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Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Agatha Christie: Hallowe'en Party drawn by Chandre
Harper €13.49
MURDER in the English style, complete with house parties, cosy vegetable gardens, proper tea in teapots - it has to be Agatha Christie.
But hold - is that a graphic novel? It is!
The story comes from the Agatha Christie stable, and trots along with the familiar gait: discontent with the growing permissiveness of society - it was published in 1969; approval of unimaginative, conformist, tweedy, caste-bound lives.
The victim is a liar and a fantasist, a young teenager who claims to have witnessed a murder long ago.
No sooner are the words out of her mouth than her head is in the apple-bobbing bucket, and that's all she wrote.
Hercule Poirot, moustaches a-twitch, is soon on the scene and discovering a village awash with dastardliness.
The drawings owe a lot to the styling of the Agatha Christie's Poirot TV series. They don't make up for the lack of Christie's own hackneyed but compelling descriptions.
This is one of a series of Christie's most famous murder mysteries re-imagined as graphic novels.
It's an idea that has its parallel in Belgium, where a series of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu offered, well, a recherché charm.
It can only be weeks before someone brings out Finnegans Wake, The Graphic Novel, Penned by Shem.
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New mom Nicole Polizzi hadn't been her old bronzed self for months because of her pregnancy
Talk about sacrificing for your kid.
For months now, it's been fifty shades of pale for Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, who had to forgo the tanning light after becoming pregnant with her first child.
Now, the wait is finally over. Snooki has her bronze mettle back!
"Omg," Tweets the pint-sized Jersey Shore star, 24, who gave birth to son Lorenzo on Aug. 26, "just went tanning since like a year ago."
She also gives a hashtag shout-out to her own line of tanning lotion.
It's a well-earned treat for the reality star who now appears in the MTV spin-off Snooki & JWOWW – she endured more than 24 hours of labor.
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Greg Sandoval at ZDNet:
Warner Bros. Entertainment on Monday began selling full-length feature films and TV shows over the Internet via Guba, one of a legion of companies presenting amateur-videos on the Web.
Guba customers can rent a film for $1.79 per day or pay $9.99 to own an older title. Newer movies cost $19.99 (actually TV shows rent for $1.79 and movies for $1.99 a day – ed.). All the content is protected by Microsoft-developed digital rights management software, the companies said.
The agreement is the latest sign that at least some in Hollywood may be ready to deal with Internet sites that some in the movie business consider a threat. Warner Bros. last month announced that it had chosen file-sharing technology from BitTorrent to distribute films.
The difference is that the Guba content can be copied to DVDs:
Under the Guba-Warner Bros. agreement, people will be able to make a copy of a video onto a DVD, but, because of industry licensing agreements, it can only be played on the computer from which it was burned. Wuthrich said he hopes consumers will be able to watch the copied DVDs with a DVD player within a year or so.
while purchases from BitTorrent cannot be copied to DVDs at all.
For Guba, the partnership is a coup. Like most other competitors in the video-sharing space, Guba has seen its public profile eclipsed by the juggernaut, YouTube. Thomas McInerney, the Guba's CEO, said he hopes the Warner Bros. partnership will help the company stand apart from rivals.
There is some interesting background on Guba by following the link, but the bigger story is studios embracing download services in the apparent hope that the widespread availability of legal content will cut down on piracy. It might even work.
Note that Warner Bros. did a separate deal with corporate cousin AOL for distributing old TV shows for free.
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Director: Steve Rosenbaum
Genres: Television, Documentary
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"I received this for a Christmas gift excited to get some behind the scenes insight into the 2004 campaign (I was a volunteer at the DNC in DC for the final two months) in order to get some type of clarity into why the DEMS messed up so badly in taking back the Presidency.
Unfortunately, what you get is six 15 minute (or so) sections where the camera "man" follows around the "bodyguy" for the main DEM candidates (Bodyguy = personal assistant) as you see how draining it is and how boring it is to hear the same stump speach time and time again.
There is no director's commentary or extras at all."
Suprised by the great quality, and lack of special features
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(4 out of 5 stars)
"As already noted, this 'series' is lacking on any kind of special features, which I personally would love to see. However, I felt so suprised by the quality of Staffers that I could do without those, and of course had to.
See, at first I presumed that the DVD would merely have different episodes following those quite far from the candidates themselves and, like many documentary's of late, lack the artistic style that can be present in non-fiction films. This was to the contrary though, as I soon found out.
For instance, the people focused on initially, except for the Clark campaing, were all relatively distant from the candidates themselves. However, you begin to realize that 'Staffers' does take you up close, and although it didn't focus on the candidates (that's why it's 'Staffers'!), it certainly gave what I felt was a new side to the campaign.
These kids, and yes most of them were still fairly young, had the chance of a lifetime. Now with this DVD, we can watch those chances, and maybe one day we too will rise to that noble position of STAFFER!"
Campaigning 'warts and all'...
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"You want to know why Kerry didnt win?
Watch this insightful DVD that allows you behind the scenes.
Kerry spends a lot of time playing golf and show boating the fact that he has kept his first car. (Though he doesnt mention how many others he has garaged).
The DVD offers insight into the world of campaigning from those who went onto the presidential race proper and those that didn't. Thereby the DVD is quite unique. Perhaps due to the fact that few politicians are eager to broadcast their faults.
If you are looking for a campaigning 'warts and all', this DVD has it."


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When winter months roll around I want to hibernate. I want to be in a hot kitchen slow cooking, braising meats, roasting root vegetables, and invariably staying warm. Pozole is a dish that hits the mark on these dark, cold days. It encapsulates everything I love about Mexican cooking. It layers flavors and techniques to create a dish with intense complexity. There is a mild heat from the chiles that warms you balanced with acidic lime juice and rich braised pork shoulder. It is a hearty stew that can be served with an assortment of sides that personalize each bowl: tortillas, radish, avocado, cilantro, shredded cabbage, limes, creama (or sour cream), and cheese. This is a dish I have served many times over the course of my career and has taken on many iterations. Oxtail Pozole at Food & Wine Festival in Atlanta, Green Chile Pozole on Top Chef, and most recently Pozole Rojo, currently my favorite version. This recipe is gold. Print now, make it tomorrow, and thank me later.
Pozole Rojo
Yields 6 quarts
3 pounds boneless pork shoulder, cut into 1 inch sized cubes
1 Tablespoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 Tablespoon canola oil
9 gaujillo chiles
3 ancho chiles
2 medium sized tomatoes
2 chipotles in adobo, I like the Embasa brand
1 large white onion, small diced
5 cloves of garlic, minced
3 poblano peppers, deseeded and small diced
1 ½ teaspoon ground cumin
1 ½ teaspoon ground coriander
3 dried bay leaves
1 Tablespoon dried Mexican oregano
5 cups of cooked and drained hominy, you can use the canned stuff
3 quarts of chicken stock
2 ½ Tablespoon kosher salt
½ cup limejuice
½ cup chopped cilantro
Begin by mixing the pork shoulder with the salt and black pepper. Set aside and gather the rest of the ingredients. Toast the dried guajillo and ancho chiles; I use a cast iron pan for this. Heat the pan over medium heat. Add a few chiles to the pan at a time, keeping them in a single layer touching the pan. Using a metal spatula gently press the chiles flat against the pan, the chiles should puff up slightly and darken in color just a little bit. They should not be charred or smoking, this will make them bitter. It will take about 30 seconds to toast each round of chiles. After the chiles have all been toasted, place them in a container and cover them with hot tap water. Weigh them down with something like a small plate so that they all stay submerged. Soak them for 30 minutes. While the chiles are soaking roast the tomatoes. Heat the same cast iron pan over medium heat. Place the whole tomatoes into the pan and cook for about 7 minutes. You want to get as much of the outside skin charred as possible, rotate the tomatoes as needed to accomplish this. After the chiles have soaked for 30 minutes, remove them from the water and place in a blender along with the roasted tomato, canned chipotle, and about a cup of the chile soaking water. Blend until smooth.
In a large pot heat the canola oil over medium high heat. When pot is ready add in the pork shoulder. Sear the pork until it is well browned on all sides, about 8 minutes. Remove the pork from the pot and set aside. Next carefully pour the chile puree into the pot and cook while stirring for about 3 minutes. This will help concentrate the flavor of the chilies and add more depth to the final product. Next, add in the onion, garlic, and poblano peppers. Cook for 1 minute. Add in the ground cumin, ground coriander, bay leaves, and Mexican oregano. Cook for an additional 3 minutes before adding in the hominy, chicken stock, and the pork shoulder. Bring to a simmer, cover and cook over low heat for about 1 ½ hours. Remove the bay leaves. To finish the pozole add in the lime juice and chopped cilantro. Season with salt to your taste, I used about 2 ½ Tablespoon of salt for mine. Serve along side crispy tortillas, shredded cabbage, radish, sour cream, and cheese.
*If you have the chance, make this a day before serving. I love how the flavors marry and become even more delicious overnight.


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Populist bashing of scientists is nothing new. The Cold War boost to physics and aeronautics research was followed immediately by an anti-military science backlash associated with the peace movement. But while the Right's attack on science is bad for America, I have little sympathy for the argument Nature advances.ReplyDelete
The core of their argument is that demagogues have lead the population away from the truth. Scientists a pure caste, insulated from the world, devoted to truth.
But this is not true: Science is a contested process of creating new facts, not the transfer of an objective universal truth. Scientists want to be treated as authority figures without accepting the social responsibility (okay, the symbolic blame-eating) that is associated with authority.
Scientists live in a universe of objective fact, but Rush et al, and most of America, do not. The factual basis of Nature's editorial is irrelevant, and its symbolic basis is weak. The requirements of truth and PR may be mutually exclusive, but right now, science is ceding the battlefield with barely a fight.
Nature has been running more controversial opinion pieces lately. In general, I think they make the journal look petty, but I can't completely dismiss them.ReplyDelete
I'm not exactly sure what the argument is. The article seems to be advocating something along the lines of "anti-science populism is blocking very reasonable reforms in policy based on established data".
Perhaps the article is out of line, in attacking specific individuals and institutions and blaming them for the political obstruction, but is the aforementioned argument ultimately true ?
Perhaps it is simply bad form for Nature to touch politics at all.
So, scientists want authority without responsibility, and they view themselves as the elite, above common society ?ReplyDelete
I'm not sure thats true. Science seems to be characterized by old, tenured, defenders of established doctrine, and young folks working very hard to revise established doctrine.
If it is true, then what alternative model is better ? If you want to complain that liberal elitists are trying to scientifically justify their radical socialism, but at the same time can't understand why we use drosophila in genetic studies, then ... no, you are not qualified to critique science.
There is abundant internal controversy and competition within science to keep the truth close at hand. And when people screw up [ahem-Hauser-ahem], they are not without accountability.
I don't really know what you mean by "symbolic basis"
Honestly, I think that Nature editorial is completely fair. I also think its tone and topic might have been beneath the status of the journal, and may have been counterproductive. Scientific American contains regular opinion pieces criticizing religion, and the right. I don't think they do this because they are elitist bastards, I think they do this because they are genuinely dumbfounded by the ongoing behavior of a large sector of the human race.
So you say that science is ceding the public relations battlefield without a fight ? I'd say everyone is trying as hard as they can, but scientists lack the ability to empathize with, and hence communicate to, this tea-party populist movement.
so... then, biff, how would one mount a better PR offensive ?
Just to make it clear, I am not anti-religion. I have some very nice and reasonable religious friends, who, like me, think some large sector of our population has .. shall we say, departed severely from consensus reality.ReplyDelete
Agree with all of the above. I'm just being tetchy and STS. :)ReplyDelete
On further thought, this editorial might not be so bad. The audiences are people who read Nature (scientists and science fans), and people who might read a popular press piece saying "Scientists call out Glenn Beck." With that audience, a call to action is a good idea.
The problem is that whatever rhetoric is used, it must mobilize scientists without identifying them with a political ideology, (unless they're willing to risk the defeat along with that ideology). It's hard to find something better than Nature's anti-conservatism, but we must also stop condescending to people on religon, so we can mobilize them on more important environmental issues.
I wish calmly pointing out the conspiratarian conservative worldview actually worked.
Rather than have Nature writing more shrill articles, dignifying Glenn Beck & Sarah Palin with a response, we should just get Tina Fey to write some more raps -- in retrospect, it seems to me that that did far more for Obama's campaign than anything Obama did.ReplyDelete
There is clearly a breakdown of the public debate over Science policy, when the nonexperts with no background to speak of are able to critique and cast doubt on the true experts. The proper weapon to fight stupidity with is parody.
I don't see any way for non experts to easily distinguish between the medieval priests or alchemists who are talking bullshit to preserve authority, or the genuinely helpful scientist that tells you to do things you can't derive on your own.ReplyDelete
Unless we can think of a reliable demonstration that could prove experts aren't just advancing a hidden global conspiracy, I don't see any way to win this PR battle.
I can write a parody where the world is so dumb they are watering their plants with Gatorade, and everyone is mocking the one person of average intelligence who points this out (Idiocracy). Or, I could write a parody in which medieval alchemists and priests keep the surfs complacent through obviously ridiculous lies, by modern standards.
The only way non-experts can distinguish between the two scenarios is by asking themselves "am I better off by following these leaders".
Evaluation of this statement is absurdly difficult. For one, its basically impossible to run a control group with social experiments. Maybe I can say "the peasants in the next village revolted, and now they have an awesome democracy", but the same intentions applied again might lead to a military dictatorship.
I'm told, in the US, that the standard of living has been approximately stagnant since the 1970s. Assuming this is even approximately true, a large portion of the population is going to be saying "no, I am not better off by following these leaders".
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The Lure of the Occult
It was probably the cave man who told the first ghost story, and he almost certainly told it very well, because he believed in it. To him, consciously at war with nature, the presence of an inimical force external to nature seemed an obvious thing, and he evolved his theology from his theories concerning it, just as he evolved his religious ritual from the ceremonies he devised to circumvent or placate it. We men of a later age stand where the cave man did in our relations to the unknown; the same problems that perplexed him perplex us, except that we recognise in them far greater complications and are a little less serious in approaching them. His witch doctors dwelt remote, clothed in awful mystery, with every appurtenance of terror skull and bones and snakeskin and filth about them; ours wear top hats and frock coats and are grocers and other respectable things in the day time. He worked charms with dried blood and potent herbs; our masters of the occult do conjuring tricks with tambourines and Iittle tables.
It is, however, to literature that we must turn if we are to realise the essential elements of man's attitude to the unknown. Not merely to the written records of man's experiences and investigations, not to the journals of psychical research societies, which are, generally speaking, inexpressibly dull, but to those imagined things, those "ghost stories" which now and again capable artists give us, and which we read in the profound hope that they are not true. All such stories, all that count at any rate, concern themselves with terror. Their aim is the recherche du frisson, they are the modern counterpart of the ancient witch doctor's hymn to his spirits; they are, the expression of the wild, unreasoning fear that numbs the heart of man when he feels that presently something may spring at him out of the dark.
There are very few ghost stories which possess this authentic thrill, and the fashion of them changes, for we are more sophisticated nowadays than we used to be. Our great grandfathers could extract an enjoyable horror from spirits that walked about in moated granges satisfactorily clanking chains. All that these simple souls required to make them happy was a headless horror in a dark passage outside a panelled chamber carrying its eyes in its hand. For such robust susceptibilities Mrs. Radcliffe, the Rev. Charles Maturin and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley catered; but to day our scepticism of anything so concrete as their phantoms destroys our enjoyment; we must needs dignify our tremors by a quasi scientific explanation. We have classified our ghosts, so that young ladies in drawing-rooms can talk glibly of elementals, poltergeists, etherical projections, Barrovians, Vagrarians, Semi, and all the rest of it, in appropriate jargon.
The shortest and perhaps the most perfect ghost story in the world is told by Dr. M. R. James in his " Ghost Stories of an Antiquary." It is the tale of a woman who was staying in a strange house. She was shown her room; she entered, locked the door, undressed, blew out the candle and got into bed. Then, as she lay there in the dark, came a little, horrible voice from above: "Now we're safely shut in for the night!" . . .
If that story does not produce a thrill, no more sophisticated tale will do so. It is the ghost story reduced to its lowest terms the essential ghost story, the effect of which is to rouse those unreasoning terrors which lie dormant in all of us, and which wake to life in the presence of the unknown. There are many ways of sounding these depths of terror. The effective ghost story must be mysterious, yet mystery is not enough. One of the most mysterious things in the world is an equilateral triangle, but only the crazed soul of a Futurist artist is likely to be haunted by a thing like that. The effective ghost story must be horrible, yet horror is not enough; there is a certain horror in the thought of a comet plunging for ever into the depths of space, but the tranquil mind is not disturbed thereby. The horror of the occult must be symbolistic, portentous; it must carry with it a sense of loathing and unspeakable obscenity. The sought for frisson, hardly attained, must be a very shudder of the soul, the awful gesture of life threatened by malign and desolating forces.
Masterpieces in this genre are of course very few. One may indeed count them on the fingers of a hand. Some of Edgar Poe's tales ought certainly to be included in any list of the greatest ghost stories, especially "The Fall of the House of Usher," a tale which for sheer concentrated horror is unequalled in literature. The opening passages of that wonderful tale strike upon the consciousness like a knell. Material things dissolve, and one steps across the borderland. Place should be given also to the one or two somewhat more complex and ambitious studies made by Bulwer Lytton, particularly in "Zanoni" and "A Strange Story," but like most of his other work, Lytton's tales of the supernatural are more than a little exotic, and we of the present age may be forgiven if we regard them, as some what pretentious. It is however the modern writer who has excelled pre eminently in the tale of the occult. Dr. M. R. James's "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary," two volumes of which were published by Mr. Edward Arnold five or six years ago, contain some of the eeriest tales ever written. You may sup full of horrors if you sup with Dr. James. He never bothers with the dreary scientific kind of tale, but is frankly at home with medieval superstitions and black magic; his properties are familiar spirits, anthropophagous, with clutching hairy paws, and spiders especially spiders. A cold shiver runs down the spine even when one thinks in retrospect of that horrible old gentleman of his whose face was a mass of cobwebs.
Mr. Algernon Blackwood has written a great many stories of the occult but few of them can be classed in the first rank of ghost stories. He began well with "The Whisperer and Other Tales," but some of his later books read like extracts from the proceedings of the Psychical Research Society. He peers forward amiably into the unknown blinking benevolently, and tightly clutching a volume of Bergson.
Very different, and far finer from an artistic point of view, are the stories of Mr. Arthur Machen, collected in the volume called "The House of Souls " (published by Grant Richards some years ago, but now, I believe, out of print). Nor must Mr. Oliver Onion's "Widdershins" (Martin Secker) be forgotten, and those masterpieces of Rudyard Kipling's, scattered about in various volumes – "The Mark of the Beast," "They," and "The Brushwood Boy." In a place very little after these I would put three books by William Hope Hodgson, whose pen, alas, is laid down for ever: "The House on the Borderland," "The Ghost Pirates," and "The Boats of the Glen Carrig."
And so we come, by devious degrees, to the supreme masterpiece of all the literature of the supernatural, the story called "The Turn of the Screw," which you shall find in the volume by Henry James entitled "The Two Magics." Fastidious artist as he was, Henry James approached even a conte of the horrible with delicacy. He knew that the crowning horror of horrible things is achieved when they are placed in close juxtaposition with the commonplace, and he knew, too, that the sense of horror is best awakened and maintained by means of a subjective study. "The Turn of the Screw" may be described as the story of the corruption of the souls of two children by malign influences exercised through the spirits of the dead, but it is something far more than this. The significance of it glows and fades, changing with the mood so that, on a second or third reading one wonders whether it is intended as a ghost story at all whether it is not rather a profound study of the effect of fear upon a delicate and sensitive nature. One may never know why the boy Miles left his bed at night to stare in horrible entrancement at that figure on the lawn, or whether the ghost of Peter Quint really walked to work evil. One is not sure whether the girl Flora held fearful communings in the wood with the spirit of the governess, dead and for ever damned, or whether the whole thing was not merely the overstrained imagination of the narrator. In either case, the sense of horror is insistent, and in some obscure way the author has managed to hint at a significance which is revolting and obscene.
Outside art, there is another kind of writing of the occult which has become increasingly common in recent years the record of so called personal experience in the realm of the unknown. This branch of literature has a jargon of its own. People do not die, they "pass over," and their spirits hold of telephonic communication with the living through the agency of "mediums," and with the help of a whole paraphernalia of cabinets am tambourines and ouija boards and planchette. Of all branches of literature there is none that is less calculated to appeal to the imagination than this. It is associated with material accessories which are almost symbolically unbeautiful –oilcloth, and the smell of paraffin oil, cheap American organs and concertinas, stout and stupid middle aged women, Americans with names like Hiram K. Brown, squalor, and confusion, and untidiness of mind. Everybody has seen the kind of book I mean with the portrait of the "subject" in the front looking like the lady who proclaims from the back page of the newspaper, "I had bad legs and dropsical swellings, but Billions' Pills cured me!" In the face of this feeble nonsense the strongest souls turn sceptic, and beside it the witchcraft of ancient days seems a dignified and even a worthy belief.
I have said enough about books on the occult to render the detailed reviewing of the newest batch of them unnecessary. "Patience Worth, a Psychic Mystery," by Caspar Yost, comes to us from America and is one of those authentic documents. The less one says about it the better, except that judging from the specimens of Patience Worth's literary exercises, as communicated to the medium and duly recorded, the lady would have done better to have rested mute and inglorious on the "other side." Patience Worth speaks in a kind of debased Wardour Street English which must be distressing to those of her spirit companions whose souls are still sensitive to the beauties of language.
"The Ghost World," by J. Wickwar, is a collection of anecdotes of the occult. Violet Tweedale's "Ghosts I Have Seen" is a volume of literary tittle tattle with an occult bias. The author is a daughter of one of the Chambers of Edinburgh, and she has much that is interesting to say, but ghosts must by this time be three a penny in her household. The only thrill I got from the book was produced by the two awful eyes on Mr. Jenkins's wry effective cover. But perhaps the author did not write the book with the object of pleasing epicures in sensation.
"The Eternal Question,'' by Allan Clarke, is obviously a sincere outpouring from the heart of a man who has suffered the grief of a great loss; it would he indecent to be flippant about it. And "Voices from the Void." by Hester Travers Smith, is void of any convincing voices.
I cannot like these books, but Mr. Edward Arnold has promised us a new volume of the "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary," and already I feel the pleasant shivers running down my spine. . . . There was that horrible creature that moved across the picture to the windows of the house. I shall turn on all the lights before I go to bed.


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Fish are important indicators of water quality and part of the natural wildlife in Ennerdale. Ennerdale is home to a number of species of fish including salmon, trout, brook lamprey, eel, stickle back and Arctic charr.
Ennerdale Water is home to England's only migratory population of Arctic charr. These beautiful fish are one of the rarest species of fish in Britain and are confined to the coldest deepest lakes in the Lake District and Scotland.
Ennerdale is also home to Brook Lamprey, a primitive jaw less fish resembling an eel. To lay their eggs they create sand beds by clearing areas of the stream bed of larger gravel using their mouths as suckers.
Fish spawn (lay their eggs) round the lakeshore gravels and in streams in October and November each year. Very little fish spawning occurs in the River Liza because it is so dynamic and violent constantly moving gavels and its course
Where to see
Fish can be seen in the Ennerdale lake, The River Liza and in many of the streams around the valley. Good places to look for fish are from bridges that cross over rivers and streams.
In autumn you may see a Redd , a raised mound of gravel, where a salmon or trout has laid its eggs and covered them with gravel.
Restoring Natural Rivers
Removing a concrete pip bridge restored fish access to 5km of spawning river and restored gravel deposition to arctic char spawning grounds seeing the numbers of spawning char rise from a handful to over 500 in 3 years..
Improving aquatic habitats
We have been working with the Environment Agency for over 10 years to improve the valleys aquatic habitats. This has focused on three areas:-
Removing obstacles to fish spawning. Since 1999 we have replaced two concrete pipe bridges with new bridges which have been designed to allow fish to swim upstream and gravel to be transported downstream to spawning grounds. Recent fish monitoring has found salmon and trout along sections of river upstream of these obstacles where previously none were found.
Removing Conifers along river corridors to allow a more dappled habitat to develop with more native species and reduce the instances of high PH events which can kill fish. These high PH events are caused by conifer needles which store acidic pollutants from the atmosphere, being washed into watercourses during high rainfall events. Water quality monitoring has shown that high PH events have significantly reduced over the last 15 years as we have progressively removed conifers.
Restoring the Arctic Charr
From 2005 to 2013 each Autumn around 5,000 eggs were harvested from migrating Arctic Charr and taken to a hatchery below Kielder water in Northumberland. The fish are returned unharmed to the River Liza. The eggs hatch over the winter and fry (young fish) are released back into Ennerdale Water in the spring. This project has been very successful with spawning Arctic Charr numbers increasing from a handful in the late 1990's to around 500 in Autumn 2013. In addition to the fish rearing part of the project the Wild Ennerdale partners, with support from Honister Mine, funded the replacement of a concrete pipe bridge over Woundel Beck. The new single span timber bridge provides better access for people but also restores natural gravel movement down onto the Arctic Charr spawning grounds and opens up 5km of new spawning grounds, upstream of the old bridge , for salmon and trout.
The project continues today in a monitoring phase. Read more in our joint article with the Environment Agency Rewilding and Giving Artic Charr a Hand.


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Jade comes to Premier Mortgage Group with more than 14 years in the financial services industry with expertise in many facets of the financial world including money handling, loan applications, budget analysis, financial planning and branch management. Jade is passionate about helping people look at their finances and advising them towards successful financial decisions. Being in the mortgage industry allows Jade the opportunity to guide his clients through successful transactions involving what is most likely the biggest asset they have, their home. Jade has the ability to adapt to his clients and explain things so that they feel comfortable and knowledgeable throughout the process. He is proud of the fact that his clients say that he handles their information and financials as if they were his own and is passionate about helping his clients – whether it gets them another step closer to their dream home, or it saves them money on their current home. Jade says "Helping people understand what can be accomplished financially – if we step outside the box of straight, traditional thinking – is rewarding. Sometimes the best thing you can do for a client is simply advise them, and that can be just as, if not more, rewarding."
Originally from Sheridan, Wyoming, Jade got his Bachelors and MBA at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. He currently lives in Loveland, Colorado, honoring the Code of the West, which is how he was brought up: living each day with courage, taking pride in one's work, finishing what you start, doing what has to be done, being tough, but fair, keeping promises, riding for the brand, talking less but saying more, remembering that some things aren't for sale, and knowing where to draw the line. Jade is a home brewer, favoring German beer varieties, and enjoys working out at the gym, watching movies, riding his motorcycle, hiking, and enjoying time with his wife and three kids.


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A Teleperformance Portugal faz parte do grupo Teleperformance, líder mundial em Customer Experience Management e shared services para mercados internacionais. A nossa equipa é composta por 9000 funcionários, que prestam os nossos serviços em 35 idiomas, para cerca de 64 mercados. A Teleperformance Portugal foi considerada seis vezes consecutivas a melhor empresa para trabalhar em Portugal pelo Great Place to Work Institute. Os nossos colaboradores partilham uma grande variedade de experiências e competências. Estamos focados no trabalho em equipa e na partilha de experiências; esse é o nosso caminho: transformar paixão em excelência. Faz parte da nossa equipa!
Nº de Vagas: 11-20 vagas
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Região: Lisboa
We are looking for thinkers and doers, pro-active, cooperative and motivated people who are excited to provide high-quality service and have conversations.
Demonstrate enthusiasm, humor and positive energy, deliver an outstanding customer experience at every single opportunity. Assist end customers before, while and after purchase.
Zalando is one of Europe's largest online-only retail companies. Clothes, accessories, sports items, shoes… From big name brands such as Guess, Timberland and Vero Moda to exclusive fashion labels like Apepazza and Latitude Femme, which are often hard to get, Zalando offers an extensive product selection, excellent customer service and an easy and secure online shopping experience. No catches – Just free delivery and free returns.
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I stopped by there for Big Mama's birthday celebration. Having a string of birthdays all in a row, we were a little caked-out so a single serving portions were in order. I swung by HOC to pick up a six pack for our little celebration. They have up to twenty flavors on any given day and they are always so super nice. They do minis too by advance order. I got a mixed load on this day with Big Mama's favorite, Vanilla - or Vanilla Riot as HOC calls it, as the star:
I've had a bunch of different flavors from HOC on many visits there. The staff is always friendly and speedy in filling your order. I've never had a bad experience or product out of this shop and their prices are reasonable - even for Princeton where everything is 10% more expensive. I especially like their Red Velvet - so moist and for me, the exact cake to frosting ratio!
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Saturday, 6 February 2010
Through global lenses
5 comments:
- M Coleman said...
We are so very excited to share cultural information - it will be a wonderful chance to get acquainted, as well as to learn/enhance perceptual skills and writing skills! Many of our participating students are Spanish speaking with English as their second language - it will make for a very interesting and diverse project!
- 6 February 2010 at 18:52
- susanvg said...
I will be following. Would your students like comments from an outsider in yet another English (and French) speaking country? Wish I had students who could be part of the project. I think it's a fabulous idea.
- 6 February 2010 at 19:56
- sinikka said...
Of course, why didn't I remember all the ESL students in America - and I used to teach them for a year! This will definitely be a very interesting project!
Susan, the students would certainly like comments from other places, too. I'm sure Marie and Tania will agree!
- 6 February 2010 at 20:54
Una and I are looking forward to the project, and excited already about our collaboration. So much learning has already taken place for me. Once the students begin, I hope their interest in each other and creativity kick in to make it an experience they'll always remember. Interesting also the points you've made about all the students for whom English is a second language.
- 7 February 2010 at 11:44
- sinikka said...
I feel very similar thoughts as you, Tania. So excited to see the first student reactions on Thursday!
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FC: The Art of Language By: Shayne Ivey
1: The Art Of Language TOC Cover: Title 2: Table Of Contents 3-4: personal narrative 5-6: Poems 7:Book Summary 8: Letter 9: Bio Poem 10: Compare and Contrasting 11: Closing
2: Hey, I am Shayne Ivey and I am 16 years old, from a small town up in New Hampshire. When I was about 10 years old in the 4th grade, i started becomming a trouble. All i did up untril 7th was cause trouble and i was in the principles office all the time. At the end of my 6th grade year and going into my 7th grade year, i went through a great depression, I stopped talking to everysingle friend that i had, so I was constantly alone, and I wore all black. This went on for about 6 months, until I finally got to a point where I felt like I would exploid, so I went back to all my old friends (who were now all skate boarders) and started hanging out with them again, and it was a blast. Everyday after school we'd skate on the streets and smoke cigerrettes, we had life by the short and curlys, we were all young and had no responsiblities except to chill and have fun, those were the days. . When i was almost 15, I moved to Christiansburg VA.
3: It was here in VA that i met an entirely new group of friends. We all hung out togethor every single weekend , this was while i was currently on the track team, and i was one of the key distance runners. As time went on , I started doing cross country and i got pretty heavy into that, I was on the top 5 fastest people, .
4: God is good, god is great, Love don't hate DOn't discriminate deteriate eliminate anything unless its everthing get down to earth or dont whats it worth just chill in the sky with the stars in my eyes i love the great tasty pie but why must I die no i'll live forever in heaven the world was created.....in seven
5: The great big sky and the sun too lets travel high with trees purple, green and blue
6: Swallowing stones is a great book about a boy who has a great life with all teenager could ask for. Then one day he makes the biggest mistake of his life by firing a gun up into the air....for the bullet traveled from the gun, to a guy working on the roof of his head. Michael ended up killing a father/husband of a wife and a daughter. Although the police can't catch Michael, he is trapped in his own internal prison of guilt throughout the entire book
7: Dear Briggs, You are trying to get Steve killed or put behind bars. Steve is a human being, not a pig or a Cow but human beings such as you are the same, a human being. You are no higher then Steve in any way, you are not above him or any one else, you and all people are equally the same. Unless you were some sort of God or has some greater power than men do, you can not decide the fate of another human being. Humans do not rule over humans, God rules over humans. It doesn't mater if the kid killed 100 people, that does not give you the right to choose what happens to him. Some pennies are shiny and new while other pennies are dirty and old, but that does not matter all pennies are still worth 1 cent no matter what. Some people are rich, some are poor, some are white, some are black, some are Muslims, some are Christians, some do drugs, some kill…We are all still people Briggs, what we do does not change that. So I say unto you that by controlling Steve's fate the way you want as though you are above him is greater then any crime, you are no god but a worthless person like the rest of us, so lets all drop the case and let it be, lets all drop everything and let it be lets all go on with our own lives and concentrate on what we are going to do with ourselves not other people, only if we are going to help someone else should we interfere with there lives, it does not matter what Steve has done, back off Briggs, Back off Courtroom, Back off world…. Hope you have a nice day! Sincerely Shayne Ivey
8: Briggs is a selfish, ignorant jerk he is the father of pride, he likes to be right, lock people behind bars, and win
9: Steve+bird -innocent -caged for no reason -causes no harm for the earth | Differences -Steve has arms, bird has wings -steve has nose, bird has beak -steve has hair, bird has fethers -steve can walk, bird can fly
10: My 10th grade year was pretty good as a whole. I did cross country and indoor track and got many metals for each. I also discovered many new friends nad such this year, and i got my first job, I could have done better in school though. I hope you now understand The Art Of Language.


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Clarence Henry Probst
Born November 6, 1893 - Midway, Wasatch, Utah
Died January 8, 1991 - Murray, Salt Lake, Utah
Son of John Ulrich Probst & Susannah Gertsch Probst
Mary Christensen Probst
Born January 27, 1884 - Kanosh, Millard, Utah
Died December 21, 1970 - Midway, Wasatch, Utah
Daughter of Hans Christensen & Maren Kristine Clausen Christensen
Married March 6, 1918 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Clarence later married Verna Berg - June 8, 1973
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Classic Game Boys are the newest tool in the arsenal of modern music makers, charging the EDM scene with 8-bit innovation.
ChipBattles showcases this trend with their three-round, sixteen bar showdown where participants weave nostalgic sound bites into pulse-pounding electronica.
The Chipbattles' setup is simple: "two competitors are given a custom-produced backing track with just enough time before the event to come up with some of their raddest riffs. It's not about complex songwriting or ultra-technical sound design, it's about getting in your opponent's face and getting the crowd jumping."
Round one features the techno-talents of Auracle and Joe Bleeps. Their battle kicks off at 2:51 after some small technical difficulties.
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BPM - Enabling the automatic mode - iOS procedure
- Make sure you've already installed your Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor.
- Unlock your smartphone.
- Press the start button of your Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor.
The application launches automatically.
- Tap Automatic mode.
- Tap the clock icon next to Automatic mode to change the interval of rest between each of the measurements.
- Tap the arrow at the top left of your screen to go back to the main screen.
- Tap Start.
At the end of the measures, only the average of the 3 measurements will be displayed in your widget.
Note: Because of a requirement from the Food and Drug Administration, you will need to enable this setting each time if you want to use the automatic mode.


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The announcement in December 2013 that the US Federal government was going to begin its tapering programme shifted the timeline forward. The result was a year that began with further outflows from emerging markets, depreciating currencies and stagnating economic growth prospects – the case was set for South Africa.
So how did this all happen? Soon after the financial crisis in 2007 the United States started a stimulus programme known by many as quantitative easing (QE). The underlying economic theory is a system in which the Federal Reserve would buy mortgage backed securities of a certain amount every month thus increasing market liquidity. This in turn was meant to stimulate the economy through a system of chain events which would theoretically lead to increased spending ego, increased inflation, decreased unemployment and higher economic growth.
QE additionally lead to capital flows into emerging markets as investors targeted the higher interest rates and markets with stronger growth prospects as the USA tried to find its feet. The process continued unabated with Federal Reserve pumping US$ 85 b into the economy until the fateful day when former Federal Reserve chairperson announced that they would start tapering. The argument was simple - the American economy was releasing positive economic numbers and the Federal Reserve felt it was time to cut down on the excess liquidity. This shifted attention back to the US and capital flows were once again redirected to the USA (from emerging markets).
When tapering eventually started in January 2014, emerging markets felt the pinch as their currencies greatly depreciated against the dollar. Argentina, Brazil, Turkey, Indonesia and South Africa are some of the greatly affected countries as their current account deficits posed further problems to their currencies as large capital outflows exited their nations. South Africa unfortunately faces slightly more woes.
The Rand's weakness is unfortunately a result of other structural problems within South Africa. The persistent low economic growth and worries about the current account and fiscal deficit will continue to weigh heavily on the Rand, unless positive trade balance numbers are produced. High consumer indebtedness and rising interest rates will reduce their discretionary spending power of businesses and consumers with looming fears that the SARB will continue to raise interest rates. Labour disputes in 2013 have not been fully resolved, and have spilled over into 2014. All of this coupled with cost push inflationary pressures presents a rather gloomy outlook for South Africa
Looking at a broader picture of the Rand verses overall GDP growth, it still appears that It's going to get worse before it gets better. A 14 year historical line chart gives certain tell-tale signs that growth in S.A has been somewhat choked. The Rand depreciated by 85.17% against the dollar and Euro since 2004 while overall GDP growth during that period has also declined by 2 to 3 %.
The Rand has depreciated steadily over the past few years without the desired impact on the current account balance. The labour disputes and disgruntled indebted consumers has not helped the situation. For 2014 to be any different from the rest, South Africa will have to focus on leveraging growth in proactive sectors that open the economy to middle to lower income population whose unrest is a sign of listlessness.
What is also clear is that South Africa will have to redouble its efforts to present a nation that is sturdy in the eyes of investors and stable in the eyes of its residents. The worries of high unemployment and high inflation need to be mitigated immediately lest labour unrest turns into violence. Our remedy is simple, unless the frequency and duration of trade union power plays are corrected South Africa will face sluggish growth and a continuously dwindling currency. Political power plays within the nation also have to be managed carefully as election year roles out.
But let's not give in to S.A.Dness. The current headwinds are unveiling the true value of our economies and are in line within general economic cycles of booms and slumps. The structural changes that will take effect this year and the year to come are necessary evils for any nation to be girded. For Namibia, the nation needs to prepare for certain spill-over impacts from South Africa. Economic growth will remain positive provided the labour market remains appeased.
The volatility of the Rand will have the usual double sided impact on Namibia with increased costs of imports but improved exports. So far it's too early to tell which way the dice will roll in that regard. Namibia's main concern will be the resulting pressures of the indebted consumer with possibility of rising interest rates. Consumers are going to have to take a second look at their finances before making rash decisions to take on more credit. PF


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mOcean Captures USA On DVD
Motion graphics house mOcean has produced its first interactive DVD project, an ad sales tool for USA Networks. The announcement was made by mOcean managing director Kevin Aratari.
Under the creative supervision of mOcean executive creative director Michael McIntyre and executive producer Barry Smith, the company produced three trailers and 50-animated pages of graphics for the high-tech, high-res and highly portable sales reel. The finished product includes an opening montage, animated information pages, menus and trailers, all conceived and produced by mOcean.


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Q Safe as its name clearly reflects is a committee created within each business with members nominated from operations and HR. This group is the custodian of the work environment ensuring that the respect and dignity is a way of life here.
Quatrroites have access to an online tool My Voice where they can log in a complaint, concern or an issue. Q Safe is the employer advisor for concerns. Additionally, they conduct site audits to identify vulnerable areas in the office premises, Foster gender equality, Educate employees regarding harassment and discrimination topics, Acts as first point of contact, Conducting awareness session along with Business HR & MY Voice Team
There key deliverable is to ensure complete safety for Quatrroites .


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I went to a baby shower a year or so ago where the woman hosting did some encouraging Bible readings and songs. It was wonderful and I kept thinking, "why have I never seen this done before?!?!" I recently had the opportunity of sharing some readings at a baby shower myself and the other women had a similar reaction to mine. I hope these thoughts will be an encouragement to you today.
Thank you for joining us as we celebrate ___________ becoming a mother, and her
child, a gift from the Lord. I wanted to read a little from the Bible
and talk about this new little soul that will be joining us soon. There
is so much encouragement, wisdom and knowledge to be found in the
scriptures, and when it comes to becoming a parent, I think those of us
who have experienced it will heartily agree that we desperately need
God's encouragement, wisdom and knowledge as we take on such a
James 1:5 - God gives wisdom liberally and without reproach to all who ask
Charles Dickens - "It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. "
Babies are more than just cute and cuddly little dolls
They are created in God's image - Genesis 1:27 - "So God created man in His
own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He
created them."
They have been created for God's own glory - Isaiah 43:7 -
"Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I
have formed him, yes, I have made him."
Jeremiah 1:5 - "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you."
Our children are SOULS that belong to God that we give right back to Him.
1 Samuel when Hannah prayed for a child, she made a vow to the Lord and
promised, "O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction
of Your maidservant... but will give Your maidservant a male child, then
I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life..." Hannah gave
Samuel to God to serve in the temple, but the reality for us, is that
our children are a heritage from the Lord, and as their parents, we must
devote them to God.
And isn't it so with all of our blessings from God?
All of the
are things that we have are things that He created. They belong to God
and we are entrusted with their care for a time.
As a parent, it
is our job to diligently teach our children about God.
6:1-9 - "These are the commands, decrees and laws the Lord your God directed me to teach you to observe in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess, 2 so that you, your children and their children after them may fear the Lord your God as long as you live by keeping all his decrees and commands that I give you, and so that you may enjoy long life. 3 Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the Lord, the God of your ancestors, promised you.
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress
them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when
you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates."
We do this by reading the Bible to them, and sharing God's
Isaiah 28:9-10 - "To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will
he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken
from the breast?
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little."
And it is never too early to start -
"Yet you are he who took me
from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. On you was
I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God."
(Psalm 22:9)
We also do this by the way we live. With babies and young children
especially, it is our job to reflect God for them while they come to
understand God for themselves. I believe this is the most challenging
part of being a parent - accurately reflecting the character of God for
my children in the way I behave and the words I say. Having God's word
written all over MY heart first, so I can know and understand God as I
teach my children. And this is so important because it is from their
parents that children first learn trust, obedience, love, honor, and
respect... all things they will need to know in order to choose to
follow God.
It might take a while for the weight this awesome responsibility to
really sink in. And very soon you will realize that you have messed
up. Because we all mess up this job of parenting. You will grieve for
your mistakes, but I hope in that moment you will realize that we can't
perfectly parent our CHILD's way into heaven. As much as we want it and
try our hardest to do the job well, God allows each person the choice
to love Him or reject Him.
And so we pray for you, Stacy, as you take
on this weighty responsibility with this little soul. But we also pray
for this baby boy, that he will have a heart for the Lord. We pray
that he will choose to love, obey, trust, and honor God. Ultimately,
this is THE ONLY THING. Of all of the "great things" this little baby
boy may do one day in this world, the only thing that really matters is
that he has eternity in his heart and that he chooses to follow the
Lord. We pray that he will have a heart like David who said in Psalm
119:30-33 -
"I have chosen the way of faithfulness; I set your rules before me.
I cling to your testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame!
I will run in the way of your commandments when you enlarge my heart!"
gave His life for you and for me, and also for this baby boy. Enjoy
these days of purity and perfect innocence. Just as Mary did with baby
Jesus, treasure the things that he does in your heart, but be thankful
that God has made a way for him to be with Him some day. The rest of us
here today do not bear the same weight of responsibility as a parent,
but we are here to encourage you and help you and your baby boy along
the way.
Sing - "I Need Thee Every Hour" and "Because He Lives"
2:15 says, talking about a husband and wife, "Did He not make them one,
with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God
seeking? Godly offspring."
Psalm 127:3 - "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord"
loved little children. In Matthew 19 he welcomed and blessed them
saying, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for
of such is the kingdom of heaven."
This baby is a good and perfect gift from the Lord, and we thank God for His goodness, mercy, and love in sending such a gift. We praise God for the gift of motherhood because as it says in Psalm 113:9 - "He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the Lord!"
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Monday, October 7, 2013
Bible Readings for a Baby Shower
Posted by Church Mouse at 10:05 AM
Labels: Meditations, Mothering
4 comments:
We did something similar to that at a shower I helped host this spring. I hadn't ever heard of it till we moved here.ReplyDelete
This is a beautiful reading. There is so much in the Bible that can add value to our lives and improve our way of living. Children indeed bring so much change in our lives.ReplyDelete
This is highly inspiringReplyDelete
Amazing share! Traditional shower also has its own relevance. My wish of attending the exotic wedding venues in our town was fulfilled last week. Actually it was my neighbor's reception and dinner was ordered from reputed caterers. Cake design was unique and ceremony was managed at the staircase.ReplyDelete
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December 19 (KCNA) —
Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, passed away from a great mental and physical strain at 08:30 December 17, 2011, on train during a field guidance tour.
The WPK Central Committee and Central Military Commission, DPRK National Defence Commission, Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and Cabinet released a notice on Saturday informing the WPK members, servicepersons and all other people of his passing away. -0-
Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) — The National Funeral Committee released a following notice on Saturday:
It notifies that it decided as follows so that the whole party, army and people can express the most profound regret at the demise of leader Kim Jong Il and mourn him in deep reverence:
His bier will be placed at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace.
Mourning period will be set from Dec. 17 to 29, Juche 100 (2011) and mourners will be received from Dec. 20 to 27.
A farewell-bidding ceremony will be solemnly held in Pyongyang on Dec. 28.
A national memorial service for Kim Jong Il will be held on Dec. 29.
Mourning guns will be boomed in Pyongyang and in provincial seats timed to coincide with the national memorial service in Pyongyang and all the people will observe three minutes' silence and all locomotives and vessels will blow sirens all at once.
All institutions and enterprises across the country will hold mourning events during the mourning period and all provinces, cities and counties will hold memorial services timed to coincide with the national memorial service in Pyongyang.
The institutions and enterprises will hoist flags at half-mast and musical and all other entertainments will be refrained.
Foreign mourning delegations will not be received.


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Most likely one if the finest ways to increase your home's value is through remodeling it. Planning and organizing in advance is very important to determine that the plan will be successful. Here are a few guidelines that would help you think of better strategies and avoid possible disasters during the remodeling.
First off, create a listing of all objectives and targets for the home remodeling scheme. Try asking yourself several significant questions since the answer to these questions will aid you in the future. You have to pose yourself these following questions:
o Which areas are needed to be renovated?
o Are the appliances (for instance the TV and the stereo situated in the living room) located on a perfect area and have enough space?
o Is the dining room sited in a perfect area as well?
o Is the dining table sited in an ideal spot or it is occupying most of the area? Is it hard to walk around?
o Is the kitchen located in an ideal area as well?
o Would you desire to put up a little space or just basically change the flooring?
Your objectives and targets will be identified if you have answered each of these questions. One of the most major schemes is to put up additional space to your house, whereas repainting, redecorating and shifting the floor belong to the minor revisions.
Once you've set your objectives and targets for your remodeling scheme, you must then try to think about your budget. It is necessary to think about your budget because the range of the remodeling scheme depends on it. Before you even start buying things or hire a home remodeling expert or contractor, verify that the prepared budget for additions and replacements is enough.
Home remodeling is one of the finest ways to enhance the value of your home. But always keep in mind that any actions would fail if the planning isn't done well. Plan the home remodeling scheme carefully before even you begin to spend less of your effort, time, and most especially your money.
The room contractor would make a difference as far as your home remodeling projects are concerned.


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Mosley Believes Canelo is Ready For The Best Fighters
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IEA's TIMSS enables countries around the world to measure how effective they are in teaching mathematics and science. Entering into its third decade and seventh cycle of data collection, TIMSS is a well established international assessment conducted every four years since 1995 — the longest of any international education study.
TIMSS 2019 marks the debut of eTIMSS, an electronic version of TIMSS. eTIMSS offers an engaging, interactive, and visually attractive assessment that will assess complex areas of the frameworks and increase operational efficiency in translation, assessment delivery, data entry, and scoring. It is anticipated that about half the countries participating in TIMSS 2019 will transition to administering the assessment via computer. The rest of the countries will administer TIMSS in a paper-and-pencil format as in previous assessments.


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Thursday, 10 October 2013
James Horak, Gary Hendershot & Dave Corso - The Missing Homeless
The haunting loss of the homeless and what it may portend.
"Many points of view can juncture at nexus. That is where are we. It is an illusion to think we are not all together, even with the monsters." JCH
Thanks to Dave Corso of Wolf Spirit Radio for hosting the broadcast and for publication permission.
If you have any information that can be verified, please call David Corso at 1775 65 75 973 in the USA.
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Great presentation, gentlemen. These abuses have been occuring much longer than one might realize. Here in Florida, the is a Loitering and Prowling statute on the books. Legislated decades ago specifically to address the tourism dollar, the L&P law has withstood every constitutional challenge put to it. I must disagree slightly with Mr. Hindershot's assessment on an awakened populace. I, and many others, have initially undergone our own processes while working 60 hours weeks and on call for the remainder. Due diligence is a choice, as is icing up a cold one and watching football highlights after a day's work. I understand his context, however I refuse to subsidize the escapism and apathy of those who turned their backs on the truth to protect their comfort zone.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11 October 2013 at 19:16
We need more of this valuable and intelligent discussion, as it is so lacking in a world full of deceit.ReplyDelete
- James Horak11 October 2013 at 20:12
More and more good research and sources are coming online. Hope to have two of the most remarkable on our show on the 25th. JCHReplyDelete
- Anonymous12 October 2013 at 02:49
Mr. Horak, if helium isn't a gas, what is it? Can you describe the relationship between microbes and helium?ReplyDelete
Thank you.
- James Horak12 October 2013 at 15:10
Helium has a gas form and can be taken into a liquid, one that grows colder and colder as it is compressed. What I say is that it is not an element, but a condition of matter. Elements are defined by that with which they react. Helium reacts with nothing, combines with nothing, declines to no isotopic state. Science simply does not want to admit the fraud they practiced on their claims of how helium originated at the time it was added to the Periodic Chart. In its extraction, given off as a by-product in the distillation of oil into gas is the only way to possess it on earth since earth cannot hold it. That secret was kept from the Germans at the time of its first production in order to deny them usage of it for their airships prior to WWI. And the science establishment has never come clean about it and how they collude today with governments and military to hide import truths relevant to mankind's advance on earth. JCHReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 October 2013 at 19:41
Hi James happy birthday. I was wondering how long ago ET expeditions first came to earth before our ancestors from Mars.ReplyDelete
- James Horak14 October 2013 at 20:39
Thank you. ETs have had a presence on earth for over 500 million years. JCHReplyDelete
- Anonymous15 October 2013 at 07:27
Thanks for covering this information because it is rarely talked about. James McCanney will also talk about this subject from time to time on his weekly Science Hour radio lecture where he calls it: 'Social Engineering'. Just for the record Gary's last name is spelled: 'Hendershot'.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous15 October 2013 at 07:55
For another dose of reality regarding the perverseness & depravity of our rulers listen to the conversations of Field Mcconnell & David Hawkins at the Abel Danger Youtube channel and their website.ReplyDelete