don black and grey. Because here's the thing: Not only are those neutrals timeless and generally flattering, but they're also what I like to wear. I like how black clothes look, and I feel good when I wear them. That's not to say I walk around all day every day looking like Wednesday Addams; I spice things up with fun jewelry, and do occasionally don colorful clothing (I tend to gravitate toward blues and greens). But, I've decided to stop feeling guilty when I don't, and embrace my overwhelmingly black wardrobe, because really, black will always be the new black.
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Navigating Alzheimer's
12 Truths about Caring for Your Loved One
Mary K. Doyle
Few of us will be untouched by Alzheimer's disease. There are more than 5 million who have the disease in the US and Canada and it takes 3 to 5 people to care for each one. Those afflicted are often otherwise physically well for most of the years their mind restricts them from independent living. And the family members who care for them lose much of their independence as well as their loved one requires their 24/7 attention.
Navigating Alzheimer's.12 Truths about Caring for Your Loved One covers the most pressing questions on primary caregivers' minds: What is the difference between normal aging and Alzheimer's; How long will this go on and what happens next; Why does my love one act so differently at different times; How do I affect their behavior; How do I plan for special events with my love one; Why do I feel such deep, ongoing depression; Why can't I do things better; How do I handle comments from others who know little of what we are dealing with; What will this cost me; Where can I turn to for help; and, What should I consider when looking for an assisted living home for memory care?
This little book is packed with important information for anyone with a loved one with Alzheimer's, especially if they are their primary caregiver. It offers an honest picture of the reality of such caregiving as well as a good dose of hope and support.
Gold Medal Winner in the 2017 Illumination Awards
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Whitney Pavlik split her college career between Montana and UC Irvine, where she graduate from. At UC Irvine, Pavlik was named to the All-Conference team and holds the UC Irvine record for highest hitting percentage in a single game and has the 3rd best hitting percentage in school history.
Pavlik made her AVP debut in Dallas in 2007. She finished 2013 as her best season in the AVP, earning four top-3 finishes, including winning the Manhattan Beach Open for the 3rd consecutive year. Pavlik was also named the AVP Rookie of the Year in 2008, when she earned ten top-10 finishes. Pavlik has also had success in international competition. In 2011 and 2012, Pavlik teamed with Jenny Kropp winning NORCECA events in Boca Chica and Guatemala City. In 2013, she teamed with Emily Day to win the NORCECA event at Toluca.
Outside of volleyball, Pavlik works as an Administrative Assistant at Laguna Beach Seniors. Pavlik will be teaming up in 2014 with Jen Fopma.
Favorite thing about beach volleyball: "That I get to be on the beach each day, doing something that I love."
Role Models: "I couldn't imagine where I would be in beach volleyball without my family. They have all influenced me throughout my career in so many ways and their continued support is amazing!"
Dream Job: "Being a pro tennis player playing doubles with Jen Fopma."


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Actor Jason Statham shows his physical prowess in his latest film, "The Mechanic" but did you know he used to be an Olympic diver? Find out these 10 fun facts about the British action star!
See photos of Jason Statham through the years!
Fun Facts on Jason Statham
Diving Champ
Statham has been an Olympic diver on the British National Diving Team and finished 12th in the World Championships in 1992.
The Big Break
Jason's break into the entertainment business came when an agent put him on an advertisement for the French Connection clothing company.
Meet Guy Ritchie
At the French Connection, Statham met fledgling British director Guy Ritchie who was developing a film project and needed to fill the role of a street-wise con artist. After learning about Statham's past as a Black Market salesmen, Ritchie cast him to play the role of "Bacon" in Ritchie's breakout 1998 hit, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels."
Statham did nearly all of his own stunts in the 2002 "The Transporter," including car chase sequences, scuba diving sequences and fight sequences.
Martial Artist
Jason is also well trained in mixed martial arts and is an expert in kickboxing.
In Love
The actor was in a relationship with English model and actress Kelly Brook for several years — and is in a relationship with model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Oscar Chances
Statham once said, "You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing "Crank" and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done."
Me and Sly
[On being directed by Sylvester Stallone in 2010 "The Expendables"] "He is someone that you have to respect and with that he runs a very relaxed set."
Missed Opportunity
Jason was offered the role of Agent 47 in 2007 "Hitman" after Vin Diesel was dropped from the project. Timothy Olyphant eventually took the role.
What's Up Next?
Statham is lending his vocal talents to the upcoming animated Shakespeare comedy "Gnomeo & Juliet" as Tybalt, the gnome. He will also star with Robert De Niro and Clive Owen in "The Killer Elite."


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I'd heard of self harm at a young age, but I didn't really have a clue that it was something that people actually did and it was something that so many people did do. Until probably the age of 14, I knew no one who did self harm. I saw the world through glasses made of sunshine and rainbows.
This all changed, and after I found out that one person self harmed, I learned about so many people who did. So many different stories and reasons and I was left with a whirlwind of questions that had yet to be answered. At about the age of 15 and a half, I knew a handful of people that I was quite close friends with who self harmed or had other issues with mental health.
I found myself still feeling happy. Still always excited and smiling. I cried when I was sad, regardless of where I was and who I was with, but my feelings were always honestly displayed, which is why I usually wore a smile. However, after a while, I sort of felt guilty about feeling happy. I sort of had an idea as to what was causing my friends to feel the way they did, but I still didn't/don't understand it.
For me, it felt like everyone around me was sad, it felt like everyone around me was bottling everything up, whereas I just show how I'm feeling. If I am feeling something, everyone knows I feel this way. How could I possibly justify my positivity when the people I love were hurting?
The came a point where I sort of just gave in to the fact that I'm not going to ever understand what they are going through, and all I could do was be there for them.
I also recently found out that my being happy and clueless was actually reasonably helpful. I think more than anything the fact that I was really oblivious to how people were feeling was good because I believed how people displayed their emotions was how they were feeling and I just acted as if everyone else was happy, and my random conversation seemed to distract people from how they were feeling; which can sometimes be the best thing.
Moral of the story is that being happy can actually help other people, so if your happy when everyone else feels down, just talking at people can sometimes be useful.
I hope you've enjoyed reading this post, let me know in the comments.
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If there is one thing I've learned over my years on this plane it's this: it's not always easy to do the right thing. And in a more pragmatic sense, it's not always cheap to do the right thing.
This came to mind as I read the story of a Utah gun maker which recently turned down a $15 million deal with Pakistan for its precision rifles. Desert Tech is based in West Valley City, Utah and was founded on the principle of keeping America and its allies safe, according to Desert Tech sales manager Mike Davis.
The company was on a short list for a big-bucks contract with Pakistan but turned it down because of ethical concerns. With the current unrest in Pakistan the company, according to Davis, could not be sure the weapons manufactured in their plant would not someday be used to kill American troops.
"We don't know that those guns would've went somewhere bad, but with the unrest we just ended up not feeling right about it," Davis told a local television station per an Associated Press report.
Davis went on to tell the tv station that this decision was based solely on ethics and morality. It should be noted here that the contract would have been completely legal and very lucrative for the company. In this instance, however, doing the right thing won out over making a buck.
I've seen far too many instances of the buck winning out, however. It always amazes me to what lengths seemingly good, hard-working people will go to make a quick buck or two. From cheating on taxes to flat-out lying on mileage reports, it happens every day. And these aren't even large sums of cash we're talking about. We all tell white lies every now and then, we all speed on the roads, these are small things that are a part of our lives that we, in all likelihood, don't think twice about. But to make a conscious decision to cheat on taxes, cheat on your spouse or just cheat an acquaintance out of a buck or two, these are things that rot the soul.
So, kudos to a company that turned down millions of dollars based on nothing more than sheer principle. It's stories like these that re-affirm my faith in the world and make me want to do better in my own life.
Rodney Williams is the managing editor for The Anna-Melissa Tribune and the Van Alstyne Leader. He can be contacted at email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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- USA.gov - Official website for searching the U.S. Government
The federal governments first initiative to index all government web sites and provide comprehensive searches though the entire database. All subject matter.
- FedWorld Information Network Home Page
Access to thousands of U.S. Government web sites, more than a 1/2 million U.S. Government documents, databases and other information products.
- The Federal Gateway
Private site with extensive links to U.S. Government information and agencies, plus descriptive commentary on individual sites.
- GovExec.com
"GovExec.com is government's business news daily and the premier Web site for federal managers and executives."
- Federal Digital System
Search and access documents produced by the Government Publishing Office
- The Constitution of the United States
A transcription of the complete text of the Constitution. This page also provides hyperlinks to biographies of each of the 39 delegates who signed the Constitution. From the National Archives and Records Administration
- GPO Access: The Constitution of the United States of America
The Constitution electronically indexed and hyper-linked: with analysis and Interpretation, annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court.
- Bill of Rights Transcript
- Birth of the Nation: The First Federal Congress, 1789-1791
A n online exhibit of the documentary history of the most productive Congress in U.S. history.
- THOMAS -- U.S. Congress on the Internet
Current US Federal Legislative Information. Bills, Laws, Congressional Record, reports, and links to further information.
- C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle
A resource for House and Senate floor proceedings. Access the legislative schedule, a directory of committees and members, bills, votes and statistics about each session of Congress.
- CQ Moneyline: Campaign Finance News
Covers PACs, candidates, & lobbying.
- LegiStorm: Transparency's Sidekick
"LegiStorm helps bring transparency to the U.S. Congress by disseminating public documents and non-partisan information over the web."
- Opensecrets.org: Congress
Center for Responsive Politics, the "nonpartisan guide to moneys influence on U.S. elections and public policy", comprehensive section on the current Congress.
- Project Vote Smart: CongressTrack
A citizen's toolkit for tracking Congress. Access the status of legislation; floor schedules; full text of bills and the Congressional Record; how members of Congress have voted; Congressional Committee information; member contact information; more.
- Netstate.com
Guide to all 50 states. Find information on flags, symbols, emblems, seals,populations, climate and people..
- Stateline.org
Provides news and facts on all 50 states. Written by journalists for journalists, policy makers, and citizens. It's non-partisan, non-profit, and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
- 50states.com - States and Capitals
Lists the fifty states and information on their locations (latitude and longitude), birds, colleges and universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources, and geological formations.
- State Codes and Statutes
Provides links to the codes and statues for all 50 states.
- StateInformation.com
Directory of state information. Listing of agencies with links to vital records, driver licenses, motor vehicles, insurance, corporations, statutes, taxes.
- State of the Cities Data System
State of the Cities 2000 Fast-Look gives access to specific cities' historical census data, current employment statistics, and county business pattern databases. The SOCDS provides data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs.
- Texas Online
"The State of Texas has brought many government services online to better serve residents and businesses. Through TexasOnline, we're making government accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
- Texas Legislature Online
Bill and committee information, Texas Statutes, live audio of the Texas House and more.
- The Texas Constitution
Includes frequently asked questions, an index and a search function.
- Texas State Agencies
"For each Texas state agency we have included a link to the TRAIL page that provides contact information, addresses, phone numbers and links to enabling legislation for that agency. We have also provided a link directly to the agency's Web site and a link that searches for the agency's online publications in the TRAIL database."
- Texas Secretary of State Office
"The Secretary serves as Chief Election Officer for Texas, assisting county election officials and ensuring the uniform application and interpretation of election laws throughout Texas. The Office of the Secretary of State also provides a repository for official and business and commercial records required to be filed with the Office. The Secretary publishes government rules and regulations and commissions notaries public. The Secretary also serves as keeper of the state seal and attestor to the Governor's signature on official documents."
- Texas Governor's Office
Current governor's web site includes news releases, audio broadcasts, and political information.
- Texas Bureau of Vital Statistices
"The task of recording all the births, deaths, marriages and divorces in Texas belongs to the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Each year, almost 750,000 documents are registered, and the public requests more than 200,000 searches for documents such as birth certificates needed by children to enter school or for adults to prove citizenship. In addition, the Bureau develops, analyzes and disseminates information used to plan and evaluate public health programs and to identify specific problem areas, such as infant mortality, teen pregnancy or tobacco use."
- Texas Association of Counties
"County government is big business. More than ever before, the complex demands of modern society are focused on our traditional framework of local government - Texas' 254 counties. Since the early 1980s, as more and more federal and state responsibilities were delegated or mandated to the local level, counties have re-emerged as Texas' "grassroots" government - delivering a growing list of services and working "smarter and harder" to respond to the ever-changing needs of our dynamic state."
- Canadian Government Homepage
"Get quick, easy access to the Government of Canada's most requested services and information."
- European Governments Online
"Official website of the European Union"
- globalEdge
A comprehensive global business resource at Michigan State University.
- Admi-Net World Governments
- Law and Government Resources for 230 Countries
From HierosGamos legal research center.
- Foreign Law Legal Research Resources on the Internet
From University of Chicago Law Library
- Foreign and International Law Resources
From Harvard Law School Library
- CQ Moneyline: Campaign Finance News
Covers PACs, candidates, & lobbying.
- Federal Election Commission
Federal Election Commission's Information about campaign finances.
- LegiStorm: Transparency's Sidekick
"LegiStorm helps bring transparency to the U.S. Congress by disseminating public documents and non-partisan information over the web."
- Opensecrets.org: Congress
Center for Responsive Politics, the "nonpartisan guide to moneys influence on U.S. elections and public policy", comprehensive section on the current Congress.
- Project Vote Smart: CongressTrack
A citizen's toolkit for tracking Congress. Access the status of legislation; floor schedules; full text of bills and the Congressional Record; how members of Congress have voted; Congressional Committee information; member contact information; more.
- Federal Election Commission
In 1975, Congress created the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to administer and enforce the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). The duties of the FEC, which is an independent regulatory agency, are to disclose campaign finance information, to enforce the provisions of the law such as the limits and prohibitions on contributions and to oversee the public funding of Presidential elections.
- Rock The Vote
An educational resource to empower and motivate young voters to participate in the election process.
- Federal Voting Assistance Program
- The National Journal
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- Politics.com
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The house is situated in a beautiful old fisherman's village on the Makarska Riviera. It is 25 meters from the beach. It has a large private garden for relaxing in and taking in the Mediterranean aromas of lavender, mandarin, rosemary. It is for families and romantic couples who like to be close to the beach and to have privacy. Brist is an ancient Mediterranean fisherman's village which has kept its old Dalmation lifestyle, with a sense of relaxation, sun, and sea. The warmth of the Adriatic sun and pebble beaches are enticing, the crystal clear water is there for all to enjoy. There are a few wonderful restaurants available which have a range of Dalmatian meals. Brist is wonderful for a relaxing holiday and the house is perfect for that. The house has 2 floors, ground floor has kitchen/dining room with access to lodge and big terrace, and bedroom with double bed and en-suite. The first floor has bedroom with double bed and couch single fold out bed and en-suite, it also has access to balcony. It is 25 meters from the beach. The terrace and balcony are 13 square meters. The house is safe for children. Villa Brist has 2 private garages for guests.
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